Chuck C. Johnson Is Confused by the Concept of Traveling Nurses

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Chuck C. Johnson posing with his best friend

I’m guessing that CCJ’s search for Amber Vinson’s criminal record came up short, so he started looking into her licensing. And what he found confused and disturbed him.

His top story right now: “Why Was #AmberJoyVinson a Nurse in Five States?”

Despite her youth, the second Ebola patient, Amber Joy Vinson, held nursing licenses in at least five different states, Gotnews has learned.

Vinson, aged 29, reportedly had licenses in five different states, including South Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Kansas, and Texas.

As anyone with a passing knowledge of medical practice knows, this is not unusual. Agency nurses travel all over. She has licenses in five states so she can work in five states. I guess getting off your fat ass to actually do a job is a foreign concept to Chuck.

This is highly unusual.

No, it’s not.

No one has answered why Vinson had licenses in five different states.

MULTIPLE people have explained this to Chuck in the past 24 hours. They’ve explained it on his twitter account and on his own website. EVERY COMMENT on this story has been an explanation of why she had multiple licenses. NOBODY is following him down this rabbit hole. Still he persists.

I think it’s official. Jim Hoft is now only the second dumbest man on the internet.

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509 comments
1 Charles Johnson  Oct 16, 2014 5:00:14pm

The real reason the sleaze bag posted this moronic thing was so he’d have an excuse to publish all of Amber Vinson’s home addresses.

2 bill d  Oct 16, 2014 5:06:14pm

100 people told him he was wrong but, sadly, he had blocked them all.

//

3 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 16, 2014 5:33:22pm

I was curious about it, took a whopping 5 seconds on google to learn about the interstate nursing compact. But then again, I don’t have a 150 IQ and billionaire backers lined up.

RBS

4 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 16, 2014 5:33:43pm

as I mentioned when this came up earlier, this is not unique to nursing. My ex-wife was licensed in four states to teach. She had a reciprocity license from one to the other (Interestingly, Bob Jones U. grads used to not be eligible for reciprocity). I think the same applies to accountants, and I know lawyers have to pass various state bars.

tl;dr: UpChuck is a fucking idiot.

5 Charles Johnson  Oct 16, 2014 5:35:14pm

Note that the Ginger Avenger only started digging through Vinson’s records when he learned she was black, and not white as he originally thought.

6 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 5:36:57pm

God just followed me on Twitter.

7 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 16, 2014 5:37:07pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

Note that the Ginger Avenger only started digging through Vinson’s records when he learned she was black, and not white as he originally thought.

A black “chick,” just to be clear on that.

8 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 16, 2014 5:37:16pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

Note that the Ginger Avenger only started digging through Vinson’s records when he learned she was black, and not white as he originally thought.

That’s only because a not-white person would have trouble passing all those tests without affirmative action you know…. ///Damn, I feel dirty just writing that.

9 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 16, 2014 5:37:42pm

re: #3 RealityBasedSteve

I was curious about it, took a whopping 5 seconds on google to learn about the interstate nursing compact. But then again, I don’t have a 150 IQ and billionaire backers lined up.

RBS

You should have shot rockets when you were six years old…

10 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 5:37:48pm

re: #6 FemNaziBitch

God just followed me on Twitter.

Hubby said that it won’t last for long.

11 Charles Johnson  Oct 16, 2014 5:38:15pm

Had to promote this one when I saw it was getting some major Twitter click-throughs.

Also… I changed the title a bit, and put his name instead of his Twitter handle — because if a tweet begins with a Twitter handle, Twitter treats it as a message directed at that person and only people who follow both you and the target will see the tweet.

This is why you’ll often see people post tweets that start with an ‘@’ username, but put a period in front of it… so everyone who follows them will see it.

12 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 16, 2014 5:38:19pm

re: #6 FemNaziBitch

God just followed me on Twitter.

Prepare the fatted tweet

RBS

13 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 16, 2014 5:39:16pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

This is why you’ll often see people post tweets that start with an ‘@’ username, but put a period in front of it… so everyone who follows them will see it.

That is one of the stupidest little Twitter quirks I’ve run across, TBH.

14 Stanley Seabola  Oct 16, 2014 5:40:07pm

re: #6 FemNaziBitch

Q sent downstairs.

15 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 16, 2014 5:40:29pm

re: #8 RealityBasedSteve

That’s only because a not-white person would have trouble passing all those tests without affirmative action you know…. ///Damn, I feel dirty just writing that.

As well you should!

16 Stanley Seabola  Oct 16, 2014 5:40:45pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

Note that the Ginger Avenger only started digging through Vinson’s records when he learned she was black, and not white as he originally thought.

No digging on the first nurse.

17 Charles Johnson  Oct 16, 2014 5:40:53pm

re: #13 Rev_Arthur_Belling

That is one of the stupidest little Twitter quirks I’ve run across, TBH.

Actually, I find it useful occasionally, if I want to say something to someone but not necessarily broadcast it to the whole world.

18 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 5:41:01pm

It’s a good god

19 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 16, 2014 5:41:49pm

re: #16 Stanley Sea

No digging on the first nurse.

Wasn’t he the first to post her name, and threatened to do the same with her boyfriend?

20 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 16, 2014 5:42:52pm

re: #18 FemNaziBitch

It’s a good god

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The older boy and I call each other “Jesus Christ Boy” and “Good God Man”, but not in public.

21 Stanley Seabola  Oct 16, 2014 5:43:23pm

re: #19 Blind Frog Belly White

Wasn’t he the first to post her name, and threatened to do the same with her boyfriend?

Yes, but he never went any further. I don’t know. Did he look up her licenses?

GAH that I’m even trying to get in that punks head.

22 PhillyPretzel  Oct 16, 2014 5:45:10pm

There are quite a few professions in which an individual can have many licenses for what they practice. I know lawyers can have multiple licenses. I believe teachers and hairdressers can have multiple licenses.

23 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 16, 2014 5:45:45pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

Actually, I find it useful occasionally, if I want to say something to someone but not necessarily broadcast it to the whole world.

That would be when I’d use a DM, but that’s just me.

24 bill d  Oct 16, 2014 5:46:38pm

re: #21 Stanley Sea

Yes, but he never went any further. I don’t know. Did he look up her licenses?

GAH that I’m even trying to get in that punks head.

Chuck doesn’t believe anything any African American says/ does:

Not sure what his angle is on this one though?

25 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 16, 2014 5:47:39pm

re: #24 b.d.

Chuck doesn’t believe anything any African American says/ does:

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Not sure what his angle is on this one though?

I’ll take “Pure Assholishness” for $1,000, Chuck.

26 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 16, 2014 5:47:56pm

re: #24 b.d.

Chuck doesn’t believe anything any African American says/ does:

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Not sure what his angle is on this one though?

Could it be because ‘fiancee’ is feminine?
//

27 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 5:48:29pm
28 Stanley Seabola  Oct 16, 2014 5:50:31pm

re: #24 b.d.

Chuck doesn’t believe anything any African American says/ does:

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Not sure what his angle is on this one though?

dog he’s a prick. They closed down the bridal store she went to.

29 ObserverArt  Oct 16, 2014 5:50:58pm

Charles, that headline is way too long. How about just cutting that sucker down to…

Chuck C. Johnson Is Confused.

By the way, did I catch a new name in your twitter identity?

30 bill d  Oct 16, 2014 5:51:12pm

re: #26 Blind Frog Belly White

Could it be because ‘fiancee’ is feminine?

Chuck is going or the gay marriage angle then?
Otherwise, I am at a loss why Chuck would think that someone would fly from Texas to Ohio and meet with wedding planners, etc. to prepare for an imaginary wedding?

31 Shiplord Kirel  Oct 16, 2014 5:51:37pm

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32 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 16, 2014 5:55:56pm

This is what it always comes down to with UpChuck…the $$$
(Not that his tweet makes any sense)

33 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 16, 2014 5:55:56pm

re: #30 b.d.

Chuck is going or the gay marriage angle then?
Otherwise, I am at a loss why Chuck would think that someone would fly from Texas to Ohio and meet with wedding planners, etc. to prepare for an imaginary wedding?

It’s all a ruse by Obama to spread Ebola, so he can declare martial law, take our guns, and impose Shariah!!!!

34 wrenchwitch  Oct 16, 2014 5:56:00pm

Later, lizards.

35 Charles Johnson  Oct 16, 2014 5:56:01pm

re: #23 Rev_Arthur_Belling

That would be when I’d use a DM, but that’s just me.

But to DM someone you have to be following them. There have been times when I wanted to tweet an answer to someone without broadcasting to the whole world, but not necessarily follow them.

It is a weird little quirk in the way Twitter works, but I have found it useful occasionally. The bad thing about it is that a lot of people don’t realize that by starting a tweet with ‘@’ they may be keeping it from being seen.

36 jaunte  Oct 16, 2014 5:56:07pm

re: #24 b.d.

He’s looking for another address to publicize.

37 Dead Tired  Oct 16, 2014 5:56:54pm

re: #30 b.d.

Chuck is going or the gay marriage angle then?
Otherwise, I am at a loss why Chuck would think that someone would fly from Texas to Ohio and meet with wedding planners, etc. to prepare for an imaginary wedding?

He doesn’t know the diff between fiancée and fiancé. Later in the same tweet he said ‘he’.

38 Charles Johnson  Oct 16, 2014 5:56:55pm
39 BeachDem  Oct 16, 2014 5:57:02pm

re: #24 b.d.

Chuck doesn’t believe anything any African American says/ does:

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Not sure what his angle is on this one though?

Also, Mr. 160 IQ should know the difference between fiancé and fiancée.

40 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 16, 2014 5:58:39pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

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I’ve heard that argument for years, and what I’ve found is ignoring guys like him works about as well as ignoring Weeping Angels.

41 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 5:59:53pm

Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Endorses Federal Personhood Bill For Fetuses

Is she the next Michelle Bachman?

42 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 16, 2014 6:01:02pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

But to DM someone you have to be following them. There have been times when I wanted to tweet an answer to someone without broadcasting to the whole world, but not necessarily follow them.

It is a weird little quirk in the way Twitter works, but I have found it useful occasionally. The bad thing about it is that a lot of people don’t realize that by starting a tweet with ‘@’ they may be keeping it from being seen.

This is true. I don’t have a solution to the quirk, but it does trip a lot of people up.

43 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 16, 2014 6:01:07pm

re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is what it always comes down to with UpChuck…the $$$
(Not that his tweet makes any sense)

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Because what??? More endorsement contracts? HTF do you think that you monitize Ebola (if you’re a patient that is). If you’re a grifting charlatan, lacking in any sense of moral decency or sensitivity, then it’s easy.

44 ObserverArt  Oct 16, 2014 6:01:41pm

re: #40 Blind Frog Belly White

I’ve heard that argument for years, and what I’ve found is ignoring guys like him works about as well as ignoring Weeping Angels.

So you are saying the world can only suffer Charles UpChuck Johnson.

How sad. I shall find a hidden place in which to hide from this unbearable cruelty.

/

45 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 16, 2014 6:02:20pm

re: #41 FemNaziBitch

Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Endorses Federal Personhood Bill For Fetuses

Is she the next Michelle Bachman?

yes she is not a doubt in my lizard brain.

RBS

46 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 16, 2014 6:02:26pm

re: #44 ObserverArt

So you are saying the world can only suffer Charles UpChuck Johnson.

How sad. I shall find a hidden place in which to hide from this unbearable cruelty.

/

Rush Limbaugh still broadcasts his show. So, yeah, we’re fucked.

47 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:02:46pm
48 Vogon Poetry  Oct 16, 2014 6:03:24pm

re: #24 b.d.

He’s trying to invent malfeasance where none exists. The absence of information (news) is therefore proof that she did something wrong.

49 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:03:47pm

re: #45 RealityBasedSteve

yes.she.is not a doubt in my lizard brain.

RBS

She does have the same eyes.

50 gwangung  Oct 16, 2014 6:04:42pm

re: #48 lawhawk

He’s trying to invent malfeasance where none exists. The absence of information (news) is therefore proof that she did something wrong.

Oh. You mean like GamerGaters…..

51 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 16, 2014 6:04:45pm

re: #44 ObserverArt

So you are saying the world can only suffer Charles UpChuck Johnson.

How sad. I shall find a hidden place in which to hide from this unbearable cruelty.

/

No, I’m saying that lies and liars that go unchallenged end up accepted by people who don’t know better. That fighting against lies is the only really effective way of reducing their impact.

52 dog philosopher  Oct 16, 2014 6:05:16pm

Federal Personhood Bill For Fetuses

if you think dogs will soon be petitioning the government to be allowed to marry armadillos, i guess this makes sense

53 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 16, 2014 6:07:56pm

re: #49 FemNaziBitch

She does have the same eyes.

I’ve edited the original so that it’s not a hyperlink. That was purely accidental.

But I’ve read a bit on Ernst. She is cut from the same cloth as Bachmann. Right now she’s doing a two-step on a “Life at Conception” amendment she helped sponsor. That it was just symbolic, that it was to show her views, but wouldn’t be binding as law. BS of the first degree.

RBS

54 Justanotherhuman  Oct 16, 2014 6:08:21pm

re: #41 FemNaziBitch

Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Endorses Federal Personhood Bill For Fetuses

Is she the next Michelle Bachman?

Isn’t she the hog castrater?

And the one who said Americans all want to be on the dole?

Yet her husband is paid by the govt and she probably gets farm subsidies.

55 Charles Johnson  Oct 16, 2014 6:09:00pm

Rush Limbaugh is also starting to pimp the Ginger Avenger.

Let’s face it, the right wing base in 2014 loves sociopaths like Chuck Johnson. The fact that he’s wrong all the time is a PLUS to them, not a minus, because all they see is that the evil liberals get upset at what he posts, and that’s all they care about. Facts are meaningless and worthless to this crowd — it’s all about keeping the hate and fear alive.

So the only way to deal with people like this creep is to stay on their case and always point out when they lie or distort facts. This reaches the only people it CAN reach, people who still value reason and honesty and integrity.

56 Justanotherhuman  Oct 16, 2014 6:12:00pm

Speaking of Teh Twitter…

Twitter announces it’s testing ways to include tweets in timelines based on users’ interests - @twitter
see original on twitter.com

57 teleskiguy  Oct 16, 2014 6:13:00pm

re: #55 Charles Johnson

I shared this comment on my Twitter.

58 Amory Blaine  Oct 16, 2014 6:13:09pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

Note that the Ginger Avenger only started digging through Vinson’s records when he learned she was black, and not white as he originally thought.

Hence the “jacking” licenses dogwhistle.

59 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 16, 2014 6:13:12pm

re: #55 Charles Johnson

Rush Limbaugh is also starting to pimp the Ginger Avenger.

Let’s face it, the right wing base in 2014 loves sociopaths like Chuck Johnson. The fact that he’s wrong all the time is a PLUS to them, not a minus, because all they see is that the evil liberals get upset at what he posts, and that’s all they care about. Facts are meaningless and worthless to this crowd — it’s all about keeping the hate and fear alive.

So the only way to deal with people like this creep is to stay on their case and always point out when they lie or distort facts. This reaches the only people it CAN reach, people who still value reason and honesty and integrity.

It’s easier to get bullshit accepted if you’ve carefully laid the groundwork by delegitimizing experts, expertise, and even empirical observation for >3 decades.

60 ObserverArt  Oct 16, 2014 6:14:13pm

re: #51 Blind Frog Belly White

No, I’m saying that lies and liars that go unchallenged end up accepted by people who don’t know better. That fighting against lies is the only really effective way of reducing their impact.

I understand. I just wish that actually worked. Any more I fear that battle is lost. The lies seem to have more impact than the truth. People seem to be fine with not knowing better. It is easy.

Lying has also turned into pretty lucrative careers for way too many and they keep those lies alive all the time trumping truth by pure weight of the BS.

I always thought education was a key too. I am also losing hope with that.

Nope, don’t like the road this country is on. However, I am an optimist…as hard as it is to be these days.

