A Beautiful Animated Short Film on a Controversial Subject: “Gentrification”

An animated pastel watercolor vision
Arts • Views: 33,218

Vimeo

A strange and fascinating animated short film by Alberto Mielgo, for a mid-week weirdness break.

Painted, animated and Directed by Alberto Mielgo
2D animation, Black Inks, Pencil, Watercolors and After Effects
Music: Franz Schubert - String Quintet in C Major, D. 956: ll. Adagio

Jump to bottom

428 comments
1 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 5:21:44pm

Hey ggt, my pops responded to my tweet from last night about John Kasich’s attempt to unite church and state.

2 prairiefire  Dec 17, 2014 5:23:12pm

Happy Holidays!

3 Charles Johnson  Dec 17, 2014 5:30:39pm

There goes Chuck trying to elbow his way into yet another big story. Amazing how he always seems to have “sources” related to every breaking news issue.

4 b.d.  Dec 17, 2014 5:33:25pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

There goes Chuck trying to elbow his way into yet another big story. Amazing how he always seems to have “sources” related to every breaking news issue.

[Embedded content]

bwaaahaaaa!

Chuckie is going to prove that the US Gvt. is lying about N Korea hacking SONY?

This is going to be a good one.

5 Charles Johnson  Dec 17, 2014 5:34:34pm
6 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 17, 2014 5:36:11pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

There goes Chuck trying to elbow his way into yet another big story. Amazing how he always seems to have “sources” related to every breaking news issue.

[Embedded content]

And if someone ponies up $250 to buy his domain then people should stay tuned to what?

7 EPR-radar  Dec 17, 2014 5:37:17pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

It’s easy to scoop every breaking story if all your sources are in the medicine cabinet (i.e., ExLax).

8 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 17, 2014 5:38:24pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

There goes Chuck trying to elbow his way into yet another big story. Amazing how he always seems to have “sources” related to every breaking news issue.

[Embedded content]

It’s because he lived in LA and KNOWS PEOPLE AT SONY!!11!!

9 goddamnedfrank  Dec 17, 2014 5:39:18pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

“Having lived in LA, I actually know people who work at Sony.”

He also has family who work at the FBI / CIA, and who live inside a gigantic Australian.

10 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 17, 2014 5:39:29pm

re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s because he lived in LA and KNOWS PEOPLE AT SONY!!11!!

[Embedded content]

Living as I do in a suburb of LA I have made out with Angelina Jolie eight times.

11 goddamnedfrank  Dec 17, 2014 5:40:03pm

I hobnob with bigwigs.

12 Charles Johnson  Dec 17, 2014 5:41:14pm
13 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 5:41:49pm
14 Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 17, 2014 5:42:24pm

re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s because he lived in LA and KNOWS PEOPLE AT SONY!!11!!

[Embedded content]

[gingeravenger]The guy from the mailroom says it’s all bullshit, and the guy who refills the candy in the vending machines agrees! The lady who waters the plants is on the fence, though.[/gingeravenger]

15 b.d.  Dec 17, 2014 5:42:40pm

When Chuck has a layover at DFW he becomes an expert on cowboys.

16 Charles Johnson  Dec 17, 2014 5:43:31pm

Chuck is the Kato Kaelin of journalism.

17 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 17, 2014 5:43:57pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

There goes Chuck trying to elbow his way into yet another big story. Amazing how he always seems to have “sources” related to every breaking news issue.

[Embedded content]

Don’t forget all the clandestine work he’s done for the FBI too. He’s probably a real double naught spy, his cover is a bumbling malicious and vindictive attention whore.

I’m sure that his computers are safe, I’m sure that he’s done his extensive cyber recons and evidence gathering from behind 7 proxies.

RBS

18 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 17, 2014 5:45:01pm

re: #16 Charles Johnson

Chuck is the Kato Kaelin of journalism.

Kato Kaelin is going to sue you for character assassination if you don’t retract that.

19 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 5:45:25pm

re: #1 teleskiguy

Aww.

20 b.d.  Dec 17, 2014 5:47:02pm

Chuck is a deep cover North Korean double naught spy. It is obvious now.

21 Varek Raith  Dec 17, 2014 5:49:59pm

re: #16 Charles Johnson

Chuck is the Kato Kaelin of journalism.

Damn!

22 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 17, 2014 5:50:05pm

BWAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

23 gwangung  Dec 17, 2014 5:50:40pm

re: #18 RealityBasedSteve

Kato Kaelin is going to sue you for character assassination if you don’t retract that.

Geez. He might have a case there…

24 b.d.  Dec 17, 2014 5:51:24pm

re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth

BWAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

[Embedded content]

A retired security guard at FoxNews is his source?

25 goddamnedfrank  Dec 17, 2014 5:51:47pm

Stopped reading at NewsCorp.

26 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 17, 2014 5:52:56pm

If they did a remake of The Mouse That Roared with ChuckC playing all the roles, they would call it The Mouth That Roared and it would be set in The Grand Douchey of Sheepshit

27 CuriousLurker  Dec 17, 2014 5:53:17pm

I’m gonna call it a night, but I wanted to drop off these totally bizarre animated pieces about an unsettlingly strange (yet kinda cute) sheep…

Sheep In The Island 1 [HD]

Sheep In The Island 2 [HD]

28 Snarknado!  Dec 17, 2014 5:54:58pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

I don’t much like what Sony did, but:

1) The ocean was a very good barrier when The Great Dictator came out.

2) The chains are afraid of reducing sales of all movies at one of their most critical times, if people get spooked.

We may hope that they’ll release it after the holidays. Although I’ve heard it’s pretty terrible.

29 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 5:54:58pm

re: #19 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

That’s Leo the ‘tude. The latter part of his name indeed is atti’tude’. That dog is spoiled rotten and even at six years old is prone to puppy hijinks. Once you get to know him though, he’s very loyal.

Leo, best part about visiting my parents!

30 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 17, 2014 5:55:31pm

Just put a batch of Red Velvet cupcakes into the oven. (from a mix, so don’t be hating too much). I’m not much of a baker, I just do mixes.

RBS

31 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 17, 2014 5:55:47pm

So North Korea designs a nuke. World yawns. They set one off. world feigns outrage. They set another off. and another. World wrings hands, moves on.

They hack Sony and sink a minor comedy movie release.

OUTRAGE!

32 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 5:55:49pm

re: #16 Charles Johnson

Chuck is the Kato Kaelin of journalism.

33 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 17, 2014 5:56:59pm

re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ve come to understand that “BREAKING” is shorthand for “I snorted a can of something from the auto parts store.”

34 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 17, 2014 5:57:01pm

This is UpChuck’s source for the NewsCorp “expert”:

35 Charles Johnson  Dec 17, 2014 5:57:11pm

By all accounts, The Interview was a very bad movie. I think the republic will survive.

36 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 17, 2014 5:58:10pm

re: #30 RealityBasedSteve

Just put a batch of Red Velvet cupcakes into the oven. (from a mix, so don’t be hating too much). I’m not much of a baker, I just do mixes.

RBS

Baking is baking. Good on you.

37 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 17, 2014 5:58:19pm

Oh, yeah, I’m SURE Sony notified you, UpChuck…

38 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 5:59:10pm

re: #27 CuriousLurker

I’m gonna call it a night, but I wanted to drop off these totally bizarre animated pieces about an unsettlingly strange (yet kinda cute) sheep…

[Embedded content]

Video

[Embedded content]

Wow, Chuck is so green in the first one.

39 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 5:59:18pm

re: #28 Snarknado!

We may hope that they’ll release it after the holidays. Although I’ve heard it’s pretty terrible.

I thought Pineapple Express was really dumb. Haven’t seen a Franco/Rogen project since.

40 psddluva4evah  Dec 17, 2014 5:59:36pm

re: #28 Snarknado!

yeah, So my 2 cents on SONY’s decision to not release the film. I’m more convinced that this is about money more then ransom.

I’d bet the other industry movie houses were pissed at SONY because if say they did show the film and people took this threat seriously and stayed away from any theatre that showed the movie then some pretty good movies (and some bad ones) would be shit out of luck.

If no one goes to the movies, no one sees anything and therefore no one makes any money except maybe SONY if, I guess, maybe people would see it as some sort of protest screening or to see what all the hype was about.

This way SONY pulls it they still crate instant buzz for it but the industry doesn’t lose the big holiday box office that some use to recoup yearly losses.

41 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 17, 2014 5:59:50pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

Sticks in my craw to see the 9/11 threats made and unanswered. Pride? Sure so no biggie. Enabling the hermit king however may prove to be a very bad idea.

42 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 17, 2014 6:00:28pm

re: #33 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’ve come to understand that “BREAKING” is shorthand for “I snorted a can of something from the auto parts store.”

MEK… It’s a hell of a drug.
43 psddluva4evah  Dec 17, 2014 6:00:34pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

I know it’s the “principality” of the whole thing, but yeah, I don’t even care about that movie. It looked so crappy, and even now, I have no desire to see it or even “protest” see it

44 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 17, 2014 6:02:21pm

re: #39 teleskiguy

I thought Pineapple Express was really dumb. Haven’t seen a Franco/Rogen project since.

I thought Superbad was super bad.

45 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 17, 2014 6:02:56pm
46 CuriousLurker  Dec 17, 2014 6:03:03pm

re: #38 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Wow, Chuck is so green in the first one.

One of these days he’s going to run into a psycho sheep, and then… O_o

47 Charles Johnson  Dec 17, 2014 6:04:03pm

Yes, there’s a principle involved, but Sony Pictures has the right to decide the disposition of their intellectual property. If they decide to pull the movie from distribution, it’s their right.

48 b.d.  Dec 17, 2014 6:04:28pm

Chuck, please call your source Sony Boo Boo.

That is all

49 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 17, 2014 6:05:20pm

re: #40 psddluva4evah

Maybe SONY realized that “The Interview ” sucked so hard that they had to take drastic action. Therefore:

50 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 17, 2014 6:06:42pm

re: #48 b.d.

Chuck, please call your source Sony Boo Boo.

That is all

That made Fresca come out of my nose… and it didn’t feel good at all.

RBS

51 psddluva4evah  Dec 17, 2014 6:06:53pm

Thank goodness for Maddow, unlike All In, she lead with the Cuba news.

52 psddluva4evah  Dec 17, 2014 6:08:03pm

If this were to happen, RWNJ head would REALLY explode!

White House Won’t Rule Out Obama Visit to Cuba as Policy Shifts
Dec 17, 2014 2:42 PM EST

53 CuriousLurker  Dec 17, 2014 6:09:54pm

re: #52 psddluva4evah

If this were to happen, RWNJ head would REALLY explode!

White House Won’t Rule Out Obama Visit to Cuba as Policy Shifts
Dec 17, 2014 2:42 PM EST

It’s my sincere hope that POTUS will troll the wingnuts non-stop from now until the end of his term.

54 TedStriker  Dec 17, 2014 6:11:23pm

re: #40 psddluva4evah

yeah, So my 2 cents on SONY’s decision to not release the film. I’m more convinced that this is about money more then ransom.

I’d bet the other industry movie houses were pissed at SONY because if say they did show the film and people took this threat seriously and stayed away from any theatre that showed the movie then some pretty good movies (and some bad ones) would be shit out of luck.

If no one goes to the movies, no one sees anything and therefore no one makes any money except maybe SONY if, I guess, maybe people would see it as some sort of protest screening or to see what all the hype was about.

This way SONY pulls it they still crate instant buzz for it but the industry doesn’t lose the big holiday box office that some use to recoup yearly losses.

Besides, it’s not like Sony won’t be able to use “Hollywood accounting” to write this off, no matter whether it sees the light of day or not.

55 b.d.  Dec 17, 2014 6:12:20pm
56 b.d.  Dec 17, 2014 6:13:06pm

re: #55 b.d.

[Embedded content]

Obama just guaranteed wingnut boycotting movies

57 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 17, 2014 6:14:33pm

Keep in mind Sony is a Japanese corporation. So this is also an attack on Japan by North Korea.

58 b.d.  Dec 17, 2014 6:14:46pm

btw, The Satanic Verses was an unreadable book.

59 b_sharp  Dec 17, 2014 6:14:58pm

Looks like Chuckie has been reading Wired.

The Evidence That North Korea Hacked Sony Is Flimsy

60 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 17, 2014 6:15:07pm

re: #54 TedStriker

YOu don’t need hollywood accounting to take a theft/cyber attack loss.

61 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 17, 2014 6:16:49pm

re: #53 CuriousLurker

It’s my sincere hope that POTUS will troll the wingnuts non-stop from now until the end of his term.

Looks like he’s doing stellar work at trolling now!

62 b_sharp  Dec 17, 2014 6:21:05pm

re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is UpChuck’s source for the NewsCorp “expert”:

[Embedded content]

Actually their ‘expert’ is Hemanshu Nigam.

63 psddluva4evah  Dec 17, 2014 6:21:08pm

Yeah, I’m “upset’ on principality, but I’m finding myself reluctant to feel sorry for SONY.

Things like this dont’ help either:

Denzel Blacklisted! Sony Execs Warned Not To Cast Washington In Big Flicks Because Black Leads ‘Don’t Play Well’… radaronline.com

Yeah, I’d think that Will Smith may have something to say about this. I see it as American filmmakers putting their own views on international audiences.

64 b.d.  Dec 17, 2014 6:21:23pm

This would be some world class trolling.

65 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 17, 2014 6:23:55pm
66 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 17, 2014 6:25:35pm

re: #64 b.d.

Obama should make a point of golfing there.

Seriously.

67 CuriousLurker  Dec 17, 2014 6:26:21pm

re: #59 b_sharp

Looks like Chuckie has been reading Wired.

wired.com

His whole thing is so stupid. It’s one of two things: Either they got hacked from outside, or someone inside breached security (accidentally or on purpose), so any prediction UpChuck makes has a 50% chance of being correct.

ALL his BREAKING!! news is like that. Every single one of his stories is a total crapshoot. He’s like those storefront fortune tellers that just make some shit up, knowing that they’ll likely as not make a few correct predictions.

Miss Cleo Commercial (1998)

68 nearly-headless smith25  Dec 17, 2014 6:28:44pm

re: #63 psddluva4evah

Yeah, I’m “upset’ on principality, but I’m finding myself reluctant to feel sorry for SONY.

