New Artist Watch: Jon Henry - I Still Got Your Back (Ft. Keisha, Kim, & Pam)

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Jon Henry tweeted this video to me a few days ago and after careful consideration I must say I approve. Has a great message, a deep groove, creative production, steampunk props, and the kids are adorbs. Watch it, you’ll like it.

This is Jon Henry’s cosplay-themed music video for “I Still Got Your Back”. The young stars of this video are Morgan and Robert, the niece and nephew of Jon Henry, who is also the director.

Hear more of Jon Henry at Iframe or jonhenrymusic.bandcamp.com and buy his original work on iTunes: itunes.apple.com

Spider-Man scenes shot at Top Secret in Wisconsin Dells dellstopsecret.com

Miles Morales/Spider-man costume made by Jesse Covington facebook.com

Steampunk accessories provided by Julianne Hunter and Charles Tritt of The Milwaukee Steampunk Society facebook.com

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369 comments
1 missliberties  Dec 4, 2014 6:07:46pm

What about me? I like it.

2 Kragar  Dec 4, 2014 6:09:50pm

Its official

Production of “Deadpool” starts in March

3 Charles Johnson  Dec 4, 2014 6:21:36pm

Just watched “Van Helsing” for the first time and ended up enjoying it much more than I thought I would. An excellent Hammer Films-style monsterfest with updated CGI graphics and a decently executed storyline. I’ve seen a lot worse movies.

4 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 4, 2014 6:23:53pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

If you want some cerebral but still entertaining horror, try The Babadook. (I know I’ve already advertised this flick here, but it’s just good.)

5 Kragar  Dec 4, 2014 6:26:53pm

Off to Rifftrax

6 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 6:28:15pm

This turned out way better then I thought. Interesting to check.

7 Charles Johnson  Dec 4, 2014 6:29:58pm

re: #4 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

If you want some cerebral but still entertaining horror, try The Babadook. (I know I’ve already advertised this flick here, but it’s just good.)

I’ve been hearing about this film - I’ll definitely check it out. Amazon Instant Video is the only (legal) source for it right now, as far as I can tell: amazon.com

8 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 4, 2014 6:32:19pm
9 darthstar  Dec 4, 2014 6:32:25pm

Engineer joke I just stole from facebook…

An engineer was crossing a road one day, when a frog called out to him and said, “If you kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess.” He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket.
The frog then cried out, “If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I’ll stay with you for one week and do ANYTHING you want.”
Again, the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket.
Finally, the frog asked, “What is the matter? I’ve told you I’m a beautiful princess and that I’ll stay with you for one week and do anything you want. Why won’t you kiss me?”
The engineer said, “Look, I’m an engineer. I don’t have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog, now that’s cool.”

10 Single-handed sailor  Dec 4, 2014 6:35:30pm

re: #6 #FergusonFireside

100% Democratic
11 The War TARDIS  Dec 4, 2014 6:36:15pm

re: #10 Single-handed sailor

Mine was the opposite.

12 darthstar  Dec 4, 2014 6:36:26pm

re: #10 Single-handed sailor

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Mine too! Well, one of our dogs is probably a Libertarian, but we kind of ignore that aspect of him.

13 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 6:37:23pm

re: #8 The Vicious Fergushka

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Wow. This one looks exceptional. Vodka crust eh?

14 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 6:38:43pm

re: #10 Single-handed sailor

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Lucky you!!!

15 Decatur Deb  Dec 4, 2014 6:41:07pm

re: #6 #FergusonFireside

This turned out way better then I thought. Interesting to check.

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83% Republican. Most of the rest will be farther right.

(It’s scary how accurate the program was at nailing down my coordinates.)

16 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 6:42:18pm

re: #15 Decatur Deb

83% Republican. Most of the rest will be farther right.

(It’s scary how accurate the program was at nailing down my coordinates.)

You are a fucking beacon in a shitshow. (if that makes sense) Continued strength to ya.

17 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 6:43:30pm
18 darthstar  Dec 4, 2014 6:43:44pm
19 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 6:46:33pm

Catching up on @ShaunKing timeline. Must read.

20 PhillyPretzel  Dec 4, 2014 6:46:54pm

Perfect toy. Made in the USA and comes from a well known store.

21 Varek Raith  Dec 4, 2014 6:47:11pm
Where you are right now is 67 percent Democratic.

Sounds about right.

22 Belafon  Dec 4, 2014 6:49:13pm

re: #10 Single-handed sailor

It says where I am is 100% Republicans, though i think that’s low.

23 Decatur Deb  Dec 4, 2014 6:49:29pm

re: #21 Varek Raith

Sounds about right.

It could be pulling precinct voting data—was within a point or so of what we know of our vote.

24 PhillyPretzel  Dec 4, 2014 6:51:46pm

re: #23 Decatur Deb

Most of the time it is usually registrations that are used for this type of information.

25 Decatur Deb  Dec 4, 2014 6:54:01pm

re: #24 PhillyPretzel

Most of the time it is usually registrations that are used for this type of information.

We register at the county level—there are actually more Dems across the tracks town.

26 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 4, 2014 6:54:02pm

Just because.

27 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 6:54:10pm
28 De Kolta Chair  Dec 4, 2014 6:54:41pm
DON’T MISS THE THRILLING CONCLUSION OF “LESBIAN JESUS, P.I.”
29 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 6:55:09pm

re: #23 Decatur Deb

It could be pulling precinct voting data—was within a point or so of what we know of our vote.

My racist neighbors, most likely don’t vote.

30 Decatur Deb  Dec 4, 2014 6:56:48pm

re: #29 #FergusonFireside

My racist neighbors, most likely don’t vote.

Encourage them to remain steadfast in their purity.

31 bratwurst  Dec 4, 2014 6:58:15pm

And now an update from the War on Terror:

32 b.d.  Dec 4, 2014 6:58:27pm

re: #26 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Just because.

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Ha! That cracked me up even without the translation. Is that an audience shot of Putin’s State of the Nation Address?

33 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 6:59:07pm

re: #30 Decatur Deb

Encourage them to remain steadfast in their purity.

They are so troublesome. The parking, the upstairs neighbor, the air around us. They are miserable, and will remain that way.

Funny. they are prob 28 with baby. Never seen such miserable peeps in real life.

34 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 4, 2014 6:59:45pm

re: #6 #FergusonFireside

67% Democratic. But that should swing bluer in January since the governorship is switching parties.

35 Decatur Deb  Dec 4, 2014 7:00:45pm

re: #31 bratwurst

And now an update from the War on Terror:
“Bomb squad cops determined the egg-shaped piece of aluminum with an attached piece of wire was actually a sex toy.”

Put a block of C4 on it and blow it in place, just in case.

36 Decatur Deb  Dec 4, 2014 7:02:12pm

re: #33 #FergusonFireside

They are so troublesome. The parking, the upstairs neighbor, the air around us. They are miserable, and will remain that way.

Funny. they are prob 28 with baby. Never seen such miserable peeps in real life.

Sad at that age, caught between the age of reason and the age of enlightenment.

37 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 7:03:02pm

re: #36 Decatur Deb

Sad at that age, caught between the age of reason and the age of enlightenment.

Their poor big baby. The biggest baby I’ve ever seen.

38 Charles Johnson  Dec 4, 2014 7:03:19pm
39 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 4, 2014 7:08:18pm

re: #32 b.d.

Ha! That cracked me up even without the translation. Is that an audience shot of Putin’s State of the Nation Address?

It’s the mayor of the city of Nizhny Tagil. Dunno what kind of event that is, prolly some childrens’ concert or something.

40 BlueSpotinAL  Dec 4, 2014 7:09:48pm

Guess what % Republican for my area?

41 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 4, 2014 7:12:06pm

LOL

Igor Sechin spent $55 billion in 2013 to buy competitor TNK-BP and create a Russian oil colossus, pumping about 5 percent of the world’s crude.

Almost two years later and investors have written off the deal. Battered by sanctions and oil’s accelerating price crash, OAO Rosneft (ROSN) has lost 38 percent of its market value this year in dollar terms and today the whole company, TNK-BP and all, is worth $50 billion.

And buying TNK-BP has left Sechin, Rosneft’s chief executive officer and a long-time ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, with a lot of debt to repay.

bloomberg.com

42 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 7:12:41pm

Watching Lawrence re-run. Joy Reid just said it. Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner.

In these 3 instances there was absolutely zero help from police or EMT’s to the dying. Their lives didn’t matter.

43 De Kolta Chair  Dec 4, 2014 7:12:46pm

re: #6 #FergusonFireside

This turned out way better then I thought. Interesting to check.

According to that scale, my neighb is off the charts blue, but since I live in Billionaire Central Tribeca, I suspect they’re not counting the Russian and Chinese absentee tenants that have taken over the joint, because they can’t vote, not to mention the American stockbrokers and money managers who don’t know what voting or democracy even mean, just as long as they make a bundle and get laid at their pilates sessions.

44 ObserverArt  Dec 4, 2014 7:14:17pm

re: #6 #FergusonFireside

This turned out way better then I thought. Interesting to check.

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My neighborhood got the Mostly Democratic rating.

Sort of figured that would happen being a mixture of African American, a mixture of artists, LGBT, and young professionals.

We is America!

45 austin_blue  Dec 4, 2014 7:15:17pm

re: #6 #FergusonFireside

This turned out way better then I thought. Interesting to check.

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I don’t know what info they are using, bit my ‘hood came in at 67% Republican.

The actual vote was a leeeetle bit different:

Abbot: 13%
Davis: 87%

The app had my neighborhood voting R for Governor.

46 jaunte  Dec 4, 2014 7:15:39pm

re: #6 #FergusonFireside

This turned out way better then I thought. Interesting to check.

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MIne says evenly split. I’m on the borderline between a Hispanic working class neighborhood and the 2%ers.

47 GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 4, 2014 7:16:20pm

re: #6 #FergusonFireside

Baloney. We (not me) elected Bruce Rauner.

48 PhillyPretzel  Dec 4, 2014 7:16:33pm

re: #44 ObserverArt

In my area of NE Philly voter registration runs 5 Democrats to 1 Republican. The city runs pretty much the same.

49 BeachDem  Dec 4, 2014 7:16:42pm

re: #6 #FergusonFireside

This turned out way better then I thought. Interesting to check.

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I really didn’t even need the chart to know that I live in a blood red, 100%, every office Republican place. Sigh.

50 klystron  Dec 4, 2014 7:18:44pm

re: #49 BeachDem

I really didn’t even need the chart to know that I live in a blood red, 100%, every office Republican place. Sigh.

Supposedly 100% Democrat.

Bullshit. It’s using your elected state/federal officials which here doesn’t get down to the township level nearly well enough. I live in one of the more Republican leaning townships (there were multiple Yes on Prop 8 signs in the neighborhood, sigh) and our city council is predominantly Republicans …none of which got my vote for re-election.

51 OhNoZombies!  Dec 4, 2014 7:23:25pm

Ugh.
We’re moving in the spring from a quiet, mostly blue area, to an omg why am I here?, red one.
Nice house and better schools though.

52 ObserverArt  Dec 4, 2014 7:25:37pm

re: #51 OhNoZombies!

Ugh.
We’re moving in the spring from a quiet, mostly blue area, to an omg why am I here?, red one.
Nice house and better schools though.

Watch out for all that Republican indoctrination in those schools. And the house should have a tea room!

//

53 BeachDem  Dec 4, 2014 7:28:24pm

re: #50 klystron

Supposedly 100% Democrat.

Bullshit. It’s using your elected state/federal officials which here doesn’t get down to the township level nearly well enough. I live in one of the more Republican leaning townships (there were multiple Yes on Prop 8 signs in the neighborhood, sigh) and our city council is predominantly Republicans …none of which got my vote for re-election.

Sadly, where I live, even when you drill down to state rep, county council, city council and school board, it’s still almost all Republicans. Even in the non-partisan elections, it’s mostly Republicans—we have one definite Dem on county council and one or two on city council, but that’s about it.

I

54 Amory Blaine  Dec 4, 2014 7:35:13pm

70% republican. Not surprising but still, ewww.

55 OhNoZombies!  Dec 4, 2014 7:35:29pm

re: #52 ObserverArt

Watch out for all that Republican indoctrination in those schools. And the house should have a tea room!

//

The children will be thoroughly questioned every day after school.
I will not have any little Ben Carsons in my house.
Oh no, wait, they can be neurosurgeons. That is allowed.
:-)

56 Amory Blaine  Dec 4, 2014 7:37:54pm

My tearoom is/was under the kitchen table. Alas my nieces are too old to want to make an appointment. :(

57 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 7:39:50pm

Watching Lawrence re-run. I swear there is cop shopping. They fuck up somewhere, go somewhere else without any background check.

I mentioned that yesterday, the 30 mph freeway fuck it all to hell I was in, there were 4 people I saw pulled over in the rain. I think the CHP took the opportunity of a bunch of cars moving slowly to check tags, run tags, etc. There was no way these people were doing anything wrong. We were all cautious as hell in rain and jam.

The police have dropped 10 slots for me recently, for others I’m sure. And they are freaking out. Power loss does that.

