Video: Orbital Sciences Rocket Explosion From 3000ft

Tanks full of rocket fuel blow up real good
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Took this video of the very unfortunate Orbital Sciences rocket explosion. Video was taken in our Cessna 177 Cardinal from an altitude of 3000ft. Sorry for the sound. I’ll have a better one up once it’s been edited out.

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462 comments
1 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:13:37pm

How far away from the launch site was he?

2 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:14:09pm

Also, NASA is now 13 minutes past when they said their presser would start. sigh.

3 Indy GOP Refugee  Oct 28, 2014 6:14:12pm

That really looked like an engine blowout. Seemed to go off right between the nozzles and the bottom tank, right where the high speed/very high pressure pumps are.

4 Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2014 6:16:00pm

THIS KINDA THING DIDN’T HAPPEN WHEN REAGAN WAS PRESIDENT!!!

5 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 28, 2014 6:16:38pm

That’s because you, satanic Americans, have turned away from the Mother Church and don’t let bless your rockets with the Holy Water like the God-fearing Russians do.

6 bill d  Oct 28, 2014 6:16:40pm
7 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 28, 2014 6:17:15pm

Just starting the presser nasa.gov

8 austin_blue  Oct 28, 2014 6:18:54pm

re: #3 Rightwingconspirator

That really looked like an engine blowout. Seemed to go off right between the nozzles and the bottom tank, right where the high speed/very high pressure pumps are.

Could be a combustion chamber blowout, could be the pump. Catastrophic failure, in any case.

Outsourcing!

Oh, and KC just blew up the Giants in the bottom of the 2nd. Eight hits, seven runs.

9 danarchy  Oct 28, 2014 6:19:07pm

re: #6 bill d

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Launch mishap sounds so much better than launch disaster…

10 Charles Johnson  Oct 28, 2014 6:19:09pm
11 The War TARDIS  Oct 28, 2014 6:19:12pm

re: #5 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

And constantly hope every Russian rocket from now to the end of time malfunctions.

12 klystron  Oct 28, 2014 6:20:03pm

re: #11 The War TARDIS

And constantly hope every Russian rocket from now to the end of time malfunctions.

You do know that’s how half the supplies and the astronauts/cosmonauts go up to the ISS, right?

Kindly stop.

13 Varek Raith  Oct 28, 2014 6:20:03pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Sheesh, he’s such a man-child.

14 lawhawk  Oct 28, 2014 6:20:30pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Cataloging his vandalism? How, journalistic of him.

15 Varek Raith  Oct 28, 2014 6:20:35pm

re: #11 The War TARDIS

Uh…
No.
Just. No.

16 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 28, 2014 6:20:38pm

re: #11 The War TARDIS

And constantly hope every Russian rocket from now to the end of time malfunctions.

Hmm, you’re not well in the head.

17 The War TARDIS  Oct 28, 2014 6:21:03pm

re: #12 klys

Yeah, forgot about that for a moment.

I’m really hoping our stuff will come online soon.

18 austin_blue  Oct 28, 2014 6:21:10pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

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Comedy Gold! What a cut-up!

19 The War TARDIS  Oct 28, 2014 6:21:42pm

re: #16 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

I don’t like Russia right now. You know, after Crimea and Flight 17?

20 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 28, 2014 6:22:16pm

re: #19 The War TARDIS

Nobody in his right mind likes Putin’s Russia. That doesn’t excuse the shit you post.

21 Charles Johnson  Oct 28, 2014 6:23:07pm

re: #11 The War TARDIS

OK, it would be a very good idea for you to knock it off now.

22 Vicious Piebola  Oct 28, 2014 6:23:07pm

Fake Quote Guy really has teh sads

23 Justanotherhuman  Oct 28, 2014 6:23:10pm

Keep calm and carry on, Lizards!

Later. : )

24 Varek Raith  Oct 28, 2014 6:24:00pm

re: #23 Justanotherhuman

Keep calm and carry on, Lizards!

Later. : )

ISIS EBOLA ROCKETS!
Or something.

25 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:24:00pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Wait, is he actually stalking you now? WTF?

26 ObserverArt  Oct 28, 2014 6:24:15pm

re: #8 austin_blue

Could be a combustion camber blowout, could be the pump. Catastrophic failure, in any case.

Outsourcing!

Oh, and KC just blew up the Giants in the bottom of the 2nd. Eight hits, seven runs.

Whoa! People were beginning to think all the runs would come from the Giants. This could be a shootout.

Being a Cleveland fan, I am glad to see KC do well as they are from the same division. Hopefully they get it to a game 7.

27 jaunte  Oct 28, 2014 6:26:25pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Wow, he looks a LOT older in that shot. It’s a hard life, slinging goatnews.

28 EPR-radar  Oct 28, 2014 6:27:29pm

re: #11 The War TARDIS

And constantly hope every Russian rocket from now to the end of time malfunctions.

WTF is this rancid pig shit? Stop it.

29 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:27:31pm

They have another rocket going up tomorrow from Russia!

30 bratwurst  Oct 28, 2014 6:27:32pm

re: #11 The War TARDIS

And constantly hope every Russian rocket from now to the end of time malfunctions.

You know, when you constantly apologize and then pull the same old bullshit over and over, it…um…takes something away from the apologies.

31 Varek Raith  Oct 28, 2014 6:27:55pm

Stupid questions time!

32 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:28:13pm

I would suppose there’s something personal about this for The War TARDIS?

33 bubba zanetti  Oct 28, 2014 6:28:43pm

re: #27 jaunte

All Lizards report to your shooping stations.

34 Kid A  Oct 28, 2014 6:29:12pm

re: #27 jaunte

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Wow, he looks a LOT older in that shot. It’s a hard life, slinging goatnews.

He has many, many chins.

35 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2014 6:29:23pm

re: #32 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

I would suppose there’s something personal about this for The War TARDIS?

Must be and I’m tired of it.

I’m going to go do something more enjoyable for a while.

36 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 28, 2014 6:29:45pm
The ascent stopped, there was some disassembly, and then it fell.

“No Disassemble!!!”

RBS

37 EPR-radar  Oct 28, 2014 6:30:00pm

re: #19 The War TARDIS

I don’t like Russia right now. You know, after Crimea and Flight 17?

You really need to learn how to keep a separation between “not liking something” and “being a festering shit spigot”.

38 jayjaybear  Oct 28, 2014 6:30:13pm

re: #27 jaunte

He looks like Peter Griffin. Only dumber.

39 lawhawk  Oct 28, 2014 6:30:15pm
40 Varek Raith  Oct 28, 2014 6:30:24pm

re: #36 RealityBasedEbola

Johnny Five Alive!

41 austin_blue  Oct 28, 2014 6:30:33pm

re: #27 jaunte

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Wow, he looks a LOT older in that shot. It’s a hard life, slinging goatnews.

The Porcine Ginger.

42 The War TARDIS  Oct 28, 2014 6:31:35pm

re: #30 bratwurst

I admit to being a little grinch-y and snappy right now.

Bad day at work, my digestive system is having issues, and and possible personal problems are making me really snippy today.

43 ObserverArt  Oct 28, 2014 6:31:41pm

re: #27 jaunte

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Wow, he looks a LOT older in that shot. It’s a hard life, slinging goatnews.

The older he gets the younger he acts.

I think he is about 12 going on 33.

44 TedStriker  Oct 28, 2014 6:32:01pm

re: #11 The War TARDIS

And constantly hope every Russian rocket from now to the end of time malfunctions.

Your schtick is getting really fucking old, especially when people called you out for it in the previous thread and you walked it back.

Get a grip.

45 Kid A  Oct 28, 2014 6:32:10pm

This 30 for 30 on Brian Bosworth is just awesome. The only good thing ESPN does.

46 bill d  Oct 28, 2014 6:32:29pm

re: #42 The War TARDIS

I admit to being a little grinch-y and snappy right now.

Bad day at work, my digestive system is having issues, and and possible personal problems are making me really snippy today.

Hope tommorow is a better day for you.

47 Varek Raith  Oct 28, 2014 6:33:34pm

We can send a man to the moon but phones?
GAH!
;)

48 The War TARDIS  Oct 28, 2014 6:33:42pm

re: #46 bill d

I probably needs a better job. I am getting paid $9 an hour. Won’t say want until I get a new job, but it really stresses me out somedays.

49 Lidane  Oct 28, 2014 6:33:45pm
50 klystron  Oct 28, 2014 6:33:58pm
51 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 28, 2014 6:34:05pm

re: #42 The War TARDIS

Nevertheless, think about the literal meaning of the things you write. Even assuming you don’t wish any victims among the cosmonauts, Russia may get better in, say, 50 years, yet you wish the malfunctions “from now to the end of time”.

52 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:34:28pm

Ok, so a related question: How are they getting the ISS astronauts back down next time?

53 Varek Raith  Oct 28, 2014 6:34:35pm

re: #50 klys

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Seriously.
So many take this for granted nowadays.

54 Vicious Piebola  Oct 28, 2014 6:35:00pm

I had to block Fake Quote Guy because he was spamming my timeline with a bunch of derp

55 The War TARDIS  Oct 28, 2014 6:35:01pm

Probably shouldn’t post when I become this crabby.

56 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:35:24pm

re: #53 Varek Raith

Seriously.
So many take this for granted nowadays.

It’s not rocket surgery!

57 Varek Raith  Oct 28, 2014 6:35:32pm

Reuters.
Derpy der derp.

58 klystron  Oct 28, 2014 6:35:40pm

re: #55 The War TARDIS

Probably shouldn’t post when I become this crabby.

I would recommend seriously considering this in the future.

I have points where I do the same. I suspect a number of us do.

59 Vicious Piebola  Oct 28, 2014 6:35:58pm

Suppose you looked out your window and saw this:

60 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:36:00pm

re: #55 The War TARDIS

Probably shouldn’t post when I become this crabby.

Wise words, or just post non-inflammatory things, like cat pics. :)

61 klystron  Oct 28, 2014 6:36:32pm

re: #60 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

Wise words, or just post non-inflammatory things, like cat pics. :)

Shhh, you’re going to give away all my secrets.

62 Varek Raith  Oct 28, 2014 6:36:37pm

AJ-26, based of this;
en.wikipedia.org

63 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:36:51pm

re: #59 Vicious Piebola

“We don’t know what we’re going to do.”

I would suggest evacuation. But that’s just me spitballing here. ///

64 Varek Raith  Oct 28, 2014 6:37:13pm

re: #63 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

I would suggest evacuation. But that’s just me spitballing here. ///

No.
Marshmallows.

65 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 28, 2014 6:37:41pm

re: #49 Lidane

Krauthammer: If GOP Doesn’t Win Senate, They Should Look for Another Country

And if they do win the Senate we’ll all have another country. It will be a country where bright young college grads emigrate to Somalia because there are more opportunities there.

66 Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2014 6:37:56pm

re: #49 Lidane

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Sounds like a plan, Charlie. I’ll help you pack. I hear Antarctica is lovely this time of year.

67 austin_blue  Oct 28, 2014 6:38:05pm

re: #52 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

Ok, so a related question: How are they getting the ISS astronauts back down next time?

There’s a Russian lift vehicle to change out the crew, ready to go.

68 Vicious Piebola  Oct 28, 2014 6:38:08pm

re: #64 Varek Raith

No.
Marshmallows.

No. Kebabs!

69 Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2014 6:38:23pm

re: #59 Vicious Piebola

Suppose you looked out your window and saw this:

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Start looking for virgins to sacrifice?

//

70 lawhawk  Oct 28, 2014 6:38:32pm

re: #59 Vicious Piebola

Hmm…
By the Eye of Sauron!
By the lava of Mount Doom!
Anyone got marshmellows?

Seriously though, that’s a crummy situation.

71 EPR-radar  Oct 28, 2014 6:38:53pm

re: #61 klys

Shhh, you’re going to give away all my secrets.

I don’t have cat pics, but having another window open to a ridiculously talented pianist playing some of my favorite music on You Tube will suffice.

72 Vicious Piebola  Oct 28, 2014 6:38:58pm

re: #69 Targetpractice

Start looking for virgins to sacrifice?

//

Virgins are extinct. The goddess is hungry.

73 Vicious Piebola  Oct 28, 2014 6:39:46pm

In Soviet Mordor, volcano simply walks into you!

74 Decatur Deb  Oct 28, 2014 6:39:59pm

re: #70 Vogon Poetry

Hmm…
By the Eye of Sauron!
By the lava of Mount Doom!
Anyone got marshmellows?

Seriously though, that’s a crummy situation.

Sam Kinison would recommend U-Hauls.

76 austin_blue  Oct 28, 2014 6:40:09pm

re: #59 Vicious Piebola

Suppose you looked out your window and saw this:

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A garden hose isn’t going to stop that sow-motion catastrophe.

77 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:40:10pm

re: #64 Varek Raith

re: #68 Vicious Piebola

NO FAIR MAKING ME HUNGRY! Grrrrr

78 klystron  Oct 28, 2014 6:40:30pm

re: #71 EPR-radar

I don’t have cat pics, but having another window open to a ridiculously talented pianist playing some of my favorite music on You Tube will suffice.

Sunday’s Sharks/Ducks game apparently involved ALL THE BRAWLS and like 9 players not in the penalty box for the Ducks at one point.

79 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 28, 2014 6:40:54pm

re: #64 Varek Raith

No.
Marshmallows.

Smores for Everybody!!!!

BTW… Just learned something neat about Chrome Browser. If you have tabs pinned, and it’s for pages that let you know by changing the title of the page that you’ve got unread messages (gmail / fbook) the tabs actually do kind of an opal shimmer look. Never noticed that before.

RBS

80 ObserverArt  Oct 28, 2014 6:41:18pm

When I get in a strange mood, I usually resort to humor. When all else fails, find the funny in it. Amazing how once you change the view, you change the mood.

And with that…good evening all lizaroids.

81 klystron  Oct 28, 2014 6:41:33pm

re: #79 RealityBasedEbola

Smores for Everybody!!!!

BTW… Just learned something neat about Chrome Browser. If you have tabs pinned, and it’s for pages that let you know by changing the title of the page that you’ve got unread messages (gmail / fbook) the tabs actually do kind of an opal shimmer look. Never noticed that before.

RBS

It will stop working after they’ve been open for like a week or so.

>.>

82 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 28, 2014 6:41:34pm

re: #72 Vicious Piebola

Virgins are extinct. The goddess is hungry.

I’m sure you can find plenty over at GamerGate.

RBS

83 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 6:41:36pm

re: #49 Lidane

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Heard today on NPR that CNN has booked the Empire State Building. At their WHIM they will turn it red or blue, depending on the senate majority outcome.

egads. more than egads.

Kai Ryssdal on Market Place reported it with a “huh?”

84 Decatur Deb  Oct 28, 2014 6:42:09pm

re: #76 austin_blue

A garden hose isn’t going to stop that sow-motion catastrophe.

We actually diverted a flow from Vesuvius by dropping Tut blocks from Chinooks. Takes a lot of Chinook hours.

