1 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 5, 2015 7:38:32pm

Just because it’s been stuck in my head…

Duke of Earl Gene Chandler / STEREO SOUND

2 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 7:38:49pm

The fool and the King of fools.

3 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 7:40:07pm

FreaKKKish interview.

4 darthstar  Jan 5, 2015 7:40:44pm

How much longer will Fox News defend White Supremacists?

5 Kragar  Jan 5, 2015 7:41:15pm

David Duke “considered by some to be a white supremacist”

Those people are called rational and sane people

6 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 7:41:41pm

The O’Reilly Factor: Legitimizing radical cavemen since 1996.

7 Targetpractice  Jan 5, 2015 7:42:05pm

Ah, Fox News: Fairly Unbalanced.

8 darthstar  Jan 5, 2015 7:42:07pm

Oops.

9 Kryptik  Jan 5, 2015 7:42:20pm

re: #4 darthstar

As long as racism is politically beneficial to the GOP.

10 Kragar  Jan 5, 2015 7:42:50pm

David Duke “I’m not racist because I’m against affirmative action”

11 Targetpractice  Jan 5, 2015 7:43:24pm

re: #8 darthstar

Oops.

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If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the last year, it’s that Big Chicken A) doesn’t give a shit and B) is covered in teflon. I doubt he’ll be in any real trouble from this.

12 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 7:43:46pm

Two excerpts from a book by a former Klansman Thomas Martinez, who explains how a similar interview by Duke helped to convert him to KKK and how extremists relish any chance to get into the national spotlight despite the mockery.

littlegreenfootballs.com
littlegreenfootballs.com

Bill O’Reilly should be ashamed of himself. He has just helped David Duke to stay afloat.

13 Kragar  Jan 5, 2015 7:44:25pm

Made it in 3:45 and couldn’t put up with either of those assholes anymore

14 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 7:52:24pm

White supremacism is a cognitive virus that attacks weak minds.

15 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 7:53:32pm

re: #10 Kragar

David Duke “I’m not racist because I’m against affirmative action”

That covers a tiny portion of the racist ideas he promotes.

16 Kragar  Jan 5, 2015 7:53:51pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

White supremacism is a cognitive virus that attacks weak minds.

I love how Duke kept claiming he wasn’t racist because he’s consistently attacked attacked anything promoting equality

17 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 7:54:10pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

From Sergey’s link:

“…the articles focused on my pet bugaboos, affirmative action and busing. It met my needs. It explained why I wasn’t getting any where. I had been right all along. It wasn’t my fault.”
littlegreenfootballs.com

18 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 7:54:22pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

White supremacism is a cognitive virus that attacks weak minds.

That describes BillO

19 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 5, 2015 7:55:12pm

re: #8 darthstar

Well what do you know? Sirota is still around.

20 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 7:55:42pm

who’s this “moe’s art” feller he refers to huh?

21 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 7:56:10pm

re: #16 Kragar

I love how Duke kept claiming he wasn’t racist because he’s consistently attacked attacked anything promoting equality

Well hey, that’s attack2. Curls back on itself.

22 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 7:56:59pm

re: #4 darthstar

How much longer will Fox News defend White Supremacists?

Until it takes.

23 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 7:58:35pm

if robert byrd had never been a u.s. senator what would these assholes do then?

24 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 7:59:20pm

re: #23 dog philosopher

if robert byrd had never been a u.s. senator what would these assholes do then?

They are very inventive.

25 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 8:00:51pm

Bronx is all lit up right now.

26 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 8:04:07pm

Canada wins the World Junior Hockey gold, beating Russia 5-4.

27 bratwurst  Jan 5, 2015 8:04:29pm

BillO says “David Duke is considered by some to be a white supremacist”.

Some?

28 ObserverArt  Jan 5, 2015 8:05:03pm

David Duke isn’t really a racist. He isn’t really a white supremacist. He isn’t really in the KKK anymore.

But he thinks, acts and lives just like them. He is just not them.

He is something else.

And, he just can’t help himself. /

29 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 8:05:25pm

re: #27 bratwurst

Bill giving his audience some room.

30 BlueSpotinAL  Jan 5, 2015 8:09:36pm

re: #10 Kragar

David Duke “I’m not racist because I’m against affirmative action”

He could say this and still be against affirmative action BECAUSE he is a racist.

31 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 8:10:21pm

re: #29 jaunte

Bill giving his audience some room.

He said: “The MSM won’t give you a fair shake.”

32 D_Red  Jan 5, 2015 8:14:23pm

Chuckles blocked me for questioning his taking photo analysys from a twitter account of a guy giving cats the finger. I don’t get new journalism I guess

33 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 8:15:06pm

re: #32 D_Red

Welcome, hatchling.

34 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 8:19:59pm

BEES

35 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 8:20:28pm

re: #34 Gus

36 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 5, 2015 8:29:28pm

Coffee pot is all set up on it’s timer, I’ll be off to bed shortly. Going to go do manual labor tomorrow as a favor. Hopefully somebody will have a good idea of what we’re doing, because I sure don’t.

RBS

37 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 8:30:53pm

re: #34 Gus

BEES

Philip Glass - Candyman - Music Box

38 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 5, 2015 8:31:17pm

re: #35 jaunte

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I didn’t know bumblebees lived in colonies. I just figured that they were solitary animals. Don’t know where I got that from.

