An Amazing Artist From Iceland: Asgeir - NPR Tiny Desk Concert

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When he was 20, Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson released an album in Iceland, sung in Icelandic, with many of the words written by his father. Dýrð í dauðaþögn became the biggest-selling debut in Icelandic music history. A year or so later, he rerecorded that album in English under the name In The Silence, with translation help from John Grant — an American singer-songwriter (and Tiny Desk veteran) now living in Iceland.

Ásgeir’s voice is angelic and yearning, his songs simple and universal. At the Tiny Desk, his raw, slowed-down arrangements bring a sense of grace to what were already elegant songs. On piano, with simple guitar accompaniment from his childhood friend Julius Róbertsson, Ásgeir strips these spare tunes down even further, locating their essence in the process. It’s been a wonderful year for the singer: His U.S. tour is wrapping up on the West Coast, and many in the U.S. have discovered his music in 2014. If you haven’t done so yet, here’s your Ásgeir moment.—BOB BOILEN

SET LIST:
“On That Day”
“Torrent”
“Higher”

CREDITS:
Producers: Bob Boilen, Maggie Starbard; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Videographers: Colin Marshall, Maggie Starbard; Assistant Producer: Susan Hale Thomas; photo by Susan Hale Thomas/NPR

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425 comments
1 psddluva4evah  Oct 23, 2014 8:57:50pm

I’ll be going to bed in a bit after my usual nightly watching of Golden Girls.

But before I do, talk me up or talk me down.

So here’s my tentative itinerary. You’ll need to do read the itinerary to understand my question. Here goes…

Sat: 6 hour flight MSY to OAK

Sun: OAK…24hrs free

Mon: 5.5 hour flight OAK to HNL, arrive Honolulu

Mon, Tue,Wed,Thurs: Hotel #1. I wanted to be Oceanfront on my B-day). No car for this segment. I’ll be using public transportation whenever possible. From what I’ve read The Bus in Honolulu can get you everywhere.

Thurs,Fri,Sat: Hotel #2. I didn’t want to keep paying oceanfront price, so I’m moving to a hotel farther from beach, but still walking distance and I also will rent a car on for this segment, so I can explore the island more.

Sat, Sun, Mon: 51min flight to HIlo. I really wanted to see Volcano National Park. I’ve rented a car for the duration of this trip. From my reading, public transportation in Hilo is not up to the same standards as Honolulu, so a rental car is better.

Sun: Full day in Hilo. I’ll use the majority of the time at VNF, and maybe check out some places in Hilo later in day.

Mon: Flight Hilo to HNL and then HNL to OAK. This day is ALL flights. I’ll arrive in OAK late, check into my hotel for the night and then next day head back to NOLA.

Tues: 5 hour flight from OAK to NOLA

My question is about baggage. So, all my “mainland” flights will be on Southwest. Southwest still doesn’t charge for bags. The complete Hawaiian leg of the flight will be on Hawaiian Airlines and they charge $25!!!!!! for each checked luggage! I calculated that I will have paid an extra $100 just to check a bag!!!!

So my question is simple, anyone think I can manage to bring EVERYTHING I’ll need in my carryon luggage. I have a carryone suitcase that can fit in the overhead and I can get a bag that is big enough to hold my purse (I plan to bring the small one) and maybe toiletries?

Anyone think it’s possible to do?

2 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 23, 2014 9:03:03pm

re: #1 psddluva4evah

Yup. You know, most airlines allow one carry-on plus a personal item, like a purse, camera bag or laptop bag, so you don’t need to stash the purse in the carry-on.

You’re going to Hawai’i, so you don’t need to pack a lot of bulky cool weather clothes.

Lay out what you want to bring on your bed. Pack half of that. Remember to reserve space for souvenirs, and in a pinch, you can send stuff via USPS or UPS.

3 allegro  Oct 23, 2014 9:03:34pm

re: #1 psddluva4evah

Sure, if you spend the whole vacay in a bikini. :)

(I’m a terrible air traveler and the last person to offer advice so the above is entirely snark, in case that wasn’t clear.)

4 Kragar  Oct 23, 2014 9:10:14pm

So I broke down and got Beyond Earth a few days ago, final patching loading now

Youtube Video

5 psddluva4evah  Oct 23, 2014 9:14:01pm

re: #3 allegro

Lord no. Nobody wants to see my body in a bikini, especially me. I know my bodily limitations :-)

re: #2 wheat-dogghazi-bola

Yeah, a friend of mine suggested, I buy toiletries when I get there, and that I check to see what laudry services my hotels offer, and if push comes to shove, I can have extra stuff shipped back home, and I think those are all good ideas

6 allegro  Oct 23, 2014 9:14:06pm

I’m still waiting for another game that is as fun as Leisure Suit Larry was. My grad students and I had a blast with that one. (Yes, I am old.)

7 teleskiguy  Oct 23, 2014 9:14:49pm

Huh. The Denver NBC affiliate 10 o’clock (p.m.) news reading of the Ebola diagnosis of Dr. Craig Spencer in New York City was…measured and had no innervation of fear. I’m baffled.

8 Kragar  Oct 23, 2014 9:15:53pm
9 psddluva4evah  Oct 23, 2014 9:17:26pm

re: #2 wheat-dogghazi-bola

Exactly, somebody tell that chump the NYC guy and the other people who were screened and cleared had connecting flights between Liberia or the Ebola-ravaged countries.

So what flights are we supposed to stop?

10 Kid A  Oct 23, 2014 9:17:44pm

Texas Monthly piece from 2007 on our next Lt. Governor, Dan Patrick. Trust me when I tell you that he is a complete and total religious, pandering lunatic; a self-serving asshole who is about to destroy our state. I mean it.
texasmonthly.com

11 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 23, 2014 9:18:35pm

re: #8 Kragar

What does he expect MSF doctors to do? Isolate themselves on some desert island after serving in West Africa? They’re entitled to rejoin their families.

12 allegro  Oct 23, 2014 9:19:02pm

re: #9 psddluva4evah

Exactly, somebody tell that chump the NYC guy and the other people who were screened and cleared had connecting flights between Liberia or the Ebola-ravaged countries.

So what flights are we supposed to stop?

Any that include Donald Trump unless it’s exiting the US.

13 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 23, 2014 9:20:10pm
14 allegro  Oct 23, 2014 9:20:14pm

re: #10 Kid A

Texas Monthly piece from 2007 on our next Lt. Governor, Dan Patrick. Trust me when I tell you that he is a complete and total religious, pandering lunatic; a self-serving asshole who is about to destroy our state. I mean it.
texasmonthly.com

I don’t even buy that he’s religious. He’s just a grifter. An evil fucknoodle.

15 Lidane  Oct 23, 2014 9:20:41pm

re: #10 Kid A

Texas Monthly piece from 2007 on our next Lt. Governor, Dan Patrick. Trust me when I tell you that he is a complete and total religious, pandering lunatic; a self-serving asshole who is about to destroy our state. I mean it.
texasmonthly.com

Between him, Greg Abbott, and the lunatics on the SBOE, this state is fucked.

16 allegro  Oct 23, 2014 9:22:24pm

re: #15 Lidane

Between him, Greg Abbott, and the lunatics on the SBOE, this state is fucked.

Even though every major newspaper in the state is endorsing Davis.

17 Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 23, 2014 9:22:39pm

re: #6 allegro

I’m still waiting for another game that is as fun as Leisure Suit Larry was. My grad students and I had a blast with that one. (Yes, I am old.)

Are you speaking of this Leisure Suit Larry:

Or a newer version?

18 allegro  Oct 23, 2014 9:23:20pm

re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg

Are you speaking of this Leisure Suit Larry:

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Or a newer version?

That’s the one. Don’t know of any newer version, though there was a LLL2. That one wasn’t as fun.

19 Kid A  Oct 23, 2014 9:25:40pm

Patrick’s mental health issues as well as his lies pertaining to them.

blog.chron.com

20 Kid A  Oct 23, 2014 9:26:12pm

re: #16 allegro

Even though every major newspaper in the state is endorsing Davis.

LIBERAL MEDIA!!!

21 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 23, 2014 9:27:01pm

re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg

Are you speaking of this Leisure Suit Larry:

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Or a newer version?

There are at least 4 versions. Text mode, CGA, VGA and the newest Windows one.

22 Jazzy Ponytail  Oct 23, 2014 9:28:04pm

The loons are really barking at the moon on Twitter tonight.

23 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 23, 2014 9:28:25pm

re: #21 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

It was available on Apple IIe and Commodore, too, IIRC.

24 teleskiguy  Oct 23, 2014 9:29:04pm

{{{{{{{My brother and sister Lizards in Texas}}}}}}}

A state of more than 25 million being governed by lunatics. OY!

25 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 23, 2014 9:32:24pm

re: #23 wheat-dogghazi-bola

It was available on Apple IIe and Commodore, too, IIRC.

Yes, but I’m pretty sure that was was available there was one of these 4 versions.

26 Lidane  Oct 23, 2014 9:36:34pm

re: #8 Kragar

27 Lidane  Oct 23, 2014 9:37:52pm

re: #16 allegro

Even though every major newspaper in the state is endorsing Davis.

True, but there are so many idiot rednecks in this state who reflexively vote against their own interests by voting Republican.

28 De Kolta Chair  Oct 23, 2014 9:42:37pm

re: #6 allegro

I’m still waiting for another game that is as fun as Leisure Suit Larry was. My grad students and I had a blast with that one. (Yes, I am old.)

Space Quest 2: Vohaul’s Revenge, also a Sierra oldie, is my all-time favorite computer game.

29 Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 23, 2014 9:43:40pm

re: #18 allegro

That’s the one. Don’t know of any newer version, though there was a LLL2. That one wasn’t as fun.

I’m actually playing it now. Free download on abandonware. :D

30 Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 23, 2014 9:44:09pm

There was also a G rated game in the style of LSL called Hugo’s House of Horrors.

31 De Kolta Chair  Oct 23, 2014 9:45:50pm

re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m actually playing it now. Free download on abandonware. :D

And totally playable thanks to the good folks at ScummVM.

32 De Kolta Chair  Oct 23, 2014 9:47:06pm

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

That was the first game with graphics I ever played. Wasn’t it shareware?

33 allegro  Oct 23, 2014 9:48:02pm

re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m actually playing it now. Free download on abandonware. :D

You guys are freaking amazing. LOL Downloading now…

34 Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 23, 2014 9:51:58pm

re: #32 De Kolta Chair

That was the first game with graphics I ever played. Wasn’t it shareware?

Yep, I think so. Maybe I’ll Google search and figure out where all the points are. I always missed the final 5 or so.

35 De Kolta Chair  Oct 23, 2014 9:54:04pm

re: #33 allegro

You guys are freaking amazing. LOL Downloading now…

DOSBox is another program to get it to work, though ScummVM is easier to use and is constantly updated, Happy gaming!

36 Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 23, 2014 9:55:21pm

re: #35 De Kolta Chair

DOSBox is a good program to to get it to work, though ScummVM is easier to use and is constantly updated, Happy gaming!
[Embedded image]

DOSBox is what I am using at the moment. Once you refresh yourself on how to navigate DOS it works great! :P

37 allegro  Oct 23, 2014 9:56:46pm

re: #35 De Kolta Chair

DOSBox is a good program to to get it to work, though ScummVM is easier to use and is constantly updated, Happy gaming!
[Embedded image]

Thanks. I wasn’t getting anywhere.

38 De Kolta Chair  Oct 23, 2014 9:59:06pm

Night all!

39 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Oct 23, 2014 10:01:01pm

I don’t think i could play those old games again though i loved the SSI Dungeons and Dragons games like Eye Of The Beholder.

40 The Ghost of a Flea (R)  Oct 23, 2014 10:01:22pm

re: #4 Kragar

So I broke down and got Beyond Earth a few days ago, final patching loading now

[Embedded content]

Speaking of video games, how do you feel about the Borderlands Pre-Sequel?

41 Floral Giraffe  Oct 23, 2014 10:38:02pm

OK, I am in trouble. I sent my boyfriend balloons for his birthday. And I warned him. He is SO pissed…

42 BeachDem  Oct 23, 2014 10:40:33pm

re: #15 Lidane

Between him, Greg Abbott, and the lunatics on the SBOE, this state is fucked.

I feel for you, I really do. But I live in South Carolina, where our soon to be re-elected moron governor said in response to a debate question about whether people convicted of domestic violence should be able to have guns that yes, of course they should, because she believes in the 2nd amendment (and the tooth fairy and unicorns…)

Domestic violence is something that really does plague South Carolina, but it’s something that we need to go deeper in. It’s a cultural issue, it’s a generational issue, and we want to get into those communities.

The best chance we’re gonna have is going through our churches, making sure that victims of domestic violence understand there’s a safe place for them. They’re not comfortable going to law enforcement right now.

43 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 23, 2014 10:44:09pm

re: #42 BeachDem

Domestic violence is something that really does plague South Carolina, but it’s something that we need to go deeper in. It’s a cultural issue, it’s a generational issue, and we want to get into those communities.

The best chance we’re gonna have is going through our churches, making sure that victims of domestic violence understand there’s a safe place for them. They’re not comfortable going to law enforcement right now.

She ignores the possibility that the abuser is a member of the same church, which means the church will do nothing to resolve the issue.

She also ignores the fact that abuse is a *crime* and so demands local LEOs get involved.

44 teleskiguy  Oct 23, 2014 11:05:39pm

re: #10 Kid A

Texas Monthly piece from 2007 on our next Lt. Governor, Dan Patrick. Trust me when I tell you that he is a complete and total religious, pandering lunatic; a self-serving asshole who is about to destroy our state. I mean it.
texasmonthly.com

Fuck Kid A, what a fuck face Dan Patrick is, and he’s about to become quite powerful in Texas government.

Fuck, man! That’s some shit!

45 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 23, 2014 11:22:17pm

My favorite Sierra series gotta be Quest for Glory. Esp. all those forests at night :d

46 BeachDem  Oct 23, 2014 11:28:08pm

re: #43 wheat-dogghazi-bola

She ignores the possibility that the abuser is a member of the same church, which means the church will do nothing to resolve the issue.

