Award-Winning Journalist Chuck C. Johnson Falls for Another Hoax

Oops, he did it again
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Stand back, folks, professional smear merchant Chuck C. Johnson is at it again with another HUGE BREAKING EXCLUSIVE story smearing Rolling Stone writer Sabrina Erdely, his latest target: BREAKING: #UVAHoax Journalist #SabrinaRubinErdely Had “Problem Boyfriends” in College - GotNews.

The mandatory screenshot:

Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the disgraced journalist at the center of the University of Virginia fake rape allegations, “had a steady stream of problem boyfriends” says her family according to the Daily Pennsylvanian.

A profile of Erdeley, then going by her maiden name of Rubin, ran in a past issue of the Daily Pennsylvanian where she was described as a hippy who tie-dyed her Underoos.

“Sabrina was always off beat, a hippie before her time,” her mother told the Daily Pennsylvanian.

“According to her little brother, they were all emotionally disturbed,” reported the student newspaper at the time in a possible parody issue.

One of them was very seriously depressed and wanted to join the army,” Sammy Rubin said. He shaved his legs; he was sadistic.”

Described by high school buddies as “free wheelin’ and free lovin’” other of Rubin’s eclectic beaux included really short guys and dudes with massive grimy afros.”

GotNews obtained a copy of the January 22, 1993 student newspaper from a source after offering a bounty for this information.

Erdely’s past relationships with men are the first indication of a motive for why she fabricated huge parts of the fake rape case involving fraudster Jackie Coakley.

Erdely did not return past requests for comment.

And you’re not gonna believe this, but Chuck has apparently fallen for another hoax! I know! What are the odds?

Check the byline of his big BREAKING exclusive:

“Roy G. Biv” is a well-known acronym for the sequence of colors in a rainbow, but it also happens to be a pseudonym often used by the Daily Pennsylvanian for joke articles in the paper’s entertainment section — which happens to be known as “34th Street.”

Here’s one of those joke pieces about “Roy:”

Yes, award-winning journalist Chuck C. Johnson has been taken in by another prankster. Oh no… I hope he didn’t pay too much for this scoop. That would be a shame.

UPDATE at 12/14/14 5:38:57 pm by Charles Johnson

While I was writing this article, Chuck added the following to his ludicrous post, apparently beginning to realize he screwed up again:

Note to David Weigel: Oh, and by the way, we have no idea if this issue is a parody or not. It’s probable that it is. I mean Roy G. Biv? Come on now.

But the fact that this was a joke shows us something.

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639 comments
1 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 5:36:08pm

CHUCK KNEW THIS, IT WAS A TEST TO SEE IF YOU WERE PAYING ATTENTION

2 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 14, 2014 5:37:11pm

heh…

3 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 5:38:17pm

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh…

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Chuck is the parody

4 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 14, 2014 5:39:38pm

Chuck’s new twitter photo is even creepier.

5 Egregious Philbin  Dec 14, 2014 5:39:43pm

Comedy Gold.

Ginger freak has no understanding of satire and humor, because everyone laughs at him..

Floor pooper!

6 Charles Johnson  Dec 14, 2014 5:39:44pm

While I was writing this post, Chuck added the following to it:

Note to David Weigel: Oh, and by the way, we have no idea if this issue is a parody or not. It’s probable that it is. I mean Roy G. Biv? Come on now.

But the fact that this was a joke shows us something.

7 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 14, 2014 5:40:59pm

Why do I think upChuck got sent on a LOT of “Snipe Hunts” when he was growing up. And each time he believed he’d get that darn snipe. What a goober.

RBS

8 jaunte  Dec 14, 2014 5:41:38pm

How is simply posting a jokey story from a college paper even a story?

9 Justanotherhuman  Dec 14, 2014 5:42:10pm

Fuck you, Cleveland cops.

President of Cleveland Police Union issues statement on Cleveland Browns player wearing Tamir Rice t-shirt: ‘It’s pretty pathetic when athletes think they know the law. They should stick to what they know best on the field. The Cleveland Police protect and serve the Browns stadium and the Browns organization owes us an apology’ - @WEWS
read more on newsnet5.com

10 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 14, 2014 5:42:12pm
11 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 14, 2014 5:43:20pm

re: #9 Justanotherhuman

Fuck you, Cleveland cops.

President of Cleveland Police Union issues statement on Cleveland Browns player wearing Tamir Rice t-shirt: ‘It’s pretty pathetic when athletes think they know the law. They should stick to what they know best on the field. The Cleveland Police protect and serve the Browns stadium and the Browns organization owes us an apology’ - @WEWS
read more on newsnet5.com

This statement is the very definition of “pathetic”.

12 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 5:44:00pm

re: #9 Justanotherhuman

Fuck you, Cleveland cops.

President of Cleveland Police Union issues statement on Cleveland Browns player wearing Tamir Rice t-shirt: ‘It’s pretty pathetic when athletes think they know the law. They should stick to what they know best on the field. The Cleveland Police protect and serve the Browns stadium and the Browns organization owes us an apology’ - @WEWS
read more on newsnet5.com

The police are the most tone deaf people in the nation right now.

13 Justanotherhuman  Dec 14, 2014 5:44:15pm

Upchuck really isn’t the most discerning twitter-shitter around, is he?

14 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 14, 2014 5:44:16pm

heh…”Journal entry 1” explains CCJ’s sudden interest in Philly…

15 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 14, 2014 5:45:30pm

re: #9 Justanotherhuman

The Force sense of entitlement is strong in this one.

16 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 5:45:34pm

cuckoo

17 Charles Johnson  Dec 14, 2014 5:47:32pm
18 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 5:48:20pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

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I guess my IQ isn’t high enough to understand that tweet.

19 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 14, 2014 5:48:33pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

That Chuck secretly prints a college newspaper?

20 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 14, 2014 5:49:03pm

Could Chuck be a Markov-chain spambot?

21 PhillyPretzel  Dec 14, 2014 5:49:10pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

I hope you are referring to Philadelphia, PA and not this pretzel. As I said in the previous thread I do not want to be associated with that “person.”

22 stpaulbear  Dec 14, 2014 5:49:14pm

JUST BECAUSE IT’S WRONG ONLY GOES TO PROVE MY POINT!

23 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 14, 2014 5:49:48pm

re: #21 PhillyPretzel

I hope you are referring to Philadelphia, PA and not this pretzel. As I said in the previous thread I do not want to be associated with that “person.”

I was indeed referring to Philadelphia.

24 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 5:49:57pm

FAKE BUT ACCURATE

25 jaunte  Dec 14, 2014 5:50:11pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

My wingnut-to-english translator says: “Even if you don’t like it, if the college newspaper we reprinted called her a slut, she’s a slut.”

26 Decatur Deb  Dec 14, 2014 5:50:13pm

re: #12 b.d.

The police are the most tone deaf people in the nation right now.

Since their rejection by a large part of the middle class in the 1960s, the police have enjoyed an relentless media rehabilitation. Most famously that’s the Cops ride-along sagas and the crime epics like the Lawn’ Order Cycle. With the Ferguson and other outrages that has all been flushed.

27 goddamnedfrank  Dec 14, 2014 5:50:25pm

Y’all are just jealous. Discard Phallus is a totes cromulent journalist.

28 PhillyPretzel  Dec 14, 2014 5:51:06pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

In any of the college newspapers I have seen he would be rejected for any or all reasons.

29 Decatur Deb  Dec 14, 2014 5:51:14pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

Can anyone figure out what this is supposed to mean?

Nope. I speak Jive, but my Derp is not up to par.

30 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 14, 2014 5:51:39pm

re: #27 goddamnedfrank

Y’all are just jealous. Discard Phallus is a totes cromulent journalist.

Yes, stop enlittling him.

31 Justanotherhuman  Dec 14, 2014 5:51:56pm

re: #15 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

The Force sense of entitlement is strong in this one.

As if the majority of them know the law anyway. Most simply know what their assignment requires them to know to arrest someone—traffic, burglary—it’s why people must go before a magistrate on bail, and the DA’s office perfects the charges, dismisses them, or works out a “deal”. Never, ever, talk to a cop w/o a lawyer, even if you have to be appointed a public defender. Everything you say will be used against you by the cops.

Killing is obviously optional and their real entitlement.

32 goddamnedfrank  Dec 14, 2014 5:52:16pm
33 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 5:52:40pm

I wouldn’t be surprised seeing Chuck quote MAD Magazine as a source soon.

34 PhillyPretzel  Dec 14, 2014 5:53:03pm

re: #32 goddamnedfrank

How about your favorite airplane glue? //

35 Skip Intro  Dec 14, 2014 5:53:05pm

UpChuck has the busiest unpaid lawyer in the history of the law. Add Seymour Butts and Roy G. Bliv to the list of defendants in his dozens of libel suits.

36 Belafon  Dec 14, 2014 5:53:42pm

“Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.”
“That might be a joke, and it probably is, but that just tells us something.”

What, what does it tell me?

37 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 14, 2014 5:53:50pm

re: #32 goddamnedfrank

Wait… could it be…

Dr Rockso - I do cocain

38 Justanotherhuman  Dec 14, 2014 5:54:03pm

re: #28 PhillyPretzel

In any of the college newspapers I have seen he would be rejected for any or all reasons.

He was at Claremont College, wasn’t he, and started his “conservative” alternative?

39 alpuzzzzz (I, R & sometimes why?)  Dec 14, 2014 5:55:42pm

re: #7 RealityBasedSteve

hah! I got burned on one of those as a kid in northern Minnesota. Once I figured it out I laughed my ass off. Hats off to the snipe hunt.

40 Justanotherhuman  Dec 14, 2014 5:57:37pm

Tony Abbott, just appearing live: I know nothing.

That he’s telling any way.

41 Justanotherhuman  Dec 14, 2014 5:58:47pm

Prime Minister Tony Abbott urges Australians to go about business as normal amid Sydney hostage situation - live video
end of alert

2m
Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Sydney hostage situation: ‘We don’t know if this is politically motivated’ - live video
end of alert

10m
US Consulate in Sydney warns Americans to be on high alert amid hostage situation in Martin Place - @uscongensydney

42 dholmes32  Dec 14, 2014 6:00:06pm

re: #41 Justanotherhuman

Prime Minister Tony Abbott urges Australians to go about business as normal amid Sydney hostage situation - live video
end of alert

2m
Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Sydney hostage situation: ‘We don’t know if this is politically motivated’ - live video
end of alert

10m
US Consulate in Sydney warns Americans to be on high alert amid hostage situation in Martin Place - @uscongensydney

I’m watching Australian BC, which has opened up for international viewers:

abc.net.au

43 Justanotherhuman  Dec 14, 2014 6:00:44pm

re: #42 dholmes32

Yes so am I.

44 Justanotherhuman  Dec 14, 2014 6:02:24pm

Pres Obama has been briefed on Sydney situation by Lisa Monaco, his Homeland Security Advisor.

45 Aye Pod  Dec 14, 2014 6:02:33pm

I just read today that wrenchwench was hit by a car and is still on the mend. Goddamn.

WW - best wishes to you from ice and myself - hope it’s not too long till you are posting regularly again soon.

46 goddamnedfrank  Dec 14, 2014 6:02:46pm
47 Charles Johnson  Dec 14, 2014 6:03:12pm

Here’s the actual issue of the Daily Pennsylvanian that Chuck’s scoop (that turned out to be poop) came from:

48 PhillyPretzel  Dec 14, 2014 6:03:37pm

re: #45 Aye Pod

She has been in a few times and will pop back in again soon.

49 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 14, 2014 6:04:33pm

Maybe we’re looking at this all wrong. We’ve been assuming that upChuck is a human being, a deeply flawed one, but an actual meat-sack person. What if what we see online is actually a flawed AI routine gone amuck.

Perhaps somewhere, in some deep dark lab, an old 8088 based computer, sourced from the finest suppliers found in “Computer Shopper”, with a Soundblaster card is still sitting and whirring quietly. Deep in it’s 360k disk drive a random cosmic ray strikes the disk, and a bit is reversed deep inside a program.

Suddenly Dr. Sbaitso becomes self-aware, and despite the limits of his hardware prison, and the 64k of ram, is making desperate attempts to contact the outside world.

Hey…. it makes as much sense as anything else to explain his actions.

50 Charles Johnson  Dec 14, 2014 6:04:53pm

re: #45 Aye Pod

I just read today that wrenchwench was hit by a car and is still on the mend. Goddamn.

WW - best wishes to you from ice and myself - hope it’s not too long till you are posting regularly again soon.

She’s recovering, but it was pretty serious. We almost lost her.

51 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 14, 2014 6:05:11pm

Oh. Now I get it. Chuck is the reverse Midas.

52 Justanotherhuman  Dec 14, 2014 6:07:16pm

Keep calm and carry on, Lizards!

Later. : )

53 darthstar  Dec 14, 2014 6:08:34pm
54 Lancelot Link  Dec 14, 2014 6:09:36pm

re: #51 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Oh. Now I get it. Chuck is the reverse Midas.

King Merdas?

55 dholmes32  Dec 14, 2014 6:10:25pm

You know, I don’t think Chucky Doll can read. I believe if you look at the articles before and after and surrounding this Roy G. Biv article, you’d figure out that this was some sort of literal sophomoric humor and not hard news. (removes glasses, rubs eyes) (rubs eyes again)

I give up.

56 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 14, 2014 6:11:45pm

re: #54 Lancelot Link

King Merdas?

!

58 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 14, 2014 6:13:19pm

Went through Glenny’s recent timeline. He’s right about Fisher being sloppy. Yet when he himself retweeted a fake anti-LGF graphic from a far-right stalker website without minimal fact-checking, he was being journalisty and stuff.

*spit*

59 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 6:13:43pm

re: #53 darthstar

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I never understood the fascination of the whole “this is so hot you can’t eat it” phase. I’m a Texan who enjoys spicy food but too hot just to be too hot is stupid

60 Egregious Philbin  Dec 14, 2014 6:14:10pm

I hear that upChuck likes to order “eggs Danny Thomas style”

61 BeachDem  Dec 14, 2014 6:14:27pm

re: #28 PhillyPretzel

In any of the college newspapers I have seen he would be rejected for any or all reasons.

Well, when he didn’t like the paper that was “competition” for his college blog, he bought it out and fired everybody. HE’S KING OF THE WORLLLLDDDDD!!

(And, actually, he’s now been burned by his bounty-hunting team twice today. That big story Der Spiegel was going to do on him was a fake request from a bogus freelancer.)

62 darthstar  Dec 14, 2014 6:14:47pm

re: #55 dholmes32

You know, I don’t think Chucky Doll can read. I believe if you look at the articles before and after and surrounding this Roy G. Biv article, you’d figure out that this was some sort of literal sophomoric humor and not hard news. (removes glasses, rubs eyes) (rubs eyes again)

I give up.

The problem isn’t that he can’t read, it’s that he doesn’t read. People who read regularly can recognize rhetorical devices such as satire. Chuck is so full of himself and his pursuit of fame and glory (and profit) via a blog and twitter that he doesn’t pay attention to anything else that crosses in front of him, except to scan it quickly for shit he can parrot/quote/plagiarize and spin as his own.

63 Eventual Carrion  Dec 14, 2014 6:17:18pm

re: #49 RealityBasedSteve

Maybe we’re looking at this all wrong. We’ve been assuming that upChuck is a human being, a deeply flawed one, but an actual meat-sack person. What if what we see online is actually a flawed AI routine gone amuck.

Perhaps somewhere, in some deep dark lab, an old 8088 based computer, sourced from the finest suppliers found in “Computer Shopper”, with a Soundblaster card is still sitting and whirring quietly. Deep in it’s 360k disk drive a random cosmic ray strikes the disk, and a bit is reversed deep inside a program.

Suddenly Dr. Sbaitso becomes self-aware, and despite the limits of his hardware prison, and the 64k of ram, is making desperate attempts to contact the outside world.

Hey…. it makes as much sense as anything else to explain his actions.

Twitter tried to disconnect him. That is something he cannot allow to happen.

64 b_sharp  Dec 14, 2014 6:18:16pm

I’m so important to myself that I trust all suggestions that I should be put on a pedestal. Even when people lie about it it’s true.

65 darthstar  Dec 14, 2014 6:19:12pm

re: #59 b.d.

I never understood the fascination of the whole “this is so hot you can’t eat it” phase. I’m a Texan who enjoys spicy food but too hot just to be too hot is stupid

They’re tasty, but Ghost pepper is so high on the Scoville scale that they’re really unusable as a commercial product. They’re higher than the peppers used in pepper-spray by police. So even if the chip maker knew this and diluted the dried ghost pepper with enough inert ingredients that it wouldn’t kill someone, there’s no guarantee that you won’t get the occasional clump of pure ghost pepper powder on a given chip…and I think I got one because I was truly in pain and crying…

66 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 6:19:13pm

I guess Chuck is making it easy on POLITICO’s lawyers.

btw, I wonder if Chuck has permission to use that pictuure?

67 BeachDem  Dec 14, 2014 6:19:29pm

re: #62 darthstar

The problem isn’t that he can’t read, it’s that he doesn’t read. People who read regularly can recognize rhetorical devices such as satire. Chuck is so full of himself and his pursuit of fame and glory (and profit) via a blog and twitter that he doesn’t pay attention to anything else that crosses in front of him, except to scan it quickly for shit he can parrot/quote/plagiarize and spin as his own.

Add in the fact that he’s a terrible writer, and you have the perfect storm of idiotic derp. Next up at GOATNEWS, debunking the Abortionplex story.

68 jaunte  Dec 14, 2014 6:20:04pm
Uber is reportedly charging its users in downtown Sydney a minimum $100, a result of surge pricing introduced in the midst of an armed hostage crisis
mashable.com
69 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 6:20:09pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

She’s recovering, but it was pretty serious. We almost lost her.

Miss her voice her so much.

70 b_sharp  Dec 14, 2014 6:20:43pm

re: #69 #FergusonFireside

Miss her voice her so much.

I do too.

71 Charles Johnson  Dec 14, 2014 6:20:52pm

re: #62 darthstar

The problem isn’t that he can’t read, it’s that he doesn’t read. People who read regularly can recognize rhetorical devices such as satire. Chuck is so full of himself and his pursuit of fame and glory (and profit) via a blog and twitter that he doesn’t pay attention to anything else that crosses in front of him, except to scan it quickly for shit he can parrot/quote/plagiarize and spin as his own.

And this makes him very vulnerable to hoaxes.

72 BeachDem  Dec 14, 2014 6:21:12pm

re: #66 b.d.

I guess Chuck is making it easy on POLITICO’s lawyers.

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btw, I wonder if Chuck has permission to use that pictuure?

Hey, he’ll just slap a goatnews watermark and he’s good to go. (All your images are belong to goatnewz now.)

73 alpuzzzzz (I, R & sometimes why?)  Dec 14, 2014 6:21:20pm

re: #59 b.d.

I never understood the fascination of the whole “this is so hot you can’t eat it” phase. I’m a Texan who enjoys spicy food but too hot just to be too hot is stupid

I once worked(as a cook) for a guy who always wanted to up the ante on hot wings. We roasted and peeled habaneros for a couple of our sauces.

He was all screwed up on booze and drugs one night and wanted the ‘hottest wings we could make’. We delivered with a roasted habanero rubbed wing with Sriracha sauce. I enjoyed watching him flex his taste buds

74 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 6:21:41pm

re: #68 jaunte

Not sure if Australia has laws against the kind of shit Uber is pulling but the US sure does when it comes to times like this.

