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1 HappyWarrior  Nov 23, 2014 6:25:57pm

Is he ready for his close up, Mr. Hannity?

2 Charles Johnson  Nov 23, 2014 6:25:58pm

Needed to edit the title of this post to fix a typo, and with the way social media cache things like that, it’s better to just create a new post and delete the old one so they don’t hold on to the cached version.

3 Targetpractice  Nov 23, 2014 6:26:45pm

If the world were just, the first place he’d be headed after the GJ announced its verdict would be before a judge.

4 HappyWarrior  Nov 23, 2014 6:27:45pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

Needed to edit the title of this post to remove a typo, and with the way social media cache things like that, it’s better to just create a new post and delete the old one so they don’t hold on to the cached version.

Gotcha. This is going to be a circus. I can totally see him getting tons of interviews and possibly even a book deal and living happily ever after while we get told about how “tough” it is to be Darren Wilson.

5 Dark_Falcon  Nov 23, 2014 6:29:14pm

Reporters attracted like flies to shit…

6 Skip Intro  Nov 23, 2014 6:29:21pm

It sure pays to kill an unarmed black kid. Zimmerman makes $100k from a fake painting, and this clown gets a half million dollar slush fund and the media’s all over him like he just went into heat.

Hell of a country we’ve got here.

7 lawhawk  Nov 23, 2014 6:30:27pm

[deleted]

Because there’s nothing else to say.

8 HappyWarrior  Nov 23, 2014 6:30:31pm

re: #6 Skip Intro

It sure pays to kill an unarmed black kid. Zimmerman makes $100k from a fake painting, and this clown gets a half million dollar slush fund and the media’s all over him like he just went into heat.

Hell of a country we’ve got here.

It’s why people become cynics. But yeah good money in this. Sigh. Not going to be surprised if he eventually becomes Fox’s “expert cop.”

9 Skip Intro  Nov 23, 2014 6:33:08pm

re: #8 HappyWarrior

Yup. Take over from Bo Dietl.

10 Indy GOP Refugee  Nov 23, 2014 6:33:20pm

This is just weird. At what point might his legal counsel tell him going on air is a good idea? Lawhawk? Any serious media experts in? I would expect a long silence from Wilson unless he is really stupid and speaks up..

11 HappyWarrior  Nov 23, 2014 6:34:05pm

re: #9 Skip Intro

Yup. Take over from Bo Dietl.

I mean if they can treat Oliver North like some respected former military officer, wouldn’t shock me at all to see this.

12 Single-handed sailor  Nov 23, 2014 6:35:04pm

re: #8 HappyWarrior

It’s why people become cynics. But yeah good money in this. Sigh. Not going to be surprised if he eventually becomes Fox’s “expert cop.”

Move over, Mark Fuhrman.

13 Skip Intro  Nov 23, 2014 6:35:09pm

re: #10 Indy GOP Refugee

This is just weird. At what point might his legal counsel tell him going on air is a good idea? Lawhawk? Any serious media experts in? I would expect a long silence from Wilson unless he is really stupid and speaks up..

This is more about the media freak show than it is about Wilson.

14 Decatur Deb  Nov 23, 2014 6:36:41pm

re: #10 Indy GOP Refugee

This is just weird. At what point might his legal counsel tell him going on air is a good idea? Lawhawk? Any serious media experts in? I would expect a long silence from Wilson unless he is really stupid and speaks up..

Weak Brain and a Narrow Mind

Youtube Video

15 HappyWarrior  Nov 23, 2014 6:39:47pm

re: #12 Single-handed sailor

Move over, Mark Fuhrman.

Yep.

16 goddamnedfrank  Nov 23, 2014 6:49:00pm

re: #10 Indy GOP Refugee

This is just weird. At what point might his legal counsel tell him going on air is a good idea? Lawhawk? Any serious media experts in? I would expect a long silence from Wilson unless he is really stupid and speaks up..

He’s got a very narrow time frame here in which to effectively commodify the human life he took.

17 #FergusonFireside  Nov 23, 2014 6:49:21pm

The press want’s the get.

If we had any idea of what they offer to get that we would puke.

Beyond sick.

18 bill d  Nov 23, 2014 6:50:14pm

OFFICER WILSON WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON BENGHAZI?

I don’t really want to see the guy or hear a word he has to say.

19 Skip Intro  Nov 23, 2014 6:50:38pm

The media arrives.

20 missliberties  Nov 23, 2014 6:51:03pm

This seems inappropriate and highly disturbing.

Especially since he didn’t show to any of the trails he was supposed to testify at to convict his caught criminals ever since he shot Mike Brown.

21 bill d  Nov 23, 2014 6:51:41pm

If Wilson wants to talk then he can do it from the stand under oath.

22 makeitstop  Nov 23, 2014 6:52:02pm

re: #10 Indy GOP Refugee

This is just weird. At what point might his legal counsel tell him going on air is a good idea? Lawhawk? Any serious media experts in? I would expect a long silence from Wilson unless he is really stupid and speaks up..

I believe it doesn’t matter how bad an idea it is. The media as a whole is going to frame the entire episode in a favorable light for Wilson, and the fact that he’s in negotiations tells me that one of his non-negotiable points is ‘no hardball questions.’

23 Dark_Falcon  Nov 23, 2014 6:52:17pm

Regin, new computer spying bug, discovered by Symantec

A leading computer security company says it has discovered one of the most sophisticated pieces of malicious software ever seen.

Symantec says the bug, named Regin, was probably created by a government and has been used for six years against a range of targets around the world.

Once installed on a computer, it can do things like capture screenshots, steal passwords or recover deleted files.

Experts say computers in Russia, Saudi Arabia and Ireland have been hit most.

It has been used to spy on government organisations, businesses and private individuals, they say.

Researchers say the sophistication of the software indicates that it is a cyber-espionage tool developed by a nation state.

24 missliberties  Nov 23, 2014 6:53:02pm

re: #21 bill d

If Wilson wants to talk then he can do it from the stand under oath.

Nice!

25 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 23, 2014 6:57:12pm

Weirdest Twitter Spam Of The Day:

26 andres  Nov 23, 2014 6:58:11pm

re: #25 The Vicious Babushka

Weirdest Twitter Spam Of The Day:

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OTOH, it might be the most coherent tweet this week on #tcot .

27 RealityBasedEbola  Nov 23, 2014 6:58:43pm

re: #25 The Vicious Babushka

Weirdest Twitter Spam Of The Day:

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Spam would probably be an improvement.

RBS

28 teleskiguy  Nov 23, 2014 7:00:34pm

re: #25 The Vicious Babushka

Reminds me of this great George Carlin list of Great American Foods.

29 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 7:00:54pm

re: #27 RealityBasedEbola

Spam would probably be an improvement.

RBS

Needs a slice of cheddar on top.

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30 Indy GOP Refugee  Nov 23, 2014 7:05:44pm

re: #23 Dark_Falcon

This cyberwar stuff is going to get real one day. We ain’t seen nothin yet.

31 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 23, 2014 7:08:02pm
32 jaunte  Nov 23, 2014 7:11:57pm

“What protects us in America from any kind of ethnic cleansing is the rule of law, of course. And the rule of law used to be unassailable … And now, of course, we have a president who disregards the law when it suits his interests,” Kobach said as riffs from the song “Mysterious Ways” by U2 played.

“So, while I normally would answer that by saying, ‘Steve, of course we have the rule of law, that could never happen in America.’ I wonder what could happen. I still don’t think it’s going to happen in America, but I have to admit, things are strange and they are happening.”

33 RealityBasedEbola  Nov 23, 2014 7:12:26pm

re: #29 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Needs a slice of cheddar on top.

//

How about on the bottom…. I actually rememember this ad, and now I want that for dinner tomorrow.

Yankee Spam Sandwich
34 Belafon  Nov 23, 2014 7:15:56pm

re: #32 jaunte

What is it that is actually happening to us poor white folk that I seem unable to notice?

35 RealityBasedEbola  Nov 23, 2014 7:17:10pm

re: #34 Belafon

What is it that is actually happening to us poor white folk that I seem unable to notice?

We are being oppressed and denied our rights. ///

RBS

36 jaunte  Nov 23, 2014 7:17:31pm

re: #34 Belafon

It’s not what is happening, it’s just like Kobach said, “I wonder what could happen.” That’s some professional level, deniable agitating.

37 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 23, 2014 7:18:22pm

re: #33 RealityBasedEbola

How about on the bottom…. I actually rememember this ad, and now I want that for dinner tomorrow.

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SPAM’s okay, I want that radio. I wannit, I wannit,I wannit,I wannit…

38 RealityBasedEbola  Nov 23, 2014 7:19:41pm

Well, I’m going to hang it up for the evening. I’ll see you all later on… hope the weather deities smile on you

RBS

39 Belafon  Nov 23, 2014 7:20:41pm

re: #38 RealityBasedEbola

The weather deities keep tripping a breaker here - lots of wind tonight - where I live, taking out the whole neighborhood.

40 Belafon  Nov 23, 2014 7:22:48pm

re: #36 jaunte

He did say “things are strange and they are happening.” And while I agree with you that what’s happening is him speculating that things are happening, I guarantee there are a lot of people nodding their heads in agreement, though the best answer you’d get out of them is “things.”

41 Targetpractice  Nov 23, 2014 7:22:57pm

re: #22 makeitstop

I believe it doesn’t matter how bad an idea it is. The media as a whole is going to frame the entire episode in a favorable light for Wilson, and the fact that he’s in negotiations tells me that one of his non-negotiable points is ‘no hardball questions.’

Oh, I’ve no doubt they’re shopping around to see which network will give him the most “respectful” (i.e. whitewashed) portrayal of his “side of the story.” They’ll talk about everything that the police have since made public, i.e. everything showing Brown as a “thug” and then discuss how noble and brave Wilson was in confronting him. How he took “savage” blows to the face, yet still selflessly put himself in danger by chasing after Brown in order to protect the public. And how he was wrongfully accused, attacked by the “liberal” media, and how his life is now a shambles for “just doing his job.”