Things like this dont’ help either:

Yeah, I’d think that Will Smith may have something to say about this. I see it as American filmmakers putting their own views on international audiences.

69 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 6:33:26pm

re: #64 b.d.

This would be some world class trolling.

@CNNPolitics: Is Obama’s next golfing trip going to be … to #Cuba?

A healthy majority of conservatives in the United States - millions of people - their heads…

70 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 17, 2014 6:38:09pm

re: #69 teleskiguy

A healthy majority of conservatives in the United States - millions of people - their heads…

Embedded Image

Scanners?

RBS

71 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 17, 2014 6:41:10pm

re: #25 goddamnedfrank

Are those trucks from Cuba?

72 psddluva4evah  Dec 17, 2014 6:42:01pm

I’ll tell ya what though, seems to me that the Obama administration ain’t buying into this whole “lame duck” Presidency thing.

I know, I know, we’ll see what happens next year with GOP takes control, but it’s sure funny that the same people who said that the midterm shellacking was the end of Obama’s ability to get anything done, are now amazed at how much shit Obama has done since the midterms, and that was what a lil over 1 month ago?

I’m liking much of the post-midterm Obama, we’ll see how it goes in the new year.

73 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 6:42:29pm

re: #70 RealityBasedSteve

Scanners?

RBS

Scanners is the only thing that springs to mind when I think of exploding heads.

Click to Reveal

Youtube Video

74 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 17, 2014 6:43:28pm

re: #73 teleskiguy

Scanners is the only thing that springs to mind when I think of exploding heads.

[Embedded content]

Mars Attacks!, though it’s martian heads that explode.

75 Charles Johnson  Dec 17, 2014 6:45:25pm

re: #73 teleskiguy

Scanners is the only thing that springs to mind when I think of exploding heads.

The first exploding head is always the best.

76 goddamnedfrank  Dec 17, 2014 6:45:40pm

re: #71 Rightwingconspirator

Are those trucks from Cuba?

Those big trucks are the North Korean internet. They have yet to upgrade their system to a series of tubes.

77 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 6:46:15pm

re: #74 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Mars Attacks!, though it’s martian heads that explode.

Why would “Indian Love Call” make aliens from Mars’ heads explode? Only Tim Burton knows for sure.

78 bratwurst  Dec 17, 2014 6:47:21pm

OMG!!!!!!!

It’s a Judicial Watch link. Yawn.

79 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 17, 2014 6:48:47pm
80 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 6:48:56pm

re: #78 bratwurst

OMG!!!!!!!

[Embedded content]

It’s a Judicial Watch link. Yawn.

“Judicial Watch. Because no one is above the law!”

Now let me guess their stance on torture…

81 jaunte  Dec 17, 2014 6:49:14pm

re: #78 bratwurst

$1,011,051.30

How much is that in Government Shutdowns?

82 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 17, 2014 6:54:01pm

Obviously, the Times does not have the deep intel that UpChuck has.

His sources at Sony say otherwise.

83 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 6:58:34pm

Since were talking about exploding heads, here’s a Tenacious D cut where they explicitly reference the subject.

Video

84 psddluva4evah  Dec 17, 2014 6:59:22pm

Rubio Attacks Pope For Helping Broker Cuba Deal thkpr.gs via @thinkprogress

85 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 7:04:25pm

Freepers: the Pope is a commie, anti-Pope. (Not kidding.)

86 HappyWarrior  Dec 17, 2014 7:05:04pm

re: #84 psddluva4evah

Rubio Attacks Pope For Helping Broker Cuba Deal thkpr.gs via @thinkprogress

Funny how Rubio brings up the Pope’s Argentinian home and its transition to democracy. Say Marco, that Ronald Reagan that you’re so fond of venerating. You do know that he loved that regime right until they pissed off Maggie Thatcher and invaded the Falklands dontcha? Honestly, Marco can go fuck himself. It’s absolute bullshit to use Cuba’s human rights record as an excuse for not having trade relations with them while we’ve had trade relations with far worse abusers of human rights. I just don’t get that about the Cuban-American political base. And what’s mindboggling is the fact that lifting the embargo will certainly help the Cubans and honestly even more is that more access to the US will weaken the anti-US propaganda too. It’s a win-win move for not just the U.S but the Cuban people as well but Rubio has to be a pathetic hack.

87 bratwurst  Dec 17, 2014 7:05:29pm
88 HappyWarrior  Dec 17, 2014 7:06:13pm

re: #85 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Freepers: the Pope is a commie, anti-Pope. (Not kidding.)

I’m surprised it took them that long. It’s not surprising. John Paul II visited Cuba too and he was much more conservative. Seems to me that conservatives only really like the Pope when he’s using the church to put down abortion and gays which is something the church has been moving away from during this pontiff’s time.

89 HappyWarrior  Dec 17, 2014 7:07:09pm

re: #87 bratwurst

[Embedded content]

Heh. I have to admit. I was mystified by that. Green Day’s early stuff like Dookie was enjoyable but not really that fond of their more recent stuff. I didn’t hate American Idiot but I didn’t love it either.

90 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 7:07:10pm

LOL, wingnuts freaking out about a Che photo.

twitchy. com/2014/12/17/disturbing-to-say-the-least-somethings-very-wrong-with-this-photo-of-alan-gross/

91 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 17, 2014 7:07:44pm

Crowdfundmebig
Elevator pitch
Guardians Of Peace VS Guardians Of The Galaxy

92 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 17, 2014 7:09:42pm

re: #88 HappyWarrior

I’m surprised it took them that long. It’s not surprising. John Paul II visited Cuba too and he was much more conservative. Seems to me that conservatives only really like the Pope when he’s using the church to put down abortion and gays which is something the church has been moving away from during this pontiff’s time.

They want a Pope who makes their cilices tingle.

93 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 7:12:15pm

Calm down, little fella, the Pope will protect you from evil Chuck.

Image: aptopix-italy-pope-epiphany-2-618x500.jpg

94 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 17, 2014 7:12:18pm

re: #92 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Favorite-Had to look up the word. LOL.

95 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 17, 2014 7:12:30pm

re: #73 teleskiguy

Scanners is the only thing that springs to mind when I think of exploding heads.

[Embedded content]

Glory: Civil War exploding head at 1:00 mark
Glory (1/8) Movie CLIP - The Battle of Antietam (1989) HD

96 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 17, 2014 7:12:57pm

Is Newt gearing up for 2016 grifting?

97 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 17, 2014 7:14:45pm

re: #90 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

LOL, wingnuts freaking out about a Che photo.

twitchy. com/2014/12/17/disturbing-to-say-the-least-somethings-very-wrong-with-this-photo-of-alan-gross/

HURR HURR OBAMA WILL RELEASE A MUSLIM TRAITOR & A COMMIE JOOOO BUT NOT ARE CHRISTIAN PASTUR IN IRAN!!!!1!!!!!!!

98 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 7:15:07pm

re: #95 The Vicious Babushka

Glory: Civil War exploding head at 1:00 mark
[Embedded content]

Which was the most violent moment, the moment that dude’s head explodes, or when Silas Trip gets flogged? I vote the latter.

99 HappyWarrior  Dec 17, 2014 7:15:53pm

I hate to come across insensitive but I’m tired of the politicians in the Cuban-American exile community acting like the dictatorship they fled is the only one and that our policies need to be as hardline. Newsflash to Rubio even with Stalin, we still had an embassy in Moscow. And we established relations with China following the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Now would I prefer Cuba to be more democratic? Absolutely and you know how you foster that- you don’t isolate Cuba and continue to pursue a half century embargo that has shown no signs at all of weakening the regime. It’s awfully telling how conservatives are not only okay with relations with China but they’re perfectly happy with using China to profit. The crap about Cuba being close to our shores is nonsense too given that we were okay with Papa Doc in Haiti as well as Trujilio in the Dominican Republic.

100 bratwurst  Dec 17, 2014 7:15:55pm

He’s dumb.

101 HappyWarrior  Dec 17, 2014 7:16:59pm

re: #100 bratwurst

[Embedded content]

He’s dumb.

I am not a fan of Gingrich but there’s something amusing about CCJ calling anyone dumb.

102 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 17, 2014 7:18:30pm

re: #100 bratwurst

But, what would Coolidge do??!!??

103 HappyWarrior  Dec 17, 2014 7:18:55pm

re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth

But, what would Coolidge do??!!??

Deregulate Wall Street.

104 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 7:19:45pm

re: #99 HappyWarrior

Make Cuba an ally. Start with the economic and cultural ties. How’s that for a crazy idea?

106 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 17, 2014 7:20:46pm

The whole Cuba thing is really exciting to me as a photographer. i have good friends in Florida and the Bahamas. Getting to Cuba for a serious street and landscape photo run would be a tremendous experience. Thank You Mr President! Plotting with LWC…

107 HappyWarrior  Dec 17, 2014 7:21:00pm

re: #104 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Make Cuba an ally. Start with the economic and cultural ties. How’s that for a crazy idea?

Beats the hell out of isolating them.

108 HappyWarrior  Dec 17, 2014 7:22:02pm

re: #106 Rightwingconspirator

The whole Cuba thing is really exciting to me as a photographer. i have good friends in Florida and the Bahamas. Getting to Cuba for a serious street and landscape photo run would be a tremendous experience. Thank You Mr President! Plotting with LWC…

Yeah it would be a blast for you- beautiful beaches, the vintage cars, musicians, baseball games, etc.

109 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 17, 2014 7:22:21pm

re: #107 HappyWarrior

Beats the hell out of isolating them.

Cuba is not really isolated, they enjoy full diplomatic privileges and trade relations with every other country in the First World.

110 psddluva4evah  Dec 17, 2014 7:23:23pm

ya know what, I don’t know how offended people here get about cuss words, so I won’t say any, but know that I have a litany of them to say in response to this!

@mmfa: Bill O’Reilly: African-Americans should wear “Don’t Get Pregnant At 14” on their t-shirts t.co

111 HappyWarrior  Dec 17, 2014 7:23:47pm

re: #109 The Vicious Babushka

Cuba is not really isolated, they enjoy full diplomatic privileges and trade relations with every other country in the First World.

Yeah that’s right. I think that shows even more how stubborn this policy has been.

112 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 7:24:41pm

re: #110 psddluva4evah

ya know what, I don’t know how offended people here get about cuss words, so I won’t say any, but know that I have a litany of them to say in response to this!

Repeat after me: fucking shithead O’Reilly is a fuckity fucking fucknut.

113 HappyWarrior  Dec 17, 2014 7:24:56pm

re: #110 psddluva4evah

ya know what, I don’t know how offended people here get about cuss words, so I won’t say any, but know that I have a litany of them to say in response to this!

Oh fuck him. Maybe I should suggest that Bill O wear a shirt that says “Don’t sexually harass your co-workers.” So sick of the open racism that gets rewarded in the right wing community.

114 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 7:26:15pm

Hey, O’Reilly, your falafel is showing! I mean, your loofah.

115 HappyWarrior  Dec 17, 2014 7:26:45pm

re: #114 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Hey, O’Reilly, your falafel is showing! I mean, your loofah.

I forget was that before or after he lectured Ludacris about how degrading to women his lyrics were.

116 The Ghost of a Flea (R)  Dec 17, 2014 7:26:58pm

We normalized relations with Cuba.

OH NOES WHAT WILL SAUDI ARABIA AND CHINA THINK

117 HappyWarrior  Dec 17, 2014 7:27:11pm

Bill O’Reilly (or really any prominent conservative with a soap box) Ignore what I actually do and do what I say.

118 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 7:27:56pm

re: #117 HappyWarrior

Bill O’Reilly (or really any prominent conservative with a soap box) Ignore what I actually do and do what I say.

“And I say the darndest things.”

119 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 17, 2014 7:28:31pm

re: #108 HappyWarrior

Yeah it would be a blast for you- beautiful beaches, the vintage cars, musicians, baseball games, etc.

I’m also wondering what the state of the jewelry making art is there. Given their trade with the rest of the world but tempered with a modest economy there could be some opportunities there. Vacation, art, a lil business… win win.

120 HappyWarrior  Dec 17, 2014 7:28:37pm

re: #118 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

“And I say the darndest things.”

Coming up next on Fox, old bitter white guys that scowl all the time say the damndest things.

121 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 17, 2014 7:34:56pm

This.
Aaron Sorkin

Said Sorkin: “Today the U.S. succumbed to an unprecedented attack on our most cherished, bedrock principle of free speech by a group of North Korean terrorists who threatened to kill moviegoers in order to stop the release of a movie. The wishes of the terrorists were fulfilled in part by easily distracted members of the American press who chose gossip and schadenfreude-fueled reporting over a story with immeasurable consequences for the public-a story that was developing right in front of their eyes. My deepest sympathies go out to Sony Pictures, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and everyone who worked on The Interview.”

122 gwangung  Dec 17, 2014 7:35:03pm

re: #117 HappyWarrior

Bill O’Reilly (or really any prominent conservative with a soap box) Ignore what I actually do and do what I say.

Don’t white teens have a higher pregnancy rate than black teens?

123 makeitstop  Dec 17, 2014 7:35:05pm

re: #106 Rightwingconspirator

The whole Cuba thing is really exciting to me as a photographer. i have good friends in Florida and the Bahamas. Getting to Cuba for a serious street and landscape photo run would be a tremendous experience. Thank You Mr President! Plotting with LWC…

I thought I read somewhere that travel restrictions would remain in place - and can only be reversed by an act of Congress.

Sad to say you might have to wait a while.

124 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Dec 17, 2014 7:36:07pm

re: #110 psddluva4evah

ya know what, I don’t know how offended people here get about cuss words, so I won’t say any, but know that I have a litany of them to say in response to this!

125 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 17, 2014 7:38:45pm

re: #123 makeitstop

I thought I read somewhere that travel restrictions would remain in place - and can only be reversed by an act of Congress.

Sad to say you might have to wait a while.

Well so far I have waited more than 50 years. GOP Congress next year…. BUT New president and Congress just two years away. I’m optimistic. Even if I had to sneak in the way Americans have been already. prosecution would be really unlikely.

