Mark Ronson w/ Bruno Mars: ‘Uptown Funk’

It will funk you right out
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Mark Ronson, stepson of guitarist Mick Jones of Foreigner, teams up with Bruno Mars to demonstrate that uptown can indeed funk you up.

Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk ft. Bruno Mars
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Music video by Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars performing Uptown Funk. (C) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.

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250 comments
1 Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2014 5:21:36pm

I’ve actually started uploading images to the Image Library just to have an easy way to find them later. I always give images some tags right after uploading, to make it easy to find stuff later with the search function.

2 Jenner7  Nov 22, 2014 5:23:07pm

I like Bruno. He did a great Super Bowl show.

3 Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2014 5:27:26pm

My Image Library archive is now about 130 MB with more than 1700 images.

4 Dark_Falcon  Nov 22, 2014 5:28:02pm

The outfits are very 70’s, though in a good way.

5 Floral Giraffe  Nov 22, 2014 5:28:39pm

That was fun! Thanks!

6 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 22, 2014 5:28:46pm

Thanks for the new thread and fun video, Charles.
The derp downstairs was getting a bit thick…

7 #FergusonFireside  Nov 22, 2014 5:31:45pm
8 Belafon  Nov 22, 2014 5:35:19pm

I had read a little while back that Bruno Mars was what Michael Jackson was before all of his bleaching. Tried to find the quote and got buried in articles about Bruno Mars being the new Michael Jackson, especially regarding this song.

9 #FergusonFireside  Nov 22, 2014 5:41:51pm

Dinner party, see ya’ll later.

Think about empathy.

10 urbanmeemaw  Nov 22, 2014 5:42:53pm

re: #8 Belafon

Bruno Mars is an old school all round entertainer/showman. I saw a clip of him from an MTV Awards Show. He was accompanied by a band and back up singers/dancers and it was phenomenal. He reminds me of Bobby Darin in that he can perform many different styles of music and Sammy Davis Jr because he sings, dances, and plays instruments. I read that his father was in a Las Vegas show band, which might explain Mars’ showmanship.

11 Dark_Falcon  Nov 22, 2014 5:42:56pm

re: #7 #FergusonFireside

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I don’t have any twibbons, but I do have all those articles I posted on the actual situation in Libya. I also provided some good explanations both on this blog and in real life as to why the BENGHAZI!1 conspriacy theories were wrong.

So instead of a twibbon, could you hook me up with the #Gruber botton that has a picture of Bruce Willis with a submachinegun and has the words “Yippe Ki Yay, Mother*�$^%” printed on it?

12 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 22, 2014 5:43:52pm

O_o

13 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 22, 2014 5:43:57pm

WTF is a twibbon?

14 ObserverArt  Nov 22, 2014 5:46:11pm

Some classic 70s funk going on in there.

15 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Nov 22, 2014 5:48:23pm

re: #13 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Twitter Ribbon. Like those yellow ribbons people put on their cars.

16 Dark_Falcon  Nov 22, 2014 5:48:52pm

re: #13 Higgs Boson’s Mate

WTF is a twibbon?

A picture of a ribbon that one posts or uses as one’s avatar on Twitter to indicate support and/or sympathy for a particular cause, organization, or person.

17 urbanmeemaw  Nov 22, 2014 5:49:51pm

re: #14 ObserverArt

With a bit of 80’s synth going on.

18 Jenner7  Nov 22, 2014 5:50:22pm
19 RealityBasedEbola  Nov 22, 2014 5:50:44pm

And, yes…. a Keytar sighting in the wild.

RBS

20 prairiefire  Nov 22, 2014 5:52:11pm

Now that’s a good tune.

21 psddluva4evah  Nov 22, 2014 5:52:32pm

Love this, been posting it on my FB since I heard it last week on the radio.

It reminded me of that old school 80s sound of Morris Day and the Time, Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis and that whole Minnesota sound with Prince et al. I think it’s the horn riffs that reminds me of it.

Also seeing the video, I think it’s an homage to all of those groups with a little bit of James Brown thrown in (check out the hair rollers in beauty shop). In fact during many of Mars LIVE performances, he does a James Brown “tribute” type segment.

Youtube Video

22 Dark_Falcon  Nov 22, 2014 5:53:24pm

Cats welcoming soldiers home

Sample gif:

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23 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 22, 2014 5:53:26pm

re: #15 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

re: #16 Dark_Falcon

Thank you. I don’t Twitter (I do jitter sometimes) so it was a completely unknown word to me.

24 psddluva4evah  Nov 22, 2014 5:55:55pm

Oh and just an FYI. Ronson and Mars will be on SNL tonight as the musical guest. It’s Ronson’s album, so the 2nd performance will be a 2nd song from his upcoming album. From what I hear, it involves a special guess (maybe Stevie Wonder, since I believe Stevie contributed to Ronson’s new album). It will be the first time in a long time that I actually watched SNL

25 Jenner7  Nov 22, 2014 5:57:10pm

re: #24 psddluva4evah

Sweet! Thanks for the heads up. :)

26 prairiefire  Nov 22, 2014 5:58:04pm

re: #24 psddluva4evah

I’ll be couch dancing!

27 austin_blue  Nov 22, 2014 5:58:13pm

Man, it’s coming down like a cow pissing on a flat rock out there.

28 BeachDem  Nov 22, 2014 6:01:57pm

re: #23 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Thank you. I don’t Twitter (I do jitter sometimes) so it was a completely unknown word to me.

You were probably better of living in a simpler untwibboned time. Instead of wearing their hearts on their sleeves, Tweeters wear their twibbons on their avatars. It’s like, cosmic.

29 Skip Intro  Nov 22, 2014 6:02:03pm

re: #27 austin_blue

Man, it’s coming down like a cow pissing on a flat rock out there.

Here in California we were looking forward to getting between one to two hundreds of an inch of rain today. Sadly the big storm just missed us.

30 austin_blue  Nov 22, 2014 6:04:04pm

You guys are where we were three years ago, which is well and truly fucked.

My deepest sympathies. Climate change sucks.

31 RealityBasedEbola  Nov 22, 2014 6:04:12pm

re: #29 Skip Intro

Here in California we were looking forward to getting between one to two hundreds of an inch of rain today. Sadly the big storm just missed us.

Technically, I think that is referred to as “dew”.

32 Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2014 6:05:15pm
33 ObserverArt  Nov 22, 2014 6:05:26pm

My reference to 70s sound was from the Dayton funk bands,

Like these dudes.

Youtube Video

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34 psddluva4evah  Nov 22, 2014 6:05:59pm

As someone said, “Gotta kiss myself, I’m so pretty” is def a line worthy of Morris Day!

Morris Day and the Time are on my bucket list of concerts I want to see.

Although, they are still touring, they are no longer touring as MD&T. The tour now as “The Original 7ven”

35 Belafon  Nov 22, 2014 6:06:41pm

re: #30 austin_blue

I’m up here in Dallas, looking at the rain we’re getting, and wanting it to NOT stop for a long time.

36 Skip Intro  Nov 22, 2014 6:07:08pm

re: #31 RealityBasedEbola

Technically, I think that is referred to as “dew”.

Even our dew is dry.

37 jaunte  Nov 22, 2014 6:07:44pm

re: #27 austin_blue

Man, it’s coming down like a cow pissing on a flat rock out there.

That must be you under the red part.

38 jaunte  Nov 22, 2014 6:09:30pm
39 Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2014 6:11:02pm

re: #34 psddluva4evah

As someone said, “Gotta kiss myself, I’m so pretty” is def a line worthy of Morris Day!

I think he’s using an actual line from Muhammad Ali: blogs.riverfronttimes.com

40 austin_blue  Nov 22, 2014 6:14:08pm

re: #35 Belafon

I’m up here in Dallas, looking at the rain we’re getting, and wanting it to NOT stop for a long time.

We can’t win for losing here in the Colorado River basin. We need rain fifty miles west of town, not *in* town. So, sucks to be us. Sucks even worse to be a rice farmer down river. No water for them again this year. I think that’s three in a row. Maybe they should plant grain sorghum.

41 Targetpractice  Nov 22, 2014 6:14:52pm

A friend pointed me to GOPLifer’s blog earlier. And now find myself depressed, because if the party were dominated by thinkers like’em, we might actually have a functioning government.

42 psddluva4evah  Nov 22, 2014 6:22:31pm

re: #39 Charles Johnson

oh, yeah, but Morris Day always used the same line about being too pretty…lol.

You can’t go wrong with Muhammad Ali

43 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 22, 2014 6:24:31pm
44 austin_blue  Nov 22, 2014 6:24:39pm

re: #37 jaunte

Embedded ImageThat must be you under the red part.

Moo!

Well played. Very well played.

45 urbanmeemaw  Nov 22, 2014 6:26:33pm

re: #21 psddluva4evah

I got that Morris Day vibe, too!

46 Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2014 6:30:00pm

Definite Morris Day vibe all over this track.

47 urbanmeemaw  Nov 22, 2014 6:31:51pm

re: #33 ObserverArt

There were so many outstanding funk/r&b groups in what I call the I-75 corridor from Cincinnati to Dayton during the 70’s/80’s. Besides these bands, there were the isley Brothers, The Whispers, Baby Face, and a few other groups I saw featured on Unsung on TVOne. And of course James Brown recorded at King Records in Cincinnati, and his band featured Bootsy Collins.

48 BeachDem  Nov 22, 2014 6:33:52pm

re: #32 Charles Johnson

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I always get a Jay Mohr vibe

49 austin_blue  Nov 22, 2014 6:40:06pm

re: #47 urbanmeemaw

There were so many outstanding funk/r&b groups in what I call the I-75 corridor from Cincinnati to Dayton during the 70’s/80’s. Besides these bands, there were the isley Brothers, The Whispers, Baby Face, and a few other groups I saw featured on Unsung on TVOne. And of course James Brown recorded at King Records in Cincinnati, and his band featured Bootsy Collins.

Crack the Sky. Great bar band.