And how could I forget the question that all such “exclusives” should have: “If you had to do it all over again, what would you change?” With Wilson, of course, saying he’d change nothing because he did everything “right.”

42 Jenner7  Nov 23, 2014 7:24:57pm

Killings by Utah police outpacing gang, drug, child-abuse homicides
sltrib.com

“Police are trained and expected to react to deadly threats. As many deadly threats emerge is the exact amount of times police will respond,” wrote Ian Adams, a West Jordan police officer and spokesman for the Utah Fraternal Order of Police. “The onus is on the person being arrested to stop trying to assault and kill police officers and the innocent public. … Why do some in society continue to insist the problem lies with police officers?”

Um…wow.

43 Belafon  Nov 23, 2014 7:26:57pm

re: #42 Jenner7

“Why do you keep killing yourself? Why do you keep killing yourself?”

44 dholmes32  Nov 23, 2014 7:27:07pm

re: #42 Jenner7

Killings by Utah police outpacing gang, drug, child-abuse homicides
sltrib.com

Um…wow.

Another thing to keep in mind about Utah. It is a very white place. That also says volumes.

45 Kragar  Nov 23, 2014 7:28:16pm

So after watching all of Season 1 of Agents of Shield, Marvel’s “The Inhumans” movie makes perfect sense

46 Targetpractice  Nov 23, 2014 7:34:38pm

re: #42 Jenner7

Killings by Utah police outpacing gang, drug, child-abuse homicides
sltrib.com

Um…wow.

I liked the explanation better in the original German.

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47 lostlakehiker  Nov 23, 2014 7:34:42pm

This confidence that Wilson will be favorably portrayed by the media seems premature. With Zimmerman, tapes were edited by MSNBC in a way that made him look worse.

Why should the general media tone be any different this time? I expect there will be Fox in one corner, maybe a couple in the middle, and MSNBC and some others in the other corner.

48 Targetpractice  Nov 23, 2014 7:39:04pm

re: #47 lostlakehiker

This confidence that Wilson will be favorably portrayed by the media seems premature. With Zimmerman, tapes were edited by MSNBC in a way that made him look worse.

Why should the general media tone be any different this time? I expect there will be Fox in one corner, maybe a couple in the middle, and MSNBC and some others in the other corner.

And MSNBC’s actions were indicative of the whole of the media? None, say, interviewed his friend who emphasized just how innocent he was? Or repeatedly interviewed members of his family to get their assertions of his innocence? They all were against his from Day One?

49 Targetpractice  Nov 23, 2014 8:00:11pm

*pokes thread with a stick*

50 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 8:01:14pm

Ouch. Hey, what’s the idea?!

51 Targetpractice  Nov 23, 2014 8:02:50pm

re: #50 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Ouch. Hey, what’s the idea?!

Sorry, had to be sure. Didn’t want to bury a thread alive…again.

52 dholmes32  Nov 23, 2014 8:04:15pm

Really, that article from the Salt Lake Tribune is significant, because I think it’s the first time anyone has bothered to count up all the police-involved killings in a jurisdiction and compare them to other types of killings. And that it’s *Utah,* which is very white and very conservative and they still have this proportion of officer-involved killings says volumes.

53 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 8:04:41pm

Thanks for that.

I’m just getting ready to make lunch. Don’t know about everyone else.

54 TedStriker  Nov 23, 2014 8:05:00pm

re: #51 Targetpractice

Sorry, had to be sure. Didn’t want to bury a thread alive…again.

Like it matters…it’ll just get up and shamble like a zombie (the John Romero type, to be sure) soon enough.

That is, until someone gives it a double-tap to the brain.

/

55 Targetpractice  Nov 23, 2014 8:09:42pm

re: #53 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Thanks for that.

I’m just getting ready to make lunch. Don’t know about everyone else.

I’m in the middle of watching some Trek reviews by SFDebris, aka Chuck.

56 bill d  Nov 23, 2014 8:15:42pm

re: #49 Targetpractice

*pokes thread with a stick*

sorry, i looked to see who downdinged you and it was me!

ooops, soory Targetpractice.

57 Targetpractice  Nov 23, 2014 8:16:32pm

re: #56 bill d

sorry, i looked to see who downdinged you and it was me!

ooops, soory Targetpractice.

No prob.

58 teleskiguy  Nov 23, 2014 8:24:33pm

re: #56 bill d

sorry, i looked to see who downdinged you and it was me!

ooops, soory Targetpractice.

Another case of fat fingers?!?

/

59 Amory Blaine  Nov 23, 2014 8:35:44pm

I pick Matt Lauer in the pool.

60 psddluva4evah  Nov 23, 2014 8:37:13pm

re: #31 The Vicious Babushka

So Public Enemy’s line in Fight the Power about Elvis Presley and John Wayne seems apropos!

61 psddluva4evah  Nov 23, 2014 8:43:40pm
62 simoom  Nov 23, 2014 9:07:57pm

With modern technology there’s no longer any ethical excuse for not fully, and in total detail, disclosing the terms of important interviews, financial incentives, gifts and accommodations, and details of how they courted the interview subject too. It won’t consume limited airtime or letter-space as you can just put a document up on the internet, for anyone interested.

63 simoom  Nov 23, 2014 9:16:34pm

re: #61 psddluva4evah

Yeah, it was an odd list. It’s filled with people who broke through significant racial and gender barriers, so it’s very confusing that they put Sarah Palin in the First Women category, instead of, or perhaps even along side, Geraldine Ferraro.

64 BeachDem  Nov 23, 2014 9:19:40pm

re: #61 psddluva4evah

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I also want to point out that they named Arnold Schwarzenegger and Hulk Hogan (and Secretariat) in the athlete section—no Ted Williams or Bill Russell or Jesse Owens or Hank Aaron or Wilt Chamberlain or Cy Young or Joe DiMaggio or Lou Gehrig or, the list goes on…nope—a bodybuilder, a professional wrestler (since when are either of those considered athletics?) and a horse.

65 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 9:20:33pm

re: #63 simoom

Yeah, it was an odd list. It’s filled with people who broke through significant racial and gender barriers, so it’s very confusing that they put Sarah Palin in the First Women category, instead of, or perhaps even along side, Geraldine Ferraro.

Apparently, they used Google hits as the criterion, or some such lame-ass methodology. Pitiful scholarship from a well respected source.

66 BeachDem  Nov 23, 2014 9:26:46pm

re: #65 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Apparently, they used Google hits as the criterion, or some such lame-ass methodology. Pitiful scholarship from a well respected source.

Worse—wikipedia (and part of their criteria was frequency of edits) and books scanned by Google.

67 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 9:29:42pm

re: #66 BeachDem

Worse—wikipedia (and part of their criteria was frequency of edits) and books scanned by Google.

Much worse. I hope they get a lot of angry letters to the editor calling them out for such lazy scholarship.

68 BeachDem  Nov 23, 2014 9:37:40pm

Well, this is just fucking sad—

A Florida man attempting to get local firefighters to save his home — which was ablaze four houses away — was rebuffed at the firehouse door and told to call 911 instead, reports the Sun Sentinel.

Neville Morrison, 67, of Plantation, said he ran bare-footed to the station down the street from his home where he was met by a emergency medical technician who insisted he call 911 by phone and not report the fire in person.

“I said, ‘I have no phone,’” Morrison recalled. “I said, ‘You can see the blaze coming out of the roof of my house.’ He told me twice to call 911, and then he closed the door with me standing outside.”

rawstory.com

69 dr. luba  Nov 23, 2014 9:46:32pm

re: #23 Dark_Falcon

When I heard the report on the radio tonight, I heard it as the “Reagan” virus. Which would have been appropriate, as both a malevolent actors that have wreaked havoc and caused irreparable harm to many. Oh wait—one was merely a software virus.

70 Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 23, 2014 9:47:28pm

re: #68 BeachDem

Well, this is just fucking sad—

A Florida man attempting to get local firefighters to save his home — which was ablaze four houses away — was rebuffed at the firehouse door and told to call 911 instead, reports the Sun Sentinel.

Neville Morrison, 67, of Plantation, said he ran bare-footed to the station down the street from his home where he was met by a emergency medical technician who insisted he call 911 by phone and not report the fire in person.

“I said, ‘I have no phone,’” Morrison recalled. “I said, ‘You can see the blaze coming out of the roof of my house.’ He told me twice to call 911, and then he closed the door with me standing outside.”

rawstory.com

What in the holy hell?

71 Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 23, 2014 9:51:08pm

re: #64 BeachDem

I also want to point out that they named Arnold Schwarzenegger and Hulk Hogan (and Secretariat) in the athlete section—no Ted Williams or Bill Russell or Jesse Owens or Hank Aaron or Wilt Chamberlain or Cy Young or Joe DiMaggio or Lou Gehrig or, the list goes on…nope—a bodybuilder, a professional wrestler (since when are either of those considered athletics?) and a horse.

Professional wrestling may be primarily choreographed entertainment and not an actual sport, but make no mistake about it, the guys who do it for a living train hard for it and doing it does take a toll on the body. Perhaps too great a toll. A large number of wrestlers have died before they even hit 50 and a good number of those were related to painkiller addiction driven by years of getting slammed around a ring several nights a week.

Having said that, I 100% agree with your point about Hogan being on that list. Schwarzenegger is one of the most successful bodybuilders of all time but I wouldn’t rank him amongst the top athletes of all time.

72 Kragar  Nov 23, 2014 9:51:38pm

re: #70 Eclectic Cyborg

What in the holy hell?

Hey, just because there is an emergency, that is no reason not to follow proper protocol.
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73 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 23, 2014 9:53:25pm

The statement of the department’s spokesman (Gordon) was astonishing:

Gordon also stated the EMT was a longtime employee with a clean record who should have kept Morrison at the station while he called dispatch himself.

