2 | aagcobb Oct 10, 2014 8:42:48pm |
She’s not finished because of the ad. She has never been in the race to begin with. Texas is just too Republican for her to have any chance of winning.
3 | I Stand With Big Sodomy! Oct 10, 2014 11:31:29pm |
re: #2 aagcobb
LOL Unfortunately, I have to agree with you on this. But I still wish she would!
4 | Shvaughn Oct 11, 2014 5:36:40am |
I think it’s an offensive, inappropriate ad, but I don’t think it’s the reason she’s finished.
5 | aagcobb Oct 11, 2014 6:06:51am |
re: #4 Shvaughn
I think it’s an offensive, inappropriate ad, but I don’t think it’s the reason she’s finished.
Since she is going to lose anyway, it would’ve been nice if she took the high road and focused on issues meaningful to people’s lives, instead of nasty attack ads.
6 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 7:39:42am |
Well, i for one am glad to see Wendy Davis running a nasty ad like that, because as the article points out, it has given Scott Brown and other Republicans a club with which to throttle those Democrats who have most strongly supported her. Hopefully, her ad helps give Republicans momentum with which to defeat other Democratic hopefuls.
7 | Amory Blaine Oct 11, 2014 8:53:10am |
I like the ad too. It shows that even handicapped people can be hateful pieces of shit.
8 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 9:24:56am |
Are people freaked out by the wheelchair? I don’t get it. It’s like making fun of the sneakers Wendy wore when she filibustered. I don’t know whether Abbott has done that, but I would see it as equivalent. Maybe I am un-freaked because I work on wheelchairs. It’s just another means of transportation. It happens that Abbott uses one because a tree fell on him.
I don’t think it’s any worse than calling Davis ‘Abortion Barbie’. And by the way, it’s the ‘Barbie’ part that’s offensive. It means ‘airheaded doll’ and they use it because Davis is blond.
9 | sagehen Oct 11, 2014 9:42:58am |
I wasn’t clear on whether “he sided with” refers to in his capacity as the State’s AG, or if he used to be in private practice and those were his clients. If it’s the latter, the ad is unfair. Repulsive defendants have as much right to representation as anybody else, the whole system depends on it, and I can’t criticize someone for taking those cases. If it’s the former, he’s sleazy as fuck and deserves for it be an issue.
10 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 9:46:49am |
re: #9 sagehen
It was in his capacity as AG:
In a series of legal cases in his three terms, Abbott’s office has fought a blind pharmacy professor in Amarillo who wanted reflective tape on the stairs to her office; two deaf defendants in Laredo who asked for a qualified sign language interpreter in their courtroom; and a woman with an amputated leg. In that case, the state argued she was not disabled because she had a prosthetic limb.
dallasnews.com
11 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 9:48:45am |
In most disability cases, Abbott’s office has claimed sovereign immunity for Texas. Such immunity, granted in the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, says a state can’t be sued without its consent.
………..
On ADA claims, federal appellate courts have established exceptions to a state’s claim of immunity. For instance, if a state agency accepts federal funding, it implicitly accepts federal rules and waives its immunity, the courts have said.
dallasnews.com
12 | Dr. Matt Oct 11, 2014 10:06:29am |
re: #6 Dark_Falcon
Conservative fake “outrage” is always amusing. This is the same class of filth that call her ‘Abortion Barbie’ on a daily basis. Don’t miss your fainting couch on the way down.
The @GOP have publicly/proudly compared the POTUS to every monster in history are suddenly “outraged” over the Wendy Davis ad. #hypocrites— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) October 11, 2014
14 | CarleeCork Oct 11, 2014 10:53:07am |
You’d be surprised at the number of new voter registrations in the largest counties. Abbott has used his wheelchair in TWO ads down here, he opened up that can of worms with tort reform. And yes, as a Texan and a woman, I believe Wendy Davis will win this election.
15 | Ryan King Oct 11, 2014 11:10:21am |
I finally watched the ad. The GOP is whining because it’s effective.
The guy’s in a wheelchair, he sued and won for his injury.
Other people people have sued for or relation to their injuries or disabilities, Abbot has fought against them in litigation.
The truth hurts.
16 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 11:34:45am |
re: #6 Dark_Falcon
Shaking my head that you think that comment is something to be proud of.
17 | Skip Intro Oct 11, 2014 12:01:04pm |
I admit I didn’t see the cause for outrage in this ad. That the media is outraged (the same media that has no problem having Eric “Abortion Barbie” on as a guest) is laughable, considering what they let pass on the Republican side every single day.
18 | Skip Intro Oct 11, 2014 12:02:24pm |
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
Shaking my head that you think that comment is something to be proud of.
He’s a Republican. What do you expect?
19 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 12:04:19pm |
re: #18 Skip Intro
He’s a Republican. What do you expect?
I’m a Republican, but the nonsense DF spews makes me cringe.
20 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 12:17:37pm |
You have these grown adults, ON THE LEFT, saying “no, no, ad is too mean!”. Yeah, the way Abbott lives his life is mean. Look at it. Deal.
— Sarah Slamen (@VictorianPrude) October 11, 2014
21 | Skip Intro Oct 11, 2014 12:21:45pm |
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
Only because he can go for days seeming to be reasonable, then *BOOM*, out pops the full metal RWNJ.
22 | Charles Johnson Oct 11, 2014 12:34:09pm |
I don’t see anything wrong with this ad, myself. It’s making a point that needs to be made over and over about the Republican Party’s heartless, selfish agenda. I wish more Democrats would take the gloves off and fight like this.
The GOP has no compunction at all about diving into the worst sewers. Democrats don’t have to get that ugly, but playing by Marquis of Queensbury rules while your opponent kicks you in the nuts is a losing proposition.
23 | CuriousLurker Oct 11, 2014 12:34:29pm |
re: #6 Dark_Falcon
Well, i for one am glad to see Wendy Davis running a nasty ad like that, because as the article points out, it has given Scott Brown and other Republicans a club with which to throttle those Democrats who have most strongly supported her. Hopefully, her ad helps give Republicans momentum with which to defeat other Democratic hopefuls.
In-freaking-credible, especially coming from someone who created a page the other day for the specific purpose of tut-tutting over an ad by a Democrat that supposedly contained “severe dishonesty”.
This hypocrisy, this IOKIYAR double standard is a prime example of what makes the GOP so loathsome. I stayed out of slamming you on your page, but now I’m going to go down-ding it for good measure.
25 | allegro Oct 11, 2014 12:35:02pm |
I think the ad is great and entirely fair. Abbott wasn’t criticized for being disabled, he was criticized for being a hypocritical asshole.
26 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 12:35:20pm |
re: #23 CuriousLurker
In-freaking-credible, especially for someone who created a page the other day for the specific purpose of tut-tutting over an ad by a Democrat that supposedly contained “severe dishonesty”.
This hypocrisy, this IOKIYAR double standard is a prime example of what makes the GOP so loathsome. I stayed out of slamming you on your page, but now I’m going to go down-ding it for good measure.
it’s just “Rah Rah Team!” for DF.
27 | EPR-radar Oct 11, 2014 12:35:54pm |
The outrage about the ad is much ado about nothing. I expect this crap fake outrage from the likes of the GOP, but it is disappointing that some centrists and Democrats are running scared on this topic.
28 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 12:37:17pm |
29 | EPR-radar Oct 11, 2014 12:38:08pm |
re: #6 Dark_Falcon
Well, i for one am glad to see Wendy Davis running a nasty ad like that, because as the article points out, it has given Scott Brown and other Republicans a club with which to throttle those Democrats who have most strongly supported her. Hopefully, her ad helps give Republicans momentum with which to defeat other Democratic hopefuls.
You do realize that you are rooting for the success of a synthesis of just about all evil in US politics.
Apparently for no better reason that “Go, Team, Go!” taken to an almost terrifying level of pure mindlessness.
30 | darthstar Oct 11, 2014 12:38:45pm |
No, she’s not finished. But nice effort by the purity police to turn it into the Ebola of campaign ads.
Can Abbott milk this ad for three weeks? Maybe. But he runs the risk of losing any sympathy vote he already has.
31 | CuriousLurker Oct 11, 2014 12:38:47pm |
FWIW, I don’t see anything wrong with the ad either. If she’d been mocking him for his disability or implying that all people who use wheelchairs are hypocrites, then it would be a different story.
32 | Lidane Oct 11, 2014 12:39:25pm |
Every word in that ad is true.
It’s just a damned shame that so many people here in Texas actively vote against their own interests by voting Republican.
34 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 12:40:29pm |
re: #31 CuriousLurker
Finally, an authentic case of a fake outrage. As usual, from the right.
37 | darthstar Oct 11, 2014 12:41:59pm |
I think the ad would have been better if, instead of ending with “Greg Abbott…he’s not for you” they ended with, “Greg Abbot…the guy’s a fucking hypocrite.”
38 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 12:42:07pm |
39 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 12:42:18pm |
re: #28 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Wait, what? :D
Yes, I am.
Haven’t voted Republican in a national or state-election in decades, if ever.
Still waiting for a Republican worth voting for.
In the meantime there are very nice Democratic candidates who get my vote.
:D
40 | EPR-radar Oct 11, 2014 12:42:42pm |
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m a Republican, but the nonsense DF spews makes me cringe.
Let’s double check here. Do you consistently vote for those turd-stuffed sacks of shit at the federal level, or is this one of the cases where the GOP is the only game in town locally so one must needs register GOP to have a say in local politics?
41 | Skip Intro Oct 11, 2014 12:42:52pm |
If I weren’t feeling like a lazy slug today, I’d make a page of as many GOP Congresspersons and Senators as I could find whose advertising and comments are truly abhorrent , yet don’t get any scrutiny or criticism from the media at all.
It would be a very long page.
42 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 12:42:55pm |
43 | allegro Oct 11, 2014 12:43:05pm |
re: #34 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Finally, an authentic case of a fake outrage. As usual, from the right.
They went nuts early on because of “I stand with Wendy” signs and stuff.
44 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 12:43:28pm |
Greg Abbott’s own wheelchair commercial:
Script:
GREG ABBOTT: After my accident I had to rebuild my strength.
I would roll up an eight story parking garage.
Spending hours going up the ramps.
With each floor, it got harder and harder. But I wouldn’t quit.
‘Just one more,’ I’d tell myself. ‘Just one more.’
I see life that way. And it’s how I’ll govern Texas.
To get to the top, we must push ourselves to do just one more.
gregabbott.com
45 | Interesting Times Oct 11, 2014 12:43:31pm |
re: #27 EPR-radar
The outrage about the ad is much ado about nothing. I expect this crap fake outrage from the likes of the GOP, but it is disappointing that some centrists and Democrats are running scared on this topic.
Probably the same GOP enablers who told John Kerry to “take the high road” and ignore the swiftboat attacks.
Real Democrats need to realize the “tone police” are not their friends. They ignore/dismiss GOP viciousness with “tut tut, both sides do it”, while absolutely slamming any progressive who dares to fight back. Again, see them for what they are - enablers of the corporatist status quo.
46 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 12:43:53pm |
re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yes, I am.
Haven’t voted Republican in a national or state-election in decades, if ever.
Still waiting for a Republican worth voting for.
In the meantime there are very nice Democratic candidates who get my vote.
:D
I knew it was a technicality. You’re basically a commie by today’s GOP’s standards.
47 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 12:44:21pm |
re: #40 EPR-radar
Let’s double check here. Do you consistently vote for those turd-stuffed sacks of shit at the federal level, or is this one of the cases where the GOP is the only game in town locally so one must needs register GOP to have a say in local politics?
GOP is the only game in town for local (read=county-level). All local offices are determined in the Republican primary in May.
48 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 12:45:39pm |
re: #44 jaunte
“Because you need arms strong enough to take away Texas womens’ rights, frack the hell out of the land, and keep the have-nots from disturbing the haves.”
49 | Targetpractice Oct 11, 2014 12:45:44pm |
re: #27 EPR-radar
The outrage about the ad is much ado about nothing. I expect this crap fake outrage from the likes of the GOP, but it is disappointing that some centrists and Democrats are running scared on this topic.
Democrats as a party still want to play by gentlemen’s rule against an opposition that sees fighting dirty as the new status quo. It’s part of the reason why Reid, despite getting snookered again and again by handshake deals, would not abandon the filibuster. They want so badly to believe that the old rules of decorum are still obeyed when it’s obvious to outside observers that the GOP as a party has gone bugfuck insane.
50 | EPR-radar Oct 11, 2014 12:46:34pm |
re: #37 darthstar
I think the ad would have been better if, instead of ending with “Greg Abbott…he’s not for you” they ended with, “Greg Abbot…the guy’s a fucking hypocrite.”
or ending with: ‘Greg Abbot believes in “I’ve got mine, fuck you” just like the rest of his demented party’.
Not really, of course, but it would be something to see if the GOP crybabies were given something worth complaining about.
51 | dog philosopher Oct 11, 2014 12:46:50pm |
after watching the republican party operate for the past 35 years my capacity to be outraged at any hardball political tactic has been utterly numbed
i dont know if it will help her or hurt her, but to republicans i say see how you like it, for a change
52 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 12:47:28pm |
53 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 12:50:54pm |
I don’t like the ad, btw. I don’t like this type of ads, even when they are 100% truthful. But it’s a normal ad that plays by the rules.
54 | darthstar Oct 11, 2014 12:53:12pm |
56 | dog philosopher Oct 11, 2014 12:57:17pm |
i wonder what would happen in american elections if democrats started using the immoral lying anger rousing sarcastic political tactics that republicans have been beating them up with?
57 | CuriousLurker Oct 11, 2014 12:57:30pm |
re: #6 Dark_Falcon
I left you a present over on your page.
People need to understand how selective your ethics are.
58 | goddamnedfrank Oct 11, 2014 12:59:00pm |
P.S. The point of the ad is that Abbot lacks even basic sympathy. People are used to Republicans lack of normal human empathy, but to fuck over people who’ve gone through near the exact identical suffering kinds of experience is something else. He has no excuse, he literally knows better, or has every reason to, but instead chooses to ignore the plight of people that are just like him.
59 | sagehen Oct 11, 2014 12:59:15pm |
re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yes, I am.
Haven’t voted Republican in a national or state-election in decades, if ever.
Still waiting for a Republican worth voting for.
In the meantime there are very nice Democratic candidates who get my vote.
:D
You can still be proud of part of our history — we’re the party that gave the world Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. The three best presidents this country ever had. Mike Bloomberg also ran on the R line.
Just remind yourself of that every time you can’t find a primary candidate worth supporting, and have to cross party lines for the general. (it works for me.)
60 | nines09 Oct 11, 2014 12:59:38pm |
All the outright lies and ignorant things spoken and done by the GOP and Tea Party and this ad is upsetting people? GTFOH.
61 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 1:00:18pm |
re: #58 goddamnedfrank
P.S. The point of the ad is that Abbott lacks even basic sympathy. People are used to Republicans lack of normal human empathy, but to fuck over people who’ve gone through near the exact identical suffering kinds of experience is something else. He has no excuse, he literally knows better, or has every reason to, but instead chooses to ignore the plight of people that are just like him.
He sees himself as more deserving. For some reason.
62 | Targetpractice Oct 11, 2014 1:00:19pm |
re: #56 dog philosopher
i wonder what would happen in american elections if democrats started using the immoral lying anger rousing sarcastic political tactics that republicans have been beating them up with?
A whole lot fainting spells from liberal pundits. “Such brutish behavior!”
64 | EPR-radar Oct 11, 2014 1:02:32pm |
re: #6 Dark_Falcon
Well, i for one am glad to see Wendy Davis running a nasty ad like that, because as the article points out, it has given Scott Brown and other Republicans a club with which to throttle those Democrats who have most strongly supported her. Hopefully, her ad helps give Republicans momentum with which to defeat other Democratic hopefuls.
I grow very tired of this shit. Just what it is about generic Republicans that you find to be so wonderful?
1) Is it their hatred of gays?
2) Is it their endemic racism?
3) Is it their endless nonsense relating to abortion and birth control?
4) Is it their ‘kill them all’ approach to foreign policy?
5) Is it their embrace of creationism and other anti-science stupidity such as climate change denial?
6) Is it their increasing reliance on Confederate ideas such as nullification?
7) Is it their desire to take us back to a new gilded age, where the abuses will be perpetual because big media is already in the bag for its masters?
8) Is it their total contempt for just about everyone who isn’t filthy rich?
9) Is it their manifest desire to wreck the economy via government inaction, provided the Democrats can be blamed?