61 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:14:13pm
Ernst has proposed eliminating the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Education, and the Environmental Protection Agency as a means of cutting federal spending. She has advocated eliminating the Department of Education “not just because it would save taxpayer dollars, but because I do believe our children are better educated when it’s coming from the state.”[14][15]
62 Justanotherhuman  Oct 16, 2014 6:14:26pm

re: #56 Justanotherhuman

Speaking of Teh Twitter…

Twitter announces it’s testing ways to include tweets in timelines based on users’ interests - @twitter
see original on twitter.com

Does this seem a little intrusive to anyone else?

So glad I don’t do Twitter.

63 jaunte  Oct 16, 2014 6:14:42pm

“…Ron Paul thinks the Ebola epidemic shows that regulating airline safety, another widely appreciated government activity, is also unnecessary. “Legitimate concerns about protecting airline passengers from those with Ebola or other infectious diseases can best be addressed by returning responsibility for passenger safety to the airlines,” Paul writes.
…..snip…….
A recent profile in The New Yorker explains that Rand [Paul] has taken pains to disguise some of his less popular positions, but he has spent his entire life working on his father’s campaigns, and he and his close associates say there is no major ideological difference between them.”

64 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 16, 2014 6:15:08pm

re: #55 Charles Johnson

Rush Limbaugh is also starting to pimp the Ginger Avenger.

Let’s face it, the right wing base in 2014 loves sociopaths like Chuck Johnson. The fact that he’s wrong all the time is a PLUS to them, not a minus, because all they see is that the evil liberals get upset at what he posts, and that’s all they care about. Facts are meaningless and worthless to this crowd — it’s all about keeping the hate and fear alive.

So the only way to deal with people like this creep is to stay on their case and always point out when they lie or distort facts. This reaches the only people it CAN reach, people who still value reason and honesty and integrity.

That’s when they start to do the “If your taking Flak, you must be over the target” and “If he’s so wrong, why can’t they stop talking about him”.

The arrogance, the self-supporting narrative that they create for themselves, the utter lack of compassion for anybody or anything ‘Not-Them’ makes me more and more angry the older I become. I was in college republicans, I drove in a motorcade when Dole came to town. (and learned that Charles Kuralt and my Mom had gone to school together), I used to belong to the NRA. But as I became aware of others, aware that not all shared the advantages I had enjoyed, my views changed.

RBS

65 Bubblehead II  Oct 16, 2014 6:17:18pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

The real reason the sleaze bag posted this moronic thing was so he’d have an excuse to publish all of Amber Vinson’s home addresses.

Umm. no. He didn’t star pushing this until it was revealed she was a hot black chick and she some how “jacked/stole” those licensees.

Keep it straight Charles

66 teleskiguy  Oct 16, 2014 6:17:36pm

re: #64 RealityBasedSteve

But as I became aware of others, aware that not all shared the advantages I had enjoyed, my views changed.

RBS

RINO

67 EPR-radar  Oct 16, 2014 6:17:43pm

re: #59 Blind Frog Belly White

It’s easier to get bullshit accepted if you’ve carefully laid the groundwork by delegitimizing experts, expertise, and even empirical observation for >3 decades.

There’s a reason the GOP consistently pursues policies that make Americans stupider and more vicious. It’s the only way to keep their brand going.

68 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:19:22pm

My Twitter Notifications Page tells me that “God and 7 other’s followed” me.

I think I’m scared.

69 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:20:19pm

Now, noah (small n) just retweeted me.

I am definitely scared.

70 Bubblehead II  Oct 16, 2014 6:21:17pm

re: #65 Bubblehead II

Umm. no. He didn’t star pushing this until it was revealed she was a hot black chick and she some how “jacked/stole” those licensees.

Keep it straight Charles

If I am wrong on this, slap me down.

71 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:22:00pm
72 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 16, 2014 6:22:17pm

re: #69 FemNaziBitch

Now, noah (small n) just retweeted me.

I am definitely scared.

Ask him if he has an UpDog would you?

73 Justanotherhuman  Oct 16, 2014 6:23:29pm

This is just awful.

74 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:23:52pm

Record 14M Texans register to vote

75 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:25:01pm

re: #73 Justanotherhuman

This is just awful.

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Actually, they aren’t facing sodomy charges —they are facing Sexual Assault Charges.

Unless the FBI rules don’t apply in Kentucky.

76 ObserverArt  Oct 16, 2014 6:26:48pm

Later all. Time to wash Chuck C outta my mind with some drum playing…or guitar. That little red imp just gets to me. The fact he is given any attention just creeps me the hell out. I guess I am too ideal in thinking he has already gone on too long and will go on longer.

I really think the only way he goes away is self destruction. And I don’t wish that on him, it just feels that way.

77 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:27:01pm
78 Justanotherhuman  Oct 16, 2014 6:28:57pm

re: #75 FemNaziBitch

Actually, they aren’t facing sodomy charges —they are facing Sexual Assault Charges.

Unless the FBI rules don’t apply in Kentucky.

The story says First Degree Sodomy,, among other charges. And yeah, KY.

The victim is in intensive care. He was gang-raped and it was video’d.

79 teleskiguy  Oct 16, 2014 6:30:46pm

From @mental_floss.

mentalfloss.com

80 EPR-radar  Oct 16, 2014 6:30:49pm

re: #55 Charles Johnson

Rush Limbaugh is also starting to pimp the Ginger Avenger.

Let’s face it, the right wing base in 2014 loves sociopaths like Chuck Johnson. The fact that he’s wrong all the time is a PLUS to them, not a minus, because all they see is that the evil liberals get upset at what he posts, and that’s all they care about. Facts are meaningless and worthless to this crowd — it’s all about keeping the hate and fear alive.

So the only way to deal with people like this creep is to stay on their case and always point out when they lie or distort facts. This reaches the only people it CAN reach, people who still value reason and honesty and integrity.

Hopefully this message will start getting through to the voters I hold most responsible for the horrible state of US politics —- ‘moderate Republicans’.

While claiming to not approve of the various stupidities and evils of the committed wingnuts (and in some cases capable, when pressed, of admitting that the GOP is being taken over by malicious loons), the moderate Republican will, nevertheless, hold his/her nose and consistently vote GOP. Presumably ‘the Democrats are worse’, but I have never seen a justification for this absurd proposition that was not 100% RWNJ talking point drivel.

However, such votes give the raving wingnuts real power, so the ‘moderate Republicans’ are just as guilty of fostering wingnut malignancy as any other GOP voters. Intent doesn’t matter at all when the actual effect of your votes for the GOP is to screw over everyone who isn’t a filthy rich wingnut.

81 Justanotherhuman  Oct 16, 2014 6:32:00pm

re: #79 teleskiguy

From @mental_floss.

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t.co

They have NC wrong. All those jobs have left the State.

82 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:32:55pm

re: #77 FemNaziBitch

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Now instances in which offenders sodomize victims of the same gender will be counted as rape for statistical purposes.

If this were a female victim, would the word sodomy be used?

83 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:34:21pm

re: #82 FemNaziBitch

Now instances in which offenders sodomize victims of the same gender will be counted as rape for statistical purposes.

If this were a female victim, would the word sodomy be used?

and honestly, this does a big disservice to the victim. Does he really need the whole world to hear such a graphic word used to describe what he experienced?

Yes, I have a pet peeve with that word. I think it’s archaic and biblical —not legal or medical.

84 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:34:48pm
85 Bubblehead II  Oct 16, 2014 6:37:28pm

Lizards I am calling it night. Sleep well. IF rule and all that.

86 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 16, 2014 6:38:07pm

re: #76 ObserverArt

Later all. Time to wash Chuck C outta my mind with some drum playing…or guitar. That little red imp just gets to me. The fact he is given any attention just creeps me the hell out. I guess I am too ideal in thinking he has already gone on too long and will go on longer.

I really think the only way he goes away is self destruction. And I don’t wish that on him, it just feels that way.

I’m with you…. think I’m going to go into the shop, maybe do some wood turning. I CAN’T do that and stay tense and angry. It forces me to relax and lets me get into a nice calm state. Not going to try and make anything, just put a piece on the lathe, do my basic skills exercises.

Catch you all later…

RBS

87 Justanotherhuman  Oct 16, 2014 6:38:33pm

re: #82 FemNaziBitch

Now instances in which offenders sodomize victims of the same gender will be counted as rape for statistical purposes.

If this were a female victim, would the word sodomy be used?

“Sodomy” is defined as oral or anal sex, although not always legally so.

This is the KY statute on sodomy: law.justia.com

88 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:39:17pm

Speaking of Whacko Michelle Bachman
The Tea Party Continuing the Revolution in American Thought -October 15, 2014

Youtube Video

I thought they didn’t believe in Evolution

Update —I misread it’s REVOLUTION.

ah!

89 Stanley Seabola  Oct 16, 2014 6:39:56pm

re: #80 EPR-radar

Hopefully this message will start getting through to the voters I hold most responsible for the horrible state of US politics —- ‘moderate Republicans’.

While claiming to not approve of the various stupidities and evils of the committed wingnuts (and in some cases capable, when pressed, of admitting that the GOP is being taken over by malicious loons), the moderate Republican will, nevertheless, hold his/her nose and consistently vote GOP. Presumably ‘the Democrats are worse’, but I have never seen a justification for this absurd proposition that was not 100% RWNJ talking point drivel.

However, such votes give the raving wingnuts real power, so the ‘moderate Republicans’ are just as guilty of fostering wingnut malignancy as any other GOP voters. Intent doesn’t matter at all when the actual effect of your votes for the GOP is to screw over everyone who isn’t a filthy rich wingnut.

Yep.

90 PhillyPretzel  Oct 16, 2014 6:40:10pm

re: #88 FemNaziBitch

They have their own version.

91 bratwurst  Oct 16, 2014 6:41:36pm

I can’t possibly be the first to observe that the reason the right is so obsessed with the Ebola story is their hard-on for “closing the border”, right?

92 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:42:16pm

re: #87 Justanotherhuman

“Sodomy” is defined as oral or anal sex, although not always legally so.

This is the KY statute on sodomy: law.justia.com

“deviate sexual behavior”

nice to know KY is still in the Victorian Era.

93 PhillyPretzel  Oct 16, 2014 6:42:17pm

re: #91 bratwurst

That is how they see it.

94 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:42:42pm

re: #90 PhillyPretzel

They have their own version.

Yeah

95 Justanotherhuman  Oct 16, 2014 6:44:06pm

Woops. Wrong embed.

96 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:44:57pm

World’s Richest Man Tries to Defend Wealth Inequality

97 CuriousLurker  Oct 16, 2014 6:45:14pm

Assholes. Video of Foley’s parents speaking out at the link.

98 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 16, 2014 6:45:19pm

re: #92 FemNaziBitch

“deviate sexual behavior”

nice to know KY is still in the Victorian Era.

Wow I’m reading too fast & skimming. I was thinking KY the brand… Not the state.

99 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 16, 2014 6:45:37pm

re: #79 teleskiguy

From @mental_floss.

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mentalfloss.com

Mining hasn’t been even in the top ten jobs in Kentucky in a couple of decades.

100 teleskiguy  Oct 16, 2014 6:47:12pm

re: #85 Bubblehead II

Lizards I am calling it night. Sleep well. IF rule and all that.

What, no “Deity of your choice?!?” Yer Slippin

///////

101 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:47:20pm
102 CuriousLurker  Oct 16, 2014 6:47:22pm

re: #98 Rightwingconspirator

LOL! O.O

103 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 6:49:11pm

re: #87 Justanotherhuman

“Sodomy” is defined as oral or anal sex, although not always legally so.

This is the KY statute on sodomy: law.justia.com

Consent isn’t considered when determining it is a crime.

Nice

104 CuriousLurker  Oct 16, 2014 6:50:37pm

re: #101 FemNaziBitch

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I barely got online yesterday, but when I did I kept hearing #fangate and wondering WTF it was about. When I finally got around to googling it I just… Seriously, America—all this over a fan? So I basically just grabbed a book and decided I wasn’t going to deal with the derp.

105 jaunte  Oct 16, 2014 6:51:06pm

re: #97 CuriousLurker

Assholes. Video of Foley’s parents speaking out at the link.

[Embedded content]

“…Secure America Now is a right-wing nonprofit national security organization that lists on its advisory board people such as former Gov. Mike Huckabee and Ambassador John Bolton.”
buzzfeed.com

106 Justanotherhuman  Oct 16, 2014 6:51:53pm

re: #103 FemNaziBitch

Consent isn’t considered when determining it is a crime.

Nice

No, and they probably would still call you a “sodomite”, too. I just wonder how many Americans would accept that appellation for themselves? Tens of millions? : )

107 CuriousLurker  Oct 16, 2014 6:52:05pm

re: #105 jaunte

“…Secure America Now is a right-wing nonprofit national security organization that lists on its advisory board people such as former Gov. Mike Huckabee and Ambassador John Bolton.”
buzzfeed.com

Imagine my surprise. // *smh*

108 Justanotherhuman  Oct 16, 2014 6:54:23pm

Later, Lizards!

Have a great evening everyone. : )

109 CuriousLurker  Oct 16, 2014 6:55:09pm

I’m out too. Later, lizards.

110 teleskiguy  Oct 16, 2014 6:56:22pm

re: #81 Justanotherhuman

They have NC wrong. All those jobs have left the State.

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

Mining hasn’t been even in the top ten jobs in Kentucky in a couple of decades.

The methodology of how they determined the “uniqueness” of jobs in every state is explained thus:

Location quotient measures job concentration. For this analysis, LQ compares the percentage share of a state’s workforce in a given occupation to the percentage share of the nationwide workforce in that occupation. A location quotient of 1.0 means that percent employment for the state matches the nation. Jobs in retail, health care, and local government are typically the most common jobs in each state or metropolitan area, because every local economy needs a significant amount of these workers. These occupations tend to have an LQ near 1.0 in most places.

On the other hand, a high LQ is very useful for identifying key regional occupations or industries. High location quotients indicate that the occupation or industry makes up an important part of the region’s economic base, often generating exports and wealth for the local economy. For example, one can effectively say that petroleum engineers are 6 times as concentrated in Texas as they are anywhere else in the United States on average.

As the data in the map and listed below indicates, an occupation need not have a large amount of jobs to earn a high LQ. For instance, there were 3.1 million jobs in Indiana as of 2013, but only 2,686 are boilermakers - making up just .09 percent of the statewide workforce. However, about one out of every 7 boilermaker jobs in the country are located in Indiana.

That’s why I found it interesting. It’s not about number of jobs, but the uniqueness. Colorado is unique with their Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Massachusettes is Psychiatric Technicians, Kansas is Umpires, Referees, or other Sports Officials, Alabama is Tire Builders. I find that…interesting.

111 Stanley Seabola  Oct 16, 2014 6:56:29pm

Looking to purchase a ticket to Hall & Oates.

SDSU open air theater - excellent close venue. 79 in the back, 300 in the front.

Waiting for my friend’s reply.

I might just go alone if a fail.

112 EPR-radar  Oct 16, 2014 6:57:15pm

re: #103 FemNaziBitch

Consent isn’t considered when determining it is a crime.

Nice

Indeed. However, this can’t possibly be good law since the Lawrence decision by SCOTUS.

113 EPR-radar  Oct 16, 2014 7:02:38pm

re: #104 CuriousLurker

I barely got online yesterday, but when I did I kept hearing #fangate and wondering WTF is was about. When I finally got around to googling it I just… Seriously, America—all this over a fan? So I basically just grabbed a book and decided I wasn’t going to deal with the derp.

It looks like this bit of nonsense may have been a failed dirty trick by the GOP. It is standard to ban electronic devices at debates. Apparently, the Scott campaign wrote in “including fans” on this clause of the debate agreement, and the Crist campaign did not accept that modification.

If this reporting is correct, then it is a marvelous example of just how petty and worthless the GOP is these days.

114 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 7:03:40pm
115 SteveMcGazi  Oct 16, 2014 7:03:57pm

Just to be a devil’s advocate about the multiple license thingy, the surgeon who butchered my father in law had licenses in many states. During discovery later, we found that he kept losing his jobs and had to relocate. Because many malpractice suits were settled confidentially, we didn’t know he was a hack (this was pre-Google). Anyway he could move to a different state and say he didn’t have any judgements against him from the old gig. Nowadays hospitals are smarter and they want the dope straight from the insurance company.

116 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 7:04:23pm

re: #112 EPR-radar

Indeed. However, this can’t possibly be good law since the Lawrence decision by SCOTUS.