RBS

39 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 5, 2015 8:32:08pm

re: #32 D_Red

Chuckles blocked me for questioning his taking photo analysys from a twitter account of a guy giving cats the finger. I don’t get new journalism I guess

It’s because of Benghazi you see….

RBS

41 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 8:36:47pm

re: #40 Charles Johnson

Critical Mass Emu

42 teleskiguy  Jan 5, 2015 8:36:52pm

David DuKKKe comes across as a howling hyena in this clip.

But to your average tea bagger, he probably sounds reasonable. That scares me.

43 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 8:39:22pm

Thanks, GOP, for foisting Duke on everybody again.

44 freetoken  Jan 5, 2015 8:39:53pm

re: #42 teleskiguy

Yet Bill O does his best to be a MBF here. To me that is even the bigger problem.

45 retired cynic  Jan 5, 2015 8:39:59pm

I can’t bear to listen to either one of them. Gag reflex.

46 Dark_Falcon  Jan 5, 2015 8:40:39pm

re: #39 RealityBasedSteve

It’s because of Benghazi you see….

RBS

And on that note:

Greek oil tanker bombed in Libyan port of Derna

Libyan air force jets have bombed a Greek-operated oil tanker chartered by Libya’s national oil company, killing two crew members.

A Libyan military spokesman told the BBC that the ship’s movements at the port of Derna had aroused suspicion.

The oil company rejected this, saying the ship was delivering fuel to industrial facilities there and the authorities had been kept informed.

Derna has been controlled by Islamist militants for the past two years.

The Libyan military attacked the port several times last year in an attempt to weaken militant groups there.

The military spokesman, Colonel Ahmed Mesmari, said the tanker had been targeted because it had failed to submit to an inspection before entering the port.

He said the vessel was supposed to dock at a power plant in Derna but instead “took a different route”, entering a “military zone”.

“We asked the ship to stop, but instead it turned off all its lights and would not respond so we were obliged to strike it.

“We bombed it twice,” he said.

47 BlueGrl21  Jan 5, 2015 8:43:12pm

re: #13 Kragar

Made it in 3:45 and couldn’t put up with either of those assholes anymore

I can’t watch any of them any more, it gives me dumb chills. I can only read transcripts….and I do.

48 teleskiguy  Jan 5, 2015 8:43:45pm

How is the evangelical Protestant wing of the GOP supposed to square peg-round hole Duke’s virulent antisemitism with their views? Aren’t the evangelical Protestants supposed to be staunchly pro-Israel because of their belief in Christ’s return or some such shit?

49 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 5, 2015 8:45:53pm

re: #48 teleskiguy

How is the evangelical Protestant wing of the GOP supposed to square peg-round hole Duke’s virulent antisemitism with their views? Aren’t the evangelical Protestants supposed to be staunchly pro-Israel because of their belief in Christ’s return or some such shit?

They want all the Jews in Israel to stay there, safe, until Christ comes and wipes them all out for being apostates. No Israel, no Second Coming, is how they think.

50 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 8:46:35pm

HAHAHA

Wow! I was needling Langdale yesterday about still supporting CCJ, now he’s throwing full on sexually graphic insults at the guy.

51 freetoken  Jan 5, 2015 8:47:15pm

re: #48 teleskiguy

Your equating the dispensationalists with all of the “evangelicals”. Yet the Dominionists were driven by Reformation-era dogma, and have slowly gained ground in the traditionally dispensationalist (and often Baptist and staunch separation of church and state) congregations. One just has to see how Mullah Mohler and his cohorts have been changing the SBC.

There were always fundamentalists who have been out there apart from the main group of American evangelicals. The era of Billy-Graham type “evangelicals” appears to be coming to an end, and the more anti-papist, anti-Jewish reformation-era crowd appears to be growing in influence again.

What is old is new again.

52 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 8:47:19pm

re: #48 teleskiguy

Interesting that O’Reilly chose to play down that part of Duke’s message.
From his autobiography:

“In modern America, Jews lead the effort to de-Christianize America. … They share little of the heritage of the Old Testament people called the Israelites. … Communism and Zionism were born from the same Jewish soul. … Jewish power is ubiquitous. … It is not a [Jewish] conspiracy. It is simply two nations — Jew and Gentile — in a state of ethnic war.”

53 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 5, 2015 8:47:24pm

Sigh.

My website is having an attack of the slows again. Trying to get something done, and all FF gives me is spinning wheels.

54 freetoken  Jan 5, 2015 8:48:55pm

The dispensationalists crashed and burned with Hal Lindsey and his apocalyptic frenzy.

Between that, and the disgraced TV evangelists, and Mr. Family Radio at the end, there has been what I think a big change that many of the (more “liberal”, that is non-religious) media appear to be missing - the change of Christianity in America.

It’s an under reported story.

55 Lidane  Jan 5, 2015 8:49:35pm

re: #48 teleskiguy

Aren’t the evangelical Protestants supposed to be staunchly pro-Israel because of their belief in Christ’s return or some such shit?

LOL no. They’re rabidly “pro-Israel” because they need it to exist so that Jesus can come back and wipe it off the map in the Second Coming.