She also ignores the fact that abuse is a *crime* and so demands local LEOs get involved.

She also ignores reality, common decency and sanity. But she’s leading by, depending on the poll, between 6 and 11 points. The only glimmer of hope is that there’s an independent (republican) running who might take some votes from her, and he has a lot of money.

47 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 23, 2014 11:32:22pm

re: #46 BeachDem

She also ignores reality, common decency and sanity. But she’s leading by, depending on the poll, between 6 and 11 points. The only glimmer of hope is that there’s an independent (republican) running who might take some votes from her, and he has a lot of money.

Condolences.

48 BeachDem  Oct 23, 2014 11:32:38pm

I titled the last gubernatorial debate here God, Guns and Grass. I swear, they talked more about religion (Christian, of course, as there is no other recognized religion in South Carolina) more than they talked about politics. And two other independents, one a lying Libertarian, the other a preacher who used to play football or something, want to legalize marijuana.

49 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 23, 2014 11:38:30pm

re: #48 BeachDem

I titled the last gubernatorial debate here God, Guns and Grass. I swear, they talked more about religion (Christian, of course, as there is no other recognized religion in South Carolina) more than they talked about politics. And two other independents, one a lying Libertarian, the other a preacher who used to play football or something, want to legalize marijuana.

The USA is one of the few Western nations where God and politics are so inextricably linked.

50 klys  Oct 23, 2014 11:46:05pm

IMPORTANT THINGS TONIGHT (much more important than this ebola nonsense):

And now there is Beyond Earth to play.

51 BeachDem  Oct 23, 2014 11:46:43pm

re: #49 wheat-dogghazi-bola

The USA is one of the few Western nations where God and politics are so inextricably linked.

And especially in the South. I find it really creepy.

52 teleskiguy  Oct 23, 2014 11:58:45pm

In which I address this tweet (took long enough, eh?):

53 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 24, 2014 12:00:17am

re: #51 BeachDem

And especially in the South. I find it really creepy.

I’m a New Yorker raised by lukewarm Presbyterians. I worked in Wyoming and Kentucky after college. So, I know just what you mean. The first time someone asked me, “Are you a Christian?” I knew I was in Jesus-land. Their tone of voice implied that I would not be trustworthy if I weren’t a Christian. Under the circumstances, I felt it more advantageous to say yes, even though I am quite sure my definition of Christian differed from theirs.

54 klys  Oct 24, 2014 12:03:29am

I’m TIRED AND EASILY CONFUSED IGNORE THIS.

55 The Dude Abides  Oct 24, 2014 12:09:46am

This man, ebola 175.

This man, ebola 175

56 teleskiguy  Oct 24, 2014 12:12:03am

re: #54 klys

I’m TIRED AND EASILY CONFUSED IGNORE THIS.

You won’t believe a midwest band’s ploy to get dollars from their fans. The disregard for life itself astounds.

57 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 24, 2014 12:25:30am

Ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel with the Nine Inch Nails!!!

58 The Ghost of a Flea (R)  Oct 24, 2014 2:15:12am

re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel with the Nine Inch Nails!!!

How about the barrel full of Monkees and Phish?

59 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 24, 2014 2:34:20am

Shooting Phish in a barrel..how tempting.

60 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 24, 2014 3:12:52am

Have discovered that SFZ’s blog is active at times.

Good. I miss her rationally humane approach to everything.

61 Amory Blaine  Oct 24, 2014 3:19:28am

re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Shooting Phish in a barrel..how tempting.

Youtube Video

62 RadicalModerate  Oct 24, 2014 3:24:14am

Related note to thread downstairs about Senate races:

CNN poll: Democrat Michelle Nunn has slight edge over Republican David Perdue in Ga. Senate race; lead is within poll’s margin of error.

(CNN) — Democrat Michelle Nunn has a slight 47%-44% edge over Republican David Perdue in the Georgia race for an open Senate seat, according to a new CNN/ORC International survey released Friday.

The three-point margin falls within the poll’s sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points, meaning the two candidates are statistically tied less than two weeks before Election Day.

If neither candidate garners 50% of the vote, the race heads to a January runoff.

63 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 24, 2014 3:37:56am

re: #60 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Have discovered that SFZ’s blog is active at times.

Good. I miss her rationally humane approach to everything.

Alas my googlefu is failing. All my searches find is stalker blog hits against her.

64 BeenHereAwhile  Oct 24, 2014 4:28:38am

re: #53 wheat-dogghazi-bola

I’m a New Yorker raised by lukewarm Presbyterians. I worked in Wyoming and Kentucky after college. So, I know just what you mean. The first time someone asked me, “Are you a Christian?” I knew I was in Jesus-land. Their tone of voice implied that I would not be trustworthy if I weren’t a Christian. Under the circumstances, I felt it more advantageous to say yes, even though I am quite sure my definition of Christian differed from theirs.

Just tell them you’ve been “washed in the blood of the lamb,” and the ribs were good with mint sauce.

65 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 24, 2014 4:58:57am

re: #63 William Barnett-Lewis

Balabusta in Blue Jeans.

66 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 24, 2014 5:10:01am

re: #65 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Balabusta in Blue Jeans.

I remember that.. . Now… Thanks!

67 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 5:26:12am
68 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 24, 2014 5:42:33am
69 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 5:48:04am

Life in the time of Ebola.

70 Ian G.  Oct 24, 2014 5:58:59am

Good morning, everyone. I didn’t die of Ebola last night, and was shocked to see NYC going on as normal today, figuring it would resemble “Escape from New York” by this morning.

(////// if it weren’t obvious)

Still haven’t seen the NY Post front page, and how much glee they’re taking in blaming Obama (no, I can’t imagine they’re not blaming the president for this).

71 Ian G.  Oct 24, 2014 6:00:01am

re: #69 Vogon Poetry

Life in the time of Ebola.

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Well, maybe it will have the unintended benefit of mitigating the flu this season. You know, that disease that every year claims the lives of as many Americans as died in the Korean War?

72 bill d  Oct 24, 2014 6:02:00am

re: #68 NJDhockeyfan

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Putting the gloves into public trash cans if just fine if:

1.) They didn’t come in contact with any of the Dr’s. body fluids while they were in the apartment.
2.) People don’t rummage through public trash cans and rub their contents onto their sensitive body parts.

My God people are stupid.

73 Floral Giraffe  Oct 24, 2014 6:02:14am

I used to believe in the raw capitalism of America.
Now, not so much…

As America´s Kids Starve On
Government Lunches, Illegals
Get Second Helpings And
Gitmo´s Finest Get Fat
Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial

Seriously? This is from IBD.
Seriously?

74 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 6:03:39am

re: #73 Floral Giraffe

I used to believe in the raw capitalism of America.
Now, not so much…

Seriously? This is from IBD.
Seriously?

TCOT and SWOT just love a bunch of IBD.

75 Amory Blaine  Oct 24, 2014 6:04:04am

IBD is nasty. Their editorial board is all loons.

76 bill d  Oct 24, 2014 6:05:30am

Above the fold DRUDGE has a link to InfoWars about US Ebola patients from all across the country disappearing after going to the hospital for treatment.

Plutonium grade level stupidity.

77 Decatur Deb  Oct 24, 2014 6:08:54am

re: #70 Ian G.

Good morning, everyone. I didn’t die of Ebola last night, and was shocked to see NYC going on as normal today, figuring it would resemble “Escape from New York” by this morning.

(////// if it weren’t obvious)

Still haven’t seen the NY Post front page, and how much glee they’re taking in blaming Obama (no, I can’t imagine they’re not blaming the president for this).

Gotta unnerstan’ New Yorkers:

littlegreenfootballs.com

78 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 6:09:37am

re: #72 bill d

Here’s the thing, you’d have to read all the way down the article for the exquisite caveat:

The photos and video, all shot before Spencer’s Ebola was actually confirmed, do not show whether these officers actually entered his building.

However, some are suggesting that for the sake of safety - not to mention public sanity - it would have made sense to discard of these masks and gloves and tape in a biohazard bag.

There’s no evidence these officers actually entered the scene, let alone touched anything that might resemble a biohazard. But the Daily Fail warns that for psychological purposes, they should have bagged everything biohazard anyways - even stuff that was in no way ever in contact with the doctor - like the police tape.

Oy!

79 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 6:09:53am

As usual I’m being swarmed by the gun-fuckers because of this meme:

80 Eventual Carrion  Oct 24, 2014 6:11:42am

re: #72 bill d

Putting the gloves into public trash cans if just fine if:

1.) They didn’t come in contact with any of the Dr’s. body fluids while they were in the apartment.
2.) People don’t rummage through public trash cans and rub their contents onto their sensitive body parts.

My God people are stupid.

Well, There go my weekend plans. Thanks

81 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 6:11:53am

Youtube Video

82 Ian G.  Oct 24, 2014 6:13:47am

re: #76 bill d

Above the fold DRUDGE has a link to InfoWars about US Ebola patients from all across the country disappearing after going to the hospital for treatment.

Plutonium grade level stupidity.

Yeah, linking Alex Jones lunacy does wonderful for one’s credibility. Oh wait, it’s Drudge. There’s no credibility to lose.

83 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 6:17:09am

re: #82 Ian G.

Drudge is goading and feeding hysteria. It does wonders for clickbait, but is awful for public health (let alone sanity). He’s giving conspiracy mongers a platform that is truly undeserving.

84 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 6:17:16am

re: #76 bill d

Above the fold DRUDGE has a link to InfoWars about US Ebola patients from all across the country disappearing after going to the hospital for treatment.

Plutonium grade level stupidity.

Soylent Green is Ebola?!?!?!
///

85 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 6:18:37am

And another high school football program cancels their season due to being shocked, shocked, to find that hazing is going on.

Football Hazing

86 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 6:19:25am

Basically, Matt Drudge is now a reseller for Alex Jones.

Yet there are some (magical balance fairies) in this country who want to pretend that Drudge is somehow a reasonable news aggregator.

87 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 6:20:45am

ANOTHER FUCKING IDIOT

88 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 6:22:24am

I was going to ask him what does that have to do with the Holocaust but then said no fuck it, just block & mute

89 bill d  Oct 24, 2014 6:22:25am

re: #84 Feline Fearless Leader

Soylent Green is Ebola?!?!?!
///

I read the first 5 comments then thought better of it after I saw this little jewel:

Colloidal silver doesn’t work on Ebola.

,

90 aagcobb  Oct 24, 2014 6:26:42am

Homosexuals are now being attacked in Liberia because church leaders have blamed the Ebola epidemic on them. Pure evil.

91 bill d  Oct 24, 2014 6:26:51am

OMG!!!!

I have a far better chance of winning the Mega Millions drawing tonight than I do contracting Ebola. Hmmm, I wonder if there are any special Ebola numbers that I might pick?

92 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 6:27:15am

It appears as if the truth burns:

Three candidates vie for Ohio House District 8 seat

Much of the talk swirling around the election for Ohio House District 8 has centered on a book published in 2008.

The three candidates running to replace Armond Budish - who is running for Cuyahoga County Executive - as state representative are Republican Mikhail Alterman, Democrat Kent Smith and Independent Jocelyn Conwell.

Smith’s controversial book, “Please God Save Us,” part text, part illustration drawn by local artist Derek Hess, has been the subject of criticism over the course of his campaign.

Alterman said he thought there was a mistake in shipment when he first laid eyes on the book.
“I couldn’t possibly imagine that a candidate for public office is proud of this book,” said Alterman. “Bringing swastikas into the conversation is beyond inappropriate and offensive.”

The book has faced claims of anti-Semitism for the frequent appearance of a “crosstika,” or cross-swastika hybrid, in its pages.

“Anyone who reads the book honestly knows it’s not picking a fight with any particular religious belief,” said Smith. “It is very critical of those in the Republican Party who use religion to mask their political agendas. When it was reviewed, it was reviewed as a very anti-Republican book, and that is correct. But there’s no way you can look at the artwork in context with the meanings it was attempting to portray and come away with the idea that it was anti-Semitic.”

[…]

Smith pointed to the economic growth strategy [ed. that is a highly biased way of stating things] of tax cuts for millionaires as one of the main problems Ohio is facing right now.

[…]

93 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 6:29:49am

re: #91 bill d

You probably have better odds of winning both Mega Millions and Powerball than you do of getting Ebola.

94 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 6:33:00am

re: #90 aagcobb

Homosexuals are now being attacked in Liberia because church leaders have blamed the Ebola epidemic on them. Pure evil.

You don’t have to go to Liberia to find Ebola-as-a-judgment:

Beyond Ebola Judgments, John Hagee Said This About Israel

Hagee - the guy who used to be claimed as the pastor of the guy who brought us Sarah Palin.

95 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 6:35:31am

re: #90 aagcobb

Homosexuals are now being attacked in Liberia because church leaders have blamed the Ebola epidemic on them. Pure evil.

Isn’t it sort of against your interests to attack, beat, and presumably splatter blood of people who are supposedly spreading a disease that is spread via exposure to contaminated blood and other body fluids?

Of course, it isn’t that but more along the lines of claiming that the selected “other” is engaging in magic and witchcraft and thus causing your kin to become sick. Typical finding and blaming of a scapegoat for the benefit of the leader who is empowered by organizing and egging on the mob.

96 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 6:36:07am

re: #87 Vicious Piebola

ANOTHER FUCKING IDIOT

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Yes, I have heard of both. The Vietcong had the support of the North Vietnamese military and government, thus effectively becoming an unconventional branch of their armed forces rather than a fully independent insurgency.

And I assume by “Afghanistan” he means the Soviet-Afghan War, which dragged on for a decade because a foreign military was fighting an insurgency in its own backyard, said insurgency getting plentiful support and supplies from outside governments.

Neither case was in any way similar to what German Jews would have faced in the 1930s, had they chose to take up arms against the Reich. There was no government to support them with training and supplies, no easy place to take refuge that the Nazis wouldn’t simply level with bombs or artillery fire, and there would have been no way to gain popular support when you’re fighting your own countrymen based upon what appeared as nothing more than discriminatory treatment.

