Saturday Night Acoustic Excellence: Petteri Sariola Does a Tune by Michael Hedges: Bensusan

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USA, CANADA, EUROPE: http://www.candyrat.com/artists/PetteriSariola/
JAPAN: http://www.kingrecords.co.jp/cs/g/gKICP-1666/
iTUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/through-the-eyes-of-others/id870658089
AMAZON: http://amazon.com/dp/B00K13BVZE/?tag=littlegreenfo-20

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OFFICIAL: http://petterisariola.fi/
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TWITTER: https://twitter.com/petterisariola
YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/petterisariola

Video by Jussi-Petteri Kemppainen
Recorded by Jyri Sariola at Mimix Studio
Mixed by Petteri & Jyri Sariola
Mastered by Jyri Sariola

GUITAR: http://www.ac-guitars.com/en
TUNING: CGDGAC
TAB: http://www.stropes.com/index.php?glbm=1&fa=7&bkid=1

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244 comments
1 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 18, 2014 9:14:11pm

It’s a new tall tale for the 21st century.

2 Jenner7  Oct 18, 2014 9:15:58pm

re: #1 wheat-dogghazi

Isn’t it Stevens, not Stevans?

3 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 18, 2014 9:22:00pm

re: #2 Jenner7

I’m just relaying the tweet, not writing it.

4 teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2014 9:24:59pm
5 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 18, 2014 9:25:13pm

re: #1 wheat-dogghazi

Jeez, this shit again!?

6 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 18, 2014 9:25:51pm

re: #4 teleskiguy

The fuck?

7 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 18, 2014 9:28:13pm

re: #5 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

Jeez, this shit again!?

It’s becoming part of American mythology, the 300 Spartans facing the Persian army.

8 Dark_Falcon  Oct 18, 2014 9:30:12pm

re: #1 wheat-dogghazi

Forgive me, but I couldn’t let that argument go unanswered:

9 teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2014 9:30:39pm

re: #4 teleskiguy

I’m not sure of the authenticity of this Vine. Caveat Emptor.

10 Targetpractice  Oct 18, 2014 9:32:54pm

7 hour siege? Marines and AC-130s an hour away? Still repeating this shit over two years later.

11 goddamnedfrank  Oct 18, 2014 9:33:21pm

re: #8 Dark_Falcon

Forgive me, but I couldn’t let that argument go unanswered:

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You’re legitimizing the idea that reinforcements could have possibly made it in time. Not helping.

12 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 18, 2014 9:34:27pm

re: #8 Dark_Falcon

Forgive me, but I couldn’t let that argument go unanswered:

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You’re a braver man than I. These people have built an entire mythology about Benghazi. Quoting facts and logistics is not going to change their minds.

13 Dark_Falcon  Oct 18, 2014 9:40:13pm

re: #11 goddamnedfrank

You’re legitimizing the idea that reinforcements could have possibly made it in time. Not helping.

He’ll never accept that truth. But if I can make the “SCARY MUSLIM TERRORISTS!!1” a bit scarier (while staying within the truth), I can sometimes stop a wingnut from yerping about Benghazi.

14 Targetpractice  Oct 18, 2014 9:42:17pm

re: #13 Dark_Falcon

He’ll never accept that truth. But if I can make the “SCARY MUSLIM TERRORISTS!!1” a bit scarier (while staying within the truth), I can sometimes stop a wingnut from yerping about Benghazi.

You’re assuming rationality where there is none in evidence. More likely, he’ll scream “THEY SHOULD HAVE SENT THEM ANYWAY!,” even though had there actually been Spectre gunships able to respond and one was indeed shot down, the President would be held responsible for sending it knowing that there were SAMS floating around amongst the militias.

15 klys  Oct 18, 2014 9:50:35pm
16 Jenner7  Oct 18, 2014 9:53:49pm

re: #3 wheat-dogghazi

No, I know. I just found it odd that they misspelled his name.

17 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 18, 2014 9:54:31pm

re: #16 Jenner7

No, I know. I just found it odd that they misspelled his name.

Only librulz spel wordz rite.

18 Dark_Falcon  Oct 18, 2014 9:58:33pm

And I had almost forgotten, but I remembered and Jame’s has been following what is actually happening right now in Benghazi:

New offensive against Ansar al-Sharia in Libya unlikely to succeed without major reinforcements as risks to aviation increases

IHS highlights the international political and security events to watch over the period 17-24 October, and analyses their likely risk implications.

Watch for heavy fighting in Libya’s Benghazi as Operation Liberty forces attempt to regain control from Islamist militias. Elsewhere, in the week ahead the student protests in Hong Kong will continue, and there will be potentially violent protests in Mexico City and around Japanese embassies in Beijing and Seoul.

19 dog philosopher  Oct 18, 2014 10:01:33pm

open tuning?

20 Amory Blaine  Oct 18, 2014 10:47:04pm

Terrorists have platoons?

21 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 18, 2014 10:49:33pm

re: #20 Amory Blaine

Terrorists have platoons?

And they send them into battle on pontoons!

22 The War TARDIS  Oct 18, 2014 11:07:47pm

re: #18 Dark_Falcon

Speaking of which, I now have reason to write a page.

23 goddamnedfrank  Oct 18, 2014 11:16:51pm

#pumpkinfest is pretty hilarious. Apparently a bunch of white kids rioted at Keene State and now it’s a thing.

24 goddamnedfrank  Oct 18, 2014 11:23:09pm

The obvious subtext here is that young white people can riot over literally nothing and get away with it, yet the idea of white privilege still totally escapes the motherfuckers.

Play Ants Marching!! Dave Matthews! FUCK YEAH! WOOO!!!

25 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 18, 2014 11:27:26pm

re: #24 goddamnedfrank

The obvious subtext here is that young white people can riot over literally nothing and get away with it, yet the idea of white privilege still totally escapes people.

Play Ants Marching!! Dave Matthews! FUCK YEAH! WOOO!!!

@joshtpm has been having fun riffing on Pumpkin-palooza in a Ferguson kinda way.

White kids go nuts and nobody gets shot or killed. Black kids walk down the street minding their own business and end up dead.

26 goddamnedfrank  Oct 18, 2014 11:27:28pm
27 teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2014 11:29:13pm

If I may say something about LGF…you’re not going to find any blog - with an admittedly news and political bent - that posts the most beautiful current acoustic guitar music, anywhere on the internet.

28 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 18, 2014 11:31:16pm

re: #27 teleskiguy

If I may say something about LGF…you’re not going to find any blog - with an admittedly news and political bent - that posts the most beautiful current acoustic guitar music, anywhere on the internet.

Ditto.

29 goddamnedfrank  Oct 18, 2014 11:46:18pm
30 freetoken  Oct 18, 2014 11:52:21pm

The problem with the hate right is that they never really go away, but just recycle themselves.

National Racists Online is throwing some love towards Richard North (not a new thing), who as usual is complaining about greenies.

Richard North’s son, years ago, used to post here as “acidtrash” and I confronted him on some things, and eventually he went stalker at one of the stalker blogs:

30 | February 13, 2010 7:44 pm
Who in the hell is he talking about? :D ark_Falcon Sat, Feb 13, 2010 7:24:42pm replyquote

* 3
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* up
* report

re: #64 freetoken

That is North’s thing. At one time (I haven’t checked lately) his son, who was registered here as “Acidtrash” (now banned), was doing some of the web work for him.

Acidtrash has since joined the stalker blog, where he engages in hate against iceweasel. Likely he learned his butthurt ways at his father’s knee.

