Rolling Stone Asks Columbia Journalism School to Audit Their UVA Rape Story

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At the Washington Post, Erik Wemple reports that Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner is seeking the aid of Columbia Journalism School to do an independent audit of their botched story about rape at the University of Virginia: Rolling Stone Farms Out Review of U-Va. Rape Story to Columbia Journalism School.

Rolling Stone magazine has decided to enlist the Columbia Journalism School to audit its handling of a discredited Nov. 19 story about rape on the campus of the University of Virginia, according to a just-released statement from Editor and Publisher Jann S. Wenner, which reads as follows:

In RS 1223, Sabrina Rubin Erdely wrote about a brutal gang rape of a young woman named Jackie at a party in a University of Virginia frat house [“A Rape on Campus”]. Upon its publication, the article generated worldwide attention and praise for shining a light on the way the University of Virginia and many other colleges and universities across the nation have tried to sweep the issue of sexual assault on campus under the rug. Then, two weeks later, The Washington Post and other news outlets began to question Jackie’s account of the evening and the accuracy of Erdely’s reporting. Immediately, we posted a note on our website, disclosing the concerns. We have asked the Columbia Journalism School to conduct an independent review - headed by Dean Steve Coll and Dean of Academic Affairs Sheila Coronel - of the editorial process that led to the publication of this story. As soon as they are finished, we will publish their report.

I noticed our stalker pal Chuck C. Johnson tweeting about this:

OK. I don’t get it. Why is this supposed to be “pathetic?” It sounds like an excellent idea to have an independent review, and who better to do it than a renowned journalism academy? A teaching experience for all involved, if you will.

Seriously, why is this supposed to be a bad thing? It’s usually not difficult to see what wingnuts are getting at when they rant about something, but I’m drawing a blank on this one.

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390 comments
1 Dark_Falcon  Dec 22, 2014 5:34:00pm

I think UpChuck’s “argument” is as follows:

Giving the review to Columbia is WRONG because Columbia is RUN BY EEEVVILL PROGRESSIVES!!1 [poops on floor]

2 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 22, 2014 5:36:44pm

UpChuck feels that the job belonged to him and his crack team rather than some old J school.

3 b.d.  Dec 22, 2014 5:37:25pm

Anybody bother to tell Chuck that Columbia Journalism School isn’t located in Colombia?

4 lawhawk  Dec 22, 2014 5:37:52pm

Wait. I’ve got it. Because they give out the Pulitzer Prize. And he was hoping he’d be the one to get it because of doxxing some completely uninvolved woman after needlessly inserting himself into yet another story as an “expert” that is clueless about facts, law, or the issues involved.

5 Feline Overlord  Dec 22, 2014 5:38:36pm

Award-Winning Journalists don’t go to Journalism School where they have to learn about things like ethics and editors.

6 GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 22, 2014 5:39:21pm

Meanwhile, ChuckyPoo farms out all his stories to the likes of Roy G. Biv.

7 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 22, 2014 5:41:45pm

re: #6 GlutenFreeJesus

Meanwhile, ChuckyPoo farms out all his stories to the likes of Roy G. Biv.

Don’t forget ace correspondent Etaoin Shrdlu.

8 Skip Intro  Dec 22, 2014 5:42:29pm

Maybe UpChuck thinks it’s pathetic because he’d never stoop to that, no matter how wrong he was. Same goes for his mentor, DimJim Hoft.

9 ObserverArt  Dec 22, 2014 5:44:30pm

Do not try to understand the New Journalism.

Experience it. And then go with the impressions it leaves.

/

10 nearly-headless smith25  Dec 22, 2014 5:45:10pm

Why the hell am I a Bengals fan?

11 Justanotherhuman  Dec 22, 2014 5:46:48pm

re: #10 nearly-headless smith25

Why the hell am I a Bengals fan?

Why the hell does Chuck Johnson exist?

12 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 22, 2014 5:46:57pm

re: #10 nearly-headless smith25

Why the hell am I a Bengals fan?

Because you forgot the safe word?

13 Justanotherhuman  Dec 22, 2014 5:47:53pm

Keep calm and carry on, Lizards!

Later. : )

14 Dark_Falcon  Dec 22, 2014 5:48:44pm

re: #10 nearly-headless smith25

Why the hell am I a Bengals fan?

Because Steelers fans don’t like you? ;)

15 b.d.  Dec 22, 2014 5:50:19pm

GoatNews Exclusive! Must Credit GoatNews!

Photo of Rolling Stone’s favorite Colombia University

Pathetic!!!
16 b_sharp  Dec 22, 2014 5:50:52pm

‘Pathetic’ is Chuckie’s word of the day. He has to use it as many times as he can.

17 GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 22, 2014 5:52:33pm

re: #12 Higgs Boson’s Mate

CACAO!

18 Dark_Falcon  Dec 22, 2014 5:52:45pm

BBL

19 scottslemmons  Dec 22, 2014 5:52:58pm

Chuck thinks it’s pathetic because he thinks everything is pathetic. A guy with zero empathy naturally thinks that everything that isn’t himself is simply beneath contempt.

20 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 22, 2014 5:53:20pm

re: #16 b_sharp

‘Pathetic’ is Chuckie’s word of the day. He has to use it as many times as he can.

Fancy that: I didn’t know that there was a “for Dummies” version of A Word a Day.

21 ObserverArt  Dec 22, 2014 5:53:51pm

You know, this is just going to cause Chuck C to open up his own Charles C. Johnson School of New Journalism. And you can be sure he will do it better than any ol’ Columbia.

Just after he finishes taking down all current journalists and serves his two or three terms in Congress.

22 #FergusonFireside  Dec 22, 2014 6:02:11pm

Whatever the outcome, this will be the absolute best teaching tool the lucky ones who participate receive.

Anti O’Reilly’s. Anti Todd’s. There will be benefits hopefully.

23 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 22, 2014 6:02:46pm

re: #21 ObserverArt

I’ll wave to the students as I drive by in my 1960 Maserati Tipo 61.

24 A Cranky One  Dec 22, 2014 6:04:11pm

You little minds just don’t understand UpChuck. It’s pathetic because:
a real journalist would never publish information without careful verification;
a real journalist would never ask for advice or consult hacks like Columbia University; a real journalist would immediately admit to mistakes; a real journalist would be more interested in the facts and context than which victim can be doxxed for political or narcissistic reasons.

//

Which I guess is a concise way for UpChuck to admit he’s an unreal journalist.

25 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Dec 22, 2014 6:06:40pm

re: #4 lawhawk

Wait. I’ve got it. Because they give out the Pulitzer Prize. And he was hoping he’d be the one to get it because of doxxing some completely uninvolved woman after needlessly inserting himself into yet another story as an “expert” that is clueless about facts, law, or the issues involved.

He’ll be getting a Poopitzer any day now.

26 lockjawcanbefun  Dec 22, 2014 6:11:25pm

re: #10 nearly-headless smith25

Because it is still less misery-inducing than Bills fandom?

27 lawhawk  Dec 22, 2014 6:13:08pm

re: #26 lockjawcanbefun

You could always be a Jets fan. All of the trash talking. None of the rings to back it up.

28 b_sharp  Dec 22, 2014 6:14:01pm

So, American feetsball is still going on?

29 Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2014 6:16:32pm
30 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2014 6:17:23pm

re: #25 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

He’ll be getting a Poopitzer any day now.

He gets the Pullet Surprise!
Pullet Surprise

31 A Cranky One  Dec 22, 2014 6:22:23pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

No, that’s King Obama. It’s the country that’s Baroque!

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32 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2014 6:36:11pm
33 Mattand  Dec 22, 2014 6:43:54pm

re: #17 GlutenFreeJesus

CACAO!

I got that one.

34 dog philosopher  Dec 22, 2014 6:47:32pm

re: #28 b_sharp

So, American feetsball is still going on?

we’re the only country that plays foot ball with our hands

that’s why we park in the driveway

35 #FergusonFireside  Dec 22, 2014 6:48:10pm

re: #32 The Vicious Babushka

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Cause they were shit. Thank dog for the local micro brews. (I don’t drink beer, but observe the locals)

36 Belafon  Dec 22, 2014 6:49:48pm

re: #34 dog philosopher

Calling it the 11.25 inchball doesn’t sound right.

edited.

37 Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2014 6:49:51pm

Looks like corporations might want reparations.

39 #FergusonFireside  Dec 22, 2014 6:51:34pm

re: #35 #FergusonFireside

Cause they were shit. Thank dog for the local micro brews. (I don’t drink beer, but observe the locals)

Story on the local NPR today about growlers. Some bars will let you fill up, some won’t.

40 dog philosopher  Dec 22, 2014 6:54:37pm

re: #36 Belafon

Calling it the 11.25 inchball doesn’t sound right.

edited.

spheroid maguffin death match III?

41 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2014 6:55:31pm

Wingnuts are spamming this meme of a stupid occupy anarchist as “typical Democrat” but they get all pissy if you show them Eric Frein and “The Joker & Harley Quinn”

42 bratwurst  Dec 22, 2014 6:57:07pm
43 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 22, 2014 6:58:07pm

re: #42 bratwurst

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You realize that Obama could use a HAARP EMP weapon on North Korea… and no one would notice.
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44 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 22, 2014 7:03:35pm

re: #43 Feline Fearless Leader

You realize that Obama could use a HAARP EMP weapon on North Korea… and no one would notice.
///

The Norks have an EMP. They tested it on themselves.

45 teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2014 7:12:42pm

WILCO - “Muzzle of Bees” (Live)

46 b_sharp  Dec 22, 2014 7:13:28pm

re: #34 dog philosopher

we’re the only country that plays foot ball with our hands

that’s why we park in the driveway

But you also drive on the parkway.