“That’s not what transpired,” he said, adding that the EMT has been counseled.

Counseled? Counseled? Have any of that EMT’s patients lived? From the amount of sense he showed you could start with a splinter and after he was through you’d be on life support.

74 Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 23, 2014 9:53:28pm

Also on another topic:

For the past year I’ve been working at a desk job. The pay is good, the benefits are good, the hours are ok and the work is…tolerable (I deal with clients all day).

The problem is that I am so used to being active I get frustrated stuck at a desk all day. Between working extra hours and taking care of things at home and fulfilling other social obligations I have it’s tough to find time to exercise.

I’ve gained 8 pounds since I started last year. I know not a huge jump up but traditionally I’ve been a slim guy so the extra pudge is noticeable.

Short of changing my diet and exercising more I can’t think of any other way to combat this situation.

75 freetoken  Nov 23, 2014 9:55:42pm

re: #61 psddluva4evah

I will note that the Smithsonian depends on some big pocket donors for some of their big efforts.

Like the Kochs, who did the anthro display.

76 sagehen  Nov 23, 2014 9:55:58pm

re: #74 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ve gained 8 pounds since I started last year. I know not a huge jump up but traditionally I’ve been a slim guy so the extra pudge is noticeable.

Short of changing my diet and exercising more I can’t think of any other way to combat this situation.

Do you have to sit at your desk? Can you stand, hop, walk in place, maybe put a treadmill there?

77 simoom  Nov 23, 2014 9:57:04pm

I wonder how a network decides whether or not to fly out their big name talent to lobby, in person, for an interview. I guess it all must come down their read on the ratings potential?

78 BeachDem  Nov 23, 2014 10:02:58pm

Now this in an interesting followup on the woman who shot herself in the head after buying a gun which, according to her boyfriend was to be “ready for Ferguson.”

She was actually a Ferguson protestor and the cops may not be buying her boyfriend’s story 100%.

79 teleskiguy  Nov 23, 2014 10:08:25pm
80 lostlakehiker  Nov 23, 2014 10:24:35pm

re: #48 Targetpractice

And MSNBC’s actions were indicative of the whole of the media? None, say, interviewed his friend who emphasized just how innocent he was? Or repeatedly interviewed members of his family to get their assertions of his innocence? They all were against his from Day One?

That’s not what I wrote. I wrote that going on past form, the media figured to be some of it in one corner, some in the other, some in the middle. I did not say that all the media was like MSNBC. Quite the opposite.

Did you even read the whole post?

81 The War TARDIS  Nov 23, 2014 10:40:50pm

re: #42 Jenner7

I wonder how much of this comes from the Mormon Culture. Reading One Nation Under Gods was really eye-opening to me in regards to seeing the past of Mormonism.

I received a message from a British Muslim Women, saying interest.

I want your input. On one hand, after talking to and being in a relationship with someone in Iran, I am open to people from overseas.

On the other hand, this is the UK, where radicals have quite a hold, with hundreds of British fighters helping ISIS. I am, shall I say, slightly wary, just because the nation is the UK. Guidance please? I really could use it. I want to know if my view of Muslim Britain is skewed.

82 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 23, 2014 10:52:11pm

re: #81 The War TARDIS

I wonder how much of this comes from the Mormon Culture. Reading One Nation Under Gods was really eye-opening to me in regards to seeing the past of Mormonism.

I received a message from a British Muslim Women, saying interest.

I want your input. On one hand, after talking to and being in a relationship with someone in Iran, I am open to people from overseas.

On the other hand, this is the UK, where radicals have quite a hold, with hundreds of British fighters helping ISIS. I am, shall I say, slightly wary, just because the nation is the UK. Guidance please? I really could use it. I want to know if my view of Muslim Britain is skewed.

It is. Chat her up. You’re overthinking again, son. Don’t kill the bloom before it’s even a seedling.

83 Snarknado!  Nov 24, 2014 12:10:49am

re: #74 Eclectic Cyborg

Also on another topic:

For the past year I’ve been working at a desk job. The pay is good, the benefits are good, the hours are ok and the work is…tolerable (I deal with clients all day).

The problem is that I am so used to being active I get frustrated stuck at a desk all day. Between working extra hours and taking care of things at home and fulfilling other social obligations I have it’s tough to find time to exercise.

I’ve gained 8 pounds since I started last year. I know not a huge jump up but traditionally I’ve been a slim guy so the extra pudge is noticeable.

Short of changing my diet and exercising more I can’t think of any other way to combat this situation.

What Sagehen said. Also, you can do isometrics at work, which will help keep you in tone.

On your workdays, you can get about 80% of the benefit of a workout from walking briskly for about half an hour. (I used to do that every day at lunch — I was lucky enough to have a good hill to climb near the office.) That should at least curb the weight gain, although you want to find some time to exercise on weekends if possible.

(But one way or another, you DO have to change your diet and exercise more, of course….)

84 freetoken  Nov 24, 2014 2:15:00am
85 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Nov 24, 2014 2:58:22am

re: #68 BeachDem

Somebody needs a kick in the dick.

86 Decatur Deb  Nov 24, 2014 3:09:04am

re: #85 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Somebody needs a kick in the dick.

Devil, details:

sun-sentinel.com

87 Timothy Watson  Nov 24, 2014 3:20:56am

re: #85 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Unfortunately, it’s apparently not an uncommon occurrence, this one from D.C. earlier this year:
myfoxdc.com

88 Decatur Deb  Nov 24, 2014 3:31:12am

The incident is an episodic outrage. The systemic outrage is that a city of 78,000 depends on a volunteer fire department.

plantation.org

89 Decatur Deb  Nov 24, 2014 3:47:17am

Parents Charged in Shooting of 9-Month-Old Girl in Brooklyn

nytimes.com

“There are many shootings in this neighborhood,” she said. “It’s not safe around here — maybe he was trying to protect her.”

90 Flounder  Nov 24, 2014 4:17:24am

Now I have that School House Rock song in my head.

92 William Barnett-Lewis  Nov 24, 2014 4:22:44am

re: #91 Varek Raith

See #78 above…

93 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 24, 2014 4:25:43am

re: #91 Varek Raith

Woman dead after accidentally shooting herself with gun bought for Ferguson protection

my sense of humor is not black enough to laugh at that.

94 Varek Raith  Nov 24, 2014 4:29:14am

re: #92 William Barnett-Lewis

See #78 above…

Yes, I saw that.
I also read this;
stltoday.com

ST. LOUIS • Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a woman in the 900 block of North 4th Street late Friday.

Police identified the woman as Becca Campbell, 26, of the 2900 block of Willow Creek Lane. Police responded to a call at 11:45 p.m. of an accident at North 4th Street and Cole street. While responding they received an updated call that a woman was inside a vehicle and had been shot in the head. Campbell was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead. A 33-year-old man was inside the vehicle with the woman at the time of the shooting. He was being interviewed to determine how the Campbell was shot.

Forgive me, but I don’t see the suspicion alluded to in #78

95 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 4:29:30am

Speaking of Ferguson, I wonder how soon we can expect a verdict.

96 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 4:35:10am

NY Times has been pwn3d by the Daily Currant

97 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 4:38:38am

re: #96 The Vicious Babushka

NY Times has been pwn3d by the Daily Currant

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I think we’re rapidly reaching a point where it’s impossible to tell parody from reality.

98 Varek Raith  Nov 24, 2014 4:56:22am

re: #96 The Vicious Babushka

NY Times has been pwn3d by the Daily Currant

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Lol.
Morons.

99 Dr. Matt  Nov 24, 2014 4:57:00am
100 Varek Raith  Nov 24, 2014 4:57:37am

re: #97 Targetpractice

I think we’re rapidly reaching a point where it’s impossible to tell parody from reality.

I just saw Elvis flying a ufo.

101 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 24, 2014 4:57:57am

re: #99 Dr. Matt

There was an aftermath?

102 Timothy Watson  Nov 24, 2014 5:00:15am

re: #99 Dr. Matt

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Uh…Lindsey Graham was on Fox News Sunday saying the whole thing was a whitewash so they did, technically, cover it some.

103 Varek Raith  Nov 24, 2014 5:02:17am

Youtube Video
I’m no football fan but, dayum!

104 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 24, 2014 5:02:52am

Only 30 more shopping days till Christmas. Have y’all been driven batty yet with all the mall music?

105 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 24, 2014 5:03:22am

re: #103 Varek Raith

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I’m no football fan but, dayum!

Amazing catch, for sure.

106 Dr. Matt  Nov 24, 2014 5:05:25am

re: #102 Timothy Watson

Uh…Lindsey Graham was on Fox News Sunday saying the whole thing was a whitewash so they did, technically, cover it some.

mediamatters.org

107 Dr. Matt  Nov 24, 2014 5:07:58am

re: #101 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

There was an aftermath?

Should be “non-aftermath” of the House Intel Report.

108 Timothy Watson  Nov 24, 2014 5:08:47am

re: #106 Dr. Matt

mediamatters.org

Hmph, I could have swore that the soundbite I heard on WTOP was from Fox News Sunday but all the search results say it was CNN’s State of the Union.

109 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 5:11:14am

re: #99 Dr. Matt

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Not to worry, Gowdy’s circus is set to start back up next month. And Graham was on CNN, promising yet more investigations into the failure of this investigation to reach the desired conclusions.

110 Dr. Matt  Nov 24, 2014 5:13:33am

re: #109 Targetpractice

Not to worry, Gowdy’s circus is set to start back up next month. And Graham was on CNN, promising yet more investigations into the failure of this investigation to reach the desired conclusions.

Benghazi trufers are more delusional than those who still deny we landed on the moon.

111 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 5:17:16am

re: #110 Dr. Matt

Benghazi trufers are more delusional than those who still deny we landed on the moon.