56 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 8:58:26pm

Meanwhile, in court:

On Friday, Supreme Court justices will meet in private to consider whether to act on cases that could provide a nationwide answer on whether same-sex marriages must be allowed. On the same day, a federal appeals court will consider bans in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana.
washingtonpost.com

57 teleskiguy  Jan 5, 2015 8:59:42pm

Damn internet is spotty at my twenty tonight. #FirstWorldProblems

58 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 9:05:31pm

re: #50 goddamnedfrank

That said, this Jonathan guy is weird.

59 Targetpractice  Jan 5, 2015 9:05:54pm

re: #56 jaunte

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Meanwhile, in court:

I really do wonder how long the Nine Wise Souls feel they can put this off. I imagine that they fear, as they hinted when they dropkicked the Prop 8 decision back down to the lower court, that the vote against such bans would be less than unanimous.

60 darthstar  Jan 5, 2015 9:09:02pm
61 teleskiguy  Jan 5, 2015 9:15:27pm

At this rate, crude oil will be worthless by the end of the year.

/

62 Targetpractice  Jan 5, 2015 9:16:26pm

re: #60 darthstar

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All indications are that OPEC is willing to take a few months or more of pain budget-wise in order to cripple other petrol states, including us.

63 D_Red  Jan 5, 2015 9:20:11pm

Oil cheap? Great job Obummer

64 Dark_Falcon  Jan 5, 2015 9:20:59pm

re: #62 Targetpractice

All indications are that OPEC is willing to take a few months or more of pain budget-wise in order to cripple other petrol states, including us.

Maybe Saudi Arabia can take that, but other nations will be crying ‘Uncle!’ before too much longer. We won’t be among them. We may scale back, but our oil industry is adaptable and will not be crippled.

65 teleskiguy  Jan 5, 2015 9:23:53pm

Yes, it is.

66 Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 5, 2015 9:27:55pm

re: #65 teleskiguy

It helps to know about their relationship. They loved needling each other. If you don’t know about those two guys, you think Roger Ebert is the biggest a-hole in the world :D

67 teleskiguy  Jan 5, 2015 9:29:05pm

re: #66 Pawn of the Oppressor

It helps to know about their relationship. They loved needling each other. If you don’t know about those two guys, you think Roger Ebert is the biggest a-hole in the world :D

Oh I’m well aware of how they operated. I was a huge movie buff in a former life.

Loved reading Ebert, amazing he held on so long.

68 Targetpractice  Jan 5, 2015 9:29:40pm

re: #64 Dark_Falcon

Maybe Saudi Arabia can take that, but other nations will be crying ‘Uncle!’ before too much longer. We won’t be among them. We may scale back, but our oil industry is adaptable and will not be crippled.

It won’t? There’s already been thousands of layoffs amongst the shale industry and more likely on the way. States like Texas may even fall into recession.

69 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 5, 2015 9:30:36pm

GotNwes has definite proof this photo of Prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts was faked.

This proves … something.

70 Dark_Falcon  Jan 5, 2015 9:31:28pm

re: #65 teleskiguy

Also from the 80’s:

In the 1980s, Iran Outfitted F-14s as Heavy Bombers

But wait, it turns out that the US had a hand in this having happened. The article mislabels Iran Contra as “Irangate”, which it might have been called at the time (I don’t remember, as I was only 9 at the time):

The IRIAF’s self-sufficiency office claimed for years that the program to add bombs to F-14s was a fully domestic project. Now we know that’s not true. During a recent air show at 8th Air Base in Isfahan, the air force displayed an F-14 with a dozen free-fall bombs hanging in its central canal.

The bomb racks were not Iranian, but American BRU-34s and BRU-42s bearing U.S. Air Force markings.

The U.S. Air Force first used such bomb racks during mid-’80s, around the same time Iran started its Tomcat-bomber project. Because there were so few of the racks in existence, it’s highly improbable that the Iranians got them through the black market and without the knowledge of the U.S. Air Force.

At the time, Washington was trying to repair its relations with Iran through secretive arms deliveries. In an affair later dubbed “Irangate,” the U.S. delivered stockpiles of artillery shells and anti-tank weapons to Iran.

The latest information suggests that during the Irangate affair, Washington also delivered to Tehran the equipment necessary to convert F-14s to bombers. This development implies direct military contact between Iran and the U.S., through which American officials understood the immediate strategic needs of the Iranian air force.

Thanks, Ollie!

71 Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 5, 2015 9:32:25pm

re: #67 teleskiguy

I knew that if you’re posting that, you know. But I know that others might not know, so in case they don’t know, they should know. And now they know!

I found that video linked somewhere after Ebert died. They were a fixture on 80’s TV, of course. I wish I had known more about them when I was young.

72 Dark_Falcon  Jan 5, 2015 9:32:36pm

re: #68 Targetpractice

It won’t? There’s already been thousands of layoffs amongst the shale industry and more likely on the way. States like Texas may even fall into recession.

We’re diversified, we’ll get through.

73 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 9:32:44pm

“… in celebration of its upcoming 25th anniversary in April, Hubble has revisited the famous [Pillars of Creation], providing astronomers with a sharper and wider view. As a bonus, the pillars have been photographed in near-infrared light, as well as visible light. The infrared view transforms the pillars into eerie, wispy silhouettes seen against a background of myriad stars. That’s because the infrared light penetrates much of the gas and dust, except for the densest regions of the pillars. Newborn stars can be seen hidden away inside the pillars. The new images are being unveiled at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle.”
nasa.gov

74 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 9:33:43pm
75 darthstar  Jan 5, 2015 9:33:56pm
76 darthstar  Jan 5, 2015 9:35:29pm

re: #74 goddamnedfrank

It’s just a fucking picture.