97 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 6:38:50am

re: #96 Targetpractice

Yes, I have heard of both. The Vietcong had the support of the North Vietnamese military and government, thus effectively becoming an unconventional branch of their armed forces rather than a fully independent insurgency.

And I assume by “Afghanistan” he means the Soviet-Afghan War, which dragged on for a decade because a foreign military was fighting an insurgency in its own backyard, said insurgency getting plentiful support and supplies from outside governments.

Neither case was in any way similar to what German Jews would have faced in the 1930s, had they chose to take up arms against the Reich. There was no government to support them with training and supplies, no easy place to take refuge that the Nazis wouldn’t simply level with bombs or artillery fire, and there would have been no way to gain popular support when you’re fighting your own countrymen based upon what appeared as nothing more than discriminatory treatment.

Most Holocaust victims came from countries that were invaded and occupied by the nazis and there were pockets of resistance but they did not do well against a genocidal war machine that was more interested in wholesale slaughter of Jews & Roma than in supporting their own Wehrmacht troops on the Soviet front.

98 darthstar  Oct 24, 2014 6:39:13am

twitter.com

99 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 24, 2014 6:39:50am

re: #68 NJDhockeyfan

NYC cops leave Ebola doctor’s apartment, dump gloves and masks in public trash can

an ounce of procedure is worth a ton of cure…

100 darthstar  Oct 24, 2014 6:40:57am

Okay…. on a tablet right now. Link is about GG’s boss being cozy with Obama

101 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 24, 2014 6:41:41am

re: #79 Vicious Piebola

As usual I’m being swarmed by the gun-fuckers because of this meme:

Canadian “good guy with a gun” was Mountie for 30 years, not random armed civilian

we don’t believe in “gun elitism”

102 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 6:42:41am

If there’s a hospital in this country that is capable to handle an epidemic, Bellevue is it.

It was at the forefront of handling the AIDS epidemic even before they identified it as such. It was at the fore of the TB epidemic that resulted from AIDS, and the isolation ward where the doctor is being treated was originally designed to handle TB cases including negative pressure, UV and HEPA air handling, etc. The lab for testing samples is also within the ward, limiting outside exposures even further.

Yet, the right wing echo chamber wants people to panic over the fact he took the subway (when he was asymptomatic) or that he went bowling when he wasn’t symptomatic.

He called in his symptoms when he started showing symptoms. He called and informed the right people, and the emergency response handled things the right way - taking the necessary precautions to limit exposures.

It is still possible someone else that came into direct contact with the doctor after he showed symptoms could come down with the disease, but as long as everyone follows protocols, those risks are minimized.

I’m certainly not going to get Ebola from riding the subway. Could get sick from any number of other things (from food poisoning, norovirus, common colds, flu, but Ebola isn’t on the list).

Zombie virus on the other hand… /////

103 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 6:44:38am

Looks like the GOP is having a different kind of Twitter problem:

McCarthy blasts ‘Truthy’ Twitter project

The furor in the House GOP over a university project studying Twitter trends is growing as House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) added his name to the list of critics.

McCarthy on Thursday afternoon became the most high-profile Republican to come out against Indiana University’s “Truthy” project, which is partly funded by a grant from the federal National Science Foundation.

[…]

But Republicans have taken particular issue with a portion of its 2011 grant abstract that proposes creating a service that “could mitigate the diffusion of false and misleading ideas, detect hate speech and subversive propaganda, and assist in the preservation of open debate.”

Because the last thing the GOP leaders want it someone studying how to combat misleading ideas and hate speech.

104 darthstar  Oct 24, 2014 6:45:37am

Morning everyone… can’t stay. This typing on a tablet is giving me Ebola.

105 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 6:46:07am

re: #97 Vicious Piebola

Most Holocaust victims came from countries that were invaded and occupied by the nazis and there were pockets of resistance but they did not do well against a genocidal war machine that was more interested in wholesale slaughter of Jews & Roma than in supporting their own Wehrmacht troops on the Soviet front.

The whole silliness of it all is to believe that Jews should have realized before the Holocaust even really started that the Reich was planning something terrible for them and taken up arms. Yet the reality is that, in retrospect, most of the treatment of Western European Jews before the camps was no different than black folks suffered here under Jim Crow. They were barred from establishments, barred from owning businesses or property, white children were taught about the “dangers” of the black man, and cops routinely beat black suspects or even shot them in the street on nothing more than suspicion. Hell, we still maintain our own ghettos to this day, even if they’re not walled off or guarded by soldiers.

And that’s before we even touch the Japanese-American internment.

106 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 6:48:48am

re: #97 Vicious Piebola

By best estimates, more than 3.9 million Jews (low estimate) were killed in Poland and Russia - countries that Germany invaded. Only about 134,000 Jews were killed in Germany proper (low estimate). 5.4 million Jews were murdered outside Germany (based on the low estimates).

In other words - Jews living in other countries that had armies, air forces, and naval forces fell to the Nazis and massive numbers of Jews were slaughtered despite their nations’ having military forces. Armies fell to the Nazis wholesale. France fell in weeks. So too did Poland. The Soviets were pushed back from the Polish frontier all the way to the steppes around Moscow and other key Soviet cities were besieged for years.

But a ragtag bunch of Jews could have stopped the Holocaust? Riiiight.

Source: Yad Vashem.

107 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 6:49:22am

re: #104 darthstar

Royalbola? Heard that’s pretty contagious. Stay safe. /

108 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 6:52:46am

Kevin McCarthy Wants Academics to Stop Reading Your Tweets

[…]

But Bollen and others at the university say the project is being mischaracterized as part of an effort to limit free speech—a charge that itself has taken on viral-like speed.

They trace this to what they describe as a an initial misleading news report on Aug. 25 appearing in the conservative website the Washington Free Beacon, and then a report three days later on Fox News Insider carrying an online headline: “Feds Creating Online Tracker to Search for ‘Hate Speech’ & ‘Misinformation.’ “

And then last week, they point out in an online clarification page, “the smear campaign against our research project” continued, with in an op-ed by FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai in The Washington Post.

In that posting, Pai wrote: “Hmm. A government-funded initiative is going to ‘assist in the preservation of open debate’ by monitoring social media for ‘subversive propaganda’ and combating what it considers to be ‘the diffusion of false and misleading ideas’? The concept seems to have come straight out of a George Orwell novel.”

[…]

In other words, McCarthy and Lamar Smith are doing what Roger Ailes wants them to do.

109 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 24, 2014 6:53:39am

re: #105 Targetpractice

Pointless to argue facts with Holocaust Gun Truthers. Aside from their ideological blinders and selective approach to history, they are just not gonna listen to anyone to the left of them.

Remember, their idea of politics is not about winning people over to your ideas, it is about belittling and demonizing anyone who disagrees with you as losers, moochers, terrorist sympathizers, etc.

110 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 6:55:31am

re: #106 Vogon Poetry

By best estimates, more than 3.9 million Jews (low estimate) were killed in Poland and Russia - countries that Germany invaded. Only about 134,000 Jews were killed in Germany proper (low estimate). 5.4 million Jews were murdered outside Germany (based on the low estimates).

In other words - Jews living in other countries that had armies, air forces, and naval forces fell to the Nazis and massive numbers of Jews were slaughtered despite their nations’ having military forces. Armies fell to the Nazis wholesale. France fell in weeks. So too did Poland. The Soviets were pushed back from the Polish frontier all the way to the steppes around Moscow and other key Soviet cities were besieged for years.

But a ragtag bunch of Jews could have stopped the Holocaust? Riiiight.

Source: Yad Vashem.

Resistance

111 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 6:56:31am

re:
#103

Because the last thing the GOP leaders want it someone studying how to combat misleading ideas and hate speech.

Everybody knows that if you use the hashtag TGDN than the government can’t read your tweets or see your Facebook posts. /

112 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 24, 2014 6:59:06am

re: #106 Vogon Poetry

France fell in weeks. So too did Poland. The Soviets were pushed back from the Polish frontier all the way to the steppes around Moscow and other key Soviet cities were besieged for years.

Some of the same people who say that armed Jews could have stopped the Holocaust will tell you that Poland and France fell because they were weakened internally by Jewish conspirators.

There is no escaping the circularity of their logic.

113 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 7:00:14am

re: #106 Vogon Poetry

By best estimates, more than 3.9 million Jews (low estimate) were killed in Poland and Russia - countries that Germany invaded. Only about 134,000 Jews were killed in Germany proper (low estimate). 5.4 million Jews were murdered outside Germany (based on the low estimates).

In other words - Jews living in other countries that had armies, air forces, and naval forces fell to the Nazis and massive numbers of Jews were slaughtered despite their nations’ having military forces. Armies fell to the Nazis wholesale. France fell in weeks. So too did Poland. The Soviets were pushed back from the Polish frontier all the way to the steppes around Moscow and other key Soviet cities were besieged for years.

But a ragtag bunch of Jews could have stopped the Holocaust? Riiiight.

Source: Yad Vashem.

And they appear to be pretty clueless about historical Anti-Semitism in western society. Including the United States. A lot of the initial actions by the Nazi Party in Germany and the German Army in the conquered territories had the trappings of “same old, same old” to it*. Special registration, laws banning certain activities, pogroms, etc.

* - I would hold einsatzgruppen activities to be an exception, but how well and how widely was that reported for other areas to have an idea that it could possibly occur? Especially since I expect rumors of that sort of thing fly around during any conflict and therefore often get ignored as someone overreacting or spreading propaganda.

114 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 7:01:43am

This is what passes for right wing humor.

115 Romantic Heretic  Oct 24, 2014 7:02:40am

re: #4 Kragar

One of my favourite webcomics had a little something on the game this morning.

Ctrl-Alt-Del

116 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 7:03:28am

re:
#114

This is what passes for right wing humor.

I can’t stop laughing. These are very, very funny people. /

117 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 7:04:06am

Liz, still staying on top of things,

Queen sends first tweet, signed ‘Elizabeth R’

[…]

Most members of the royal family do not tweet personally — they are represented by official accounts managed by spokespeople.

The gallery, called “Information Age,” explores the technological breakthroughs that have changed communication.

The queen was the first monarch to send an email, in 1976 when the technology was in its infancy.

[…]

The royal tweet:

Apparently she has no comment on McCarthy’s #KillingFreeSpeech .

118 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 24, 2014 7:05:06am

re: #87 Vicious Piebola

I was there in Vietnam. The fighting in Corps I-III was handled by the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) while most of the fighting in IV Corp was done by the remaining VC (Viet Cong) whose officers were mostly NVA. Both the VC and the NVA had a command structure and (heroic) logistics that ran all the way back to Hanoi. Their activities were centrally directed and coordinated. Both elements were trained and both had specialty units; sappers, medics, armorers, and engineers, among others. Both elements were the beneficiaries of an uninterrupted flow of East Bloc weapons into North Vietnam. Those low-tech East Bloc weapons, particularly the AK47, B40 RPG, and the lesser known SKS semi-automatic rifle were, and still are, rugged, reliable, and easy to maintain. IOW, a perfect choice for the environment.

The notion that a bunch of untrained civilians with an assortment of weapons in different calibers and lacking resupply could somehow overcome a trained and logistically supported force is absolute bullshit.

119 Ian G.  Oct 24, 2014 7:05:42am

re: #114 Vogon Poetry

This is what passes for right wing humor.

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Remember, it’s John Podhoretz. He’d be a used-car salesman if he hadn’t won the sperm lottery (like so many other neocons).

It’d be nice if he didn’t shit all over the fucking city he lives in, however.

120 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 7:09:20am

re:
#117

Most members of the royal family do not tweet personally — they are represented by official accounts managed by spokespeople.

Some day none of us will tweet personally as we will all have social media managers to tweet/instagram/tumbler/facebook for us. /

121 Mattand  Oct 24, 2014 7:09:57am

Shitting on the poor? Check.

Blaming heartless comments on being taken out of context? Check.

Siding with rich people as the true victims of class warfare? Check.

Accusing Obama of fomenting said class warfare? Check.

My goveneror, proving he has what it takes to be a modern Republcian who wants to run for POTUS: Chris Christie: My Minimum Wage Comments Were Misunderstood

The hilarious thing is that his ‘clarification’ basically restates everything he said in the first place.

It never ceases to amaze me that people consider this guy to be Presidential material. I know elementary school-age children with thicker skin than this.

122 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 7:10:11am

When you start seeing tobacco companies banning smoking in their offices, you have to realize that the gig is up.

Energy companies have learned a bunch from tobacco companies on how to deny and avoid responsibility for the damage they’ve done to public health and the environment. We see it every day from nonsense published by energy-company backed sources denying global warming or climate change. We saw it with how energy companies denied for decades that leaded gas played any role in horrific public health outcomes. We see it still with how they address the environmental damage wrought by fracking, oil and gas distribution safety, etc.

That’s why they’re holding on so tenaciously. They know that the public is on to them just as surely as the public began to realize just how deadly tobacco products were and are.

123 bill d  Oct 24, 2014 7:11:47am

re: #114 Vogon Poetry

This is what passes for right wing humor.

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@jpodhoretz That happened in 1960 and killed 128 people that were loved by many you heartless dumbass.

— bill d. (@bd00001) October 24, 2014
124 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 7:11:51am
125 Romantic Heretic  Oct 24, 2014 7:15:17am

re: #28 De Kolta Chair

Space Quest 2: Vohaul’s Revenge, also a Sierra oldie, is my all-time favorite computer game.

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That’s the point I gave up on the game. No matter what I did I ended up lunch. After the fiftieth try There didn’t seem to be much point in continuing.

126 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 7:15:45am

re: #121 Mattand

Shitting on the poor? Check.

Blaming heartless comments on being taken out of context? Check.

Siding with rich people as the true victims of class warfare? Check.

Accusing Obama of fomenting said class warfare? Check.

My goveneror, proving he has what it takes to be a modern Republcian who wants to run for POTUS: Chris Christie: My Minimum Wage Comments Were Misunderstood

The hilarious thing is that his ‘clarification’ basically restates everything he said in the first place.

It never ceases to amaze me that people consider this guy to be Presidential material. I know elementary school-age children with thicker skin than this.

