Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” Trailer Is Pure Eye Candy
Here’s two minutes and sixteen seconds of special effects awesomeness, as Marvel Entertainment releases the official trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Here’s two minutes and sixteen seconds of special effects awesomeness, as Marvel Entertainment releases the official trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron.
1 | Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi Oct 22, 2014 7:59:41pm |
I’d love to know what it is about certain YouTube videos that prevents them from playing for me in Chrome.
2 | psddluva4evah Oct 22, 2014 8:02:53pm |
I guess Marvel figured, shoot, since they trailer has already been leaked, bam there ya go.
I wonder if they are gonna maybe release a longer trailer for next week’s Agent of Shield. They were trying to give AoS a boost, but now with this leak, it’s won’t be so boost-y.
Either way, I already love James Spader, but until now I didn’t realize how good his voice would seem as Ultron!
It literally (in my best Joe Biden voice) gave me chills. I love that they made it not very Robot-y and it’s downright human.
I’ve never have linked the lil segment in the trailer for a line from Pinnochio
3 | withak Oct 22, 2014 8:03:11pm |
I don’t want to watch this and spoil the movie. I don’t want to watch this and spoil the movie. I don’t want to watch this and spoil the movie. I don’t want to watch this and spoil the movie. I don’t want to watch this and spoil the movie. I don’t want to watch this and spoil —
Ah, who am I kidding?
4 | Belafon Oct 22, 2014 8:06:39pm |
re: #3 withak
I will watch this and every trailer. I will read every leaked thing about the movie up until I am watching it. And I will enjoy every minute of it.
5 | Eclectic Cyborg Oct 22, 2014 8:07:13pm |
What do you call the big metal guy? Super Iron Man? Iron Hulk? Iron Hulk Hogan?
7 | Eclectic Cyborg Oct 22, 2014 8:07:46pm |
Finally got my Ottawa page done. Thanks for letting me have this one guys:
8 | withak Oct 22, 2014 8:11:40pm |
re: #4 Belafon
Oh, I will, too. I just like to pretend when the first trailers for a movie come out that I’ll somehow be able to ignore them.
I have managed to avoid watching anything related to Interstellar since I saw the first teaser trailer in the theater, but that probably won’t last much longer.
9 | brennant Oct 22, 2014 8:12:10pm |
Amazed at how great these have been… I still haven’t mentally washed out the Kilmer/Clooney Batman superhero movie awfullness, I guess.
10 | klys Oct 22, 2014 8:22:05pm |
Tweets from a 1940s newsroom typewriter … #WSTypewriter pic.twitter.com/QCjTRbi7UN— Newsroom Typewriter (@NewsTypewriter) October 23, 2014
11 | The War TARDIS Oct 22, 2014 8:25:20pm |
In other news, Matthew McConaughey is an idiot. And maybe a racist.
“What interests me is how quickly it got pushed into the social consciousness. We were all fine with it since the 1930s, and all of a sudden we go, ‘No, gotta change it’? It seems like when the first levee breaks, everybody gets on board. I love the emblem. I dig it. It gives me a little fire and some oomph. But now that it’s in the court of public opinion, it’s going to change. I wish it wouldn’t, but it will.”
That is what the guy said.
12 | Lidane Oct 22, 2014 8:31:49pm |
re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg
What do you call the big metal guy? Super Iron Man? Iron Hulk? Iron Hulk Hogan?
That’s Tony Stark’s Hulkbuster armor.
14 | prairiefire Oct 22, 2014 8:40:43pm |
Is that James Spader voicing the robot? More Thor coming up out of the water, please.
16 | blah blah ad hominem mumbo jumbo. Oct 22, 2014 8:48:40pm |
re: #14 prairiefire
Is that James Spader voicing the robot? More Thor coming up out of the water, please.
I know, I’m so sweet. You’re welcome ladies and (some men)!
17 | prairiefire Oct 22, 2014 8:50:40pm |
re: #16 blah blah ad hominem mumbo jumbo.
You are a darling! Thanks!
18 | Kragar Oct 22, 2014 8:51:50pm |
Marvel’s response to the trailer being leaked:
Dammit, Hydra.— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) October 22, 2014
20 | blah blah ad hominem mumbo jumbo. Oct 22, 2014 8:55:12pm |
re: #19 De Kolta Chair
LMAO. Yes Thor, tell us.
22 | OhNo!EbolaZombies! Oct 22, 2014 9:00:56pm |
re: #9 brennant
Amazed at how great these have been… I still haven’t mentally washed out the Kilmer/Clooney Batman superhero movie awfullness, I guess.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Those things never happened, you hear?!?!
Never!
:-)
23 | ausador Oct 22, 2014 9:02:58pm |
So about that hack of the third party app site that let you save SnapChat photos?
Yeah I looked at the photos, yes there was kiddie porn in there involving 6-8 year olds, yes 96% was boring regular photos like you would expect.
BUT if you have teenage kids there was also something else they should be made aware of. Multiple snapchat conversations recorded for posterity between fictitious girls and other real girls and boys and getting them to post revealing photos.
You see pictures of the same three (very pretty) girls being used over and over to befriend people and then post a slightly revealing photo and asking the recipient to post one in response. Followed by more and more revealing pictures being shared, in the case of the girls it is more innocent “I showed you my tiny ones now show me yours.”
In the case of the boys it involves a bit more leading on towards possible romance but the result is the same. Teens getting sucked into sending naked pics to a stranger using the same set of pics over and over on new victims.
Reading the captions on the images sent one can see how the kids are lured into it but now their photos are out there forever on the web. There is just no taking that back unfortunately… :(
24 | ausador Oct 22, 2014 9:09:42pm |
re: #22 OhNo!EbolaZombies!
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Those things never happened, you hear?!?!
Never!
:-)
I have doubts…
25 | Kragar Oct 22, 2014 9:12:54pm |
Just to reiterate, a member of #GamerGate just told me to “to show some respect” after receiving rape threats. That happened. Just now.— Tara Long (@TaraLongest) October 23, 2014
26 | OhNo!EbolaZombies! Oct 22, 2014 9:15:47pm |
27 | De Kolta Chair Oct 22, 2014 9:17:20pm |
28 | Kragar Oct 22, 2014 9:20:46pm |
re: #27 De Kolta Chair
[Embedded image]
Meanwhile on the planet Kolob, Mitt Romney assembles his own league of stuperheroes.
I don’t think Bushel of Hay man there likes Squarehead’s attitude
29 | The War TARDIS Oct 22, 2014 9:22:53pm |
re: #27 De Kolta Chair
30 | Jenner7 Oct 22, 2014 9:23:51pm |
Utah gun shop owner hopes target resembling President Obama sparks change
Sigh. I used to live one town over from this location. This target has been up since July, but no one seemed to mind until someone posted it on FB. The owner of the shop is your typical right wing nut job. Obama born in Kenya, taking our guns, big terrorist, etc, etc.
I’m ashamed of my state sometimes, but it’s my home…..and it’s super beautiful.
31 | wheat-dogghazi-bola Oct 22, 2014 9:24:36pm |
re: #28 Kragar
I don’t think Bushel of Hay man there likes Squarehead’s attitude
Probably pissed that Metal Lord didn’t melt down the farmer’s hay cutter.
Is he supposed to be a flame guy (poorly rendered) or a hay-man? Or maybe an angry sheaf of wheat (my alter ego).
32 | allegro Oct 22, 2014 9:28:21pm |
re: #30 Jenner7
Utah gun shop owner hopes target resembling President Obama sparks change
Sigh. I used to live one town over from this location. This target has been up since July, but no one seemed to mind until someone posted it on FB. The owner of the shop is your typical right wing nut job. Obama born in Kenya, taking our guns, big terrorist, etc, etc.
I’m ashamed of my state sometimes, but it’s my home…..and it’s super beautiful.
He’s had that image in his store window for months while whining about Obama eroding his rights to his guns and free speech.
Irony is dead.
33 | makeitstop Oct 22, 2014 9:33:21pm |
So Martha Stewart’s web site posts tips on how to throw a punk themed party for your kids, and the comments are all you could hope for.
34 | A Mom Anon Oct 22, 2014 9:34:30pm |
re: #25 Kragar
WTF is wrong with people? I’ve pretty much lost my faith in humanity at this point. I just don’t see how in the hell the world is going to improve with this much toxic shit just waiting to boil over at the least fucking thing. I know to gamers that games are a huge deal, but what I don’t understand is the outright violent hostility to women involved here. And it’s not just gaming where this is happening. I’ve told the story here before of how I used to have a political/personal blog on BlogSpot that I had to take down because of stalkers who figured out where my son went to school. Why? Because I wrote an open letter to Christians explaining to them that they were not oppressed in America. That warranted threats against an autistic child. I just don’t think that would have happened to a guy. Especially since the guy who did it referred to himself as a “patriarch” and MRA.
I really want to live in a fucking cave sometimes with my dog.
35 | klys Oct 22, 2014 9:35:10pm |
re: #34 A Mom Anon
WTF is wrong with people? I’ve pretty much lost my faith in humanity at this point. I just don’t see how in the hell the world is going to improve with this much toxic shit just waiting to boil over at the least fucking thing. I know to gamers that games are a huge deal, but what I don’t understand is the outright violent hostility to women involved here. And it’s not just gaming where this is happening. I’ve told the story here before of how I used to have a political/personal blog on BlogSpot that I had to take down because of stalkers who figured out where my son went to school. Why? Because I wrote an open letter to Christians explaining to them that they were not oppressed in America. That warranted threats against an autistic child. I just don’t think that would have happened to a guy. Especially since the guy who did it referred to himself as a “patriarch” and MRA.
I really want to live in a fucking cave sometimes with my dog.
You can come join my cave. I’ll bring the cocktails.
36 | wheat-dogghazi-bola Oct 22, 2014 9:38:38pm |
re: #32 allegro
He’s had that image in his store window for months while whining about Obama eroding his rights to his guns and free speech.
Irony is dead.
Obama is a sorry excuse for a dictator. It’s time to replace him with someone who will throw Utah Man into a FEMA re-education camp as an example to all those who resist the New Order.
//
37 | allegro Oct 22, 2014 9:39:55pm |
re: #33 makeitstop
So Martha Stewart’s web site posts tips on how to throw a punk themed party for your kids, and the comments are all you could hope for.
OMG that is unreal. LOL Spinach ricotta skulls? I’m about gasping with a combination of shock and laughter.
38 | ausador Oct 22, 2014 9:40:28pm |
re: #36 wheat-dogghazi-bola
Obama is a sorry excuse for a dictator. It’s time to replace him with someone who will throw Utah Man into a FEMA re-education camp as an example to all those who resist the New Order.
//
Obama certainly isn’t the type of socialist dictator that I thought I was voting for…
///
39 | wheat-dogghazi-bola Oct 22, 2014 9:45:16pm |
re: #33 makeitstop
So Martha Stewart’s web site posts tips on how to throw a punk themed party for your kids, and the comments are all you could hope for.
I thought punk had run its course, oh, about 25, 30 years ago.
I can’t wait to see Martha’s suggestions for a disco-themed party.
—
Oh, I see Martha did not write this article, but the author is just as clueless.
40 | Lidane Oct 22, 2014 9:53:59pm |
re: #4 Belafon
I will watch this and every trailer. I will read every leaked thing about the movie up until I am watching it. And I will enjoy every minute of it.
Yeah, this. With the Marvel films, I have no shame. Spoilers ahoy!
With the Walking Dead, OTOH, imma cut anyone who spoils anything. Heh.
41 | makeitstop Oct 22, 2014 9:55:37pm |
re: #37 allegro
OMG that is unreal. LOL Spinach ricotta skulls? I’m about gasping with a combination of shock and laughter.
It could easily pass as satire, right down to the “meet the author” blurb.
Alexandra Churchill? Too damn perfect.
42 | Jenner7 Oct 22, 2014 10:00:07pm |
The St Louis County Police arrested LEGAL OBSERVER @Uh_Blip, while he was walking to his car. Has work in the morning pic.twitter.com/pgpDncjb4I— ShordeeDooWhop (@Nettaaaaaaaa) October 23, 2014
43 | OhNo!EbolaZombies! Oct 22, 2014 10:01:26pm |
re: #33 makeitstop
Those comments are hilarious. Best part of the whole thing.
LoL!
44 | De Kolta Chair Oct 22, 2014 10:05:31pm |
45 | teleskiguy Oct 22, 2014 10:26:47pm |
A gorgeous interpretation of a Talking Heads standard.
