Bad Lip Reading Remix: “MORE HUNGER GAMES”

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This isn’t the best BLR video I’ve seen, but it has some hilarious moments. It’s really just something fun for a post-turkey day thread, as I wrestle with the complex, obtuse Facebook API, trying to automate posting to the LGF Page (not our user wall - we’re already auto-posting to that).

I have it working now, but I am irked at the fact that Facebook sets an expiration time of 60 days on access tokens for Facebook Pages. There appears to be no way around this, so it looks like I’ll have to figure out some method of auto-renewing the token when it expires.

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1 Justanotherhuman  Nov 28, 2014 2:33:49pm

Sorry, didn’t see the movie; have nothing to compare it to. : )

Ferguson, Mo., protesters chain shut doors to Seattle shopping center; at least 1 arrested, police say - @SeattlePD
end of alert

2 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 2:42:49pm
3 Justanotherhuman  Nov 28, 2014 2:46:19pm

West County Center near Ferguson, Mo., now closed due to protests, police say - @CoryStarkKMOV
end of alert

4 darthstar  Nov 28, 2014 2:47:52pm

???

So I respond…mockingly…to no effect

5 Charles Johnson  Nov 28, 2014 2:48:41pm
6 NJDhockeyfan  Nov 28, 2014 2:49:13pm
7 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 28, 2014 2:50:58pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

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Florida monkey/FloridaMan = EVOLUTION!!11!!!

8 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 28, 2014 2:52:22pm
9 Snarknado!  Nov 28, 2014 2:54:48pm

In my neck of the woods, they shut down the major subway route (BART) from the East Bay to San Francisco. Outside of commute hours, but still — and in respect of all of those “shut it down” protests — they’re doing the cause harm not good. Since when was it a good idea to advance your cause by hampering people and antagonizing them in the name of “education?”

(And if you tell me “Michael Brown is more than hampered,” I’ll throw up on you. Stopping someone from getting to that job interview or even the shopping trip is not going to bring him back to life, and it won’t save the next person. )

10 Justanotherhuman  Nov 28, 2014 3:09:09pm

re: #3 Justanotherhuman

Editor’s note: According to @CaseyNolan, a spokesperson for West County Center near Ferguson, Mo., says the mall is still open, contradicting a police statement that it is closed due to protests. Currently, doors are reported locked at the mall. - Jillian
end of note

11 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 3:11:30pm

re: #9 Snarknado!

In my neck of the woods, they shut down the major subway route (BART) from the East Bay to San Francisco. Outside of commute hours, but still — and in respect of all of those “shut it down” protests — they’re doing the cause harm not good. Since when was it a good idea to advance your cause by hampering people and antagonizing them in the name of “education?”

(And if you tell me “Michael Brown is more than hampered,” I’ll throw up on you. Stopping someone from getting to that job interview or even the shopping trip is not going to bring him back to life, and it won’t save the next person. )

ha. You must look up what protest means.

It means disruption. Sorry.

Grab a snack of empathy from your safe space.

12 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 3:13:15pm
13 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 3:15:10pm
14 Justanotherhuman  Nov 28, 2014 3:19:02pm

re: #12 #FergusonFireside

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Oh, for chrissakes.

Do children of alcoholics and drug addicts all become so themselves? No.

False premise from the get-go, not to mention that the very idea of police killing children should make everyone mad as hell.

15 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 3:20:52pm

re: #14 Justanotherhuman

Oh, for chrissakes.

Do children of alcoholics and drug addicts all become so themselves? No.

False premise from the get-go, not to mention that the very idea of police killing children should make everyone mad as hell.

Blame the dead child to get away from any guilt.

Its disgusting.

16 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 28, 2014 3:21:56pm

re: #12 #FergusonFireside

Funny thing…
I grew up with an alcoholic father who always had a girlfriend who wasn’t my mom (who was home with at least six of the children he “sired” and blamed each and every one of us for his failure to be the great artist he believed he was meant to be).
I managed to be a better success in life (financially, materially, and in just plain comfortable spiritually, mentally, etc)

Sad for him that his death was as non-significant to the world as his life was.

17 Skip Intro  Nov 28, 2014 3:22:30pm

re: #4 darthstar

Now that’s one thick headed Teabagger.