10) Is it their track record of spending like drunk sailors when in charge, combined with irresponsible tax cuts, then turning around and pretending to care about fiscal prudence when Democrats are in charge?
(edited to add #10, I knew I was missing something big in the list)
65 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 1:02:36pm |
re: #8 wrenchwench
Are people freaked out by the wheelchair? I don’t get it. It’s like making fun of the sneakers Wendy wore when she filibustered. I don’t know whether Abbott has done that, but I would see it as equivalent. Maybe I am un-freaked because I work on wheelchairs. It’s just another means of transportation. It happens that Abbott uses one because a tree fell on him.
I don’t think it’s any worse than calling Davis ‘Abortion Barbie’. And by the way, it’s the ‘Barbie’ part that’s offensive. It means ‘airheaded doll’ and they use it because Davis is blond.
I kind of wish that a tornado had picked up a house and dropped it on him…
///
66 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 1:02:51pm |
67 | goddamnedfrank Oct 11, 2014 1:03:09pm |
68 | Charles Johnson Oct 11, 2014 1:03:15pm |
re: #41 Skip Intro
If I weren’t feeling like a lazy slug today, I’d make a page of as many GOP Congresspersons and Senators as I could find whose advertising and comments are truly abhorrent , yet don’t get any scrutiny or criticism from the media at all.
It would be a very long page.
Exactly - there’s an outrageous double standard in what gets called “extreme” or “outrageous” these days. The Republicans have made their own sheer insanity so commonplace that it seems like people don’t even see it as objectionable any more. But this ad and the Gabby Giffords ads — OH NOEZ! THAT’S HORRIBLE!
69 | darthstar Oct 11, 2014 1:03:17pm |
If I were Greg Abbot, I wouldn't be making a stink over an ad that honestly illustrates how big a hypocrite I am. @WendyDavisTexas #HonestAd— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) October 11, 2014
70 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 1:03:58pm |
re: #66 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
He got his.
Abbott became a paraplegic when an oak tree fell on him while he was running following a storm in 1984.[3][4] He had two steel rods implanted in his spine, underwent extensive rehabilitation at TIRR Memorial Hermann in Houston, and has used a wheelchair ever since.[5][6] He sued the homeowner and won an insurance settlement worth more than $10 million.[7] Abbott later championed laws capping punitive damages like those for which he was eligible in his own suit to two times the amount of economic damages awarded plus $750,000.
en.wikipedia.org
71 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 1:07:24pm |
re: #70 jaunte
Holy shit. Unholy shit. All kinds of shit.
72 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 1:07:53pm |
Swiftboat slime questioning patriotism of a veteran was OK. Now suddenly…
73 | EPR-radar Oct 11, 2014 1:08:02pm |
re: #70 jaunte
I would up ding this 100x if I could. Greg Abbott is the purest example of the GOP ‘I got mine, so fuck you (and your little dog Toto too)’ attitude one could hope for.
Wendy Davis needs to be running hard on this, (if she isn’t already).
74 | BlueGrl21 Oct 11, 2014 1:08:40pm |
No issue with it. I’m Texan. Greg Abbott has been making his wheelchair a theme of his ads. They’ve been everywhere. Good for the Davis campaign for calling out his bullshit. This could have come straight from the dear, departed pen of Molly Ivins.
Texas politics have always been nasty. Republicans fling bullshit and they get called on it by Democrats, hard, because there’s not much more we can do right now. So we fight then go to dinner and it’s all good. Palins get drunk and go fight their neighbors. We prefer to call them out and then go get drunk together.
Texas politics on a national stage. It doesn’t translate well.
75 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 1:08:48pm |
76 | nines09 Oct 11, 2014 1:08:59pm |
So Wendy Davis pointed out that Greg Abbot screws people who should not be screwed and she’s the one who is wrong? And Republicans are aghast? Clutching pearls? Feeling ill? Rooms are spinning? He’s entitled yet others are leaches? Fuck him and his entire party.
77 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 1:09:13pm |
re: #73 EPR-radar
I would up ding this 100x if I could. Greg Abbott is the purest example of the GOP ‘I got mine, so fuck you (and your little dog Toto too)’ attitude one could hope for.
Wendy Davis needs to be running hard on this, (if she isn’t already).
It’s the ad at the top ^^^.
:-)
78 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 1:11:04pm |
re: #65 TedStriker
I kind of wish that a tornado had picked up a house and dropped it on him…
///
I wonder whether Wendy has a little terrier…
//:-)
79 | Skip Intro Oct 11, 2014 1:11:20pm |
re: #56 dog philosopher
i wonder what would happen in american elections if democrats started using the immoral lying anger rousing sarcastic political tactics that republicans have been beating them up with?
The “liberal” media would be outraged.
80 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 1:11:50pm |
Lack of empathy is nothing we haven’t seen before in politics, but it takes an extra special kind of nasty to grab your $10 million insurance settlement after an accident (caused by a storm, no less) and then work hard to cut that opportunity off for everyone else.
81 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 1:12:58pm |
re: #80 jaunte
Lack of empathy is nothing we haven’t seen before in politics, but it takes an extra special kind of nasty to grab your $10 million insurance settlement after an accident (caused by a storm, no less) and then work hard to cut that opportunity off for everyone else.
And then squeal about a photo of the ten million dollar wheelchair.
82 | EPR-radar Oct 11, 2014 1:13:34pm |
re: #77 wrenchwench
It’s the ad at the top ^^^.
:-)
But this ad doesn’t get into Abbott’s support for capping damages. Perhaps other ads have (or will do that). Give the GOP and its enablers more to whine about.
83 | ausador Oct 11, 2014 1:13:38pm |
re: #9 sagehen
I wasn’t clear on whether “he sided with” refers to in his capacity as the State’s AG, or if he used to be in private practice and those were his clients.
Neither, the ad is referring to cases he ruled on when he was a Texas Supreme Court Justice.
84 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 1:14:39pm |
re: #81 wrenchwench
Getting stuff without working for it is bad for your character!
85 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 1:15:06pm |
re: #82 EPR-radar
But this ad doesn’t get into Abbott’s support for capping damages. Perhaps other ads have (or will do that). Give the GOP and its enablers more to whine about.
That’s right. She’s holding back. This IS the nice ad…
86 | Targetpractice Oct 11, 2014 1:15:14pm |
re: #72 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Swiftboat slime questioning patriotism of a veteran was OK. Now suddenly…
No shit, let’s call up Max Cleland and ask him how caring the GOP is about paraplegics when they don’t have an (R) next to their names.
87 | bratwurst Oct 11, 2014 1:15:57pm |
re: #6 Dark_Falcon
it has given Scott Brown and other Republicans a club with which to throttle those Democrats who have most strongly supported her.
There is no out of state campaign ad that is even going to come close to saving Scott Brown. Maybe he can move to another state and try again.
88 | Romantic Heretic Oct 11, 2014 1:16:13pm |
re: #13 Tigger2
Why would she be finished? for telling the truth.
Yes.
Voters don’t like the truth as the truth is often unpleasant. So they punish candidates for telling the truth.
Lies are always pleasant and wonderful. They are much preferred.
89 | Mattand Oct 11, 2014 1:16:50pm |
re: #6 Dark_Falcon
Right. Because we need more Republicans running the country, so they can finish the job of irrevocably fucking up the country that they started from 2001 to 2007.
Worst terrorist attack ever on American soil? GOP in charge.
Starting two wars with no exit strategy or way to finance them? GOP in charge.
Irresponsibly cutting taxes while fighting same wars? GOP in charge.
Worst financial American crisis since the Great Depression? GOP in charge.
Yup. Just what we need. More responsible Republican leadership.
90 | missliberties Oct 11, 2014 1:18:20pm |
re: #69 darthstar
[Embedded content]
As far as I can tell Republicans express OUTRAGE every time a democrat breathes.
Not sure if Wendy Davis expects to win. It would be great if she did, though.
The goal however is to continue to build a strong democratic team in Texas. This idea that just because you can’t win you shouldn’t even try? That’s self defeating, Yes? The GOP keeps telling us they are ahead to take the wind out of our sails. They are wrong.
91 | EPR-radar Oct 11, 2014 1:18:22pm |
re: #87 bratwurst
There is no out of state campaign ad that is even going to come close to saving Scott Brown. Maybe he can move to another state and try again.
That’s a bit of good news. The last thing we need is to have a creature like Scott Brown in the Senate from a state which can do much better.
92 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 1:18:42pm |
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
Shaking my head that you think that comment is something to be proud of.
Again, Dark shows that, under his veneer of naiveté and being (somewhat) sane, he’s just as fucking batshit crazy and singularly driven to win at any cost (truth, morals, and integrity be damned) as the rest of his compatriots that are currently in the driver’s seat of today’s GOP.
The last straw for me with him was the bilge he spewed a couple of weeks ago in regards to Gabby Giffords; combined with his comments in this thread, I feel absolutely no guilt with telling him to get fucked and that he was scrollover material from now on.
As a matter of fact, I’ll say it again for him: Dark, you and your PARTY UBER ALLES ideology can go get fucked together.
93 | BeachDem Oct 11, 2014 1:21:30pm |
re: #86 Targetpractice
No shit, let’s call up Max Cleland and ask him how caring the GOP is about paraplegics when they don’t have an (R) next to their names.
We could also place a call to Tammy Duckworth and have her extol on Joe Walsh’s caring response to her status as a wounded vet.
94 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 1:22:24pm |
re: #92 TedStriker
Dark is very open about his Machiavellian worldview. It’s refreshing and infuriating at the same time.
95 | EPR-radar Oct 11, 2014 1:23:29pm |
re: #92 TedStriker
Again, Dark shows that, under his veneer of naiveté and being (somewhat) sane, he’s just as fucking batshit crazy and singularly driven to win at any cost (truth, morals, and integrity be damned) as the rest of his compatriots that are currently in the driver’s seat of today’s GOP.
The last straw for me with him was the bilge he spewed a couple of weeks ago in regards to Gabby Giffords; combined with his comments in this thread, I feel absolutely no guilt with telling him to get fucked and that he was scrollover material from now on.
As a matter of fact, I’ll say it again for him: Dark, you and your PARTY UBER ALLES ideology can go get fucked together.
Honestly, there is simply no excuse for voting GOP at the Federal level. One who votes that way is affirmatively voting for evil, and there is no way to soften or sugar-coat this conclusion.
96 | Skip Intro Oct 11, 2014 1:23:31pm |
re: #93 BeachDem
We could also place a call to Tammy Duckworth and have her extol on Joe Walsh’s caring response to her status as a wounded vet.
I don’t remember the media being outraged by that either. “Just politics”, said the Republican owners of all the major media in America.
97 | mishuga Oct 11, 2014 1:25:22pm |
I think the ad is incompetent. “Ruled against?” After seeing that wording, I thought that Abbott was a former judge who was being criticized for his rulings, which are often just clear consequences of laws. Thank you Jaunte for clarifying.
98 | goddamnedfrank Oct 11, 2014 1:26:03pm |
re: #92 TedStriker
I used to get angry at Dark, more so years ago when he’d say stupid shit like the famous incident where he said he also would have lied to Pat TIllman’s parents about the circumstances of their son’s death.
Now, I’m just like …
99 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 1:26:12pm |
re: #93 BeachDem
We could also place a call to Tammy Duckworth and have her extol on Joe Walsh’s caring response to her status as a wounded vet.
Like with veterans, the GOP only cares about the disabled or puts those with disabilities up front and center when there’s something in it for them and/or when they can beat Democrats over the head with them; otherwise, they’ll just be completely ignored.
They excel in bullshit and lip service.
100 | Targetpractice Oct 11, 2014 1:27:46pm |
re: #99 TedStriker
Like veterans, the GOP only cares about the disabled or puts those with disabilities up front and center when there’s something in it for them; otherwise, they’ll just be completely ignored.
Yep. Hence the party that voted for cuts to the VA happily getting out there to glad-hand vets at the WWII memorial during the shutdown or gettin’ the vapors when the waiting lists became public knowledge.
101 | sagehen Oct 11, 2014 1:28:13pm |
re: #82 EPR-radar
But this ad doesn’t get into Abbott’s support for capping damages. Perhaps other ads have (or will do that). Give the GOP and its enablers more to whine about.
What’s especially nasty about that is that THE. WHOLE. POINT. of punitive damages is that it’s got nothing to do with whether the plaintiff “deserves” that much, it’s about how much do we have to take away from the defendant for him/her/it to really notice. It has to be PUNITIVE.
My favorite punitive damage was a bad faith insurance case back in the 1970’s — Colonial Penn was dicking around their policyholders, they refused to pay for a $48 hearing aid just because they thought the guy wouldn’t spend the resources to force them. The damage award was 2% of the company’s value. You can be sure that insurance company, and other insurance companies, made a real effort not to do that anymore (at least until they could get the law changed and damage caps).
102 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 1:28:26pm |
re: #97 mishuga
Abbott was actually a Texas Supreme Court justice when he made the ruling.
AUSTIN — Republican Greg Abbott, already denounced by his Democratic rival for ruling against a rape victim while on the Texas Supreme Court, sided against three other women who sued in sexual assault cases.
In five cases in which the victims had sued the assailant or a company for negligence in the attacks, Abbott decided against four during his tenure as a high court justice from 1995 to 2001, a review by The Dallas Morning News shows.
dallasnews.com
103 | EPR-radar Oct 11, 2014 1:30:09pm |
re: #98 goddamnedfrank
I used to get angry at Dark, more so years ago when he’d say stupid shit like the famous incident where he said he also would have lied to Pat TIllman’s parents about the circumstances of their son’s death.
Now, I’m just like …
I try to avoid getting angry as well. That said, the fact that someone is polite when they go about supporting a party of evil crapstains that want me to die does not cut any ice at all with me.
104 | darthstar Oct 11, 2014 1:30:52pm |
More reason to say, “Fuck you, Greg Abbott”
Greg Abbott pushes to block disabled Texans’ lawsuits against state http://t.co/F3bduVuWfs— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) October 11, 2014
105 | austin_blue Oct 11, 2014 1:38:06pm |
Abbot’s people had to know this was coming. Abbott has shown up and featured his chair in at least two spots. One was analogizing his hard work to get back to health after the injury (“I’ll work just as hard for you as Governor of Texas”), and in another where he is wheeling down the breakdown lane of I-35 emphasizing how slow traffic is on some roads in Texas (“I can move faster in my chair than people can in their cars. Here’s how I am going to fix it.”)
So their outage, calling Davis’s campaign “desperate” is a completely expected response. What else are the going to say?
“Yes, we agree that the AG has been stunningly hypocritical in his positions on lawsuit reform,” isn’t going to pass their collective lips, is it? Whether their actual reaction will be an effective response cannot be predicted, especially when the facts are not in doubt. Abbott did exactly what Davis says he did.
106 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 1:40:19pm |
OK, the domestic violence troll just got on my last nerve.
Charles, I apologize for my language on that thread.
107 | darthstar Oct 11, 2014 1:40:46pm |
@gatewaypundit OMG You're right! @WesleyLowery IS black! #YouFuckingDolt— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) October 11, 2014
108 | EPR-radar Oct 11, 2014 1:49:23pm |
re: #101 sagehen
What’s especially nasty about that is that THE. WHOLE. POINT. of punitive damages is that it’s got nothing to do with whether the plaintiff “deserves” that much, it’s about how much do we have to take away from the defendant for him/her/it to really notice. It has to be PUNITIVE.
My favorite punitive damage was a bad faith insurance case back in the 1970’s — Colonial Penn was dicking around their policyholders, they refused to pay for a $48 hearing aid just because they thought the guy wouldn’t spend the resources to force them. The damage award was 2% of the company’s value. You can be sure that insurance company, and other insurance companies, made a real effort not to do that anymore (at least until they could get the law changed and damage caps).
Just to make this a bit more explicit, the whole point of GOP ‘tort reform’ is to completely end the concept of punitive damages.
Just what we need —- no restraint at all on the abuses perpetrated by BigCorps because any possible judgement will be completely negligible with respect to their bottom line.
In my opinion, if big business wants to cap damages, then they should lose the corporate shield and live with personal liability for judgements against the business.
109 | Charles Johnson Oct 11, 2014 1:53:51pm |
.@gatewaypundit @WesleyLowery A quote from Jim's moronic post about this: “Hopefully, the leftists won’t get to crazy and violent.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 11, 2014
110 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 1:53:52pm |
re: #108 EPR-radar
Just to make this a bit more explicit, the whole point of GOP ‘tort reform’ is to completely end the concept of punitive damages.