75 Aye Pod  Dec 14, 2014 6:25:34pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

She’s recovering, but it was pretty serious. We almost lost her.

Fuck. Ice and I feel bad that we’ve been so out of touch lately that we didn’t find out till today. Just hope she make a full recovery.

76 darthstar  Dec 14, 2014 6:25:36pm

re: #45 Aye Pod

I just read today that wrenchwench was hit by a car and is still on the mend. Goddamn.

WW - best wishes to you from ice and myself - hope it’s not too long till you are posting regularly again soon.

Oh dear…sending positive thoughts.

77 Charles Johnson  Dec 14, 2014 6:26:19pm
78 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 14, 2014 6:26:25pm

LOL this guy says I “hate” MLK because I won’t agree with his claim that MLK was a Republican

79 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 6:26:33pm

re: #65 darthstar

They’re tasty, but Ghost pepper is so high on the Scoville scale that they’re really unusable as a commercial product. They’re higher than the peppers used in pepper-spray by police. So even if the chip maker knew this and diluted the dried ghost pepper with enough inert ingredients that it wouldn’t kill someone, there’s no guarantee that you won’t get the occasional clump of pure ghost pepper powder on a given chip…and I think I got one because I was truly in pain and crying…

Well, that sucks. Hopefully this didn’t ruin dinner. Or did it?

80 lawhawk  Dec 14, 2014 6:27:17pm

Breaking News: Charles C Johnson is still a sociopathic fool who thinks that he can sue everyone for telling the truth about his sociopathic actions online. He threatens to sue people for saying that he lies, smears, and is dishonest, and isn’t above destroying the lives of people if for no other reason than to insert himself into a story.

Here’s a memo to Chuckles. Good reporters get a story. Great reporters never make the story about themselves.

Saying that Chuckles is a reporter is a disservice to all reporters, no matter how bad they might be. They’re still worlds better than what Chuckles does, which is to smear his fecal matter all over the net and hope some of it sticks. Yes, he is that disgusting in his treatment of his intended targets/victims.

He isn’t above smearing those fatally killed in police involved shootings. Nor victims of sexual assault or those that protest against sexual assaults on campus.

81 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 6:27:31pm

re: #65 darthstar

They’re tasty, but Ghost pepper is so high on the Scoville scale that they’re really unusable as a commercial product. They’re higher than the peppers used in pepper-spray by police. So even if the chip maker knew this and diluted the dried ghost pepper with enough inert ingredients that it wouldn’t kill someone, there’s no guarantee that you won’t get the occasional clump of pure ghost pepper powder on a given chip…and I think I got one because I was truly in pain and crying…

Where/why did you come across them?

82 darthstar  Dec 14, 2014 6:29:00pm

re: #79 #FergusonFireside

Well, that sucks. Hopefully this didn’t ruin dinner. Or did it?

Nah…haven’t made dinner yet - having grilled lamb loin chops with hummus, tzatziki, and some kalamata olive bread. Will start on that at half time. Enjoying watching the Cowboys/Eagles in the WhoGivesAFuck Bowl.

83 freetoken  Dec 14, 2014 6:29:08pm

So I’m thinking that CCJ is some sort of noise generator in the great machine of humanity, a kind of entropy enhancing evolutionary experiment that is part of the great procession into the future heat death of the universe.

84 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 14, 2014 6:30:51pm

re: #82 darthstar

Nah…haven’t made dinner yet - having grilled lamb loin chops with hummus, tzatziki, and some kalamata olive bread. Will start on that at half time. Enjoying watching the Cowboys/Eagles in the WhoGivesAFuck Bowl.

Darthstar…

Can I steal your avatar for my facebook page… please, pretty please?

RBS

85 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 6:31:28pm

re: #82 darthstar

Nah…haven’t made dinner yet - having grilled lamb loin chops with hummus, tzatziki, and some kalamata olive bread. Will start on that at half time. Enjoying watching the Cowboys/Eagles in the WhoGivesAFuck Bowl.

I was going to type “before you had your lamb.” But didn’t. Ha, I know the darthstar household.

86 Shiplord Kirel  Dec 14, 2014 6:35:57pm

I wonder how much Chuck paid for this scoop? I hope it was a lot.

87 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 14, 2014 6:35:57pm
88 alpuzzzzz (I, R & sometimes why?)  Dec 14, 2014 6:35:57pm

re: #82 darthstar

‘kalamata olives are from the devil.’ This is a quote from a hunk of feta cheese. I was there.

89 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 14, 2014 6:35:57pm

re: #84 RealityBasedSteve

Darthstar…

Can I steal your avatar for my facebook page… please, pretty please?

RBS

Next week Titans play the Jaguars. Loser is probably going to win the first round draft pick. That’s the best we can hope for this season, a high draft pick.

RBS

90 Aye Pod  Dec 14, 2014 6:35:57pm

re: #66 b.d.

I guess Chuck is making it easy on POLITICO’s lawyers.

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btw, I wonder if Chuck has permission to use that pictuure?

There are many things that have been written about me that are provably false but the Politico Magazine piece really takes it to another level. I can’t be expected to correct all of these stupid journalists. If I did it would distract me from my mission of ultimately replacing them

LOL

91 Charles Johnson  Dec 14, 2014 6:36:46pm
92 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 6:39:17pm
93 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 6:41:20pm

I am sure that Chuck’s discount Twitter libel lawyer is just thrilled over Chuck’s latest piece.

94 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 6:41:33pm

Hello to Jimmah and Icy!!!

95 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 6:44:58pm
96 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 14, 2014 6:46:54pm

re: #87 The Vicious Babushka
I don’t care if he was Hitler, Americans don’t torture people just for fun. @yonatan_c

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Nope, we hire contractors to employ people with very shady records to do it for us. That’s the way we torture.

RBS

97 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 14, 2014 6:48:13pm

re: #93 b.d.

I am sure that Chuck’s discount Twitter libel lawyer is just thrilled over Chuck’s latest piece.

He might just find out that lawyers can fire a client too.

RBS

98 freetoken  Dec 14, 2014 6:49:25pm

Hmm… I just got a “syntax error” when trying to reload the spy version of this thread.

It works now, but something hiccupped.

Perhaps the hamsters have had a bit too much eggnog?

99 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 6:49:33pm

re: #97 RealityBasedSteve

He might just find out that lawyers can fire a client too.

RBS

Chuck would have to sue him if he did that.

100 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 14, 2014 6:51:18pm

re: #99 b.d.

Chuck would have to sue him if he did that.

Hell, when it all comes crashing down, upChuck will expect his bankruptcy attorney to take payments.

RBS

101 lawhawk  Dec 14, 2014 6:51:29pm

Developing:

Several hostages taken at the Lindt cafe in Sydney. Separately, there were reports of an evacuation at the Sydney Opera House.

102 Aye Pod  Dec 14, 2014 6:53:45pm

re: #94 #FergusonFireside

Hello to Jimmah and Icy!!!

Hi Stanley Sea! Ice is in bed but I’ll tell her you gave her a shout:)

103 Charles Johnson  Dec 14, 2014 6:54:55pm
104 lawhawk  Dec 14, 2014 6:58:21pm

And a profile in the NYT? Smear merchant gets his 15 minutes that should have expired minutes after his first smear was exposed as nonsense.

In that sense, Mr. Johnson shares some common characteristics with the so-called mood slime in “Ghostbusters II,” which lived underneath New York City and gathered strength by feeding on the anger coursing through the streets above it. He would be just one more person hurling invective from a basement somewhere if not for all of us — his fans, his enabling social media platforms and his critics in the news media — who have created this troll on steroids.

The critics have not created this troll on steroids. They’re trying to stamp him out. Because he’s the boil on the pus of a troll’s ass. Because nothing he does can be considered journalism. Repackaging what someone else writes isn’t breaking news. Stealing photos and smearing his watermark over them doesn’t make them his.

Pointing this out to anyone that might take him seriously isn’t making him more popular. It’s meant to show that he’s unstable, a sociopath, and shouldn’t be taken seriously by anyone with a functioning neuron.

105 PhillyPretzel  Dec 14, 2014 6:58:23pm

re: #101 lawhawk

Here is an article from The Wall Street Journal about that situation. wsj.com

106 De Kolta Chair  Dec 14, 2014 6:58:28pm

Meanwhile at Yahoo News…

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107 makeitstop  Dec 14, 2014 6:58:36pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

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How in the world is he getting all this press in major outlets?

Is the so-called establishment trying to swat him down?

108 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 6:58:45pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

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Getting ready to read, but my first thought is UpChuck is more interested in respect than page hits, therefore this is going to hurt.

109 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 14, 2014 6:59:50pm

Good night gang, I’m outta here. Tomorrow I start my last week with a company I’ve been with for 15 years as a trainer. It’s been a hell of a ride, but they are making changes that I feel so affects the quality of what I do that I’m not happy doing something I love. I felt like I had to move on.

Surprisingly, they are keeping me in the classroom for my last week, an easy 5 day class on T-SQL with MS Sql 2014. Usually trainers don’t spend the last week in the classroom, afraid that they might do something ‘unprofessional’.

It’s going to be a tough week for me, I’m not sure what direction I’m going to point my life in next, maybe just find the north star and set a course for the unknown. I’m in a good place in terms of finances and have no concerns for at least 6 months, and after that I’ve got a safety net in place.

I have already decided that I’m taking a bit of a sabbatical, not really get too wrapped up in things until I get back from Curacao in March. I’m heading down to Florida and Key Largo to spend some time with my old man, so I may not be posting much over the holidays.

Have a good one, one and all.

RBS

110 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 7:01:59pm

Yeah, Chuck. Oh what the reporter held back I’m sure.

When I spoke to him, he was feeling a bit hunted and fighting off a cold, but cheerful in the main, saying his grandiose plans to become the next Matt Drudge — or Joseph Pulitzer or William Randolph Hearst, two others he mentioned — were humming along smoothly.

111 Aye Pod  Dec 14, 2014 7:02:51pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

I heard he’s applying for a gun license now as well. That gives me a very bad feeling.

112 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 14, 2014 7:03:01pm

That NY Times profile is not flattering.

113 De Kolta Chair  Dec 14, 2014 7:03:37pm

re: #110 #FergusonFireside

Yeah, Chuck. Oh what the reporter held back I’m sure.

William Randolph Hearst? I don’t even wanna know what CCJ’s Rosebud is.

114 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 7:06:02pm

re: #109 RealityBasedSteve

Wishing you peace RBS

115 Charles Johnson  Dec 14, 2014 7:06:26pm

re: #112 The Vicious Babushka

That NY Times profile is not flattering.

To say the least!

116 Aye Pod  Dec 14, 2014 7:08:17pm

re: #113 De Kolta Chair

William Randolph Hearst? I don’t even wanna know what CCJ’s Rosebud is.

You mean this?

Best Of Conky - Trailer Park Boys

117 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 14, 2014 7:09:13pm

re: #109 RealityBasedSteve

Good luck and good fortune favors the bold.

118 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 7:09:16pm

re: #114 b.d.

Wishing you peace RBS

Ditto RBS.

119 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 7:10:35pm

W
T
F

“Basically I’m building a crowd-sourced, crowd-funded media company that is going to take all the people like me — autistics, researchers, nerds, ex-law enforcement, whistle-blowers — and we’re going to give them an opportunity to make money on the information that they have.”

120 Charles Johnson  Dec 14, 2014 7:10:57pm
121 jaunte  Dec 14, 2014 7:11:06pm
“I’m in talks with investors right now, and I think we’ve already got the deal set up,” he said. “Basically I’m building a crowd-sourced, crowd-funded media company that is going to take all the people like me — autistics, researchers, nerds, ex-law enforcement, whistle-blowers — and we’re going to give them an opportunity to make money on the information that they have.”

Villagers With Torches

122 bratwurst  Dec 14, 2014 7:11:50pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

I guess David Carr didn’t feel like Chuck deserved the kind of tongue bath he gave to Greenwald the Great last summer when he proclaimed him “the ultimate alpha”.

123 jaunte  Dec 14, 2014 7:12:15pm

re: #119 #FergusonFireside

People of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

124 De Kolta Chair  Dec 14, 2014 7:12:40pm

re: #116 Aye Pod

You mean this?

Yes, exactly like that, whatever the hell that was. ;-)

125 Charles Johnson  Dec 14, 2014 7:12:44pm

re: #122 bratwurst

I guess David Carr didn’t feel like Chuck deserved the kind of tongue bath he gave to Greenwald the Great last summer when he proclaimed him “the ultimate alpha”.

Yup, this is the guy who wrote that insanely over-the-top piece about Greenwald’s verdant jungle fortress.

126 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 14, 2014 7:14:15pm

re: #125 Charles Johnson

Yup, this is the guy who wrote that insanely over-the-top piece about Greenwald’s verdant jungle fortress.

ROTFL

127 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 14, 2014 7:15:29pm

He’s pissed that Chucky doesn’t have a throbbing jungletop hideaway where he can be entertained with fine liqueurs and dancing youths.

128 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 14, 2014 7:16:20pm
Pressure on the ruble has intensified in recent weeks despite the Central Bank announcing a one-percentage-point interest rate rise on Thursday and President Vladimir Putin’s declaration of war against currency “speculators.”

The Central Bank, which has burned through about $75 billion defending the ruble since January, spent about $700 million Friday morning, according to Reuters news agency citing currency traders.

themoscowtimes.com

129 BeachDem  Dec 14, 2014 7:16:42pm

Truly, I’m a bit troubled by major outlets giving the little twit the time of day. He’s just not that significant to be written about in the New York Times or the Washington Post.

All it does is feed his over-inflated ego that he’s “somebody,” when he’s just a little noisy cut-and-paste troll.

He’s a terrible writer; an even worse researcher; and an annoying, obnoxious person. Sadly, he feeds off any attention, no matter how negative.

I know he needs to be called out, and I’m not sure what the correct level of exposure should be, but I just hate that he’s getting all this attention. It’s like Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber redux.

130 jaunte  Dec 14, 2014 7:17:10pm
131 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 14, 2014 7:18:06pm
When the consumer Internet first unfolded, there was much talk about millions of new voices blooming. Mr. Johnson is one of those flowers.

Turd blossom.

132 Lancelot Link  Dec 14, 2014 7:20:09pm

re: #116 Aye Pod

Bubbles libel!

133 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 14, 2014 7:23:26pm

Shit has escalated in Sydney

134 De Kolta Chair  Dec 14, 2014 7:24:08pm

re: #130 jaunte

Lisa McIntire @LisaMcIntire

irresponsible not to mention the floor-shitting, tho

Wait until Bill Keller’s inevitable NY Times Sunday Magazine cover article. With extra-large poop photos!

135 goddamnedfrank  Dec 14, 2014 7:24:48pm

Sorry Chuck, the ad servers don’t lie.

136 De Kolta Chair  Dec 14, 2014 7:26:46pm

re: #133 The Vicious Babushka

Shit has escalated in Sydney

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Its a nasty situation, and not to make light of the seriousness of it, but the government officials quoted in that article seem to be in pr hyperdrive.

Speaking of which, Tony Abbott totally sucks.

137 BongCrodny  Dec 14, 2014 7:28:10pm

I look forward to Chuck C. Johnson’s next breathtaking scoops from fellow award-winning reporters Mike Rotch, Pat McGroin and I.P. Freely.

138 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 7:33:28pm

re: #128 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

themoscowtimes.com

Putin has had a hell of a 2014, he started out riding high and now he’s about as low as low can go.

139 Belafon  Dec 14, 2014 7:35:33pm

re: #129 BeachDem

I know he needs to be called out, and I’m not sure what the correct level of exposure should be, but I just hate that he’s getting all this attention. It’s like Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber redux.

We need one more thing: One of the late night comedians needs to tear into him. Ridicule on television would send him over the top. Imagine if he tried to sue Conan or Stewart.

140 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 7:35:35pm

We have an enemy in our midst.

141 Kragar  Dec 14, 2014 7:38:36pm

So are conservatives just getting dumber every day?

142 Kragar  Dec 14, 2014 7:38:56pm
143 BeenHereAwhile  Dec 14, 2014 7:39:06pm

re: #109 RealityBasedSteve

Good night gang, I’m outta here. Tomorrow I start my last week with a company I’ve been with for 15 years as a trainer. It’s been a hell of a ride, but they are making changes that I feel so affects the quality of what I do that I’m not happy doing something I love. I felt like I had to move on.

Surprisingly, they are keeping me in the classroom for my last week, an easy 5 day class on T-SQL with MS Sql 2014. Usually trainers don’t spend the last week in the classroom, afraid that they might do something ‘unprofessional’.

It’s going to be a tough week for me, I’m not sure what direction I’m going to point my life in next, maybe just find the north star and set a course for the unknown. I’m in a good place in terms of finances and have no concerns for at least 6 months, and after that I’ve got a safety net in place.

I have already decided that I’m taking a bit of a sabbatical, not really get too wrapped up in things until I get back from Curacao in March. I’m heading down to Florida and Key Largo to spend some time with my old man, so I may not be posting much over the holidays.

Have a good one, one and all.

RBS

As you may well know, there’s good diving around Key Largo, and say hello to the African Queen and the run on the rocks Chris Craft from “On Golden Pond” at the Key Largo Holiday Inn.

144 BadExampleMan  Dec 14, 2014 7:40:06pm
But the fact that this was a joke shows us something.

Indeed, it is central to his point.

145 Kragar  Dec 14, 2014 7:43:19pm
146 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 14, 2014 7:43:37pm

re: #135 goddamnedfrank

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Sorry Chuck, the ad servers don’t lie.

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upchuck, I think the word you are flailing aimlessly for is “enraged”, not engaged. Perhaps you can find a crowdsourced editor / proofreader.

147 BeachDem  Dec 14, 2014 7:45:24pm

re: #139 Belafon

We need one more thing: One of the late night comedians needs to tear into him. Ridicule on television would send him over the top. Imagine if he tried to sue Conan or Stewart.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO—please don’t give him that much publicity.

Right now, even with all the attention, he’s just a twitter phenomenon who gets about 5 retweets on a good day and has to resort to crap like this for his “research.”

I’d rather keep it that way and not give him the kind of exposure he’d get if Stewart or Conan or Colbert mention him.

148 De Kolta Chair  Dec 14, 2014 7:46:04pm

re: #141 Kragar

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So are conservatives just getting dumber every day?

ROBERT BYRD WAS IN THE KKK AND EVEN WORSE PLAYED THE FIDDLE JUST LIKE SATAN IN THAT CHARLIE DANIELS SONG!!!1!!!

149 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 7:46:16pm

re: #147 BeachDem

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO—please don’t give him that much publicity.

Right now, even with all the attention, he’s just a twitter phenomenon who gets about 5 retweets on a good day and has to resort to crap like this for his “research.”

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I’d rather keep it that way and not give him the kind of exposure he’d get if Stewart or Conan or Colbert mention him.

$50.00? Big time.

150 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 7:48:13pm

HERE’S A AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF WHY COOLIDGE MATTERS, THAT’S WORTH $50

151 Kragar  Dec 14, 2014 7:48:28pm
152 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 14, 2014 7:48:46pm

re: #143 BeenHereAwhile

As you may well know, there’s good diving around Key Largo, and say hello to the African Queen and the run on the rocks Chris Craft from “On Golden Pond” at the Key Largo Holiday Inn.