18 Snarknado!  Nov 28, 2014 3:23:20pm

re: #11 #FergusonFireside

ha. You must look up what protest means.

It means disruption. Sorry.

Grab a snack of empathy from your safe space.

Building a movement means making allies, not enemies.

19 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 3:25:44pm

re: #18 Snarknado!

Building a movement means making allies, not enemies.

Their allies are growing.

Their enemies are what they always were.

20 Snarknado!  Nov 28, 2014 3:26:14pm

re: #12 #FergusonFireside

How about “being a kid” as a cause for playing with toy guns?

21 Charles Johnson  Nov 28, 2014 3:27:04pm

Part 2.

22 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 3:27:46pm

re: #20 Snarknado!

How about “being a kid” as a cause for playing with toy guns?

Yeah, extremely problematic. Especially in this society.

Peace brother, do not want to argue.

23 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 3:29:07pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

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He’s a piece of excrement with a platform.

Without twitter only his neighbors, friends and family would know.

24 Justanotherhuman  Nov 28, 2014 3:29:12pm

Antonio French’s organization, #HealSTL, was destroyed in a fire when the business in the same bldg was broken into and lit up.

gofundme.com

“Following the unrest in Ferguson, MO in August, St. Louis Alderman Antonio French founded a non-profit organization called #HealSTL and opened an office at 9171 W. Florissant in “ground zero” of the unrest.

‘This office quickly became a vital community outreach office for several organizations. The ACLU and NAACP Legal Defense Fund held workshops on protestor rights. MERS Goodwill set up a satelite office inside the office to manage a youth jobs program that provided 100 jobs for young people from Ferguson and Dellwood, thanks to a generous grant from Emerson Electric. This office was also home to #HealSTL’s voter registration efforts. #HealSTL has a goal of registering 2,000 new Ferguson voters before the April 2015 municipal election.”

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25 Charles Johnson  Nov 28, 2014 3:29:37pm

I really love how, at the same time, Chuck declares he’s no bigot and spews bigoted homophobic slurs at me. Another classic moment.

I’m not gay, but if I were it wouldn’t be any cause for shame. What a knuckle-dragger.

26 jaunte  Nov 28, 2014 3:31:01pm
I’m such a white supremacist that I married an Asian woman and ate spring rolls on #Thanksgiving.

Seriously?

27 Justanotherhuman  Nov 28, 2014 3:31:57pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

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What a totally disgusting POS he is.

28 b_sharp  Nov 28, 2014 3:34:25pm

re: #9 Snarknado!

In my neck of the woods, they shut down the major subway route (BART) from the East Bay to San Francisco. Outside of commute hours, but still — and in respect of all of those “shut it down” protests — they’re doing the cause harm not good. Since when was it a good idea to advance your cause by hampering people and antagonizing them in the name of “education?”

(And if you tell me “Michael Brown is more than hampered,” I’ll throw up on you. Stopping someone from getting to that job interview or even the shopping trip is not going to bring him back to life, and it won’t save the next person. )

You need to go back to the early days of unions to see how disrupting commerce has an effect. There is a long history of being a pain in someone’s ass to affect social or business change. The ’60s was full of sit-ins, demonstrations, takeovers and other forms of civil disobedience that in fact did bring their causes notice and help affect social changes.

The idea that demonstrations do nothing but alienate people is nothing more than a manipulative method of reducing the effects.

Without the demonstrations, and the civil strife that may be associated with it very little of importance will happen. People as a group tend toward the norm rather than the divergent if they aren’t pushed.

29 Snarknado!  Nov 28, 2014 3:37:12pm

re: #19 #FergusonFireside

Their allies are growing.

Their enemies are what they always were.

And the people who aren’t either yet will become enemies, not allies if they first notice you because you’ve shut down their only means of transportation. Protesting in the mall, great. Shutting down the subway, bad.

30 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 3:38:09pm

re: #29 Snarknado!

And the people who aren’t either yet will become enemies, not allies if they first notice you because you’ve shut down their only means of transportation. Protesting in the mall, great. Shutting down the subway, bad.

First world problems. Oh me.

31 Justanotherhuman  Nov 28, 2014 3:38:38pm

This is perfectly all right, of course. Even if it causes damage and people get trampled.

32 b_sharp  Nov 28, 2014 3:40:30pm

re: #29 Snarknado!