And in Canuckistan football is played with the hands too.

47 b_sharp  Dec 22, 2014 7:14:35pm

Anybody know if the following vid is unedited?

NYC protesters chant for dead cops

48 bratwurst  Dec 22, 2014 7:17:46pm

re: #46 b_sharp

But you also drive on the parkway.

And in Canuckistan football is played with the hands too.

Not to mention Australian Rules Football…and Gaelic Football.

Once again, “American exceptionalism” proves to be an illusion.

49 Belafon  Dec 22, 2014 7:21:02pm

re: #48 bratwurst

Not to mention Australian Rules Football…and Gaelic Football.

Once again, “American exceptionalism” proves to be an illusion.

We can’t even be exceptionally wrong.

50 b_sharp  Dec 22, 2014 7:23:40pm

re: #49 Belafon

We can’t even be exceptionally wrong.

I disagree.

51 Kragar  Dec 22, 2014 7:24:27pm
52 dog philosopher  Dec 22, 2014 7:24:35pm

o well in most places it seems to me football is played mostly with the head

and then there’s that guy i dont know what he did wrong but they make him stand in a cage where people kick balls into his stomach

53 bratwurst  Dec 22, 2014 7:25:45pm

Baltimore Fox affiliate apologizes for “misleading edit” of protest chant.

“Fox45 is apologizing for an error made on Fox45 News at Ten last night,” the statement said.

“We aired a clip from a protest in Washington, DC where we reported protesters were chanting ‘kill a cop’. We received a phone call from Tawanda Jones, who is in the video, who informed us that the chant was actually ‘We won’t stop….We can’t stop…. ‘til killer cops…. are in cell blocks’.

Here is the original Gawker coverage. Something pathetic about explaining away slanderous fraud as an “error” or “misleading edit”…but better than nothing.

54 b_sharp  Dec 22, 2014 7:25:54pm

re: #52 dog philosopher

o well in most places it seems to me football is played mostly with the head

and then there’s that guy i dont know what he did wrong but they make him stand in a cage where people kick balls into his stomach

Nice that they only punish one player at a time, though.

55 jaunte  Dec 22, 2014 7:29:33pm

re: #53 bratwurst

That was no error, they altered the tape and reported the ‘kill a cop’ line as absolute fact.

“Although last night’s report reflected an honest misunderstanding of what the protesters were saying, we apologize for the error.”

Liars.

56 b_sharp  Dec 22, 2014 7:32:12pm

I posted a video above that was supposedly a different chant where a different march was calling for ‘dead cops’ rather than ‘kill a cop’ which is what the Fox News numbnuts tried to push.

I was hoping somebody had some info on whether that video had been edited.

57 Gus  Dec 22, 2014 7:32:36pm

re: #56 b_sharp

I posted a video above that was supposedly a different chant where a different march was calling for ‘dead cops’ rather than ‘kill a cop’ which is what the Fox News numbnuts tried to push.

I was hoping somebody had some info on whether that video had been edited.

I haz nothing.

58 jaunte  Dec 22, 2014 7:32:45pm


foxbaltimore.com

59 b_sharp  Dec 22, 2014 7:35:45pm

re: #57 Gus

I haz nothing.

I’m wondering how the videographer was able to get such clear audio on a phone from that distance.

60 jaunte  Dec 22, 2014 7:36:52pm

If the nice reporter lady tells you what you’re hearing, that’s what you’re inclined to hear.

61 teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2014 7:37:35pm
62 makeitstop  Dec 22, 2014 7:38:31pm

re: #58 jaunte

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foxbaltimore.com

If there were comments for that story, they turned ‘em off. Cowards.

63 jaunte  Dec 22, 2014 7:39:35pm

re: #62 makeitstop

That was fast, they were just there.

64 Gus  Dec 22, 2014 7:40:01pm

re: #59 b_sharp

I’m wondering how the videographer was able to get such clear audio on a phone from that distance.

I’m on my stupid Virgin mobile so I can’t watch. Might be good acoustics there considering the buildings. I also never put past the ability for some protesters to be stupid. Could go either way from my blind spot.

65 makeitstop  Dec 22, 2014 7:40:52pm

re: #63 jaunte

That was fast, they were just there.

I’m not seeing comments, or even a link to comments, unless I’m going blind. :)

66 jaunte  Dec 22, 2014 7:41:48pm

re: #65 makeitstop

That link in my comment at 58 used to go to the story with comments, but the comments, they are gone.

67 jaunte  Dec 22, 2014 7:42:00pm

Disappeart.

68 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 22, 2014 7:42:20pm

re: #42 bratwurst

Make fun of Kim all you want. He does have a state-of-the-art stereo system:

69 makeitstop  Dec 22, 2014 7:42:29pm

re: #67 jaunte

Disappeart.

That’s some cowardly shit, right there. Good thing you saved them.

70 jaunte  Dec 22, 2014 7:44:20pm

re: #69 makeitstop

Well, now they’re back:
foxbaltimore.com

71 dog philosopher  Dec 22, 2014 7:45:30pm

re: #68 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Make fun of Kim all you want. He does have a state-of-the-art stereo system:

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want!

72 b_sharp  Dec 22, 2014 7:45:44pm

re: #66 jaunte

That link in my comment at 58 used to go to the story with comments, but the comments, they are gone.

I’m so sorry to hear that.

I’m sure there will be more comments somewhere that you can read.

73 b_sharp  Dec 22, 2014 7:46:41pm

re: #70 jaunte

Well, now they’re back:
foxbaltimore.com

There you go. Now you don’t have to sound so disappointed.

74 jaunte  Dec 22, 2014 7:46:49pm

re: #72 b_sharp

There’s one now.

75 jaunte  Dec 22, 2014 7:47:46pm

Now it’s gone.

76 makeitstop  Dec 22, 2014 7:49:33pm

re: #70 jaunte

Well, now they’re back:
foxbaltimore.com

Huh. Weird.

Betcha they disappear again.

77 b_sharp  Dec 22, 2014 7:49:38pm

re: #75 jaunte

Now it’s gone.

You are having such a bad night.

78 jaunte  Dec 22, 2014 7:50:00pm

re: #77 b_sharp

You’re back!!!

79 teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2014 7:52:03pm

What say the Lizards?

80 makeitstop  Dec 22, 2014 7:53:00pm

re: #79 teleskiguy

What say the Lizards?

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The Spurs item is so full of win.

81 b_sharp  Dec 22, 2014 7:55:16pm

re: #78 jaunte

You’re back!!!

Where?

82 b_sharp  Dec 22, 2014 7:56:00pm

re: #79 teleskiguy

What say the Lizards?

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Paved roads.

83 Kragar  Dec 22, 2014 7:58:06pm

re: #79 teleskiguy

84 teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2014 7:59:27pm

Since it started snowing yesterday favored aspects of the sub-alpine mountains near where I live have received about two feet of snow.

85 teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2014 8:10:01pm
86 Lancelot Link  Dec 22, 2014 8:10:20pm

re: #79 teleskiguy

*BEER

87 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 22, 2014 8:12:27pm

re: #79 teleskiguy

What say the Lizards?

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Duct tape

88 Kragar  Dec 22, 2014 8:22:32pm
89 Gus  Dec 22, 2014 8:29:38pm

re: #88 Kragar

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Saw that.

90 b_sharp  Dec 22, 2014 8:29:53pm

Goodnight lizards, I’m all bored out.

91 teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2014 8:32:34pm
Just chillin’.
92 Gus  Dec 22, 2014 8:32:48pm

re: #90 b_sharp

Goodnight lizards, I’m all bored out.

Copy. :D

93 Kragar  Dec 22, 2014 8:34:42pm
94 #FergusonFireside  Dec 22, 2014 8:36:10pm

re: #85 teleskiguy

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Minimum wage drones. gah

95 Gus  Dec 22, 2014 8:48:05pm
96 Gus  Dec 22, 2014 8:49:08pm

Woot!

97 darthstar  Dec 22, 2014 8:59:02pm
98 darthstar  Dec 22, 2014 9:00:08pm

re: #85 teleskiguy

Hey! That’s my box over there!

99 teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2014 9:00:41pm

My father and my season-tickets-holding sister are fuming right now. Another reason I don’t watch football anymore, watching loved ones act totally bipolar every Sunday during the fall and early winter gets tiring.

100 Kragar  Dec 22, 2014 9:04:35pm
101 Kragar  Dec 22, 2014 9:09:17pm
102 GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 22, 2014 9:23:05pm
103 Gus  Dec 22, 2014 9:25:15pm
104 Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2014 9:28:03pm
105 Kragar  Dec 22, 2014 9:31:28pm
106 darthstar  Dec 22, 2014 9:32:35pm

re: #104 Charles Johnson

Alive…dead…what’s the difference? Oh, wait…there’s that whole pulse thing…and breathing.

107 darthstar  Dec 22, 2014 9:33:57pm
108 Shiplord Kirel  Dec 22, 2014 9:36:31pm

re: #48 bratwurst

Not to mention Australian Rules Football…and Gaelic Football.

Once again, “American exceptionalism” proves to be an illusion.

Hah! I can settle this:

If you hear a recorded conversation in which a couple of blokes were talking about football, and the conversation was taking place on THE MOON, which version did they mean?

Of course, many RWNJs do not believe the Moon landings happened at all so this may not be much use to them.

109 darthstar  Dec 22, 2014 9:37:52pm

re: #48 bratwurst

Not to mention Australian Rules Football…and Gaelic Football.

Once again, “American exceptionalism” proves to be an illusion.