58 jaunte  Dec 4, 2014 7:40:06pm
59 OhNoZombies!  Dec 4, 2014 7:41:41pm

This little museum is close to my future home.
Just take a quick peek…
It has dinosaurs.

60 Amory Blaine  Dec 4, 2014 7:42:17pm

re: #58 jaunte

That pic is now mine. It is ripe for a meme.

61 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 7:46:00pm

re: #58 jaunte

pic not there.

62 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 7:46:48pm

re: #60 Amory Blaine

That pic is now mine. It is ripe for a meme.

why does it say page doesn’t exist for me.

63 jaunte  Dec 4, 2014 7:47:13pm
64 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 7:48:14pm

re: #63 jaunte

Embedded Image

wow. fuck them even more.

They are really freaking out.

65 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 4, 2014 7:48:14pm

re: #59 OhNoZombies!

This little museum is close to my future home.
Just take a quick peek…
It has dinosaurs.

Nice.

And the Cleveland Museum of Natural History isn’t that far off either.

66 dog philosopher  Dec 4, 2014 7:49:51pm

re: #59 OhNoZombies!

This little museum is close to my future home.
Just take a quick peek…
It has dinosaurs.

i do recall driving past akron many many years ago and seeing a monstrous giant tire monument

67 OhNoZombies!  Dec 4, 2014 7:50:24pm

re: #65 Feline Fearless Leader

Nice.

And the Cleveland Museum of Natural History isn’t that far off either.

Yup, and that’s where we go, cause one by my new house is a creation museum.
Ha!

68 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 4, 2014 7:52:10pm

William… Or any of our photographers.

I had shot this practicing with my 400mm lens. Just backyard crows. But I got curious what the digital noise looks like, A Canon exec had bragged they got grain instead of pixels. You be the judge… ISO 8000 Exposure 1/8000 F5.6

Cropped in really tight
Original image
69 ObserverArt  Dec 4, 2014 7:52:24pm

re: #59 OhNoZombies!

This little museum is close to my future home.
Just take a quick peek…
It has dinosaurs.

Are you going to be in the Akron Canton area? Or, right out there in Copely with the museum?

70 OhNoZombies!  Dec 4, 2014 7:52:48pm

re: #66 dog philosopher

Of course!
They’re slowly getting rid of that stuff though.

71 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 4, 2014 7:53:21pm

This is probably not new to the music lovers here but this just hit my OMG button hard:

Youtube Video

Scale The Summit guitarist, Chris Letchford performs ‘Atlas Novus’

72 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 7:53:49pm

I heard a real intersting blurb on NPR Marketplace today.

The most cussed out govt entity, of course IRS.

2nd? Fish & Wildlife. (I think teabaggers)

marketplace.org

73 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 7:54:41pm

re: #68 Indy GOP Refugee

William… Or any of our photographers.

I had shot this practicing with my 400mm lens. Just backyard crows. But I got curious what the digital noise looks like, A Canon exec had bragged they got grain instead of pixels. You be the judge… ISO 8000 Exposure 1/8000 F5.6

Image: Cropped in really tight[Embedded content]

Really cool!

75 OhNoZombies!  Dec 4, 2014 7:55:14pm

re: #69 ObserverArt

Are you going to be in the Akron Canton area? Or, right out there in Copely with the museum?

Right there in Copley. It’s a five minute drive to the museum.

76 Dark_Falcon  Dec 4, 2014 7:55:27pm

re: #39 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

It’s the mayor of the city of Nizhny Tagil. Dunno what kind of event that is, prolly some childrens’ concert or something.

That city was once known as ‘Tankograd’ for its vast tank production plant, or so I read. It still produces tanks, if memory serves.

77 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 4, 2014 7:56:24pm

re: #68 Indy GOP Refugee

Still looks more like when you sharpen too much to me to be anything other than noise. Now, I’ve seen some good grain like effects from the sony sensors being used by Oly & Fuji but I (personally) do not see it in this one.

Try something at that ISO but in lower light to get a slower shutter - that might give a better feel for grainish noise?

As an aside, I’d print that crop. 8x10 & hang it on the wall as a meditation.

78 dog philosopher  Dec 4, 2014 7:58:18pm
not akron
79 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 7:59:37pm
80 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 4, 2014 8:00:02pm

re: #77 William Barnett-Lewis

Still looks more like when you sharpen too much too me to be anything other than noise. Now, I’ve seen some good grain like effects from the sony sensors being used by Oly & Fuji but I (personally) do see it in this one.

Try something at that ISO but in lower light to get a slower shutter - that might give a better feel for grainish noise?

As an aside, I’d print that crop. 8x10 & hang it on the wall as a meditation.

The claw. THE CLAW!!!

81 dog philosopher  Dec 4, 2014 8:00:58pm
akron silents basketball team apparently imagined by r crumb
82 OhNoZombies!  Dec 4, 2014 8:01:03pm

re: #78 dog philosopher

Image: not akron

Nope. I’ve never seen that before.
Ours would have said Goodyear, or Firestone on them.
And I think BF Goodrich…

83 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 4, 2014 8:04:12pm

re: #82 OhNoZombies!

Nope. I’ve never seen that before.

Detroit.

Wikipedia: Giant Uniroyal Tire

84 ObserverArt  Dec 4, 2014 8:05:07pm

re: #68 Indy GOP Refugee

William… Or any of our photographers.

I had shot this practicing with my 400mm lens. Just backyard crows. But I got curious what the digital noise looks like, A Canon exec had bragged they got grain instead of pixels. You be the judge… ISO 8000 Exposure 1/8000 F5.6

Image: Cropped in really tight[Embedded content]

Looks like pixels mimicking grain. Was that from a RAW image or was it high res jpeg?

Having shot B&W Recording film back in the 70s for some concert stuff I was doing for art school, I saw similar grain in those images because they were high ISO 1000 pushed to 3000 in development and shot low available light…no flash. I wanted the grain for the project.

And that is not bad. If they can get that much info to be subtle in transitions instead of a mapping like area, it can only mean better images in digital.

Edit…later all.

85 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 4, 2014 8:12:48pm

re: #84 ObserverArt

RAW relatively un messed with. If I did something similar with my older digital cameras it would be really ugly. It’s not sharpened in post. I could dropbox link the original but it’s about 25 meg.

86 Dark_Falcon  Dec 4, 2014 8:13:57pm

The perfect seat covers for a wingnut’s SUV or pickup truck:

Image: tumblr_nfifiunLLj1r9khx4o4_1280.jpg

Tactical Custom Seat Covers

More ‘tactical gifts’ can be found here.

87 Dark_Falcon  Dec 4, 2014 8:15:24pm

re: #86 Dark_Falcon

The perfect seat covers for a wingnut’s SUV or pickup truck:

Image: tumblr_nfifiunLLj1r9khx4o4_1280.jpg

Tactical Custom Seat Covers

More ‘tactical gifts’ can be found here.

Warning: Tactical gifts are not for gifting to black people. Wearing or using tactical ‘joke gear’ while black may result in the wearer being arrested or shot dead for being a “Suspected Member of the New Black Panthers”.

I wish this warning were entirely in jest, but its not.

88 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 4, 2014 8:16:45pm
How about a 32pdr for home defense?
89 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 4, 2014 8:23:51pm

Off to the hotel. Then I get to stay up in the morning and argue with the county about why my ex isn’t getting all her child support even though my employers are withholding everything as they are supposed to.

I may decide to have a liquid supper after that, depending… < eek >

If it’s quiet tonight I’ll blather some more later.

90 Click My Icon To Watch This Short French Film.  Dec 4, 2014 8:24:14pm

re: #87 Dark_Falcon

Hi DF!

91 dog philosopher  Dec 4, 2014 8:25:14pm

Tactical Custom Seat Covers

for those who desire better machismo through shopping

92 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 8:26:33pm

re: #89 William Barnett-Lewis

Off to the hotel. Then I get to stay up in the morning and argue with the county about why my ex isn’t getting all her child support even though my employers are withholding everything as they are supposed to.

I may decide to have a liquid supper after that, depending… < eek >

If it’s quiet tonight I’ll blather some more later.

Strength William.

93 teleskiguy  Dec 4, 2014 8:26:43pm

re: #6 #FergusonFireside

Mostly Democratic, 83%. I attribute that to the ski resorts just down the road. If they weren’t there, we’d be about as red as this guy’s neck.

94 Click My Icon To Watch This Short French Film.  Dec 4, 2014 8:27:16pm

And another plug for my friends short film ‘Choix multiple’

I am trying to get him as many unique hits as possible!

Link

95 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 4, 2014 8:27:37pm

re: #91 dog philosopher

Tactical Custom Seat Covers

for those who desire better machismo through shopping

Why not just get a jar of the cherry ones?
// ;P

96 #FergusonFireside  Dec 4, 2014 8:27:46pm

Nighty all.

97 klystron  Dec 4, 2014 8:30:47pm

Because although it might not be as much in the news, it’s still out there.

98 Dark_Falcon  Dec 4, 2014 8:31:17pm

re: #90 blah blah ad hominem mumbo jumbo.

Hi DF!

Hello. I was just about to sign off, but I’ll stay a bit if you wish to talk about something.

99 klystron  Dec 4, 2014 8:38:19pm

Man, one of the regular dead thread wonders is at it again.

100 teleskiguy  Dec 4, 2014 8:52:18pm

This Jon Henry music video is pretty funky! Great rap too, something for the kids. Lizards, if you haven’t given this a listen, do it. Quality hip hop.

101 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 4, 2014 8:56:04pm

re: #99 klystron

Man, one of the regular dead thread wonders is at it again.

Where’s it at?

102 klystron  Dec 4, 2014 8:57:07pm

re: #101 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Where’s it at?

Just downstairs.

Say what you will about the dead brain, but at least that one posts in active threads. This one just likes to talk to itself, 95% of the time.

103 Click My Icon To Watch This Short French Film.  Dec 4, 2014 8:59:02pm

re: #98 Dark_Falcon

Aww. No I am sorry. I just wanted to say hello.
You are so sweet though.
Please sign off if you need to!

104 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 4, 2014 9:01:04pm

re: #102 klystron

Just downstairs.

Say what you will about the dead brain, but at least that one posts in active threads. This one just likes to talk to itself, 95% of the time.

I’m not engaging with that one. There’s no fun in it.

105 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 4, 2014 9:01:32pm
whatcha’ doin’?

Good night folks.

106 BeachDem  Dec 4, 2014 9:01:37pm
107 klystron  Dec 4, 2014 9:03:27pm

re: #104 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I’m not engaging with that one. There’s no fun in it.

Agreed.

I mostly just felt the need to make note of it, again, because this happens repeatedly.

I give folks the benefit of the doubt the first, oh, five times it happens. I don’t excuse willful ignorance.

108 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 4, 2014 9:03:31pm

re: #106 BeachDem

Whoop-de-doo!

I’m sure Chuckles will be dee-lighted, though.

109 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 4, 2014 9:05:20pm

re: #107 klystron

Agreed.

I mostly just felt the need to make note of it, again, because this happens repeatedly.

I give folks the benefit of the doubt the first, oh, five times it happens. I don’t excuse willful ignorance.

I think this one just likes to contradict people, to see if it’ll get a rise out of us, but never in an active thread. Mos def weird.

110 klystron  Dec 4, 2014 9:05:58pm

re: #109 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I think this one just likes to contradict people, to see if it’ll get a rise out of us, but never in an active thread. Mos def weird.

So how is this lovely Friday?

I have a husband cursing the build machine sitting behind me. It is not a fantastic Thursday here at Chez klys.

111 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 4, 2014 9:15:49pm

re: #110 klystron

So how is this lovely Friday?

I have a husband cursing the build machine sitting behind me. It is not a fantastic Thursday here at Chez klys.

Very quiet here. The sun is out and it’s sweater weather here. My college leaders dispatched a student to take me to get fitted for a traditional Chinese-style jacket. She had this photo to show me and asked which I liked better.

President George Bush and Chinese president Jiang Zemin

I already have a red one, so I went with the blue and gold.

After the tailor measured me, we had lunch.

Sorry Mr Klystron is having a bad day. Get him a stiff drink or do something wifely to distract him.

112 klystron  Dec 4, 2014 9:19:04pm

re: #111 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Very quiet here. The sun is out and it’s sweater weather here. My college leaders dispatched a student to take me to get fitted for a traditional Chinese-style jacket. She had this photo to show me and asked which I liked better.

Image: President George Bush and Chinese president Jiang ZeminI already have a red one, so I went with the blue and gold.

After the tailor measured me, we had lunch.

Sorry Mr Klystron is having a bad day. Get him a stiff drink or do something wifely to distract him.

There are drinks and shoulder rubs happening at interval to do what I can to make it better.

The blue and gold will be interesting! We were talking about when we would like to travel to China; he has been multiple times but I never have, so… it’s on the list, but lower down on the priority scale. Fingers are crossed for Scotland in the new year (he may have to go over the UK on work, and we could extend that).

