Stunning One-Take Projection Effects: Emmy Curl, “Come Closer”

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Here’s some eye candy done without computer effects (the song’s not bad, either), while I work on a coding project.

Music and Lyrics by Emmy Curl
Directed by Nuno Barbosa
Body Paintings by João Tiago Fernandes

One take, no post production, all in camera effects with projections.

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460 comments
1 Charles Johnson  Dec 6, 2014 1:06:26pm

Meanwhile, right wingers are acting like pigs as usual over Rolling Stone’s discredited UVA rape story.

If you go to the link, you’ll find that this is a response from a reader to something the LA Times published by Jonah Goldberg. Why would the LA Times have to apologize for this?

Conservatives are hardly even trying any more. They’ll just say anything.

2 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 1:09:57pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Surprised they haven’t brought up Crystal Mangum yet.

3 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 6, 2014 1:11:59pm

When will Jonah Goldberg apologize for calling liberals fascists?

4 Charles Johnson  Dec 6, 2014 1:12:39pm

Another hot right wing take:

Good grief. Nobody carries a grudge like right wingers.

5 Targetpractice  Dec 6, 2014 1:18:59pm

While I think the RS was stupid not to properly vet a story before publishing it, has “Jackie’s” story really been discredited beyond the fraternity just screaming “It never happened!” a little louder? Has there actually been an investigation that cleared the accused of the allegations?

6 Charles Johnson  Dec 6, 2014 1:19:36pm
7 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 6, 2014 1:19:41pm

re: #5 Targetpractice

I hope there will be one.

8 TedStriker  Dec 6, 2014 1:22:37pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Another hot right wing take:

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Good grief. Nobody carries a grudge like right wingers.

Hot, like a steaming pile the dog left out on the lawn.

9 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 6, 2014 1:23:29pm

Never heard of Broaddrick, so I googled and found this:
slate.com
washingtonpost.com

Frankly, don’t know what to think.

10 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 6, 2014 1:24:52pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Another hot right wing take:

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Good grief. Nobody carries a grudge like right wingers.

Odd that they can remember someone from twenty or thirty years ago yet none of them seem to remember George W. Bush.

11 Targetpractice  Dec 6, 2014 1:25:51pm

re: #7 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

I hope there will be one.

As would I. While I am skeptical of her claims, I’m not ready to dismiss them simply because a fraternity that’s in CYA mode denies everything.

12 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 1:30:15pm

re: #7 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

I hope there will be one.

If there is it will just be for show. Even when there’s physical evidence and eyewitnesses, prosecution is rarely pursued or successful.

13 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 1:49:19pm

re: #11 Targetpractice

As would I. While I am skeptical of her claims, I’m not ready to dismiss them simply because a fraternity that’s in CYA mode denies everything.

Neither am I. You might want to read this, though.

What the U-VA Rape Case Tells Us About a Victim Culture Gone Mad

thedailybeast.com

It’s not a “victim culture gone mad” if it’s true…

14 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 1:52:12pm

re: #9 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Never heard of Broaddrick, so I googled and found this:
slate.com
washingtonpost.com

Frankly, don’t know what to think.

I rather think that Bill Clinton would have no trouble finding women of every kind. Women love men who have power, but men who use that power to gain sexual favors are contemptible.

15 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 1:56:20pm

Good grief, the stress of that job and what he has to contend with from Congress, so it’s not surprising.

Physician says President Obama has sore throat symptoms consistent with soft tissue inflammation related to acid reflux, will be treated accordingly - @Acosta
see original on twitter.com

I’d have a talk with the WH chef—and watch what you eat everywhere.

16 The War TARDIS  Dec 6, 2014 2:02:06pm

Some Doctor Who fans are going to be upset:

Youtube Video

Clara kissed the Doctor on the cheek.

17 Charles Johnson  Dec 6, 2014 2:12:51pm

re: #9 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Never heard of Broaddrick, so I googled and found this:
slate.com
washingtonpost.com

Frankly, don’t know what to think.

At this point, there’s no way for anyone to know whether Broaddrick was telling the truth or not. But her story came up in the course of a rabid GOP witch hunt to destroy Clinton, so the context was radically different from the UVA case.

18 Charles Johnson  Dec 6, 2014 2:13:35pm
19 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 2:15:53pm

re: #18 Charles Johnson

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As one of the rapists?

20 ObserverArt  Dec 6, 2014 2:19:18pm

re: #13 Justanotherhuman

Neither am I. You might want to read this, though.

What the U-VA Rape Case Tells Us About a Victim Culture Gone Mad

thedailybeast.com

It’s not a “victim culture gone mad” if it’s true…

I read through that article at The Daily Beast. I am not defending Rolling Stone, but I do have a question. The Daily Beast writer is criticizing the Rolling Stone writer for this:

But of the hundreds of thousands, including journalists, who read the Rolling Stone story, few noticed Erdely’s failure to interview any of the seven men who participated in the attack on Jackie or corroborate many of the other easily corroborated details she reported.

Would any of the participants ordinarily take part in being interviewed and telling their side of the story in a gang rape??? And would anyone trust their version as proof one way or another???

The rest of her article has some good points. I’d just remind her not to expect so much in the age of New Journalism. Especially good fact checking.

21 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 6, 2014 2:26:25pm

re: #15 Justanotherhuman

heh…

22 Charles Johnson  Dec 6, 2014 2:26:56pm
23 TedStriker  Dec 6, 2014 2:33:06pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

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What a revolting shithead…

24 goddamnedfrank  Dec 6, 2014 2:34:21pm

re: #20 ObserverArt

I read through that article at The Daily Beast. I am not defending Rolling Stone, but I do have a question. The Daily Beast writer is criticizing the Rolling Stone write for this:

Would any of the participants ordinarily take part in being interviewed and telling their side of the story in a gang rape??? And would anyone trust their version as proof one way or another???

The point is that she didn’t ask them, which would have been basic goddamned journalism. The second a reporter starts justifying not researching half of a story because of their preconceptions about what answers might be given, or as in this case because their source doesn’t want them to, they aren’t actually doing journalism. You can’t justifying a failure to perform basic due diligence by simply asserting it to be a futile exercise.

Who trusts whatever story the accused gives also isn’t the point. The point is trying to get them on the record, so that the information they give can also be investigated, providing something by which to gauge their veracity. Even if the reporter gets nothing the attempt itself goes some way towards demonstrating their professionalism.

25 Targetpractice  Dec 6, 2014 2:34:26pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

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What if you spontaneously developed some journalistic integrity, not to mention some common fucking decency, CCJ?

26 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 2:34:28pm

re: #20 ObserverArt

I read through that article at The Daily Beast. I am not defending Rolling Stone, but I do have a question. The Daily Beast writer is criticizing the Rolling Stone write for this:

Would any of the participants ordinarily take part in being interviewed and telling their side of the story in a gang rape??? And would anyone trust their version as proof one way or another???

The rest of her article has some good points. I’d just remind her not to expect so much in the age of New Journalism. Especially good fact checking.

Didn’t the article mention that “Jackie” didn’t name any names anyway? The writer’s job was not to “try” the case in print at any rate, but to give her story.

I think the DB writer was just trying to cement her own opinion in the piece about what she called the “victim culture” gone mad.

Personally, I don’t believe the press is the first place I’d go to tell a story like that one, because it raises the very questions and opinions everyone seems to be debating. If you want even a modicum of “justice”, you’re not going to get it that way.

27 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 2:34:41pm

Yet we still hear the question asked, every time the subject comes up, “why don’t women report when they’re raped/assaulted/harassed?”

28 Shiplord Kirel  Dec 6, 2014 2:37:13pm

I don’t have Twitter, but somebody who does might want to ask ChuckC if he thinks the Moon landings were real. Might be something there.

29 Targetpractice  Dec 6, 2014 2:37:49pm

re: #26 Justanotherhuman

Didn’t the article mention that “Jackie” didn’t name any names anyway? The writer’s job was not to “try” the case in print at any rate, but to give her story.

I think the DB writer was just trying to cement her own opinion in the piece about what she called the “victim culture” gone mad.

Personally, I don’t believe the press is the first place I’d go to tell a story like that one, because it raises the very questions and opinions everyone seems to be debating. If you want even a modicum of “justice”, you’re not going to get it that way.

I have to agree that going to the press without going to the authorities or to the college admins first is a very bad call. But the devil on my shoulder would like to point out that we’ve heard more than our fair share of horror stories about colleges keeping such investigations “in-house,” forcing students to sign NDAs as part of remaining enrolled, or even expelling rape victims for violating obscure rules or policies while the accused remain students in good standing.

30 The War TARDIS  Dec 6, 2014 2:38:13pm

re: #26 Justanotherhuman

The Daily Beast seems like Dudebro Daily.

31 Targetpractice  Dec 6, 2014 2:39:03pm

Chucky and the rest of the wingnuts apparently aren’t satisfied with feeling they’ve won one over RS. They now feel the need to destroy “Jackie.”

32 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 2:39:33pm

re: #27 allegro

Yet we still hear the question asked, every time the subject comes up, “why don’t women report when they’re raped/assaulted/harassed?”

It also helps to define “rape”, “sexual assault”, and “harassment” which are 3 distinctly different crimes.

There is a reason rape kits were developed because a lot of women suffer injury of some kind—it’s generally a violent crime—or even if they don’t, there is generally DNA evidence that can be obtained.

33 Shiplord Kirel  Dec 6, 2014 2:39:51pm

re: #28 Shiplord Kirel

I don’t have Twitter, but somebody who does might want to ask ChuckC if he thinks the Moon landings were real. Might be something there.

We also need his take on UFOs, chemtrails, the Kennedy assassination, and Pearl Harbor.

34 goddamnedfrank  Dec 6, 2014 2:40:51pm

re: #26 Justanotherhuman

Didn’t the article mention that “Jackie” didn’t name any names anyway?

I believe she did name the fraternity, which is a type of corporation with a national structure and reputation that can suffer some nominal material harm. I personally think College Greek life is a fucking sociological cancer, but the way the author and Rolling Stone went about this was unbelievably reckless and irresponsible.

35 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 2:42:27pm

re: #29 Targetpractice

I have to agree that going to the press without going to the authorities or to the college admins first is a very bad call. But the devil on my shoulder would like to point out that we’ve heard more than our fair share of horror stories about colleges keeping such investigations “in-house,” forcing students to sign NDAs as part of remaining enrolled, or even expelling rape victims for violating obscure rules or policies while the accused remain students in good standing.

Now, I see it differently. I don’t think crimes of this nature should be handled by schools. Rape victims shouldgo or be taken straight to an outside hospital or the police since administrators and those who work for the school have a vested interest in keeping such incidents quiet.

36 The War TARDIS  Dec 6, 2014 2:42:28pm

re: #34 goddamnedfrank

I had this thought when I went to OU, but couldn’t verbalize why. Can you explain your thoughts on why?

37 The War TARDIS  Dec 6, 2014 2:42:40pm

Stuck in Fanboy mode.

38 Charles Johnson  Dec 6, 2014 2:44:29pm
39 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 2:47:57pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

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At least half the population suffers from GERD, so I suppose half the population has AIDS? /////

40 goddamnedfrank  Dec 6, 2014 2:47:57pm

re: #36 The War TARDIS

I had this thought when I went to OU, but couldn’t verbalize why. Can you explain your thoughts on why?

It preys on a soft form of gang mentality and tends to reward the worst aspects of our culture. Fraternities and sororities were from their inception designed to perpetuate a nepotistic society geared more around who you know than what you know. I see the Greek system as by and large being a upper and upper middle class defense mechanism.

41 The War TARDIS  Dec 6, 2014 2:48:48pm

re: #40 goddamnedfrank

That’s it!! Thank you.

42 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 2:49:25pm

OMG don’t buy chickens from BC!

5 British Columbia farms are quarantined for bird flu - @AP
read more on abcnews.go.com

If they cross the border, we’re all dead!

43 Targetpractice  Dec 6, 2014 2:49:32pm

re: #35 Justanotherhuman

Now, I see it differently. I don’t think crimes of this nature should be handled by schools. Rape victims shouldgo or be taken straight to an outside hospital or the police since administrators and those who work for the school have a vested interest in keeping such incidents quiet.

Problem is that, if the rape happens on campus, the college ends up getting involved anyway as part of the investigation. And that’s led to them booting students out just to avoid liability.

44 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 2:50:48pm

I know that Chuckles can raise a lot of people’s bile…

45 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 2:54:27pm

re: #43 Targetpractice

Problem is that, if the rape happens on campus, the college ends up getting involved anyway as part of the investigation. And that’s led to them booting students out just to avoid liability.

That’s only liability if the suspect is tried and found not guilty. Schools shouldn’t force out students who haven’t had their day in court. And the schools shouldn’t try to be judge and jury in their investigations, either.

46 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 2:59:05pm

I survived.

I didn’t kill, maim, or otherwise hurt a single other shopper.

I also ended up with a new large format inkjet printer, a present from my wife.

47 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 3:00:11pm

re: #46 b_sharp

I survived.

I didn’t kill, maim, or otherwise hurt a single other shopper.

I also ended up with a new large format inkjet printer, a present from my wife.

Now you can print fancy protest signs!

48 Charles Johnson  Dec 6, 2014 3:00:20pm
49 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 6, 2014 3:00:56pm
50 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 3:01:22pm

re: #47 allegro

Now you can print fancy protest signs!

That’s the plan.

The first sign will be a protest against stupid people.

51 Decatur Deb  Dec 6, 2014 3:02:34pm

re: #26 Justanotherhuman

Didn’t the article mention that “Jackie” didn’t name any names anyway? The writer’s job was not to “try” the case in print at any rate, but to give her story.

…snip

Herein might be the problem.

52 EmmaAnne  Dec 6, 2014 3:07:17pm

Commonly used indicators of reliability for workplace sexual harassment allegations include whether other people come forward with similar stories after the allegation is made and whether the victim talked about the incidents contemporaneously. Obviously these are just indications and evidence needs to be gathered in each case that goes forward.

From my reading over the years, these seem to work pretty well with sexual assault and rape as well. Apparently sexual predators are repeat offenders. As soon as someone makes a public allegation, if it is true, a bunch of similar allegations usually come out. Bill Cosby is the obvious recent example - tons of similar stories have come out, and at least some of them have evidence that they talked about it at the time, though they didn’t report it to the police.

This also provides indirect evidence that most rapes aren’t reported - or there wouldn’t so often be similar allegations that never came out before.

53 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 3:08:59pm

re: #51 Decatur Deb

Herein might be the problem.