When you have to “clarify” an earlier statement, then it obviously was not a good statement to begin with. Doubling down on it while saying that people “misinterpreted” you is generally not a sign of somebody who realizes just why the initial statement was criticized.

127 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 24, 2014 7:15:55am

Something for east coast lizards on Monday:

128 Timothy Watson  Oct 24, 2014 7:16:06am

re: #85 Feline Fearless Leader

And another high school football program cancels their season due to being shocked, shocked, to find that hazing is going on.

Football Hazing

From the story:

Police also said that one of the younger players was held down while his hair was shaved off.

Police said so far there appears to be no indication of criminal activity.

Assault and battery, how the fuck does that work?

129 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 7:18:03am

Even the UK media is picking up on this particularly stupid instance of police abuse:

Cop fail: NYPD officer kicks colleague in the head thinking he’s the suspect

Youtube Video

All that, just because I guy tried to not pay a fare.

America, land of the free, home of the brave.

130 The War TARDIS  Oct 24, 2014 7:20:07am

Well, bad news from NYC.

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131 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 24, 2014 7:20:38am

re: #118 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I was there in Vietnam. The fighting in Corps I-III was handled by the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) while most of the fighting in IV Corp was done by the remaining VC (Viet Cong) whose officers were mostly NVA. Both the VC and the NVA had a command structure and (heroic) logistics that ran all the way back to Hanoi. Their activities were centrally directed and coordinated. Both elements were trained and both had specialty units; sappers, medics, armorers, and engineers, among others. Both elements were the beneficiaries of an uninterrupted flow of East Bloc weapons into North Vietnam. Those low-tech East Bloc weapons, particularly the AK47, B40 RPG, and the lesser known SKS semi-automatic rifle were, and still are, rugged, reliable, and easy to maintain. IOW, a perfect choice for the environment.

The notion that a bunch of untrained civilians with an assortment of weapons in different calibers and lacking resupply could somehow overcome a trained and logistically supported force is absolute bullshit.

So, you’re saying “Red Dawn” is just a Hollywood fantasy?

//

132 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 7:21:38am

re: #130 The War TARDIS

Well, bad news from NYC.

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Not worry, he’s got a new set of regenerations. I just wonder what we’ll get after “Attack Eyebrows” goes away.

133 Romantic Heretic  Oct 24, 2014 7:22:45am

re: #53 wheat-dogghazi-bola

Now thinking of this bit of brilliance from Emo Phillips.

Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?”

He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me, too! What franchise?” He said, “Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?”

He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too!”

Northern Conservative𠈋aptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over.

134 The War TARDIS  Oct 24, 2014 7:23:04am

re: #132 Targetpractice

I want a woman Doctor.

Jenna Coleman would be nice.

135 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 24, 2014 7:23:43am

re: #122 Vogon Poetry

When tobacco first came over to Europe, smokers went to smoking clubs if they wanted to smoke in public, or did so at home. But the companies pushed the ubiquitous and permanent consumption of their products in all possible places, public and private.

Even when I used to smoke, I never did it in my own home, I went out on the balcony.

136 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 7:23:45am
137 Mattand  Oct 24, 2014 7:23:48am

re: #126 Targetpractice

When you have to “clarify” an earlier statement, then it obviously was not a good statement to begin with. Doubling down on it while saying that people “misinterpreted” you is generally not a sign of somebody who realizes just why the initial statement was criticized.

LOL, that was almost exactly what I was thinking when reading the article.

138 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 24, 2014 7:23:52am

re: #131 wheat-dogghazi-bola

So, you’re saying “Red Dawn” is just a Hollywood fantasy?

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In terms of actual combat, “Red Dawn” is just something for the gun nuts to watch while they’re polishing their barrels.

139 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 7:24:01am
140 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 7:24:16am

re: #134 The War TARDIS

I want a woman Doctor.

Jenna Coleman would be nice.

I’m not sure how that would work. While the Doctor’s twice now copied another’s appearance for his own, he’s never taken a companion’s appearance. Mostly because I think it would just be too depressing.

141 BigPapa  Oct 24, 2014 7:24:52am

re: #130 The War TARDIS

Oh noes, now we have Ebowla.

142 Jazzy Ponytail  Oct 24, 2014 7:24:58am

Meanwhile, Chuck C. Johnson has been up all night attacking the doctor with Ebola as a “selfish leftist,” publishing pictures of his girlfriend, and posting his full address.

And a lot of right wingers are cheering him on.

143 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 7:25:25am

re: #142 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, Chuck C. Johnson has been up all night attacking the doctor with Ebola as a “selfish leftist,” publishing pictures of his girlfriend, and posting his full address.

And a lot of right wingers are cheering him on.

So much for Twitter’s rules, eh?

144 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 7:26:15am

re: #134 The War TARDIS

I want a woman Doctor.

Perhaps its time for a transgendered Doctor?

145 BigPapa  Oct 24, 2014 7:26:30am

re: #142 Charles Johnson

He really is a vile nasty little cretin.

146 Ian G.  Oct 24, 2014 7:27:37am

re: #142 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, Chuck C. Johnson has been up all night attacking the doctor with Ebola as a “selfish leftist,” publishing pictures of his girlfriend, and posting his full address.

I figured as much would happen. White dude living in Harlem, going to work with an international nonprofit? Oh yeah, the right wing was going to go nuts over his “elitist librul New Yorker” profile, I told myself.

And I’m still seething over fucking clown John Podhoretz (an elitist New Yorker if there ever was one) trying to get, I dunno, some “street cred” with the knuckledraggers with his swipe at Park Slope.

147 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 24, 2014 7:27:37am

re: #130 The War TARDIS

Well, bad news from NYC.

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and I guess his Tardis broke down and he had to take the subway!!!

148 bill d  Oct 24, 2014 7:27:40am

re: #143 Targetpractice

So much for Twitter’s rules, eh?

He’s hiding behind his link.

149 Mike Lamb  Oct 24, 2014 7:28:08am

re: #96 Targetpractice

Yes, I have heard of both. The Vietcong had the support of the North Vietnamese military and government, thus effectively becoming an unconventional branch of their armed forces rather than a fully independent insurgency.

And I assume by “Afghanistan” he means the Soviet-Afghan War, which dragged on for a decade because a foreign military was fighting an insurgency in its own backyard, said insurgency getting plentiful support and supplies from outside governments.

Neither case was in any way similar to what German Jews would have faced in the 1930s, had they chose to take up arms against the Reich. There was no government to support them with training and supplies, no easy place to take refuge that the Nazis wouldn’t simply level with bombs or artillery fire, and there would have been no way to gain popular support when you’re fighting your own countrymen based upon what appeared as nothing more than discriminatory treatment.

This times a billion. Guerilla warfare works where the larger force in an asymmetrical warfare scenario actually gives a shit about things like collateral damage. If push came to shove, do they really think that a country willing to exterminate millions of people would have hesitated to fire bomb people into the Stone Age? Jesus people. Use one of your two brain cells.

150 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 24, 2014 7:28:11am

re: #133 Romantic Heretic

I had the sense, when I was asked if I was a Christian, that if I said, the woman would have walked away and not given me the time of day. Or, she would have wasted my time trying to convert me from lukewarm Presbyterianism.

151 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 24, 2014 7:29:00am

re: #138 Higgs Boson’s Mate

In terms of actual combat, “Red Dawn” is just something for the gun nuts to watch while they’re polishing their barrels.

So to speak.

152 Jazzy Ponytail  Oct 24, 2014 7:29:31am

re: #143 Targetpractice

So much for Twitter’s rules, eh?

He didn’t post the address on Twitter. From being suspended twice, he learned he should be more careful about doxing people and only post their addresses at his crappy website.

153 bill d  Oct 24, 2014 7:29:37am

Back to the stuff that “real” America cares about:

154 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 7:29:59am

re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

and I guess his Tardis broke down and he had to take the subway!!!

Who says it broke down? The Doctor may have landed the Tardis there for all we know. We should be on the lookout for a British 1960s police box. Just don’t get too close, she bites.

155 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 7:30:28am

re: #152 Charles Johnson

He didn’t post the address on Twitter. From being suspended twice, he learned he should be more careful about doxing people and only post their addresses at his crappy website.

Ah, so even an idiot can eventually learn a trick or two.

156 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 7:31:08am

Well, here is the Stupidest Meme Of The Day
(Bear in mind it still early)

157 Timothy Watson  Oct 24, 2014 7:32:24am

re: #153 bill d

Back to the stuff that “real” America cares about:

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What a loss to the culture.

158 Romantic Heretic  Oct 24, 2014 7:32:31am

re: #96 Targetpractice

Yes, I have heard of both. The Vietcong had the support of the North Vietnamese military and government, thus effectively becoming an unconventional branch of their armed forces rather than a fully independent insurgency.

And I assume by “Afghanistan” he means the Soviet-Afghan War, which dragged on for a decade because a foreign military was fighting an insurgency in its own backyard, said insurgency getting plentiful support and supplies from outside governments.

Neither case was in any way similar to what German Jews would have faced in the 1930s, had they chose to take up arms against the Reich. There was no government to support them with training and supplies, no easy place to take refuge that the Nazis wouldn’t simply level with bombs or artillery fire, and there would have been no way to gain popular support when you’re fighting your own countrymen based upon what appeared as nothing more than discriminatory treatment.

As far as I know there have been only two successful insurgencies since the end of WWII not supported by a major power that succeeded; Cuba and Nicaragua. In both cases the governments overthrown were spectacularly inept.

The US government is nowhere near Batista’s or Samoza’s level.

159 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 24, 2014 7:32:35am

Largest sunspot in more than 20 years facing Earth

I guess this means we’re all gonna die…

///

160 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 7:33:25am

re: #156 Vicious Piebola

Well, here is the Stupidest Meme Of The Day
(Bear in mind it still early)

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Mom was busy in the kitchen and thus was unavailable for the photograph.
///

161 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 24, 2014 7:34:03am

re: #155 Targetpractice

Ah, so even an idiot can eventually learn a trick or two.

Unsurprising: a laboratory rat can be taught to navigate a maze.

162 Timothy Watson  Oct 24, 2014 7:35:04am

re: #161 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Unsurprising: a laboratory rat can be taught to navigate a maze.

But the rat’s smarter.

163 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 7:35:54am

re: #160 Feline Fearless Leader

Mom was busy in the kitchen and thus was unavailable for the photograph.
///

These same kind of people also love the meme
TEACH YOUR DAUGHTER TO SHOOT BECAUSE A RESTRAINING ORDER IS JUST A PIECE OF PAPER!!!!

How about teaching your daughter to not date abusive scumbuckets?

164 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 24, 2014 7:36:04am

re: #162 Timothy Watson

But the rat’s smarter.

And there are some things a rat just won’t do.

165 Ian G.  Oct 24, 2014 7:38:15am

re: #156 Vicious Piebola

Well, here is the Stupidest Meme Of The Day
(Bear in mind it still early)

[Embedded content]

Note the twitter avatar that is undoubtedly part of a creepy end-times fetish for Israel.

166 Timothy Watson  Oct 24, 2014 7:38:40am

re: #163 Vicious Piebola

These same kind of people also love the meme
TEACH YOUR DAUGHTER TO SHOOT BECAUSE A RESTRAINING ORDER IS JUST A PIECE OF PAPER!!!!

How about teaching your daughter to not date abusive scumbuckets?

And making sure she has some self-worth and self-confidence?

167 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 24, 2014 7:39:02am

re: #160 Feline Fearless Leader

Mom was busy in the kitchen and thus was unavailable for the photograph.
///

Mom got caught messin’ around with the deliveryman and is buried out under the willow…

168 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 7:40:43am

re: #161 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Unsurprising: a laboratory rat can be taught to navigate a maze.

Well, Chucky certainly has the ratfking down pat.

169 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 24, 2014 7:41:17am

re: #166 Timothy Watson

And making sure she has some self-worth and self-confidence?

You’re asking them for a complete cultural overhaul. That’s a tall order.

170 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 7:41:52am
171 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 7:41:54am

Christian fundamentalists doing what they do best - ignorance and tribal hatred:

American evangelist angers Kenyans with Aids on towels comments

Kenyans are expressing anger and shock on social media and radio stations over comments made by popular American evangelist Pat Robertson in a recent TV broadcast in which he warned that towels in Kenya could transmit AIDS.

Robertson made the remarks last week while answering a question his show “The 700 Club” from a viewer about whether a planned trip to Kenya is risky.

Robertson responded: “You might get AIDS in Kenya. The people have AIDS in Kenya. The towels could have AIDS.”

[…]

and

In Israel, priest draws fire for preaching Christians are not Arabs

A Greek Orthodox priest who has advocated a non-Arab identity for members of Israel’s Christian community is being alternately vilified and praised for spearheading a government campaign to drive a wedge between Christian and Muslim Israelis.

Two years ago, few people beyond his church in Yefia, near the mixed Muslim and Christian city of Nazareth, had heard of Father Gabriel Naddaf. Today he is Israel’s most talked about Christian clergyman.

Father Naddaf’s influence is on the rise after receiving, in recent weeks, greater government backing for his agenda of breaking off Christians from the rest of Israel’s Arab minority, infusing them with a new-old national identity, and aligning with the Jewish majority, including by serving in the army.

[…]

172 Mike Lamb  Oct 24, 2014 7:41:58am

re: #156 Vicious Piebola

Well, here is the Stupidest Meme Of The Day
(Bear in mind it still early)

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Is that fucking clown wearing an Affliction shirt? Seriously?

173 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 24, 2014 7:42:24am

re: #163 Vicious Piebola

How about teaching your daughter to not date abusive scumbuckets?

There are some towns out there in the hinterlands (And I’ve lived in them) where not dating abusive scumbuckets would pretty much limit a young woman to the closeted gay guy or someone from the AV club.

174 Mattand  Oct 24, 2014 7:43:57am

re: #142 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, Chuck C. Johnson has been up all night attacking the doctor with Ebola as a “selfish leftist,” publishing pictures of his girlfriend, and posting his full address.

And a lot of right wingers are cheering him on.

I’m sorry, how is this not illegal? And why the fuck won’t Twitter permanently suspend this fucking asshole?