126 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 17, 2014 7:38:54pm

Obama is using the false flag operation against Sony to further his agenda of a Communist - Muslim Caliphate of Comrades by opening up relations with Cuba. /conspiracy_mode

127 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 7:39:40pm

re: #121 Rightwingconspirator

Said Sorkin: “Today the U.S. succumbed to an unprecedented attack on our most cherished, bedrock principle of free speech by a group of North Korean terrorists who threatened to kill moviegoers in order to stop the release of a movie. The wishes of the terrorists were fulfilled in part by easily distracted members of the American press who chose gossip and schadenfreude-fueled reporting over a story with immeasurable consequences for the public-a story that was developing right in front of their eyes. My deepest sympathies go out to Sony Pictures, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and everyone who worked on The Interview.”

128 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 17, 2014 7:41:21pm

re: #127 teleskiguy

Oh man. Really?

129 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 7:42:23pm

re: #122 gwangung

Don’t white teens have a higher pregnancy rate than black teens?

hhs.gov

Birth rates are also higher among Hispanic and black adolescents than among their white counterparts. In 2012, Hispanic adolescent females ages 15-19 had the highest birth rate (46.3 births per 1,000 adolescent females), followed by black adolescent females (43.9 births per 1,000 adolescent females) and white adolescent females (20.5 births per 1,000 adolescent females) (see Figure 1).[3] Estimates from 2012 data show that one in eight adolescent females (12.5%) in the United States will give birth by her 20th birthday, with substantial differences by race/ethnicity: 9 percent of white adolescent females, 18 percent of black adolescent females, and 20 percent of Hispanic adolescent females.[4]

130 psddluva4evah  Dec 17, 2014 7:42:43pm
131 psddluva4evah  Dec 17, 2014 7:44:53pm
132 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 7:46:01pm

re: #128 Rightwingconspirator

Oh man. Really?

I had this comment by Charles in mind, and I think Aaron Sorkin is a hack.

That said, you’re probably right about the tact of the comment.

133 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 17, 2014 7:47:50pm

re: #127 teleskiguy

Embedded Image

and ladies and gentlemen, your award winning entry in the “Hyperbole Much?” Category.

RBS

134 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 7:48:53pm

We’ve been over this in the previous thread. “Having a right” doesn’t mean anything when we’re discussing motivations. It’s a statement of fact, it’s not an explanation of anything.

135 psddluva4evah  Dec 17, 2014 7:51:58pm
136 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 7:52:03pm

re: #130 psddluva4evah

A 14-year-old South Carolina boy who was quickly convicted of murder and then executed in 1944 has been posthumously exonerated.

Of course capital punishment fans won’t be disturbed by this.

137 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 17, 2014 7:52:59pm

re: #132 teleskiguy

Charles is correct they have the right to do as they please. Certainly. They also had an opportunity to step up and stand tall for artistic expression and their own property
.
Sorkin a hack? We differ there but even if so for the sake of discussion-He sharply pointed out where and why this rightly grates on (some of) our sensibilities. No it ain’t Oscar material. But NK made it a big thing, not Sony.

Next time it might be a more important movie like something about living and driving while black here in the states and the hackers the KKK. What if the studio flinches again?

138 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 7:53:20pm
139 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 7:53:24pm
The trial lasted one day and the all-white, all-male jury deliberated for just 10 minutes before pronouncing the 14-year-old guilty and sentencing him to die by electrocution.

“12 Angry Men” always was just a fairy tale.

140 jaunte  Dec 17, 2014 7:53:42pm

re: #135 psddluva4evah

Well, there go the unforeseen consequences.

141 The War TARDIS  Dec 17, 2014 7:54:19pm

Why does the US insist on shooting ourselves in the foot?

U.S. embassy refuses to hand over Marine charged with murder to Filipino courts

The U.S. embassy in Manila has refused to turn over a Marine accused of killing a transgender Filipina woman, citing a military agreement.

Charged Monday in the death of Jennifer Laude, Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton, 19, is being detained at a U.S. base as the Philippines seek custody through an arrest warrant from a Olongapo trial court.

142 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 17, 2014 7:54:51pm

re: #99 HappyWarrior

One word: Batista.

143 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 7:55:54pm

re: #137 Rightwingconspirator

Next time it might be a more important movie like something about living and driving while black here in the states and the hackers the KKK. What if the studio flinches again?

You’re right. I should concede the ‘Fart Noise’ noise, but the internet being what it is…

144 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 7:56:30pm

BTW, “Team America” sucked big time.

145 TedStriker  Dec 17, 2014 7:58:04pm

re: #144 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

BTW, “Team America” sucked big time.

Well, it’s not exactly Dr. Zhivago or Lawrence of Arabia, but TA:WP has its moments.

146 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 7:58:42pm

Murder by jury.

147 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 17, 2014 7:59:20pm

re: #106 Rightwingconspirator

The whole Cuba thing is really exciting to me as a photographer. i have good friends in Florida and the Bahamas. Getting to Cuba for a serious street and landscape photo run would be a tremendous experience. Thank You Mr President! Plotting with LWC…

Oh, yeah. Give me an 8x10 field camera, a Cooke Series XVa Triple Convertible Lens & enough film and money to last a year and I’ll have the landscapes of a lifetime… Ah, well. Makes a great fantasy.

148 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 7:59:57pm

re: #145 TedStriker

Well, it’s not exactly Dr. Zhivago or Lawrence of Arabia, but TA:WP has its moments.

Especially in the unrated version.

Ew.

149 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 8:00:02pm

re: #145 TedStriker

Well, it’s not exactly Dr. Zhivago or Lawrence of Arabia, but TA:WP has its moments.

The only highlight for me:

Team America - You Are Worthless Alec Baldwin

150 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 8:00:57pm

re: #145 TedStriker

Well, it’s not exactly Dr. Zhivago or Lawrence of Arabia, but TA:WP has its moments.

Also, I’m comparing to, say, South Park: BLU.

151 jaunte  Dec 17, 2014 8:01:13pm
152 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 8:02:23pm

re: #151 jaunte

That is soooo 2013.

153 jaunte  Dec 17, 2014 8:11:25pm

TV ads for The Interview are still airing.

154 Targetpractice  Dec 17, 2014 8:11:25pm

re: #142 William Barnett-Lewis

One word: Batista.

Like I was saying earlier, so many of the first wave of exiles are the former Cuban elite, the people who either benefited from US companies running their operations in Cuba or made money off those who did. They were the ones with the resources to flee in the early days of the revolution, which they helped start with America’s backing because they figured Batista was a drag on their business and with him gone they could put a new puppet in power who’d keep the good times rolling. They lost everything when the revolution didn’t go as they’d planned and now they’re nursing a 50+ year grudge against Castro.

155 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 8:11:40pm

What, not a word from Dennis Rodman on his BFF’s actions?

156 Charles Johnson  Dec 17, 2014 8:15:55pm
157 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 17, 2014 8:21:45pm

Off to work, back later. I leave you with this:

The man at the eye of the storm in Saudi Arabia is Ahmad Aziz Al Ghamdi. He’s a religious scholar, the former head of the religious police in Mecca, a group officially known as the Committee for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

He has the pedigree of an ultra-conservative. Yet he stunned Saudis with a religious ruling, known as a fatwa, that is very liberal by Saudi standards. He declared that the niqab, the black face veil that is ubiquitous among women in Saudi society, is not obligatory.

His answer came in a Twitter response to a tweet he receive from a Saudi woman who had turned to him for religious guidance. She asked: Does Islam allow her to post a picture of her face on social media?

His affirmative answer went viral within hours, with more than 10,000 comments on his Twitter feed that ranged from congratulations to death threats.

npr.org

Interesting how things sometimes play out.

158 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 17, 2014 8:22:37pm

re: #147 William Barnett-Lewis

Oh, yeah. Give me an 8x10 field camera, a Cooke Series XVa Triple Convertible Lens & enough film and money to last a year and I’ll have the landscapes of a lifetime… Ah, well. Makes a great fantasy.

I’ve also heard that the diving is fantastic there. Apparently Fidel was an avid diver, and put measures into place to restrict fishing and protect the reefs. From some stuff I’ve read on dive forums, you have be careful, some of the gear is a bit ‘sketchy’ if you’re renting.

RBS

159 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 17, 2014 8:27:08pm

re: #157 William Barnett-Lewis

Indeed, and these theocratic fucks are your “allies”.

160 freetoken  Dec 17, 2014 8:42:14pm

re: #151 jaunte

Old media, still fishing for customers.

161 Pawn of the Oppressor  Dec 17, 2014 8:46:25pm

I’m strangely excited about Cuba. I’ve wanted to see it ever since Anthony Bourdain went there and showed old Havana. I hope that if things ever completely normalize, there’s going to be a nice period before the mega-corporations move in and sterilize the place, where you can go there, meet people, see & do cool things, and put your money right into the local’s hands. There will probably be some great values in travel.

I understand Cuba was a pretty happening place (in some ways) before the Revolution, maybe they can bring that back.

Edit: of course this is all separate consideration from the issues with Cuba that can be lumped under the “human rights” heading. I’m really thinking that if U.S. cash flows freely into that place, though, that it’s going to liberalize and the state will fold like Superman on laundry day.

162 Pawn of the Oppressor  Dec 17, 2014 8:47:49pm

I’ve just seen this floating around Facebook re: Ferguson… It’s over at Kos… Not sure how much truth there is to it, but it makes me ill.

Apparently there was a felonious, racist loon testifying to the grand jury who seems to be the big source for all those “dozens of witnesses corroborate Officer Whitey’s Tale of The Demon Negro!!1” stories.

163 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 17, 2014 8:57:49pm

re: #162 Pawn of the Oppressor

I’ve just seen this floating around Facebook re: Ferguson… It’s over at Kos… Not sure how much truth there is to it, but it makes me ill.

Apparently there was a felonious, racist loon testifying to the grand jury who seems to be the big source for all those “dozens of witnesses corroborate Officer Whitey’s Tale of The Demon Negro!!1” stories.

It seems pretty clear that Witness 40 was unreliable, and may not have even witnessed the events in question. Regardless of her veracity, it’s also pretty clear the DA picked witnesses that would bias the grand jury against taking Wilson to trial — which means he was acting as a defense attorney and not a prosecutor.

164 #FergusonFireside  Dec 17, 2014 9:08:15pm

re: #162 Pawn of the Oppressor

I’ve just seen this floating around Facebook re: Ferguson… It’s over at Kos… Not sure how much truth there is to it, but it makes me ill.

Apparently there was a felonious, racist loon testifying to the grand jury who seems to be the big source for all those “dozens of witnesses corroborate Officer Whitey’s Tale of The Demon Negro!!1” stories.

its true. witness #40.

165 #FergusonFireside  Dec 17, 2014 9:11:08pm

re: #162 Pawn of the Oppressor

I’ve just seen this floating around Facebook re: Ferguson… It’s over at Kos… Not sure how much truth there is to it, but it makes me ill.

Apparently there was a felonious, racist loon testifying to the grand jury who seems to be the big source for all those “dozens of witnesses corroborate Officer Whitey’s Tale of The Demon Negro!!1” stories.

He charged him like a football player.

Except that witness was not even there.

Beyond bullshit.

166 #FergusonFireside  Dec 17, 2014 9:23:24pm

So I worked 2nd job tonight for 2.5 hours. I’m really new and not up to speed, but still made 45.00 plus 9.00 minimum. Not bad, I will be so much better off, and especially once I start kicking ass.

Oh, and the exercise I’m getting is amaze.

167 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 9:25:57pm

re: #166 #FergusonFireside

Oh, and the exercise I’m getting is amaze.

Why I love winter. I had to exercise to get down from here.

168 BeachDem  Dec 17, 2014 9:26:41pm

Is it wrong that whenever I read about Marco Rubio dissing the Pope, all I can think of is this:

Jimmy Buffett - My head hurts, my feet stink and i don’t love Jesus

169 #FergusonFireside  Dec 17, 2014 9:27:39pm

re: #167 teleskiguy

Why I love winter. I had to exercise to get down from here.

[Embedded content]

beautiful. and cold.

170 #FergusonFireside  Dec 17, 2014 9:28:22pm

re: #168 BeachDem

Is it wrong that whenever I read about Marco Rubio dissing the Pope, all I can think of is this:

[Embedded content]

Video

So awesome you pulled up Havana Daydreaming.

171 teleskiguy  Dec 17, 2014 9:30:37pm

re: #169 #FergusonFireside

beautiful. and cold.

Wasn’t too bad today. Held out in the mid to upper 20s, the perfect temperature for natural snowfall.

When it’s in the teens or single digits and it’s windy, that’s cold!

172 BeachDem  Dec 17, 2014 9:33:29pm

re: #170 #FergusonFireside

So awesome you pulled up Havana Daydreaming.

That was earlier. Now I’m just picturing little Marco, sucking on his water bottle, thinking his head hurts, his feet stink and he don’t love Jesus. Made me smile.

I made all my cards for my celebrity politics game tomorrow night. Most are pretty obvious, so the game will go fast, but there are a few little surprises among the Republicans—like James Earl Jones. Whodathunkit?

173 #FergusonFireside  Dec 17, 2014 9:34:39pm

Legit #? Probably, since the police kill records are not reported/public.

174 #FergusonFireside  Dec 17, 2014 9:36:38pm

OK, I’m a bit pooped.

Tomorrow is our office Christmas party, at a location closer to my home than the office, so I’m not going in. Whee.

Nighty all.

175 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 17, 2014 9:38:01pm

No surprise here, but CCJ does not understand how real journalism works.

Apparently, we can only trust on-the-record sources — and CCJ’s paid informants — and no one else.

176 Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 17, 2014 9:40:24pm

I still can’t figure out how CCJ passed his journalism classes.

177 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 17, 2014 9:44:15pm

re: #176 Eclectic Cyborg

I still can’t figure out how CCJ passed his journalism classes.

Shh! Here’s his secret: he didn’t take any. Claremont-McKenna does not offer the subject at all. Yet, he managed to get internships at the Wall Street Journal and the NY Sun (?). Right-wing welfare at its best.

178 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 17, 2014 9:44:25pm

re: #176 Eclectic Cyborg

I still can’t figure out how CCJ passed his journalism classes.

I thought his school didn’t offer any…

179 BeachDem  Dec 17, 2014 9:44:26pm

re: #176 Eclectic Cyborg

I still can’t figure out how CCJ passed his journalism classes.