Think they’ve heard about that decision yet in Kentucky?

117 teleskiguy  Oct 16, 2014 7:05:14pm
118 EPR-radar  Oct 16, 2014 7:08:06pm

re: #116 FemNaziBitch

Think they’ve heard about that decision yet in Kentucky?

The rubes of the GOP base remain oblivious, but the prosecutors in KY all know. Not losing in court is a powerful motivation to keep current on which state laws are totally unenforceable.

119 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 7:08:40pm
120 jaunte  Oct 16, 2014 7:09:51pm

Mention the word “border” and watch the galvanic response.

121 alpuzzzzz (I, R & sometimes why?)  Oct 16, 2014 7:10:06pm

Where the hell is Gus?

122 jaunte  Oct 16, 2014 7:11:06pm

123 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 7:11:54pm
124 teleskiguy  Oct 16, 2014 7:14:54pm

re: #121 alpuzzzzz (I, R & sometimes why?)

Where the hell is Gus?

He goes off on Twitter for a little bit these days, and that seems to be it. I suspect we’ll hear more from him in these parts after Election Day.

125 alpuzzzzz (I, R & sometimes why?)  Oct 16, 2014 7:15:37pm

re: #124 teleskiguy

Thanks.

126 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 7:16:05pm
127 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 7:20:25pm
128 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 7:20:35pm

bbl

129 Ace-o-aces  Oct 16, 2014 7:20:39pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

Had to promote this one when I saw it was getting some major Twitter click-throughs.

Well hey, spent a few hours fixing up the house, sit down to surf the net and BAM, I’m on the front page.

130 Dead Tired  Oct 16, 2014 7:21:20pm

re: #121 alpuzzzzz (I, R & sometimes why?)

Where the hell is Gus?

In the Twitter section of Hell.

131 alpuzzzzz (I, R & sometimes why?)  Oct 16, 2014 7:24:49pm

re: #130 Editor in Chief

ooooph. Been there, not going back. ‘night all.

132 FemNaziBitch  Oct 16, 2014 7:36:20pm

I’m too tired to read this, so I thought I’d share… .

133 teleskiguy  Oct 16, 2014 8:19:03pm

Oooh, almost missed this. Matt Drudge updated his Twitter.

134 The War TARDIS  Oct 16, 2014 8:19:18pm

Well, Bermuda is hosed:

000
WTNT43 KNHC 170231
TCDAT3

HURRICANE GONZALO DISCUSSION NUMBER 19
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL082014
1100 PM AST THU OCT 16 2014

The latest hurricane hunter mission into Gonzalo found peak
flight-level winds of 136 kt, with SFMR values of 107 kt. A blend
of these winds gives a surface wind speed estimate of about 120 kt
for the current intensity, a bit lower than before. This slight
weakening is also suggested by the latest satellite pictures, which
show that the eye has become less distinct.

No significant change in strength is forecast for the next 12
hours while Gonzalo remains over warm water with little shear,
although some fluctuations are possible due to internal eyewall
cycle dynamics. A more steady weakening is expected by late
tomorrow since the hurricane will be moving over substantially
cooler SSTs. However, any weakening is probably too late to spare
Bermuda, with almost all of the guidance showing the system as a
major hurricane as it moves nearby. In 36-48 hours, shear is
forecast to increase dramatically which should continue the
weakening process, and start extratropical transition over cold
waters. The NHC forecast is about the same as the previous
interpolated forecast, and follows the trend of the intensity
consensus. Extratropical transition is still shown at day 3,
although it could be close to losing tropical characteristics
just after 48 hours.

Gonzalo is accelerating toward the north-northeast, now moving at
about 12 kt. Global models are in good agreement on the hurricane
entering the flow ahead of a deep-layer trough over the eastern
United States, and this pattern is expected to cause Gonzalo to
accelerate further toward the north-northeast during the next 48
hours. All of the reliable guidance show Gonzalo passing over or
within 30 nm to the west of the island, and little change has been
made to the forecast track through 2 days. Gonzalo should race
northeastward and east-northeastward as an extratropical cyclone
over the far north Atlantic.

Significant coastal flooding on Bermuda is likely if Gonzalo
continues on the current NHC forecast track. Although specific
amounts cannot be forecast for Gonzalo, Hurricane Fabian produced an
estimated 10 feet of storm surge when it moved over Bermuda as a
major hurricane in 2003, and similar values could occur with
Gonzalo.

FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS

INIT 17/0300Z 28.0N 67.5W 120 KT 140 MPH
12H 17/1200Z 29.7N 66.5W 115 KT 130 MPH
24H 18/0000Z 32.5N 64.9W 105 KT 120 MPH
36H 18/1200Z 36.4N 62.5W 95 KT 110 MPH
48H 19/0000Z 42.0N 57.9W 85 KT 100 MPH
72H 20/0000Z 52.0N 39.0W 55 KT 65 MPH…POST-TROP/EXTRATROP
96H 21/0000Z 56.5N 12.0W 35 KT 40 MPH…POST-TROP/EXTRATROP
120H 22/0000Z…DISSIPATED

$$
Forecaster Blake

135 prairiefire  Oct 16, 2014 8:21:25pm

Congratulations, Giants! All those rich San Fran folks will come to KC next week to spend their money!

136 jaunte  Oct 16, 2014 8:23:38pm

re: #133 teleskiguy

self-quarantine

A paranoid wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

137 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 16, 2014 8:32:00pm

re: #135 prairiefire

Congratulations, Giants! All those rich San Fran folks will come to KC next week to spend their money!

I can think of worse things to spend it on that decent BBQ.

138 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 16, 2014 8:32:52pm

re: #133 teleskiguy

Oooh, almost missed this. Matt Drudge updated his Twitter.

Does that mean Drudge is holed up in his home, living like a hermit?

139 prairiefire  Oct 16, 2014 8:35:45pm

re: #137 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I can think of worse things to spend it on that decent BBQ.

“decent”? Spoken like a true east coaster used to Carolina Que.

140 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 16, 2014 8:43:56pm

re: #139 prairiefire

“decent”? Spoken like a true east coaster used to Carolina Que.

Hey, I’m only a few hours from KC atm, but I’ve grown to like that vinegar sauce. ;)

Edit: I also grew up in Texas, so BBQ feud is what you want, BBQ feud you will get :D

141 darthstar  Oct 16, 2014 8:45:14pm
142 prairiefire  Oct 16, 2014 8:47:52pm

re: #140 Rev_Arthur_Belling

It’s all good, I love the tangy sauce. I ate a bunch of it when we lived in Augusta. Are you a real Reverend, or is it a cultural reference I don’t know about?

143 prairiefire  Oct 16, 2014 8:48:53pm

re: #141 darthstar

[Embedded content]

Bunch of arugula eating nobs!

144 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 16, 2014 8:51:14pm

re: #142 prairiefire

It’s all good, I love the tangy sauce. I ate a bunch of it when we lived in Augusta. Are you a real Reverend, or is it a cultural reference I don’t know about?

For reference:
Youtube Video

Although I am actually licensed to preach, although I’m not sure that hasn’t been revoked by this point :D

145 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 16, 2014 8:52:48pm

re: #139 prairiefire

I should mention that I’m also rooting for the Royals here :D

146 teleskiguy  Oct 16, 2014 8:54:15pm

The sports team from my area is superior to the sports team from your area.

147 darthstar  Oct 16, 2014 8:54:19pm

re: #143 prairiefire

Bunch of arugula eating nobs!

And proud of it.

148 prairiefire  Oct 16, 2014 8:56:04pm

This is going to be a great series! Night, lizards.

149 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 16, 2014 8:56:31pm

re: #146 teleskiguy

The sports team from my area is superior to the sports team from your area.

Die, commie scum! ////

150 Charles Johnson  Oct 16, 2014 9:02:51pm
151 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 16, 2014 9:06:14pm

Mother Love Bone. Simple cocktail, a touch of smoke. Sometimes a hard day gets a soft landing. Good night & never let your critics hold you back.

152 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 16, 2014 9:11:27pm

re: #150 Charles Johnson

CNN also misuses “Breaking!” I swear every story about the MH370 disappearance and crash was preceded by “Breaking!” even when the story was days old.

Breaking should be used for a brand new, major story or a dramatic development in old story — the kind of story traditional newspapers would put on the front page with a banner headline stretching across the page. It’s not suitable for a story you’d find on the bottom of page 9.

Exclusive means absolutely no one else has this story, because the subject of the story has chosen your news agency as the only one he or she will talk to. Exclusive does not mean you’re the only news agency carrying the story, because every other news agency thinks the story is pointless and stupid.

153 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 16, 2014 9:12:53pm

Night, Lizards.

154 Charles Johnson  Oct 16, 2014 9:14:36pm
155 teleskiguy  Oct 16, 2014 9:17:46pm

MP3 Audio

156 austin_blue  Oct 16, 2014 9:27:07pm

re: #154 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Yeah, but it *could* have been.

“We’re all going to die!”

157 gwangung  Oct 16, 2014 9:39:15pm

re: #156 austin_blue

Yeah, but it *could* have been.

“We’re all going to die!”

Rep. King questions….as if HE could tell if it was ebola.

Cmon, pinhead…this isn’t the thing to play political games with….

158 goddamnedfrank  Oct 16, 2014 9:43:49pm

The new iMac with 5K display …

159 Jenner7  Oct 16, 2014 9:45:23pm

re: #154 Charles Johnson

And what adds to the concern is how wrong the CDC has been over the past few weeks.”

And how wrong have they been, Mr. King?

160 darthstar  Oct 16, 2014 9:47:58pm

So apparently Kansas City is in Missouri…that’s awkward.

161 gwangung  Oct 16, 2014 9:48:10pm

re: #159 Jenner7

And how wrong have they been, Mr. King?

As wrong as attempts to cut money from ebola preparedness?

As wrong as attempts to cut money from the CDC?

As wrong as attempts to block surgeon general nominees?

162 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 16, 2014 9:52:36pm

re: #154 Charles Johnson

Nigerian Man Vomits, Dies On Flight To JFK

He must have been flying Delta.

163 teleskiguy  Oct 16, 2014 10:01:47pm

re: #160 darthstar

So apparently Kansas City is in Missouri…that’s awkward.

The city straddles the Missouri River, and at that point the river is the state line. The Chiefs and the Royals play in Missouri, barely.

164 teleskiguy  Oct 16, 2014 10:03:27pm

Speaking of Missouri, I didn’t know this guy was born in Missouri.

Happy Birthday Marshall.

165 teleskiguy  Oct 16, 2014 10:28:12pm
166 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 16, 2014 10:47:22pm

re: #165 teleskiguy

She’s probably right. I hesitate to consider what would have happened if the Sandy Hook shooter had been a Miuslim or an African-American.

167 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 17, 2014 12:31:16am

re: #166 wheat-dogghazi

She’s probably right. I hesitate to consider what would have happened if the Sandy Hook shooter had been a Miuslim or an African-American.

I believe it was clearly established that he was a liberal
/

168 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 17, 2014 1:42:03am

In any case, I am confused by the concept of Travelling Wilburys

169 Decatur Deb  Oct 17, 2014 2:22:45am

re: #162 Higgs Boson’s Mate

He must have been flying Delta.

Dying on planes isn’t that rare. A buddy who always collected weird-assed experiences was flying with a couple replacements to a remote base in Turkey. The flight from Istanbul-Nowhere (THY airline—Turk Havayolari, They Hate You in GI talk) had a female passenger in the next seat who quietly died. Buddy called the nice cabin ladies, who moved her to the last row and mummified her in a well-drilled arrangement of blankets and seat belts. She sat there, upright, the rest of the flight.

When they came to serve the snack of little rolls and cheese, the troop in the row did the Young Soldier thing: “Hey, can I have hers?”

170 Varek Raith  Oct 17, 2014 2:49:52am

BREAKING NEWS
I’m awake.

171 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 17, 2014 2:54:36am

re: #170 Varek Raith

BREAKING NEWS
wind

172 Decatur Deb  Oct 17, 2014 2:59:35am

re: #170 Varek Raith

BREAKING NEWS
I’m awake.

I shall offer a Te Deum.

Youtube Video

Wild man wailing on the serpent there.

173 freetoken  Oct 17, 2014 3:15:34am

MP3 Audio

174 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 17, 2014 3:19:45am

The freet is on!

175 Timothy Watson  Oct 17, 2014 3:36:18am

re: #75 FemNaziBitch

Actually, they aren’t facing sodomy charges —they are facing Sexual Assault Charges.

Unless the FBI rules don’t apply in Kentucky.

Some states criminalize forcible sodomy in a different criminal statute than forcible (vaginal) rape. E.g., Virginia:

A. If any person has sexual intercourse with a complaining witness, whether or not his or her spouse, or causes a complaining witness, whether or not his or her spouse, to engage in sexual intercourse with any other person and such act is accomplished (i) against the complaining witness’s will, by force, threat or intimidation of or against the complaining witness or another person; or (ii) through the use of the complaining witness’s mental incapacity or physical helplessness; or (iii) with a child under age 13 as the victim, he or she shall be guilty of rape. (Va Code. § 18.2-61)

Versus:

A. An accused shall be guilty of forcible sodomy if he or she engages in cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, or anal intercourse with a complaining witness whether or not his or her spouse, or causes a complaining witness, whether or not his or her spouse, to engage in such acts with any other person, and

1. The complaining witness is less than 13 years of age; or

2. The act is accomplished against the will of the complaining witness, by force, threat or intimidation of or against the complaining witness or another person, or through the use of the complaining witness’s mental incapacity or physical helplessness. (Va. Code § 18.2-67.1)

Subsection B of each code section deals with the penalties which, today, are the same (almost word for word).

176 KiTA  Oct 17, 2014 3:52:16am

Oh god, Chucky actually replied:

177 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 17, 2014 3:55:18am

re: #176 KiTA

Oh god, Chucky actually replied:

[Embedded content]

Hard to recognize evidence of work if you have never done so…

178 Dr. Matt  Oct 17, 2014 4:23:48am

Could UpChuck be any more transparent? The racist ginger only starts looking into the second nurse’s background after he found out she was black.

179 Dr. Matt  Oct 17, 2014 4:25:29am

Exclusive: I’m drinking coffee….first cup of the day.

180 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 17, 2014 4:26:49am

re: #179 Dr. Matt

Exclusive: I’m drinking coffee….first cup of the day.

No, no. That’s Breaking!

181 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 17, 2014 4:27:48am

BREAKING: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

182 Dr. Matt  Oct 17, 2014 4:32:07am

re: #180 wheat-dogghazi

No, no. That’s Breaking!

I’ll never it get it right…because I’m not a real journalist like UpChuck and DimJim

183 Timothy Watson  Oct 17, 2014 4:35:31am

EXCLUSIVE AND BREAKING HARD: I have a headache.

184 Decatur Deb  Oct 17, 2014 4:40:40am

The overnight derp crop from Freep shows a distinct fatigue over their panic tempo. Comments on Ebola are a good bit more measured in general. It’s still the government’s fault, though, that they panicked.

185 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 17, 2014 4:41:00am

Extry, extry! Read all about it! Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, Congress declares war.

186 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 17, 2014 4:42:42am

Unfortunately I’m out of breaking news, so I’ll just repeat what everybody already knows: Chuck C. Johnson is a mentally challenged racist smurf.

187 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 17, 2014 4:42:43am

I’m all for piling on UpChuck, but maybe we could tone down the use of “ginger”? There’s enough stupid to criticize without using the derogatory term for redheads.

(Disclaimer: not a redhead, and have made “gingers have no souls” jokes before)

188 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 17, 2014 4:43:25am

re: #187 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Agreed.

189 Timothy Watson  Oct 17, 2014 4:44:14am

re: #187 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I’m all for piling on UpChuck, but maybe we could tone down the use of “ginger”? There’s enough stupid to criticize without using the derogatory term for redheads.

(Disclaimer: not a redhead, and have made “gingers have no souls” jokes before)

Is it okay for me to suggest he should be sterilized to prevent the spread of derp?

190 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 17, 2014 4:44:34am

re: #188 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Just saw your comment “mentally-challenged racist smurf” is much better lol

191 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 17, 2014 4:44:42am

Youtube Video

192 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 17, 2014 4:45:49am

re: #189 Timothy Watson

Is it okay for me to suggest he should be sterilized to prevent the spread of derp?