77 Targetpractice  Jan 5, 2015 9:35:31pm

re: #72 Dark_Falcon

We’re diversified, we’ll get through.

If you believe that, I recommend you check out the talk about commodities derivatives and the potential for banks to take some serious losses in the coming year if oil prices remain below $100/bbl for an extended length of time.

78 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 9:35:36pm

re: #73 jaunte

I blame Galactus.///

79 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 9:36:17pm

re: #78 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Looks little like the Gripping Hand.

80 Targetpractice  Jan 5, 2015 9:36:23pm

re: #78 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I blame Galactus.///

81 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 9:37:00pm

It’s superhero time.

82 #FergusonFireside  Jan 5, 2015 9:37:58pm

re: #73 jaunte

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I see a devil wearing sunglasses.

83 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 9:38:14pm
84 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 9:42:02pm

re: #83 goddamnedfrank

Why doesn’t he send O’Keefe on this errand?

85 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 5, 2015 9:42:03pm

re: #83 goddamnedfrank

In UpChuck’s world, the only stalkers that exist are the people who contradict him on Twitter.

86 Mentis Fugit  Jan 5, 2015 9:43:48pm

re: #70 Dark_Falcon

Thanks, Ollie!

If only Oliver North had been a Democrat. They’d have had him in front of a firing squad before you could say “both sides don’t do it.”

87 teleskiguy  Jan 5, 2015 9:46:40pm
88 Dark_Falcon  Jan 5, 2015 9:48:48pm

re: #85 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

In UpChuck’s world, the only stalkers that exist are the people who contradict him on Twitter.

Indeed. For Chuck-o, asking badging questions of a woman is a right, and only a slut with something to hide could possibly refuse his handsome ginger self.

/spits

89 Kragar  Jan 5, 2015 9:54:08pm

re: #80 Targetpractice

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90 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 5, 2015 9:55:08pm

re: #81 jaunte

The Amiguously Gay Trio!

91 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 5, 2015 9:55:15pm

Some guy questioned my observations about the photo UpChuck is fapping to. I offered some reasonable explanation, and this is the response.

92 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 5, 2015 9:56:10pm

re: #83 goddamnedfrank

Too bad for Chuck all I’ve got is an Android. :P

93 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 5, 2015 9:58:55pm

re: #83 goddamnedfrank

I would think that she’s already getting so much attention that one of CCJ’s drooling followers showing up at her door with a cheap video camera will be lucky not to wind up in jail. That’s not to mention the fact that she’s likely lawyered up to the hilt.

94 teleskiguy  Jan 5, 2015 9:59:04pm

re: #91 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

You’re talking to a person calling him (or her) self Barack Hussein Ebola.

Minor Threat - Screaming at a Wall

95 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 9:59:13pm

re: #91 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Some guy questioned my observations about the photo UpChuck is fapping to. I offered some reasonable explanation, and this is the response.

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Some racist who calls himself “Barack Hussein Ebola” called you stupid! Take that! //

96 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 5, 2015 10:02:27pm

re: #95 Gus

Some racist who calls himself “Barack Hussein Ebola” called you stupid! Take that! //

I have to go lie down now.
//

97 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 5, 2015 10:05:24pm

Could he be more clueless?

98 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 10:07:38pm

re: #91 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

99 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 10:09:04pm

Did the geniuses bother to look at Prince Andrew’s hands?

100 unproven innocence  Jan 5, 2015 10:09:38pm

re: #64 Dark_Falcon

Maybe Saudi Arabia can take that, but other nations will be crying ‘Uncle!’ before too much longer. We won’t be among them. We may scale back, but our oil industry is adaptable and will not be crippled.

US oil production peaked about 1970-71. Assuming a cumulative gaussian distribution with a sigma of 25 years for modeling production over time, we are now at about the 95th or 96th percentile. Assuming sigma=30y, we are at about the 92nd or 93rd percentile.

This is what’s so insane about the drill-baby-drill propaganda.

101 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 5, 2015 10:10:23pm

re: #98 Varek Raith

I’m guessing Barack Hussein Ebola didn’t do so well in high school geometry or physical science. Light travels in straight lines. Flash to left of camera will create shadows on right side of camera.

102 teleskiguy  Jan 5, 2015 10:13:36pm

re: #101 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I’m guessing Barack Hussein Ebola didn’t do so well in high school geometry or physical science. Light travels in straight lines. Flash to left of camera will create shadows on right side of camera.

BARACK HUSSEIN EBOLA IS NOT A SHEEPLE LIKE YOU. INFORWARS DOT COM! GOATNEWS DOT COM

103 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 5, 2015 10:14:30pm

re: #102 teleskiguy

BARACK HUSSEIN EBOLA IS NOT A SHEEPLE LIKE YOU. INFORWARS DOT COM! GOATNEWS DOT COM

Probably the same kind of people who believe the Moon landings were all faked.

104 bratwurst  Jan 5, 2015 10:22:32pm

Always an important question to ask in times of human tragedy: were the victims the right religion?

105 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 5, 2015 10:23:14pm

re: #83 goddamnedfrank

Trying to convince these jackasses the photo is real is a waste of time. The cat lady gave them the answer they want, and they’re sticking to it.