Benghazi Troofers are frequently also Birf Serfitikat Troofers, including all the other horseshit that comes with the Birfer conspiracy like the fake Columbia ID, “Moochelle is a Man!” “Mom was a porn model” etc etc.

112 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 5:24:56am

re: #111 The Vicious Babushka

Benghazi Troofers are frequently also Birf Serfitikat Troofers, including all the other horseshit that comes with the Birfer conspiracy like the fake Columbia ID, “Moochelle is a Man!” “Mom was a porn model” etc etc.

The only difference between the CTers of the Obama era and those of the Clinton era is the accusations. It’s not simply that these disagree with the men or have a difference of views, they simply must be evil liars who are tricking America.

113 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 5:26:08am

re: #112 Targetpractice

The only difference between the CTers of the Obama era and those of the Clinton era is the accusations. It’s not simply that these disagree with the men or have a difference of views, they simply must be evil liars who are tricking America.

The CT that Bill & Hillary murdered a bunch of people was heavily promoted by Rush.

114 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 5:36:48am

re: #113 The Vicious Babushka

The CT that Bill & Hillary murdered a bunch of people was heavily promoted by Rush.

Oh, the CTs about the two have survived for decades. Like did you know that Hillary is a closeted lesbian who also killed Vince Foster to hide their affair? Or that Bill was a serial rapist who was on the KGB’s payroll? Or that he sold military secrets to China, leading to Hillary getting bankrolled by the Chicoms in ‘08?

I could go on and on. It seemed that every week brought a new “scandal” or rumor that had no basis in fact, but was endlessly repeated by Rush and his hanger-ons.

115 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 5:39:53am

re: #114 Targetpractice

Oh, the CTs about the two have survived for decades. Like did you know that Hillary is a closeted lesbian who also killed Vince Foster to hide their affair? Or that Bill was a serial rapist who was on the KGB’s payroll? Or that he sold military secrets to China, leading to Hillary getting bankrolled by the Chicoms in ‘08?

I could go on and on. It seemed that every week brought a new “scandal” or rumor that had no basis in fact, but was endlessly repeated by Rush and his hanger-ons.

Makes me wonder if Rush is paid to repeat CT’s.

116 bill d  Nov 24, 2014 5:41:54am

re: #115 The Vicious Babushka

Makes me wonder if Rush is paid to repeat CT’s.

Yes, not directly mind you but yes, he’s been making a really good living at it for years.

117 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 5:43:40am

re: #115 The Vicious Babushka

Makes me wonder if Rush is paid to repeat CT’s.

Rush is paid to be a professional ratfucker. Even now, when he’s becoming massively unpopular to the point that advertisers treat him as if he’s toxic, he’s still on the air. Why? Because he keeps the GOP’s base at a constant simmer of mindless hatred.

118 Dr. Matt  Nov 24, 2014 5:50:36am

Trolling Holy Joe….just because

Just a warning, have an air sickness bag handy if you decide to watch the video where he has a Benghazi meltdown.

119 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 5:51:49am

re: #101 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

There was an aftermath?

Can’t have an aftermath with the GOP since they don’t believe in math in the first place.
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120 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 5:52:38am

re: #110 Dr. Matt

Benghazi trufers are more delusional than those who still deny we landed on the moon.

The discovery of whalers there, however, has been successfully covered up to date though.
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121 Timothy Watson  Nov 24, 2014 5:54:07am

re: #118 Dr. Matt

CONGRESSIONAL INTERN!!1! NEVER FORGET!!1!

(Yeah, the intern’s death was probably nothing, but sucks for you Scarborough).

122 Sionainn  Nov 24, 2014 5:55:45am

re: #104 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Only 30 more shopping days till Christmas. Have y’all been driven batty yet with all the mall music?

One of my local radio stations has started playing Christmas music all.the.time. WTF is that all about?!?

123 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 5:56:01am

re: #118 Dr. Matt

Trolling Holy Joe….just because

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Just a warning, have an air sickness bag handy if you decide to watch the video where he has a Benghazi meltdown.

2012: “BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI!!!!”

2014: “Who?”

124 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 5:56:59am

I have to start buying Hanukkah presents for 37 grandkids.

Any suggestions? NO ELECTRONICS. Everyone 12 & up gets cash.

125 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 5:58:50am

Dummy iphones (for display), can these trick a 1-year-old?

126 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 5:59:19am

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

I have to start buying Hanukkah presents for 37 grandkids.

Any suggestions? NO ELECTRONICS. Everyone 12 & up gets cash.

Trying for any particular effect, or price limit?

127 lawhawk  Nov 24, 2014 5:59:54am

re: #122 Sionainn

It’s the war on Christmas don’t you know.

But when every day becomes Christmas, then no day is. /Buddy

Seriously though, it does seem that businesses are turning over to Christmas earlier and earlier - stomping all over Thanksgiving and even Halloween. It’s a business thing, but it looks like the actual religious underpinning for the day is lost on most people altogether. And the appearance of Christmas is more important than actually abiding by the religious values (as we see played out over and over and over).

/but that’s just me - a lonely Jew… on Christmas.

128 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 6:00:58am

re: #126 Feline Fearless Leader

Trying for any particular effect, or price limit?

Trying to keep the total amount spent < $1000

129 Sionainn  Nov 24, 2014 6:02:07am

re: #128 The Vicious Babushka

Trying to keep the total amount spent < $1000

Books.

130 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 6:02:28am

No “American Girl” dolls, if I buy for one granddaughter then I have to buy for all the other g-dtrs and those things cost even more than they did 20 years ago when my daughters wanted & they didn’t get.

131 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 6:03:41am

I don’t like to buy branded shit either, but 3 of the girls are totally into “Frozen”

132 fern01  Nov 24, 2014 6:04:04am

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

I have to start buying Hanukkah presents for 37 grandkids.

Any suggestions? NO ELECTRONICS. Everyone 12 & up gets cash.

Books

133 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 6:04:40am

My grandson wants a microscope. OK I can get behind that. The “kid’s” microscopes are shit, though.

134 lawhawk  Nov 24, 2014 6:07:07am

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

I have to start buying Hanukkah presents for 37 grandkids.

Any suggestions? NO ELECTRONICS. Everyone 12 & up gets cash.

Books. If any of the kids are into art, art supplies; if they’re into science, then science stuff - binoculars, microscopes, telescopes.

135 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 24, 2014 6:07:20am

re: #122 Sionainn

One of my local radio stations has started playing Christmas music all.the.time. WTF is that all about?!?

Probably a packaged Xmas feed offered by some provider, or required by their network. In the old days, Xmas music was played so the on-air staff could have a holiday at home. Now it starts before Thanksgiving.

China does not do this insanity, for which I am grateful.

136 funky chicken  Nov 24, 2014 6:09:52am

“For the record, I met briefly with Darren Wilson a few days ago to see if he wanted to do an interview with me. That’s standard procedure,” Cooper wrote on Twitter.
Cooper apparently decided to tweet about it because some viewers who saw my “Reliable Sources” segment thought the meetings were inappropriate and said so on Twitter. Some commenters even suggested — conspiratorially — that the meetings revealed bias on the part of the anchors.
Cooper pointed out that he’d repeatedly interviewed Brown’s family members and their attorneys.
“I’d also like to interview the grand jury,” Cooper wrote. “There is no conspiracy here. Reporters want to interview people and sometimes you have to meet them first.”
He added that Wilson had chosen “not to do an interview with me.”
Separately, Lemon wrote on Twitter that his meeting with Wilson was “not out of the ordinary,” and that “We’ve interviewed the Brown family, Dorian Johnson and all witnesses. Of course we’d want to interview Wilson.”
None of the other anchors have commented. Representatives for NBC, ABC and CBS declined to comment.
Two of my network sources — who spoke on condition of anonymity — said that the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” has been in especially hot pursuit of an interview with Wilson.

money.cnn.com

137 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 24, 2014 6:12:58am

re: #133 The Vicious Babushka

My grandson wants a microscope. OK I can get behind that. The “kid’s” microscopes are shit, though.

Check Discover magazine for ideas. They usually have ads in the back for equipment and so on. Ditto Astronomy and Sky&Telescope mags.

Avoid any microscope made of plastic. I suppose the idea is kids shouldn’t have ‘scopes made from metal and glass, but my attitude is if a kid knows the thing will break he or she will use it carefully.

Oh, Edmund Scientific has a lot of stuff, too. Their Astroscan telescope was an exception to my no plastic ‘scopes rule. I’m not sure if they still market it.

138 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 6:13:57am

re: #128 The Vicious Babushka

Trying to keep the total amount spent < $1000

Books already mentioned, which would be very good for those that are readers are starting to read.

The board game store I frequent has a good selection of board or card games for family or young children, and some of the card-based ones are fairly cheap. Not sure what you’d be able to find up around Detroit and how many of your g-children are oriented around that sort of thing.

I presume the younger one are already buried in stuffed animals.

139 funky chicken  Nov 24, 2014 6:14:21am

re: #109 Targetpractice

Not to worry, Gowdy’s circus is set to start back up next month. And Graham was on CNN, promising yet more investigations into the failure of this investigation to reach the desired conclusions.

Very fiscally responsible to keep paying hundreds of staffers to investigate nothing for years.

140 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 24, 2014 6:14:57am

re: #139 funky chicken

Very fiscally responsible to keep paying hundreds of staffers to investigate nothing for years.

Small government at work.

141 lawhawk  Nov 24, 2014 6:19:15am

In just the past 5 days, we’ve had cops shoot and kill an unarmed man in a stairwell in NYC - and the NYPD admits that it was accidental - that the man did no wrong. The officer, on the other hand, did.

Then there was the mother who shot and killed her kids in South Jersey, and then shot herself (she died in the hospital after several days).

Then there was the father hunting with his son, and he shot and killed the son.

There was the hunter who shot and killed another hunter, who he mistook for a deer.