Preferably with a sharp instrument.

193 Dr. Matt  Oct 17, 2014 4:47:54am

Exclusive: The diuretic effects of coffee are catching up

Breaking: I don’t hate gingers. I just hate the racist ginger that goes by UpChuck

Breaking and Exclusive: If you are actually “offended” by the term ginger, see below

Youtube Video

194 Dr. Matt  Oct 17, 2014 4:49:12am

re: #192 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Preferably with a sharp instrument.

Sharp? Screw that….with a plastic spork that was slightly roughed up on the sidewalk.

195 Timothy Watson  Oct 17, 2014 4:50:01am
In what appears to be an unprecedented decision, a New York trial court has allowed the New York Police Department (“NYPD”) to issue a “Glomar” response to a state open records request, meaning the government refuses to confirm or deny whether responsive records exist.

The decision appears to be the first time that a court anwhere [sic] in the U.S. has upheld the use of such a tactic by a state agency. The Glomar response has historically been used only with regard to requests made to federal agencies that involve sensitive matters of national security.

The case, Abdur-Rashid v. New York City Police Department, involved a request by Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid for records regarding NYPD surveillance of himself and his mosque in New York City. The city refused to disclose to Mr. Abdur-Rashid whether any such records existed, and told him that even if they did exist, such records would be exempt under the New York Freedom of Information Law (“FOIL”).

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

196 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 17, 2014 4:53:36am

re: #194 Dr. Matt

Sharp? Screw that….with a plastic spork that was slightly roughed up on the sidewalk.

Your idea sounds better.

197 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 17, 2014 4:56:32am

re: #191 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Love Tim Minchin! Especially White Wine in the Sun:

Youtube Video

198 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 17, 2014 5:00:21am

re: #193 Dr. Matt

Breaking: I don’t hate gingers. I just hate the racist ginger that goes by UpChuck

Breaking and Exclusive: If you are actually “offended” by the term ginger, see below

I’m not actually offended by the term, but it does get thrown around a lot wrt UpChuck as a throwaway, which wouldn’t be the case so much if it was another word like the N word, or describing another race.

And honestly, I didn’t really notice it until this morning and just thought I’d mention it.

199 Usually refered to as anyways  Oct 17, 2014 5:01:15am

re: #197 Rev_Arthur_Belling

He’s a great talent…
Tim Minchin UWA Address 2013

Have you seen this?

200 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 17, 2014 5:05:32am

re: #199 Usually refered to as anyways

He’s a great talent…
Tim Minchin UWA Address 2013

Have you seen this?

Had not seen that! He’s rocking that regalia!

201 Timothy Watson  Oct 17, 2014 5:05:55am

OFFS

BREAKING HARD: This will be the wingnut outrage of the day.

(Note: I don’t consider James Joyner a wingnut)

202 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 17, 2014 5:13:26am

re: #201 Timothy Watson

OFFS

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BREAKING HARD: This will be the wingnut outrage of the day.

(Note: I don’t consider James Joyner a wingnut)

Dubya did not get kicked out of the Air National Guard due to drug use, just failed to show up due to general apathy and distraction…

203 Varek Raith  Oct 17, 2014 5:16:12am

I didn’t care when GWB’s children were getting into trouble.
I don’t care about Biden’s son getting into trouble.
Nope.
Don’t care.

204 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 17, 2014 5:23:44am

Down the Tim Minchin rabbit hole! Rock n Roll Nerd:

Youtube Video

205 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 17, 2014 5:29:59am

re: #204 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Youtube Video

206 jonhendry  Oct 17, 2014 5:33:41am

re: #112 EPR-radar

Indeed. However, this can’t possibly be good law since the Lawrence decision by SCOTUS.

As long as they don’t enforce it against consensual behavior, it should be fine.

207 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 17, 2014 5:44:32am

Good morning lizards.

Just saw this:

208 Schadenboner  Oct 17, 2014 5:45:04am

re: #6 FemNaziBitch

God just followed me on Twitter.

Shit. Act cool, maybe he’ll just go away.

E: I *really* need to read all the way down the page when replying to overnight threads.

209 jonhendry  Oct 17, 2014 5:45:23am

re: #203 Varek Raith

I didn’t care when GWB’s children were getting into trouble.
I don’t care about Biden’s son getting into trouble.
Nope.
Don’t care.

I see your point. However GWB’s kids were in high school / college. Biden’s son is 43.

210 jonhendry  Oct 17, 2014 5:45:59am

re: #207 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards.

Just saw this:

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Must be the ‘B’ Ark.

211 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 17, 2014 5:46:59am

Heh

212 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 5:47:07am

I love how the media’s hair is on fire about two nurses turning up sick, meanwhile those 80 people that they previously were wigging out about are reaching the end of their 21 day wait-and-watch periods.

213 jonhendry  Oct 17, 2014 5:49:48am

A cruise ship really is a terrible place for someone who has possibly been exposed to ebola. Imagine if there were a Norovirus outbreak onboard and everyone was barfing. Or if the engines failed and the toilets started overflowing like that one hell-cruise a while back. Plus the general close quarters conditions, possibility of sea sickness barfing, etc.

Do people in Dallas just have no common sense at all?

214 A Mom Anon  Oct 17, 2014 5:51:33am

re: #209 jonhendry

It’s news, but only to a point. At least he made a public statement that wasn’t dickish. Coke only stays in the system a short time, he probably thought he could go out and party and not get caught. Oops. Doesn’t mean he has a problem necessarily, I honestly don’t know much about the guy beyond his military service. He’ll do what most wealthy folks do in these situations. Go into a treatment program, come out and find something else to do and fade into the background for awhile. How this would reflect on the Vice President is beyond me, but I’m sure the denizens of Outer Wingnuttia will find a way. They’ll make it a huge deal, even though some of their own have been caught doing that and worse, and the world keeps spinning.

215 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 5:52:08am

BREAKING!!! I can neither confirm or deny the existence or non-existence of any doughnuts that I may or may not be eating at this time.

RBS

216 Schadenboner  Oct 17, 2014 5:52:41am

re: #212 Targetpractice

I love how the media’s hair is on fire about two nurses turning up sick, meanwhile those 80 people that they previously were wigging out about are reaching the end of their 21 day wait-and-watch periods.

I know, it’s almost as if they were driven by something other than a genuine concern for the well-being of the watch-and-waits (and the broader public health)!

Seriously, if it isn’t KFF or Incidental Economist literally no health reporter has any business “reporting”. They should probably just stick to what they do well: celebrity diets.

217 Schadenboner  Oct 17, 2014 5:53:46am

re: #213 jonhendry

A cruise ship really is a terrible place for someone who has possibly been exposed to ebola. Imagine if there were a Norovirus outbreak onboard and everyone was barfing. Or if the engines failed and the toilets started overflowing like that one hell-cruise a while back.

Do people in Dallas just have no common sense at all?

FTFY.

As much as I really really like the concept of taking a cruise, the reality shows itself over and over to be (to put it mildly) lacking.

218 A Mom Anon  Oct 17, 2014 5:56:52am

re: #216 Schadenboner

The whole “Celebrity Doctor” thing works my last nerve. Dr. Oz, Nancy Snyderman, Richard Besser, Sanjay Gupta, hell there’s a whole show on daytime TV now called “The Doctors” with pretty, well coiffed physicians. Mostly aimed at America’s stay home moms to tell them about everything from plastic surgery, sex and intestinal parasites, to skin cancer and “what’s normal for your toddler”. It’s freaking weird and it makes me want to not believe a word these people say.

219 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)  Oct 17, 2014 5:59:42am

Vinson, aged 29, reportedly had licenses in five different states, including South Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Kansas, and Texas.

States. How the f0ck do they work?

The 50 states of the Union are not separate sovereign nations, right? ////

220 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 6:01:42am
221 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)  Oct 17, 2014 6:02:12am

True story. I have traveled across 37 states of the US. Amazing.

You can’t explain THAT!!!!!

///

222 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 17, 2014 6:02:51am

re: #213 jonhendry

A cruise ship really is a terrible place for someone who has possibly been exposed to ebola. Imagine if there were a Norovirus outbreak onboard and everyone was barfing. Or if the engines failed and the toilets started overflowing like that one hell-cruise a while back. Plus the general close quarters conditions, possibility of sea sickness barfing, etc.

Do people in Dallas just have no common sense at all?

Not that that has ever happened before in real life.

223 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 17, 2014 6:08:47am

re: #221 Bulworth

True story. I have traveled across 37 states of the US. Amazing.

You can’t explain THAT!!!!!

///

20 more to go!
//

224 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)  Oct 17, 2014 6:10:02am

re:
#215

BREAKING!!! I can neither confirm or deny the existence or non-existence of any doughnuts that I may or may not be eating at this time.

As long as you left some donuts in the LGF breakroom, it’s all good.

225 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 17, 2014 6:11:03am

re: #224 Bulworth

re:
#215

As long as you left some donuts in the LGF breakroom, it’s all good.

Dibs on the chocolate glazed!

226 ObserverArt  Oct 17, 2014 6:11:04am

re: #187 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I’m all for piling on UpChuck, but maybe we could tone down the use of “ginger”? There’s enough stupid to criticize without using the derogatory term for redheads.

(Disclaimer: not a redhead, and have made “gingers have no souls” jokes before)

Thank You!

I have two red-headed brothers and the one with the bright red hair, light skin and many freckles has always felt slighted for being a red head. He always was the one blamed for everything, many times people never trusted him, looked at him as not being serious, etc. It is a huge sore point for him.

Chuck C. would be an idiot no matter what color his hair is. Because.

Hmm. I really wonder if they know that being a red head, male especially, can be as limiting as many skin colors in ways.

Oh yeah…Morning LGFers!

227 bill d  Oct 17, 2014 6:13:42am

WHERE IS THE EBOLA BOAT!?!?! WE MUST SINK IT WHILE IT IS OUT AT SEA!!

228 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 6:14:15am
229 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 6:15:45am
230 ObserverArt  Oct 17, 2014 6:18:42am

re: #215 RealityBasedSteve

BREAKING!!! I can neither confirm or deny the existence or non-existence of any doughnuts that I may or may not be eating at this time.

RBS

Well, we’ll just have to look for evidence. (Picks up keyboard and shakes it.)

Ah-ha! Powdered sugar and little soft crumbs. BUSTED!

231 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 17, 2014 6:20:56am

How you know when the media is running out of Ebola stories…

232 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 17, 2014 6:25:17am

re: #229 Lidane

GOP Has Binder Full Of Jews To Communicate With New Hip Kids These Days

Why is it that “conservative” and “hip” remain mutually exclusive in modern culture? An interview with Rick Santorum…

233 bill d  Oct 17, 2014 6:25:39am

Row, row, row your Ebola boat…

234 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 6:26:01am
235 bill d  Oct 17, 2014 6:26:50am

re: #231 NJDhockeyfan

How you know when the media is running out of Ebola stories…

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236 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 6:30:12am

Shhh…. no one tell CCJ about this:

237 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 17, 2014 6:31:49am

re: #236 Lidane

She was sharing a bed with Ebola! The virus has grown a body!

Oh, wait.

238 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 17, 2014 6:32:02am
239 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 6:33:00am

Ebola “truthers” are going nuts over the idea of the disease being airborne, talking constantly about how it moves too fast and is infecting doctors in Africa for the CDC to be right about how difficult it is to contract it.

Meanwhile, as we near the 21 day mark since the initial case at Presbyterian, the grand total of persons infected? 2. Out of 80+ people that the media was screaming might be potential carriers, only 2 people have actually gotten sick so far.

240 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 6:33:41am

Mixed messages, yeah, that’s the GOP problem:

When they’re not demonizing President Obama (which is every day 24/7/365, and is a jobs program all of its own for GOP and right wing pundits), they’re busy undermining government functioning properly. Whether it’s the GOP shutdown last year, or curtailing the levels of funding for critical public health groups - CDC, NIH, FDA, etc., general regulatory agencies that provide workplace safety, or the EPA, the GOP is busy attempting to dismantle the government - all while claiming that if they did things, they’d be better at it?

This is an anti-science and anti-rational party. They are pushing air bans from Africa out of fear, not actual science. 1 person has actually come in from Africa since December 2013 and came down with the disease (and later died). That person didn’t even fly directly from Africa. He came via Brussels.

The hospital where he thought he could get proper care screwed up at every opportunity - whether it was refusing to admit him in the first instance, or once they finally did so two days later, they didn’t have proper protocols in place to protect the nurses and doctors who have the most direct and immediate contact with the patient. Two more people are now infected.

Three - out of 310 million people in the country.

It’s a worrisome event, but in the same time frame, how many people have gotten sick and died of Enterovirus D68? Influenza?

The threat of Ebola is that if you get it, the odds are that you’re likely to die, even with the best of care (70% mortality). It’s very tough to get. It’s impossible to get unless you have direct contact with someone who has the disease and this part is important - has to be actively showing symptoms.

That compares with influenza, where you could be a carrier and infect people without knowing it. It’s far less transmissible than enterovirus or norovirus. It’s far less transmissible than measles.

So, if you’re concerned about getting sick, get vaccinated for influenza and be current on your other shots. Get your kids vaccinated. That will do more to keep them (and anyone who is too young, too old/infirm, or is immune compromised like ppl on cancer treatments, or are allergic to eggs, which is a growth medium for many vaccines) from getting sick than any flight ban from Africa.

241 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 6:34:10am

re: #232 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Why is it that “conservative” and “hip” remain mutually exclusive in modern culture? An interview with Rick Santorum…

For many of the same reasons that “conservative” and “comedy” are mutually exclusive: to be hip or to be intentionally funny requires at least a smidgin of empathy and a measure of self-awareness.

242 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 6:34:20am
243 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 6:35:52am

re: #240 lawhawk

Yeah, by blaming incompetence at the CDC and trying to blame the White House for funding cuts to the CDC and the NIH, they are in essence admitting that a competently run and fully-funded government can do what the private sector cannot. Pretty sad.

244 Belafon  Oct 17, 2014 6:36:15am

re: #226 ObserverArt

But he is ginger. Should we also stop making references to his whiteness or maleness?

Has anyone started saying that all redheads are like him?

245 EbolaSpotinAL  Oct 17, 2014 6:37:18am

re: #209 jonhendry

I see your point. However GWB’s kids were in high school / college. Biden’s son is 43.

Henry Hyde would call that a youthful indiscretion.

246 Ace-o-aces  Oct 17, 2014 6:37:50am

re: #176 KiTA

247 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 17, 2014 6:39:42am

I missed this one last night. Next time I’m getting tickets…

248 makeitstop  Oct 17, 2014 6:41:28am

re: #212 Targetpractice

I love how the media’s hair is on fire about two nurses turning up sick, meanwhile those 80 people that they previously were wigging out about are reaching the end of their 21 day wait-and-watch periods.

I went on Facebook last night, and while the freakout was so bad about ‘suspected new cases’ yesterday morning I just bailed for the day, there was no mention of the three suspected cases that were cleared by last evening.

I’m pretty sure that to the people freaking out, every ‘suspected case’ has gone completely symptomatic and died.

After all, we are in the middle of an ‘outbreak’ here…

///

249 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 17, 2014 6:42:44am

Three new targets for our pilots…

250 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 6:42:52am
251 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 6:42:59am

Well, yes, they did, by not heeding the warnings from Doctors Without Borders when they were alerting everyone back in March and April that the disease was getting out of control, and that much more help was needed then.

Now, the disease has pretty much overwhelmed DWB/MSF, and the time it’s taking to get new facilities built, and getting health workers the gear they need (let alone training new workers to help) is far too long. It will be weeks and months before there’s even close to being enough health workers on the ground to help contain the spread in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.

On the positive side, Senegal has been able to stop the disease there, Nigeria has likewise stopped it, and containment is possible only through aggressive actions in West Africa.

Flight bans aren’t going to stop it.

But that wont stop the GOP from hyping the necessity of flight bans.

252 bill d  Oct 17, 2014 6:45:16am

re: #248 makeitstop

I went on Facebook last night, and while the freakout was so bad about ‘suspected new cases’ yesterday morning I just bailed for the day, there was no mention of the three suspected cases that were cleared by last evening.