Just what we need —- no restraint at all on the abuses perpetrated by BigCorps because any possible judgement will be completely negligible with respect to their bottom line.
In my opinion, if big business wants to cap damages, then they should lose the corporate shield and live with personal liability for judgements against the business.
THIS THIS THIS
The whole point of incorporating (OK, one point) is to AVOID PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Then they want to take that irresponsible thing and make it a person.
111 | darthstar Oct 11, 2014 2:00:02pm |
Geraldo’s posing with his shirt off…again…while talking Benghazi.
from PR, Kobani is the real Benghazi, the beseiged fortress where president really can & must save heroic defenders pic.twitter.com/nmI2Wp1LfF— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) October 11, 2014
@GeraldoRivera @MaryHartmanx2 What a Boobghazi. pic.twitter.com/LXCxwAywmj— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) October 11, 2014
112 | dog philosopher Oct 11, 2014 2:01:08pm |
re: #108 EPR-radar
Just to make this a bit more explicit, the whole point of GOP ‘tort reform’ is to completely end the concept of punitive damages.
Just what we need —- no restraint at all on the abuses perpetrated by BigCorps because any possible judgement will be completely negligible with respect to their bottom line.
In my opinion, if big business wants to cap damages, then they should lose the corporate shield and live with personal liability for judgements against the business.
i include tort “reform” in the list of my favorite GOP small government(tm) initiatives that somehow involves MOAR GUMMINT
113 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 2:02:17pm |
re: #49 Targetpractice
Democrats as a party still want to play by gentlemen’s rule against an opposition that sees fighting dirty as the new status quo. It’s part of the reason why Reid, despite getting snookered again and again by handshake deals, would not abandon the filibuster. They want so badly to believe that the old rules of decorum are still obeyed when it’s obvious to outside observers that the GOP as a party has gone bugfuck insane.
In military terms, as parties in general, today’s TPGOP has become the Viet Cong and the Democrats are the Vietnam-era US military.
We all know how that turned out, so that’s why those of us who aren’t batshit crazy needs to hold the Dems’ feet to the fire so they act like they have a pair when dealing with the TPGOP.
114 | darthstar Oct 11, 2014 2:03:45pm |
Ladies… it's time to make a statement… paint the country #Blue pic.twitter.com/ZLLccF1vmA— missLtoe (@missLtoe) October 11, 2014
116 | Targetpractice Oct 11, 2014 2:06:18pm |
re: #113 TedStriker
In military terms, as parties in general, today’s TPGOP has become the Viet Cong and the Democrats are the US military.
We all know how that turned out, so that’s why those of us who aren’t batshit crazy needs to hold the Dems’ feet to the fire so they act like they have a pair when dealing with the TPGOP.
I think what it comes down to is too many Democrats in the highest levels of the party are old-line politicians, from the days of Scoop Jackson and the idea that the difference between the parties is simply one of opinion. That, at the end of the day, both parties agree that their duty is to the American people and finding a middle ground is the best way forward.
117 | A Mom Anon Oct 11, 2014 2:10:14pm |
I’ve watched this ad several times today and I don’t get how it’s offensive to anyone. The man was in a terrible accident, sued and won a case. Happens all the time. As Attorney General however he’s gone beyond the call of duty to deny that very same thing to many other people. How is it awful to point that out?
But calling Wendy Davis “Abortion Barbie”, going off about her shoes(!) during her filibuster, calling her stability and abilities as a mom into question, bitching and whining because she got an education so she could do better for her family , that’s all just fine? Every fucking thing the GOP has criticized her for would not even so much as be a fart in the breeze to a male candidate. So why in the hell is anyone even paying attention to this and making a big deal out of it? Oh, yeah, bullying assholes hate it when there’s the slightest hint of fighting back and the cry like freaking babies when it happens.
118 | Aunty Entity Dragon Oct 11, 2014 2:10:51pm |
Seriously racist POS troll:
#fergusonoctober Clap your hands if you want to go black and never go back. pic.twitter.com/vvBEr8OOyw— Call me the Breeze (@Rem870P) October 11, 2014
What? @Rem870P afraid the ni*clang* men are taking all the white wimminz??! One nasty piece of work, pal #FergusonOctober #Ferguson— Annemarie Dickey (@Scottishlizard1) October 11, 2014
119 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 2:12:46pm |
re: #80 jaunte
Lack of empathy is nothing we haven’t seen before in politics, but it takes an extra special kind of nasty to grab your $10 million insurance settlement after an accident (caused by a storm, no less) and then work hard to cut that opportunity off for everyone else.
The ultimate expression of “fuck you, I got mine”.
120 | EPR-radar Oct 11, 2014 2:13:47pm |
re: #116 Targetpractice
I think what it comes down to is too many Democrats in the highest levels of the party are old-line politicians, from the days of Scoop Jackson and the idea that the difference between the parties is simply one of opinion. That, at the end of the day, both parties agree that their duty is to the American people and finding a middle ground is the best way forward.
That may have once been true for the GOP, but not any more. The GOP base is Frankenstein’s monster and has become a nihilistic death cult that would rather burn the country to the ground than see it turn into something they don’t accept. The Chamber of Commerce types in the GOP raised up this monster for decades out of evil expediency, since it was easier to foster resentment for votes than to get workers to vote to impoverish themselves to benefit the ultra-wealthy on the merits of that policy.
To hell with the GOP. In all ways except the strict legal definition, the GOP has become a party of traitors.
121 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 2:13:58pm |
122 | BeachDem Oct 11, 2014 2:16:19pm |
re: #113 TedStriker
In military terms, as parties in general, today’s TPGOP has become the Viet Cong and the Democrats are the Vietnam-era US military.
Or, as Tom Paxton put it, they’re VC, but pretend otherwise:
Every night the local gentry,
Sneak out past the sleeping sentry.
They go to join the old VC.
In their nightly little dramas,
They put on their black pajamas,
And come lobbing mortar shells at me.
123 | EPR-radar Oct 11, 2014 2:17:20pm |
re: #114 darthstar
Damn, I can be slow when it comes to images —- it just occurred to me that the Gadsen flag likens the purported patriots to poisonous snakes.
How fitting for its present day use by tea baggers.
124 | AntonSirius Oct 11, 2014 2:20:45pm |
re: #59 sagehen
You can still be proud of part of our history — we’re the party that gave the world Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.
Buncha RINOs
125 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 2:20:49pm |
re: #123 EPR-radar
Damn, I can be slow when it comes to images —- it just occurred to me that the Gadsen flag likens the purported patriots to poisonous snakes.
How fitting for its present day use by tea baggers.
Well, they certainly are a den of vipers…
126 | AntonSirius Oct 11, 2014 2:22:14pm |
re: #6 Dark_Falcon
Well, i for one am glad to see Wendy Davis running a nasty ad like that, because as the article points out, it has given Scott Brown and other Republicans a club with which to throttle those Democrats who have most strongly supported her. Hopefully, her ad helps give Republicans momentum with which to defeat other Democratic hopefuls.
I can’t imagine why you’d find an ad highlighting someone’s hypocrisy “nasty”…
127 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 2:24:23pm |
It’s Balloon Fiesta and he’s a climatologist. Don’t be laughing about his ‘package’.
Our instrument package went up today on a balloon and now to look at the data pic.twitter.com/Q7faNMUpN9— Dave DuBois (@nmclimate) October 11, 2014
128 | Aunty Entity Dragon Oct 11, 2014 2:25:51pm |
Aaaand we have a winner! @Bum_FartoWR Authoritarian fan of brutal police violence against the community! #FergusonOctober #shawshooting— Annemarie Dickey (@Scottishlizard1) October 11, 2014
129 | Aunty Entity Dragon Oct 11, 2014 2:27:38pm |
Holy shit…the guy is a fer real neo Nazi…
130 | Targetpractice Oct 11, 2014 2:31:29pm |
re: #128 Aunty Entity Dragon
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Meanwhile, Cliven Bundy remains very much alive, despite the shitload of firearms that were on his ranch months ago. Remember folks, pointing a gun at a federal agent is a-okay, so long as you’re white.
131 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 2:34:53pm |
re: #128 Aunty Entity Dragon
The violence against minorities by police is a stain on the moral fiber of this nation.
— John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) October 11, 2014
132 | Aunty Entity Dragon Oct 11, 2014 2:35:26pm |
Neo Nazi asshat with swastika on profile sez wut @Bum_FartoWR whine because protestors burned flag at #FergusonOctober Loser Nazi tears LOL— Annemarie Dickey (@Scottishlizard1) October 11, 2014
133 | William Barnett-Lewis Oct 11, 2014 2:37:30pm |
re: #132 Aunty Entity Dragon
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People like that are why I CCW. There are more than a few of them hiding in the deep woods up here.
134 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 2:38:13pm |
ABL is being dumped on, and JC_Christian just joined in. It’s a nasty day on Twitter in places.
135 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 2:39:05pm |
re: #88 Romantic Heretic
Yes.
Voters don’t like the truth as the truth is often unpleasant. So they punish candidates for telling the truth.
Lies are always pleasant and wonderful. They are much preferred.
136 | Decatur Deb Oct 11, 2014 2:40:13pm |
re: #124 AntonSirius
Buncha RINOs
Sadly, I plot that as a descending curve to Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 43.
137 | dog philosopher Oct 11, 2014 2:43:54pm |
o.t.
somebody “corrected” me yesterday while we were at a restaurant, insisting that i say “i dont feel well” instead of “i dont feel good”
i told them that my hamburger tasted well
138 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 2:43:57pm |
If that’s in the water hazard, I predict golf ball sized golf balls falling soon.
Photo of the waterspout near DuPont, taken by Jared Toppenberg. More photos: http://t.co/b7CYQYxs9O pic.twitter.com/jSMaNd05rh— KING 5 News (@KING5Seattle) October 11, 2014
139 | NotAgain Oct 11, 2014 2:45:37pm |
Rude? Offensive? Hey this is Texas. Go Wendy! Knock him down and kick him, cut off his legs, then call him Shorty and tell him to get up. . That’s what they do to Obama, so taste it yourself Giant Oligarch Party. That’s how it’s done in Texas.
But do remember to smile sweetly.
140 | BeachDem Oct 11, 2014 2:45:44pm |
Ooh—looks like the Gov. of CT hurt little National Racists Online’s fee-fees.
“Tom, the publication you’re talking about is a right-wing tea bag organization,” Malloy said.
Remember when “Tea Bag” was considered an obnoxious thing to say? Can I call the governor of Connecticut a “Left-tard” now?
— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) October 10, 2014
141 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 2:45:50pm |
re: #137 dog philosopher
o.t.
somebody “corrected” me yesterday while we were at a restaurant, insisting that i say “i dont feel well” instead of “i dont feel good”
i told them that my hamburger tasted well
did it taste well done?
142 | Aunty Entity Dragon Oct 11, 2014 2:46:04pm |
I hope these #Thugs never get shot by a cop. These photos will surface & the shooting will therefore be justifiable. pic.twitter.com/TsbvBGgpBi— Patient Zero (@angelmouse4) October 11, 2014
145 | dog philosopher Oct 11, 2014 2:47:21pm |
re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth
did it taste well done?
i dont think it could taste much after all of the kechup i drownded it with
146 | Decatur Deb Oct 11, 2014 2:48:38pm |
re: #6 Dark_Falcon
Didn’t add to your epic downdings, because the style was civil and the passionate dedication to a useless cause is permissible here. OTOH, I live between an Auburn fan and a ‘Bama fan.
147 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 2:49:07pm |
re: #143 jaunte
Is that Erick Erickson top right?
And why is a gold grill so thuggish and that silver grill just says ‘well-to-do suburbanite’?
148 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 2:55:15pm |
re: #147 wrenchwench
And why is a gold grill so thuggish and that silver grill just says ‘well-to-do suburbanite’?
Because, as you know already, reasons.
149 | Charles Johnson Oct 11, 2014 2:55:41pm |
@gatewaypundit @ZaidJilani please stop tweeting your racist nonsense at me— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) October 11, 2014
150 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 2:57:50pm |
re: #149 Charles Johnson
@gatewaypundit @ZaidJilani please stop tweeting your racist nonsense at me
— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) October 11, 2014
Good luck with that, Wesley…
151 | NotAgain Oct 11, 2014 2:58:27pm |
re: #89 Mattand
Re
…Worst financial American crisis since the Great Depression? GOP in charge…
Add: The Great Depression: GOP in charge
152 | William Barnett-Lewis Oct 11, 2014 2:59:09pm |
re: #146 Decatur Deb
Didn’t add to your epic downdings, because the style was civil and the passionate dedication to a useless cause is permissible here. OTOH, I live between an Auburn fan and a ‘Bama fan.
Similar sentiments. Especially here where Bears/Viking/Packers fans are about equal (tourist town, ya know).
153 | allegro Oct 11, 2014 2:59:22pm |
Man, if I keep this up I’ll find myself in emergency room. Last night when I went out to walk the poopers, I mis-stepped and fell on the edge of the patio, falling with my knee meeting concrete at great velocity. OW! This morning as I was getting down on the floor to give my spaniel (who was in his hidey hole to avoid getting more drops squirted in his eyes) his morning cheese-enveloped pills, I cracked my head on the table, right between the eyes. I saw stars. Just now I was washing dishes, dropped a wet glass and cut my damn hand on a shard.
I think I’ll start drinking. Can’t do any worse. Sheesh.
154 | Decatur Deb Oct 11, 2014 3:00:26pm |
re: #153 allegro
Man, if I keep this up I’ll find myself in emergency room. Last night when I went out to walk the poopers, I mis-stepped and fell on the edge of the patio, falling with my knee meeting concrete at great velocity. OW! This morning as I was getting down on the floor to give my spaniel (who was in his hidey hole to avoid getting more drops squirted in his eyes) his morning cheese-enveloped pills, I cracked my head on the table, right between the eyes. I saw stars. Just now I was washing dishes, dropped a wet glass and cut my damn hand on a shard.
I think I’ll start drinking. Can’t do any worse. Sheesh.
The dogs are in this together.
155 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 3:01:56pm |
re: #57 CuriousLurker
I left you a present over on your page.
People need to understand how selective your ethics are.
I left him a little present too, though it’s not like he gives a damn.
BTW, how did you embed your post with a button like that?
156 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 3:02:36pm |
157 | Charles Johnson Oct 11, 2014 3:03:25pm |
Hey Jim - remember when you linked to a white supremacist site to smear Michael Brown? http://t.co/TRfcdgqsLm @gatewaypundit @WesleyLowery— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 11, 2014
158 | Charles Johnson Oct 11, 2014 3:05:21pm |
The fact that you're a racist has been demonstrated time and time again. And you know it. @gatewaypundit @WesleyLowery— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 11, 2014
159 | BlueGrl21 Oct 11, 2014 3:06:19pm |
re: #139 NotAgain
Rude? Offensive? Hey this is Texas. Go Wendy! Knock him down and kick him, cut off his legs, then call him Shorty and tell him to get up. . That’s what they do to Obama, so taste it yourself Giant Oligarch Party. That’s how it’s done in Texas.
But do remember to smile sweetly.
Exactly. We don’t play.
160 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 3:07:47pm |
Retweet the original:
Young Nigel waits for the rest of the #FergusonOctober marchers to catch up. pic.twitter.com/p41U76eQOp— Koran Addo (@KoranAddo) October 11, 2014
161 | Targetpractice Oct 11, 2014 3:07:51pm |
re: #139 NotAgain
Rude? Offensive? Hey this is Texas. Go Wendy! Knock him down and kick him, cut off his legs, then call him Shorty and tell him to get up. . That’s what they do to Obama, so taste it yourself Giant Oligarch Party. That’s how it’s done in Texas.
But do remember to smile sweetly.
Don’t forget to work “Bless his heart” somewhere in there.
162 | Aunty Entity Dragon Oct 11, 2014 3:17:01pm |
“@ChwerthinAamina: turning this picture black and white makes the year it was taken unclear… #FergusonOctober pic.twitter.com/7HbtUxC4rQ” wow— ?Key (@keyindabox) October 11, 2014
164 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 3:29:08pm |
Yesterday:
The mountain where new mass graves found in iguala #mexico. Police blocking acces to graves. 43 students missing pic.twitter.com/i3Y0GqDULj— manuel rueda (@ruedareport) October 10, 2014
Today:
Just saw students in guerrero, #mexico hijack at least 4buses and 4snack food trucks in protest over missing students pic.twitter.com/XDV97KUFdb— manuel rueda (@ruedareport) October 11, 2014
Students in chilpancingo now going back to ayotzinapa school w/hijacked buses & trucks. Police didnt do anything pic.twitter.com/Mf0vx2cg64— manuel rueda (@ruedareport) October 11, 2014
This explains what they are protesting.