Aussie Rules football takes endurance and the ability to play while bleeding. Nobody on those teams weighs much more than 200lbs.

110 De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2014 9:42:57pm
The Great Successor/Brilliant Leader personally leading the search for North Korea’s missing internet
111 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 22, 2014 9:47:36pm

BREAKING:
Hackers release entire content of North Korean internet.
Hackers have released the entire content of North Korea’s internet. The 226 MB download…

112 teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2014 9:54:32pm

re: #107 darthstar

Don’t encourage UpChuck. He’ll read that and think he’ll be booked before Valentine’s Day.

113 teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2014 9:54:37pm
114 Kragar  Dec 22, 2014 10:00:11pm

re: #113 teleskiguy

Santa is fueled by supernatural evil. He needs no sleigh

115 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 22, 2014 10:08:11pm

North Korea is back online.

116 teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2014 10:10:02pm
117 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 22, 2014 10:18:32pm

re: #116 teleskiguy

“Atlas Fracked”

118 De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2014 10:20:02pm

re: #114 Kragar

GIFT ME OR BE BANISHED FOREVER! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!
119 De Kolta Chair  Dec 22, 2014 10:22:40pm
No comment
120 gwangung  Dec 22, 2014 10:26:00pm

Top NYPD minority officer resigns.

Hmmmmm.

121 teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2014 10:55:39pm

Look at all those tools of destruction. To be honest, I’ve never seen a picture with so many guns in it until now. Is it my youth, my internet facespace knowhow, my indifference as well as aversion to guns?

Agence France Presse deleted the tweet.

122 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Dec 22, 2014 11:55:13pm

re: #34 dog philosopher

we’re the only country that plays foot ball with our hands

that’s why we park in the driveway

It’s called handegg for a reason.

123 Kragar  Dec 23, 2014 12:17:09am

re: #122 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

It’s called handegg for a reason.

124 Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 23, 2014 12:40:17am

re: #123 Kragar

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Too close to ‘bananas’. They feared confusion.

125 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 23, 2014 1:39:59am

re: #123 Kragar

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American exceptionalism.

Which means, the rest of the world does X, except us.

126 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 23, 2014 1:48:56am

re: #124 Blind Frog Belly White

Too close to ‘bananas’. They feared confusion.

Yes, we have no “ananas”

127 Lancelot Link  Dec 23, 2014 3:17:01am

re: #123 Kragar

128 syphonblue  Dec 23, 2014 4:24:14am

Because it’s somebody taking responsibility and accountability for themselves, and you know how conservatives hate to do that.

129 alpuzzzzz (I, R & sometimes why?)  Dec 23, 2014 4:49:10am

re: #32 The Vicious Babushka

heh. I’m really not sure what to make of that vid. Micro breweries are like piranhas? Ok. That’s why the big guys control the shelves and distribution across the U.S.

Normally I’m not about smacking the messenger, but that dude could use a nutpunch.

130 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 23, 2014 5:08:44am

re: #129 alpuzzzzz (I, R & sometimes why?)

Nor does it go into the history of the major breweries buying up smaller ones and putting them out of business…

131 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 23, 2014 5:18:26am
132 wrenchwench  Dec 23, 2014 5:22:51am
133 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 23, 2014 5:30:49am
134 Belafon  Dec 23, 2014 5:33:18am

re: #109 darthstar

Aussie Rules football takes endurance and the ability to play while bleeding. Nobody on those teams weighs much more than 200lbs.

I’ve seen this argument before. It’s sort of like arguing that marathon runners are better than sprinters. Just different requirements. American football players are conditioned to start two feet from a brick wall, reach full speed in one foot, and resist the urge to slow down, running full force into the wall.

135 Varek Raith  Dec 23, 2014 5:34:02am

re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That is absolutely pathetic.
XD

136 KerFuFFler  Dec 23, 2014 5:36:24am

re: #134 Belafon

I’ve seen this argument before. It’s sort of like arguing that marathon runners are better than sprinters. Just different requirements. American football players are conditioned to start two feet from a brick wall, reach full speed in one foot, and resist the urge to slow down, running full force into the wall.

What a great idea for a game!//

137 Belafon  Dec 23, 2014 5:41:03am

re: #136 KerFuFFler

It’s very American.

138 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 23, 2014 5:41:09am

re: #136 KerFuFFler

What a great idea for a game inducing permanent brain damage!

139 makeitstop  Dec 23, 2014 5:41:28am

re: #120 gwangung

Top NYPD minority officer resigns.

Hmmmmm.

That happened in October. It did cause a stir back then, though.

140 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 5:42:30am

Wow this is SO FUCKING DUMB==>

141 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 5:43:39am

If Scrooge was a “Liberal” then how come everything he says is something you hear coming out of Conservative mouths?

These people take “turnspeak” to a whole new level.

142 Belafon  Dec 23, 2014 5:45:43am

re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

When I was in the Navy in Virginia, you could tell it was one of the sweep months because at least one evening news would do a week long story on the dangers of soccer, specifically head injuries caused by the soccer ball and how heading needed to be banned for kids or they needed to wear helmets.

143 Belafon  Dec 23, 2014 5:46:57am

re: #140 The Vicious Babushka

Wait until THEY put out a story claiming Jesus was a liberal.

144 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 23, 2014 5:50:00am

re: #141 The Vicious Babushka

If Scrooge was a “Liberal” then how come everything he says is something you hear coming out of Conservative mouths?

These people take “turnspeak” to a whole new level.

Agree with them about how he TURNED INTO A LIBERAL because his conscience rebelled at being the conservative the Ghosts showed him to be.

145 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 5:50:19am

Rand Paul wants us to know he’s hip & stuff:

146 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 5:51:28am

re: #144 William Barnett-Lewis

Agree with them about how he TURNED INTO A LIBERAL because his conscience rebelled at being the conservative the Ghosts showed him to be.

Charles Dickens was a Liberal Communist.
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147 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 5:54:12am
Pathetic. RT Rolling Stone farms out review of U-Va. rape story to Columbia Journalism School

Yes. RS should have farmed out review of their UVA story to Breitbart News or Drudge, or Chuck c Johnson, award-winning journalist. ////

148 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 5:55:34am

I delved into the darkness and read that article which claims SCROOGE WAS TEH LIBRUL!!!!!! and here is the Proofs:

1. Scrooge scoffed at religion
2. Scrooge was in favor of “Big Government” taking care of the poor and homeless (“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”)

QED

149 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 5:56:01am

re:
#140

Scrooge Was A Liberal, Studies Show

Well, duh. Scrooge hated Christmas and the baby Jesus. ///

150 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 5:57:25am

re:
#148

2. Scrooge was in favor of “Big Government” taking care of the poor and homeless (“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”)

It’s true: liberals love prisons and workhouses. ///

151 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 23, 2014 5:57:32am

re: #140 The Vicious Babushka

Wow this is SO FUCKING DUMB==>

Scrooge Was A Liberal, Studies Show

They read Dickens like they read the Bible; take a few isolated quotes out of context and run with ‘em…

That is not “study”, that is cherrypicking.

152 b.d.  Dec 23, 2014 5:57:34am

re: #140 The Vicious Babushka

Wow this is SO FUCKING DUMB==>

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I’m not going to read that garbage but let me see:
*Scrooge’s refusal to put more coal on the fire meant he believed in climate change.
*Wanting to know if his taxes went to pay for prisons and workhouses obviously meant he loved paying taxes and wanted a big government.
*He refused to say Merry Christmas
* Tiny Tim’s fate would have been decided by a Victorian death panel

153 Dr. Matt  Dec 23, 2014 5:58:41am
154 darthstar  Dec 23, 2014 6:00:18am

re: #134 Belafon

I’ve seen this argument before. It’s sort of like arguing that marathon runners are better than sprinters. Just different requirements. American football players are conditioned to start two feet from a brick wall, reach full speed in one foot, and resist the urge to slow down, running full force into the wall.

American football is completely choreographed. The walls have been part of the evolution of the sport. The NFL used to be about agility. Now it’s about getting your big guys to dislodge the other big guys so a little guy can squeak through.

Rookie weights over time:

regressing.deadspin.com

155 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 6:00:33am

re:
#153

Blood on the hands of the
#NRA

Too soon after murders to talk about gun control.

//

156 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 23, 2014 6:01:07am

re: #153 Dr. Matt

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He would’ve just bought one illegally…

157 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 6:02:26am

re: #152 b.d.

158 Timothy Watson  Dec 23, 2014 6:04:00am

re: #140 The Vicious Babushka

Wow this is SO FUCKING DUMB==>

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It’s Investors Business Daily, they’re worse than Breitbart usually.

159 Dr. Matt  Dec 23, 2014 6:04:04am

re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

He would’ve just bought one illegally…

And let’s remove speed limits on the highway because people still exceed the posted speed.

And let’s legalize murder because still murder people.

And let’s legalize heroine and crack because people still will use heroine and crack.

And let’s legalize bestiality because people still will fuck their farm animals.

160 Dr. Matt  Dec 23, 2014 6:07:08am
161 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 6:07:13am

re: #68 Higgs Boson’s Mate

That’d make for a killer steampunk DJ turntable. Seriously.

162 Dr. Matt  Dec 23, 2014 6:09:23am

re: #83 Kragar

Great. Thanks. Ronnie James Dio will now be stuck in my head all day long (which isn’t a terrible thing).

163 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 6:11:32am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. If your morning ritual involves using a Keurig, take note. They’ve issued a recall on one of their models because of a burn hazard.

Keurig Green Mountain is recalling more than 6.6 million hot beverage-brewing machines in the United States that could overheat liquids and burn users.