50 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 22, 2014 6:40:09pm

Loving each and every one of these stories:

51 psddluva4evah  Nov 22, 2014 6:40:19pm

So Hallmark Channel has been showing back to back Christimas movies since the end of October. My FB friends and I have been lamenting the lost of our nightly Golden Girls viewings. Hallmark used to show them every night in a 2 hour block (followed by Frasier). So last night, LogoTV changed their weekend lineup at the last minute to Golden Girls (I’m sure some saavy media person noticed no GG).

So last night I tweeted to @LogoTV:

“Golden Girls on @LogoTV . Suck it Hallmark Channel Christmas movie marathon!”

. LogoTV retweeted and favorited it.

Well later that night round bout midnight, I got a response tweet from “Hallmark Channel Senior Vice President, Network Program Publicity & Social Content, Hallmark Channel & Hallmark Movies & Mysteries”. She tweeted back to me:

So I can take this in two ways, in the holiday spirit, I can let it go and laugh it off (which is what I’m gonna do), or I could have clapped back to her that it’s TOO DAMN EARLY to be celebrating Christimas and just cause I ain’t celebrating Christimas in early November don’t mean nothing.

So how would you all have taken her tweet?

52 austin_blue  Nov 22, 2014 6:41:57pm

re: #51 psddluva4evah

So Hallmark Channel has been showing back to back Christimas movies since the end of October. My FB friends and I have been lamenting the lost of our nightly Golden Girls viewings. Hallmark used to show them every night in a 2 hour block (followed by Frasier). So last night, LogoTV changed their weekend lineup at the last minute to Golden Girls (I’m sure some saavy media person noticed no GG).

So last night I tweeted to @LogoTV:

. LogoTV retweeted and favorited it.

Well later that night round bout midnight, I got a response tweet from “Hallmark Channel Senior Vice President, Network Program Publicity & Social Content, Hallmark Channel & Hallmark Movies & Mysteries”. She tweeted back to me:

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So I can take this in two ways, in the holiday spirit, I can let it go and laugh it off (which is what I’m gonna do), or I could have clapped back to her that it’s TOO DAMN EARLY to be celebrating Christimas and just cause I ain’t celebrating Christimas in early November don’t mean nothing.

So how would you all have taken her tweet?

Too Jewish?

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53 ObserverArt  Nov 22, 2014 6:42:11pm

re: #47 urbanmeemaw

There were so many outstanding funk/r&b groups in what I call the I-75 corridor from Cincinnati to Dayton during the 70’s/80’s. Besides these bands, there were the isley Brothers, The Whispers, Baby Face, and a few other groups I saw featured on Unsung on TVOne. And of course James Brown recorded at King Records in Cincinnati, and his band featured Bootsy Collins.

Yep. Bootsy Collins’ Rubber Band. Lots of people don’t know The Godfather of Soul recorded in Cincinnati. Ohio had the funk going in that period.

Just did a Google on “Morris Day music influences” and found a site that listed: James Brown, Sly Stone, Parliament, Rick James, Commodores, Ohio Players, Solomon Burke…and of course his buddy Prince.

The Roots of Funk Run Deep. Owww!

54 austin_blue  Nov 22, 2014 6:44:13pm

re: #53 ObserverArt

Yep. Bootsy Collins’ Rubber Band. Lots of people don’t know The Godfather of Soul recorded in Cincinnati. Ohio had the funk going in that period.

Just did a Google on “Morris Day music influences” and found a site that listed: James Brown, Sly Stone, Parliament, Rick James, Commodores, Ohio Players, Solomon Burke…and of course his buddy Prince.

The Roots of Funk Run Deep. Owww!

Wild Cherry! Play That Funky Music White Boy

55 teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2014 6:49:03pm

re: #51 psddluva4evah

I’d tell her to please enjoy this Christmas music.

56 Targetpractice  Nov 22, 2014 6:58:41pm

Only one Christmas song I can put up with anymore:

Youtube Video

57 darthstar  Nov 22, 2014 7:06:03pm
58 RealityBasedEbola  Nov 22, 2014 7:18:47pm

Just when you thought the world was getting safe again… Naked men dropping out of the ceiling….

Authorities in Boston arrested a man who allegedly stripped naked inside a ladies restroom at Logan International Airport, climbed into a drop ceiling, crashed through and then attacked an 84-year-old man, state police said. A motive for the bizarre rampage, which played out at 11:58 a.m. Saturday at Logan’s Terminal C, is unclear NBC News

RBS

59 lawhawk  Nov 22, 2014 7:18:57pm
60 austin_blue  Nov 22, 2014 7:21:39pm

re: #59 lawhawk

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Wasn’t there a similar scenario a couple of years ago in upstate New York?

61 darthstar  Nov 22, 2014 7:22:10pm

re: #59 lawhawk

My first thought was that some people just need to be put down, but really what I meant to think was that the guy just needs a hug…from a 30ft Anaconda.

62 lawhawk  Nov 22, 2014 7:25:52pm

re: #60 austin_blue

Yup. Near Rochester NY. There, the guy ambushed and shot and killed responding firefighters.

63 William Barnett-Lewis  Nov 22, 2014 7:26:48pm

Good “morning” all. Stayed up too late with our discussion downstairs and finally dragged my butt out of bed. I miss anything this afternoon?

64 psddluva4evah  Nov 22, 2014 7:26:56pm

So someone sent out a tweet showing some behind the scene bloopers from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The link photo tag was of Commander Riker, and I was just reminded how much of a geeky teen I was back when being a “nerd” or “geek” really was a joking offense.

Mahn, I loved me some Star Trek: The Next Generation. I’m a Picard girl now, but man did I love me some Commander Riker (with the beard, NOT without). When Riker and Troi got married in Star Trek: Nemesis, I was just over the moon.

Gawd…such a geeky kid. I’m a “scientist” now though and proud of my science geekdom.

65 lawhawk  Nov 22, 2014 7:29:36pm

re: #64 psddluva4evah

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Klingons on the starboard bow. Just remember Jim, it’s not life as we know it!

66 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Nov 22, 2014 7:31:47pm

Ugh. Sick people out there.
17-Year-Old Allegedly Posed as Sixth Grader To Find Child Porn Victims

Two men have been arrested on charges of possession of child pornography after posing as father and son, and allegedly targeting elementary school students to recruit as child pornography victims. This is all just horrible.

17-year-old Ricardo Javid Lugo was posing as a sixth grader for roughly three months, after 28-year-old Randy Ray Wesson, pretending to be Lugo’s father, forged documents (birth certificate, immunization records, and proof of residency) and enrolled Lugo at Hurst Hills Elementary. Lugo was in school using the name Matthew Drew Wesson basically on behalf of Wesson to “recruit potential victims” for child pornography.

That’s enough internet for today
67 austin_blue  Nov 22, 2014 7:31:54pm

re: #65 lawhawk

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Klingons on the starboard bow. Just remember Jim, it’s not life as we know it!

A Doctor Demento Classic.

“Scrape ‘em off, Jim!”

68 BeachDem  Nov 22, 2014 7:42:28pm

re: #58 RealityBasedEbola

Just when you thought the world was getting safe again… Naked men dropping out of the ceiling….

RBS

Hm—I’m headed for Logan day after tomorrow. Hope it’s all cleared up by then…

69 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Nov 22, 2014 7:43:59pm

re: #68 BeachDem

Hm—I’m headed for Logan day after tomorrow. Hope it’s all cleared up by then…

Picked up my daughter at Logan last night. I guess we got out just in time.

70 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 22, 2014 7:47:57pm

Bruno Mars had me with The Lazy Song. I caught it on a hotel TV in Macau and decided I really liked this guy.
Youtube Video

71 psddluva4evah  Nov 22, 2014 7:52:01pm

I swear I’m not stuck on Star Trek, but this just came across my twitter til.

Wow, is this true?

Well, someone already said that Lucille Balla and Desi Arnez was actually first interracial kiss, but I’m thinking this kiss had way more impact for a larger number of people?

72 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Nov 22, 2014 7:54:30pm

re: #71 psddluva4evah

Wow, is this true?

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Yep. And they only got it past the censors by making it non-consensual (they were being forced to do it by beings with telekinetic powers).

73 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 22, 2014 7:57:02pm

re: #71 psddluva4evah

Wow, is this true?

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There are some dispute whether it was the first, but certainly it was the first on a major network TV show. Some Southern TV stations pulled the episode, fearing a public backlash.

There’s a funny story about how Shatner and Nichols conspired to make sure the take of them actually kissing on camera was the only usable take of the scene. For all the others, Shatner made a goofy face at the critical moment.

74 Targetpractice  Nov 22, 2014 8:01:42pm

re: #73 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

There are some dispute whether it was the first, but certainly it was the first on a major network TV show. Some Southern TV stations pulled the episode, fearing a public backlash.

There’s a funny story about how Shatner and Nichols conspired to make sure the take of them actually kissing on camera was the only usable take of the scene. For all the others, Shatner made a goofy face at the critical moment.

Can’t remember which book it was I read, but it related the history behind that kiss and the fear amongst network execs that it would cause a firestorm of controversy. They actually considered going with an alternate scenario of Spock being the one forced into the kiss, figuring it would go over better with a white audience if it was an alien who kissed a black woman. Turned out that the controversy they feared never manifested.

75 KerFuFFler  Nov 22, 2014 8:04:19pm

That video just reminded me of a story of my sister’s. She worked as a hair stylist in Dallas and one of her gay co-workers shared this vignette. His live-in boyfriend, out of the blue, got a surprise, early a.m. “visit” on his doorstep from a breakfast-bearing, female co-worker of his who had a crush on him and did not know he was gay. She apparently thought that showing up, unannounced, first thing in the morning on his doorstep with coffee and muffins would lead to other things….

The crushee was too embarrassed to come to the door, so the boyfriend, in his bathrobe, had to confront the wench and tell her that her love-interest was gay and bespoken. Her jaw dropped and she fled. My sister’s friend was annoyed that his boyfriend was too cowardly to confront her himself at the door. After much arguing and sulking he added that he was really pissed because, “That bitch saw me in my curlers!”