There was the kid who was killed for playing with a toy gun.

There was the 4 year old shooting a 3 year old in the face (the kid survived). There’s no word on how the kid got the gun, but the father of the boy shot says that his guns were all locked up.

Another day in paradise.

142 darthstar  Nov 24, 2014 6:19:52am
143 lawhawk  Nov 24, 2014 6:22:01am

Can’t wait for the GOP to block yet another nominee.

144 darthstar  Nov 24, 2014 6:23:58am
145 bill d  Nov 24, 2014 6:24:06am

re: #143 lawhawk

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Wow.

Any chance the president will appoint a democrat this time?

146 darthstar  Nov 24, 2014 6:25:21am

re: #143 lawhawk

So he misses being able to talk shit about the President?

147 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 24, 2014 6:26:37am

re:
#143

Reports indicate that Sec. Def Hagel stepping down (or being forced out).

Well he didn’t last long.

148 HappyWarrior  Nov 24, 2014 6:27:09am

re: #143 lawhawk

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Can’t wait for the GOP to block yet another nominee.

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149 darthstar  Nov 24, 2014 6:28:17am
150 Indy GOP Refugee  Nov 24, 2014 6:30:30am

re: #143 lawhawk

The officials described Mr. Obama’s decision to remove Mr. Hagel, 68, as a recognition that the threat from the Islamic State would require a different kind of skills than those that Mr. Hagel was brought on to employ. A Republican with military experience who was skeptical about the Iraq war, Mr. Hagel came in to manage the Afghanistan combat withdrawal and the shrinking Pentagon budget in the era of budget sequestration.

But now “the next couple of years will demand a different kind of focus,” one administration official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. He insisted that Mr. Hagel was not fired, saying that he initiated discussions about his future two weeks ago with the president, and that the two men mutually agreed that it was time for him to leave.

Gearing up for a big ground war. I think this means we will be all in before it’s over.

151 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 6:30:34am

re: #149 darthstar

Maybe he has realized that his input plug is blocked and thus knows that no new data will ever get into his brain?
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152 HappyWarrior  Nov 24, 2014 6:30:42am

re: #149 darthstar

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153 Franklin  Nov 24, 2014 6:32:45am

re: #143 lawhawk

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Can’t wait for the GOP to block yet another nominee.

Why do you they hate America?

154 Sionainn  Nov 24, 2014 6:33:08am

re: #130 The Vicious Babushka

No “American Girl” dolls, if I buy for one granddaughter then I have to buy for all the other g-dtrs and those things cost even more than they did 20 years ago when my daughters wanted & they didn’t get.

Those things are way too expensive.

155 darthstar  Nov 24, 2014 6:35:30am
156 HappyWarrior  Nov 24, 2014 6:38:01am

Any rumblings or is too early to hear about possible successors. Trying to think who I heard come up after Panetta resigned giving Hagel his current job.

157 darthstar  Nov 24, 2014 6:39:52am
158 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 6:40:03am

re: #155 darthstar

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Pretty much. Anybody in their job now who is considering quitting shouldn’t bother with boxing anything up until their successor actually shows up at the door.

159 bill d  Nov 24, 2014 6:40:45am

Is Petraeus out of purgatory yet?

160 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 6:41:10am

re: #157 darthstar

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No shame in an admission that somebody is not up to the job at hand. Conditions change, jobs evolve, and the guy that was right yesterday is viewed today as a fish outta water.

161 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 24, 2014 6:42:40am

Do you Colin Powell is a viable choice?

162 Varek Raith  Nov 24, 2014 6:42:43am

re: #157 darthstar

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He’s been angling for the US to go after Assad.
That’s my take, based on his criticisms of the Admin’s ISIL policies.

163 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 6:44:51am

re: #162 Varek Raith

He’s been angling for the US to go after Assad.
That’s my take, based on his criticisms of the Admin’s ISIL policies.

Ah, the “let’s try wrecking another ME country - maybe it will work out this time” approach.*
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* - Not that Syria is not already a bit of a wreck. But a unilateral military intervention there is essentially a no-win situation given all the baggage.

164 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 6:46:00am

re: #162 Varek Raith

He’s been angling for the US to go after Assad.
That’s my take, based on his criticisms of the Admin’s ISIL policies.

Which is what wingnuts will likely spin his dismissal as, his bucking the White House line by agreeing with the GOP that we need to put “boots on the ground” to fight ISIL.

165 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 24, 2014 6:46:29am

er:
#157

Yes, Chuck Hagel was forced to resign. Said one official: “He wasn’t up to the job”

It’s too bad and kind of puzzling. I had high hopes for Hagel. But from the start he didn’t seem to possess the energy or gravitas I had expected. Of course that was just a surface view of the times I’d see him on TV.

166 stpaulbear  Nov 24, 2014 6:49:20am

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

I have to start buying Hanukkah presents for 37 grandkids.

Any suggestions? NO ELECTRONICS. Everyone 12 & up gets cash.

So how many grandkids do you have that are over 12?

37 is a lot of grandkids!

167 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 6:54:50am

A quick check of the usual suspects says that yes, they’re going with the “Hagel too pro-war for White House” angle, though Erick, Son of Erick is running on the similar but contradictory line of pointing out that Hagel was criticized at the time he was nominated for being an “anti-war Republican.” So, in other words, the wingnuts find themselves in the difficult position of supporting the guy for being gung-ho now that they were saying almost two years ago wasn’t gung-ho enough.

168 Varek Raith  Nov 24, 2014 7:00:14am

re: #167 Targetpractice

A quick check of the usual suspects says that yes, they’re going with the “Hagel too pro-war for White House” angle, though Erick, Son of Erick is running on the similar but contradictory line of pointing out that Hagel was criticized at the time he was nominated for being an “anti-war Republican.” So, in other words, the wingnuts find themselves in the difficult position of supporting the guy for being gung-ho now that they were saying almost two years ago wasn’t gung-ho enough.

I think it came down to this;
Hagel told Rice in a letter that we needed a sharper view of what to do with Assad.
I suspect the answer didn’t sit well with him, ie; do nothing or very little.
My limited two cents.

169 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 7:03:02am

re: #168 Varek Raith

I think it came down to this;
Hagel told Rice in a letter that we needed a sharper view of what to do with Assad.
I suspect the answer didn’t sit well with him, ie; do nothing or very little.
My limited two cents.

The reality is there’s no good answer over what to do in Syria. We don’t want to spent another decade trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, but any effort to combat ISIL that doesn’t include their subsidiary in Syria leaves the job incomplete and provides for them a safe harbor like the Taliban enjoyed in Pakistan. Allying with Assad to combat ISIL is simply not an option.

170 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 7:21:19am

I just get the feeling that the American political system cannot accept the concept of *not* meddling in the ME as being the most prudent policy.

171 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 7:32:34am

GOP’s gonna have to find a way to thread the needle of defending Hagel when two years ago they filibustered him for not being enough of a warmonger.

172 Eventual Carrion  Nov 24, 2014 7:33:25am

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

I have to start buying Hanukkah presents for 37 grandkids.

Any suggestions? NO ELECTRONICS. Everyone 12 & up gets cash.

Yard Jarts

173 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 7:36:18am

re: #172 Eventual Carrion

Yard Jarts

I think she likes her grandchildren.

174 Dave In Austin  Nov 24, 2014 7:41:03am

I see the Pugs are already screaming “Poisoned Well!!!11!!” In regards to Hagels successor.

Please proceed….

175 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 7:43:51am

Curious how Rush will handle this news. Will he take Hagel’s side or will he trash him for his association with the President?

176 lawhawk  Nov 24, 2014 7:45:31am

And again:

177 lawhawk  Nov 24, 2014 7:52:56am
178 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 7:55:32am

VB,

If you want to explore the board gaming side of things I’ll put a link here for the Board Game Geek website. In particular a forum page for FLGS (Friendly Local Game Store) in the Detroit area. The overall site is also very useful for game reviews and such.

FLGS info for Detroit

There probably has to be more digging to find a store that caters better towards family games and such as compared to a store that specializes primarily in Magic cards or comics with a smattering of board games.

Or, you can just explore as time permits and see what the gamer environment is like. >:)

179 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 7:57:56am

re: #178 Feline Fearless Leader

VB,

If you want to explore the board gaming side of things I’ll put a link here for the Board Game Geek website. In particular a forum page for FLGS (Friendly Local Game Store) in the Detroit area. The overall site is also very useful for game reviews and such.

FLGS info for Detroit

There probably has to be more digging to find a store that caters better towards family games and such as compared to a store that specializes primarily in Magic cards or comics with a smattering of board games.

Or, you can just explore as time permits and see what the gamer environment is like. >:)

VB’s rule of Holiday Shopping: Amazon Prime. that is all.

180 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 7:58:48am

Of course I can ASK THEM what they want but then I get impossible requests like “American Girl Doll” and “iPad”

181 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 8:00:20am

re: #179 The Vicious Babushka

VB’s rule of Holiday Shopping: Amazon Prime. that is all.

Fair enough. Site is still useful if you want to hunt for games. And you can probably find most of those on Amazon. (The place I visit around here sells on Amazon and he does a lot of business between now and Xmas.)

182 sagehen  Nov 24, 2014 8:00:32am

re: #180 The Vicious Babushka

Of course I can ASK THEM what they want but then I get impossible requests like “American Girl Doll” and “iPad”

Do a “historical re-enactment gift-set.”

Each of them gets an orange, a pair of socks, and a speech about how there were years your parents would have *HAPPY* to get that.

184 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 8:02:27am

re: #182 sagehen

Do a “historical re-enactment gift-set.”

Each of them gets an orange, a pair of socks, and a speech about how there were years your parents would have *HAPPY* to get that.

Pity they aren’t Feline Overlords. Can get the older children presents and give the others the boxes!
/ ;)

185 Sionainn  Nov 24, 2014 8:03:11am

re: #182 sagehen

Do a “historical re-enactment gift-set.”