85 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:42:52pm

re: #84 Decatur Deb

what are Tut blocks?

86 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:43:55pm

Ok, the tl;dr of this press conference: We’re not sure what happened. We’re going to be investigating.

87 Kid A  Oct 28, 2014 6:44:22pm

re: #49 Lidane

I like the “look for another country” part.

88 Decatur Deb  Oct 28, 2014 6:44:29pm

re: #85 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

what are Tut blocks?

Portable concrete barricades, as used to secure an installation access. They’re named for King Tut—a mistaken reference to pyramid stuff.

static.wixstatic.com

89 Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2014 6:44:39pm

re: #86 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

Ok, the tl;dr of this press conference: We’re not sure what happened. We’re going to be investigating.

Nice of them to make us wait to announce that we’re going to be left waiting longer.

90 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 28, 2014 6:44:40pm

Ebola State Building

91 klystron  Oct 28, 2014 6:44:48pm

re: #86 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

Ok, the tl;dr of this press conference: We’re not sure what happened. We’re going to be investigating.

Which is unsurprising given that it’s only be a few hours and shit is probably still on fire.

92 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 6:44:56pm

re: #84 Decatur Deb

We actually diverted a flow from Vesuvius by dropping Tut blocks from Chinooks. Takes a lot of Chinook hours.

They have tried bombing the flow in Hawaii as well.

Mother Earth Fire will win. No matter.

Your challenge to live there.

93 Lidane  Oct 28, 2014 6:46:18pm

re: #59 Vicious Piebola

Suppose you looked out your window and saw this:

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I’d start paying tribute to Pele to save my house. AFTER I got out of range of the lava, of course.

94 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:47:14pm

re: #88 Decatur Deb

Interesting. I’d imagine it would take a lot of concrete blocks to redirect a lava flow.

95 Decatur Deb  Oct 28, 2014 6:49:16pm

re: #94 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

Interesting. I’d imagine it would take a lot of concrete blocks to redirect a lava flow.

Points for good placement. They bent a flow around a small village.

96 Lidane  Oct 28, 2014 6:49:33pm
97 PT Barnum  Oct 28, 2014 6:51:00pm

Evening Lizards. I just want to say that the combination of Tramadol and Diclofenac is reasonably good for pain, but not perfect.

98 bill d  Oct 28, 2014 6:51:39pm

Have a good evening folks:

99 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 6:52:34pm
100 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:52:46pm

Wonder how much Killz they’re going to have to use on that launch pad? ;)

101 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:54:33pm

At this point, I think reporters are just trying to get in to say they asked a question. Blah, blah, blah.

102 PT Barnum  Oct 28, 2014 6:55:16pm

Dad facts and dad jokes my favorites….Unfortunately my son is now 13 and just gives me the eye roll

103 Vicious Piebola  Oct 28, 2014 6:55:45pm
104 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 6:55:58pm

Want to make sure everyone watches this vid. Cops v. human rights. Brutal.

105 b_sharp  Oct 28, 2014 6:56:48pm

re: #103 Vicious Piebola

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LOL

106 BeachDem  Oct 28, 2014 6:56:48pm

re: #27 jaunte

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Wow, he looks a LOT older in that shot. It’s a hard life, slinging goatnews.

He looks more like Erick son of Erick every day—complete with the multiple chins.


107 jamesfirecat  Oct 28, 2014 6:56:55pm

re: #103 Vicious Piebola

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Can you replace it with a boom box?

108 De Kolta Chair  Oct 28, 2014 6:57:18pm

109 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 6:57:26pm

re: #102 PT Barnum

Dad facts and dad jokes my favorites….Unfortunately my son is now 13 and just gives me the eye roll

You are toast.

110 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 6:58:05pm

re: #103 Vicious Piebola

He is seriously going to get beat up by someone down the road after pulling that shit. Did we find out if that was really Charles’ house? Dude is as bad/worse as GamerGate douchenozzles.

111 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 28, 2014 6:58:16pm

re: #106 BeachDem

They both look more and more like an average Soviet official.

112 lawhawk  Oct 28, 2014 6:58:28pm

re: #74 Decatur Deb

Sam would also not recommend living on a volcano. Just as surely as you shouldn’t live in a desert! Oh… .OH OH!!!!

113 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 28, 2014 7:00:00pm

re: #104 Stanley Seabola

This doesn’t make me want to visit the US, like, ever.

114 nines09  Oct 28, 2014 7:02:40pm

re: #104 Stanley Seabola

OUT OF F’ING CONTROL. That dude is one brave soul. Broad daylight. Unarmed. Cop swinging his manhood. WTF is wrong with these shields?

115 klystron  Oct 28, 2014 7:03:41pm
116 Single-handed sailor  Oct 28, 2014 7:04:43pm

Why doesn’t Free Republic have a Science section? I was hoping for their insight into the launch failure.

117 b_sharp  Oct 28, 2014 7:05:39pm

re: #116 Single-handed sailor

Why doesn’t Free Republic have a Science section? I was hoping for their insight into the launch failure.

They purge the scientists every so often.

118 EPR-radar  Oct 28, 2014 7:05:57pm

re: #116 Single-handed sailor

Why doesn’t Free Republic have a Science section? I was hoping for their insight into the launch failure.

Been a while since I’ve had a real LOL. Good job.

119 Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2014 7:09:05pm

According to a CNN bulletin, officials are saying the Ferguson PD police chief is expected to step down. I can only assume because of the hash he made of dealings with the press.

120 Jenner7  Oct 28, 2014 7:10:49pm

re: #119 Targetpractice

121 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 7:12:55pm

re: #113 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

This doesn’t make me want to visit the US, like, ever.

Are you brown? No? Safe travels, no worry.

Total bullshit.

Dude on the ground was arrested for being high.

122 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 7:14:12pm

Its a Royals Carnival!

123 Vicious Piebola  Oct 28, 2014 7:14:34pm

Dim Jim just retweeted Chucky’s cute little selfie

124 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 28, 2014 7:14:37pm

re: #116 Single-handed sailor

Why doesn’t Free Republic have a Science section? I was hoping for their insight into the launch failure.

I had to check just after the “launch anomaly”, it was 20 straight posts bashing Obama before somebody pointed out that it was a private company. Didn’t matter…

RBS

125 Eventual Carrion  Oct 28, 2014 7:14:38pm

re: #49 Lidane

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I hear Mexico is losing people. They should be able to find housing there.

126 lawhawk  Oct 28, 2014 7:15:39pm

re: #119 Targetpractice

According to a CNN bulletin, officials are saying the Ferguson PD police chief is expected to step down. I can only assume because of the hash he made of dealings with the press.

And I’m guessing he’ll keep whatever pension he accrued?

He deserved to be fired - by the city council, mayor, or city manager (or all of the above). No way he should ever have been allowed to stay as long as he has.

Between the immediate aftermath of the shooting to how the protests were handled, law enforcement in Ferguson, St. Louis County, and the greater STL area has shown itself to be awful. And awfully racist.

127 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 28, 2014 7:15:58pm

re: #121 Stanley Seabola

Are you brown? No? Safe travels, no worry.

A lawless cop is a danger to everyone.

128 Vicious Piebola  Oct 28, 2014 7:15:59pm

Oh ucch, this fucking shit:

129 Romantic Heretic  Oct 28, 2014 7:17:38pm

re: #49 Lidane

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Russia would suit them. They swoon so often over Putin and his ‘strong leadership.’

130 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 28, 2014 7:18:09pm

re: #128 Vicious Piebola

When Does KKK-Man Debut?

I suppose in the same film. Black Panther beats the snot out of him.

131 Jenner7  Oct 28, 2014 7:18:23pm

re: #104 Stanley Seabola

<speechless>

132 jamesfirecat  Oct 28, 2014 7:19:36pm

re: #128 Vicious Piebola

Oh ucch, this fucking shit:

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They’re saving him for the next Fantastic Four movie…

images.search.yahoo.com

133 Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2014 7:20:07pm

re: #126 Vogon Poetry

And I’m guessing he’ll keep whatever pension he accrued?

He deserved to be fired - by the city council, mayor, or city manager (or all of the above). No way he should ever have been allowed to stay as long as he has.

Between the immediate aftermath of the shooting to how the protests were handled, law enforcement in Ferguson, St. Louis County, and the greater STL area has shown itself to be awful. And awfully racist.

Can’t wait to hear the reason for why he’s stepping down now, weeks after he utterly fucked up the handling of this case such that the Feds had to step in to conduct their own investigation. Perhaps he’s trying to make a run for it before the failure to indict is announced, leaving the resulting unrest to the next guy in line.

134 jaunte  Oct 28, 2014 7:20:40pm

re: #128 Vicious Piebola

Really? When Does KKK-Man Debut?:

Indiegogo:
A REBEL BORN Nathan Bedford Forrest feature film

$1,475USD
raised of $50,000 goal
3%
0 time left
This campaign started on Apr 13 and closed on May 04, 2014 (11:59pm PT).

How about… oh… never?

135 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 7:22:02pm

re: #131 Jenner7

<speechless>

I’m glad you watched.

136 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 28, 2014 7:22:06pm

re: #134 jaunte

Indiegogo:
A REBEL BORN Nathan Bedford Forrest feature film

How about… oh… never?

The sobbing you hear? R.S.McCain.

137 Eventual Carrion  Oct 28, 2014 7:22:43pm

re: #128 Vicious Piebola

Oh ucch, this fucking shit:

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138 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 28, 2014 7:23:47pm

re: #128 Vicious Piebola

She should ask McCain.

139 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 7:24:21pm

I heard snippits when I came home, there’s a story now.

I do not trust our security for Obama and the US. NADA.

140 Decatur Deb  Oct 28, 2014 7:24:23pm

re: #134 jaunte

Indiegogo:
A REBEL BORN Nathan Bedford Forrest feature film

How about… oh… never?

Shame. I’d love to see a film about him made for $50,000.

141 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2014 7:26:56pm

re: #128 Vicious Piebola

Oh ucch, this fucking shit:

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142 Indy GOP Refugee  Oct 28, 2014 7:29:48pm

A round of drinks for all on me. Name your brew.

Ferguson PD chief is bailing out

143 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 7:31:48pm

Oh destiny, karma, whatever.

144 klystron  Oct 28, 2014 7:32:05pm

re: #142 Rightwingconspirator

A round of drinks for all on me. Name your brew.

Ferguson PD chief is bailing out

Still waiting for confirmation from somewhere other than CNN, especially since some very pro-police folks are saying otherwise.

145 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 28, 2014 7:33:21pm

re: #143 Stanley Seabola

Oh destiny, karma, whatever.

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I’m tempted to write something like “too bad only a finger”…

146 makeitstop  Oct 28, 2014 7:34:44pm

Idiot

147 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 7:35:10pm

9-0 Royals. Whatta game. I’m still on the channel trying to find Darth.

He’ll be there tomorrow night.

beyond jealous.

148 BeachDem  Oct 28, 2014 7:35:31pm

re: #126 Vogon Poetry

And I’m guessing he’ll keep whatever pension he accrued?

He deserved to be fired - by the city council, mayor, or city manager (or all of the above). No way he should ever have been allowed to stay as long as he has.

Between the immediate aftermath of the shooting to how the protests were handled, law enforcement in Ferguson, St. Louis County, and the greater STL area has shown itself to be awful. And awfully racist.

Yes to all of the above. Just wanted to add—too little, too late.

149 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2014 7:38:30pm
150 psddluva4evah  Oct 28, 2014 7:39:14pm

Ok, my inner Comic geek girl is coming out.

I see that Marvel “secretly” announced their next 9 film titles and timelines. I love them all, but I just realized that one of the titles is for Black Panther movie and they cast Chadwick Boseman!!!

Now this psyched me up more than the rest of the announcement, apparently they’ve signed him for 5 films! So I guess that’s 3 possible solo movies (depending on box office i guess) and maybe 2 supporting roles in varied Marvel movies.

My first thought was, ooh, does this mean we get to see a younger Storm (Lupita Nyon’go call your agent), but then I was reminded that X-Men and Storm are owned by Fox and Marvel is owned by Disney. But damn, I cannot imagine a Black Panther story with absolutely NO mention of Storm. I mean they met as kids, and they later married at just about the age that Chadwick Boseman is likely to play.

Damn you contract laws! Hmm, maybe they’ll do like with Quicksilver and use the “real name” rather than mutant name??

Either way, I’m excited. My inner geek girl is happy. This tweet from RDJ has me smiling from ear to ear…lol. Ok, my inner geek is calm now.

151 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2014 7:40:01pm
152 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 28, 2014 7:40:28pm

An interview with former online trolls on the Russian state payroll. In Russian.

dp.ru

153 Varek Raith  Oct 28, 2014 7:42:02pm

Hydrazine, wheeee!

154 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 28, 2014 7:43:02pm

re: #134 jaunte

Indiegogo:
A REBEL BORN Nathan Bedford Forrest feature film

How about… oh… never?

Considering that you can raise 50 grand for potato salad, I’d be feeling pretty stupid if I were those guys

155 Varek Raith  Oct 28, 2014 7:44:28pm

200 million for the rocket alone.
That’ll put a blemish on your credit.

156 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2014 7:44:34pm

re: #149 Backwoods_Sleuth

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157 Kid A  Oct 28, 2014 7:46:58pm

He voted for Romney.

158 Jenner7  Oct 28, 2014 7:47:18pm
159 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 28, 2014 7:48:11pm

re: #152 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

D: The main topics: “Poroshenko is an asshole, and Putin in fact rules in Ukraine,” “Obama is an asshole, and Putin is a good fellow”, “Defense Ministry are good guys, look at those tanks,” “Putin’s rating” and of course “our Crimea.”
P: Syria, VVP (doesn’t matter what he did, but once he’s started something, he does everything right), Ministry of Defense, Ukraine, the opposition (rarely). About the Navalny case we did not write, for example. Shitting on someone other than Obama was not our task.
The main message against him was this: Obama sends arms to Syria, and Putin gets in the way with a shield.

.

160 Varek Raith  Oct 28, 2014 7:50:01pm

re: #157 Kid A

He voted for Romney.
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*_*

161 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 7:52:45pm

Extremely ditto

162 Kid A  Oct 28, 2014 7:53:28pm

Looks like the CNN report may be false. As I’ve said, these days it’s more important to get it right now than to get it right.

163 jaunte  Oct 28, 2014 7:53:31pm

re: #157 Kid A

He voted for Romney.
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It’s Napoleon Methamphetamine.

164 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 7:53:38pm

re: #157 Kid A

He voted for Romney.
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Stay classy!

165 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 7:54:33pm
166 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 28, 2014 7:54:35pm

re: #157 Kid A

Would that be because there’s no room in his bungalow for a phone?

167 Jenner7  Oct 28, 2014 7:55:33pm
168 Kid A  Oct 28, 2014 7:59:03pm
169 Decatur Deb  Oct 28, 2014 7:59:09pm

re: #157 Kid A

He voted for Romney.
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They finished Borat II ?