Keurig says its Mini Plus Brewing Systems, with model number K10, can overheat and spray water during brewing. Keurig says it had received about 200 reports of hot liquid escaping from the brewer, including 90 reports of burn-related injuries.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission released details on the recall Tuesday. The recalled brewers have an identification number starting with “31” printed on the bottom. They were sold online and in stores in the U.S. and Canada between 2009 and 2014.

Consumers are being urged to call Keurig Green Mountain Inc. of Waterbury, Vermont, at [no phone numbers allowed] to arrange for free repair.

164 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 23, 2014 6:13:18am
165 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 23, 2014 6:15:14am

re: #159 Dr. Matt

And let’s legalize bestiality because people still will fuck their farm animals. will still practice homosexuality, which we all know leads to bestiality

166 Romantic Heretic  Dec 23, 2014 6:18:57am

Morning all.

I think today is going to be cut off from the world. The news these days, and more importantly the way the battle lines are being drawn, is depressing me beyond words.

As Poul Anderson said on occasion, “We had it good, you and I. But I weep of our children.”

Later.

167 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 6:19:44am
168 b.d.  Dec 23, 2014 6:22:14am

re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I want one of those panda dogs

169 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 6:26:24am

U.S. Supreme Court will hold oral arguments March 4 on Halbig - the subsidies case that the right wing hopes will gut and filet the ACA.

170 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 23, 2014 6:27:55am

re: #169 lawhawk

U.S. Supreme Court will hold oral arguments March 4 on Halbig - the subsidies case that the right wing hopes will gut and filet the ACA.

And Americans will cheer and rejoice for an America free of death panels, government over-interference in the market and its resultant affordable health care.

171 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 23, 2014 6:30:37am

re: #168 b.d.

I want one of those panda dogs

me, too!

172 Dr. Matt  Dec 23, 2014 6:31:08am

The New York Cop Killer Was Arrested 19 Times. Why Was He Able to Get a Gun

newrepublic.com: It’s likely that Brinsely’s gun came from outside the state, too. Though New York and Maryland require background checks on all gun sales, the black market in both is “fueled by weaker gun laws on secondary market sales in other states,” says Arkadi Gerney, a gun violence expert at the Center for American Progress. In such cases, a would-be shooter can buy weapons at gun shows or from private sellers, no questions asked. Such a sale could occur in front of a police officer, out of the trunk of a car, and the officer would have no grounds to interrupt. It should be harder.

173 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 6:34:20am

re:
#172

In such cases, a would-be shooter can buy weapons at gun shows or from private sellers, no questions asked.

Sadly, nothing can be done to prevent this, but RWNJ like Bryan Fisher would like the government to arrest thousands of people who produce or view pornography, just like that great human rights country, China, does.

//

174 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 23, 2014 6:34:38am

re: #153 Dr. Matt

Funny how they can influence the majority of Congress but only 5 or 10 percent of gun owners, and even fewer people who don’t own a gun but shoot with friends.

Not arguing with you at all, pointing out how non representative the legislature has become. $$$$$$$$$

Ever seen those football stats that equate odd things like an interception is worth x points statistically? In Congress-How much cash does it take to offset a vote $100? $10?

175 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 6:36:37am

re: #172 Dr. Matt

The Iron Pipeline from the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia are a major source of all firearms used in crimes in NYC. 90% of guns used in crimes in NYC came from states not named NY.

176 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 6:37:31am

DOW 18000!!!!!!!!!!

OK, it dipped below again, but three cheers to President Romney for restoring the greatness of American hypercapitalism!!!11
//

177 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 23, 2014 6:37:55am

The Dow has crossed the 18,000 mark for the first time, yet another sign of how totally ineffective Obama is as a socialist president.

178 darthstar  Dec 23, 2014 6:38:13am
President Obama is the worst socialist ever…
179 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 6:40:12am

Chicago faces a similar Iron Pipeline, with guns funneling in from the South and Midwest, where gun laws are far more lax than in Illinois or Chicago proper. 60% of firearms recovered during crimes are from out of state there.

180 Dr. Matt  Dec 23, 2014 6:41:06am
181 darthstar  Dec 23, 2014 6:41:41am
182 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 23, 2014 6:43:09am

re: #180 Dr. Matt

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Those CEO’s might have a hand in it….

183 Amory Blaine  Dec 23, 2014 6:44:22am

My access to capital needs to be suspended until further notice. I’ve been naughty.

184 Dr. Matt  Dec 23, 2014 6:44:30am

Dow at an all-time high.
Gas prices at a 5-year low.
Unemployment at a 6-year low.
5% GDP growth.

Remind me again why the Dems keep losing elections?

185 darthstar  Dec 23, 2014 6:48:08am
186 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 23, 2014 6:49:01am

re: #184 Dr. Matt

Dow at an all-time high.
Gas prices at a 5-year low.
Unemployment at a 6-year low.
5% GDP growth.

Remind me again why the Dems keep losing elections?

Because they have lost control of the narrative.

187 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 6:49:03am

re:
#184

EBOLA!!!!!1 ISIS!!!!!!1 Hates White America!!!!111

188 darthstar  Dec 23, 2014 6:50:05am

re: #186 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Because they have lost control of the narrative.

And success is boring. Where’s the drama? The heartache? The uncertainty?

189 Dave In Austin  Dec 23, 2014 6:50:21am

Excellent Spam

Beware of the Doghouse- Hilarious!

190 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Dec 23, 2014 6:51:35am

re: #184 Dr. Matt

Dow at an all-time high.
Gas prices at a 5-year low.
Unemployment at a 6-year low.
5% GDP growth.

Remind me again why the Dems keep losing elections?

Because they seem incapable of taking credit for such things.

191 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 6:54:30am

Rand Paul is airing grievances.

192 b.d.  Dec 23, 2014 6:54:35am

BalloonJuice found this tweet:

balloon-juice.com

193 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 6:55:27am
194 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 6:55:37am

re:
#192

“That’s not true!!! Take that back! You suck!! Arglebargle!!!!1”

195 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 6:56:30am

re:
#191

I wonder if he’ll complain about gas prices, unemployment, the stock market, or economic growth?

196 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 6:56:43am

re: #193 The Vicious Babushka

That is what the binoculars were for. They were for spotting the break in the copper line. And for shooting the worker who didn’t fix it fast enough.

197 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 6:57:39am

re: #195 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#191

I wonder if he’ll complain about gas prices, unemployment, the stock market, or economic growth?

The numbers are invented. They don’t reflect the real America. We’re suffering. Suffering! Millions are getting health insurance and being forced to wait to see a doctor. Just you watch.

198 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 6:59:16am

re: #197 lawhawk

The numbers are invented. They don’t reflect the real America. We’re suffering. Suffering! Millions are getting health insurance and being forced to wait to see a doctor. Just you watch.

199 Dr. Matt  Dec 23, 2014 6:59:34am

Rep. Grimm (R-asshole) To Plead Guilty To One Felony Count

This is the same POS of representative who physically threatened the NY1 reporter earlier this year

200 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 23, 2014 6:59:49am

re: #197 lawhawk

The numbers are invented. They don’t reflect the real America. We’re suffering. Suffering! Millions are getting health insurance and being forced to wait to see a doctor. Just you watch.

There is the fact that the subjective sense of recovery has not arrived for a lot of Americans. And it is not happening in the manner we expected, namely that massive tax cuts would generate investment and create secure. well-paid jobs with benefits.

201 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 7:03:30am

re:
#198

I’m just glad and proud that no teaparty Americans have resorted to the use of food stamps. //

202 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 7:05:15am

re: #172 Dr. Matt

The New York Cop Killer Was Arrested 19 Times. Why Was He Able to Get a Gun

Yet it’s all Obama and DiBlaiso’s fault not you know lax gun laws.

203 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 7:05:26am

But too many people on Food Stamps!!! Obama=Food Stamp president!!!111

204 Dr. Matt  Dec 23, 2014 7:07:36am

As good as the economic indicators are right now, imagine what they could be if we didn’t have a Congress led by a party that spent the last 6 years trying to bring down the President versus trying to improve the country.

205 b.d.  Dec 23, 2014 7:09:19am

The Glendale, CA Elks Lodge is investigating a shocking incident that went down in the club a week ago Monday, when a performer sang a song celebrating the death of Michael Brown … for an audience that included a number of retired and current cops … and TMZ has the video.

The song was a parody of “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.”

Read more: tmz.com

But this is different somehow!

Someone who was at the event videotaped it because they were offended by the song and upset no one was objecting.

206 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 7:11:21am

re: #205 b.d.

But this is different somehow!

Jim Croce would be pissed if he knew that his song was being used this way. Fuck these fuckers. Fuckers have the nerve to accuse Obama, DiBlasio, Sharpton, etc of stirring up violence against cops yet these people are all too happy to actually celebrate Michael Brown’s death and mock Eric Garner.

207 Dr. Matt  Dec 23, 2014 7:12:41am

re: #205 b.d.

Just a matter of time before Rush starts using that song as bumper music.

208 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 23, 2014 7:12:48am

re: #205 b.d.

But this is different somehow!

“You libs just can’t take a joke is all. They were just having some fun.”

I would damn that performer but, singing at the Elks lodge is damnation.

209 Amory Blaine  Dec 23, 2014 7:15:00am

American beer is full of adjunct garbage. Namly rice sugar and corn sugar. This is an abomination that I recognized even at the tender age of 14. Marketting divisions make beer not craftsmen.

210 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 7:15:01am

re: #208 Higgs Boson’s Mate

But this is different somehow!

“You libs just can’t take a joke is all. They were just having some fun.”

“We’re just against political correctness, okay.” But they of course would flip their shit if one were to sing NWA’s Fuck the Police because that’s worse ya know.