The writer deferred to “Jackie“‘s wishes not to name names. I think the writer herself saw a liability problem, but if she “later” found inconsistencies in the story “Jackie” told, at the point she wrote the story, she was living in a “writer’s paradise” with no substance to it that could be verified.

The story should never have been written, IMHO. There was no “there” there if the writer couldn’t get all the facts. It seemed to come off as an ideologically-bent piece to some.

54 Decatur Deb  Dec 6, 2014 3:10:59pm

re: #53 Justanotherhuman

The writer deferred to “Jackie“‘s wishes not to name names. I think the writer herself saw a liability problem, but if she “later” found inconsistencies in the story “Jackie” told, at the point she wrote the story, she was living in a “writer’s paradise” with no substance to it that could be verified.

The story should never have been written, IMHO. There was no “there” there if the writer couldn’t get all the facts. It seemed to come off as an ideologically-bent piece to some.

In my fever dream of an Ideal Platonic Journalist, her duty is to get the story.

55 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 6, 2014 3:17:01pm
56 Decatur Deb  Dec 6, 2014 3:17:38pm

Off to wine and snacks with my wife’s friends. BBL

57 goddamnedfrank  Dec 6, 2014 3:18:54pm

re: #53 Justanotherhuman

The writer deferred to “Jackie“‘s wishes not to name names.

There’s a conflation going around that equates not naming names with not contacting the accused party. It’s totally reasonable to not want the accused’s name to be published to avoid giving them a cause to in turn out the accuser. It’s totally unreasonable to demand the reporter not even contact the accused for a response.

58 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 3:21:50pm

re: #57 goddamnedfrank

There’s a conflation going around that equates not naming names with not contacting the accused party. It’s totally reasonable to not want the accused’s name to be published to avoid giving them a cause to in turn out the accuser. It’s totally unreasonable to demand the reporter not even contact the accused for a response.

Yes, naming names and publishing them are 2 entirely different things.

Anonymity is always in a writer’s tool kit. Did she explain that to “Jackie”?

59 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 3:23:31pm

re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth

More:

60 goddamnedfrank  Dec 6, 2014 3:24:41pm

If the writer wasn’t going to contact the accused then they shouldn’t have published the name of the school or fraternity either. They should have just said, “Here is a shitload of hearsay,” and kept all parties to it anonymous.

61 ObserverArt  Dec 6, 2014 3:26:10pm

re: #53 Justanotherhuman

The writer deferred to “Jackie“‘s wishes not to name names. I think the writer herself saw a liability problem, but if she “later” found inconsistencies in the story “Jackie” told, at the point she wrote the story, she was living in a “writer’s paradise” with no substance to it that could be verified.

The story should never have been written, IMHO. There was no “there” there if the writer couldn’t get all the facts. It seemed to come off as an ideologically-bent piece to some.

I agree.

The only reason I brought up the point of interviewing and getting the facts on the participants is I don’t think I have ever seen any article with mentions of gang or single rapists being interviewed for their side of the story. That is unless it is already public fact, been to trial and settled as far as in the eyes of the law. We’ve all heard a lot of rapists deny being involved from jail. Or someone that was found not guilty being mentioned again after the trial.

In this case, wouldn’t identifying yourself as a participant be rather stupid? There is no official case and you haven’t been tried for anything, as it is alleged. But by agreeing to be interviewed you are in a way setting yourself up as a suspect at the very least. I think your lawyer would not like that!

62 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 6, 2014 3:27:59pm

re: #60 goddamnedfrank

If the writer wasn’t going to contact the accused then they shouldn’t have published the name of the school or fraternity either. They should have just said, “Here is a shitload of hearsay,” and kept all parties to it anonymous.

Yep, that pretty much sums up what a few of us (including you and me) were trying to explain last night downstairs

63 stpaulbear  Dec 6, 2014 3:28:39pm

re: #28 Shiplord Kirel

I don’t have Twitter, but somebody who does might want to ask ChuckC if he thinks the Moon landings were real. Might be something there.

Somebody might want to ask him where he’s getting the $5000. I notice he preceded it with a ‘what if?’ as in: ‘I don’t really have the money but if someone thinks I do, they can supply me with the info’. Weasel.

64 Charles Johnson  Dec 6, 2014 3:29:54pm

He thinks he’s untouchable now.

65 The War TARDIS  Dec 6, 2014 3:38:54pm

re: #59 Justanotherhuman

It doesn’t look anywhere near as bad as what happened in Tacloban last year.

66 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 6, 2014 3:40:40pm

re: #65 The War TARDIS

It doesn’t look anywhere near as bad as what happened in Tacloban last year.

The sun just came up there.

67 gwangung  Dec 6, 2014 3:43:42pm

re: #57 goddamnedfrank

There’s a conflation going around that equates not naming names with not contacting the accused party. It’s totally reasonable to not want the accused’s name to be published to avoid giving them a cause to in turn out the accuser. It’s totally unreasonable to demand the reporter not even contact the accused for a response.

Granted. But….is it out of line to believe that there could be retribution on “Jackie” if the reporter did go directly to the accused?

There are some further ethical issues that at first glance….

68 Shiplord Kirel  Dec 6, 2014 3:44:30pm

re: #63 stpaulbear

Somebody might want to ask him where he’s getting the $5000. I notice he preceded it with a ‘what if?’ as in: ‘I don’t really have the money but if someone thinks I do, they can supply me with the info’. Weasel.

His mom should keep a close eye on the silver.

69 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 3:46:07pm

Remember when I posted this? At the time I thought it odd, since Legal Aid in NC only handled certain cases, like housing and benefits issues. They handle neither criminal nor libel cases, or those which can be adjudicated through the court system. Is it different in VA? You’d think Legal Aid would be overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of indigent cases relating to benefits and housing they handle every day. So is this tweet true?

70 Sionainn  Dec 6, 2014 3:46:48pm

re: #39 Justanotherhuman

At least half the population suffers from GERD, so I suppose half the population has AIDS? /////

Oh noes!!11! I have AIDS!!

71 Ace-o-aces  Dec 6, 2014 3:50:27pm
72 Ace-o-aces  Dec 6, 2014 3:50:52pm
73 b.d.  Dec 6, 2014 3:52:47pm

I guess he looked at his checkbook balance.

74 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 3:55:20pm

Central Virginia Legal Aid Society

“Our Priorities”

cvlas.org

So, they don’t seem to be any different than in NC.

75 Ace-o-aces  Dec 6, 2014 3:55:50pm

re: #73 b.d.

I guess he looked at his checkbook balance.

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Anybody want to give him a fake name and collect $500?

76 b.d.  Dec 6, 2014 3:56:30pm

re: #75 Ace-o-aces

Anybody want to give him a fake name and collect $500?

Like’d he pay up even if he got a real one?

77 stpaulbear  Dec 6, 2014 3:57:29pm

re: #75 Ace-o-aces

Anybody want to give him a fake name and collect $500?

You’d be lucky to get $50 for the real name.

Edit: Too slow…

78 Skip Intro  Dec 6, 2014 3:58:16pm

re: #76 b.d.

Like’d he pay up even if he got a real one?

Advertising space on GoatNews, and maybe a signed copy of Coolidge.

79 Skip Intro  Dec 6, 2014 4:00:09pm

re: #77 stpaulbear

You’d be lucky to get $50 for the real name.

Edit: Too slow…

Too many people know Chuck here to fall for this one.

80 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 6, 2014 4:00:41pm

He has $500 in Zynga coins.

81 Varek Raith  Dec 6, 2014 4:06:17pm

re: #80 The Vicious Babushka

He has $500 in Zynga coins.

BAM!

82 Mentis Fugit  Dec 6, 2014 4:06:47pm

re: #75 Ace-o-aces

Anybody want to give him a fake name and collect $500?

I have it on good authority that her real name is Martha Farquhar.

83 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 6, 2014 4:08:15pm

Does anybody even play Farmville any more?

84 Varek Raith  Dec 6, 2014 4:08:53pm

re: #82 Mentis Fugit

I have it on good authority that her real name is Martha Farquhar.

Ivana Tinkle.

85 Varek Raith  Dec 6, 2014 4:10:32pm

re: #84 Varek Raith

Ivana Tinkle.

Let’s just throw all of Bart’s Prank calls to Moe at CCJ.
XD

86 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 4:12:46pm

Forensics firm Mandiant: Sony hacking attack was ‘unprecedented,’ used malware that could not be detected by anti-virus software - @Reuters
end of alert

87 BeachDem  Dec 6, 2014 4:14:43pm

re: #75 Ace-o-aces

Anybody want to give him a fake name and collect $500?

I was going to ask what the odds were on if he published a name, it would be the wrong name.

88 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 4:14:54pm
89 b.d.  Dec 6, 2014 4:15:37pm

re: #84 Varek Raith

Ivana Tinkle.

Chuck, she is a foreign student named Smur Fette

90 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 4:16:00pm

re: #87 BeachDem

I was going to ask what the odds were on if he published a name, it would be the wrong name.

He doesn’t just want the name. He wants to publish her address and phone number, too. #DOX is his specialty, isn’t it?

91 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 6, 2014 4:16:03pm

re: #73 b.d.

I guess he looked at his checkbook balance.

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More like looked in his mother-in-law’s cookie jar.

92 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 4:16:45pm

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

More like looked in his mother-in-law’s cookie jar.

Or took the deposit after he worked the second shift at her store.

93 BeachDem  Dec 6, 2014 4:16:49pm

re: #83 The Vicious Babushka

Hey VB, just wanted to say that I met your Senator, Debbie Stabenow, today and she was just delightful! I’m so jealous.

94 b.d.  Dec 6, 2014 4:18:10pm

Hahahahahahahaha:

95 Varek Raith  Dec 6, 2014 4:19:33pm

re: #94 b.d.

Hahahahahahahaha:

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Hugh Jass.

96 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 4:20:20pm

re: #94 b.d.

Hahahahahahahaha:

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Is anyone idiot enough to believe anything this mud wallower says?

97 Skip Intro  Dec 6, 2014 4:21:54pm

Someone on Twitter should tell UpChuck that he keeps leaving out the last 0 on his bounty offer.

Probably be down to $50 in an hour or so. New Journalism in action.

98 b.d.  Dec 6, 2014 4:22:04pm

re: #96 allegro

Is anyone idiot enough to believe anything this mud wallower says?

Although, I would love to be on the inside of GoatNews and give Chuck some REAL career defining scoops for him

//

99 Eventual Carrion  Dec 6, 2014 4:22:40pm

re: #75 Ace-o-aces

Anybody want to give him a fake name and collect $500?

Tell him her name is Helen Waite. If he needs more info he should go to Helen Waite.

100 BeachDem  Dec 6, 2014 4:23:30pm

Now there’s a great incentive.

101 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 4:24:01pm

re: #98 b.d.

Although, I would love to be on the inside of GoatNews and give Chuck some REAL career defining scoops for him

//

I find it nauseating to think I’m living on the same planet with this foul little bug.

102 ObserverArt  Dec 6, 2014 4:24:01pm

Later all. Going to a buddies place to watch the B1G championship game. Let’s see what the 3rd string quarterback can show for The Ohio Staters.

103 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 4:26:26pm

Whee! There’s a new season of Ripper Street on Netflix, in case anyone else watched the first season and liked it as much as I did.

104 BeachDem  Dec 6, 2014 4:26:33pm

Man, I do wish somebody would sue the little troll for slapping his watermark on other people’s photos.

105 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 6, 2014 4:27:05pm

This doesn’t even make sense.
my surprise, etc….

106 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 4:27:26pm

re: #104 BeachDem

Man, I do wish somebody would sue the little troll for slapping his watermark on other people’s photos.

I’d prefer someone go direct and just slap the little shit.

107 TedStriker  Dec 6, 2014 4:28:39pm

re: #94 b.d.

Hahahahahahahaha:

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108 b.d.  Dec 6, 2014 4:28:50pm

re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth

This doesn’t even make sense.
my surprise, etc….

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Because in 2014 you don’t have access to all of your funds because you are traveling?

109 Eventual Carrion  Dec 6, 2014 4:29:13pm

re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth

This doesn’t even make sense.
my surprise, etc….

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Cash in those travelers checks I guess.

110 BeachDem  Dec 6, 2014 4:29:15pm

re: #106 allegro

I’d prefer someone go direct and just slap the little shit.

Well, that was implied.
/

111 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 6, 2014 4:29:23pm

re: #103 allegro

Whee! There’s a new season of Ripper Street on Netflix, in case anyone else watched the first season and liked it as much as I did.

Cool! Thanks for the heads up.

112 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 4:29:25pm

re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth

This doesn’t even make sense.
my surprise, etc….

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Yeah, traveling. It’s a long way from the basement to his mother-in-law’s Cheeto pantry.

113 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 4:31:23pm

re: #111 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Cool! Thanks for the heads up.

Just watched the first episode and it’s got John Merrick (Elephant Man) who looks to be featured in the second ep as well.

114 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 4:33:46pm

I think it wouldn’t be very hard for some people to recognize who this is.

Key elements of Rolling Stone’s U-Va. gang rape allegations in doubt

washingtonpost.com

“A lawyer who is representing Jackie said Friday that she and her client are declining to comment beyond her interviews. The Post generally does not identify victims of sexual assault without their permission, and The Post is identifying Jackie by her real nickname at her request.

(snip)

“Capt. Gary Pleasants of the Charlottesville police said detectives are looking into the allegations at the request of the university, but he would not comment on the status of that investigation. “Our purpose is to find the truth in any matter, and that’s what we are looking for here,” Pleasants said. “These articles do not change our focus moving forward.”

(snip)

“She said she performed well in course work includeding (sic) pre-med classes in psychology, chemistry and religious anthropology. She said she soon found a job as a lifeguard at a campus pool, where she said she met a charming junior who had dimples, blue eyes and dark, curly hair.” More

115 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 6, 2014 4:38:10pm

re: #108 b.d.

Because in 2014 you don’t have access to all of your funds because you are traveling?

He forgot to notify his bank that he was traveling, they saw unusual activity on his card and immediately suspended it.

116 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 4:39:48pm

re: #115 The Vicious Babushka

He forgot to notify his bank that he was traveling, they saw unusual activity on his card and immediately suspended it.

When do you leave for Israel? : )

117 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 6, 2014 4:40:19pm

re: #108 b.d.

Because in 2014 you don’t have access to all of your funds because you are traveling?