167 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 3:38:42pm |
168 | Rightwingconspirator Oct 11, 2014 3:42:00pm |
re: #111 darthstar
Geraldo’s posing with his shirt off…again…while talking Benghazi.
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Dude, use a click to reveal tag from now on with his selfies. I’m beggin ya.
169 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 3:45:59pm |
re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth
Badge of honor for him, no doubt.
I just read something by an editor at NRO that I agree with. [Picks up jaw.] Just to enhance my downding, I’m not going to tell Dark what it is.
170 | Interesting Times Oct 11, 2014 3:47:18pm |
re: #169 wrenchwench
I just read something by an editor at NRO that I agree with.
Even a broken squirrel finds a nut twice a day.
171 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 3:49:03pm |
re: #170 Interesting Times
Even a broken squirrel finds a nut twice a day.
I’m not even going to look at what else the guy (of course it’s a guy) has written and spoil it. He has worked at two other publications that I avoid because they are vile.
172 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 3:49:28pm |
re: #169 wrenchwench
I just read something by an editor at NRO that I agree with. [Picks up jaw.] Just to enhance my downding, I’m not going to tell Dark what it is.
Most excellent idea for torture! :D
173 | Ryan King Oct 11, 2014 3:51:32pm |
I hope one of them is Comic Sans. I hate Comic Sans. #fonts pic.twitter.com/pkJLf7O7RZ
— Chris Gore (@ThatChrisGore) October 11, 2014
175 | Jenner7 Oct 11, 2014 3:54:08pm |
re: #6 Dark_Falcon
Yes, we need more obstructionist Republicans in office….
179 | dog philosopher Oct 11, 2014 4:01:29pm |
180 | freetoken Oct 11, 2014 4:04:44pm |
re: #80 jaunte
Lack of empathy is nothing we haven’t seen before in politics, but it takes an extra special kind of nasty to grab your $10 million insurance settlement after an accident (caused by a storm, no less) and then work hard to cut that opportunity off for everyone else.
A point which I wish was even more explicitly stated in the advert. While people in Texas might know this, I bet a lot of people don’t.
181 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 4:08:29pm |
re: #180 freetoken
A point which I wish was even more explicitly stated in the advert. While people in Texas might know this, I bet a lot of people don’t.
I’m not in Texas and I knew that a long time ago.
182 | Kid A Oct 11, 2014 4:10:40pm |
re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m not in Texas and I knew that a long time ago.
I’m in Texas and I didn’t.
183 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 4:11:56pm |
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m a Republican, but the nonsense DF spews makes me cringe.
I’m just wondering how you can consider yourself a Republican in this day and age, because it’s obvious to me that you’re not a complete RAH RAH GO TEAM GOP homer like Dark is and that you have some empathy, logic, and common sense.
I’ll be honest here: my Republican odyssey began with W and ended with McCain/Palin in 2008. I voted for W both times, first in 2000 because of an extreme dislike and distaste for Al Gore and the second in 2004 because I had bought into the bullshit that the WH and their sycophants in the media (such as Rush, Hannity, and Liddy, to name a couple) was shoveling, over Iraq, Afghanistan, tax cuts, and most everything else. It wasn’t until after the 2008 elections, in which I bought McCain/Palin’s bullshit too and voted for them, in part because of all of the fearmongering about (now-President) Obama, that I turned it around and came to my senses about what the GOP was and had become; Charles’ repudiation of the right and the following upheaval here and elsewhere helped me a lot to come to that point.
I’m not proud of what I did or said during my time in the belly of the GOP beast (including a lot of comments here in that time frame), but I’m owning it, because it’s a part of who I am now, but I’m doing my damnedest to not be fooled again and let my basest nature override my senses.
It’s not shameful to say that you didn’t leave the GOP (if you eventually do that officially), the GOP left you.
184 | ausador Oct 11, 2014 4:16:43pm |
Yep…
~~ Remember when Cops fired Tear Gas into this unlawfully assembled crowd? Ya Me Neither!! #Ferguson #FergusonOctober pic.twitter.com/EAUsTrGCYM— Rossssc (@rossssc) October 11, 2014
185 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 4:17:58pm |
re: #180 freetoken
A point which I wish was even more explicitly stated in the advert. While people in Texas might know this, I bet a lot of people don’t.
It’s worth telling the story again and again. Most people aren’t paying attention, and the GOP relies on that.
186 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 4:23:19pm |
re: #114 darthstar
It’s so wrong:)
188 | Decatur Deb Oct 11, 2014 4:24:59pm |
re: #183 TedStriker
…snip
I’m not proud of what I did or said during my time in the belly of the GOP beast (including a lot of comments here in that time frame), but I’m owning it, because it’s a part of who I am now, but I’m doing my damnedest to not be fooled again and let my basest nature override my senses.
(together) “Hello, Ted”
189 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 4:26:01pm |
re: #183 TedStriker
As I explained earlier in the thread, I’m a Republican because all the local county offices are decided during the Republican primary in May because the Democratic party here locally is very weak.
I’m also what is today considered an Eisenhower Republican (aka these days = RINO): fiscally sensible (yes, taxes are not evil), very supportive of social issues and also very wary of the military-industrial complex.
True story: The local Democratic organization couldn’t find anyone to be president a couple of years ago and they asked me. I told them they needed to find a reasonable Democrat.
The reason I refused is because Rand Paul Libertarians are taking over the Republican party here, both locally and state-wide (that’s how our local County Judge Executive ended up becoming our congresscritter in DC), and I didn’t want to give up my vote to oppose that, because we have closed primaries.
They ended up getting another Republican to change party affiliation to be president.
This is much more than the tea party lunatics redefining “conservative” as it relates to the GOP, it’s about the Paulians making serious inroads on the GOP by preying on fears.
Sadly, I don’t think many people are seeing what’s happening. And many of those who do see it are having a difficult time coming up with strategies to deal with it.
190 | Skip Intro Oct 11, 2014 4:27:03pm |
re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m sorry, but the correct term for an “Eisenhower Republican” these days is “commie”.
191 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 4:27:38pm |
re: #190 Skip Intro
I’m sorry, but the correct term for an “Eisenhower Republican” these days is “commie”.
yes…I know…
192 | Skip Intro Oct 11, 2014 4:33:04pm |
193 | Decatur Deb Oct 11, 2014 4:34:04pm |
re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth
As I explained earlier in the thread, I’m a Republican because all the local county offices are decided during the Republican primary in May because the Democratic party here locally is very weak.
I’m also what is today considered an Eisenhower Republican (aka these days = RINO): fiscally sensible (yes, taxes are not evil), very supportive of social issues and also very wary of the military-industrial complex….snip
(togrther) “Hello, Backwoods”
194 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 4:34:24pm |
195 | lostlakehiker Oct 11, 2014 4:34:39pm |
re: #10 jaunte
It was in his capacity as AG:
It all depends on what kind of work the woman did. Some work can’t be performed without top-notch working-order legs. But there’s other work for which an artificial leg is no significant hindrance. So before concluding that the woman was in the right, I’d like to know what sort of work she was doing before the injury.
196 | Stanley Seabola Oct 11, 2014 4:34:59pm |
re: #192 Skip Intro
Just another day in America.
Man dressed as zombie killed by bus at Idaho corn maze
:(
197 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 4:35:26pm |
re: #190 Skip Intro
I’m sorry, but the correct term for an “Eisenhower Republican” these days is “commie”.
“Commie RINO”…get it right!
/semi
198 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 4:35:49pm |
re: #192 Skip Intro
Zombies of the corn.
199 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 4:37:24pm |
200 | Feline Fearless Leader Oct 11, 2014 4:38:46pm |
Good evening Lizards.
Laptop is back on-line. Issues traced today to a back power converter - so a new one was purchased, battery has recharged, and things computer are back to normal.
I will probably order a new battery shortly in any case since I expect this one, being ~6 years old, is probably going to be an issue at some point.
201 | Skip Intro Oct 11, 2014 4:41:14pm |
re: #198 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Zombies of the corn.
That could be a Steven King “twofer” movie. Demon controlled buses killing zombies in corn fields.
Hey, make it a triple.
202 | ausador Oct 11, 2014 4:41:31pm |
A+ first paragraph. http://t.co/qHqzKj3LKG pic.twitter.com/KC8jnClQil— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 11, 2014
203 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 4:41:49pm |
re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth
Two essential elements of the American horror. Add something gothic and something chainsaw and you got a perfect mix./
204 | Skip Intro Oct 11, 2014 4:42:35pm |
re: #202 ausador
OK, Sparkles is my new name for Chuck Johnson.
205 | jamesfirecat Oct 11, 2014 4:43:46pm |
re: #6 Dark_Falcon
Well, i for one am glad to see Wendy Davis running a nasty ad like that, because as the article points out, it has given Scott Brown and other Republicans a club with which to throttle those Democrats who have most strongly supported her. Hopefully, her ad helps give Republicans momentum with which to defeat other Democratic hopefuls.
Sorry to have to down ding you DF but what makes this ad “Nasty” exactly?
Is she mistaken or is it just the old saying “if you promise to stop liking about me I promise to stop telling the truth about you?”
206 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 4:44:11pm |
re: #202 ausador
[Embedded content]
Cops paying for a clown? I’d wager it was more likely only written up as a clown and ‘Sparkles’ is really a stripper.
Or am I jumping to an unfounded conclusion?
207 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 4:44:20pm |
re: #202 ausador
Of course they did. Wait. We’re not talking Russia?
208 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 4:44:28pm |
re: #205 jamesfirecat
Sorry to have to down ding you DF but what makes this ad “Nasty” exactly?
It’s a Democratic woman who is being uppity.
209 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 4:44:54pm |
re: #195 lostlakehiker
She was a food service manager, who applied more than 20 times for work with the Texas prison system but was denied.
210 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 4:45:33pm |
re: #205 jamesfirecat
Sorry to have to down ding you DF but what makes this ad “Nasty” exactly?
Others in the quoted article were calling it nasty so I decided to snipe at it and piled on.
211 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 4:45:59pm |
re: #210 Dark_Falcon
Others in the quoted article were calling it nasty so I decided to snipe at it and piled on.
bullshit
212 | Weet Oct 11, 2014 4:46:43pm |
re: #2 aagcobb
She’s not finished because of the ad. She has never been in the race to begin with. Texas is just too Republican for her to have any chance of winning.
First, you’re using that RW polling site to support your statement. Really, you shouldn’t use them — they cherry-pick polls. Next: Texas is not ‘too Republican’. People here don’t vote, and that’s our problem. We were 2nd worst in 2012, ~40% voted. (Hawaii was 1st.) Texas is a purple state. What Democrats are focusing on is getting registrations up, and they are succeeding. It’s a big state, and it’s going to take a while, but we’ll get there. Also, Wendy actually does have a chance. It’s slight, but she does. It’s important to run, get our voices out there, give people new ideas, and speak some truth statewide about the criminal Rethugs.
213 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 4:46:50pm |
re: #195 lostlakehiker
It all depends on what kind of work the woman did. Some work can’t be performed without top-notch working-order legs. But there’s other work for which an artificial leg is no significant hindrance. So before concluding that the woman was in the right, I’d like to know what sort of work she was doing before the injury.
What about the blind person and the two deaf people?
214 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 4:47:45pm |
re: #210 Dark_Falcon
Others in the quoted article were calling it nasty so I decided to snipe at it and piled on.
Damn. This is so cute I dunno whether to up- or down ding ;)
218 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 4:49:37pm |
re: #212 Weet
First, you’re using that RW polling site to support your statement. Really, you shouldn’t use them — they cherry-pick polls. Next: Texas is not ‘too Republican’. People here don’t vote, and that’s our problem. We were 2nd worst in 2012, ~40% voted. (Hawaii was 1st.) Texas is a purple state. What Democrats are focusing on is getting registrations up, and they are succeeding. It’s a big state, and it’s going to take a while, but we’ll get there. Also, Wendy actually does have a chance. It’s slight, but she does. It’s important to run, get our voices out there, give people new ideas, and speak some truth statewide about the criminal Rethugs.
That’s the spirit!
219 | A Mom Anon Oct 11, 2014 4:49:38pm |
re: #195 lostlakehiker
Seriously? A prosthetic doesn’t fix everything and make life totally normal again. Yes the technology is amazing for prosthetics today, but it’s not the same and your life isn’t the same. Not to mention that getting the right prosthetic limb is insanely expensive and they have to be replaced from time to time. There’s physical therapies and psychological therapy too. It’s not like you go to the new leg store, go home and you’re back to work.
Losing a leg is a disability. If that doesn’t qualify, then what the hell does? Is it only people in wheelchairs? People who are bedridden? What?
220 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 4:50:05pm |
“…The court concluded that although Little walked with a slight limp, could not “sit or walk like other people,” “walk quickly,” or “run at all,” she did not have an actual disability because her physical impairment did not substantially limit her in the major life activities of walking or running.
11 Turning to the other prongs in the definition of disability, the court concluded that, despite Little’s past experience and the employer’s awareness of her impairment, there was insufficient evidence that the employer regarded Little as having a disability.
12 Finally, despite the fact that Little had detailed her impairment on her application forms, had been without a leg for a year, and needed a cane to walk for several years thereafter, the court concluded that there was insufficient evidence of a record of a disability.
questia.com
It’s only a flesh wound!
221 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 4:51:23pm |
The court concluded that although Little walked with a slight limp, could not “sit or walk like other people,” “walk quickly,” or “run at all,” she did not have an actual disability because her physical impairment did not substantially limit her in the major life activities of walking or running.
Read that one again.
222 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 4:52:09pm |
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
bullshit
That word is in fact used in the article:
“Wendy Davis is running one of the nastiest campaign ads you’ll ever see,” The Washington Post blared.
A “historic low” is how the attack ad was described by the Abbott campaign, which saw fellow Republicans rally to his side and issue demands that she pull down the ad.
Even liberal Mother Jones magazine unloaded on Davis, a Democrat.
“It’s offensive and nasty and it shouldn’t exist,” wrote Ben Dreyfess. “She’s basically calling Abbott a cripple.”
I posted what I posted because I was gleeful over Wendy Davis’s misstep. Sometimes I enjoy watching others make mistakes and fail. I know I shouldn’t, but I do.
This is not a defense, just an explanation.
223 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 4:52:23pm |
224 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 4:52:24pm |
re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth
As I explained earlier in the thread, I’m a Republican because all the local county offices are decided during the Republican primary in May because the Democratic party here locally is very weak.
I’m also what is today considered an Eisenhower Republican (aka these days = RINO): fiscally sensible (yes, taxes are not evil), very supportive of social issues and also very wary of the military-industrial complex.
True story: The local Democratic organization couldn’t find anyone to be president a couple of years ago and they asked me. I told them they needed to find a reasonable Democrat.
The reason I refused is because Rand Paul Libertarians are taking over the Republican party here, both locally and state-wide (that’s how our local County Judge Executive ended up becoming our congresscritter in DC), and I didn’t want to give up my vote to oppose that, because we have closed primaries.
They ended up getting another Republican to change party affiliation to be president.
This is much more than the tea party lunatics redefining “conservative” as it relates to the GOP, it’s about the Paulians making serious inroads on the GOP by preying on fears.
Sadly, I don’t think many people are seeing what’s happening. And many of those who do see it are having a difficult time coming up with strategies to deal with it.
That really blows and I kind of know the deal: I live in Nashville, one of the few Democratic oases in a blood-red Tennessee. We have a GOP governor, a GOP super-majority on our Capitol Hill in which the Democrats (mostly from Nashville, Memphis, and the other large cities) can really do no more than offer token resistance, and the overwhelming majority of our Congressional delegation are either TPGOPers or pandering to them (I’m looking at you, Lamar!).
I can understand wanting to work from the inside of your local GOP to fight off the encroachments of the TPers and the Paulians, but there’s a time when you have to fish or cut bait. IMO, at this point, the GOP as it is currently is absolutely rotten to the core, because the inmates now run the asylum and the establishment types are too scared of them to give them the boot, because they need those folks to compete with the Democrats in any meaningful way.
You really are between a rock and a hard place where you are, but helping to strengthen the Democratic opposition may do a lot to help curb your local GOP’s slide towards the crazy zone.
225 | Dr. Matt Oct 11, 2014 4:52:54pm |
SO NASTY!!!!!!!!!