211 Eventual Carrion  Dec 23, 2014 7:17:52am

re: #169 lawhawk

U.S. Supreme Court will hold oral arguments March 4 on Halbig - the subsidies case that the right wing hopes will gut and filet the ACA.

Yet we will still continue to subsidize big oil. Priorities people.

212 b.d.  Dec 23, 2014 7:18:39am

re: #210 HappyWarrior

“We’re just against political correctness, okay.” But they of course would flip their shit if one were to sing NWA’s Fuck the Police because that’s worse ya know.

FoxNews has to doctor audio to come up with some outrage while this thing is real and will get brushed aside by the rwnjs.

213 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 7:19:34am

[facepalm]

Argumentum WTF?

Because the US FAA operates an air traffic system and wants to prevent mid air collisions, we’re suddenly comparing the UAV airstrikes against terrorists overseas with what kids should be doing with the mini drones they’re getting for Christmas?

ID-10T error.

214 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 7:19:50am

re: #212 b.d.

FoxNews has to doctor audio to come up with some outrage while this thing is real and will get brushed aside by the rwnjs.

Yep. Pretty telling huh.

215 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 7:21:58am

Festivus for the rest of us:

Ah, the airing of grievances. If he likes the street grid the way it is, maybe he should go to those community board meetings.

And for the record - the street grid isn’t changing one bit. New streets aren’t being created or destroyed. The traffic patterns are being adjusted to reflect fact that more people are walking and bicycling than ever, and streets are public space for everyone. Car drivers make up the smallest percentage of road users in Manhattan. Buses, bicyclists, and pedestrians are a larger figure, but use less road than the cars.

216 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 23, 2014 7:29:17am

re: #215 lawhawk

What’s Podhoretz’ gripe? Modern technology has enabled him to spread bile and bullshit from any location. It isn’t as if he has to commute to work.

217 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 7:38:38am

What is this
I just can’t even

218 Dr. Matt  Dec 23, 2014 7:44:09am

re: #217 The Vicious Babushka

219 b.d.  Dec 23, 2014 7:45:21am

re: #217 The Vicious Babushka

What is this
I just can’t even

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Erick must have gotten a hold of some bad eggnog

220 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 23, 2014 7:47:04am

re: #217 The Vicious Babushka

Is there a stronger expression than WTF? That one is inadequate to describe the What-The-Fuckness of Erick².

221 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 7:52:20am

re: #220 Higgs Boson’s Mate

222 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 23, 2014 7:53:57am

re: #219 b.d.

Erick must have gotten a hold of some bad eggnog

There was recently an article in Salon about the role that rape plays in a lot of the world’s religions, including Christianity. He just wants to point out that Christianity is not about angels raping teenagers, it is about God fulfilling his Promise

223 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 7:54:14am
224 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 7:54:17am

In a moment of win:

And yes, that’s not the real GRRM. This is: twitter.com

225 Kryptik  Dec 23, 2014 7:59:46am

re: #184 Dr. Matt

Because policies don’t actually matter. Facts don’t actually matter. It’s all about, labels, narratives and ‘feelings’. And the more you try and point out ‘your worldview is almost completely the opposite of what’s actually happening in reality’, the more people double-down on their worldview and insist, no, it’s the FACTS that are wrong. It’s the Backfire Effect, and it’s what keeps me generally despondent about any kind of progress in this country. When lies are more seductive than truth, and the electorate seems to swallow up anything coming from the right wing while anything from the left is shown with indifference at best and venomous contempt at worst, I just really don’t know where we’ll go.

People just seem desperate to let the fuckers who set the couch fire own the house and kick out a model tenant for not cleaning up the scorch markings.

226 Dr. Matt  Dec 23, 2014 8:00:26am
227 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 8:02:09am
228 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 8:08:41am

Pants. On. Fire.

Just like most of the right wing talking points when it comes to the way they’re reporting/analyzing/reciting what Democrats have said/done re: officer-involved shootings and the assassination of two NYPD cops.

229 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 8:10:02am
230 Kryptik  Dec 23, 2014 8:14:27am

re: #228 lawhawk

For all that the debunking means. We’ve seen the movie time and time again: outrageous claim taken on its face, front page news for 3 months. The debunkings and corrections of said outrageous claim, with only minimal research needed to put paid to them? Not even section A of the news paper, not even 5 minutes on cable news. Maybe a one-line correction on a future story.

There’s no actual consequence to bullshit these days, at worst it turns into ‘both sides same thing’. Meanwhile, folks like Obama and de Blasio can tell the truth about what a black man or the parent of a black child has to go through, and it becomes “THEY TOLD EVERYONE TO KILL COPS, LIBERAL RACIST PSYCHOPATHS, BURN THEM!!!” to what feels like the entire fucking country at this point.

Just….holy shit, the freakout is just so toxic and demoralizing, both in the craziness, and how widespread it exploded. Just…how do you move forward when more than half the country reacts like this and a good quarter of the country pulls the ‘both sides same thing’ bullshit?

231 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 23, 2014 8:16:16am

re: #224 lawhawk

Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un sternly rebukes criminal provocations by indolent U.S. propaganda stooge George R.R. Martin.

Martin has halted work on Winds of Winter until Kim Jong-Un takes it back.

232 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 8:18:51am

re: #230 Kryptik

Gotta keep fighting. Gotta keep with the facts and debunking BS. It’s the right thing to do.

It’s the only way to fight the injustices that the GOP and right wing are pulling with this crap - protecting bad cops from prosecution. Protecting a criminal justice system that is rife with injustices. Repairing the system - primarily because the outcomes are fixed if you’re a cop who kills someone on the job.

Even if they violation department rules and even common sense, they’re not indicted, let alone prosecuted for it because the prosecutors have no interest in putting cops on trial.

But that has to change. We have to hold law enforcement and the prosecutors to higher standards. When they do wrong, they have to be prosecuted and tried for their acts and omissions.

233 unproven innocence  Dec 23, 2014 8:19:24am

OT: Apple automatically patches Macs to fix severe NTP security flaw
It’s the first time OS X’s auto-patcher has been used.
It’s about time. Further reading:
Attack code exploiting critical bugs in net time sync puts servers at risk
Updates available for remote code-execution vulnerabilities. Patch now!
by Dan Goodin - Dec 19 2014, 8:06pm EST
I’d imagine our host handled this issue last week, but if you are responsible for any servers, MAC -based or not, this needs attention.

234 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 8:20:29am

re: #231 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I hear Jong Un is pissed because he heard a rumor that the Tywin Lannister was based on Kim Jong Il. Which he took to mean that he was Tyrion. /

235 Targetpractice  Dec 23, 2014 8:26:19am

Seems the vultures are still circling…

236 De Kolta Chair  Dec 23, 2014 8:30:28am
North Korean leaders were jubilant after enduring the slowest Adobe Acrobat update ever
237 Dave In Austin  Dec 23, 2014 8:31:11am

re: #235 Targetpractice

Is he demanding Hannity’s as well?

238 Targetpractice  Dec 23, 2014 8:35:07am

re: #237 Dave In Austin

Is he demanding Hannity’s as well?

HAHAHAHAHA…oh wait, you’re serious?!

239 Dr. Matt  Dec 23, 2014 8:36:38am

re: #238 Targetpractice

HAHAHAHAHA…oh wait, you’re serious?!

O’Reilly still has Dr. Tiller’s blood on his hands.

240 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 23, 2014 8:37:20am

good morning Lizards, happy Christmas eve, eve.

241 Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 23, 2014 8:37:49am

re: #231 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Martin has halted work on Winds of Winter until Kim Jong-Un takes it back.

How could you tell?

242 Targetpractice  Dec 23, 2014 8:39:54am

re: #239 Dr. Matt

O’Reilly still has Dr. Tiller’s blood on his hands.

Indeed he does, but he likes to believe that he had no part in provoking Tiller’s death, just reporting “the truth.”

243 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 8:49:32am

re: #236 De Kolta Chair

There have never been as many smiles among the North Korean military as when they got their Internet service restored so that Dear Leader got his porn access restored.

244 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 8:50:17am

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>
(Can be superseded since it’s only lunch time)

245 Dave In Austin  Dec 23, 2014 8:51:17am

re: #243 lawhawk

There have never been as many smiles among the North Korean military as when they got their Internet service restored so that Dear Leader got his porn access restored.

Love to see how the Generals are taking notes… ��

246 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 23, 2014 8:53:31am

re: #244 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>
(Can be superseded since it’s only lunch time)

Too bad these hackers weren’t more focused on finding Obama’s birth records or his college grades and admission papers

Or GW Bush’s Air National Guard service records or DWI convictions…

247 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 23, 2014 8:56:09am

re: #244 The Vicious Babushka

Hackers should focus on finding out how much time and money Ted Cruz spends on grooming his eyebrows and posing in front of the mirror.

248 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 23, 2014 8:56:51am

KS Governor Sam Brownback using ACA funds to help balance his tax-cut-riddled state budget

In an ironic twist, the vociferously anti-health reform governor is also relying on Obamacare to help fill the state’s budget gap; Brownback is transferring $55 million in revenue from a Medicaid drug rebate program expanded in the Affordable Care Act into the state’s general fund.

249 leftynyc  Dec 23, 2014 8:58:06am

I honestly don’t know what these judges were thinking:

thinkprogress.org

Raul Rodriguez video recorded himself saying “I am standing my ground here” as he shot and killed his neighbor over loud music at a birthday party. At trial, he invoked Texas self-defense provisions to argue that he killed in self-defense and had no “duty to retreat.” A jury rejected this argument in 2012, convicting him of murder and sending him to prison for 40 years.
Last week, a Texas appeals court overturned Rodriguez’s conviction and granted him a new trial, finding that the instructions to the jury were too confusing and that the self-defense claim was the “focus of, indeed ‘the very basis of the case.’”