Maybe his hot Asian wife doesn’t give him mobile access to the family bank accounts…

118 BeachDem  Dec 6, 2014 4:40:41pm

The Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists admonishes journalists to “Be wary of sources offering information for favors or money; avoid bidding for news,” …

Checkbook journalism undermines journalistic independence and integrity and threatens the accuracy of the information that is purchased.

spj.org

I guess when upchuck puts all those other journalists out of business with his 5-year plan, he’ll have to write a brand new Code of Ethics—maybe Rand Paul can help him come up with wording (or help him plagiarize it from somewhere.)

119 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 4:41:11pm

re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth

Maybe his hot Asian wife doesn’t give him mobile access to the family bank accounts…

Maybe she doesn’t allow him to use the bank acct at all. : )

120 b.d.  Dec 6, 2014 4:43:08pm

re: #119 Justanotherhuman

Maybe she doesn’t allow him to use the bank acct at all. : )

That’s more like it, Chuck is traveling and can’t talk his inlaws into giving him 5K to play bigshot journalist.

121 BeachDem  Dec 6, 2014 4:48:38pm

Now he’s just throwing out names. Next up, Jackie Kennedy, followed closely by Jackie Robinson.

122 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 4:49:46pm

Oh-hio.

Ohio Woman Kicked Off Welfare For Not Reporting She Was In a Coma

nbcnews.com

What a huge freaking mess it was, and left this woman with absolutely nothing.

Talk about inhumane.

123 gwangung  Dec 6, 2014 4:50:14pm

re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth

Maybe his hot Asian wife doesn’t give him mobile access to the family bank accounts…

This is culturally correct.

Just sayin’

124 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 4:52:48pm

Just looking makes me dizzy…

125 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 6, 2014 4:56:21pm

re: #121 BeachDem

Jackie Chan will kick his ass.

126 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 4:57:23pm

re: #121 BeachDem

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Now he’s just throwing out names. Next up, Jackie Kennedy, followed closely by Jackie Robinson.

So he thinks the fraud is fake?

127 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 4:59:44pm

re: #126 allegro

So he thinks the fraud is fake?

No, he just doesn’t understand redundancy.

128 BeachDem  Dec 6, 2014 5:00:58pm

Headline of the day:

New ‘lost’ Ayn Rand novel will bring her crimes against literature to new generation of jerks

…Her characters have been slammed as one-dimensional and wooden, her plots as flowing like mud, and when her characters aren’t declaiming for seven straight pages about the evils of socialism, the dialogue they speak is about as natural as a bright pink aluminum Christmas tree.

rawstory.com

129 b.d.  Dec 6, 2014 5:03:18pm

It’s Jackie Mason, where’s my $500 and corner office?

130 Skip Intro  Dec 6, 2014 5:05:15pm

re: #108 b.d.

Because in 2014 you don’t have access to all of your funds because you are traveling?

He’s out delivering pizza. He doesn’t want to risk co-mingling his funds.

131 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 5:08:29pm

Jackie Wilson will tell Chuckles a thing or two.

Youtube Video

What a voice this man had!

132 Justanotherhuman  Dec 6, 2014 5:13:54pm

Keep calm and carry on, Lizards!

Later. : )

133 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 5:13:57pm

Just came home from my first training shift as a waitron.

Whew, they were busy. The money is going to be great.
My body isn’t used to this much activity though.

What have I missed?

134 BeachDem  Dec 6, 2014 5:22:20pm

re: #133 #FergusonFireside

Just came home from my first training shift as a waitron.

Whew, they were busy. The money is going to be great.
My body isn’t used to this much activity though.

What have I missed?

Upchuck is offering a reward (it has gone from $5000 to $500 and a career with GoatNews because he’s traveling and only has $500 on him or something) for helping him “dox” Jackie from the RS article. He is now randomly posting various names of various people named Jackie.

135 b.d.  Dec 6, 2014 5:23:06pm

re: #133 #FergusonFireside

Just came home from my first training shift as a waitron.

Whew, they were busy. The money is going to be great.
My body isn’t used to this much activity though.

What have I missed?

Today we learned via the NYPD that anyone who says that they can’t breathe is a liar because you can’t say that you can’t breathe if you can’t breathe.

136 b.d.  Dec 6, 2014 5:23:32pm

re: #133 #FergusonFireside

Just came home from my first training shift as a waitron.

Whew, they were busy. The money is going to be great.
My body isn’t used to this much activity though.

What have I missed?

p.s. - glad your 1st day went well, congratulations.

137 BeachDem  Dec 6, 2014 5:24:23pm

That is flat out harassment.

What. An. Asshole.

138 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Dec 6, 2014 5:25:36pm

re: #101 allegro

I find it nauseating to think I’m living on the same planet with this foul little bug.

I had to go back and upding this. “Foul little bug” is just so apt.

139 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 5:27:01pm

re: #134 BeachDem

Upchuck is offering a reward (it has gone from $5000 to $500 and a career with GoatNews because he’s traveling and only has $500 on him or something) for helping him “dox” Jackie from the RS article. He is now randomly posting various names of various people named Jackie.

He needs to be arrested.

140 PhillyPretzel  Dec 6, 2014 5:27:05pm

re: #137 BeachDem

*57 traces a call with Verizon. I hope all of these people who are getting calls from this person are having that call traced.

141 BeachDem  Dec 6, 2014 5:31:13pm

re: #139 #FergusonFireside

He needs to be arrested.

We can only hope.

Now one of the braintrusts who are “on the case” is saying she should be arrested for filing a false police report. (I guess the fact that she never filed a police report escapes them.) These people are really stupid in addition to being the residue rejected by pond scum as beneath its dignity.

142 b.d.  Dec 6, 2014 5:31:21pm

re: #137 BeachDem

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That is flat out harassment.

What. An. Asshole.

LOL @ Joke calls.

Coakley this is award winning, super genius journalist Chuck C Johnson with GoatNews here, I have $500 with your name on it if you answer the following questions about your daughter the way I want it answered

143 Archangelus  Dec 6, 2014 5:31:57pm

re: #139 #FergusonFireside

He needs to be arrested get kicked in the groin repeatedly to the point of qualifying as a soprano by opera standards

Fixed

144 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 5:33:40pm

UpChuck the vile fucker retweeted this. Ugh!

145 b.d.  Dec 6, 2014 5:34:52pm

re: #144 teleskiguy

UpChuck the vile fucker retweeted this. Ugh!

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That’s some pretty vile stuff right there.

146 Archangelus  Dec 6, 2014 5:35:44pm

re: #144 teleskiguy

UpChuck the vile fucker retweeted this. Ugh!

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What. The. *REDACTED*…

147 Archangelus  Dec 6, 2014 5:36:18pm

re: #145 b.d.

That’s some pretty vile stuff right there.

Vile’s putting it mildly IMHO.

148 makeitstop  Dec 6, 2014 5:36:51pm

re: #103 allegro

Whee! There’s a new season of Ripper Street on Netflix, in case anyone else watched the first season and liked it as much as I did.

I really liked that show! Glad it’s back.

And Justified is coming back in January. Yay!

149 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 5:39:06pm

Rolling Stone really screwed the pooch with this one. Charles is right, this sets the rape victims’ rights movement back years, decades. Conservatives on social media are carping on and on that all rape accusations are false, the stupid lying sluts.

Now UpChuck the unfeeling sociopath is outing “Jackie” from the RS piece, further ruining her life.

UpChuck, DIAF you fucking pudgy ginger bastard!

150 Jenner7  Dec 6, 2014 5:40:03pm

It’s so wonderful to see all these protesters in all these different cities…even Anchorage Alaska!!

151 Archangelus  Dec 6, 2014 5:41:48pm

re: #149 teleskiguy

DIAF, as in die in a fire? Sorry but nope, he doesn’t deserve a fate as kind as that. Eaten alive by fire-ants would be an improvement, but not by much…

152 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 6, 2014 5:42:35pm

And he just now named her…

153 b.d.  Dec 6, 2014 5:44:01pm

re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth

And he just named her…

He named somebody, not necessarily her.

154 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 5:44:48pm

re: #150 Jenner7

It’s so wonderful to see all these protesters in all these different cities…even Anchorage Alaska!!

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And Juneau!!

155 makeitstop  Dec 6, 2014 5:44:55pm

re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth

And he just named her…

If he really outed the victim, I hope she’s instructing that Legal Aid lawyer to take him apart.

If she isn’t, she should.

156 Charles Johnson  Dec 6, 2014 5:46:51pm

re: #155 makeitstop

If he really outed the victim, I hope she’s instructing that Legal Aid lawyer to take him apart.

If she isn’t, she should.

Eventually, Chuck is going to cross the wrong person.

157 Charles Johnson  Dec 6, 2014 5:47:16pm
158 Charles Johnson  Dec 6, 2014 5:47:35pm
159 PhillyPretzel  Dec 6, 2014 5:48:41pm

re: #158 Charles Johnson

He is trying to create a “man bites dog” story but it is not going to work.

160 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 5:48:57pm

GoatNews’s latest press release:

Multiple sources are confirming to GotNews . com that Jackie Coakley is the girl who was the Rolling Stone reporter’s source.

“Jackie” asked not to be included in Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s story but Rubin included her anyways.

From Rolling Stone story.

Jackie had a strained relationship with her father (lol), in whose eyes she’d never felt good enough, and always responded by exceeding expectations - honor roll, swim team, first-chair violin - becoming the role model for her two younger brothers.

Jaqueline Coakley of Stafford VA appears to have two brothers, John and Matthew.

GotNews has reached out to the family.

UpChuck the walking sack of shit added the “lol”.

161 Varek Raith  Dec 6, 2014 5:50:08pm

FFS, Twiter, ffs.

162 Ace-o-aces  Dec 6, 2014 5:51:28pm

re: #156 Charles Johnson

Eventually, Chuck is going to cross the wrong person.

He did threaten Jeb Bush just a few days ago. Plus there’s the Thad Cochran thing. I think Chuck’s been kicked off the wingnut welfare gravy train. That’s why he’s begging for money and living with his in-laws.

163 Charles Johnson  Dec 6, 2014 5:52:40pm
164 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 5:59:25pm

This just passed my transom. The bank did the right thing.

165 makeitstop  Dec 6, 2014 6:05:24pm

re: #156 Charles Johnson

Eventually, Chuck is going to cross the wrong person.

Can you imagine the psychotic break that we’re in store for when someone finally does bring the hammer down?

That’ll be something to see.

166 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 6:08:41pm

I’m behind, so I might be posting stuff you’ve already seen. But just in case….

167 PhillyPretzel  Dec 6, 2014 6:11:39pm

OT Great Performances has Violinist Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot performing together. :)

168 Charles Johnson  Dec 6, 2014 6:23:08pm
169 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 6:25:43pm

re: #168 Charles Johnson

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He/she/it loves you.

170 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 6:28:49pm

Heh.

171 b.d.  Dec 6, 2014 6:29:40pm

re: #168 Charles Johnson

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Do all Wingnuts share the same anal and excrement fixation?

172 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Dec 6, 2014 6:30:55pm

re: #168 Charles Johnson

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It’s a badge of honor. Wear it proudly.

173 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 6:33:02pm

In sports news, how about our U.S.A. ladies sweeping the podium for the first time in history at a World Cup race - the Ladies Downhill - in Lake Louise today? Pretty freaking cool to me, that’s for sure!

174 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 6:33:40pm

re: #168 Charles Johnson

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Marxist is one they use often, correct?

lol

175 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 6:34:15pm

re: #170 teleskiguy

Heh.

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First thought - what an ASSHOLE.

176 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 6:35:25pm

re: #174 #FergusonFireside

Marxist is one they use often, correct?

lol

They heard somewhere that Marx is a bad man.

177 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 6:38:30pm

For you especially b_sharp

178 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 6:40:05pm

re: #177 #FergusonFireside

For you especially b_sharp

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I’m still following the gourd.

179 Aye Pod  Dec 6, 2014 6:42:07pm

re: #137 BeachDem

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That is flat out harassment.

What. An. Asshole.

If only nature abhorred assholes instead of wasting it’s ire on vaccuums.

180 Ace-o-aces  Dec 6, 2014 6:43:39pm

re: #160 teleskiguy

GoatNews’s latest press release:

He took the picture off this girl’s Google plus account and added his own watermark to it. Can someone explain to the super genius how copyright works.

181 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 6:44:28pm

re: #177 #FergusonFireside

“Judean People’s Front? We’re The People’s Front of Judea!”

So, what’s it gonna be, the United Atheist Alliance or the United Atheist League? Choose the right one or DIE!

182 Aye Pod  Dec 6, 2014 6:45:22pm

re: #170 teleskiguy

Heh.

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The sad news is he’s being moved to a French prison next week to serve his sentence./

183 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 6:45:31pm

re: #181 teleskiguy

“Judean People’s Front? We’re The People’s Front of Judea!”

So, what’s it gonna be, the United Atheist Alliance or the United Atheist League? Choose the right one or DIE!

The League of United Atheists.

184 Charles Johnson  Dec 6, 2014 6:48:47pm
185 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 6:50:05pm

Hey Jimmah, and vis a vis Icy.

186 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 6:50:25pm

re: #183 b_sharp

The League of United Atheists.

Damn you third parties!

187 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 6:51:59pm

re: #184 Charles Johnson

UpChuck the right-wing fever dream man-child never mentally and emotionally developed past grade school.

188 freetoken  Dec 6, 2014 6:53:34pm

re: #183 b_sharp

The League of United Atheists.

Allied Atheists of America - aka the AAA.

189 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 6:54:51pm

re: #188 freetoken

Allied Atheists of America - aka the AAA.

Won’t that get confused with the American Automobile Association?

Oh, nevermind!

190 freetoken  Dec 6, 2014 6:58:10pm

Update on UNFCCC annual meeting of the COP and CMP:
nothing to report.

This has to be the most anticlimactic COP and CMP so far. Pretty much it appears to be a dry run for Paris, next year.

Surprisingly few axes are being ground in Lima.

191 Aye Pod  Dec 6, 2014 6:58:24pm

re: #184 Charles Johnson

He’s like Eric Cartman but dumber and not funny.

192 Aye Pod  Dec 6, 2014 7:03:31pm

re: #185 #FergusonFireside

Hey Jimmah, and vis a vis Icy.

Hi Stanley - hope you are doing well. Ice is emailing you soon :)

193 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 7:06:19pm

The Ferguson Protesters should be Time’s people of the year.

They started it. @deray @nettaaaaaaa @wyzechef @mspackyetti and others. And others.

I’m waiting for another Ferguson Fireside. If you didn’t listen to the 3 they had, they were the most powerful groundswell movement discussions I’ve experienced in my lifetime. So freaking proud of these young people.