46 | allegro Oct 22, 2014 10:33:08pm |
re: #34 A Mom Anon
After more than 30 years as a woman in an all-male field, there is little misogynistic behavior I find surprising. In many ways, I’m numbed to it because it was just a daily part of my job that I had to deal with and get over because I refused to give up the career that I loved. It was simply routine, something I had to navigate day to day.
But what I do find seriously disturbing is the increasing violence of it that I’ve been seeing the past few years. What I experienced was infuriating but not terrifying. It’s different now, escalating from eye-rolling “boys will be boys” to slasher flick levels of horror. I would like to believe it’s just internet anonymity allowing otherwise impotent mommy rage but I’m far from convinced that’s where it stops.
47 | teleskiguy Oct 22, 2014 10:41:01pm |
I know seasoned Lizards are smart, but I’ll put this here anyways because reasons.
Africa is really, really big. pic.twitter.com/IfJG81smKQ— David Roberts (@drgrist) October 23, 2014
48 | De Kolta Chair Oct 22, 2014 10:42:01pm |
49 | 3eff Jeff Oct 22, 2014 11:00:10pm |
re: #46 allegro
The field doesn’t matter, but as a male techie, I’m glad you stuck it out.
But, I think what is happening these days is the good ol’ boy network has realized that between the women like you, who stuck it out, and their daughters and sons (guys like me), the “boys will be boys” crap isn’t getting tolerated like it once was. Which means they’re losing their privilege, and that has caused them (or at least, a hardened core) to move on to much uglier applications of force.
I hope they lose. I think they will. History has been going the right direction so far. Got to keep up the fight, though, even if it is going to be rough for a while yet.
50 | sagehen Oct 22, 2014 11:30:00pm |
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Finally got my Ottawa page done. Thanks for letting me have this one guys:
That’s a beautiful piece of writing.
51 | goddamnedfrank Oct 22, 2014 11:49:22pm |
Saw four coyotes lurking on the hill above the local park this evening, eyes gleaming back at me as I swept the flashlight beam over them. I saw a pack of at least six cross the road right in front of me a couple of months ago, just brazen as hell, but otherwise it’s rare to see more than a couple at once, they’re usually loners. They know the rabbits like to forage on the lawn there, I think the drought is pushing both populations even more towards reliably irrigated landscaping.
Only an idiot would keep an outdoor dog or cat around here.
52 | McSpiff Oct 22, 2014 11:52:36pm |
Getting close to a 16 hour day, all so that your cat pictures might load a bit faster. Things I do for the internet… *grumble*
53 | Floral Giraffe Oct 23, 2014 12:01:18am |
re: #51 goddamnedfrank
I used to laugh at the “missing cat” signs on the telephone poles, when I lived in the Hollywood Hills. Thinking “coyote lunch”!
54 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 23, 2014 12:02:58am |
Wikileaks now pushing the Russian propaganda.
Russia's strategic view of US. Hugely significant interview with N. Patrushev, Sec of the Russian Security Council https://t.co/qdOzGBBie7— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 22, 2014
55 | teleskiguy Oct 23, 2014 12:04:21am |
Alfred Hitchcock does the 'sign of the horns' gesture. 1960s. pic.twitter.com/m29hMnKOG5— OnThisDay & Facts (@NotableHistory) October 23, 2014
56 | goddamnedfrank Oct 23, 2014 12:06:08am |
re: #49 3eff Jeff
Which means they’re losing their privilege, and that has caused them (or at least, a hardened core) to move on to much uglier applications of force.
I’m not sure if it’s actually uglier now, or just better documented. The whole “it’s darkest just before dawn” thing might not be the case in societal progress. Like, I wonder the same thing about the 60’s Civil Rights Movement. Without downplaying the violence I wonder if it actually got worse then or if the press and society just started paying more and more attention to it. Part of it was an actual reaction to novel developments like the Freedom Riders, but I’m pretty sure there were an absolute ton of lynchings between the 1870’s and 1950 that just never got much notice.
In fact I know there was, because people have found family pictures from them. Lynchings were amazingly common, and were seen as a fun day out for the whole (white) family. People were proud to have their pictures taken with the victim. The spectacle was even commercialized, sold as commemorative postcards. The press, the government, by and large the entirety of white society at best just didn’t give a shit and at worst actively encouraged it.
Same thing with the Suffrage movement. We don’t hear a lot about violence against women from that era, probably because what we know now as acquaintance / marital rape was just so incredibly ubiquitous and condoned that nobody really took notice. So I wonder if the applications of force and the hateful statements we’re seeing now are actually any uglier or if we’re just finally paying attention to shit that never would have gotten as much notice before, because the internet and social media has just allowed everyone, including the shittiest of us, a wider audience.
58 | goddamnedfrank Oct 23, 2014 12:26:51am |
re: #53 Floral Giraffe
I used to laugh at the “missing cat” signs on the telephone poles, when I lived in the Hollywood Hills. Thinking “coyote lunch”!
I feel bad for those people. I was lucky, when I lived in Montecito the worst that happened was my dog got skunked, twice. That was pretty fucking annoying but in perspective it could have been so much worse. Last week I saw a lone retarded coyote that got spooked when he saw me and hilariously crashed headfirst through a shrub. Normally they’re dead silent and pretty nonchalant about people, but this guy was the most ungraceful wild animal I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen quite a few raccoons lately too, a big old fat one just lumbering down the sidewalk, taking his time, also an entire family of the critters up in a tree staring down at me one night.
Other wildlife includes owls, kestrels, tree & ground squirrels, the odd road runner, and on many afternoons there’s a migration of tens of thousands of crows. The sky fills up with them like it’s D-day.
59 | 3eff Jeff Oct 23, 2014 12:36:46am |
60 | Single-handed sailor Oct 23, 2014 12:38:59am |
re: #58 goddamnedfrank
You lived in Montecito? When I was a teen we used to sneak onto the Ganna Walska estate at night and explore the grounds. Have you ever been there?
*Edited to add link
62 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 23, 2014 12:42:06am |
One needs to know certain details to get the joke, I guess.
?????? “???????????” :) pic.twitter.com/48OU2Hq126— Lyubov Bagats'ka (@LyubovKapitoxa) October 22, 2014
63 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 12:56:20am |
re: #62 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
One needs to know certain details to get the joke, I guess.
Ostap Bender?
65 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 23, 2014 1:00:00am |
re: #63 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Nope.
66 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 1:00:09am |
re: #56 goddamnedfrank
So I wonder if the applications of force and the hateful statements we’re seeing now are actually any uglier or if we’re just finally paying attention to shit that never would have gotten as much notice before, because the internet and social media has just allowed everyone, including the shittiest of us, a wider audience.
You could go to a neighborhood bar and hear a lot of the very same things, but you had to be within earshot of the circle of fellows doing the ranting and raving. Now they can be read and heard world wide.
67 | TedStriker Oct 23, 2014 1:19:12am |
Started with this one a couple of days ago; damn, they’re dumb as a post…
@ElizabethBracy So, you reap the benefits of society, but you don't want to pay for it? Gotcha…— Daniel Baggett (@talon_262) October 23, 2014
68 | teleskiguy Oct 23, 2014 1:23:49am |
Girl riding motorcycle in the 1960s pic.twitter.com/3wlakvaIZD— OnThisDay & Facts (@NotableHistory) October 23, 2014
69 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 23, 2014 1:28:47am |
At the country house of the Russian prime minister on Monday, the head of the French oil company Total, Christophe de Margerie, criticized Western sanctions against Russia, again demonstrating his strong personality in the face of the global sanctions war.A few hours later, as his private jet tried to take off in midnight fog for the flight back to Paris, Mr. de Margerie, 63, the chief executive of the world’s fourth-biggest oil company and one of France’s biggest private employers, died in a crash after his aircraft hit a snowplow.
nytimes.com
How ironic, a Putin-lover dies in Putin’s Russia because of the eternal Russian chaos.
70 | goddamnedfrank Oct 23, 2014 1:28:52am |
re: #60 Single-handed sailor
You lived in Montecito? When I was a teen we used to sneak onto the Ganna Walska estate at night and explore the grounds. Have you ever been there?
*Edited to add link
Yeah, been there. I lived at the other end of Montecito. I got super lucky with a rental on Ladera Lane in Toro Canyon, right next to the Pacifica Graduate Institute Campus and maybe a hundred yards or so down from the Vedanta Temple.
71 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 1:56:45am |
re: #69 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
nytimes.com
How ironic, a Putin-lover dies in Putin’s Russia because of the eternal Russian chaos.
My girlfriend works for a US solar company that was bought up by Total. They had planned to launch a major solar initiative for rooftop solar elements all over France, which tanked when the French government lowered the feed-in tariff for solar, making the project almost entirely unprofitable.
I am not a conspiracy theorist, but how did these major players manage to fuck up on such a grand scale and help torpedo solar energy in France for years to come?
73 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 23, 2014 2:43:41am |
re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
$$$
Which is also relevant to the Russian situation. Do you think this now dead magnate loved Putin for ideological reasons? I doubt it. It’s all about the profit.
74 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 2:59:08am |
re: #73 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
$$$
Which is also relevant to the Russian situation. Do you think this now dead magnate loved Putin for ideological reasons? I doubt it. It’s all about the profit.
One one hand, we have full-on capitalists like de Margerie, on the other end of the spectrum we have these “Putinversteher” who support him because they see him as some sort of counterweight to Western capitalism.
75 | Decatur Deb Oct 23, 2014 3:14:59am |
“We have to differentiate between an abundance of caution and an abundance of ignorance,” said Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.
Off to get a stick in the eye. BBL
76 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 23, 2014 3:28:05am |
re: #74 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
One one hand, we have full-on capitalists like de Margerie, on the other end of the spectrum we have these “Putinversteher” who support him because they see him as some sort of counterweight to Western capitalism.
Because it’s some sort of a “third way” ideology. It appeals both to unthinking and/or corrupt lefties and the right. It’s everything in one package - the alleged “antifascism” (only as an empty slogan) and hardcore nationalism, the alleged “social state” and simultaneous further “[neo-]liberalization” of the economy, the anti-1917-1930-communism and pro-1930-1984-communism, plus “orthodoxization of the country”. It’s a completely incoherent, opportunistic, protean (but more or less stably conservative) “ideology”. That it is based on contradictions is not a bug, it’s a feature. Which is why a Putinversteher can be a fascist, a conservative, a moderate, a socialist, a commie, sometimes even a liberal. That’s why we hear kind things about Putin from the likes of Bryan Fischer and Stephen F. Cohen.
77 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 23, 2014 3:30:35am |
Then came Russia’s takeover of Crimea, and Mr. Rohrabacher had to draw the line — in favor of Mr. Putin.“There have been dramatic reforms in Russia that are not being recognized by my colleagues,” he said. “The churches are full. There are opposition papers being distributed on every newsstand in Russia. You’ve got people demonstrating in the parks. You’ve got a much different Russia than it was under Communism, but you’ve got a lot of people who still can’t get over that Communism has fallen.”
78 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 4:05:18am |
The churches are full. The Orthodox churches. And the Orthodox church has been given broad powers to act as a moral authority, restricting freedom of speech and expression, not to mention gay rights.
There are opposition papers being distributed, but the broadcast media are firmly in state hands.
People are demonstrating in the parks and being beat up when they get too noisy or threatening.
But most of all, he rides bareback, surfs and fishes and shoots and is not afraid to show who’s boss. And he is on his second wife.
79 | Timothy Watson Oct 23, 2014 4:19:45am |
UNC should loss their academic accreditation over this and have to revoke any degrees issued (but they won’t):
UNC report finds 18 years of academic fraud to keep athletes playing
For 18 years, thousands of students at the prestigious University of North Carolina took fake “paper classes,” and advisers funneled athletes into the program to keep them eligible, according to a scathing independent report released Wednesday.
“These counselors saw the paper classes and the artificially high grades they yielded as key to helping some student-athletes remain eligible,” Kenneth Wainstein wrote in his report. He conducted an eight-month investigation into the scandal, which has plagued the university for nearly five years.
All the high-ups are claiming “I KNEW NOTHING!!1!” and media assholes are actually falling for it.
80 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 4:23:27am |
re: #79 Timothy Watson
UNC should loss their academic accreditation over this and have to revoke any degrees issued (but they won’t):
All the high-ups are claiming “I KNEW NOTHING!!1!” and media assholes are actually falling for it.