My original point still stands: the son simply took after the father. Richard North and his UKIPer allies really are xenophobes (which is why NRO loves them so much) and cultural supremacists, and outfits like UKIP and NRO exist by tapping into the bed of hate and ugly that exists in the dregs of society.

For all their many syllables, those folk like North and NRO writers say very little but recycle the same bit of fear mongering about the other.

And North and his allies are still into the CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX meme even after some of the denial machine has changed gears to IT’LL BE GOOD FOR US mode.

31 jonhendry  Oct 18, 2014 11:55:05pm

TweetDeck question: When I try to view Chuck C Johnson’s tweets, or try to set up a search column for them, it says he has no recent tweets. If I look on twitter.com, I can see them, even if I’m logged in, so I wouldn’t think it’s because he blocked me.

Anybody know?

EDIT: Nevermind, PEBKAC. I had him muted in TweetDeck.

32 teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2014 11:58:36pm

re: #31 jonhendry

TweetDeck question: When I try to view Chuck C Johnson’s tweets, or try to set up a search column for them, it says he has no recent tweets. If I look on twitter.com, I can see them, even if I’m logged in, so I wouldn’t think it’s because he blocked me.

Anybody know?

That’s strange. Right now I can pull him up in a column no problem. But I tried to add a couple of his tweets to my own collection a few days ago and Tweetdeck denied me.

33 Jenner7  Oct 19, 2014 12:04:10am
34 teleskiguy  Oct 19, 2014 12:05:22am
35 freetoken  Oct 19, 2014 12:07:23am

One more species, down for the count, courtesy of us:

Northern white rhino death leaves only six of the animals left alive

36 freetoken  Oct 19, 2014 12:11:19am

re: #31 jonhendry

I had him muted in TweetDeck.

A very reasonable thing to do.

37 goddamnedfrank  Oct 19, 2014 12:14:36am
38 freetoken  Oct 19, 2014 12:18:57am

There’s a big genetics conference in town, and concurrent with that many press releases on research are being dumped into the news feeds. This one caught my eye:

Gene duplications associated with autism evolved recently in human history

[…]

Researchers at the University of Washington analyzed the genomes of 2,551 humans, 86 apes, one Neanderthal, and one Denisovan. They closely examined a region of human chromosome 16 known as 16p11.2, a region prone to genetic changes in which segments of DNA are deleted or duplicated, one of the most common genetic causes of autism, schizophrenia, and other conditions. The geneticists found that certain segments of DNA in this region are repeated a variable number of times in different people and may also be associated with disease.

[…]

“When we compared the genomes of apes and humans, we found that the humans had evolved complex structural changes at 16p11.2 associated with deletions and duplications that often result in autism. The findings suggest that these changes emerged relatively recently and are unique to humans,” explained study author Xander Nuttle, BS, BSE, a graduate student in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

While this genetic variation has likely made humans more vulnerable to disease, the scientists believe it also contributed to the formation of novel genes. One such gene is BOLA2, a gene thought to be important in cell reproduction. The researchers found that while apes, Neanderthals, and Denisovans had only two copies of BOLA2, all modern humans have between three and 14 copies, with an average of six. The team is currently studying the function of BOLA2 to understand the potential significance of additional copies for human evolution. […]

Everytime I come across these sort of studies involving our closest relatives I wonder what really goes on in the minds of creationists if/when they read the same research.

When it is so clear that we have variable number of copies of a region of a chromosome, and that we differ in said region from other close species by copy number, it is pretty clear that the current variation among the living population indicates the region of the chromosome is undergoing rapid change compared to the other species, but the genes in those regions are not different from the other species.

To deny that this is indeed evolution takes a special amount of blindness that supports my claim that creationism ought to be treated as a mental illness.

39 Shiplord Kirel  Oct 19, 2014 12:28:50am

Broken News!

St. Louis County PD takes over in Keene New Hampshire!

White police captain dispatched to calm rioters!

40 Dr Lizardo  Oct 19, 2014 12:29:54am

re: #37 goddamnedfrank

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Pumpkins on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

I’ve seen squash glittering in the dark above the Tannhauser Gate.

41 teleskiguy  Oct 19, 2014 12:35:06am

re: #39 Shiplord Kirel

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Broken News!

St. Louis County PD takes over in Keene New Hampshire!

White police captain dispatched to calm rioters!

Oh fuck! My head just started on fire!

My head is on fire!

42 Shiplord Kirel  Oct 19, 2014 12:40:58am

Pumpkin festival turns to mayhem in New Hampshire, leading to injuries, arrests, tear gas

Disturbances are continuing late into the night in Keene, New Hampshire, where an annual pumpkin festival erupted in mayhem and led to arrests and injuries.
Witnesses tell The Boston Globe (bit.ly ) police fired tear gas at hundreds of Keene State College students and others who had been throwing bottles, skateboards and rocks into the crowd. One witness blames heavy alcohol use at earlier parties.

Seems likely.
They must be out of their gourds but the police will soon squash the violence.

43 teleskiguy  Oct 19, 2014 12:44:43am

re: #42 Shiplord Kirel

Pumpkin festival turns to mayhem in New Hampshire, leading to injuries, arrests, tear gas

Seems likely.
They must be out of their gourds but the police will soon squash the violence.

You’re absolutely right; if the kids were darker-skinned, this would be the biggest news story for the next few weeks, at least! But it’s in lilly-White Keene, NH. Fox News will make it sound fun and harmless by tomorrow.

44 goddamnedfrank  Oct 19, 2014 1:02:27am
45 goddamnedfrank  Oct 19, 2014 1:10:55am
46 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 19, 2014 1:19:51am

re: #45 goddamnedfrank

Pumpkinrines?

47 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 19, 2014 1:31:07am

re: #46 wheat-dogghazi

Pumpkinrines?

We all live in an orange pumpkinrine?

48 urbanmeemaw  Oct 19, 2014 4:16:44am

re: #23 goddamnedfrank

#pumpkinfest is pretty hilarious. Apparently a bunch of white kids rioted at Keene State and now it’s a thing.

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Love the wording in the article. “Melee”. “Unruly”. Oh, that’s right. White people don’t “riot”.

49 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 19, 2014 4:20:05am

re: #48 urbanmeemaw

Love the wording in the article. “Melee”. “Unruly”. Oh, that’s right. White people don’t “riot”.

Send in Darren Wilson!!!///

50 Randall Gross  Oct 19, 2014 4:36:42am

Akamai hiring in Santa Clara if you have the right engineering chops:

jobs.akamai.com

51 Varek Raith  Oct 19, 2014 5:47:53am

Pumpkin Festival.
Rioting.
Huh???

52 Timothy Watson  Oct 19, 2014 5:59:51am

re: #1 wheat-dogghazi

It’s a new tall tale for the 21st century.

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The closest United States Air Force base was Aviano Air Base in northern Italy, over 1,000 miles away. A F-16 launched from that base wouldn’t even have been able to get to Benghazi without refueling at least twice in the air.

53 Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2014 6:03:40am

re: #51 Varek Raith

Pumpkin Festival.
Rioting.
Huh???

No no, white people were involved, so it’s not rioting.

//

54 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 19, 2014 6:10:33am

re: #53 Targetpractice

Boys will be boys!

55 Varek Raith  Oct 19, 2014 6:16:14am

re: #53 Targetpractice

No no, white people were involved, so it’s not rioting.

//

My first thought?
Only white people would riot at a pumpkin festival.
/

56 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 19, 2014 6:23:28am

My other dog, Daisy the Jack Russell Terror, has advanced to the semifinals for #TripeDog2014.