I once tried to explain to someone why the flag Amstrong and Aldrin planted on the Moon was “flying” — it was hanging from a metal rod. They however insisted the wind was making it fly, but since there is no air on the Moon, the photo had to be fake.

Bam! Gotcha!

106 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 10:25:24pm

File under meta-grifting.

107 unproven innocence  Jan 5, 2015 10:27:47pm

re: #106 goddamnedfrank

File under meta-grifting.

Are you confident this is not also CCJ?

108 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 10:28:46pm

re: #106 goddamnedfrank

File under meta-grifting.

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An unstable individual.

109 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 10:29:11pm

re: #107 unproven innocence

Are you confident this is not also CCJ?

That would be too brilliant for CCJ:)

110 retired cynic  Jan 5, 2015 10:30:37pm

re: #106 goddamnedfrank

It’s a mobius strip of grift.

111 teleskiguy  Jan 5, 2015 10:33:30pm

re: #110 retired cynic

It’s a mobius strip of grift.

112 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 10:35:20pm

re: #111 teleskiguy

No we don’t.

113 BeachDem  Jan 5, 2015 10:38:58pm

re: #50 goddamnedfrank

HAHAHA

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Heard any more about this?

114 teleskiguy  Jan 5, 2015 10:45:15pm

re: #112 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

The Onion is good. That article was when the Onion was indeed America’s Finest News Source™.

115 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 10:49:36pm

re: #113 BeachDem

No, I didn’t.

Black Knight - Monty Python and The Holy Grail

116 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 10:50:26pm

re: #113 BeachDem

Heard any more about this?

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No, I think he was distracted by a squirrel. Like Sergey says, the dude’s unstable.

117 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 10:52:50pm

The piece CCJ wrote about Tyson wasn’t libel. It wasn’t anything, just some immature quibbling over the meaning of the word mentor. Basically what mean middle school girls often do, questioning the depth of friendships / relationships.

118 3eff Jeff  Jan 5, 2015 10:53:08pm

So, can we start saying they’re “Number one with racists, and racist” now?

119 Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 5, 2015 10:56:59pm

re: #104 bratwurst

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Always an important question to ask in times of human tragedy: were the victims the right religion?

I sure felt my faith renewed, seeing bodies floating in the water.

/

120 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 10:57:16pm

I was hoping that we were going to learn that Tyson was really John Titor. That would have been awesome!

121 3eff Jeff  Jan 5, 2015 11:02:55pm

re: #120 goddamnedfrank

He could still be John Titor. But you cannot ask him right now, because he doesn’t know he’s John Titor yet. He won’t decide to make the trip until after we have a working time machine in this universe.

122 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 11:41:57pm

He actually went to press with this insane bullshit.

Pixels don’t fucking work that way, ever! He took screen grabs of two differently sized selections and put them side by side as if they represented the same number of pixels. If you zoom on the original file using Photoshop the pixels are all the same size, which I’m goddamned embarrassed to say I actually bothered to fucking confirm. He’s doubling, tripling and quadrupling down on this absolutely ridiculous, obvious retardation.

123 BeachDem  Jan 5, 2015 11:46:29pm

re: #120 goddamnedfrank

I was hoping that we were going to learn that Tyson was really John Titor. That would have been awesome!

I learn so much here—never heard about John Titor before. Reading about him made me think of Quantum Leap. And now I’m thinking about Scott Bakula…and about how sad I was when I thought Dean Stockwell was a wingnut. But I think I was wrong and he was just playing a role in some wingnut movie, and I never knew he gave Neil Young the idea to name “Ater the Goldrush” and what were we talking about again?

124 teleskiguy  Jan 5, 2015 11:47:48pm

re: #122 goddamnedfrank

which I’m goddamned embarrassed to say I actually bothered to fucking confirm. He’s doubling, tripling and quadrupling down on this absolutely ridiculous, obvious retardation.

Livin’ up to your goddamned name my friend.

UpChuck has mental health problems.

125 BeachDem  Jan 5, 2015 11:54:51pm

re: #122 goddamnedfrank

He actually went to press with this insane bullshit.

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Pixels don’t fucking work that way, ever! He took screen grabs of two differently sized selections and put them side by side as if they represented the same number of pixels. If you zoom on the original file using Photoshop the pixels are all the same size, which I’m goddamned embarrassed to say I actually bothered to fucking confirm. He’s doubling, tripling and quadrupling down on this absolutely ridiculous, obvious retardation.

But, but the cat lady said it’s so, and who are you going to believe, one of upchuck’s totally reliable twitter pals or your lyin’ eyes? Upchuck said it’s CONCLUSIVE and he is an AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST, after all.

126 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 6, 2015 12:05:51am

re: #122 goddamnedfrank

He actually went to press with this insane bullshit.

Pixels don’t fucking work that way, ever! He took screen grabs of two differently sized selections and put them side by side as if they represented the same number of pixels. If you zoom on the original file using Photoshop the pixels are all the same size, which I’m goddamned embarrassed to say I actually bothered to fucking confirm. He’s doubling, tripling and quadrupling down on this absolutely ridiculous, obvious retardation.

GotNwes scooped him. I already haz a fake Andrew/Virginia photo. I knew he’d find some way to “prove” the photo sold to the Mail was fake, and run with it. He’s predictable that way.