The salon seized upon the actionable revelation; he had always maintained that his curls were natural!

76 psddluva4evah  Nov 22, 2014 8:09:29pm

Next week on November 24th, President Obama will award a posthumous Medal of Freedom to 3 “Freedom Riders”

77 Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 22, 2014 8:11:29pm

re: #66 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

From the linked article:

NBC 5 obtained Lugo’s arrest affidavit on Thursday, in which detectives said Wesson “confessed that police would find approximately 42,000 child pornography images on his computer, thumb drive, phone and SD cards.” Police said Wesson also admitted to sexually abusing more than 100 children between the ages of 7 and 14.

Holy FUCK this guy is a monster.

78 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 22, 2014 8:17:37pm

re: #28 BeachDem

You were probably better of living in a simpler untwibboned time. Instead of wearing their hearts on their sleeves, Tweeters wear their twibbons on their avatars. It’s like, cosmic.

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Another of the many things I’ll probably never enjoy.
I’m retrogressing. I haven’t watched any broadcast TV for several years, I don’t own a smart phone, my cars have manual transmissions, I cook everything we eat, I’m in my 50th year of surfing and I read a lot. All of those things are choices and they don’t make me better, or worse, than anyone. OTOH, I build my own computers, do 3D modeling and I mod PC games so I’m not altogether a Luddite.

79 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 22, 2014 8:19:13pm

re: #74 Targetpractice

Can’t remember which book it was I read, but it related the history behind that kiss and the fear amongst network execs that it would cause a firestorm of controversy. They actually considered going with an alternate scenario of Spock being the one forced into the kiss, figuring it would go over better with a white audience if it was an alien who kissed a black woman. Turned out that the controversy they feared never manifested.

It’s part of Trek lore. The network’s censors overreacted, as usual. It’s to Shatner and Nichols’ credit that they forced the issue on the big wigs.

Now that I think of it, I wonder if the Uhura-Spock romance in the Star Trek reboot isn’t an allusion to the proposed Uhura-Spock kiss you mention.

80 teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2014 8:19:21pm
81 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 22, 2014 8:20:45pm

re: #80 teleskiguy

The toddler clearly does NOT want to be in that photo.

82 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Nov 22, 2014 8:21:45pm

re: #74 Targetpractice

Can’t remember which book it was I read, but it related the history behind that kiss and the fear amongst network execs that it would cause a firestorm of controversy. They actually considered going with an alternate scenario of Spock being the one forced into the kiss, figuring it would go over better with a white audience if it was an alien who kissed a black woman. Turned out that the controversy they feared never manifested.

The Making of Star Trek by Whitfield & Roddenberry?

83 psddluva4evah  Nov 22, 2014 8:22:38pm

re: #80 teleskiguy

shoot, the toddler is actually more closely embodying the Wu Tang spirit. You’d never see ODB and the boys wearing such simpering expressions as those other kids.

The toddler giving mad swagger attitude…lol

84 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Nov 22, 2014 8:23:32pm

re: #79 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

It’s part of Trek lore. The network’s censors overreacted, as usual. It’s to Shatner and Nichols’ credit that they forced the issue on the big wigs.

Now that I think of it, I wonder if the Uhura-Spock romance in the Star Trek reboot isn’t an allusion to the proposed Uhura-Spock kiss you mention.

Interesting idea. I’m not a big fan of the romance, but it might make it a bit more enjoyable to think of it as a sly inside reference.

85 teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2014 8:26:58pm

re: #83 psddluva4evah

shoot, the toddler is actually more closely embodying the Wu Tang spirit. You’d never see ODB and the boys wearing such simpering expressions as those other kids.

The toddler giving mad swagger attitude…lol

word

86 Targetpractice  Nov 22, 2014 8:38:32pm

re: #82 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

The Making of Star Trek by Whitfield & Roddenberry?

I believe that would be the one. Been years since I read it.

87 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Nov 22, 2014 8:40:18pm

re: #86 Targetpractice

I believe that would be the one. Been years since I read it.

Me too. My parents got it for me when it came out in the early 70’s.

88 Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 22, 2014 8:40:24pm

In other randomness, I came across a blog post earlier analyzing whether the new Hunger Games movie was either a clear endorsement of or clear condemnation of, the Tea Party/wingnut movement.

You see, some are looking at the film and viewing President Snow and the fat cats of the Capital as the perfect analogy for Obama and his cronies and the brave revolutionaries as analogous to everyone’s favorite Gadsden flag waving crowd.

But let’s think about this: You have a diverse group of young people rising up against environmental recklessness, income inequality and horrible quality of life, all engineered by a rich white guy and his equally rich close circle of powerful people, also mostly white.

Obviously I don’t think the movie is specifically targeted to either, but I think it’s pretty clear which side it mirrors more.

89 Jenner7  Nov 22, 2014 8:50:45pm

Here are more details about the kid shot by police:

CLEVELAND (AP) — Police say a 12-year-old boy brandishing what turned out to be a fake gun at a Cleveland recreation center was shot and wounded by a responding officer.

Cleveland’s Emergency Medical Service tells WOIO-TV (bit.ly ) that the boy is at a hospital with serious injuries. His mother says he’s in surgery for a stomach wound.

The shooting happened at about 3:30 p.m. at Cudell Rec Center after officers responded to reports of a male with a gun.

Deputy Chief Ed Tomba tells the TV station the boy had the weapon in his waistband, pulled it out and one officer fired two shots. He says the boy didn’t make any verbal threats or point the gun.

WOIO reports the gun was a replica of semi-automatic pistol, and the orange safety indicator in the muzzle was missing.

bigstory.ap.org

91 Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 22, 2014 8:54:45pm

re: #90 Single-handed sailor

If you want more Star Trek,

Star Trek Continues

Star Trek: Of Gods and Men

Star Trek: New Voyages/Phase II

There’s also a new fan project underway called Star Trek: Axanar

92 De Kolta Chair  Nov 22, 2014 9:09:29pm

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working part time holiday hours at Macy’s NYC for shite wages, and have been thinking of writing an essay for LGF about the experience. Possible titles: “The Fine Art of Folding Sparkly Sweaters,” “Hangers: Lots and Lots and Lots of Hangers,” “Arch Support? We Don’t Need No Stinking Arch Support,” and “Grouchy Russian Tourists Are Fun!”

Should I do it?

93 Mattand  Nov 22, 2014 9:14:52pm

re: #92 De Kolta Chair

In Soviet Russia, tourist grouches YOU!

94 teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2014 9:15:30pm

re: #92 De Kolta Chair

Make your own page here and then send the link to Gawker. Kills two birds with one stone!

95 RealityBasedEbola  Nov 22, 2014 9:23:45pm

re: #92 De Kolta Chair

Absolutely. It will replace David Sedaris’s Elf Diaries as required X-mas reading.

RBS

96 Jenner7  Nov 22, 2014 9:24:23pm
97 De Kolta Chair  Nov 22, 2014 9:28:27pm

re: #94 teleskiguy

Make your own page here and then send the link to Gawker. Kills two birds with one stone!

Great idea, though Gawker probably pays even less than Macy’s. Not that I’m complaining, much. It’s a gig. Funny thing is, last month I sold six very simple illustrations, doodles really, that took me a half hour to draw to a client for $350, and earned slightly more than half that amount working my dogs off for six days at Macy’s. But like I said, it’s a gig. And it might make for entertaining reading.

98 Jenner7  Nov 22, 2014 9:30:00pm

I don’t get their strategy. The police come out and talk with them, then leave to get riot gear and now they’re in their formation and protesters are on the sidewalk. What the hell?!?!

99 Targetpractice  Nov 22, 2014 9:31:58pm

Apparently I missed CNN’s report earlier that, contrary to the word going around Friday night, the GJ didn’t reach a verdict and we’ll now be waiting til Monday when they next convene.

100 teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2014 9:42:49pm

re: #97 De Kolta Chair

Great idea, though Gawker probably pays even less than Macy’s. Not that I’m complaining, much. It’s a gig. Funny thing is, last month I sold six very simple illustrations, doodles really, that took me a half hour to draw to a client for $350, and earned less than half that much working my dogs off for six days at Macy’s. But like I said, it’s a gig.

You gotta do what you gotta do. In the mid aughts I was holding down three gigs in Steamboat Springs, CO: part-time driver, part-time prep-cook, full-time line cook. That went on for about 3 months. Even when that was happening, I found time to go skiing.

That’s one way of saying how much I cherish my real ski bum days in Steamboat Springs. Those were fun times.

101 De Kolta Chair  Nov 22, 2014 9:50:01pm

re: #100 teleskiguy

You gotta do what you gotta do. In the mid aughts I was holding down three gigs in Steamboat Springs, CO: part-time driver, part-time prep-cook, full-time line cook. That went on for about 3 months. Even when that was happening, I found time to go skiing.

That’s one way of saying how much I cherish my real ski bum days in Steamboat Springs. Those were fun times.

Ya gotta stay positive, that’s for sure. I’ve seen three professions each of which I thought would last a lifetime become obsolete or outsourced in my time.

And I got my math wrong in my comment. I actually earned twice as much as I thought I did, which my bartender (Charlie from Glasgow, a terrific gal) will no doubt appreciate.

102 Floral Giraffe  Nov 22, 2014 9:51:40pm

re: #92 De Kolta Chair

If you want to get REALLY naughty…. my nic is blued!

103 GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 22, 2014 9:53:18pm

So now that there are consumer-level sous vide immersion circulators, I broke down and got me one. I couldn’t justify the $800+ price on any of the PolyScience ones (use them at work every day, and they are great), and the self-contained SousVide Supremes, while great, limit the amount you can cook at one time.

Hard boiled 2 dozen eggs this morning for egg salad and deviled eggs for a party coming up this week. They all came out perfect. But the best just happened now. Soft poached an egg and topped off my ramen. Geez. I’ve been doing it wrong all these years. Always hated poaching eggs in a pot of stirred water. Such a mess. Sous vide is pretty much failsafe.