175 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 7:44:02am

re: #173 Higgs Boson’s Mate

There are some towns out there in the hinterlands (And I’ve lived in them) where not dating abusive scumbuckets would pretty much limit a young woman to the closeted gay guy or someone from the AV club.

It might take a generation or two, but how else are you going to stamp out their genes?
//

176 Romantic Heretic  Oct 24, 2014 7:44:46am

re: #173 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Lived in one myself.

A guy treating a woman like a person would be labelled a ‘faggot’ in an instant. ‘Manliness’ excludes courtesy in these places.

177 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 24, 2014 7:45:04am

re: #105 Targetpractice

Great point about the internment. I want to see a wingnut use “they could have avoided internment if they only had guns” argument.

178 Mattand  Oct 24, 2014 7:45:29am

re: #174 Mattand

I’m sorry, how is this not illegal? And why the fuck won’t Twitter permanently suspend this fucking asshole?

Never mind. Saw the explanation above.

Guy is still a reprehensible human being.

179 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 7:45:41am

re: #156 Vicious Piebola

Well, here is the Stupidest Meme Of The Day
(Bear in mind it still early)

[Embedded content]

“How boys should be raised”? What, thinking of women as property that has to be protected?

180 BigPapa  Oct 24, 2014 7:46:35am

WTF is he talking about?

181 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 7:47:21am

This story is an interesting one in itself:

Jewish Women’s Group Defies Rules to Pray at Wailing Wall

A Jewish women’s rights group smuggled a tiny 200-year-old holy scroll to Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall to pray on Friday, in contravention to the rules governing one of the holiest places in Judaism. “The rabbinical authority doesn’t want us there, they only want people who practice ultra-religious traditions to pray at the Wailing Wall,” said Shira Spure, a member of Women Of The Wall, which has been fighting for equal praying rights for 25 years. “This is ridiculous.”

[…]

But what caught my eye was the first comment on this NBC news blurb:

hjfromtx commented 15 minutes ago

#1
comment author avatar
Socialist liberal NBC trying to find anything and everything they can to post….except for……mid term election pole numbers?

Teabonics in action?

182 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 7:47:33am

Amazing. NYT runs article on Ebola fallacies, including the nonsense from noted virologist George Will (like other noted epidemeologists like Chuckles) that Ebola has gone airborne. It hasn’t.

Yet, at the same time, the NYT is running tweets - “Can I Get Ebola from the subway”

Want to squash rumors, quit with the questions and click bait. Answer definitively. The tweet should be:

You can’t get Ebola from riding the subway. Only by direct contact with someone with active symptoms of Ebola.

183 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 7:47:40am

re: #180 The Big Ebola of Rocka Rolla

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WTF is he talking about?

Maybe Herman has been chugging port and thus has developed a list to starboard while thinking he will get a firm hold of a female’s stern.
////

184 FemNaziBitch  Oct 24, 2014 7:47:42am

It’s morning.

How are you.

Not here for long -taking my Mommy for a birthday lunch. She is now 84.

you?

185 Romantic Heretic  Oct 24, 2014 7:47:49am

re: #180 The Big Ebola of Rocka Rolla

My brain hurts trying to process that.

186 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 7:50:38am

re: #180 The Big Ebola of Rocka Rolla

Rising tides lift all boats. Cain seems to think there are boats at the “bottom”.

The boats at the bottom have sunk. The 1% has sunk them, and is keeping them there, instead of lifting them and giving them assistance that might actually enrich everyone - not just the 1%. And it starts with paying living wages to people - which can reduce reliance on support net, reducing government expenditures. The programs can continue, but wont be nearly as expensive as people are getting paid a living wage and have access to affordable health insurance, which helps keep them working safely and healthily.

That’d be a conservative and responsible way of looking at the economy btw.

187 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 7:50:49am

re: #184 FemNaziBitch

It’s morning.

How are you.

Not here for long -taking my Mommy for a birthday lunch. She is now 84.

you?

Allergies are bad today. Have not drunk enough tea/coffee yet. Work sucks*.

Cats are annoyed by current diet heavy on vegetables - I’m not creating interesting smelling dinners. (Cats don’t eat human food anyways, they just like smelling it and then lying on the table to watch me eat.)

* - Noted that sucky work day in this regard is still better than being unemployed. So it’s a first-world problem.

188 blueraven  Oct 24, 2014 7:51:52am

Some good news.

Nurse Nina Pham is now Virus free.

189 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 7:52:32am
190 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 24, 2014 7:53:09am

re: #181 freetoken

This story is an interesting one in itself:

Jewish Women’s Group Defies Rules to Pray at Wailing Wall

Misogynistic douches are misogynistic douches everywhere, the rabbinate not being an exception.

191 FemNaziBitch  Oct 24, 2014 7:53:57am

re: #187 Feline Fearless Leader

Allergies are bad today. Have not drunk enough tea/coffee yet. Work sucks*.

Cats are annoyed by current diet heavy on vegetables - I’m not creating interesting smelling dinners. (Cats don’t eat human food anyways, they just like smelling it and then lying on the table to watch me eat.)

* - Noted that sucky work day in this regard is still better than being unemployed. So it’s a first-world problem.

There is more coffee and it is Friday …

oh and here

192 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 24, 2014 7:54:07am

re: #184 FemNaziBitch

It’s morning.

How are you.

Not here for long -taking my Mommy for a birthday lunch. She is now 84.

you?

It’s World Tripe Day and there are free gifts!

It’s actually a fun book for Kindle.

The other free Kindle book is “Forgotten Lancashire and Parts of Cheshire and the Wirral” (advertised as “fact-free” :D ).

193 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 24, 2014 7:54:07am

re: #184 FemNaziBitch

It’s morning.

How are you.

Not here for long -taking my Mommy for a birthday lunch. She is now 84.

you?

Wish her a Happy Birthday for me. My own dear mom passed when I was in my thirties. Still miss her.

194 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 7:55:11am

re: #191 FemNaziBitch

There is more coffee and it is Friday …

oh and here

Thank you. :)

195 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 7:55:54am

re: #190 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Misogynistic douches are misogynistic douches everywhere, the rabbinate not being an exception.

Misogynistic douches notwithstanding, how would a women’s rights group fare if they tried to:
1) Conduct a women’s only mass in St. Peter’s Square
2) Sing the Adhan at the Great Mosque in Mecca

Because that would be the equivalent of what the Jewish group is doing.

196 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 24, 2014 7:56:49am

re: #85 Feline Fearless Leader

And another high school football program cancels their season due to being shocked, shocked, to find that hazing is going on.

Football Hazing

If more of them do cancel seasons and other effective strategies, there may come a time when people really are shocked by hazing.

197 BigPapa  Oct 24, 2014 7:57:04am

re: #185 Romantic Heretic

My brain hurts trying to process that.

You go to the back of the tide then!

198 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 7:57:29am

ANOTHER FUCKING IDIOT HEARD FROM:
Dumbass, how did that turn out? You didn’t read to the end.

199 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 24, 2014 7:58:36am

re: #195 Vicious Piebola

Misogynistic douches notwithstanding, how would a women’s rights group fare if they tried to:
1) Conduct a women’s only mass in St. Peter’s Square
2) Sing the Adhan at the Great Mosque in Mecca

Because that would be the equivalent of what the Jewish group is doing.

Traditionalist Christian and Muslim authorities are also well-known for misogyny.

200 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 7:59:04am

THE STUPID IS OUT IN FORCE

201 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 24, 2014 8:00:11am

re: #97 Vicious Piebola

Most Holocaust victims came from countries that were invaded and occupied by the nazis and there were pockets of resistance but they did not do well against a genocidal war machine that was more interested in wholesale slaughter of Jews & Roma than in supporting their own Wehrmacht troops on the Soviet front.

That’s the part most of these idiots don’t understand. When things were collapsing in 44 & 45 instead of using the trains to move supplies and troops to fight the Russians, the killing had the higher priority.

Small arms in the hands of amateurs with no outside support isn’t going to do diddly against that level of insanity.

202 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 8:00:19am

re: #186 Vogon Poetry

Rising tides lift all boats. Cain seems to think there are boats at the “bottom”.

The boats at the bottom have sunk. The 1% has sunk them, and is keeping them there, instead of lifting them and giving them assistance that might actually enrich everyone - not just the 1%. And it starts with paying living wages to people - which can reduce reliance on support net, reducing government expenditures. The programs can continue, but wont be nearly as expensive as people are getting paid a living wage and have access to affordable health insurance, which helps keep them working safely and healthily.

That’d be a conservative and responsible way of looking at the economy btw.

The GOP wants people to believe two contradictory things: That Americans should aspire to better jobs and higher wages, but unions that protect both are the cause of America’s decline. Anybody who believes the GOP really wants Americans to earn better wages just needs to look at how they act when a major union goes on strike for higher wages or better benefits.

203 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 24, 2014 8:00:29am

re: #180 The Big Ebola of Rocka Rolla

Herman Cain is just saying that Obama should have given the poor submarines rather than cell phones and T Bone steaks.

204 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 8:00:35am

re:
#200

civilians TRAIN to use firearms!,,CRIMINALS DO NOT…!! random civilians are great people!!

So criminals don’t know how to shoot? Well, that’s comforting. Nothing to be afraid of then. /////

205 bill d  Oct 24, 2014 8:02:07am

re: #204 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)

re:
#200

So criminals don’t know how to shoot? Well, that’s comforting. Nothing to be afraid of then. /////

That’s why they always hold those guns sideways in the movies.

//

206 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 8:02:13am

re: #204 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)

re:
#200

So criminals don’t know how to shoot? Well, that’s comforting. Nothing to be afraid of then. /////

And random civilians are just as good as trained military in “active shooter” situations? Riiiiight.

207 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 24, 2014 8:02:38am
208 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 8:08:03am

re: #206 Vicious Piebola

And random civilians are just as good as trained military in “active shooter” situations? Riiiiight.

Except maybe they are better at video games.

209 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 8:08:03am

re: #204 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)

Youtube Video

Not just trained, but trained as Marines.

Major Hassan. Trained to shoot in the Army.

Plenty of others who had training and still managed to kill people as criminals.

210 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 8:08:05am

re: #196 William Barnett-Lewis

If more of them do cancel seasons and other effective strategies, there may come a time when people really are shocked by hazing.

Assuming the school boards and supervisors survive the initial backlash from the idiots.

211 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 8:08:05am

re:
#188

Some good news.

Nurse Nina Pham is now Virus free.

Chuck C. Jernalist: Where is Nurse Nina Pham? How come the media won’t give us updates? How come we don’t know what’s going on?

212 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 8:08:48am
213 FemNaziBitch  Oct 24, 2014 8:10:16am
214 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 24, 2014 8:11:08am

re: #200 Vicious Piebola

Because going to a range and running through a couple of boxes of ammunition will teach you everything you need to know about instinctive shooting and hitting a moving target that’s shooting back.

215 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 8:11:49am

re: #214 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Because going to a range and running through a couple of boxes of ammunition will teach you everything you need to know about instinctive shooting and hitting a moving target that’s shooting back.

That is what these gun-fuckers keep telling me.

216 BigPapa  Oct 24, 2014 8:14:06am

Has CCJ confirmed whether the NY Ebowla Doctor is Muslim yet?

217 FemNaziBitch  Oct 24, 2014 8:15:32am

re: #199 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Traditionalist Christian and Muslim authorities are also well-known for misogyny.

218 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 8:15:55am

re:
#216

Has CCJ confirmed whether the NY Ebowla Doctor is Muslim yet?

No need to confirm. FACT. Also, too, selfish leftist doctor is teh gay and a Democrat party. Illegally voted for Obama. Doesn’t watch the duck hunter show. /////

219 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 8:16:17am

re: #214 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Because going to a range and running through a couple of boxes of ammunition will teach you everything you need to know about instinctive shooting and hitting a moving target that’s shooting back.

Yep, which is why a housewife is every bit a trained killer as a battle-hardened soldier.

220 Ace-o-aces  Oct 24, 2014 8:16:23am

re: #216 The Big Ebola of Rocka Rolla

Has CCJ confirmed whether the NY Ebowla Doctor is Muslim yet?

The doc is white, so I’m sure CCJ will forgo his usual background check.

221 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 24, 2014 8:16:28am

re: #215 Vicious Piebola

In real life, they’d get their asses shot clean off.

222 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 8:17:29am

re: #221 Higgs Boson’s Mate

In real life, they’d get their asses shot clean off.

Assuming they didn’t immediately desert or otherwise run away.

223 Lidane  Oct 24, 2014 8:17:33am

224 Lidane  Oct 24, 2014 8:18:38am

225 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 8:18:45am

Nina Pham was infected at some point during the treatment of Duncan. She was symptomatic as of October 10, with a fever. She tested positive on the 11th and treatment began thereafter.

She’s now disease free on the 24th.

That’s just about two weeks from confirmation of Ebola to being disease free.

Pretty impressive.

Amber Vinson was confirmed to be infected on the 15th, but by the 22nd was determined to be Ebola free.

That is pretty important information - with the right kind of treatment/support, the disease is survivable. There is no known cure, only support treatments that give people a chance to survive.

The problem is that over in Africa, there isn’t the kind of support and therapeutic offerings available, so the disease continues to spread. There was an NPR story about how there’s a hydration kit for those who may have Ebola, and that pushing fluids and electrolytes is key to keeping the body from going into organ failure.

Possible improvement? Add better tasting flavor to mask the chemical tastes - make it easier for people to tolerate drinking the stuff.

226 FemNaziBitch  Oct 24, 2014 8:20:44am
227 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 8:21:36am

re:
#224

Last month, Jesse Lee Peterson wrote a column for WND suggesting that if anti-gay Christian business owners are going to be required to serve gay customers, they ought to do so by informing any gay customers “upfront that they would take their money and donate it to a conservative Christian law firm to fight against same-sex marriage.”

In other words, they’ll take teh gay’s money and set it on fire.

228 FemNaziBitch  Oct 24, 2014 8:23:06am
229 nearly-headless smith25  Oct 24, 2014 8:23:08am

re: #224 Lidane

Fuck that dude. Fox News and some Conservatives will point to this “Good Negro” to discredit legitimate an necessary protests against police brutality and institutional racism around this nation.