That’s easy—the school he went to didn’t offer any journalism courses.

180 BeachDem  Dec 17, 2014 9:45:09pm

re: #178 William Barnett-Lewis

I thought his school didn’t offer any…

ONE SECOND! That’ll teach me to write long sentences.

181 Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 17, 2014 9:46:10pm

Thank you for the clarification. So he just took some general English classes and now fancies himself a journalist?

182 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 17, 2014 9:48:47pm

re: #181 Eclectic Cyborg

Thank you for the clarification. So he just took some general English classes and now fancies himself a journalist?

His major was government, and I assume he had to pass a freshman composition course. That may be his only formal training as a writer.

183 austin_blue  Dec 17, 2014 9:54:58pm

re: #182 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

His major was government, and I assume he had to pass a freshman composition course. That may be his only formal training as a writer.

It didn’t take.

184 BeachDem  Dec 17, 2014 9:59:12pm

re: #177 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Shh! Here’s his secret: he didn’t take any. Claremont-McKenna does not offer the subject at all. Yet, he managed to get internships at the Wall Street Journal and the NY Sun (?). Right-wing welfare at its best.

Funny you should mention that. Don’t know who the deciderers were on the Newscorp one that got him to the WSJ (four of the seven winners were from Claremont McKenna, so it obviously doesn’t have that much to do with journalism—and it looks like they’ve discontinued it, as the last one they list is 2012)

For the Phillips Foundation one, here’s who he interviewed with—quite the wingnut lineup:

Al Regnery of Regnery Publishing (yeah, that Regnery)
John Farley of the Phillips Foundation
Jonathan Last of The Weekly Standard
Mollie Hemingway of Christianity Today

185 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 17, 2014 9:59:42pm

CCJ seems more inclined to trust North Korea and his anonymous Sony sources (aka voices in his head) than US intelligence sources.

186 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 17, 2014 10:02:30pm

Time to go teach. Laters, lizards.

187 Tigger2  Dec 17, 2014 10:04:07pm

re: #52 psddluva4evah

If this were to happen, RWNJ head would REALLY explode!

White House Won’t Rule Out Obama Visit to Cuba as Policy Shifts
Dec 17, 2014 2:42 PM EST

The Republicans are just pissed that Obama is having his tear down this wall moment like Reagan did, they can’t stand to see him being up there with their god Reagan.

188 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 17, 2014 10:20:14pm

re: #187 Tigger2

Obama could have launched an invasion of Cuba, finished it by hanging Fidel and Raul in the Plaza de la Revolución, and the Republicans would bitch that he’d waited too long adding that President Mitt Romney and Secretary of Defense John McCain would have done it in the first ninety days with no loss of American lives. That’s just the way it is these days.

189 goddamnedfrank  Dec 17, 2014 10:56:13pm

re: #175 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

No surprise here, but CCJ does not understand how real journalism works.

[Embedded content]

Apparently, we can only trust on-the-record sources — and CCJ’s paid informants — and no one else.

This is all about publicity for him. He needs to stay in the limelight, and he does that by staking out intentionally controversial claims. He chose the Sony hack because there’s almost no degree of evidence that can ever be offered that he won’t be able to unilaterally discount. Right wingers reflexively refuse to trust the administration, so it doesn’t matter what the NSA / DIA / NCSD come out with, he’ll simply say they’re lying and his followers will believe it based on his own anonymously based raw assertion.

In the worst case scenario for him, if incontrovertible proof of NK involvement comes out, it will almost certainly include an element of infiltration inside Sony, so he’ll fall back on his claims of it being an inside job, say he was half right, and pat himself on the back for trolling the media successfully once more.

190 klystron  Dec 17, 2014 10:57:44pm
191 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 17, 2014 10:57:53pm

Quiet night here so I’m rereading Flashman by Fraser. Funny enough lark through the 18th century.

192 goddamnedfrank  Dec 17, 2014 11:09:17pm

re: #189 goddamnedfrank

Another calculated thing about CCJ’s strategy of claiming certain knowledge about the Sony hack, it distracts people from the those lawsuits he promised he was filing against Politico and Gawker.

He strings people along from one outrageous position to another. He’s purposefully saying things that are inherently unknowable because the act itself is polarizing. His followers want to believe it, so they do, and the raw assertion becomes a kind of received knowledge and wisdom. The fact that it’s all opinion stated as certain fact becomes the shibboleth, they know exactly what they’re doing, but don’t dare admit to their own limitations for fear of being marked as an outsider. From CCJ’s point of view the intention is to remain controversial and a topic of discussion, no matter what. There’s no such thing as personal integrity, like Charlie Sheen, he’s “winning.”

193 Pip's Squeak  Dec 18, 2014 12:21:00am

re: #191 William Barnett-Lewis

Quiet night here so I’m rereading Flashman by Fraser. Funny enough lark through the 18th century.

Shh.
19th.

Trollope here. Used to find him boring. No longer.

194 freetoken  Dec 18, 2014 12:29:39am

Recreating our 1950’s Christmastimes is not that difficult, though I am having a hard time finding an mp3 of a Mills Brothers tune. At least as an mp3; but good ol’ Youtube, it seems to have everything.

So here’s the Mills Brothers, doing a bit of exhortation:

The Mills Brothers - You Don’t Have to Be a Santa Claus // Christmas Essentials

195 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 18, 2014 1:20:00am

re: #193 Pip’s Squeak

Shh.
19th.

Trollope here. Used to find him boring. No longer.

Oops… Should know better..

Forget what quick reads they are.

196 freetoken  Dec 18, 2014 1:49:51am

MP3 Audio

197 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 18, 2014 2:03:31am

re: #194 freetoken

Recreating our 1950’s Christmastimes is not that difficult, though I am having a hard time finding an mp3 of a Mills Brothers tune. At least as an mp3; but good ol’ Youtube, it seems to have everything.

So here’s the Mills Brothers, doing a bit of exhortation:

[Embedded content]

I never knew they were part of an exhortation racket…

198 Romantic Heretic  Dec 18, 2014 2:29:24am

re: #187 Tigger2

The Republicans are just pissed that Obama is having his tear down this wall moment like Reagan did, they can’t stand to see him being up there with their god Reagan.

I’m wondering if this is a clever strategy on Obama’s part to thin GOP voting ranks.

The way they’re hyperventilating and raging strokes, aneurysms and heart attacks will carry many of them away by 2016 severely exacerbating the demographic crisis they’re experiencing.

199 Romantic Heretic  Dec 18, 2014 2:30:31am

Also as long as we’re on the subject of Christmas.

The Carol of the Old Ones

200 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 18, 2014 2:42:51am

re: #198 Romantic Heretic

I’m wondering if this is a clever strategy on Obama’s part to thin GOP voting ranks.

The way they’re hyperventilating and raging strokes, aneurysms and heart attacks will carry many of them away by 2016 severely exacerbating the demographic crisis they’re experiencing.

It is a part of a clever ploy to point out to voters that the GOP “mainstream” is far, far, far to the right of the American mainstream.

201 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 18, 2014 2:48:41am

I have to say it’s remarkable that, in my lifetime, America has patched up relations with former enemies China, Vietnam and Cuba, Germany has been reunified, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and a black man has been elected president. Despite all the other crap we’ve lived with and through, these achievements are pretty amazing for this child of the ’50s.

202 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 18, 2014 2:57:42am

re: #201 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I have to say it’s remarkable that, in my lifetime, America has patched up relations with former enemies China, Vietnam and Cuba, Germany has been reunified, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and a black man has been elected president. Despite all the other crap we’ve lived with and through, these achievements are pretty amazing for this child of the ’50s.

But the modern GOP reminds us that we should take none of this progress in foreign relations, environment, worker safety, gay, minority and women’s rights for granted: plenty of people in that party are actively campaigning to turn the clock back to the 50’s and even before…

203 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 18, 2014 3:04:43am

re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

But the modern GOP reminds us that we should take none of this progress in foreign relations, or gay, minority and women’s rights for granted: plenty of people in that party are actively campaigning to turn the clock back to the 50’s and even before…

They can try, but once the genie is out of the bottle, it’s hard to convince him to get back inside. I just read an article about teacher in the UK who came out as gay to his primary school class, and one 9-year-old girl wrote him a letter saying it was all OK. It seems most of his class judged him by his abilities as a teacher and not by his sexual preference, and wanted to know if he had a boyfriend, etc.

The “modern” GOP may want to push gays, minorities and women back to their 1950s non-entity-ness, but it ain’t gonna work. Society moves on and old farts better get out of the way or be trampled.

204 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 18, 2014 3:08:22am

re: #203 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

The “modern” GOP may want to push gays, minorities and women back to their 1950s non-entity-ness, but it ain’t gonna work. Society moves on and old farts better get out of the way or be trampled.

They still have an awful lot of (dark) funding to back up their antediluvian views and a lot of political tricks up their sleeve. the 2014 elections were proof of that.

205 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 18, 2014 3:19:21am

re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They still have an awful lot of (dark) funding to back up their antediluvian views and a lot of political tricks up their sleeve. the 2014 elections were proof of that.

I’m more sanguine for the long term. Yes, the midterms were a disaster for reason and centrist-to-left wing politics, but I’m hoping the 2016 elections will be different story. Jeb may have the Bush name, but Hillary be more well known, and (generally speaking) Americans like Clintons more than Bushes. Shoot, my 80-year-old mother liked Bill Clinton, even after the whole “hide the cigar” hoo-rah. She said people should just leave him alone and let him do his job. Sadly, she didn’t live long enough to witness the junior Bush in office.

206 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 18, 2014 3:55:26am

re: #205 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Now to me, Jeb vs Hillary is a nightmare made of every rotten thing in American politics today. The only difference between them is which corporations own them and which is the greater war monger (& I’m not sure which one of the two that would be).

207 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 18, 2014 4:04:48am

re: #206 William Barnett-Lewis

Now to me, Jeb vs Hillary is a nightmare made of every rotten thing in American politics today. The only difference between them is which corporations own them and which is the greater war monger (& I’m not sure which one of the two that would be).

Well, I have to admit I’d rather see a non-Bush, non-Clinton candidate who wasn’t batshit crazy, but for 2016 I’ll take what I can get. Biden would be OK, but I doubt he’d do well against Hillary within the Democratic machine.

208 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 18, 2014 4:05:40am

re: #206 William Barnett-Lewis

Now to me, Jeb vs Hillary is a nightmare made of every rotten thing in American politics today. The only difference between them is which corporations own them and which is the greater war monger (& I’m not sure which one of the two that would be).

Beyond that, the second HIllary has the nomination clinched, political discourse is going to get so ugly and petty that I will have to give up my favorite hobby…following politics

209 Lidane  Dec 18, 2014 4:21:44am

I am 1000% done with my employer. Fuck these people.

As I mentioned before, I recently joined the flagship team in my division. Well, as it turned out, the top sales performer on said team was cheating her way through the system. She would log every sales proposal as a final sale whether or not she actually sold the client on anything, artificially inflating the final numbers for the fiscal period. When the client we sell for finally started doing audits after having her around for, oh, a year, they noticed what was going on and she got fired. Of course, she gets fired right before the last fiscal period ends and we had to scramble just to make quota.

This is apparently her MO. I just found out she got fired from her new job for pulling the same shit, but that company has competent management who immediately noticed what she was doing and shitcanned her.

Now, management are suddenly riding our asses about every single sale every day, making sure everything is signed and properly entered into the CRM and accounted for. You know, because they were so dutiful about monitoring sales when cheating ex-employee was still around posting huge “sales” numbers. We’re slightly behind on our quota for this period and yesterday I hit my bullshit limit.

Between the condescending “sales coaching tips” email I got yesterday from one manager to the other VP treating my team like we’re five year olds, to these assholes getting mad when calls back up on the phone and then getting mad when I answer calls as an outbound sales lead, I’m done. They need to make up their fucking minds what they want. And they wouldn’t be acting this way if they’d done their goddamn jobs all along and noticed what cheating ex-employee was doing from the start instead of letting her get away with it for a fucking year and basking in the artificially inflated numbers.

Long, overly detailed story short, I can see my bosses laying the groundwork for me getting blamed for everything if we miss the sales quota for this period. And the next sales period will involve Christmas, the New Year, etc., making my window of making sales for the next fiscal that much narrower.

I’m done. Fuck these people. I am on the hunt for a new job and a more competent employer.

210 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 4:30:09am

Norman Rockwell’s iconic “Jury Room” illustration:

211 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 4:31:21am

That jury room is a freaking fire hazard.

212 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 18, 2014 4:37:53am

re: #209 Lidane

My sympathies. I did retail commission sales part-time for three years, and that was all I ever want to do — ever.

213 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 4:43:17am

Upchuck’s fake outrage has passed 11.

214 Timothy Watson  Dec 18, 2014 4:48:14am

re: #213 Dr. Matt

Upchuck’s fake outrage has passed 11.

[Embedded content]

FREE MARKETS MEAN FREE PEOPLE!!1!

215 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 18, 2014 4:50:14am

re: #213 Dr. Matt

It was a decision taken based on market considerations, just like the decision to pull “Cop Killer” because of threats to boycott Time-Warner…

216 Teukka  Dec 18, 2014 4:53:03am

Some random morning music for y’all:
1.Colin Frake - Colin Frake on Fire Mountain

217 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 4:54:11am

Perhaps I’m under caffeinated and a bit cynical, but in the back of mind I’m thinking this whole NK/The Interview saga is a PR hoax by Sony.

….And visit my website to buy gold and seeds…..

218 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 5:01:32am

Moar Death Penalties!!!

219 Lidane  Dec 18, 2014 5:05:25am

re: #212 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

My sympathies. I did retail commission sales part-time for three years, and that was all I ever want to do — ever.

Oh, I’ll never do retail. I’m in commercial telecom sales. My official job description says I’m in business development. We sell to SMB clients. My employer is an “outbound lead gen/marketing agency” (read: a call center that won’t admit they’re a call center).

Because they didn’t do their due diligence we’re bearing the brunt of it. And I’m not going to stand for it. Not for the shitty salary they pay. Or for this client. The last time I was this stressed at a gig it was during a large, multimillion dollar RFP I’d been trusted to write on behalf of my last company. I can handle pressure if it’s worth it. Being treated like a toddler because my current bosses dropped the ball is unacceptable.