Egg = sploosh!

104 teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2014 9:53:47pm

re: #101 De Kolta Chair

Ya gotta stay positive, that’s for sure. I’ve seen three professions that I expected to last forever become obsolete or outsourced in my time.

I work in a ski shop in the winter. I landscape and paint houses in the summer. That’s my work cycle for the last three years. I have a bachelors degree in English with a history minor.

Whaddya gonna do?!?

:-/

105 Jenner7  Nov 22, 2014 9:59:56pm

Reporter arrested. He’s the one with the red cap. Notice he’s ON the sidewalk and arrested.

106 William Barnett-Lewis  Nov 22, 2014 10:00:46pm

re: #104 teleskiguy

I work in a ski shop in the winter. I landscape and paint houses in the summer. That’s my work cycle for the last three years. I have a bachelors degree in English with a history minor.

Whaddya gonna do?!?

:-/

Never finished college but the English/Philosophy double major would not have changed much in the mess that is my resume :)

107 Jenner7  Nov 22, 2014 10:02:00pm

The opening skit of SNL if fracking hilarious…..

108 De Kolta Chair  Nov 22, 2014 10:03:42pm

re: #104 teleskiguy

Whaddya gonna do?!?

:-/


Watch out for for the giant floating fish, I suppose. ;-) Nighty night and sweet dreams.
109 GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 22, 2014 10:04:14pm

re: #105 Jenner7

Sigh.

110 RealityBasedEbola  Nov 22, 2014 10:04:21pm

re: #106 William Barnett-Lewis

Never finished college but the English/Philosophy double major would not have changed much in the mess that is my resume :)

I’m putting my resume together, considering I’ve only had 2 jobs in the last 28 years (13 years Army, 15 years Technology Trainer), it’s going to be a sort of a hybrid style, looking to maybe get an implementation position with a local firm.

111 De Kolta Chair  Nov 22, 2014 10:08:42pm
The Sith has left the building
112 RealityBasedEbola  Nov 22, 2014 10:14:01pm

Well, Manny Pacquiao totally dominated his fight tonight. 6 knockdowns (one maybe questionable, plus a standing 8 count). No question that Algieri was totally outclassed. Maybe we’ll finally get a fight between Pacman and Mayweather…. yea…

RBS

113 nearly-headless smith25  Nov 22, 2014 10:17:03pm

re: #105 Jenner7

114 Jenner7  Nov 22, 2014 10:21:58pm
115 teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2014 10:32:46pm

MP3 Audio

116 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 22, 2014 10:47:28pm

re: #92 De Kolta Chair

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working part time holiday hours at Macy’s NYC for shite wages, and have been thinking of writing an essay for LGF about the experience. Possible titles: “The Fine Art of Folding Sparkly Sweaters,” “Hangers: Lots and Lots and Lots of Hangers,” “Arch Support? We Don’t Need No Stinking Arch Support,” and “Grouchy Russian Tourists Are Fun!”

Should I do it?

Back in 1996 or ‘97, I saw an ad for holiday sales staff at Computer City, You know, teachers always need extra cash, so I figured I’d apply and see what happened. Got hired and made decent money on commissions — enough that I wondered whether working full-time would pay better than teaching. They kept me on after the holiday rush. Then CCity got bought up by CompUSA. My commission pay suffered, so I moved to SOHO at Circuit City where a former co-worker was working. Pay went back up.

I did not stay long enough to witness the eventual demise of Circuit, joining CompUSA and Computer City on the scrap heap of brick-and-mortar electronics shops. My former CompUSA workplace still stands empty after all these years.

I’m glad I stayed in teaching, in retrospect.

117 Snarknado!  Nov 22, 2014 10:51:48pm

re: #82 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

The Making of Star Trek by Whitfield & Roddenberry?

No. I don’t remember which it was (Gerrold’s book, maybe), but Making didn’t go past 2nd season, except to announce that it was renewed.

118 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 22, 2014 11:04:39pm

It’s been bugging me all morning. I knew I had seen the Royal Diner in this music video before. It’s the favorite eatery for the characters in Bones.
wellsbones.tumblr.com

Compare to brunomars.com

But as best I can tell, it’s just a set on the Fox backlot.

119 Single-handed sailor  Nov 22, 2014 11:16:03pm

re: #116 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I worked for ComputerLand in the 70’s.

120 Snarknado!  Nov 22, 2014 11:23:40pm

re: #117 Snarknado!

Looks like it was in Nichelle Nichols’ memoir.

121 Jenner7  Nov 22, 2014 11:35:07pm
122 William Barnett-Lewis  Nov 22, 2014 11:35:10pm

re: #119 Single-handed sailor

I worked for ComputerLand in the 70’s.

I did a gig as an Assistant manager at WaldenSoftware in the 80’s. Got fired for not upselling enough.

123 Single-handed sailor  Nov 22, 2014 11:44:22pm

re: #122 William Barnett-Lewis

I did a gig as an Assistant manager at WaldenSoftware in the 80’s. Got fired for not upselling enough.

The people I feel sorry for are all the people who invested their life savings to opened a franchise in these operations. The franchise operation was (technically) a scam that sucked money out of the franchisees. The terms of the agreements were terrible for the store owner.

124 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 12:55:32am

re: #123 Single-handed sailor

The people I feel sorry for are all the people who invested their life savings to opened a franchise in these operations. The franchise operation was (technically) a scam that sucked money out of the franchisees. The terms of the agreements were terrible for the store owner.

Online sales and the big department stores like Wal-mart and Best Buy killed all those brick-and-mortar places. All three of my former employers tried online sales, but it was too little, too late. Margins on computers were razor-thin, and selling service contracts — the real money-makers — were a tough sell. Plus their customer service was spotty at best. So, I wasn’t too surprised when one-by-one Computer City, CompUSA and Circuit City went belly-up.

What puzzles me is how Radio Shack still has stores open.

125 makeitstop  Nov 23, 2014 12:59:16am

I just walked in from a bar gig out in Jersey, and before I went to bed I had to check the video.

Bruno Mars is fire. And Ronson ain’t no slouch, either. His cover of Radiohead’s ‘Just’ is funky as all get out.

Youtube Video

126 Targetpractice  Nov 23, 2014 1:05:33am

re: #124 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Online sales and the big department stores like Wal-mart and Best Buy killed all those brick-and-mortar places. All three of my former employers tried online sales, but it was too little, too late. Margins on computers were razor-thin, and selling service contracts — the real money-makers — were a tough sell. Plus their customer service was spotty at best. So, I wasn’t too surprised when one-by-one Computer City, CompUSA and Circuit City went belly-up.

What puzzles me is how Radio Shack still has stores open.

It’s not long for this world either. Pretty much all the credit ratings agencies have it at junk bond status or just above default, with best guesses right now saying they’ll be in bankruptcy before next October. Seems they only held on because they could afford to sell their junk at even lower prices than their competitors, but between the big boxes and internet sales, their days are numbered.

127 Varek Raith  Nov 23, 2014 1:54:31am

re: #121 Jenner7

nbcwashington.com
Barry had been hospitalized at Howard University Hospital Thursday after complaining of a urinary tract infection. He was released Saturday, and spent some time with his son, Christopher.

After eating, Barry collapsed outside his home, according to information at an early-morning press conference at United Medical Center. Barry died at UMC at about 12:15 a.m. Sunday.

128 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 2:04:19am

re: #127 Varek Raith

Heart attack?

129 Varek Raith  Nov 23, 2014 2:15:06am

re: #128 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Heart attack?

Wouldn’t surprise me.
He’s had some health issues for a while now. Diabetes, kidney transplant numerous infections.

130 Whack-A-Mole  Nov 23, 2014 2:47:56am

re: #91 Eclectic Cyborg

I saw the Prelude to Axanar short film and was just blown away. I can’t wait to see the full feature. I wish I’d have known about the project when they were Kickstarting it; I’d have definitely thrown some money in for it.

The producution values look amazing and I was especially impressed with how many established actors they’ve managed to get onboard. I love that Tony Todd is in it; he was the star of my all-time favorite Trek episode, DS9’s The Visitor.

The link to the short (20 min) Prelude to Axanar is here if anyone hasn’t seen it and is interested.

131 urbanmeemaw  Nov 23, 2014 2:48:55am

re: #53 ObserverArt

Yep. Bootsy Collins’ Rubber Band. Lots of people don’t know The Godfather of Soul recorded in Cincinnati. Ohio had the funk going in that period.

Just did a Google on “Morris Day music influences” and found a site that listed: James Brown, Sly Stone, Parliament, Rick James, Commodores, Ohio Players, Solomon Burke…and of course his buddy Prince.

The Roots of Funk Run Deep. Owww!

Yup. Some people say rock and roll started in Cincinnati at King Records. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame put up a plaque at the old King Records site. The story of King is fascinating on so many levels.

132 urbanmeemaw  Nov 23, 2014 2:52:40am

re: #79 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

It’s part of Trek lore. The network’s censors overreacted, as usual. It’s to Shatner and Nichols’ credit that they forced the issue on the big wigs.

Now that I think of it, I wonder if the Uhura-Spock romance in the Star Trek reboot isn’t an allusion to the proposed Uhura-Spock kiss you mention.

Does anyone else remember the freak out when Petula Clark touched Harry Belafonte’s arm during a song (late 60’s I beieve)?

133 BigPapa  Nov 23, 2014 3:09:01am
134 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 3:10:08am

re: #133 BigPapa

Is Jim blowing smoke out his ass again?

135 Timothy Watson  Nov 23, 2014 3:19:44am

re: #51 psddluva4evah

So Hallmark Channel has been showing back to back Christimas movies since the end of October. My FB friends and I have been lamenting the lost of our nightly Golden Girls viewings. Hallmark used to show them every night in a 2 hour block (followed by Frasier). So last night, LogoTV changed their weekend lineup at the last minute to Golden Girls (I’m sure some saavy media person noticed no GG).