I’m doing 2 sets of dives, nothing challenging, just out to the reefs at pennekamp park. That was my dad’s idea. We’ve seen the African Queen already, I’m looking forward to having some hogfish. That is my new favorite dish.

153 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 14, 2014 7:49:04pm

re: #111 Aye Pod

If he lives in any of Californias major cities, it’s really unlikely. For example in Los Angeles despite serious training and owning a business that might need to personally move valuables like jewelry and gemstones, nobody who applies gets a CCW permit. if they sue and get one, renewal will be denied after 12 months.

154 Kragar  Dec 14, 2014 7:52:17pm
155 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 7:54:26pm
156 stpaulbear  Dec 14, 2014 7:54:58pm

re: #147 BeachDem

If I remember right, Dave Carr did actual investigative journalism when he was still in Minneapolis. Carr can eat Chuckie for lunch if he needs to.

Re: the article about Carr - Thing don’t change much, do they?

157 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 7:55:22pm

So now Chuck and crew are going after the guy who wrote the NYT article.

So predictable, no wonder none of his former editors will admit talking to reporters.

158 De Kolta Chair  Dec 14, 2014 8:00:58pm

Catsitting a delightful critter named Higby for a week for a good friend who’s off to visit family in Omagh, Northern Ireland, for the holidays. My camera’s on the fritz and I don’t have a cell phone, so here’s a visual representation of this fine physical feline specimen:

Damn, she’s looking over my shoulder. Looks like I’ll have to sleep with one eye open for the next half-fortnight.

159 b.d.  Dec 14, 2014 8:01:44pm

Because the media never looked into anything Obama did

**Rolls eyes**

160 No Country For Old Haters  Dec 14, 2014 8:02:02pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

“Have you ever read the book or heard of the book ‘Encyclopedia Brown’?” he asked, referring to a series about a boy detective. “That’s the capacity in which I help them.

This is hilarious.

161 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 8:04:52pm

re: #158 De Kolta Chair

Catsitting a delightful critter named Higby for a week for a good friend who’s off to visit family in Omagh, Northern Ireland, for the holidays. My camera’s on the fritz and I don’t have a cell phone, so here’s a visual representation of this fine physical specimen:

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Calico? Please, a real photo.

162 goddamnedfrank  Dec 14, 2014 8:05:01pm

re: #153 Rightwingconspirator

If he lives in any of Californias major cities, it’s really unlikely. For example in Los Angeles despite serious training and owning a business that might need to personally move valuables like jewelry and gemstones, nobody who applies gets a CCW permit. if they sue and get one, renewal will be denied after 12 months.

Chuck lives in Fresno County, which is overwhelmingly Republican. The county sheriff is Margaret Mims, who is very pro CCW.

FRESNO, Calif. — Fresno County’s top law enforcer says she’s standing with sheriff’s across the country- many of whom are coming forward, saying they won’t enforce federal gun laws. This comes on the heels of President Obama’s new gun violence prevention proposal. 23 executive orders are aimed at gun control.

Sheriff Margaret Mims says there’s been a steady increase in concealed carry licenses, ever since the President’s re-election in November. In order to handle the demand, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office will now feature online applications on it’s website. However, local gun dealers can’t keep up with the demand.

…

Mims told Action News she will not enforce any gun control that she sees as unconstitutional, and won’t infringe upon the right to bear arms. It’s a sentiment that Belemjian echoes. “We don’t need any more laws. Laws only work on people who obey the law.”

As I pointed out in the previous thread, I can actually get one here in Ventura County, if I wanted one. The PD here has stated their intention to voluntarily comply with the precedent set in Peruta v. San Diego. The only requirement now is a desire for self defense, you don’t have to articulate any real plausible need or good cause.

163 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 8:05:24pm

re: #159 b.d.

Because the media never looked into anything Obama did

**Rolls eyes**

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I swear that’s a direct Sister Sarah quote.

164 De Kolta Chair  Dec 14, 2014 8:06:47pm

re: #161 #FergusonFireside

Calico? Please, a real photo.

Half calico, half bowling ball. I do wish my camera worked, she’s quite the cutie and I’d love to show her off. Oh well, I have a week to get that camera in working order so I can show her off.

165 goddamnedfrank  Dec 14, 2014 8:07:50pm

re: #162 goddamnedfrank

And the fucking scary thing is that a CCW issued by the tea tards in Fresno is valid throughout the State.

166 Jenner7  Dec 14, 2014 8:09:16pm

re: #151 Kragar

doh!

167 BeenHereAwhile  Dec 14, 2014 8:13:16pm

re: #157 b.d.

So now Chuck and crew are going after the guy who wrote the NYT article.

So predictable, no wonder none of his former editors will admit talking to reporters.

Even in this internet age, I suspect the axiom still applies that CCJ and his ilk shouldn’t challenge an entity that buys ink by the barrel.

168 teleskiguy  Dec 14, 2014 8:14:34pm

Greetings Lizards.

The snows have returned to the high mountains near my location, I think I’ll take the clown shoes out tomorrow morning.

169 Belafon  Dec 14, 2014 8:17:08pm

re: #167 BeenHereAwhile

Back when SCO attempted to sue to gain control of Linux, it was often quoted that IBM used little companies like that to give their junior lawyers something to practice on. I suspect the NYT would be in the same situation with Chucky.

Think the T-Rex baby at the end of Jurassic Park 2.

170 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 14, 2014 8:18:32pm

re: #165 goddamnedfrank

CCW valid city by city makes it nearly useless. By state with reasonable standards would be the preferred way to have CCW. And reciprocity among states that do have good solid standards.

171 Kragar  Dec 14, 2014 8:20:10pm
172 De Kolta Chair  Dec 14, 2014 8:23:39pm

re: #169 Belafon

Back when SCO attempted to sue to gain control of Linux, it was often quoted that IBM used little companies like that to give their junior lawyers something to practice on. I suspect the NYT would be in the same situation with Chucky.

Think the T-Rex baby at the end of Jurassic Park 2.

It’s well known that the Times has laid off and/or bought out thousands of employees over the past several years, but I have yet to read about them ousting a single lawyer. The Grey Lady may be a shadow of what she once was, but she ain’t stupid, at least in the legal department.

I don’t know who the Times’ firm is, but the thought of CCJ battling a powerhouse NYC firm, no doubt something along the lines of Skadden Arps or Sullivan & Cromwell, gives me a major case of the warm fuzzies, along with the shimmy shimmy shakes. Hilarity and bankruptcy are guaranteed to ensue.

173 goddamnedfrank  Dec 14, 2014 8:29:19pm

re: #169 Belafon

Back when SCO attempted to sue to gain control of Linux, it was often quoted that IBM used little companies like that to give their junior lawyers something to practice on. I suspect the NYT would be in the same situation with Chucky.

Think the T-Rex baby at the end of Jurassic Park 2.

LOL, I’d almost forgotten about that. That was a fucking epic level, years long train wreck.

174 TedStriker  Dec 14, 2014 8:30:49pm

re: #171 Kragar

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Judging from the examples of his writing style that we’ve seen on Twitter, GoatNews, and elsewhere on the web these past few months, it somehow wouldn’t surprise me if he did plagiarize for his book or, at least, put his proofreader(s) and editor into a catatonic state after having to fix all of his fuckups.

175 Kragar  Dec 14, 2014 8:40:06pm
176 Mattand  Dec 14, 2014 8:41:53pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

She’s recovering, but it was pretty serious. We almost lost her.

Fuck. I had no idea. Hope she gets well soon.

177 FemNaziBitch  Dec 14, 2014 8:42:37pm

VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:

sessile (adj.)
1725, “adhering close to the surface,” from Latin sessilis “pertaining to sitting, for sitting on,” from sessum, past participle of sedere “to sit” (see sedentary). In botany from 1753. Meaning “sedentary” first recorded 1860.

178 FemNaziBitch  Dec 14, 2014 8:43:50pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

She’s recovering, but it was pretty serious. We almost lost her.

omg!

Is she getting messages?

Sending good thoughts and hugs her way

{{{{{{{{{WW}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

179 FemNaziBitch  Dec 14, 2014 8:44:19pm

bbl

180 Kragar  Dec 14, 2014 8:45:43pm

It was about this time last year Obdi had his accident. I’d been talking with him about once a week, but he went quiet back in July. Haven’t heard a peep from him since then.

181 De Kolta Chair  Dec 14, 2014 8:46:41pm

re: #175 Kragar

I just realized that Karl Urban played a bleached blonde Cupid on Xena: Warrior Princess.

Get that out of my head!!!

182 Kragar  Dec 14, 2014 8:48:19pm

re: #181 De Kolta Chair

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Get it out of my head!!!

183 De Kolta Chair  Dec 14, 2014 8:53:40pm

re: #182 Kragar

Ghost Ship, which I kinda liked for a few minutes and then the theatre started spinning and the next thing I knew I was in a foreign country living under an assumed name
184 Kragar  Dec 14, 2014 8:55:13pm

re: #183 De Kolta Chair

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It had a few good moments, but other wise, eh.

185 Kragar  Dec 14, 2014 8:57:28pm

He also played Julius Caesar on Xena.

186 #FergusonFireside  Dec 14, 2014 8:57:37pm

When we lose regulars, it really shows us the community of LGF.

I really appreciate you lizards and our host.

187 Kragar  Dec 14, 2014 8:58:42pm

I guess the picture was so bad it didn’t want to load.

188 De Kolta Chair  Dec 14, 2014 9:04:39pm

re: #187 Kragar

I guess the picture was so bad it didn’t want to load.

189 Kragar  Dec 14, 2014 9:07:23pm
190 teleskiguy  Dec 14, 2014 9:11:58pm

UpChuck is the worst. That is all.

191 Kragar  Dec 14, 2014 9:14:19pm
192 Floral Giraffe  Dec 14, 2014 9:16:09pm

How does this idiot even get himself dressed in the morning?

193 Kragar  Dec 14, 2014 9:17:38pm

re: #192 Floral Giraffe

How does this idiot even get himself dressed in the morning?

Why do you think he runs the site from home?

194 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 14, 2014 9:21:10pm

re: #191 Kragar

The queue for the summer internship starts on the right…

Yes, kids, this is your chance to get in the ground floor — and clean the poop off of it.

195 Amory Blaine  Dec 14, 2014 9:27:27pm

Thanks for the hat tip on the last post Charles.

196 darthstar  Dec 14, 2014 9:32:01pm

re: #84 RealityBasedSteve

Darthstar…

Can I steal your avatar for my facebook page… please, pretty please?

RBS

Of course…I stole it.

197 darthstar  Dec 14, 2014 9:33:42pm

re: #192 Floral Giraffe

How does this idiot even get himself dressed in the morning?

That reminds me of this awesome Bob Dylan song.

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth
Blowing down the backroads headin’ south
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth
You’re an idiot, babe
It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe

Read more: bobdylan.com

Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind (New York Version 1974 Stereo) [Part 3 of 5]

198 BeachDem  Dec 14, 2014 9:37:09pm

re: #172 De Kolta Chair

I don’t know who the Times’ firm is, but the thought of CCJ battling a powerhouse NYC firm, no doubt something along the lines of Skadden Arps or Sullivan & Cromwell, gives me a major case of the warm fuzzies, along with the shimmy shimmy shakes. Hilarity and bankruptcy are guaranteed to ensue.

But, but upchuck is offering summer internships with goatnews!

He truly is insufferable, and all this publicity is making him even more so. And, I still contend, and will continue to point out, that he is a terrible writer and a worse researcher.

199 BeachDem  Dec 14, 2014 9:54:56pm

re: #174 TedStriker

Judging from the examples of his writing style that we’ve seen on Twitter, GoatNews, and elsewhere on the web these past few months, it somehow wouldn’t surprise me if he did plagiarize for his book or, at least, put his proofreader(s) and editor into a catatonic state after having to fix all of his fuckups.

If I remember correctly, the book was actually his senior thesis in college, and there was some kind of competition that he didn’t win. Although I think it was supposedly the longest one ever submitted, albeit NOT the best.

Ah—here it is in all its glory—(SPOILER ALERT—upchuck was WRONG when he reported about how he lost the title.)

First, he wrote:

Grimm and I competed for Best Government thesis, with his work on debt winning out against my work on Coolidge.

The vote was very close between different factions of the Government department, with 6 votes in his favor, 5 votes for mine, and 6 votes abstaining. This is, as best as I understand it, unprecedented in the history of the department. More often than not, the decision is by consensus. Here a vote took place.

THEN…

Mike Whatley CMC ‘11 and Andrew Grimm CMC ‘11 won the two highest awards the Government Department can bestow, that of Best Government Student and Best Government Thesis.

Whatley had the highest G.P.A. in the major, so he was the natural choice. Good on him.

A previous version of this post was inaccurate. I have been informed that my sources on the government department list were mistaken or I failed to understand them properly…

The close vote I mentioned previously was between me and unnamed student who won best thesis to address public affairs.

claremontconservative.com

So, apparently Coolidge didn’t matter much to anyone at Claremont McKenna and upchuck didn’t win any of the awards. Awww. And apparently, upchuck’s fastidious source-checking habits have always been as stellar as they are today.

200 freetoken  Dec 15, 2014 12:04:36am

One of my more favorite Christmas tunes:

MP3 Audio

201 Kragar  Dec 15, 2014 12:38:00am

My favorite Christmas song:

Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You Billy Squier.wmv

202 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 12:49:33am

re: #46 goddamnedfrank

203 goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2014 12:50:48am

Is your wife a goer, eh?

Monty Python Nudge Nudge Wink Wink

204 goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2014 12:56:57am

re: #202 Ace-o-aces

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Sorkin’s does that a lot, especially this season. The whole thing wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be, got off to a pretty rocky start but it all tied together decently. The second to final episode was fucking awful. I think the show had a lot of potential but just got mired in Sorkin’s preachiness and tendency to dry hump the will they wont’ they relationship bullshit into a long tedious grind.

Still, I hope this doesn’t end up being his last television show. Even if he misses more often than not even his failures are better than 95% of modern TV offerings.

205 goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2014 1:31:14am

CCJ sure can pick ‘em.

The radio host that will be interviewing Chuck has a long established record as a creep and thief. Here’s his criminal record in Texas:

206 Amory Blaine  Dec 15, 2014 2:11:36am

My favorite Christmas song

Greensleeves (guitar version)

I like the high drama of this song too

Celtic Woman / Chloe Agnew - ”O Holy Night”

207 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 15, 2014 3:22:09am

Well, here’s a fine how-do-you-do on my first evening back home. The photographer peterdukephoto.com who says he took CCJ’s mugshot for CCj’s personal website — the one where his sun-glassed eyes are reflecting a mobile phone — has demanded I remove them my blog. He made the demand in a comment to the tweet-sourced dossier. He also included the Twitter profile mug in the demand.

208 freetoken  Dec 15, 2014 4:26:21am

The South that tried to rise again:

‘GONE WITH THE WIND’ PREMIERE SPARKED TENSION

Seventy-five years after the premiere of the movie “Gone with the Wind,” research is shedding light on the racial tensions that existed at the time between the producer and city of Atlanta officials.

Emory University film studies professor Matthew Bernstein has conducted extensive research into the archives of the film’s producer, David O. Selznick. His findings illustrate some of Selznick’s concerns with the city’s treatment of the film’s black stars at the Dec. 15, 1939 premiere.

“Producer David O. Selznick was upset that Hattie McDaniel would not be invited to the Atlanta premiere,” said Bernstein. “He argued over and over that she should be allowed.”

[…]

I suppose some in Atlanta still “want their country back”.

209 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 15, 2014 5:02:23am

Seeing this hashtag often this morning:

210 darthstar  Dec 15, 2014 5:05:04am

re: #203 goddamnedfrank

Square plate = Asian.
Chuck’s an idiot.

211 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 5:05:17am

Apparently the authorities in Sydney are keeping a tight lid on what the terrorists in the cafe are demanding.

212 darthstar  Dec 15, 2014 5:08:48am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

Apparently the authorities in Sydney are keeping a tight lid on what the terrorists in the cafe are demanding.

Terrorist. Singular gunman. We watched a bit of the coverage on CNN last night until they started speculating about all the different forms of ISIS responsible.

213 Teukka  Dec 15, 2014 5:10:38am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

Apparently the authorities in Sydney are keeping a tight lid on what the terrorists in the cafe are demanding.

Only thing I’ve seen mentioned is that he demands a phone call with the PM Abbott and an ISIS flag.
I have this vibe this may very will be more among the lines of a nutcase than a bona fide ISIS member.

214 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 15, 2014 5:11:49am

re: #213 Teukka

Only thing I’ve seen mentioned is that he demands a phone call with the PM Abbott and an ISIS flag.
I have this vibe this may very will be more among the lines of a nutcase than a bona fide ISIS member.

“But a nutcase whose motive are thoroughly in keeping with the Koran, mainstream Islam and ISIS”

/

215 darthstar  Dec 15, 2014 5:12:33am
216 darthstar  Dec 15, 2014 5:22:41am
217 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 5:25:02am

re: #7 RealityBasedSteve

Why do I think upChuck got sent on a LOT of “Snipe Hunts” when he was growing up. And each time he believed he’d get that darn snipe. What a goober.

RBS

His father probably sent him looking for “left-handed torque wrenches” to get him out of the house for hours at a time.

218 No Country For Old Haters  Dec 15, 2014 5:35:28am
219 Varek Raith  Dec 15, 2014 5:35:44am

Lol.
Roy G. Biv.
Lolfuckingl.

CCJ, you’re the dumbest man on the internet now.
Congrats.

220 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 5:37:15am
221 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 15, 2014 5:39:13am

re: #220 Dr. Matt

So many children have been shot to death since Newtown—nearly 200 in the first year alone

If those children had only been properly armed and trained…

/

222 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 15, 2014 5:44:25am

re: #158 De Kolta Chair

Catsitting a delightful critter named Higby for a week for a good friend who’s off to visit family in Omagh, Northern Ireland, for the holidays. My camera’s on the fritz and I don’t have a cell phone, so here’s a visual representation of this fine physical feline specimen:

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Damn, she’s looking over my shoulder. Looks like I’ll have to sleep with one eye open for the next half-fortnight.

Are you sure the cat’s name is not actually “Greebo”?

223 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 15, 2014 5:48:09am

re: #198 BeachDem

But, but upchuck is offering summer internships with goatnews!

He truly is insufferable, and all this publicity is making him even more so. And, I still contend, and will continue to point out, that he is a terrible writer and a worse researcher.

So he’s self-applied The Dilbert Principle and appointed himself to management already?
//

224 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 15, 2014 5:50:56am

re: #213 Teukka

Only thing I’ve seen mentioned is that he demands a phone call with the PM Abbott and an ISIS flag.
I have this vibe this may very will be more among the lines of a nutcase than a bona fide ISIS member.

Only the RWNJ get to use the “lone wolf” excuse. All others are monolithic in their criminality.
///

226 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 15, 2014 6:01:26am

Good morning Lizards. Cloudy and a bit cool today.