And the people who aren’t either yet will become enemies, not allies if they first notice you because you’ve shut down their only means of transportation. Protesting in the mall, great. Shutting down the subway, bad.

Where the problem occurs is when the cause has no moral validity, such as a riot when the Canucks fail to win the Stanley Cup.

33 gwangung  Nov 28, 2014 3:41:58pm

re: #18 Snarknado!

Building a movement means making allies, not enemies.

Well, they don’t need you as an ally.

Y’all come up as self-absorbed.

34 gwangung  Nov 28, 2014 3:46:01pm

re: #26 jaunte

Seriously?

Know plenty of racists who do that. And that’s EXACTLY what they say.

35 psddluva4evah  Nov 28, 2014 3:47:35pm

Ok, so she’s posted again to FB to apologize for her statement on the Obama girls. Um hmmm, I’m betting a birdy fromt he Tennessee’s rep’s office told her she needs to post that apologize ASAP.

I guess after enough people call for your job, you figured you need to maybe fix things….

36 psddluva4evah  Nov 28, 2014 3:50:19pm

re: #34 gwangung

sorta reminds me of what this woman said on twitter today in response to the Black Friday protestors. my comment to her…

37 Snarknado!  Nov 28, 2014 3:50:40pm

re: #30 #FergusonFireside

First world problems. Oh me.

It’s not my problem — I wasn’t inconvenienced by that subway shutdown. Someone who does need that means of transportation will not become your ally. and will tend to look away when the idea that “black lives matters” comes up again.

38 Skip Intro  Nov 28, 2014 3:52:14pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

I’m really curious about what good comes from interacting with this sociopath.

39 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 28, 2014 3:52:17pm

re: #20 Snarknado!

How about “being a kid” as a cause for playing with toy guns?

Relieved that it was OK for me being a white kid playing with toy guns back in the good old days…

40 Snarknado!  Nov 28, 2014 3:53:16pm

re: #22 #FergusonFireside

Yeah, extremely problematic. Especially in this society.

Peace brother, do not want to argue.

“Sister.” And I”m saying that people looking for a reason that a 12-year old would play with a gun, don’t have to look further than “he’s a kid, what do you expect?”

41 psddluva4evah  Nov 28, 2014 3:55:14pm
42 b_sharp  Nov 28, 2014 3:55:27pm

The way people ignore my points, I must be an auto-scrollover.

43 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 28, 2014 3:56:08pm

good freaking grief.

44 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 3:56:08pm

re: #32 No Nay Meh

Where the problem occurs is when the cause has no moral validity, such as a riot when the Canucks fail to win the Stanley Cup.

And this cause has validity. As we see every day.

They are still going through the Grand Jury testimony. This was just for a freaking indictment on charges. Nothing more.

And it was fixed. Fixed fixed fixed. Then a 12 year old was killed.

45 Skip Intro  Nov 28, 2014 3:57:37pm

re: #35 psddluva4evah

Ok, so she’s posted again to FB to apologize for her statement on the Obama girls. Um hmmm, I’m betting a birdy fromt he Tennessee’s rep’s office told her she needs to post that apologize ASAP.

I guess after enough people call for your job, you figured you need to maybe fix things….

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“Many hours of prayer” my ass. If there really was a god, it would turn these pathetic fucks into ash for constantly using it as a “get out of my own fuckup” free card.

46 Varek Raith  Nov 28, 2014 3:58:20pm

Someone say something?
/

47 b_sharp  Nov 28, 2014 3:59:10pm

re: #46 Varek Raith

Someone say something?
/

Fuck no.

48 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 3:59:50pm

re: #35 psddluva4evah

Ok, so she’s posted again to FB to apologize for her statement on the Obama girls. Um hmmm, I’m betting a birdy fromt he Tennessee’s rep’s office told her she needs to post that apologize ASAP.

I guess after enough people call for your job, you figured you need to maybe fix things….

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After many hours of prayer.

You are absolved!!! gah

49 b_sharp  Nov 28, 2014 4:00:53pm

re: #48 #FergusonFireside

After many hours of prayer.

You are absolved!!! gah

Did you step in something?

50 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 4:02:37pm

re: #49 No Nay Meh

Did you step in something?

Not yet.