The tree is up here for the holidays, and I am working on stitching. Rather than the current progress photo, I give you one of the ornaments (from the tree a few years ago - I need to finish up a few more and get them up there as well!).

The beading is a giant pain and makes everything look snazzy.
113 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 4, 2014 9:26:37pm

re: #112 klystron

There are drinks and shoulder rubs happening at interval to do what I can to make it better.

The blue and gold will be interesting! We were talking about when we would like to travel to China; he has been multiple times but I never have, so… it’s on the list, but lower down on the priority scale. Fingers are crossed for Scotland in the new year (he may have to go over the UK on work, and we could extend that).

The tree is up here for the holidays, and I am working on stitching. Rather than the current progress photo, I give you one of the ornaments (from the tree a few years ago - I need to finish up a few more and get them up there as well!).

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Sweet! Nice decorations. If I am still in China when you come, we need to get together. My son will be on Hong Kong next week, so I’m taking the train there to hang out for a few days. my college gave me a few days leave.

114 klystron  Dec 4, 2014 9:31:45pm

re: #113 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Sweet! Nice decorations. If I am still in China when you come, we need to get together. My son will be on Hong Kong next week, so I’m taking the train there to hang out for a few days. my college gave me a few days leave.

My office-mate in grad school was a Chinese national and she took her …I guess he was her husband by that point?… home with her one year to meet the family for the first time.

Of course, it was right at the height of the whole bird flu mess, and someone on their plane tested positive, so they ended up in quarantine for a week out of the trip. She had some interesting stories to tell when she got back.

The husband’s last bout of serious food poisoning was spent in Hong Kong, although he suspects it was due to bad meat eaten in Lhasa.

115 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 4, 2014 9:35:49pm

re: #114 klystron

My office-mate in grad school was a Chinese national and she took her …I guess he was her husband by that point?… home with her one year to meet the family for the first time.

Of course, it was right at the height of the whole bird flu mess, and someone on their plane tested positive, so they ended up in quarantine for a week out of the trip. She had some interesting stories to tell when she got back.

The husband’s last bout of serious food poisoning was spent in Hong Kong, although he suspects it was due to bad meat eaten in Lhasa.

I’ve been lucky. No food poisoning, but an overdose of red chilis in some dishes has had some interesting effects.

116 klystron  Dec 4, 2014 9:38:18pm

re: #115 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I’ve been lucky. No food poisoning, but an overdose of red chilis in some dishes has had some interesting effects.

Our first international trip together was Mexico.

It involved salmonella, a doctor, and drugs that aren’t prescribed anymore in the US because of potentially fatal side effects that can wait up to a year to manifest.

I figure China should be relatively straightforward after that. :)

117 Varek Raith  Dec 4, 2014 9:45:59pm

re: #111 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Very quiet here. The sun is out and it’s sweater weather here. My college leaders dispatched a student to take me to get fitted for a traditional Chinese-style jacket. She had this photo to show me and asked which I liked better.

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I already have a red one, so I went with the blue and gold.

After the tailor measured me, we had lunch.

Sorry Mr Klystron is having a bad day. Get him a stiff drink or do something wifely to distract him.

Hmm.
I’d go black with red.
Not that I’m evil or anything.

118 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 4, 2014 9:46:13pm

re: #116 klystron

Our first international trip together was Mexico.

It involved salmonella, a doctor, and drugs that aren’t prescribed anymore in the US because of potentially fatal side effects that can wait up to a year to manifest.

I figure China should be relatively straightforward after that. :)

Yeah. Despite somewhat sketchy looking eating places, the Chinese are very careful with their cooking. Just don’t drink the tap water or eat unwashed or unpeeled fruit and you’ll be OK.

119 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 4, 2014 9:47:19pm

re: #117 Varek Raith

Hmm.
I’d go black with red.
Not that I’m evil or anything.

I have a black with red dragons jacket already. I’m not evil either. Mostly.

120 Pawn of the Oppressor  Dec 4, 2014 9:47:45pm

I’m not a fan of most R&B/hip-hop/rap… But what a bittersweet song. I liked it. And his niece is a natural for the camera… Watch out for that girl, LOL.

121 Varek Raith  Dec 4, 2014 9:48:03pm

re: #119 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I have a black with red dragons jacket already. I’m not evil either. Mostly.

Ooohhh.
Sounds neat.

122 makeitstop  Dec 4, 2014 9:54:55pm

Jon Henry - If you happen to pop in, put me on the list of Lizards who enjoyed your music and video. Well done.

123 teleskiguy  Dec 4, 2014 10:08:11pm

The founder of a corporation called Disney. Until 2012, men were not allowed to wear mustaches if they worked for the company, IIRC.

124 teleskiguy  Dec 4, 2014 10:15:41pm

Speaking of mustaches, General Ambrose Burnside has left his mark.

General Ambrose E. Burnside, Union Army
125 Kragar  Dec 4, 2014 10:34:19pm

Back from Rifftrax, the showed the original version, so it had all the really weird stuff they cut out from the TV version.

It was awesome.

126 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 4, 2014 10:41:06pm

I’ve decided that I want a Despicable Me minion Lapland hat for Xmas. Is that too weird?

127 Click My Icon To Watch This Short French Film.  Dec 4, 2014 10:47:59pm

re: #126 RealityBasedSteve

No. That sounds completely sane to me.

128 Kragar  Dec 4, 2014 10:59:45pm

re: #126 RealityBasedSteve

I’ve decided that I want a Despicable Me minion Lapland hat for Xmas. Is that too weird?

There’s a part of me that has always wanted a fur lined trapper’s hat.

129 Click My Icon To Watch This Short French Film.  Dec 4, 2014 11:01:13pm

re: #128 Kragar

That’s because you are a real man.

130 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 4, 2014 11:03:59pm

re: #126 RealityBasedSteve

I’ve decided that I want a Despicable Me minion Lapland hat for Xmas. Is that too weird?

Nope.

131 Kragar  Dec 4, 2014 11:08:15pm

re: #129 Please Watch this short French film

Now that is a man’s hat.

132 teleskiguy  Dec 4, 2014 11:09:46pm
133 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 4, 2014 11:11:49pm

re: #131 Kragar

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Now that is a man’s hat.

Looks like Chinese army issue.

134 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 4, 2014 11:13:12pm
135 Kragar  Dec 4, 2014 11:22:30pm
136 Kragar  Dec 5, 2014 12:21:48am

re: #134 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

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I was thinking Valhallan…

137 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 5, 2014 12:26:17am

re: #136 Kragar

Well, that works, too.

138 freetoken  Dec 5, 2014 1:04:09am

MP3 Audio

139 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 5, 2014 2:18:16am

Where you are right now is 67 percent Republican.

Sounds about right.

140 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 5, 2014 2:32:47am

re: #131 Kragar

I always wanted one of these:

Deerstalker
141 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 5, 2014 2:35:47am

Well, shit. I hadn’t heard about this one until today:

Rumain Brisbon, an unarmed black father of four, was shot to death in Arizona Tuesday when a police officer apparently mistook his bottle of pills for a gun.

About 100 protestors marched to police headquarters in Phoenix Thursday, demanding the department release the name of the officer who shot Brisbon. A spokesperson reportedly defended the shooting, saying, “This one went bad from the standpoint of how it ended, but the officer was doing exactly what we want him to do.”

Cop kills unarmed black man in Arizona

142 Kragar  Dec 5, 2014 3:08:31am

Well, White House petitions have a severe character limit, so I had to cut my idea way back. Still, if anyone is interested, please share. It needs 150 signatures before it gets made visible to the public en masse:

I’m also looking at a bunch of the other petitions currently out there and I can only shake my head and wonder WTF is wrong with some people:

“Teach White children what to say when an ANTI-WHITE calls them “racist,” “hater,” “white supremacist,” “ignorant,” etc.”

“Notify citizens that WHITE GENOCIDE requires militarization of Ferguson police.”

“Explain to the American people: “A path to citizenship” = White Genocide”

143 Alyosha  Dec 5, 2014 3:16:35am

re: #141 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

Well, shit. I hadn’t heard about this one until today:

Cop kills unarmed black man in Arizona

Had a really tense argument at work today whilst trying to inform my fellow Antipodeans about the protests in the US. Basic white privilege at work here. The tone went, as the conversation progressed, that it shouldn’t matter what the race of the victim is. Police brutality is unacceptable and those guilty of it must be held accountable. I agreed with this sentiment whilst maintaining that police brutality is overwhelmingly suffered by minorities and people of colour. I did not detect the pivot in my colleagues’ argument until it turned to the usual apologetics.
‘Well, he should’ve known better than to resist.’
‘As many whites are killed by police.’
‘But he was selling loose cigarettes.’
The smugness was suffocating. I could see their minds doing nimble contortions to make an abhorrent act palatable. Necessary. Where there was once an anxiety that they might have to change their views on race relations or the powers of law enforcement, they now seemed to relax into their old preconceptions.
‘Cops see awful things everyday. Their job is tough.’
So I became the one at fault for ruffling feathers and for even intimating that something was awry with the world.

And now this shit. But we can rest easy because some detail or another can be used to smear yet another dead black man. Cowards.

144 Lidane  Dec 5, 2014 3:26:44am

I turn 42 in April. It would make my year if I had this cake:

Heh.

145 RadicalModerate  Dec 5, 2014 3:54:16am

First test flight of Orion spacecraft is currently ‘go’ for liftoff at 7:05AM CST

Live stream at NASA:
nasa.gov

146 aagcobb  Dec 5, 2014 4:09:09am

re: #145 RadicalModerate

First test flight of Orion spacecraft is currently ‘go’ for liftoff at 7:05AM CST

Live stream at NASA:
nasa.gov

Thanks for the link, cool launch!

147 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 5, 2014 4:11:01am

Ah that’s nice. I’d rather we were building a SSTO but that’s still better than relying on the Russians.

148 Targetpractice  Dec 5, 2014 4:32:37am

Woke up to the Orion spacecraft blasting off the pad as broadcast by BBC News. Nice way to start the day.

149 A Mom Anon  Dec 5, 2014 4:36:26am

Hi all. Well, the wingnuts have kidnapped my husband’s brain. He fell into the “Eric Gardner was in poor health and that’s what killed him. The cops didn’t INTEND to kill him, they broke no laws. That video has a big chunk missing, he was resisting arrest, etc.” So, basically this means the only people I know who aren’t racist douchebags are my son and some of the vets I used to blog with back in the day that I’ve never met in person but have “known” for over a decade. What. The. Fuck? I had to leave the room for awhile last night because otherwise I would have started screaming. He’s apparently getting his news from the Opie and Anthony show on satellite radio (ok the Opie and Jim Norton show, whatever, SSDD with these idiots).

Every single friend my husband has is a moron. I swear to god. This is causing other issues in our relationship. I’m really sad right now. I am seriously contemplating running away from home.

150 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 5, 2014 4:37:08am

re: #145 RadicalModerate

It was 7:05 Eastern. I missed it :/

Edit: just saw the replay. That thing looks like a giant wine bottle. lol

151 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 5, 2014 4:40:27am

re: #149 A Mom Anon

Hi all. Well, the wingnuts have kidnapped my husband’s brain. He fell into the “Eric Gardner was in poor health and that’s what killed him. The cops didn’t INTEND to kill him, they broke no laws. That video has a big chunk missing, he was resisting arrest, etc.” So, basically this means the only people I know who aren’t racist douchebags are my son and some of the vets I used to blog with back in the day that I’ve never met in person but have “known” for over a decade. What. The. Fuck? I had to leave the room for awhile last night because otherwise I would have started screaming. He’s apparently getting his news from the Opie and Anthony show on satellite radio (ok the Opie and Jim Norton show, whatever, SSDD with these idiots).

Every single friend my husband has is a moron. I swear to god. This is causing other issues in our relationship. I’m really sad right now. I am seriously contemplating running away from home.

{A Mom Anon}
Perhaps you could direct your hubby to LGF for some reprogramming.

152 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 4:40:59am

re: #78 dog philosopher

Image: not akron

Looks like I-94 in Detroit.

153 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 5, 2014 4:41:26am

re: #149 A Mom Anon

{{{ama}}}

154 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 5, 2014 4:44:32am

I found it interesting that the Weather Channel carried the launch live so I put it on the waiting room TV this morning. Avoids anyone turning on Fox instead. :)

155 Decatur Deb  Dec 5, 2014 4:45:31am

re: #142 Kragar

Well, White House petitions have a severe character limit, so I had to cut my idea way back. Still, if anyone is interested, please share. It needs 150 signatures before it gets made visible to the public en masse:

[Embedded content]

I’m also looking at a bunch of the other petitions currently out there and I can only shake my head and wonder WTF is wrong with some people:

“Teach White children what to say when an ANTI-WHITE calls them “racist,” “hater,” “white supremacist,” “ignorant,” etc.”

“Notify citizens that WHITE GENOCIDE requires militarization of Ferguson police.”

“Explain to the American people: “A path to citizenship” = White Genocide”

Wife and I just signed/verified. The counter had not incremented when re-entering after 3-4 minutes.