So last night I tweeted to @LogoTV:

. LogoTV retweeted and favorited it.

Well later that night round bout midnight, I got a response tweet from “Hallmark Channel Senior Vice President, Network Program Publicity & Social Content, Hallmark Channel & Hallmark Movies & Mysteries”. She tweeted back to me:

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So I can take this in two ways, in the holiday spirit, I can let it go and laugh it off (which is what I’m gonna do), or I could have clapped back to her that it’s TOO DAMN EARLY to be celebrating Christimas and just cause I ain’t celebrating Christimas in early November don’t mean nothing.

So how would you all have taken her tweet?

One of the radio stations in the Richmond, VA area started playing Christmas music 24/7 starting around the beginning of November.

Seriously, what’s up with that?

136 BigPapa  Nov 23, 2014 3:26:01am

re: #134 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Is Jim blowing smoke out his ass again?

I’m sure we’ll see a Black Panther takedown today. Hoft is such a vile human being.

137 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 3:40:44am

re: #136 BigPapa

I’m sure we’ll see a Black Panther takedown today. Hoft is such a vile human being.

I know the FBI arrested those two guys on suspected pipe bomb charges, but there was no mention of the New Black Panthers in the Sun-Times article. But the right-wing is all abuzz with the Black Panthers stuff.

138 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 3:50:08am

re: #136 BigPapa

I’m sure we’ll see a Black Panther takedown today. Hoft is such a vile human being.

Well, I did my own doxxing. Olajuwon is apparently associated with New Black Panthers in St. Louis.
omeka.wustl.edu

So, Dim Jim might have something right.

139 Timothy Watson  Nov 23, 2014 4:43:10am

Been playing some of Assassin’s Creed Unity, can someone explain how the story makes any sense? Why would the Assassins give a rat’s ass that a Templar killed another Templar and indulge a junior member is such a personal quest for revenge?

(And let’s not even get into the problems of the storytelling, like why should the player care since the person you’re trying to avenge gets around 5 minutes of screen time in the entire game?)

140 Eventual Carrion  Nov 23, 2014 5:05:52am

re: #124 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Online sales and the big department stores like Wal-mart and Best Buy killed all those brick-and-mortar places. All three of my former employers tried online sales, but it was too little, too late. Margins on computers were razor-thin, and selling service contracts — the real money-makers — were a tough sell. Plus their customer service was spotty at best. So, I wasn’t too surprised when one-by-one Computer City, CompUSA and Circuit City went belly-up.

What puzzles me is how Radio Shack still has stores open.

Seems Radio Shack goes more nuts and bolts. You can get components to build your own circuit boards. I have ham radio friends and the like that go there for that reason. I think the others you mentioned were more just re-sellers of other’s components, not so much capacitors, resistors and such to build your own.

141 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 5:14:09am

re: #140 Eventual Carrion

Seems Radio Shack goes more nuts and bolts. You can get components to build your own circuit boards. I have ham radio friends and the like that go there for that reason. I think the others you mentioned were more just re-sellers of other’s components, not so much capacitors, resistors and such to build your own.

Sure, but there’s dwindling demand for that kind of stuff when hobbyists can buy them online. And pros have their own supply channels.

142 Archangelus  Nov 23, 2014 5:17:26am

re: #139 Timothy Watson

Sorry dude, i’d offer help were it not for the fact that the game was so incredibly buggy it won’t run on my PC for more than about 10 minutes at a time before crashing altogether. .. which is still better than what others have apparently had to deal with, if they got the game running at all.

ACU has to be the most bugged/unfinished game I’ve ever seen released by a major company to date, and the backlash it’s been getting from players is 100% justified IMO.

“What is it? Do I have something between my teeth?”
143 Eventual Carrion  Nov 23, 2014 5:21:05am

re: #141 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Sure, but there’s dwindling demand for that kind of stuff when hobbyists can buy them online. And pros have their own supply channels.

True, that is what probably will finally drive RS out. But I think that is a reason that they held on this long.

144 Bubblehead II  Nov 23, 2014 5:29:22am

re: #141 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Sure, but there’s dwindling demand for that kind of stuff when hobbyists can buy them online. And pros have their own supply channels.

I quit shopping there years ago. Their selection of discreet components suck. If I need a part (resistor, cap, ect.) I can usually get it from work just by asking. If I need something that we don’t have on hand, like a SMD I.C., I’ll usually order through Digi-Key or Newark.

145 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 5:29:57am

re: #143 Eventual Carrion

True, that is what probably will finally drive RS out. But I think that is a reason that they held on this long.

They sold all kinds of small electronics, including cell phones and toys, and had stores where they could be a lot of walk-in traffic. And they employed mostly low-wage part-time help who were usually less than helpful with tech stuff. Usually, I knew what I wanted more than they did.

146 Eventual Carrion  Nov 23, 2014 5:35:36am

re: #145 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

They sold all kinds of small electronics, including cell phones and toys, and had stores where they could be a lot of walk-in traffic. And they employed mostly low-wage part-time help who were usually less than helpful with tech stuff. Usually, I knew what I wanted more than they did.

Couldn’t tell you the last time I was in one, so they might not be like they were 25- 30 years ago. I didn’t do the whole electronics thing (have always on the software side), but for a quick pickup of something my friends would go there. And they knew what they wanted so didn’t need any help from the staff.

147 lawhawk  Nov 23, 2014 5:37:09am

Dafuq?

148 Archangelus  Nov 23, 2014 5:39:12am

re: #147 lawhawk

149 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 23, 2014 5:48:04am

Here is Teh Stupid Of Teh Day
Of course it’s very early THEIR WILL BE MOAR STUPIDZ

150 Mattand  Nov 23, 2014 5:58:45am

re: #147 lawhawk

Every day, in every way, this country is trying to prove Idiocracy is not a movie, but a prophecy.

151 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 6:01:03am

re: #149 The Vicious Babushka

Hahahahaha!

That’s almost as funny as the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor.

152 Mattand  Nov 23, 2014 6:01:09am

re: #149 The Vicious Babushka

Here is Teh Stupid Of Teh Day
Of course it’s very early THEIR WILL BE MOAR STUPIDZ

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The Founders were so farsighted that they all had the ability to manifest themselves in Philly on July 2, 1776* as grown men, so just so they all could they could say they were born in America.

*My understanding is that most of them signed it on July 2.

153 HappyWarrior  Nov 23, 2014 6:04:09am

re: #149 The Vicious Babushka

Here is Teh Stupid Of Teh Day
Of course it’s very early THEIR WILL BE MOAR STUPIDZ

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She’s right. They were born in a British colony. And furthermore, Thomas Paine was actually born in England and Alexander Hamilton was born in the Virgin Islands. So this dumbass is the stupid one. In fact, until the Declaration, many of the colonists saw themselves not just as British subjects but as British. They referred to themselves as “Englishmen” in their grievances.

154 ObserverArt  Nov 23, 2014 6:08:17am

Michelle be doing some trolling.

Damn founders should have named the 13 colonies of England the 13 United States of England Overseas or something. But hell, even that wouldn’t have been right.

One thing for sure. No matter how stupid some of these idiots can be there is no embarrassment in it, and no admitting they were ever wrong.

155 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 23, 2014 6:09:11am

re: #153 HappyWarrior

She’s right. They were born in a British colony. And furthermore, Thomas Paine was actually born in England and Alexander Hamilton was born in the Virgin Islands. So this dumbass is the stupid one. In fact, until the Declaration, many of the colonists saw themselves not just as British subjects but as British. They referred to themselves as “Englishmen” in their grievances.

If you click on that wingnut Derp blog THEIR IS MOAR STUPIDS. They complain that FLOTUS “did not learn child nutrition while at Harvard & Princeton”

Well DUH I don’t think Harvard law teaches child nutrition.

The wingnuts have been in a frothing rage over FLOTUS STARVING ARE KIDS WITH HER DISGUSTING HEALTHY SKOOL LUNCHES WHILE HER KIDS GETS TO EATS TEH PIZZA!!!!!!!

I don’t remember school lunches ever being something you looked forward to eating.

156 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 6:10:09am

For the record,

John Adams, b. 1735, Massachusetts bay colony
Ben Franklin, b. 1706, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Alexander Hamilton, b. ca 1755, British West Indies
John Jay, b. 1745, New York colony
Thomas Jefferson, b. 1743, Virginia colony frontier
James Madison, b. 1751, Virginia colony
George Washington, b. 1731 (OS), Virginia colony

USA, b. 1776, re-constituted 1789

Additional info, courtesy of Wikipedia:

Most of the 1787 delegates [to the Federal Convention] were natives of the Thirteen Colonies. Only 9 were born elsewhere: four (Butler, Fitzsimons, McHenry, and Paterson) in Ireland, two (Davie and Robert Morris) in England, two (Wilson and Witherspoon) in Scotland, and one (Hamilton) in the West Indies.

157 ObserverArt  Nov 23, 2014 6:11:20am

re: #155 The Vicious Babushka

If you click on that wingnut Derp blog THEIR IS MOAR STUPIDS. They complain that FLOTUS “did not learn child nutrition while at Harvard & Princeton”

Well DUH I don’t think Harvard law teaches child nutrition.

The wingnuts have been in a frothing rage over FLOTUS STARVING ARE KIDS WITH HER DISGUSTING HEALTHY SKOOL LUNCHES WHILE HER KIDS GETS TO EATS TEH PIZZA!!!!!!!

I don’t remember school lunches ever being something you looked forward to eating.

They were at the smallish Catholic school I went to. We had a hell of a cafeteria staff. My mother was one for a few years. We were spoiled.

158 HappyWarrior  Nov 23, 2014 6:12:58am

re: #155 The Vicious Babushka

If you click on that wingnut Derp blog THEIR IS MOAR STUPIDS. They complain that FLOTUS “did not learn child nutrition while at Harvard & Princeton”

Well DUH I don’t think Harvard law teaches child nutrition.