Votes appreciated:

57 Eventual Carrion  Oct 19, 2014 6:30:52am
58 bill d  Oct 19, 2014 6:31:36am

re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth

My other dog, Daisy the Jack Russell Terror, has advanced to the semifinals for #TripeDog2014.

Votes appreciated:

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Voted but opted for them to not send me tripe by giving them my email.

Those were some tough questions. What an honor for Daisy that would be.

Best of luck!

59 Eventual Carrion  Oct 19, 2014 6:32:18am

re: #51 Varek Raith

Pumpkin Festival.
Rioting.
Huh???

And the Native Americans just shake their heads and say, “White man?”.

60 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 19, 2014 6:34:04am

re: #59 Eventual Carrion

And the Native Americans just shake their heads and say, “White man?”.

They also say “Same as it ever was.”

61 ObserverArt  Oct 19, 2014 6:57:39am

I have got to stop reading threads with stupid tweets by Chuck C Johnson. I read through some of the overnight thread and saw where Chucky was claiming he sent out a stupid tweet to troll Charles here at LGF. IT caused me to create this…

THE PEE-WEE JOHNSON SHOW

Click on it to get the biggie version!

62 Decatur Deb  Oct 19, 2014 7:13:59am

re: #61 ObserverArt

I have got to stop reading threads with stupid tweets by Chuck C Johnson. I read through some of the overnight thread and saw where Chucky was claiming he sent out a stupid tweet to troll Charles here at LGF. IT caused me to create this…

THE PEE-WEE JOHNSON SHOW

Click on it to get the biggie version!

I think what we have here is a hormonal problem.

Definitely medical

63 nearly-headless smith25  Oct 19, 2014 7:21:30am
64 Mattand  Oct 19, 2014 7:21:41am

re: #24 goddamnedfrank

The obvious subtext here is that young white people can riot over literally nothing and get away with it, yet the idea of white privilege still totally escapes the motherfuckers.

Play Ants Marching!! Dave Matthews! FUCK YEAH! WOOO!!!

I’ll go one further: it would not surprise me to learn that the cops arrested what few black people there were in the crowd.

65 jaunte  Oct 19, 2014 7:23:35am

ALL THE FLIGHTS!!!

66 Decatur Deb  Oct 19, 2014 7:26:54am

re: #64 Mattand

I’ll go one further: it would not surprise me to learn that the cops arrested what few black people there were in the crowd.

If there were any Blacks in the crowd, they were easy to spot:

The racial makeup of the city was 95.3% White, 0.6% African American, 0.2% Native American, 2.0% Asian, 0.004% Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, 0.5% some other race, and 1.4% from two or more races. —Wiki

67 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 19, 2014 7:28:56am

OT, but continuing on my Tim Minchin kick from yesterday, his anti-anti-science rant “Storm”:
Youtube Video

68 Decatur Deb  Oct 19, 2014 7:32:01am

File under ‘Mindless Panic’—The Plague Ship that wasn’t:

Ebola-linked cruise ship passenger cleared; hospital apologizes for mistakes

cnn.com

69 Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2014 7:32:25am

re: #65 jaunte

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ALL THE FLIGHTS!!!

Somebody wants attention.

70 ausador  Oct 19, 2014 7:35:46am

Troll in the dungeon…again. :(

71 urbanmeemaw  Oct 19, 2014 7:53:44am

re: #23 goddamnedfrank

#pumpkinfest is pretty hilarious. Apparently a bunch of white kids rioted at Keene State and now it’s a thing.

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A new generation of protest songs for entitled white college students:

If I had an Amstel
I’d be hammered in the morning
I’d be hammered in the evening
All over this land

72 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 7:55:51am

I stand with Big Ebola.

73 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 8:00:09am

The new meme: compare AIDS to ebola, people with AIDS deserved it because choices, Ebola victims are innocent because no choices.

This is what counts for critical thinking on the right.

74 Kid A  Oct 19, 2014 8:02:02am

re: #70 ausador

Troll in the dungeon…again. :(

Where?

75 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 19, 2014 8:03:34am

Ahh the punditry, the English to English news translators that hew to partisan filters. Why does the far right care about Ebola? The mid terms. That’s it.

76 ObserverArt  Oct 19, 2014 8:04:44am

re: #74 Kid A

Where?

steve4005bk in the overnight thread about Darren Wilson’s Grand Jury Testimony Destroys Jim Hoft

77 Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2014 8:05:20am

re: #75 Rightwingconspirator

Ahh the punditry, the English to English news translators that hew to partisan filters. Why does the far right care about Ebola? The mid terms. That’s it.

Ayep. Because it gives them two avenues of attack: “Obama’s immigration policies led to this!” and “Obama’s incompetency led to this!” The overall message being, of course, “This wouldn’t have happened if we were in charge!”

78 Eventual Carrion  Oct 19, 2014 8:09:46am

This cracked me up. Kids rejoice in the simple things in life.

80 jaunte  Oct 19, 2014 8:15:10am

Rabble Rouser Ted slams Obama for failure to be a dictator.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday slammed President Obama for not instituting a travel ban on flights to and from West Africa.

During an interview on CNN’s “State of Union” show, Cruz said the “biggest mistake that continues to be made is that we continue to allow open commercial air flights.”

“We need to take a common-sense stand of suspending commercial air travel out of these countries,” Cruz said. “And for whatever reason*, the Obama White House doesn’t want to.”
thehill.com

*possibly that there are no direct commercial connections from these countries to the US.

81 Vicious Piebola  Oct 19, 2014 8:15:54am

What Sodomy really is:

82 Iwouldprefernotto  Oct 19, 2014 8:16:51am

re: #81 Vicious Piebola

What Sodomy really is:

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Fun?

83 Vicious Piebola  Oct 19, 2014 8:19:23am

re: #82 Iwouldprefernotto

Fun?

Cruelty to the poor & homeless is not fun unless you’re an evil asshole.

84 Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2014 8:19:25am

re: #80 jaunte

Rabble Rouser Ted slams Obama for failure to be a dictator.

*possibly that there are no direct commercial connections from these countries to the US.

Alright Ted, we’ll institute a travel ban on all countries and states that have confirmed cases of Ebola. Oh, by the way, that includes Texas.

85 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 19, 2014 8:19:35am

re: #79 Ryan King

Good Page there if you are inclined.

86 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 19, 2014 8:22:00am

re: #80 jaunte

So he wants Obama to shut down air travel out of West Africa by executive order.

Do any of our domestic carriers currently fly there? If not, then Obama can do nothing.

And I thought executive orders were BAD, because democracy! (Except when a Republican president issues them. Then they are GOOD, because strong presidency!)

87 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 19, 2014 8:23:11am

re: #81 Vicious Piebola

Did the sodomites come before or after the trilobites? I get my paleontology confused sometimes.

88 Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2014 8:23:52am

And as soon as he institutes travel bans, they’ll pivot to slamming him for “taking too long” while also dropping all the screaming fits about the “need” for such bans to screaming fits about how pointless they truly are.

89 ausador  Oct 19, 2014 8:24:25am

re: #1 wheat-dogghazi

It’s a new tall tale for the 21st century.

Phx Ken @PhxKen

TWO NAVY SEALS HELD OFF AN ENTIRE PLATOON OF TERRORISTS FOR OVER 7 HOURS IN BENGHAZI, OBAMA LEFT THEM THERE TO DIE!!

Graphic is by politifake.org it is a parody site, this was supposed to be their idea of parody by putting all the worst Behghazi lies together into one graphic image.

Edited: site still exists at .org

90 jaunte  Oct 19, 2014 8:24:32am

re: #86 wheat-dogghazi

That’s the genius of Ted Cruz. He’s agitating his audience and they’re too ignorant to know he’s blatantly lying to them. And they don’t want to know.