220 Maggie's Pa  Dec 18, 2014 5:16:48am

re: #217 Dr. Matt

I thought that in the beginning in order to sell tickets and promo the movie but if they don’t show it…DVD sales?!

221 Lidane  Dec 18, 2014 5:20:38am

re: #220 Flounder

I thought that in the beginning in order to sell tickets and promo the movie but if they don’t show it…DVD sales?!

Honestly, Sony should grow a pair and release the movie to every free streaming service and BitTorrent worldwide just to spite North Korea. What are they going to do, hack everybody?

222 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 5:21:06am

re: #220 Flounder

I thought that in the beginning in order to sell tickets and promo the movie but if they don’t show it…DVD sales?!

One option I heard on Sirius/XM last night on the commute was “Premium” On-Demand on cable. So Cable companies would charge consumers a price of ticket, if not more, to watch at home.

223 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 18, 2014 5:21:45am

re: #221 Lidane

Honestly, Sony should grow a pair and release the movie to every free streaming service and BitTorrent worldwide just to spite North Korea. What are they going to do, hack everybody?

My thoughts exactly

224 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 5:25:10am

As LawHawk tweeted earlier regarding the movie: “But as CYA for pulling awful movie for rework? Brilliant”.

It the trailer is any indication of the comedic value of the movie, it’s going to a train wreck.

225 Decatur Deb  Dec 18, 2014 5:28:11am

re: #220 Flounder

I thought that in the beginning in order to sell tickets and promo the movie but if they don’t show it…DVD sales?!

Apparently, the producers of Interview know the producers of The Producers. Tried everything but the “Springtime for Kim” number.

226 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 5:28:51am

FTW

227 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 5:29:32am

re: #226 Dr. Matt

FTW

[Embedded content]

And the Duggar show

228 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 5:31:26am

re: #227 The Vicious Babushka

And the Duggar show

Kim Jong Un can relate: The North Korean government and the Duggars are both cult-like.

229 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 5:43:36am

The sliming of Alan Gross is underway

230 nearly-headless smith25  Dec 18, 2014 5:44:55am

Bill O Reilly is an Ass:

231 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 18, 2014 5:51:02am

re: #230 nearly-headless smith25

You have it better than in Uganda, so shut up!!!

232 Maggie's Pa  Dec 18, 2014 5:55:02am

Vermont drops move to single-payer care

Going forward with a project four years in the making would require tax increases too big for the state to absorb, Shumlin said. The measure had been the centerpiece of the Democratic governor’s agenda and was watched and rooted for by single-payer health care supporters around the country.

233 Maggie's Pa  Dec 18, 2014 6:00:20am

I am glad the Cubans will finally get some newer model cars on their roads :)

234 nearly-headless smith25  Dec 18, 2014 6:01:13am

re: #231 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

You have it better than in Uganda, so shut up!!!

We have a blah president so racism is all gone

235 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 6:01:38am

re: #233 Flounder

I am glad the Cubans will finally get some newer model cars on their roads :)

And will last only a fraction of the time. :)

236 Maggie's Pa  Dec 18, 2014 6:02:30am

re: #235 Dr. Matt

Because they cant fix them!!!!

237 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 18, 2014 6:15:18am

More on yesterday’s Cuba announcement….

Here is a statement placed in a major American newspaper by one of that paper’s regular Op-Eder’s:*

“Meanwhile, Castro and his fellow military officers will remain in firm control of the political and economic levers of power in Cuba, including the little things – jobs, visas, building permits, export and import licenses, court cases…”

I see. Opinion person is bothered that Cuba can still have its sovereignty. OK.

And these are the people who regularly write about politics and economics and stuff with an intent to inform and perhaps influence us.

The Wash Post actual editorial is, if possible, still worse. It’s still the Cold War for them.

*No linky since I don’t subscribe to the Post print edition anymore.

238 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 6:20:25am
239 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 18, 2014 6:21:24am

re: #237 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

More on yesterday’s Cuba announcement….

Here is a statement placed in a major American newspaper by one of that paper’s regular Op-Eder’s:*

I see. Opinion person is bothered that Cuba can still have its sovereignty. OK.

And these are the people who regularly write about politics and economics and stuff with an intent to inform and perhaps influence us.

The Wash Post actual editorial is, if possible, still worse. It’s still the Cold War for them.

*No linky since I don’t subscribe to the Post print edition anymore.

Quite clear that they will be happy with nothing less than installing Batista’s successor and reprivatizing everything Castro seized in the 60’s…

240 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 18, 2014 6:23:11am

re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Quite clear that they will be happy with nothing less than installing Batista’s successor and reprivatizing everything Castro seized in the 60’s…

Sounds like backing of some sort of “right to return” theory. Strange that it only seems to apply there.
//

241 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 18, 2014 6:23:27am

re: #238 The Vicious Babushka

Back then, the conspiracy theory was JFK would be beholden to the Pope. If Twitter and blogs had been around then, the RWNJs of the late ’50s and ‘60 would have bombarding us with BS about JFK’s religion and communism both.

242 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 18, 2014 6:24:51am

The greatest trick the Devil ever played was creating auto video plays that delay starting until you’ve scrolled half way down the page…

(maybe that’s a problem with crappy browser at work, which is itself a creation of the Devil.)

243 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 18, 2014 6:26:47am

re: #242 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

The greatest trick the Devil ever played was creating auto video plays that delay starting until you’ve scrolled half way down the page…

(maybe that’s a problem with crappy browser at work, which is itself a creation of the Devil.)

IE8?

244 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 18, 2014 6:29:13am

re:
#243

Yeah I think so

245 lawhawk  Dec 18, 2014 6:31:29am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. The Sony debacle over The Interview shows just how incompetent movie executives actually are.

They follow the pack. They’ll rush to do remakes and sequels on anything that shows a pulse at the international box office (US box take is now just a fraction of the overall gross on a movie, which is why you get crap like Transformers that did decent but not boffo box in the US, but raked in tons overseas, complete with Chinese tie-ins). I get the economics of those international tie-ins, but there’s a herd mentality among the studios. The major studios wont do edgy, let alone subversive because they don’t like to take chances.

The Interview had all the makings of being a stoner flick cult classic even before this hacking and cyber terrorist threats. It was never going to get big box office, and now no one will have the opportunity to decide for themselves to ignore the movie and see something else (like, say The Hobbit Part 3, which is likely to be a good, if ponderous movie that took a 200 page book and turned it into 9+ hours of screen time across 3 movies).

Now, it’s going to remain the Sony vaults (until some other intrepid hackers steal it and post it online).

I tweeted earlier that the hack story makes for an awesome CYA if the studio wanted to do a rewrite on a horrible movie, but the truth is probably a whole lot more mundane. The Sony execs simply are grasping at straws because of the hacks and they are desperate to regain control over their properties, so they pulled the movie.

Now, anyone with a computer could potentially threaten a network, studio, or theater chain not to run a movie or show they don’t like for whatever reason you can imagine. Every studio will now face these issues - just watch. If the villain in a movie isn’t a Nazi (and even then, I’m sure some Neo-Nazis or white supremacists will take umbrage), then the studios will consider pulling movies over cyber threats.

This is a direct affront to artistic expression and the right to make crappy movies (or even decent to good and even great movies). Perhaps that is ultimately the real reason Kim Jong Un doesn’t want this movie to see the light of day - he can’t get a copy of his own for the Glorious One’s personal collection. And if he can’t, then no one can.

My way of dealing with Sony’s issues? Watching Team America. F’Yeah!

We’ve gone from Team America F’Yeah to Sony’s F’ No. Pathetic.

246 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 18, 2014 6:32:40am

Good morning Lizards. Overcast and cool in Philly today.

Last full workday before taking a week off to go visit relatives. Lots to get done here, and then at home since I need to wrap presents and pack for the trip. I’m sure both activities will receive suitable supervisory effort from the FOs.

247 darthstar  Dec 18, 2014 6:36:01am
248 HappyWarrior  Dec 18, 2014 6:38:47am

re: #229 The Vicious Babushka

The sliming of Alan Gross is underway

[Embedded content]

Well if Obama wanted him free, he must be bad. This much I know. If the Iranian hostage crisis had happened under Obama, there would be a real effort to smear those hostages too because if Obama wants you free, you must be a commie and deserving of captivity. Hell even if Mr. Gross is a communist, he has rights.

249 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 6:40:16am

re: #248 HappyWarrior

Well if Obama wanted him free, he must be bad. This much I know. If the Iranian hostage crisis had happened under Obama, there would be a real effort to smear those hostages too because if Obama wants you free, you must be a commie and deserving of captivity. Hell even if Mr. Gross is a communist, he has rights.

I first heard about Alan Gross through the Jewish website vosizneias.com. Mr. Gross is an Orthodox Jew.

250 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 6:41:09am

re: #210 The Vicious Babushka

Norman Rockwell’s iconic “Jury Room” illustration:

Embedded Image

Nice illustration. Very telling. And, he didn’t have to use a woman for that, but I understand why he did. He may have wanted a clear visual of difference. That could have been anyone that was sticking to their guns and not going with the group.

And I just noticed something. Did Norman put himself in the illustration, like Hitchcock used to appear in his films?

Look at the guy bent over standing just above the women’s head. Sure looks a bit like Rockwell.

251 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 6:41:38am
252 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 6:42:53am

re: #250 ObserverArt

Nice illustration. Very telling. And, he didn’t have to use a woman for that, but I understand why he did. He may have wanted a clear visual of difference. That could have been anyone that was sticking to their guns and not going with the group.

And I just noticed something. Did Norman put himself in the illustration, like Hitchcock used to appear in his films?

Look at the guy bent over standing just above the women’s head. Sure looks a bit like Rockwell.

He could have put a Black man in place of the woman.

Norman Rockwell was a liberal BTW.

253 darthstar  Dec 18, 2014 6:42:57am

Cool…

254 HappyWarrior  Dec 18, 2014 6:43:38am

re: #249 The Vicious Babushka

I first heard about Alan Gross through the Jewish website vosizneias.com. Mr. Gross is an Orthodox Jew.

Gotcha. Yeah all so very stupid. They hate this man because Obama got him released. It’s that simple. I’m glad he’s able to spend Hanukkah this year with his family.I can’t imagine experiencing what he did.

255 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 18, 2014 6:43:52am

re: #253 darthstar

Four executives indicted from company behind West Virginia chemical spill

More proof that Obama hates America, energy independence and the Free Market…

256 lawhawk  Dec 18, 2014 6:43:57am

re: #247 darthstar

You know what would really bake some people’s noodles? The woman in that photo is Andrea Catsimatidis. She’s the daughter of John Catsimatidis. She’s worn outrageous outfits like that for years - and her family holiday pictures are a sight to behold for their crazy badness. The dress she’s wearing in that photo is actually among the more restrained ones she’s worn to events.

But the real kicker is who she’s married to.

A Nixon. John has tried his hands at politics and has been close with the Clintons for years, even if he ran as a GOPer in the primaries for Mayor last year (and lost).

257 Romantic Heretic  Dec 18, 2014 6:44:24am

re: #214 Timothy Watson

FREE MARKETS MEAN FREE PEOPLE!!1!

Pity history demonstrates otherwise. As my favourite writer puts it, “Capitalism was content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.” The cosy relationship it has with China is no surprise to me.

Democracy and capitalism can have a good working relationship, but they’ll never be friends.

258 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 6:45:29am

re: #256 lawhawk

You know what would really bake some people’s noodles? The woman in that photo is Andrea Catsimatidis. She’s the daughter of John Catsimatidis. She’s worn outrageous outfits like that for years - and her family holiday pictures are a sight to behold for their crazy badness. The dress she’s wearing in that photo is actually among the more restrained ones she’s worn to events.

But the real kicker is who she’s married to.

A Nixon. John has tried his hands at politics and has been close with the Clintons for years, even if he ran as a GOPer in the primaries for Mayor last year (and lost).

Her front parts look synthetic.

259 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 6:46:43am

re: #224 Dr. Matt

As LawHawk tweeted earlier regarding the movie: “But as CYA for pulling awful movie for rework? Brilliant”.

It the trailer is any indication of the comedic value of the movie, it’s going to a train wreck.

I’ve been wondering if this is some kind of a New Coke* publicity stunt.

*Still much conjecture about New Coke and if it was introduced just to create the massive buzz it did. When you are in the retentive advertising stage of a product just pushing what is known gets stale. Why not kick things up a bit by changing a recipe, some labels and get your customers to beg for your product while everyone talks about it. We may never know!

260 HappyWarrior  Dec 18, 2014 6:46:44am

re: #257 Romantic Heretic

Pity history demonstrates otherwise. As my favourite writer puts it, “Capitalism was content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.” The cosy relationship it has with China is no surprise to me.

Democracy and capitalism can have a good working relationship, but they’ll never be friends.

Despite what is long believed. Democracy and capitalism are not always directly compatible. That quote gets at it but it also gets at why right wingers are able to tolerate certain forms of tyranny.

261 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 18, 2014 6:46:55am

re:
#251

BREAKING: Kazakhstan threatens retaliation over release of BORAT

What about the fake country from The Dictator? What are they doing to us?

/

262 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 6:47:24am

Some people are pissed off that JK Rowling is retroactively making up minority characters who never appeared in any of the books.

Hey it’s her universe. If she wants to populate it with some minorities she can do that.

263 NJDhockeyfan  Dec 18, 2014 6:47:29am

re: #210 The Vicious Babushka

Norman Rockwell’s iconic “Jury Room” illustration:

Embedded Image

Aunt Bee in Jury duty

dailymotion.com

264 Romantic Heretic  Dec 18, 2014 6:47:59am

re: #232 Flounder

Vermont drops move to single-payer care

Going forward with a project four years in the making would require tax increases too big for the state to absorb, Shumlin said. The measure had been the centerpiece of the Democratic governor’s agenda and was watched and rooted for by single-payer health care supporters around the country.

Translation: We can’t get the wealthy and the business community to pay more taxes. They’d rather the peons die in pain than pay more taxes.

265 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 18, 2014 6:48:46am

re:
#262

We dont see color only character!!!!!11 ARRgghghghgh!!!! Whis is this character from a fiction book a blah person?!??!?!?!?!??!?!!