156 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 4:48:15am

re: #149 A Mom Anon

Hi all. Well, the wingnuts have kidnapped my husband’s brain. He fell into the “Eric Gardner was in poor health and that’s what killed him. The cops didn’t INTEND to kill him, they broke no laws. That video has a big chunk missing, he was resisting arrest, etc.” So, basically this means the only people I know who aren’t racist douchebags are my son and some of the vets I used to blog with back in the day that I’ve never met in person but have “known” for over a decade. What. The. Fuck? I had to leave the room for awhile last night because otherwise I would have started screaming. He’s apparently getting his news from the Opie and Anthony show on satellite radio (ok the Opie and Jim Norton show, whatever, SSDD with these idiots).

Every single friend my husband has is a moron. I swear to god. This is causing other issues in our relationship. I’m really sad right now. I am seriously contemplating running away from home.

Zedushka is seriously wingnutty. I just chant GET OFF MY LAWN! GET OFF MY LAWN! HURR! HURR! when he goes into one of his racist tirades.

157 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 4:50:14am

So, who watched “Peter Pan” last night?

158 SteelPH  Dec 5, 2014 4:52:16am

Youtube Video

159 Dr. Matt  Dec 5, 2014 4:52:41am
160 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 5, 2014 5:08:07am

re: #157 The Vicious Fergushka
I did not watch, but I heard it was a train wreck.

161 JustMark  Dec 5, 2014 5:14:08am

re: #142 Kragar

Signed and Tweeted…

162 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 5:16:47am

re: #160 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

I did not watch, but I heard it was a train wreck.

I was expecting it to suck, was pleasantly surprised when it sucked less than I thought it would.

Christopher Walken and the Pirates OWNED IT.

The girl they had as Peter Pan was meh. She did not look, sound or move like an adolescent boy. Mary Martin was the greatest of them all, and she was 46 years old when she played Peter Pan.

The natives, what a horrific fail. Cringe-worthy. They made an attempt to not be racist by casting a Native American dancer as Tigerlily but it was still racist as fuck. Where were all the native women? Why were there only native men (naked “savages”) UGG.

The “lost boys” all adult males with hairy cantaloupe calves, incredibly creepy.

163 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 5, 2014 5:20:39am

re: #162 The Vicious Fergushka

I was expecting it to suck, was pleasantly surprised when it sucked less than I thought it would.

Christopher Walken and the Pirates OWNED IT.

The girl they had as Peter Pan was meh. She did not look, sound or move like an adolescent boy. Mary Martin was the greatest, and she was 46 years old when she played Peter Pan.

The natives, what a horrific fail. Cringe-worthy. They made an attempt to not be racist by casting a Native American dancer as Tigerlily but it was still racist as fuck. Where were all the native women? Why were there only native men (naked “savages”) UGG.

The “lost boys” all adult males with hairy cantaloupe calves, incredibly creepy.

That would be Allison WIlliams, Brian’s daughter, who appears in Girls.

164 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 5, 2014 5:24:49am

re: #162 The Vicious Fergushka

re: #163 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I saw a couple of clips of her. She was … scary. IDK what they were thinking with Christopher Walken. I guess ratings?

165 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 5:27:36am

re: #136 Kragar

I was thinking Valhallan…

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I got my niece one of those hats. And also a large “winged gear” Heterodyne pin from Girl Genius to put on it.

:)

166 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 5:30:26am

re: #157 The Vicious Fergushka

So, who watched “Peter Pan” last night?

Nope. Had serious failure by the Bears defense on the TV in the background instead while reading stuff on the internet.

167 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 5:33:04am

re: #164 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

I saw a couple of clips of her. She was … scary. IDK what they were thinking with Christopher Walken. I guess ratings?

I thought Christopher Walken and the pirates were the best part of the show.

168 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 5, 2014 5:35:28am

re: #164 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

I saw a couple of clips of her. She was … scary. IDK what they were thinking with Christopher Walken. I guess ratings?

I haven’t seen anything she’s done, but judging from her WIkipedia entry, she got her start acting in Funny or Die! skits, YouTube videos, and campus theatrical gigs. [That campus being Yale.] The cynic in me says she parlayed that meager experience and her famous father’s subtle influence into a part on a TV series, and this gig on Peter Pan.

169 Alyosha  Dec 5, 2014 5:35:32am

re: #149 A Mom Anon

I can’t stand being told, ‘why get upset over something you can’t change?’
Or (my favourite) ‘it’s not even your country.’
I always fall back on, I think, JFK’s ‘a threat to freedom anywhere is a threats to freedom everywhere.’
Stay strong ((AMA))

170 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 5, 2014 5:38:23am

re: #167 The Vicious Fergushka

I thought Christopher Walken and the pirates were the best part of the show.

Oh, I don’t doubt he was good, but I was just questioning the casting. I recall an interview with him where he said he would never turn down a role, that’s why he’s been in so many crappy movies over the years.

171 Targetpractice  Dec 5, 2014 5:38:45am

Worst socialist president ever.

172 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 5:39:24am

re: #170 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

Oh, I don’t doubt he was good, but I was just questioning the casting. I recall an interview with him where he said he would never turn down a role, that’s why he’s been in so many crappy movies over the years.

He was the best part of an otherwise mediocre production.

173 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 5:41:57am

I did not watch the end of the show, I am a grown up and have to get up early for work. What were they thinking dragging this thing out until 11:00 on a school night?

I know what they were thinking: HURR HURR MOAR COMMERCIALS!!!!!!!

174 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 5, 2014 5:43:26am

re: #173 The Vicious Fergushka

I did not watch the end of the show, I am a grown up and have to get up early for work. What were they thinking dragging this thing out until 11:00 on a school night?

I know what they were thinking: HURR HURR MOAR COMMERCIALS!!!!!!!

Are you on eastern time? I used to live in Eastern and it was so weird having the news come on at 11 p.m. Everything just seemed … off.

175 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 5:44:24am

re: #174 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

Are you on eastern time? I used to live in Eastern and it was so weird having the news come on at 11 p.m. Everything just seemed … off.

Eastern time zone here.

176 lawhawk  Dec 5, 2014 6:06:13am

re: #162 The Vicious Fergushka

The Mrs wanted to watch, and I obliged her, for about 10 minutes. It was a train wreck. A spectacularly glorious train wreck. but a train wreck nonetheless.

From my limited sample:

Best thing about the show - Christopher Walken, who shows he can still dance and chew scenery like no other.

Worst thing about the show - Christopher Walken, who fumbled and mumbled through his lines and ran Captain Hook through a Captain Kirk translator with the phrasing. And syntax.

Everything else? Not particularly memorable.

Though, if I want to see Christopher Walken dance, this is the go to:

Weapon of Choice:
Youtube Video

177 darthstar  Dec 5, 2014 6:09:11am

This will put a damper on future pipeline talks.

178 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 6:12:52am

And in other entertainment news:
LAPD chief is open to investigating Bill Cosby sexual assault allegations

In the weeks since allegations that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted women decades ago began generating national debate, it’s been assumed that the accusations were too old to merit attention from law enforcement..

But on Thursday, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said his detectives would investigate any complaints filed with the LAPD against the comedian, even those exceeding the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution.

So far, Beck said, no complaints against Cosby have been filed with the LAPD…

More at the link.

179 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 6:13:44am

re: #177 darthstar

This will put a damper on future pipeline talks.

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I doubt it.

180 Targetpractice  Dec 5, 2014 6:15:25am

re: #179 The Vicious Fergushka

I doubt it.

As do I. I think we need to make ourselves comfortable with the idea that Keystone is happening sometime next year. Either as part of a major deal, or a minor deal, or just jammed through on a promise to Senate Dems that Mitch will still respect them in the morning.

181 lawhawk  Dec 5, 2014 6:16:03am

re: #177 darthstar

Israel is saying that it might be months or years before all the damage is restored. 600,000 gallons of crude spilled into that nature preserve. That’s a huge amount under any circumstances, but it’s huge considering that Israel relies heavily on that oil pipeline everyday activities.

182 darthstar  Dec 5, 2014 6:17:33am

re: #181 lawhawk

Israel is saying that it might be months or years before all the damage is restored. 600,000 gallons of crude spilled into that nature preserve. That’s a huge amount under any circumstances, but it’s huge considering that Israel relies heavily on that oil pipeline everyday activities.

It’s flowing into Jordan through a nature preserve. The leak is stopped, but the oil is pretty toxic.

183 ObserverArt  Dec 5, 2014 6:20:04am

re: #149 A Mom Anon

Hi all. Well, the wingnuts have kidnapped my husband’s brain. He fell into the “Eric Gardner was in poor health and that’s what killed him. The cops didn’t INTEND to kill him, they broke no laws. That video has a big chunk missing, he was resisting arrest, etc.” So, basically this means the only people I know who aren’t racist douchebags are my son and some of the vets I used to blog with back in the day that I’ve never met in person but have “known” for over a decade. What. The. Fuck? I had to leave the room for awhile last night because otherwise I would have started screaming. He’s apparently getting his news from the Opie and Anthony show on satellite radio (ok the Opie and Jim Norton show, whatever, SSDD with these idiots).

Every single friend my husband has is a moron. I swear to god. This is causing other issues in our relationship. I’m really sad right now. I am seriously contemplating running away from home.

Hi MomA! Good to see you.

Morning LGFers.

Do you think your husband is falling into sort of a ‘boys club’ thinking…being one of the guys so he fits in with co-workers or friends?

It happens. I have a friend that happens to a lot. His mind is like playdoh, whoever he is around can bend and twist it to their thinking…and then when he gets around some of my friends he gets jumped on and then is like “what was I thinking?”

Well, there is your problem. You aren’t thinking!

184 Franklin  Dec 5, 2014 6:20:20am

2015 Congress = Democracy Inaction

Here is Democracy In Action:

185 ObserverArt  Dec 5, 2014 6:29:44am

re: #180 Targetpractice

As do I. I think we need to make ourselves comfortable with the idea that Keystone is happening sometime next year. Either as part of a major deal, or a minor deal, or just jammed through on a promise to Senate Dems that Mitch will still respect them in the morning.

I think what should be part of Keystone if it is passed: everyone that voted for it in both the house and senate should be charged with paying for any clean-up costs involved, for any land damage that is bad enough people needed to be relocated, restored, etc. And, for extra kicks, they and their staffs will also have to physically go to the site and help with the clean up.

And those that didn’t vote for it, get paid by those that did, to go and have the opportunity to push their faces into the slime.

Too draconian? I admit, sometimes my early Catholic school days with the classic nuns of the early 60s tends to color my want for strict punishment when “you should have known better!”

///

186 lawhawk  Dec 5, 2014 6:29:49am

So what will the right wing fixate on from yesterday’s mostly peaceful protests?

Someone sucker punching a cop in NYC during the protests.

Someone who looks to be white in the video (and is wearing a scarf to mask much of his face), I might add. Would I be shocked that the person was using the protests as cover for a different agenda? Nope.

In total, in NYC 200+ protesters arrested. Nearly all are in the obstruction of justice (for blocking traffic) or resisting arrest (by not clearing out of streets blocking traffic).

187 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 5, 2014 6:29:59am

re: #89 William Barnett-Lewis

Then I get to stay up in the morning and argue with the county about why my ex isn’t getting all her child support even though my employers are withholding everything as they are supposed to.

So, a couple of proffered paycheck stubs showing my usual child support has been withheld all November now has the State Child Support agency off my ass and on my employer’s instead. It appears they have a bad habit of going to Arizona for the winter and neglecting this aspect of their legal requirements. :banghead: Anyway, as always, I am doing everything I can and now the state agrees. So that’s the good news, I guess. Time for a little adult beverage and then my ultimate appointment for today - that one with my pillow.

188 Lidane  Dec 5, 2014 6:30:41am

It’s not even 8:30 am and I’ve already had to deal with at least one jackass on the phone who thinks he knows my job and the services my client provides better than I do. WTF.

TGIF. When I get home tonight there will be a glass of wine with my name on it.

189 darthstar  Dec 5, 2014 6:33:02am

Erickson likes balls.

190 nearly-headless smith25  Dec 5, 2014 6:33:06am
191 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 6:33:09am

The Gawker review of “Peter Pan” can be summed up in One 3-Letter Word.

192 Targetpractice  Dec 5, 2014 6:33:23am

Nothing has depressed me more this week than seeing all the closeted authoritarians come out to dance on Garner’s grave while telling me “He shouldn’t have resisted arrest.” And at least half these fuckers are the same ones who, not a year ago, were cheering on “armed resistance” at the Bundy Ranch.

Yegods.

193 Jenner7  Dec 5, 2014 6:36:33am

re: #149 A Mom Anon

I hear ya. I have a “just let it go” husband. It’s annoying as hell that I can’t talk about this without hearing that. I seriously wanted to slap him.

194 makeitstop  Dec 5, 2014 6:36:55am

re: #155 Decatur Deb

Wife and I just signed/verified. The counter had not incremented when re-entering after 3-4 minutes.

I signed as well. Good job.

195 ObserverArt  Dec 5, 2014 6:40:33am

re: #191 The Vicious Fergushka

The Gawker review of “Peter Pan” can be summed up in One 3-Letter Word.