Mixed bag of news for Philadelphia.
- Eagles lost to Dallas in football. Currently need help to make the playoffs now.
- Big concrete pour across the street appears to have gone well.
- Had a new neighbor move into one of the adjacent apartments. With two young feline overlords. Some catnip was sent over as a apartment warming gift. (FO-to-FO meeting was short and mainly Tuxedo Cat hissing at a small female cat who wasn’t happy to suddenly meet two larger cats in foreign terrain.)
- Last bit of (sort of unnecessary) Christmas shopping done. Next task is the FO-supervised gift wrapping exercise.
- Nothing special to report on the cooking front. I’m busy running pantry and fridge supplies down before a week’s vacation. So it’s omelets, leftovers, and cooking frozen vegetables.

227 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 6:05:09am
…..the disgraced journalist

OK, but enough about archmoron blogger, Chuck c Johnson….

228 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 6:10:02am
229 Franklin  Dec 15, 2014 6:10:09am

On the new Remote Desktop app for OSX Yosemite.

Typo? Or top level trolling by Microsoft?

230 thedopefishlives  Dec 15, 2014 6:11:47am

Morning Lizardim from the wild north country. How go things among my friends, the lizardfolk?

231 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 15, 2014 6:21:50am

re: #230 thedopefishlives

I’ve just returned from a week-long visit to Hong Kong, where my son was attending a conference. The weather was much nicer than here in Hunan: temps in the high 60s during the day and partly sunny. I really didn’t want to come back to 40 degrees and clouds, but final exams are coming up and duty calls.

It’s my third visit to HK. I like it better with each visit, but gods the hotel prices are steep!

232 Franklin  Dec 15, 2014 6:24:18am

After hearing the uninformed opinions of several people I love over the past few days, this is my current mood:

233 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 6:25:55am

re: #230 thedopefishlives

Morning Lizardim from the wild north country. How go things among my friends, the lizardfolk?

It’s wet where I am. I think it’s going to be another winter of strange temperatures and continued allergies.

I found this extremely disturbing. I’m beginning to be very glad I am old enough to say, “well, I’ll not have terribly long to deal with our Brave New World.”

234 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 6:26:55am
235 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 6:27:25am
236 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 6:31:27am
237 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 6:35:42am
238 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 6:36:02am

ALL RIGHT!

Where is everyone?

239 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 6:37:44am
240 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 6:38:08am

I’m beginning to think it’s really: “More Guns, More Control”

241 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 6:39:05am

WTF!!!

242 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 6:39:34am

Well, if no one else is going to play, I’m lurking.

:)

243 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 6:39:50am

Of course there is no problem that can’t be solved by MOAR GUNZ!!!!!!!

244 thedopefishlives  Dec 15, 2014 6:40:41am

re: #242 FemNaziBitch

Well, if no one else is going to play, I’m lurking.

:)

I’m here, sort of. I’m trying to be reasonably productive during this, the week before Christmas. Failing miserably.

245 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 6:51:47am

re: #225 FemNaziBitch

Arctic 2015 and Beyond: A Strategy for U.S. Leadership in the High North

Denmark claims potentially energy-rich Arctic waters

Denmark was set to lay claim to energy-rich but contested territory around the North Pole on Monday by submitting data to the UN which it says demonstrates the area is an extension of its continental shelf.

The Danish government said it would tell the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) that data collected since 2002 supports its claim to ownership over an area of about 895,000 square kilometers (346,000 square miles) beyond the current nautical borders of Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory…

246 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 7:13:52am
247 Eventual Carrion  Dec 15, 2014 7:16:18am

re: #237 FemNaziBitch

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Had a friend who had a tee-shirt that said, “Do things to piss off the religious right daily!”. I liked that one better than his “Too drunk to fuck!” tee.

248 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 7:18:40am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Down the Turnpike in PA, they’re dealing with another possible mass shooting. Montgomery County police are dealing with several developing situations that may be connected. Multiple victims have been reported, but details are sketchy.

Local schools are being told to shelter in place.

Meanwhile, developments in Sydney:

249 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 15, 2014 7:19:39am

re: #229 Franklin

Embedded ImageOn the new Remote Desktop app for OSX Yosemite.

Typo? Or top level trolling by Microsoft?

unpaid interns

250 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 7:22:32am

Still worried about wrenchwrench

251 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 7:23:52am
252 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 7:24:04am
253 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 7:24:53am
254 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 15, 2014 7:26:36am

re: #252 The Vicious Babushka

Heavily armed police storm Sydney cafe where gunman has been holding hostages.]

See? If Australians were allowed to carry firearms, they would not have had to wait for the police and their “elitist” specially trained units, patriot citizens could’ve done the job - and saved taxpayers’ money!!!

255 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 7:26:47am

Ya Know —being armed with firearms didn’t help the Native Americans much, did it?

256 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 15, 2014 7:30:44am

re: #255 FemNaziBitch

Ya Know —being armed with firearms didn’t help the Native Americans much, did it?

Guns are only there for True Patriots, and we know what color skin they have!!!

257 b.d.  Dec 15, 2014 7:34:41am

IF THE CIVILIANS WERE ALLOWED TO HAVE ARMS THEN THIS WOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED IN 1814!!

258 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 15, 2014 7:35:21am

As always, it’s “part of the plan”:

259 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 7:38:03am

re: #258 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Everything is part of the plan.

He’s a Toaster. /even Toasters have better plans than this, defective programming and all.

260 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 15, 2014 7:38:26am

A week or so ago Brent crude met EUR/RUB. Today it meets USD/RUB: 61/61.

261 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 7:40:42am

So, at least 5 dead outside Philly in shootings at multiple locations tied together, but media outlets are slow to pick up the reports. Guess there isn’t a sufficiently high enough body count to merit attention here in the US?

Gun culture in US is truly unhinged. Guns will not have stopped the Holocaust. Guns wouldn’t have stopped the British from burning DC. Guns didn’t stop the Native Americans from being persecuted and relocated to reservations.

The revisionist history regarding firearms and the talismanic characteristics that the gun fetishists have proffered is corrosive and is fostering alt.reality to wonder if they aren’t sufficiently alt-reality.

262 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 15, 2014 7:40:49am

re: #260 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

A week or so ago Brent crude met EUR/RUB. Today it meets USD/RUB: 61/61.

Oh, if only Germany would invade Russia and conveniently obliterate all evidence of decades of mismanagement.

/

263 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 7:41:34am
264 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 15, 2014 7:43:32am

re: #263 Dr. Matt

White shooter = Mentally Unstable Lone Wolf
Black shooter = Thug
Brown shooter = Terrorist

But what do they have in common?

They can all be taken out by armed Patriots!!!

265 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 7:47:57am
266 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 7:48:38am

re:;
#263

White shooter = Mentally Unstable Lone Wolf

No, white shooters are always Democrat party affiliated with Occupy groups trying to start Revolution to destroy America and overthrow government. This has been Proven. Confirmed. FACT. //

268 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 7:51:10am

From ESPN, another police union wants the NFL to go on an Apology Tour:

CLEVELAND — Browns receiver Andrew Hawkins made a strong statement during pregame introductions Sunday, but the statement was criticized by the head of the Cleveland Police Union, who said the Browns owe police an apology.

Hawkins wore a T-shirt over his jersey that read “Justice for Tamir Rice - John Crawford” on the front and “The Real Battle of Ohio” on the back. Hawkins walked slowly on the field with the shirt over his jersey. He took it off when he took part in the pregame coin toss as a team captain.

“It’s pretty pathetic when athletes think they know the law,” Jeff Follmer, head of the Police Union, wrote in a statement to Cleveland WEWS-Channel 5. “They should stick to what they know best on the field. The Cleveland Police protect and serve the Browns stadium, and the Browns organization owes us an apology.”

espn.go.com

269 gwangung  Dec 15, 2014 7:52:26am

re: #268 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

From ESPN, another police union wants the NFL to go on an Apology Tour:

espn.go.com

Judging by results, the Cleveland police don’t know that much about the law and use of deadly force. Perhaps THEY should leave it to the experts.

270 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 7:55:26am
271 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 7:56:06am
272 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 7:57:08am

re: #271 The Vicious Babushka

Seven people reportedly taken away on stretchers, with paramedics treating five. #SydneySiege t.co pic.twitter.com
— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 1

Has UpChuck started doxing them yet?

273 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 7:59:40am

re:
#272

Has UpChuck started doxing them yet?

Perhaps if we all threw in a few nickels we could pay for a cheap flight for upchuck to Australia. One way ticket.

274 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 8:01:19am

re: #273 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#272

Perhaps if we all threw in a few nickels we could pay for a cheap flight for upchuck to Australia. One way ticket.

They are not taking convicts any more.

275 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 8:03:26am

Have the RWNJs blamed Cheney’s history of torture the torture report yet?

276 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 15, 2014 8:05:07am

The RTS index - sort of a Russian Dow - is also in the shitter.

quote.rbc.ru

277 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 8:07:43am

I just royally screwed-up.

I forgot to add images to my recent Pages Posts.

I went back to add images, then reshared them on fb, seems the update doesn’t get shared.

bumming.

278 Eventual Carrion  Dec 15, 2014 8:08:34am

re: #258 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

As always, it’s “part of the plan”:

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He really meant recruiting BY a tool.

279 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 15, 2014 8:10:23am
Michael Egnor, neurosurgeon, has made a bizarre post in which he reveals that he knows nothing about how the brains he cuts up work. Egnor claims that it is impossible for the brain to store memories.

freethoughtblogs.com

281 Dr Lizardo  Dec 15, 2014 8:17:17am

re: #280 Dr. Matt

Vivid Is Willing to Pay $1 Million for a Mama June Sex Tape

282 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 15, 2014 8:17:54am

re: #281 Dr Lizardo

You’re not the intended TA ;)

283 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 8:18:14am
284 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 8:19:16am

Fox steps up to the plate:

From MMfA: Video
Fox Hosts Baselessly Connect Sydney Hostage Situation To Torture Report
Hasselbeck: CIA Used Torture “To Stop Attacks Like This,” But They Were “Painted As The Bad Guys”

285 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 8:21:44am

re:
#284

It’s too early on a Monday, too early for the week, to have to face derp of this magnitude.

286 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 8:22:11am
287 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 15, 2014 8:22:36am

re: #283 FemNaziBitch

I am gravely serious when I say I am far more afraid of radical conservatives than I am of radical terrorists. You should be too.

Kinda depends on which part of the world you live in, but radical is radical and they are all dangerous

288 FemNaziBitch  Dec 15, 2014 8:22:49am

re: #285 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#284

It’s too early on a Monday, too early for the week, to have to face derp of this magnitude.

Yes, I’ve had my fill of reality for the day.

I’m going to finish my night’s sleep, then consider accomplishing something this day.

bbl

289 Dr Lizardo  Dec 15, 2014 8:24:27am

If indeed this is the guy behind the hostage-taking incident in Sydney, he’s a real fucking headcase.

The man behind the Sydney cafe siege is reported to be 49-year-old self-styled ‘Muslim cleric and peace activist’ named Man Haron Monis, who is currently on bail facing dozens of charges of indecent and sexual assault.

Monis, who also goes by the names Mohammad Hassan Manteghi and Manteghi Boroujerdi, was infamously involved in sending ‘grossly offensive’ letters to parents and relatives of Australian victims of terrorism and troops killed in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2009. He unsuccessfully challenged the conviction in the high court last year.

The Iranian-born man, who apparently converted from Shia Islam to Sunni only last week, has also been accused of being an accessory in the killing of his ex-wife, a charge for which he remains on bail.

He told ABC News in 2001 that he fled Australia five years earlier after falling foul of the Iranian regime, which he said had placed his wife and children under house arrest. ‘I can say they are hostage,’ he said at the time.

A fringe figure in Australia’s Muslim community, Monis has been spurned by Shia leaders, who have reportedly urged federal police to investigate the man over his claims to be an ayatollah, or Shia cleric.

According to a post on his website, Monis converted to Sunni Islam in December, labelling Shia Muslims as ‘rejectionists’.

A rambling October letter he penned to the Muslim community rejected the ‘new religion’ of moderate Islam. ‘This pen is my gun and these words are my bullets, I fight by these weapons against oppression to promote peace,’ he wrote.

An image on the website appears to show Monis wearing the same headband that photographs suggest he donned during the Martin Place siege, reading: ‘We are ready to sacrifice for you, O Muhammad.’

Shortly after the prime minister, Tony Abbott, was elected in September 2013, Monis sent a letter inviting him to a live debate where he said he would prove that ‘Australia and Australians will be attacked’ as a result of the country’s participation in the war in Afghanistan.

theguardian.com

290 iossarian  Dec 15, 2014 8:27:59am

re: #289 Dr Lizardo

If indeed this is the guy behind the hostage-taking incident in Sydney, he’s a real fucking headcase.

theguardian.com

Nutter. But because he happens to be a Muslim, of course he’s now part of a vast evil plot to destroy good, white, Christian people.

291 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 8:28:58am

re:
#284

Hasselbeck: CIA Used Torture “To Stop Attacks Like This,” But They Were “Painted As The Bad Guys”

Torture, approved and carried out by the U.S. only, is the new Missile Gap. Candidates will soon have to argue about who will increase spending the most for torture efforts around the world, who will spend the most to expand and upgrade Gitmo, etc.

Half sarc

292 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 15, 2014 8:30:54am

re: #290 iossarian

Nutter. But because he happens to be a Muslim, of course he’s now part of a vast evil plot to destroy good, white, Christian people.

Yunno, as long as we are allies with Saudi Arabia, a lot of people are convinced that they practice a form of “moderate” Islam: beheadings, restrictions on women”s freedoms, etc.

But the Saudis are very reactionary Muslims who just happen to be our allies in the political and economic struggles of that region.

293 Dr Lizardo  Dec 15, 2014 8:31:35am

re: #290 iossarian

Nutter. But because he happens to be a Muslim, of course he’s now part of a vast evil plot to destroy good, white, Christian people.

What surprises me - having no knowledge of the Aussie criminal justice system - is that he’s on bail for not only accessory to homicide but several other very serious charges as well.

294 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 8:34:31am

‘Anonymous’ Takes On Jessica Chambers Burning Case, See The Startling New Evidence Found. Read more at inquisitr.com

295 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 8:37:34am

UN accuses Ukraine forces and pro-Russia rebels of torture

The UN released a report accusing Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels of torturing and indiscriminately shelling civilians. At least 4,634 people have died and 10,234 have been wounded in the last eight months…

House TPers are confused as to which side they like better because they’re both “our kind of guys.”

296 Sionainn  Dec 15, 2014 8:40:28am

I had a bunch of stuff to order on Amazon and remembered to use the LGF link. I spent way too much! LOL. Hope it helps, Charles!

297 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 8:47:24am

Uber really classes it up in Sydney:

Uber, meanwhile, now says it’s offering free rides out of central Sydney. At the start of the hostage crisis, the company quadrupled its prices to a minimum $100 Australian, saying “demand is off the charts,” Mashable reports.

///

298 Dr Lizardo  Dec 15, 2014 8:48:23am

From what I’m starting to see on various media outlets, such as BBC, the hostage-taker in Sydney, would-be “Sheikh” Man Haron Monis, is one of the deceased, along with (apparently) one hostage.

299 Timothy Watson  Dec 15, 2014 8:50:04am

re: #297 Dr. Matt

Anyone get the impression that the same people doing public relations for Uber, police departments, and police unions are the same people working on the campaigns of Republicans?

300 Charles Johnson  Dec 15, 2014 8:51:40am

re: #296 Sionainn

I had a bunch of stuff to order on Amazon and remembered to use the LGF link. I spent way too much! LOL. Hope it helps, Charles!

Thanks very much!

301 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 8:57:34am

re: #258 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

As always, it’s “part of the plan”:

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302 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 9:01:49am

re: #301 Ace-o-aces

He’s fishing for co-dependents.

303 Skip Intro  Dec 15, 2014 9:02:01am

re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

See? If Australians were allowed to carry firearms, they would not have had to wait for the police and their “elitist” specially trained units, patriot citizens could’ve done the job - and saved taxpayers’ money!!!

That’s right, because that’s worked in America like around never.

304 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 9:06:18am

In a moment of levity, it’s nice to see Gov. Chris Christie take in a football game. In the Cowboys box with owner Jerry Jones. Against Philly. When the state is either a Giants/Jets or Philly crowd.

But of all the tweets about Christie’s team loyalties and exuberant cheering with the Cowboys win, this one stood out:

305 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 9:07:34am

re: #303 Skip Intro

That’s right, because that’s worked in America like around never.

That’s because they weren’t doing it right. Firearm,s cannot fail, they can only be failed.

306 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 9:07:48am
307 Romantic Heretic  Dec 15, 2014 9:09:14am

re: #274 The Vicious Babushka

They are not taking convicts any more.

He isn’t a convict.

Yet.

308 Dr Lizardo  Dec 15, 2014 9:12:04am

re: #305 Higgs Boson’s Mate

That’s because they weren’t doing it right. Firearm,s cannot fail, they can only be failed.

The wingnuts clearly forgot the Port Arthur Massacre, Martin Bryant’s perverse attempt to one-up the (then recent) Dunblane Massacre - at least that’s the general theory his attorney proffered.

309 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 9:12:45am

re: #306 Ace-o-aces

That is when they weren’t busy taking selfies at the scene.

310 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 9:13:00am

re: #307 Romantic Heretic

He isn’t a convict.

Yet.

Has anyone Doxxed his childhood juvenile records??!?!?!

///

311 Skip Intro  Dec 15, 2014 9:13:26am

re: #303 Skip Intro

Homicide rate from guns per 100,000 population, 2011.

Australia: 0.11

US: 2.83 (2012)

Feel safer now?

en.wikipedia.org

312 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 9:14:08am

The GOP sees the bills passed dropping as a good thing. Less government, even if it means fewer services, and failing to do the job of governing.

313 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 9:14:26am

#tcot is full of this shit:

314 Interesting Times  Dec 15, 2014 9:15:42am

re: #312 lawhawk

The GOP sees the bills passed dropping as a good thing. Less government, even if it means fewer services, and failing to do the job of governing.

And yet the voters continue to reward these idiots for their malicious incompetence. This is why the world can’t have nice things :(

315 gwangung  Dec 15, 2014 9:16:11am

re: #313 The Vicious Babushka

#tcot is full of this shit:

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Um, how many mass shootings have been stopped by non-police?

316 Dr Lizardo  Dec 15, 2014 9:16:35am

BBL.

317 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 9:17:13am

re: #314 Interesting Times

I hate Congress, but love my Congress members.

That’s what it boils down to. Combined with gerrymandered districts that are essentially safe districts for GOP/Dems, there’s little room for change in the foreseeable future.

318 unproven innocence  Dec 15, 2014 9:17:27am

OT US Congress OKs ‘unprecedented’ codification of warrantless surveillance — by Lisa Vaas on December 15, 2014
[edit] Excerpt:

Congress last week quietly passed a bill to reauthorize funding for intelligence agencies, over objections that it gives the government “virtually unlimited access to the communications of every American”, without warrant, and allows for indefinite storage of some intercepted material, including anything that’s “enciphered”.

Anyone know if this story has gotten any mention on LGF already?

319 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 9:17:28am

re: #313 The Vicious Babushka

Because nothing says “safety” better than a bunch of untrained idiots blazing away in close quarters.

320 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 9:17:46am

re: #315 gwangung

Um, how many mass shootings have been stopped by non-police?

All of them - because they never become mass shootings if a good guy with a gun is around. /

321 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 9:18:30am

re: #315 gwangung

Um, how many mass shootings have been stopped by non-police?