Oh, it’s Texas. Never mind.

250 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 9:00:52am

No injuries, but that’s sure to make an already bad travel day at the airports worse.

251 b_sharp  Dec 23, 2014 9:03:28am

I took a quick look at the ‘Scrooge was a liberal’ article and followed it to the article with the study review.

Just another case of the right playing games with numbers.

252 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 23, 2014 9:04:17am
253 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 9:04:44am

Somehow I don’t think this is an appropriate message for a United States Senator to make to his constituents

254 b_sharp  Dec 23, 2014 9:05:00am

re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Man, you sure can be talkative.

255 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 23, 2014 9:06:17am

re: #254 b_sharp

Man, you sure can be talkative.

heh….

256 b_sharp  Dec 23, 2014 9:08:52am

re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh….

Here’s what I saw.

257 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 23, 2014 9:09:23am

re: #253 The Vicious Babushka

As Christmas approaches, we celebrate a most precious gift, that Christ came to save the world

Christ must be saving his best stuff for the finale.

258 Ace-o-aces  Dec 23, 2014 9:11:02am

re: #244 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>
(Can be superseded since it’s only lunch time)

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Yes, after all, what do we know of Obama other than the identities of several generations of both his parents’ families, how his parents met, his birthday, the name of the hospital where he was born, the name of the doctor who delivered him, the location of every home where he has lived since birth, the name and location of every school he has ever attended, where he went to college, his major, where he went to law school, every job he has ever held, every elected position he has ever held, every vote he has taken as an elected official, his religion, his height, weight, eye color and his fucking blood type. Other than that, he’s a complete mystery.

259 Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 23, 2014 9:11:10am

An FB friend shared a post with a nativity scene, with the claim that Facebook was asking people to remove such posts lest they offend people.

Sheesh.

So I told him to post nativity scenes to heart’s content, but only for that reason, not because someone dishonestly tried to incite anger in him.

It worked!!! He said, “My bad!”

It’s a Festivus miracle!

260 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 9:12:12am

re:
#253

As Christmas approaches, there’s no better way to pander to my most fervent supporters and donors than by saying how much we celebrate a most precious gift, that Christ came to save the world

261 ObserverArt  Dec 23, 2014 9:13:33am

re: #239 Dr. Matt

O’Reilly still has Dr. Tiller’s blood on his hands.

Does a person like O’Reilly think that is a bad thing…or deep down does he think he (Tiller) deserved it and Bill O’ was just acting as an agent for God and was saving all those unborns?

And no, I am not kidding.

262 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 9:13:52am

re:
#259

An FB friend shared a post with a nativity scene, with the claim that Facebook was asking people to remove such posts lest they offend people.

I somehow doubt that FB is asking people to remove posts of nativity scenes.

263 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:15:40am

re: #262 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#259

I somehow doubt that FB is asking people to remove posts of nativity scenes.

Because they’re not. It’s the same as people who year after year buy “Facebook’s going to start making users pay to use the website, please sign this petition to ensure this won’t happen.”

264 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 9:16:42am

re: #259 Blind Frog Belly White

An FB friend shared a post with a nativity scene, with the claim that Facebook was asking people to remove such posts lest they offend people.

Sheesh.

So I told him to post nativity scenes to heart’s content, but only for that reason, not because someone dishonestly tried to incite anger in him.

It worked!!! He said, “My bad!”

It’s a Festivus miracle!

Ohio homeowner ordered to remove his Zombie Nativity Scene

265 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 9:17:19am

Great way to re-use Halloween decoration BTW

266 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 9:17:40am

re:
#258

All we know is all the fake false info FALSE FLAG Obummer has listed not the actual long forms of all those important facts that we normally demand of all president candidates going back to Alexander Hamilton!!!!11

267 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 23, 2014 9:18:11am

re: #256 b_sharp

Here’s what I saw.

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That happens to me a lot.
Really.

268 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 9:18:57am

re:
#263

Oh, yes, let me sign that petition to make sure Facebook doesn’t start charging me to use their stupid site. //

269 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:18:58am

re: #264 The Vicious Babushka

Ohio homeowner ordered to remove his Zombie Nativity Scene

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So will the war on Christmas people take up this guy’s case? Somehow I doubt it.

270 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 9:19:54am

LOLOLOL

271 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:20:08am

re: #268 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#263

Oh, yes, let me sign that petition to make sure Facebook doesn’t start charging me to use their stupid site. //

I actually like facebook because it allows me to stay in touch with people but man people are gullible.

272 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:20:38am

re: #270 The Vicious Babushka

LOLOLOL

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Going through one day without shitting on the floor doesn’t make you elite, babycakes.

273 makeitstop  Dec 23, 2014 9:20:54am

This isn’t exactly a Christmas or holiday tune, but I always associate it with this time of year.

For all you Lizards. Here’s to better things.

The Kinks - Better Things

274 Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 23, 2014 9:21:38am

re: #270 The Vicious Babushka

LOLOLOL

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!

You’re serious?

275 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 23, 2014 9:21:46am

re: #262 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#259

I somehow doubt that FB is asking people to remove posts of nativity scenes.

But it fits the War on Christmas/atheistic Nazi narrative, so it will be propagated.

276 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 9:21:56am

re:
#270

He even helped that minority scholarship dude who was on scholarship just because of his minority status not like Chuck who earned his scholarship based on his father’s merit.!!!111

277 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 23, 2014 9:21:57am

re: #270 The Vicious Babushka

LOLOLOL

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Sooo…Upchuck is really Bildenberg?

278 Targetpractice  Dec 23, 2014 9:22:50am
279 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 9:23:04am

re: #277 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sooo…Upchuck is really Bildenberg?

Well, he’s sure not an Elder of Zion

280 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 9:23:22am

re:
#273

Give The People What They Want is a mighty fine tune, also, even if not Christmassy holiday-ee.

Also, too: Destroyer

281 b.d.  Dec 23, 2014 9:24:11am

re: #270 The Vicious Babushka

LOLOLOL

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So Chuck is like Moses then?

282 ObserverArt  Dec 23, 2014 9:24:29am

re: #244 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>
(Can be superseded since it’s only lunch time)

CDM @RWSurferGirl

Too bad these hackers weren’t more focused on finding Obama’s birth records or his college grades and admission papers #tcot #TheInterview

So, six plus years of everyone from Sheriff Joe to Orly Taitz to several folks in congress, all kinds of nutjobs…The Donald…all looking everywhere for those records and nothing, and she hopes the hackers would focus and continue to look.

Damn, the birth and college records must be just like the Virgin Birth…some things just can’t be explained with facts. You just need to believe they exist.

/

283 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 9:25:14am

re: #270 The Vicious Babushka

LOLOLOL

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He was a well placed elite. Now? Not so much. Poop happens.

284 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 9:25:20am

re:
#270

I chose the people over it.

And the people are asking, begging, Chuck c Johnson to go back to the elite or whatever rock he crawled out from under.

Love,

The People

285 Targetpractice  Dec 23, 2014 9:25:21am

re: #281 b.d.

So Chuck is like Moses then?

Yeah, I can Chucky as the kinda guy who’d wander the desert aimlessly for 40 years.

286 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 9:26:16am

re: #285 Targetpractice

He’d last 40 minutes before calling mom.

287 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 9:26:18am

re: #282 ObserverArt

So, six plus years of everyone from Sheriff Joe to Orly Taitz to several folks in congress, all kinds of nutjobs…The Donald…all looking everywhere for those records and nothing, and she hopes the hackers would focus and continue to look.

Damn, the birth and college records must be just like the Virgin Birth…some things just can’t be explained with facts. You just need to believe they exist.

/

There is a hardcore cadre of Birthers that just keep reTweeting this shit over and over

JJauthor has taken a leave of absence from Twitter. I think she’s in rehab.

288 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:27:00am

re: #286 lawhawk

He’d last 40 minutes before calling mom.

Has to. Can’t get Rush in the dessert without static.

289 Targetpractice  Dec 23, 2014 9:27:49am

re: #288 HappyWarrior

Has to. Can’t get Rush in the dessert without static.

That’s why I have their albums on my iPod…oh, wait, you mean Rush the Hutt.

290 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:28:20am

Trying to figure out what I should read next. I like biographies, modern history, sports history, and realistic fiction.

291 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 9:28:42am

re:
#287

Same people who will foam at the mouth should Jeb! or Mitt Romney 3.0 be asked to cough up their tax returns or should Ted Cruz be asked a mere question about his citizenship.

292 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:28:52am

re: #289 Targetpractice

That’s why I have their albums on my iPod…oh, wait, you mean Rush the Hutt.

Ha!

293 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:29:13am

re: #291 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#287

Same people who will foam at the mouth should Jeb! or Mitt Romney 3.0 be asked to cough up their tax returns or should Ted Cruz be asked a mere question about his citizenship.

But of course.

294 Targetpractice  Dec 23, 2014 9:29:36am

re: #290 HappyWarrior

Trying to figure out what I should read next. I like biographies, modern history, sports history, and realistic fiction.

Realistic fiction? World War Z. Just steer clear of the movie.

295 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 9:29:52am

HERE IS THE STUPIDER MOAST STUPID TWEET OF THE DAY==>

296 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:30:39am

re: #294 Targetpractice

Realistic fiction? World War Z. Just steer clear of the movie.

I did hear that was good. Already saw the movie though i know the two are different since my brother read the book then saw the movie.