That Gawker rundown was entertaining in its own way.

By the way, did Ms. Williams have that wide open eyes and big grin on her face all the time? It looks very…ah, forced.

196 darthstar  Dec 5, 2014 6:41:41am
197 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 6:42:25am

re: #191 The Vicious Fergushka

The Gawker review of “Peter Pan” can be summed up in One 3-Letter Word.

I was watching “Inspector Morse” on Netflix.

198 darthstar  Dec 5, 2014 6:42:34am
199 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 5, 2014 6:42:55am

Nothing anyone says about our obligation to submit to the police changes anything about that death. When 4 cops can’t effect an arrest against an ordinary less than athletic person without accidentally killing them it’s on the cops. It’s a failure of the arrest process in the worst way.

200 ObserverArt  Dec 5, 2014 6:43:31am

re: #192 Targetpractice

Nothing has depressed me more this week than seeing all the closeted authoritarians come out to dance on Garner’s grave while telling me “He shouldn’t have resisted arrest.” And at least half these fuckers are the same ones who, not a year ago, were cheering on “armed resistance” at the Bundy Ranch.

Yegods.

I bet neck braces are a big fashion item these days. Lots of that neck snapping turnaround thing going on.

And of course, one must consider the very obvious fact that Bundy just happens to be an old white dude. Demographics!

201 lawhawk  Dec 5, 2014 6:45:31am
202 darthstar  Dec 5, 2014 6:46:59am
203 lawhawk  Dec 5, 2014 6:48:27am

re: #197 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I switched to watching Spaceballs. Much more effective as a musical (or comedy) than the Peter Pan production was.

204 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 6:49:02am

re: #180 Targetpractice

As do I. I think we need to make ourselves comfortable with the idea that Keystone is happening sometime next year. Either as part of a major deal, or a minor deal, or just jammed through on a promise to Senate Dems that Mitch will still respect them in the morning.

The number one thing that Keystone has going for it is that it will piss off liberals. At this point it doesn’t matter what damage it may do, or that it may not even be profitable, it pisses off liberals. It is the Republicans’ Mt. Rushmore.

205 darthstar  Dec 5, 2014 6:49:57am
206 darthstar  Dec 5, 2014 6:50:27am

Okay…so what the hell is going on at the New Republic?

207 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 6:51:48am

re: #206 darthstar

Okay…so what the hell is going on at the New Republic?

The Sith openly taking over is my guess.
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208 darthstar  Dec 5, 2014 6:52:26am

re: #206 darthstar

Okay…so what the hell is going on at the New Republic?

Okay…dudebros.

thedailybeast.com

When Facebook billionaire Chris Hughes, the owner of The New Republic, and TNR’s newly installed CEO, former Yahoo News executive Guy Vidra, visit the storied magazine’s Washington headquarters on Friday morning to meet with the staff, they are likely to be greeted by a skeleton crew of a few editorial interns and junior employees.

Hughes’s and Vidra’s decision to abruptly change the 100-year-old journal of politics, policy, art and culture into what Hughes calls a “digital media company” and relocate to Manhattan—and in the process get rid of top editor Franklin Foer, who has run the magazine on and off since 2006, and literary editor Leon Wieseltier, a major figure at TNR since the early 1980s—has prompted what is expected to be a mass exodus by most if not all of the senior editors and writers.

209 Mike Lamb  Dec 5, 2014 6:53:59am

re: #171 Targetpractice

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Worst socialist president ever.

Obama is definitely going to need some re-education at the next meeting of the Communist Local No. 802. And then after that, another stern talking to from the Jimmy Carter Fan Club of Rancho Cucumonga. Dow pushing 18k. 5.8% unemployment. Most job growth since the Clinton presidency. Who does he think he is? Reagan?

210 b_sharp  Dec 5, 2014 6:54:34am

re: #190 nearly-headless smith25

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Are you trying to suck up to the Kragmeister?

If so, well done.

211 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 5, 2014 6:55:16am

re: #190 nearly-headless smith25

Not a bad choice.

If I change away from the Ft Sumter flag, I’d probably choose one of the two most underappreciated great US generals:

George Meade

George Henry Thomas

212 b_sharp  Dec 5, 2014 6:55:56am

re: #201 lawhawk

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Crime is going down everywhere. It’s time to change police back into human beings.

213 Targetpractice  Dec 5, 2014 6:57:02am

re: #208 darthstar

Okay…dudebros.

thedailybeast.com

Reminds me of the horror stories I read about JC Penny’s when a Randian took over and decided he was going to turn one of America’s few remaining bulwarks of simply living into a high-priced candy store, alongside setting the departments against each other under the assumption that that would lead to greater sales rather than the destructive infighting that destroyed the brand.

214 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 6:58:39am

re: #213 Targetpractice

Reminds me of the horror stories I read about JC Penny’s when a Randian took over and decided he was going to turn one of America’s few remaining bulwarks of simply living into a high-priced candy store, alongside setting the departments against each other under the assumption that that would lead to greater sales rather than the destructive infighting that destroyed the brand.

That was Sears, not Penney even though both retail icons have become train wrecks.

215 nearly-headless smith25  Dec 5, 2014 6:59:38am

re: #210 b_sharp

re: #211 William Barnett-Lewis

Just felt like timing was right. Did some research and found that he, while in charge of a Reconstruction district in Atlanta, made it possible for Black men to serve on a Jury. Hit a positive note with me.

216 darthstar  Dec 5, 2014 7:00:34am

re: #213 Targetpractice

Reminds me of the horror stories I read about JC Penny’s when a Randian took over and decided he was going to turn one of America’s few remaining bulwarks of simply living into a high-priced candy store, alongside setting the departments against each other under the assumption that that would lead to greater sales rather than the destructive infighting that destroyed the brand.

A buddy of mine bought a ton of JCP stock when that happened - saying he knew the guy and that he was brilliant. A year later he was all, “I don’t know what happened.”

217 Targetpractice  Dec 5, 2014 7:01:26am

re: #214 The Vicious Fergushka

That was Sears, not Penney even though both retail icons have become train wrecks.

Ah right, Sears. JC Pennys went “rebranding” and has crashed through the floor as well, taking K-Mart with it.

We used to have a Super K-Mart down the road when I first moved in, and that was roughly 20 years ago. You could just see it going downhill in real time the year up until they finally closed it. Ended up sitting abandoned for 3 years, then last year was torn down and a new Krogers put in its place.

218 b_sharp  Dec 5, 2014 7:01:32am

re: #215 nearly-headless smith25

Just felt like timing was right. Did some research and found that he, while in charge of a Reconstruction district in Atlanta, made it possible for Black men to serve on a Jury. Hit a positive note with me.

I’m just teasing you.

There are far worse things than emulating Kragar.
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I’m not sure what, but there must be.

219 makeitstop  Dec 5, 2014 7:02:43am

re: #201 lawhawk

Police departments can & must reduce officers’ impulse to shoot; Philly revised training/tactics, shootings ↓ significantly & crime ↓ too

DiBlasio announced a ‘3 day retraining program’ for beat cops yesterday. I have my doubts that 3 days of training will make any appreciable change in NYPD’s Cop Culture, but we’ll see.

220 Targetpractice  Dec 5, 2014 7:04:09am

re: #219 makeitstop

DiBlasio announced a ‘3 day retraining program’ for beat cops yesterday. I have my doubts that 3 days of training will make any appreciable change in NYPD’s Cop Culture, but we’ll see.

It’s a band-aid on the problem. I imagine the reason there’s not a major retraining program is because it would be at the city’s expense.

221 b.d.  Dec 5, 2014 7:06:53am

OBAMA IS MAKING US WORK MORE, THAT TYRANT

222 Timothy Watson  Dec 5, 2014 7:09:18am

re: #211 William Barnett-Lewis

Not a bad choice.

If I change away from the Ft Sumter flag, I’d probably choose one of the two most underappreciated great US generals:

George Meade

George Henry Thomas

George Henry Thomas and Montgomery C. Meigs were two great Virginians who stayed with the Union.

223 Timothy Watson  Dec 5, 2014 7:10:08am

re: #213 Targetpractice

Reminds me of the horror stories I read about JC Penny’s when a Randian took over and decided he was going to turn one of America’s few remaining bulwarks of simply living into a high-priced candy store, alongside setting the departments against each other under the assumption that that would lead to greater sales rather than the destructive infighting that destroyed the brand.

The guy who took over J.C. Penny’s wasn’t a Randian, but a moron who used to work for Apple.

224 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 7:10:28am

re: #217 Targetpractice

Ah right, Sears. JC Pennys went “rebranding” and has crashed through the floor as well, taking K-Mart with it.

We used to have a Super K-Mart down the road when I first moved in, and that was roughly 20 years ago. You could just see it going downhill in real time the year up until they finally closed it. Ended up sitting abandoned for 3 years, then last year was torn down and a new Krogers put in its place.

K-Mart and Sears were owned by the same Libertarian asshole, K-Mart had nothing to do with Penney.

AFAIK Penney made a series of bad business decisions but was not run by a crazy person.

225 darthstar  Dec 5, 2014 7:10:35am

re: #221 b.d.

OBAMA IS MAKING US WORK MORE, THAT TYRANT

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226 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 5, 2014 7:11:28am

Florida story for you all. A for-profit college hired exotic dancers as admissions officers to lure students into signing up for bogus courses.

news.yahoo.com

227 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 7:13:00am

re: #219 makeitstop

DiBlasio announced a ‘3 day retraining program’ for beat cops yesterday. I have my doubts that 3 days of training will make any appreciable change in NYPD’s Cop Culture, but we’ll see.

Three whole days? Wow. DiBlasio really means business this time. If that doesn’t stop the killing of unarmed arrestees he may even send the offending cops a strongly worded form letter.

228 darthstar  Dec 5, 2014 7:13:45am

Okay…gotta walk the dogs, pack the car, and get up to Tahoe before the next storm comes blowing through…I hate being stuck in traffic.

229 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 5, 2014 7:13:45am

re: #227 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Three whole days? Wow. DiBlasio really means business this time. If that doesn’t stop the killing of unarmed arrestees he may even send the offending cops a strongly worded form letter.

Shut off the coffee and donuts for a day, too.

230 Franklin  Dec 5, 2014 7:14:23am

I just love the creative ways that @GrooveSDC dispatches trolls.

231 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 7:14:48am

re: #211 William Barnett-Lewis

Not a bad choice.

If I change away from the Ft Sumter flag, I’d probably choose one of the two most underappreciated great US generals:

George Meade

George Henry Thomas

I named two Feline Overlords after Generals Sherman and Thomas. A picture of the latter is on comment #105 (or so) of this thread.

232 makeitstop  Dec 5, 2014 7:14:48am

re: #227 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Three whole days? Wow. DiBlasio really means business this time. If that doesn’t stop the killing of unarmed arrestees he may even send the offending cops a strongly worded form letter.

3 days for 20,000 cops! What’s that average out to?
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233 lawhawk  Dec 5, 2014 7:15:18am

re: #219 makeitstop

Retraining is a good step, but it also has to go hand in hand with a reformation of training and tactics at the police academy for new recruits (along with better screening of cops in the first place).

Retraining and improved guidelines need reinforcement, so cops should get regular retraining to explicitly and repeatedly indicate that the cops must take steps to avoid the use of deadly force.

NYC is safer than it has ever been. Murders may not even crack 300 this year. 25 years ago, we were talking 2,000+. The number of crimes overall has dropped as well - from over 500k to about 110k. ~80% drop. Good policing is one part of deciphering that drop, but so too is the end of the crack epidemic, improved use of statistics to address crime, dealing with repeat offenders, use of cameras and DNA to arrest and convict criminals, etc.

But that also means that the gun is not an automatic talisman. Stress that violation of department policy on use of deadly force, chokeholds, etc., will result in loss of job.

Most cops do a solid and upstanding job. They should want the bad apples to get tossed from the Department since it gives all of them a bad name and makes their job much harder. Defending the indefensible actions of the cop in Garner’s death just shows how tone deaf the PBA is and while I get that their job is to protect their union members, the video clearly shows him violating Department policy and that’s simply inexcusable.

234 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 7:16:45am

re: #232 makeitstop

3 days for 20,000 cops! What’s that average out to?
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Factoring in breaks, lunch, and bullshitting, I’d say about an hour-and-a-half per cop.

235 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 7:19:14am

re: #220 Targetpractice

It’s a band-aid on the problem. I imagine the reason there’s not a major retraining program is because it would be at the city’s expense.

They need to compare the budget cost of that to the wrongful death lawsuits. Though, on principle they should be doing whatever is needed in terms of retraining since killing people is not good service to the community.

And the cop photoed giving the finger needs talking to as well. Doesn’t take much bad imagery to counteract a lot of positive actions. Police are humans too, but once you put on the uniform your actions represent *all* to people who wear that uniform and work for that organization.

236 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 7:23:27am

re: #233 lawhawk

Retraining is a good step, but it also has to go hand in hand with a reformation of training and tactics at the police academy for new recruits (along with better screening of cops in the first place).