266 lawhawk  Dec 18, 2014 6:49:01am

re: #258 The Vicious Babushka

I’ve been acquainted with the family for more than a decade, and they’re most likely legit.

267 darthstar  Dec 18, 2014 6:49:35am

re: #261 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#251

What about the fake country from The Dictator? What are they doing to us?

/

I’m worried that Parador may invade the US now. #Sony

268 HappyWarrior  Dec 18, 2014 6:50:21am

re: #261 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#251

What about the fake country from The Dictator? What are they doing to us?

/

I was disappointed with The Dictator. I didn’t hate it but it didn’t have the same magic that Borat did or some of the stuff on the Ali G Show. I think Sasha Baron Cohen’s best work is unscripted like Borat was.

269 darthstar  Dec 18, 2014 6:50:22am

Why haven’t we reopened diplomatic ties with Parador?

270 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 6:51:33am

re: #266 lawhawk

I’ve been acquainted with the family for more than a decade, and they’re most likely legit.

I’m sure her boobs are all paid for.

271 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 6:51:37am

re: #252 The Vicious Babushka

He could have put a Black man in place of the woman.

Norman Rockwell was a liberal BTW.

Damn artists!

/

272 HappyWarrior  Dec 18, 2014 6:52:01am

re: #265 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#262

We dont see color only character!!!!!11 ARRgghghghgh!!!! Whis is this character from a fiction book a blah person?!??!?!?!?!??!?!!

PC brigade.//

273 lawhawk  Dec 18, 2014 6:52:14am

re: #269 darthstar

Forget Parador.

How about TheDuchy of Grand Fenwick? They declared war on the US. That cannot stand!

274 Romantic Heretic  Dec 18, 2014 6:52:46am

re: #273 lawhawk

Forget Parador.

How about TheDuchy of Grand Fenwick? They declared war on the US. That cannot stand!

Worse. They won.

275 lawhawk  Dec 18, 2014 6:54:21am

re: #270 The Vicious Babushka

This is the family with Bill in 2008.

276 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 18, 2014 6:57:13am

re: #274 Romantic Heretic

Worse. They won.

They had a space program, too.

277 NJDhockeyfan  Dec 18, 2014 6:58:15am
278 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 6:59:10am

Fuck the anti-vaxxers

279 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 7:00:37am
280 nearly-headless smith25  Dec 18, 2014 7:02:36am

re: #262 The Vicious Babushka

Some people are pissed off that JK Rowling is retroactively making up minority characters who never appeared in any of the books.

Hey it’s her universe. If she wants to populate it with some minorities she can do that.

The response by some people to this, or to Annie being black, or having a black storm trooper is just stupid.

281 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 7:03:53am

re: #280 nearly-headless smith25

The response by some people to this, or to Annie being black, or having a black storm trooper is just stupid.

THE HOBBIT IS RACIST!!!!11! WHY R THEIR NO BLACK PEOPLE IN MIDDLE EARTH!!11!!!!

282 HappyWarrior  Dec 18, 2014 7:04:06am

Why does such and such character have to be black or gay. PC PC. // It’s so hard being a straight white male these days.

283 NJDhockeyfan  Dec 18, 2014 7:05:07am

Heh

284 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 7:06:27am

re: #283 NJDhockeyfan

Heh

[Embedded content]

I thought that said FREE PENIS MASK

285 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 7:07:42am

re: #284 The Vicious Babushka
Freud much? ;)

I thought that said FREE PENIS MASK

286 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 7:07:59am

The anti-Semitic sliming of Alan Gross is underway:

287 HappyWarrior  Dec 18, 2014 7:08:44am

re: #286 The Vicious Babushka

The anti-Semitic sliming of Alan Gross is underway:

[Embedded content]

Man they sure do love “freedom” on tcot don’t they?

288 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 18, 2014 7:12:20am

re: #235 Dr. Matt

And will last only a fraction of the time. :)

Give me a second while I hang the onions on my belt…okay. I landed my first job wrenching on cars when I was sixteen. That was fifty years ago this coming April. I still wrench on them. I have a Mazda Miata with over a quarter of a million hard driven miles on it and I do most of my own work because wrenching is still wrenching - you just need a couple of electronic tools to do it right. And you need time, something that most of us find too little of.

Cars today are way better and require less frequent maintenance than they did in the good old days. Even the cheapest ones last two or three times longer. Most cars back then were junked well before they reached 100,000 miles. Nowadays the interior usually wears out before the power train does.

All of those lovely old cars in Cuba are on the road because that’s all they have and all that they can afford. Many of them are American iron on the outside and a hodgepodge of East Bloc and European parts under the sheet metal. That’s a hell of an accomplishment and I hope that the Cubans who own them are able to get every cent of the considerable sums that the cars are worth.

289 NJDhockeyfan  Dec 18, 2014 7:14:46am

re: #278 The Vicious Babushka

Fuck the anti-vaxxers

290 The War TARDIS  Dec 18, 2014 7:19:48am

I have never heard of the guy, but wow.

Actor Stephen Collins admits to People magazine his “inappropriate sexual conduct with three female minors.”

291 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 7:20:19am

re: #287 HappyWarrior

Man they sure do love “freedom” on tcot don’t they?

Sure do…especially for Conservative Protestant Christian white folk below the Mason-Dixon Line.

All else…well I am sure they figure this country would be better off without ‘them’ peoples.

292 HappyWarrior  Dec 18, 2014 7:21:54am

re: #291 ObserverArt

Sure do…especially for Conservative Protestant Christian white folk below the Mason-Dixon Line.

All else…well I am sure they figure this country would be better off without ‘them’ peoples.

Pretty much yeah. You gotta love the people who defend torture and the police shooting unarmed people complaining about the Cuba deal.

293 Sionainn  Dec 18, 2014 7:22:35am

Good morning, Lizards. The moment you’ve all been waiting for, the grand finale…Mr. Sionainn as the Grinch!

294 NJDhockeyfan  Dec 18, 2014 7:24:48am

re: #290 The War TARDIS

I have never heard of the guy, but wow.

I haven’t heard of him either. This is him:

He is an actor, known for 7th Heaven (1996), Blood Diamond (2006) and All the President’s Men (1976). He has been married to Faye Grant since April 21, 1985. They have one child. He was previously married to Marjorie Weinman.

295 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 18, 2014 7:25:37am

re:;
#286

Articles: Can We Send Alan Gross Back to Cuba?

Patriotism. Freedom. Liberty. Family Values.

296 Sionainn  Dec 18, 2014 7:28:25am

re: #294 NJDhockeyfan

I haven’t heard of him either. This is him:

He played a minister on 7th Heaven with a large family.

297 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 7:28:53am

re: #288 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Give me a second while I hang the onions on my belt…okay. I landed my first job wrenching on cars when I was sixteen. That was fifty years ago this coming April. I still wrench on them. I have a Mazda Miata with over a quarter of a million hard driven miles on it and I do most of my own work because wrenching is still wrenching - you just need a couple of electronic tools to do it right. And you need time, something that most of us find too little of.

Cars today are way better and require less frequent maintenance than they did in the good old days. Even the cheapest ones last two or three times longer. Most cars back then were junked well before they reached 100,000 miles. Nowadays the interior usually wears out before the power train does.

All of those lovely old cars in Cuba are on the road because that’s all they have and all that they can afford. Many of them are American iron on the outside and a hodgepodge of East Bloc and European parts under the sheet metal. That’s a hell of an accomplishment and I hope that the Cubans who own them are able to get every cent of the considerable sums that the cars are worth.

Do you cringe when you hear someone say: “They don’t make ‘em like they used too?”

I know I do. And for the very reasons you point out. And I would add better safety all around with crushable structures, disc brakes. Bodies last much longer too. I am damn glad they don’t make ‘em like they used too.

Most of the engines in cars up until the 80s were lucky to get 50,000 miles before they were blowing smoke, leaking fluids and wheezing.

I drive VWs and my ‘92 Golf was sold when it had 189,000 miles on it and it still ran great and looked pretty good too. I had a ‘99 GTi that I got to 192,000 miles and all I ever replaced on it was a catalytic converter and 1 complete brake job all around. Also had some issues with the gear shift cable, but overall, the car was bullet proof.

298 The War TARDIS  Dec 18, 2014 7:29:05am

re: #296 Sionainn

Of course he did.

299 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 7:30:14am

Has CCJ started looking for Alan Gross’ juvenile record?

300 lawhawk  Dec 18, 2014 7:30:33am

With renewed relations between US and Cuba, NJ State Troopers may actually get their chance for justice. Joanne Chesimard murdered a state trooper, injured a second trooper, was convicted and then managed to escape prison with help of the Black Liberation Army and then fled to Cuba. Castro has hosted her since the early 1980s.

There’s about 70 other suspected or convicted felons who have fled to Cuba to escape justice in the US. Their status is still up in the air so it will be interesting to see how the relationship develops and what steps will be taken going forward as far as releasing political prisoners beyond the initial batch of 53, opening lines of communication, etc.

The 53 released are from a list the US provided. The US also got back an intel agent who had been imprisoned by Cuba for 20 years.

301 bratwurst  Dec 18, 2014 7:30:38am
302 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 7:31:08am

re: #299 Dr. Matt

Has CCJ started looking for Alan Gross’ juvenile record?

He’s been offering pocket change for any dirt on Gross.

303 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 18, 2014 7:31:10am

re: #291 ObserverArt

Sure do…especially for Conservative Protestant Christian white folk below the Mason-Dixon Line.

All else…well I am sure they figure this country would be better off without ‘them’ peoples.

Yep, they pine for the days when guys like them had it made. To them, America is no longer what it was. Reality says that America never was what it was.

304 lawhawk  Dec 18, 2014 7:31:42am

re: #302 The Vicious Babushka

For $50 CCJ will pay you for any dirt. For $250 you can buy CCJ’s site.

305 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 7:33:37am

Apparently, the NHL mumps thing is more complicated than just “anti-vax.” Crosby was vaxxed before the season.

306 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 7:33:46am

I think South Park just did a spoof of CCJ: “Cartmanbra!”

307 Decatur Deb  Dec 18, 2014 7:34:34am

re: #288 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Give me a second while I hang the onions on my belt…okay. I landed my first job wrenching on cars when I was sixteen. That was fifty years ago this coming April. I still wrench on them. I have a Mazda Miata with over a quarter of a million hard driven miles on it and I do most of my own work because wrenching is still wrenching - you just need a couple of electronic tools to do it right. And you need time, something that most of us find too little of.

Cars today are way better and require less frequent maintenance than they did in the good old days. Even the cheapest ones last two or three times longer. Most cars back then were junked well before they reached 100,000 miles. Nowadays the interior usually wears out before the power train does.

All of those lovely old cars in Cuba are on the road because that’s all they have and all that they can afford. Many of them are American iron on the outside and a hodgepodge of East Bloc and European parts under the sheet metal. That’s a hell of an accomplishment and I hope that the Cubans who own them are able to get every cent of the considerable sums that the cars are worth.

A few years ago there was a documentary showing how the old stock is kept on the road. The key is distributed ‘repair streets’ where private shop owners specialize in one component. (They stay private by working on police and officials’ cars at a steep ‘discount’.) The crew focused on a guy whose 3-4 employees recover old brake shoes and recast the linings from asbestos powder and phenolic—by hand.

The crew asked: “Don’t you know that’s dangerous?” The boss said: “It’s not dangerous, it’s lethal. I have a family.” Over the credits, there was footage of the documentary crew giving the guy and the shop workers some full-face masks and HEPA filters they smuggled in. It might buy the workers some time.

308 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 18, 2014 7:34:38am

heh…check out quiz question #5:

Quiz: How Well Do You Know 2014’s Worst News?

309 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 18, 2014 7:35:11am

re: #252 The Vicious Babushka

He could have put a Black man in place of the woman.

Norman Rockwell was a liberal BTW.

I think people also start looking at iconic images a bit differently as the cultural norms shift.

One way to view it is a positive thing as the small woman stands up to the domineering men. Note that she is given a bit of isolation space even while closely surrounded. If this was a 14th century martyr or otherwise religious picture I’d expect her to have a halo or some sort of holy aura.

310 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 18, 2014 7:35:18am

re: #304 lawhawk

For $50 CCJ will pay you for any dirt. For $250 you can buy CCJ’s site.

Anyone scummy enough to nark for fifty bucks doesn’t know fuck-all anyway.

311 Dr Lizardo  Dec 18, 2014 7:35:34am

re: #294 NJDhockeyfan

I haven’t heard of him either. This is him:

I remember him from Tales of the Gold Monkey.

312 HappyWarrior  Dec 18, 2014 7:35:58am

re: #306 The Vicious Babushka

I think South Park just did a spoof of CCJ: “Cartmanbra!”

Nah. That was a direct parody of PewDiePie. I was dying laughing when they did that by the way since my kid brother watches that guy’s YouTube videos. He has the most annoying voice ever.

313 #FergusonFireside  Dec 18, 2014 7:37:55am

Morning!

314 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 7:37:59am

re: #312 HappyWarrior

Nah. That was a direct parody of PewDiePie. I was dying laughing when they did that by the way since my kid brother watches that guy’s YouTube videos. He has the most annoying voice ever.

Fair enough, I never heard of PewDiePie (I’m a Grandma!) this is not the first time they have used viral Internet memes as a basis for an episode.

315 HappyWarrior  Dec 18, 2014 7:38:22am

re: #313 #FergusonFireside

Morning!

[Embedded content]

You are hereby baptized into the church of Adobe.

316 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 7:40:12am

re: #313 #FergusonFireside

Don’t convert to PDF! It sucks.

317 #FergusonFireside  Dec 18, 2014 7:40:43am

re: #315 HappyWarrior

You are hereby baptized into the church of Adobe.

The offering plate shows up every week already.

318 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 7:41:25am

Do you see it…..?

319 b.d.  Dec 18, 2014 7:41:37am

re: #308 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh…check out quiz question #5:

Quiz: How Well Do You Know 2014’s Worst News?

hahaha!

I predict another lawsuit threat.

320 HappyWarrior  Dec 18, 2014 7:42:01am

re: #317 #FergusonFireside

The offering plate shows up every week already.

So they’re the Jehovah Witness’s of the technology world.