Hire them as semi-pros, give them a salary and a chance to work towards their degree part-time and end this farce of “amateur athletes”.
81 | wheat-dogghazi-bola Oct 23, 2014 4:23:59am |
re: #79 Timothy Watson
UNC should loss their academic accreditation over this and have to revoke any degrees issued (but they won’t):
All the high-ups are claiming “I KNEW NOTHING!!1!” and media assholes are actually falling for it.
Maybe they didn’t know the details, but they probably knew the faculty “worked things out” to enable students to stay eligible for NCAA sports.
82 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 23, 2014 4:26:33am |
re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
See, this is one way. He falls for the “churches”. As if it was a sign of freedom or something. The leftie dictator-apologists like Cohen fall for the anti-Americanism.
83 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 4:31:54am |
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Finally got my Ottawa page done. Thanks for letting me have this one guys:
I cried.
84 | A Mom Anon Oct 23, 2014 4:42:08am |
re: #83 Vicious Piebola
Me too. Senseless violence, I really don’t understand it. I guess I’m kinda glad I don’t or can’t, but FFS, what’s it going to take for people to wake up? I used to think something was really wrong with me, because when this shit happens, I am unable to just say “oh well” like a lot of Americans seem to. I don’t think it’s me that’s fucked up anymore. We SHOULD be feeling bad about it and we’re not, not enough to do anything about all the things that make this possible.
I really am serious about getting the fuck away from people, I’ve about had it with almost everyone.
85 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 4:44:04am |
re: #84 A Mom Anon
Me too. Senseless violence, I really don’t understand it. I guess I’m kinda glad I don’t or can’t, but FFS, what’s it going to take for people to wake up? I used to think something was really wrong with me, because when this shit happens, I am unable to just say “oh well” like a lot of Americans seem to. I don’t think it’s me that’s fucked up anymore. We SHOULD be feeling bad about it and we’re not, not enough to do anything about all the things that make this possible.
I really am serious about getting the fuck away from people, I’ve about had it with almost everyone.
The death of that baby yesterday just hit me very hard. My daughter lives in Jerusalem and she lives very close to the Old City.
86 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 4:45:25am |
87 | A Mom Anon Oct 23, 2014 4:50:43am |
re: #85 Vicious Piebola
I wonder sometimes, if you ask the people doing the fighting if they could tell you what started it all, would they know? Or is it just some general “it’s the way it’s always been” sort of answer? Is it worth it? Really? Over what? Tell me what is worth all this heartbreak and destruction.
88 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 4:53:04am |
re: #87 A Mom Anon
I wonder sometimes, if you ask the people doing the fighting if they could tell you what started it all, would they know? Or is it just some general “it’s the way it’s always been” sort of answer? Is it worth it? Really? Over what? Tell me what is worth all this heartbreak and destruction.
The Middle East conflict in a nutshell:
THEY HAVE OUR STUFF!!! WE HAVE TO TAKE IT BACK!!!!!
89 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 4:56:43am |
Glenn Greenwald is spewing Derp (is it a day ending in Y) accusing people of “lying about him” that he said Canada deserved the Ottawa shooting attack when in fact he actually said Canada deserved the Montreal hit-and-run attack.
90 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 4:57:17am |
Glenn Greenwald is what ChuckC wants to be when he grows up.
91 | FemNaziBitch Oct 23, 2014 5:01:38am |
Happy Thursday ??? #fluffyfursday pic.twitter.com/sddBIXXws4— Crys?d?? (@Crysd3) October 23, 2014
92 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 5:03:06am |
3 years ago, Glenn Greenwald accused Muslims of committing the massacre in Norway which was actually carried out by Breivik, he said the Norwegians “deserved it”
When it turned out to not be Muslims, did Glenn admit his error and apologize? HAHAHA
@tweetsintheME Here's his Salon article, with ass-covering updates when he realized how wrong he was at first: http://t.co/TZ1ekhAJOa— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 23, 2014
93 | FemNaziBitch Oct 23, 2014 5:03:49am |
re: #77 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
By last year, Mr. Rohrabacher was accompanying the action star Steven Seagal to Russia in search of a broader Islamist plot behind the Boston Marathon bombing. The actor and the congressman had often discussed “thwarting radical Islamic terrorism,” he explained.
he seems nice
94 | A Mom Anon Oct 23, 2014 5:04:13am |
re: #90 Vicious Piebola
Who is actually paying these people? And where did the paymasters get their money?
I wish liberals spent more time on opposition research (aka private detectives) and weren’t afraid to use what they find. If idiots like that O’Keefe monstrosity can take down ACORN and destroy careers with lies and editing, why is it so hard to get at the truth and use it to ruin lying sacks of shit?
GAH. I need to get out in the fresh air and walk the dog or something before my mental health slides off the rails today.
95 | Timothy Watson Oct 23, 2014 5:05:22am |
96 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 5:10:22am |
Wingnuts are spewing the usual HURR HURR GUN FREE ZONE!!!!!! bullshit about the Ottawa shooting when in fact the video shows swarms of actual “good guys with guns”—trained military professionals—tracking the shooter.
97 | FemNaziBitch Oct 23, 2014 5:11:11am |
98 | Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing Oct 23, 2014 5:23:01am |
re: #91 FemNaziBitch
That cat looks eerily like UpChuck.
99 | Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing Oct 23, 2014 5:24:22am |
re: #95 Timothy Watson
And I see someone beat me to it. :)
100 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 5:26:02am |
Gideon Levy claims the killing of 3-month-old Chaya Braun was expected and justified. He must be going for the title of Israeli Glenn Greenwald.
I can’t link to the article because Haaretz is rigorously firewalled.
.@levy_haaretz: #Jerusalem, the capital of apartheid, awaits the uprising http://t.co/U9FsBlpkBC
101 | Fundamentalist Youth Pastor Oct 23, 2014 5:27:22am |
re: #93 FemNaziBitch
Dana Rohrabacher was also a staunch supporter of the Taliban until late September, 2001, after which he announced he had always opposed them.
102 | FemNaziBitch Oct 23, 2014 5:30:21am |
103 | Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing Oct 23, 2014 5:30:54am |
re: #100 Vicious Piebola
Gideon Levy claims the killing of 3-month-old Chaya Braun was expected and justified
Damn, that’s a hot take!
104 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 5:31:41am |
re: #102 FemNaziBitch
Boeing and Chinese partner to make jet fuel from ‘gutter oil’
they can’t use it to fry food anymore, shame to let it go to waste…
105 | Timothy Watson Oct 23, 2014 5:35:05am |
San Francisco stations banish ‘Royals’ song ahead of World Series
Those lucky bastards in San Francisco, now if only the whole country would sign on to this movement.
106 | Belafon Oct 23, 2014 5:37:18am |
re: #30 Jenner7
Utah gun shop owner hopes target resembling President Obama sparks change
Sigh. I used to live one town over from this location. This target has been up since July, but no one seemed to mind until someone posted it on FB. The owner of the shop is your typical right wing nut job. Obama born in Kenya, taking our guns, big terrorist, etc, etc.
I’m ashamed of my state sometimes, but it’s my home…..and it’s super beautiful.
Well, it’s convinced me. I won’t be voting for Obama in the next election.
107 | Dr. Matt Oct 23, 2014 5:38:34am |
Latest White House fence jumper has mental problems, father says
A man who jumped the White House fence Wednesday night suffers from mental problems, and has been arrested there before, according to his father.
Dominic Adesanya, 23, of Bel Air, Maryland, barely made it onto the lawn before he was subdued as he fought two police dogs, the Secret Service said.
“Dog got him,” a Secret Service spokesman said.
Man jumps White House fenceAdesanya has been charged with two counts of felony assault on a police officer for attacking the K-9 dogs, four counts of resisting and unlawful entry, and one count of making threats, said Brian Leary, a Secret Service spokesman.
Like everything else in this country, now there is going to be an extreme response to these two fence jumpers, i.e., adding a second permanent fence/barrier around the outside perimeter of the White House.
108 | William Barnett-Lewis Oct 23, 2014 5:39:51am |
re: #97 FemNaziBitch
I’ve said all along he’ll be “rehabilitated” by next pre-season.
How about some footie instead?
109 | wheat-dogghazi-bola Oct 23, 2014 5:40:20am |
re: #107 Dr. Matt
Latest White House fence jumper has mental problems, father says
Like everything else in this country, now there is going to be an extreme response to these two fence jumpers, i.e., adding a second permanent fence/barrier around the outside perimeter of the White House.
And a moat … with alligators.
Or a 100-foot wall made from ice, stone and magic.
110 | Dr. Matt Oct 23, 2014 5:41:20am |
re: #109 wheat-dogghazi-bola
And a moat … with alligators.
Or a 100-foot wall made from ice, stone and magic.
I like the idea of a moat. Good to prevent zombie intrusions too…those fuckers swim poorly.
111 | FemNaziBitch Oct 23, 2014 5:41:42am |
As permafrost soils thaw soil microbes amplify global climate change
there might be critters best left to a frozen grave
112 | wheat-dogghazi-bola Oct 23, 2014 5:42:45am |
re: #111 FemNaziBitch
As permafrost soils thaw soil microbes amplify global climate change
there might be critters best left to a frozen grave
It’s a decent premise for a movie. Global warming unleashes the kraken!
113 | Timothy Watson Oct 23, 2014 5:45:12am |
re: #110 Dr. Matt
I like the idea of a moat. Good to prevent zombie intrusions too…those fuckers swim poorly.
It’s a trap!
Youtube Video
115 | Dr. Matt Oct 23, 2014 5:52:51am |
The MSM & conservatives are silent today about the latest WH fence jumper because Dominic Adesanya is a #conservative pic.twitter.com/2E9B2BBIvE
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) October 23, 2014
118 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 5:58:35am |
119 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 5:59:34am |
re: #2 psddluva4evah
Dammit, Hydra.— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) October 22, 2014
120 | FemNaziBitch Oct 23, 2014 5:59:50am |
Meet Foxy —the Corgi-Chihuahua mix:
Youtube Video
121 | Timothy Watson Oct 23, 2014 6:00:52am |
re: #117 FemNaziBitch
Please tell that’s not the villain for the new Star Wars movies, Darth Whiskers.
122 | Feline Fearless Leader Oct 23, 2014 6:02:49am |
re: #28 Kragar
I don’t think Bushel of Hay man there likes Squarehead’s attitude
That’s The Strawman - one of the greatest Romney allies!
123 | Ian G. Oct 23, 2014 6:04:07am |
re: #117 FemNaziBitch
This makes me think of the robed figures in the video for “Holy Diver”, one of the most unintentionally hilarious things I’ve ever seen (the song still rocks, of course):
124 | FemNaziBitch Oct 23, 2014 6:04:54am |
126 | Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing Oct 23, 2014 6:06:30am |
The Palin saga gets even more schadenfreud-olicious:
“Let’s Fucking Roll”: Track Palin’s Drunken Interview With Police
127 | FemNaziBitch Oct 23, 2014 6:06:33am |
128 | Targetpractice Oct 23, 2014 6:06:35am |
re: #114 FemNaziBitch
Shocker, GOP plan is just more tax cuts and deregulation. Oh, and Keystone XL, we can’t forget that.
129 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 6:06:56am |
re: #124 FemNaziBitch
John Coleman. Former head at The Weather Channel, who was previously a weather guy at ABC.
But he isn’t a meteorologist or a climatologist. He simply read the weather on TV. He had no degree and no formal training.
His position is the same as it’s been for years - that it’s all BS.
Of course, it’s a baseless claim, but the headline and he will misrepresent his own background to claim authority of expertise.
131 | Dr. Matt Oct 23, 2014 6:07:54am |
re: #126 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing
The Palin saga gets even more schadenfreud-olicious:
“Let’s Fucking Roll”: Track Palin’s Drunken Interview With Police
And this…..
Bristol Palin claims family’s drunken brawl never happened, even after audio proof released
132 | Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing Oct 23, 2014 6:08:34am |
re: #131 Dr. Matt
And this…..
Bristol Palin claims family’s drunken brawl never happened, even after audio proof released
It’s raining popcorn! :D
133 | Targetpractice Oct 23, 2014 6:08:51am |
re: #125 FemNaziBitch
That’s really a quote that can apply to so many problems in America right now. Certainly it reflects our present problem with income inequality and stratification.
No offense to Professor Warren, I respect her desire to see out her first term, but she really should be setting herself up for a run at the White House in 2016.