91 jaunte  Oct 19, 2014 8:25:32am
92 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 19, 2014 8:26:19am

re: #89 ausador

Graphic is by politifake.com it was a parody site, this was supposed to be their idea of parody by putting all the worst Behghazi lies together into one graphic image. Site no longer exists, just a placeholder…

So, you’re saying @PhxKen is either a Poe or he’s been duped into believing parody is the real deal. And his followers have also been duped.

Not that any RWNJ has ever been tricked in such a way before …

93 Decatur Deb  Oct 19, 2014 8:28:26am

re: #89 ausador

Graphic is by politifake.com it was a parody site, this was supposed to be their idea of parody by putting all the worst Behghazi lies together into one graphic image. Site no longer exists, just a placeholder…

Let’s award them a “Swiftie” for launching a satire that does not appreciate the ignorance of the times.

94 ausador  Oct 19, 2014 8:30:27am

re: #92 wheat-dogghazi

re: #93 Decatur Deb

I had to edit my post, they do still exist at politifake.org looks to be practically all anti-Obama and Dem. “parody” content.

95 Vicious Piebola  Oct 19, 2014 8:30:42am

re: #92 wheat-dogghazi

So, you’re saying @PhxKen is either a Poe or he’s been duped into believing parody is the real deal. And his followers have also been duped.

Not that any RWNJ has ever been tricked in such a way before …

I blocked & muted PhxKen a long time ago, it is an actual batshit wingnut.

96 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 8:31:27am

re: #85 Rightwingconspirator

Good Page there if you are inclined.

Thanks for the idea, but slammed and can’t put in the time.

Want to read it again later.

Have at it if you wish… if I don’t, some Lizard should.

97 jaunte  Oct 19, 2014 8:31:50am
98 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 19, 2014 8:32:00am

re: #87 wheat-dogghazi

Did the sodomites come before or after the trilobites? I get my paleontology confused sometimes.

I dunno, but I have it on good authority that Bryan Fischer is a closet trilobite.

99 FemNaziBitch  Oct 19, 2014 8:33:19am

100 FemNaziBitch  Oct 19, 2014 8:34:41am

Cause of ALS is found, Northwestern team says

How did I miss this?

101 Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2014 8:34:55am

re: #97 jaunte

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What do they know?! They promised us Ebola would never get here!

102 Charles Johnson  Oct 19, 2014 8:37:58am

re: #76 ObserverArt

steve4005bk in the overnight thread about Darren Wilson’s Grand Jury Testimony Destroys Jim Hoft

It was a sock puppet, previously suspended.

103 Stanley Seabola  Oct 19, 2014 8:38:05am

Morning. Catching up on the riots.

104 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 19, 2014 8:38:38am

re: #100 FemNaziBitch

Cause of ALS is found, Northwestern team says

How did I miss this?

Oh noez, the head researcher iz a Mozlem! They prolly created the new Ebola! Burn the results! ///

105 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 19, 2014 8:40:19am

Dr. Siddiqui:

“ALS has a very tragic outcome,” … “It’s like being jailed in your own body. It’s an example of the overall human condition of futility and helplessness. That is the philosophic and humanistic underpinning of my interest in this disease.”

chicagomag.com

106 bratwurst  Oct 19, 2014 8:41:08am

ON CNN’s “Reliable Sources”, host Brian Stelter just bemoaned the fact that Ebola has become “a red/blue” issue.

Wrong Brian, it has become yet another cudgel for lunatics to attack Obama with as they howl for the border to be closed.

107 Charles Johnson  Oct 19, 2014 8:41:11am

In fact, that was ‘steve50,’ the white nationalist fan of Steve Sailer.

108 Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2014 8:41:33am

re: #70 ausador

Troll in the dungeon…again. :(

Not any more. I’ve hung ‘steve4005bk’s carcass in the meat locker and I’ll grill it tonight.

109 FemNaziBitch  Oct 19, 2014 8:43:21am

from George Takei’s fb

110 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 19, 2014 8:43:27am

Of course, the Tea Party would have Dr.Siddique deported if they had their way.

111 FemNaziBitch  Oct 19, 2014 8:43:48am

From George Takei’s fb

112 Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2014 8:46:35am

re: #106 bratwurst

ON CNN’s “Reliable Sources”, host Brian Stelter just bemoaned the fact that Ebola has become “a red/blue” issue.

Wrong Brian, it has become yet another cudgel for lunatics to attack Obama with as they howl for the border to be closed.

The travel ban idea isn’t by itself a nutcase idea, even if its wrong. But its value as an idea was swiftly erased by its being taken up by lunatics.

I’d also add in the part about how racists use Ebola as an attack angle against black people. That has played a major role in the travel ban’s mutation into a nutcase idea. When Obama declined to impose one, some of the haters promptly accused him of wrongly favoring black people is his refusal.

113 jaunte  Oct 19, 2014 8:48:06am
114 FemNaziBitch  Oct 19, 2014 8:48:53am

The Spirit That Drove Us to Civil War Is Back

115 FemNaziBitch  Oct 19, 2014 8:52:22am

Mental Health Issues Put 34,500 on New York’s No-Guns List

update: decided to Page

116 Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2014 8:54:56am

Gun fucking, Russian-style:

To be clear, I do not approve of this photo. It makes me ill, truth to tell.

Phil Robertson would surely approve, though he’d doubtless question the hunting utility of a PKM General-Purpose Machinegun.

117 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 8:55:31am

When somebody says ‘Jim Hoft reported’ my Trolldar goes bonkers.

118 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 19, 2014 8:58:00am
119 FemNaziBitch  Oct 19, 2014 8:59:00am

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Is that a Raven or a Crow?

120 FemNaziBitch  Oct 19, 2014 9:02:04am

Posting Every Day Until the Election -please share

121 FemNaziBitch  Oct 19, 2014 9:03:21am

More Pro-Life Gibberish

122 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 19, 2014 9:03:26am

re: #119 FemNaziBitch

Is that a Raven or a Crow?

Don’t know, but it’s pretty big using the can as a size comparison.

123 FemNaziBitch  Oct 19, 2014 9:05:11am

My head hurts:
Understanding Quantum Tunnelling

124 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 9:06:11am

re: #121 FemNaziBitch

More Pro-Life Gibberish

Pro Life = Pro Control

125 FemNaziBitch  Oct 19, 2014 9:06:28am

Is this science or philosophy?

Here’s how it works.

The first thing to understand is that quantum particles - and all particles are quantum particles once you are as small as an atom - behave, in some ways, like waves as they travel around. The big question “Is it a wave or a particle?” was answered by quantum mechanics, and the answer was “No it’s a quantum.” Waves and particles are both concepts which work well in everyday life, and emerge from quantum mechanics as good approximations to how things really behave, but the reality at the atomic scale is neither one nor the other. Or in some ways, it is both.

Is it matter or is it energy—is that the question?

126 Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2014 9:08:06am

re: #121 FemNaziBitch

More Pro-Life Gibberish

We went over this one already. No need to further dwell on the fact that Todd Kincannon is a murderous racist and a supreme asshole. Pardon my language on that last one, ma’am.

127 PhillyPretzel  Oct 19, 2014 9:08:15am

re: #125 FemNaziBitch

It sounds as though they are hedging their bets. //

128 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 9:08:58am

re: #126 Dark_Falcon

Kincannon is like Asshole Napalm.

129 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 9:10:48am

Still trying to find if any House member on the science committee is an actual scientist, or holds any science focused degree.