Retraining and improved guidelines need reinforcement, so cops should get regular retraining to explicitly and repeatedly indicate that the cops must take steps to avoid the use of deadly force.

NYC is safer than it has ever been. Murders may not even crack 300 this year. 25 years ago, we were talking 2,000+. The number of crimes overall has dropped as well - from over 500k to about 110k. ~80% drop. Good policing is one part of deciphering that drop, but so too is the end of the crack epidemic, improved use of statistics to address crime, dealing with repeat offenders, use of cameras and DNA to arrest and convict criminals, etc.

But that also means that the gun is not an automatic talisman. Stress that violation of department policy on use of deadly force, chokeholds, etc., will result in loss of job.

Most cops do a solid and upstanding job. They should want the bad apples to get tossed from the Department since it gives all of them a bad name and makes their job much harder. Defending the indefensible actions of the cop in Garner’s death just shows how tone deaf the PBA is and while I get that their job is to protect their union members, the video clearly shows him violating Department policy and that’s simply inexcusable.

There needs to be a pretty thorough reappraisal. Improved screening helps since you can try to spot people who will have (and be) problems early on. You also need periodic evaluations to check for the equivalent of stress syndrome, reinforcing positive behavior patterns, and in general figuring out if someone is getting burned out and needs to be fired, transferred, or given therapy *before* something bad happens.

237 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 7:27:44am

Hmmph.

MSNBC Headline:
No Evidence Christie Involved in Bridge Plot

One line summary:
The report said that critical witnesses had not testified and that important questions remained unanswered.

It’s sort of the anti-Benghazi!
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238 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 5, 2014 7:28:33am

Watching an interesting news show from Australia called Insight. The episode is called “Changing a Mindset,” about people who have escaped cults and oppressive environments and become normal people.

sbs.com.au

A former neo-nazi, a North Korean refugee, an escapee from a religious commune, and others share their stories on “mind control.”

239 Franklin  Dec 5, 2014 7:33:53am

CNN Article should be titled “How to Go From RIGHT ON! to WTF? In Just 6 Paragraphs!”

George W. Bush: Garner decision ‘hard to understand’

240 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 7:34:48am

re: #239 Franklin

CNN Article should be titled “How to Go From RIGHT ON! to WTF? In Just 6 Paragraphs!”

George W. Bush: Garner decision ‘hard to understand’

Most things are hard for GW Bush to understand.

241 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 7:36:11am

I haz a sad :(
Author of some excellent cookbooks

242 Lidane  Dec 5, 2014 7:36:48am

re: #192 Targetpractice

Nothing has depressed me more this week than seeing all the closeted authoritarians come out to dance on Garner’s grave while telling me “He shouldn’t have resisted arrest.” And at least half these fuckers are the same ones who, not a year ago, were cheering on “armed resistance” at the Bundy Ranch.

Yegods.

I’ve noticed they’re also the same jackwagons who will tell you that the Bundy Ranch goons aiming guns at BLM agents were patriots standing their ground, but a 12 year old in Cleveland with a toy gun deserved to get shot on sight because he didn’t have any parental supervision at home.

243 Targetpractice  Dec 5, 2014 7:37:39am

So yeah, they’re doing yet another reboot of a classic franchise…

Youtube Video

244 lawhawk  Dec 5, 2014 7:38:16am

re: #237 Feline Fearless Leader

The underlying report found no conclusive evidence; and yes, some key players had not testified.

That’s despite fact that Christie operated a tight ship where he controlled the many aspects of governance - a micromanager. Is it possible that people in his inner circle acted without his direct knowledge or support to force the GWB lane closures as political retribution? Yes.

But it’s not entirely plausible when Christie always claims that the buck stops with him and that he operates a tight ship. It’s tough to reconcile a rogue top official running this project without Christie’s knowledge or approval.

More likely? Christie intimated that something should be done, and left the details up to his underlings giving him plausible deniability. That seems to be the outcome of the investigation so far.

Still, there’s a bigger mess for Christie, and it involves the transfer of Port Authority money to rebuild the Pulaski Skyway. It diverts monies meant for bond offerings for Port Authority projects, and may be a violation of federal law on the underwriting and offering statements that didn’t state that the money from tolls would be diverted for those purposes.

245 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 7:38:48am
246 Targetpractice  Dec 5, 2014 7:41:48am

re: #244 lawhawk

The underlying report found no conclusive evidence; and yes, some key players had not testified.

That’s despite fact that Christie operated a tight ship where he controlled the many aspects of governance - a micromanager. Is it possible that people in his inner circle acted without his direct knowledge or support to force the GWB lane closures as political retribution? Yes.

But it’s not entirely plausible when Christie always claims that the buck stops with him and that he operates a tight ship. It’s tough to reconcile a rogue top official running this project without Christie’s knowledge or approval.

More likely? Christie intimated that something should be done, and left the details up to his underlings giving him plausible deniability. That seems to be the outcome of the investigation so far.

Still, there’s a bigger mess for Christie, and it involves the transfer of Port Authority money to rebuild the Pulaski Skyway. It diverts monies meant for bond offerings for Port Authority projects, and may be a violation of federal law on the underwriting and offering statements that didn’t state that the money from tolls would be diverted for those purposes.

He apparently will skate for the same reason that St. Ron did: He didn’t explicitly order his underlings to break the law, he just screamed “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest!” and they did the rest. Perhaps that’s the reason those critical witnesses haven’t testified, is they can’t find one who’ll testify in exchange for immunity who can do more than say that they acted on implied orders rather than explicit ones.

247 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 7:43:51am

re: #246 Targetpractice

He apparently will skate for the same reason that St. Ron did: He didn’t explicitly order his underlings to break the law, he just screamed “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest!” and they did the rest. Perhaps that’s the reason those critical witnesses haven’t testified, is they can’t find one who’ll testify in exchange for immunity who can do more than say that they acted on implied orders rather than explicit ones.

I thought it was still partially the critical witnesses holding out for some sort of deal.

248 Dr. Matt  Dec 5, 2014 7:46:08am

re: #198 darthstar

Please add me to the long list of people resigning as contributing editors to The New Republic. @RyanLizza @chrishughes @jonathanchait
— Cass Sunstein (@CassSunstein) December 5, 2014

What’s happening over there? They upset that Obama hasn’t bought them a pony too?

249 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 7:47:25am

re: #248 Dr. Matt

What’s happening over there? They upset that Obama hasn’t bought them a pony too?

Another Dudebro wants to do journalism so he bought TNR

250 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 7:48:18am
251 Decatur Deb  Dec 5, 2014 7:48:43am

re: #249 The Vicious Fergushka

Another Dudebro wants to do journalism so he bought TNR

I, for one, miss the good old days when rich assholes just bought racing yachts.

252 Jenner7  Dec 5, 2014 7:50:54am

I have no clue what’s going on with TNR, I honestly have never read it. Is it a progressive publication? Conservative? I’m totally clueless on the matter.

??

253 Timothy Watson  Dec 5, 2014 7:53:35am

re: #249 The Vicious Fergushka

Another Dudebro wants to do journalism so he bought TNR

Was this before or after they printed that bullshit Eric Garner story?

254 ObserverArt  Dec 5, 2014 7:58:32am

re: #209 Mike Lamb

Obama is definitely going to need some re-education at the next meeting of the Communist Local No. 802. And then after that, another stern talking to from the Jimmy Carter Fan Club of Rancho Cucumonga. Dow pushing 18k. 5.8% unemployment. Most job growth since the Clinton presidency. Who does he think he is? Reagan?

Just imagine how well he could be doing if he had a real House of Representatives to work with. Even if they were (realistic) Republicans.

That is something else that needs to be factored in.

255 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 5, 2014 7:58:57am

Something you don’t see every day, a brawl in a bowling alley:

Middletown man lucky to be alive after being hit with bowling ball

256 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 8:00:01am

Some quotes from Jonathon Chait writing for New York Magazine.

A Eulogy for The New Republic

Frank Foer isn’t leaving TNR because he wasn’t a good enough editor. He’s leaving because Chris Hughes is not a good enough owner.

The problem, rather, is that Hughes and Vidra are afflicted with the belief that they can copy the formula that transformed the Huffington Post and BuzzFeed into economic successes, which is probably wrong, and that this formula can be applied to The New Republic, which is certainly wrong.

257 Dr Lizardo  Dec 5, 2014 8:04:00am

re: #251 Decatur Deb

I, for one, miss the good old days when rich assholes just bought racing yachts.

And Rolex Submariners.

Speaking of which, and totally OT, but I bought myself my own little Christmas present. A Seiko SKX007K2 wristwatch, sometimes known as “the poor man’s Rolex Submariner” - though you won’t know it if you see the ungodly amount they want for them here in the Czech Republic.

I ordered it online for about half the price they want here. Seiko watches, especially the automatic ones, command a premium. Hell, even an Apple 3G still sells for about $400 used here.

Seiko SKX007K2 w/Jubilee Bracelet
258 ObserverArt  Dec 5, 2014 8:07:42am

re: #251 Decatur Deb

I, for one, miss the good old days when rich assholes just bought racing yachts.

Ahhh, yes. Back in the days when they were part of the 10%.

Now as 1%ers they have to do something with all that extra loot.

259 Dr. Matt  Dec 5, 2014 8:07:47am

re: #257 Dr Lizardo

Get a real Seiko:

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260 Dr Lizardo  Dec 5, 2014 8:09:49am

re: #259 Dr. Matt

Get a real Seiko:

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I got small hands and all, but just…….damn.

261 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 8:13:35am

Ya think?

262 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 8:15:15am

re: #257 Dr Lizardo

I love watches so much that I kill them. Over the years I bought any number of expensive watches which are all now living happily on a farm. Now I buy cheap ones and they last just about as long as their pricier kin did.

263 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 5, 2014 8:15:57am

re: #259 Dr. Matt

Get a real Seiko:

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I’ll stick to my 1904 instead … ;)

264 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 8:17:16am

re: #262 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I love watches so much that I kill them. Over the years I bought any number of expensive watches which are all now living happily on a farm. Now I buy cheap ones and they last just about as long as their pricier kin did.

I’ve been wearing my dad’s watch since he passed away. Had to replace the band several times.

265 b.d.  Dec 5, 2014 8:19:45am

re: #262 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I love watches so much that I kill them. Over the years I bought any number of expensive watches which are all now living happily on a farm. Now I buy cheap ones and they last just about as long as their pricier kin did.

I have three different colored Timex Weekenders that I interchange as the mood strikes.

Big spender, they work fine but they can’t live in the bedroom as they are too loud.

266 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 8:21:16am

re: #264 The Vicious Fergushka

I’ve been wearing my dad’s watch since he passed away. Had to replace the band several times.

Maybe it’s my magnetic personality. The watch can be battery powered, solar powered, self-winding, wind up, whatever. After a while they all die beyond the ability of any watchmaker to resurrect them more than temporarily.

267 b_sharp  Dec 5, 2014 8:21:28am

Watch?

What’s a ‘watch’?

Is that like a smart phone you wear on your arm?

268 Dr Lizardo  Dec 5, 2014 8:22:41am

re: #262 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I love watches so much that I kill them. Over the years I bought any number of expensive watches which are all now living happily on a farm. Now I buy cheap ones and they last just about as long as their pricier kin did.

My dad had a number of Seiko 5’s. He swore by them, and he was pretty rough on watches. They lasted a long time…..after he passed away, I sold them off as I didn’t really need them, and they were all still running, though they were somewhat banged up.

I’ve always liked diver’s watches, and automatic watches. and the Seiko in the photo I put up is considered one of the better diving watches out there, and for it’s price - $200 neighborhood - it’s considered an outstanding value for money. That same watch retails here for close to $500 in watch stores I’ve been to here; usually between 8500 Kč to 10,000 Kč.

Pricey, to say the least.

269 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 8:23:10am

re: #267 b_sharp

Watch?

What’s a ‘watch’?

Is that like a smart phone you wear on your arm?

I’m an old guy, ex-military, so I don’t feel dressed without a watch.

270 b_sharp  Dec 5, 2014 8:23:32am

re: #266 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Maybe it’s my magnetic personality. The watch can be battery powered, solar powered, self-winding, wind up, whatever. After a while they all die beyond the ability of any watchmaker to resurrect them more than temporarily.

My wife has acidic skin which eats away at the backs of her watches.

When I wear a watch it just gets beaten up, cracked, scuffed, banged and smooshed.

I gave up on rings not made of titanium or carbide and watches not made of brick.

271 b_sharp  Dec 5, 2014 8:24:23am

re: #269 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’m an old guy, ex-military, so I don’t feel dressed without a watch.

I’m an old guy too, but I took pity on my watches and put them away.

272 Dr Lizardo  Dec 5, 2014 8:24:40am

re: #269 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’m an old guy, ex-military, so I don’t feel dressed without a watch.

Here in this little corner of Europe, wristwatches are ubiquitous. Everyone has them, from little kids to little old ladies.

273 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 8:26:11am

re: #272 Dr Lizardo

Here in this little corner of Europe, wristwatches are ubiquitous. Everyone has them, from little kids to little old ladies.