I’m pretty sure that to the people freaking out, every ‘suspected case’ has gone completely symptomatic and died.

After all, we are in the middle of an ‘outbreak’ here…

///

The disconnect is mind shattering. This morning I turned to AM radio and they were demanding the resignation of the CDC director, travel bans and basic all out panic mode. I switched over to the sports radio channel and they were doing a comedy spot where they were interviewing an Ebola virus.

I don’t think that the nation is in panic, just the usual bedwetters who always get all of the media attention anyways.

253 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 6:47:08am
255 ObserverArt  Oct 17, 2014 6:52:31am

re: #244 Belafon

But he is ginger. Should we also stop making references to his whiteness or maleness?

Has anyone started saying that all redheads are like him?

I was just thanking Reverend Arthur Belling for his comment. And, many times people do not realize how something they see as cute and simple can also be a bit bigoted. I used my brother as an example of how sometimes people see a trait as a blanket judgement on an individual. Cautionary Awareness.

I judge Chuck on his character…do not care he has red hair, is male and white.

256 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 6:53:10am

LOLWUT:

257 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 17, 2014 6:55:25am

Another lib calling for a travel ban…

258 Timothy Watson  Oct 17, 2014 6:57:33am

Jesus, why do I bother talking to academic advisers?

259 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 6:58:58am

re: #254 lawhawk

A so-far complete timeline of the screw ups in care at Texas Presbyterian in Dallas - based on what we know so far.

Yeah, but all of their screw-ups are the CDC’s fault because it didn’t hold their hand every step of the way. Or that’s what Fox News told me.

////

260 ObserverArt  Oct 17, 2014 7:00:50am

Can I just say it now.

I am so sick of Rand Paul.

He has a statement on everything, the man for all seasons and reasons. Yet, if you look back over the last two years or so, he is for something and then he is not. Add him up and what you get is a patent medicine carpetbagging salesman that will say anything to get attention.

He gives a new definition to the term “sweet nothings” being whispered in your ear.

So, he’ll probably get nominated and then elected. ///

261 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 7:01:12am

re: #258 Timothy Watson

Jesus, why do I bother talking to academic advisers?

I wonder the same thing about recruiters and staffing agencies.

262 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 7:03:38am

Circular firing squads are awesome:

263 Belafon  Oct 17, 2014 7:05:12am

re: #255 ObserverArt

Looking back through, I had never heard of ginger being used in a derogatory manner; until recently, it was the name of a spice. My only experience of the word, even though I have known a couple of redheads, is Doctor Who, where they used it for Amy and the doctor lamented that he wasn’t ginger.

I would be curious of the history of the word.

264 Alyosha  Oct 17, 2014 7:08:39am

re: #262 Lidane

Circular firing squads are awesome:

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Can’t remember who posted it, but the shirtless Geraldo was priceless. He looked like a grizzled old salt. Hilarious.
Between him and Gohmert I know who I want gutting my fish, shelling my crab and who I want inspecting my asparagus.

265 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2014 7:09:42am

I haven’t the energy to wade through CCJ’s old tweets, but he brought up the ginger descriptor himself when he said something to the effect that gingers are superior intellects and that’s why people say bad things about him.

or something. something.

266 Alyosha  Oct 17, 2014 7:10:45am

re: #264 Alyosha

And yet, in the Tweet’s pic, Gohmert is Boehner-Orange compared to Geraldo WTF?

267 Decatur Deb  Oct 17, 2014 7:12:59am

re: #263 Belafon

Looking back through, I had never heard of ginger being used in a derogatory manner; until recently, it was the name of a spice. My only experience of the word, even though I have known a couple of redheads, is Doctor Who, where they used it for Amy and the doctor lamented that he wasn’t ginger.

I would be curious of the history of the word.

It’s in the title of Donleavey’s The Ginger Man, and that’s from 1947. Might be an Irish thing.

268 bill d  Oct 17, 2014 7:14:25am

CZARS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL! IMPEACH OBAMA FOR HAVING CZARS OBAMA MUST NAME AN EBOLA CZAR!!!

269 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 7:17:01am

re: #268 b.d.

CZARS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL! IMPEACH OBAMA FOR HAVING CZARS OBAMA MUST NAME AN EBOLA CZAR!!!

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UNCONSTITUTIONAL SEIZURE OF POWER!!!!

270 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 7:17:28am

re: #268 b.d.

*sigh*

What we need is the media to stop stoking panic about Ebola.

271 ObserverArt  Oct 17, 2014 7:17:37am

re: #263 Belafon

Looking back through, I had never heard of ginger being used in a derogatory manner; until recently, it was the name of a spice. My only experience of the word, even though I have known a couple of redheads, is Doctor Who, where they used it for Amy and the doctor lamented that he wasn’t ginger.

I would be curious of the history of the word.

Now that you are curious, do a Google for Ginger Red Hair. The Wiki page is fairly comprehensive.

And if you want a quick study of how a term is used currently, you can use the urban dictionary and this is what they had for their #1 definition:

A human, characterized by pale skin, freckles and bright red hair. “Gingers” are generally considered to be inferior to their more melanin-rich brethren, and thus deservingly discriminated against. Gingers are thought to have no souls. The condition, “gingervitis” is genetic and incurable.

It can be very hurtful for some. I mentioned it because my brother has really had a rough time with it. I always accepted him because he is my brother. It was only a few years ago that I got him talking and found how hurtful it has been his entire life. I am 60, he is 68.

Sometimes people say things they have heard from others not thinking there is stereotyping involved.

272 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 7:19:47am

re: #257 NJDhockeyfan

This outbreak in West Africa has gone on for close to a year.

There’s been one case that someone has unknowingly brought the disease into the US. One. Hundreds of suspected cases that turned out to be false alarms. The problems with Texas Presbyterian’s handling of the case are well documented - and shows how much the hospital screwed up putting more people at risk.

The economic hit of a flight ban would cripple already foundering economy in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, which needs to keep the economy afloat or else so many other diseases would overwhelm the health care system that is already in critical condition.

The flight bans would put millions of Africans at further risk because their already shaky economies can’t take the additional hits.

Screening will have more false positives than Ebola hits. There might even be an occasional false negative (like someone who doesn’t show symptoms but becomes symptomatic after traveling - as in the case of Duncan).

And direct flight bans would have had no effect on Duncan, since he flew through Brussels.

All that said, I’d put my chances of getting infected with Ebola at somewhere above zero, but far less than 1%. Winning the Powerball and Mega Millions in the same week kind of odds. Because it’s possible that someone arriving from Africa (say, even a US citizen researcher) flew in to NYC, didn’t show any symptoms, visited Lower Manhattan, got sick, and I somehow came into contact with that person’s bodily fluids.

The kind of events that would have to happen for that occurring are such that I don’t worry about it.

I have a much greater concern for potentially getting sick or getting family members sick with influenza or other easily communicable diseases, but I have some measure of control with that - I get vaccinated for those diseases that have vaccines, and I wash hands regularly. You know - common sense things.

273 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 7:19:51am

What? A group of neo-Confederates are racist assholes? The hell you say!

274 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 7:20:16am

So yeah, just a quick peek at Wiki shows that Ron Klein is a former Congressman and now a member of a law firm. So expect the major gripe to be that, as he’s not a doctor, he’s totally unsuited for the job.

275 Decatur Deb  Oct 17, 2014 7:22:34am

re: #271 ObserverArt

Now that you are curious, do a Google for Ginger Red Hair. The Wiki page is fairly comprehensive.

And if you want a quick study of how a term is used currently, you can use the urban dictionary and this is what they had for their #1 definition:

It can be very hurtful for some. I mentioned it because my brother has really had a rough time with it. I always accepted him because he is my brother. It was only a few years ago that I got him talking and found how hurtful it has been his entire life. I am 60, he is 68.

Sometimes people say things they have heard from others not thinking there is stereotyping involved.

The negative connotation is bizarre to anyone who grew up in an Irish neighborhood. Red-heads were a sizable minority, thought to be quite attractive and somehow more ‘authentic’.

276 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 7:22:51am
277 Belafon  Oct 17, 2014 7:22:57am

re: #263 Belafon

Did some research. Ginger can be used as a slur, mostly in England (gotta love it when anecdotes are the opposite of general use).

278 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 7:23:24am

re: #276 lawhawk

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279 bill d  Oct 17, 2014 7:23:49am

re: #274 Targetpractice

So yeah, just a quick peek at Wiki shows that Ron Klein is a former Congressman and now a member of a law firm. So expect the major gripe to be that, as he’s not a doctor, he’s totally unsuited for the job.

en.wikipedia.org

Ron Klain

Different guy, This guy was Biden’s CoS

280 Decatur Deb  Oct 17, 2014 7:23:56am

re: #277 Belafon

Did some research. Ginger can be used as a slur, mostly in England (gotta love it when anecdotes are the opposite of general use).

Once again, “Irish” is a slur in England.

281 Belafon  Oct 17, 2014 7:24:00am

re: #275 Decatur Deb

The Irish connection may be why the English use it.

282 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 7:24:03am

re: #278 Targetpractice

On cue:

283 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 7:24:52am

re: #279 b.d.

en.wikipedia.org

Ron Klain

Different guy, This guy was Biden’s CoS

Ah, my mistake. Seems I misread the breaking news bulletin on my iPad.

284 bill d  Oct 17, 2014 7:29:39am

Nothing can go wrong with having a czar.

285 ObserverArt  Oct 17, 2014 7:30:26am

re: #270 Lidane

*sigh*

What we need is the media to stop stoking panic about Ebola.

Good luck with that. Look what they did with a missing airplane flight. Anymore you just need to expect them to go off pulling their hair and screaming fire, everyone panic.

I still remember a great teacher I had at my art college (Columbus College of Art and Design). One day the class knucklehead asked a really stupid question that was about something that was so rudimentary and should have been learned and understood two years prior.

The teacher stopped. Grabbed his stomach like he was sick and said “If I have to stop this class to go back and reteach one individual that is so clueless, ignorant and disinterested in really learning I will be doing a disservice to the rest of the class that is engaged.” A great way to say that sometimes you have to shoot high for those that want to achieve lofty goals and wants to learn. If he bores the rest of the class he and the class loses and no one learns a damn thing always stuck in a circle of basic at best.

It was a great lesson and had nothing to do with art. He was a bastard, but he really did care. I always remember him.

And with that memory…I need to get going to get something done myself. I might learn something new in the process!

286 ObserverArt  Oct 17, 2014 7:32:28am

re: #277 Belafon

Did some research. Ginger can be used as a slur, mostly in England (gotta love it when anecdotes are the opposite of general use).

That might go to what Decatur Deb was saying about Irish. Just think of the relationship between the Irish and English.

By the way, we are of German and Slovak 50%-50% background. The red hair comes from the German side I am led to believe.

287 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 7:32:38am

re: #249 NJDhockeyfan

#ISIS militants have 3 war planes & are training to fly them, a Syrian opposition group says.

Vietnam had the third-largest air force in the world for a time after the U.S. departed and left many of its aircraft behind. It provided them little advantage because modern warplanes require significant numbers of maintenance hours per flight hour. They also require spare parts. There is also the fact that being a pilot doesn’t mean that you can jump into any aircraft and fly it well. Even the business of transitioning from flying one type of fighter to another type (Assuming both were built in the same country) requires hours of familiarization training.

None of those facts will prevent the usual suspects from bellowing “Obama let them have airplanes and now they’ll be bombing the U.S.!”

288 The Big Ebola of Rocka Rolla  Oct 17, 2014 7:34:37am
289 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 7:35:51am

I can only assume the reason the President didn’t take the opportunity presented to press a vote on his Surgeon General nominee is because it would have required vulnerable red-state Dems to choose between snubbing him or voting for a “gun-grabber.”

290 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 17, 2014 7:36:32am
291 bill d  Oct 17, 2014 7:37:14am

Freshen the poor girl up a bit!!

292 Decatur Deb  Oct 17, 2014 7:37:25am

re: #287 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Vietnam had the third-largest air force in the world for a time after the U.S. departed and left many of its aircraft behind. It provided them little advantage because modern warplanes require significant numbers of maintenance hours per flight hour. They also require spare parts. There is also the fact that being a pilot doesn’t mean that you can jump into any aircraft and fly it well. Even the business of transitioning from flying one type of fighter to another type (Assuming both were built in the same country) requires hours of familiarization training.

None of those facts will prevent the usual suspects from bellowing “Obama let them have airplanes and now they’ll be bombing the U.S.!”

A bunch of airdales at Incirlik are salivating at the thought.

293 Belafon  Oct 17, 2014 7:37:44am

re: #288 Ryan King

I was trying to decide yesterday whether to put this in a tweet or not:

How long until the first black man is shot because he might have had Ebola?

294 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 17, 2014 7:39:15am

re: #291 b.d.

Freshen the poor girl up a bit!!

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Stale?

295 ObserverArt  Oct 17, 2014 7:41:21am

re: #277 Belafon

Did some research. Ginger can be used as a slur, mostly in England (gotta love it when anecdotes are the opposite of general use).

See, you are learning. That is a good thing, right?

And believe me, it is a slur here in the US too. I know through my brother’s real life experiences. I see it like a person (not you) that says he is not a racist and says blacks have it good now, but the minute they are angered about something related to an African American they start right in with the ‘n’ word bullshit and still consider themselves not racist.

The truth always comes out in the heat of a moment or under duress. The rest of the time they can be acting.

And now I can log-out. A good morning all!

296 Dr Lizardo  Oct 17, 2014 7:41:56am

re: #239 Targetpractice

Ebola “truthers” are going nuts over the idea of the disease being airborne, talking constantly about how it moves too fast and is infecting doctors in Africa for the CDC to be right about how difficult it is to contract it.

Meanwhile, as we near the 21 day mark since the initial case at Presbyterian, the grand total of persons infected? 2. Out of 80+ people that the media was screaming might be potential carriers, only 2 people have actually gotten sick so far.

*headdesk*

If this EVD outbreak were indeed airborne, the death toll would be in the hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions by now.

*smh*

297 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 17, 2014 7:42:18am
298 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 7:43:02am

re: #292 Decatur Deb

A bunch of airdales at Incirlik are salivating at the thought.

I can imagine. One of them could knock out two-thirds of ISIS’ air assets and become a (modern definition) Ace in the same mission.

299 De Kolta Chair  Oct 17, 2014 7:44:31am

re: #154 Charles Johnson

The RW media has become obsessed with Nigerians, just as long as they’re not actually in Nigeria.

300 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2014 7:44:42am

Watching someone arguing with a parody twitter account.
Waiting to see how long it takes her to figure it out.

twitter.com

301 Alyosha  Oct 17, 2014 7:44:58am

re: #293 Belafon

I was trying to decide yesterday whether to put this in a tweet or not:

How long until the first black man is shot because he might have had Ebola?

I’d resist the temptation. Anticipating awful reactions is beneficial, especially when they’re becoming increasingly predictable. But I personally thing it injects an additional jot of pessimism into a network that doesn’t require it.

Ask yourself whether the RTs will give you consolation after the fact. When human beings do shitty things I at least affect surprise because we should always hold others to a high standard; even when they constantly disappoint us.

302 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 7:46:26am

Heh

303 The Big Ebola of Rocka Rolla  Oct 17, 2014 7:47:29am
304 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 7:48:02am

Just got asked a very specific question about how someone could do authentication in a system that I’ve never seen, that was developed within their organization, and that they can’t give me any details about.

I’m sure that individual will grade me down for ‘lack of knowledge’. AARRGH

RBS

305 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2014 7:50:05am

re: #303 Ryan King

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306 bill d  Oct 17, 2014 7:51:22am

We’ll see, hope this happens

307 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2014 7:52:46am
308 The Big Ebola of Rocka Rolla  Oct 17, 2014 7:53:04am

re: #304 RealityBasedSteve

I still have prospective clients ask me to ‘give them a proposal’ to ‘fix’ a very large and totally hacked up project.

When they look at me quizzically after I explain a Discovery process they will pay for, it makes it clear that the systems are hacked and fubar because they were too cheap to hire quality work, took the lowest bid, or got a contractor in then Penny Pinched them to oblivion.

309 The Big Ebola of Rocka Rolla  Oct 17, 2014 7:53:36am

re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth

Shh… Don’t tell her.