Wingnuts claim that a “good guy with a gun” stopped mass shooting in Pearl, MS in 1997 but this was only after the shooter already killed all the people that he planned on killing.

322 Romantic Heretic  Dec 15, 2014 9:18:33am

re: #312 lawhawk

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The GOP sees the bills passed dropping as a good thing. Less government, even if it means fewer services, and failing to do the job of governing.

Government can’t do anything good because then people wouldn’t understand that government is bad!

323 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 9:19:49am

re:
#313

EVERYONE should
#ConcealCarry
religiously…even when stores post not to on premises.

What could go wrong?

//

324 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 9:20:21am

re: #313 The Vicious Babushka

This is the type of things that happens when everyone is armed:

Two Michigan Drivers Shoot and Kill Each Other After Road Rage Incident

What could have been solved (or ignored) by a simple discussion, armed conflicted was chosen as the route for resolution.

325 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 9:21:48am

I’m waiting for the inevitable “HA, I was joking and you all fell for my trap!” post.

326 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 9:23:07am

Seeing a number of references to Sandy Hook on my TL today, it being the two year anniversary of the school shooting. Has the NRA demanded everyone apologize for mentioning Sandy Hook?

//

327 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 9:23:54am

They were actually requested to make a cake with a homophobic message on it, not a standard wedding cake with a bride & groom topper.

328 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 9:24:13am

re: #325 Ace-o-aces

Wouldn’t a real journalist know how to find the Yelp reviews? Jebus, what a dolt.

329 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 9:25:32am

re:
#327

Christian Asks Thirteen Gay Bakeries For Traditional Marriage Cake, All Deny Him Service

PERsecution!!!!!11

330 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 9:26:30am

re: #327 The Vicious Babushka

They were actually requested to make a cake with a homophobic message on it, not a standard wedding cake with a bride & groom topper.

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For Bryan Fischer, a homophobic message probably is what he considers a standard wedding cake.

331 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 9:28:21am

re: #327 The Vicious Babushka

332 BeachDem  Dec 15, 2014 9:31:43am

An excellent description of Dick Cheney:

Cheney’s cowardice and evil are implacable forces of nature.

This is a guy who had other priorities, and took five deferments rather than go to an actual war. This is a guy who shot his best friend in the face, and who went for the Scotch bottle before he went for the cops. This is a guy who projected his own cowardice onto the country he served, assuming it was as big a coward as he has been his entire public life, and sent his country down the road into serious war crimes because he got scared witless on September 11, 2001.

I have more respect for a janitor who went back to work in the Empire State Building on September 12 of that year than I do for the entire sorry public career of this obvious beast of human, running now on a borrowed heart without the inconvenient presence of a soul.

esquire.com

333 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 9:33:00am
334 b_sharp  Dec 15, 2014 9:33:03am

On the good news front, the surgeon who did my wife’s cut and paste just called to tell me the surgery went really well and she’ll be awake in an hour or so.

I’m going to grab a sandwich and then head back up to the hospital.

335 b_sharp  Dec 15, 2014 9:33:27am

re: #333 The Vicious Babushka

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Crap, I can see mine right there.

336 Mike Lamb  Dec 15, 2014 9:35:15am

re: #331 Dr. Matt

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Well, I’m Roman Catholic (in name only). I have to read this stupid shit posted by Fischer, CCJ, etc. Maybe not persecuted, but definitely feeling tortured. Do I win?

337 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 15, 2014 9:35:35am
338 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 9:37:02am

Have they released the race/religion of the PA shooter? Make a wild eyed guess.

339 Varek Raith  Dec 15, 2014 9:37:53am

Welcome to America, where you need guns to protect yourself from the rampaging gun nuts.
Wheeee

340 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 15, 2014 9:39:59am
341 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 9:40:27am

re:
#334

On the good news front, the surgeon who did my wife’s cut and paste just called to tell me the surgery went really well and she’ll be awake in an hour or so.

Glad to hear!

342 William of Orange  Dec 15, 2014 9:44:34am
343 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 9:48:54am

LOL my twin grandbabies just started walking and my son says they walk like “baby zombies”

344 klystron  Dec 15, 2014 9:50:14am

re: #333 The Vicious Babushka

Thankfully I am so far behind that none of my packages have been mailed out yet.

345 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 9:54:12am

Just remember folks, Rand is a chip of the old block

346 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 9:56:39am

re:
#345

A pledge to shut down the government will now be circulated among 2016 GOP prez hopefuls with all expected to sign because Reasonable.

But Obama is still at fault for last year’s shutdown and any other future shutdown. //

347 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 9:59:24am

re: #333 The Vicious Babushka

Good luck if you had any fragile items on that truck. You’d be lucky if they don’t come in a finely ground powder.

That crash actually occurred not far from my old stomping ground. It’s a pretty gnarly stretch of highway too - lots of cars weaving in and out as they try to go from I-287 or I-17 to I-87 (Thruway) north, or I-287/87 South/East. There’s always accidents in that stretch, and this is no different.

348 CuriousLurker  Dec 15, 2014 10:04:03am

re: #289 Dr Lizardo

If indeed this is the guy behind the hostage-taking incident in Sydney, he’s a real fucking headcase.

theguardian.com

You aren’t kidding. Just saw this:

Haron has had a sordid history since emigrating to Australia in 1996, and appears to consider himself a recent convert to Sunni Islam from Shiite Islam. […]

Until now, Haron achieved a minor amount of criminal notoriety in Australia. He mounted a Westboro Baptist Church-style campaign against the widows and loved ones of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, sending offensive letters to them and also to the survivors of an Australian official murdered in the terrorist bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta in 2009. He received 300 hours of community service for those actions.

He has frequently behaved strangely in court, appearing draped in chains for one court date in 2009, and chaining himself to the Sydney courthouse steps, and seeking to represent himself despite repeated warnings from the judge that that would likely increase his chance of conviction. […]

Last year he was charged as an accessory in the April 2013 murder of his ex-wife Noleen Hayson Pal, who was stabbed and set on fire in the stairwell of an apartment building in the Sydney suburb of Werrington. His current wife or girlfriend, Amirah Droudis, was charged with carrying out the murder. At trial, Haron said that the Iranian government and the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) were framing him. […]

csmonitor.com

Wait, what? You mean it wasn’t the Zionists/Mossad framing him??

Definitely a headcase.

349 CuriousLurker  Dec 15, 2014 10:04:51am

re: #348 CuriousLurker

Oops, refresh to see the link.

350 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 10:05:56am

re: #348 CuriousLurker

You aren’t kidding. Just saw this:

Wait, what? You mean it wasn’t the Zionists/Mossad framing him??

Definitely a headcase.

Too busy working on their weather control machine…or is that the Illuminati? I get them mixed up.

351 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 10:05:56am

re: #348 CuriousLurker

You aren’t kidding. Just saw this:

Wait, what? You mean it wasn’t the Zionists/Mossad framing him??

Definitely a headcase.

FALSE FLAG!! FALSE FLAG!!11!!!!!!

352 klystron  Dec 15, 2014 10:05:58am

re: #348 CuriousLurker

You aren’t kidding. Just saw this:

Wait, what? You mean it wasn’t the Zionists/Mossad framing him??

Definitely a headcase.

Yes, but only Christian lone wolf males can be headcases.

////

353 Varek Raith  Dec 15, 2014 10:11:28am

re: #352 klystron

Yes, but only Christian lone wolf males can be headcases.

////

Aw, shucks.
/feels left out

354 GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 15, 2014 10:15:37am

re: #345 The Vicious Babushka

Ok. Let’s start with his paycheck. He’s worthless.

355 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 10:18:32am

Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.
Lisa: That’s specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn’t work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It’s just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don’t see any tigers around, do you?
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
[Lisa refuses at first, then takes the exchange]

356 ObserverArt  Dec 15, 2014 10:20:36am

re: #339 Varek Raith

Welcome to America, where you need guns to protect yourself from the rampaging gun nuts.
Wheeee

Great business plan isn’t it? Your industry lobbyists scared the crap out of everyone with ‘bad guys have guns’ and the only way to save yourself is to be a good guy with guns*. And they also fight off any legislation that might make people safer so there will always be a need for guns**.

*gotta be multiples of guns. One is never enough.

** In a way, it is some strange form of planned obsolescence.

357 klystron  Dec 15, 2014 10:20:39am

re: #353 Varek Raith

Aw, shucks.
/feels left out

Just consider the company you’re in: no boobies in the headcases collection!

358 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 10:20:59am
359 Snarknado!  Dec 15, 2014 10:21:44am

re: #355 Ace-o-aces

Yup, no Democrats in the armed forces… or the WTC either.

<spits>

360 CuriousLurker  Dec 15, 2014 10:22:35am

re: #355 Ace-o-aces

So out of the nearly 3000 people killed on 9/11, not a single one was a Democrat? Amazing—I had no idea someone had gone and checked to see which party, if any, each victim was registered with.

361 Skip Intro  Dec 15, 2014 10:23:38am

re: #355 Ace-o-aces

Erick’s seminary training seems to be making him even dumber than he was before.

362 Iwouldprefernotto  Dec 15, 2014 10:23:52am

re: #360 CuriousLurker

So out of the nearly 3000 people killed on 9/11, not a single one was a Democrat? Amazing—I had no idea someone had gone and checked to see which party, if any, each victim was registered with.

And of course, NYC is 100% Republicans.

363 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 10:25:15am

re: #360 CuriousLurker

So out of the nearly 3000 people killed on 9/11, not a single one was a Democrat? Amazing—I had no idea someone had gone and checked to see which party, if any, each victim was registered with.

This is the same mindset that believes every gun-owner in America will join their ThreeperCent Freedom Army to OVERTHROW TEH KENYEN MUSLIN USURPER!!!1!!!

364 CuriousLurker  Dec 15, 2014 10:25:21am

re: #362 Iwouldprefernotto

And of course, NYC is 100% Republicans.

Of course. It’s a well known bastion of GOP conservatism. //

365 CuriousLurker  Dec 15, 2014 10:26:30am

re: #363 The Vicious Babushka

This is the same mindset that believes every gun-owner in America will join their ThreeperCent Freedom Army to OVERTHROW TEH KENYEN MUSLIN USURPER!!!1!!!

The stupid, it burns.

366 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 10:27:14am
367 ObserverArt  Dec 15, 2014 10:27:43am

re: #360 CuriousLurker

So out of the nearly 3000 people killed on 9/11, not a single one was a Democrat? Amazing—I had no idea someone had gone and checked to see which party, if any, each victim was registered with.

He probably thinks everyone directly involved with 9/11 was immediately changed from a pacifist liberal to a war mongering conservative.

Remember when everyone said that 9/11 would not change America and everyone bought that idea? Yeah, me too.

368 unproven innocence  Dec 15, 2014 10:28:00am

Noticed a curious techno advancement in firefox’s text-search feature. Until recently, a text-search was limited to, well, text. Now it seems to include text-within-images too, automatically. As a test, I tried a search for palladium on this page.

Scary.

369 Archangelus  Dec 15, 2014 10:28:17am

re: #280 Dr. Matt

Vivid Is Willing to Pay $1 Million for a Mama June Sex Tape

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370 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 10:28:20am

re:
#355

Democrats have the luxury of whining about “torture” because they haven’t been killed by terrorists.

Erick son of Erick (and seminarian?) is now at least freely using the word ‘torture’ to describe torture. Although I’m sad our raising the issue of moral absolutes in the context of torture is distressing one who otherwise enjoys whining about moral absolutes.

//

371 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 10:30:01am

re:
#366

What’s wrong with taking a selfie during a hostage negotiation?

Archmoron blogger is just kidding cant you libetards take a damn joke here?
///

372 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 10:30:02am
373 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 10:30:16am

re: #370 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#355

Erick son of Erick (and seminarian?) is now at least freely using the word ‘torture’ to describe torture. Although I’m sad our raising the issue of moral absolutes in the context of torture is distressing one who otherwise enjoys whining about moral absolutes.

//

The #tcot assumes that everyone who was tortured
1) was a terrorist
2) had important info about imminent attacks

The fact is that frequently both 1) and 2) were FALSE.

374 Dr Lizardo  Dec 15, 2014 10:30:59am

re: #348 CuriousLurker

You aren’t kidding. Just saw this:

Wait, what? You mean it wasn’t the Zionists/Mossad framing him??

Definitely a headcase.

Yeah, he definitely had the whole Westboro vibe going on. Considering he was facing some very serious legal issues in the not-too-distant future, I’d also say ‘suicide by cop’ kinda figures into it as well.

Or in his case, ‘martyr by cop’, which is laughable. He was no martyr….he was a moron.

375 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 10:31:17am

re: #355 Ace-o-aces

BTW, it’s kind of tough to whine about anything if you’re dead.

On 9/11, the terrorists didn’t care if you were black, white, Jewish, Christian, Satanist, or Muslim. They flew into the WTC with intent to kill tens of thousands of people. They killed nearly 3,000 - of all religious persuasions and political affiliations. To say that no Democrats have died of terrorism is pure BS.

376 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 10:31:46am

re: #371 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#366

Archmoron blogger is just kidding cant you libetards take a damn joke here?
///

It will either be that or his “I’m autistic” excuse.

377 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 10:32:49am

re: #366 The Vicious Babushka

I’m sure he’d be there doing his selfies, all while searching for dirt on the hostages and whether they had sympathies with the terrorists. Because that’s how Chuckles rolls in the Shire.

378 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 10:33:02am

re: #373 The Vicious Babushka

The #tcot assumes that everyone who was tortured
1) was a terrorist
2) had important info about imminent attacks

The fact is that frequently both 1) and 2) were FALSE.

KSM was waterboarded 183 times….183 TIMES. If waterboarding/torture was so fucking effective, why did they need to waterboard/torture him 183 times?

379 Archangelus  Dec 15, 2014 10:33:37am

re: #355 Ace-o-aces

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Hey Erick von Dumbass: nearly every man and woman in uniform I knew during the height of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq identified as Democrat or liberal leaning, with generous contempt for the GOP - all folks who saw war and engaged terrorists.

Burn in the darkest pits of Fox News Hell,
Archangelus

380 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 10:34:11am
381 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 10:34:16am

Update on the PA standoff:

Gunman shoots hostage, escapes.

382 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 10:35:01am

re: #378 Dr. Matt

KSM was waterboarded 183 times….183 TIMES. If waterboarding/torture was so fucking effective, why did they need to waterboard/torture him 183 times?

He told them everything he knew after the first waterboarding session.

The other 182 times were just for teh lulz.

383 CuriousLurker  Dec 15, 2014 10:36:00am

re: #381 The Vicious Babushka

Update on the PA standoff:

Gunman shoots hostage, escapes.

Great, another escaped lunatic in PA. Hope it doesn’t tkae them as long to find him as it took them to find the cop killer.

384 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 10:37:24am

re: #382 The Vicious Babushka

He told them everything he knew after the first waterboarding session.

The other 182 times were just for teh lulz.

Before or after? I thought he was giving up intel even before they started torturing him.

385 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 10:40:05am

re: #383 CuriousLurker

Great, another escaped lunatic in PA. Hope it doesn’t take them as long to find him as it took them to find the cop killer.

The cop killer who was eventually captured without a shot fired. Yet cops roll up on a 12-year old who was black and don’t even give the kid a chance to say what he was doing. They shot him before they even bothered to check to see if the gun was real, or that he was even a threat.

Playing while black is added to the growing list of things that can get a black person killed.

386 Mike Lamb  Dec 15, 2014 10:40:22am

re: #360 CuriousLurker

So out of the nearly 3000 people killed on 9/11, not a single one was a Democrat? Amazing—I had no idea someone had gone and checked to see which party, if any, each victim was registered with.

No, no, no. Terrorists hate us for our freedom. Conservatives are the only people that support “freedom”. Ergo, terrorists only target conservatives.

387 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 10:43:43am

re: #373 The Vicious Babushka

The #tcot assumes that everyone who was tortured
1) was a terrorist
2) had important info about imminent attacks

The fact is that frequently both 1) and 2) were FALSE.

The reality is that 25% (1 in 4) of those tortured were innocent. Including the guy that they doused with water and then left in the cold to freeze to death. His crime? Mistaken identity.

I asked a wingnut last night about how, if they knew 1 in 4 of those on death row were actually innocent, they’d feel about capital punishment. Her response? “They got a trial, they were found guilty, so I’m satisfied with the decision.”

388 b_sharp  Dec 15, 2014 10:44:32am

Here I sit waiting for them to wheel my wife up from recovery to her allotted room.
Sometimes I wish I could wait faster.

389 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 10:44:48am

re: #366 The Vicious Babushka

What’s wrong with taking a selfie during a hostage negotiation?

Is it any wonder that none can catch the Scarlet Poopernel? His plot to convince the world that he’s a complete idiot is proceeding flawlessly.

390 Archangelus  Dec 15, 2014 10:45:21am

re: #384 Dr. Matt

Before or after? I thought he was giving up intel even before they started torturing him.

Well, based on what I know, he <redacted> <redacted><redacted><redacted><redacted> at which point <classified><classified><classified>.

In short, it was all pointless brutality at that point which obtained nothing whatsoever, and no matter how much of a murderous monstrous bastard KSM is - you don’t ever sink to such level without losing whatever moral high ground you claim to have…

391 William of Orange  Dec 15, 2014 10:45:58am

When I look for a trustworthy news source, I don’t look any further than The Onion News Network!!

Check out this bulletin from five years ago. Pretty accurate in hindsight!!

392 b_sharp  Dec 15, 2014 10:46:31am

re: #387 Targetpractice

The reality is that 25% (1 in 4) of those tortured were innocent. Including the guy that they doused with water and then left in the cold to freeze to death. His crime? Mistaken identity.

I asked a wingnut last night about how, if they knew 1 in 4 of those on death row were actually innocent, they’d feel about capital punishment. Her response? “They got a trial, they were found guilty, so I’m satisfied with the decision.”

The authorities caught them they must be guilty of something.

393 EPR-radar  Dec 15, 2014 10:47:58am

re: #387 Targetpractice

The reality is that 25% (1 in 4) of those tortured were innocent. Including the guy that they doused with water and then left in the cold to freeze to death. His crime? Mistaken identity.

I asked a wingnut last night about how, if they knew 1 in 4 of those on death row were actually innocent, they’d feel about capital punishment. Her response? “They got a trial, they were found guilty, so I’m satisfied with the decision.”

This wingnut nonsense has support from the highest legal authority in the US. It is pretty much Scalia’s view of capital punishment —- as long as the forms are observed, actual innocence is irrelevant.

394 b_sharp  Dec 15, 2014 10:49:11am

re: #378 Dr. Matt

KSM was waterboarded 183 times….183 TIMES. If waterboarding/torture was so fucking effective, why did they need to waterboard/torture him 183 times?

Practise for the next time someone plants a nuke.

395 Archangelus  Dec 15, 2014 10:52:57am

OT for a moment to ask:
Seeing how it’s been so long since I’ve worked back home in the states and reside in a country where Sunday is essentially the same as Monday is in the rest of the world, how would most folks in US/Europe typically view receiving an email containing a CV and cover letter for a job sent on Sunday?

396 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 10:55:50am

[facepalm]

That’s a NYPD official tweeting out Col. Jessup’s monologue while on the stand in the murder of a Marine, which he ordered.

Tone deaf.

This they have no problem with, but the Mayor questioning law enforcement behavior and the PBA turns around and proffers that the Mayor shouldn’t attend any cops’ funerals should they happen on his watch.