51 Snarknado!  Nov 28, 2014 4:03:38pm

re: #28 No Nay Meh

You need to go back to the early days of unions to see how disrupting commerce has an effect. There is a long history of being a pain in someone’s ass to affect social or business change. The ’60s was full of sit-ins, demonstrations, takeovers and other forms of civil disobedience that in fact did bring their causes notice and help affect social changes.

The idea that demonstrations do nothing but alienate people is nothing more than a manipulative method of reducing the effects.

Without the demonstrations, and the civil strife that may be associated with it very little of importance will happen. People as a group tend toward the norm rather than the divergent if they aren’t pushed.

As it happens, I was there in the 60’s, in the civil rights movement (tagging after my mother) and the antiwar movement. I’m not arguing against demonstrations, the more the merrier. I”m not necessarily arguing against shutting something down — if it’s something directly involved in the problem. We shut down military installations (or tried to) and sit-ins and the like shut down places that were actually part of the problem by (e.g.) keeping blacks from eating or shopping there. The subway isn’t in that category.

I’m arguing against major disruptions like closing down a third of the subway line for the entire area, which is what they did. While it was closed, no-one could move between the east bay and San Francisco by that route. And how does it aid the random shooting of black kids? I promise you, that will antagonize people no matter how pure your intentions are.

52 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 4:04:03pm
53 Snarknado!  Nov 28, 2014 4:05:41pm

re: #42 No Nay Meh

The way people ignore my points, I must be an auto-scrollover.

I just don’t type that fast.

54 b_sharp  Nov 28, 2014 4:06:26pm

re: #53 Snarknado!

I just don’t type that fast.

Neither do I.

55 Skip Intro  Nov 28, 2014 4:07:29pm

re: #54 No Nay Meh

I don’t remember you being so sensitive when you were just plain old b_sharp. Have you had a life changing experience?

56 Skip Intro  Nov 28, 2014 4:08:19pm

re: #52 #FergusonFireside

Was she arrested for damaging the bean bag?

57 Snarknado!  Nov 28, 2014 4:09:26pm

re: #28 No Nay Meh

re: #51 Snarknado!

…but I get there in the end.

58 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 4:10:44pm

re: #56 Skip Intro

Was she arrested for damaging the bean bag?

Not yet, but the different PD’s of St. Louis are in for a whole lotta financial hurt.

I swear, after this I (and I’m not alone) in my white privilege, look at PD so very differently.

59 jaunte  Nov 28, 2014 4:10:52pm

re: #45 Skip Intro

Doesn’t seem like “hours of prayer” would enter into it.

60 b_sharp  Nov 28, 2014 4:11:01pm

re: #55 Skip Intro

I don’t remember you being so sensitive when you were just plain old b_sharp. Have you had a life changing experience?

No worries, I’m still an insensitive clod.

61 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 4:11:21pm

re: #56 Skip Intro

Was she arrested for damaging the bean bag?

Actually, there’s an arrest warrant for her boyfriend. He was driving the car. I’m sure he tried to kill the cop.

62 jaunte  Nov 28, 2014 4:11:52pm

re: #60 No Nay Meh

You grew your nickname out longer and no one recognizes you now.

63 b_sharp  Nov 28, 2014 4:13:09pm

re: #62 jaunte

You grew your nickname out longer and no one recognizes you now.

I’ll cut it back to the original soon. Then maybe shave it off altogether.

64 Justanotherhuman  Nov 28, 2014 4:13:11pm

What reports?

Police in Seattle use pepper spray on Ferguson, Mo., protesters, after reports of demonstrators throwing flares - @SeattlePD
end of alert

65 Skip Intro  Nov 28, 2014 4:13:24pm

re: #59 jaunte

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Doesn’t seem like “hours of prayer” would enter into it.

It does when you need an excuse for why you left an ignorant post up for hours without doing anything about it.

66 jaunte  Nov 28, 2014 4:13:58pm

re: #65 Skip Intro

“I was out clearing brush.”

67 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 4:14:57pm

re: #65 Skip Intro

It does when you need an excuse for why you left an ignorant post up for hours without doing anything about it.

Until you are called out by twitter. And your job is now in jeopardy.

No sorry.

68 Justanotherhuman  Nov 28, 2014 4:16:40pm

He was lucky, being in that all white crowd and everything. What a riot.