Which if you haven’t looked at the shooting of VonDerritt Myers in Shaw, it might actually end up being a worse example of Police misconduct that what happened in the Mike Brown shooting.

230 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 8:23:21am

re:
#224

“It was wrong during the so-called Civil Rights Movement,” Peterson said, “when they forced private white businesses like cafes and restaurants and things like that, when they allowed black people to do sit-ins on private white businesses, those folks who did not want black people in there.”

But MLK was GOP!!!!!!11

231 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 24, 2014 8:23:40am
232 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 8:24:46am

re:
#231

The first video of Ebola-free nurse Nina Pham reuniting with her ebola-free dog, Bentley will absolutely break the internet.

Somebody’s peeling onions in here……

233 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 8:25:10am

Speaking of ebola and evolution:

Ebola’s evolutionary roots are more ancient than previously thought, study finds

A new study is helping to rewrite Ebola’s family history.

The research shows that filoviruses — a family to which Ebola and its similarly lethal relative, Marburg, belong — are at least 16-23 million years old.

[…]

234 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 24, 2014 8:25:10am

re: #227 The Fourth Football of the Apocalypse (Bulworth)

As long as they donate the gays’ money to those conservative Christian law firms that have been so successful in halting the advance of same sex marriage.

235 FemNaziBitch  Oct 24, 2014 8:25:33am

Posting Every Day Until the Election -please share

236 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 8:26:47am

re:
#234

As long as they donate the gays’ money to those conservative Christian law firms that have been so successful in halting the advance of same sex marriage.

TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

237 BigPapa  Oct 24, 2014 8:27:20am

For every complain about a political operative and not a doctor being the Ebola Czar: what about the House Science Committee having no scientists on it?

238 Lidane  Oct 24, 2014 8:28:21am
239 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 8:28:46am

re:
#238

Freedumb.

240 ObserverArt  Oct 24, 2014 8:28:52am

Good day all. So, I take it New York is still ticking along and everything hasn’t come to a crushing halt due to Ebola?

Can’t say the same for my connection to LGF today. I was following along while doing some work and suddenly when I clicked on the New Comments button I couldn’t refresh or do anything with Chrome.

So I shut it down, came back on and for the first time ever I wasn’t still logged in. Strange.

I think my computer might be infected.

OH NO…it’s EBOLA. It’s in my computer…and I am linked to the internet. Look out everyone…EBOLA on the ‘net.

Arrrgh. All the computers in my house are going to need quarantined.

(Don’t have much to offer, but I figured I need to join in the panic since it is fashionable. And oh, one more thing. SHUT UPChuck you little pissant!)

241 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 24, 2014 8:29:36am

re: #186 Vogon Poetry

And it starts with paying living wages to people - which can reduce reliance on support net, reducing government expenditures. The programs can continue, but wont be nearly as expensive as people are getting paid a living wage and have access to affordable health insurance, which helps keep them working safely and healthily.

There is a lot of ideological talk about the value and dignity of hard work, but to these people, labor is just another commodity and a business expense to be minimized.

242 FemNaziBitch  Oct 24, 2014 8:29:37am

re: #240 ObserverArt

Mine has been a bit wonky as well. It’s Friday.

243 The War TARDIS  Oct 24, 2014 8:30:01am

re: #238 Lidane

Terrorist supporter says what?

244 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 8:30:25am

re:
#242

Mine has been a bit wonky as well. It’s Friday.

Somebody feed the damn hamsters already…

245 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 24, 2014 8:31:57am

re: #217 FemNaziBitch

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These fellows will tell you there is no “option” on how to interpret their Scriptures: that smacks of moral relativism!

246 bill d  Oct 24, 2014 8:32:11am

re: #225 Vogon Poetry

The fluid loss while having Ebola is what astounded me:

approximately 10 liters per day in the first 72 hours

nejm.org

247 FemNaziBitch  Oct 24, 2014 8:32:33am

cuteness!

248 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 8:32:46am

LOLWHUT

249 FemNaziBitch  Oct 24, 2014 8:32:51am

bbl

250 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 8:33:01am
251 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 24, 2014 8:33:16am

re: #237 BigPapa

For every complain about a political operative and not a doctor being the Ebola Czar: what about the House Science Committee having no scientists on it?

“There’s a lot of smart college professors and tea-guzzling slobs in this burg that say I’m a roughneck and a never-wuzzer and my knowledge of history is not-yet. Oh, there’s a gang of woolly-whiskered book-lice that think they know more than Almighty God, and prefer a lot of Hun science and smutty German criticism to the straight and simple Word of God.”
- Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

252 ObserverArt  Oct 24, 2014 8:34:02am

re: #228 FemNaziBitch

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Chaffetz is a moron. And like many Republicans, so busy with the political games he doesn’t even know what results they bring.

I pray for the day when people that support these bozos wake the hell up and realize they have been taken for a ride.

253 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 8:35:50am

What a nitwit.

Screening will only find someone if they’re symptomatic with a fever.

The doctor wasn’t symptomatic until pretty much the time he called in his symptoms to MSF. In other words, he wasn’t infectious until he saw he was running a fever after following protocol calling for 2x a day checks.

In other words, Coulter’s barking at the moon and hoping no one notices a fact free rant.

254 makeitstop  Oct 24, 2014 8:36:26am

re: #184 FemNaziBitch

It’s morning.

How are you.

Not here for long -taking my Mommy for a birthday lunch. She is now 84.

you?

Happy Birthday to mom!

And, no, I’m not 84. Yet.

255 The War TARDIS  Oct 24, 2014 8:38:30am

re: #248 Vicious Piebola

Wow, they found a few token people. I is shocked.

//////not enough in the universe

256 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 24, 2014 8:38:40am

re: #251 Higgs Boson’s Mate

“There’s a lot of smart college professors and tea-guzzling slobs in this burg that say I’m a roughneck and a never-wuzzer and my knowledge of history is not-yet. Oh, there’s a gang of woolly-whiskered book-lice that think they know more than Almighty God, and prefer a lot of Hun science and smutty German criticism to the straight and simple Word of God.”
- Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

That is part of an established American inferiority complex toward European science and learning. You also encounter a touch of it in Russia as well: “We may not be as culturally or scientifically advanced as they are over there, but we are morally superior!”

257 ObserverArt  Oct 24, 2014 8:39:07am

re: #253 Vogon Poetry

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What a nitwit.

Screening will only find someone if they’re symptomatic with a fever.

The doctor wasn’t symptomatic until pretty much the time he called in his symptoms to MSF. In other words, he wasn’t infectious until he saw he was running a fever after following protocol calling for 2x a day checks.

In other words, Coulter’s barking at the moon and hoping no one notices a fact free rant.

When has Annie ever needed facts???

258 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 8:39:24am

re: #255 The War TARDIS

Wow, they found a few token people. I is shocked.

//////not enough in the universe

Who says those are real people and not some random photos from the Internet?

259 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 8:40:13am

Moar freedum lovers:

Allen West On Ottawa Attack: “Shut Down” Mosques Of Perpetrators And Deport The Imams

260 The War TARDIS  Oct 24, 2014 8:41:00am

re: #258 Vicious Piebola

Fair point.

261 Romantic Heretic  Oct 24, 2014 8:43:18am

re: #217 FemNaziBitch

This is why I’m not religious.

Religions quickly devolve into ideologies, and ideologies are not about being good but about being right.

262 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 8:46:00am

OH PLEASE TP YOU ARE SMARTER THAN THIS

263 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 24, 2014 8:46:11am

re: #256 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Sinclair Lewis is long out of vogue. I still find some of his work to be keenly observed to the point of prescience.

264 Romantic Heretic  Oct 24, 2014 8:48:59am

re: #259 freetoken

Moar freedum lovers:

Allen West On Ottawa Attack: “Shut Down” Mosques Of Perpetrators And Deport The Imams

Fuck you, Allen. As I said yesterday the perp was a loon who was just looking for an excuse to kill someone. The mosque he attended, and Islam itself, have nothing to do with his actions.

Anyway, it’s not like I’m going to listen to a war criminal.

265 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 8:49:02am

She has Dudettebroface

266 Lidane  Oct 24, 2014 8:49:51am

That sound you hear is a bunch of RWNJ heads going ‘splodey:

267 De Kolta Chair  Oct 24, 2014 8:50:00am

Mayor de Blasio holding a presser on Ebola, which is running a little late. Should start any minute. Live stream:

wnyc.org

268 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 8:52:28am

[facepalm]

269 ObserverArt  Oct 24, 2014 8:53:37am

re: #267 De Kolta Chair

Mayor de Blasio holding a presser on Ebola which is running a little late. Live stream:

wnyc.org

If the mayor comes out decked out in full personal protective equipment New York is screwed.

/// …but can you just imagine the panic?

270 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 8:54:06am

re: #264 Romantic Heretic

Fuck you, Allen. As I said yesterday the perp was a loon who was just looking for an excuse to kill someone. The mosque he attended, and Islam itself, have nothing to do with his actions.

Anyway, it’s not like I’m going to listen to a war criminal.

It’s funny, but when a random white guy goes nuts and shoots up a place, the first thing we hear is usually not talk about “terrorism” and disparaging Christianity.

271 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 8:54:47am

re: #268 Vogon Poetry

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[facepalm]

“And I, as a carpet bagging opportunist, will totally protect you…unless you fail to elect me, in which case I’m picking up sticks and seeking out another opportunity in 2016.”

272 Franklin  Oct 24, 2014 8:55:14am

re: #248 Vicious Piebola

LOLWHUT

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Sofaking Stupid.

For Chris Kluwe, instead of “White Jock”, why not “Gay Rights Activist”. Right, it would ruin the meme.

273 BigPapa  Oct 24, 2014 8:56:31am

There seems to be some notion that a ‘recent convert to Islam’ that goes on a rampage was caused by the conversion to Islam.

No concept of potentially different causes and effects, other than ‘Islam/yes then caused by Islam.’

274 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 8:56:52am

re: #272 Franklin

Sofaking Stupid.

For Chris Kluwe, instead of “White Jock”, why not “Gay Rights Activist”. Right, it would ruin the meme.

Christina Hoft Summers “feminist” that’s the same as calling MLK a “Republican”

275 Lidane  Oct 24, 2014 8:56:52am

Mental health break:

276 ObserverArt  Oct 24, 2014 8:56:59am

re: #269 ObserverArt

If the mayor comes out decked out in full personal protective equipment New York is screwed.

/// …but can you just imagine the panic?

If Scott Brown appears decked out in full personal protective equipment it would not surprise me in the least.

No snark tags…that dude would do anything for some panic votes. He is the definition of a pandering politician.

277 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 8:57:21am

re:
#268

Scott Brown statement starts: “Ebola has now spread to NYC, the largest city in the US and less than 300 miles from New Hampshire…”

Which is why need to repeal Obamacare, cut taxes, and end burdensome regulations on business..

278 BigPapa  Oct 24, 2014 8:57:24am

re: #268 Vogon Poetry

He can see NY from his… where the hell is from again?

279 nearly-headless smith25  Oct 24, 2014 8:57:32am

re: #262 Vicious Piebola

Fuck Snowjob:

Real journalism in the digital age.

280 bill d  Oct 24, 2014 8:57:44am

Wow, so happy

281 Lidane  Oct 24, 2014 8:57:51am

re: #268 Vogon Poetry

282 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 9:00:34am
Don’t tell Scott Brown, but New York City is actually less than *200* miles from New Hampshire.

Lay off, Scott Brown. He just moved to NH. How’s he supposed to know?

////

283 De Kolta Chair  Oct 24, 2014 9:00:34am

Mayor de Blasio’s news conference delayed until 12:30.

284 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 9:01:03am

re: #270 Targetpractice

It’s funny, but when a random white guy goes nuts and shoots up a place, the first thing we hear is usually not talk about “terrorism” and disparaging Christianity.

I give you the not-at-all-redoubtable John Hayward:

SUDDEN JIHAD SYNDROME STRIKES IN NYC?

He goes to great length to try to make the ax-wielder part of a big plot, when all data to date simply says he is an unhinged violent guy with a record.

Put simply, every Muslim is now beyond guilty - they are conspirators in a massive plot that is so secret that there is no evidence.

285 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 9:01:45am

She sure doesn’t look like the zombies the right wing was promising as a result of a massive outbreak killing thousands here in the US and crippling the health care system because of Obama’s failures.

And that the two cases of transmitted Ebola in the US were to nurses providing direct care - and both were disease free in less than 2 weeks of proper care and support.

Funny how that works.

If we could do that in Africa, we’d be able to get the disease under control - and reduce the mortality rate too.

286 ObserverArt  Oct 24, 2014 9:02:15am

If they did an MRI of Scott Brown they wouldn’t find much. No heart, brain, spine…but there would be a ton of shit.

Grrr. That guy is such a flimsy excuse for a human, let alone a politician.

287 Dr Lizardo  Oct 24, 2014 9:02:53am

re: #284 freetoken

I give you the not-at-all-redoubtable John Hayward:

SUDDEN JIHAD SYNDROME STRIKES IN NYC?

He goes to great length to try to make the ax-wielder part of a big plot, when all data to date simply says he is an unhinged violent guy with a record.

Put simply, every Muslim is now beyond guilty - they are conspirators in a massive plot that is so secret that there is no evidence.

Sad truth is, substitute “Jew” for “Muslim” in the bolded sentence, and it’s the 19th Century all over again.

288 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 9:03:02am

re: #275 Lidane

Mental health break:

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Cat is there to verify that the cheeseburger is properly ordered.

289 The War TARDIS  Oct 24, 2014 9:03:06am

re: #259 freetoken

re: #274 Vicious Piebola

I want to know more, so could you explain to me please?

290 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 9:04:20am

Fun with Maths, courtesy of the Speaker:

291 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 9:04:23am

re: #289 The War TARDIS

All I know is at that link.

292 nearly-headless smith25  Oct 24, 2014 9:04:25am

re: #285 Vogon Poetry

She sure doesn’t look like the zombies the right wing was promising as a result of a massive outbreak killing thousands here in the US and crippling the health care system because of Obama’s failures.