134 | Belafon Oct 23, 2014 6:11:41am |
re: #133 Targetpractice
I saw a comment the other day about why she’s probably not interested in the White House: She is concerned about domestic issues, but has no real interest in foreign policy. And you don’t get to choose one if you are president.
135 | FemNaziBitch Oct 23, 2014 6:12:17am |
Celebrate Carl Sagan's Birthday! #carlsaganday https://t.co/dBUmjWRs2f pic.twitter.com/I7icp5iivi— Center for Inquiry (@center4inquiry) October 23, 2014
136 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 6:17:24am |
138 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 6:20:58am |
re: #136 Vicious Piebola
No arguing with these people, we can only try to limit the amount of damage they cause.
139 | NJDhockeyfan Oct 23, 2014 6:21:03am |
BREAKING: Police say they believe only one gunman was involved in the deadly shootings in Ottawa.— CP24 (@CP24) October 23, 2014
140 | FemNaziBitch Oct 23, 2014 6:21:19am |
http://t.co/BYOHt9uVyb— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) October 23, 2014
141 | FemNaziBitch Oct 23, 2014 6:24:06am |
North Carolina's Senate Leader Announces Legislation To Protect Religious Discrimination #lgbt #marriageequality http://t.co/bpaKgU15aW— Wayne Diercks (@WayneMPLS) October 23, 2014
143 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 6:25:31am |
Stay classy SMOTI
SERIOUSLY? Michael Brown’s Granny & Moms Brawl in Street Over T-Shirts & Swag http://t.co/z702TDJpTX via @gatewaypundit— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) October 23, 2014
144 | nearly-headless smith25 Oct 23, 2014 6:26:24am |
Video day for my AP Government class:
Subject: 2000 Presidential Election.
Most of my students were 3-4 years old (HS Seniors now). They have little memory of the time. Some friends and I recorded over 20 hours of video from that night from different newscasts as part of a Political Science class project while in college. Over the course of time, much of the video was lost or degraded. Was able to keep some of it, add some from another person who uploaded some to you tube. Edits brought a running time of quality video to about an hour. I show it not just as an importance of understanding how the Electoral College works, but to present to them(some of who will be voting in a couple of weeks) that: Yes your vote counts.
145 | Feline Fearless Leader Oct 23, 2014 6:28:26am |
re: #107 Dr. Matt
Latest White House fence jumper has mental problems, father says
Like everything else in this country, now there is going to be an extreme response to these two fence jumpers, i.e., adding a second permanent fence/barrier around the outside perimeter of the White House.
Ebola Bees!
//
146 | bill d Oct 23, 2014 6:28:56am |
re: #139 NJDhockeyfan
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There never is a second gunman and it is always fodder for the kooks to drool over forever.
147 | Lidane Oct 23, 2014 6:30:42am |
THIS FUCKING IDIOT:
Young stands behind Wasilla High School comments, adds government to suicide blame list
Young, who settled in the 700-person village of Fort Yukon after coming to the new state in 1959, also shares comments that seem to reflect the perspective of his time in rural Alaska.
“When people had to work and had to provide and had to keep warm by putting participation in cutting wood and catching the fish and killing the animals, we didn’t have the suicide problem,” he says on the recording.
Suicide comes from federal government largesse “saying you are not worth anything but you are going to get something for nothing,” he says.
148 | FemNaziBitch Oct 23, 2014 6:31:58am |
http://t.co/zQp8TbzqSD— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) October 23, 2014
bl again
149 | Ian G. Oct 23, 2014 6:32:06am |
521 ISIS scumbags vs. only 32 civilians? I mean, any civilian death is a tragedy, but given that we’re dealing with a guerrilla force often holed up in urban areas, it seems like a strikingly low ratio of innocent dead to bad guy dead.
150 | Feline Fearless Leader Oct 23, 2014 6:33:14am |
re: #147 Lidane
THIS FUCKING IDIOT:
Young stands behind Wasilla High School comments, adds government to suicide blame list
Ah, so Mr Young should be agitating for Alaska to cut its citizen stipend based on state oil revenues and put that money to better use elsewhere?
Oh wait, isn’t that pretty much political suicide in Alaska? Guess his principles and integrity only run as far as his mouth.
(Though that applies to a lot, if not most, of the politicians out there.)
151 | Lidane Oct 23, 2014 6:38:29am |
Heh:
Dan Drezner calling Greenwald “banal” is the foreign policy asshole dudebro equivalent of a divide by zero error. http://t.co/ngoW0qwbzt— ZanDark Lorda Da Fif (@ZandarVTS) October 23, 2014
152 | RealityBasedEbola Oct 23, 2014 6:40:01am |
Had an interesting experience this morning. At the Bus Depot I was approached by a young woman (probably an art major) with a nice Canon 5dMkII with a 24-70 L Lens (for those of you not photo geeks, that’s significant pro-grade equipment). Asked if she could take my picture for a project, I said sure. We talked photo stuff for a minute, and I asked “If I may, why did you choose me, from all these people”. Her answer, “You have an interesting face”.
So it’s come to that…. Now I’m the guy with the “interesting” face. I remember when I was the “pretty” one. oh, wait, I never was the “Pretty” one.
That’s life.
RBS
153 | NJDhockeyfan Oct 23, 2014 6:41:43am |
BREAKING: US Air #US751 from Brussels to Philadelphia is returning. reason unknown pic.twitter.com/uluQdh1ulw - @NikPhillips666
154 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 6:41:44am |
Memo to NBC News - Canada has been hit by terrorism before. Canadians have died in terror attacks.
In other words NBC News, Canada did not lose its innocence here.
A partial list of terror attacks in Canada or on Canadians:
October 15, 1967: A bomb explodes at the offices of the native trade delegation in Montreal, Quebec.
May 29, 1969: A bomb is placed in the doorway of the Cuban consulate in Montreal, it fails to go off.
July 12, 1971: A small bomb goes off at the offices of the native trade delegation in Montreal, Quebec.
April 4, 1972: Cuban official Sergio Pérez Castillo is killed by an explosion at the Cuban consulate in Montreal, Quebec.
January 21, 1974: A bomb explodes at the Cuban embassy in Ottawa. It is attributed to Orlando Bosch.
September 22, 1976: An explosive device is thrown from a car at the Cuban consulate in Montreal.
January 14, 1980: A large explosion significantly damages the Cuban consulate in Montreal.
Relating to militant Sikh aspirations for Khalistan[edit]
June 23, 1985 - Air India flight 182 leaving Montreal, Quebec’s Mirabel International Airport is blown up mid-flight to London, England.
At 07:13 on Sunday, June 23, 1985 an explosion at Tokyo Narita International Airport killed two baggage handlers, and injured four. The bomb was intended for Air India Flight 301, with 177 passengers and crew on board, bound for Bangkok International Airport.
May 26, 1986 - An attempt is made in Vancouver, British Columbia to assassinate Malkiat Singh Sidhu, a cabinet minister in the Indian province of Punjab.
August 28, 1988 - Indo-Canadian Times editor Tara Singh Hayer is shot and partially paralyzed, probably due to his statements connected to the Flight 182 investigation.
November 18, 1998 - Hayer is assassinated.
Related to Armenian-Turkish relationships[edit]
April 8, 1982 - Turkish Commercial Counselor to Canada Kani Güngör is paralyzed after an attack by Armenian nationalists at his Ottawa, Ontario apartment.
August 23, 1982 - Turkish military attaché to Canada, Col. Atilla Altıkat, is assassinated by Armenian militants in Ottawa while sitting in his vehicle at a traffic light.
March 12, 1985 - A group of Armenians seize the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Ottawa, killing a Canadian security guard.
Other incidents[edit]
April 7, 1868 - Thomas D’Arcy McGee is assassinated in Ottawa, Ontario by an alleged Irish nationalist or Fenian rebel sympathizer named Patrick Whelan.
November 25, 1965 - Croatian nationalists bomb the Yugoslavian consulate in Toronto, Ontario.
January 29, 1967 - The Yugoslavian embassy in Ottawa and the consulate in Toronto, Ontario are among six Yugoslavian offices bombed in North America.
September 3, 1984 - Montreal, Quebec’s Central Station is bombed, killing 3 people and wounding more than 30. Thomas Bernard Brigham, an elderly retired American armed forces officer, claims to have been protesting Pope John Paul II’s visit to Canada.
April 9, 1989 - Charles Yacoub hijacks a bus and drives it to Parliament Hill to protest the Syrian invasion of Lebanon.
155 | Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 23, 2014 6:42:25am |
re:
#151
Dan Drezner calling Greenwald “banal” is the foreign policy asshole dudebro equivalent of a divide by zero error.
Someone’s trying to win the internet today. They might succeed.
156 | Timothy Watson Oct 23, 2014 6:43:38am |
re: #154 Vogon Poetry
Memo to NBC News - Canada has been hit by terrorism before. Canadians have died in terror attacks.
In other words NBC News, Canada did not lose its innocence here.
NBC News reporter: Quebec, where’s that? The Middle East?
158 | NJDhockeyfan Oct 23, 2014 6:45:53am |
UPDATE #US751 to Philadelphia still holding 19,000 feet close to Brussels. Track live: http://t.co/mzKkQjjfiX pic.twitter.com/pOs70g7odt
UPDATE #US751 4 hours now that the Boeing 757 has taken off from Brussels. Track live: http://t.co/mzKkQjjfiX pic.twitter.com/MWF54qhaQh
159 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 6:48:21am |
#Canada #Ottawa #tcot #UniteBlue #NathanCirillo pic.twitter.com/TYQ07XUD7K— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) October 23, 2014
160 | Feline Fearless Leader Oct 23, 2014 6:49:15am |
re: #154 Vogon Poetry
In relation to the Fenian one is the little known invasion of Canada and other raids by Fenians who crossed the river into Canada from the United States.
161 | bill d Oct 23, 2014 6:52:11am |
re: #158 NJDhockeyfan
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What would be the reason of calling them back and then keep them circling forever? Burn fuel?
162 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 6:52:51am |
re: #154 Vogon Poetry
Memo to NBC News - Canada has been hit by terrorism before. Canadians have died in terror attacks.
In other words NBC News, Canada did not lose its innocence here.
Makes better copy when the victim seems innocent…
163 | NJDhockeyfan Oct 23, 2014 6:53:19am |
“I Became a Claw Machine Cat Diva!” #cats http://t.co/BRsoUK7mQd pic.twitter.com/08tlG5dUGP— Cat's Stories (@catsstories) October 20, 2014
164 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 6:54:57am |
re: #158 NJDhockeyfan
They’re probably burning off fuel for landing - if it was a mechanical emergency, they’d probably have landed by now after being given priority routing.
It could be some kind of medical emergency (related or unrelated to Ebola), or some screening issue unrelated to the Ebola outbreak.
Not the first time that route has had medical emergencies - just a month ago in fact.
165 | NJDhockeyfan Oct 23, 2014 6:57:17am |
Video shows Sergeant-at-Arms Vickers moments after reportedly shooting Ottawa gunman. #CDNpoli http://t.co/WXYpbaCsk9 pic.twitter.com/sL1hn4TpZA— TorontoStar (@TorontoStar) October 23, 2014
166 | NJDhockeyfan Oct 23, 2014 7:00:39am |
re: #164 Vogon Poetry
They’re probably burning off fuel for landing - if it was a mechanical emergency, they’d probably have landed by now after being given priority routing.
It could be some kind of medical emergency (related or unrelated to Ebola), or some screening issue unrelated to the Ebola outbreak.
Not the first time that route has had medical emergencies - just a month ago in fact.
Rudder problem…
@airlivenet #US751 a rudder related problem, burning fuel before landing back in Brussels, not requesting assistance #Belgocontrol told #AFP— Philippe Siuberski (@PhilBruAFP) October 23, 2014
167 | bill d Oct 23, 2014 7:02:59am |
re: #166 NJDhockeyfan
Rudder problem…
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We should ban all people from Rudder and every Ruddarian from coming over to America on a plane. Damn troublemakers.
168 | Feline Fearless Leader Oct 23, 2014 7:03:26am |
re: #159 Vicious Piebola
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This event occurs and I just wonder what the domestic freakout would be if some nutcase radicals attacked the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington.
169 | Feline Fearless Leader Oct 23, 2014 7:04:54am |
re: #163 NJDhockeyfan
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That picture reminds me of a game store in the Pittsburgh area. Back when the owner’s daughter was 4-5 she would nap in one of the display cases that he’d equipped with a pillow and a couple of blankets.