Each of them gets an orange, a pair of socks, and a speech about how there were years your parents would have *HAPPY* to get that.

Yeah, but weren’t those more like stockings that Santa left (i.e., Little House on the Prairie)?

186 lawhawk  Nov 24, 2014 8:05:27am

Should media be questioning why GOP dumped it on a Friday night chock full of other news (Ferguson grand jury; immigration kerfuffle). Absolutely. Should they be highlighting that the GOP spent 2 years claiming all manner of conspiracy and malfeasance by the Administration over how they approached the Benghazi incident.

And the GOP investigation found nothing. No wrong doing. No cover up. Nothing so much as even the slightest bit of impropriety by the Administration - whether it was the President, Sec. State, or CIA, or DoD. And even the claim that was made initially about the film playing a role in the crisis turned out to be confirmed later by some of the very participants who were eventually captured.

More to the point, shouldn’t Fox News be spending days apologizing for getting and hyping every Benghazi related story except the only one that counts - that the GOP/right wing witch hunt turned out to be completely bogus and that every single one of those Fox News nitwits pushing this story for months owes the Administration an apology (none forthcoming, but it’s laughable that Fox is now complaining about how biased the coverage was for a scandal that wasn’t supported by reality).

In other words, the GOP nothing burger, which was used to rile up the low-information GOP voters into a frenzy calling for impeachment and demands for action was completely bogus and wrong.

But since this is the GOP - it means never having to say you’re wrong. They just move on to the next kerfuffle and nothingburger of a scandal (it’ll be the IRS from here on out).

187 withak  Nov 24, 2014 8:06:03am

re: #182 sagehen

Do a “historical re-enactment gift-set.”

Each of them gets an orange, a pair of socks, and a speech about how there were years your parents would have *HAPPY* to get that.

188 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 8:08:59am

re: #182 sagehen

Do a “historical re-enactment gift-set.”

Each of them gets an orange, a pair of socks, and a speech about how there were years your parents would have *HAPPY* to get that.

In the olden days there were no Hanukkah presents. You got “Hanukkah Gelt” which was a shiny nickel! (if you were real lucky you got a dime!) and a wooden dreidel and a handful of almonds to play dreidel with.

189 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 8:10:38am

To be successful, you must project that you are successful.

College spends 219K on a conference table

Looks like this might be a university under leadership that is more interested in their personal legacy and image than the mission of an institution of education.

190 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 8:11:34am

re: #188 The Vicious Babushka

In the olden days there were no Hanukkah presents. You got “Hanukkah Gelt” which was a shiny nickel! (if you were real lucky you got a dime!) and a wooden dreidel and a handful of almonds to play dreidel with.

This is all the fault of the commercialization of Christmas then.

191 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 8:11:37am

re: #186 lawhawk

If the media really wants to report on it, which I don’t really think they do, they should emphasize that this was not an investigation launched yesterday. This was one that started two years ago, back when “questions” were still floating around and the whole media was entertaining this warm bucket of sick as a serious “scandal.” Two years of investigation, two years of dragging in witnesses, digging through trash cans, and two years of searching everywhere…and they found nothing. Everything was as the White House portrayed it in 2012, every one of their fever dream inspired conspiracy theories went nowhere, and all of the screaming they engaged in was baseless.

But no, like F&F before it and the IRS after, they’ll just keep this BS on a low simmer in the hopes that something will come along that will somehow vindicate them.

192 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 8:14:47am

re: #191 Targetpractice

If the media really wants to report on it, which I don’t really think they do, they should emphasize that this was not an investigation launched yesterday. This was one that started two years ago, back when “questions” were still floating around and the whole media was entertaining this warm bucket of sick as a serious “scandal.” Two years of investigation, two years of dragging in witnesses, digging through trash cans, and two years of searching everywhere…and they found nothing. Everything was as the White House portrayed it in 2012, every one of their fever dream inspired conspiracy theories went nowhere, and all of the screaming they engaged in was baseless.

But no, like F&F before it and the IRS after, they’ll just keep this BS on a low simmer in the hopes that something will come along that will somehow vindicate them.

Have to cry about something. The immigration thing can’t get traction since the GOP has nothing to offer as an alternative and has much to obviously refused to act. Though it has taken Obama’s destruction of bipartisanship (HA!) to bring that to light.
//

193 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 8:14:48am
194 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 8:16:34am

re: #192 Feline Fearless Leader

Have to cry about something. The immigration thing can’t get traction since the GOP has nothing to offer as an alternative and has much to obviously refused to act. Though it has taken Obama’s destruction of bipartisanship (HA!) to bring that to light.
//

That’s the GOP in a nutshell: A lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing. They’re a totally reactionary party, unable to offer anything but opposition to everything the White House does.

195 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 24, 2014 8:16:57am

Rand Paul Calls for a Formal Declaration of War Against ISIS

WASHINGTON — Senator Rand Paul is calling for a declaration of war against the Islamic State, a move that promises to shake up the debate over the military campaign in Iraq and Syria as President Obama prepares to ask Congress to grant him formal authority to use force.

Mr. Paul, a likely presidential candidate who has emerged as one of the Republican Party’s most cautious voices on military intervention, offered a very circumscribed definition of war in his proposal, which he outlined in an interview on Saturday. He would, for instance, limit the duration of military action to one year and significantly restrict the use of ground forces…

This should be fun; Paul is actually calling on Congress to do something other than investigate Benghazi and rail against the president.

196 lawhawk  Nov 24, 2014 8:17:48am
197 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 24, 2014 8:19:19am

re:
#195

He would, for instance, limit the duration of military action to one year and significantly restrict the use of ground forces…

So after criticizing Obama for setting deadlines in Afghanistan and Iraq, The GOP’s Ayn Rand Paul would…set a deadline for US military action against ISIS/L in….Syria? Iraq?

198 Dr. Matt  Nov 24, 2014 8:22:00am

Man [Claiming to be Jewish] Flies Nazi Flag In Front Of House Because He’s Mad At Obama

A man in the town of Ghent, just outside Norfolk, Virginia, hung a Nazi flag in front of his home because he was upset with President Obama’s executive action on immigration.

He said, “I am not a Nazi. I am half-Jewish. I hung the flag after watching President Obama last night. Obama usurped his Oath of Office. I wanted people to be shocked because I am offended.”

199 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 8:23:57am
200 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 8:24:45am

re: #197 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#195

So after criticizing Obama for setting deadlines in Afghanistan and Iraq, The GOP’s Ayn Rand Paul would…set a deadline for US military action against ISIS/L in….Syria? Iraq?

He’s trying to play both sides for idiots. “I want a declaration of war…but I want it to be as restricted as possible!”

201 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 24, 2014 8:25:25am

re:
#198

He said, “I am not a Nazi. I am half-Jewish. I hung the flag after watching President Obama last night.

So this guy has a Nazi flag, just like all of us and most Americans, and sometimes chooses to fly it when he’s upset. Again, very normal.

///

202 calochortus  Nov 24, 2014 8:26:10am

re: #198 Dr. Matt

Man [Claiming to be Jewish] Flies Nazi Flag In Front Of House Because He’s Mad At Obama

Just a question. How does one “usurp his oath of office?”

203 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 8:26:27am

WTFITS I just can’t even…

204 Dr. Matt  Nov 24, 2014 8:26:44am

re: #199 The Vicious Babushka

Maybe “half Jewish” but all asshole.

He just happened to have a Nazi flag lying around…..don’t most people of Jewish heritage?

205 Franklin  Nov 24, 2014 8:27:18am

re: #202 calochortus

Just a question. How does one “usurp his oath of office?”

Just as easy as anyone can verb his noun of noun.

206 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 8:27:24am

re: #204 Dr. Matt

He just happened to have a Nazi flag lying around…..don’t most people of Jewish heritage?

We all keep one for mopping out the toilet bowl.

JK, actually we don’t.

207 Varek Raith  Nov 24, 2014 8:27:40am

re: #203 The Vicious Babushka

WTFITS I just can’t even…

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Facepalm.

208 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 8:28:39am

I am sure they are counting as “white” all Native Americans, Mexicans, Asians, French Canadians and horse thieves.

209 withak  Nov 24, 2014 8:30:50am

re: #203 The Vicious Babushka

WTFITS I just can’t even…

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Can anyone connect the dots here to try to figure out a point? The only thing I can think of would be to try to prove that lynchings/nooses aren’t a symbol of racism because whitey suffered, too.

210 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 8:31:55am

re: #209 withak

Can anyone connect the dots here to try to figure out a point? The only thing I can think of would be to try to prove that lynchings/nooses aren’t a symbol of racism because whitey suffered, too.

Even their table (which is probably full of made-up data like all other wingnut memes) shows an overwhelming majority of lynch victims are Black.

211 Franklin  Nov 24, 2014 8:31:59am

re: #209 withak

Can anyone connect the dots here to try to figure out a point? The only thing I can think of would be to try to prove that lynchings/nooses aren’t a symbol of racism because whitey suffered, too.

No, I think the point the tweeter is trying to make is that Shaun King is a race baiter because something something.

212 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 8:32:24am

re: #211 Franklin

No, I think the point the tweeter is trying to make is that Shaun King is a race baiter because something something.

Because he is protesting while Being Black.

213 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 24, 2014 8:32:55am

re: #197 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#195

So after criticizing Obama for setting deadlines in Afghanistan and Iraq, The GOP’s Ayn Rand Paul would…set a deadline for US military action against ISIS/L in….Syria? Iraq?

He sure is. He also set himself apart from every other potential candidate on both sides. I don’t know how accurate Bloomberg polling is, but a recent poll by them puts Paul in a tie with Christie for first among New Hampshire primary voters if Romney is removed from the mix.

214 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 8:33:06am
215 Franklin  Nov 24, 2014 8:33:21am

re: #210 The Vicious Babushka

Even their table (which is probably full of made-up data like all other wingnut memes) shows an overwhelming majority of lynch victims are Black.