170 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 7:59:33pm

Is this the woman who was on sabbatical and tweeted her biased comments?

171 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 7:59:53pm

re: #167 Jenner7

go!

172 jaunte  Oct 28, 2014 7:59:54pm
173 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2014 8:00:28pm

re: #170 Stanley Seabola

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Is this the woman who was on sabbatical and tweeted her biased comments?

yep

174 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2014 8:00:50pm
175 Jenner7  Oct 28, 2014 8:00:57pm

re: #170 Stanley Seabola

She’s the one that originally said that there were 10 witnesses that back up Wilson’s story.

176 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 8:01:19pm

Whole lotta injustice.

177 Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2014 8:07:28pm

re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Seemed too odd that he was just suddenly leaving out of the blue. CNN was citing “federal officials,” so did they get punked?

178 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 8:08:07pm

re: #177 Targetpractice

Seemed too odd that he was just suddenly leaving out of the blue. CNN was citing “federal officials,” so did they get punked?

Probably not. The locals are just SO FUCKED UP.

179 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 8:08:44pm
180 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 28, 2014 8:09:26pm

Considering the character of her observations the St. Louis Post-Dispatch should change Christine Byers’ title from Crime Reporter to Criminal Reporter if only for the crime of desecrating the corpse of American journalism.

181 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 8:09:29pm
182 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 8:09:56pm

re: #180 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Considering the character of her observations the St. Louis Post-Dispatch should change Christine Byers’ title from Crime Reporter to Criminal Reporter if only for the crime of desecrating the corpse of American journalism.

Or, married to a cop or something.

183 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 8:13:21pm
184 Kid A  Oct 28, 2014 8:14:21pm

West Virginia columnist says Michael Brown was an “animal” whose death was “a justifiable homicide.” Then “corrected” it. This dude is a seriously fucked up asshole.

As you’ll see in that tweet he deleted his original post, but the internet lives forever. Here’s the link: webcache.googleusercontent.com

185 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 8:16:50pm

re: #184 Kid A

West Virginia columnist says Michael Brown was an “animal” whose death was “a justifiable homicide.” Then “corrected” it. This dude is a seriously fucked up asshole.

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A typical middle classed, suburban white supremacist. 1 in 4 of your neighbors. (I’m probably being generous)

186 Stanley Seabola  Oct 28, 2014 8:19:06pm

Ah, I let it get to me tonight. The video of the guy who served in the Army refusing to back down to the assholes with a badge and a gun really got to me.

Take care.

Tomorrow will be

ispot.tv

187 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 28, 2014 8:21:54pm

re: #184 Kid A

West Virginia columnist says Michael Brown was an “animal” whose death was “a justifiable homicide.” Then “corrected” it. This dude is a seriously fucked up asshole.

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As you’ll see in that tweet he deleted his original post, but the internet lives forever. Here’s the link: webcache.googleusercontent.com

Don Surber. There’s a RWNJ name I haven’t heard in a while. He used to get skewered at Sadly, No!

188 ausador  Oct 28, 2014 8:21:57pm

re: #175 Jenner7

She’s the one that originally said that there were 10 witnesses that back up Wilson’s story.

Claimed a dozen witnesses backed up Darren Wilson’s version of the story, while home on maternity leave and not even on story for her paper. Deleted tweet later and went incommunicado for a while but since returning to work has consistently shown a pro-police lean in her reporting.

189 Jenner7  Oct 28, 2014 8:25:41pm

re: #188 ausador

My bad. Thanks for correcting me. I didn’t realize she wasn’t even on the job at that time. smh

190 jaunte  Oct 28, 2014 8:36:43pm

The Young Republicans of Galveston County were letting people throw darts at pictures of President Obama, State Senator Wendy Davis, and Judge Susan Criss, all Democrats. If you hit the target you received a free hot dog.

191 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 28, 2014 8:39:26pm

re: #190 jaunte

We certainly intended no malice and do apologize to anyone who took offense

“Young Republicans” seem to be the worst of the worst.

192 Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 28, 2014 8:44:55pm

When I think of “Young Republicans” I think of people in their early 40s.

/

193 Lidane  Oct 28, 2014 8:47:29pm

re: #150 psddluva4evah

Yeah, Black Panther’s one of the films I’m really excited about. Marvel basically looked at DC’s plan to give Cyborg a film in 2020 and laughed. They’ll probably be on the second Panther film by then.

This is what happens when a studio makes a long-term plan for their properties instead of just throwing a bunch of shit at the wall and hoping it sticks.

194 psddluva4evah  Oct 28, 2014 8:54:15pm

re: #193 Lidane

to be honest, my only real hope for DC is the Wonder Woman movie. But I’m already not on board with the woman they chose as WW, so strike one. Don’t hate me, but I’ve never actually seen ANY of the Dark Knight movies, so I’m not big Nolan Fan (although, Memento is one of my fav movies), so strike two. Thirdly, I’ve never really been a big DC Comics geek girl, outside of WW and Superman, and I’m still nostalgic for the Chris Reeves era (even though I find Henry Cavill as Supes to be REALLY hot, maybe too hot, it was distracting to say the least), so strike three.

I saw MoS, but to be honest, I will probably only see the next movie to see the new WW chick and well to gaze at Henry Cavill a little bit more…lol

195 psddluva4evah  Oct 28, 2014 8:58:07pm
196 danarchy  Oct 28, 2014 9:01:50pm

re: #193 Lidane

Yeah, Black Panther’s one of the films I’m really excited about. Marvel basically looked at DC’s plan to give Cyborg a film in 2020 and laughed. They’ll probably be on the second Panther film by then.

This is what happens when a studio makes a long-term plan for their properties instead of just throwing a bunch of shit at the wall and hoping it sticks.

To be fair, until about 5 years ago Marvel movies were pretty hit or miss. There were some real stinkers. Daredevil, Elektra, both Hulks, all the Punishers…

197 psddluva4evah  Oct 28, 2014 9:02:54pm
198 Lidane  Oct 28, 2014 9:03:44pm

re: #196 danarchy

To be fair, until about 5 years ago Marvel movies were pretty hit or miss. There were some real stinkers. Daredevil, Elektra, both Hulks, all the Punishers…

Even Marvel will tell you that. It’s why they started their own studio, which has been a risk that paid off in spades for them.

199 Whack-A-Mole  Oct 28, 2014 9:17:57pm

If they keep putting out quality movies and the Hollywood/superhero bubble doesn’t pop in the meantime, Marvel will probably have the cash to buy back the rights to their other properties before too long, which would be awesome.

200 teleskiguy  Oct 28, 2014 9:20:34pm

201 psddluva4evah  Oct 28, 2014 9:22:07pm

re: #199 Whack-A-Mole

true, but the X-Men is a cash cow for Fox for now, after the next Apocalypse movie, maybe they’d be willing to sell it back, but they also have an announced Deadpool movie announced and I see them milking them for all it’s worth.

But I don’t see Fox as having any real vision for any of the other X-Men characters, so maybe Marvel could buy back individual character rights as needed?

202 BigPapa  Oct 28, 2014 9:31:08pm

re: #197 psddluva4evah

I’m a big Mo’Ne fan. Yet I worry it may be too much too fast.

I hope she handles it well.

203 Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2014 9:35:25pm

re: #201 psddluva4evah

true, but the X-Men is a cash cow for Fox for now, after the next Apocalypse movie, maybe they’d be willing to sell it back, but they also have an announced Deadpool movie announced and I see them milking them for all it’s worth.

But I don’t see Fox as having any real vision for any of the other X-Men characters, so maybe Marvel could buy back individual character rights as needed?

Fox with the X-Men franchise and Sony with the Spider-Man franchise have made it clear that they consider them cash cows and thus won’t be returning the rights anytime soon. Odds are better that they might convince Sony to part with their rights before they convinced Fox to let go of theirs.

204 Ace-o-aces  Oct 28, 2014 9:38:27pm

re: #170 Stanley Seabola

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Is this the woman who was on sabbatical and tweeted her biased comments?

She’s the one who tweeted that there were about a dozen witnesses who backed Wilson (which became an immediate right-wing talking point), then later retracted that report, never explained where it came from and then went on vacation. JOURNALMALISM!

205 Jenner7  Oct 28, 2014 9:44:16pm

Their story makes no sense. Moments before this happened, there is a still photo of Darrien and his sword is in his sheath, on his shoulder, with a SMILE on his face. But apparently he then lunged towards the officer and they just had to shoot. I just don’t buy it.

206 Amory Blaine  Oct 28, 2014 9:46:06pm

I hope this ad gets run in the Walker/Burke race.

Video

207 BeachDem  Oct 28, 2014 9:47:26pm

re: #204 Ace-o-aces

She’s the one who tweeted that there were about a dozen witnesses who backed Wilson (which became an immediate right-wing talking point), then later retracted that report, never explained where it came from and then went on vacation. JOURNALMALISM!

Actually, she was on leave when she tweeted it (and retracted it).

208 BeachDem  Oct 28, 2014 9:51:47pm

re: #207 BeachDem

Actually, she was on leave when she tweeted it (and retracted it).

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Note that her original bogus tweet had 3,517 retweets and 1,415 favorites.

The retraction, only 205 retweets and 86 favorites.

That’s how they play the game—put out the bogus crap far and wide, then bury the OOPS.

209 sagehen  Oct 28, 2014 9:54:38pm

re: #4 Targetpractice

THIS KINDA THING DIDN’T HAPPEN WHEN REAGAN WAS PRESIDENT!!!

(pssst… Challenger.)

210 austin_blue  Oct 28, 2014 10:00:08pm

re: #208 BeachDem

Note that her original bogus tweet had 3,517 retweets and 1,415 favorites.

The retraction, only 205 retweets and 86 favorites.

That’s how they play the game—put out the bogus crap far and wide, then bury the OOPS.

When did the police become the new Praetors? Inviolate, omnipotent, and beyond reproach. I remember when they were public servants who worked for us.

211 Ace-o-aces  Oct 28, 2014 10:03:14pm

re: #207 BeachDem

Actually, she was on leave when she tweeted it (and retracted it).

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Obviously she is the Ferguson PD’s stenographer of choice.

212 BeachDem  Oct 28, 2014 10:14:48pm

We’ve come a long way since Woodward and Bernstein agonized over using the Deep Throat info anonymously after months of deep research and corroboration of all their facts from other sources.

Now, the media only want to be first—they don’t care if they’re right; they don’t care if their sources are reliable; they don’t check them out or cross-reference anything, and they seem to pay no penalty for being wrong over and over again.

I often say I’m glad I took my journalism school education and used it in the more honorable profession of advertising!

213 teleskiguy  Oct 28, 2014 10:29:37pm

And Steve Martin retweeted one of my tweets, with a response!

214 BeachDem  Oct 28, 2014 10:41:37pm

Hey guys, hate to impose, but Jose Canseco’s girlfriend wants you to pray for his finger (which he shot off while “responsibly” cleaning his loaded gun.)

SMH so hard, my brain is bouncing against my skull.

215 teleskiguy  Oct 28, 2014 11:20:56pm
216 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 28, 2014 11:24:45pm

re: #214 BeachDem

Hey guys, hate to impose, but Jose Canseco’s girlfriend wants you to pray for his finger (which he shot off while “responsibly” cleaning his loaded gun.)

SMH so hard, my brain is bouncing against my skull.

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To shoot oneself, or someone else, while cleaning a firearm is incontrovertible evidence that you shouldn’t own one. If you state that common sense conclusion in a public forum the gun fuckers will go (more) berserk.

217 ausador  Oct 28, 2014 11:32:06pm

re: #216 Higgs Boson’s Mate

To shoot oneself, or someone else, while cleaning a firearm is incontrovertible evidence that you shouldn’t own one. If you state that common sense conclusion in a public forum the gun fuckers will go (more) berserk.

But “he didn’t think it was loaded” according to his girlfriend so its no big deal just a small mistake, right? ///

Seriously, who cleans a revolver or semi-auto pistol without checking cylinder for rounds/removing the magazine and breaking the slide first?

218 TedStriker  Oct 28, 2014 11:33:49pm

re: #217 ausador

But “he didn’t think it was loaded” according to his girlfriend so its no big deal just a small mistake, right? ///

Seriously, who cleans a revolver or semi-auto pistol without checking cylinder for rounds/removing the magazine and breaking the slide first?

Apparently Jose Canseco…

/drops mic

219 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 28, 2014 11:40:57pm

One reason I was glad to sell the GLOCK I used to own is that you have to pull the trigger before you can take it apart for cleaning. I find older types of firearms to be much safer to deal with. Mistakes, true ones, do happen; that said, this sounds like simple haste getting in the way of safety.

220 teleskiguy  Oct 28, 2014 11:40:59pm
221 teleskiguy  Oct 28, 2014 11:44:37pm

Brigitte Bardot is my favorite ubiquitous photographed 20th century beautiful woman ever. OMG

222 ausador  Oct 28, 2014 11:57:58pm

re: #221 teleskiguy

Brigitte Bardot is my favorite ubiquitous photographed 20th century beautiful woman ever. OMG

She was quite a sex symbol in her time, too bad her politics are such crap, against miscegenation, anti-immigration, Islamophobic.

223 teleskiguy  Oct 29, 2014 12:08:28am

re: #222 ausador

She was quite a sex symbol in her time, too bad her politics are such crap, against miscegenation, anti-immigration, Islamophobic.

Do we hold our humble host to the same standards? I haven’t looked in to Briggitte’s political standards (‘cause there aren’t any, she’s ultra-quiet on the internet). It’s too bad she has some bigotry. I think she has a nuanced view of all of those things. Maybe I’m wrong.

I still think she’s the hottest gal out of the “hot gal in the 20th century” sweepstakes.

That’s just me. I’m just a ski bum in the Rocky Mountains.

224 ausador  Oct 29, 2014 12:17:02am

She has authored books, written public op-eds and letters and sent protests to French government ministers, all of which has gotten her fined heavily and repeatedly for “inciting racial hatred” in France. :(

No First Amendment over there and hate speech and writings are a crime.
en.wikipedia.org

I think she was gorgeous too, loved her films, and she can sing pretty well also, in younger days I was really quite enamored with her for a while. But it seems in her later years she has gotten pretty retro-conservative in her political outlook.

225 teleskiguy  Oct 29, 2014 12:21:58am

re: #224 ausador

She’s Right, she’s Wrong. She’s Right, she’s wrong…

During the 2008 United States presidential election, she branded the Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as “stupid” and a “disgrace to women”. She criticized the former governor of Alaska for her stance on global warming and gun control. She was also offended by Palin’s support for Arctic oil exploration and for her lack of consideration in protecting polar bears.

226 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 29, 2014 2:04:59am

re: #200 teleskiguy

Matt Taibbi has left @firstlook, @pierre confirms

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Our differences were never about editorial independence. We have never wavered from our pledge that journalistic content is for the journalists to decide, period … As a startup, we’ll take what we’ve learned in the last several months and apply it to our efforts in the future.