310 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2014 7:54:53am

re: #309 Ryan King

Shh… Don’t tell her.

I haven’t and won’t.
It’s too much fun right now.
:D

311 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 7:56:27am

Follow up news from yesterday. The Yale student who recently traveled to Liberia tested negative for Ebola.

The student, who returned from Liberia on Saturday, was being treated in isolation Thursday.

A specimen was sent to a lab in Boston, Massachusetts, and preliminary results were released at about 4:45 p.m.

Officials said the patient’s condition improved upon being admitted to the hospital.

“We have received preliminary notification that the patient admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital late last night has tested negative for Ebola,” said Dr. Thomas Balcezak, the hospital’s chief medical officer, in a statement Thursday afternoon. “Due to an overabundance of caution, before we fully rule it out, we will wait for the CDC official confirmation of the test result. In the meantime we will continue to monitor the patient using all appropriate protocols and precautions in order to ensure the safety of our staff, patients and community.”

One of two School of Public Health researchers to return from Liberia after working there, the student has not been identified and officials have declined to provide any identifying information, including whether the student is a man or a woman. According to a source, the student does not have children.

The state Department of Public Health said all isolation protocols would remain in place pending the official results from the CDC.

Note the different reaction here from the Texas case, where the hospital and state DOH screwed up at every opportunity.

But remember, the CDC screwed up in Texas, and it’s all Obama’s fault (and he picked a non-doctor for Ebola Czar whose experience with disasters is limited to Solyndra).

312 Romantic Heretic  Oct 17, 2014 7:57:17am

re: #270 Lidane

*sigh*

What we need is the media to stop stoking panic about Ebola.

No money in that.

313 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2014 7:57:54am

I just gave this account a follow, it doesn’t have very many followers.
It’s pretty funny.

314 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 7:59:18am

re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s 31 states that now allow SSM. The number of states that refuse to accept SSM is dwindling and so are the excuses for the remaining states not to accept SSM.

315 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)  Oct 17, 2014 8:02:50am

re:
#307

BREAKING: Federal judge declares Arizona’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional; decision takes effect immediately -

National Organization against Marriage (NOM): WE’reWinning!!!1 This decision proves the fight will goes on!!!1 Let the people decide!!!11

316 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2014 8:03:58am

She figured it out.
:D

317 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 8:04:42am

re: #308 Ryan King

It’s the same all over. I did contract IT for small-to-medium sized businesses until I began to contemplate suicide. Nothing like coming into a situation where the virus infested and totally owned network (Maintained by the guy who knows about computers.) “Just needs a tune up.” The kicker was that the business owner was often outraged when I told them that they would have to pay me for a survey and that it would cost them more than a couple of hundred bucks to put things right.

318 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 8:05:05am
319 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 8:05:21am

“WHY WON’T OBUMMER APPOINT AN EBOLA CZAR?”

*Obama appoints an Ebola Czar*

“OBUMMER APPOINTED A LAWYER AND NOT A DOCTOR! HE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH!”

It’s almost as if the RWNJs want a medical doctor in a high-level government position who would be tasked with dealing with public health issues. I wonder if a position like that even exists.

//////////////

320 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 8:07:20am

re: #318 lawhawk

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Let me put on my shocked face…

Perhaps Michelle can name a person she feels would have been better suited for the position?

321 De Kolta Chair  Oct 17, 2014 8:08:41am

re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s great news. And speaking of great news, a friend of mine who’s a high muckety-muck in AZ politics informs me that Dems have a very good chance of winning the governor and state attorney general races next month. Fingers (and saguaros) crossed.

322 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 8:09:16am

re: #319 Lidane

But there’s a temporary SG. So why need SG confirmed. That’s the latest spin from the right wing.

A temporary SG doesn’t have the same kind of authority to speak on behalf of the public health agencies and the President, but it also shows that the President is not trying to politicize the handling of this public health emergency by demanding the Congress confirm his SG nominee who’s stuck in confirmation limbo all because he identified that firearms are a public health risk - with more killed by firearms this year alone than the entire Ebola outbreak to date around the world.

323 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 8:11:43am

re: #320 Targetpractice

Perhaps Michelle can name a person she feels would have been better suited for the position?

Sheesh, the choice is obvious: Bill Frist. Not only was he Senate Majority Leader, he was able to diagnose Terri Schiavo via video tape.

324 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)  Oct 17, 2014 8:15:36am

re:
#322

But there’s a temporary SG. So why need SG confirmed. That’s the latest spin from the right wing.

I propose that all GOP Senators be known now and forever after as Acting Senator, from the great state of….

325 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 8:16:45am

re: #322 lawhawk

But there’s a temporary SG. So why need SG confirmed. That’s the latest spin from the right wing.

A temporary SG doesn’t have the same kind of authority to speak on behalf of the public health agencies and the President, but it also shows that the President is not trying to politicize the handling of this public health emergency by demanding the Congress confirm his SG nominee who’s stuck in confirmation limbo all because he identified that firearms are a public health risk - with more killed by firearms this year alone than the entire Ebola outbreak to date around the world.

Hey, the government can limp along, right? Why do we need to worry about confirming a new Surgeon General when we have an acting one?

326 Stanley Seabola  Oct 17, 2014 8:21:25am

This is for VB

327 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 8:22:45am

re: #324 Bulworth

re:
#322

I propose that all GOP Senators be known now and forever after as Acting Senator, from the great state of….

That’s redundant. They act like Senators; pointing with pride, viewing with alarm, frequently harrumphing, they just don’t legislate like Senators.

328 wrenchwitch  Oct 17, 2014 8:25:24am

re: #321 De Kolta Chair

That’s great news. And speaking of great news, a friend of mine who’s a high muckety-muck in AZ politics informs me that Dems have a very good chance of winning the governor and state attorney general races next month. Fingers (and saguaros) crossed.

Saguaros.

329 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2014 8:25:51am
330 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 17, 2014 8:26:43am

re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s what the FEMA camps are for. Surely Jim knows that.
/

331 De Kolta Chair  Oct 17, 2014 8:27:26am

re: #328 wrenchwitch

Is that who I think it is?

332 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 8:27:45am

re: #326 Stanley Sea

A person who handled samples, but has been symptom free for nearly three weeks from the date of last contact. The cruise line has kept the person in their cabin since the CDC notified, but the person isn’t symptomatic. Still not a good idea for that person to have been given a green light to travel during the 3 week period following last contact.

That said, a person has a greater chance of getting norovirus on that cruise than Ebola. Or food poisoning. Or falling overboard.

333 wrenchwitch  Oct 17, 2014 8:28:59am

re: #331 De Kolta Chair

Is that who I think it is?

You may have seen him in his underwear.

334 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2014 8:29:56am
335 Ace-o-aces  Oct 17, 2014 8:32:04am

re: #319 Lidane

It’s almost as if the RWNJs want a medical doctor in a high-level government position who would be tasked with dealing with public health issues. I wonder if a position like that even exists.

We want a Surgeon General who won’t go after our GUNZ!!! Because GUNZ are not a health issue because REAL AMERICANS don’t need medical treatment if they get shot, they just take a swig of Jack Daniels and pull the bullet out with their teeth!!!!!

336 wrenchwitch  Oct 17, 2014 8:34:09am

re: #334 Backwoods_Sleuth

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From the looks of this (I haven’t read it yet, but the summary thing on the left is really cool) it’s been a seamless transition from the old Jim Crow.

337 Ace-o-aces  Oct 17, 2014 8:37:40am

re: #273 Lidane

What? A group of neo-Confederates are racist assholes? The hell you say!

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From the article:

Peroutka said he still stands by the groups stances on self-government and conserving southern heritage.

Translation: “I still support their racist agenda, as long as they only use code words and dog whistles”.

338 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 8:38:57am

re: #334 Backwoods_Sleuth

Criticize all you want, it keeps taxes low for the Quality Folk.

339 Dr. Matt  Oct 17, 2014 8:41:30am

Interesting info: We’re hearing that Dallas Presbyterian’s revenue is down about 40% over the last several weeks. Look for a name change and rebranding pretty time soon.

340 Ace-o-aces  Oct 17, 2014 8:41:49am
341 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 8:41:55am

The way the right wing has responded to the whole Ebola epidemic overseas, and the single solitary case (and two subsequent contact cases), you’d think that they were being tortured by Vogon poetry readings.

We need a Ebola czar they shout. They get one, but complain about who the choice was.

They call for the CDC chief to be fired (or resign) even though he hasn’t actually done anything wrong and we’re still talking about a single case (and two subsequent cases appear to be the fault of the hospital in Texas ignoring common sense and not making Ebola prep training mandatory for those who might come in contact with a patient exhibiting the symptoms).

We need to have a flight ban with West Africa (a region, not a country, but I digress). That’s even though health experts, including those trotted out by the right wing (including NRO) note that this is more for psychological purposes than any justifiable medical and health policy reason. They indicate that the harm of a flight ban would be greater than any veneer of safety it provides.

Then, the right wing goes and ignores Gov. Perry, who’s been MIA over the past week as questions should be raised of the way his state health agency has handled itself - the direct agency responsible for health oversight in the state. Curious how that works.

342 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 8:42:32am

343 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 8:42:36am

And yes, I’ve changed my nickname ahead of Halloween to the scariest thing I could think of - even more so than Ebola.

344 makeitstop  Oct 17, 2014 8:44:44am

re: #343 Vogon Poetry

And yes, I’ve changed my nickname ahead of Halloween to the scariest thing I could think of - even more so than Ebola.

I was about to welcome another Hatchling! :)

345 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2014 8:45:52am

re: #343 Vogon Poetry

And yes, I’ve changed my nickname ahead of Halloween to the scariest thing I could think of - even more so than Ebola.

You can’t scare me…I have a towel.

346 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 17, 2014 8:45:58am

re: #341 Vogon Poetry

But, has ebola managed to displace Benghazi as a right-wing obsession?

347 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 8:46:11am

re: #337 Ace-o-aces

…conserving southern heritage,

Someone remind me when they’re holding the gala Hookworm Festival. I heard that this year they’re adding Sharecrop-o-Rama and a simulated lynching at sundown every day.

348 leftynyc  Oct 17, 2014 8:47:10am

re: #339 Dr. Matt

Interesting info: We’re hearing that Dallas Presbyterian’s revenue is down about 40% over the last several weeks. Look for a name change and rebranding pretty time soon.

I heard earlier this morning that 2/3 of the hospital is empty. People are afraid to go there.

349 blueraven  Oct 17, 2014 8:48:06am

re: #343 Vogon Poetry

And yes, I’ve changed my nickname ahead of Halloween to the scariest thing I could think of - even more so than Ebola.

I, for one, welcome our new Vogon Overlords.

350 makeitstop  Oct 17, 2014 8:48:11am

re: #346 wheat-dogghazi

But, has ebola managed to displace Benghazi as a right-wing obsession?

Ebola is the new Benghazi. Soon, when this whole thing is contained, Benghazi will then become the new Ebola.

351 Ace-o-aces  Oct 17, 2014 8:49:07am
352 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 8:49:25am

re: #350 makeitstop

Ebola is the new Benghazi. Soon, when this whole thing is contained, Benghazi will then become the new Ebola.

Just so either of them is Obama’s Katrina.

353 Dr. Matt  Oct 17, 2014 8:49:55am

Some perspective: Over the last two weeks we’ve had two incidence cases of Ebola in the US. During that same time:

~ <1 shark attack
~ 50 men were diagnosed with penile carcinoma
~ 1,400 people died in an auto accident
~ 30,000 heart attacks
~ And Ted Cruz is still an asshole

354 Alyosha  Oct 17, 2014 8:50:28am

Well, they’ll stone you when you try to heal the sick,
They’ll stone you when you call out all the hicks,
They’ll stone you when you bomb the baddies,
They’ll stone you when you court the faddies,
But I would not feel so all alone,
If all the Rebs just got stoned.

355 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 8:50:42am

re: #353 Dr. Matt

Some perspective: Over the last two weeks we’ve had two incidence cases of Ebola in the US. During that same time:

~ <1 shark attack
~ 50 men were diagnosed with penile carcinoma
~ 1,400 people died in an auto accident
~ 30,000 heart attacks
~ And Ted Cruz is still an asshole

That last one warrants a federal investigation.

356 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Oct 17, 2014 8:50:50am

To me, what’s scarier, is that the mosquito known to carry and transmit Dengue Fever has been found in L.A. county.

357 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 8:52:43am

re: #351 Ace-o-aces

And the consensus opinion is that Chuck Johnson is a smear merchant, liar, and opportunist who has no qualms about doxxing innocent people, making baseless claims about people using the flimsiest of pretext, and otherwise claiming scoops for news that others published first.

In short, Chuck Johnson is a BS artist, and not a particularly good one at that.

358 makeitstop  Oct 17, 2014 8:53:19am

re: #352 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Just so either of them is Obama’s Katrina.

ISIS is Obama’s Katrina.

359 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 17, 2014 8:54:14am

Guangdong province in China has been battling a dengue outbreak for several weeks now. Almost 20,000 cases so far.

360 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 8:55:02am

re: #358 makeitstop

Damn, got my Obama’s Katrinas mixed up.

361 Varek Raith  Oct 17, 2014 8:56:30am

re: #234 Lidane

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362 sattv4u2  Oct 17, 2014 8:58:27am

uugghhhh

Only the 3rd day, but my body clock is NOT responding well to my new work schedule

363 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 8:59:23am

re: #356 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

To me, what’s scarier, is that the mosquito known to carry and transmit Dengue Fever has been found in L.A. county.

We need a flight ban on mosquitoes…. it probably flew in over the unsecured and porous boarder ///

364 makeitstop  Oct 17, 2014 8:59:35am

re: #360 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Damn, got my Obama’s Katrinas mixed up.

For the record, the backup Obama’s Katrina is the WMDs in Iraq.

365 Varek Raith  Oct 17, 2014 8:59:35am

re: #362 sattv4u2

Need an IV of coffee, stat!

366 sattv4u2  Oct 17, 2014 9:00:06am

re: #365 Varek Raith

Need an IV of coffee, stat!

Double dose
BOTH arms

367 Sionainn  Oct 17, 2014 9:03:39am

Chuck Johnson didn’t even bother to verify his information (shocker, I know). Amber Vinson is licensed in Ohio and Texas. She is not licensed in Kansas. She was licensed in South Carolina and Florida, but let those licenses lapse.

368 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 9:06:17am

re: #351 Ace-o-aces

And he’s okay with knowing that so many consider him to be a soulless, cowardly, shabby little window peeper?

369 makeitstop  Oct 17, 2014 9:06:43am

re: #368 Higgs Boson’s Mate

And he’s okay with knowing that so many consider him to be a soulless, cowardly, shabby little window peeper?

It’s a living.
/

370 Stanley Seabola  Oct 17, 2014 9:07:26am
371 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 9:08:22am
372 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 9:09:12am

re: #365 Varek Raith

Need an IV of coffee, stat!

My entire life is a search for more coffee. And a better paycheck. But mostly coffee.

373 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 9:09:59am

This is what you get when you use The Blaze as your source - baseless claims that reach hysterical proportions. Nigerian man didn’t die of Ebola on flight to JFK. Died of a heart attack. The health departments took appropriate precautions just in case, but that’s a good idea when dealing with any biohazard.

374 Varek Raith  Oct 17, 2014 9:12:07am

re: #373 Vogon Poetry

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This is what you get when you use The Blaze as your source - baseless claims that reach hysterical proportions. Nigerian man didn’t die of Ebola on flight to JFK. Died of a heart attack. The health departments took appropriate precautions just in case, but that’s a good idea when dealing with any biohazard.

Yeah, ebola heart attack.
Or something.
/

375 Jenner7  Oct 17, 2014 9:13:55am

re: #370 Stanley Seabola

Wow. It’s a just sentence, but I’m shocked.

376 Alyosha  Oct 17, 2014 9:15:10am

re: #372 Lidane

My entire life is a search for more coffee. And a better paycheck. But mostly coffee.

A better paycheck allows one to fund expeditions into the unmapped parts of Africa where stronger strains of coffee might be found.

377 sattv4u2  Oct 17, 2014 9:18:17am

Ah well

A shower, shave, then the long quiet drive to work beckons

378 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 9:18:43am

re: #372 Lidane

My entire life is a search for more coffee. And a better paycheck. But mostly coffee.