Apparently it’s from a study by the Tuskegee Institute (from this wiki link):

The Tuskegee Institute has recorded 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites being lynched between 1882 and 1968, with the annual peak occurring in the late 1800s, when Democrats acted to enforce white supremacy.[3]

216 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 8:34:36am

re: #215 Franklin

The Tuskegee Institute has recorded 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites being lynched between 1882 and 1968, with the annual peak occurring in the late 1800s, when Democrats acted to enforce white supremacy.[3]

HURR HURR TEH DEMOCRATS DID ALL TEH LYNCHINGS!!!!!!!!

217 sagehen  Nov 24, 2014 8:34:52am

re: #208 The Vicious Babushka

I am sure they are counting as “white” all Native Americans, Mexicans, Asians, French Canadians and horse thieves.

How many of those “white lynching victims” were “outside agitators” punished for their resistance to Jim Crow?

218 Franklin  Nov 24, 2014 8:35:23am

re: #215 Franklin

Just wanted to add:

The data is just raw data with no context. As VB mentioned, could be a white lynching in ID for horse thievery, while the black lynching in GA was for the high crime of simply existing.

219 Ace-o-aces  Nov 24, 2014 8:36:29am

Here’s the latest in racist derp:

220 lawhawk  Nov 24, 2014 8:36:42am

re: #208 The Vicious Babushka

Nor do I suspect are they distinguishing whites who were lynched because of their support for civil rights for minorities.

221 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 8:36:59am

re: #217 sagehen

How many of those “white lynching victims” were “outside agitators” punished for their resistance to Jim Crow?

Michael Schwerner & Andrew Goodman

Leo Frank was lynched for just Being A Jew

222 lawhawk  Nov 24, 2014 8:38:20am

re: #211 Franklin

Shaun King’s problem is that he’s taken to going and using Infowars and Alex Jones to support his position. And that some of his other posts were wrong, misleading.

223 Franklin  Nov 24, 2014 8:40:13am

re: #222 lawhawk

Shaun King’s problem is that he’s taken to going and using Infowars and Alex Jones to support his position. And that some of his other posts were wrong, misleading.

I haven’t been following his writings/claims as of late. What in particular was he sourcing Infowars to support? That’s troubling.

224 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 8:40:51am

re: #210 The Vicious Babushka

Even their table (which is probably full of made-up data like all other wingnut memes) shows an overwhelming majority of lynch victims are Black.

Sounds like nuance-free analysis. Trying to treat all lynchings as being solely based on race.

225 Franklin  Nov 24, 2014 8:41:50am

re: #224 Feline Fearless Leader

Sounds like nuance-free analysis. Trying to treat all lynchings as being solely based on race.

This is coming from the same crowd that posits if we ban guns we need to ban hammers and cars too.

226 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 24, 2014 8:42:53am

er:
#203

Research history to learn that NOT ALL lynchings were of blacks in America!

Yes, because even if one lynching was not of a black person than all your points = unvalidated!!!!!

/

227 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 24, 2014 8:45:46am

re: #218 Franklin

Just wanted to add:

The data is just raw data with no context. As VB mentioned, could be a white lynching in ID for horse thievery, while the black lynching in GA was for the high crime of simply existing.

In the absence of courts and formal law enforcement, self-appointed vigilantes lynched numbers of people in the Old West. The data demonstrates that people were lynched and that’s all it demonstrates.

228 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 24, 2014 8:46:59am

re:
#227

In the absence of courts and formal law enforcement, self-appointed vigilantes lynched numbers of people in the Old West.

The good old days, according to RWNJ.

229 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 8:49:17am

re: #227 Higgs Boson’s Mate

In the absence of courts and formal law enforcement, self-appointed vigilantes lynched numbers of people in the Old West. The data demonstrates that people were lynched and that’s all it demonstrates.

You can’t compare extrajudicial lynchings in the Old West in the 1890’s for various crimes like horse stealing, cattle rustling, train robbery with lynching in the 1950’s in the deep South of Civil Rights activists.

Also we don’t know if the lynch victims in the Old West counted as “white” were Native American or Mexican.

230 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 24, 2014 8:50:38am

re: #229 The Vicious Babushka

You can’t compare extrajudicial lynchings in the Old West in the 1890’s for various crimes like horse stealing, cattle rustling, train robbery with lynching in the 1950’s in the deep South of Civil Rights activists.

Also we don’t know if the lynch victims in the Old West counted as “white” were Native American or Mexican.

Sure you can. If you don’t care about accuracy or honesty in the outcome of your desired comparison and narrative.
//

231 Dr. Matt  Nov 24, 2014 8:51:32am
232 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 24, 2014 8:54:46am

re: #229 The Vicious Babushka

You can’t compare extrajudicial lynchings in the Old West in the 1890’s for various crimes like horse stealing, cattle rustling, train robbery with lynching in the 1950’s in the deep South of Civil Rights activists.

Also we don’t know if the lynch victims in the Old West counted as “white” were Native American or Mexican.

I’m not comparing anything to anything else. Absent context, there’s not much to be derived from the table. Were the lynchings of Native Americans or Mexicans even counted inasmuch as they were regarded as non-persons in some regions? Some of those white lynching victims could well have been vagrants who were in the area when a crime was committed. We just don’t know.

233 Sionainn  Nov 24, 2014 8:59:02am

re: #195 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Rand Paul Calls for a Formal Declaration of War Against ISIS

This should be fun; Paul is actually calling on Congress to do something other than investigate Benghazi and rail against the president.

I thought Libertarians were against war.

234 Franklin  Nov 24, 2014 9:00:03am

re: #233 Sionainn

I thought Libertarians were against war.

You must be confused. Rand Paul the Libertarian is against war. Rand Paul the potential GOP nominee is for it.

235 Eventual Carrion  Nov 24, 2014 9:01:24am

re: #191 Targetpractice

If the media really wants to report on it, which I don’t really think they do, they should emphasize that this was not an investigation launched yesterday. This was one that started two years ago, back when “questions” were still floating around and the whole media was entertaining this warm bucket of sick as a serious “scandal.” Two years of investigation, two years of dragging in witnesses, digging through trash cans, and two years of searching everywhere…and they found nothing. Everything was as the White House portrayed it in 2012, every one of their fever dream inspired conspiracy theories went nowhere, and all of the screaming they engaged in was baseless.

But no, like F&F before it and the IRS after, they’ll just keep this BS on a low simmer in the hopes that something will come along that will somehow vindicate them.

Maybe they can find someone that got a blow job somewhere in Libya around that time.

236 Sionainn  Nov 24, 2014 9:03:08am

re: #234 Franklin

You must be confused. Rand Paul the Libertarian is against war. Rand Paul the potential GOP nominee is for it.

I’ll admit that Libertarians confuse me.

237 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 24, 2014 9:06:20am

re:
#236

I’ll admit that Libertarians confuse me.

Libertarianism has never failed, it has only been failed.

/

238 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 24, 2014 9:07:34am

re: #96 The Vicious Babushka

NY Times has been pwn3d by the Daily Currant

You had one job, New York Times fact-checkers. ONE JOB.

That job was handed to an unpaid intern who off sick that week.

239 Eventual Carrion  Nov 24, 2014 9:16:08am

re: #203 The Vicious Babushka

WTFITS I just can’t even…

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Whites were hung for murder and horse rustling, blacks were lynched for being black. Bit of a difference.

240 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 9:35:49am

Jim Hoft retweeted:

241 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 9:37:57am

re: #240 The Vicious Babushka

Jim Hoft retweeted:

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Wait, let the courts work? You mean it actually went to trial? The prosecutor didn’t hide behind a grand jury to avoid bringing charges?

242 Jenner7  Nov 24, 2014 9:43:44am
243 NJDhockeyfan  Nov 24, 2014 9:49:57am
244 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 24, 2014 9:54:17am

re: #242 Jenner7

Social butterfly that I am I want to know who the Gunbearer was at Wilson’s wedding.

245 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 9:56:58am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY (it’s only lunchtime)
(for those of you who thought the GOP represents the “Party of the Rich”)

246 Jenner7  Nov 24, 2014 9:58:04am

re: #223 Franklin

Yeah, I’m wondering that too.

247 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 10:00:43am

re: #245 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY (it’s only lunchtime)
(for those of you who thought the GOP represents the “Party of the Rich”)

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It’s hard as hell anymore to see libertarians as anything other than anarchists in expensive suits.

248 NJDhockeyfan  Nov 24, 2014 10:02:06am
249 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 24, 2014 10:03:56am

re: #248 NJDhockeyfan

Wow! For me, there are a number of great short stories in that picture.

250 Kragar  Nov 24, 2014 10:04:15am
251 Ace-o-aces  Nov 24, 2014 10:06:07am

re: #240 The Vicious Babushka

252 Franklin  Nov 24, 2014 10:10:02am

re: #251 Ace-o-aces

google it yurself LIBTRAD!!!!

253 Mattand  Nov 24, 2014 10:11:42am

re: #78 BeachDem

Now this in an interesting followup on the woman who shot herself in the head after buying a gun which, according to her boyfriend was to be “ready for Ferguson.”

She was actually a Ferguson protestor and the cops may not be buying her boyfriend’s story 100%.

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Well, she’s a white woman, so I imagine the Ferugson PD will actually investigate the incident.

254 psddluva4evah  Nov 24, 2014 10:12:54am

Hmm wasn’t it the prosecutor’s office that said in the interest of “transparency ” and to show “fairness ” of grad jury that ALL evidence would be revealed to public? Now circuit jidhe saying evidence may not be revealed if no indictment …hmm if one was a conspiracy theorist one would ponder if McCullough made a “promise” he knew he wouldn’t be able to keep. But naw why would he do that? .