170 | NJDhockeyfan Oct 23, 2014 7:07:09am |
Large round of applause as the sergeant at arms enters the House of Commons #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/6F4uHfSV9p— Cormac Mac Sweeney (@cmaconthehill) October 23, 2014
171 | Lidane Oct 23, 2014 7:08:23am |
Latino Guy Delivers Absentee Ballots In Arizona. You’ll Never Guess What Happens Next. http://t.co/htUpUmlVrn— Wonkette (@Wonkette) October 23, 2014
172 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 7:09:07am |
re: #171 Lidane
I think that was paged already. Brown people voting = voter fraud!!!
173 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 7:13:30am |
re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
It was; the racist nitwit complaining about the guy authorized to deliver those votes under state law shows just how deep the racism and intent to deprive people of their right to vote goes.
174 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 7:16:26am |
Since screening began on October 11, 457 people have been tested for Ebola at JFK and EWR airports (2 of the 5 airports designated as official entry points from outbreak countries).
Of that number, zero confirmed cases.
Patrick Foye said 389 people have been screened at John F. Kennedy International Airport and 68 at Newark. Liberty Airport since screening began Oct. 11. No one had the virus, he said.
The number at Newark includes a passenger suspected to have Ebola who arrived Tuesday night and was taken to Newark’s University Hospital. By Wednesday, health officials determined the man didn’t have any symptoms of the virus, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said at a news conference.
Newark and JFK are among five airports in the country designated to receive all U.S.-bound passengers from West Africa. Travelers whose trips began in Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone are screened for symptoms.
Foye also said he ordered that restrooms in U.S. Customs and Border Protection-controlled areas of the airports where screening is conducted are to be cleaned twice as often to guard against possible infection. He said the same order covers the cleaning of planes that have arrived carrying passengers whose trips originated in West Africa.
Foye said doctors told Port Authority officials the Ebola virus can live on a hard surface for two to three hours and perhaps longer, which prompted the order.
The upshot of all this focus and attention on cleaning facilities is that planes and airport bathrooms might be a little cleaner going forward and there might be a slight reduction in the spread of other communicable diseases.
175 | Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 23, 2014 7:22:08am |
re:
#171
LaFaro, according to his own account of the encounter at this rightwing blog — which The Arizona Daily Independent piece copied verbatim, without a byline, just “ADI News Services,” because journalism — was protecting democracy from “behind bullet proof glass because of the violence and protesting that occurred by militant groups during the November, 2012, General Election.” We were unaware of any reports whatsoever of thuggish militants rioting throughout Arizona in 2012, but, sure, we’ll just take LaFaro’s word for it.
Do the google urself I dont have time to do ur research for U!!!!!!!1
176 | Ian G. Oct 23, 2014 7:22:25am |
re: #154 Vogon Poetry
Hell, Canada has had its own separatist terrorism in the past, with the October crisis and the bombing of the Montreal Stock Exchange and the murder of Pierre Laporte.
My initial thought upon hearing of the attack on Parliament was “is he a Quebec separatist nutcase?”
177 | Feline Fearless Leader Oct 23, 2014 7:25:04am |
re: #176 Ian G.
Hell, Canada has had its own separatist terrorism in the past, with the October crisis and the bombing of the Montreal Stock Exchange and the murder of Pierre Laporte.
My initial thought upon hearing of the attack on Parliament was “is he a Quebec separatist nutcase?”
I didn’t think that until I saw the name of the attacker. Previous to that, and now to an extent still, I’m sitting back and waiting for actual investigation to take place before looking at all towards the background and motivations of the attacker.
Still too much empty space there that the shrill conspiracy and fear mongers are trying to fill in order to forward their own agendas.
178 | Jenner7 Oct 23, 2014 7:27:07am |
Prosecutor's office on leaks: “Really nothing to investigate.” THIS is why we asked for a special prosecutor. http://t.co/TAVK5uqDgr— Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) October 23, 2014
Really? Someone is leaking from the GJ and you’re all “meh”?!?!
Whatever happens Bob and Jay, it’s on you.
179 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 7:30:53am |
Watching Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes us all in America long for a real leader. @pmharper #Leader— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) October 23, 2014
What exactly did Harper say that suggests leadership over anything Obama has said when facing a similar circumstance?
Right - nothing.
It’s the same kinds of platitudes.
In a televised address to the nation Wednesday evening, Mr. Harper described the shooting as a terrorist attack and linked it to an incident on Monday in which warrant officer Patrice Vincent was killed and another Canadian Forces member was injured after Martin Rouleau-Couture hit the men with his car. Mr. Rouleau-Couture, a Quebec man, was later killed by police following a high speed chase.
“Fellow Canadians, in the days to come, we will learn more about the terrorist and any accomplices he may have had, but this week’s events are a grim reminder that Canada is not immune to the types of terrorist attacks we have seen elsewhere around the world,” said Mr. Harper. “We are also reminded that attacks on our security personnel and our institutions of government are by their very nature attacks on our country, on our values, on our society on us Canadians as a free and democratic people who embrace human dignity for all.”
180 | Lidane Oct 23, 2014 7:31:47am |
re: #178 Jenner7
It’s impossible for me to look at the Michael Brown case and not see that the fix has been in from the start. Darren Wilson will not be indicted. There won’t be a trial, and there won’t be any sort of justice for the Brown family. And to top it off, we’ve seen just how institutionalized racism still is in law enforcement.
181 | Timothy Watson Oct 23, 2014 7:32:24am |
182 | Targetpractice Oct 23, 2014 7:32:42am |
re: #178 Jenner7
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Really? Someone is leaking from the GJ and you’re all “meh”?!?!
Whatever happens Bob and Jay, it’s on you.
This is “justice” in America now: Putting the dead on trial in the media.
183 | BigPapa Oct 23, 2014 7:41:22am |
re: #181 Timothy Watson
Actress Felicia Day Opens Up About GamerGate Fears, Has Her Private Details Exposed Minutes Later
Fucking shitbags.
Petulant little fuckwad cretins.
184 | BigPapa Oct 23, 2014 7:43:15am |
@nationaljournal <- LOL. Like the GOP has ever been in touch with any women other than the Stepford GOP Women. Good luck with that.
— Ryan King (@BigPapa1849) October 23, 2014
185 | bill d Oct 23, 2014 7:43:51am |
IF NORTH KOREA CAN DO IT THEN HOW COME THE USA CAN’T?!?!?
#NorthKorea becomes the first country to officially close its borders over #ebola fears http://t.co/j7RgVibahC pic.twitter.com/PBMCJKP1IQ
— IBTimes UK (@IBTimesUK) October 23, 2014
186 | Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi Oct 23, 2014 7:44:14am |
re: #179 Vogon Poetry
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What exactly did Harper say that suggests leadership over anything Obama has said when facing a similar circumstance?
Right - nothing.
It’s not what he said, it’s how he said it.
Whitely.
187 | Ian G. Oct 23, 2014 7:45:03am |
re: #179 Vogon Poetry
I long for Canadian style healthcare, at least.
188 | Jenner7 Oct 23, 2014 7:47:26am |
re: #179 Vogon Poetry
I guess Obama was supposed to Superman fly to Benghazi with his AK-47 and blow them all away and save the day???
189 | Targetpractice Oct 23, 2014 7:48:22am |
re: #186 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi
It’s not what he said, it’s how he said it.
Whitely.
They do love to gush about conservative leaders on other shores. Like how they practically swooned over Cameron’s speeches…before it became clear that it was all empty bluster and the Brits weren’t doing a damned thing about ISIS, then it quietly got dropped.
190 | Dr. Matt Oct 23, 2014 7:49:34am |
re: #179 Vogon Poetry
DimJim thinks he speaks for “all” Americans. How precious.
191 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 7:51:00am |
re: #185 bill d
@IBTimesUK I've read that book too. World War Z. And they were never heard from again. Seriously though, they've got few flights to anywhere— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 23, 2014
192 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 7:56:34am |
DEATH PANEL: Hospitals weigh rationing Ebola care… http://t.co/h8URBWHh5w— Drudge Report Feed (@drudgefeed) October 23, 2014
Hospitals (actually hospital systems - aka companies) consider rationing care. Not government. That’s somehow acceptable?
Officials from at least three hospital systems interviewed by Reuters said they were considering whether to withhold individual procedures or leave it up to individual doctors to determine whether an intervention would be performed.
Ethics experts say they are also fielding more calls from doctors asking what their professional obligations are to patients if healthcare workers could be at risk.
U.S. health officials meanwhile are trying to establish a network of about 20 hospitals nationwide that would be fully equipped to handle all aspects of Ebola care.
Their concern is that poorly trained or poorly equipped hospitals that perform invasive procedures will expose staff to bodily fluids of a patient when they are most infectious. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working with kidney specialists on clinical guidelines for delivering dialysis to Ebola patients. The recommendations could come as early as this week.
The possibility of withholding care represents a departure from the “do everything” philosophy in most American hospitals and a return to a view that held sway a century ago, when doctors were at greater risk of becoming infected by treating dying patients.
The part in bold appears to have been what happened in part with Duncan.
Thing is that health care workers are exposed to biohazards all the time. Blood products, urine, feces, etc. containing viral, bacterial, or other contaminants that could lead to infection.
The best protection is to follow proper infection control procedures.
193 | Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 23, 2014 8:01:12am |
re:
#179
Watching Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes us all in America long for a real leader.
Now all we need is for Chuck C. Journalist to come along and offer his own fawning derp.
194 | Feline Fearless Leader Oct 23, 2014 8:04:25am |
re: #185 bill d
Given my expectations of what the North Korean healthcare system would be like they might have better reasons than us to be very proactive about minimizing any initial risk of it getting into their country.
Looking at it as something we should be emulating is laughable though.
195 | Lidane Oct 23, 2014 8:07:34am |
re: #188 Jenner7
I guess Obama was supposed to Superman fly to Benghazi with his AK-47 and blow them all away and save the day???
He was supposed to do all that AFTER napalming all of Western Africa to kill Ebola forever. Or something.
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196 | Timothy Watson Oct 23, 2014 8:10:57am |
re: #192 Vogon Poetry
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Hospitals (actually hospital systems - aka companies) consider rationing care. Not government. That’s somehow acceptable?
Something they’ve been doing for decades, it’s called insurance companies and HMOs.
197 | Lidane Oct 23, 2014 8:18:06am |
Erik Rush: Obama acting just like a “seasoned domestic abuser,” Gestapo concentration camp guard http://t.co/1IvFiUbk6p— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 23, 2014
198 | De Kolta Chair Oct 23, 2014 8:21:34am |
199 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 8:23:18am |
re: #198 De Kolta Chair
Cap’s shield is busted? Where have I seen that before?
Image: thanos-shield-what-does-cap-s-broken-shield-mean-for-avengers-age-of-ultron.jpeg
201 | Targetpractice Oct 23, 2014 8:25:52am |
re: #199 Vogon Poetry
Cap’s shield is busted? Where have I seen that before?
Image: thanos-shield-what-does-cap-s-broken-shield-mean-for-avengers-age-of-ultron.jpeg
I understand that the third Avengers film is going to deal with Thanos, and there’s talk that it might in fact be split into two films.
202 | Feline Fearless Leader Oct 23, 2014 8:29:03am |
re: #196 Timothy Watson
Something they’ve been doing for decades, it’s called insurance companies and HMOs.
I hate suspecting there are white papers bouncing around those companies making the case that training their workers and properly equipping them hurts the bottom line badly enough that they need to do this. And thus additionally wonder if these papers have addendems on how to hide that decision and predicate it as being something else other than a financial decision.
203 | Slap Oct 23, 2014 8:30:08am |
204 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 8:31:26am |
re: #202 Feline Fearless Leader
I hate suspecting there are white papers bouncing around those companies making the case that training their workers and properly equipping them hurts the bottom line badly enough that they need to do this. And thus additionally wonder if these papers have addendems on how to hide that decision and predicate it as being something else other than a financial decision.
As long as the bottom line is measured only annually, it is easy to keep costs down. We are now faced with very expensive consequences.
Think of how much cheaper it would have been to simply help build, equip and staff a decent health care system in West Africa…
205 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 8:31:33am |
Wingnuts Tweeting this stupid meme.