.@GregAbbott_TX took another $55K from payday lenders who he allows to prey on Texans, like veterans and teachers. pic.twitter.com/1VVgJCAy9E
— Wendy Davis (@WendyDavisTexas) October 11, 2014
226 | goddamnedfrank Oct 11, 2014 4:53:45pm |
re: #210 Dark_Falcon
Others in the quoted article were calling it nasty so I decided to snipe at it and piled on.
227 | Skip Intro Oct 11, 2014 4:53:58pm |
The court concluded that although Little walked with a slight limp, could not “sit or walk like other people,” “walk quickly,” or “run at all,” she did not have an actual disability because her physical impairment did not substantially limit her in the major life activities of walking or running.Is Clarence Thomas moonlighting these days?
228 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 4:54:28pm |
re: #222 Dark_Falcon
That word is in fact used in the article:
I posted what I posted because I was gleeful over Wendy Davis’s misstep. Sometimes I enjoy watching others make mistakes and fail. I know I shouldn’t, but I do.
This is not a defense, just an explanation.
Do you have an explanation for your continuing support for the sexist, racist, homophobic, pro-forced-birth, fiscally irresponsible party you keep rooting for?
229 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 4:54:57pm |
re: #216 Dr. Matt
Bravo on that -40….been awhile since we’ve such a steaming pile of drive-by drivel.
It’s not annefrance territory, but it’s still pretty damn repugnant.
230 | goddamnedfrank Oct 11, 2014 4:55:51pm |
re: #221 jaunte
Read that one again.
My Dad fits that description exactly, is legally considered disabled.
231 | Boyo Oct 11, 2014 4:56:29pm |
232 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 4:56:31pm |
re: #222 Dark_Falcon
That word is in fact used in the article:
I posted what I posted because I was gleeful over Wendy Davis’s misstep. Sometimes I enjoy watching others make mistakes and fail. I know I shouldn’t, but I do.
This is not a defense, just an explanation.
again, bullshit.
You said what you said. You did NOT add snark tag. Nor did you gopsplain that you were sniping on the original article.
Good grief, DF. Just own up to the fact that you are all RAH RAH RAH GO TEAM.
And add your disgusting glee over Gabby Giffords, you’ve already made me sick to death to be a Republican.
233 | A Mom Anon Oct 11, 2014 4:57:01pm |
re: #222 Dark_Falcon
Dude can you not think for yourself objectively ever? Watch that ad again and pretend, just for 40 seconds, that Wendy Davis is a Republican. There is nothing there that is nasty, NOTHING at all.
You really should begin looking carefully at the people you support and what they actually stand for. Blind partisan support is just, well, immature at best.
I like you DF, I always have, but I wish you’d seriously consider the individuals you support and dig just a bit deeper before standing behind people just because the have that (R) after their name. You’re an adult, if you happen to vote for the occasional Democrat, no one has to know but you. Policy and people over Party is a good rule of thumb much of the time. Just sayin’.
235 | Feline Fearless Leader Oct 11, 2014 4:57:26pm |
re: #228 wrenchwench
Do you have an explanation for your continuing support for the sexist, racist, homophobic, pro-forced-birth, fiscally irresponsible party you keep rooting for?
236 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 4:58:17pm |
Dark, I don’t want to imagine what kind of cognitive dissonance you must go through to vote for the party of evil while remaining a decent person (I’ll ignore the question of whether one can be a decent person and vote for the GOP for now).
237 | Bubblehead II Oct 11, 2014 4:58:34pm |
Just a drive by post to say hi. Sleep well Lizards
238 | Interesting Times Oct 11, 2014 4:59:21pm |
re: #222 Dark_Falcon
I posted what I posted because I was gleeful over Wendy Davis’s misstep.
Cool. Of the GOP positions listed here, which ones do you support?
239 | jamesfirecat Oct 11, 2014 5:02:16pm |
re: #238 Interesting Times
Cool. Of the GOP positions listed here, how many do you support?
Guys stop piling on DF for stuff unrelated to issue at hand we already know his support for the GOP is strongly tied to his family lets not retread that particular ground all over again.
(And DF I am sorry if I am saying things that are incorrect about you just going from memory)
240 | ausador Oct 11, 2014 5:02:33pm |
**Story is old, didn’t realize, oops**
Some good news hopefully, at least she gets a new trial…
Court Overturns Sentence of 20-Years for Woman Who Fired 'Warning Shots' at Abusive Husband http://t.co/NPMMlP790Y pic.twitter.com/UONvvi7LLv— Nicole Bonnet (@NicoleBonnet1) October 11, 2014
241 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 5:03:47pm |
242 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 5:04:32pm |
re: #238 Interesting Times
Cool. Of the GOP positions listed here, how many do you support?
I am not going to answer that post. i don’t agree much of with its phrasing or assumptions and I’m not going to get anywhere trying to explain my objections.
243 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 5:06:04pm |
re: #224 TedStriker
We have county elections coming up this year, all of which were decided in May during the Republican primary. The incumbent I don’t like very much personally, but hes done a good job cleaning up the mess left by the previous office holder (who is now wreaking havoc in DC as a congresscritter).
The incumbent Judge Executive’s biggest challenge in the primary was another Paulian Libertarian masquerading as a Republican.
If I had switched parties to head up the local Democratic party, I would have thrown away my vote against the Libertarian in the primary.
As you said: rock vs hard place.
OTOH, I get to vote for Alison Lundergan Grimes in the general election next month. YAY!
244 | Dr. Matt Oct 11, 2014 5:06:32pm |
re: #239 jamesfirecat
Guys stop piling on DF for stuff unrelated to issue at hand we already know his support for the GOP is strongly tied to his family lets not retread that particular ground all over again.
(And DF I am sorry if I am saying things that are incorrect about you just going from memory)
Unrelated to the issue at hand? BS This is about politics. This is about the Democrats versus the Republicans….. Republicans that proudly represent:
I grow very tired of this shit. Just what it is about generic Republicans that you find to be so wonderful?
1) Is it their hatred of gays?
2) Is it their endemic racism?
3) Is it their endless nonsense relating to abortion and birth control?
4) Is it their ‘kill them all’ approach to foreign policy?
5) Is it their embrace of creationism and other anti-science stupidity such as climate change denial?
6) Is it their increasing reliance on Confederate ideas such as nullification?
7) Is it their desire to take us back to a new gilded age, where the abuses will be perpetual because big media is already in the bag for its masters?
8) Is it their total contempt for just about everyone who isn’t filthy rich?
9) Is it their manifest desire to wreck the economy via government inaction, provided the Democrats can be blamed?
10) Is it their track record of spending like drunk sailors when in charge, combined with irresponsible tax cuts, then turning around and pretending to care about fiscal prudence when Democrats are in charge?
If you want to play nice. Have at it. Playing nice gave us Ronny Raygun, dubyah, and the Dems losing the majority over and over. Bring your spoon to the flight, I’m bringing a flamethrower.
245 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 11, 2014 5:06:58pm |
re: #239 jamesfirecat
I like DF. Despite the fact that I consider his position absolutely incoherent, if not sometimes outright evil. That doesn’t mean I won’t be pestering him about his GOP support. Familial ties are not an excuse.
247 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 5:07:48pm |
Abbott saying there's no one in Texas who's done more for women than him. Yes, he actually said that: http://t.co/LrlDQ50nI7 #WendyforTX
— Marti McCall (@txchick999) October 11, 2014
248 | ausador Oct 11, 2014 5:10:01pm |
re: #246 Dark_Falcon
That story is from September of last year.
Was just looking at that and trying to figure out what was new, not much it seems, holding hearings on the evidence that will or wont be allowed at her new trial still.
249 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 5:10:09pm |
250 | Interesting Times Oct 11, 2014 5:10:13pm |
re: #242 Dark_Falcon
I am not going to answer that post. i don’t agree much of with its phrasing or assumptions and I’m not going to get anywhere trying to explain my objections.
Translation: you haven’t a leg to stand on when it comes to objective, factual evidence to support your position.
If you said “I vote GOP because my family insists on it”, I wouldn’t like it, but it wouldn’t nearly as galling and obnoxious as your “glee” at the prospect of reckless, plutocratic, anti-science bigots being victorious.
251 | The Ghost of a Flea (R) Oct 11, 2014 5:10:16pm |
re: #6 Dark_Falcon
Well, i for one am glad to see Wendy Davis running a nasty ad like that, because as the article points out, it has given Scott Brown and other Republicans a club with which to throttle those Democrats who have most strongly supported her. Hopefully, her ad helps give Republicans momentum with which to defeat other Democratic hopefuls.
WELL SAID, Old Chum!
I had to put down my glass of laudanum and applaud! Well, actually I had my footman applaud.
What these damned rabble don’t get is that politics is for gentleman! That nasty prole blonde will just dirty up the works with her foul manners. Thieves and whores trying to rise above their station, rot our moral fiber. I’ll not stand for any woman I mount killing that sacred child that I shall neither acknowledge nor allowance. Clearly this Davis not wanting a husband, but a vigrous go with a knout. A woman’s place is whichever narrow closet her husband allocates her. Changing the rules to impede her filibuster? Nonsense, she should have been made to plead her case dragged around the building as Hector by Achilles.
And, by God, gentleman must stand for gentleman, lest godless socialism take us all. The spark of nobility and moral certitude rests in our bosoms, unspotted by the whoremongering, graft, or the creeping syphilitic delusions that lead to knifing chambermaids. The greater good requires that we out-thieve the thieves…and if we did not whore, how would whores understand their lot? Every graft I take is coins that won’t fall into the hands of an orphan with uppity notions.
Ah! But now my girdle is tightened and the pineapples are greased. It is away to the Hellfire Club for me.
You are the shield of the nobility, good sir. You stand athwart the foul and the morally diseased, checking their advance upon the great and good too bloated and deranged by venereal complaints to abscond in a timely manner.
252 | goddamnedfrank Oct 11, 2014 5:11:48pm |
re: #245 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Familial ties are not an excuse.
Exactly, family ties are the opposite of an excuse. They’re a pathetic crutch, a tacit admission of brainwashing indoctrination. A person pointing to their family to explain why they think the way they do is basically saying that they never actually grew up and became a fully functioning adult, capable of navigating issues and reasoning for themselves.
There is literally nothing to respect about such a statement.
253 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 5:11:56pm |
re: #228 wrenchwench
Do you have an explanation for your continuing support for the sexist, racist, homophobic, pro-forced-birth, fiscally irresponsible party you keep rooting for?
re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth
again, bullshit.
You said what you said. You did NOT add snark tag. Nor did you gopsplain that you were sniping on the original article.
Good grief, DF. Just own up to the fact that you are all RAH RAH RAH GO TEAM.And add your disgusting glee over Gabby Giffords, you’ve already made me sick to death to be a Republican.
re: #233 A Mom Anon
Dude can you not think for yourself objectively ever? Watch that ad again and pretend, just for 40 seconds, that Wendy Davis is a Republican. There is nothing there that is nasty, NOTHING at all.
You really should begin looking carefully at the people you support and what they actually stand for. Blind partisan support is just, well, immature at best.
I like you DF, I always have, but I wish you’d seriously consider the individuals you support and dig just a bit deeper before standing behind people just because the have that (R) after their name. You’re an adult, if you happen to vote for the occasional Democrat, no one has to know but you. Policy and people over Party is a good rule of thumb much of the time. Just sayin’.
re: #236 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Dark, I don’t want to imagine what kind of cognitive dissonance you must go through to vote for the party of evil while remaining a decent person (I’ll ignore the question of whether one can be a decent person and vote for the GOP for now).
Now, y’all now that Dark will never put up a substantive, sensical answer to you, even after all these years, which is one reason he’s now on my GAZE list.
254 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 5:12:58pm |
255 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 5:13:28pm |
re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth
We have county elections coming up this year, all of which were decided in May during the Republican primary. The incumbent I don’t like very much personally, but hes done a good job cleaning up the mess left by the previous office holder (who is now wreaking havoc in DC as a congresscritter).
The incumbent Judge Executive’s biggest challenge in the primary was another Paulian Libertarian masquerading as a Republican.
If I had switched parties to head up the local Democratic party, I would have thrown away my vote against the Libertarian in the primary.As you said: rock vs hard place.
OTOH, I get to vote for Alison Lundergan Grimes in the general election next month. YAY!
At least that’s a bright spot…
256 | Decatur Deb Oct 11, 2014 5:13:58pm |
re: #203 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Two essential elements of the American horror. Add something gothic and something chainsaw and you got a perfect mix./
Heh. Camped out with a bunch of Catholic kids from wife’s church in an abandoned convent. (Doing Katrina relief). Kept them up with tales of Sister Mary Kruger.
257 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 5:14:11pm |
re: #252 goddamnedfrank
Exactly, family ties are the opposite of an excuse. They’re a pathetic crutch, a tacit admission of brainwashing indoctrination A person pointing to their family to explain why they think the way they do is basically saying that they never actually grew up and became a fully functioning adult, capable of navigating issues and reasoning for themselves.
There is literally nothing to respect about such a statement.
Pretty much.
258 | allegro Oct 11, 2014 5:16:06pm |
re: #247 jaunte
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Yes, think of all the desperate women he’s protecting from legal, affordable abortions. But hey the ten commandments monument still stands at the Dallas courthouse (his biggest and proudest accomplishment as he said in both debates). Women bleeding to death from the rising number of illegal abortions can lean on that, right? So can the women with advanced breast and uterine cancer that went undetected because the health centers were shut down and there is no Medicaide in Texas so hospitals are right out as well.
Jesus, I better stop now.
259 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 5:16:16pm |
re: #246 Dark_Falcon
That story is from September of last year.
To be helpful and to ‘stop digging’, I did a Google search and found that Marissa Alexander did in fact have a hear this past week. Here is a newspaper article on the hearing:
The father of Marissa Alexander’s child has had children with at least three other women, and Thursday each of those women testified that Rico Gray has abused them.
In taking the stand as part of a pretrial hearing all three women, an ex-wife and two former girlfriends, changed their stories, having previously said under oath Rico Gray never abused them.
Alexander, 34, faces a potential 60-year prison term for firing a shot in the direction of Gray and two of his children from previous relationships. She is charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a weapon, and is asserting she fired the shot in self defense because Gray had just beaten her and was about to beat her again.
Alexander had given birth to Gray’s child nine days before the incident happened in August 2010.
Circuit Judge James Daniel will have to decide whether the other mothers of Gray’s children will be allowed to testify on her behalf when Alexander’s trial begins on Dec. 1. Attorneys for Alexander argue that it shows a pattern of abuse that strengthens their clients self-defense claim.
260 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 5:16:40pm |
re: #253 TedStriker
Now, y’all now that Dark will never put up a substantive, sensical answer to you, even after all these years, which is one reason he’s now on my GAZE list.
heh
“Eat my furry fuck trousers.” pic.twitter.com/DdI0W4wsuU
— MY SWEARY CAT (@MYSWEARYCAT) October 10, 2014
262 | William Barnett-Lewis Oct 11, 2014 5:18:36pm |
re: #245 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
I like DF. Despite the fact that I consider his position absolutely incoherent, if not sometimes outright evil. That doesn’t mean I won’t be pestering him about his GOP support. Familial ties are not an excuse.
I like him as well. I’ve seen him do the right thing just often enough to know he’s a good person inside. He’s grown since I’ve been here & i hope that’ll continue.
Lord knows there are enough of us here that have our own knee jerk issues as well.
263 | stpaulbear Oct 11, 2014 5:18:46pm |
re: #252 goddamnedfrank
Exactly, family ties are the opposite of an excuse. They’re a pathetic crutch, a tacit admission of brainwashing indoctrination A person pointing to their family to explain why they think the way they do is basically saying that they never actually grew up and became a fully functioning adult, capable of navigating issues and reasoning for themselves.
There is literally nothing to respect about such a statement.
Maybe they’ve managed to convince DF that it’s dangerous to be in a voting booth without parental supervision.
264 | Decatur Deb Oct 11, 2014 5:20:13pm |
re: #262 William Barnett-Lewis
…snip
Lord knows there are enough of us here that have our own knee jerk issues as well.
IS THAT ANOTHER ABBOT JOKE?
265 | William Barnett-Lewis Oct 11, 2014 5:20:55pm |
266 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 5:22:17pm |
re: #259 Dark_Falcon
I’m going to post one more bit from the article, because I think it illustrates a serious problem GGT has often called attention to:
Prosecutors are expected to argue that Gray’s previous history has no bearing on this trial. During Thursday’s hearing Assistant State Attorney Rich Mantei said Alexander couldn’t use the abuse of other women as a defense for her actions unless she knew about the abuse.