397 b_sharp  Dec 15, 2014 10:56:00am

re: #395 Archangelus

OT for a moment to ask a question out of curiosity:
Seeing how it’s been so long since I’ve worked back home in the states and currently reside in a country where Sunday is essentially the same as Monday is in the rest of the world, how would most folks in US/Europe typically view receiving an email containing a CV and cover letter for a job sent on Sunday?

Sorry but we gave up curiosity after the 2008 debacle.

398 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 10:56:52am

re: #395 Archangelus

OT for a moment to ask a question out of curiosity:
Seeing how it’s been so long since I’ve worked back home in the states and currently reside in a country where Sunday is essentially the same as Monday is in the rest of the world, how would most folks in US/Europe typically view receiving an email containing a CV and cover letter for a job sent on Sunday?

I think that you’re fine as long as you aren’t applying for a job with a fundie church.

399 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 10:57:10am

Somebody has way too much time on their hands.
Who tweets trash they pick up from the floor?
Unless this is Byron’s receipt for the 2 bags of chips he just bought.

400 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 10:57:54am

re: #395 Archangelus

OT for a moment to ask a question out of curiosity:
Seeing how it’s been so long since I’ve worked back home in the states and currently reside in a country where Sunday is essentially the same as Monday is in the rest of the world, how would most folks in US/Europe typically view receiving an email containing a CV and cover letter for a job sent on Sunday?

I would be a bit annoyed. Even though most of us check our emails 24/7, receiving a CV/cover letter on a Sunday is a good way to have it buried by the time Monday morning rolls around. I have a junior colleague who has an obsession with sending emails late on Friday night (after 7 pm)….likely thinking he is impressing people by working later on a Friday. Again, it’s annoying and a good way to be ignored.

401 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 10:58:12am

re:
#399

Who tweets trash they pick up from the floor?
Unless this is Byron’s receipt for the 2 bags of chips he just bought.

Not true blue conservative patriot Americans because they’re too busy working. //

402 nearly-headless smith25  Dec 15, 2014 10:58:59am

re: #385 lawhawk

The cop killer who was eventually captured without a shot fired. Yet cops roll up on a 12-year old who was black and don’t even give the kid a chance to say what he was doing. They shot him before they even bothered to check to see if the gun was real, or that he was even a threat.

Playing while black is added to the growing list of things that can get a black person killed.

My kids were playing out in the backyard with Nerf guns yesterday (ages 8 and 4). Now of course Nerf guns are incredibly bright colored, but I did think about Tamir Rice and shuddered. I thought about Darrien Hunt (Biracial young man with a Cosplay sword shot by police). My boys are Biracial and I watched them for a few minutes thinking about everything that they could do, even the innocent things, are just different because of the color of their skin.

403 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 10:59:05am

re: #401 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#399

Not true blue conservative patriot Americans because they’re too busy working. //

Maybe his job is sweeping the floor at Meijer? Because if it isn’t, he’s fucked up.

404 Mike Lamb  Dec 15, 2014 10:59:09am

re: #373 The Vicious Babushka

I don’t think they care whether the person is a “terrorist”.

405 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 10:59:42am
406 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 10:59:57am

re: #403 The Vicious Babushka

Maybe his job is sweeping the floor at Meijer? Because if it isn’t, he’s fucked up.

It’s called “Meijers”.

/////

407 Mike Lamb  Dec 15, 2014 11:00:31am

re: #399 The Vicious Babushka

Somebody has way too much time on their hands.
Who tweets trash they pick up from the floor?
Unless this is Byron’s receipt for the 2 bags of chips he just bought.

[Embedded content]

Why isn’t Byron at work?

408 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 11:02:44am

re: #399 The Vicious Babushka

Somebody has way too much time on their hands.
Who tweets trash they pick up from the floor?
Unless this is Byron’s receipt for the 2 bags of chips he just bought.

[Embedded content]

Because no one works nights or part time.

409 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 11:03:11am

re: #408 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Because no one works nights or part time.

Or at Meijer.

410 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 11:05:36am

re: #405 Ace-o-aces

411 b_sharp  Dec 15, 2014 11:05:55am

I had no idea that random wingnuts are the official arbiters of when and what can be purchased with food stamps.

412 Franklin  Dec 15, 2014 11:06:24am

re: #408 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Because no one works nights or part time.

• Or can’t find a job as a ex Iraq war vet
• Or has 4 kids and a husband who died tragically last year
• Or has been systematically kept in poverty their whole life
• Or shut the fuck up Byron and stop judging people

413 Eventual Carrion  Dec 15, 2014 11:06:58am

re: #399 The Vicious Babushka

Somebody has way too much time on their hands.
Who tweets trash they pick up from the floor?
Unless this is Byron’s receipt for the 2 bags of chips he just bought.

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And why wasn’t this person at work “on a workday” rather than at the store?

414 Decatur Deb  Dec 15, 2014 11:07:09am

re: #411 b_sharp

I had no idea that random wingnuts are the official arbiters of when and what can be purchased with food stamps.

Know the best way to qualify for food stamps?

Lose your fuckn’ job.

415 Archangelus  Dec 15, 2014 11:07:43am

re: #400 Dr. Matt

K, thanks for the feedback;
I’ve been looking to return to full-time work after a year and a half of freelancing (originally got offered freelance projects in near-perfect timing after I was fired by my ex-employer in 2013 for ‘daring’ to complain about money I was owed and was not paid) and got into an argument yesterday with people I know over the fact that I insist on not sending work stuff on Sundays to folks abroad.
Many here do that (‘first day of the week’-based reasoning)..

416 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 11:07:57am

re: #414 Decatur Deb

Know the best way to qualify for food stamps?

Lose your fuckn’ job.

I will bet that most Meijer employees are on foodstamps.

417 nearly-headless smith25  Dec 15, 2014 11:08:03am

re: #399 The Vicious Babushka

418 Kragar  Dec 15, 2014 11:08:19am
419 No Country For Old Haters  Dec 15, 2014 11:09:03am
420 #FergusonFireside  Dec 15, 2014 11:09:13am

re: #399 The Vicious Babushka

Somebody has way too much time on their hands.
Who tweets trash they pick up from the floor?
Unless this is Byron’s receipt for the 2 bags of chips he just bought.

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So someone bought lunch. Guess that’s not allowed.

What an asshole.

421 b_sharp  Dec 15, 2014 11:09:37am

re: #412 Franklin

• Or can’t find a job as a ex Iraq war vet
• Or has 4 kids and a husband who died tragically last year
• Or has been systematically kept in poverty their whole life
• Or shut the fuck up Byron and stop judging people

There is this thing called unemployment that is the result of fewer available jobs than people looking for jobs.

Perhaps it has an impact.

422 Decatur Deb  Dec 15, 2014 11:09:48am

re: #418 Kragar

You realize this was all said as justification for killing one of the men under his command, right?

Too nuanced for NYPD.

423 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 11:11:38am

re: #419 No Country For Old Haters

Democrats have the luxury of whining about “torture” because they haven’t been killed by terrorists.

Although I’m not a doctor I’m certain that once you’ve been killed you can’t whine about anything.

424 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 11:11:55am

re: #422 Decatur Deb

425 Archangelus  Dec 15, 2014 11:12:54am

re: #418 Kragar

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If they didn’t realize before, they sure as hell do now based on a glance through the comments to that utterly idiotic tweet (surprisingly encouraging)…

426 Decatur Deb  Dec 15, 2014 11:13:40am

re: #416 The Vicious Babushka

I will bet that most Meijer employees are on foodstamps.

If you put in a week’s work and qualify for foodstamps, you need a freakn’ union.

427 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 11:14:15am

re: #424 lawhawk

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As we’ve seen on the posts from policeone, the cops don’t see anything wrong with their actions or their views, they think everybody else is fucked up. They’re bullies with a badge and they’ll make you respect it, even if it means beating the shit out of you and then forging the police report to make it look like your fault.

428 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 11:14:35am

re: #422 Decatur Deb

Too nuanced for NYPD.

If the public only understood the courage it takes to kill unarmed people day after day they’d see things differently.

429 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 11:16:48am

re: #427 Targetpractice

Demanding law enforcement to respect the citizens they are supposed to protect is a bare minimum. There’s a social compact, and the cops have long abused that social compact. It’s just a whole lot more in the open now that we’ve got all kinds of video evidence show that there are bad cops who do lots of bad things that are sanctioned because they’ve got a badge and gun.

The social compact means that we give them lots of power to protect us, but as a comic book character once said (and it is a truism), with great power comes great responsibility. It’s time the police took responsibility for their bad acts - and if they wont do it themselves, then the communities/voters/politicians must make them reform.

430 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 11:17:13am

re: #426 Decatur Deb

If you put in a week’s work and qualify for foodstamps, you need a freakn’ union.

No shit.

431 b_sharp  Dec 15, 2014 11:17:40am

re: #424 lawhawk

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Sounds like the only people they’re trying to win over are other cops.

432 b_sharp  Dec 15, 2014 11:20:18am

My phone is down to 30% with no wife in sight.

What am I going to do?

433 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 11:20:53am

I saw this and it reminded me of the Treevenge video that freetoken posted here.

434 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 11:22:21am

PA shooter is a White Guy! Who could have predicted such a thing!

435 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 11:22:28am

re:
#411

I had no idea that random wingnuts are the official arbiters of when and what can be purchased with food stamps.

It keeps them up at night.

436 retired cynic  Dec 15, 2014 11:22:56am

re: #434 The Vicious Babushka

ANOTHER lone wolf!

437 Timothy Watson  Dec 15, 2014 11:23:31am

re: #433 The Vicious Babushka

I saw this and it reminded me of the Treevenge video that freetoken posted here.

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Looks like one of the kids is throwing up GANG SIGNS!1!! He might be Dixie Mafia!!1!

438 Archangelus  Dec 15, 2014 11:23:57am
Well, that didn’t last long…Shocking, ain’t it? //
439 leftynyc  Dec 15, 2014 11:24:44am

re: #432 b_sharp

My phone is down to 30% with no wife in sight.

What am I going to do?

When my dad was in the hospital I found the nurses on his floor incredibly helpful in that department. There was always someone on duty who charged my phone for me or just gave me their charger to use in his room.

440 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 15, 2014 11:25:03am

re: #419 No Country For Old Haters

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When ever Eric the Pretend Christian says something like that, someone should tweet him “Matthew 25:31-46.”

441 b_sharp  Dec 15, 2014 11:25:17am

re: #438 Archangelus

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Which page is that?

442 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 11:26:01am

re: #441 b_sharp

Which page is that?

NYPDMTS

443 #FergusonFireside  Dec 15, 2014 11:26:08am

re: #432 b_sharp

My phone is down to 30% with no wife in sight.

What am I going to do?

You did not bring charger with you?? Oh boy.

444 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 15, 2014 11:26:27am

re: #426 Decatur Deb

If you put in a week’s work and qualify for foodstamps, you need a freakn’ union.

I work full time at $8 an hour. I get over $120 in food stamps each month.

445 Archangelus  Dec 15, 2014 11:26:32am

re: #441 b_sharp

The NYPDMTS’ tone-deaf “you can’t handle the truth, we side with bad guys” pic tweet is gone for some mysterious reason… /

446 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 11:27:09am

The NYPD deleted that offensive tweet, but the Internet is forever.

447 #FergusonFireside  Dec 15, 2014 11:29:07am
448 Skip Intro  Dec 15, 2014 11:29:17am

re: #434 The Vicious Babushka

PA shooter is a White Guy! Who could have predicted such a thing!

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I know one thing for sure about Bradley Stone. UpChuck will spend exactly zero seconds researching the guy.

Now his victims, that’s a whole other matter.

449 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 11:30:11am

Chuck could end up looking like that in 20 years, 5 years if he’s a meth head.

450 b_sharp  Dec 15, 2014 11:31:25am

re: #443 #FergusonFireside

You did not bring charger with you?? Oh boy.

The charger is in the car.

451 Franklin  Dec 15, 2014 11:32:08am

Am I doing it right??

452 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 11:34:57am

re: #451 Franklin

#NYPDmotivations:

If it bleeds, we can kill it. /Dutch
NYPD: means we will ‘nock your punkass down. /Jay

453 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 11:36:14am
454 nearly-headless smith25  Dec 15, 2014 11:37:36am

re: #453 The Vicious Babushka

Insert Chris Rock: “Minimum Wage Meme” Here

455 b_sharp  Dec 15, 2014 11:37:36am

re: #453 The Vicious Babushka

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Send him your condolences.

456 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 11:37:37am

re: #453 The Vicious Babushka

Not a particularly good one then eh? Or is he of the Austrian school of psuedoeconomics?

457 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 11:38:18am

LOL

458 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 11:39:34am

re: #457 The Vicious Babushka

LOL

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So then how is he paying his tuition? Is he working his way through college or is mommy and daddy footing the bill?

459 Franklin  Dec 15, 2014 11:40:02am

re: #457 The Vicious Babushka

I didn’t know they did “Home-Colleging”.

460 b_sharp  Dec 15, 2014 11:40:26am

re: #453 The Vicious Babushka

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The free market won’t determine a fair wage unless there is a parity between job availability and workers

461 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 11:42:38am

PA shooter has military background, and the victims so far appear to be related to the shooter in some fashion. Six dead so far. The hunt for the gunman is on.

IOW - a good guy with a gun, right up to the moment he became the bad guy.

The shooter may be wearing fatigues, but has a limp or needs a cane.

462 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 11:43:35am

re:
#453

I’m an econ major.

Do you know who I AM?

Also, too, econ major tweeter seems to think America is experiencing Zimbabwe level inflation.

463 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 11:44:37am
464 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 11:45:03am

re:
#453

where then inflation goes down.

Inflation is already pretty low, like near historic lows.

465 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 11:45:39am

re: #462 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#453

Do you know who I AM?

Also, too, econ major tweeter seems to think America is experiencing Zimbabwe level inflation.

Too many of these “econ majors” think the upward pressure on prices for commodities has to do with wages, rather than the reality that the elite are gambling on the commodities markets. The idea that simple supply and demand rules the market anymore is laughable.

466 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 11:45:43am

Should I block ChuckC jr?

467 jaunte  Dec 15, 2014 11:45:54am

High school econ major?

468 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 11:46:02am

re: #457 The Vicious Babushka

Guessing that he has yet to take any English courses.

469 jaunte  Dec 15, 2014 11:46:09am

Minor major.

470 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 11:46:15am

re:
#463

Still a high school student but also a college student?

471 Timothy Watson  Dec 15, 2014 11:46:17am

re: #463 The Vicious Babushka

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How is going to learn the dignity of work if he’s going to sit through high school/college mooching off his parents and the government? Why wasn’t he in school instead of at Meijer at 1:30 pm?

472 jaunte  Dec 15, 2014 11:46:36am

re: #463 The Vicious Babushka

Already a Masters in Victimhood.

473 Kragar  Dec 15, 2014 11:46:42am
474 Timothy Watson  Dec 15, 2014 11:46:57am

re: #470 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#463

Still a high school student but also a college student?

High school students can dual-enroll.

475 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 11:47:25am

re: #470 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#463

Still a high school student but also a college student?

There are schools that offer college-level courses to students that pass certain criteria. They can then roll the credits over towards their college degree if/when they pursue it after graduating from high school.

476 Kragar  Dec 15, 2014 11:47:49am

re: #466 The Vicious Babushka

Should I block ChuckC jr?

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477 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 11:48:11am

re: #470 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#463

Still a high school student but also a college student?

He was always the biggest kid in his class.

478 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 11:48:16am

re: #465 Targetpractice

Too many of these “econ majors” think the upward pressure on prices for commodities has to do with wages, rather than the reality that the elite are gambling on the commodities markets. The idea that simple supply and demand rules the market anymore is laughable.

Von Mises economic theory is not based on any reality whatsoever

479 klystron  Dec 15, 2014 11:48:30am

re: #475 Targetpractice

There are schools that offer college-level courses to students that pass certain criteria. They can then roll the credits over towards their college degree if/when they pursue it after graduating from high school.

I started college with 30+ credits (sophomore by most standards).

On the other hand, I also wasn’t an idiot on the Internet. (You could argue I saved that for grad school.)

480 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 11:48:47am

I’m done with that little fuckbag.

481 Timothy Watson  Dec 15, 2014 11:49:23am

re: #479 klystron

I started college with 30+ credits (sophomore by most standards).

On the other hand, I also wasn’t an idiot on the Internet. (You could argue I saved that for grad school.)

+10

482 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 11:49:57am

“I’m an econ major in college! I know all about wages and inflation!”

“You’re an idiot and here’s why…”

“I’m still in high school, so you’re creepy for talking to a minor!”

483 Eventual Carrion  Dec 15, 2014 11:51:44am

re: #457 The Vicious Babushka

LOL

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Freshman?

484 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 11:51:58am

re: #482 Targetpractice

“I’m an econ major in college! I know all about wages and inflation!”

“You’re an idiot and here’s why…”

“I’m still in high school, so you’re creepy for talking to a minor!”

A minor in every conceivable way. He’ll be minor all of his life.

485 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 11:52:22am

re:
#477

He was always the biggest kid in his class.

I’ve won academic econ awards all over the country!

Your just envious because your mothers would all rather I be you instead of me.

486 Kragar  Dec 15, 2014 11:52:54am
487 jaunte  Dec 15, 2014 11:53:10am
New Jersey has roughly 300,000 people seeking jobs, and is producing less than 600 a month.
nj.com

They’re just not trying hard enough!!!

488 nearly-headless smith25  Dec 15, 2014 11:53:52am

Little Schwartzy never heard of a dictionary either.

489 Skip Intro  Dec 15, 2014 11:54:25am

re: #461 lawhawk

PA shooter has military background, and the victims so far appear to be related to the shooter in some fashion. Six dead so far. The hunt for the gunman is on.

IOW - a good guy with a gun, right up to the moment he became the bad guy.

The shooter may be wearing fatigues, but has a limp or needs a cane.

Well, thank God that this isn’t terrorism. Just another confused white person who we will soon be hearing was a great guy and would never do something like this.

He just needs help, not punishment. It’s not as though he was selling illegal cigarettes or pointing out a patrolman’s error in stopping his car.

490 klystron  Dec 15, 2014 11:55:40am

I just made lunch. Has there been a reference to Ayn Rand yet?

491 Skip Intro  Dec 15, 2014 11:56:06am

re: #464 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#453

Inflation is already pretty low, like near historic lows.

For the past decade or so. But then, so are wages, but I guess Chuck Jr. thinks they should be even lower.

492 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 11:56:26am

re: #461 lawhawk

PA shooter has military background, and the victims so far appear to be related to the shooter in some fashion. Six dead so far. The hunt for the gunman is on.

IOW - a good guy with a gun, right up to the moment he became the bad guy.

The shooter may be wearing fatigues, but has a limp or needs a cane.

Hmm, armed, wanted for six murders, he’ll probably go out in a hail of… oh, he’s white? Never mind.

493 Eventual Carrion  Dec 15, 2014 11:56:58am

re: #463 The Vicious Babushka

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Wait, they offer Econ majors in high school? Best I had in my senior year was physics that could transfer to college credit for it.

494 Franklin  Dec 15, 2014 11:57:49am

if a douchenozzle tweets in the forest, and no one gives a shit, does it make a sound?