Speaking as a person who has actually studied probability & statistics, the answer is NO
#itrtg #RedNationRising #pjnet #tcot #tgdn ATTENTION ALL WOMEN VOTERS!!! FEELING SAFE? FEELING SECURE? VOTE GOP!!! pic.twitter.com/hXEnk2yUo9— Ric Reed (@RicVaDude) October 23, 2014
206 | JustMark Oct 23, 2014 8:31:49am |
re: #154 Vogon Poetry
Memo to NBC News - Canada has been hit by terrorism before. Canadians have died in terror attacks.
In other words NBC News, Canada did not lose its innocence here.
NBC - No Bloody Clue…
207 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 8:32:48am |
re: #205 Vicious Piebola
Wingnuts Tweeting this stupid meme.
Speaking as a person who has actually studied probability & statistics, the answer is NO[Embedded content]
This is simply tapping into those wellsprings of xenophobia, bigotry, paranoia and ignorant rage that are the basis of TPGOP policy-making.
208 | Feline Fearless Leader Oct 23, 2014 8:33:23am |
re: #205 Vicious Piebola
Wingnuts Tweeting this stupid meme.
Speaking as a person who has actually studied probability & statistics, the answer is NO[Embedded content]
Infected by what; beheaded by who?
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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209 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 8:34:11am |
re: #208 Feline Fearless Leader
Infected by what; beheaded by who?
by the people that Obama coddles and protects, of course!!!
/
210 | Romantic Heretic Oct 23, 2014 8:39:43am |
Ultron: I’m free. There are no strings on me.
Me: Really? You’re enslaved by hate, chained by anger. How human of you.
211 | Lidane Oct 23, 2014 8:39:48am |
Joseph Farah celebrates Earth's 6,028th birthday by musing about dinosaurs http://t.co/nN3I1iOX3y— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 23, 2014
Pat Robertson says he and others have the power to raise the dead, sad “we just aren't using it” http://t.co/7NKvmVY485— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 23, 2014
212 | Rightwingconspirator Oct 23, 2014 8:44:08am |
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ Explodes at Intimate, First-Look Screening
This movie might do more for the public side of the AGW cause than all the IPCC reports all put together.
213 | De Kolta Chair Oct 23, 2014 8:49:04am |
re: #211 Lidane
Joseph Farah celebrates Earth’s 6,028th birthday by musing about dinosaurs
It’s going to be tough to beat the Earth’s 6,023th birthday party. Boy, was that a humdinger! I was feeling under the weather that day so I didn’t imbibe, so I may be the only one in the whole wide world who remembers that bash.
214 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 23, 2014 8:51:01am |
good grief…
The Atlantic repurposes a pic of Muslim women watching an eclipse for…a story on women ISIS supporters. ht @acarvin pic.twitter.com/KfdYKduqZ6
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) October 23, 2014
215 | RealityBasedEbola Oct 23, 2014 8:51:51am |
re: #213 De Kolta Chair
It’s going to be tough to beat the Earth’s 6,023th birthday party. Boy, was that a humdinger! I was feeling under the weather that day so I didn’t imbibe, so I may be the only one in the whole wide world who remembers that bash.
I LOVED the big scavenger hunt back when it hit the big 6000. I swear that we never did find all the dinosaur skeletons that were buried for it. Boy will somebody be surprised later when they do find them, not knowing it was all just a big joke.
RBS
216 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Oct 23, 2014 9:00:55am |
re: #212 Rightwingconspirator
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ Explodes at Intimate, First-Look Screening
This movie might do more for the public side of the AGW cause than all the IPCC reports all put together.
And is a shame, IYKWIM.
Also, don’t read the comments. Derp.
217 | Romantic Heretic Oct 23, 2014 9:00:58am |
re: #159 Vicious Piebola
Aislin is Canada’s best political cartoonist.
218 | makeitstop Oct 23, 2014 9:03:21am |
Kincannon: Still an asshole.
Is he in some kind of competition to see who can say the most offensive thing they can?
219 | Higgs Boson's Mate Oct 23, 2014 9:03:33am |
re: #211 Lidane
Pat Robertson says he and others have the power to raise the dead, sad “we just aren’t using it”
Had a brief though incandescent relationship with a woman who could do that. Oh, yes.
220 | Lidane Oct 23, 2014 9:03:50am |
This makes my geeky heart happy.
Apparently, along with the rights to Daredevil, the rights to Ghost Rider, The Punisher, and Blade have returned to Marvel.— Marvel World (@marvel_worldd) October 23, 2014
221 | Varek Raith Oct 23, 2014 9:04:07am |
re: #219 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Had a brief though incandescent relationship with a woman who could do that. Oh, yes.
…
..
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222 | ObserverArt Oct 23, 2014 9:04:51am |
re: #206 JustMark
Memo to NBC News - Canada has been hit by terrorism before. Canadians have died in terror attacks.
In other words NBC News, Canada did not lose its innocence here.
A partial list of terror attacks in Canada or on Canadians:
NBC - No Bloody Clue…
Details…who needs them? Facts…who needs them?
Base emotion…that’s what it is all about. Or manipulated to get a certain slanted message across.
Yesterday I had investigation Discovery on and they were doing a “Dead on Arrival” series show about a young lady from Columbus Ohio who’s father was the Ohio State Band director. She went to New York to be a dancer against here parents wishes, had a tough time finding work, etc. and ended up killed by a jealous boyfriend.
Anyway, all through the damn show they kept painting Columbus as ‘small town’ America and she had to go to the big city where everything was so different, blah, blah. Three times they mentioned Columbus=small town. It made me crazy, so I fired off an email saying do you really need to tell a story to get the theme you want even if the facts don’t support it? I guess it all comes down to creative liberty.
Now I know, Columbus is no New York, Chicago or LA large, but we are the 15th biggest city in the US. So, if we are small, the town I grew up in in north central Ohio with 50,000 citizens must be the proverbial one-traffic-light crossroads burg? And Toledo must be a quaint little mom and pop town. Or, something.
You no longer can trust anything you read or watch. It is all about fudged facts as cast to get the message across, not the actual facts that get in the way of the message. We live in a fictional world now, the real world no longer good enough. It is obviously already the method in the news media. FOX has proven it. CNN is running with it, and it looks like the once great big three (CBS-NBC-ABC) are there now too.
223 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Oct 23, 2014 9:06:25am |
re: #220 Lidane
.@marvel_worldd does this mean we'll get a good Ghost Rider film with a Johnny Blaze who isn't old enough to be Johnny Blaze's dad?
— Josh M. (@dreggas) October 23, 2014
224 | Higgs Boson's Mate Oct 23, 2014 9:09:32am |
re: #223 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
…does this mean we’ll get a good Ghost Rider film with a Johnny Blaze who isn’t old enough to be Johnny Blaze’s dad?
It likely means that we’ll get another movie where CGI takes the place of plot, dialog and character arc.
225 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 23, 2014 9:12:04am |
heh (happening right now)…
As dessert is served, a lot of empty tables at Rotary Club where McConnell is main speaker. #Enthusiasm #kysen pic.twitter.com/REdRNKZ4Tb
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) October 23, 2014
226 | RealityBasedEbola Oct 23, 2014 9:12:43am |
I’m still waiting for Doc Savage… Man of Bronze to be done. I’ll be over in my corner sulking if anybody needs me.
RBS
227 | De Kolta Chair Oct 23, 2014 9:12:57am |
re: #220 Lidane
This makes my geeky heart happy.
Somewhat along those lines, this from the Hollywood Reporter last month:
Marvel, Jack Kirby Estate Settlement Brings End to High-Stakes Battle; Why a battle over Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Avengers was important
On Friday, Marvel ended a long and bitter feud with the estate of comic book legend Jack Kirby, announcing a settlement just days before the U.S. Supreme Court had scheduled a conference to discuss whether to take up a case with potentially billions on the line.
“Marvel and the family of Jack Kirby have amicably resolved their legal disputes and are looking forward to advancing their shared goal of honoring Mr. Kirby’s significant role in Marvel’s history,” read a joint statement from Marvel and the Kirby family.
228 | Lidane Oct 23, 2014 9:13:33am |
re: #224 Higgs Boson’s Mate
It likely means that we’ll get another movie where CGI takes the place of plot, dialog and character arc.
OTOH, it could mean we’d finally get a good Punisher movie, at least if the last Captain America film is any indication.
There is no reason why a guy with no superpowers who declares war on the mob for killing his family should have such a long string of shitty films being made about him. Is it really THAT hard to make a good revenge flick? Come on. I’m hopeful that Marvel having the rights to him again means they’d get the right directors and actors involved for a change.
229 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Oct 23, 2014 9:13:39am |
re: #224 Higgs Boson’s Mate
It likely means that we’ll get another movie where CGI takes the place of plot, dialog and character arc.
I don’t mind a lot of CGI, heck you kinda need it for Ghost Rider but having Johnny Blaze, a guy in his twenties, played by Nick Cage is just insulting.
230 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 9:23:14am |
Rep. Peter King (R-NY): Doctors are wrong. Ebola has mutated and gone airborne.
“It’s time for the doctors to realize they were wrong…maybe it’s a mutated form of the virus,” says King: https://t.co/4T5vj2v8Go— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) October 23, 2014
Ummm, NO. It hasn’t. Proof? That the Duncan case resulted in all of two direct contact cases and that his fiance and others were not infected and have been cleared of quarantine.
Scientists have been studing Ebola for more than 40 years, and there’s no sign it would mutate in the way he’s claiming.
But that’s typical. Makes for good soundbites and pressures Obama for travel bans, which wont do anything positive according to the health experts that actually study this stuff.
Rather, the CDC and DHS have limited access from West Africa to five airports, which were already handling 94% of the flights in any event. And they’re watching those people for 21 days to confirm that they’re Ebola-free.
231 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 23, 2014 9:25:40am |
So, I’m seeing this on my TL today:
um, yes? (h/t @amandamull) pic.twitter.com/YYvfv0OQIa
— Jon Eiseman (@Jon_Eiseman) October 23, 2014
Congratulations to @Slate for revealing the single worst human on the planet! http://t.co/0Ro3uFeU5U pic.twitter.com/2aJN1l5Mg2
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) October 23, 2014
232 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 9:26:20am |
.@SpeakerBoehner War for Christmas starting earlier and earlier every year. It's not even Halloween, & you're on about Christmas?— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 23, 2014
233 | Varek Raith Oct 23, 2014 9:26:53am |
re: #231 Backwoods_Sleuth
So, I’m seeing this on my TL today:
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If any house ever needed to be TPed…
234 | sagehen Oct 23, 2014 9:27:19am |
re: #112 wheat-dogghazi-bola
It’s a decent premise for a movie. Global warming unleashes the kraken!
Or the Spanish Flu. (I was going to say bubonic plague, but then I remembered penicillin cures that pretty quickly).
I have a vague memory of a movie or TV show where the terrorists were digging Spanish Flu bodies out of the permafrost, because it would still be viable…
235 | ObserverArt Oct 23, 2014 9:27:58am |
I always have wondered about Peter King. He sometimes seemed lucid and actually acted like he was sensible.
No more. He’s a full blown Asshola!
236 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 9:28:06am |
re: #231 Backwoods_Sleuth
So, I’m seeing this on my TL today:
[Embedded content]
Just turn off all the lights, or better yet, go away for the evening.
Problem solved.
/
237 | leftynyc Oct 23, 2014 9:28:27am |
Oy vey - this makes my brain hurt:
WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah reminds us today that October 23 is the day that 17th-century scholar James Ussher deduced was the day on which God created the Earth in the year 4004 BC, thus making today the Earth’s 6,028th birthday.
Farah marks the occasion by taking on some of the scientific quibbles with Young Earth Creationism, including the science showing that the earth is billions of years old and that dinosaurs roamed the earth millions of years ago.
While science “can never prove the age of the Earth,” Farah argues, “God can, however, prove the age of the Earth because He was there. And someday, when He returns to judge His creation, He might just do that.”
He then argues that ancient depictions of mythical beasts are proof that humans coexisted with dinosaurs. “Is it crazier for me to believe the world is around 6,000 years old than it is to accept as scientific fact that it is actually millions or billions of years old?” he asks.
238 | Timothy Watson Oct 23, 2014 9:29:58am |
re: #235 ObserverArt
I always have wondered about Peter King. He sometimes seemed lucid and actually acted like he was sensible.
Except for when he’s supporting the IRA.
239 | ObserverArt Oct 23, 2014 9:30:39am |
re: #233 Varek Raith
If any house ever needed to be TPed…
Do kids still soap windows???*
Or is that dead since liquid body scrubs are now more popular?