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And that the two cases of transmitted Ebola in the US were to nurses providing direct care - and both were disease free in less than 2 weeks of proper care and support.

Funny how that works.

If we could do that in Africa, we’d be able to get the disease under control - and reduce the mortality rate too.

Can’t do that, you can get AIDS from towels there.////

293 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 9:05:05am

re: #292 nearly-headless smith25

Getting it from towels? That directly contradicts the Hitchhiker’s Prime Rule - always bring a towel.

294 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 24, 2014 9:05:17am

re: #273 BigPapa

Conservatives would be gone in less than six months if Post Hoc fallacies were fatal.

295 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 9:07:28am

re: #293 Vogon Poetry

Getting it from towels? That directly contradicts the Hitchhiker’s Prime Rule - always bring a towel.

You don’t know where Towelie has been.

296 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 9:08:35am

re: #284 freetoken

I give you the not-at-all-redoubtable John Hayward:

SUDDEN JIHAD SYNDROME STRIKES IN NYC?

He goes to great length to try to make the ax-wielder part of a big plot, when all data to date simply says he is an unhinged violent guy with a record.

Put simply, every Muslim is now beyond guilty - they are conspirators in a massive plot that is so secret that there is no evidence.

There has to be alien industrialists behind it though. Either aliens or an industrialist is behind *all* plots.

Oh wait, that’s the Marvel universe, not reality.

Never Mind.
/

297 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 9:10:09am

re: #290 Vogon Poetry

Fun with Maths, courtesy of the Speaker:

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If 7 in 10 small business owners are being sued by their customers, then perhaps it’s time to question what the fuck is wrong with 7 in 10 small businesses. Or perhaps the Speaker is saying that 7 in 10 small businesses need the laws that they’re being found in violation of done away with so they can screw over their customers without worry?

298 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 24, 2014 9:11:47am
299 The War TARDIS  Oct 24, 2014 9:12:31am

Good News in Bangladesh, one of the worst war criminals in the 20th Century has died, Ghulam Azam.

Ghulam Azam died of a stroke on 23 October 2014 at 10:10 pm at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University while serving jail sentences for crimes against humanity during Bangladesh Liberation War. His death was reported by Abdul Majid Bhuiyan, director of BSMMU. Ghulam was kept on life support since 8 pm of that day. He was also suffering from kidney problems.

A summary of what he was responsible for.

Azam is also alleged to be the chief protagonist and to present the blueprint of the killing of the intellectuals in a meeting with Rao Forman Ali in Early September 1971. In accordance with this blue print, the largest number of Bengali intellectuals assassinations performed by Pakistani Army and the local collaborators, on 14 December 1971.

300 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 24, 2014 9:12:34am

re: #217 FemNaziBitch

While I agree with the sentiment, Carter is not an authority on anything, IMHO.

301 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 9:12:38am

re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“Regret”? Cats have no regrets! They totally meant to do that!

/

302 Skip Intro  Oct 24, 2014 9:13:21am

Canadian Ted Cruz’s man puts his finger on the blame for Ebola.

Expect to see this repeated in GOP campaign adds from now through 2016.

303 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 9:13:34am

re: #297 Targetpractice

If 7 in 10 small business owners are being sued by their customers, then perhaps it’s time to question what the fuck is wrong with 7 in 10 small businesses. Or perhaps the Speaker is saying that 7 in 10 small businesses need the laws that they’re being found in violation of done away with so they can screw over their customers without worry?

Or we live in a society where trying to screw someone other is an accepted part of living in it* and that resorting to lawsuits as part of this activity is also the norm.

* - This can be businesses defrauding customers, other businesses, or customers attempting to rip off businesses as well. And it happens at all scales as well for the most part.

304 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 9:14:07am

re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“Damn you static electricity!”

305 Timothy Watson  Oct 24, 2014 9:14:49am

re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth

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What the heck are those?

306 De Kolta Chair  Oct 24, 2014 9:15:29am

While waiting for the live stream of Mayor de Blasio’s presser, wnyc’s Leonard Lopate is interviewing Snowden worshipper/hagiographer Laura Poitras.

wnyc.org

307 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 24, 2014 9:15:52am

re: #305 Timothy Watson

What the heck are those?

Styrofoam

308 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 9:16:04am

re: #302 Skip Intro

Canadian Ted Cruz’s man puts his finger on the blame for Ebola.

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Expect to see this repeated in GOP campaign adds from now through 2016.

I think that’s the Tweet from last night that was immediately deleted and then referred to as a poorly misstated “joke”.

309 Lidane  Oct 24, 2014 9:16:16am

Sure, why not?

310 Dr. Matt  Oct 24, 2014 9:17:06am

Quick question: What is the ‘donotfollowlink’ thingy all about?

311 Skip Intro  Oct 24, 2014 9:17:36am

Bankruptcy king and NBC star says

312 BigPapa  Oct 24, 2014 9:17:55am

Has anybody noticed in all these ebola pictures, that are no doubt absolutely the actual ebola virus… they look like His Noodley Appendage of the Holy FSM?

Seriously, this is freaking me out. The End of Dinner Times might be upon us.

313 Skip Intro  Oct 24, 2014 9:18:42am

re: #308 Feline Fearless Leader

I think that’s the Tweet from last night that was immediately deleted and then referred to as a poorly misstated “joke”.

I missed the “joke” part. Aren’t jokes supposed to be funny?

314 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 9:18:54am

re: #310 Dr. Matt

Quick question: What is the ‘donotfollowlink’ thingy all about?

Website that allows linking to other sites without boosting their Google ranking.

315 BigPapa  Oct 24, 2014 9:19:49am

re: #311 Skip Intro

Trump is proof you don’t have to particularly smart or special to be wealthy, and that we should quit laying on the adulation merely because they have money.

316 Franklin  Oct 24, 2014 9:19:56am

re: #310 Dr. Matt

It’s a way to link to a website without actually linking to it. The linked to website will receive no credit for your link and thus not benefit in search engine rankings, etc.

317 Franklin  Oct 24, 2014 9:20:16am

re: #314 Targetpractice

Website that allows linking to other sites without boosting their Google ranking.

Or, more succinctly, that.

318 Dr. Matt  Oct 24, 2014 9:20:22am

re: #314 Targetpractice

Website that allows linking to other sites without boosting their Google ranking.

Whoa. That’s awesome. So, use it when linking to sewages like WND and UpChuck….right?

319 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 9:21:08am

So, then, is this how the zombie apocalypse starts?

In a First, ‘Dead’ Hearts Transplanted Into Living Patients in Australia

In a breakthrough, a team of doctors, including an Indian-origin surgeon, on Friday said they have successfully performed the world’s first heart transplant in Australia using a “dead heart”, a major development that could save many lives.

[…]

Until now, transplant units have relied solely on still-beating donor hearts from brain-dead patients.

[…]

The first patient who received a heart Michelle Gribilas said she felt a decade younger and was now a “different person”.

[…]

The novel technique used in Sydney involved taking a heart that had stopped beating and reviving it in a machine known as a “heart-in-a-box”.

[…]

320 Lidane  Oct 24, 2014 9:21:13am

re: #318 Dr. Matt

Whoa. That’s awesome. So, use it when linking to sewages like WND and UpChuck….right?

You betcha!

321 De Kolta Chair  Oct 24, 2014 9:22:12am

re: #311 Skip Intro

Bankruptcy king and NBC star says

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In his defense, his use of commas puts Thackeray to shame. ///

322 makeitstop  Oct 24, 2014 9:22:43am

re: #318 Dr. Matt

Whoa. That’s awesome. So, use it when linking to sewages like WND and UpChuck….right?

Yep. Go to donotlink.com, enter the offensive URL, and boom! No hits for them. Cool idea.

323 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 9:22:48am

re: #319 freetoken

So, then, is this how the zombie apocalypse starts?

In a First, ‘Dead’ Hearts Transplanted Into Living Patients in Australia

Medical science continues to astound me.

324 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 24, 2014 9:23:02am

re: #314 Targetpractice

It could also refer to the html attribute rel=nofollow, which directs search engines to disregard the link for crawling purposes.

325 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 9:23:24am

If only someone would invent a “brain-in-a-box”, we could use it on the hate-right and know-nothings.

326 Dr. Matt  Oct 24, 2014 9:23:36am

re: #322 makeitstop

Yep. Go to donotlink.com, enter the offensive URL, and boom! No hits for them. Cool idea.

Sweet! Thanks.

327 Franklin  Oct 24, 2014 9:24:41am

re: #320 Lidane

You betcha!

Then, when he notices, you get wonderfully insane reactions like this:

328 Eventual Carrion  Oct 24, 2014 9:25:35am

re: #176 Romantic Heretic

Lived in one myself.

A guy treating a woman like a person would be labelled a ‘faggot’ in an instant. ‘Manliness’ excludes courtesy in these places.

That’s what the posted pic said, “The way boys are supposed to be raised!”.

[spit]

329 bill d  Oct 24, 2014 9:29:22am

re: #327 Franklin

Then, when he notices, you get wonderfully insane reactions like this:

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hahahaha

Butthurt level = Massive

330 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 9:30:14am

re: #327 Franklin

Then, when he notices, you get wonderfully insane reactions like this:

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“How dare you not boost my site’s ranking?! DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!?!?!”

331 De Kolta Chair  Oct 24, 2014 9:31:58am

Mayor de Blasio’s presser on now:

wnyc.org

332 Eventual Carrion  Oct 24, 2014 9:32:23am

re: #188 blueraven

Some good news.

Nurse Nina Pham is now Virus free.

Kinda putting a dent in that infection to 65 - 75% death rate no matter the care that is given thing.

333 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 9:33:19am

re:
#227

Then, when he notices, you get wonderfully insane reactions like this:

WHY are you Stalking chuck c. super-journalist?!?!?!?!??!?!

334 Skip Intro  Oct 24, 2014 9:33:26am

re: #285 Vogon Poetry

She sure doesn’t look like the zombies the right wing was promising as a result of a massive outbreak killing thousands here in the US and crippling the health care system because of Obama’s failures.

[Embedded content]

And that the two cases of transmitted Ebola in the US were to nurses providing direct care - and both were disease free in less than 2 weeks of proper care and support.

Funny how that works.

If we could do that in Africa, we’d be able to get the disease under control - and reduce the mortality rate too.

As I recall, GOPer and Great Christian Tod Kincannon wanted her to be killed.

335 nearly-headless smith25  Oct 24, 2014 9:33:29am

re: #332 Eventual Carrion

Hey, before Obamacare, Ebola had a 75% mortality rate

336 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 9:33:55am

re: #329 bill d

337 Dr. Matt  Oct 24, 2014 9:36:50am

Before Obamacare, the iPhone didn’t have nearly as many problems.

338 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 9:37:52am

No wonder he has to pay people to come to his events:

Watch Mitch McConnell Dodge a Simple Question About His Senate Agenda

Youtube Video

Youtube Video

339 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 9:39:10am

Before Obamacare, Mars rovers and satellites didn’t have to worry about comets.

340 Jazzy Ponytail  Oct 24, 2014 9:39:26am
341 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 24, 2014 9:40:51am

re: #334 Skip Intro

As I recall, GOPer and Great Christian Tod Kincannon wanted her to be killed.

He did.

342 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 9:40:59am

re:
#340

I’ve won academic journalism and fights all over the country!!!!!!1

343 Dr. Matt  Oct 24, 2014 9:41:18am

Before Obamacare, U2 was partially tolerable.

344 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 9:41:31am

re: #338 freetoken

No wonder he has to pay people to come to his events:

Watch Mitch McConnell Dodge a Simple Question About His Senate Agenda

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“Put me in charge so I can set the agenda!”

“What’s the agenda you want to set?”

“Sorry, can’t tell you. Now vote for me!”

345 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 9:42:04am

re: #340 Charles Johnson

346 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 9:42:16am

HURR HURR THESE ARE CAPITALIST HEROES!!!!!!!

347 Decatur Deb  Oct 24, 2014 9:42:27am

re: #334 Skip Intro

As I recall, GOPer and Great Christian Tod Kincannon wanted her to be killed.

And her little dog, too.

348 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 9:43:26am
349 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 24, 2014 9:44:40am

Chuck should decide whether he’s an award winning famous journalist or a private person. Because if he’s the former, the libel threshold is pretty high.

350 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 9:46:07am

re:
#348

President will meet with Nina Pham at 130pm ET today — not allowing full press pool in — just photographers

Why didn’t Obummer meet with persecuted Christian bakers??!??!?!????!?!

351 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 24, 2014 9:46:20am

re: #345 Vogon Poetry

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Heh. “Truth is an absolute defense” popped into my mind as soon as I read his whine. Glad you tweeted back at him.

352 De Kolta Chair  Oct 24, 2014 9:46:28am

re: #340 Charles Johnson

353 Jazzy Ponytail  Oct 24, 2014 9:46:37am
354 Dr. Matt  Oct 24, 2014 9:46:55am

Before Obamacare, the NHL had six divisions.

355 bill d  Oct 24, 2014 9:47:14am

So linking to something on Twitter that is in violation of their TOS is not a violation of their TOS?

356 Jazzy Ponytail  Oct 24, 2014 9:47:45am
357 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 9:47:45am

re: #354 Dr. Matt

Before Obamacare, the NHL had six divisions.

Before Obamacare, the NFL didn’t have a domestic violence or brain trauma problem.

358 Dr. Matt  Oct 24, 2014 9:47:53am

Someone dropped a turd: littlegreenfootballs.com

359 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 9:49:18am

re: #356 Charles Johnson

You sure it wasn’t Officer Krupke?

Youtube Video

360 Skip Intro  Oct 24, 2014 9:49:37am

re: #346 Vicious Piebola

HURR HURR THESE ARE CAPITALIST HEROES!!!!!!!

[Embedded content]

Yeah, that’s the way Capitalism works in a global economy.

362 bill d  Oct 24, 2014 9:52:17am

Holy shit!

Obama will meet this afternoon in the Oval Office with Dallas nurse Nina Pham, who has been declared free of Ebola.