Is there life before coffee?

379 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 9:18:56am
380 Ace-o-aces  Oct 17, 2014 9:22:09am

re: #378 Targetpractice

Is there life before coffee?

Yes, but it’s grouchy and tired.

381 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2014 9:22:45am

good grief…

“I was outraged by what I saw,” said Martha Selby, who is the head of the Austin university’s Asian Studies Department.

Selby was on Flight 2325 Thursday evening from Dallas-Fort Worth to Chicago as she made her way to an academic conference.

“She was making her way to the bathroom and vomited in the aisle,” Selby recalled. “The flight attendants, I think, over-reacted completely. It was just crazy.”

The sick passenger, who appeared to be in her 40s, was told by the flight crew that given current public health concerns she would have to tell them where she had been traveling and that she’d have to stay in the bathroom, Selby said.

382 De Kolta Chair  Oct 17, 2014 9:23:33am

Things That Make Me Go Huh? #439

Dutch beat band, 1966

383 Kragar  Oct 17, 2014 9:26:52am
384 Sionainn  Oct 17, 2014 9:28:33am

re: #378 Targetpractice

Is there life before coffee?

According to my husband, no.

385 Kragar  Oct 17, 2014 9:28:38am

LOL, the replies to this are awesome

386 Kragar  Oct 17, 2014 9:29:56am

re: #378 Targetpractice

Is there life before coffee?

Every few years I break down and try to drink coffee, but never get past the first sip.

387 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 17, 2014 9:32:14am

re: #342 Targetpractice

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*sigh* Meme ignores contrary info and oversimplifies “history”
realclearpolitics.com

Why do some want to duplicate the mistakes of the far right? Of course this is not Obamas fault. No more than Reagan imported AIDS.

388 Alyosha  Oct 17, 2014 9:34:35am

re: #385 Kragar

LOL, the replies to this are awesome

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Clearly assumed that Eisenhower’s warning against the growth if the military-industrial complex was meant as a challenge.

389 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2014 9:34:40am

heh…

390 Kragar  Oct 17, 2014 9:35:16am

re: #388 Alyosha

Clearly assumed that Eisenhower’s warning against the growth if the military-industrial complex was meant as a challenge.

MARK IT ZERO!

391 Alyosha  Oct 17, 2014 9:39:32am

re: #390 Kragar

MARK IT ZERO!

Secretary of Defense Smokey is unavailable for comment.

392 Kragar  Oct 17, 2014 9:40:48am

re: #391 Alyosha

Secretary of Defense Smokey is unavailable for comment.

These men are nihilists, there’s nothing to be afraid of.

393 Alyosha  Oct 17, 2014 9:41:44am

re: #392 Kragar

These men are nihilists, there’s nothing to be afraid of.

And anti-Semites

394 sagehen  Oct 17, 2014 9:42:13am

re: #381 Backwoods_Sleuth

good grief…

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I will admit, when I came home yesterday and saw a large, very dark black man with a large suitcase at the front desk, presumably the doorman was calling up to somebody’s apartment for permission to send him up… I looked as closely as I could at the suitcase tags to see where he’d come from and had an anxiety twinge. Sadly, I couldn’t see a tags saying where he’d come from, only what airport he’d flown into. Which was zero useful information, and I slapped myself for paranoia.

(noticed also that he was wearing a “black man trying to avoid profiling and harassment suit” — a man that size does not get a suit that fits that well from off-the-rack, his shirt-cuffs showed exactly the right smidge below the jacket sleeves, those shoes were easily $400. How a man gets off a plane looking that put together… must have been visiting a girlfriend.)

395 Mike Lamb  Oct 17, 2014 9:43:50am

re: #351 Ace-o-aces

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He avoids more blackeyes that way.

396 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 9:43:53am

Asking the important questions:

397 Alyosha  Oct 17, 2014 9:47:23am

re: #396 Lidane

Asking the important questions:

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When Mirror Mirror on the Wall asks if you think you’re the fairest of them all.

398 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 17, 2014 9:51:48am

ISIS offers US Air Force fighter pilots some easy practice for a time of mutual convenience….

Islamic State Militants Have Been Flying 3 Captured Warplanes Over Syrian Airport, Witnesses Say

Trained by Iraqi pilots, LOLOLOL. The few that Iran let loose after that aerial debalce?

399 Kragar  Oct 17, 2014 9:54:41am

re: #398 Rightwingconspirator

ISIS offers US Air Force fighter pilots some easy practice for a time of mutual convenience….

Trained by Iraqi pilots, LOLOLOL. The few that Iran let loose after that aerial debalce?

Obviously this means ISIS warplanes will be conducting air raids over the continental US any moment now

400 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 9:56:47am

re: #396 Lidane

This is Paul’s third appearance on the cover of Time. The slug line? “The Most Interesting Man in Politics.” Who can deny that Time is neither washed-up nor irrelevant?

401 Timothy Watson  Oct 17, 2014 9:57:53am

re: #398 Rightwingconspirator

ISIS offers US Air Force fighter pilots some easy practice for a time of mutual convenience….

Trained by Iraqi pilots, LOLOLOL. The few that Iran let loose after that aerial debalce?

Iraqi pilots that haven’t had any planes to fly for years?

402 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 9:59:40am
403 Shiplord Kirel  Oct 17, 2014 10:02:12am

re: #399 Kragar

Obviously this means ISIS warplanes will be conducting air raids over the continental US any moment now

…..with ebola chemtrails.

404 Alyosha  Oct 17, 2014 10:02:21am

re: #398 Rightwingconspirator

re: #399 Kragar

I’m sure IS’s next propaganda package will include mention of some Mighty Ducks-level ringer pilot.

405 Alyosha  Oct 17, 2014 10:03:36am

re: #404 Alyosha

I’m sure IS’s next propaganda package will include mention of some Mighty Ducks-level ringer pilot.

Probs not a feisty girl though

406 Charles Johnson  Oct 17, 2014 10:04:39am
407 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 10:05:16am

re: #406 Charles Johnson

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“Public safety”? Stirring up a lynch mob is in the interest of “public safety”?

408 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 10:05:20am

re: #402 Lidane

And I says that Peter LaBarbera must embrace a Kodiak bear to prove that God is really on his side.

409 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)  Oct 17, 2014 10:06:00am

re:
#406

criticized 4 revealing
#NinaPham
name. I would do it again every day. Public safety on
#ebola

I wish Chuck C. Journalist would come off that cross soon.

///

410 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 17, 2014 10:06:20am

re: #406 Charles Johnson

STOP STALKING HIM!!11!!

411 gwangung  Oct 17, 2014 10:07:05am

re: #409 Bulworth

re:
#406

I wish Chuck C. Journalist would come off that cross soon.

///

Chucky doesn’t know the first thing about public safety.

He DOES know what boosts his ego.

412 Charles Johnson  Oct 17, 2014 10:07:32am

re: #407 Targetpractice

“Public safety”? Stirring up a lynch mob is in the interest of “public safety”?

Chuck is completely full of shit - it couldn’t be more obvious that his “public safety” claim is a sham. He’s doing this to pump up traffic to his shitty website, and because he’s a racist.

413 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)  Oct 17, 2014 10:08:35am

re:
#402

Peter LaBarbera says America must embrace “Christian oriented law” that doesn’t “grant civil rights status to a sin”:

Not at all Sharia Law. Completely different. /////

414 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 10:09:30am

re: #412 Charles Johnson

Chuck is completely full of shit - it couldn’t be more obvious that his “public safety” claim is a sham. He’s doing this to pump up traffic to his shitty website, and because he’s a racist.

But you repeat yourself.

Yeah, Chucky is the dark side of the “New Media,” the no-talents hacks who have to rely upon scary-sounding words and morally-bankrupt “journalism” to drive up traffic for their sites. Sadly, that sort of shit finds a ready audience amongst the Alex Jones crowd.

415 Shiplord Kirel  Oct 17, 2014 10:09:51am

Ebola plush toy, $9.95

The toy, manufactured by a company that makes giant versions of microbes (hence its name, GIANTmicrobes(r)), is “designed as a teaching tool to help small children learn about the importance of handwashing,” and will no doubt inspire a whole generation of germaphobes.

Bet they’d take it away from you at the airport.

416 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 10:10:05am

re: #402 Lidane

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Fair enough, adulterers and divorcees cannot marry. NEXT!

417 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 10:13:15am

re: #416 Targetpractice

Fair enough, adulterers and divorcees cannot marry. NEXT!

And since the NT is perfectly fine with slavery, I could argue that we are undermining Gods will by banning it. Therefore, slavery would be permitted.

RBS

418 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 10:13:25am

re: #413 Bulworth

re:
#402

Not at all Sharia Law. Completely different. /////

You mean that it wouldn’t be like Animal Farm with Bibles?

419 klys  Oct 17, 2014 10:13:59am

re: #415 Shiplord Kirel

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Ebola plush toy, $9.95

Bet they’d take it away from you at the airport.

I gave the husband salmonella after our first disastrous trip to Mexico together.

420 Shiplord Kirel  Oct 17, 2014 10:14:44am

re: #402 Lidane

Peter LaBarbera says America must embrace “Christian oriented law” that doesn’t “grant civil rights status to a sin”

So, rapacious, greedy corporations won’t get to be people anymore? Pedophile preachers won’t get due process? How does this work?

421 Mike Lamb  Oct 17, 2014 10:17:03am

re: #407 Targetpractice

“Public safety”? Stirring up a lynch mob is in the interest of “public safety”?

But according to Chuck, no one would be stupid enough to go to their house to get ebola…we should just forget the fact that there is someone like Kincannon advocating for euthanizing ebola patients…

422 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 17, 2014 10:17:58am

re: #404 Alyosha

I’m sure IS’s next propaganda package will include mention of some Mighty Ducks-level ringer pilot.

This guy…

423 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 10:19:27am
424 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 10:19:48am

re: #420 Shiplord Kirel

So, rapacious, greedy corporations won’t get to be people anymore? Pedophile preachers won’t get due process? How does this work?

Let’s see; no usury, no covetousness, no adultery. That pretty well eliminates the Republican party, doesn’t it? And that’s just the Old Testament, They’d never be able to get around “As ye treat the least among ye, so you treat me.”

425 Stanley Seabola  Oct 17, 2014 10:25:25am
426 Ace-o-aces  Oct 17, 2014 10:26:43am
427 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 17, 2014 10:27:50am

re: #425 Stanley Seabola

Dunn now goes from Stand Your Ground to Grab Your Ankles.

428 De Kolta Chair  Oct 17, 2014 10:27:57am

re: #389 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Blimey, shoulda stayed on Charing Cross Road.”

429 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 10:28:20am

re: #424 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Let’s see; no usury, no covetousness, no adultery. That pretty well eliminates the Republican party, doesn’t it? And that’s just the Old Testament, They’d never be able to get around “As ye treat the least among ye, so you treat me.”

And let us take a look at a few of the other commandments

1. Have no other Gods before you… I have a civil right to practice any religion, or none at all, as I see fit. This is embedded into the Constitution, so the founding fathers set out to destroy America by granting this right.

2 Not create any graven images… Again, 4th amendment rights grant me the right of free self expression

3 Not use the Lords name in vain… hummm, could the 4th Amendment possibly factor in again?

4. Remember the Sabbath day… What day is that? Friday, Saturday, Sunday? When does it run?

I could go on, but a good breakdown is at Godless Geek godlessgeeks.com

RBS

430 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 17, 2014 10:30:00am

re: #381 Backwoods_Sleuth

And if she objects to the crew much at all she can be arrested for interfering with a flight crew.

431 BeenHereAwhile  Oct 17, 2014 10:30:34am

re: #347 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Someone remind me when they’re holding the gala Hookworm Festival. I heard that this year they’re adding Sharecrop-o-Rama and a simulated lynching at sundown every day.

And handing out copies of “Eneas Africanus” at the evening cotillion.

432 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 10:31:18am
433 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 10:32:59am

re: #381 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m glad that there wasn’t an ebola panic when I went fishing for grouper in Florida earlier this year. A smallish boat (by my standards), 6 - 9 foot seas and I didn’t agree well.

They probably would have tied me to an anchor and tossed me overboard.

RBS

434 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 10:39:11am

Rather amusing that the people now screaming about Klain not being suited for the job of “Ebola Czar” are the same folks who think the doctor in charge of the CDC doesn’t know what he’s talking about and is poorly handling the public’s “panic.”

435 BeenHereAwhile  Oct 17, 2014 10:39:51am

re: #382 De Kolta Chair

Things That Make Me Go Huh? #439

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Dutch beat band, 1966

Golden Earring, founded in 1961 - Radar Love (1973):

Youtube Video

436 Jenner7  Oct 17, 2014 10:40:31am

So, are we going to have breaking news every time someone vomits?? Yeesh.

437 Varek Raith  Oct 17, 2014 10:44:53am

BREAKING
I have a ham sandwich.

438 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 10:45:49am

re: #435 BeenHereAwhile

Golden Earring, founded in 1961 - Radar Love (1973):

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I remember posting that once. I love how the studio audience is SO engaged with the lip synching performance

439 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 10:46:14am

re: #437 Varek Raith

BREAKING
I have a ham sandwich.

You want Mayo?

RBS

440 jaunte  Oct 17, 2014 10:46:59am

Something to mention to all the “travel ban” shouters:

Imposing a travel ban on those countries that are the epicenter of the disease — Guinea, Sierre Leone and Liberia — might satisfy our gated-community impulses, but it won’t make us any safer. This is especially so since, as Jeremy Peters of the New York Times pointed out on “Morning Joe” today, there are no direct flights to the United States from those countries.
washingtonpost.com

441 Ace-o-aces  Oct 17, 2014 10:47:38am

re: #436 Jenner7

So, are we going to have breaking news every time someone vomits?? Yeesh.

BREAKING!!!: Uh, OH. I shouldn’t have gone to Taco Bell.

442 Varek Raith  Oct 17, 2014 10:48:57am

re: #439 RealityBasedSteve

You want Mayo?

RBS

I detest mayo.
:P

443 Dr. Matt  Oct 17, 2014 10:49:17am

EXCLUSIVE: Peggy Noonan is a despicable fucking hack online.wsj.com

…. the government is functioning not as a soother of public anxiety but the cause of it.

NOT The Onion

444 EPR-radar  Oct 17, 2014 10:49:22am

re: #427 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Dunn now goes from Stand Your Ground to Grab Your Ankles.

Not cool. Dunn can rot the rest of his life in prison. That doesn’t means he should be raped while incarcerated.

445 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 17, 2014 10:50:39am

re: #441 Ace-o-aces

BREAKING!!!: Uh, OH. I shouldn’t have gone to Taco Bell.

BREAKING!!!!! Wind. Shouldn’t have eaten all those Graham Crackers and milk last night.

446 jaunte  Oct 17, 2014 10:51:16am

re: #443 Dr. Matt

“…You may be inclined to note that the broad consensus among public health officials is that closing off West Africa will only make the epidemic there worse, which will in turn increase the risk of transmission to America. The petulant naysayers among you may be wont to point out that imposing a flight ban will only make it harder to track the movements and contacts of potentially infected persons.”
salon.com

447 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 17, 2014 10:51:28am

re: #443 Dr. Matt

EXCLUSIVE: Peggy Noonan is a despicable fucking hack online.wsj.com

“Who do they think we are?” Well, they thought you were grownups, but apparently not.

448 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 10:51:33am

re: #443 Dr. Matt

EXCLUSIVE: Peggy Noonan is a despicable fucking hack online.wsj.com

NOT The Onion

Peggy’s drunk off her ass and it’s not even 5 yet.

449 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 17, 2014 10:52:09am

re: #448 Targetpractice

Peggy’s drunk off her ass and it’s not even 5 yet.

It’s always after 5:00 SOMEwhere.

450 BeenHereAwhile  Oct 17, 2014 10:52:13am

re: #409 Bulworth

re:
#406

I wish Chuck C. Journalist would come off that cross soon.

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451 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 10:52:54am

re: #450 BeenHereAwhile

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Do Not Want To Know!!!!

RBS

452 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 10:54:57am

re: #450 BeenHereAwhile

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Reminded of one of Christopher Titus’ bits: “Why don’t you come down off that cross, use the wood to build a bridge, and get over it!”