127 Zamb  Jan 6, 2015 12:12:36am

re: #105 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Trying to convince these jackasses the photo is real is a waste of time. The cat lady gave them the answer they want, and they’re sticking to it.

I once tried to explain to someone why the flag Amstrong and Aldrin planted on the Moon was “flying” — it was hanging from a metal rod. They however insisted the wind was making it fly, but since there is no air on the Moon, the photo had to be fake.

Bam! Gotcha!

Ha, shows what you know. It wasn’t the wind it was the air conditioner for the bunker underneath area 51. Get your facts straight.

128 goddamnedfrank  Jan 6, 2015 12:32:35am
129 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 6, 2015 12:38:04am

re: #128 goddamnedfrank

Also, see my latest post. gotnwes.wheatdogg.com

130 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 6, 2015 12:46:01am

Why is CCJ so obsessed with proving fraud? Every story he does tries to prove someone, somewhere is lying. There must be some psychological reason.

131 goddamnedfrank  Jan 6, 2015 12:50:15am

This is a watershed moment in CCJ’s career. He’s ether getting played by some nefarious genius cat lady or his “expert” is as big an idiot as he is. Either way this is the biggest blunder I’ve seen yet. There’s no way he ever lives this down.

132 goddamnedfrank  Jan 6, 2015 12:58:18am
133 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 6, 2015 1:06:42am

re: #131 goddamnedfrank

This is a watershed moment in CCJ’s career. He’s ether getting played by some nefarious genius cat lady or his “expert” is as big an idiot as he is. Either way this is the biggest blunder I’ve seen yet. There’s no way he ever lives this down.

Dear Mr. Johnson,

We are professional journalists with a full-time professional photography staff on board. We know what we are doing.

Kindly bugger off.

Respectfully yours,
Editors of The Daily Mail

134 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 6, 2015 2:15:16am

He’s moved onto redefining the English language.

135 goddamnedfrank  Jan 6, 2015 2:36:35am
136 Bubblehead II  Jan 6, 2015 3:00:12am

Morning Lizards. Live link to this mornings Space X launch.

T -21 minutes and counting

137 Bubblehead II  Jan 6, 2015 3:11:19am

Coming up on T-10 minutes. Auto sequence started.

138 Bubblehead II  Jan 6, 2015 3:15:43am

T-6 Dragon is now on internal power.

139 Bubblehead II  Jan 6, 2015 3:17:51am

Live link in cased you missed it

140 Bubblehead II  Jan 6, 2015 3:20:05am

Internal count abort. WTF?

141 Bubblehead II  Jan 6, 2015 3:27:15am

This mornings launch has been scrubbed. Launch erector has been raised back to the upright position. Thrust Actuator drift on the main engines was the cause. Looks like next Friday at 0509hrs before the next attempt.

142 Bubblehead II  Jan 6, 2015 3:54:29am

Time to shut down and get ready to head out the door to work. Have a good day Lizards and I will see you tonight.

143 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 6, 2015 3:55:34am

Hasta luego

144 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 4:25:21am

re: #23 dog philosopher

if robert byrd had never been a u.s. senator what would these assholes do then?

This:

145 Timothy Watson  Jan 6, 2015 5:49:56am

re: #144 The Vicious Babushka

This:

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Yes, that evil Harry Truman who desegregated the armed forces and recognized Israel and:

A 1947 report by the Truman administration titled To Secure These Rights presented a detailed ten-point agenda of civil rights reforms. In February 1948, the president submitted a civil rights agenda to Congress that proposed creating several federal offices devoted to issues such as voting rights and fair employment practices.[167] This provoked a storm of criticism from Southern Democrats in the runup to the national nominating convention, but Truman refused to compromise, saying: “My forebears were Confederates … but my very stomach turned over when I had learned that Negro soldiers, just back from overseas, were being dumped out of Army trucks in Mississippi and beaten.”[168] Tales of the abuse, violence, and persecution suffered by many African American veterans upon their return from World War II infuriated Truman, and were a major factor in his decision to issue Executive Order 9981, in July 1948, desegregating and requiring equal opportunity in the Armed Forces.[169] After several years of planning, recommendations and revisions between Truman, the Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity and the various branches of the military, Army units became racially integrated.[170]

Another executive order, also in 1948, made it illegal to discriminate against persons applying for civil service positions based on race. A third, in 1951, established the Committee on Government Contract Compliance (CGCC). This committee ensured that defense contractors did not discriminate because of race.[171][172]

en.wikipedia.org

146 Dr. Matt  Jan 6, 2015 5:52:42am
147 Romantic Heretic  Jan 6, 2015 5:56:04am

re: #145 Timothy Watson

Now thinking of the Tuskegee Airmen.

At the end of that documentary one of the Airmen got off the ship. “Whites to the Left. Coloreds to the Right,” read the sign at the bottom of the gangplank.

Made me very angry the first time I saw this episode.

148 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 6:04:05am

Not one bit of snow fell here overnight; looks like Observer Art got all of it.

Looking forward to today’s lunchtime entertainment on CSPAN: election for Speaker of the House. I know that my own congresscritter (Thomas Massey-Libertarian thinly disguised as a Republican) is not voting for Boehner.

149 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 6:10:19am

re: #104 bratwurst

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Always an important question to ask in times of human tragedy: were the victims the right religion?