Might be a while.

130 Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2014 9:10:54am

re: #128 Ryan King

Kincannon is like Asshole Napalm.

+1 to Mr. King for the perfect analogy:

131 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 9:12:20am
132 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 19, 2014 9:19:24am

If anyone would care to vote for my dog Daisy, voting closes in about 40 minutes (6 p.m. UK time).
Thank you!

133 FemNaziBitch  Oct 19, 2014 9:20:48am

#576: When Women Stopped Coding

NPR Podcast —Planet Money

134 Ace-o-aces  Oct 19, 2014 9:24:30am

Chuck’s typical M.O.

1. Say something stupid

2. Get call out for saying something stupid

3. HA HA! YOUZE LIBRALS FELL FOR MY TRAP!!! DO NOT LAUGH AT ME!!!! I AM 150 IQ ROCKET BUILDING AWARD WINNIN JOURNALAMIST!!!! I SHALL DEFET ALL YOUZE!!!!!

135 FemNaziBitch  Oct 19, 2014 9:27:23am
137 Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2014 9:33:10am

re: #135 FemNaziBitch

For calling IL Republicans ‘Fascists” you can have a downding. I could call Pat Quinn “The Servant of the Madigans” just as easily and with more justification.

Poor show, GGT.

138 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 19, 2014 9:34:15am

re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth

If anyone would care to vote for my dog Daisy, voting closes in about 40 minutes (6 p.m. UK time).
Thank you!

[Embedded content]

Done! Hope Daisy bites Nigel lol! ;)

(just kidding, wouldn’t want any dog to bite someone … well, maybe UpChuck)

139 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 19, 2014 9:35:10am

re: #137 Dark_Falcon

For calling IL Republicans ‘Fascists” you can have a downding. I could call PAt Quinn “The Servant of the Madigans” just as easily and with more justification.

Poor show, GGT.

I really don’t get how you stay with your team, D_F. (Although the Madigan shot is a fair one).

140 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 9:35:21am

re: #134 Ace-o-aces

Dude, he’s a journalist.

Yoo wheel respect mah authoritah.

141 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 19, 2014 9:35:54am

re: #134 Ace-o-aces

Chuck’s typical M.O.

1. Say something stupid

2. Get call out for saying something stupid

3. HA HA! YOUZE LIBRALS FELL FOR MY TRAP!!! DO NOT LAUGH AT ME!!!! I AM 150 IQ ROCKET BUILDING AWARD WINNIN JOURNALAMIST!!!! I SHALL DEFET ALL YOUZE!!!!!

It’s the Twitter version of saying “psych!” in middle school.

142 Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2014 9:36:14am

re: #136 FemNaziBitch

Syracuse University bravely saves students from exposure to journalism

Hysteria strikes again, though in this case the university seems to be more acting to prevent hysteria. It’s still stupid, but the administrators might well have to be stupid in this case, given the fear levels. They don’t want worried parents pulling students out of the university,

143 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 19, 2014 9:37:43am

Although Quinn is leaps and bounds better than Rauner, and that’s the way I’ll be voting, so I guess D_F and I will cancel each other out.

144 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 19, 2014 9:39:00am

re: #137 Dark_Falcon

That was Tea Party Education that said that, the numbers are really the big part of the post. Tough to embed a tweet in part. Undeserved ding IMO.

145 FemNaziBitch  Oct 19, 2014 9:39:03am

bbl

146 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 9:42:12am

Why don’t they name hurricanes like:

Bieber
Brittney
ScarJo
Snoop Lion

I’m just asking questions.

147 Vogon Poetry  Oct 19, 2014 9:45:32am

I was in Keene a few years ago. It’s your typical small New England town. Main Street, lovely shops, and a small local college. The biggest event there is the pumpkin festival. And for whatever reason, this year’s festival turned into a drunken barndance of douchebaggery? Rioting, lots of arrests and mayhem. All over a bunch of pumpkins - and lots of drunken people.

That’s a grade A definition of a riot.

Guess the Keene PD got their excuse to operate the Bearcat after all.

And the compare/contrast with Ferguson couldn’t be more stark. Protesting the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of a police department that racially profiles blacks (and the police is predominantly and overwhelmingly white and from out of town).

Protests were peaceful until police went heavy handed and detained/arrested peaceful protesters, violating civil rights (as a federal court ruled in finding the 5 second rule to be unconstitutional), etc.

148 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 19, 2014 9:48:52am

General question- Whats your favorite vote this cycle? The thing that will make you smile most when most when you are standing in the voting booth?

For me that’s LA County Sheriff (McDonnell) and public education supervisor (Tuck). Both men are reformers stepping up to a really big job and up against entrenched bureaucrats filling the lower ranks. My Senate race and Governors races have no strong opposition. Kashkari will be lucky to get 25%.

149 ObserverArt  Oct 19, 2014 9:49:25am

re: #134 Ace-o-aces

[Embedded content]

Chuck’s typical M.O.

1. Say something stupid

2. Get call out for saying something stupid

3. HA HA! YOUZE LIBRALS FELL FOR MY TRAP!!! DO NOT LAUGH AT ME!!!! I AM 150 IQ ROCKET BUILDING AWARD WINNIN JOURNALAMIST!!!! I SHALL DEFET ALL YOUZE!!!!!

That’s the tweet that led to me doing the ‘shop image in #61.

I thought his excuse is he meant to do that to troll and I immediately thought of Pee Wee Herman crashing his bike in “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” and telling those kids that laughed at him “I meant to do that” as he dusted himself off and walked away like nothing happened.

Add in that Chuck is all show and a man-boy like Pee Wee and boom…The Pee Wee Johnson Show brought to you by GoatNews.

150 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 19, 2014 9:49:39am

OMG, this is hilarious - Tim Minchin on a show called “Nevermind the Buzzcocks”

Youtube Video

Why can’t US TV be this zany?

151 Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2014 9:50:02am

re: #143 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

Although Quinn is leaps and bounds better than Rauner, and that’s the way I’ll be voting, so I guess D_F and I will cancel each other out.

Given how corrupt Illinois is, Bruce Rauner is just what we need: He’s rich enough that he won’t be tempted by 6-figure bribes and he has good relations with Mayor Emmanuel without being part of the Chicago Machine.

152 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 19, 2014 9:50:58am

re: #148 Rightwingconspirator

General question- Whats your favorite vote this cycle? The thing that will make you smile most when most when you are standing in the voting booth?

I only regret that I can’t vote against that asshat Tim Johnson again.

153 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 9:51:36am

Remember Rahm Emanuel and ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste?’

Well, look at the GOP and ebola. My surprised face, let me show you.

154 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 19, 2014 9:52:15am

re: #151 Dark_Falcon

Given how corrupt Illinois is, Bruce Rauner is just what we need: He’s rich enough that he won’t be tempted by 6-figure bribes and he has good relations with Mayor Emmanuel without being part of the Chicago Machine.

I’m gonna call bullshit on that. He’s rich, but he’s not Koch rich.

(And I updinged for the reasoned response)

155 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 9:55:28am
156 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 9:56:50am

LOL.

If you’re rich, you won’t be tempted by bribes?

Greed has nothing to do with how much you have, it has everything to do with how much you want.

157 bratwurst  Oct 19, 2014 9:57:08am

re: #143 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

Although Quinn is leaps and bounds better than Rauner, and that’s the way I’ll be voting, so I guess D_F and I will cancel each other out.

I will be holding my nose and voting for Quinn as well. While Rauner is a better candidate than the GOP mustered 4 years ago, I have a coat rack here that I could say that about as well. I will NEVER EVER vote for a candidate with offshore accounts. Just because it is legal for the ultra-rich to avoid taxes this way doesn’t mean anyone has to like it.