We may not see Ferguson grand jury evidence after all t.co via @joshsanburn

255 lawhawk  Nov 24, 2014 10:15:19am

The NHC has issued a summary of their 2014 hurricane predictions versus what happened (though hurricane season officially ends on 11/30).

Turns out that their predictions were quite spot on. That’s right folks. They got the numbers right - but only one hurricane actually made landfall in the US, so people will automatically assume that there weren’t any storms of concern.

256 Ace-o-aces  Nov 24, 2014 10:16:04am

re: #252 Franklin

I did. The officer involved was fired for misconduct.

texasobserver.org

257 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 10:16:20am

re: #247 Targetpractice

It’s hard as hell anymore to see libertarians as anything other than anarchists in expensive suits.

HURR HURR WHO NEED TEH ROADS!!!! WE IS ALL IRON MAN!!!!!!!

258 Romantic Heretic  Nov 24, 2014 10:17:05am

re: #233 Sionainn

I thought Libertarians were against war.

But they are in favour of business, and they are stupid enough to believe war is good for business while also believing that what’s good for business is good for the country.

History does not bear out this belief. Long wars impoverish countries as weapons are the most expendable of consumer goods. They are meant to be destroyed or destroy themselves in the course of their use. Since those weapons are paid for with either taxes, debt, or both, every weapon destroyed is money disappearing.

Wars might be good for business but they are bad for nations.

Plus I suspect Rand is rewarding those who paid for his campaigns.

259 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 10:17:09am

re: #255 lawhawk

The NHC has issued a summary of their 2014 hurricane predictions versus what happened (though hurricane season officially ends on 11/30).

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Turns out that their predictions were quite spot on. That’s right folks. They got the numbers right - but only one hurricane actually made landfall in the US, so people will automatically assume that there weren’t any storms of concern.

Not to mention the stronger than usual typhoons this year.

But, as we all know, the only country in the world that matters is the US. ////

260 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 10:22:04am

re: #258 Romantic Heretic

Plus I suspect Rand is rewarding those who paid for his campaigns.

Yeah, but fuck the poors who voted for him.

261 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 24, 2014 10:22:48am

re:
#240

Orange TX 2013 Black cop shoots unarmed white. Texans respond by going to work & letting courts work.

Hurr hurr no racism no riots were the real race realists!!!!!!

262 psddluva4evah  Nov 24, 2014 10:26:42am

Mike Huckabee compares #Ferguson protestors to Southern lynch mob

263 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 24, 2014 10:28:04am

re: #258 Romantic Heretic

But they are in favour of business, and they are stupid enough to believe war is good for business while also believing that what’s good for business is good for the country.

History does not bear out this belief. Long wars impoverish countries as weapons are the most expendable of consumer goods. They are meant to be destroyed or destroy themselves in the course of their use. Since those weapons are paid for with either taxes, debt, or both, every weapon destroyed is money disappearing.

Wars might be good for business but they are bad for nations.

Plus I suspect Rand is rewarding those who paid for his campaigns.

Rand also realizes that the libertarians’ isolationism doesn’t fit in with the nation’s inclination to kill for peace. The system is such that there must always be an external enemy somewhere that needs to have his behavior corrected through ordnance. If we just start ignoring anyone who’s not actually invading our shores and let foreigners write their own history then that system falls apart.

264 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 10:30:41am

Well, my oldest daughter has replied most sensibly to get her kids age-appropriate art supplies and craft projects.

265 Kragar  Nov 24, 2014 10:30:43am
266 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 10:31:34am

re: #265 Kragar

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Why repeat the base’s stupid talking points when you can just link straight to them and cut out the middle man?

267 lawhawk  Nov 24, 2014 10:32:16am
268 Franklin  Nov 24, 2014 10:32:58am
269 lawhawk  Nov 24, 2014 10:33:35am

re: #265 Kragar

Free market. You can find a better deal shopping around if you’re on an exchange since the plan you had in 2014 might be priced higher than another plan that covers the same levels. IOW, that’s capitalism at work.

Which apparently is somehow evil according to the GOP.

270 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 24, 2014 10:34:47am

re: #269 lawhawk

Free market. You can find a better deal shopping around if you’re on an exchange since the plan you had in 2014 might be priced higher than another plan that covers the same levels. IOW, that’s capitalism at work.

Which apparently is somehow evil according to the GOP.

The market is supposed to work in favor of the suppliers, not the consumers. Because it is the suppliers who have the combined financial clout to donate to the people who regulate the market.

271 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 10:34:48am

re: #269 lawhawk

Free market. You can find a better deal shopping around if you’re on an exchange since the plan you had in 2014 might be priced higher than another plan that covers the same levels. IOW, that’s capitalism at work.

Which apparently is somehow evil according to the GOP.

“I can’t just keep my plan and pay the same thing from year to year? I have to shop around for a better deal!? That sucks!!”

272 Kragar  Nov 24, 2014 10:34:51am

re: #268 Franklin

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What is that restaurant you like that has the mozzarella sticks? The one with all the goofy stuff on the walls?

273 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 24, 2014 10:35:47am

re: #265 Kragar

If you like your plan, you’ll love it when we pick a different one…

It’s been nearly five years since the PPACA passed. They must be really saving their good stuff.

274 Varek Raith  Nov 24, 2014 10:38:28am

re: #268 Franklin

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SHəˈnanəɡənz

275 Timothy Watson  Nov 24, 2014 10:39:53am

T-Mac’s growing on me:

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) called to leave a scathing message earlier this year with the Democratic state senator who sealed the demise of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, according to the Washington Post.

Phillip Puckett had resigned abruptly in June amid private talks with Virginia Republicans about a state job, swinging control of the closely divided chamber to the GOP, which was fighting the expansion for some 400,000 residents.

“Hey, Phil? Terry McAuliffe,” the governor said in what the Post described as a “seething voice message” to Puckett. “I want you to know we just lost the vote, 20 to 19, in the Senate. Medicaid is done. I hope you sleep easy tonight, buddy.”

talkingpointsmemo.com

276 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 24, 2014 10:40:19am

re:
#269

BTW, what week are we in the GruberGate SuperScandal?

Why won’t the media cover this very serious scandal?!?!?!?!??!

//

277 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 24, 2014 10:41:10am

re:
#275

poisoning the WELL!!!!!!111

278 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 10:47:45am
279 Franklin  Nov 24, 2014 10:49:59am

re: #278 The Vicious Babushka

Wanted to get hitched before all the FEMA™ forced gay marriages are enacted by executive order.

280 Kragar  Nov 24, 2014 10:54:00am

re: #279 Franklin

Wanted to get hitched before all the FEMATM forced gay marriages are enacted by executive order.

I don’t know why they bothered. Obama will just annul all marriages by Executive Order.
/

281 Indy GOP Refugee  Nov 24, 2014 10:59:51am

LOL @ excessive regulations. from the guys that brought you the Ferguson Sky Media No Fly Zone

The FAA Wants You to Have a Pilot’s License to Fly Commercial Drones
Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

282 lawhawk  Nov 24, 2014 10:59:51am

Because the cops treat the community with such respect that they have bunker mentality and have prepared for the worst case scenario - complete with riot gear and police who helped incite violence and engaged in unconstitutional and illegal acts in cracking down on protesters.

283 darthstar  Nov 24, 2014 11:02:35am
284 Kragar  Nov 24, 2014 11:02:41am
285 Targetpractice  Nov 24, 2014 11:06:09am

re: #284 Kragar

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Speaker Boehner says well “poisoned” by criminal turkey receiving presidential pardon.

Sen. McConnell reported as saying President’s pardon “unconstitutional power grab.”

286 Ace-o-aces  Nov 24, 2014 11:06:47am

re: #284 Kragar

287 darthstar  Nov 24, 2014 11:08:56am

Never name your turkey Benghazi.

288 Timothy Watson  Nov 24, 2014 11:10:16am

re: #284 Kragar

Youtube Video
“Aren’t I gonna get a reputation of being soft on turkeys?”

289 Kragar  Nov 24, 2014 11:12:44am

Last night, I had an in-grown toenail.
I had wire cutters.
Today, I don’t have an ingrown toe nail.
My toe is kind of sore.

290 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 24, 2014 11:13:44am

re: #262 psddluva4evah

Mike Huckabee compares #Ferguson protestors to Southern lynch mob!!

And why not? The Republicans’ mix of poor-shaming, bigotry, xenophobia, and homophobia has paid off at the polls. They have both houses of Congress and the media is content to let them control the narrative. If it ain’t broke…

291 The Vicious Fergushka  Nov 24, 2014 11:13:48am

re: #289 Kragar

Last night, I had an in-grown toenail.
I had wire cutters.
Today, I don’t have an ingrown toe nail.
My toe is kind of sore.

Phantom limb pain

292 Kragar  Nov 24, 2014 11:15:02am

re: #291 The Vicious Babushka

Phantom limb pain

Pretty much. Kind of feels like when you loose a tooth, but in the toe instead. Like an empty space.

293 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 24, 2014 11:17:38am

re: #292 Kragar

Pretty much. Kind of feels like when you loose a tooth, but in the toe instead. Like an empty space.

I’d pay to see a pic of you feeling for the empty space with your tongue.

294 Kragar  Nov 24, 2014 11:18:25am

re: #293 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’d pay to see a pic of you feeling for the empty space with your tongue.

I’m not that flexible any more.

295 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 24, 2014 11:19:33am

re:
#289

As long as you still have your toe(s).

/

296 No Country For Old Haters  Nov 24, 2014 11:23:13am

re: #290 Higgs Boson’s Mate

And why not? The Republicans’ mix of poor-shaming, bigotry, xenophobia, and homophobia has paid off at the polls. They have both houses of Congress and the media is content to let them control the narrative. If it ain’t broke…

Unfortunately the dumb half of Americans are ignorant, bigoted assholes, so that message sells extremely well. If Republicans didn’t pander to these monsters they’d get about 1% of the vote.


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