194 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 7:07:04pm

re: #173 teleskiguy

In sports news, how about our U.S.A. ladies sweeping the podium for the first time in history at a World Cup race - the Ladies Downhill - in Lake Louise today? Pretty freaking cool to me, that’s for sure!

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195 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 7:07:23pm

re: #192 Aye Pod

Hi Stanley - hope you are doing well. Ice is emailing you soon :)

All good. So much time has passed. How long have you newlyweds been not newly? lol. So much time & it’s all good.

196 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 6, 2014 7:08:21pm

WTFITS

197 freetoken  Dec 6, 2014 7:09:38pm

“Evolving common but differentiated responsibilities” - got to love diplomats.

198 freetoken  Dec 6, 2014 7:10:13pm

re: #196 The Vicious Babushka

WTFITS

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It’s an attempt to rewrite the past 50 years of American history.

199 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 7:10:25pm

re: #193 #FergusonFireside

I fucked up Netta’s twitter handle: twitter.com because we all know what it’s like to create your name back in the day, when it didn’t really matter.

200 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 7:12:22pm

re: #196 The Vicious Babushka

A long-discussed issue at LGF, to be sure. Present day Republicans calling their political opposites - modern day Democrats - the “party of slavery” while completely ignoring the magnetic reversal of the political parties from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Erick son of Erick is a fucking dunce who has a very large audience of fearful ignoramuses.

G-d bless the United States!

201 Aye Pod  Dec 6, 2014 7:14:05pm

re: #195 #FergusonFireside

All good. So much time has passed. How long have you newlyweds been not newly? lol. So much time & it’s all good.

Coming up for five years now. Doesn’t feel like it though! :) Ice will fill you in on what we’ve been up to.

202 Belafon  Dec 6, 2014 7:15:40pm

re: #184 Charles Johnson

Does Chuck not realize that if he angers the wrong person, by doing things like exposing Jackie, that people can figure out where he lives.

203 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 6, 2014 7:16:44pm

re: #200 teleskiguy

A long-discussed issue at LGF, to be sure. Present day Republicans calling their political opposites - modern day Democrats - the “party of slavery” while completely ignoring the magnetic reversal of the political parties from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Erick son of Erick is a fucking dunce who has a very large audience of fearful ignoramuses.

G-d bless the United States!

I wrote two long articles here about that switch.
Part I
Part II

204 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 7:17:45pm

re: #188 freetoken

Allied Atheists of America - aka the AAA.

Of course the American Atheists think they’re the chosen ones.

205 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 7:18:03pm

re: #201 Aye Pod

Coming up for five years now. Doesn’t feel like it though! :) Ice will fill you in on what we’ve been up to.

Love it so much. Much love to you guys.

5 years. Gah, all the things that have changed in my life is what makes it a life I guess!!

206 Aye Pod  Dec 6, 2014 7:19:49pm

He may have unravelled DNA, but James Watson deserves to be shunned

I agree with this article, but the interesting thing here is how much of a racist cesspool the comments are these days. The Guardians moderation policy is an abject failure. You won’t see any swearwords, just lots and lots of racism and misogyny.

207 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 7:20:07pm

re: #203 The Vicious Babushka

I wrote two long articles here about that switch.
Part I
Part II

I read those when you published them. Good resource and historical analysis for those who want the bare bones skinny on why conservatives insist on calling today’s Democrats the “party of slavery.”

208 freetoken  Dec 6, 2014 7:20:20pm

re: #203 The Vicious Babushka

Eric Erickson is a creationist. He wants to pretend his creation (RedState) is not about creationism even though there are several people there who write touching not only on creationism but the entire package that comes with such beliefs.

Erickson sold out to Salem Communications, themselves a center of counter-modernism in America.

Eric son of Erick is quite the classic case of self-induced and community-supported denial. He keeps himself bubbled into a support system of denialists on various topics, because he wants the old world, the world that was before modernity.

209 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 7:22:31pm

re: #201 Aye Pod

Coming up for five years now. Doesn’t feel like it though! :) Ice will fill you in on what we’ve been up to.

Five years?

Holy shit, time really does fly.

Who are you again?

210 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 6, 2014 7:22:34pm

re: #207 teleskiguy

I read those when you published them. Good resource and historical analysis for those who want the bare bones skinny on why conservatives insist on calling today’s Democrats the “party of slavery.”

There were 2 parties calling themselves “Democrats” in 1860.

The “Southern Democrats” were the Confederacy.
The “Northern Democrats” (forerunners of today’s Democrat party) ran Stephen Douglas as their candidate, won 1 state (MO)

211 Jenner7  Dec 6, 2014 7:23:03pm

Okay. I’m checking fergusonresponse.tumblr.com all next week and I AM going to the next one.

Go Utah. I’m glad my state has people who give a damn.

212 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 7:23:17pm

re: #205 #FergusonFireside

Love it so much. Much love to you guys.

5 years. Gah, all the things that have changed in my life is what makes it a life I guess!!

Don’t tell me you’ve evolved wings or something.

213 TedStriker  Dec 6, 2014 7:24:34pm

re: #168 Charles Johnson

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214 Aye Pod  Dec 6, 2014 7:26:14pm

re: #209 b_sharp

Five years?

Holy shit, time really does fly.

Who are you again?

I’m…Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…

215 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 7:26:43pm

re: #212 b_sharp

Don’t tell me you’ve evolved wings or something.

Kind of a work in progress.

216 Amory Blaine  Dec 6, 2014 7:26:56pm

Everyone knows in these modern times that it’s impossible to access your money while on the road.

I’ll give half of this liver-sausage sandwich to anyone that will do my job for me!!!

217 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 7:27:36pm

re: #214 Aye Pod

I’m…Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…

Nice that you had so many layers, all complex and stuff.

218 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 7:28:36pm

re: #215 #FergusonFireside

Kind of a work in progress.

As a young old bat, my wings are growing nicely. It’s the becoming an old fart that’s the problem.

219 De Kolta Chair  Dec 6, 2014 7:29:00pm

Arizona Wildcats 13
Oregon Ducks 51

Oh, my alma mater, why hath thou forsaken me? ;-(

Oh well, at least we kicked ASU’s arses last week.

220 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 7:29:44pm

re: #216 Amory Blaine

Everyone knows in these modern times that it’s impossible to access your money while on the road.

I’ll give half of this liver-sausage sandwich to anyone that will do my job for me!!!

I seriously consider in-laws who are immigrants and don’t speak the language nor care for social media, and a wife who is working so much she has no idea what her ginger husband is up to.

She comes home, frazzled and he tells her ALL about his wins.

221 Aye Pod  Dec 6, 2014 7:31:10pm
Go eat shit, you Marxist faggot asshole piece of human excrement.

Isn’t that from the PUA manual of suggested opening lines to a lady?

222 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 7:32:40pm

re: #218 b_sharp

As a young old bat, my wings are growing nicely. It’s the becoming an old fart that’s the problem.

I used to dread the idea of growing old. About 5 years ago I decided to embrace my inner crone and it’s been a blast.

223 Amory Blaine  Dec 6, 2014 7:33:05pm

Is he/she suggesting cannibalism? If I am shit, I should not eat it.

224 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 7:34:06pm

re: #222 allegro

I used to dread the idea of growing old. About 5 years ago I decided to embrace my inner crone and it’s been a blast.

Best part of getting old is that you can’t run as fast so the banging into walls doesn’t hurt quite as much.

225 Amory Blaine  Dec 6, 2014 7:34:50pm

Woohoo I get to leave work early. BBL.

226 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 7:36:39pm

My wife bought me a new printer for Xmas today. I just went down to measure the space I had in mind for it.

It ain’t going to fit.

It’s too big.

227 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 7:37:42pm

re: #214 Aye Pod

I’m…Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…

I think you broke me.

I’m still laughing at this.

228 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 7:38:36pm

Looking like Landrieu lost the seat.

So get ready for a full force episode of #dividedgovernment

Yee Haw!

229 De Kolta Chair  Dec 6, 2014 7:38:47pm
Legendary cartoonist Jack Kirby and his wife Roz Goldstein dancing the Silver Surfer Booglaoo. Aaaaaaw get down with your bad selves!!
230 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 7:39:38pm

re: #228 #FergusonFireside

Looking like Landrieu lost the seat.

So get ready for a full force episode of #dividedgovernment

Yee Haw!

Somehow I just can’t manage a single sniff.

231 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 7:42:54pm

re: #222 allegro

I used to dread the idea of growing old. About 5 years ago I decided to embrace my inner crone and it’s been a blast.

I am actually enjoying my role as sage to the young people I work with.

“OMG ask Stanley Sea, she knows for sure!”

For real.

I enjoy it actually. Caveat, the people I come in contact via work are not your most, er, read people. Facebook & TMZ.

232 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 7:43:28pm

re: #226 b_sharp

My wife bought me a new printer for Xmas today. I just went down to measure the space I had in mind for it.

It ain’t going to fit.

It’s too big.

Walls go down.

233 Aye Pod  Dec 6, 2014 7:43:38pm

Bed for me. Have a great weekend guys :)

234 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 7:45:42pm

re: #231 #FergusonFireside

I am actually enjoying my role as sage to the young people I work with.

“OMG ask Stanley Sea, she knows for sure!”

For real.

I enjoy it actually. Caveat, the people I come in contact via work are not your most, er, read people. Facebook & TMZ.

Uh, I’ve gotten that for most of my life.

Those people are just now waking up to the fact I’m usually wrong.

235 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 7:46:02pm

Me too, exhausted, but will get the best sleepy tonight in a while.

I will lurk most likely.

XXOO

236 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 7:46:09pm

re: #232 #FergusonFireside

Walls go down.

Dogs bark on the water.

237 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 6, 2014 7:46:35pm

re: #218 b_sharp

As a young old bat, my wings are growing nicely. It’s the becoming an old fart that’s the problem.

As an old moonbat I can assure you that farts can provide useful extra thrust.

238 TedStriker  Dec 6, 2014 7:47:25pm

re: #228 #FergusonFireside

Looking like Landrieu lost the seat.

So get ready for a full force episode of #dividedgovernment

Yee Haw!

She may nominally be a Democrat, but after that Keystone XL bullshit her and her fellow spineless, sniveling partymates in the Senate pulled after the general election, I’m inclined to just say, “fuck her”.

239 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 7:48:47pm

re: #234 b_sharp

Uh, I’ve gotten that for most of my life.

Those people are just now waking up to the fact I’m usually wrong.

Ok, one more reply

We usually have a morning session of what Stanley heard on NPR on the drive in and how fucking interesting it was. Seriously, I make sure I remember the stories for these confabs.

I’m not solving probs with these people, I’m trying to open their minds to the fucking world.

240 b_sharp  Dec 6, 2014 7:49:42pm

re: #239 #FergusonFireside

Ok, one more reply

We usually have a morning session of what Stanley heard on NPR on the drive in and how fucking interesting it was. Seriously, I make sure I remember the stories for these confabs.

I’m not solving probs with these people, I’m trying to open their minds to the fucking world.

Now that is a laudable goal.

241 #FergusonFireside  Dec 6, 2014 7:54:52pm

Nighty

242 De Kolta Chair  Dec 6, 2014 8:11:17pm

On a personal note, I’m on my fourth week working part-time holiday shifts at Macy’s Herald Square in NYC. The pay ain’t the greatest, but so far the people I work with couldn’t be nicer or more helpful, and that includes the floor managers. I guess we’re all happy to have a gig where the checks don’t bounce. Today I met two co-workers who live in homeless shelters. And I gotta say the Santa’s elves on the 8th floor are high-larious. Not in a stoned way, but in a silly fun way.

On second thought, they have to be stoned to put up with all that insanity. They have to put up with a million people every day and Xmas is weeks away.

243 b.d.  Dec 6, 2014 8:17:36pm

A truly horrible human being

244 De Kolta Chair  Dec 6, 2014 8:18:55pm

re: #243 b.d.

A truly horrible human being

245 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 8:20:56pm

re: #242 De Kolta Chair

And I gotta say the Santa’s elves on the 8th floor are high-larious.

There’s not a single building that’s eight stories high within a hundred mile radius of me (especially the south to west to north half of that circle, where the distances can exceed two and three hundred miles), let alone a department store that has eight stories.

I went to Chicago in April 2012 to see a special all-request Umphrey’s McGee show. I drove there. I remember taking the highway to downtown and making that first left turn to get to my hotel. The canyon of buildings was disarming for this ski bum rural bumkin.

I’ve never been to New York City. I have several friends that live there and they always pester me to visit. I’m having too much fun in the mountains for that, I guess.

246 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 8:26:09pm

re: #243 b.d.

A truly horrible human being

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He’s anti-woman, simple as that. UpChuck the disgusting misogynist does nothing but regurgitate the ugliest facets of the United States right wing, including outright racism.

Fuck UpChuck with a big rubber dick.

247 Amory Blaine  Dec 6, 2014 8:26:31pm

Anyone watch Peter Pan? Did Christopher Walken say “You know what this play needs is more Tinkerbell”. That would be awesome.

248 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Dec 6, 2014 8:28:04pm

re: #243 b.d.

A truly horrible human being

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Which is why Chuckles thinks that Mike Brown and Eric Garner are still alive.

249 De Kolta Chair  Dec 6, 2014 8:31:20pm

re: #245 teleskiguy

I’ve never been to New York City. I have several friends that live there and they always pester me to visit. I’m having too much fun in the mountains for that, I guess.

I live on the 16th floor of a 52 story apartment building in downtown Manhattan, and I’ve worked for decades at scads of gigs in skyscrapers, but to this day the little critter in me that grew up in Tucson, Arizona, is always gobsmacked going above the 4th floor.

And ya know what? I ain’t changing my way of thinking. Height doesn’t make right! ;-)

250 Dark_Falcon  Dec 6, 2014 8:35:16pm

re: #60 goddamnedfrank

If the writer wasn’t going to contact the accused then they shouldn’t have published the name of the school or fraternity either. They should have just said, “Here is a shitload of hearsay,” and kept all parties to it anonymous.

I have to concur. If an accusation of rape is to be made, then the accused must be given the chance to respond. Ultimately, I fear ‘Jackie’ is going to be hurt rather than helped due to Rolling Stone and its writer’s bumbledum.

251 Timothy Watson  Dec 6, 2014 8:35:32pm

re: #243 b.d.

A truly horrible human being

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I don’t believe that al Qaeda was responsible in the 9/11 attacks, after all no one was ever convicted.

/ * ∞

252 Dark_Falcon  Dec 6, 2014 8:36:57pm

re: #248 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Which is why Chuckles thinks that Mike Brown and Eric Garner are still alive.