158 Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2014 10:01:45am

re: #156 The Big Ebola of Rocka Rolla

LOL.

If you’re rich, you won’t be tempted by bribes?

Greed has nothing to do with how much you have, it has everything to do with how much you want.

A billionaire is less likely to be swayed by a $200,00 bribe than is someone who has a net worth of $400,000, if only because taking the bribe makes less sense from a cost benefit analysis.

159 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 10:04:47am

re: #158 Dark_Falcon

You don’t think the bribers would consider those metrics and up the ante, or maybe try to bribe the billionaire with something other than money… as in cater to their ego or help out a specific cause? (off the books or under the record, of course)

160 danarchy  Oct 19, 2014 10:06:36am

re: #148 Rightwingconspirator

General question- Whats your favorite vote this cycle? The thing that will make you smile most when most when you are standing in the voting booth?

For me that’s LA County Sheriff (McDonnell) and public education supervisor (Tuck). Both men are reformers stepping up to a really big job and up against entrenched bureaucrats filling the lower ranks. My Senate race and Governors races have no strong opposition. Kashkari will be lucky to get 25%.

There is nobody on the ballots in Massachusetts that excites me. I will be glad to vote on some of the ballot questions though. Voting against expanding the bottle bill will be a pleasure, if there was a question to repeal the existing bottle bill that would be even better. I already pay for curbside recycling, as do most residents of MA, thank you very much.

161 Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2014 10:06:51am

re: #159 The Big Ebola of Rocka Rolla

You don’t think the bribers would consider those metrics and up the ante, or maybe try to bribe the billionaire with something other than money… as in cater to their ego or help out a specific cause? (off the books or under the record, of course)

Yeah, the rich guy being incorruptible sounds nice in theory. In practice, offering him ways to increase his wealth or offering non-monetary bribes works just as well.

162 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 19, 2014 10:08:17am

re: #158 Dark_Falcon

A billionaire is less likely to be swayed by a $200,00 bribe than is someone who has a net worth of $400,000, if only because taking the bribe makes less sense from a cost benefit analysis.

I don’t think that’s how politics works.

163 Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2014 10:09:36am

But its not Rauner that excites me, its the hope, even if small, of breaking the Democratic hammerlock on the state government and knocking the Illinois Democrats for a loss.

164 bratwurst  Oct 19, 2014 10:09:53am

re: #159 The Big Ebola of Rocka Rolla

You don’t think the bribers would consider those metrics and up the ante, or maybe try to bribe the billionaire with something other than money… as in cater to their ego or help out a specific cause? (off the books or under the record, of course)

The good news is that a mega-rich individual like Rauner (reported to be among the top 10,000 earners in the entire country…the 1% of the 1%) is not likely to be tempted to take a $200,000 bribe.

The bad news is that he could easily save himself and his friends MILLIONS of dollars by promoting the right tax policies.

Personally, there is no scenario imaginable where I would support LOWERING taxes for the highest net worth individuals in the state. As I seriously doubt Rauner and his friends agree with me, my choice on who to vote for is quite simple.

165 Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2014 10:12:00am

re: #164 bratwurst

The good news is that a mega-rich individual like Rauner (reported to be among the top 10,000 earners in the entire country…the 1% of the 1%) is not likely to be tempted to take a $200,000 bribe.

The bad news is that he could easily save himself and his friends MILLIONS of dollars by promoting the right tax policies.

Personally, there is no scenario imaginable where I would support LOWERING taxes for the highest net worth individuals in the state. As I seriously doubt Rauner and his friends agree with me, my choice on who to vote for is quite simple.

Even a case where lowering their taxes would increase tax revenues?

166 Kid A  Oct 19, 2014 10:12:16am

SFA mascot Blake Loggins lip-synchs to Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer” after a 2-hour delay due to a stadium power outage at Husky Stadium in Houston.

167 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 19, 2014 10:12:30am

Hmm wondering if a temporary nic like GOP refugee would show disdain for the modern GOP/TP and still speak for my fiscal conservative views. Election season nic.

168 Skip Intro  Oct 19, 2014 10:13:08am

Politicians as a rule don’t take bribes because they need the money. They take bribes because they expect them as a sign of respect and power.

169 bratwurst  Oct 19, 2014 10:13:23am

re: #165 Dark_Falcon

Even a case where lowering their taxes would increase tax revenues?

And the money “trickles down”?

No thanks.

170 Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2014 10:14:29am

re: #169 bratwurst

And the money “trickles down”?

No thanks.

Increased tax revenues isn’t ‘trickle-down’.

171 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 10:15:37am

The ‘Protect Against Government Tyranny’ crowd completely changes their tune when it’s a young black male. If they have any tune at all.

They have no concept of black America’s perspective on government tyranny.

172 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 19, 2014 10:16:14am

re: #170 Dark_Falcon

Increased tax revenues isn’t ‘trickle-down’.

You’re not seriously going Laffer curve here, are you?

173 Varek Raith  Oct 19, 2014 10:16:38am

Cutting your pay increases your income!

174 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 10:16:53am

re: #170 Dark_Falcon

Increased tax revenues isn’t ‘trickle-down’.

Decreased taxes do not mean increased tax revenue. That’s right wing faith repeated by Father Limbaugh for 25 years.

175 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 10:18:03am

The #pumpkinfest kerfuffle on Twitter is epic.

176 Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2014 10:18:52am

It’s close to time for me to go, so I’m going to post this now:

A nickel plated AKM with toy gun furniture once given to an Assad stooge becomes a weapon for a Kurd to use against the tyranny of ISIS with the aid a current production Russian 3o-round magazine:

fnhfal.tumblr.com

Source.

177 bratwurst  Oct 19, 2014 10:18:53am

re: #170 Dark_Falcon

Increased tax revenues isn’t ‘trickle-down’.

Look, I don’t believe in the tooth fairy, I don’t believe in the easter bunny, and I don’t believe cutting taxes on the 1% increases tax revenue. I can promise you that the majority of people our state agree with me on this and will vote accordingly.

178 bill d  Oct 19, 2014 10:21:17am

re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth

If anyone would care to vote for my dog Daisy, voting closes in about 40 minutes (6 p.m. UK time).
Thank you!

[Embedded content]

What does Daisy win if she becomes TripeDog 2014? She is a Jack Russel Terrier?

179 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 19, 2014 10:21:47am

re: #176 Dark_Falcon

It’s close to time for me to go, so I’m going to post this now:

A nickel plated AKM with toy gun furniture once given to an Assad stooge becomes a weapon for a Kurd to use against the tyranny of ISIS with the aid a current production Russian 3o-round magazine:

fnhfal.tumblr.com

Source.

So when you get significant pushback to your bullshit GOP positions, you resort to gun pr0n. {spit}

180 Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2014 10:22:17am

You want to increase tax revenue stop the preferential treatment of unearned income over earned income. Tax both at equal levels and you’ll quickly see all the money the rich are sitting on showing back up in people’s wallets. That’s assuming one ignores all the “THEY’LL TAKE THEIR BALL AND LEAVE!” business.

181 Varek Raith  Oct 19, 2014 10:22:28am

costoftaxcuts.com

182 ObserverArt  Oct 19, 2014 10:24:15am

re: #170 Dark_Falcon

Increased tax revenues isn’t ‘trickle-down’.

Hey Dark have you any legit examples where lowering taxes has actually increased revenue?

Seems in some of the states that buy in to that thinking they are actually losing revenue and it is crashing their budgets and state credit ratings, etc.