Mantei also said that since Alexander is claiming self defense, Gray’s previous actions are irrelevant because she has to prove she was acting to defend herself.
As for Mr. Mantei’s position, I must reply that Rico Gray’s prior bad acts damn well are relevant, because they help prove Alexander’s fears were valid. It sounds very much to me as if he does not understand much about domestic abuse.
267 | ausador Oct 11, 2014 5:22:36pm |
No way the trolls let this pass, I’m sure all the usual suspects are whooping it up in fine racist fashion already. :(
Oops: Michelle Obama Mispronounces Senate Candidate’s Name… Seven Times
So she said Bailey instead of Braley, pretty easy one to flub if you ask me.
If a conservative Republican made the mistake that Mrs. Obama just made by calling Braley by the wrong name, it would be the biggest story!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2014
268 | The Ghost of a Flea (R) Oct 11, 2014 5:24:31pm |
re: #222 Dark_Falcon
That word is in fact used in the article:
I posted what I posted because I was gleeful over Wendy Davis’s misstep. Sometimes I enjoy watching others make mistakes and fail. I know I shouldn’t, but I do.
This is not a defense, just an explanation.
You discredit yourself.
You do the work of the Good Lord Himself.
Failures are for the lower orders and wogs! A manly, gleaming Caucasian beacon of civilization can only mistep before ultimate triumph!
This very night I have befouled myself and yet remain a shining triumph of cultivated society. A trollop of Cathay shall swab me clean and tomorrow I shall receive special blessing from my confessor, for I am worthy.
And who are we, mere maggots crawling on the dull earth, to question what is set out in Scripture that I myself have paid to have interpreted; in a tabernacle that I have paid to have built; by a worthy man of God whose salary I pay, to who I loaned a pineapple this very evening.
269 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 5:24:57pm |
re: #267 ausador
Really, I am getting sooooo sick and tired of the “conservative Republican” label.
Assholes. All of them.
270 | Charles Johnson Oct 11, 2014 5:25:21pm |
The sick glee you take in smearing dead black teens is noted RT @gatewaypundit PHOTOS RELEASED of Vonderitt Myers W Gun, Flashing Gang Signs— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2014
271 | alpuzzzzz (I, R & sometimes why?) Oct 11, 2014 5:25:59pm |
re: #251 The Ghost of a Flea (R)
Is there a hand clapping gif out there? Damn fine work, Ole Chum.
272 | Stanley Seabola Oct 11, 2014 5:26:49pm |
re: #267 ausador
No way the trolls let this pass, I’m sure all the usual suspects are whooping it up in fine racist fashion already. :(
Oops: Michelle Obama Mispronounces Senate Candidate’s Name… Seven Times
So she said Bailey instead of Braley, pretty easy one to flub if you ask me.
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He loves him some Sister Sarah.
273 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 5:29:32pm |
re: #267 ausador
No way the trolls let this pass, I’m sure all the usual suspects are whooping it up in fine racist fashion already. :(
Oops: Michelle Obama Mispronounces Senate Candidate’s Name… Seven Times
So she said Bailey instead of Braley, pretty easy one to flub if you ask me.
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It’s not major, I agree. The mistakes she made were made honestly and were corrected as soon as she realized they’d been made. Good for a minor news post, but ultimately not substantial.
275 | urbanmeemaw Oct 11, 2014 5:30:58pm |
re: #15 Ryan King
That was the point Booman made. Davis’ ad is not targeted at Abbot personally. The ad simply points out that Abbot wants to deny litigants what he himself was awarded.
276 | Charles Johnson Oct 11, 2014 5:31:08pm |
re: #251 The Ghost of a Flea (R)
An excellent example of authentic Republican patrician gibberish, my dear man. Bravo.
277 | Boyo Oct 11, 2014 5:31:50pm |
The Ghost of a Flea (R), I am reading your posts out loud complete with hand twirling, mustache twirling and gesticulations and I’m loving it.
278 | stpaulbear Oct 11, 2014 5:31:51pm |
re: #267 ausador
No way the trolls let this pass, I’m sure all the usual suspects are whooping it up in fine racist fashion already. :(
Oops: Michelle Obama Mispronounces Senate Candidate’s Name… Seven Times
So she said Bailey instead of Braley, pretty easy one to flub if you ask me.
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It might have gone unnoticed if she hadn’t also taken a few shots at House Speaker Broehner.
279 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 5:33:09pm |
re: #278 stpaulbear
It might have gone unnoticed if she hadn’t also taken a few shots at House Speaker Broehner.
low hanging fruit…
280 | allegro Oct 11, 2014 5:34:52pm |
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
low hanging fruit…
If she didn’t call him Boner his fruit is still hanging.
281 | De Kolta Chair Oct 11, 2014 5:34:55pm |
282 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 5:36:25pm |
re: #258 allegro
Yes, think of all the desperate women he’s protecting from legal, affordable abortions. But hey the ten commandments monument still stands at the Dallas courthouse (his biggest and proudest accomplishment as he said in both debates). Women bleeding to death from the rising number of illegal abortions can lean on that, right? So can the women with advanced breast and uterine cancer that went undetected because the health centers were shut down and there is no Medicaide in Texas so hospitals are right out as well.
Jesus, I better stop now.
I think Dark’s view on abortion has shifted a tiny bit over the years. Perhaps a rereading of this would shift it further.
283 | The Ghost of a Flea (R) Oct 11, 2014 5:37:40pm |
re: #276 Charles Johnson
An excellent example of authentic Republican patrician gibberish, my dear man. Bravo.
Some nights, you stand on a balcony, throwing peanuts at your catamite as he rides a penny farthing about the courtyard and weeping, and you understand, by Jove, that the great unwashed must occasionally be anointed with the words of the high.
As the angel before Jacob’s ladder, I shall break your legs to improve you.
Now thank me.
285 | Charles Johnson Oct 11, 2014 5:40:21pm |
Liberals need to grow some guts and stop attacking people like Wendy Davis for telling the truth about the GOP agenda http://t.co/GFTARc22BM— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2014
The same goes for Gabby Giffords. She CORRECTLY points out McSally's gun lobby pandering, and liberals freak out because it isn't POLITE.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2014
The time for “politeness” with the right wing's insane gun obsession is long past.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2014
286 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 5:40:45pm |
287 | Decatur Deb Oct 11, 2014 5:41:11pm |
Followed a mainstream singer down the Youtube hole, and hit this group. They do second-string baroque and folk on early instruments, including a new one for me—the theorbo. (It’s basically a bull lute.) They take some liberties, but show great skill and joy.
L’Arpeggiata: Bertali: Chiacona
288 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 5:44:13pm |
The story behind this AMAZING photo of young Nigel http://t.co/2HvQDY1h7i via @dailykos— Greg Carr (@AfricanaCarr) October 12, 2014
Shaun King writes about this:
Young Nigel waits for the rest of the #FergusonOctober marchers to catch up. pic.twitter.com/p41U76eQOp— Koran Addo (@KoranAddo) October 11, 2014
289 | Romantic Heretic Oct 11, 2014 5:45:29pm |
re: #247 jaunte
He never said he did anything good, just ‘more for women.’
290 | CuriousLurker Oct 11, 2014 5:47:11pm |
OT: You know how people are screeching about how horrible ISIS/IL is. how they’re the worst, most brutal group ever? Yeah, they’re really disgusting, but the Mexican cartels have them beat in terms of brutality.
Someone (ww, I think) posted a link (tweet?) that went to an article at the NY Times about some students in Mexico that have been killed (or are missing):
The next morning, the corpse of a student was dumped on a major street. He’d had his skin peeled off and his eyes gouged out. It was the mark of drug cartel assassins.
Soldiers and federal detectives detained two alleged cartel hit men, who confessed they had conspired with the police to murder students. They led troops to pits on the outskirts of Iguala containing 28 charred corpses. Forensic teams are working to identify the bodies. A total of 43 students went missing that night, many last seen being bundled into police cars. […]
Out of curiosity I (foolishly) goggled mexican cartel assassination. The extreme levels of violence I saw doesn’t make ISIS any less reprehensible, but their scariness as bogeymen takes a back seat to the cartel guys, especially since the latter are much closer to home and have been killing people for years & years.
292 | Jenner7 Oct 11, 2014 5:48:25pm |
re: #285 Charles Johnson
Spot on. Wish more politicians would have the guts to say the same.
293 | compound_Idaho Oct 11, 2014 5:48:36pm |
re: #273 Dark_Falcon
True enough. Mispronouncing a name is understandable. This however is just embarrassing on multiple levels. OBGYN? (Ohbee-Guynee)
294 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 5:49:00pm |
re: #287 Decatur Deb
Followed a mainstream singer down the Youtube hole, and hit this group. They do second-string baroque and folk on early instruments, including a new one for me—the theobro. (It’s basically a bull lute.) They take some liberties, but show great skill and joy.
L’Arpeggiata: Bertali: Chiacona
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That was lovely.
295 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 5:49:22pm |
re: #290 CuriousLurker
OT: You know how people are screeching about how horrible ISIS/IL is. how they’re the worst, most brutal group ever? Yeah, they’re really disgusting, but the Mexican cartels have them beat in terms of brutality.
Someone (ww, I think) posted a link (tweet?) that went to an article at the NY Times about some students in Mexico that have been killed (or are missing):
Out of curiosity I (foolishly) goggled mexican cartel assassination. The extreme levels of violence I saw doesn’t make ISIS any less reprehensible, but their scariness as bogeymen takes a back seat to the cartel guys, especially since they’re much closer to home and have been killing people for years & years.
WW posted it at #164
296 | EPR-radar Oct 11, 2014 5:50:25pm |
re: #239 jamesfirecat
Guys stop piling on DF for stuff unrelated to issue at hand we already know his support for the GOP is strongly tied to his family lets not retread that particular ground all over again.
(And DF I am sorry if I am saying things that are incorrect about you just going from memory)
Nope. I won’t be nasty about it, but I meant what I said when I said that there is no excuse for voting GOP at the Federal level. That is straight up support of evil. If there are personal issues behind it, then that shit can’t be allowed to have splash damage affecting the civil rights of well over half the country.
297 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 5:50:47pm |
re: #293 compound_Idaho
True enough. Mispronouncing a name is understandable. This however is just embarrassing on multiple levels. OBGYN? (Ohbee-Guynee)
Which levels would those be?
298 | Charles Johnson Oct 11, 2014 5:51:20pm |
We should be DEFENDING Wendy Davis for this statement. She's RIGHT. http://t.co/GFTARc22BM— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2014
299 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 5:51:21pm |
re: #285 Charles Johnson
Thanks for reminding me to post this story:
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords’ pro-gun-control group has taken down a harsh ad against Arizona House candidate Martha McSally after the Republican explained her position on allowing stalkers to buy guns.
The ad features a woman named Vicki who recounts how her 19-year-old daughter was hunted down and murdered by an enraged ex-boyfriend, while a narrator says McSally, who is running for Giffords’ old seat in Congress, “opposes making it harder for stalkers to get a gun.”
SNIP
he decision to take down the ad 24 hours before it was scheduled to go off the air was made based what Pia Carusone, executive director for Americans for Responsible Solutions, described as a change in McSally’s position.
The group, which includes a super PAC and nonprofit arm, is supporting Democratic Rep. Ron Barber, a former aide to Giffords, against McSally.
Carusone said the group received a letter from McSally’s campaign laying out the Republican’s position on access to guns for stalkers convicted of felonies and misdemeanors.
McSally “supports the full enforcement of federal laws that are in place to keep guns out of the hands of prohibited persons, including convicted felons (including stalkers), domestic abusers, the mentally ill, and people in the country illegally,” the letter states. It goes on to stress that McSally also “supports adding misdemeanor stalking to the list of criminal offenses that would keep dangerous individuals from obtaining guns in other states where stalking can also be a misdemeanor.”
I know this piece is two weeks old, but I only saw it on Thursday. I’m posting it because I respect Gabby Giffords for being a good winner. She got the person she was targeting to change her position and then when that happened she stopped pursuing that line of argument. That kind of honesty and maturity are too rare in politics today, and I was actually glad to read she possessed those traits.
300 | CuriousLurker Oct 11, 2014 5:51:24pm |
301 | Jenner7 Oct 11, 2014 5:51:39pm |
Ugh, Michelle’s flub is already on my FB feed. Time for the hate fest to begin!
302 | Charles Johnson Oct 11, 2014 5:51:52pm |
The Axis of Hateful and Stupid is attacking @WesleyLowery tonight, folks. @ChuckCJohnson @gatewaypundit @ProgsToday— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2014
303 | Decatur Deb Oct 11, 2014 5:52:45pm |
304 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 5:57:37pm |
305 | dog philosopher Oct 11, 2014 5:57:48pm |
re: #242 Dark_Falcon
I am not going to answer that post. i don’t agree much of with its phrasing or assumptions and I’m not going to get anywhere trying to explain my objections.
im sympathetic to the idea that many people think of the republican party as republicans like themselves, old line republicans who voted for eisenhower, rockefeller, nixon, and ford, or bob dole or jack kemp
people have every right to define their own beliefs and not be tarred with the brush dipped in the craziness of other people
from the point of view of people like me, tho, the old republicans i grew up with (back in that other century) are somewhere in the back seat with their mouths closed, maybe taped shut, or maybe they are locked up in the trunk
it’s awfully hard to hear them these days. personally, i wonder when the hell they are gonna start speaking up
306 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 5:59:09pm |
re: #301 Jenner7
Ugh, Michelle’s flub is already on my FB feed. Time for the hate fest to begin!
Let’s try to divert attention by tweeting about an actual malefactor:
Edward Snowden: It was worth it
N.S.A. leaker Edward Snowden on Saturday defended his disclosure of reams of classified information and said his actions were worth fleeing his seemingly idyllic life in Hawaii and ending up in hiding in Russia, where he was joined by his girlfriend in July.
“It was about getting the information back to people so they could decide if they cared about it, and on that account … I could not have been more wrong in thinking that people wouldn’t care,” he told a New Yorker Festival audience Saturday afternoon via webcast from an undisclosed location in Moscow.
SNIP
nowden implied he had been vindicated by President Barack Obama, who said in January that a debate on surveillance “will make us stronger” as a country.
Obama’s statement was “very important for everybody who believes that our rights matter, our constitution matters and intelligence agencies, even if they have good intentions, can go too far, when they violate the constitution on a massive scale, that matters, and they need to be held to account for it,” he said to questions by New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer.
SNIP
Now he’s ensconced in Moscow, where he has reunited with his girlfriend Lindsay Mills, revealed in a new documentary “Citizenfour” and a New Yorker piece published on Friday.
“She was not entirely pleased [with what happened], but at the same time, it was an incredible reunion because she understood me, and that meant a lot to me,” he said.
What any woman would see romantically in Edward Snowden positively mystifies me, but the heart has reasons of which reason knows not.
307 | urbanmeemaw Oct 11, 2014 6:00:55pm |
re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth
We have county elections coming up this year, all of which were decided in May during the Republican primary. The incumbent I don’t like very much personally, but hes done a good job cleaning up the mess left by the previous office holder (who is now wreaking havoc in DC as a congresscritter).
The incumbent Judge Executive’s biggest challenge in the primary was another Paulian Libertarian masquerading as a Republican.
If I had switched parties to head up the local Democratic party, I would have thrown away my vote against the Libertarian in the primary.As you said: rock vs hard place.
OTOH, I get to vote for Alison Lundergan Grimes in the general election next month. YAY!
I think the ads she’s been running the past 2 weeks are very effective. She’s finally campaigning as a straight ahead Democrat and stating what she supports. I heard the other day Grimes and McConnell were neck and neck.
308 | stpaulbear Oct 11, 2014 6:01:47pm |
re: #306 Dark_Falcon
What any woman would see romantically in Edward Snowden positively mystifies me,
Her family likes him.
309 | Iwouldprefernotto Oct 11, 2014 6:01:50pm |
re: #306 Dark_Falcon
Let’s try to divert attention by tweeting about an actual malefactor:
Edward Snowden: It was worth it
SNIP
SNIP
What any woman would see romantically in Edward Snowden positively mystifies me, but the heart has reasons of which reason knows not.
Says the man in love with the Republican party for reasons only he understands.
310 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 6:02:11pm |
re: #300 CuriousLurker
Thanks. I was too lazy & too freaked out by what I saw & read in the google results to look for it.
This is why fear mongers want to pair up their favorite target with the cartels. It would make anyone scarier than they already are. Mexico needs help of a kind we don’t even know how to give.