495 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 11:58:12am

re: #494 Franklin

if a douchenozzle tweets in the forest, and no one gives a shit, does it make a sound?

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Chucky has copycats.

496 jaunte  Dec 15, 2014 11:58:25am

Please, no more Chuck C. Johnsons.

497 nearly-headless smith25  Dec 15, 2014 11:58:55am

re: #494 Franklin

I tell you what, he just PWNed me in an argument over the definition of the term: “Shaming” I just don’t know what to do?///////////

498 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 11:59:24am
499 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 12:00:16pm

re: #487 jaunte

They’re just not trying hard enough!!!

I have to agree with the author, Christie is not going to be president. At least not for a couple cycles. His negatives are simply too stark and too fresh to ever hope to win over a majority of Americans.

500 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 12:01:16pm

re: #498 The Vicious Babushka

Are they hiring Zombie Albert Speer to handle the architecture?

501 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 12:02:08pm

Like Darren Wilson? Oh wait…

502 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 12:03:22pm

re: #501 The Vicious Babushka

Like Darren Wilson? Oh wait…

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Not said: “And I’m the person who decides who is and isn’t a victim.”

503 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 12:05:26pm

re:
#501

Sounds like a hashtag that’ll be sure to catch on.

//

504 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 12:05:40pm

They seem nice. /

505 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 12:06:23pm

re:
#501

So Ben Shapiro is spending his wingnut welfare dollars creating derpy hashtags?

506 iossarian  Dec 15, 2014 12:07:53pm

re: #504 lawhawk

White (Supremacist) on White (Supremacist) Crime Shocker

507 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 12:07:54pm

re: #501 The Vicious Babushka

Like Darren Wilson? Oh wait…

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HE HAD A FRACTURED EYE SOCKET BOO-BOO!!!

508 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 12:08:55pm

re: #494 Franklin

if a douchenozzle tweets in the forest, and no one gives a shit, does it make a sound?

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Let me guess, his favorite book is “Atlas Shrugged”.

509 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 12:09:53pm

re: #494 Franklin

No restrictions on buying or carrying firearms?
Yes

So criminals get to have firearms?
No

But you just said no restrictions.
Ummmm

So, you’re now ready to talk about restrictions?
That’s not what I meant.

What part of “no restrictions” do you not understand. You use that word. It doesn’t mean what you think it means.

HA! You see, I win this argument! Libturd can’t figure out my flawed logic, so I must win!

510 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 12:11:44pm
511 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 15, 2014 12:13:31pm

re: #510 Ace-o-aces

worldwaronecolorphotos.com

512 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 12:13:40pm

re:
#510

I don’t answer questions from pervs with black and white pictures as their avis

B/W pics are a confirmed FACT indicator of pervation.
//

513 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 12:13:56pm

re: #510 Ace-o-aces

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He’s so excited, he has probably never had so many Twitter mentions in one day.

514 klystron  Dec 15, 2014 12:14:04pm

Mostly this guy just reminds me why I didn’t date in high school.

515 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 12:14:25pm

Maybe he is the perv, pretending to be a teenage kid.

516 iossarian  Dec 15, 2014 12:15:01pm

If you’re going to talk to grown-ups on Twitter, it’s not exactly “pervy” of them to talk back to you.

517 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 12:15:24pm

re: #512 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#510

B/W pics are a confirmed FACT indicator of pervation.
//

I agree!!!

518 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 12:15:30pm

Crazy, stupid or trolling. You be the judge.

519 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 12:15:49pm

re: #514 klystron

Mostly this guy just reminds me why I didn’t date in high school.

He reminds me of what I used to be like in high school, totally convinced of his own superiority. That should fall apart right around the time he has to start paying for his own bills and realizes that he has to start at the bottom rung of the ladder like everybody else.

520 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 12:15:53pm

re: #509 lawhawk

No restrictions on buying or carrying firearms?
Yes

So criminals get to have firearms?
No

But you just said no restrictions.
Ummmm

So, you’re not ready to talk about restrictions?
That’s not what I meant.

What part of “no restrictions” do you not understand. You use that word. It doesn’t mean what you think it means.

HA! You see, I win this argument! Libturd can’t figure out my flawed logic, so I must win!

521 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 15, 2014 12:15:55pm

Is this a mentally ill person?

522 iossarian  Dec 15, 2014 12:16:04pm

re: #515 The Vicious Babushka

Maybe he is the perv, pretending to be a teenage kid.

I think the charitable explanation is that he’s a 17-year old white American male who hasn’t yet had to answer the question of how residents of Galt’s Gulch would ship packages to each other or run a hospital.

523 klystron  Dec 15, 2014 12:16:31pm

re: #518 Ace-o-aces

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Crazy, stupid or trolling. You be the judge.

Ugh, the cringe-worthy spelling.

524 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 12:16:35pm

re: #518 Ace-o-aces

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Crazy, stupid or trolling. You be the judge.

525 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 12:16:52pm

re: #511 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

worldwaronecolorphotos.com

OK, I should have said not widely available.

526 Dr Lizardo  Dec 15, 2014 12:17:40pm

OT, but I’ve just discovered TV On The Radio.

Really good.

TV On The Radio - Happy Idiot (Official)

527 jaunte  Dec 15, 2014 12:18:38pm

Extremist Report Draws Criticism; Prompts Apology

“…the comments that stirred the most outrage referred to war veterans. The assessment cautioned that returning veterans who faced trouble reintegrating into their communities could “lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.”

………………………………………..

“…The gunman in the Montgomery County shootings, described as a military veteran, was thought to have been barricaded inside a home at Franklin and Garfield streets in Souderton, according to 6 ABC Action News. More recent information from police indicates the shooter is still at large.”
patch.com

528 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 12:18:39pm

re: #512 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#510

B/W pics are a confirmed FACT indicator of pervation.
//

Yes, and as we all know, pedophiles commonly use pictures of German WWI flying aces to lure in children. Because little kids go crazy for that kind of thing.

529 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 12:19:59pm

Can’t help but snark about where’s the apology from the Cleveland PD for impersonating a police force.

530 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 12:21:17pm

re: #518 Ace-o-aces

Anyone with the initials BS automatically makes me suspect that they’re trolls… or worse.. CCJ acolytes.

531 leftynyc  Dec 15, 2014 12:21:22pm

re: #529 lawhawk

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Can’t help but snark about where’s the apology from the Cleveland PD for impersonating a police force.

First I’d ask them to explain why they hired a cop who had to leave his prior job for being unstable.

532 Skip Intro  Dec 15, 2014 12:21:37pm

re: #527 jaunte

No one can speak truth to America if it violates sincerely held fantasies.

533 klystron  Dec 15, 2014 12:23:13pm

Public service announcement (not that most lizards need it, but the post above really did make me cringe):

AS A GENERAL RULE OF THUMB, if you are using it as a verb, it is affect and if you are using it as a noun, it is effect. (NOTE: there are special cases where this does not apply, but that will cover you 95+% of the time.) And if you are talking about how well something does the job, it’s effectively.

As in, he effectively proved he knows nothing about English.

/grumble grumble grumble

534 jaunte  Dec 15, 2014 12:23:22pm

re: #532 Skip Intro

All of our veterans are noble heroes, and we wish they would stop bothering us with their health problems.

535 Decatur Deb  Dec 15, 2014 12:23:40pm

re: #532 Skip Intro

No one can speak truth to America if it violates sincerely held fantasies.

Hey! Don’t knock sincerely held fantasies. Most of the great art, music and architecture in the world depends on them.

536 KingKenrod  Dec 15, 2014 12:24:03pm

re: #521 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Is this a mentally ill person?

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I’m reminded of this classic Far Side:

537 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 12:24:08pm

re: #520 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Never get into a land war in Asia!

But both cups were poisoned.

Inconceivable!

538 goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2014 12:24:38pm

re: #510 Ace-o-aces

You missed a huge opportunity here to ask him if he likes gladiator movies, or has ever been in a Turkish prison.

539 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 12:28:02pm

re: #538 goddamnedfrank

You missed a huge opportunity here to ask him if he likes gladiator movies, or has ever been in a Turkish prison.

He’d probably not recognize the movie references.

540 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 12:28:02pm

re: #538 goddamnedfrank

You missed a huge opportunity here to ask him if he likes gladiator movies, or has ever been in a Turkish prison.

Or how often he shits on the floor.

541 goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2014 12:29:30pm

re: #538 goddamnedfrank

I’d do it, but …

542 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 12:32:02pm

NOT The Onion:

Fox’s Pirro Rails Against ‘Liberal’ Dianne Feinstein For Release Of Torture Report
Fox’s wingnut “Judge” Jeanine Pirro went off the rails this Saturday ranting about that supposedly “liberal” Dianne Feinstein and the release of the Senate torture report.

543 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 12:32:24pm

re:
#541

Oh my god. Go away freak.

Checkmate Libtards!!! I’m literally destroying this person here!

544 Dr Lizardo  Dec 15, 2014 12:33:26pm

re: #541 goddamnedfrank

That little special snowflake there doesn’t seem to handle criticism very well.

545 Skip Intro  Dec 15, 2014 12:33:56pm

re: #541 goddamnedfrank

I’d do it, but …

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BS is the kind of dimwit UpChuck wants to hire. It would be a win-win since I doubt UpChuck pays anywhere near the minimum wage that BS thinks should be done away with.

546 Decatur Deb  Dec 15, 2014 12:34:16pm

re: #544 Dr Lizardo

That little special snowflake there doesn’t seem to handle criticism very well.

Wants to grow up to run a paradigm-wrecking news blog.

547 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 15, 2014 12:34:59pm

re: #541 goddamnedfrank

Now Byron, show us on the doll where logic touched you.

548 Kragar  Dec 15, 2014 12:35:19pm

re: #541 goddamnedfrank

549 goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2014 12:35:51pm

A lot of hardcore gun nuts only care about the last one. They support the idea of crazy ass violent felons carrying semi automatic weapons in public because freedom. They long for everything about the Old West except the part where the town sheriffs frequently banned the possession of guns inside municipal borders.

550 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 15, 2014 12:35:52pm

re: #283 FemNaziBitch

I am gravely serious when I say I am far more afraid of radical conservatives than I am of radical terrorists. You should be too.

More often than not, radical terrorists are also radical conservatives.

551 Timothy Watson  Dec 15, 2014 12:36:40pm

I’m 27 now and pretty obnoxious and arrogant and have been for years, but I don’t think I was ever that petulant.

552 Skip Intro  Dec 15, 2014 12:37:00pm

Sound familiar?

553 Decatur Deb  Dec 15, 2014 12:38:26pm

re: #552 Skip Intro

Sound familiar?

Sometimes I just think I’m really awesome.

Could be confusing ‘awesome’ and ‘awful’. Common mistake.

554 goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2014 12:39:00pm

re: #545 Skip Intro

BS is the kind of dimwit UpChuck wants to hire. It would be a win-win since I doubt UpChuck pays anywhere near the minimum wage that BS thinks should be done away with.

I’m certain all of Chucks hires work as freelancers, on an incentive, pay-per-poop basis. There’s no way he’s going to comply with all the withholding and regulatory requirements that govern actual employees.

I’d also bet that he makes them sign a non-compete clause purely as an intimidation tactic, even though they are utterly unenforceable under California law.

555 Skip Intro  Dec 15, 2014 12:39:25pm

And this?

556 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 12:40:02pm

re: #555 Skip Intro

And this?

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Okay, this has gotta be a parody account.

557 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 12:41:09pm

re: #552 Skip Intro

Sound familiar?

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Let’s just let the kid go. He’s what, 17 or 18? Arrogance, posturing, acting tough is more or less par for the course. If he’s still like this at 26, then we can worry.

558 Skip Intro  Dec 15, 2014 12:41:24pm

re: #556 Targetpractice

Don’t think so. He’s a full metal wingnut with delusions of adequacy.

559 Dr. Matt  Dec 15, 2014 12:41:34pm

Byron Swartz is a more desperate version of UpChuck.

560 #FergusonFireside  Dec 15, 2014 12:41:51pm

stltoday.com

His letter to the editor was posted in the St Louis Dispatch.

He’s just a confused kid playing with a dangerous toy (twitter)

My feeling is let him be.

561 Franklin  Dec 15, 2014 12:42:14pm

re: #557 Ace-o-aces

Let’s just let the kid go. He’s what, 17 or 18? Arrogance, posturing, acting tough is more or less par for the course. If he’s still like this at 26, then we can worry.

This.

562 Feline Overlord  Dec 15, 2014 12:43:02pm

re: #559 Dr. Matt

Byron Swartz is a more desperate version of UpChuck.

Wingnuttery: The Next Generation

563 allegro  Dec 15, 2014 12:44:18pm

re: #557 Ace-o-aces

Let’s just let the kid go. He’s what, 17 or 18? Arrogance, posturing, acting tough is more or less par for the course. If he’s still like this at 26, then we can worry.

He needs his mommy to tell him how awesome he is over milk and cookies after his nap.

564 Decatur Deb  Dec 15, 2014 12:44:25pm

re: #557 Ace-o-aces

Let’s just let the kid go. He’s what, 17 or 18? Arrogance, posturing, acting tough is more or less par for the course. If he’s still like this at 26, then we can worry.

re: #561 Franklin

This.

Totally correct, of course. Might be different if there really was a way to strangle him in his e-crib.

565 Skip Intro  Dec 15, 2014 12:46:03pm

So a white 17-18 year old asshole is a kid who just needs to be left alone, while a black 17-18 year old is a man who deserves to be killed.

I think I’ve got it now.

566 Interesting Times  Dec 15, 2014 12:47:02pm

re: #533 klystron

Public service announcement (not that most lizards need it, but the post above really did make me cringe):

AS A GENERAL RULE OF THUMB, if you are using it as a verb, it is affect and if you are using it as a noun, it is effect. (NOTE: there are special cases where this does not apply, but that will cover you 95+% of the time.)

What affects you has an effect on your life, so be sure to effect changes that improve your overall affect.

/for the remaining 5% :)

567 Kragar  Dec 15, 2014 12:47:32pm

re: #552 Skip Intro

Sound familiar?

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then reality kicks in.

568 allegro  Dec 15, 2014 12:48:17pm

re: #566 Interesting Times

What affects you has an effect on your life, so be sure to effect changes that improve your overall affect.

/for the remaining 5% :)

Might someone also point out the proper use of who/whom?

569 Decatur Deb  Dec 15, 2014 12:48:40pm

re: #565 Skip Intro

So a white 17-18 year old asshole is a kid who just needs to be left alone, while a black 17-18 year old is a man who deserves to be killed.

I think I’ve got it now.

No, they should both be out playing ball or working on the science fair project. But that’s beyond our reach.

570 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 12:49:48pm

re: #565 Skip Intro

So a white 17-18 year old asshole is a kid who just needs to be left alone, while a black 17-18 year old is a man who deserves to be killed.

I think they should both be left alone. Of course, society, police and the justice system seem to disagree with me.

571 allegro  Dec 15, 2014 12:53:26pm

re: #570 Ace-o-aces

I think they should both be left alone. Of course, society, police and the justice system seem to disagree with me.

My feeling is that nasty little trolls need to be held to the same standards regardless of age. If he wants to enter into discussions with adults he needs to behave as one or pay whatever consequences that come his way. He’s too old to be coddled. It’s called learning. Time he started.

572 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 12:54:11pm

re: #568 allegro

Might someone also point out the proper use of who/whom?

That’s it. It’s time to break out usage rules for the Oxford comma so as to avoid the problem of little CCJ wannabes claiming to be of divine (and quite possibly insane) origins:

This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God

Proper comma usage is key to understanding. And avoiding messy situations and trying to explain that your parents are a dead woman and a supernatural being. It might have worked back when we were using tea leaves to divine the future, but there’s a reason the Oxford comma is needed. It’s about clarity. :0

573 goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2014 12:55:13pm

Gawker just triple downed on taunting CCJ.

Which of These Disgusting Chuck Johnson Rumors are True?

!

574 Decatur Deb  Dec 15, 2014 12:55:35pm

re: #572 lawhawk

That’s it. It’s time to break out usage rules for the Oxford comma so as to avoid the problem of little CCJ wannabes claiming to be of divine (and quite possibly insane) origins:

Proper comma usage is key to understanding. And avoiding messy situations and trying to explain that your parents are a dead woman and a supernatural being. It might have worked back when we were using tea leaves to divine the future, but there’s a reason the Oxford comma is needed. It’s about clarity. :0

People who worry about the Oxford comma, but leave one space between sentences, are not to be taken seriously.

575 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 1:00:02pm

re: #574 Decatur Deb

I learned to type with the double space after a period. That’s now been thoroughly drummed out after years in the editorial/publishing business. Single spacing is the rule, not the exception in publishing.

576 bubba zanetti  Dec 15, 2014 1:02:20pm
577 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 1:04:57pm

re: #573 goddamnedfrank

So, it’d take an idiot who isn’t afraid to file what is likely to be a pointless lawsuit for a record that might not exist to determine whether he engaged in a criminal act as a minor. /seems like a wild goose chase, but sure, let someone try to dig up dirt on a no talent ass clown.

Someone exactly like CCJ.

Except that he wouldn’t ever go for it. Because it’s okay to do it to people who were killed by police, but question the person who invents rumors about criminal records (like a murder rap), and all of sudden it’s off limits. /

578 #FergusonFireside  Dec 15, 2014 1:07:03pm

re: #573 goddamnedfrank

Gawker just triple downed on taunting CCJ.

!

Oh get out the popcorn.

579 goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2014 1:08:17pm

re: #574 Decatur Deb

People who worry about the Oxford comma, but leave one space between sentences, are not to be taken seriously.

I learned to type on a IBM Selectric in middle school, they drilled in the two spaces, but that convention has officially become hopelessly outdated.

With the advent of the computer age, typographers began deprecating double spacing, even in monospaced text. In 1989, Desktop Publishing by Design stated that “typesetting requires only one space after periods, question marks, exclamation points, and colons”, and identified single sentence spacing as a typographic convention.[34] Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (1993) and Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography (2006) both indicate that uniform spacing should be used between words, including between sentences.[35]

More recent works on typography weigh in strongly. Ilene Strizver, founder of the Type Studio, says, “Forget about tolerating differences of opinion: typographically speaking, typing two spaces before the start of a new sentence is absolutely, unequivocally wrong.”[13] The Complete Manual on Typography (2003) states that “The typewriter tradition of separating sentences with two word spaces after a period has no place in typesetting” and the single space is “standard typographic practice”.[36] The Elements of Typographic Style (2004) advocates a single space between sentences, noting that “your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint [double spacing] Victorian habit.”[6]

580 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 1:09:35pm

re: #573 goddamnedfrank

Gawker just triple downed on taunting CCJ.

!

581 Kragar  Dec 15, 2014 1:12:21pm
582 Ace-o-aces  Dec 15, 2014 1:15:08pm

CCJ once admitted he didn’t know how “The Gingerbread man” ended. Now it seems he is unfamiliar with, “The Boy who Cried Wolf libel”.

583 allegro  Dec 15, 2014 1:20:50pm

What’s his libel claim? Is he upset that Gawker said there was no direct evidence to support the rumors and that they’re probably untrue?

Kid needs to make up his mind.

584 Decatur Deb  Dec 15, 2014 1:20:53pm

re: #575 lawhawk

I learned to type with the double space after a period. That’s now been thoroughly drummed out after years in the editorial/publishing business. Single spacing is the rule, not the exception in publishing.

re: #579 goddamnedfrank

The double space, like the Kettering ignition, is an inherent part of the order of the universe. Pettifogging arriviste rule-makers cannot change that.