What a clusterfuck that outfit has turned out to be

227 A Mom Anon  Oct 29, 2014 3:42:07am

Some idiots are driving around my county stealing election signs, for Democratic candidates only. I haz such a big surprise! Nope. The good news I suppose is that a Republican caught them on tape but the tape is pretty blurry and you can’t ID who is doing it. They mysteriously left the Republican candidates’ signs alone. More surprise.

I just wish the news people wouldn’t treat this like it’s something new. My Obama signs disappeared both times I had them out. No one gave a shit and it never made the news.

228 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 29, 2014 3:49:22am

re: #227 A Mom Anon

[Boiler-plate response citing anecdotal evidence of people stealing GOP signs]

229 A Mom Anon  Oct 29, 2014 4:03:59am

re: #228 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

LOL, yep. I do wonder though, do all those signs really sway elections?

230 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 29, 2014 4:07:32am

re: #229 A Mom Anon

LOL, yep. I do wonder though, do all those signs really sway elections?

It is a sad state of affairs that we no longer see politics as wining people over to your point of view, it is about demonizing and belittling your opponents and doing everything possible to obliterate them.

231 Bubblehead II  Oct 29, 2014 4:11:13am

re: #229 A Mom Anon

LOL, yep. I do wonder though, do all those signs really sway elections?

Morning all.

They don’t do anything for me. In fact, I consider the ones placed along side the rural roads and vacant lots around here to be nothing more than litter as they never seem to get taken down after the election.

232 A Mom Anon  Oct 29, 2014 4:19:05am

re: #231 Bubblehead II

Yeah, especially the ones they stick on the corners where there are traffic lights, those things end up in the road or just the wire frames are left sticking out of the ground. I just don’t get the need for them. People already have their minds made up to the point a bunch of signs isn’t going to do much. I think TV and radio do that job more efficiently. For better or worse.

233 A Mom Anon  Oct 29, 2014 4:20:36am

Time for dog walkies and then more yard sale preparation. Ack. Later Lizards, be excellent to one another.

234 Bubblehead II  Oct 29, 2014 4:26:29am

re: #232 A Mom Anon

Yeah, especially the ones they stick on the corners where there are traffic lights, those things end up in the road or just the wire frames are left sticking out of the ground. I just don’t get the need for them. People already have their minds made up to the point a bunch of signs isn’t going to do much. I think TV and radio do that job more efficiently. For better or worse.

I think the main reason for them is name recognition and the fact that they are cheaper than radio or T.V. ads. All the ones I’ve seen around here have a web site listed for the candidate as well. All of which is fine with me. I just want them to pick them back up and dispose of them in a responsible manner after the frigging election is over instead of leaving them to rot alongside the road.

235 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 4:42:44am

If Snowden has full access to the Internet as he claims in “The Nation” interview, why isn’t he posting up a storm at his favorite blogs?

236 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 4:46:14am
237 nearly-headless smith25  Oct 29, 2014 4:53:35am

re: #205 Jenner7

238 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 5:01:13am

This fucking idiot speaks out:

239 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 29, 2014 5:10:11am

re: #238 Vicious Piebola

This fucking idiot speaks out:

Nevermind the dozens of successful missions and launches since January 2009.

240 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 29, 2014 5:10:47am

re: #239 wheat-dogghazi-bola

Nevermind the dozens of successful missions and launches since January 2009.

Not to mention all of his less-than-successful business ventures…

241 Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2014 5:13:19am

If Orbital Sciences goes bankrupt-for-profit it will be emblematic of Trumpistan.

‘Morning, all.

242 Varek Raith  Oct 29, 2014 5:27:26am
243 Franklin  Oct 29, 2014 5:28:18am

For you Elizabeth Warren fans out there, here is some classic Liz supporting Martha Coakley in the MA Governors race.

Youtube Video

244 nearly-headless smith25  Oct 29, 2014 5:29:36am

Oh god. Why people…

Link

245 nearly-headless smith25  Oct 29, 2014 5:33:14am

re: #244 nearly-headless smith25

246 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 5:33:45am

re: #244 nearly-headless smith25

Oh god. Why people…

Link

WTFITS I just can’t even

247 Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2014 5:41:03am

re: #246 Vicious Piebola

WTFITS I just can’t even

If there is anything sick in the US Army, it shows first at Campbell, then Bragg. Both are home to ‘elite’ units.

248 nearly-headless smith25  Oct 29, 2014 5:42:31am

Halloween Rule #2:

249 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 5:44:38am

Would it be an OK Halloween costume if a Black guy put on whiteface to dress up as Snowden?

250 bill d  Oct 29, 2014 5:52:05am

I guess this is what happens when you announce to the world that you are taking a leave of absence but not checking with the boss beforehand.

I’m shocked that the ego driven dudebro media is a laughable mess!

251 Belafon  Oct 29, 2014 5:52:27am

re: #248 nearly-headless smith25

Yep. One year, one of my kids dressed up as Blade as depicted by Wesley Snipes in the first movie. He didn’t have to “go black” in order for people to figure it out.

252 nearly-headless smith25  Oct 29, 2014 5:52:44am

re: #249 Vicious Piebola

Would it be an OK Halloween costume if a Black guy put on whiteface to dress up as Snowden?

I wouldn’t approve. If your costume is so weak you need to change your skin, says something about your imagination. Carry a sign, or something that is a defining feature. Puts together the same notion that a Superhero (or villain) could only be of one race.

253 bill d  Oct 29, 2014 5:53:31am

re: #249 Vicious Piebola

Would it be an OK Halloween costume if a Black guy put on whiteface to dress up as Snowden?

No one outside of Dudebrolandia even remembers who he is anymore. They think he is still stuck in that airport.

254 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 5:55:07am
255 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 5:56:11am

re: #253 bill d

No one outside of Dudebrolandia even remembers who he is anymore. They think he is still stuck in that airport.

Last year a Black dude dressed up as Snowden (I don’t remember if he did whiteface or not) got ALL THE WINS

256 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 5:57:20am

re: #242 Varek Raith

257 Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2014 5:57:27am

re: #254 Vogon Poetry

“Source: Massive Ferguson reform package developing”

Why am I expecting spiffy new uniforms and smiley faces on the squad cars?

258 Timothy Watson  Oct 29, 2014 5:57:29am

re: #238 Vicious Piebola

This fucking idiot speaks out:

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So, Trump admits that for-profit companies can’t create public goods?

259 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 6:00:53am

Get out and vote people. I know I’m preaching to the choir, but vote. Every vote matters - from down ticket races to the top races in your states.

Choose wisely.

260 Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2014 6:02:26am

re: #259 Vogon Poetry

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Get out and vote people. I know I’m preaching to the choir, but vote. Every vote matters - from down ticket races to the top races in your states.

Choose wisely.

Not enough. You’ve got to take someone who’s registered “Lazy” with you.

261 Lidane  Oct 29, 2014 6:02:30am

An American jihad would make every tax dollar a tithing and the squandering of those dollars a sin. An American jihad would make every hour spent working in an American company — or founding one — an offering. An American jihad would make every teacher of American history not only a public servant, but a servant of the Truth.

We the People of the United States are good and we are right. And we need the spirit of an American jihad to properly invite, intensify and focus our intentions to preserve, protect and defend our Constitution here at home, and to seek to spread its principles abroad.

262 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 6:02:37am

re: #258 Timothy Watson

Nope. He’d place blame on NASA, or sNASA (secret NASA). Even though the launch was carried out under contract by a private vendor (OSC). And they opted to use ancient rocket motors as their power source, rather than either invent a new motor, or build a new motor based on a proven design.

263 darthstar  Oct 29, 2014 6:03:55am

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Dude’s actually coming to your home? That’s creepy.

264 Belafon  Oct 29, 2014 6:04:51am

re: #261 Lidane

So, the only difference between them and the Muslims they claim to hate is the direction they would face when pointing their gun.

265 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 29, 2014 6:05:12am

re: #259 Vogon Poetry

Get out and vote people. I know I’m preaching to the choir, but vote. Every vote matters - from down ticket races to the top races in your states.

Choose wisely.

I did my civic duty yesterday. But expats can only vote for federal offices and my voting state of Indiana doesn’t have any Senate seats up for grabs this time.

266 Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2014 6:07:01am

re: #265 wheat-dogghazi-bola

I did my civic duty yesterday. But expats can only vote for federal offices and my voting state of Indiana doesn’t have any Senate seats up for grabs this time.

Do you have to pay state taxes while abroad? (We did as DoD civilians from Alabama, though soldiers don’t.)

267 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 6:07:14am

I know everyone’s shocked. Shocked that NJ is still not clear on what their quarantine policy is. Despite the governor saying that they haven’t changed their policy since announcing it over the weekend, it’s not clear what even that policy is and who’s formulating it.

That contrasts with the NY policy, which clearly spells out what people should do.

Yet four days after he and the governor of New York announced the 21-day quarantine for high-risk travelers, neither Christie nor state health officials have offered details about how this will be accomplished.

If people are quarantined at home, can their families stay with them and still go out? If they are alone at home, is someone going to bring them food? What about high-risk travelers who are passing through the airport in Newark — should they be allowed to continue to their destination?

Those and many other questions remain unanswered — Christie officials said specifics about how the mandate will be enforced are “internal documents” and are not public.

What’s more, some of the agencies that are supposed to be enforcing the plan say they are uncertain about protocols because no policies have been presented. There is growing frustration, officials said. The Port Authority, for instance, had received no guidance from New Jersey health officials about the state’s Ebola response protocol as of Tuesday afternoon, a person familiar with airport operations said.

“Clarity would be incredibly helpful,” said the person, who requested anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak about the protocols.

In contrast, New York health officials circulated guidelines for screening at JFK International Airport on Tuesday, in a document that stresses “a respectful and supportive approach” to implementing the quarantine rules. It provides steps for agencies to follow to determine who should be quarantined, where they will stay and even how they will be transported.

And that they haven’t made it public also adds to the legal woes facing the state for trying to enforce a policy that appears to be thrown together with no actual input from health officials or legal staff, despite the Governor putting together a committee that has both health and legal officials involved.

268 Lidane  Oct 29, 2014 6:12:31am
269 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 29, 2014 6:16:58am

re: #266 Decatur Deb

Do you have to pay state taxes while abroad? (We did as DoD civilians from Alabama, though soldiers don’t.)

If I made enough in US$, I would. This year, though, my income went up quite a bit, so I’ll need to pay in 2015 I’m pretty sure.

270 darthstar  Oct 29, 2014 6:18:25am
271 Indy GOP Refugee  Oct 29, 2014 6:20:11am

Well, National Cat Day.

nationalcatday.com
I met a cat and lived!

272 Lidane  Oct 29, 2014 6:21:48am
273 darthstar  Oct 29, 2014 6:24:47am
274 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 29, 2014 6:25:25am
275 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 6:26:14am
276 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 29, 2014 6:29:46am

re: #274 NJDhockeyfan

If they were South Korean soapies, they would have learned that their brethren to the south live much better than they do, creating discontent in the ranks.

Graft was probably just the excuse for executing them.

/ halfway

277 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 29, 2014 6:35:13am
278 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 29, 2014 6:35:38am

re: #275 Vicious Piebola

Pierre is going about the media mogul shtick all wrong. Starting a media enterprise from scratch is very difficult. Much easier to buy an existing property, like a print newspaper, then fuck it up. That’s what Rupert Murdoch and Jeff Bezos (maybe, too soon to tell) did.

279 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 29, 2014 6:37:32am

re: #274 NJDhockeyfan

Kim Jong Un executes 10 officials for watching soaps, graft

- and parting their hair on the side.

280 bill d  Oct 29, 2014 6:38:37am

re: #274 NJDhockeyfan

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I had hopes in the beginning for Kim. I wonder what his end game is, he can do this for another 10 years but I doubt 40?

Any opening up to the modern world for North Korea would totally burst the reality bubble that has been crafted and I would imagine that the populace would be irate.

I guess his only choices are to keep the nightmare churning or loot the country and seek asylum after enlightening the country?

281 ObserverArt  Oct 29, 2014 6:39:32am

Morning all.

I was wondering, why does Glenn Greenwald not have a thin scruffy dudebros beard? Seeing the images of First Look guys in their tweets, it looks like you can’t be a dudebro new journalist without one.

Glenn must be extra special.

282 Ace-o-aces  Oct 29, 2014 6:40:20am
283 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 29, 2014 6:41:52am

re: #278 wheat-dogghazi-bola

Pierre is going about the media mogul shtick all wrong. Starting a media enterprise from scratch is very difficult. Much easier to buy an existing property, like a print newspaper, then fuck it up. That’s what Rupert Murdoch and Jeff Bezos (maybe, too soon to tell) did.

That Bezos did not immediately fire Fred Hiatt, preferably out of an actual cannon, does not bode well.

284 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 29, 2014 6:42:47am

re: #267 Vogon Poetry

Christie has publicly addressed the mongered fear and shown his “strong” governance. That what has actually been served up is a nebulous shit sandwich is not important since the optics are more important than any actual results.

285 nearly-headless smith25  Oct 29, 2014 6:44:27am
286 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 29, 2014 6:45:16am

re: #280 bill d

I had hopes in the beginning for Kim. I wonder what his end game is, he can do this for another 10 years but I doubt 40?

Any opening up to the modern world for North Korea would totally burst the reality bubble that has been crafted and I would imagine that the populace would be irate.

I guess his only choices are to keep the nightmare churning or loot the country and seek asylum after enlightening the country?

I wonder how long China puts up with his shit. His father was stable and predictable compared to him.

287 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 6:46:37am

re: #272 Lidane

Captain America, on the other hand, slightly moved Mjölnir. That got a raised eyebrow from Thor. But the best reaction was from Black Widow, who said she wasn’t interested in such things (and it would have been awesome if she was truly worthy for that - perhaps something to think of down the road).

288 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 29, 2014 6:47:34am

re: #283 Higgs Boson’s Mate

That Bezos did not immediately fire Fred Hiatt, preferably out of an actual cannon, does not bode well.

Agreed. Bezos is brilliant in many ways, but he’s not a newspaperman or a journalist and I doubt he really understands what a newspaper *does* or is supposed to do. The Post, back in the day, was one of the USA’s best newspapers, along with the NY Times and WSJ. Now only the Times remains as a flagship of newspaper journalism, and it’s hard to say how long that will last.

289 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 6:48:51am

re: #286 NJDhockeyfan

Not exactly. Kim Jong Il was just as sociopathic as his son is turning out to be. He executed anyone who posed a threat to him early in his rule, and kept an iron fist. Jong Un is doing much the same - rooting out anyone who might pose a threat to him in the upper tiers of the North Korean military and political establishment.

290 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 29, 2014 6:50:11am

re: #286 NJDhockeyfan

I wonder how long China puts up with his shit. His father was stable and predictable compared to him.