So, they died because they were Christian, or is that despite being Christian. Not quite sure what Graham’s point actually was. But it does seem that the right wingers and theocrats seem to lack basic empathy - and rather take the position that they’ve got theirs so screw everyone else.

150 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 6:12:17am

re: #130 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Why is CCJ so obsessed with proving fraud? Every story he does tries to prove someone, somewhere is lying. There must be some psychological reason.

Because he’s always lying? And his BS detector is firmly planted on squat? /

151 Snarknado!  Jan 6, 2015 6:12:42am

re: #149 lawhawk

So, they died because they were Christian, or is that despite being Christian. Not quite sure what Graham’s point actually was. But it does seem that the right wingers and theocrats seem to lack basic empathy - and rather take the position that they’ve got theirs so screw everyone else.

Likely he means their souls are saved.

152 ObserverArt  Jan 6, 2015 6:13:07am

re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not one bit of snow fell here overnight; looks like Observer Art got all of it.

Looking forward to today’s lunchtime entertainment on CSPAN: election for Speaker of the House. I know that my own congresscritter (Thomas Massey-Libertarian thinly disguised as a Republican) is not voting for Boehner.

Yes, I think Columbus stole your snow.

I just got back in from cleaning off my walkways around the house and out front. Probably a good 4” of powdery snow.

What is really strange, the storm seems to have been greatest in a band just above the Ohio river and just south of Columbus. And it is still going on. Very unusual. And northern Ohio where it is usually the snowiest got very little.

And now, we get the real cold for the next three days. Oh joy!

153 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 6:14:44am

re: #131 goddamnedfrank

He should have gone by the boards after his mess in Mississippi (which is still being investigated by state officials IIRC). Instead, he’s managed to try and insert himself into every major breaking story. Ever.

From the missing MH370 airliner to a photo of a British Prince who may or may not have had relations with an underage girl years back (but the prince and his friends are friends with Alan Dershowitz, so therefore CCJ must seek and destroy this woman, facts be damned).

154 goddamnedfrank  Jan 6, 2015 6:15:24am

Did we all just miss the fact that Todd Kincannon got suspended from Twitter, or what? Apparently they yanked his account (@ToddKincannon) last week sometime and he’s been gone ever since.

155 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 6:16:03am

re: #152 ObserverArt

We’re getting a bit of snow here in NYC metro. Might go out during lunch to take a few pictures of the WTC memorial, but it’s frickin’ cold here with the wind chill, so I might put comfort over taking the photos (especially since I’m still getting over that bug from New Years).

156 ObserverArt  Jan 6, 2015 6:19:43am

re: #149 lawhawk

So, they died because they were Christian, or is that despite being Christian. Not quite sure what Graham’s point actually was. But it does seem that the right wingers and theocrats seem to lack basic empathy - and rather take the position that they’ve got theirs so screw everyone else.

If there is a God, he is a fair God. He killed ‘em all. He killed Christians, He killed Jews, He killed Muslims, He killed Buddhists, He killed Hindus, He even killed the Atheists.

So, apparently there was no advantage given to anyone’s religious beliefs.

/

157 Dr. Matt  Jan 6, 2015 6:19:47am

re: #154 goddamnedfrank

Did we all just miss the fact that Todd Kincannon got suspended from Twitter, or what? Apparently they yanked his account (@ToddKincannon) last week sometime and he’s been gone ever since.

The dipshit has multiple perma-banned accounts to date:

@Todd__Kincannon

158 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 6, 2015 6:26:16am

re: #157 Dr. Matt

The dipshit has multiple perma-banned accounts to date:

@Todd__Kincannon

There is no such thing as a permanent ban from Twitter. It’s like a red card in soccer.

159 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 6:29:38am

re: #158 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

There is no such thing as a permanent ban from Twitter. It’s like a red card in soccer.

More like a yellow card. Twitter engages in revolving door suspensions that sometimes last not more than a few hours. That Kincannon hasn’t been restored yet suggests that either he hasn’t bothered to try and fight to get it restored, or Twitter hasn’t bothered to free his account.

I’d be curious as to the real reason they’ve banned him (if that’s indeed the case) - and why his case is different than those of people like Chuckles (who should be banned for his smears, lies, doxxing, and other TOS violations).

160 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Jan 6, 2015 6:36:05am

re: #134 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

He’s moved onto redefining the English language.

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I think he’s claiming that every time he has a sudden realization, it’s God speaking to him. Which is Not Narcissistic At All.

161 iossarian  Jan 6, 2015 6:40:45am

re: #155 lawhawk

We’re getting a bit of snow here in NYC metro. Might go out during lunch to take a few pictures of the WTC memorial, but it’s frickin’ cold here with the wind chill, so I might put comfort over taking the photos (especially since I’m still getting over that bug from New Years).

I always want to go and take pictures of the lake in the early morning at this time of year. It looks like something from the methane planet.

Then I look at the temperature and have second thoughts.

162 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 6, 2015 6:41:36am

re: #160 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

I think he’s claiming that every time he has a sudden realization, it’s God speaking to him. Which is Not Narcissistic At All.

No wonder he’s so Cruz-happy.

163 WhatEVs  Jan 6, 2015 6:55:27am

re: #154 goddamnedfrank

Did we all just miss the fact that Todd Kincannon got suspended from Twitter, or what? Apparently they yanked his account (@ToddKincannon) last week sometime and he’s been gone ever since.

I saw that the other day but assumed he would be reinstated like Chuck is always reinstated.