297 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 9:30:52am

re:
#295

Yup, killing all the blah babies except for all the blahs who grew up to vote illeagely in Elections!!1

//

298 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 9:31:31am

re:
#295

The ALL CAPS is really convincing.

299 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:32:04am

re: #295 The Vicious Babushka

HERE IS THE STUPIDER MOAST STUPID TWEET OF THE DAY==>

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i love how they love to cite MLK’s wacko niece but they totally ignore MLK’s widow and children. Gotta push the narrative somehow. Oh and every Republican first lady except Nancy Reagan has been pro choice. I guess they’re just like the KKK too huh. Oh wait, comparing pro choice people to the KKK is only for Democrats.

300 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 23, 2014 9:32:11am

Seeing reports that North Korea’s internet is down again.

301 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 9:32:27am

re:
#300

Must be the rain.

302 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:33:01am

re: #298 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#295

The ALL CAPS is really convincing.

Yeah, I’m convinced now. Really RWNJs, if you want to lessen and prevent abortions, I’m with you but actually do something about the conditions that lead to women getting abortions in the first place rather than likening abortion to genocide you fuckwads.

303 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 9:34:16am

Because nothing says class like expropriating the dying words of a black man at the hands of cops:

304 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 9:34:53am

re: #288 HappyWarrior

Has to. Can’t get Rush in the dessert without static.

You committed a torte with that error.

305 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 9:35:23am
306 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:35:44am

re: #303 lawhawk

Because nothing says class like expropriating the dying words of a black man at the hands of cops:

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Yeah because having to pay a little more in taxes is just like being suffocated to death. Nice perspective you classless fuckers. And hell taxes are at a historical low but I get it Jim and his friends are just petrified of the black man in the WH.

307 b.d.  Dec 23, 2014 9:36:00am

re: #303 lawhawk

Because nothing says class like expropriating the dying words of a black man at the hands of cops:

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Teabaggers openly mock the death of unarmed people by cops but the people complaining about it are the problem?

308 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:36:10am

re: #304 lawhawk

You committed a torte with that error.

Hah! Need more coffee.

309 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:36:50am

re: #305 The Vicious Babushka

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He’s just asking for ridicule.

310 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 9:37:44am

re:
#303

Conservative Group Releases “I Can’t Breathe - signed The American Taxpayer” T-Shirts

I’m going to need to see the tax returns of each person found wearing or in possession of said shirt.

311 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:38:00am

re: #307 b.d.

Teabaggers openly mock the death of unarmed people by cops but the people complaining about it are the problem?

Why of course. You’re not allowed to be upset and protest about the deaths of unarmed people because that makes you a “cop hater” but mocking the death of an unarmed man is perfectly kosher because hey taxes make teabaggers cry like little brats.

312 b.d.  Dec 23, 2014 9:38:07am

Remember when the baggers were all about “the dignity of the office”?

313 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 23, 2014 9:38:07am

re: #309 HappyWarrior

He’s just asking for ridicule.

He doesn’t have to ask.
We’re perfectly willing to point and laugh at him, just because.

314 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 9:39:10am

re:
#303

Conservative Group Releases “I Can’t Breathe - signed The American Taxpayer” T-Shirts

Hurr hurr all the people on teh food Stamps is suffacating me!!!1

315 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 9:39:32am

Not as stupid as the Alveda King Tweet, but still Teh Stupids:
This is a WW2 recruitment poster from the UK so I don’t understand what their hijacking of it is even supposed to mean.

AgainstCronyCapitalism is a Koch front group. The Kochs totally OWN ALL TEH CRONY CAPITALISMS and they don’t want any competition in that field.

316 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:39:33am

re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth

He doesn’t have to ask.
We’re perfectly willing to point and laugh at him, just because.

You’re right. He’s a walking ridicule machine. Anyone who hires a “Confederate avenger” should be ridiculed as such.

317 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 9:40:24am

re: #314 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#303

Hurr hurr all the people on teh food Stamps is suffacating me!!!1

Food stamps are slavery but actual slavery wasn’t so bad.

318 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 9:41:25am

re: #317 HappyWarrior

Food stamps are slavery but actual slavery wasn’t so bad.

HURR HURR INCOME TAXES IS TEH SLAVERY & ABORSHUNS IS TEH SLAVERY BUT DEMOCRATS WAS TEH ONLY SLAVERY SLAVE OWNERS!!!11!!!

319 dog philosopher  Dec 23, 2014 9:41:43am

re: #291 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#287

Same people who will foam at the mouth should Jeb! or Mitt Romney 3.0 be asked to cough up their tax returns or should Ted Cruz be asked a mere question about his citizenship.

die communist die everybody knows ted cruz was born on the fourth of july in washington dc as the parthenogenetic son of that great american joe mccarthy!!!

320 No Country For Old Haters  Dec 23, 2014 9:43:42am

re: #287 The Vicious Babushka

There is a hardcore cadre of Birthers that just keep reTweeting this shit over and over

JJauthor has taken a leave of absence from Twitter. I think she’s in rehab.

I hope so. It’s nice to see public trainwrecks get the help they so desperately need.

321 dog philosopher  Dec 23, 2014 9:44:35am

gouch

another word i didn’t need to learn

322 makeitstop  Dec 23, 2014 9:44:59am

re: #280 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#273

Give The People What They Want is a mighty fine tune, also, even if not Christmassy holiday-ee.

Also, too: Destroyer

That might have been the last completely above-par Kinks album, IMHO.

323 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Dec 23, 2014 9:45:32am

re: #307 b.d.

Teabaggers openly mock the death of unarmed people by cops but the people complaining about it are the problem?

There really is an utter lack of human decency at the core of the rightwing mindset. This goes back even before the official birth of the tea party. I never understood, for example, why the people openly mocking John Kerry’s Purple Hearts at the 2004 Republican convention didn’t create a backlash among conservative veterans, but no, nary a peep.

324 No Country For Old Haters  Dec 23, 2014 9:45:54am

re: #270 The Vicious Babushka

325 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 23, 2014 9:52:47am

I’m still not going to go see it:

326 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 9:54:50am

HEAR IS MOAR STUPIDS FROM TEH TWITTERS

327 darthstar  Dec 23, 2014 9:54:53am

BBC’s Middle East Correspondent doing a report on confiscated opium getting burned behind him accidentally gets downwind. Needless to say, the story didn’t air.

BBC News Reporter Quentin Sommerville Inhales Burning Drugs And Can’t Finish Report (VIDEO)

328 darthstar  Dec 23, 2014 9:56:09am
329 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Dec 23, 2014 9:57:09am

re: #326 The Vicious Babushka

HEAR IS MOAR STUPIDS FROM TEH TWITTERS

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That’s it, no more military. Or criminal justice system.

330 No Country For Old Haters  Dec 23, 2014 9:58:10am

re: #325 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m still not going to go see it:

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I’m not either, not because I’m afraid of NK, but because there are plenty of good TV shows and movies to watch, so I don’t have time for low-quality entertainment.

331 No Country For Old Haters  Dec 23, 2014 10:00:12am

re: #326 The Vicious Babushka

HEAR IS MOAR STUPIDS FROM TEH TWITTERS

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332 makeitstop  Dec 23, 2014 10:00:46am

re: #328 darthstar

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Brain bleach, Stat!!

333 FemNaziBitch  Dec 23, 2014 10:02:01am

This action by Rolling Stone has restored my opinion of the publication. What an excellent idea! As for a review by the teacher!

334 b.d.  Dec 23, 2014 10:02:18am

re: #331 No Country For Old Haters

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Of course the wingnuts can’t tell you what the tax rate should be, just that it is too high.

The flat tax is just numbers voodoo.

335 No Country For Old Haters  Dec 23, 2014 10:02:31am
336 Dave In Austin  Dec 23, 2014 10:02:56am

re: #328 darthstar

Can I use this for my FB avi? Awesome!

337 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 10:03:35am

re:
#326

While this gamer person no doubt lives in his parents’ basement.

338 b.d.  Dec 23, 2014 10:03:35am

Chuck should tell us who he considers his elite ex-running buddies are and we should get a comment from them.

339 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 10:04:27am

re:
#326

Hurr hurr ‘excess taxes’ is all taxes not needed to pay for most powerful military in the whole world!!!11

340 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 10:04:46am

re: #334 b.d.

Of course the wingnuts can’t tell you what the tax rate should be, just that it is too high.

The flat tax is just numbers voodoo.

HURR HURR FAIR TAX!!!!1!! MAKE TEH POORS PAY THERE FAIR SHAIR!!!!1!!!!

341 FemNaziBitch  Dec 23, 2014 10:05:00am

re: #326 The Vicious Babushka

HEAR IS MOAR STUPIDS FROM TEH TWITTERS

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“Government of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, for the PEOPLE.”

Why are wingnuts so blind to this in regard to taxes?

342 Ace-o-aces  Dec 23, 2014 10:06:14am
343 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 23, 2014 10:07:32am
344 Targetpractice  Dec 23, 2014 10:08:04am

Prepare for the screaming:

345 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 10:08:10am

re: #331 No Country For Old Haters

Excess tax? The combined tax burden on people is lower now than it has been in generations. But the right wing noise-machine has gone to 11TY claiming that we’re over-taxed. So, they’re pushing more tax cuts, and vital services are seeing a decline in real dollars. Investment in infrastructure is down, even though much of the infrastructure built in the 1950s is nearing the end of its design life (that’d be much of the Interstate highway system). Building new infrastructure for the 21st century is off the table in many parts of the country, and the cost to build new infrastructure in places like NYC is prohibitively expensive.

346 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 10:10:55am

re: #344 Targetpractice

Prepare for the screaming:

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From the same people who profess to be for individual rights, limited government of course right?