For now I suggest listening to Deb’s posts.
311 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 6:03:40pm |
re: #299 Dark_Falcon
Thanks for reminding me to post this story:
SNIP
I know this piece is two weeks old, but I only saw it on Thursday. I’m posting it because I respect Gabby Giffords for being a good winner. She got the person she was targeting to change her position and then when that happened she stopped pursuing that line of argument. That kind of honesty and maturity are too rare in politics today, and I was actually glad to read she possessed those traits.
As opposed to the mudslinger you called her?
Or nasty attacks by someone who markets herself as nice?
312 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 6:05:19pm |
re: #305 dog philosopher
The first reply I’d have to that is to be careful about putting Richard Nixon in with the rest of those fellows. Nixon did a number of good things, but he ultimately ended up a vicious man who cared more about punishing those he considered enemies than obeying the law. Like Woodrow Wilson, Nixon stands as a warning of the dangers of the presidency being occupied by someone who has lost their moral bearings.
313 | De Kolta Chair Oct 11, 2014 6:06:11pm |
Possible title for The Great American Novel: Möbius Strip Club?
314 | Interesting Times Oct 11, 2014 6:06:48pm |
re: #309 Iwouldprefernotto
Might want to double-check your ding on this comment.
315 | CuriousLurker Oct 11, 2014 6:07:06pm |
re: #310 wrenchwench
This is why fear mongers want to pair up their favorite target with the cartels. It would make anyone scarier than they already are. Mexico needs help of a kind we don’t even know how to give.
For now I suggest listening to Deb’s posts.
I was just thinking the exact same thing about the fear mongers. Ugh.
Yeah, Mexico is a mess. It’s sad because it’s a really beautiful country with many valuable resources and a long & fascinating history. *sigh*
316 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 6:07:12pm |
re: #311 Backwoods_Sleuth
As opposed to the mudslinger you called her?
Or nasty attacks by someone who markets herself as nice?
As opposed to her being a mudslinger. It turns out shes something more than that. I didn’t expect that to be true, but I’m actually glad to have been proven wrong.
317 | The Ghost of a Flea (R) Oct 11, 2014 6:08:02pm |
re: #312 Dark_Falcon
The first reply I’d have to that is to be careful about putting Richard Nixon in with the rest of those fellows. Nixon did a number of good things, but he ultimately ended up a viscous man who cared more about punishing those he considered enemies than obeying the law. Like Woodrow Wilson, Nixon stands as a warning of the dangers of the presidency being occupied by someone who has lost their moral bearings.
You struck me as a touch young to fully appreciate the viscosity of Nixon. Never quite knew how to appreciate a donkey show, that one.
I could tell stories, but schoolboy’s code, hahhah.
318 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 6:09:04pm |
re: #315 CuriousLurker
I was just thinking the exact same thing about the fear mongers. Ugh.
Yeah, Mexico is a mess. It’s sad because it’s a really beautiful country with many valuable resources and a long & fascinating history. *sigh*
And wonderful people.
319 | De Kolta Chair Oct 11, 2014 6:09:30pm |
320 | RealityBasedEbola Oct 11, 2014 6:11:14pm |
re: #313 De Kolta Chair
Possible title for The Great American Novel: Möbius Strip Club?
Where the dancers keep undressing until they are fully dressed again.
RBS
321 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 6:11:16pm |
I love being able to pull up a comment in the Spy and ding it without having to visit the thread.
322 | teleskiguy Oct 11, 2014 6:11:55pm |
This is my nomination for Best Jack-O-lantern of 2014.
Awesome! RT @maddycarnicelli: i carved @GroovyBruce 's face until it looked like a pumpkin #whoslaughingnow pic.twitter.com/SDZcpxMXsT— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 12, 2014
323 | dog philosopher Oct 11, 2014 6:12:05pm |
re: #312 Dark_Falcon
The first reply I’d have to that is to be careful about putting Richard Nixon in with the rest of those fellows. Nixon did a number of good things, but he ultimately ended up a viscous man who cared more about punishing those he considered enemies than obeying the law. Like Woodrow Wilson, Nixon stands as a warning of the dangers of the presidency being occupied by someone who has lost their moral bearings.
hmm, ive heard about this blotting of the reputation of ww, and, actually, even participated in a spirited online debate about exactly that
i dont believe a word of it. as far as im concerned, these accusations about ww are wholecloth
however, if you want to mention a democratic president of ambiguous and often unsavory moral principles, i would suggest lbj as a much better choice
caro apologized to lady bird about when he wrote about the bad parts of lbj’s character - he said lbj combined opposites and that you just had to deal with it
324 | Iwouldprefernotto Oct 11, 2014 6:12:07pm |
re: #314 Interesting Times
Might want to double-check your ding on this comment.
Don’t care, had to be said.
325 | Timothy Watson Oct 11, 2014 6:12:12pm |
If Abbott thinks someone who lost an arm and uses a prosthetic isn’t disabled, why hasn’t someone asked him if he thinks a military veteran who lost an arm and uses a prosthetic is disabled (and subject to the laws which protect disabled military veterans)?
326 | Viscous Obama Oct 11, 2014 6:13:14pm |
re: #251 The Ghost of a Flea (R)
You are the shield of the nobility, good sir. You stand athwart the foul and the morally diseased, checking their advance upon the great and good too bloated and deranged by venereal complaints to abscond in a timely manner.
I haven’t been around these parts for a while but this entire thread is fucking gold
327 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 6:13:38pm |
re: #317 The Ghost of a Flea (R)
You struck me as a touch young to fully appreciate the viscosity of Nixon. Never quite knew how to appreciate a donkey show, that one.
I could tell stories, but schoolboy’s code, hahhah.
Thanks for letting me know of my error. Post edited.
So, first I say that sort of verbal error Michelle Obama is minor, then I go o to prove how easily it can be made. It’s a funny world sometimes. [shakes head and smiles slightly]
329 | Charles Johnson Oct 11, 2014 6:15:25pm |
A quick reminder - can we please call @ChuckCJohnson “Chuck Johnson?” Because this racist loon is _not me_.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2014
330 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 6:15:54pm |
re: #323 dog philosopher
hmm, ive heard about this blotting of the reputation of ww, and, actually, even participated in a spirited online debate about exactly that
Say what?!?!
Oh, never mind.
331 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 6:15:55pm |
332 | Jenner7 Oct 11, 2014 6:16:14pm |
I’m curious if there was an aerial shot of the #FergusonOctober taken today??? They said thousands were there, but do they have a firm number? Anyone?
333 | teleskiguy Oct 11, 2014 6:16:50pm |
The Ghost of a Flea, that is some of the most colorful prose I’ve ever read in an internet comments section. Well done my friend!
334 | Viscous Obama Oct 11, 2014 6:17:22pm |
Nixon did a number of good things, but he ultimately ended up a viscous man
Dark Falcon gave me an idea
335 | De Kolta Chair Oct 11, 2014 6:17:26pm |
336 | De Kolta Chair Oct 11, 2014 6:18:12pm |
337 | The Ghost of a Flea (R) Oct 11, 2014 6:18:58pm |
re: #326 Aqua Obama
I haven’t been around these parts for a while but this entire thread is fucking gold
Of course it’s gold.
I do not exchange words in fiat currencies.
338 | Jenner7 Oct 11, 2014 6:19:12pm |
As soon as I clicked “post it”, I found a couple. lol
Marchers head towards Kiener Plaza to conclude march against police violence in STL. #FergusonOctober pic.twitter.com/d5cVmYEfXy— Robert Cohen (@kodacohen) October 11, 2014
Thousands marched against police violence in downtown STL for #FergusonOctober pic.twitter.com/HHWCrtHeOC— Robert Cohen (@kodacohen) October 11, 2014
339 | Vogon Poetry Oct 11, 2014 6:20:20pm |
@Bro_Pair @HGGolightly @gatewaypundit there are none so blind as those that refuse to see. He refuses to see, let alone admit his own racism— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 12, 2014
340 | Vogon Poetry Oct 11, 2014 6:21:55pm |
re: #338 Jenner7
The juxtaposition of the protesters outside the Old Courthouse shouldn’t be lost on anyone. That’s where the lower court decisions in the Dred Scott case were decided.
The more things change…
341 | Vogon Poetry Oct 11, 2014 6:22:56pm |
And maybe the more things need to change - the NYPD ought to commit to more than just a test program on body cameras. It might help reduce paying out $80 million a year in suits annually.
NYPD paid over $428 million in settlements over the last 5 years - more evidence body cams may help everyone https://t.co/gkz8m8fFmJ— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 12, 2014
342 | Stanley Seabola Oct 11, 2014 6:24:34pm |
re: #332 Jenner7
I’m curious if there was an aerial shot of the #FergusonOctober taken today??? They said thousands were there, but do they have a firm number? Anyone?
Haven’t seen one.
Sure its in possession of the po lice.
343 | Timothy Watson Oct 11, 2014 6:26:57pm |
re: #341 lawhawk
And maybe the more things need to change - the NYPD ought to commit to more than just a test program on body cameras. It might help reduce paying out $80 million a year in suits annually.
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It takes time and money to equip a department that large with body cameras, push you need to implement procedures for chain of custody for evidence, etc.
344 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 6:27:11pm |
re: #340 lawhawk
The juxtaposition of the protesters outside the Old Courthouse shouldn’t be lost on anyone. That’s where the lower court decisions in the Dred Scott case were decided.
The more things change…
Old courthouse. #DredScott #FergusonOctober #MikeBrown #VonDerritMyers http://t.co/FyYc4TeNPJ pic.twitter.com/bkV6vijbNR— ShordeeDooWhop (@Nettaaaaaaaa) October 12, 2014
From Dred Scott to Mike Brown… http://t.co/vfJmEsM0zS— Noir Sacagawea (@Sarae7) October 11, 2014
345 | Varek Raith Oct 11, 2014 6:27:26pm |
The court concluded that although Little walked with a slight limp, could not “sit or walk like other people,” “walk quickly,” or “run at all,” she did not have an actual disability because her physical impairment did not substantially limit her in the major life activities of walking or running.
What the what.
346 | De Kolta Chair Oct 11, 2014 6:28:34pm |
347 | freetoken Oct 11, 2014 6:29:46pm |
Should we now ban people coming from Michigan?
348 | teleskiguy Oct 11, 2014 6:30:05pm |
I'm outraged by the hardball politics Wendy Davis is playing. Only Republicans should be allowed to do that. @WendyDavisTexas @GregAbbott_TX— Speaker Cruz (@HavanaTed) October 12, 2014
It is ok to call @WendyDavisTexas “Abortion Barbie” but there can be no mention of @GregAbbott_TX's handicap. It's just the rules.— Speaker Cruz (@HavanaTed) October 12, 2014
349 | Varek Raith Oct 11, 2014 6:31:16pm |
Dear Republicans,
Making your views public is not a ‘nasty’ attack on your person.
Deal with it.
350 | De Kolta Chair Oct 11, 2014 6:33:28pm |
re: #320 RealityBasedSteve
Where the dancers keep undressing until they are fully dressed again.
RBS
That’s exactly why I sold the movie rights to the ghost of Russ Meyer.
351 | Viscous Obama Oct 11, 2014 6:33:38pm |
Got a laugh from the MSNBC article on this story
Even the liberal Mother Jones called it “offensive and nasty.”
Even the liberal Mother Jones, yo
352 | teleskiguy Oct 11, 2014 6:35:40pm |
@HavanaTed is just full of zingers tonight.
Wendy Davis' new ad has taken Texas politics to a new low, as opposed to our entire campaign against Davis which is just normal sexism.— Speaker Cruz (@HavanaTed) October 12, 2014
354 | freetoken Oct 11, 2014 6:38:15pm |
The problem I see with the Davis ad is that the Davis campaign didn’t fight the “optics” war on all the fronts needed.
The outlandish hypocrisy of Abbot was ripe for picking, but the Davis campaign really needed to prep the public with a series of adverts building to the punch line.
Right now Davis’ enemies are furiously spinning this as Davis’ attack on a wheelchair. This could have been muted, perhaps, by building up the “hypocrisy” meme first and then finally delivering the wheelchair as an example.
Still, it’s never going to be an easy thing to do, to convince peoples minds that someone who themselves is a victim of an accident can turn around and be nastier all the more. Wheelchairs immediately (visually) evoke sympathy, and playing with that will always be full of side effects.
355 | The Ghost of a Flea (R) Oct 11, 2014 6:38:49pm |
re: #345 Varek Raith
What the what.
More limbs! More!
Lost appendages has never slowed down my factory orphans. At least not as long as the foreman has the Webley trained at them.
Anyway, it’s not as though there’s a prosthetic that can surmount the handicap of low birth.
356 | teleskiguy Oct 11, 2014 6:44:45pm |
Wendy Davis' new ad is beneath the dignity of the office she seeks. I'm sick and tired to this dumb blonde and her hysterical whining.— Candidate Perry (@AlamoRick) October 12, 2014
357 | De Kolta Chair Oct 11, 2014 6:46:11pm |
re: #355 The Ghost of a Flea (R)
More limbs! More!
Lost appendages has never slowed down my factory orphans. At least not as long as the foreman has the Webley trained at them.
Anyway, it’s not as though there’s a prosthetic that can surmount the handicap of low birth.
Thanks for the tip, especially since the price of quicklime has skyrocketed.
358 | teleskiguy Oct 11, 2014 6:46:47pm |
Hahhahahaahaaaa!
Why does Abortion Barbie think she has the right to stoop down to making personal attacks against Greg Abbott? The woman has gone crazy!— Speaker Cruz (@HavanaTed) October 12, 2014
359 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 6:48:30pm |
300 miles for a safe & legal abortion is a manageable “inconvenience” says Greg Abbott: http://t.co/LHGWiI918v pic.twitter.com/bVwoY9ldYO
— PPTV (@PPTXVotes) October 11, 2014
360 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 6:49:45pm |
re: #321 wrenchwench
Totally OT, but just wanted to say that “Wuthering Tripe” was totally brilliant!
(Let the lizards figger THAT out, lol!)
361 | Pie-onist Overlord Oct 11, 2014 6:52:59pm |
Great job disturbing it, guys. ”Vampire skeleton with stake in heart unearthed in Bulgaria.” http://t.co/RqwKwIoAXE pic.twitter.com/tRH4dIOnho— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) October 12, 2014
362 | Waxing Rapsodik Oct 11, 2014 6:54:12pm |
363 | teleskiguy Oct 11, 2014 6:55:18pm |
364 | FemNaziBitch Oct 11, 2014 6:56:21pm |
Is this a record for “hatchling to flounce” in the shortest time possible?
Now, if someone will tell me what the Fugtitive or the FO did with my headphones, I could watch the Wendy Davis video.
365 | TedStriker Oct 11, 2014 6:56:23pm |
366 | FemNaziBitch Oct 11, 2014 6:56:46pm |
369 | RealityBasedEbola Oct 11, 2014 6:58:18pm |
re: #361 Pie-onist Overlord
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It’s just an old wives tale guys. What could possibly happen?
//cue theremin and distant wolf howl
370 | allegro Oct 11, 2014 6:59:08pm |
re: #354 freetoken
The problem I see with the Davis ad is that the Davis campaign didn’t fight the “optics” war on all the fronts needed.
The outlandish hypocrisy of Abbot was ripe for picking, but the Davis campaign really needed to prep the public with a series of adverts building to the punch line.
Right now Davis’ enemies are furiously spinning this as Davis’ attack on a wheelchair. This could have been muted, perhaps, by building up the “hypocrisy” meme first and then finally delivering the wheelchair as an example.
Still, it’s never going to be an easy thing to do, to convince peoples minds that someone who themselves is a victim of an accident can turn around and be nastier all the more. Wheelchairs immediately (visually) evoke sympathy, and playing with that will always be full of side effects.
She actually has with a series of ads demonstrating that Abbott is “not for you.” He’s a corporate bought stooge who will always side with the moneyed interests over the people of Texas. He has featured his wheelchair heavily in his ads to make himself a sympathetic figure - hell, it’s all he’s got towards that end - so it’s entirely fair to point out the disingenuous reality along with the continuation of the corporate bought theme.
371 | teleskiguy Oct 11, 2014 6:59:13pm |
Yikes!