The wingnuts have been in a frothing rage over FLOTUS STARVING ARE KIDS WITH HER DISGUSTING HEALTHY SKOOL LUNCHES WHILE HER KIDS GETS TO EATS TEH PIZZA!!!!!!!

I don’t remember school lunches ever being something you looked forward to eating.

Her healthy eating campaign really gets them furious doesn’t it? Yet they’re the first ones complaining about having to care for other people’s health care. FLOTUS is trying to do what she can to make obesity less of a problem early in life and she should be applauded for that. Of course, she’s also an Obama so nothing she does is right to them. But yeah, I don’t recall anyone actually getting excited about school lunches and our pizza I remember was awful. If I’m going to eat untasty school food, let it at least be healthy.

159 Timothy Watson  Nov 23, 2014 6:13:06am

re: #156 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

For the record,

John Adams, b. 1735, Massachusetts bay colony
Ben Franklin, b. 1706, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Alexander Hamilton, b. ca 1755, British West Indies
John Jay, b. 1745, New York colony
Thomas Jefferson, b. 1743, Virginia colony frontier
James Madison, b. 1751, Virginia colony
George Washington, b. 1731 (OS), Virginia colony

USA, b. 1776, re-constituted 1789

The idiots don’t seem to recall that the drafters of the Constitution had to write this into the Constitution to get around the “natural born Citizen” part:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

Citizenship having been bestowed by the signing of the Declaration of Independence or the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, depending on how many hairs you want to split.

160 HappyWarrior  Nov 23, 2014 6:16:02am

re: #156 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

For the record,

John Adams, b. 1735, Massachusetts bay colony
Ben Franklin, b. 1706, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Alexander Hamilton, b. ca 1755, British West Indies
John Jay, b. 1745, New York colony
Thomas Jefferson, b. 1743, Virginia colony frontier
James Madison, b. 1751, Virginia colony
George Washington, b. 1731 (OS), Virginia colony

USA, b. 1776, re-constituted 1789

Hell and he’s far from the only one.
Thomas Paine, 1736, b. 1737: Thetfold, Norfolk, Great Britain

161 Lidane  Nov 23, 2014 6:17:08am

re: #159 Timothy Watson

No one has ever accused the RWNJs of being smart. Or knowing their history.

162 ObserverArt  Nov 23, 2014 6:17:19am

re: #159 Timothy Watson

The idiots don’t seem to recall that the drafters of the Constitution had to write this into the Constitution to get around the “natural born Citizen” part:

Citizenship having been bestowed by the signing of the Declaration of Independence or the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, depending on how many hairs you want to split.

Timothy, you actually think these folks ever read the Constitution? It is like their bibles. They let their pastor interpret it and then they swallow what they are told. In this case the pastors are Rush, Glen, Alex, Ted and others and they all pray at the church of FOX.

163 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 6:18:03am

re: #159 Timothy Watson

The idiots don’t seem to recall that the drafters of the Constitution had to write this into the Constitution to get around the “natural born Citizen” part:

Citizenship having been bestowed by the signing of the Declaration of Independence or the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, depending on how many hairs you want to split.

Technically speaking, anyone born on the American continents can be called an American, including the people who were here before the Europeans arrived. But you could not have been born a citizen of the USA before 1776, or 1789 as the case be.

164 Timothy Watson  Nov 23, 2014 6:22:01am

re: #163 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Technically speaking, anyone born on the American continents can be called an American, including the people who were here before the Europeans arrived. But you could not have been born a citizen of the USA before 1776, or 1789 as the case be.

True, but you become one of those evil internationalist if you point out that other people in the Americas hate that (United States) Americans get to call themselves “Americans” to the exclusion of everyone else on the two continents.

165 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 6:22:36am

re: #160 HappyWarrior

Hell and he’s far from the only one.
Thomas Paine, 1736, b. 1737: Thetfold, Norfolk, Great Britain

Paine did not participate in the various colonial Conventions, but he was a supporter of the Revolution in many indirect ways.

Died in Greenwich Village, NYC, age 72.

166 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 6:24:27am

re: #164 Timothy Watson

True, but you become one of those evil internationalist if you point out that other people in the Americas hate that (United States) Americans get to call themselves “Americans” to the exclusion of everyone else on the two continents.

Ah, I am already an evil internationalist, having been resident in two countries besides the USA within the last 15 years.

167 ObserverArt  Nov 23, 2014 6:30:19am

re: #166 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Ah, I am already an evil internationalist, having been resident in two countries besides the USA within the last 15 years.

Then you must be on the RWNJ must-watch-out-for-list or something. Flitting around to all those countries, learning all those other ways, meeting all those non-Americans…surely you are a DANGER!

168 bill d  Nov 23, 2014 6:41:11am

re: #147 lawhawk

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Dafuq?

Nice. So they person who, after being told who they were, would want to do away with government funding for the Smithsonian has made their clickbait list?

I’m I seeing what happened to the National Geographic & History Channel happen to the Smithsonian in front of my eyes?

169 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 6:46:49am

re: #167 ObserverArt

Then you must be on the RWNJ must-watch-out-for-list or something. Flitting around to all those countries, learning all those other ways, meeting all those non-Americans…surely you are a DANGER!

Haha! I once got into a dispute with a commenter on my blog about the International Baccalaureate program, which she believes is a UN plot to undermine the American way. She made some snide remark about my working in China, suggesting that I was in on the whole UN-IB conspiracy and therefore an unreliable source — and obviously not a True American.

170 Eventual Carrion  Nov 23, 2014 7:12:57am

re: #157 ObserverArt

They were at the smallish Catholic school I went to. We had a hell of a cafeteria staff. My mother was one for a few years. We were spoiled.

Same here. small Catholic high school. They could cook up a storm. Guess it helps when you are only cooking for 400 - 500 students rather than 1000 - 2000. I worked 7th period in the kitchen cleaning up to help pay part of my tuition, left overs were great (especially on pizza day, many of the cooks were Italian and made great pizza)

171 Bubblehead II  Nov 23, 2014 7:14:56am
172 Decatur Deb  Nov 23, 2014 7:17:24am

re: #170 Eventual Carrion

Same here. small Catholic high school. They could cook up a storm. Guess it helps when you are only cooking for 400 - 500 students rather than 1000 - 2000. I worked 7th period in the kitchen cleaning up to help pay part of my tuition, left overs were great (especially on pizza day, many of the cooks were Italian and made great pizza)

My Catholic military school (24/7) had a nun who ran a great kitchen. We learned to appreciate that when she got sick and was replaced for a few weeks. From there it was 5 yrs in a seminary—different nuns cooking—and worse garbage than in any Army messhall.

173 Timothy Watson  Nov 23, 2014 7:21:42am

Note that Tuesday is the class day of classes before the Thanksgiving recess. Classes resume Monday, December 1, and end Friday, December 5, followed by a final examination period. So, essentially, this is a six-day suspension. Apparently, Sullivan consulted with Roger Goodell.

174 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 23, 2014 7:34:33am
175 Dark_Falcon  Nov 23, 2014 7:34:56am

re: #169 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Haha! I once got into a dispute with a commenter on my blog about the International Baccalaureate program, which she believes is a UN plot to undermine the American way. She made some snide remark about my working in China, suggesting that I was in on the whole UN-IB conspiracy and therefore an unreliable source — and obviously not a True American.

I trust you banned that nutbar shortly thereafter.

176 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 7:42:18am

re: #175 Dark_Falcon

I trust you banned that nutbar shortly thereafter.

No. She eventually gave up debating me. I’m a small fish, and she took her conspiracy theory to a bigger pond.

178 darthstar  Nov 23, 2014 7:52:00am

Mornin’ everyone…happy Sunday.

179 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 7:52:37am

re: #177 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Cosby’s sinking further in the mire. The dam has broken, and he’s going to have to say his piece.

180 Dave In Austin  Nov 23, 2014 7:53:35am

I doo De-claira…….

Ms. Lindsey’s having none of this Benghazi Debacle…

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday blasted a House GOP-led investigation that recently debunked myths about the 2012 Benghazi attack.

Link

181 Dark_Falcon  Nov 23, 2014 7:54:53am

re: #177 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-NBC employee Frank Scotti claims Bill Cosby paid off women, invited young models to dressing room as he stood guard

I hate what Bill Cosby has done, to women, to black Americans (his sexual violence is going to trotted out by racists, you can be certain of it), and to America as a whole. A man who claimed to use his gifts for good has been revealed as having used his good works to cover up a long list of crimes.

182 darthstar  Nov 23, 2014 7:55:09am

Marion Berry died. All the headlines are focusing on his crack days.

This is good though.

183 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Nov 23, 2014 7:55:34am

re: #179 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Too bad his rich celebrity privilege will keep him out of prison.

184 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 7:57:31am

re: #183 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Too bad his rich celebrity privilege will keep him out of prison.

Well, the statute of limitations has run out, unless he’s done something bad within the last seven years (at age 70?). But he could still be the subject of a civil suit, or several.

185 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Nov 23, 2014 7:58:53am

re: #184 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Well, the statute of limitations has run out, unless he’s done something bad within the last seven years (at age 70?). But he could still be the subject of a civil suit, or several.

Which is exactly his rich celebrity privilege at work. These women didn’t dare to accuse him back then.

186 Dark_Falcon  Nov 23, 2014 8:01:41am

re: #182 darthstar

Marion Berry died. All the headlines are focusing on his crack days.

This is good though.

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Classic words of an older generation machine-politician. But as much as I rag on people like that, they have had their good points in their understanding who votes for them and then working to address those people’s grievances.

The modern ideological pols should take a lesson from their predecessors and make sure to devote some focus to real-world problem solving for constituents. If they need a current example, they can look to Mitch McConnell, for whom such constituent service was instrumental in securing victory in this month’s election.

187 Indy GOP Refugee  Nov 23, 2014 8:02:00am

re: #185 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

The fact that one woman wound up in jail for extortion may have played a role.
nytimes.com

188 darthstar  Nov 23, 2014 8:03:50am

re: #184 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I think what they want is acknowledgement. No lawsuit will make the pain go away. They just want the record to be clear. They deserve that.