Thank you! I’m not stuck in my ways, I’m European!

274 nearly-headless smith25  Dec 5, 2014 8:27:11am

re: #267 b_sharp

Watch?

What’s a ‘watch’?

Is that like a smart phone you wear on your arm?

I love watches, but always am doing some activity that has forced me to take it off, or destroy it. Amazing how used to looking at the phone for time we have become.

275 Franklin  Dec 5, 2014 8:27:45am

Now, I’ve seen a few pictures of the victim in the AZ police involved shooting, and they weren’t mug shots. So they exist. This is shitty reporting, unless of course this mug shot is that of the officer.

276 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 5, 2014 8:28:04am

re: #269 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’m an old guy, ex-military, so I don’t feel dressed without a watch.

I miss my watch, sometimes, for those reasons and occasionally (especially for dress up) carry that 1904 Elgin of my Great Grandfather William’s. That said, my Samsung Galaxy S4 is a better watch/phone/pocket computer than anything else I’ve ever worn.

277 b_sharp  Dec 5, 2014 8:28:29am

re: #274 nearly-headless smith25

I love watches, but always am doing some activity that has forced me to take it off, or destroy it. Amazing how used to looking at the phone for time we have become.

Same here.

278 ObserverArt  Dec 5, 2014 8:28:52am

re: #270 b_sharp

My wife has acidic skin which eats away at the backs of her watches.

When I wear a watch it just gets beaten up, cracked, scuffed, banged and smooshed.

I gave up on rings not made of titanium or carbide and watches not made of brick.

I just don’t like stuff hanging on me. A watch and rings just start to become distractions and I guess sometimes get on my nerves and I start to poke and fuss with them. Back in the early 70s I wore a watch on the then-fashionable wide leather band, and I had a couple rings made by artists friends. But by the time I was out of college, I got out of all of it.

My hands and wrists are faster this way!

279 nearly-headless smith25  Dec 5, 2014 8:31:13am

re: #275 Franklin

#IfTheyGunnedMeDown

280 b_sharp  Dec 5, 2014 8:31:44am

re: #278 ObserverArt

I just don’t like stuff hanging on me. A watch and rings just start to become distractions and I guess sometimes get on my nerves and I start to poke and fuss with them. Back in the early 70s I wore a watch on the then-fashionable wide leather band, and I had a couple rings made by artists friends. But by the time I was out of college, I got out of all of it.

My hands and wrists are faster this way!

I used to have my hands in the guts of computers all the time and metal rings and watches didn’t mix well. Aside from the chance of shorting out a mobo my gold watches were getting cut by the sharp edges of the cases. I stopped wearing them and haven’t gone back.

281 Targetpractice  Dec 5, 2014 8:33:22am
282 Lidane  Dec 5, 2014 8:33:33am

re: #267 b_sharp

Watch?

What’s a ‘watch’?

Is that like a smart phone you wear on your arm?

It’s a fashion accessory that comes in handy when you’re too lazy to look for your smartphone. Heh.

When I went back to school and finished my undergrad I bought myself a Citizen Eco-Drive watch. I decided I’d earned it. I love it.

283 ObserverArt  Dec 5, 2014 8:34:17am

re: #280 b_sharp

I used to have my hands in the guts of computers all the time and metal rings and watches didn’t mix well. Aside from the chance of shorting out a mobo my gold watches were getting cut by the sharp edges of the cases. I stopped wearing them and haven’t gone back.

I look at my hands as the suspension arms of a fine-tuned race car. Less unsprung weight for better handling and feel.

: )

284 ObserverArt  Dec 5, 2014 8:34:54am

re: #281 Targetpractice

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Cool. I take it all went well with the test flight?

285 b_sharp  Dec 5, 2014 8:35:42am

re: #283 ObserverArt

I look at my hands as the suspension arms of a fine-tuned race car. Less unsprung weight for better handling and feel.

: )

That’s what she said.

286 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 8:35:58am

I never hit on a watch band that truly felt comfortable. Have a heavy Rolex knock-off that I was gifted with somewhere. Metal band was either too loose and would unlatch itself, or too tight and would pinch or rip out arm hairs. Older watches had leather or vinyl bands and roughly the same issues - too loose and would ride up and down my wrist and arm, or too tight and would pinch too much.

Just use my cellphone as the time piece now.

287 Targetpractice  Dec 5, 2014 8:37:43am

re: #284 ObserverArt

Cool. I take it all went well with the test flight?

It sounds like it. Or at least enough of the major systems worked that it completed the test flight and splashed down. We’ll know more later.

288 b_sharp  Dec 5, 2014 8:37:47am

re: #282 Lidane

It’s a fashion accessory that comes in handy when you’re too lazy to look for your smartphone. Heh.

When I went back to school and finished my undergrad I bought myself a Citizen Eco-Drive watch. I decided I’d earned it. I love it.

I’d probably wear a watch if I didn’t use my hands so much. Even now, hooking up systems & printers gives too many opportunities for the watch to catch on something or be damaged by heavy objects.

289 nearly-headless smith25  Dec 5, 2014 8:41:24am

I missed this one earlier…Wow, it’s powerful

290 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 8:42:37am

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY:

291 Ace-o-aces  Dec 5, 2014 8:43:13am

re: #252 Jenner7

I have no clue what’s going on with TNR, I honestly have never read it. Is it a progressive publication? Conservative? I’m totally clueless on the matter.??

I believe that makes you perfectly qualified to be their new editor-in-chief.

292 Jenner7  Dec 5, 2014 8:43:37am
293 Jenner7  Dec 5, 2014 8:44:00am

re: #291 Ace-o-aces

Cool!

294 gwangung  Dec 5, 2014 8:45:29am

re: #290 The Vicious Fergushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY:

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Again, conservatives saying black people have no agency. That’s it’s being done TO them, as opposed to they themselves deciding to do something.

295 b_sharp  Dec 5, 2014 8:45:34am

Smartphone user: “Siri, what time is it?”

Siri: “Please state time zone”

SU: “whatever it is here”

Siri: “Please state time zone”

SU: “well, I’m by Barrie”

Siri: “The time is 4:00 pm in Arie”

SU:”No, Siri, Barrie, Barrie”

Siri: “Did you mean to say Bora Bora?”

SU: “AArrrgh!!”

SU: “Sir, can you tell me what time it is?”

Passerby: Looks at watch - “about 2:00pm.”

296 Ace-o-aces  Dec 5, 2014 8:46:14am

re: #251 Decatur Deb

I, for one, miss the good old days when rich assholes just bought racing yachts.

Are we forgetting TNR was for decades owned by a rich, racist, Islamophobic asshole?

en.wikipedia.org

297 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 5, 2014 8:46:25am

re:
#290

That’s us, just rounding up all the blah women and making them get abortions all the while we bus them around to different polling places to vote fraud. //

298 Ace-o-aces  Dec 5, 2014 8:47:01am
299 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 5, 2014 8:47:42am

re: #291 Ace-o-aces

I believe that makes you perfectly qualified to be their new editor-in-chief.

The sad thing is that once upon a time it really was one of the greatest publications in America. Decades ago, mind. Even though it got props during Clinton Corp’s run it was already long since past it’s sell by date. But back in the ‘80’s fighting the good fight against St Ronnie of the Raygun? “Those were different times. The poets studied rules of verse & the ladies rolled their eyes.”

300 Timothy Watson  Dec 5, 2014 8:47:47am

Anyone remember how conservatives said that women shouldn’t be police officers because they can’t handle larger suspects and are more likely to kill them?

How’s that theory working out for those assholes now?

301 HappyWarrior  Dec 5, 2014 8:48:12am

re: #275 Franklin

Now, I’ve seen a few pictures of the victim in the AZ police involved shooting, and they weren’t mug shots. So they exist. This is shitty reporting, unless of course this mug shot is that of the officer.

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They won’t indict him. And yes I agree it’s downright shitty reporting to use the deceased’s mugshot as the photo for the story. Totally feeds those like CCJ who go “SEE HE HAS A MUG SHOT” therefore he deserved to die. And the police spokesman is claiming they found marijuana and an unspecifed weapon in his SUV to which I say “So the fuck what.” First off, marijuana is now legal in two states and its usage doesn’t make you a violent criminal and secondly, these cops never seem to care about weapons when white people are actually wearing them and aiming at people. Gah. Can’t wait to hear the excuses about this one from PoliceOne and the police can do no wrong brigade.

302 HappyWarrior  Dec 5, 2014 8:50:04am

re: #298 Ace-o-aces

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The cover alone.

303 Franklin  Dec 5, 2014 8:52:00am

re: #279 nearly-headless smith25

#IfTheyGunnedMeDown

Yep, absoluteley.

304 Jenner7  Dec 5, 2014 8:52:44am

re: #296 Ace-o-aces

Wow. I’m embarrassed I didn’t know any of this…

D’oh.

305 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 8:54:02am
306 Franklin  Dec 5, 2014 8:55:35am

re: #289 nearly-headless smith25

I missed this one earlier…Wow, it’s powerful

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Concern troll is concerned:

307 Dr Lizardo  Dec 5, 2014 8:56:01am

re: #298 Ace-o-aces

So basically, it makes Plan 9 From Outer Space look like 2001: A Space Odyssey.

LOLOLOL

308 Timothy Watson  Dec 5, 2014 8:56:41am

re: #306 Franklin

Concern troll is concerned:

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Yep, you have freedom of speech unless it might inconvenience a single person.

309 CuriousLurker  Dec 5, 2014 8:57:28am

The kid had just come out of the mosque with his family. Imagine the outrage & news coverage if a Muslim had intentionally run down a kid coming out of a church or synagogue.

310 HappyWarrior  Dec 5, 2014 8:58:15am

re: #305 The Vicious Fergushka

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Yes because being wished a Happy Holidays is akin to being killed because you’re the wrong religion. Gah Donohue’s the fucking Catholic Bryan Fischer.

311 HappyWarrior  Dec 5, 2014 8:58:35am

re: #309 CuriousLurker

The kid had just come out of the mosque with his family. Imagine the outrage & news coverage if a Muslim had intentionally run down a kid coming out of a church or synagogue.

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I just read your page on it CL. Heartbreaking.

312 HappyWarrior  Dec 5, 2014 9:00:19am

With apologies to W.B Yeats.
I write it out in a verse —
Brown and Garner
And Rice and Brisbon
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

313 lawhawk  Dec 5, 2014 9:02:34am

re: #306 Franklin

Who apparently doesn’t realize that the hotel is now the National Civil Rights Museum? This is exactly the kind of thing they’d support.

314 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 5, 2014 9:03:45am

re: #305 The Vicious Fergushka

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Those twits wage a far greater war on Christmas by their egotism. I’m no fan of the commercialized mess but I’d rather it than the travesty of the Lord that they claim to worship.

315 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 5, 2014 9:05:02am

re: #310 HappyWarrior

Yes because being wished a Happy Holidays is akin to being killed because you’re the wrong religion. Gah Donohue’s the fucking Catholic Bryan Fischer.

Nah, Brian’s still got miles on him because “BEARS”… :)

316 HappyWarrior  Dec 5, 2014 9:06:17am

re: #315 William Barnett-Lewis

Nah, Brian’s still got miles on him because “BEARS”… :)

Well Jewish people in Hollywood are Donohue’s Bears. Really though if anyone doubts the Antisemitism of the religious right, listen to Donohue talk about Hollywood. But that aside, I do agree that Fischer’s bear paranoia is really unique and humorous.

317 Flying Squirrel Girl  Dec 5, 2014 9:08:38am
Zedushka is seriously wingnutty. I just chant GET OFF MY LAWN! GET OFF MY LAWN! HURR! HURR! when he goes into one of his racist tirades.

If I may say, it brings me great comfort to know other people are in the same position I find myself in with regard to the person I love. I remind myself that there is more to “us” than politics. Often.

318 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 9:12:41am

re: #314 William Barnett-Lewis

Those twits wage a far greater war on Christmas by their egotism. I’m no fan of the commercialized mess but I’d rather it than the travesty of the Lord that they claim to worship.

I’ve discovered that due to extended exposure to these nuts that I am now much warier about people expressing open Christian sentiments. Brought to a point by reading a blog entry from a vet about how he expresses his Christian beliefs.* I don’t think the majority of Christians are quite realizing how badly these fanatics are poisoning the well.

* - Blogger also stated he didn’t believe in Darwinian evolution (though educated in it) and that he believed in Intelligent Design. He didn’t go into great detail, and I didn’t feel like following it up at the time. Though he stated his evolution opposition was based on something at the molecular level and not due to being Christian. That he followed that statement immediately by stating belief in Intelligent Design caused a double eyebrow raise.

319 Franklin  Dec 5, 2014 9:13:07am

re: #313 lawhawk

Who apparently doesn’t realize that the hotel is now the National Civil Rights Museum? This is exactly the kind of thing they’d support.

OH, that’s rich.