Well, Xi JInping really snubbed Kim by visiting South Korea first. China likes things done their way, and puppet states that don’t toe the line have bad things happen to them. See: Vietnam.

291 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 29, 2014 6:55:19am
292 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 6:58:18am

re:
#275

Seriously: in 8 months, this nameless site hired a lot of people and generated zero stories, now it won’t say why its editor left. Bizarre!

It’s all part of the master plan.

293 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 29, 2014 6:59:41am

Today I took part in a junket of sorts with a busload of educators and businessmen touring local industries. We visited a fiber-optics factory founded by a Chinese guy who graduated from the U of Minnesota/Minneapolis, an orange grove that has automated irrigation systems, and a high-grade, “green” chromium refining plant. The supply path of the chromium is interesting. It’s mined and smelted in Kazakhstan, loaded onto railway cars and transported halfway across China to the local railway depot here. Then the ingots (I saw them) are loaded onto trailers and trucked to the refining plant, where the Cr is purified to 99% and resold.

The plant is supposed to be environmentally friendly, and judging from the fairly clean air, fairly successful at it. I could only pick up the slightest whiff of coal fumes and none of the reagents used to refine the Cr.

The purified Cr will eventually end up in jet turbines and other such aerospace stuff, probably around the world.

294 darthstar  Oct 29, 2014 7:01:50am
295 Bubblehead II  Oct 29, 2014 7:03:24am

WTFITS?

297 darthstar  Oct 29, 2014 7:09:12am

BTW, last night’s game…pretty painful. Our seats are under the overhang, so all of the crowd noise bounces off the concrete…my ears were ringing by the end of the second inning. Hopefully tonight we can turn the place back into a library of silence.

KC’s stadium is very pretty. My only criticism is that they went overboard with the high-def displays. There’s nowhere to look during the game that is easy on the eyes as they have SUPERBRIGHT flashing ‘make noise’ graphics covering the entire outfield fence, the layers between 2nd and 3rd decks, the scoreboard, and all the other electronic displays.

298 ObserverArt  Oct 29, 2014 7:10:55am

My image for the day…and now I can get to work!

Whenever he starts talking this happens…

299 bill d  Oct 29, 2014 7:14:20am

re: #297 darthstar

Envious and only certain type of cheering is painful to the ears, the kind you aren’t participating in.

Enjoy Game 7, this has been a great series.

300 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 7:16:53am
301 freetoken  Oct 29, 2014 7:18:58am

A type of Overton-window happening in UK politics, as UKIP, which has only one MP in parliament, is steering the discussion:

All this immigration talk is just playing into Ukip’s hands

There is deep disquiet in Westminster after this week’s prime minister’s questions, with MPs on both sides of the House speaking out against their party leaders for helping Ukip.

Ed Miliband’s decision to focus part of his questioning on immigration appears to have divided the party.

Some on the Labour backbenches are staunchly in favour of a stronger stance on the issue and were relieved by the leader’s late arrival to the issue. Those facing a Ukip threat, in particular, seemed delighted.
But others were very, very concerned. One shadow minister compared the state of the debate to “two bald men fighting over a comb”.

[…]

Hmmm, when I think of two bald men and the comb of immigration I think of … Bill OReilly and Donald Trump… for some reason.

302 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 29, 2014 7:21:45am

re: #301 freetoken

A type of Overton-window happening in UK politics, as UKIP, which has only one MP in parliament, is steering the discussion:

All this immigration talk is just playing into Ukip’s hands

Hmmm, when I think of two bald men and the comb of immigration I think of … Bill OReilly and Donald Trump… for some reason.

Would that be a fine-toothed comb of immigration?

303 danarchy  Oct 29, 2014 7:21:58am

re: #295 Bubblehead II

WTFITS?

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Think of it more as a $15 discount for accepting the Ads. Much the same way if you subscribe to LGF you can get rid of the ads.

304 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 29, 2014 7:23:09am

re: #303 danarchy

Think of it more as a $15 discount for accepting the Ads. Much the same way if you subscribe to LGF you can get rid of the ads.

Screensavers should not be serving ads.

305 Jenner7  Oct 29, 2014 7:25:09am

re: #300 Vogon Poetry

Ahh, Obama’s weather machine. Good times. ;)

306 darthstar  Oct 29, 2014 7:25:59am

re: #299 bill d

Envious and only certain type of cheering is painful to the ears, the kind you aren’t participating in.

Enjoy Game 7, this has been a great series.

Yeah, that’s a good point. Going to away games is always a little weird. And it’s tougher still when you’re getting pummeled. We got pummeled last night. Still, it’s been a great experience.

307 darthstar  Oct 29, 2014 7:26:51am
308 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 7:27:32am
309 freetoken  Oct 29, 2014 7:28:02am

WaPo declares that the “core of the White House” are from the “People’s Republic of Takoma”:

Takoma Park liberals at the core of the White House

See, we always knew that Obama was a radical marxist, so there.

310 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 7:28:09am

re:
#297

KC’s stadium is very pretty.

Love the waterfalls and the Royals insignia in the outfield. Been there once, about 10 years ago.

While the Nationals are my favorite team these days, the Royals and Mariners are my favorite AL teams. I’ve been rooting for KC for the past several years, partly because they’ve been so bad for so long. That they’ve reached this point is pretty magical. They were very good in the years I first followed baseball, the era of George Brett et al. Great to seem them finally bounce back.

And I’m sick of the Giants anyway. Them and the Cardinals. Just go away.

311 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 7:29:27am

re:
#308

Always nice to see a patriot who’s happy to watch Americans losing their jobs.

It’s what true patriotism is all about. /

312 Stanley Seabola  Oct 29, 2014 7:29:37am

re: #297 darthstar

BTW, last night’s game…pretty painful. Our seats are under the overhang, so all of the crowd noise bounces off the concrete…my ears were ringing by the end of the second inning. Hopefully tonight we can turn the place back into a library of silence.

KC’s stadium is very pretty. My only criticism is that they went overboard with the high-def displays. There’s nowhere to look during the game that is easy on the eyes as they have SUPERBRIGHT flashing ‘make noise’ graphics covering the entire outfield fence, the layers between 2nd and 3rd decks, the scoreboard, and all the other electronic displays.

So did you make some new friends????

313 Bubblehead II  Oct 29, 2014 7:31:00am

re: #303 danarchy

Think of it more as a $15 discount for accepting the Ads. Much the same way if you subscribe to LGF you can get rid of the ads.

Or I can go for the Nexus 7 (2013) and still save $5.00

314 freetoken  Oct 29, 2014 7:31:20am

I see that Condoleeza Rice is campaigning for Joni the Castrator.

Condi Rice backs Joni Ernst for Senate in Iowa

[…]

Condoleezza Rice endorsed Republican Joni Ernst, saying the Senate needs someone with the candidate’s experience in the Army National Guard. Ernst, a lieutenant colonel in the Guard, has served for more than 20 years in the military and was deployed to Kuwait during the early part of the Iraq War.

“Joni Ernst has dedicated her life to the service of others, bravely leading troops in Iraq and safely bringing them home to Iowa,” Rice said in a statement Wednesday released by Ernst’s campaign. “We need more leaders, like Joni, who understand America’s role abroad and the threat posed against us.”

[…]

Yeah, more fear mongering.

The problem with cold warriors is that they need wars.

315 Bubblehead II  Oct 29, 2014 7:32:54am

Upchuck is going to go ballistic about this.

316 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 7:34:07am

re: #308 Vicious Piebola

Fox News in NY had a segment this morning about robots that can scurry around a Lowes (or one of their subsidiaries) providing assistance.

Except that they would be cost prohibitive to buy (even in bulk), and they’d have significant costs to maintain over time - it would take years to recoup especially compared to a person doing the same job (who could also do restocking and other tasks that a robot wouldn’t be able to do).

online.wsj.com

The key takeaway -

The International Federation of Robotics estimates sales of more than 400 robots world-wide between 2014 and 2017 that serve as guides or information providers in places such as supermarkets, exhibitions or museums.

That’s hardly a threat to a wage-earning human.

317 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 7:36:17am

And this is why politicians are pandering re: Ebola:

People simply don’t get it. Ebola as a threat to America will not stop until the outbreak is stopped in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. They will continue to spread cases beyond their borders and no travel ban will stop that from happening.

318 darthstar  Oct 29, 2014 7:36:17am

re: #312 Stanley Seabola

So did you make some new friends????

Actually, yes. After the game my wife and I struck up conversation with a couple from Witchita in the bar back at the hotel, and we spent a good hour talking to them.

Most of the people here are very nice. We did get a lot of “Giants suck!” taunts during the game from drunken dudebros, but those were usually followed with another fan saying, “We’re really sorry about that guy.” Pretty much how I handle assholes at my home park too.

319 freetoken  Oct 29, 2014 7:37:04am

It’s not often that we get to post articles about… yes, they’re back - Raelians!

‘Atheist creationists’ say their study proves there is no Jesus in your communion wafer

A DNA analysis proves that Holy Communion is a “fraud,” according to a hedonistic religious sect that believes humans were created by extraterrestrials about 25,000 years ago.

The Association of Raelian Scientists published a study on October 25 they say refutes the Catholic claim of transubstantiation, in which bread and wine and actually become the physical body and blood of Jesus Christ.

DNA analysis of consecrated sacramental bread refutes Catholic transubstantiation claim

320 Stanley Seabola  Oct 29, 2014 7:38:20am

re: #318 darthstar

Actually, yes. After the game my wife and I struck up conversation with a couple from Witchita in the bar back at the hotel, and we spent a good hour talking to them.

Most of the people here are very nice. We did get a lot of “Giants suck!” taunts during the game from drunken dudebros, but those were usually followed with another fan saying, “We’re really sorry about that guy.” Pretty much how I handle assholes at my home park too.

It is so cool to travel with you team. Good luck tonight.

321 Jenner7  Oct 29, 2014 7:39:29am

re: #317 Vogon Poetry

Just dumb and sad. I don’t get it. :(

322 Bubblehead II  Oct 29, 2014 7:40:52am

re: #317 Vogon Poetry

And this is why politicians are pandering re: Ebola:

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People simply don’t get it. Ebola as a threat to America will not stop until the outbreak is stopped in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. They will continue to spread cases beyond their borders and no travel ban will stop that from happening.

Let’s fan the fear.

323 withak  Oct 29, 2014 7:41:32am

re: #317 Vogon Poetry

The worst part of it all is that health care workers attempting to help stop the outbreak in Africa are being vilified for their selfless service when they return home, and held against their will in quarantine for political, rather than medical, reasons.

324 freetoken  Oct 29, 2014 7:43:37am

re: #317 Vogon Poetry

WaPo discovering they can make money off of Ebola!!!

WaPo runs a tag line, the line that gets put on the streams that gets fed to the news aggregators, shouting:

“Ebola epidemic diminishing? Not so fast, experts say”

However, the actual headline at the website, a story by one of their better writers (Joel Achenbach) says:

Is the Ebola epidemic subsiding in Liberia?

A bit different way of phrasing, wouldn’t you say?

325 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 7:43:57am

re:
#323

These mandatory quarantines seem to have risen because of that one doctor’s case, who originally didn’t present symptoms but then was later diagnosed as having Ebola.

Have there been any updates about him?

326 darthstar  Oct 29, 2014 7:46:24am

re: #320 Stanley Seabola

It is so cool to travel with you team. Good luck tonight.

That is cool. I’m enjoying the hell out of it - though the players are in a separate hotel so I don’t see them. Had a nice conversation with Pat ‘the bat’ Burrell last night though.

327 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 29, 2014 7:46:53am

re: #317 Vogon Poetry

Our poll finds more Americans think more needs to be done to fight Ebola here than in Africa:

My poll (Sample size: 1) finds that the media whipped up fear and panic rather than educating Americans about Ebola.

328 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 7:48:09am

re:
#317

Our poll finds more Americans think more needs to be done to fight Ebola here than in Africa:

Oh, so less-government then?

//

329 freetoken  Oct 29, 2014 7:49:28am

Speaking of Raelians, you all caught the big headline, didn’t you?

Yesterday The Mirror and other vanguard publications informed us:

Aliens are REAL reveals former Area 51 scientist who insists they’re friendly and helping us

Youtube Video

330 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 7:51:24am

re: #325 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Yes, he’s still being treated for Ebola at Bellevue, and his condition is unchanged.

Though his relationship status may have changed. See John Oliver.

331 makeitstop  Oct 29, 2014 7:53:55am

‘Morning, Lizards…

I got a question and a statement this morning.

Question: Going back and forth with a conservative on FB (NOT a nutjob, he’s an old friend and will listen to reason), and he posted this morning that he believes Obama will grant amnesty to 34 million illegals after the election.

I know that 34 million number is wildly exaggerated. Does anyone know where this lie originated? Might help change a mind today.

Statement: The new OK Go video is absolute genius, from the use of the crazy unicycles to all those umbrellas - and especially the continuous shot by a drone. Those guys might have the biggest brains in rock right now.

Youtube Video

Also - anyone see Carmelo Anthony’s cameo on Sons of Anarchy last night?

332 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 29, 2014 7:56:01am

re: #314 freetoken

We need more leaders, like Joni, who understand America’s role abroad and the threat posed against us.

It would have been helpful if Rice had understood the threat posed against us when she was Bush’s National Security Adviser in 2001.

333 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 7:57:16am

re: #331 makeitstop

‘Morning, Lizards…

I got a question and a statement this morning.

Question: Going back and forth with a conservative on FB (NOT a nutjob, he’s an old friend and will listen to reason), and he posted this morning that he believes Obama will grant amnesty to 34 million illegals after the election.

I know that 34 million number is wildly exaggerated. Does anyone know where this lie originated? Might help change a mind today.

Statement: The new OK Go video is absolute genius, from the use of the crazy unicycles to all those umbrellas - and especially the continuous shot by a drone. Those guys might have the biggest brains in rock right now.

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Also - anyone see Carmelo Anthony’s cameo on Sons of Anarchy last night?

Snopes status: FALSE

Of course wingnuts are all HURR HURR TEH SNOAPS IS TEH SATAN SOROS!!!11!!!!

334 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 7:59:33am

re:
#333

Legalizing all teh illegal aliens isn’t the real worry. It’s when Obama overturns the 2014 election results with an executive order, declares martial law, cancels the 2016 election, uses ISIS to spread Ebola in Christian churches and bombs all the gun factories. //

335 withak  Oct 29, 2014 8:03:05am

re: #334 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Don’t forget, he’s going to annul all marriages and make everyone gay marry. If no gays are available, a cousin, dog, or toaster oven will be substituted. ///

336 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 8:03:45am

re:
#317

Our poll finds more Americans think more needs to be done to fight Ebola here than in Africa:

Sounds like an ideal time to implement The FAIR TAX, cut all the other taxes, end all the regulations, and invade the country of ISIS.
/

337 makeitstop  Oct 29, 2014 8:06:45am

re: #333 Vicious Piebola

Snopes status: FALSE

Of course wingnuts are all HURR HURR TEH SNOAPS IS TEH SATAN SOROS!!!11!!!!