347 Ace-o-aces  Dec 23, 2014 10:10:59am
348 lawhawk  Dec 23, 2014 10:11:31am

re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth

You know there’s a problem with racial profiling by cops when minority cops who are off duty worry about run-ins with fellow cops.

349 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 10:11:55am

re:
#344

Another doxing project for archmoron blogger chuck c johnson

350 dog philosopher  Dec 23, 2014 10:12:27am

digestion of the slain eucalyptus continues audibly

351 No Country For Old Haters  Dec 23, 2014 10:12:35am

re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I just rewatched Serpico. It seems like NYPD has not changed much since the 70s.

352 dog philosopher  Dec 23, 2014 10:13:40am

Julian Zelizer, a history professor at Princeton, explains how Jeb Bush can win.

i see you’re very confident about his chances

353 unproven innocence  Dec 23, 2014 10:13:48am

re: #264 The Vicious Babushka

Ohio homeowner ordered to remove his Zombie Nativity Scene

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He should comply, but then improvise. A cross, some nails, …

354 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 10:13:51am

re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Not shocking at all unfortunately.

355 b.d.  Dec 23, 2014 10:14:25am

re: #351 No Country For Old Haters

I just rewatched Serpico. It seems like NYPD has not changed much since the 70s.

I didn’t realize that the police force in Gotham was a documentary

356 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 10:14:42am

re: #353 unproven innocence

He should comply, but then improvise. A cross, some nails, …

I thought that was vampires

357 HappyWarrior  Dec 23, 2014 10:15:02am

re: #351 No Country For Old Haters

I just rewatched Serpico. It seems like NYPD has not changed much since the 70s.

The good old boy network. Yeah I know that’s mostly for the South but it can apply to several major metropolitian police departments too.

358 De Kolta Chair  Dec 23, 2014 10:15:20am
“Now that we’re back online, everybody repeat after me: Reave Blitney Arone!!!”
359 darthstar  Dec 23, 2014 10:16:07am

re: #336 Dave In Austin

Can I use this for my FB avi? Awesome!

I saw it on FB - was asked to share because it will piss off Kim Jong Un.

360 FemNaziBitch  Dec 23, 2014 10:16:42am
LIbrary of Congress —E Vedder
361 BeachDem  Dec 23, 2014 10:18:36am

How far back does researcher extraordinaire, upchuck want to go?

The first program for journalism education was introduced by former Confederate General, Robert E. Lee, during his presidency at Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia, in the 1860s. Both the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri founded by Walter Williams in 1908 and the Ecole Superieure de Journalisme in Paris, France founded in 1899 claim to be the world’s first journalism school. Although Paris’s school opened its doors in 1899 after three years of internal debates, the question was discussed in Missouri since 1895

en.wikipedia.org

362 FemNaziBitch  Dec 23, 2014 10:18:42am
Close-up -Library of Congress - E Vedder
363 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 23, 2014 10:20:15am

re: #361 BeachDem

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How far back does researcher extraordinaire, upchuck want to go?

The first program for journalism education was introduced by former Confederate General, Robert E. Lee, during his presidency at Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia, in the 1860s. Both the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri founded by Walter Williams in 1908 and the Ecole Superieure de Journalisme in Paris, France founded in 1899 claim to be the world’s first journalism school. Although Paris’s school opened its doors in 1899 after three years of internal debates, the question was discussed in Missouri since 1895

en.wikipedia.org

One of those schools is French, so your argument is invalid…

/////////////////

364 No Country For Old Haters  Dec 23, 2014 10:21:35am

re: #357 HappyWarrior

The good old boy network. Yeah I know that’s mostly for the South but it can apply to several major metropolitian police departments too.

That’s the thing that I find so weird. NYPD and LAPD often seem as racist and corrupt as southern law enforcement. We clearly fool ourselves when we pretend that these issues are only a problem in backward areas with terrible educational systems. I’ve had plenty of good encounters with suburban police, but nothing but trouble from city cops.

365 FemNaziBitch  Dec 23, 2014 10:22:55am

Upworthy now has a whole site just for the 2014 Climate Summit.

366 No Country For Old Haters  Dec 23, 2014 10:23:03am

re: #361 BeachDem

367 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 23, 2014 10:23:26am

re: #361 BeachDem

That begging boy has more balls than a Pachinko machine even typing the word “working.” And don’t even get me started on “class.”

368 FemNaziBitch  Dec 23, 2014 10:23:57am

Yesterday, I got to listen to Megyn Kelly talk about how RACISM is not the issue!

I just hope she sleeps well at night.

369 No Country For Old Haters  Dec 23, 2014 10:24:33am

re: #347 Ace-o-aces

#What’s #wrong #with #using #Hashtags #outside #of #Twitter?

370 No Country For Old Haters  Dec 23, 2014 10:26:14am

re: #368 FemNaziBitch

Yesterday, I got to listen to Megyn Kelly talk about how RACISM is not the issue!

I just hope she sleeps well at night.

A lot of conservatives actually believe their own absurd propaganda, so they sleep just fine with heads full of a wingnut alternate reality where the right-wing-monsters are good people, and anyone who isn’t as clueless as they are is a bad guy.

371 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 23, 2014 10:26:49am

re: #369 No Country For Old Haters

#What’s #wrong #with #using #Hashtags #outside #of #Twitter?

I thought that a hashtag was what they put on cans of Dinty Moore’s.

372 FemNaziBitch  Dec 23, 2014 10:26:52am

Hubby is still stick. The Fugitive is most concerned. He is going on Day 3 in The Chair. This type of disruption in household routine is a new thing for her.

Being the good dog, she keeps trying to lay across his legs, but it doesn’t work on the ottoman.

She has grown quite a bit since July.

373 darthstar  Dec 23, 2014 10:28:26am

re: #361 BeachDem

374 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 23, 2014 10:28:54am

re:
#368

Meg Kelley is my go-to person on race issues. //

375 No Country For Old Haters  Dec 23, 2014 10:29:29am

re: #367 Higgs Boson’s Mate

That begging boy has more balls than a Pachinko machine even typing the word “working.” And don’t even get me started on “class.”

I like pachinko…I do not care for ultra-wingnuts like Chucky that even other wingnuts find distasteful.

376 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 23, 2014 10:30:17am

re: #372 FemNaziBitch

Sending you good thoughts, sunshine, and blue skies from here in SoCal.

377 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 10:30:56am

HAH. Just checked in online & got the Boarding pass on my phone.

Tomorrow I will be on this beach:

378 #FergusonFireside  Dec 23, 2014 10:31:50am

re: #377 The Vicious Babushka

HAH. Just checked in online & got the Boarding pass on my phone.

Tomorrow I will be on this beach:

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Florida?

379 b.d.  Dec 23, 2014 10:31:57am

re: #373 darthstar

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Back in the day Chuck C would have been the first one to break the news on who was a witch.

380 Jenner7  Dec 23, 2014 10:34:35am

Hubby’s birthday today. Going with family to see Temple lights in SLC tonight. Go every year. Big crowds, want to kill people…you know…normal stuff. ;)

Have a good day everyone!

381 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 23, 2014 10:34:53am

re: #378 #FergusonFireside

Florida?

Miami Beach.
That is my son & grandson in the photo BTW.

382 #FergusonFireside  Dec 23, 2014 10:37:04am

re: #381 The Vicious Babushka

Miami Beach.
That is my son & grandson in the photo BTW.

Oh have fun!!

383 FemNaziBitch  Dec 23, 2014 10:43:59am

re: #376 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Sending you good thoughts, sunshine, and blue skies from here in SoCal.

Thanks!

WE ARE seeing the sun today in my part of the world. I think it’s the first time in two weeks.

384 sagehen  Dec 23, 2014 10:50:27am

re: #299 HappyWarrior

i love how they love to cite MLK’s wacko niece but they totally ignore MLK’s widow and children. Gotta push the narrative somehow. Oh and every Republican first lady except Nancy Reagan has been pro choice. I guess they’re just like the KKK too huh. Oh wait, comparing pro choice people to the KKK is only for Democrats.

Nancy Reagan was also pro-choice. And a huge supporter of stem-cell research.

385 Ace-o-aces  Dec 23, 2014 10:50:31am

re: #361 BeachDem

386 FemNaziBitch  Dec 23, 2014 10:56:04am

re: #359 darthstar

I saw it on FB - was asked to share because it will piss off Kim Jong Un.

I remember a few years ago, on this blog, we would do similar things in regard to Muslims.

I am deeply ashamed of my own behavior at that time.

387 FemNaziBitch  Dec 23, 2014 10:56:51am

re: #384 sagehen

Nancy Reagan was also pro-choice. And a huge supporter of stem-cell research.

Even Roslyln Carter is Pro-Choice.

IIRc, FLOTUS always are, but for some reason, it’s their husband’s opinion that counts.

388 sagehen  Dec 23, 2014 11:01:41am

re: #348 lawhawk

You know there’s a problem with racial profiling by cops when minority cops who are off duty worry about run-ins with fellow cops.

Or on-duty, when they’re undercover. More than one has been killed.

389 FemNaziBitch  Dec 23, 2014 11:59:04am
The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says improperly handled raw milk is responsible for nearly three times more hospitalisations than any other food-borne disease outbreak, making it one of the world’s most dangerous food products.[15][better source needed] Diseases pasteurization can prevent include tuberculosis, brucellosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and Q-fever; it also kills the harmful bacteria Salmonella, Listeria, Yersinia, Campylobacter, Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli O157:H7,[16][17] among others.

from the wiki

390 dell*nix  Dec 23, 2014 12:53:55pm

re: #328 darthstar

Damn near passed out laughing.


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