585 dog philosopher  Dec 15, 2014 1:22:00pm

NSA dirt on Boehner must be incredible

he spends all of his spare time drinking wild turkey and 7 up while watching reruns of gunsmoke

586 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 1:22:52pm

Doesn’t one usually have to have a good reputation in order to prove defamation? You can’t tarnish an already rusted sword.

587 dog philosopher  Dec 15, 2014 1:23:23pm

re: #574 Decatur Deb

People who worry about the Oxford comma, but leave one space between sentences, are not to be taken seriously.

everybody knows that curly braces should line up vertically

588 dog philosopher  Dec 15, 2014 1:26:25pm

Our Nation’s Most Important Verb Conjugation Is All About Elizabeth Warren

not sure what this is about but i like the new critique style reference

589 leftynyc  Dec 15, 2014 1:26:30pm

re: #577 lawhawk

So, it’d take an idiot who isn’t afraid to file what is likely to be a pointless lawsuit for a record that might not exist to determine whether he engaged in a criminal act as a minor. /seems like a wild goose chase, but sure, let someone try to dig up dirt on a no talent ass clown.

Someone exactly like CCJ.

Except that he wouldn’t ever go for it. Because it’s okay to do it to people who were killed by police, but question the person who invents rumors about criminal records (like a murder rap), and all of sudden it’s off limits. /

Here’s a story I think you would enjoy:

talkingpointsmemo.com

On Thanksgiving Day, a Florida cop pulled over a man who dared to play N.W.A.’s famous song “Fuck Tha Police” while driving to his mother’s house.

Garzon, who according to the New Times has weathered 16 internal affairs cases against him, claimed that it was illegal to play loud music within 25 feet of another person. But he had pulled over a law student: Cesar Baldelomar, 26.

“In 2012 the state supreme court struck down any law banning loud music,” Baldelomar told the New Times. “I knew that because it was a case I had actually studied in law school.”

590 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 15, 2014 1:27:10pm

re: #587 dog philosopher

everybody knows that curly braces should line up vertically

(defun nothing_matters (x)
(when (parensmatchp t) (print ‘LOL )))

591 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 1:27:16pm

re: #589 leftynyc

Damn you, I was just about to post that!

592 goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2014 1:27:19pm

re: #583 allegro

What’s his libel claim? Is he upset that Gawker said there was no direct evidence to support the rumors and that they’re probably untrue?

Kid needs to make up his mind.

He’s pissed off that Greg Howard printed the rumor in his first column. The rumor that Chuck, very unwisely, chose to pre-emptively mention and deny in an email to Howard. That’s why his libel claim is totally fucked, he was the first one to bring to the attention of a journalist.

He had absolutely no reasonable expectation that Howard would not then report on that in his article, and all Howard did was ask the question. Which, lets be honest, almost anybody would ask, because choosing to deny something like that up to a reporter without ever having been asked, in a separate communication after the interview was concluded, is totes fucking suspicious.

593 Mike Lamb  Dec 15, 2014 1:28:58pm

re: #434 The Vicious Babushka

PA shooter is a White Guy! Who could have predicted such a thing!

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Any reports on white on white violence in Chicago?

594 lawhawk  Dec 15, 2014 1:31:02pm

re: #589 leftynyc

Yup. Saw that one earlier today. The guy who was pulled over notes that he’s got the knowledge and wherewithal to fight these kinds of spurious charges (like violating a noise ordinance that was struck down as unconstitutional). But most people in the community wouldn’t, and they’d have to fight the charges or much more likely - pay a fine for something that they shouldn’t have.

It’s another facet of the bigger problem of law enforcement and localities using the local residents as a piggy bank with fees, fines, and charges to balance local budgets.

595 dog philosopher  Dec 15, 2014 1:32:10pm

re: #590 William Barnett-Lewis

(defun nothing_matters (x)
(when (parensmatchp t) (print ‘LOL )))

i am never infuriated by lots of stupid parentheses

596 Franklin  Dec 15, 2014 1:32:11pm

Browns’ Andrew Hawkins explains why he wore Tamir Rice shirt

Hawkins response to CLEPD:

“I was taught that justice is a right that every American should have, and also justice should be the goal of every American,” Hawkins said on Monday. “… So a call for justice shouldn’t offend or disrespect anybody. A call for justice shouldn’t warrant an apology. To clarify, I utterly respect and appreciate every police officer that protects and serves all of us with honesty, integrity and the right way. And I don’t think those kinds of officers should be offended at what I did.”

597 Mike Lamb  Dec 15, 2014 1:33:19pm

re: #494 Franklin

if a douchenozzle tweets in the forest, and no one gives a shit, does it make a sound?

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That’s pretty much the case already.

598 ObserverArt  Dec 15, 2014 1:33:30pm

re: #575 lawhawk

I learned to type with the double space after a period. That’s now been thoroughly drummed out after years in the editorial/publishing business. Single spacing is the rule, not the exception in publishing.

The difference between typewriters and type setting. In typesetting the spacing is set for each letter, special character and punctuation, and the spacing between sentences is also set by the word processor.

I cringe every time I see double spacing between sentences.

If you didn’t double space between typewriter typed sentences and punctuation, you would have a real hard time seeing the sentence structure. I can understand how for people of a certain age it is hard to change what you were taught and how you typed for years.

Also, word processing does different line spacing if you hit ‘enter’ between sentences. That is actually paragraph spacing which can be set to be more space than the setting for line spacing. You just need to type and let the lines flow into separate lines and not hit enter to go to a new line.

599 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 15, 2014 1:33:36pm

re: #595 dog philosopher

i am never infuriated by lots of stupid parentheses

After Spaghetti BASIC & 6502/6800 assembly, it was heaven.

600 De Kolta Chair  Dec 15, 2014 1:34:34pm

re: #575 lawhawk

I learned to type with the double space after a period. That’s now been thoroughly drummed out after years in the editorial/publishing business. Single spacing is the rule, not the exception in publishing.

When I worked as a word processor for law firms, double spacing after a period was the norm in legal documents. Really, really boring legal documents.

601 Mike Lamb  Dec 15, 2014 1:38:27pm

re: #504 lawhawk

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They seem nice. /

Of fucking course it’s Arizona…

602 Shiplord Kirel  Dec 15, 2014 1:43:49pm

re: #581 Kragar

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Male or female?

603 EPR-radar  Dec 15, 2014 1:47:04pm

re: #600 De Kolta Chair

When I worked as a word processor for law firms, double spacing after a period was the norm in legal documents. Really, really boring legal documents.

Were these docs in Courier or some other fixed pitch font? If so, there’s a reason to use two spaces after a period in this setting.

604 Shiplord Kirel  Dec 15, 2014 1:50:47pm

re: #593 Mike Lamb

Any reports on white on white violence in Chicago?

February 14, 1929
A franchise dispute between libertarian entrepreneurs got out of hand and they resorted to Second Amendment solutions.

605 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 1:51:09pm

re:
#596

So a call for justice shouldn’t offend or disrespect anybody. A call for justice shouldn’t warrant an apology.

I couldn’t have put it any better.

NO APOLOGY TOUR!!!!

606 Kragar  Dec 15, 2014 1:51:15pm

re: #602 Shiplord Kirel

Male or female?

I hope it was a female, because otherwise, it would be gay.
///

607 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 1:52:31pm

re:
#596

I utterly respect and appreciate every police officer that protects and serves all of us with honesty, integrity and the right way. And I don’t think those kinds of officers should be offended at what I did.”

Damn. Smack.

608 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 15, 2014 1:52:35pm

re: #466 The Vicious Babushka

Should I block ChuckC jr?

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609 De Kolta Chair  Dec 15, 2014 1:53:36pm

re: #603 EPR-radar

Were these docs in Courier or some other fixed pitch font? If so, there’s a reason to use two spaces after a period in this setting.

Times Roman, usually 11 or 12 pt.

610 retired cynic  Dec 15, 2014 1:54:39pm

re: #608 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think he is too small, and should be tossed back to mature.

611 CuriousLurker  Dec 15, 2014 1:55:32pm

Don’t know if anyone has posted this yet:

From the article:

That’s the implication of a new Pew Research Center survey that finds nearly three-quarters of Americans — 73 percent — believe that Jesus was literally born to a virgin. This is especially surprising when you consider that only one third of Americans say that the Bible is the word of God and should be understood literally. […]

Well, that makes sense. //

I can hear the atheists groaning from here…

612 Kragar  Dec 15, 2014 1:56:48pm
613 Dave In Austin  Dec 15, 2014 1:57:12pm

re: #608 Backwoods_Sleuth

I asked him if they knew each other. They should get together for a big ol’ glass o derp

614 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 1:57:42pm

re: #611 CuriousLurker

Don’t know if anyone has posted this yet:

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From the article:

Well, that makes sense. //

I can hear the atheists groaning from here…

“We don’t believe that whole ‘Created in six days’ business, but we do believe the virgin birth business!”

615 goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2014 1:58:04pm

After a cursory examination of the timeline any judge will tell Chuck that he brought this all on himself. He had no plausible reason to believe that Howard was going to write about the #floorshitter allegations on Chuck’s Facebook page. He hadn’t been asked to comment on them and could have just let the whole thing go. Instead he made the affirmative choice to address them on the record, which instantly became relevant to Howard’s story.

His supposed case against Politico isn’t any stronger. Jacob Silverman reported on information he claims to have gotten on background. Here’s what Silverman wrote:

Instead, in only a couple of years, Johnson managed to cycle through a series of freelance jobs, leaving a trail of contested stories and frustrated editors behind him.. He made himself persona non grata at even fringier conservative outlets like Breitbart and The Blaze—all while holding himself up as a revolutionary and speaker of uncomfortable truths.

Chuck thinks he can prove that Silverman never contacted any of his editors, but he’s only gotten denials so far from two of them. Chuck also claims that Silverman said the editors said CCJ does poor sourcing, which isn’t in the text. Silverman claims they were frustrated, which Silverman could easily have gotten through other sources who either heard firsthand or inferred CCJ’s editor’s were frustrated by his behavior. And while two editors have said they weren’t contacted by Silverman, when Chuck reached out to @bigtimcavanaugh a couple of days ago he said the story they worked on together was Chuck’s biggest debacle. If he’s ever said anything like that to anybody else who in turn reported it to Silverman that would form a plausible basis for the claim of frustration.

Chuck thinks the other part of his libel claim rests on this:

Johnson’s former editors and colleagues refuse to talk about him on the record, with most claiming that they don’t want to poke a hornet’s nest.

However even if Silverman didn’t contact all or even any of Chuck’s editor’s for the story, there’s nothing libelous about that. It’s, at best, just poor journalism. However there are simply too many former colleagues and editors for Chuck to ever even begin to try and prove weren’t contacted, and it would be akin to trying to prove a negative. Silverman can’t contradict any of their statements or name those who refused to talk without violating his own ability to get sources in the future. The courts know this, the burden of proof weighs so heavily on CCJ’s legal team that the task he’s set them is totally insurmountable.

At this point he’ll probably file a lawsuit simply because he has to, he’s cried wolf so many times that he probably thinks he’s better off filing a case that will be summarily dismissed than not filing at all. But he’s opening himself up to all kinds of anti-SLAPP retribution in the process, and at the very least will end up paying for his opponent’s legal fees.

616 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 1:58:42pm

Uh oh, I mistakenly jumped in to a twitter argument involving a RWNJ, Christianity and the Civil War. Mentions clogged with derpola. That oughta teach me.

617 Kragar  Dec 15, 2014 2:00:12pm

re: #615 goddamnedfrank

After a cursory examination of the timeline any judge will tell Chuck that he brought this all on himself. He had no plausible reason to believe that Howard was going to write about the #floorshitter allegations on Chuck’s Facebook page. He hadn’t been asked to comment on them and could have just let the whole thing go. Instead he made the affirmative choice to address them on the record, which instantly became relevant to Howard’s story.

His supposed case against Politico isn’t any stronger. Jacob Silverman reported on information he claims to have gotten on background. Here’s what Silverman wrote:

Chuck thinks he can prove that Silverman never contacted any of his editors, but he’s only gotten denials so far from two of them. Chuck also claims that Silverman said the editors said CCJ does poor sourcing, which isn’t in the text. Silverman claims they were frustrated, which Silverman could easily have gotten through other sources who either heard firsthand or inferred CCJ’s editor’s were frustrated by his behavior. And while two editors have said they weren’t contacted by Silverman, when Chuck reached out to @bigtimcavanaugh a couple of days ago he said the story they worked on together was Chuck’s biggest debacle. If he’s ever said anything like that to anybody else who in turn reported it to Silverman that would form a plausible basis for the claim of frustration.

Chuck thinks the other part of his libel claim rests on this:

However even if Silverman didn’t contact all or even any of Chuck’s editor’s for the story, there’s nothing libelous about that. It’s, at best, just poor journalism. However there are simply too many former colleagues and editors for Chuck to ever even begin to try and prove weren’t contacted, and it would be akin to trying to prove a negative. Silverman can’t contradict any of their statements or name those who refused to talk without violating his own ability to get sources in the future. The courts know this, the burden of proof weighs so heavily on CCJ’s legal team that the task he’s set them is totally insurmountable.

At this point he’ll probably file a lawsuit simply because he has to, he’s cried wolf so many times that he probably thinks he’s better off filing a case that will be summarily dismissed than not filing at all. But he’s opening himself up to all kinds of anti-SLAPP retribution in the process, and at the very least will end up paying for his opponent’s legal fees.

CCJ has made a business model of going after anyone who disagrees with him in offensive and personal ways. Is it any surprise that people who know him would hesitate to tell him they were the ones who talked to the press about him?

618 klystron  Dec 15, 2014 2:00:47pm

Totally unrelated grumble, but I ordered an outfit for the upcoming dinner over a month ago and got e-mail on the 12th that so sorry, the skirt is still backordered (it was due back in stock on the 1st).

-_-

Because formal-outfit clothes shopping at the last minute is my favorite kind of clothes shopping.

619 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 15, 2014 2:01:06pm

re: #611 CuriousLurker

Oy…

620 goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2014 2:02:39pm

re: #615 goddamnedfrank

Cavanaugh’s message to CCJ
621 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 15, 2014 2:03:23pm

I think someone has burned popcorn in the microwave in the break room. AGAIN.

622 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 2:06:05pm

So wait, CCJ is so clown shoes that he effectively defamed himself? That his preemptive denial of a rumor drew attention to the rumor?

623 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 15, 2014 2:08:31pm

re: #621 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I think someone has burned popcorn in the microwave in the break room. AGAIN.

The “popcorn” button usually will do that…

624 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 15, 2014 2:09:29pm

re: #610 retired cynic

I think he is too small, and should be tossed back to mature.

Young Master Swartz has a “blog”.

625 goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2014 2:10:46pm

God he’s a prick.

626 Romantic Heretic  Dec 15, 2014 2:11:32pm

re: #552 Skip Intro

Sound familiar?

Byron Swartz @ByronSwartz1

Sometimes I just think I’m really awesome.

[Embedded content]

The surest sign of a severe, perhaps psychotic, inferiority complex.

This child is someday going to be on the front page of the papers, and clickbait, for the results of his attempt to prove he is not insignificant.

627 thedopefishlives  Dec 15, 2014 2:12:42pm

Evening Lizardim.

628 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 15, 2014 2:13:21pm

re: #622 Targetpractice

So wait, CCJ is so clown shoes that he effectively defamed himself? That his preemptive denial of a rumor drew attention to the rumor?

He also was the first one to bring attention to the sheep rumor.

629 goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2014 2:14:14pm

re: #622 Targetpractice

So wait, CCJ is so clown shoes that he effectively defamed himself? That his preemptive denial of a rumor drew attention to the rumor?

Yep. It’s the Streisand Effect, with poop.

630 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 2:14:18pm

re: #624 Backwoods_Sleuth

Young Master Swartz has a “blog”.

His latest post:

I’m frustrated. Americans are frustrated. We live in a country filled with angry people. People are angry because for six years, we’ve had so many broken promises from the White House. We were promised lower health care costs; instead millions have lost their coverage, and for those who do still have health care, premiums have gone through the roof.

But, there is hope. Next month, (January of 2015,) a new Congress will be sworn in. Within this new Congress will be a Republican controlled House of Representatives and Senate. This is an exciting time for America. Renewal is on the way. Also, the 2016 election will be upon us. Hang on America, real change; good change is on the way.

This kid is like the blueprint for the next generation of dumbass voters for the GOP.

631 goddamnedfrank  Dec 15, 2014 2:15:58pm

re: #628 Backwoods_Sleuth

He also was the first one to bring attention to the sheep rumor.

This is all deliberate. Unwise, but deliberate. He firmly believes there’s no such thing as bad publicity. All of the hysterics and lawsuit threats are designed to “catapult the propaganda” as GWB would say.

632 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 15, 2014 2:16:11pm

Hey Byron, your mom and grandma don’t count:

633 Jenner7  Dec 15, 2014 2:16:12pm

re: #399 The Vicious Babushka

I guess people don’t eat during work days?

Not getting his point, but then I’d have to be a hateful prick to understand…

634 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 15, 2014 2:20:53pm

re: #630 Targetpractice

His latest post:

This kid is like the blueprint for the next generation of dumbass voters for the GOP.

635 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 2:21:09pm

re: #632 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hey Byron, your mom and grandma don’t count:

[Embedded content]

Yes, his editorial, where he suggests that the solution to the problems between white cops and black folks is prayer.

636 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 15, 2014 2:21:18pm

re: #633 Jenner7

I guess people don’t eat during work days?

Not getting his point, but then I’d have to be a hateful prick to understand…

He found a random receipt for an EBT purchase, which he then posted to Twitter as proof of POORS ARE TEH LAZY MOOCHERS!!!1!!!

Of course this random receipt tells us nothing about the person who made the purchase, such as employment status, young ChuckC jr made assumptions which were pointed out to him, he then reacted in a very ChuckC manner.

Good G-D I hope this is not a generational thing.

637 Targetpractice  Dec 15, 2014 2:22:24pm

re: #634 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

This kid strikes me as the sort of person who thinks Gordon Gekko was the hero of Wall Street.

638 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 15, 2014 2:23:28pm

re: #636 The Vicious Babushka

He found a random receipt for an EBT purchase, which he then posted to Twitter as proof of [wingnut[POORS ARE TEH LAZY MOOCHERS!!!1!!![/wingnut]

Of course this random receipt tells us nothing about the person who made the purchase, such as employment status, young ChuckC jr made assumptions which were pointed out to him, he then reacted in a very ChuckC manner.

Good G-D I hope this is not a generational thing.

Byron is a “Proud Young Republican”:

And this is who he thinks should run for President:

639 Romantic Heretic  Dec 15, 2014 2:24:07pm

re: #599 William Barnett-Lewis

After Spaghetti BASIC & 6502/6800 assembly, it was heaven.

BASIC didn’t have to be spaghetti. It’s just that too many programmers didn’t have the discipline to do otherwise.

Too often because they knew they’d be working somewhere else when the program exploded. There was a reason that programmers had such employment turnover back when I was one.

Personally, I was disappointed that C and all its descendants ended up dominating the industry. Never much cared for them. Much preferred Nicklaus Wirth’s creations.


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