Thank you! I can always count on you guys.

338 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 8:09:14am

Media keeps saying Americans are angry. I have no doubt it’s largely true. But it seems a peculiar time for them to feel so. Very low gas prices, stock market continuing to grow, unemployment dropping, albeit slowly. Housing mostly stabilized.

Wonder if there is something other than Ebola/ISIS that’s got people angry.

339 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 8:11:24am

re: #338 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Media keeps saying Americans are angry. I have no doubt it’s largely true. But it seems a peculiar time for them to feel so. Very low gas prices, stock market continuing to grow, unemployment dropping, albeit slowly. Housing mostly stabilized.

Wonder if there is something other than Ebola/ISIS that’s got people angry.

HURR HURR!!!! OBAMA TEH TYRANT!!! FAST & FURIOUS, BENGHAZI, IRS, ISIS, TEH ECONOMIES THERE NOT TELLING U 97 GAZILLIONS WHITE AMERICANS LEFT TEH WORKS AFTER THERE JRBS WAS GIVEN TO TEH ILLEGALS ALIENS & TEH ROBOTS!!!!!! INPEECH!!!!!!!!

340 freetoken  Oct 29, 2014 8:12:17am

re: #338 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Media moguls and well-versed politicians know by experience that anger is a useful state in which to keep consumers/voters:

As you become angry your body’s muscles tense up. Inside your brain, neurotransmitter chemicals known as catecholamines are released causing you to experience a burst of energy lasting up to several minutes. This burst of energy is behind the common angry desire to take immediate protective action. At the same time your heart rate accelerates, your blood pressure rises, and your rate of breathing increases. Your face may flush as increased blood flow enters your limbs and extremities in preparation for physical action. Your attention narrows and becomes locked onto the target of your anger. Soon you can pay attention to nothing else. In quick succession, additional brain neurotransmitters and hormones (among them adrenaline and noradrenaline) are released which trigger a lasting state of arousal. You’re now ready to fight.

341 ObserverArt  Oct 29, 2014 8:12:57am

re: #331 makeitstop

‘Morning, Lizards…

I got a question and a statement this morning.

Question: Going back and forth with a conservative on FB (NOT a nutjob, he’s an old friend and will listen to reason), and he posted this morning that he believes Obama will grant amnesty to 34 million illegals after the election.

I know that 34 million number is wildly exaggerated. Does anyone know where this lie originated? Might help change a mind today.

Statement: The new OK Go video is absolute genius, from the use of the crazy unicycles to all those umbrellas - and especially the continuous shot by a drone. Those guys might have the biggest brains in rock right now.

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Also - anyone see Carmelo Anthony’s cameo on Sons of Anarchy last night?

Please don’t take offence to my comment, as it is coming from both an artist and semi-musician that loves rock music… all kinds.

Isn’t it odd that you say OK Go has the biggest brains in rock (music) based on their great videos?

Many times people wonder why the bands are not as great as back in the day (whatever day was yours!). Those old bands never even thought of what a song should look like visually, they were crafting sound and lyrics.

I am still ambivalent about videos and I sometimes wonder if the visual aspect that seems to be so important didn’t actually hurt the music industry.

I think there are many great new bands that are just as good as those back in the day, but today they seem to be struggling in anonymity. I always wonder if all the emphasis on looks and videos hasn’t hurt the whole scene.

And I did see the OK Go vid. It was nicely done. And they are a good band.

342 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 8:13:50am

Kobach has been going around the country peddling this software program called Crosscheck to purge voter rolls of duplicate entries, but it doesn’t even fulfill the basic task. It’s rife with errors, despite his claims.

Some states have dropped out of the Kobach-touted program because of the problems, instead signing on to the Pew Charitable Trust program (which charges a fee); the Crosscheck program is free.

343 ObserverArt  Oct 29, 2014 8:15:02am

re: #338 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Media keeps saying Americans are angry. I have no doubt it’s largely true. But it seems a peculiar time for them to feel so. Very low gas prices, stock market continuing to grow, unemployment dropping, albeit slowly. Housing mostly stabilized.

Wonder if there is something other than Ebola/ISIS that’s got people angry.

Well a certain group seems to be pretty pissed off a black guy made it into the whitehouse. Much anger started right thar!!!

344 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 8:17:32am

Why? She stopped believing when you told her that the Boogey Monster would snatch her?

345 Lidane  Oct 29, 2014 8:18:34am

I am amused:

346 HappyWarrior  Oct 29, 2014 8:19:02am

re: #344 Vicious Piebola

Why? She stopped believing when you told her that the Boogey Monster would snatch her?

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Does he think his daughter is an as big idiot as he is?

347 HappyWarrior  Oct 29, 2014 8:21:40am

re: #317 Vogon Poetry

And this is why politicians are pandering re: Ebola:

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People simply don’t get it. Ebola as a threat to America will not stop until the outbreak is stopped in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. They will continue to spread cases beyond their borders and no travel ban will stop that from happening.

So basically many people are idiots. You stop Ebola in Africa, you’re going to stop it here. Sigh this is exactly the kind of mindset that gave the GOP the House in 2010 and will give them the Senate this year.

348 ObserverArt  Oct 29, 2014 8:22:41am

re: #344 Vicious Piebola

Why? She stopped believing when you told her that the Boogey Monster would snatch her?

Tweet from dunderhead Erickson:

Erick Erickson ✔ @EWErickson
Follow
My wife and I are weighing whether we should tell her 9you that her room could catch Ebola if she doesn’t clean it up.

Wow, he really takes Ebola as a serious threat doesn’t he?

I guess by his trivializing it he sort of kills any fear he wants to pump up for the conservatives. A little truth of the whole “show’ conservatives serve up for mass idiot consumption.

349 Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2014 8:23:21am

re: #341 ObserverArt

Please don’t take offence to my comment, as it is coming from both an artist and semi-musician that loves rock music… all kinds.

Isn’t it odd that you say OK Go has the biggest brains in rock (music) based on their great videos?

Many times people wonder why the bands are not as great as back in the day (whatever day was yours!). Those old bands never even thought of what a song should look like visually, they were crafting sound and lyrics.

I am still ambivalent about videos and I sometimes wonder if the visual aspect that seems to be so important didn’t actually hurt the music industry.

I think there are many great new bands that are just as good as those back in the day, but today they seem to be struggling in anonymity. I always wonder if all the emphasis on looks and videos hasn’t hurt the whole scene.

And I did see the OK Go vid. It was nicely done. And they are a good band.

For comfort’s sake, then, think of videos as derived from Baroque opera rather than ’40s songsters.

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350 withak  Oct 29, 2014 8:24:05am

re: #341 ObserverArt

I am still ambivalent about videos and I sometimes wonder if the visual aspect that seems to be so important didn’t actually hurt the music industry.

Their lead singer had a good response to a question like this in an interview. It’s a pretty refreshing take on “new media” and his role as a musician/artist.

I think there are many great new bands that are just as good as those back in the day, but today they seem to be struggling in anonymity. I always wonder if all the emphasis on looks and videos hasn’t hurt the whole scene.

That problem has existed since the advent of MTV, though, right? (Or perhaps before?) Is it more or less pronounced now? I’d argue less, because Arbitrary Unknown But Awesome Band has many more avenues to get exposure for their music, what with YouTube, Twitter, etc.

And I did see the OK Go vid. It was nicely done. And they are a good band.

Can’t disagree there! Their YouTube channel is worth wasting a few hours on; the Rube Goldberg machine video for This Too Shall Pass is amazing.

351 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 29, 2014 8:24:44am

re: #335 withak

Don’t forget, he’s going to annul all marriages and make everyone gay marry. If no gays are available, a cousin, dog, or toaster oven will be substituted. ///

Marrying a toaster oven might not be too bad. At least it can cook…
(rim shot)
////

;P

352 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 29, 2014 8:25:30am

re: #338 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Media keeps saying Americans are angry. I have no doubt it’s largely true. But it seems a peculiar time for them to feel so. Very low gas prices, stock market continuing to grow, unemployment dropping, albeit slowly. Housing mostly stabilized.

Wonder if there is something other than Ebola/ISIS that’s got people angry.

Being told constantly by every media outlet that they should be angry?
//

353 ObserverArt  Oct 29, 2014 8:27:47am

re: #350 withak

Their lead singer had a good response to a question like this in an interview. It’s a pretty refreshing take on “new media” and his role as a musician/artist.

That problem has existed since the advent of MTV, though, right? (Or perhaps before?) Is it more or less pronounced now? I’d argue less, because Arbitrary Unknown But Awesome Band has many more avenues to get exposure for their music, what with YouTube, Twitter, etc.

Can’t disagree there! Their YouTube channel is worth wasting a few hours on; the Rube Goldberg machine video for This Too Shall Pass is amazing.

Awww. I wanted to read your link…but it goes to a monster holding a stop sign!

354 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 8:29:06am

re: #352 Feline Fearless Leader

Upset? You haven’t seen me upset. /Ethan Hunt.

355 withak  Oct 29, 2014 8:29:19am

re: #353 ObserverArt

I take it the monster is a web filter? Heh. reddit bad! Here’s the Q&A:

Q: Do you worry that your amazing video work could overshadow your audio work?

A: No. We get this question all the time. But think of it this way. I am a chef. You are in my restaurant. And you are asking me if I am worried by the fact that we are known for our incredible desserts. I am very, very pleased that we have such good desserts, and that they are known around the world for being delicious and singular and unique and unlike anyone else’s desserts. As it turns out, I also make very good main courses. Many people also come and enjoy them. If millions come in for the desserts, and hundreds of thousands also find they like the main course, awesome. There are no bad customers in this restaurant.

See, the question you’re asking basically masks a way of thinking about creativity (or, more accurately, people’s creative careers) that seems… stuck in another century, I guess. That’s the idea that creativity and creative people are supposed to stay in particular boxes that were defined by the way our products used to be distributed. It used to be that music and film and video games and journalism were actually very different physical objects with industries built around selling and distributing them. Now all of us make ones and zeros. I spend my time chasing my creative ideas. My process generally starts with writing songs, but it leads to a lot of other fun places. I feel bad for musicians who get trapped in the box of “music” as it was imagined 30 years ago. Some people like it in that box, but a lot don’t. A lot of people wish they got to chase all of their creative ideas, not just the ones that involve their guitar. I am that lucky guy who is not trapped in that particular box.

356 ObserverArt  Oct 29, 2014 8:30:03am

re: #353 ObserverArt

Awww. I wanted to read your link…but it goes to a monster holding a stop sign!

I figured it out. The address was buried in some linkage to green footballs or something. It is the Reddit part of the link!

357 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 8:30:46am

re: #355 withak

I take it the monster is a web filter?

That’s the LGF 404 page. The link was formatted incorrectly

358 withak  Oct 29, 2014 8:31:16am

re: #357 Vicious Piebola

That’ll teach me to not preview before posting.

Link fixed now; had a stray space.

359 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 8:34:33am

re:
#348

Is that Erick son of Erick, charter member of the “Legion of mouth-breathing swivel-eyed loons”?

360 ObserverArt  Oct 29, 2014 8:37:05am

re: #355 withak

I take it the monster is a web filter? Heh. reddit bad! Here’s the Q&A:

Q: Do you worry that your amazing video work could overshadow your audio work?

A: No. We get this question all the time. But think of it this way. I am a chef. You are in my restaurant. And you are asking me if I am worried by the fact that we are known for our incredible desserts. I am very, very pleased that we have such good desserts, and that they are known around the world for being delicious and singular and unique and unlike anyone else’s desserts. As it turns out, I also make very good main courses. Many people also come and enjoy them. If millions come in for the desserts, and hundreds of thousands also find they like the main course, awesome. There are no bad customers in this restaurant.

See, the question you’re asking basically masks a way of thinking about creativity (or, more accurately, people’s creative careers) that seems… stuck in another century, I guess. That’s the idea that creativity and creative people are supposed to stay in particular boxes that were defined by the way our products used to be distributed. It used to be that music and film and video games and journalism were actually very different physical objects with industries built around selling and distributing them. Now all of us make ones and zeros. I spend my time chasing my creative ideas. My process generally starts with writing songs, but it leads to a lot of other fun places. I feel bad for musicians who get trapped in the box of “music” as it was imagined 30 years ago. Some people like it in that box, but a lot don’t. A lot of people wish they got to chase all of their creative ideas, not just the ones that involve their guitar. I am that lucky guy who is not trapped in that particular box.

Read it. I agree, but he is a little dismissive of others thinking. As an artist I find that a bit arrogant and defensive, but hey…free world! I certainly understand his point. I like multimedia! I also like a good song without a video done by a homely looking artist.

And here is my comeback for him. Desserts are cooking. Main courses are cooking. Some restaurants rely on their fun decor, bar, game machines, skimpy-dressed waitresses…and completely screw up the food!

Later all…I gotta concentrate on getting something done, but am having too much fun here at LGF!

361 Indy GOP Refugee  Oct 29, 2014 8:39:04am

re: #350 withak

Their lead singer had a good response to a question like this in an interview. It’s a pretty refreshing take on “new media” and his role as a musician/artist.

That problem has existed since the advent of MTV, though, right? (Or perhaps before?) Is it more or less pronounced now? I’d argue less, because Arbitrary Unknown But Awesome Band has many more avenues to get exposure for their music, what with YouTube, Twitter, etc.

Can’t disagree there! Their YouTube channel is worth wasting a few hours on; the Rube Goldberg machine video for This Too Shall Pass is amazing.

I think the problem goes back to the old pop vs great art thing. The technologies alter exactly where the accusing finger points but IMHO it boils down to something about popular being a constant and greatness that only sometimes overlays the popular. The great stuff is always out there and frankly it our largely fault about the anonymity. Us, the consumer.

We won’t or don’t dig into soundcloud or spotify or pandora very deep. we skim it all. If we dug in some we could take care of anonymity all by ourselves, and do the industry a huge solid.

The media won’t select for great, it selects for popular.

362 urbanmeemaw  Oct 29, 2014 8:41:09am

re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I would love to think “someone” is drip drip dripping information about Ferguson police chief the way Ferguson police/supporters dripped dripped dripped information about Grand Jury “testimony” and slurs about Mike Brown. It would be poetic justice indeed.

363 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 8:43:45am

re:
#362

The chief needs to hire hypermoranic blogger, I mean award-winning journalist, Chuckie C. Johnson, to investigate these unpardonable leaks. /

364 retired cynic  Oct 29, 2014 8:45:57am

re: #346 HappyWarrior

That would be hard. There is usually regression toward the mean.

365 withak  Oct 29, 2014 8:49:19am

re: #361 Rightwingconspirator

Popular makes money; great only does as a side effect.

Speaking of digging deeper… now taking suggestions for something to listen to while I work today. I’ll try anything as long as it meets two criteria: a) Available on Spotify; and b) not country.

366 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 8:56:22am

Well, except I can haz all these things! Thanks Obama!