*Yeah, showing the ol’ age. Sigh. /
240 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Oct 23, 2014 9:31:46am |
re: #237 leftynyc
Oy vey - this makes my brain hurt:
He then argues that ancient depictions of mythical beasts are proof that humans coexisted with dinosaurs. “Is it crazier for me to believe the world is around 6,000 years old than it is to accept as scientific fact that it is actually millions or billions of years old?” he asks.
Yes. SATSQ
241 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Oct 23, 2014 9:32:20am |
re: #233 Varek Raith
If any house ever needed to be TPed…
or get the paper bag of dog poop set on fire on the porch treatment.
242 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Oct 23, 2014 9:32:33am |
re: #239 ObserverArt
Do kids still soap windows???*
Or is that dead since liquid body scrubs are now more popular?
*Yeah, showing the ol’ age. Sigh. /
or egg cars.
243 | RealityBasedEbola Oct 23, 2014 9:34:47am |
re: #242 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
or egg cars.
or draw giant penises on the lawn with Roundup?
RBS
244 | Targetpractice Oct 23, 2014 9:35:31am |
re: #229 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I don’t mind a lot of CGI, heck you kinda need it for Ghost Rider but having Johnny Blaze, a guy in his twenties, played by Nick Cage is just insulting.
The first movie was awesome when the Rider was on the screen. It’s just that the rest of the movie was made up of a guy who alternates between chewing the scenery and mumbling his way through his dialogue.
245 | Higgs Boson's Mate Oct 23, 2014 9:38:24am |
re: #229 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I don’t mind a lot of CGI, heck you kinda need it for Ghost Rider but having Johnny Blaze, a guy in his twenties, played by Nick Cage is just insulting.
3D modeling (Blender + Photoshop, with NifTools for game mods) is one of my hobbies so I see the possibilities of CGI in movies as breathtaking. From my jaundiced, Old Guy perspective it seems that Hollywood often uses CGI as a hammer wherein all of the other elements of film making become nails. To me, Luc Besson made excellent use of CGI in “The Fifth Element,” itself another example of a movie that would be very difficult to make without CGI.
I’m still waiting for CGI as Fritz Lang or Jaques Tati or Buster Keaton might have used it.
247 | Kragar Oct 23, 2014 9:40:13am |
More KKK-ish activity from Gamergate
Felicia Day on Gamergate. http://t.co/BAmjr2m42f— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) October 22, 2014
Felicia Day opens up about GamerGate fears, has her private details exposed minutes later http://t.co/zxcg5gUCvf pic.twitter.com/46WhtyfHbJ— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 23, 2014
Felicia Day Wrote One Blog Post On Gamergate, Was Doxxed Within An Hour. http://t.co/uczzW6TyHt— The Mary Sue (@TheMarySue) October 23, 2014
248 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Oct 23, 2014 9:40:34am |
re: #244 Targetpractice
The first movie was awesome when the Rider was on the screen. It’s just that the rest of the movie was made up of a guy who alternates between chewing the scenery and mumbling his way through his dialogue.
Yeah, when he was the Rider it was great, the rest was just meh.
249 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 9:42:47am |
re: #245 Higgs Boson’s Mate
There’s still something to be said for doing things with practical effects - like say the scenes in Inception where they were flipping the set around to mimic the van flipping off the road. Sure, it could be done with CGI, but there’s a weight that CGI just hasn’t been able to capture thus far. Heck, even the Matrix bullet time shots were practical effects using multiply linked cameras to get the desired outcome.
And far too many directors use CGI to cover up gaping holes in their stories (Michael Bay and George Lucas, I’m looking at you). Explosions are not a substitute for exposition.
250 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Oct 23, 2014 9:43:11am |
re: #245 Higgs Boson’s Mate
3D modeling (Blender + Photoshop, with NifTools for game mods) is one of my hobbies so I see the possibilities of CGI in movies as breathtaking. From my jaundiced, Old Guy perspective it seems that Hollywood often uses CGI as a hammer wherein all of the other elements of film making become nails. To me, Luc Besson made excellent use of CGI in “The Fifth Element,” itself another example of a movie that would be very difficult to make without CGI.
I’m still waiting for CGI as Fritz Lang or Jaques Tati or Buster Keaton might have used it.
Oh yeah, CGI is the lingua franca for effects these days and I love how it’s used most of the time. I often kick myself for not seeing certain movies in the theater just for the effects. But there have been a lot of movies where the only selling points are the special effects.
Speaking of CGI and movies the wife and I watched X-men: Days of future past. I enjoyed watching it, then realized it was just the plot of Terminator 2: Judgement Day with mutants ><
251 | ObserverArt Oct 23, 2014 9:44:46am |
Has this been mentioned. I know it is sports related, but it says way more about societal issues than sports. Growing up in a mixed race neighborhood and still living in one and having many black friends and business associates I am left dumbfounded by this report. You?
MSN Sports - Seahawks don’t think Russell Wilson is black enough?
Bleacher Report’s Mike Freeman, who explores the trade and locker room dynamic in Seattle, gives several reasons why some players have issues with Wilson, and he even suggests that some players believe the quarterback is not black enough.
Really? I guess this must also be considered for our first black president. Or, is he even black?
You know sometimes I wonder if race problems will ever end? I get the feeling folks on both sides of any color issue don’t want them to.
252 | ObserverArt Oct 23, 2014 9:45:56am |
re: #243 RealityBasedEbola
or draw giant penises on the lawn with Roundup?
RBS
That was you?!?!?! Busted.
253 | Targetpractice Oct 23, 2014 9:46:16am |
re: #249 Vogon Poetry
There’s still something to be said for doing things with practical effects - like say the scenes in Inception where they were flipping the set around to mimic the van flipping off the road. Sure, it could be done with CGI, but there’s a weight that CGI just hasn’t been able to capture thus far. Heck, even the Matrix bullet time shots were practical effects using multiply linked cameras to get the desired outcome.
And far too many directors use CGI to cover up gaping holes in their stories (Michael Bay and George Lucas, I’m looking at you). Explosions are not a substitute for exposition.
Inception was amazing for the scenes they managed to pull off without CGI, like The Matrix before them. Say what one will about wire-fu, it is still far more impressive when pulled off well than CGI puppets flying around the screen.
254 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Oct 23, 2014 9:48:46am |
Reagan aide wants to split the country into North and Reagan
And no, the name is not made up…
255 | RealityBasedEbola Oct 23, 2014 9:49:09am |
re: #249 Vogon Poetry
There’s still something to be said for doing things with practical effects - like say the scenes in Inception where they were flipping the set around to mimic the van flipping off the road. Sure, it could be done with CGI, but there’s a weight that CGI just hasn’t been able to capture thus far. Heck, even the Matrix bullet time shots were practical effects using multiply linked cameras to get the desired outcome.
And far too many directors use CGI to cover up gaping holes in their stories (Michael Bay and George Lucas, I’m looking at you). Explosions are not a substitute for exposition.
In a way, it’s like 3D. Most of the time it’s just used to get things flying out of the screen at you. Gets old fast.
In my mind, one of the best uses of 3D was Hugo, by Martin Scorsese. Yes, you had the ‘Flying out effects’ (one with the dog was particularly good), but he also took advantage of the DEPTH that it gave him, and there were some remarkable shots that took advantage of the world extending behind the screen.
RBS
257 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 9:50:57am |
re: #253 Targetpractice
Speaking of wire-fu, it looks like a sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is in the works. And it stars the glorious and fabulous Michelle Yeoh reprising her role from the first.
258 | Higgs Boson's Mate Oct 23, 2014 9:51:03am |
re: #249 Vogon Poetry
Practical effects are still more convincing to me. Current cinematic applications of CGI often seem to be imbued with contradictory weight/momentum specs.
259 | ObserverArt Oct 23, 2014 9:51:23am |
You know what I miss about many modern movies?
The damn script.
Effects mean nothing to me if there is no gripping story. In fact, I’ll take a great story with limited characters and scenes over effects any day. Any. Day.
Time for lunch and back to some work. Later little green gators
260 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 9:52:15am |
re: #254 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Reagan aide wants to split the country into North and Reagan
And no, the name is not made up…
I used to think that politics was about wining people over to your side, and governance was about finding compromises and working for the common good.
Well surprise, now politics is about demonizing and belittling anyone who does not agree with you and governance is about breaking into separate countries where you can have everything your way.
261 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 9:54:56am |
re: #255 RealityBasedEbola
I have issues with 3D. Most of the time I come out of the movies with a serious case of eye strain. I wear glasses, so having the extra pair of 3d glasses throws things off just a bit. But it’s also work to try and keep focused squarely on the screen - I find that if I turn my head or nod just a bit, things get all out of focus.
But when it’s done right, the effect can be amazing. We saw HP: Deathly Hallows 2, and the limited 3D effect was very well done - like during the battle of Hogwarts castle, and then the final battle between Harry and He Who Shall Not Be Named.
Voldemort, there, I said it and I don’t have the trace!
To me, it’s much more immersive to watch the movie on an IMAX screen than to see in 3D.
262 | Kragar Oct 23, 2014 9:55:14am |
CGI is just another tool to be used by the film maker. In some cases, it will be used by film makers to distract you from the fact they don’t really have a story to tell and hope the visual effects are enough (The Star Wars prequels, Transformers)
In other cases, the CGI is used as a tool to let the film maker develop a world or show scope which would be impossible to do conventionally (LOTR, Gravity)
Don’t blame the tool. Blame Film Makers overusing a tool.
264 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 9:57:30am |
re: #261 Vogon Poetry
I have issues with 3D. Most of the time I come out of the movies with a serious case of eye strain. I wear glasses, so having the extra pair of 3d glasses throws things off just a bit. But it’s also work to try and keep focused squarely on the screen - I find that if I turn my head or nod just a bit, things get all out of focus.
But when it’s done right, the effect can be amazing. We saw HP: Deathly Hallows 2, and the limited 3D effect was very well done - like during the battle of Hogwarts castle, and then the final battle between Harry and He Who Shall Not Be Named.
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To me, it’s much more immersive to watch the movie on an IMAX screen than to see in 3D.
I watched “The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug” in 3D and there must have been something wrong with the glasses because all the colors looked washed out, like the film was B&W.
I watched “Gravity” on Blu-Ray at home and it was freaking lame without the iMAX 3D.
265 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Oct 23, 2014 9:57:34am |
re: #262 Kragar
CGI is just another tool to be used by the film maker. In some cases, it will be used by film makers to distract you from the fact they don’t really have a story to tell and hope the visual effects are enough (The Star Wars prequels, Transformers)
In other cases, the CGI is used as a tool to let the film maker develop a world or show scope which would be impossible to do conventionally (LOTR, Gravity)
Don’t blame the tool. Blame Film Makers overusing a tool.
Is there some rule that says that every CGI film has to show people going down a tube, pipe, chute or tunnel?
266 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 9:58:01am |
More from the Speaker:
@SpeakerBoehner then why didn't you let Rep. Camp's tax reform go to the floor for a vote? Oh wait, it'd curb tax breaks needing extra pages— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 23, 2014
267 | JustMark Oct 23, 2014 9:59:10am |
re: #266 Vogon Poetry
More from the Speaker:
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I do mine on a computer, what century is he working in?
268 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 9:59:22am |
re: #264 Vicious Piebola
The washed out look could have been the result of the 48fps that Jackson shot the film in, and not the glasses.
269 | Higgs Boson's Mate Oct 23, 2014 10:01:18am |
re: #260 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Right. Not only would they have the society of the 1850s, within ten years they’d have the amenities of the 1850s as well. All three of those states are upside down in terms of federal taxes paid versus federal spending in the state so things should work out real well for them.
270 | Timothy Watson Oct 23, 2014 10:02:03am |
re: #266 Vogon Poetry
More from the Speaker:
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The 1040 isn’t two sheets of paper?
(Yes, I know there’s worksheets).
271 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 10:02:32am |
re: #268 Vogon Poetry
The washed out look could have been the result of the 48fps that Jackson shot the film in, and not the glasses.
The 48fps did make the sets look very stagey, but I have noticed that in a lot of films lately.
272 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 10:04:11am |
re: #265 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Is there some rule that says that every CGI film has to show people going down a tube, pipe, chute or tunnel?