321 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 7:43:17am
322 HappyWarrior  Dec 18, 2014 7:43:21am

re: #314 The Vicious Babushka

Fair enough, I never heard of PewDiePie (I’m a Grandma!) this is not the first time they have used viral Internet memes as a basis for an episode.

Heh it’s all good. I just needed to clarify that since I unfortunately am very familiar with PewDiePie. I enjoyed this past season even if it was a little surreal- the whole subplot of Randy being Lorde but it was fun how all the episodes connected to each other.

323 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 7:43:41am

re: #308 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh…check out quiz question #5:

Quiz: How Well Do You Know 2014’s Worst News?

JHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!

Another lawsuit is on its way!

324 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 18, 2014 7:44:40am

re: #318 Dr. Matt

Do you see it…..?

[Embedded content]

yep!

325 #FergusonFireside  Dec 18, 2014 7:45:26am

re: #318 Dr. Matt

Do you see it…..?

Embedded Image

No? I just woke up tho.

??

326 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 7:45:45am

re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth

yep!

Congrats. Took me a lot longer!

327 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 18, 2014 7:46:26am

re: #326 Dr. Matt

Congrats. Took me a lot longer!

I had to enlarge the pic to make sure what it was.

328 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 7:46:52am

Ha! I was right. Rockwell did paint himself as one of the jurors.

I did a Google search for Rockwell The Jury and up came this link to his art with a page to The Jury:

Best Norman Rockwell Art - The Jury

Norman Rockwell decided to tackle the judicial process in this painting.

Ah, the smoke and tension filled jury room. Ah, the lone holdout juror. The lone holdout preventing a unanimous verdict is also the only woman.

Apparently all of the male jurors have voted the same verdict.

Drawing on all their powers of persuasion, they are trying to convince the lady to change her vote.

She is having nothing of it. Her body language shows that she has made up her mind and is not changing her vote.

I do not blame her. A jury can vote not just on the facts of the case, but also the law itself.

It is her duty to vote her conscience, just as it is the duty of all jury members.

This is another self-portrait since we can see Rockwell painted himself as one of the jurors.

We also see Louie Lamone, Rockwell’s friend, confidant and assistant, in the red shirt and jacket.

The female juror was modeled by Barbara Brooks. Her husband, Bob Brooks, was the model for the mustached man standing next to the sleeping juror.

Do you know names of any of the other jurors?

When I was in art school, one of my best friends was an illustrator and he was a Rockwell freak. He had a huge book of all of Rockwell’s great illustrations. I grew pretty familiar with Rockwell and I know his visage very well,

329 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 7:48:27am

re: #325 #FergusonFireside

No? I just woke up tho.

??

Get some caffeine in you and try again.

330 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 7:48:49am

re: #329 Dr. Matt

Get some caffeine in you and try again.

There’s a cat hiding somewhere?

331 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 18, 2014 7:49:39am

re: #330 The Vicious Babushka

There’s a cat hiding somewhere?

look for something creepy.

332 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 7:49:41am

re: #330 The Vicious Babushka

There’s a cat hiding somewhere?

Negatory,

333 Timothy Watson  Dec 18, 2014 7:50:58am

re: #330 The Vicious Babushka

No, not a cat. You might want to click to make it bigger too

334 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 18, 2014 7:51:12am
335 #FergusonFireside  Dec 18, 2014 7:51:26am

Dude under bed.

336 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 7:51:27am

re: #316 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Don’t convert to PDF! It sucks.

Hey now!

Adobe PDF has made things a lot better for getting your file into a stable format for printers to print from. It has been a god send for the printing industry and graphic artists far and wide.

Take it back buster! /

337 #FergusonFireside  Dec 18, 2014 7:52:37am

re: #336 ObserverArt

Hey now!

Adobe PDF has made things a lot better for getting your file into a stable format for printers to print from. It has been a god send for the printing industry and graphic artists far and wide.

Take it back buster! /

I use it every day. There was once a time when architecture plans were these huge rolls of paper.

338 HappyWarrior  Dec 18, 2014 7:52:41am

re: #334 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

That should be 1A, 1B, and !C.

339 FemNaziBitch  Dec 18, 2014 7:55:52am

WTFFFFFFFF!

340 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 7:55:52am

Besides reading about the RW freak out about Cuba on MMfA, there is a troll that dropped the biggest set of troll turds in the comments section 14 hours ago and the comments still stand. WTF.

Right-Wing Media Lash Out After Obama Announces Deal With Cuba

341 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 18, 2014 7:57:10am

re: #336 ObserverArt

Hey now!

Adobe PDF has made things a lot better for getting your file into a stable format for printers to print from. It has been a god send for the printing industry and graphic artists far and wide.

Take it back buster! /

Adobe PDF would be a real god send if more of the people who use it for forms learned how to make the necessary fields fillable.

342 lawhawk  Dec 18, 2014 7:57:59am

I’m dreaming of a Red Christmas…. /George RR Martin.

If George could make red the hot trendy thing at weddings, just imagine what he’d do for Christmas. /

343 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 7:58:00am

re: #340 Dr. Matt

Besides reading out the freak out about Cuba on MMfA, there is a troll that dropped the biggest set of troll turds in the comments section 14 hours ago and the comments still stand. WTF.

Right-Wing Media Lash Out After Obama Announces Deal With Cuba

Troll turds here or at mmfa?

344 Sionainn  Dec 18, 2014 7:58:44am

re: #335 #FergusonFireside

Dude under bed.

Now I see it.

345 lawhawk  Dec 18, 2014 7:58:56am

re: #340 Dr. Matt

Was the offending comments reported?

346 FemNaziBitch  Dec 18, 2014 7:59:23am

re: #341 Higgs Boson’s Mate

learned how to make the necessary fields fillable.

QFT

347 Dr. Matt  Dec 18, 2014 7:59:47am

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

Troll turds here or at mmfa?

Over at MMfA. Some of the most vile comments I have ever seen. I won’t even post the name of the troll because it’s obscene.

348 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 18, 2014 8:04:15am

re: #347 Dr. Matt

Over at MMfA. Some of the most vile comments I have ever seen. I won’t even post the name of the troll because it’s obscene.

So, it’s come to this: people are actually trolling the Montreal Museum of Fine Art.

349 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 8:06:19am

re: #341 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Adobe PDF would be a real god send if more of the people who use it for forms learned how to make the necessary fields fillable.

That too. It has all kinds of bells and whistles that can be added to documents. And those fields can also be used to report to a database or spreadsheet. Of course, with some work involved. ANd they keep adding stuff to it.

People sometimes don’t know how many functions some of the programs we use really have. I love Photoshop, but I swear, I have not used all the tools, filters, plug-ins etc, that are available. I doubt I have used 1/3 of them.

350 FemNaziBitch  Dec 18, 2014 8:09:27am

Sydney siege: Gun law debate begins in Australia

351 FemNaziBitch  Dec 18, 2014 8:10:45am

I tried to watch the 1st season of Blue Bloods last night.

It’s not a bad show, but it seems (er-well) a little white bread.

opinons?

353 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 18, 2014 8:12:39am
354 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 18, 2014 8:13:46am

re: #349 ObserverArt

That too. It has all kinds of bells and whistles that can be added to documents. And those fields can also be used to report to a database or spreadsheet. Of course, with some work involved. ANd they keep adding stuff to it.

People sometimes don’t know how many functions some of the programs we use really have. I love Photoshop, but I swear, I have not used all the tools, filters, plug-ins etc, that are available. I doubt I have used 1/3 of them.

True. I worked with Excel for years and even writing a simple macro usually evoked surprise from all but my canniest co-workers. “You can do that?” I do 3D modeling and some of the software for that is so fully-featured that you play hell getting to the things that you need.

355 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 18, 2014 8:14:00am

re:
#351

It’s not a bad show, but it seems (er-well) a little white bread.

Yup. Watched a few episodes, not terribly impressed.

356 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 18, 2014 8:15:17am
357 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 18, 2014 8:15:22am
We can prove the Sony Hack wasn’t done by North Koreans… Stay tuned to t.co.

Hasn’t Archmoron blogger Chuck c. Johnson moved on to doxing the American just released from Cuba?

/

358 HappyWarrior  Dec 18, 2014 8:16:10am

re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Fox News: We distort, you decide.

359 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 18, 2014 8:16:34am

re:
#356

Yeah but why didn’t he do it better with more Patriotism enthusiasm and American Exceptionalism?

///

360 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 8:16:51am

re: #357 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Hasn’t Archmoron blogger Chuck c. Johnson moved on to doxing the American just released from Cuba?

/

He begged for info but apparently isn’t getting anything of value to him because he’s so fucking stingy.

361 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 18, 2014 8:17:43am

re:
#360

He needs other people to give him the money AND the info. That’s the way the new Awardwinning Journalism is supposed to work.

//

362 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 8:19:07am

re: #358 HappyWarrior

Fox News: We distort, you decide.

If FOX News didn’t say it or show it…it didn’t happen! And it only happened the way they spin it.

/

Later all…out to do some errands, etc.

363 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 18, 2014 8:22:08am

re: #342 lawhawk

I’m dreaming of a Red Christmas…. /George RR Martin.

If George could make red the hot trendy thing at weddings, just imagine what he’d do for Christmas. /

Killer Christmas Trees and the Bloody Mummers are already set to go.

364 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 18, 2014 8:23:06am

re: #360 The Vicious Babushka

He begged for info but apparently isn’t getting anything of value to him because he’s so fucking stingy.

Cheap, hubristic and lazy. His life will go well - well into paroxysms of gibbering victimhood.

365 makeitstop  Dec 18, 2014 8:29:26am

re: #250 ObserverArt

Nice illustration. Very telling. And, he didn’t have to use a woman for that, but I understand why he did. He may have wanted a clear visual of difference. That could have been anyone that was sticking to their guns and not going with the group.

And I just noticed something. Did Norman put himself in the illustration, like Hitchcock used to appear in his films?

Look at the guy bent over standing just above the women’s head. Sure looks a bit like Rockwell.

Yep, that’s him.

The caption I thought of immediately was ‘Actually, it’s about ethics in gaming journalism’ due to the male/female quotient.

366 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 8:33:45am

re: #336 ObserverArt

Hey now!

Adobe PDF has made things a lot better for getting your file into a stable format for printers to print from. It has been a god send for the printing industry and graphic artists far and wide.

Take it back buster! /

As someone who used to deal with Quark and font folders, PDF is light years better. But it still sucks. Everything Adobe does sucks.

367 makeitstop  Dec 18, 2014 8:37:31am

re: #318 Dr. Matt

Do you see it…..?

Embedded Image

Still, nope.

I could never figure out what was so incriminating about that photo.

368 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 8:38:45am

re: #367 makeitstop

Still, nope.

I could never figure out what was so incriminating about that photo.

Same here.

369 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 18, 2014 8:39:27am

re: #367 makeitstop

re: #368 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I found it as soon as I stopped looking for a dildo.

370 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 8:41:01am

re: #369 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I found it as soon as I stopped looking for a dildo.

bwahahahaha

371 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 8:41:26am
372 #FergusonFireside  Dec 18, 2014 8:41:42am

re: #369 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I found it as soon as I stopped looking for a dildo.

Exactly.

373 Dave In Austin  Dec 18, 2014 8:42:04am

re: #369 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I found it as soon as I stopped looking for a dildo.

This is the part where someone sez something about “Great minds think alike” or something of the sort.

374 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 8:42:39am

re: #369 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I found it as soon as I stopped looking for a dildo.

And the question becomes, why did you *stop* looking for a dildo? :D

375 makeitstop  Dec 18, 2014 8:46:28am

re: #368 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Same here.

Actually, I just found it. I am disappoint.

376 NJDhockeyfan  Dec 18, 2014 8:49:56am
377 iossarian  Dec 18, 2014 8:53:16am

re: #341 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Adobe PDF would be a real god send if more of the people who use it for forms learned how to make the necessary fields fillable.

This x 1000

378 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 18, 2014 8:55:33am

re: #318 Dr. Matt

Do you see it…..?

Embedded Image

Maybe I’m seeing things, but is there a black person there? If that’s the goal, I found it more or less immediately.

379 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 8:58:44am

re: #318 Dr. Matt

OK SERIOUSLY WTF IS IT? THIS IS KILLING ME!

380 Bubblehead II  Dec 18, 2014 9:01:27am

re: #379 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

OK SERIOUSLY WTF IS IT? THIS IS KILLING ME!

Click to Reveal

Right hand corner of the bed. Between mattress and frame.

381 FemNaziBitch  Dec 18, 2014 9:06:35am

re: #352 The Vicious Babushka

They don’t seem to remember what event took place that caused Australia to ban guns in 1996.

“The Australian Constitution prevents the taking of property without just compensation, so the federal government introduced the Medicare Levy Amendment Act 1996 to raise the predicted cost of A$500 million through a one-off increase in the Medicare levy. The gun buy-back scheme started on 1 October 1996 and concluded on 30 September 1997.[24] The buyback purchased and destroyed more than 631,000 firearms, mostly semi-auto .22 rimfires, semi-automatic shotguns and pump-action shotguns. Only Victoria provided a breakdown of types destroyed, and in that state less than 3% were military style semi-automatic rifles.”

wonder how that would compare to the US …

382 FemNaziBitch  Dec 18, 2014 9:08:02am

re: #354 Higgs Boson’s Mate

True. I worked with Excel for years and even writing a simple macro usually evoked surprise from all but my canniest co-workers. “You can do that?” I do 3D modeling and some of the software for that is so fully-featured that you play hell getting to the things that you need.

ahhh, I remember writing essay sized macros in Lotus 1-2-3. Haven’t had a reason to make on in Excel—which came on the scene after I quit office-type work.

Us to do the Lotus work as a mere secretary.

383 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 9:08:17am

re: #381 FemNaziBitch

“The Australian Constitution prevents the taking of property without just compensation, so the federal government introduced the Medicare Levy Amendment Act 1996 to raise the predicted cost of A$500 million through a one-off increase in the Medicare levy. The gun buy-back scheme started on 1 October 1996 and concluded on 30 September 1997.[24] The buyback purchased and destroyed more than 631,000 firearms, mostly semi-auto .22 rimfires, semi-automatic shotguns and pump-action shotguns. Only Victoria provided a breakdown of types destroyed, and in that state less than 3% were military style semi-automatic rifles.”

wonder how that would compare to the US …

Oh wow and then they rounded up all the Australians and murdered them in extermination camps like this one:

384 FemNaziBitch  Dec 18, 2014 9:09:52am

re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

or eat more chocolate?????