And then there is the other side of tax cuts like here in Ohio. It has decreased the state budget but is causing issues with local budgets and causing state agencies to increase fees.

I guess if it looks good politically it is good for the politician, but what about the reality that stuff costs what it costs and if you want roads, bridges, police and schools, it comes out in fees and increased city taxes and local sales taxes and the like.

Bottom line, the politician thinks he looks good but the voters still look at their piggy banks and say…wait a second, there is some BS getting deep around here.

183 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 10:24:49am
184 Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2014 10:25:37am

If lowering tax rates on the rich increases tax revenue, then why is Kansas’ budget going into meltdown?

185 Varek Raith  Oct 19, 2014 10:25:47am

I’m going to cut my sandwich in half.
That should increase it.

186 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 10:28:35am

Lower taxes increase tax revenue: Kansas Edition

187 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 10:29:03am

re: #184 Targetpractice

If lowering tax rates on the rich increases tax revenue, then why is Kansas’ budget going into meltdown?

Because of Benghazi, Ebola, and Rahm Emanual.

188 Varek Raith  Oct 19, 2014 10:29:21am

re: #185 Varek Raith

I’m going to cut my sandwich in half.
That should increase it.

IT DIDN’T WORK

189 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 19, 2014 10:30:30am

re: #178 b.d.

What does Daisy win if she becomes TripeDog 2014? She is a Jack Russel Terrier?

She’s a Jack Russell Terror and vote results were just announced.
She did not win.

Election shenanigans, I say!

191 ObserverArt  Oct 19, 2014 10:30:49am

Dang…I must’a’ missed the Dark_Falcon window for discussion!

/// : )

192 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 10:32:24am

re: #188 Varek Raith

IT DIDN’T WORK

Try it again, should work.

193 Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2014 10:32:28am

re: #179 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

So when you get significant pushback to your bullshit GOP positions, you resort to gun pr0n. {spit}

No, that was one of two stories I wanted to post before I left. Here’s the other, a final farewell to a brave man:

Thomas Eric Duncan was remembered Saturday as a big-hearted and compassionate man whose virtues may have led to his infection with Ebola in his native Liberia and subsequent death as the first victim of the disease in the United States.

Family and friends gathered at a small Southern Baptist church with a primarily Liberian flock near where Duncan’s mother and other family members live.

Duncan’s neighbors in Liberia believe he was infected by helping a pregnant woman who later died from Ebola. It was unclear if he knew about her diagnosis before traveling to the United States.

Duncan denied helping his Ebola-sickened neighbor, but it would be consistent with the caring nature he always showed, said his nephew Josephus Weeks of nearby Kannapolis.

Duncan left Ivory Coast and learned auto mechanics and welding at a United Nations school for refugees in Ghana, relatives said.

He came to the United States hoping to work multiple jobs, save money and build a future, said his relative, Harry Korkoya of Woodbridge, Virginia.

Duncan is also survived by four children, none of whom could attend the memorial service, Weeks said.

BBL

194 SteveMcGazi  Oct 19, 2014 10:36:23am

re: #188 Varek Raith

IT DIDN’T WORK

Try cutting it again.

195 jaunte  Oct 19, 2014 10:37:56am

re: #188 Varek Raith

IT DIDN’T WORK

Did you remember to give part of it to the American Liberty Freedom Family Foundation?

196 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 19, 2014 10:40:45am

re: #194 SteveMcGazi

Try cutting it again.

The cuts obviously weren’t deep enough.

197 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 10:41:36am

re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth

The cuts obviously weren’t deep enough.

I’m sure if you cut it again it will work.

198 Varek Raith  Oct 19, 2014 10:43:23am

Fuck that.
*Eats sammich*

199 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 10:44:26am

re: #198 Varek Raith

Fuck that.
*Eats sammich*

Lazy Sandwich Eating MOOCHER!

200 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 10:45:22am

We need to hire more sandwich makers from Murica, pay them well below minimum wage, and take out country back.

201 dog philosopher  Oct 19, 2014 10:46:09am

re: #81 Vicious Piebola

What Sodomy really is:

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Ezekiel 16:49 New International Version (NIV)

49 “‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.

this is a very worthy text to have at hand when the bible thumpers hurl their verses!

202 ausador  Oct 19, 2014 10:47:47am

re: #165 Dark_Falcon

Even a case where lowering their taxes would increase tax revenues?

But that entire line of reasoning is predicated on the Laffer Curve model of economics. Since then taxes have been aggressively cut multiple times and effective tax rates are now at their lowest point since WWII.

Even if you believe in Laffer’s theory 100% the fact remains that we are already on the wrong side of the curve now. Taxes are already well below the level at which he postulated cuts to them could increase revenue income.

The leaders of the movements who are advocating further cuts conveniently ignore this. Probably because their goal is not increased revenue or a healthy economy, it is to decrease their own personal taxes at the expense of the country as a whole.

203 Kid A  Oct 19, 2014 10:48:59am

Ebola victims are BAT EATERS!!!!!! SMOTI, yes really.

204 jaunte  Oct 19, 2014 10:51:13am
205 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 10:52:39am

206 jaunte  Oct 19, 2014 10:53:10am
How rare is an albino deer? In a December 2013 report published by USA Today, Wisconsin naturalist John Bates, co-author of “White Deer: Ghosts of the Forest,” said albino deer are born once in about 20,000 births. Some biologists claim only one in 100,000 deer is born albino, the report said.
livingstondaily.com
207 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 19, 2014 10:53:40am

re: #193 Dark_Falcon

Deflecting from your bullshit positions with stories of brave people. Same old same old.

208 Kid A  Oct 19, 2014 10:55:41am

I see another hit-and-run by Dark. Why does he always do that shit?

209 ausador  Oct 19, 2014 10:58:34am

re: #203 Kid A

Ebola victims are BAT EATERS!!!!!! SMOTI, yes really.

Nothing wrong with that, as long as you treat it like a chicken possibly covered in salmonella. If you use proper hygiene and prepare it well there is no appreciable risk involved. Ebola is not a prion, it cannot survive being cooked.

210 BigPapa  Oct 19, 2014 11:00:12am

re: #209 ausador

Ebola is in prawns? NO NO NO NO NO! FUCK!

211 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 19, 2014 11:01:13am

re: #210 The Big Ebola of Rocka Rolla

Ebola is in prawns? NO NO NO NO NO! FUCK!

THE CAKE IS A LIE!

212 danarchy  Oct 19, 2014 11:06:20am

re: #209 ausador

Nothing wrong with that, as long as you treat it like a chicken possibly covered in salmonella. If you use proper hygiene and prepare it well there is no appreciable risk involved. Ebola is not a prion, it cannot survive being cooked.

Not so much the eating as the prepping that is dangerous. Unless you are wearing full protective gear when you are gutting and skinning it, I have to assume it would be pretty transmissible.

213 Charles Johnson  Oct 19, 2014 11:07:07am

re: #151 Dark_Falcon

Given how corrupt Illinois is, Bruce Rauner is just what we need: He’s rich enough that he won’t be tempted by 6-figure bribes and he has good relations with Mayor Emmanuel without being part of the Chicago Machine.

Politicians take bribes not because they aren’t “rich enough,” but because they’re dishonest and unethical. What a weird argument for electing super-rich Republicans.

Very wealthy people are actually more likely to be dishonest and unethical than hard-working non-wealthy people.

214 calochortus  Oct 19, 2014 11:08:11am

re: #203 Kid A

Ebola victims are BAT EATERS!!!!!! SMOTI, yes really.