A Clinton-era military official compared gays to Nazis and rapists in a White House meeting: http://t.co/QTM44m7dMu pic.twitter.com/aTLboZGSq7— Slate (@Slate) October 12, 2014
The release of a trove of papers from Bill Clinton’s White House puts that on stark display, illustrating common it was for people in position of power to talk about gays in horrifically discriminatory ways without consequence. The notes come from a sit-down between Bill Clinton and top military officials shortly after he moved into the White House to discuss his campaign promise to end the ban on gays in the military. The most shocking part of the notes released from that meeting come from Marine Commandant Gen. Carl Mundy, who “may have been the most strident opponent of allowing gays to serve openly,” according to Politico. Mundy, who died earlier this year, said that “proclaiming I’m gay” was the “same as I’m KKK, Nazi, rapist” because it’s a declaration that “I commit act America doesn’t accept,” according to the notes.
We’ve come a long way.
372 | dog philosopher Oct 11, 2014 6:59:37pm |
re: #330 wrenchwench
Say what?!?!
Oh, never mind.
the argument is that he hated the constitution, deducing this from the fact that he once declared that the constitution is not a dead piece of paper but relevant to modern life. therefore he must have meant it’s a ‘living document’, which is socialist fascism of the communist democrat kind
also, he brought in primaries, direct elections of senators, and th income tax, because these were all done before he took office. oh, did i mention that primaries and direct election of senators are bad things?
373 | Interesting Times Oct 11, 2014 6:59:46pm |
In which we learn the REAL reason for all the pearl-clutching poutrage:
UPDATE: TX-Gov: While everyone argues about Davis’ new ad, Abbott took $120K from Clayton Williams
Now, a rich Texas Republican giving gobs of money to another rich Texas Republican running for office isn’t exactly newsworthy (although the dollar amount is—holy crap, does Texas have any donation limit for state races???). However, Williams isn’t just any Texas Republican.
For one thing, he once ran for Governor of Texas himself back in 1990.
For another, he lost that race to the legendary Ann Richards, the last Democrat to hold that position.
Most significantly, however, is why he lost that race. There may have been more than one reason, but this is almost certainly the biggest one:
ALPINE — Sitting by an early morning campfire Saturday waiting for a heavy fog to clear, Republican gubernatorial nominee Clayton Williams jokingly likened foul weather to rape, saying “if it’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.”
374 | The War TARDIS Oct 11, 2014 6:59:47pm |
Love triangle between Clara, Doctor, and Danny confirmed.
376 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 7:03:09pm |
re: #364 FemNaziBitch
Is this a record for “hatchling to flounce” in the shortest time possible?
Now, if someone will tell me what the Fugitive or the FO did with my headphones, I could watch the Wendy Davis video.
The troll hasn’t been banned, so its not a flounce yet.
As for your headphones, the one-armed man took them.
377 | FemNaziBitch Oct 11, 2014 7:03:24pm |
378 | The War TARDIS Oct 11, 2014 7:04:30pm |
379 | FemNaziBitch Oct 11, 2014 7:04:51pm |
re: #376 Dark_Falcon
The troll hasn’t been banned, so its not a flounce yet.
As for your headphones, the one-armed man took them.
The Fugitive, I knew it.
(for those who might have missed my late night/early morning post a day or so ago:— Feral Girl is now The Fugitive —she ate the tag from the mattress)
381 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 7:05:37pm |
re: #360 Backwoods_Sleuth
Totally OT, but just wanted to say that “Wuthering Tripe” was totally brilliant!
(Let the lizards figger THAT out, lol!)
Thanks! It blew up my mentions (15 is ‘blowing up’ for my account.) You will notify us when your hound is up for another vote? Did you have more than one dog in that hunt?
382 | De Kolta Chair Oct 11, 2014 7:06:05pm |
re: #371 teleskiguy
Yikes!
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We’ve come a long way.
Right you are, and as the son of a career AF NCO I have to say nothing an officer says, no matter how ridiculously stupid, inane or flat-out wrong, surprises me.
383 | wrenchwitch Oct 11, 2014 7:07:06pm |
re: #360 Backwoods_Sleuth
Totally OT, but just wanted to say that “Wuthering Tripe” was totally brilliant!
(Let the lizards figger THAT out, lol!)
Also, with ‘Tripe Heights’ you handed it to me on a platter.
384 | De Kolta Chair Oct 11, 2014 7:07:29pm |
385 | dog philosopher Oct 11, 2014 7:09:06pm |
i see on the tee vee that noted author and commentator sean hannity presents segments such as “the great american panel”, with three guests who balance and complement his conservative outlook
386 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 7:10:55pm |
Doubt it, babycakes. @ChuckCJohnson @goldietaylor
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2014
I hope Nick Searcy doesn’t find out Chuck C stole his “Peabody Attack.”
387 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 7:11:46pm |
re: #355 The Ghost of a Flea (R)
More limbs! More!
Lost appendages has never slowed down my factory orphans. At least not as long as the foreman has the Webley trained at them.
Anyway, it’s not as though there’s a prosthetic that can surmount the handicap of low birth.
If its a factory, I do hope your foreman is carrying Col. Fosbury’s automatic model. Proper factories should showcase the latest technology, after all.
As for the prosthetic, the Germans don’t have one for low birth, but they have one for just about everything else. The ones for factory work helpfully attach the worker to the machine, thereby preventing any unwanted wandering.
388 | teleskiguy Oct 11, 2014 7:13:23pm |
It boggles my mind how someone can be as un-self-aware as UpChuck. I’m beginning to believe it’s sociopathy or psychopathy.
389 | De Kolta Chair Oct 11, 2014 7:14:00pm |
re: #385 dog philosopher
i see on the tee vee that noted author and commentator sean hannity presents segments such as “the great american panel”, with three guests who balance and complement his conservative outlook
390 | Dark_Falcon Oct 11, 2014 7:14:03pm |
re: #387 Dark_Falcon
Note: Post #387 is just me going along with TGoaF’s role-playing. The Webley-Fosbury link is not intended as ‘gun-fucking’.
391 | allegro Oct 11, 2014 7:14:44pm |
re: #386 jaunte
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I hope Nick Searcy doesn’t find out Chuck C stole his “Peabody Attack.”
Since Chuckie is in the generation and demographic that won “awards” for showing up and trying, bless their little hearts, he may actually believe they were for merit.
392 | FemNaziBitch Oct 11, 2014 7:15:24pm |
393 | Pie-onist Overlord Oct 11, 2014 7:15:41pm |
I read a very interesting “alternative history” novel, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen L. Carter. It is based on the premise that Lincoln survived the assassination attempt at Ford’s Theater and was subsequently impeached for the same reasons Andrew Johnson was.
The novel is told mainly from the point of view of a young African-American woman who is a paralegal at the law firm that is preparing Lincoln’s defense.
I highly recommend it.
394 | FemNaziBitch Oct 11, 2014 7:15:41pm |
re: #383 wrenchwench
Also, with ‘Tripe Heights’ you handed it to me on a platter.
397 | De Kolta Chair Oct 11, 2014 7:19:59pm |
398 | FemNaziBitch Oct 11, 2014 7:24:10pm |
If you haven’t notice, incredible Black women are at the front of this movement. #FergusonOctober #MikeBrown pic.twitter.com/cp2tQLHN21— Dante Barry (@dantebarry) October 11, 2014
399 | NJDhockeyfan Oct 11, 2014 7:24:14pm |
Evening lizards!
I have one thing to say…SPIDERS
1000s of venomous spiders “bleeding out of the walls” forced family from Missouri home: http://t.co/eC9furKT8D pic.twitter.com/3rzjfJ664H— ABC News (@ABC) October 11, 2014
400 | FemNaziBitch Oct 11, 2014 7:24:56pm |
This picture is POWERFUL. Speaks volumes!!! Young Nigel. #FergusonOctober #MikeBrown #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/29sSPbCtmK— Dr. X (@TheBlackGuyX) October 11, 2014
401 | FemNaziBitch Oct 11, 2014 7:25:39pm |
402 | FemNaziBitch Oct 11, 2014 7:26:59pm |
There is now a duct tape challenge?
Youtube Video
403 | teleskiguy Oct 11, 2014 7:28:04pm |
404 | Stanley Seabola Oct 11, 2014 7:28:13pm |
405 | De Kolta Chair Oct 11, 2014 7:28:59pm |
406 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 7:29:05pm |
re: #399 NJDhockeyfan
1000s of venomous spiders “bleeding out of the walls” forced family from Missouri home:
…And the spiders were there to eat the roaches…
407 | Waxing Rapsodik Oct 11, 2014 7:29:28pm |
408 | The Ghost of a Flea (R) Oct 11, 2014 7:30:35pm |
re: #387 Dark_Falcon
If its a factory, I do hope your foreman is carrying Col. Fosbury’s automatic model. Proper factories should showcase the latest technology, after all.
As for the prosthetic, the Germans don’t have one for low birth, but they have one for just about everything else. The ones for factory work helpfully attach the worker to the machine, thereby preventing any unwanted wandering.
Pfft.
The orphan wrangler is far too down to the ranks to merit a decent pistol. Could be some kind of bolshie. His bosses’ boss is a good public school boy…he gets a proper weapon. And ammo.
Anyway, you don’t actually want to shoot the orphans. The open pits of pig shit, arsenic, and coal dust are killing them for free. The secret is to maintain the level of terror and underfeeding to maximize their labor, but too weak to abscond. That way they succumb before reaching majority and getting a vote.
409 | FemNaziBitch Oct 11, 2014 7:30:49pm |
the Current GOP and it's position on Reproductive Rights. #UniteBlue #WaronWomen pic.twitter.com/uIlnFlgCxr— ggt (@geegeetee) October 12, 2014
410 | dog philosopher Oct 11, 2014 7:32:02pm |
re: #405 De Kolta Chair
Night all. For your listening pleasure, here’s Liverpool’s own Liverbirds
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ah, see, in liverpool there’s the city bird emblem known as the royal liver bird, i am not making this up, except that liver in this context is pronounced lie-ver, you see
411 | FemNaziBitch Oct 11, 2014 7:32:54pm |
Susan Collins Says It's Too Late To Repeal Obamacare http://t.co/z7zP97Gwnj HO-LEE SHIT….ya think? #GOPFail— DuneMyThing (@Kris_SacreBleu) October 12, 2014
412 | FemNaziBitch Oct 11, 2014 7:33:31pm |
Extremists teaching their children violence. pic.twitter.com/MMQ7ZDrWvz— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) October 12, 2014
413 | jaunte Oct 11, 2014 7:35:35pm |
June 1911. Alexandria, Virginia. “Old Dominion Glass Co. . A few of the young boys working on the night shift at the Alexandria glass factory.
414 | De Kolta Chair Oct 11, 2014 7:38:00pm |
re: #410 dog philosopher
ah, see, in liverpool there’s the city bird emblem known as the royal liver bird, i am not making this up, except that liver in this context is pronounced lie-ver, you see
No, you’re not hallucinating, at least not about this. The photo above shows one of the birds atop the Royal Liver Building. And that’s where the Liverbirds got their name. Speaking of Royal Livers, I need a drink…
415 | ausador Oct 11, 2014 7:38:54pm |
Poor gun safety and extremely bad timing…
CO man accidentally 2nd Amendments his wall, bullet happens to hit a passing car. Driven by the city atty. http://t.co/e5q3bbbctM #GunFAIL— David Waldman (@KagroX) October 12, 2014
416 | FemNaziBitch Oct 11, 2014 7:47:48pm |
Murdered by the police #fergusonoctober pic.twitter.com/BKpFNt0pFx— Ferguson October (@fergusonoctober) October 11, 2014
417 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 7:53:20pm |
re: #364 FemNaziBitch
Is this a record for “hatchling to flounce” in the shortest time possible?
Now, if someone will tell me what the Fugtitive or the FO did with my headphones, I could watch the Wendy Davis video.
Came back to down ding me after calling it out as a potential stealth dead thread troll.
LOL!
418 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 11, 2014 7:54:52pm |
re: #376 Dark_Falcon
The troll hasn’t been banned, so its not a flounce yet.
As for your headphones, the one-armed man took them.
It was indeed a threatened flounce.
Flounce is not a ban.
419 | Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi Oct 11, 2014 7:56:37pm |
re: #287 Decatur Deb
Followed a mainstream singer down the Youtube hole, and hit this group. They do second-string baroque and folk on early instruments, including a new one for me—the theobro. (It’s basically a bull lute.) They take some liberties, but show great skill and joy.
L’Arpeggiata: Bertali: Chiacona
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Theorbo, actually.
420 | RadicalModerate Oct 11, 2014 7:56:54pm |
re: #245 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
I like DF. Despite the fact that I consider his position absolutely incoherent, if not sometimes outright evil. That doesn’t mean I won’t be pestering him about his GOP support. Familial ties are not an excuse.
Yeah, I could have stood up for members of my family who were overtly racist - including their having close friends who were in the KKK up until the 1990s. And yes, they were “southern strategy” Republicans. Instead, after I became an adult, I refused to have anything to do with them. Before anyone says that I should have played nice and quietly humor them, someone telling me that they believe that the 13th Amendment should have never been passed goes well beyond any threshold of tolerance that I can bear.
421 | wheat-dogghazi Oct 11, 2014 7:58:35pm |
re: #347 freetoken
Should we now ban people coming from Michigan?
Shortly, the RWNJ crowd will blame the undocumented kids from Central American for the toddler’s death. They already have linked Eli Waller’s death to the presence of Central American kids in his home county.
422 | Varek Raith Oct 11, 2014 8:02:32pm |
423 | FemNaziBitch Oct 11, 2014 8:04:21pm |
424 | Varek Raith Oct 11, 2014 8:09:20pm |
re: #423 FemNaziBitch
PLATYPODE
“Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
425 | BeenHereAwhile Oct 11, 2014 8:27:50pm |
re: #224 TedStriker
That really blows and I kind of know the deal: I live in Nashville, one of the few Democratic oases in a blood-red Tennessee. We have a GOP governor, a GOP super-majority on our Capitol Hill in which the Democrats (mostly from Nashville, Memphis, and the other large cities) can really do no more than offer token resistance, and the overwhelming majority of our Congressional delegation are either TPGOPers or pandering to them (I’m looking at you, Lamar!).
-snip-
Don’t agree much with his politics, but have to give our TN GOP governor credit for “tabling or needs further study” some of the more batshit crazy legislation put forth by the state TN GOP super-majority.
426 | BeenHereAwhile Oct 11, 2014 8:38:00pm |
re: #251 The Ghost of a Flea (R)
WELL SAID, Old Chum!
-snip-
Ah! But now my girdle is tightened and the pineapples are greased. It is away to the Hellfire Club for me.
You are the shield of the nobility, good sir. You stand athwart the foul and the morally diseased, checking their advance upon the great and good too bloated and deranged by venereal complaints to abscond in a timely manner.
Beware the baboon in the chest.
427 | BeenHereAwhile Oct 11, 2014 8:46:39pm |
re: #379 FemNaziBitch
The Fugitive, I knew it.
(for those who might have missed my late night/early morning post a day or so ago:— Feral Girl is now The Fugitive —she ate the tag from the mattress)
So “the dog ate my homework” has transitioned to “the dog ate the mattress tag that must not be removed under penalty of law.”
They will never believe you in a court of law.
428 | NotAgain Oct 11, 2014 10:45:00pm |
re: #408 The Ghost of a Flea (R)
Almost like Bismark’s invention of Social Security at 65, back then, most people died by then, so it was a profit maker.
429 | lostlakehiker Oct 12, 2014 6:27:41pm |
re: #32 Lidane
Every word in that ad is true.
It’s just a damned shame that so many people here in Texas actively vote against their own interests by voting Republican.
Well, Texas has a better economic climate than many states. Have the people of Illinois, for instance, really been voting in their own collective best interests? If so, how come the state has such miserable finances and so few jobs?
430 | lostlakehiker Oct 12, 2014 6:39:13pm |
re: #212 Weet
First, you’re using that RW polling site to support your statement. Really, you shouldn’t use them — they cherry-pick polls. Next: Texas is not ‘too Republican’. People here don’t vote, and that’s our problem. We were 2nd worst in 2012, ~40% voted. (Hawaii was 1st.) Texas is a purple state. What Democrats are focusing on is getting registrations up, and they are succeeding. It’s a big state, and it’s going to take a while, but we’ll get there. Also, Wendy actually does have a chance. It’s slight, but she does. It’s important to run, get our voices out there, give people new ideas, and speak some truth statewide about the criminal Rethugs.
You’re right about one thing…Texas is not permanently Republican. Sheer demographics ensures that Texas, like the rest of the country, will end up Democrat.
Do not imagine that it will then all be like Oregon. Some of it, say Illinois, will be like Illinois.