453 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 10:56:04am

re: #429 RealityBasedSteve

Unless someone’s recodified the Bill of Rights, it’s the 1st Amendment, not the 4th.

454 Dr. Matt  Oct 17, 2014 10:56:19am

Peggy Noonan, a two-bit speechwriter and partisan hack, thinks her honorary doctorates actually makes her a doctor.

455 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 17, 2014 10:57:02am

You guys recall that Page I did about a journalist being falsely accused of making threats then held under the Baker Act (72 hour mental hold) to keep him from traveling to Ferguson?

Following up it is as bad or worse than it looked at the time.
dcmediagroup.us

Can’t clip in more, but it gets worse than this too

I was legally entitled, and they were required, to have a psychiatrist review my case within 24 and 48 hours.

A day after I was taken in - I met with a person purporting to be that psychiatric doctor and the whole institution purporting that.

She was demeaning and dismissive - and as I pressed her - she clearly had no idea either about the Baker Act law - or psychiatry.

It started to become obvious to a “social worker” who had no business being present, that I was “on” to her. I told her that they had no legal or medical basis to hold me - and she said she could not release me. I stated as doctor she had that authority. She denied it-a first sign [to me] of a problem.

456 jaunte  Oct 17, 2014 10:57:04am

re: #454 Dr. Matt

Thinking we can close Africa makes her an idiot.

457 Varek Raith  Oct 17, 2014 10:57:32am

re: #454 Dr. Matt

Peggy Noonan, a two-bit speechwriter and partisan hack, thinks her honorary doctorates actually makes her a doctor.

Fry, listen to me. Just because you say you’re a robot doesn’t make you a robot. Look at me. I call myself a doctor, but that doesn’t make me a doctor. These fancy clothes do.
- Zoidberg

458 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 10:58:49am

re: #453 Vogon Poetry

Unless someone’s recodified the Bill of Rights, it’s the 1st Amendment, not the 4th.

ARRGH…. I’m a Fumb Duck. That what I get for posting while teaching.

RBS

459 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 17, 2014 11:01:32am

re: #457 Varek Raith

Fry, listen to me. Just because you say you’re a robot doesn’t make you a robot. Look at me. I call myself a doctor, but that doesn’t make me a doctor. These fancy clothes do.
- Zoidberg

Updinged for correct use of Futurama quote.

460 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 11:01:45am
461 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 11:02:40am
462 bill d  Oct 17, 2014 11:02:41am

Mexico, now we are going to have to hear from the wingnuts on how freakin’ Mexico is more on their game than us.

Mexico.

Brace yourselves.

463 Dr. Matt  Oct 17, 2014 11:03:35am

re: #456 jaunte

Thinking we can close Africa makes her an idiot.

There’s a long list of things that makes her an idiot.

464 Eventual Carrion  Oct 17, 2014 11:04:14am

re: #320 Targetpractice

Let me put on my shocked face…

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Perhaps Michelle can name a person she feels would have been better suited for the position?

Maybe someone from the esqutarian field would do better in a disaster situation,

465 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 11:04:45am

re: #464 Eventual Carrion

Maybe someone from the esqutarian field would do better in a disaster situation,

“Heckuva job, Brownie.”

466 bill d  Oct 17, 2014 11:05:50am

MEXICO WON’T LET IN EBOLA PATIENTS FROM CONTAMINATED COUNTRIES BUT USA WILL!?!?!

467 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 11:07:53am

GOP outreach can transform politics in one cycle, if they listen to Rand Paul.

Yet another sign that Paul is clueless about what drives African Americans to the polls, and to vote Democrat over GOP.

Because like with the GOP war on women, the GOP message time and time again shows that they have no one’s interests in mind but their own - at getting reelected even though they leave us worse off. They ignore that their GOP policies are meant to destroy the safety net, undermine it where possible, and make it tougher for people to bootstrap themselves up the economic ladder because they’re putting in all kinds of hazards in the way to keep them from rising.

And it starts with Voter ID requirements that disproportionately target and hit minorities across the country.

468 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 11:08:23am

re: #462 b.d.

Mexico, now we are going to have to hear from the wingnuts on how freakin’ Mexico is more on their game than us.

Mexico.

Brace yourselves.

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I’m sure it will affect the Yelp reviews…. “Cruise was great, except for almost dying from raging maritime ebola. Oh, and not enough shrimp on the buffet table”

RBS

469 jaunte  Oct 17, 2014 11:09:16am

re: #462 b.d.

Mexico, now we are going to have to hear from the wingnuts on how freakin’ Mexico is more on their game than us.

Mexico.

Brace yourselves.

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Here’s a chance for Hannity to fly down to Galveston to repel the Carnival Plague Ship.

470 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 17, 2014 11:09:36am

re: #462 b.d.

Mexico, now we are going to have to hear from the wingnuts on how freakin’ Mexico is more on their game than us.

Mexico.

Brace yourselves.

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It’s the Glove Boat.

471 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)  Oct 17, 2014 11:10:51am

re:
#467

Rand Paul makes big vow on black vote

To restrict it even more?

/

472 BeenHereAwhile  Oct 17, 2014 11:11:05am

re: #451 RealityBasedSteve

Do Not Want To Know!!!!

RBS

Well it wasn’t at this church.
‘

474 De Kolta Chair  Oct 17, 2014 11:11:40am

re: #435 BeenHereAwhile

Golden Earring, founded in 1961 - Radar Love (1973)

Thanks, I didn’t know they’d started up that long ago.

475 bill d  Oct 17, 2014 11:11:41am

Wingnut head assplosion:

BUT IF MEXICO IS DOING A BETTER JOB OF KEEPING EBOLA OUT OF THEIR COUNTRY THAN OURS HOW CAN THE AFRICAN EBOLA CARRIERS COME THERE AND SNEAK ACROSS OUR BORDERS?!?!

476 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 17, 2014 11:12:17am

re: #440 jaunte

Something to mention to all the “travel ban” shouters:

Obama should go down to the Press Room and announce, “As of today, I am banning all direct commercial flights to the affected countries in West Africa.”

See how long it takes for someone to say, “Hey, wait - he just banned something that doesn’t exist!”

477 klys  Oct 17, 2014 11:12:23am

re: #472 BeenHereAwhile

I …what…

That’s not English. I mean, the individual words are, but…

478 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 11:12:42am

re: #470 Rightwingconspirator

It’s the Glove Boat.

This Fall on A&E.

479 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 17, 2014 11:14:22am

re: #478 RealityBasedSteve

This Fall on A&E.

If it’s from the Oregon Files shouldn’t everyone be dying from dysentery?
;P

480 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 17, 2014 11:14:23am

re: #461 Lidane

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I think there should be a larger circle enclosing all three subsets, and THAT should be labeled ‘People who don’t understand science’. In my experience, “People Who understand Science” = not many people.

481 jaunte  Oct 17, 2014 11:16:15am

“…In Texas, state and county officials late Thursday finalized the documents to restrict the movement of nearly 100 doctors, nurses and assistants who treated Mr. Duncan for 10 days after he was admitted to the Dallas hospital on Sept. 30 and asked them to sign the restrictions voluntarily. While it does not say so explicitly, the document — authorized by Dr. David L. Lakey, the commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services — effectively requires a worker to stay at home or at the hospital where they had worked.”

482 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 11:16:23am

re: #477 klys

I …what…

That’s not English. I mean, the individual words are, but…

I know… and the more times you try to read it, to find some order or system, the worse it gets. It’s a true Uber-Palin.

RBS

483 Targetpractice  Oct 17, 2014 11:16:44am

re: #467 Vogon Poetry

GOP outreach can transform politics in one cycle, if they listen to Rand Paul.

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Yet another sign that Paul is clueless about what drives African Americans to the polls, and to vote Democrat over GOP.

Because like with the GOP war on women, the GOP message time and time again shows that they have no one’s interests in mind but their own - at getting reelected even though they leave us worse off. They ignore that their GOP policies are meant to destroy the safety net, undermine it where possible, and make it tougher for people to bootstrap themselves up the economic ladder because they’re putting in all kinds of hazards in the way to keep them from rising.

And it starts with Voter ID requirements that disproportionately target and hit minorities across the country.

2 years later the GOP is still convinced that it’s the messenger and not the message that is what is driving everybody but the old white male fundie demographic away.

484 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 11:18:05am

re: #479 Feline Fearless Leader

If it’s from the Oregon Files shouldn’t everyone be dying from dysentery?
;P

All the updings to you today….

RBS

485 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 17, 2014 11:18:35am

re: #467 Vogon Poetry

GOP outreach can transform politics in one cycle, if they listen to Rand Paul.

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Yet another sign that Paul is clueless about what drives African Americans to the polls, and to vote Democrat over GOP.

Because like with the GOP war on women, the GOP message time and time again shows that they have no one’s interests in mind but their own - at getting reelected even though they leave us worse off. They ignore that their GOP policies are meant to destroy the safety net, undermine it where possible, and make it tougher for people to bootstrap themselves up the economic ladder because they’re putting in all kinds of hazards in the way to keep them from rising.

And it starts with Voter ID requirements that disproportionately target and hit minorities across the country.

They’ll make very little forward progress until they understand just how demeaning and racist it is to say that the Democrats trap blacks On The Plantation with free stuff. And since the bulk of their base believes that to the very depths of their souls, that won’t happen soon.

486 Blind Frog Ebola White  Oct 17, 2014 11:20:10am

re: #477 klys

I …what…

That’s not English. I mean, the individual words are, but…

Maybe it’s intended as a puzzle?

487 BeenHereAwhile  Oct 17, 2014 11:21:37am

re: #477 klys

I …what…

That’s not English. I mean, the individual words are, but…

Maybe open up some Flannery O’Connor.

488 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 11:23:08am
489 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)  Oct 17, 2014 11:24:53am

re:
#488

Arizona’s Attorney General announces he will NOT appeal ruling that struck down state’s same-sex marriage ban!

Chalk up another victory for the National Organization against Marriage (NOM)!!!!!!!

///

490 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 11:25:43am

re: #488 Lidane

It’s kinda tough for the AG to try and appeal, when the court that struck down the ruling stated explicitly that the 9th wouldn’t uphold the SSM ban, and the SCt has already shown its cards in refusing to take any cases that might overturn the 9th’s rulings that invalidate the SSM bans.

The game is up for the SSM opponents. They just don’t know it yet (or don’t care that they are on the wrong side of history - they just let their inner bigot fly).

491 wrenchwitch  Oct 17, 2014 11:27:38am

re: #467 Vogon Poetry

GOP outreach can transform politics in one cycle, if they listen to Rand Paul.

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Yet another sign that Paul is clueless about what drives African Americans to the polls, and to vote Democrat over GOP.

Because like with the GOP war on women, the GOP message time and time again shows that they have no one’s interests in mind but their own - at getting reelected even though they leave us worse off. They ignore that their GOP policies are meant to destroy the safety net, undermine it where possible, and make it tougher for people to bootstrap themselves up the economic ladder because they’re putting in all kinds of hazards in the way to keep them from rising.

And it starts with Voter ID requirements that disproportionately target and hit minorities across the country.

You are right, but here’s the dangerous thing. People respond to being personally asked for their vote. It is particularly effective for incumbents. Asking for a vote can overcome disagreement on issues. This is how Steve Pearce, teabagger personhood congressman, gets reelected in a heavily Hispanic, fairly Democratic district. He goes to all the meetings, meets with anyone, and humbly asks for their support.

Therefore, organizing and getting out the vote is all the more important for Democrats.

Decatur Deb is my hero.

492 makeitstop  Oct 17, 2014 11:28:46am

I think the FB Wingnut Ebola Blind Panic Crew took the day off - very little Ebola hysteria on my wall today.

Except for that one dude, who obsessively posts every. single. anti. Obama. article. he. can. find. And has one other guy agree with everything he posts.

493 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 11:32:54am

re: #492 makeitstop

I think the FB Wingnut Ebola Blind Panic Crew took the day off - very little Ebola hysteria on my wall today.

Except for that one dude, who obsessively posts every. single. anti. Obama. article. he. can. find. And has one other guy agree with everything he posts.

The first symptom of Ebola, you no longer get outraged over Ebola.

RBS

494 Lidane  Oct 17, 2014 11:33:17am

Mental health break:

495 ausador  Oct 17, 2014 11:33:45am

re: #467 Vogon Poetry

GOP outreach can transform politics in one cycle, if they listen to Rand Paul.

Yet another sign that Paul is clueless about what drives African Americans to the polls, and to vote Democrat over GOP.

Says the man who believes that business owners should be allowed to refuse service to blacks ?

His whole “the invisible hand of the free market will fix it” line of bullshit completely ignore 87 years of official Jim Crow followed by another couple of decades of official and unofficial segregation.

496 BeenHereAwhile  Oct 17, 2014 11:34:13am

re: #469 jaunte

Here’s a chance for Hannity to fly down to Galveston to repel the Carnival Plague Ship.

After the Costa Concordia disaster, the Carnival Triumph at sea for five days without working toilets, and now this, Micky Arison has to be asking what next?

497 makeitstop  Oct 17, 2014 11:36:39am

re: #496 BeenHereAwhile

After the Costa Concordia disaster, the Carnival Triumph at sea for five days without working toilets, and now this, Micky Arison has to be asking what next?

Not to mention Lebron going back to Cleveland.

498 EPR-radar  Oct 17, 2014 11:42:02am

re: #482 RealityBasedSteve

I know… and the more times you try to read it, to find some order or system, the worse it gets. It’s a true Uber-Palin.

RBS

Someone needs to tweet that to Sarah Palin. Then we need to get someone inside her house to see if she has made a shrine to the perfection of her kind of language.

499 makeitstop  Oct 17, 2014 11:42:35am

One of those fake news sites (Organ Grinder Magazine) has posted a story claiming that Bono from U2 has contracted Ebola.

And people are falling for it.

(Smashes head on desk, sets desk on fire, flips desk, throws desk out window, jumps out window after desk)

People are so fucking stupid.

500 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 17, 2014 11:43:52am

It’s quiet in here….

Too quiet…..

THAWWWP (arrow sound)

501 EPR-radar  Oct 17, 2014 11:44:30am

re: #477 klys

I …what…

That’s not English. I mean, the individual words are, but…

Pencostal isn’t a word, but its surprisingly hard to see that. My pet theory is that when confronted with this level of nonsense, the mind sees words where there aren’t any.

502 Sionainn  Oct 17, 2014 11:45:00am

re: #415 Shiplord Kirel

[Embedded image]

Ebola plush toy, $9.95

Bet they’d take it away from you at the airport.

My kids had the chicken pox, cold, and sore throat ones. They are pretty cool!

503 Vogon Poetry  Oct 17, 2014 11:45:42am

re: #500 RealityBasedSteve

It’s the Danger Zone.

504 BeenHereAwhile  Oct 17, 2014 11:46:04am

re: #497 makeitstop

Not to mention Lebron going back to Cleveland.

Kudos to Lebron for positioning himself where Cleveland will be his team, over which he and his management group will have a lot of control.

That didn’t, and wasn’t going to happen in Miami under Pat Riley.

505 Decatur Deb  Oct 17, 2014 11:50:57am

re: #491 wrenchwitch

Aw, shucks ‘mam

506 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 17, 2014 11:53:43am

Ht Kerfuffler

507 jonhendry  Oct 17, 2014 12:04:02pm

re: #265 Backwoods_Sleuth

I haven’t the energy to wade through CCJ’s old tweets, but he brought up the ginger descriptor himself when he said something to the effect that gingers are superior intellects and that’s why people say bad things about him.

or something. something.

That’d be right in line with his racism.

508 jonhendry  Oct 17, 2014 1:08:38pm

re: #277 Belafon

On the other hand “Ginger Spice” was the saucy, popular, sexy one. And English.

509 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Oct 18, 2014 5:28:16am

I guess my brother is yet another “jacker of licenses” being a licensed Stock Broker in Texas, Cali, and NY.

What a tool. I mean, I remember quite a few moronic tools way back in college who thought they were the next rising world-renowned intellectual genius, but this CC Johnson guy is a genuine world-class douche tool with the worst cast of “poor-oppressed me” martyrdom I’ve ever seen.


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