69 Skip Intro  Nov 28, 2014 4:17:05pm

re: #61 #FergusonFireside

Actually, there’s an arrest warrant for her boyfriend. He was driving the car. I’m sure he tried to kill the cop.

Well, if I’m the Ferguson prosecutor I’m sure I could make a felony case against the driver for getting in the way of a lawfully fired beanbag and preventing it from hitting the intended victim.

70 Justanotherhuman  Nov 28, 2014 4:28:31pm

Video: Police, Ferguson, Mo., protesters clash in Downtown Seattle - @SeattlePD
read more on twimg.com

71 The War TARDIS  Nov 28, 2014 4:29:15pm

Good possible news for me in Doctor Who land-

Clara Oswald may be staying on for one more half season. Daily Mail and the Mirror, but on their other hand, they have had got luck with the leaks in the past.

72 Charles Johnson  Nov 28, 2014 4:32:33pm
73 The War TARDIS  Nov 28, 2014 4:33:48pm

re: #71 The War TARDIS

Last year, they nailed the entire plot to The Time of the Doctor.

74 Justanotherhuman  Nov 28, 2014 4:38:06pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

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And Bosman didn’t give the number of the house, just the street it’s on.

Wilson hasn’t lived there in months.

75 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 4:38:55pm

Just heard this on NPR. This is the rapper Killer Mike. Listen.

He was performing the night of the non-indictment in St. Louis. His emotional response on stage……His dad is a cop.

npr.org

At the same time, Render is the son of a policeman and the barbershop he runs with his wife is frequented by police officers.

“It’s my responsibility to be a voice of reason of some type,” he says. “You know, I have to have empathy. Because I have to understand that these people have a job that, although considered deplorable by the general public sometimes, is necessary to keep people safe. But with that said, you have the responsibility and accountability of doing your job in an honorable way or you should be punished even more harshly than people who aren’t. Because if I trust you with the power of human life, your standard has to be much higher.”

76 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 4:39:51pm

re: #75 #FergusonFireside

Just heard this on NPR. This is the rapper Killer Mike. Listen.

He was performing the night of the non-indictment in St. Louis. His emotional response on stage……His dad is a cop.

npr.org

And actually, I’m not giving him credit. There was so much more to the interview that matters.

77 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 28, 2014 4:46:20pm
78 The War TARDIS  Nov 28, 2014 4:47:59pm

re: #73 The War TARDIS

I think the next comapnion after Clara should be one that appeals the growing US fandom, and the existing and long-lasting Mexican Fandom.

A Mexican-American women from one of the Four states bordering Mexico.

79 Dark_Falcon  Nov 28, 2014 4:57:34pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

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I find non-conincidental that Chuckles is going after Julie Bosman. She’s a woman writing things he doesn’t like for a newspaper he hates, so must of course set his winged monkeys upon her. It’s all about ethics in crime journalism, of course.

/dripping

80 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 28, 2014 5:06:59pm

Elizabeth Lauten @DCGopGirl on twitter is totally ignoring her very, very bad day on Facebook.

81 Justanotherhuman  Nov 28, 2014 5:08:23pm

Later, Lizards. Feeling a little sick…

82 Dark_Falcon  Nov 28, 2014 5:14:44pm

Time liven things up here, I think, with some war news, featuring a an American classic:

The A-10 Warthog Is Back in Iraq —𠂪nd Just in Time

The low- and slow-flying A-10 Warthog jet is back in the Middle East—seven years after the attack planes withdrew.

The prospect of A-10s joining the war against Islamic State was subject to rumors in September, when elements of the Indiana Air National Guard’s 122nd Fighter Wing—which flies the twin-engine A-10—deployed to Southwest Asia.

The Air Force finally confirmed the A-10s were in the region on Nov. 24, noting the aircraft “landed here over several days” between Nov. 17 and Nov. 21.

While it’s not clear whether the Indiana A-10s have carried out any strikes against Islamic State yet … they surely will soon. The Warthogs’ mission is to provide close-air support to Iraqi army and police and Kurdish Peshmerga troops fighting on the ground.

An Air Force spokesman confirmed to Air Force magazine that the A-10s “will only be supporting military requirements in the Gulf region, including but not limited to, Operation Inherent Resolve.”

Inherent Resolve is the Pentagon’s code name for air strikes and other U.S.-led efforts targeting Islamic State.