That was different because they were black.

Note: That’s not how I see thing, that’s how I am certain Charles C. Johnson sees things.

253 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 6, 2014 8:41:38pm

re: #243 b.d.

A truly horrible human being

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He sounds desperate to me. It is probable that the pats on the head he received while in college combined with being briefly in the employ of Andrew Breitbart reinforced his notion that he’s Special Little Lad and that the world, agog at his insights, would shower him with fame and money. Instead, he’s reduced to Tweet bleating, living with his in-laws and begging for money. Because he lacks both wit and insight he’s now reduced to trying to be the most obnoxious person on the right, much like trying to be the snowflake in a blizzard.

254 De Kolta Chair  Dec 6, 2014 8:43:17pm

Whomever is the next Secretary of Defense, I suggest they make this the official logo of the Pentagon.

255 Dark_Falcon  Dec 6, 2014 8:47:17pm

re: #254 De Kolta Chair

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Whomever is the next Secretary of Defense, I suggest they make this the official logo of the Pentagon.

May I ask what prompted that suggestion? I’ve been out most of the day, so I want to know if I missed something.

256 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 8:50:35pm

Typhoon Hagupit.

The bright spot is Manila.

257 De Kolta Chair  Dec 6, 2014 8:51:32pm

Courtesy of Phil Plait’s bodacious Bad Astronomy blog, behold Ceres, “the largest asteroid in the solar system, as seen by the Dawn spacecraft, currently on its way there for a rendezvous next spring!”

Billy Riley’s “Flying Saucer Rock & Roll”
Youtube Video

258 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 6, 2014 9:02:42pm

Well I’m back from our “Polar Plunge Dive”. Weather was good, about 50* air temp until the sun got low late afternoon, water temp about 51* at surface and about 47* @ 90 feet. The strong thermoclines that the quarry had all year have collapsed, so it was pretty cold all over.

Saw a HUGE bass in the sunken RV, a nice sized catfish, and a few tiny baby bluegills. Not many fish were making their appearance. Started out the day with 8 of us, and by the last dive, there were only 3 of us still crazy enough to be out there. Very pleased with how my gear worked, this was a good solid workout for the drysuit and the 400 gm fleece undergarment.

No videos, I had enough balls to juggle with some new gear, and some major revisions to other gear. The last thing I wanted to do was to add in yet one more task to manage.

My next dive will be in the big huge tank at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. That will be so cool, whale sharks and manta rays. I will absolutely have video of that one. :)

RBS

259 De Kolta Chair  Dec 6, 2014 9:03:38pm

re: #255 Dark_Falcon

May I ask what prompted that suggestion? I’ve been out most of the day, so I want to know if I missed something.

I’m glad you asked that. I was thinking about how it’s always the non-coms and grades below who get blamed for fuck ups and rarely the brass.

260 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 6, 2014 9:11:27pm

re: #259 De Kolta Chair

I’m glad you asked that. I was thinking about how it’s always the non-coms and grades below who get blamed for fuck ups and rarely the brass.

Antediluvian military axiom: shit flows down hill.

261 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 6, 2014 9:21:00pm

Implementation of the Plan… or How Shit Happens

In the beginning, there was the plan.

And then came the assumptions.

And the assumptions were without form.

And the plan was completely without substance.

The planners told the Chief of Plans: “It’s a crock of shit and it stinks!”

The Chief of Plans then told the G3: “It’s a pail of dung and none may abide by the odor.”

The G3 then told Chief of Staff: “It’s a container of excrement and it is very strong such that none may smell it.”

The Chief of Staff then told the ADC(M): “It is a vessel of fertilizer and none may abide by its strength. It contains that which aids plant growth and it is very strong.”

The ADC(M) told the CG: “It promotes growth and it is very powerful. It will promote the efficiency in the system and victory for the future.”

And the CG reviewed the plan and said: “This is good.”

And the plan became an order.

And this is how shit happens.

262 De Kolta Chair  Dec 6, 2014 9:21:18pm

re: #260 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Antediluvian military axiom: shit flows down hill.

“In a democracy, the government is the people,” Milo explained. “We’re people, aren’t we? So we might just as well keep the money and eliminate the middleman. Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.”
…

“Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.”

— Joseph Heller, Catch-22

263 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 6, 2014 9:25:43pm

re: #262 De Kolta Chair

“In a democracy, the government is the people,” Milo explained. “We’re people, aren’t we? So we might just as well keep the money and eliminate the middleman. Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.”

“Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.”

— Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Would you like some Cotton Candy?

RBS

264 De Kolta Chair  Dec 6, 2014 9:27:09pm

re: #263 RealityBasedSteve

Would you like some Cotton Candy?

RBS

I could go for that! Nighty night

265 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 9:28:13pm

My stupid off-the-cuff Twitter comment of the week.

266 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 6, 2014 9:29:42pm

re: #265 teleskiguy

My stupid off-the-cuff Twitter comment of the week.

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I regret I only have one upding for that one.

RBS

267 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 9:31:56pm

re: #266 RealityBasedSteve

I regret I only have one upding for that one.

RBS

Aw shucks! :-D

268 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 6, 2014 9:39:49pm

Manhunter is on Amazon Prime Streaming. I like this version, but the cast is not nearly as good as the cast of Red Dragon. Compare:

William Peterson vs. Edward Norton? Norton, hands down
Brian Cox vs. Anthony Hopkins? Is this even a question?
Dennis Farina vs. Harvey Keitel? Ok, a draw
Tom Noonan vs. Ralph Fiennes? Fiennes by a nose
Stephen Lang vs. Philip Seymour Hoffman? Get outta here
Joan Allen vs. Reba McLean? Joan Allen

OTOH, MH does have a creepier vibe.

270 ObserverArt  Dec 6, 2014 9:47:35pm

Back from the B1G game. I’ve got to say that was a full team effort on the part of The Ohio State Buckeyes. They swept that game against Wisconsin in every phase. Is it enough to get in the playoffs? Well, they did all they could do…it’s in the hands of the judges. They got ‘em talking.

By the way, I see Chuck C. draws closer to pissing everyone on the internet off. Next, all of America will hate him. Then the world!!!

271 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 6, 2014 9:51:25pm

re: #270 ObserverArt

By the way, I see Chuck C. draws closer to pissing everyone on the internet off. Next, all of America will hate him. Then the world!!!

Well, 73 percent of the world. ;)

272 De Kolta Chair  Dec 6, 2014 9:53:10pm

Un’altra per favore, from The No Shit Sherlock Dept.:

Energy Firms in Secret Alliances With G.O.P. State Officials

Republican attorneys general have formed alliances with some of the nation’s top energy producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda, an investigation by The New York Times has found.

273 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 6, 2014 9:57:55pm

re: #269 Varek Raith

From your link:

Though the power plant no longer actively burns coal, it is surrounded by ponds filled with more than six million tons of coal ash — a waste byproduct from coal-burning.

So I said to myself, “Holy fucking shit, how much of that stuff is stored in the US?” While I couldn’t find any totals, I did find that the US generates 120 million tons of coal ash every year.

While I’d prefer that we went directly to renewable energy sources I fail to see how dealing with tons of spent fuel rods could possibly have worse outcomes than the millions of tons of coal ash some of which has already found its way into any number of water supplies.

274 Whack-A-Mole  Dec 6, 2014 10:03:04pm

re: #268 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

I actually prefer Manhunter to all of the Lecter movies (aside from Silence of the Lambs). Micheal Mann has an amazing visual style. The final action sequence, synched to the music, is great. The blood flowing from Dolarhyde’s body at the end to resemble the dragon’s wings from the painting was another nice touch.

275 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 6, 2014 10:10:15pm

Well gang, I’m outta here. Burned up a lot of energy today, and I’m going to sleep like a log tonight. The yeast waffle batter is doing happy yeast things, the coffee maker is all ready to wake me up in the AM with a gurgle and a wonderful smell. Life is good.

It could happen…
276 freetoken  Dec 6, 2014 10:41:12pm

test:

277 freetoken  Dec 6, 2014 10:45:48pm

One of the interesting things about the universe of mp3s out there is how pirates are so selective about how they share their files or not. In this case there are several Russian servers who will keep from streaming to a link through LGF, but they will allow as many downloads as a person would like, embedded here or there or nowhere.

278 teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2014 10:49:25pm

It’s Saturday night, so I don’t mind the vanity of this comment (about me).

This picture of me was taken two years ago by a photographer employed by the company that runs the ski areas nearby, a corporo-conglomerate-consolidation collection of skiing business called Vail Resorts.

I like this picture of me!

Me clampers R brokin.!
279 freetoken  Dec 6, 2014 10:50:49pm

And I still don’t know how Youtube gets away with having so much material online, not posted by the nominal original claim holder, when said material can’t be made available anywhere else.

I do know that Japanese companies come down hard on Youtube and get most material eventually deleted, but it seems like a lot of American companies don’t.

280 freetoken  Dec 6, 2014 10:55:45pm

This, for instance:

Youtube Video

281 freetoken  Dec 6, 2014 10:58:31pm

Liberace was a genius. Even though a capable classical pianist, he knew the way to make his mark was through the new medium of television, and that his way to lasting fame was to create a new gimmick.

282 TedStriker  Dec 6, 2014 11:09:03pm

Here’s something insane, a tractor-trailer jumping a F1 car:

Youtube Video

283 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 11:18:40pm

re: #281 freetoken

Liberace was a genius. Even though a capable classical pianist, he knew the way to make his mark was through the new medium of television, and that his way to lasting fame was to create a new gimmick.

Liberace gets an instant upding. He did more than make his mark, he brought classical music into homes and hearts that had never been really exposed to it before. When I was a little kid in the 50s, my dad had his Big Band and my mom thought Mantovani was fine music. I sat rapt at classical piano, the most exquisite sound I’d ever heard, which Liberace was among the tiny few who made it available to the masses. it made me want to play the piano as much as I wanted a dog. (This is BIG. LOL) I got both in time and to this day they are both my greatest joys.

284 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 11:30:39pm

re: #280 freetoken

This, for instance:

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Larger

Click on the link at the end of that video where he’s playing Gershwin. Just… wow.

285 allegro  Dec 6, 2014 11:45:32pm

More classical piano genius

Youtube Video

286 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 6, 2014 11:53:45pm

re: #278 teleskiguy

Very colorful!

287 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 6, 2014 11:55:27pm

re: #279 freetoken

And I still don’t know how Youtube gets away with having so much material online, not posted by the nominal original claim holder, when said material can’t be made available anywhere else.

I do know that Japanese companies come down hard on Youtube and get most material eventually deleted, but it seems like a lot of American companies don’t.

CDA 230 and American companies didn’t pay enough attention until the problem was so large that they couldn’t handle it.

288 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 6, 2014 11:56:02pm

re: #283 allegro

Liberace gets an instant upding. He did more than make his mark, he brought classical music into homes and hearts that had never been really exposed to it before. When I was a little kid in the 50s, my dad had his Big Band and my mom thought Mantovani was fine music. I sat rapt at classical piano, the most exquisite sound I’d ever heard, which Liberace was among the tiny few who made it available to the masses. it made me want to play the piano as much as I wanted a dog. (This is BIG. LOL) I got both in time and to this day they are both my greatest joys.

During those rare times when we could get TV reception (Dad’s work for the military usually placed us in the boondocks) Liberace, and his candelabra, was a must watch for us. Great music.

289 freetoken  Dec 7, 2014 12:15:06am

As a come-down act from Liberace, here is a tune by The Going Thing, a not-quite-real-group created by an advertising agency for Ford Motor:

MP3 Audio

290 freetoken  Dec 7, 2014 12:30:52am

Doesn’t that just make you feel good?

291 freetoken  Dec 7, 2014 12:31:39am

Now you don’t have to feel bad about that car loan you’re carrying for that new Ford, the repayment of which is digging into your Christmas shopping ability.

292 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 12:39:14am

For your listening pleasure, Redbird covering Tom Waits’ “Hold On.”

Youtube Video

Redbird is: Peter Mulvey, Kris Delmhorst and Jeffrey Foucault.

293 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 7, 2014 1:36:17am

re: #243 b.d.

A truly horrible human being

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So I take it he doesn’t believe OJ is a murderer…

294 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 7, 2014 1:44:57am

re: #206 Aye Pod

If these guys wouldn’t have discovered DNA, someone else would have in a few months, max in a year. Theory of relativity would have been there without Einstein, the periodic table would exist without Mendeleev, and transistors would not have been lost without the racist prick Shockley. I doubt there are any “irreplaceables” in science. It’s always a collective endeavor. So even global achievements should not shield one from criticism.

295 Ace-o-aces  Dec 7, 2014 2:33:41am

re: #243 b.d.

Oh yeah, Chuckles is a big believer in due process. That’s why he accused Tamir Rice of planning a robery.

296 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 7, 2014 2:49:24am

Chuck’s statement is a big non sequitur.

Due process has absolutely nothing to do with knowledge. It’s a way to limit both the power of the state and the power of the mob. “Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law” is not an epistemological principle. We know damn well that an objectively guilty person can walk free (or not be indicted at all). He does not become innocent just because a court failed to find him guilty.

What it does mean is that he is not objectively, but rather legally innocent, that is, the state (a president, a parliament, some official) has no legal power to punish him for the crime, whether he had committed it or not; unless a proper court convicts him. Period.

297 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 7, 2014 3:11:23am

These two statements were made by one person about the same set of events. Doublethink, how does it work?

“Burn this bitch down” It’s obvious the Brown family had no interest in peaceful demonstrations. They got the riots they called for

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Once again Rev Al has instigated race riots based on lies. There’s no excuse for propping him up as a legitimate leader.

298 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 7, 2014 4:44:54am

I have updated the dossier. That us all. wheatdogg.com

299 Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2014 5:06:03am

re: #283 allegro

Liberace gets an instant upding. He did more than make his mark, he brought classical music into homes and hearts that had never been really exposed to it before. When I was a little kid in the 50s, my dad had his Big Band and my mom thought Mantovani was fine music. I sat rapt at classical piano, the most exquisite sound I’d ever heard, which Liberace was among the tiny few who made it available to the masses. it made me want to play the piano as much as I wanted a dog. (This is BIG. LOL) I got both in time and to this day they are both my greatest joys.

And before him was the radio, then TV, program “The Voice of Firestone”, brought to you by the tire corp. It featured a small orchestra led by a ridiculously good-looking white haired conductor. The nuns let us watch it every Sunday night, and it did the job.