363 bill d  Oct 24, 2014 9:52:45am

re: #362 bill d

per CNN breaking banner

364 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 9:54:09am

re: #356 Charles Johnson

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You took the money and ran?

/

365 makeitstop  Oct 24, 2014 9:54:33am

re: #357 Vogon Poetry

Before Obamacare, the NFL didn’t have a domestic violence or brain trauma problem.

Before Obamacare, milk lasted a lot longer before it went sour.

366 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Oct 24, 2014 9:55:41am

re: #365 makeitstop

Before Obamacare, milk lasted a lot longer before it went sour.

Before ObamaCare there were no potentially devastating solar flares.

367 Decatur Deb  Oct 24, 2014 9:56:23am

CCJ’s hitpiece on the NY doc has made the front page of Freep, with predictable (and erroneous) bile from the Freeperati.

Back to bed for a bit. BBL.

368 Skip Intro  Oct 24, 2014 9:56:42am

Almost forgot about this crazy MoFo. Can you guess who it is?

The Obama faction’s plan to import Ebola-infected persons into the United States maintains the outward appearance of and unarmed invasion while in fact introducing into the country what amounts to specialized “armies of one,” each of them carrying a biological weapon of mass destruction. If and when the resulting infections get out of hand (which seems to be happening despite repeated, apparently erroneous, possibly deceitful, assurances of effective containment) what will be made of the resulting health crisis? When, by way of this sly biological warfare, “Obamacare” morphs into “Ebolacare” what will become of the (always suspect) commitment of Obama’s ostensible opponents in the GOP’s elitist faction leadership to roll back the government takeover of the health sector?

donotlink.com

369 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 9:57:33am

Picture courtesy of a co-worker.

No way I go into that steamer!

370 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 9:57:38am

re: #358 Dr. Matt

Someone dropped a turd: littlegreenfootballs.com

I just gave it the 10th downding to disappear it from the “Recent Pages” list.

371 The War TARDIS  Oct 24, 2014 9:57:45am

re: #361 The War TARDIS

I’m making this into a page.

372 Skip Intro  Oct 24, 2014 9:59:15am

Another deranged GOPer weighs in.

373 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 10:00:45am

re: #372 Skip Intro

Another deranged GOPer weighs in.

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“Deranged” is too kind. Malkin is malicious, and virulently so.

374 Lidane  Oct 24, 2014 10:01:00am
375 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 10:01:35am

re: #362 bill d

Holy shit!

The White House should reveal that the meeting in the Oval Office following that one is with the GOP House Caucus leadership.
//

;P

376 Mike Lamb  Oct 24, 2014 10:02:44am

re: #290 Vogon Poetry

Fun with Maths, courtesy of the Speaker:

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Arbitrarily capping civil liability via gov’t regulation…smell the free market!

377 Jazzy Ponytail  Oct 24, 2014 10:03:43am

re: #370 Vicious Piebola

I just gave it the 10th downding to disappear it from the “Recent Pages” list.

This was “rosiee,” by the way, back again for some strange reason. I have no idea why this person keeps trying to post far right anti-Muslim propaganda here. It’s just weird.

378 Skip Intro  Oct 24, 2014 10:05:15am

In more news from the lunatic fringe, reality tv division,

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo’ Canceled By TLC After Allegations Star Is Dating Child Molester Come Out

Maybe TruTv will pick the show up.

379 Mike Lamb  Oct 24, 2014 10:05:24am

re: #319 freetoken

So, then, is this how the zombie apocalypse starts?

In a First, ‘Dead’ Hearts Transplanted Into Living Patients in Australia

I know this isn’t the point of your post, but why was it necessary to mention the nationality of one of the doctors?

380 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 10:07:10am

Sober thoughts from Kunkel, who appears to be coming to the same conclusion I have:

Inventing Climate-Change Literature

[…]

Climate change has occasioned a lot of good journalism, but it poses as tremendous problems for imaginative literature as it does for electoral politics, and for many of the same reasons. The worst effects aren’t yet here—and even when global warming is the suspected culprit behind a hurricane or a drought, its fingerprints are never to be found on the scene of any particular disaster. Fictional characters, like flesh-and-blood citizens, have more urgent concerns than the state of the climate twenty years hence. Nor is it easy for people real or imaginary to feel any special moral relationship to the problem. […]

381 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 24, 2014 10:07:50am

LOL!!!

382 Jazzy Ponytail  Oct 24, 2014 10:08:31am
383 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 10:08:56am

re: #379 Mike Lamb

I know this isn’t the point of your post, but why was it necessary to mention the nationality of one of the doctors?

The story is from an Indian newspaper.

My take-away from glancing at Indian news sources over the years is that they are very sensitive to nationalities, religions, and such.

I could speculate that this arises from an ancient culture of caste-centric social structures, but that is just speculation.

384 Skip Intro  Oct 24, 2014 10:09:09am

re: #381 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL!!!

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LET’S QUARANTINE EVERYBODY!!!

385 Kragar  Oct 24, 2014 10:09:18am

re: #381 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL!!!

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386 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 10:09:55am

re: #382 Charles Johnson

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Hey Ezra, you got something brown on the end of your nose.

387 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 10:10:15am

re: #381 Backwoods_Sleuth

Bowling for firearms is probably a more dangerous and more common ailment.

388 Jazzy Ponytail  Oct 24, 2014 10:10:35am
389 Vicious Piebola  Oct 24, 2014 10:10:42am

Gun-fuckers are trying to use Kevin Vickers as a poster boy for gun-fuckers open-carrying their penis substitutes everywhere.

Here is Kevin Vickers carrying his actual penis:

390 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 10:11:38am

re: #381 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL!!!

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How soon until The Newt blames the cancellation of Crossfire on Obamacare or Ebola?
///

391 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 10:11:43am

re: #388 Charles Johnson

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They seem to have settled on their “moderate” unicorn.

392 The War TARDIS  Oct 24, 2014 10:11:46am

re: #389 Vicious Piebola

That’s a big dick.

393 Mike Lamb  Oct 24, 2014 10:11:54am

re: #383 freetoken

The story is from an Indian newspaper.

My take-away from glancing at Indian news sources over the years is that they are very sensitive to nationalities, religions, and such.

I could speculate that this arises from an ancient culture of caste-centric social structures, but that is just speculation.

Ah…now I see. I figured it was an Aussie paper.

394 Skip Intro  Oct 24, 2014 10:12:12am

re: #385 Kragar

Another Fun Fact: Newt Gingrich has had more ethics violations than Americans have died from Ebola.

395 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 10:12:24am

re: #388 Charles Johnson

You forgot who’d vote against the Voting Rights Act from ever getting enacted in the first place. Would think nothing of disenfranchising millions of people in the process.

396 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 10:12:49am

re: #387 Vogon Poetry

Bowling for firearms is probably a more dangerous and more common ailment.

Not to mention putting your foot or other bodypart in front of that slowly rolling cannonball often proved fatal.
//

397 Skip Intro  Oct 24, 2014 10:12:53am

re: #390 Feline Fearless Leader

How soon until The Newt blames the cancellation of Crossfire on Obamacare or Ebola?
///

Did they cancel it? How would anyone know?

398 De Kolta Chair  Oct 24, 2014 10:13:57am

re: #381 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL!!!

I blame Truman.

399 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 10:14:05am

re: #397 Skip Intro

Did they cancel it? How would anyone know?

Newt having more free time to tweet stupid things is my main guess.

400 wrenchwitch  Oct 24, 2014 10:14:16am

re: #395 Vogon Poetry

You forgot who’d vote against the Voting Rights Act from ever getting enacted in the first place. Would think nothing of disenfranchising millions of people in the process.

Not to mention he’s a complete freak on foreign policy, and that’s what he was being praised for.

401 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 10:15:53am

re: #400 wrenchwitch

Not to mention he’s a complete freak on foreign policy, and that’s what he was being praised for.

So you’re saying he’s a “maverick”?

/

402 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 10:16:39am

re: #388 Charles Johnson

You forgot to mention the Pauls being members of the flakey group of quacks, AAPS, as well as his chicanery at “board membership”:
cbsnews.com

403 wrenchwitch  Oct 24, 2014 10:16:39am

re: #401 Targetpractice

So you’re saying he’s a “maverick”?

/

Oh god…

…not again…

404 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 24, 2014 10:17:04am

re: #398 De Kolta Chair

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I blame Truman.

I’m finished

405 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 10:18:13am

Yeah, that’s Rand’s entire 2016 in a nutshell: “I’m not like the rest of my party!”

406 Vogon Poetry  Oct 24, 2014 10:21:24am

re: #401 Targetpractice

No, he’s not.

Youtube Video

407 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Oct 24, 2014 10:21:40am

WOW: Courtesy of Fail Blog

Youtube Video

NSFW unless you have headphones.

408 De Kolta Chair  Oct 24, 2014 10:22:18am


The things you find on the internet.

409 blueraven  Oct 24, 2014 10:22:47am

re: #382 Charles Johnson


I guess this is true in one sense. If Paul were to actually win the Republican nomination, he would have to defeat the interventionist wing of the GOP…which is most of it.

It could flip the party ID as being less hawkish than the Democrats.

I have a hard time seeing RP winning the GOP nomination, but…he might if he can corral the dudebro vote.

410 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 24, 2014 10:23:17am

re: #405 Targetpractice

Yeah, that’s Rand’s entire 2016 in a nutshell: “I’m not like the rest of my party!”

That’s because he’s a Libertarian. He only “became” a Republican to get the Republican nomination for senator.

411 wrenchwitch  Oct 24, 2014 10:23:26am

re: #404 Feline Fearless Leader

I’m finished

There Will BEbola.

412 The War TARDIS  Oct 24, 2014 10:23:40am

My article on the nut in New York.

413 freetoken  Oct 24, 2014 10:30:26am

Fox Radio has been putting out Ebola scare mongering segments this morning, not surprisingly.

And WaPo weighs in about the group think of Americans and diseases:

Ebola will make Americans more likely to give up civil liberties

414 makeitstop  Oct 24, 2014 10:30:36am

Someone reminded me this morning of Lydia Callas, Bloomberg’s sign interpreter. Di Blasio should re-hire her. Press conferences were a lot more entertaining when Lydia was there.

Youtube Video

415 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 10:32:52am

re:
#372

Another deranged GOPer weighs in.

Don’t tell us not to freak out well freak out if we wanna!!!!!!111

Believe in America. American Exceptionalism.

416 Targetpractice  Oct 24, 2014 10:32:56am

re: #413 freetoken

Fox Radio has been putting out Ebola scare mongering segments this morning, not surprisingly.

And WaPo weighs in about the group think of Americans and diseases:

Ebola will make Americans more likely to give up civil liberties

So all it takes is a bunch of media scaremongering to get people to part with civil liberties?

417 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 24, 2014 10:33:15am

re: #409 blueraven

I guess this is true in one sense. If Paul were to actually win the Republican nomination, he would have to defeat the interventionist wing of the GOP…which is most of it.

It could flip the party ID as being less hawkish than the Democrats.

I have a hard time seeing RP winning the GOP nomination, but…he might if he can corral the dudebro vote.

RP will probably do just like his dad… Make a great showing at the un-official stuff, the various Straw Polls, etc, because his supports will load the house. They will proclaim this a “Groundswell of Support”, and then he will actually pull < 10% in all the primaries. Might get a bump at first, from the early caucus, but he’ll be gone like donkey kong by mid-late march.

RBS

418 CuriousLurker  Oct 24, 2014 10:33:54am

OT: I have to get ready for a doctor’s appointment and can’t keep an eye on on the Page I just posted, so will you guys please keep an eye peeled for trolls?

TIA

419 bill d  Oct 24, 2014 10:34:18am

re: #394 Skip Intro

Another Fun Fact: Newt Gingrich has had more ethics violations than Americans have died from Ebola.

BUT more Americans have died form Ebola than had watched Newt on Crosssfire.

420 Skip Intro  Oct 24, 2014 10:35:16am

re: #416 Targetpractice

So all it takes is a bunch of media scaremongering to get people to part with civil liberties?

The idea, I think, is to get them to vote for the party that already has shown how willing it is to curtail civil liberties.

421 De Kolta Chair  Oct 24, 2014 10:37:57am

re: #419 bill d

BUT more Americans have died form Ebola than had watched Newt on Crosssfire.

BUT Newt has appeared on Meet The Press more times than there are stars in the universe. QED. ////

422 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 24, 2014 10:43:20am

Wait, I think it’s been a couple of days, or at least 24 hrs, since I’ve heard John McCain’s opinions about everything. /

423 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 24, 2014 10:44:34am

I can see that the usual suspects are up to their usual activities. upChuck is threatening to sue and/or have Charles arrested, Michelle “Anchor Baby” Malkin is Screeching, and the usual cast of characters in LGF is providing a running commentary on this thing called life.

My notional boss asked me if I was all set up for my class next week, sent him a reply “The Dude Abides”, then started thinking that he wouldn’t get it. He sent me back a pic of The Dude, so he’s a bit less clueless than I had thought.

One chapter to go, and I’m done for the week…..

RBS

424 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Oct 24, 2014 10:49:34am

re: #368 Skip Intro

Almost forgot about this crazy MoFo. Can you guess who it is?

The Obama faction’s plan to import Ebola-infected persons into the United States maintains the outward appearance of and unarmed invasion while in fact introducing into the country what amounts to specialized “armies of one,” each of them carrying a biological weapon of mass destruction. If and when the resulting infections get out of hand (which seems to be happening despite repeated, apparently erroneous, possibly deceitful, assurances of effective containment) what will be made of the resulting health crisis? When, by way of this sly biological warfare, “Obamacare” morphs into “Ebolacare” what will become of the (always suspect) commitment of Obama’s ostensible opponents in the GOP’s elitist faction leadership to roll back the government takeover of the health sector?

donotlink.com

The inimitable Alan Keyes. Gotta admit, the man’s logorrhea has a certain deranged elegance to it.

425 leftynyc  Oct 24, 2014 11:38:05am

re: #348 Vogon Poetry

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Here’s a link with a photo of the meeting:

washington.cbslocal.com


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