Yes, they may be bat eaters. How is this materially different from hunting and eating squirrels or other small game? I thought these folks were pro-hunting?

And now back to washing windows. BBL

215 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 19, 2014 11:11:03am

OK, seriously, how have I never heard of “Nevermind the Buzzcocks” before?

216 Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2014 11:16:40am

re: #211 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

THE CAKE IS A LIE!

I should downding you on general principle. Old meme is old.

/

217 Varek Raith  Oct 19, 2014 11:18:50am

re: #216 Targetpractice

I should downding you on general principle. Old meme is old.

/

Then it took an arrow in the knee.

218 Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2014 11:20:46am

re: #217 Varek Raith

Then it took an arrow in the knee.

Before assuming direct control.

219 ausador  Oct 19, 2014 11:21:03am

Guess who is coming to dinner?
Better not be an atheist if your parents are conservatives.


vox.com

Well at least “consistent liberal” is being consistent by reaction that is about equally upset by “born again” and “atheist” although it may point to a belief in stereotypes more than anything else.

220 Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2014 11:27:16am

re: #219 ausador

Guess who is coming to dinner?
Better not be an atheist if your parents are conservatives.

[Embedded image]

Well at least “consistent liberal” is being consistent by reaction that is about equally upset by “born again” and “atheist” although it may point to a belief in stereotypes more than anything else.

Personally, hearing the words “born again” strikes me as somebody who’s looking for a crutch, some way to make up for poor life choices. I’d have more respect for someone who doesn’t believe in God, as at least they don’t tell me about how the stupid shit done in their past was before they “found God.”

221 Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2014 11:37:50am

*pokes thread with a stick*

222 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 19, 2014 11:38:29am

re: #221 Targetpractice

*pokes thread with a stick*

STOP POKING ME!

223 Varek Raith  Oct 19, 2014 11:39:00am

*Shoots arrow in thread’s knee*

224 jaunte  Oct 19, 2014 11:39:33am

re: #217 Varek Raith

Then it took an arrow in the knee.

The pumpkin shot first.

225 makeitstop  Oct 19, 2014 11:40:18am

* Flips thread, sets it on fire *

226 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 19, 2014 11:42:04am

Page moment?
Mental Health Issues Put 34,500 on New York’s No-Guns List
Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

Well this just does not look good at all.

227 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 19, 2014 11:42:36am

Offers thread a cheezeburger

RBS

228 ausador  Oct 19, 2014 11:42:49am

Not popular in Japan…

Fisheries To Cut Catch Of Endangered Bluefin Tuna

The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission announced the decision Thursday after meeting in Fukuoka, a city in western Japan. It said the catch should be cut to half of its average level in 2002-2004.

The commission, a grouping of more than 20 nations that monitors the western two-thirds of the Pacific, also endorsed catch limits for adult bluefin and set a 10-year target of rebuilding the population to 8 percent of its original size.

Even at roughly $660 per Lb. we are still over-fishing what is left of the species. :(

229 Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2014 11:44:41am

re: #226 Rightwingconspirator

Mental Health Issues Put 34,500 on New York’s No-Guns List
Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

Well this just does not look good at all.

Perhaps I’m not seeing it. What is “not good” about this?

230 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 19, 2014 11:45:31am

re: #228 ausador

Not popular in Japan…

Fisheries To Cut Catch Of Endangered Bluefin Tuna
The commission, a grouping of more than 20 nations that monitors the western two-thirds of the Pacific, also endorsed catch limits for adult bluefin and set a 10-year target of rebuilding the population to 8 percent of its original size.

Even at roughly $660 per Lb. we are still over-fishing what is left of the species. :(

That’s the really scary point, they are working to get it back up to 8% of the original stock. I’m not sure at what point a fishery collapses, and is no longer capable of maintaining itself, but damn, tuna has got to be getting close.

RBS

231 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 19, 2014 11:47:46am

re: #229 Targetpractice

Two things-Too low a threshold and the review process is not functioning as promised/intended. A rubber stamp is not review. It would appear the law is being run a lot like the no fly list. Capricious, under managed (at best) etc.

232 KiTA  Oct 19, 2014 11:52:39am

re: #226 Rightwingconspirator

Page moment?
Mental Health Issues Put 34,500 on New York’s No-Guns List
Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

Well this just does not look good at all.

Er, link doesn’t work here.

233 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 19, 2014 11:53:47am

re: #232 KiTA

Hmm. It’s FNB’s featured page on mental health and a new gun law.

littlegreenfootballs.com

234 Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2014 11:54:34am

re: #231 Rightwingconspirator

Two things-Too low a threshold and the review process is not functioning as promised/intended. A rubber stamp is not review. It would appear the law is being run a lot like the no fly list. Capricious, under managed (at best) etc.

Yeah, the former is the logical conclusion of hinging the answer to gun violence on mental illness, you eventually have to acknowledge that either you need a very broad definition of mental illness or you run into the reality that the majority of the mentally ill don’t engage in violence.

And the latter is the nature of the beast, with the number of gun licenses and gun purchases in any given year, going through every single one and giving them a detailed psych eval simply would cost more money than any sane government is willing to spend.

235 Vicious Piebola  Oct 19, 2014 11:55:51am

re: #165 Dark_Falcon

Even a case where lowering their taxes would increase tax revenues?

236 bill d  Oct 19, 2014 11:57:22am

Ebola Czar doing a wonderful job, no new cases of Ebola in the USA since he was appointed.

Suck it wingnuts

//

237 ausador  Oct 19, 2014 11:57:57am

re: #229 Targetpractice

Perhaps I’m not seeing it. What is “not good” about this?

They are also inviting a backlash and ridicule by the gun lobby (although probably too late to worry now) by excessive additions to the list. Not only is it bad in public perception in a…
“look at all the non-criminals being banned from owning guns!”
“people having their guns taken for thought crimes!”
…kinda way. It also invites legal action against a common sense measure intended to prevent deranged and dangerous people from legally acquiring or possessing firearms.

If they can’t find a way to winnow the list further than they are it will be struck down by the courts.

238 Vicious Piebola  Oct 19, 2014 11:58:25am
239 Jenner7  Oct 19, 2014 12:04:19pm
240 blueraven  Oct 19, 2014 12:11:52pm

George Will is an idiot.
Fear mongering that Ebola is airborne - today on Fox News Sunday. Thankfully, he does get quite a bit of push-back.

Youtube Video

241 Vogon Poetry  Oct 19, 2014 12:47:26pm

re: #184 Targetpractice

If lowering tax rates on the rich increases tax revenue, then why is Kansas’ budget going into meltdown?

Obama. Of course. That you even need to ask shows how brainwashed you truly are. /

242 urbanmeemaw  Oct 19, 2014 4:36:16pm

re: #49 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

No, send in the Starbucks Barristas to serve pumpkin lattes to the “unruly” kids will be kids.

243 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 20, 2014 1:16:18am

re: #142 Dark_Falcon

Hysteria strikes again, though in this case the university seems to be more acting to prevent hysteria. It’s still stupid, but the administrators might well have to be stupid in this case, given the fear levels. They don’t want worried parents pulling students out of the university,

Because the only thing stupider than an undergrad is a parent who is financing said undergrad…

244 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 20, 2014 1:20:16am

re: #182 ObserverArt

Hey Dark have you any legit examples where lowering taxes has actually increased revenue?

Back in the days of national markets and limited mobility of capital, there was some basis to an argument that cutting taxes might lead to increased domestic investment and job creation.

Capital tends to follow the rate of highest return, and if that involves investing in some overseas operation without those pesky taxes, health, safety and environmental regulations that cut into overhead, then that is where the money will wind up.


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