(Opening and closing themes were artsongs written by the Firestone owner’s wife, bless their polluting little industrialist hearts.)

en.wikipedia.org

300 PhillyPretzel  Dec 7, 2014 5:50:42am

re: #299 Decatur Deb

As to piano playing look into Victor Borge. Even after his death people are still laughing at his very funny routines.

encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com

301 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 5:50:53am

Hey, perfect Lizard story! Living wage, and a Detroit link for the Vicious Piebushka (sp?)
Here’s a Restaurant That Pays $15/Hour and is Doing Perfectly Well

Hey, so you know how classists are always arguing that the demands of Strike For 15 are unreasonable because any restaurant that paid its employees a living wage would surely go out of business? Yeah, turns out — shockingly — that’s complete bullshit.

Via NPR, Detroit’s Moo Cluck Moo pays its employees a fair wage and always has; back when they opened their first location in 2012, they paid $12/hour, and that’s gone up since then to the $15 mark. Its burgers are also $6 and use actual quality beef rather than possum kidneys or whatever the fuck is in a McDouble, so we’re also talking about a quality product for not that much money (for reference, a Big Mac is $4.80). Let’s also note that this restaurant is in Detroit and not San Francisco or New York — if this can work in Detroit, it can work in any city in the country.

302 Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2014 5:51:24am

re: #300 PhillyPretzel

As to piano playing look into Victor Borge. Even after his death people are still laughing at his very funny routines.

Yes, though honestly I wished he had joked less and played more.

303 PhillyPretzel  Dec 7, 2014 5:53:16am

re: #302 Decatur Deb

Me too, but I really cannot complain. :)

304 Dave In Austin  Dec 7, 2014 6:02:34am

Incredible Mexican Fire Agate (But probably found west of Phx.)

305 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 6:05:39am

re: #301 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

Hey, perfect Lizard story! Living wage, and a Detroit link for the Vicious Piebushka (sp?)
Here’s a Restaurant That Pays $15/Hour and is Doing Perfectly Well

It’s doing so well because it’s a Mom & Pop op, not a freaking ginormous multinational corporation that grabs all the profits for the top 1%.

306 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 6:06:01am

Should I go swimming this morning?

307 Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2014 6:06:20am

re: #303 PhillyPretzel

Me too, but I really cannot complain. :)

Because we’re talking about introducing children to serious music I’ll retell my favorite such story, to preserve the glory of their names:

Our elementary school (Catholic, military, reform) was a favored outlet for charitable impulses in Pittsburgh. The greatest was a tradition of the Pittsburgh Symphony, with William Steinberg, to present a concert in our gymnasium about one a year. One July evening was unusually hot, and opening all the doors couldn’t reduce it, so William Fucking Steinberg turned around and asked our hoodlet student body for permission to remove their tuxedo jackets. He taught us all about classics and class.

308 Dave In Austin  Dec 7, 2014 6:16:14am

Looks like Montana is adopting the Burka as the official dress cloths for the #MTLEG

Only the Best Burka’s for our girls…..

309 lawhawk  Dec 7, 2014 6:17:13am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Protests continue in cities across the US and around the world in support of Eric Garner and the need for police reforms. So, it goes without saying now that all those protests that have been peaceful are null and void and completely and totally worth disregarding because the protests in Oakland/Berkeley turned violent. There was rock throwing, And one officer was injured with a dislocated shoulder.

Police said about 200 people were on Berkeley streets for another day of protests over a grand jury decision not to indict New York City Officer Daniel Pantaleo for Eric Garner’s death on July 17.
But as some broke windows at businesses in the city, other protesters implored them to stop the violence.

Police in riot gear lined the streets while others hovered nearby on motorbikes. They warned crowds to disperse, but some vandalized various businesses, including a Trader Joe’s and a Wells Fargo Bank, police said.
Authorities used teargas to break up the crowds, said Jennifer Coats, a spokeswoman for the Berkeley Police Department.

“A small portion of protesters have been violent. They started throwing rocks and other projectiles at our officers,” Coats said.

Two officers suffered minor injuries as a result, including one who was treated for a dislocated shoulder.

Agitators who tag along with peaceful protests and force things to turn violent. We’ve seen it in protests elsewhere. And we’ve also seen the peaceful protesters trying to cull those who are meaning to do violence as well.

But in no way does the underlying message get diminished one iota because of this sporadic violence. The underlying message that police brutality and excessive force must be curbed is too important and too universal to be tamped down because some on the right think that a single arrest means that the message is illegitimate.

310 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 7, 2014 6:29:05am

re: #309 lawhawk

I find it interesting that the people on my FB listings making comments about the Brown protests, mainly of the “thug” variety, are for the most part strangely silent on the subject since the Garner GJ also returned a no bill.

There’s some discussion about how the protesters are not helping their cause by blocking highways and disrupting other uninvolved people’s lives - but I see that argument regarding just about any protest. There is also some back and forth about white privilege as well which has been pretty interesting as a few people discuss the definition and effects thereof.

311 Dave In Austin  Dec 7, 2014 6:30:31am

BubBye…… And don’t let the gumbo hit you in the ass on your way out.

312 Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2014 6:46:01am

re: #308 Dave In Austin

Looks like Montana is adopting the Burka as the official dress cloths for the #MTLEG

Only the Best Burka’s for our girls…..

It’s not just for women, though. It mandates a suit and tie for men and that in fact is the first rule on the list (contrary to the article).

As for the dress code speaking more about what women may wear than what men may wear, I’d point out that is normal for dress codes. The reason for it being normal is that women have many more kinds of outfits in a greater range of style than do men. A dress code has to speak to what people are likely to try to wear, and so it will cover women’s dress more than men’s.

313 lawhawk  Dec 7, 2014 6:46:32am

re: #310 Feline Fearless Leader

Protests that shut down highways are actually interesting. STL has a bunch of highways and shutting those down has a greater effect in terms of gaining awareness and disrupting the status quo than merely shutting down a street or walking down Market Street in STL proper or through Ferguson would have.

NYC saw protests all over the City, but it’s arguable that more people were affected and felt the protests that stopped traffic on the highways, bridges and tunnels than a march or static protest in Times Square or Union Square.

But the use of thug is now a substitute for a far darker and more racially charged word. It’s a word of degradation and deprivation. It was used to describe Michael Brown. It’s a word used to describe the parents of Tamir Rice who was killed by police.

It’s a word that the right uses to paper over its longstanding racism as well as to excuse blatant and overt racism. It’s part of blaming the victims of police brutality and excessive force. We see it in the comments about the people who die at the hands of police deserved their fates . We see this not only on right wing sites, but at policeone and in the comments around the web. It’s entrenched and it’s something that is frequently accompanied by imagery of the South rising again (Confederate flags). We see it in revisionist history about the causes of the Civil War and the after-effects. We see it in the resistance to extend equal protection under the law, even though it doesn’t diminish the rights that most of us take for granted.

314 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 7, 2014 6:50:08am

re: #313 lawhawk

It’s simply another item from the authoritarian playbook. Crackdowns and police violence have been started in the past in multiple places in order to check “hooliganism”. Just another round of picking a term to describe the other and make it palatable for them to be suppressed.

315 Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2014 6:50:22am

re: #311 Dave In Austin

BubBye…… And don’t let the gumbo hit you in the ass on your way out.

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I do hope you’re not dissing New Orleans gumbo, my mother would be quite displeased.

The other thing to note is that even though Mary Landrieu and Kay Hagan are out in the Senate, the number of women in the Senate will not change, as Joni Ernst and Shelley Moore Capito will be in.

316 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 6:50:51am

re: #312 Dark_Falcon

It’s not just for women, though. It mandates a suit and tie for men and that in fact is the first rule on the list (contrary to the article).

As for the dress code speaking more about what women may wear than what men may wear, I’d point out that is normal for dress codes. The reason for it being normal is that women have many more kinds of outfits in a greater range of style than do men. A dress code has to speak to what people are likely to try to wear, and so it will cover women’s dress more than men’s.

Might I just say that a tie is about the most useless fucking piece of clothing ever invented by humanity.

317 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 6:52:31am

re: #315 Dark_Falcon

I do hope you’re not dissing New Orleans gumbo, my mother would be quite displeased.

The other thing to note is that even though Mary Landrieu and Kay Hagan are out in the Senate, the number of women in the Senate will not change, as Joni Ernst and Shelley Moore Capito will be in.

I’m not so much concerned with what chromosomes they have as how they vote, and Joni Ernst, at least (not sure about Capito) is a fucking nutbag.

318 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 7, 2014 6:53:47am

re: #316 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

Might I just say that a tie is about the most useless fucking piece of clothing ever invented by humanity.

I refer to it as a mutated kerchief. Something covering the neck and the top of a shirt/vest/jacket made a lot more sense a century or two ago when there wasn’t central heating in most buildings.

Which also explains a lot of period dress and furnishings such as fully decked out four poster beds.

319 Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2014 7:02:15am

re: #316 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

Might I just say that a tie is about the most useless fucking piece of clothing ever invented by humanity.

Sure, you can say that. But it is still a normal part men’s formal dress, and I don’t see that changing.

320 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 7:03:20am

re: #318 Feline Fearless Leader

I refer to it as a mutated kerchief. Something covering the neck and the top of a shirt/vest/jacket made a lot more sense a century or two ago when there wasn’t central heating in most buildings.

Which also explains a lot of period dress and furnishings such as fully decked out four poster beds.

Yeah, I get the kerchief aspect, but these days, it’s just a hindrance, and an annoyance. I am prone to sweat in 40-degree weather, so a tie just irritates my neck and exacerbates the situation.

Now that I think about it, the tie isn’t the most useless (that might go to the hoop skirt), but it’s in the top 10.

321 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 7:05:13am

re: #319 Dark_Falcon

Sure, you can say that. But it is still a normal part men’s formal dress, and I don’t see that changing.

In the U.S. and Western countries.

Personally, I think it’s a peacock measure. Since we men can’t wear fancy dresses and high heels, the tie is the only way to strut. ;)

322 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 7, 2014 7:09:27am

re: #320 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Yeah, I get the kerchief aspect, but these days, it’s just a hindrance, and an annoyance. I am prone to sweat in 40-degree weather, so a tie just irritates my neck and exacerbates the situation.

Now that I think about it, the tie isn’t the most useless (that might go to the hoop skirt), but it’s in the top 10.

That’s the main reason I dislike neck ties - restriction on the neck and shirt ventilation.

323 lawhawk  Dec 7, 2014 7:11:49am
324 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 7:13:24am

re: #323 lawhawk

#ICantBreathe is trending because #EqualJusticeUndertheLaw isn’t

Also because it’s shorter, and pithier.

325 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 7, 2014 7:14:54am

re: #324 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Also because it’s shorter, and pithier.

Going to add a hashtag for NeckTiesThatBind ?
;p

326 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 7, 2014 7:16:43am

re: #321 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

In the U.S. and Western countries.

Personally, I think it’s a peacock measure. Since we men can’t wear fancy dresses and high heels, the tie is the only way to strut. ;)

Speak for yourself.

327 Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2014 7:17:13am

re: #321 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

In the U.S. and Western countries.

Personally, I think it’s a peacock measure. Since we men can’t wear fancy dresses and high heels, the tie is the only way to strut. ;)

Nah, men can strut without a tie, I’ve see ‘em do it.

328 lawhawk  Dec 7, 2014 7:17:17am

re: #324 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

#ICantBreathe is trending because #justice isn’t (but that was taken by God).

329 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 7:20:39am

re: #320 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Yeah, I get the kerchief aspect, but these days, it’s just a hindrance, and an annoyance. I am prone to sweat in 40-degree weather, so a tie just irritates my neck and exacerbates the situation.

Now that I think about it, the tie isn’t the most useless (that might go to the hoop skirt), but it’s in the top 10.

There’s an idea! The women can all dress in 1860s dresses! Problem solved.

330 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 7:21:11am

re: #328 lawhawk

#ICantBreathe is trending because #justice isn’t (but that was taken by God).

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Yes, there’s also that. I’m curious to see what kind of concrete actions come from all these protests.

331 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 7:21:59am

re: #321 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

In the U.S. and Western countries.

Personally, I think it’s a peacock measure. Since we men can’t wear fancy dresses and high heels, the tie is the only way to strut. ;)

I think that’s why my husband prefers colorful shirts with Jerry Garcia ties for work. They can only be Jerry Garcia ties.

332 PhillyPretzel  Dec 7, 2014 7:22:45am

re: #329 Sionainn

Yes, but not all women have a small waistline. And I do not want to wear a corset.

333 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 7:23:56am

re: #331 Sionainn

I think that’s why my husband prefers colorful shirts with Jerry Garcia ties for work. They can only be Jerry Garcia ties.

I have several very colorful ties, silk and everything, but I haven’t worn them in years. I wish I could sometimes, just because I like the designs, but it’s not in my genes. And I’m fortunate to be in a field where a tie isn’t required.

(I do have a nice little collection of Hawaiian shirts though! :D )

334 Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2014 7:24:07am

re: #332 PhillyPretzel

Yes, but not all women have a small waistline. And I do not want to wear a corset.

Then you’re a Rebellious Jezebel!

335 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 7:26:07am

re: #332 PhillyPretzel

Yes, but not all women have a small waistline. And I do not want to wear a corset.

I wouldn’t want to wear one, either! We can just make it the 1860s style without the corsets. That’d work. Perhaps the legislature could give the women an extra clothing allowance to pay for all the material and a seamstress, too. Oh, who am I kidding. That’s asking too much.

336 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 7:26:14am

Re: The Montana dress code: I understand the need for decorum. I wouldn’t want a legislator or staffer to show up in a tie-dyed t-shirt and ratty jeans. But often Legislatures are working late nights, etc., and I think business casual dress would be acceptable.

But that’s because I’m not an asshole.

337 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 7:27:42am

re: #335 Sionainn

I wouldn’t want to wear one, either! We can just make it the 1860s style without the corsets. That’d work. Perhaps the legislature could give the women an extra clothing allowance to pay for all the material and a seamstress, too. Oh, who am I kidding. That’s asking too much.

My ex-girlfriend looked very good in corsets, even though she was not skinny. And she liked wearing them.

… that may be TMI. I’ll shut up now.

338 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 7:28:16am

re: #333 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I have several very colorful ties, silk and everything, but I haven’t worn them in years. I wish I could sometimes, just because I like the designs, but it’s not in my genes. And I’m fortunate to be in a field where a tie isn’t required.

(I do have a nice little collection of Hawaiian shirts though! :D )

My husband is a high school teacher, so he wears a dress shirt and ties. He finds that the students respond better to him dressing more professionally. He does get his weird on when they have dress up days at the school, though. Next week, he’ll dress as the Grinch one day and a Who from Whoville on another. Guess who gets to make the Who costume? LOL.