320 Romantic Heretic  Dec 5, 2014 9:20:43am

re: #250 The Vicious Fergushka

Caren MaxGlamour @Maxeightyeight

@viciousbabushka Biggest lie ever told about MLK! As the saying goes, “if you tell a lie often enough, people believe it!”
10:46 AM - 5 Dec 2014

And you, young lady, are walking proof of that.

321 Charles Johnson  Dec 5, 2014 9:24:19am
322 ObserverArt  Dec 5, 2014 9:31:59am

re: #298 Ace-o-aces

Will McAvoy @WillMcAvoyACN
Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas is now @IMDb’s worst rated movie of all time. imdb.com …

I just would like to take a moment to thank Mr. Cameron for his important contribution to the arts.

/

323 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 5, 2014 9:34:10am

re: #316 HappyWarrior

Well Jewish people in Hollywood are Donohue’s Bears. Really though if anyone doubts the Antisemitism of the religious right, listen to Donohue talk about Hollywood. But that aside, I do agree that Fischer’s bear paranoia is really unique and humorous.

Oh, I’ve heard D’ more than once and his antisemitism is of the worst sort. Still, I do find Brian more dangerous because there are far more who take his rantings seriously since it crosses demographic and denominational boundaries more than a Roman’s can.

324 makeitstop  Dec 5, 2014 9:39:49am

re: #322 ObserverArt

I just would like to take a moment to thank Mr. Cameron for his important contribution to the arts.

/

When you rank worse than ‘Battlefield Earth’ and ‘Lawnmower Man II’ (who even knew that one existed?), you gotta be doing something pretty wrong.

325 makeitstop  Dec 5, 2014 9:42:05am

And then there’s this: The Beatles Never Existed

I can’t begin to explain how goofy this site is. You have to go and look for yourself.

326 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 5, 2014 9:43:59am

re: #318 Feline Fearless Leader

I’ve discovered that due to extended exposure to these nuts that I am now much warier about people expressing open Christian sentiments. Brought to a point by reading a blog entry from a vet about how he expresses his Christian beliefs.* I don’t think the majority of Christians are quite realizing how badly these fanatics are poisoning the well.

* - Blogger also stated he didn’t believe in Darwinian evolution (though educated in it) and that he believed in Intelligent Design. He didn’t go into great detail, and I didn’t feel like following it up at the time. Though he stated his evolution opposition was based on something at the molecular level and not due to being Christian. That he followed that statement immediately by stating belief in Intelligent Design caused a double eyebrow raise.

Yeah, I know the kind.

As I try to live according to what is really important (love of god, neighbor, self, “don’t do to others what you don’t want done to you”, “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”, acts of charity, and so on) I get so frustrated by those who get hung up on ways to exclude & deny grace to everyone other than themselves.

Feh. Might just as well simply say “Be excellent to each other” and we’ll have as good a chance of it sticking. And, in the end, I really believe that the Lord would rather have a good Atheist than an asshat Believer…

327 Dr Lizardo  Dec 5, 2014 9:44:34am

re: #324 makeitstop

When you rank worse than ‘Battlefield Earth’ and ‘Lawnmower Man II’ (who even knew that one existed?), you gotta be doing something pretty wrong.

Saving Christmas ranked worse than Santa Claus Conquers The Martians.

Let that sink in for a moment.

328 Targetpractice  Dec 5, 2014 9:45:38am

re: #327 Dr Lizardo

Saving Christmas ranked worse than Santa Claus Conquers The Martians.

Let that sink in for a moment.

Yes, but does it rank worse than Manos?

329 Ace-o-aces  Dec 5, 2014 9:49:37am

re: #327 Dr Lizardo

Saving Christmas ranked worse than Santa Claus Conquers The Martians.

Let that sink in for a moment.

Are you kidding? Even the title is 1000x times better. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians conjures up images of humor and adventure and b-movie fun. Saving Christmas is literally the most uninspired, cliche, generic name for a Christmas movie you could possibly come up with.

330 lawhawk  Dec 5, 2014 9:50:25am

re: #328 Targetpractice

Is it Zyzzyx Road bad? That movie actually made all of $20. No that’s not a typo or error in the decimal place. It made $30, but they had to refund $10 because one of the people who bought ticked had worked on the movie.

331 ObserverArt  Dec 5, 2014 9:50:39am

re: #325 makeitstop

And then there’s this: The Beatles Never Existed

I can’t begin to explain how goofy this site is. You have to go and look for yourself.

Oh, now that looks fun.

I guess this means the Beatles never walked on the moon. Or something.

With the Gawker article on Peter Pan VB put up, the reviews of Cameron’s ‘movie’ at IMDb and this all saved as bookmarks, it looks like I have much comedy to read this weekend.

I love Li’l’ Green Footballs for this very reason. And the music videos!

332 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 9:55:37am

re: #322 ObserverArt

I just would like to take a moment to thank Mr. Cameron for his important contribution to the arts.

/

The Producers of that movie need to be closely watched. They might have been up to something.
//

333 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 5, 2014 9:59:04am

re:
#330

Sizemore and long-time friend Peter Walton, who worked as Sizemore’s assistant, were arrested during the film’s production for repeatedly failing drug tests while on probation.

Hate when that happens……

334 makeitstop  Dec 5, 2014 9:59:31am

re: #331 ObserverArt

I love Li’l’ Green Footballs for this very reason. And the music videos!

Videos? Here’s one for ya!

Youtube Video

A skinny white Brit with a HUGE voice and a real good song gets video-bombed by Picard’s #1 running buddy. Pretty funny.

335 Ace-o-aces  Dec 5, 2014 10:05:06am

re: #330 lawhawk

Is it Zyzzyx Road bad? That movie actually made all of $20. No that’s not a typo or error in the decimal place. It made $30, but they had to refund $10 because one of the people who bought ticked had worked on the movie.

To be fair, it was meant for direct to video release outside the US. The producers where obligated to do a domestic release by the SAG. They rented a small theater and showed it the bare minimum times they needed to without any advertising. So they weren’t trying to make any money on initial release,

336 Dr. Matt  Dec 5, 2014 10:05:43am

EV RIDER LiveWire is Harley-Davidon’s First Electrified Hog

HD’s base will uniformly reject this simply because electric power aligns with the Left.

337 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 10:09:19am

re: #336 Dr. Matt

EV RIDER LiveWire is Harley-Davidon’s First Electrified Hog

HD’s base will uniformly reject this simply because electric power aligns with the Left.

Does the logo for it look like a porcine version of Pikachu?

338 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 10:11:27am

re: #332 Feline Fearless Leader

The Producers of that movie need to be closely watched. They might have been up to something.
//

I saw what you did there.

339 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 10:13:05am

re: #338 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I saw what you did there.

:)

340 ObserverArt  Dec 5, 2014 10:13:32am

re: #334 makeitstop

Videos? Here’s one for ya!

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Video

A skinny white Brit with a HUGE voice and a real good song gets video-bombed by Picard’s #1 running buddy. Pretty funny.

Nice. Fun video.

And he gets entered into the Hall of Voices That Do Not Match the Face.

341 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 5, 2014 10:15:04am

re: #336 Dr. Matt

EV RIDER LiveWire is Harley-Davidon’s First Electrified Hog

HD’s base will uniformly reject this simply because electric power aligns with the Left.

Left right won’t matter - it’s simply never been done before and is automatically evil as a result.

342 makeitstop  Dec 5, 2014 10:16:09am

re: #340 ObserverArt

Nice. Fun video.

And he gets entered into the Hall of Voices That Do Not Match the Face.

I’ve been hearing a few of his singles - ‘Blame It On Me’ and ‘Budapest’ (which put him on the map) are both really good, too.

By the sound of his voice, I thought he’d be some big lumberjack-looking dude!

343 Kragar  Dec 5, 2014 10:17:27am
344 lawhawk  Dec 5, 2014 10:19:17am

re: #335 Ace-o-aces

Well, to be fair, they didn’t make any money outside the US either.

345 Eventual Carrion  Dec 5, 2014 10:20:34am

re: #343 Kragar

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I see they finally put mine in the listing.

346 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 10:20:45am

re: #336 Dr. Matt

EV RIDER LiveWire is Harley-Davidon’s First Electrified Hog

HD’s base will uniformly reject this simply because electric power aligns with the Left.

Judging from the middle aged, born-to-be-nearly-wild Harley riders around here they’ll reject it because there’s no way to make it obnoxiously loud.

347 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 5, 2014 10:22:25am

THANKS BUNCHES, ROLLING STONE.

348 Kragar  Dec 5, 2014 10:22:32am

re: #345 Eventual Carrion

I see they finally put mine in the listing.

They probably only update the pages on a scheduled update, not with every action.

349 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 5, 2014 10:22:53am

re: #343 Kragar

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Signed it for you, even though I know better. May you prove me wrong.

350 Kragar  Dec 5, 2014 10:24:16am
351 Kragar  Dec 5, 2014 10:24:27am

re: #349 William Barnett-Lewis

Signed it for you, even though I know better. May you prove me wrong.

Thank you.

352 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 10:26:41am

re: #350 Kragar

Is part of their job interview process include them being tested in vocabulary by Steve Martin?

They seem to use a lot of words without grasping that using them in that context is jaw-droppingly stupid.

353 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 10:27:18am

re: #350 Kragar

The right’s list of How Dare Yous is officially growing faster than the population of the earth.

354 Franklin  Dec 5, 2014 10:28:47am

—

“It’s refreshing to know that those days are behind us….[puts finger to ear]…that happened last week? In Missouri? F*ck”

Tonight, on The Daily Show

355 Kragar  Dec 5, 2014 10:28:51am

re: #352 Feline Fearless Leader

Is part of their job interview process include them being tested in vocabulary by Steve Martin?

They seem to use a lot of words without grasping that using them in that context is jaw-droppingly stupid.

Can I mambo dog face banana patch?

356 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 10:29:58am

re: #355 Kragar

Can I mambo dog face banana patch?

Eggs Zachery!

357 Eventual Carrion  Dec 5, 2014 10:30:06am

re: #350 Kragar

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Do those people live to see the world totally ass backwards or could they really be that stupid? Executing someone without a trial is exactly like having to go to trial. WTF

358 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 5, 2014 10:30:23am

re:
#350

AFA’s news director says that demanding public trials for cops who kill “sounds a whole lot like lynching to me”:

Public trials? Are there private trials?

/

359 Timothy Watson  Dec 5, 2014 10:31:20am

re: #358 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#350

Public trials? Are there private trials?

/

For juveniles, but that’s about it.

360 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 10:31:26am

re: #355 Kragar

Can I mambo dog face banana patch?

Only if you parachute genuflect lugnut pizza.

361 Romantic Heretic  Dec 5, 2014 10:31:58am

re: #347 The Vicious Fergushka

THANKS BUNCHES, ROLLING STONE.

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Eric, son of Eric? Please shut up. You are an ignorant dickweed and you bring nothing to the conversation save benighted blathering.

362 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 5, 2014 10:32:35am

re: #357 Eventual Carrion

Do those people live to see the world totally ass backwards or could they really be that stupid? Executing someone without a trial is exactly like having to go to trial. WTF

They’re implying “public trial” = “kangaroo court show trial” of course. You know, socialist show trial to convict and execute proper Americans.

And coming from the folk that love doing smears and convictions in the court of public opinion makes this even more offensive.

363 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 10:32:45am

re: #361 Romantic Heretic

Eric, son of Eric? Please shut up. You are an ignorant duckweed and you bring nothing to the conversation save benighted blathering.

Another of the RW’s dull tools.

364 unproven innocence  Dec 5, 2014 10:33:31am

re: #141 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

Well, shit. I hadn’t heard about this one until today:

Cop kills unarmed black man in Arizona

I’m now realizing how fortunate I was to have survived childhood and puberty, because for so much of that period, I looked like had a gun in my pocket.

[ Are you happy to see me, or … —Mae West]

365 Targetpractice  Dec 5, 2014 10:36:54am

re: #347 The Vicious Fergushka

THANKS BUNCHES, ROLLING STONE.

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“Real rape victims.” Erick, you know what I’ve learned in my 30 years on this planet? There’s not a rape victim in the world that fuckheads like you wouldn’t question, so long as you could make a buck off her suffering.

366 Franklin  Dec 5, 2014 10:39:48am

re: #365 Targetpractice

“Real rape victims.” Erick, you know what I’ve learned in my 30 years on this planet? There’s not a rape victim in the world that fuckheads like you wouldn’t question, so long as you could make a buck off her suffering.

No True Scotsman Rape Victim

367 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 5, 2014 10:41:05am

re: #365 Targetpractice

“Real rape victims.” Erick, you know what I’ve learned in my 30 years on this planet? There’s not a rape victim in the world that fuckheads like you wouldn’t question, so long as you could make a buck off her suffering.

The oh-so-moral voices of the Right would chisel their moms’ teeth out of their gums for three more Twitter followers.

368 Targetpractice  Dec 5, 2014 10:41:24am

re: #350 Kragar

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I doubt this nimrod has the first clue what a lynching entails. Or has any idea how many lynchings went on without even a trial involved.

369 BlueSpotinAL  Dec 5, 2014 12:43:41pm

re: #225 darthstar

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Takers down to 46%.


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