367 makeitstop  Oct 29, 2014 8:56:57am

re: #341 ObserverArt

Please don’t take offence to my comment, as it is coming from both an artist and semi-musician that loves rock music… all kinds.

Isn’t it odd that you say OK Go has the biggest brains in rock (music) based on their great videos?

Many times people wonder why the bands are not as great as back in the day (whatever day was yours!). Those old bands never even thought of what a song should look like visually, they were crafting sound and lyrics.

I am still ambivalent about videos and I sometimes wonder if the visual aspect that seems to be so important didn’t actually hurt the music industry.

I think there are many great new bands that are just as good as those back in the day, but today they seem to be struggling in anonymity. I always wonder if all the emphasis on looks and videos hasn’t hurt the whole scene.

And I did see the OK Go vid. It was nicely done. And they are a good band.

No offense taken!

I consider OK Go to be a very good pop band (their songwriting is consistently very good), but they’re kind of a step beyond that - they’re more conceptual artists who happen to write good pop songs. I have no idea how many records or downloads they sell, but it seems like record sales may not be the entire point with them.

Ever since the ‘treadmill’ video for ‘Here It Comes Again,’ they’ve consistently raised the bar on the visual aspect of their work. Even the concept of that new video is way beyond what I (as a graphic artist and semi-working musician) could conceive. They’re working on an entirely different level than anyone, using their music as a vehicle for ridiculously innovative video, and vice versa. And they embrace technology to a degree that most bands couldn’t imagine.

They’re one of a kind for sure.

On a related note - this piece on Abbey Road Studios hits on a lot of points you made: The Technical Constraints that made Abbey Road so good

368 Indy GOP Refugee  Oct 29, 2014 9:05:39am

re: #365 withak

Popular makes money; great only does as a side effect.

Speaking of digging deeper… now taking suggestions for something to listen to while I work today. I’ll try anything as long as it meets two criteria: a) Available on Spotify; and b) not country.

Gotcha, selected these for great bands but songs with a lot less airplay.
open.spotify.com

No country at all.

369 calochortus  Oct 29, 2014 9:11:09am

re: #344 Vicious Piebola

Why? She stopped believing when you told her that the Boogey Monster would snatch her?

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Perhaps the conservatives need to use a “humor tag” so we can recognize when they are making a funny?

370 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 9:11:29am

re:
#366

I could afford them until this year which will forever after now be known as The Year Of All The Cat Expenses.

371 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 29, 2014 9:14:30am
372 Jordy LuhPhorj  Oct 29, 2014 9:16:09am

Lobbyists, Bearing Gifts, Pursue Attorneys General

Link

Corporate money owns the lawmakers, now it owns the law enforcers as well. It even reaches the Supreme Court! In America a young middle class person like myself doesn’t stand a fucking chance. My patriotism is gone, every article I read shows me how little my country cares for me, so why the fuck am I still here and not in a functioning social democracy like Denmark or The Netherlands? Gotta keep saving so I can escape.

373 calochortus  Oct 29, 2014 9:19:33am

re: #366 Vicious Piebola

Well, except I can haz all these things! Thanks Obama!

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Not to mention that they assume you have to buy a car that costs over $32,000 and that if you have to cut back on other forms of entertainment or buying new electronic devices, that means you can’t afford a vacation. Welcome to the world of making spending choices.

374 withak  Oct 29, 2014 9:19:35am

re: #368 Rightwingconspirator

Thanks! Unfortunately, IT blocks the Spotify web player but not the Spotify standalone app… I was able to figure out how to get a web playlist into the app at one point. Working on it…

375 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 9:23:56am

Watch for this to get wide coverage by the right wing.

200k+ doctors pull out of Obamacare exchanges.

Doctors don’t work directly with and through an exchange. They’re contracting with insurance companies, who set the reimbursement rates. Some are rebelling against the lower fees that they’re getting from the insurance companies.

But this happens all the time.

Doctors are always fighting with insurance companies and Medicare/Medicaid over reimbursement rates - always complaining the reimbursements are too low. Some doctors and medical groups/practices have enough clout (think major hospital centers, prominent doctors) who can have negotiating power to get higher rates, or opt out of insurance entirely, but most will work within the insurance schemes offered.

That’s why we frequently see that hospital X is expected to opt out of insurance company’s Y’s network (and what this means to you) notices. They’re all fighting over reimbursement.

It’s not unusual, and if anything, it highlights just how medical pricing is set - arbitrarily and not grounded on anything other than a price that someone proffered without any basis in quality of coverage (after all, many of the same procedures/tests/consultations are frequently much much less in places like France or Switzerland with the same outcome).

376 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 9:38:02am

re:
#375

And of course for people not getting their health insurance through the exchanges it won’t mean anything for them.

No matter: TRAinwreck!!!! Repeal!!!!

377 ObserverArt  Oct 29, 2014 9:39:38am

re: #367 makeitstop

No offense taken!

I consider OK Go to be a very good pop band (their songwriting is consistently very good), but they’re kind of a step beyond that - they’re more conceptual artists who happen to write good pop songs. I have no idea how many records or downloads they sell, but it seems like record sales may not be the entire point with them.

Ever since the ‘treadmill’ video for ‘Here It Comes Again,’ they’ve consistently raised the bar on the visual aspect of their work. Even the concept of that new video is way beyond what I (as a graphic artist and semi-working musician) could conceive. They’re working on an entirely different level than anyone, using their music as a vehicle for ridiculously innovative video, and vice versa. And they embrace technology to a degree that most bands couldn’t imagine.

They’re one of a kind for sure.

On a related note - this piece on Abbey Road Studios hits on a lot of points you made: The Technical Constraints that made Abbey Road so good

Logged back in to thank you for the link about Abbey Road. Bookmarked it for consumption later today.

In regards to comments about popularity of music. If there were better ways to get out new music to more consumers there might well be more popular bands. To some degree popularity is made by media.

Sure would be cool if a lot of reality TV went away and music shows about new bands, the industry, the creative process, live club shows and all that could replace it. I have a feeling once exposed a lot of bands would be way more popular.

One of the things that was great about the 50s, 60s and 70s was music was just so big to those that lived in that time period. There was an importance both artistically and socially and music was literally “where it’s at” during those times.

It just doesn’t seem to have that same place in the sun as it did. Maybe some day songs will again lead social changes and all that emphasis will come back to the art.

Here are a couple videos one from a club called The Basement (The Whigs) and one at the LC Center (Tegan and Sarah) operated by Promo West here in Columbus. Promo West Live is a TV show that is on here in Columbus on Sunday morning at 1:00 to 1:30 AM just after SNL. It is pretty popular and it sure would be nice if it was a full hour or more! This kind of a show (done even better) would go a long way to help the music scene.

Youtube Video

Youtube Video

If you do a search many of the videos shot for and used on the show are YouTubes…just search for Promo West Live (Columbus Ohio)

Later!

378 withak  Oct 29, 2014 9:45:32am

re: #368 Rightwingconspirator

I have to say I much prefer The Who’s version of Behind Blue Eyes, but the use of a Speak ‘n’ Spell is… novel.

379 Eventual Carrion  Oct 29, 2014 9:47:47am

re: #335 withak

Don’t forget, he’s going to annul all marriages and make everyone gay marry. If no gays are available, a cousin, dog, or toaster oven will be substituted. ///

I still need a toaster oven.

380 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Oct 29, 2014 9:48:56am

re: #335 withak

Don’t forget, he’s going to annul all marriages and make everyone gay marry. If no gays are available, a cousin, dog, or toaster oven will be substituted. ///

No box turtles???? I haz a sad.

//

381 The War TARDIS  Oct 29, 2014 9:56:08am

I am feeling better emotionally, but worse physically.

My throat hurts, meaning I had to stay home from work.

All of you will judge me for this picture:

Hell, here I come!

382 Indy GOP Refugee  Oct 29, 2014 9:58:25am

re: #378 withak

I have to say I much prefer The Who’s version of Behind Blue Eyes, but the use of a Speak ‘n’ Spell is… novel.

Novel is the idea behind the playlist. It’s for submission to the “My Turn” contest at a radio station. If they like your playlist you come in and run it. My favorite on that list is Black Queen. I love that particular version.

If Spotify code worked better I’d be Paging playlists and exchanging them. Soundcloud has the better code but not the same music.

383 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 29, 2014 10:01:48am
384 Indy GOP Refugee  Oct 29, 2014 10:01:51am

So for California Lizards, did you see any propositions you wanted to vote for after reading up? I got zero.

sos.ca.gov

385 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 29, 2014 10:05:46am

re: #375 Vogon Poetry

200k+ doctors pull out of Obamacare exchanges.

Yeah and they’re going to make tons of money by moving to first-world countries that don’t have national health insurance. No, wait…

386 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 29, 2014 10:11:53am

re: #384 Rightwingconspirator

Zero here as well. I have found few that I will vote for since the art of writing Propositions for the CA ballot became a lesson in misdirection

387 Indy GOP Refugee  Oct 29, 2014 10:13:36am

re: #386 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Zero here as well. I have found few that I will vote for since the art of writing Propositions for the CA ballot became a lesson in misdirection

Maybe that’s why the link starts with an SOS?
//

388 calochortus  Oct 29, 2014 10:15:37am

re: #384 Rightwingconspirator

So for California Lizards, did you see any propositions you wanted to vote for after reading up? I got zero.

sos.ca.gov

I virtually never vote for any props on the general theory that this is what we supposedly pay the legislature to do.

390 freetoken  Oct 29, 2014 10:17:56am

re: #388 calochortus

I’ve only glanced at the titles, but none of them grabbed me.

The sort of things which show up so often as far as these propositions are concerned really ought to be done by the legislature.

391 Kragar  Oct 29, 2014 10:19:08am
392 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 10:21:08am

re: #391 Kragar

But is it a Butlerian Jihad? /Asking for a friend.

393 Targetpractice  Oct 29, 2014 10:21:47am

re: #391 Kragar

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Co-host Brian Kilmeade thanked Ablow for the interview and said the idea deserves to be discussed.

Ablow smiled. “What’s to discuss?”

No shit. This guy should have been called a loon and his ass booted from the network. There’s nothing to “discuss” here.

394 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 29, 2014 10:22:16am

re: #388 calochortus

re: #390 freetoken

So far the now-Democratic state lege has not found it in itself to repeal the Prop. 13 coverage of commercial real estate and it has yet to muster the stones to charge a separation fee for oil extracted in CA. Both of those strike me as worthy measures but, there’s no money behind them and there would be a shitload spent against them.

395 calochortus  Oct 29, 2014 10:22:40am

re: #390 freetoken

I’ve only glanced at the titles, but none of them grabbed me.

The sort of things which show up so often as far as these propositions are concerned really ought to be done by the legislature.

I do need to give a bit of attention to Props 1 and 2 as being reasonable sounding, but then there are always some little weird things in there…

396 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 29, 2014 10:22:48am

re: #392 Vogon Poetry

But is it a Butlerian Jihad? /Asking for a friend.

Does that involve being polite, opening doors for people, and talking with a British accent while maintaining a stiff upper lip?
// ;P

397 BeenHereAwhile  Oct 29, 2014 10:24:04am

re: #286 NJDhockeyfan

I wonder how long China puts up with his shit. His father was stable and predictable compared to him.

China has no choice but to allow Kim Jong Un to run PRNK as he sees fit, as long as the PRNK/PRC border is secure.

China’s nightmare would be for the PRNK gov to become unstable. with loss of border control, allowing N Koreans to flood into China.

Edit: I’ve always marveled how countries with totalitarian govs label themselves as “People’s Republics.”

398 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 10:24:41am

re:
#391

Fox’s Keith Ablow: ‘It’s Time For An American Jihad’ (VIDEO)

Do they remember we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq?

399 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 29, 2014 10:24:52am

re: #391 Kragar

Fox’s Keith Ablow: ‘It’s Time For An American Jihad’

In one short phrase Ablow reveals his complete ignorance of history, politics, geography, economics and religion. It’s almost artistic.

400 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 29, 2014 10:25:52am

re: #399 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Fox’s Keith Ablow: ‘It’s Time For An American Jihad’

In one short phrase Ablow reveals his complete ignorance of history, politics, geography, economics and religion. It’s almost artistic.

Give that man Ablow a job.

401 EPR-radar  Oct 29, 2014 10:26:11am

re: #395 calochortus

I do need to give a bit of attention to Props 1 and 2 as being reasonable sounding, but then there are always some little weird things in there…

Prop 2 had a unanimous vote from the State legislature to be put on the ballot, so it might be a no-brainer. However, it is also insanely complicated.

402 EPR-radar  Oct 29, 2014 10:28:12am

re: #399 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Fox’s Keith Ablow: ‘It’s Time For An American Jihad’

In one short phrase Ablow reveals his complete ignorance of history, politics, geography, economics and religion. It’s almost artistic.

Ablow is the artist of punditry who came up with the thought that Newt’s 3 marriages were an affirmative qualification for POTUS.

He’s a rare talent in the art of packing the most possible stupidity into one or a few sentences.

403 Targetpractice  Oct 29, 2014 10:28:32am

re: #399 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Fox’s Keith Ablow: ‘It’s Time For An American Jihad’

In one short phrase Ablow reveals his complete ignorance of history, politics, geography, economics and religion. It’s almost artistic.

As well as revealing that, to much of Fox’s viewing audience, the difference between themselves and ISIL is the book they thump and the God they want to kill or convert others in the name of.

404 calochortus  Oct 29, 2014 10:30:23am

re: #394 Higgs Boson’s Mate

So far the now-Democratic state lege has not found it in itself to repeal the Prop. 13 coverage of commercial real estate and it has yet to muster the stones to charge a separation fee for oil extracted in CA. Both of those strike me as worthy measures but, there’s no money behind them and there would be a shitload spent against them.

They might be worthy, if they ever got on the ballot, but I’ll bet someone would throw in a “sweetener” that had far reaching unintended consequences.
Just look at Prop. 46-it’s supposed to be about reforming medical malpractice and saving innocent children from preventable medical mistakes. It requires doctors to be blood tested for drugs and alcohol after adverse medical outcomes. Really? So why not just stick a port in at least all ER (and maybe all) doctors and draw blood daily, just to check? I can’t imagine how it would work, what purpose it would serve, and who would pay for it.

It really has nothing to do with the original question of suing doctors for errors, which has become Bob Pack’s mission in life (his kids were killed by an impaired driver who got drugs by doctor shopping) and was thrown in to sound good.

405 calochortus  Oct 29, 2014 10:31:42am

re: #401 EPR-radar

Prop 2 had a unanimous vote from the State legislature to be put on the ballot, so it might be a no-brainer. However, it is also insanely complicated.

Which is where I start looking at endorsements from groups with lawyers who can wade through all the verbiage.