339 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 7:29:37am

re: #338 Sionainn

My husband is a high school teacher, so he wears a dress shirt and ties. He finds that the students respond better to him dressing more professionally. He does get his weird on when they have dress up days at the school, though. Next week, he’ll dress as the Grinch one day and a Who from Whoville on another. Guess who gets to make the Who costume? LOL.

That sounds very cool! I do understand the need to “dress above” the students. I’m on a college campus, and khakis and a dress shirt are miles above the pajama pants and t-shirts most students wear! lol

340 PhillyPretzel  Dec 7, 2014 7:30:23am

re: #338 Sionainn

When my late dad taught he too would wear a suit. He rarely had a problem in the classroom.

341 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 7:31:24am

He is growing his hair out enough so I can do this one day before the Christmas break.

342 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 7:32:30am

re: #340 PhillyPretzel

When my late dad taught he too would wear a suit. He rarely had a problem in the classroom.

During seminary, all the professors and admins wore suits and ties, in Texas, where temps would reach the 100s on occasion. The air conditioning in the buildings was like a freezer. I always maintained it was because that’s the only way the profs wouldn’t die of heat stroke!

343 FemNaziBitch  Dec 7, 2014 7:32:38am

HOw is life today?

344 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 7:32:47am

re: #340 PhillyPretzel

When my late dad taught he too would wear a suit. He rarely had a problem in the classroom.

My husband doesn’t have a suit jacket…wait, I take that back. He bought a really ugly one at a thrift store yesterday that I’m going to glue big felt polka dots all over.

345 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 7:33:00am

re: #341 Sionainn
hahahaha!

346 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 7:33:42am

re: #345 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

hahahaha!

I wanted to do it last year, but didn’t see the photo until it was too late to do it!

347 Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2014 7:35:12am

For the protection of those couple lizards who sometimes work on Sunday,
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Speaking of gender issues, here’s a pretentious line of DERP dropped at Art Basel in Miami:

“Body As Commodity” Performance + Installation Body as RealDoll(tm), batteries, usb>usb cables Artist Statement // “Body As Commodity” forces the active audience to consider whether using a doll for sexual pleasure commodifies sex more or less immorally than using a real body for amenities that can be monetarily quantified, such as energy; the charging of a mobile phone. This performance piece uses the exchange of literal energy (battery life) for figurative energy (use of a body) at a monetary expense to exemplify the exchange of simulated sexuality for monetary gain. Inserting sexually explicit construct into a socially acceptable context, the audience participant is liberated from societal ethics in order to better assess their personal moral stance on the use of a body for personal gain. The aim of this exchange is to challenge the audience, asking them to question how the social presentation of sexuality may be affecting their seemingly inherent moral standing. The participant is also forced to reflect on the ability of their desire to become a need, how great their need for energy can become at times of impending technological dissonance (such as a dying mobile phone), and how it can eclipse the social ethics instilled in them. VECTOR Gallery Select Art Fair Booth C4 Art Basel Miami 2014 Group Show 12/ 2/3 5-7pm 12/ 6 1-2pm 12/ 7 4-6pm “Body As Commodity” performance and installation by Lena Marquise for VECTOR Gallery at Select Art Fair during Art Basel Miami 2014 usher vectorgallery selectartfair @lenamarquise

But what did Lena Marquise actually do? She inserted a battery pack used charge cell phones inside her vagina and then offered 10 minutes of change for $20. So all that DERP was just cover for a woman wanting to show off her naked body in public without getting arrested.

TMZ has Usher paying her for this silly stunt. Her DERP is on the gallery’s Tumbr page. Both are NSFW, of course.

348 Dave In Austin  Dec 7, 2014 7:36:22am

DERP

349 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 7:36:44am

re: #347 Dark_Falcon

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I saw this yesterday and thought it was beyond stupid.

350 FemNaziBitch  Dec 7, 2014 7:38:38am
Although McQuilliams didn’t leave a letter explaining the reason for his attack, a handwritten note inside the book described him as a “priest in the fight against anti-God people.

Read the whole thing

351 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 7:38:47am

re: #347 Dark_Falcon

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An updated Karen Finley. People are weird. News at 11.

352 Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2014 7:40:16am

re: #349 Sionainn

I saw this yesterday and thought it was beyond stupid.

I just posted it because when someone gets THAT pretentious, I feel a major urge to cut them down to size.

353 FemNaziBitch  Dec 7, 2014 7:40:57am

re: #350 FemNaziBitch

Read the whole thing

These incidents have been bolstered by a more general spike in homegrown American extremism over the past decade and a half. Between 2000 and 2008, the number of hate groups in America rose 54 percent according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, and white-supremacist groups — including many with Christian roots — saw an “explosion” in recruitment after Barack Obama was elected the country’s first African-American president in 2008. In fact, the growth of this and other homegrown terrorist threats has become so great that it spurred then-Attorney General Eric Holder to revive the Domestic Terror Task Force in June of this year.

Wonder if Megyn Kelly would consider this evidence of racism?

354 Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2014 7:42:59am

re: #353 FemNaziBitch

Wonder if Megyn Kelly would consider this evidence of racism?

Regardless of what she thinks, she’d say it was instead a justified reaction to Obama’s socialist policies.

355 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 7, 2014 7:44:24am

re: #347 Dark_Falcon

This performance piece uses the exchange of literal energy (battery life) for figurative energy (use of a body) at a monetary expense to exemplify the exchange of simulated sexuality for monetary gain. Inserting sexually explicit construct into a socially acceptable context, the audience participant is liberated from societal ethics in order to better assess their personal moral stance on the use of a body for personal gain.

Brevity being the soul of wit and all, I would have said “Staring at the badger.”

357 Bear  Dec 7, 2014 7:46:56am

Good Morning.
For about half of the time I taught, I wore suits and tie. Then when moved to another area I was in a jacket without tie.

On another subject it was 73 years ago today things changed for the US. A day of infamy.

358 NJDhockeyfan  Dec 7, 2014 7:49:11am
359 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 7, 2014 7:49:23am

re: #357 Bear

Good Morning.
For about half of the time I taught, I wore suits and tie. Then when moved to another area I was in a jacket without tie.

On another subject it was 73 years ago today things changed for the US. A day of infamy.

Most of the posts I’m seeing today regarding Dec 7 and that Star Trek: The Motion Picture came out on this day in 1979. So I guess 35th anniversaries are outscoring 73rd anniversaries today.

At least among the geek segment of my friends and acquaintances.

360 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 7:50:45am

re: #359 Feline Fearless Leader

Most of the posts I’m seeing today regarding Dec 7 and that Star Trek: The Motion Picture came out on this day in 1979. So I guess 35th anniversaries are outscoring 73rd anniversaries today.

At least among the geek segment of my friends and acquaintances.

Perhaps because it’s closer. The WWII generation is passing quickly, so the horrors of that time are less immediate, I suppose.

361 FemNaziBitch  Dec 7, 2014 7:53:06am

re: #359 Feline Fearless Leader

Most of the posts I’m seeing today regarding Dec 7 and that Star Trek: The Motion Picture came out on this day in 1979. So I guess 35th anniversaries are outscoring 73rd anniversaries today.

At least among the geek segment of my friends and acquaintances.

35 years ago. Geez, I’m freakin’ old.

Regarding Pearl Harbor. I’m a little tired of it. 9/11 should trump it, but we hold on to WWII. It think, currently, it is used to divide us more than to honor those who served.

Constant reminder of “the other”. Fuels the Xenophobes.

362 Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2014 7:54:38am

re: #360 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Perhaps because it’s closer. The WWII generation is passing quickly, so the horrors of that time are less immediate, I suppose.

The bombing of Pearl Harbor remains a more important event than the release of the first Star Trek movie. Heck, the first movie wasn’t even very good.

363 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 7:55:01am

re: #361 FemNaziBitch

35 years ago. Geez, I’m freakin’ old.

Regarding Pearl Harbor. I’m a little tired of it. 9/11 should trump it, but we hold on to WWII. It think, currently, it is used to divide us more than to honor those who served.

Constant reminder of “the other”. Fuels the Xenophobes.

Really? How does WWII divide us? I’m confused by that viewpoint, but interested in your take.

364 PhillyPretzel  Dec 7, 2014 7:55:08am

Both dates, December 7 and September 11, are important and should be remembered.

365 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 7, 2014 7:55:24am

re: #359 Feline Fearless Leader

Most of the posts I’m seeing today regarding Dec 7 and that Star Trek: The Motion Picture came out on this day in 1979. So I guess 35th anniversaries are outscoring 73rd anniversaries today.

At least among the geek segment of my friends and acquaintances.

My dad was stationed aboard the USS Utah at the time. He attributed his surviving the attack to the fact that he had risen early to go to Mass. At that time, ships in port secured down to the Duty Section on Sundays.

366 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 7:55:45am

re: #362 Dark_Falcon

The bombing of Pearl Harbor remains a more important event than the release of the first Star Trek movie. Heck, the first movie wasn’t even very good.

Wasn’t commenting on the worth of either, just the age. I agree with that viewpoint.

367 FemNaziBitch  Dec 7, 2014 7:55:52am

re: #316 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Might I just say that a tie is about the most useless fucking piece of clothing ever invented by humanity.

It was pretty useful when buttons were hard to come-by, and zippers hadn’t yet been invented.

I often wonder what pioneers did when any needles they had brought with them broke and they were out of thread. I know horse tail/mane hair can be used as thread …

368 Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2014 7:56:50am

re: #365 Higgs Boson’s Mate

My dad was stationed aboard the USS Utah at the time. He attributed his surviving the attack to the fact that he had risen early to go to Mass. At that time, ships in port secured down to the Duty Section on Sundays.

Indeed. Most of those killed aboard the Utah were those who were stil below decks when the attack began.

369 FemNaziBitch  Dec 7, 2014 7:59:08am

re: #363 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Really? How does WWII divide us? I’m confused by that viewpoint, but interested in your take.

FASCISTS!!!! SOCIALISTS!!!! COMMUNISTS!!!!!

Oh my!

Those who look for something to fear cling to it. The world isn’t so black and white (*ahem*) as it was then. Good and Evil can’t be so easily compartmentalized.

The Conservatives and Religious Whackos seem to be fueled by it.

It was those collectivists that made the colored people uppity and gave women ideas of equality.

And made Ayn Rand so popular.

370 Bear  Dec 7, 2014 7:59:24am

It was a nice sunny day in the fog belt of San Francisco Dec 7, 1941. My folks were outside working in the yard when a neighbor told us about the bombing.

Strange how I recall that day.

371 FemNaziBitch  Dec 7, 2014 8:00:59am

re: #322 Feline Fearless Leader

That’s the main reason I dislike neck ties - restriction on the neck and shirt ventilation.

I”ve never really understood why people where them in the modern day. Seems like a good way to die.

372 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 7, 2014 8:01:06am

re: #368 Dark_Falcon

Indeed. Most of those killed aboard the Utah were those who were stil below decks when the attack began.

They were. My dad was a hard hat diver at that point in his Navy career. In the days after the attack he dove on the Utah among others to recover remains. He suffered nightmares from that for the rest of his life.

373 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 8:02:57am

re: #369 FemNaziBitch

FASCISTS!!!! SOCIALISTS!!!! COMMUNISTS!!!!!

Oh my!

Those who look for something to fear cling to it. The world isn’t so black and white (*ahem*) as it was then. Good and Evil can’t be so easily compartmentalized.

The Conservatives and Religious Whackos seem to be fueled by it.

It was those collectivists that made the colored people uppity and gave women ideas of equality.

And made Ayn Rand so popular.

Fair enough. I don’t think the communist thing arose until after WWII was decided, but fascism and nazism were cancerous - as was the threat from the Japanese. Nothing is black and white, obviously, but that was probably the last war where there was a clear enough demarkation (although I’d argue ISIS is pretty close).

374 PhillyPretzel  Dec 7, 2014 8:03:04am

re: #356 FemNaziBitch

He is really of his rocker on that one.

375 NJDhockeyfan  Dec 7, 2014 8:04:18am
376 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 8:07:34am

I am somewhat reminded of the remembrance day poppies that are much more prevalent in Europe than the U.S.
en.wikipedia.org

377 #FergusonFireside  Dec 7, 2014 8:11:00am
378 FemNaziBitch  Dec 7, 2014 8:11:35am

breakfast is ready

bbl

379 Dave In Austin  Dec 7, 2014 8:12:45am

re: #377 #FergusonFireside

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Mega-Grift!!

That guy makes me wince almost as much as Haggee… Fuck

380 NJDhockeyfan  Dec 7, 2014 8:14:20am
381 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 8:15:29am

re: #377 #FergusonFireside

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LOL! Not gonna happen, Joel.

382 #FergusonFireside  Dec 7, 2014 8:16:08am

Your Sunday dose of religious crazy. ‘merca

383 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 8:17:06am

re: #380 NJDhockeyfan

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I thought that sounded familiar. I just finished watching the Roosevelts last week.

384 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 8:17:52am

re: #335 Sionainn

I wouldn’t want to wear one, either! We can just make it the 1860s style without the corsets. That’d work. Perhaps the legislature could give the women an extra clothing allowance to pay for all the material and a seamstress, too. Oh, who am I kidding. That’s asking too much.

Hoops skirts were a horrific fire hazard, also they would take up too much space on public transportation and how the fuck do you drive a car in one?

385 PhillyPretzel  Dec 7, 2014 8:18:06am

re: #383 Sionainn

My local PBS station is re-running part of The Roosevelts.

386 NJDhockeyfan  Dec 7, 2014 8:18:10am

re: #383 Sionainn

I thought that sounded familiar. I just finished watching the Roosevelts last week.

I didn’t see that yet. What channel was it on?

387 PhillyPretzel  Dec 7, 2014 8:19:18am

re: #386 NJDhockeyfan

PBS. Go to pbs.org and find your local station.

388 NJDhockeyfan  Dec 7, 2014 8:20:47am

re: #387 PhillyPretzel

PBS. Go to pbs.org and find your local station.

I just did a search for it. Nothing right now. I’m going to keep an eye on it. I wanted to see it when I first saw commercials for it.

389 PhillyPretzel  Dec 7, 2014 8:22:58am

re: #388 NJDhockeyfan

If you can pick up WHYY in Philly they are showing it tonight at 6:00 pm. whyy.org

390 ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2014 8:23:06am

re: #317 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I’m not so much concerned with what chromosomes they have as how they vote, and Joni Ernst, at least (not sure about Capito) is a fucking nutbag.