Bill Cosby can go on being a funny old man that everyone loves who just also happens to have been a serial sexual predator for much of his adult life. The reason he’s scared is that it becomes his legacy - the sexual assault/abuse - not his career.

189 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 8:05:22am

re: #188 darthstar

I think what they want is acknowledgement. No lawsuit will make the pain go away. They just want the record to be clear. They deserve that.

Bill Cosby can go on being a funny old man that everyone loves who just also happens to have been a serial sexual predator for much of his adult life. The reason he’s scared is that it becomes his legacy - the sexual assault/abuse - not his career.

What goes around comes around, as the saying goes.

190 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Nov 23, 2014 8:07:46am

re: #187 Indy GOP Refugee

The woman who may be his daughter:

The Emmy-winning Cosby, NBC’s most bankable star at the time, used Scotti to deliver monthly payouts to eight different women in 1989-90 — including Shawn Thompson, whose daughter Autumn Jackson claimed the actor was her dad.

191 ObserverArt  Nov 23, 2014 8:08:28am

re: #180 Dave In Austin

I doo De-claira…….

Ms. Lindsey’s having none of this Benghazi Debacle…

Link

Graham is just trying cover his butt. After whipping up that much BS, he can’t stand to have it turn like this.

I once had a small bit of respect for Graham, thinking that he was at least somewhat moderate and responsible. No more. He’s just another puppet of the stupid TeaParty and the big GOP machine.

I hope both he and McCain lose their favored TV guest talking status and the media distance themselves from both of these bozos. Their time is up.

192 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Nov 23, 2014 8:11:48am

I wonder if the Cosby thing will also lead to exposure of some other beloved celebrities.

193 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 8:12:55am

re: #191 ObserverArt

Graham is just trying cover his butt. After whipping up that much BS, he can’t stand to have it turn like this.

I once had a small bit of respect for Graham, thinking that he was at least somewhat moderate and responsible. No more. He’s just another puppet of the stupid TeaParty and the big GOP machine.

I hope both he and McCain lose their favored TV guest talking status and the media distance themselves from both of these bozos. Their time is up.

Don’t hold your breath. The media, in their never-ending quest to find “the opposite side,” will use Graham and McCain as counterpoints to the Dread Obama.

194 ObserverArt  Nov 23, 2014 8:14:33am

re: #186 Dark_Falcon

Classic words of an older generation machine-politician. But as much as I rag on people like that, they have had their good points in their understanding who votes for them and then working to address those people’s grievances.

The modern ideological pols should take a lesson from their predecessors and make sure to devote some focus to real-world problem solving for constituents. If they need a current example, they can look to Mitch McConnell, for whom such constituent service was instrumental in securing victory in this month’s election.

Really? McConnell. I wonder if all the people of Kentucky agree, especially if he guts the ACA.

And if you think they are happy with them because he was reelected, then you haven’t been following. Backwoods Sleuth has long stated her state voted against the black guy in the president’s office rather than for McConnell.

Sorry Dark. You are fast running out of anyone in your favored party you can use as an example of anything good.

195 Eventual Carrion  Nov 23, 2014 8:15:59am

re: #193 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Don’t hold your breath. The media, in their never-ending quest to find “the opposite side,” will use Graham and McCain as counterpoints to the Dread Obama.

“Dread Obama” put a picture in my mind of Obama with dreadlocks, captioned “Dreaded Obama”.

196 RealityBasedEbola  Nov 23, 2014 8:18:08am

When the Cosby story first started to break, a lot of the usual suspects on the conservative side started the talking points that Cosby was being targeted by liberals since he was a conservative. The conservative label was applied based on one or two speeches he gave focusing on the black family in America.

Once it became clear from the number of accusations, the consistency of the pattern that it wasn’t a smear campaign against him their tube changed. Now he was a hard core liberal and what do you expect from a liberal except this type of behavior. It was so predictable to be laughable.

197 Dave In Austin  Nov 23, 2014 8:18:22am

re: #193 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Speaking of Grampa Yellsatcloud…..
Did he ever offer up a response to Jimmy Carter calling him a “Warmonger” the other day (not that there is a response)?

198 Indy GOP Refugee  Nov 23, 2014 8:19:19am

re: #192 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Probably. This was a time where Quaalude/cocaine/whatever parties were common. Casual sex was not just happening but extra trendy in the media. Society was not taking date rape seriously. One could easily argue it’s not taken seriously enough now.

The hell of it is “I can’t remember” is not what a prosecutor or investigator can use to move forward and the likely result in industrial strength drug use. “Take this it will be fun”

Ugh. For the umpteenth time I’m glad I hated disco, dance clubs and that whole scene at the time. Not that I was an angel, Just not my idea of a great time.

199 Dark_Falcon  Nov 23, 2014 8:20:02am

re: #194 ObserverArt

Really? McConnell. I wonder if all the people of Kentucky agree, especially if he guts the ACA.

And if you think they are happy with them because he was reelected, then you haven’t been following. Backwoods Sleuth has long stated her state voted against the black guy in the president’s office rather than for McConnell.

Sorry Dark. You are fast running out of anyone in your favored party you can use as an example of anything good.

Really really, OA. McConnell ran a whole raft of ads featuring constituents whose problems with government and other large entities he had solved. Said ads tended to stick close to the facts, with at least one such touting his work with veterans winning the WaPo’s ‘Gepetto Checkmark’. Grimes had no real counter to those ads and they lifted McConnell’s approval rating at critical times.

200 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 8:21:25am

re: #194 ObserverArt

Really? McConnell. I wonder if all the people of Kentucky agree, especially if he guts the ACA.

And if you think they are happy with them because he was reelected, then you haven’t been following. Backwoods Sleuth has long stated her state voted against the black guy in the president’s office rather than for McConnell.

Sorry Dark. You are fast running out of anyone in your favored party you can use as an example of anything good.

Speaking as a former long-time resident of Kentucky, I can vouch for that estimation of McConnell’s “popularity.” He has done good things for the corporate bosses in KY and elsewhere and gotten pork barrel projects, but not much for the average guy. He’s the not-Obama, the not-Democrat for most of the voters in KY.

Plus, KY voters have a long history of returning incumbents until they die in office, or until a Democrat holding office no longer holds water.

201 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 8:22:04am

re: #195 Eventual Carrion

“Dread Obama” put a picture in my mind of Obama with dreadlocks, captioned “Dreaded Obama”.

Maybe Dredd Obama, with a black uniform and helmet.

202 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 23, 2014 8:22:22am

re: #199 Dark_Falcon

Really really, OA. McConnell ran a whole raft of ads featuring constituents whose problems with government and other large entities he had solved. Said ads tended to stick close to the facts, with at least one such touting his work with veterans winning the WaPo’s ‘Gepetto Checkmark’. Grimes had no real counter to those ads and they lifted McConnell’s approval rating at critical times.

The ads were complete and total bullshit.
McConnell’s “constituent services” are non-existent for actual Kentuckians.

203 Dark_Falcon  Nov 23, 2014 8:22:59am

re: #198 Indy GOP Refugee

Probably. This was a time where Quaalude/cocaine/whatever parties were common. Casual sex was not just happening but extra trendy in the media. Society was not taking date rape seriously. One could easily argue it’s not taken seriously enough now.

The hell of it is “I can’t remember” is not what a prosecutor or investigator can use to move forward and the likely result in industrial strength drug use. “Take this it will be fun”

Ugh. For the umpteenth time I’m glad I hated disco, dance clubs and that whole scene at the time. Not that I was an angel, Just not my idea of a great time.

So I take it that the costumes in the Bruno Mars video were a turn-off for you, eh?

;)

204 Sionainn  Nov 23, 2014 8:24:34am

re: #169 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Haha! I once got into a dispute with a commenter on my blog about the International Baccalaureate program, which she believes is a UN plot to undermine the American way. She made some snide remark about my working in China, suggesting that I was in on the whole UN-IB conspiracy and therefore an unreliable source — and obviously not a True American.

My girls go to an IB school!

205 Indy GOP Refugee  Nov 23, 2014 8:25:59am

re: #203 Dark_Falcon

Well I have to be careful. Never know who might be upset a week later and be mad they can’t comment. // *snort*

206 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 8:26:44am

re: #203 Dark_Falcon

So I take it that the costumes in the Bruno Mars video were a turn-off for you, eh?

;)

They were not all that disco retro, I think. More like modern-day take-offs on older fashions. The little fedora is all the thing now.

I have three. I like hats.

207 darthstar  Nov 23, 2014 8:27:55am
208 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 8:28:01am

re: #204 Sionainn

My girls go to an IB school!

IB is a great programme. No question about it.

209 Indy GOP Refugee  Nov 23, 2014 8:28:02am

re: #206 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Are hats in style in your region? Here in SoCal they just hardly ever seem to be in style.

210 ObserverArt  Nov 23, 2014 8:28:08am

re: #199 Dark_Falcon

Really really, OA. McConnell ran a whole raft of ads featuring constituents whose problems with government and other large entities he had solved. Said ads tended to stick close to the facts, with at least one such touting his work with veterans winning the WaPo’s ‘Gepetto Checkmark’. Grimes had no real counter to those ads and they lifted McConnell’s approval rating at critical times.

I’m not backing Grimes. She showed real weak decisions at a critical time.

I do hate McConnell though. I admit it. I can’t give any gold stars to any
‘statesmen’ whose only trick in his political bag was to say he would obstruct before Obama was even in office and play to the lowest elements in this country while doing it. He did NOTHING for this country for going on 7 years now. He hurt this country. If that is your idea of a good classic politician there is nothing I can say. I have high expectations. Sorry.

211 jaunte  Nov 23, 2014 8:29:13am
212 RealityBasedEbola  Nov 23, 2014 8:30:10am

re: #207 darthstar

Reflexively crosses legs and feels nauseous

213 Indy GOP Refugee  Nov 23, 2014 8:30:55am

re: #211 jaunte

Police are trained in keeping a story straight. I wonder how many of those newsies have two stories written depending on the verdict.