406 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 29, 2014 10:37:35am

re: #404 calochortus

Well put. Those sweeteners are usually buried in reams of arcane language and in some instances they’ve been the real reason for the measure. Any proposition to charge an oil separation fee, for instance, would be four pages long and somewhere deep in the bowels of it would be a phrase giving the oil companies carte blanche to drill wherever they damned well pleased.

407 piratedan  Oct 29, 2014 10:37:54am

re: #400 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

why should he be rewarded, give that man a rifle and ship his ass to Syria/Iraq

408 Franklin  Oct 29, 2014 10:38:48am

Geek break. Thanks Google.

No, I really did mean “mssql”.

409 calochortus  Oct 29, 2014 10:42:41am

Well, time to do something vaguely constructive.

BBL

410 withak  Oct 29, 2014 10:42:50am

re: #408 Franklin

Try searching for “recursion” sometime.

411 Mattand  Oct 29, 2014 10:43:35am

There’s an article on philly.com entitled “Pro-American Song Cancelled at Philly Event”, with a subhead reading “Censoring a Song About Freedom.”

I really don’t want to read it, because it has the stink of a “Here’s a story that riles up the Tea Baggers by leaving out a key piece of info” Fox News hit piece.

However, if I don’t read it, I have to put up with everyone I know going “OMG did read that Inqurier article libruls hate freedom and Jesus OMG!”

What to do…

412 Indy GOP Refugee  Oct 29, 2014 10:44:56am

re: #401 EPR-radar

Prop 2 had a unanimous vote from the State legislature to be put on the ballot, so it might be a no-brainer. However, it is also insanely complicated.

Kinda makes ya wonder why they did not just pass it as legislation. But we should remember that in principle the proposition system provides a potential check on runaway legislative power, like what you can have happen when there is a super majority and even that tiny minority is divided too much to perform as a partisan check.

413 Franklin  Oct 29, 2014 10:45:11am

re: #410 withak

Try searching for “recursion” sometime.

Brilliant!!

414 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 29, 2014 10:45:27am

re: #410 withak

Try searching for “recursion” sometime.

Wasn’t there a stage play titled “Searching for Recursion”?

415 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 10:46:28am

re: #411 Mattand

There’s an article on philly.com entitled “Pro-American Song Cancelled at Philly Event”, with a subhead reading “Censoring a Song About Freedom.”

I really don’t want to read it, because it has the stink of a “Here’s a story that riles up the Tea Baggers by leaving out a key piece of info” Fox News hit piece.

However, if I don’t read it, I have to put up with everyone I know going “OMG did read that Inqurier article libruls hate freedom and Jesus OMG!”

What to do…

I read the stupid article so that you don’t have to.

It appears to be a Fake Outrage that a “patriotic” song (the song is not identified, apparently an original composition by somebody you never heard of) was not on the program at an event honoring Malala Yousafazi. The reason being given that this is an international event, which would make sense.

416 Kragar  Oct 29, 2014 10:47:05am

re: #414 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Wasn’t there a stage play titled “Searching for Recursion”?

If/then Godot

417 withak  Oct 29, 2014 10:47:13am

re: #414 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Yeah, but it got terrible reviews. It went on and on and on and on and…

418 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 10:47:44am

Small clusters of cases of Ebola could overwhelm the system. That sounds pretty bad. What it really shows is that far too many Americans still rely on Emergency Rooms as their primary care provider, rather than personal physicians or urgent care (and urgent care practices are a booming business since hospitals know that this is a major way to divert cases from ERs and can help triage more serious cases from lesser ones).

Ebola didn’t overwhelm Dallas Presbyterian, even though they mishandled the case from initial contact by Duncan. That’s even with two nurses getting infected themselves.

It might be a different story if all of a sudden a dozen people came in within hours of each other showing symptoms of Ebola, but that too can be addressed with protocols for closing ER to non-emergency cases, diverting other trauma to other facilities, etc - and for a place like NYC/Newark, there are a more than a dozen facilities that would be considered Level 1 trauma centers (and many more that can handle major traumas or infectious diseases).

But again, it all overlooks the one indisputable fact - the only way to stop this outbreak is to stop it in Africa, and there still aren’t sufficient resources being provided. Many countries are still not pulling their weight, while a handful are punching well above their weight class - Cuba being one.

419 Lidane  Oct 29, 2014 10:49:55am
420 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 29, 2014 10:50:13am

re: #415 Vicious Piebola

I read the stupid article so that you don’t have to.

It appears to be a Fake Outrage that a “patriotic” song (the song is not identified, apparently an original composition by somebody you never heard of) was not on the program at an event honoring Malala Yousafazi. The reason being given that this is an international event, which would make sense.

Was it “I Killed a Jihadi for Daddy”?
Sorry, been listening to the Fugs this morning.

421 withak  Oct 29, 2014 10:51:16am

This is brilliant:

“Downfall” GamerGate parody

422 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 29, 2014 10:51:41am

re: #416 Kragar

re: #417 withak

Higgs doffs his whitehat.

423 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 29, 2014 10:55:53am

re: #418 Vogon Poetry

I’ve mentioned it before, but there’s a really good (yet little-known) novel “Last Town on Earth” written by Thomas Mullen in 2006.
It’s set in a fictional logging town in Washington State during the Spanish flu pandemic.
The town leaders decide to quarantine the town by “closing all the borders”.
The quarantine fails as, of course, it was destined to fail…but not by anyone trying to get into the town.

Really, an excellent and prescient cautionary tale. I borrowed an e-reader copy from my local library via overdrive.com.

424 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 29, 2014 10:56:29am

re: #411 Mattand

There’s an article on philly.com entitled “Pro-American Song Cancelled at Philly Event”, with a subhead reading “Censoring a Song About Freedom.”

I really don’t want to read it, because it has the stink of a “Here’s a story that riles up the Tea Baggers by leaving out a key piece of info” Fox News hit piece.

However, if I don’t read it, I have to put up with everyone I know going “OMG did read that Inqurier article libruls hate freedom and Jesus OMG!”

What to do…

I’ll jump on that grenade for you. Give me a few minutes.

(GAHHH! I read the comments!)

425 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 29, 2014 10:59:09am

re: #421 withak

“It’s those little shits on 8chan! They talk openly about doxxing women!”

LOL

426 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 11:00:52am

re:
#411

There’s an article on
philly.com
entitled “Pro-American Song Cancelled at Philly Event”, with a subhead reading “Censoring a Song About Freedom.”

Speaking of Freedom, have we locked up, I mean quarantined, everyone who knows someone who knows someone who was in West Africa and banned all flights from the country of Western Africa and have we executed all the humasectuals in accordance with God’s law yet?

//

427 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 29, 2014 11:01:22am

re: #414 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Wasn’t there a stage play titled “Searching for Recursion”?

opened 87 times, never closed.

RBS

428 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 11:02:33am

I can’t watch “Downfall” videos. I know German, so it’s difficult to process the subtitles while listening to the original dialogue. If I turn the sound of it’s just lame.

429 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 11:02:47am

re:
#415

It appears to be a Fake Outrage that a “patriotic” song (the song is not identified, apparently an original composition by somebody you never heard of)

“Look, we don’t need to tell you what the name of the patriot American Freedom song is or who the musician/band is or what the lyrics are. You just need to be outraged.”

/

430 Wile E. Wonka  Oct 29, 2014 11:04:17am

re: #415 Vicious Piebola

I read the article too — the context was that it was a ceremony honoring Malala Yousafzai (winner of the Nobel Peace Prize), and the song is all about how fortunate the singer is to have been born in America and how great America is. The accompanying video is full of the usual flags and eagles, apparently.

Malala is, of course, Pakistani. It seems her representatives felt that playing a song about how great America is at a ceremony honoring Malala’s human-rights work in her native Pakistan might be a wee bit too much like rubbing her misfortune at not having been born American in her face.

But but but… she fought for freedom, and America means freedom, so anyone who objects must hate freedom!

431 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 29, 2014 11:05:33am

re: #429 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#415

“Look, we don’t need to tell you what the name of the patriot American Freedom song is or who the musician/band is or what the lyrics are. You just need to be outraged.”

/

The story had a direct link to another story that identified the singer, song, and the whole issue in greater detail.

And, it’s a lot of pro-patriot self-indulgent whining without thinking about *why* others might have thought the song was insensitive and offensive.

432 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 11:06:51am

re: #431 Feline Fearless Leader

The story had a direct link to another story that identified the singer, song, and the whole issue in greater detail.

And, it’s a lot of pro-patriot self-indulgent whining without thinking about *why* others might have thought the song was insensitive and offensive.

Why couldn’t they just say “we’re not including this song in the program because it totally blows”

433 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 11:14:54am

THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS

434 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 29, 2014 11:15:08am
435 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 11:15:57am

re:
#433

So this person would rather work hard and make less?

436 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 11:17:32am

re:
#433

I wood rather werk harder than get free stuff for my working hard!!!!1

437 klystron  Oct 29, 2014 11:19:48am

re: #433 Vicious Piebola

…but it’s ok for men to get extra money handed to them, just because they’re men.

Right.

Got it.

/sigh

438 bill d  Oct 29, 2014 11:20:29am

re: #435 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#433

So this person would rather work hard and make less?

HAVING LESS MAKES YOU APPRECIATE WHAT LITTLE YOU HAVE MORE

439 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 29, 2014 11:22:45am

re: #435 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#433

So this person would rather work hard and make less?

And train some guy with no experience who gets paid more than she does…

(why, yes, that has happened to me.)

440 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 29, 2014 11:22:53am

re: #438 bill d

HAVING LESS MAKES YOU APPRECIATE WHAT LITTLE YOU HAVE MORE

Hard work is its own reward, remember?

441 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 29, 2014 11:23:27am

re: #440 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Hard work is its own reward, remember?

DIGNITY!!11!!

442 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 11:23:55am

re: #441 Backwoods_Sleuth

DIGNITY!!11!!

WORK ETHIC!!!!1!!!!

443 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 29, 2014 11:24:40am

re:
#433

I would rather work hard & have my pay actually mean something, rather than have it handed to me just because I’m a woman

Koch Industries: OK, this is pretty good, let’s go with it. Send it out to all our Twitter followers for mass distribution.

444 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 29, 2014 11:25:26am

re: #440 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Hard work is its own reward, remember?

Can I turn in all those rewards points for a toaster oven?

445 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 11:25:31am

Somebody is competing with jjauthor for SWOT title

446 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 29, 2014 11:26:39am

re: #445 Vicious Piebola

Somebody is competing with jjauthor for SWOT title

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why does she hate the free markets????

447 Lidane  Oct 29, 2014 11:27:23am

re: #445 Vicious Piebola

I have seen various dipshits online pull out this whole NASA WOULD BE FINE IF THEY DIDN’T HAVE TO PRAISE MUSLIMS nonsense. WTF is all that stupid about?

448 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 11:27:54am

re: #446 Backwoods_Sleuth

why does she hate the free markets????

Obama Derangement über alles

449 lawhawk  Oct 29, 2014 11:28:56am

re: #445 Vicious Piebola

How cute, they’re using zeros instead of O for Obama. Never mind that the origin of zero is from Islamic mathematicians. And that it’s central to algebra (another Islamic achievement).

450 Vicious Piebola  Oct 29, 2014 11:29:37am

re: #449 Vogon Poetry

How cute, they’re using zeros instead of O for Obama. Never mind that the origin of zero is from Islamic mathematicians. And that it’s central to algebra (another Islamic achievement).

LOL she has “CountyCaptain 4RomneyCampaign” in her profile.

451 withak  Oct 29, 2014 11:32:39am

re: #447 Lidane

I’m not sure if I want this particular derpism explained to me, for fear it will make me dumber, but curiosity has the best of me.

NASA praising Muslims? Wat?

452 Stanley Seabola  Oct 29, 2014 11:38:01am
453 Romantic Heretic  Oct 29, 2014 11:42:55am

re: #329 freetoken

Speaking of Raelians, you all caught the big headline, didn’t you?

Yesterday The Mirror and other vanguard publications informed us:

Aliens are REAL reveals former Area 51 scientist who insists they’re friendly and helping us

[Embedded content]

I think they’re amazed and confused by humans.

abstrusegoose.com

454 danarchy  Oct 29, 2014 11:53:59am

re: #432 Vicious Piebola

Why couldn’t they just say “we’re not including this song in the program because it totally blows”

That’s a little harsh, it was written by a 14 year old girl who was very excited to have Malala see it and I believe traveled to the event from colorado. The event organizers are the ones who screwed the pooch on this to have it pulled last minute like that..

For the record, the song is pretty bad:

Youtube Video

455 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 29, 2014 11:57:39am

re: #448 Vicious Piebola

Upding for the umlaut.

456 prairiefire  Oct 29, 2014 11:58:04am

re: #318 darthstar

You brought your pretty little woman here! Hope your having a good time. Sorry about the noise, we are a boisterous lot!

457 Mattand  Oct 29, 2014 12:01:41pm

re: #415 Vicious Piebola

Thanks!

458 Mattand  Oct 29, 2014 12:02:36pm

re: #430 Wile E. Wonka

Thanks!

459 Mattand  Oct 29, 2014 12:03:36pm

re: #424 Feline Fearless Leader

I’ll jump on that grenade for you. Give me a few minutes.

(GAHHH! I read the comments!)

I’m so sorry!

460 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 29, 2014 12:06:26pm

re: #441 Backwoods_Sleuth

DIGNITY!!11!!

re: #442 Vicious Piebola

WORK ETHIC!!!!1!!!!

Minimum wage would take all the dignity out of the work ethic!

461 Romantic Heretic  Oct 29, 2014 12:23:08pm

re: #338 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Media keeps saying Americans are angry. I have no doubt it’s largely true. But it seems a peculiar time for them to feel so. Very low gas prices, stock market continuing to grow, unemployment dropping, albeit slowly. Housing mostly stabilized.

Wonder if there is something other than Ebola/ISIS that’s got people angry.

After over a decade of being afraid and angry Americans are now uncomfortable when they’re not.

462 sagehen  Oct 29, 2014 12:50:10pm

re: #377 ObserverArt

One of the things that was great about the 50s, 60s and 70s was music was just so big to those that lived in that time period. There was an importance both artistically and socially and music was literally “where it’s at” during those times.

It just doesn’t seem to have that same place in the sun as it did. Maybe some day songs will again lead social changes and all that emphasis will come back to the art.

In the 50s, 60s and 70s, every city had their own local scene where dozens and dozens of bands would be heard by everyone and compete against each other… the very best would build enough reputation to break into other markets and spread. Get some press, jump in the van and visit other cities, hope to eventually reach national prominence.

Today, the “local” scene is on-line, worldwide, and there’s still dozens and dozens of bands competing for people’s attention. For the best of the best, the payoff is astronomically more than in previous generations. Because there’s the one huge “scene” instead of thousands of little ones; all the success that used to be spread around is now concentrated.

As for the social significance of artistic expression/lyrical excellence… blogs, podcasts, indie films, self-produced you-tube-distributed comedy/drama/chat products… Jay Smooth matters as much today as any radio DJ ever did.


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