But…she is a Republican nutbag. And she has guns.

So, all is well in Dark’s world.

Wait. Nutbags with guns. This does not sound good.

By the way…good morning all.

391 Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2014 8:25:19am

re: #390 ObserverArt

Cheap shot. I’d debate it, but I haven’t the time. But I’ll return later.

392 NJDhockeyfan  Dec 7, 2014 8:26:13am

re: #389 PhillyPretzel

If you can pick up WHYY in Philly they are showing it tonight at 6:00 pm. whyy.org

I’m in Nashville.

393 PhillyPretzel  Dec 7, 2014 8:29:03am

re: #392 NJDhockeyfan

I am sorry. I did not know where you are. I have no idea where else you can watch it. :(

394 PhillyPretzel  Dec 7, 2014 8:32:11am

re: #392 NJDhockeyfan

Try youtube.com. I saw a few listings for the series.

395 ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2014 8:32:41am

re: #358 NJDhockeyfan

Female Firefighters - Pearl Harbor

Nice image for the day!

And I find it very interesting the ethnic makeup of the fine women fighting that hose. It also says a lot about the time and the women.

396 FemNaziBitch  Dec 7, 2014 8:34:20am
397 FemNaziBitch  Dec 7, 2014 8:34:29am

later all!

398 ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2014 8:35:58am

re: #391 Dark_Falcon

Cheap shot. I’d debate it, but I haven’t the time. But I’ll return later.

What? You don’t like Republicans and Guns now?

Don’t bother to debate it. It is called a joke.

399 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 8:39:04am

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

Hoops skirts were a horrific fire hazard, also they would take up too much space on public transportation and how the fuck do you drive a car in one?

That’s for the mens to decide and take care of.

////

400 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 8:41:02am

re: #385 PhillyPretzel

My local PBS station is re-running part of The Roosevelts.

I ended up buying it because I couldn’t wait for the reruns. Definitely a keeper.

401 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 8:41:46am

re: #386 NJDhockeyfan

I didn’t see that yet. What channel was it on?

It’s PBS, but my husband bought it for me on iTunes, I believe. It was $40.

402 Dave In Austin  Dec 7, 2014 8:44:17am

re: #358 NJDhockeyfan

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I’m using this as my FB header for the day. Awesome photo that I have never seen.

403 Targetpractice  Dec 7, 2014 8:44:41am

re: #396 FemNaziBitch

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A little late for that, RS. You threw “Jackie” under the bus in your rush to get out from under a potential lawsuit.

404 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 7, 2014 8:45:51am

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

Hoops skirts were a horrific fire hazard, also they would take up too much space on public transportation and how the fuck do you drive a car in one?

Women driving is unnatural!
////// :p

405 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 7, 2014 8:54:03am

re: #391 Dark_Falcon

Cheap shot. I’d debate it, but I haven’t the time. But I’ll return later.

Not a cheap shot. A true shot.

406 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 8:58:39am

Off to try to make a period piece shirt for my dad for Christmas using a costume reproduction pattern that I will then have to alter somewhat because the shirt is not quite what he’s looking for. Wish me luck. Sewing clothes is not my thing.

407 Snarknado!  Dec 7, 2014 9:14:08am

re: #406 Sionainn

Off to try to make a period piece shirt for my dad for Christmas using a costume reproduction pattern that I will then have to alter somewhat because the shirt is not quite what he’s looking for. Wish me luck. Sewing clothes is not my thing.

Are there seamstresses in your area? I went that route the last time I had a big project.

408 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 9:17:21am
409 NJDhockeyfan  Dec 7, 2014 9:23:01am

re: #393 PhillyPretzel

I am sorry. I did not know where you are. I have no idea where else you can watch it. :(

It will be back on one day. I’ll just wait, no big deal.

410 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 9:26:17am

re: #407 Snarknado!

Are there seamstresses in your area? I went that route the last time I had a big project.

There are, but I’m going to do it myself. A few years back, I made Renaissance princess dresses for my girls for Halloween and they turned out really well. Shocked the heck out of me! LOL.

411 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 9:28:08am

Jezebel calls Chucky a “Vile Journo”

He is not any kind of a “journo” and now he is proud of being validated by Jezebel.

412 Lidane  Dec 7, 2014 9:33:57am

ICYMI:

413 NJDhockeyfan  Dec 7, 2014 9:39:01am

@navyhistorynews is live tweeting the Pearl Harbor attack today…

414 Ace-o-aces  Dec 7, 2014 9:40:34am
415 #FergusonFireside  Dec 7, 2014 9:40:43am

re: #412 Lidane

ICYMI:

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“yep, page 18”

416 Snarknado!  Dec 7, 2014 9:44:46am

re: #410 Sionainn

There are, but I’m going to do it myself. A few years back, I made Renaissance princess dresses for my girls for Halloween and they turned out really well. Shocked the heck out of me! LOL.

Sounds good — and sounds like you know what you’re getting in to. (I’ve met a fair number of the “how hard can it be?” school of novices. (But does the project include set-in sleeves?)

417 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2014 9:45:52am

CCJ is even more disgusting today.

418 retired cynic  Dec 7, 2014 9:46:35am

re: #417 Backwoods_Sleuth

Must be hard to keep downing your game like that.

419 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 9:47:55am
420 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 9:49:55am
421 Dr Lizardo  Dec 7, 2014 9:51:24am

re: #420 The Vicious Babushka

What a vile shitstain Chuckles is. One of these days, he’s gonna go after the wrong person, and methinks it’s not gonna end well for him.

422 PhillyPretzel  Dec 7, 2014 9:51:45am

re: #420 The Vicious Babushka

A public note to “Jackie” Get yourself a good attorney and sue the daylights out of this stalker.

423 Snarknado!  Dec 7, 2014 9:52:42am

re: #421 Dr Lizardo

What a vile shitstain Chuckles is. One of these days, he’s gonna go after the wrong person, and methinks it’s not gonna end well for him.

From your lips to God’s ears…

BBL

424 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 9:52:46am

How is what Chucky is doing “due process” or “journalism”?

Oh it totally isn’t.

425 allegro  Dec 7, 2014 9:54:30am

re: #424 The Vicious Babushka

How is what Chucky is doing “due process” or “journalism”?

Oh it totally isn’t.

I’d call it blackmail.

426 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 9:54:33am

What’s the point of Twitter even having TOS if this putrid sack of pus is allowed to use their service after repeated violations?

427 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 9:55:39am

re: #425 allegro

I’d call it blackmail.

It’s only “blackmail” or “extortion” if he’s trying to get money. Anyway he plans to release all “information” that he can make up out of his ass whether she responds or not.

428 allegro  Dec 7, 2014 9:57:46am

re: #427 The Vicious Babushka

It’s only “blackmail” or “extortion” if he’s trying to get money. Anyway he plans to release all “information” that he can make up out of his ass whether she responds or not.

Seems to me anything that says you do this or I’ll do something to harm you is blackmail.

429 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 9:58:46am

re: #428 allegro

Seems to me anything that says you do this or I’ll do something to harm you is blackmail.

He will do whatever he is threatening to do no matter what she does.

430 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 9:58:57am
431 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 9:59:46am

Instead of just banning Chucky for 3 hours, how about taking away all his followers?

432 Sionainn  Dec 7, 2014 10:01:16am

re: #416 Snarknado!

Sounds good — and sounds like you know what you’re getting in to. (I’ve met a fair number of the “how hard can it be?” school of novices. (But does the project include set-in sleeves?)

I can actually do sleeves. It used to be that I would look at a pattern and not imagine how it worked in 3-D. I’ve passed that hurdle. I’m just used to do more sewing of quilts.

433 ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2014 10:03:51am

So, the college football playoff judges selected Ohio State as the 4th pick for the playoff. That means OSU versus ‘Bama in the first round game. Should be a good one.

I bet the local OSU buckeye fanatics feel like they won the Olympics.

Yes, I will be watching, but I am not so fanatical…not a graduate and don’t live and die with the team. Besides, the Columbus College of Art & Design did not have a team.

It is good for the community. Keeps everybody happy for the holidays.

Sorry for the off topic. Just a report from Columbus.

434 BeachDem  Dec 7, 2014 10:17:59am

re: #433 ObserverArt

So, the college football playoff judges selected Ohio State as the 4th pick for the playoff. That means OSU versus ‘Bama in the first round game. Should be a good one.

I bet the local OSU buckeye fanatics feel like they won the Olympics.

Yes, I will be watching, but I am not so fanatical…not a graduate and don’t live and die with the team. Besides, the Columbus College of Art & Design did not have a team.

It is good for the community. Keeps everybody happy for the holidays.

Sorry for the off topic. Just a report from Columbus.

Well, things are slow here right now, so I’ll reply. I went to Ohio State, taught at Ohio State and was never even close to being the fanatic that some of my friends who went to Miami and OU became once they were back in Columbus and caught up in the frenzy (particularly if they moved to Upper Arlington.)

When I was watching recaps of last week’s game when the QB got hurt, I was mainly looking for glimpses of one of the coaches, Zach Smith, who is Earl Bruce’s grandson.

435 ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2014 10:27:37am

re: #434 BeachDem

Well, things are slow here right now, so I’ll reply. I went to Ohio State, taught at Ohio State and was never even close to being the fanatic that some of my friends who went to Miami and OU became once they were back in Columbus and caught up in the frenzy (particularly if they moved to Upper Arlington.)

When I was watching recaps of last week’s game when the QB got hurt, I was mainly looking for glimpses of one of the coaches, Zach Smith, who is Earl Bruce’s grandson.

Heh. Upper Arlington. I think they make you sign a Buckeye Loyalty Contract in blood just to live there…with all the OSU profs!

Dublin probably second. They’re all wannabees.

: )

436 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 10:27:59am
437 Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2014 10:28:39am
438 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 10:28:49am

Who’s the fraud reporter? Oh it’s Chucky.

439 Targetpractice  Dec 7, 2014 10:31:28am

re: #436 The Vicious Babushka

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And it’s self-appointed judges like Chucky that are the reason why so many rape victims refuse to come forward, because they’ve no desire to have their lives drug through the mud for not meeting his criteria of what a “true victim” is.

440 ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2014 10:32:22am

re: #438 The Vicious Babushka

Who’s the fraud reporter? Oh it’s Chucky.

That was going to be my comment.

Does he always walk around pantless??? His ass is always on display.

441 Lidane  Dec 7, 2014 10:35:05am

re: #425 allegro

I’d call it blackmail.

Extortion. And whoever that girl is, she should sue him to hell and back.

442 teleskiguy  Dec 7, 2014 10:35:48am

Happy Sunday Lizards!

443 Targetpractice  Dec 7, 2014 10:35:50am

Man’s one step above an MRA, and I only say one step above because he’s not declared that all rape victims are liars…yet.

444 teleskiguy  Dec 7, 2014 10:37:46am

UpChuck needs to slip up and get into some real trouble sooner rather than later so he can just go away.

445 BeachDem  Dec 7, 2014 10:38:06am

re: #443 Targetpractice

Man’s one step above an MRA, and I only say one step above because he’s not declared that all rape victims are liars…yet.

I’d say he’s about 1/2 a step at most—I believe he said that until a rapist is convicted, nobody got raped, or something similar. (I just took a shower, so don’t want to go to his twitter feed to check the exact wording.)

446 ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2014 10:40:50am

re: #442 teleskiguy

Happy Sunday Lizards!

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He looks baked.

She looks great. So, 70s.

447 ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2014 10:44:52am

re: #444 teleskiguy

UpChuck needs to slip up and get into some real trouble sooner rather than later so he can just go away.

That seems to be the hope of more and more people. I know I’ve been hinting he was going to blow it soon after he came on the scene.

It is almost like it is written and nothing can change it. Certainly not Chuck C himself. It will not end well for him.

448 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 7, 2014 10:47:54am

re: #442 teleskiguy

Happy Sunday Lizards!

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Now we know where Prince got his early wardrobe inspiration.

RBS

449 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2014 10:48:59am
450 BeachDem  Dec 7, 2014 10:52:32am

The world has truly turned upside down when Dan Riehl is calling out upchuck. (I’m looking up at my feet right now.)

451 BeachDem  Dec 7, 2014 10:54:08am

re: #449 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Uh oh—-Mediaite is sure in trouble now. They called upchuck a conservative blogger instead of an AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST.
Don’t they KNOW who he IS?

452 dholmes32  Dec 7, 2014 10:57:36am

Not feeling well today and I just now opened up my Twitter to this:

I’m going to get dressed and go back to bed. I don’t wanna be around when the shitstorm hits.

453 Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2014 10:59:25am
454 BeachDem  Dec 7, 2014 11:01:40am

Paging wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I’m laughing so hard, I’m crying.

455 ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2014 11:02:43am

re: #454 BeachDem

Paging wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

[Embedded content]

I’m laughing so hard, I’m crying.

Oh my!

I bet the FBI knows who he is!

456 Lidane  Dec 7, 2014 11:04:10am

UpChuck’s extortion has made it over to Mediaite:

457 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2014 11:18:34am

re: #443 Targetpractice

Man’s one step above an MRA, and I only say one step above because he’s not declared that all rape victims are liars…yet.

I’d say he’s a step below the lowest scum at the bottom of the filthiest toilet on the planet.

Maybe I’m being too harsh.

458 Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2014 12:23:36pm

re: #367 FemNaziBitch

It was pretty useful when buttons were hard to come-by, and zippers hadn’t yet been invented.

I often wonder what pioneers did when any needles they had brought with them broke and they were out of thread. I know horse tail/mane hair can be used as thread …

Bird bones = needles.

459 lawhawk  Dec 7, 2014 2:53:44pm

re: #348 Dave In Austin

Pretty easy and simple answer. Because no matter how screwed up we are and how much racism there is here, it’s still better and safer here than in Latin America.

460 palomino  Dec 7, 2014 3:12:43pm

re: #312 Dark_Falcon

It’s not just for women, though. It mandates a suit and tie for men and that in fact is the first rule on the list (contrary to the article).

As for the dress code speaking more about what women may wear than what men may wear, I’d point out that is normal for dress codes. The reason for it being normal is that women have many more kinds of outfits in a greater range of style than do men. A dress code has to speak to what people are likely to try to wear, and so it will cover women’s dress more than men’s.

When did you become a fashion critic? And, seriously, what do you really know about women? Men can dress just as inappropriately as women, so your justifications ring hollow. And if you think women have so many more options, you don’t know shit about fashion. Men don’t wear skirts, as women wear pants. Other than that distinction, men have as many options to dress badly and inappropriately as women.


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