For ISIS life just got worse, because the A-10C is the best fixed-wing close support aircraft in the world, bar none.

83 Dark_Falcon  Nov 28, 2014 5:19:50pm

Great, the A-10s strafed the thread into oblivion.

84 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 28, 2014 5:20:52pm

re: #83 Dark_Falcon

Great, the A-10s strafed the thread into oblivion.

yep, as well it should have.

85 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 28, 2014 5:21:30pm

laterz…back when war porn is done.

86 jamesfirecat  Nov 28, 2014 5:22:14pm

re: #83 Dark_Falcon

Great, the A-10s strafed the thread into oblivion.

The A-10, for when you have a gun so awesome you decide to build an entire plane around it…

87 Dark_Falcon  Nov 28, 2014 5:25:21pm

re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth

War stories, not war porn. The story’s accompanying photos contained no death or destruction and the article is quite informative. Thus it does not appeal primarily to prurient interests and therefore is not ‘war porn’.

88 Dark_Falcon  Nov 28, 2014 5:26:02pm

re: #86 jamesfirecat

The A-10, for when you have a gun so awesome you decide to build an entire plane around it…

PIYF

89 Kid A  Nov 28, 2014 5:26:31pm
90 BeenHereAwhile  Nov 28, 2014 5:33:23pm

re: #82 Dark_Falcon

Time liven things up here, I think, with some war news, featuring a an American classic:

The A-10 Warthog Is Back in Iraq —��nd Just in Time

For ISIS life just got worse, because the A-10C is the best fixed-wing close support aircraft in the world, bar none.

I agree but what about MANPADS?

91 Skip Intro  Nov 28, 2014 5:34:10pm

re: #89 Kid A

I had to look up who she is. Since she works for a GOP Rep, I don’t see why she feared for her job. She probably heard it from her boss first.

92 #FergusonFireside  Nov 28, 2014 5:37:07pm

Oh that misguided protester.

93 jamesfirecat  Nov 28, 2014 5:37:53pm

re: #90 BeenHereAwhile

I agree but what about MANPADS?

They can try.

The A-10 is designed so it has a redundant one of everything except a pilot and he’s in a titanium bathtub.

A full sized SAM can blow away half the plane and it will still fly.

94 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 28, 2014 5:41:20pm

re: #93 jamesfirecat

They can try.

The A-10 is designed so it has a redundant one of everything except a pilot and he’s in a titanium bathtub.

A full sized SAM can blow away half the plane and it will still fly.

they used to fly low along the rhine valley, practicing flying under the radar. have not seen them here since just before the gulf war

95 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 28, 2014 5:47:16pm

re: #9 Snarknado!

In my neck of the woods, they shut down the major subway route (BART) from the East Bay to San Francisco. Outside of commute hours, but still — and in respect of all of those “shut it down” protests — they’re doing the cause harm not good. Since when was it a good idea to advance your cause by hampering people and antagonizing them in the name of “education?”

(And if you tell me “Michael Brown is more than hampered,” I’ll throw up on you. Stopping someone from getting to that job interview or even the shopping trip is not going to bring him back to life, and it won’t save the next person. )

Good thing you don’t live in Hong Kong, where students have blocked thoroughfares in three busy districts for more than a month, all in the name of some useless ideal called democracy.

If you’re so worked up about the inconvenience, channel that annoyance into changing the situation that brought the protesters out in the first place.

96 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Nov 28, 2014 5:56:47pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

Stand by for the latest CCJ dossier! Lots of fodder here.

97 Snarknado!  Nov 28, 2014 6:03:59pm

re: #95 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Good thing you don’t live in Hong Kong, where students have blocked thoroughfares in three busy districts for more than a month, all in the name of some useless ideal called democracy.

If you’re so worked up about the inconvenience, channel that annoyance into changing the situation that brought the protesters out in the first place.

I’m not worked up about the inconvenience, I am sick of explaining to wingnut relatives that the cause of the demonstrators is worth supporting even if they block the subways (from which I conclude that this is detrimental to the cause). People who are worked up about the injustice (I certainly am) need to find tactics that don’t antagonize people unnecessarily.

(I don’t know enough about the Hong Kong situation on the ground to comment about blocking thoroughfares there, sorry. Even if they’re antagonizing people unnecessarily, their cause also deserves support.)


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