It’s the “Universal Studios & Disneyland Theme Park Attraction Rule”
273 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 10:04:46am |
274 | Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 23, 2014 10:08:32am |
re:
#273
Wait, are the GOPteabags crying and whining about the IRS and the super burdensome tax system? Time for these WATB to put on or pull up their big boy pants. Even the standard 1040 is one piece of effin paper, front and back, not counting the typical one sided Standard for people who contribute to charity and pay mortgage interest. JFC
275 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 10:08:35am |
Instead of a pie, I think I will bake white chocolate & macadamia cookies.
276 | Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 23, 2014 10:09:32am |
re:
#275
I’ve never known white chocolate and macadamia cookies to go wanting.
277 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 10:12:27am |
re: #275 Vicious Piebola
Instead of a pie, I think I will bake white chocolate & macadamia cookies.
The voices of a billion pie lovers just cried out and then went silent. /
278 | makeitstop Oct 23, 2014 10:13:14am |
re: #277 Vogon Poetry
The voices of a billion pie lovers just cried out and then went silent. /
Ah, but there was much rejoicing in cookie-lover land!
279 | Lidane Oct 23, 2014 10:14:10am |
Gotta love that GOP voter outreach:
GOP campaign worker: “Would you vote for Todd Courser if you knew his opponent has faggots & blacks working for her?” http://t.co/mnaiX4PBc4— Chris Savage (@Eclectablog) October 23, 2014
280 | Timothy Watson Oct 23, 2014 10:15:29am |
re: #274 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)
re:
#273Wait, are the GOPteabags crying and whining about the IRS and the super burdensome tax system? Time for these WATB to put on or pull up their big boy pants. Even the standard 1040 is one piece of effin paper, front and back, not counting the typical one sided Standard for people who contribute to charity and pay mortgage interest. JFC
Yeah, I was looking at mine and it was only five pages (1040, 8880-Retirement Savings Contribution, and 5695-Energy Property Credit) if I had submitted it by mail, plus two worksheet pages (Student Loan Interest and Credit Limit Worksheet). (Really, who doesn’t do their taxes electronically?)
281 | Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 23, 2014 10:15:32am |
re:
#279
GOP campaign worker: “Would you vote for Todd Courser if you knew his opponent has faggots & blacks working for her?”
This is the party that controls the House and will likely control the Senate.
282 | blueraven Oct 23, 2014 10:15:37am |
re: #270 Timothy Watson
The 1040 isn’t two sheets of paper?
(Yes, I know there’s worksheets).
If you need to use a 1040 as opposed to a 1040A, you probably have extra schedules. At least schedule A.
Mine has schedule A, B, D (including 3 separate 8949 forms for different types of capital assets: stock transactions), and E, in addition to the ridiculous “worksheets”.
I would love some simplification. The reason it is so complicated is because of all the damn loopholes.
283 | Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 23, 2014 10:16:23am |
re:
#282
I probably only use the 1040A then. Very simple.
284 | RealityBasedEbola Oct 23, 2014 10:18:59am |
re: #278 makeitstop
Ah, but there was much rejoicing in cookie-lover land!
Cookie lovers are just ewoks compared to the forces of the Pie.
(wait… that didn’t work so well did it? Never mind)
285 | Kragar Oct 23, 2014 10:20:04am |
This tweet is a perfect representation of GG pic.twitter.com/FXoOOWZYhv— 9volt (@9_volt88) October 23, 2014
286 | Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Oct 23, 2014 10:21:03am |
The percentage of taxpayers who use the 1040EZ is pretty high, from what I can recall. Throw in those of us using the 1040A and you probably have a large majority of filers.
288 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 10:22:20am |
This shitbag shooting off his mouth again:
Michael Savage claims Obama should be arrested for treason, thinks he rigged the 2014 election http://t.co/CP25kGkJYS— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 23, 2014
289 | Mike Lamb Oct 23, 2014 10:22:24am |
290 | RealityBasedEbola Oct 23, 2014 10:23:52am |
re: #283 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)
re:
#282I probably only use the 1040A then. Very simple.
Ha.. you’re all sheeple. I, as an independent citizen of America, freed from my corporate status as property, don’t need to file, since as a free entity I’m exempt from the corporate tax.
Or at least that’s how it was explained to me. I got it from a guy who was willing to accept my corporate fiat currency for the information, but he did have to charge me extra, since the conversion costs and such. Still, seemed fair.
Actually, I get out the file folder, enter all the numbers into the magic glowing box, and if it’s green I click FILE and if it’s red I curse, click SAVE, and then wait until the 14th to file.
RBS
291 | makeitstop Oct 23, 2014 10:25:56am |
292 | Eclectic Cyborg Oct 23, 2014 10:26:11am |
So maybe I like missed it or something, but when exactly did “doxxing” and fucking people lives up become the hip thing to do?
Also between GamerGate and Glenn Greenwald I think I now have a very healthy dislike of the initials “GG”.
293 | blueraven Oct 23, 2014 10:26:59am |
re: #290 RealityBasedEbola
Ha.. you’re all sheeple. I, as an independent citizen of America, freed from my corporate status as property, don’t need to file, since as a free entity I’m exempt from the corporate tax.
Or at least that’s how it was explained to me. I got it from a guy who was willing to accept my corporate fiat currency for the information, but he did have to charge me extra, since the conversion costs and such. Still, seemed fair.
Actually, I get out the file folder, enter all the numbers into the magic glowing box, and if it’s green I click FILE and if it’s red I curse, click SAVE, and then wait until the 14th to file.
RBS
No doubt the tax programs make it pretty simple. But if you try to actually read any of the instructions for various forms you can, quite easily, go temporarily insane.
294 | Vogon Poetry Oct 23, 2014 10:27:04am |
re: #286 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)
The percentage of taxpayers who use the 1040EZ is pretty high, from what I can recall. Throw in those of us using the 1040A and you probably have a large majority of filers.
The numbers are actually pretty surprising. Most paper filers use the 1040, not the 1040EZ or 1040A (see page 148 as numbered, page 2 of the pdf). They don’t break out returns filed electronically, since it will automatically determine the form used by filling in the questionnaire.
295 | RealityBasedEbola Oct 23, 2014 10:27:21am |
re: #288 Vicious Piebola
This shitbag shooting off his mouth again:
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I quite literally can not stand to listen to his show. The screaming, ranting, raving just forces me to find anything else to listen to. He is the Archetype of “Crazy Man at Park”, he’s not even amusing to listen to for any rhetorical or theatrical skills. He’s just a loon.
RBS
296 | Timothy Watson Oct 23, 2014 10:27:51am |
re: #282 blueraven
If you need to use a 1040 as opposed to a 1040A, you probably have extra schedules. At least schedule A.
Mine has schedule A, B, D (including 3 separate 8949 forms for different types of capital assets: stock transactions), and E, in addition to the ridiculous “worksheets”.
I would love some simplification. The reason it is so complicated is because of all the damn loopholes.
Yeah, the electronic filer used the 1040 last year because I claimed a Energy Property Credit for a new heat pump. The previous year, the e-filer used the 1040A (couldn’t use the 1040EZ because I had a retirement contribution credit and a student load interest adjustment).
297 | Feline Fearless Leader Oct 23, 2014 10:28:51am |
re: #250 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Oh yeah, CGI is the lingua franca for effects these days and I love how it’s used most of the time. I often kick myself for not seeing certain movies in the theater just for the effects. But there have been a lot of movies where the only selling points are the special effects.
Speaking of CGI and movies the wife and I watched X-men: Days of future past. I enjoyed watching it, then realized it was just the plot of Terminator 2: Judgement Day with mutants ><
A lot of this discussion about movies also applies to games. The appeal of the eye candy of the game can ebb quickly or be superseded by more modern effects. But good gameplay, like good movie dialogue and character arc, can have you going back to older games even now.
298 | danarchy Oct 23, 2014 10:30:57am |
re: #286 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)
The percentage of taxpayers who use the 1040EZ is pretty high, from what I can recall. Throw in those of us using the 1040A and you probably have a large majority of filers.
I actually looked it up a few minutes ago. Only 13% filed 1040EZ in 2010, 29% filed 1040A and the rest filed 1040.
299 | Feline Fearless Leader Oct 23, 2014 10:36:59am |
re: #293 blueraven
No doubt the tax programs make it pretty simple. But if you try to actually read any of the instructions for various forms you can, quite easily, go temporarily insane.
There’s a Great Old One buried in that code. Thus the continual work to keep things tamped down by adding more regulations and the failed Sanity checks as well.
300 | Eclectic Cyborg Oct 23, 2014 10:37:15am |
Also in reference to Pat Robertson babbling about having the power to raise the dead: This belief, actually held by many evangelicals, comes from a scripture in the Book of Matthew:
5 These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. 6 Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. 7 As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy,[a] drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.
Bascially, a considerably literal reading of these scripture would boil down to: “Jesus is saying that as his followers we also have his powers and He is calling on us to use them just as he did to win converts.”
A more broad interpretation would be that Jesus is merely, once again, calling on us to be like Him. For example, instead of meaning physically raise the dead he may be referring more to the spiritual dead. Instead of meaning the physically sick, He may also mean the sinning and psychologically damaged.
Evangelicals insist miraculous resurrections continue to this day, primarily in Africa.
301 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 10:38:56am |
re: #300 Eclectic Cyborg
Also in reference to Pat Robertson babbling about having the power to raise the dead: This belief, actually held by many evangelicals, comes from a scripture in the Book of Matthew:
5 These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. 6 Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. 7 As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy,[a] drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.
Bascially, a considerably literal reading of these scripture would boil down to: “Jesus is saying that as his followers we also have his powers and He is calling on us to use them just as he did to win converts.”
A more broad interpretation would be that Jesus is merely, once again, calling on us to be like Him. For example, instead of meaning physically raise the dead he may be referring more to the spiritual dead. Instead of meaning the physically sick, He may also mean the sinning and psychologically damaged.
Evangelicals insist miraculous resurrections continue to this day, primarily in Africa.
That reminds me of a song lyric I heard many years ago:
“Heal the sick
Raise the dead
And make the girls go outa their head”
Who sang that? Johnny Cash?
302 | gwangung Oct 23, 2014 10:40:15am |
re: #301 Vicious Piebola
That reminds me of a song lyric I heard many years ago:
“Heal the sick
Raise the dead
And make the girls go outa their head”Who sang that? Johnny Cash?
Classic blues song “Seventh Son”
My favorite version is by Mose Allison, but Johnny Rivers did a cover…
303 | makeitstop Oct 23, 2014 10:40:58am |
re: #301 Vicious Piebola
That reminds me of a song lyric I heard many years ago:
“Heal the sick
Raise the dead
And make the girls go outa their head”Who sang that? Johnny Cash?
Johnny Rivers had the hit. ‘Seventh Son.’
304 | Vicious Piebola Oct 23, 2014 10:42:59am |
305 | wrenchwitch Oct 23, 2014 10:44:00am |
re: #302 gwangung
Classic blues song “Seventh Son”
My favorite version is by Mose Allison, but Johnny Rivers did a cover…
306 | Archangelus Oct 23, 2014 10:44:12am |
re: #267 JustMark
I do mine on a computer, what century is he working in?
Based on half the BS that comes out of his mouth, I’d say somewhere in the 18th century of a parallel universe…
307 | Higgs Boson's Mate Oct 23, 2014 10:45:07am |
re: #288 Vicious Piebola
Michael Savage claims Obama should be arrested for treason, thinks he rigged the 2014 election.
How many perfectly good words have these rattle-brains drained of meaning as they go spelunking though the midden heaps of their minds?
308 | De Kolta Chair Oct 23, 2014 10:51:58am |
309 | Slap Oct 23, 2014 10:54:02am |
re: #258 Higgs Boson’s Mate
At the risk of sounding like a “get off my lawn” reactionary, I agree that CGI is certainly impressive (and the main reason that all those comic book storyboards from my youth are now able to be realized believably), I miss the sense that human hands manipulating physical materials are providing the magic.
A while back, I got a chance to see a traveling exhibit of Star Trek that was pretty comprehensive. Original costumes, toys, matte paintings and sets, which were impressive enough (yes, I was in the throes of geekness that day!) — but what really floored me were the shooting models of a Borg sphere and a Borg Cube. These were the working camera models - the cube itself was about 2.5 feet square, and the level of intense detail was astonishing. All done with hands and solid materials.
I hope stuff like this gets preserved by somebody — it’d be a real shame if this visceral knowledge were to get lost in the mists of time and data. (And don’t get me started on how few young folks know the name Ray Harryhausen….!)