214 ObserverArt  Nov 23, 2014 8:31:19am

re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth

The ads were complete and total bullshit.
McConnell’s “constituent services” are non-existent for actual Kentuckians.

But they tended to be close to the facts. I guess close is now good enough. Of course, we have no idea of how close, but close it is.

I can see it now. The Biography of Mitch McConnell: I was always close to being a good politician.

/

215 Eventual Carrion  Nov 23, 2014 8:32:07am

re: #201 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Maybe Dredd Obama, with a black uniform and helmet.

That works, but doesn’t make me giggle like the dreadlocks. They would look better on him than they did on my sister when she attempted them. Although I knew this red-headed Irish gal that pulled them off quite well, and they reached almost to her waist. Was a shock the day I saw her after she cut them off.

216 Eventual Carrion  Nov 23, 2014 8:34:00am

re: #207 darthstar

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217 Sionainn  Nov 23, 2014 8:35:11am

re: #208 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

IB is a great programme. No question about it.

I’m very pleased with it except for the fact that they simply cannot find a Chinese teacher this year. I would be perfectly fine if they switched the language to Spanish.

218 Dark_Falcon  Nov 23, 2014 8:38:28am

re: #213 Indy GOP Refugee

Police are trained in keeping a story straight. I wonder how many of those newsies have two stories written depending on the verdict.

I’d wager at least one. But if that’s true, then it will be interesting to see how the knowledge that reporters were meeting with Wilson plays out on the street.

219 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 8:38:51am

re: #209 Indy GOP Refugee

Are hats in style in your region? Here in SoCal they just hardly ever seem to be in style.

Not so much. A few older Chinese men wear fedoras, and caps are popular among the college set, but most people here (other than farmers) go bareheaded. But there are plenty of stylin’ hats among entertainers, so the fashionable young men will sport them for special occasions.

220 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 8:41:47am

re: #217 Sionainn

I’m very pleased with it except for the fact that they simply cannot find a Chinese teacher this year. I would be perfectly fine if they switched the language to Spanish.

Well, I have some people here who would love to teach in America if they could get a visa.

Has the school considered hiring someone through the Confucius Institute Hanban program? That’s how my former school found its first Chinese teacher.

221 Indy GOP Refugee  Nov 23, 2014 8:41:51am

Stupid headline above this excellent paragraph

And simultaneously to all this there has been a consistent rise in voters who are fed up with both political parties and who are now calling themselves independent. Faster than the growth of Latino voters and the rise of the angry white male is a growing group of voters who are registering as something other than Republican or Democrat. In state after state, voters are opting out of casting ballots in primaries and are picking a third way to express themselves. For now, this has been heard in ways of a voice of consistent frustration or by voting each party out of office every two years, but at some point independent candidates will begin to find success. And then maybe this red/blue monopoly will be broken. One can hope, and also see it realistically coming.

Hallelujah

222 Sionainn  Nov 23, 2014 8:43:15am

re: #220 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Well, I have some people here who would love to teach in America if they could get a visa.

Has the school considered hiring someone through the Confucius Institute Hanban program? That’s how my former school found its first Chinese teacher.

I will pass that information on to the principal.

223 Indy GOP Refugee  Nov 23, 2014 8:44:29am

re: #219 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Not so much. A few older Chinese men wear fedoras, and caps are popular among the college set, but most people here (other than farmers) go bareheaded. But there are plenty of stylin’ hats among entertainers, so the fashionable young men will sport them for special occasions.

I kinda wish they would come back in L.A. We have our cowboy hats but absent a horse, or at least a beat up pickup truck, meh.

224 #FergusonFireside  Nov 23, 2014 8:48:10am
225 GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 23, 2014 8:55:00am

Nutbag GOP tool to Nutbag GOP party. You’re full of crap!

BENGHAZI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

226 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Nov 23, 2014 8:55:10am

re: #224 #FergusonFireside

“When an officer gives a command, we expect it to be followed,”

Totalitarian mindset, as it were.

227 Mattand  Nov 23, 2014 8:55:44am

Quick question: I’ve got movie passes for a chain that’s no longer in my neck of the woods (National Amusements/Showcase), and I want to pass them on to anyone who wants them.

The theaters are located in NY, CT, MA, RI, North Jersey, and Ohio

Is there an instant message system or anything like that on the site? I’m fine with posting my email address but I don’t want to violate any site rules or privacy concerns.

I’ll pass them on to whoever raises their virtual hand first after this post.

I had completely forgotten that I had this football in his toy box.
228 Bubblehead II  Nov 23, 2014 9:01:50am

re: #227 Mattand

Quick question: I’ve got movie passes for a chain that’s no longer in my neck of the woods (National Amusements/Showcase), and I want to pass them on to anyone who wants them.

The theaters are located in NY, CT, MA, RI, North Jersey, and Ohio

Is there an instant message system or anything like that on the site? I’m fine with posting my email address but I don’t want to violate any site rules or privacy concerns.

I’ll pass them on to whoever raises their virtual hand first after this post.

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If you go into your account settings, you can set your E-Mail address and then at the top of the message entry box, click show email. This turns your nick blue and anyone clicking on it can send you an E-Mail. Or so I understand.

229 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Nov 23, 2014 9:02:24am

Wait a minute. What was that about an officer allegedly receiving an injury?
In the story now relayed no injury is mentioned, no shooting from the BB gun either.

230 BeachDem  Nov 23, 2014 9:04:35am

re: #224 #FergusonFireside

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So very sad—another in a litany of shoot first, ask questions later never.

I’m still curious as to why the only person who has been quoted thus far in any of the stories I’ve read about this is from the police union, not department officials. It just seems so odd to me.

231 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 23, 2014 9:05:31am

So, on Meet the Press this morning, Rudi Giuliani was sharing his vast wisdom about “black crime” and said “you people” to Michael Eric Dyson.

O_o

232 #FergusonFireside  Nov 23, 2014 9:06:31am

re: #229 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Wait a minute. What was that about an officer allegedly receiving an injury?
In the story now relayed no injury is mentioned, no shooting from the BB gun either.

He hurt his ankle. Appears he stayed in the hospital overnight for that.

233 jaunte  Nov 23, 2014 9:09:31am

re: #231 Backwoods_Sleuth

So, on Meet the Press this morning, Rudi Guliani was sharing his vast wisdom about “black crime” and said “you people” to Michael Eric Dyson.

O_o

Demonstrating exactly the point Dyson was making at the time, that the police in black neighborhoods fail to carefully distinguish between criminals and the rest of the people.

234 jaunte  Nov 23, 2014 9:10:54am
235 Mattand  Nov 23, 2014 9:11:32am

re: #228 Bubblehead II

If you go into your account settings, you can set your E-Mail address and then at the top of the message entry box, click show email. This turns your nick blue and anyone clicking on it can send you an E-Mail. Or so I understand.

Grazi.

236 Sionainn  Nov 23, 2014 9:13:17am

re: #228 Bubblehead II

If you go into your account settings, you can set your E-Mail address and then at the top of the message entry box, click show email. This turns your nick blue and anyone clicking on it can send you an E-Mail. Or so I understand.

That doesn’t ever work for me. Not sure why.

237 Bubblehead II  Nov 23, 2014 9:19:14am

re: #236 Sionainn

That doesn’t ever work for me. Not sure why.

Like I said, that’s the way I understand it’s SUPPOSED to work. Maybe Charles or another Lizard can explain it better than me. If I have to E-Mail someone here, I try to find them on Twitter and IM them there.

238 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 9:23:50am

re: #222 Sionainn

If they have questions, I’ve enabled my email here and they can contact me directly.

239 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 9:25:23am

Oh, swell, @mikandynothem is following me on Twitter. Some of you know of him.

240 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 23, 2014 9:25:32am
241 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 9:26:42am

I’m going to bed. Way too late here for me. Hasta luego.

242 HappyWarrior  Nov 23, 2014 9:30:17am

re: #233 jaunte

Demonstrating exactly the point Dyson was making at the time, that the police in black neighborhoods fail to carefully distinguish between criminals and the rest of the people.

It’s a legitimate point that I imagine Rudy can’t stand hearing given what happened many times with his own PD during his mayorship in New York.

243 jaunte  Nov 23, 2014 9:31:25am
244 Bubblehead II  Nov 23, 2014 9:31:53am

re: #239 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Oh, swell, @mikandynothem is following me on Twitter. Some of you know of him.

Looks like a block and mute candidate to me.

245 HappyWarrior  Nov 23, 2014 9:33:24am

re: #243 jaunte

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Seriously. Stop being the far right’s waterboy Boehner and actually bring the bill to the House. Oh I get it though, you’re afraid of losing your speakership more so than doing the right thing.

246 BeachDem  Nov 23, 2014 9:41:56am

re: #240 Backwoods_Sleuth

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And of course intrepid host Chuck Todd jumped in to set the record straight with facts, right? Oh wait—that’s not his job, according to Chuck.

247 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 23, 2014 9:50:47am

re: #181 Dark_Falcon

I hate what Bill Cosby has done, to women, to black Americans (his sexual violence is going to trotted out by racists, you can be certain of it), and to America as a whole. A man who claimed to use his gifts for good has been revealed as having used his good works to cover up a long list of crimes.

And I certainly don’t want to hear from any apologist who argues that his behavior was pretty much standard for men, regardless of race, for his time.

248 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 23, 2014 9:53:06am

re: #206 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Brian Elliott had a piece of equipment break and WHY WOULD ANYONE EVER BE A GOALIE

I was a goalie because I could not skate well enough or afford hockey skates, all I had were figure skates. But I did have access to a baseball catcher’s equipment from the little league team my brother managed.

249 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 23, 2014 10:19:03am
250 prairiefire  Nov 23, 2014 10:34:58am

Hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving this week! I just have to bring the rolls ~ Woot!


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