385 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 9:10:19am

re: #380 Bubblehead II

[Embedded content]

Thank you!

386 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 18, 2014 9:11:18am

re: #383 The Vicious Babushka

Oh wow and then they rounded up all the Australians and murdered them in extermination camps like this one:

Embedded Image

THEY FED THEM TO SHARKS

387 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 9:12:10am

My asswipe governor proposes a TAX ON TEH POORS to pay for road repairs.
Fuck this guy sideways.

388 Bubblehead II  Dec 18, 2014 9:13:33am

re: #385 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Thank you!

Your welcome. :-)

389 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 9:13:48am

re: #387 The Vicious Babushka

My asswipe governor proposes a TAX ON TEH POORS to pay for road repairs.
Fuck this guy sideways.

[Embedded content]

I am shuddering for when Rauner takes the reins here. :(

390 FemNaziBitch  Dec 18, 2014 9:14:23am

HOW KEWL IS THIS?
Nervous System Repair:

391 FemNaziBitch  Dec 18, 2014 9:19:46am

Meanwhile, in Britain:

Post Conception Advice Services (PCAS)
Note: This advice is given by the CAP Executive about non-broadcast advertising. It does not constitute legal advice. It does not bind CAP, CAP advisory panels or the Advertising Standards Authority.

Post Conception Advice Services (PCAS) offer a range of services to women, including advice on health and well-being, contraception and the provision of ultrasound services, as well as advice about whether to continue with a pregnancy or have a termination.

Their version Crisis Pregnancy Centers (a/k/a we make sure those sluts are duly shamed and give up their babies for adoption instead of having abortions centers) have to follow certain advertising and disclosure rules.

392 FemNaziBitch  Dec 18, 2014 9:21:21am

Think they’d leave some for the rest of us!

393 FemNaziBitch  Dec 18, 2014 9:22:07am

re: #389 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I am shuddering for when Rauner takes the reins here. :(

me too

394 EmmaAnne  Dec 18, 2014 9:28:21am

re: #375 makeitstop

Actually, I just found it. I am disappoint.

Me too. I think it is an optical illusion.

395 Ace-o-aces  Dec 18, 2014 9:28:50am

I wonder if he realizes he’s saying the Cubans were right about Gross?

396 FemNaziBitch  Dec 18, 2014 9:29:13am

speaking of Adobe, the little icon has been bouncing on my screen —seems there is an update demanding installation.

397 FemNaziBitch  Dec 18, 2014 9:30:39am

re: #395 Ace-o-aces

[Embedded content]

I wonder if he realizes he’s saying the Cubans were right about Gross?

As I understand it, Cubans were right about a lot of things. Corruption etc on their island was a very real problem. We may not have agreed that Castro’s Way was the best way to solve it, but it was not our country.

398 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 9:30:43am

re: #396 FemNaziBitch

speaking of Adobe, the little icon has been bouncing on my screen —seems there is an update demanding installation.

There is ALWAYS a fucking update demanding installation! :P

399 FemNaziBitch  Dec 18, 2014 9:30:52am

bbl

400 lawhawk  Dec 18, 2014 9:34:44am

re: #387 The Vicious Babushka

The motor fuels tax will hit all drivers directly, and consumers indirectly with a hike in costs. A sales tax hits everyone, but poor disproportionately because it’s a greater percentage of their budget slated for items that are normally taxable.

That’s a huge conundrum with paying for infrastructure. Impose tax/fee on all users (user fees - tolls) or use broader based taxes (sales, income, property) to pay for roads. Both options are more likely to disproportionately cost the poor a greater percentage than someone who was wealthy or well off or comfortably in the middle class.

A surcharge on high income earners to cover infrastructure would help close, but not completely fund the road investments they’re talking about, but it wouldn’t add to the already high burden on the poor for roads.

This is all what happens when states and localities and the feds ignore infrastructure and problems add up over time. The massive road building from the 1950s-1960s leaves the US with infrastructure that is nearing the end of its design life, so it has to be replaced. That’s a bill that can’t be undone or ignored. Bridges fail. Water mains fail. Infrastructure has to be maintained, even if it’s hidden from view (like say a 2 mile stretch of the NYC water aqueducts that has to be replaced because of a 35 million gallon leak every day near the Hudson River). It isn’t cheap. But doing nothing is even more expensive.

401 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 9:35:33am
OMG I did not need to wake up to this

Imagine seeing this headline: Rick Santorum can do sex

402 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 9:38:34am

re: #400 lawhawk

This is all what happens when states and localities and the feds ignore infrastructure and problems add up over time. The massive road building from the 1950s-1960s leaves the US with infrastructure that is nearing the end of its design life, so it has to be replaced. That’s a bill that can’t be undone or ignored. Bridges fail. Water mains fail. Infrastructure has to be maintained, even if it’s hidden from view (like say a 2 mile stretch of the NYC water aqueducts that has to be replaced because of a 35 million gallon leak every day near the Hudson River). It isn’t cheap. But doing nothing is even more expensive.

Those taxes on the rich aren’t going to cut themselves!

403 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 9:41:35am

re: #394 EmmaAnne

Me too. I think it is an optical illusion.

I used the Chrome “Search Google for Image” tool (Right click on image, then choose Search Google for Image) and there is a larger version available. You can see the detail much better.

I think it may be too big to load in the images.

404 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 9:45:02am

re: #398 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

There is ALWAYS a fucking update demanding installation! :P

Since you are a big fan…what do you think of their current business model of how you ‘purchase’ their programs?

They bummed me out big time. I used to buy their CS packages and I never allowed pirating, etc. I haven’t been to their site in some time, I figure they are still in that mode. I hope they change it.

405 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 9:46:09am

re: #404 ObserverArt

Since you are a big fan…what do you think of their current business model of how you ‘purchase’ their programs?

They bummed me out big time. I used to buy their CS packages and I never allowed pirating, etc. I haven’t been to their site in some time, I figure they are still in that mode. I hope they change it.

CS6 was the last standalone release, now you have to buy a monthly subscription for $50.

406 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 9:49:34am

re: #405 The Vicious Babushka

CS6 was the last standalone release, now you have to buy a monthly subscription for $50.

Yeah…still the same. Bummer.

407 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 9:52:24am

Yeah but Founding Fathers thought it was OK to own human beings.
BTW Patrick Henry owned 78 slaves.

408 EPR-radar  Dec 18, 2014 9:54:28am

re: #192 goddamnedfrank

Another calculated thing about CCJ’s strategy of claiming certain knowledge about the Sony hack, it distracts people from the those lawsuits he promised he was filing against Politico and Gawker.

He strings people along from one outrageous position to another. He’s purposefully saying things that are inherently unknowable because the act itself is polarizing. His followers want to believe it, so they do, and the raw assertion becomes a kind of received knowledge and wisdom. The fact that it’s all opinion stated as certain fact becomes the shibboleth, they know exactly what they’re doing, but don’t dare admit to their own limitations for fear of being marked as an outsider. From CCJ’s point of view the intention is to remain controversial and a topic of discussion, no matter what. There’s no such thing as personal integrity, like Charlie Sheen, he’s “winning.”

CCJ’s entire life is a Gish gallop? Sounds about right to me.

409 retired cynic  Dec 18, 2014 9:55:37am

re: #389 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I am shuddering for when Rauner takes the reins here. :(

He doesn’t have the legislature. That’s the only thing I am holding on to.

410 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 18, 2014 10:02:36am

re:
#389

I am shuddering for when Rauner takes the reins here. :(

Which state is this?

411 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 10:03:29am

re: #410 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#389

Which state is this?

Illinois.

412 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 10:04:24am

re: #404 ObserverArt

Since you are a big fan…what do you think of their current business model of how you ‘purchase’ their programs?

They bummed me out big time. I used to buy their CS packages and I never allowed pirating, etc. I haven’t been to their site in some time, I figure they are still in that mode. I hope they change it.

It’s a logical extension of their dick move of updating their bloatware every 18 months. And it sucks.

413 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 10:06:45am

re: #403 ObserverArt

I used the Chrome “Search Google for Image” tool (Right click on image, then choose Search Google for Image) and there is a larger version available. You can see the detail much better.

I think it may be too big to load in the images.

I overlaid the detail form the larger image if anyone is still interested. Seems to be a big tweet thing going around.

Don’t Say Anything Tweet Image Going Around
414 makeitstop  Dec 18, 2014 10:07:53am

re: #405 The Vicious Babushka

CS6 was the last standalone release, now you have to buy a monthly subscription for $50.

I hate that they went to that Creative Cloud service. In addition to ‘buying’ Photoshop, you have to do their dumbass subscription grift.

I bought Photoshop Elements rather than send them all the moneys every month. It gets what I need for the web done, and I still have an install of Photoshop 7 installed on my machine for the heavier lifting.

415 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 18, 2014 10:08:09am

re: #413 ObserverArt

I overlaid the detail form the larger image if anyone is still interested. Seems to be a big tweet thing going around.

[Embedded content]

That must be a very small black person. A Black Hobbit maybe.

416 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 10:08:53am

re: #412 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

It’s a logical extension of their dick move of updating their bloatware every 18 months. And it sucks.

I agree. At least you could spend the $600 and have it cover you for a year or two, maybe more. Now they ding you for $600 every year.

417 retired cynic  Dec 18, 2014 10:09:01am

re: #415 The Vicious Babushka

Still looks like a cat to me! I must have cats on the brain.

418 lawhawk  Dec 18, 2014 10:09:42am

Appropos of the earlier conversation today involving Andrea Catsimatidis, it looks like she’s divorcing Chris Nixon Cox. Three years…

419 retired cynic  Dec 18, 2014 10:10:28am

re: #416 ObserverArt

I agree. At least you could spend the $600 and have it cover you for a year or two, maybe more. Now they ding you for $600 every year.

I use many of the Adobe products, so it is actually better for me, because I am always current. If you only want Photoshop, you can do it on the subscription, and it is only a small amount each month. You don’t need to do the full Suite.

420 klystron  Dec 18, 2014 10:10:52am

re: #413 ObserverArt

I prefer to think it’s that the two drawers on the bottom looks like a giant alien eating the sleeping bag.

421 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 10:14:31am

re: #415 The Vicious Babushka

That must be a very small black person. A Black Hobbit maybe.

Looks like a bushy eyebrow swarthy type. I notice a lot of the images seemed to be Russian or somewhere in the eastern Europe area. I think he appears dark due to the lighting, I don’t think he is Black.

I sort of wonder the background story to the whole thing. Was this image sent to the young ladies parents as a way of introduction or fooling with them?

I bet Chuck C. Johnson could get to the bottom of it all…and tell us why it means something bad politically!

422 Ace-o-aces  Dec 18, 2014 10:15:39am
423 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 18, 2014 10:16:23am

re: #415 The Vicious Babushka

That must be a very small black person. A Black Hobbit maybe.

It’s Mitt Romney hiding after his Telemundo interview.

424 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 10:17:42am

re: #419 retired cynic

I use many of the Adobe products, so it is actually better for me, because I am always current. If you only want Photoshop, you can do it on the subscription, and it is only a small amount each month. You don’t need to do the full Suite.

You are NEVER current. That’s the point of their business model and has been for years. Most ppl don’t need all the added shit they put in PhotoShop, or InDesign, and don’t even get me started on Flash or Dreamweaver.

Adobe has been shit for years, and the only reason they survive is because they have some patents and they bought Macromedia years ago.

(yes I hate them)

425 ObserverArt  Dec 18, 2014 10:18:44am

re: #420 klystron

I prefer to think it’s that the two drawers on the bottom looks like a giant alien eating the sleeping bag.

You have a great imagination!

I know you do needlepoint…have you ever tried to draw or paint? As with all basic art…it all starts with shapes. You seem to have a feel for what shapes can do. And your needlepoint work lets you get a feel for color and shapes and how they construct to make an image.

426 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 18, 2014 10:26:04am

re: #404 ObserverArt

Since you are a big fan…what do you think of their current business model of how you ‘purchase’ their programs?

They bummed me out big time. I used to buy their CS packages and I never allowed pirating, etc. I haven’t been to their site in some time, I figure they are still in that mode. I hope they change it.

The subscription model is catching on for 3D modeling and paint programs so I doubt that it’s going to go away. The price of both graphics and modeling software, even the price of upgrading, has risen to the point that many of us decided to make do with the version we had rather than pay dearly for a new version with a few added bells and whistles. The subscription model locks in the end user and guarantees the vendor a steady revenue stream with less sticker shock. Sucks for us, gravy for them.

I stopped trying to keep up and went open source (Blender) for my modeling. I use a relatively inexpensive (Under $200) program coupled with CS2 for texturing. That is more than adequate for a part-timer like me.

427 klystron  Dec 18, 2014 10:28:36am

re: #425 ObserverArt

You have a great imagination!

I know you do needlepoint…have you ever tried to draw or paint? As with all basic art…it all starts with shapes. You seem to have a feel for what shapes can do. And your needlepoint work lets you get a feel for color and shapes and how they construct to make an image.

I have, in the past, dabbled in actual art.

I get immensely frustrated because nothing looks right when I put it on paper.

I like my stitching because it avoids this issue and comes out fantastic. :D

428 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 18, 2014 10:30:07am

re: #426 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Sucks for us, gravy for them.

About sums it up. I use iPhoto, Pixelmator, or Gimp. None cost $600, which was bullshit to begin with.


This article has been archived.
Comments are closed.

Jump to top

Create a PageThis is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title, text, and any embedded video or audio files already filled in, ready to go.
Or... you can just click this button to open the Pages posting window right away.
Last updated: 2023-04-04 11:11 am PDT LGF User's Guide RSS Feeds

Help support Little Green Footballs!

Subscribe now for ad-free access!Register and sign in to a free LGF account before subscribing, and your ad-free access will be automatically enabled.

Donate with
PayPal Cash.app
Recent PagesClick to refresh
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ...
Cheechako
4 days ago
Views: 128 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ...
Cheechako
2 weeks ago
Views: 290 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1