Anyone know what he did to get a long term suspension?

164 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 6, 2015 7:02:07am

good morning Lizards.

165 Mattand  Jan 6, 2015 7:02:39am

Just read the TPM round up of the brain battle between Bill O and DuKKKe.

Bill O’Reilly apparently stopped himself from saying “white supremacist” and changed it to “that your organization isn’t looking out for the white, European race”.

Bill also managed to Magic Balance Fairy the whole issue with the standard “Well, there’s minorities who are racist, too!” meme.

Fuck him and fuck Fox News. It’s naïve of me to think this, but Fox could have actually done something good for their viewers and the country by calling out Duke for what he is: an ignorant racist.

Tell me again how they don’t have a tightly scripted agenda that passes as news.

I’m a little on edge today about this stuff because I’m about ready to cut my cousin loose on FB. He’s pulling that “I’m not racist, but look what at THOSE PEOPLE do!!!” horseshit again.

My cousin has been dropping the N bomb since he was a toddler. Guy’s repeating the bigoted cycle of his father and grandfather, and he’s most likely going to repeat it with his infant son. I really have no interest in watching this.

The corker is that he lived in Key West for several years, and went on a kick of posting gay friendly stuff on his feed for a while. It looks like none of that tolerance applies to skin color.

166 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 6, 2015 7:09:33am

re: #122 goddamnedfrank

He actually went to press with this insane bullshit.

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Pixels don’t fucking work that way, ever! He took screen grabs of two differently sized selections and put them side by side as if they represented the same number of pixels. If you zoom on the original file using Photoshop the pixels are all the same size, which I’m goddamned embarrassed to say I actually bothered to fucking confirm. He’s doubling, tripling and quadrupling down on this absolutely ridiculous, obvious retardation.

Just to be sure: he probably doesn’t mean pixels literally, as in, real pixels of one photo. He probably means that it’s a mix of different photos with different resolutions and the resulting different apparent pixelation. Which is probably still not true, considering it’s Chuck, but which makes more sense at least theoretically.

167 Franklin  Jan 6, 2015 7:10:51am

re: #166 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Just to be sure: he probably doesn’t mean pixels literally, as in, real pixels of one photo. He probably means that it’s a mix of different photos with different resolutions and the resulting different apparent pixelation. Which is probably still not true, considering it’s Chuck, but which makes more sense at least theoretically.

I’m pretty sure he is talking about comparing the actual size of pixels from different parts of the same digital image.

168 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 7:12:02am

re:
#32

Chuckles blocked me for questioning his taking photo analysys from a twitter account of a guy giving cats the finger. I don’t get new journalism I guess

Archmoron blogger Chuck c Johnson is on a double secret probation mission.

//

169 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 6, 2015 7:13:45am

Good morning from snowy Philadelphia. About 20 F outside and down to light flurries right now. Not much accumulation, but sufficient to make a mess of the morning commute for a lot of people.

If the sky clears a bit this afternoon and the bit of snow on the ground stays I might try to get up to the Art Museum with my camera and take the standard photo aimed towards City Hall from there I have been doing about once a month for the past year. (Almost done with having a dozen to make a calendar or something. ;) )

170 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 7:13:53am
171 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 7:15:15am

re:
#52

They share little of the heritage of the Old Testament people called the Israelites

David Duke: Biblical scholar and historical genius.

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172 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 6, 2015 7:17:57am

re: #167 Franklin

I’m pretty sure he is talking about comparing the actual size of pixels from different parts of the same digital image.

He doesn’t understand much of what he is talking about anyway, and if he does, he can’t express himself properly, not being a journalist or a bright human being, but what he means is probably what I have indicated above (even if he actually believes in literal differently sized pixels). Namely, that it’s a paste job from digital pics of different resolutions, where one pic is zoomed relative to another, thus the “squares” (which are no longer pixels of course) being different.

173 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 7:18:10am

The NYPD hissy fit continues for a second week:

They continue to use all the means at their disposal to force the city to give them more in contract talks, despite the fact that the city is safer than it’s ever been.

Yet, officers can and still do get shot at on the job. Two undercover cops were shot overnight. Both are expected to make full recoveries. Part of the incident was caught on video, and the suspect remains at large. A gun was recovered (how much do we want to wager that it was obtained from somewhere along the Iron Pipeline (PA, VA, NC, SC, GA) where most of the guns used in crimes in NYC originate? That, of course, will be overshadowed by the PBA using the incident to once again make the bogus claim that the mayor doesn’t care about cops or that the mayor brought the shootings about by being insensitive to the cops’ feelings (by stating the inarguable fact that minorities are racially profiled and that cops act differently towards minorities than they do towards other groups).

174 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 7:18:13am
175 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 7:18:55am

re:
#169

Yeah, terrible commute into DC this morning. Very picturesque. But two hours long.

176 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 7:19:54am

re: #170 darthstar

Wait, if you see the star and the outstretched fingers, doesn’t that look like a crescent. He’s a Muslim interloper. !!!!!! /11ty

177 b.d.  Jan 6, 2015 7:20:29am

re: #174 darthstar

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Jeb is dialed in to the GOP base though, he can ditch the Nazi references after the primaries.

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178 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 7:23:37am

re: #176 lawhawk

Wait, if you see the star and the outstretched fingers, doesn’t that look like a crescent. He’s a Muslim interloper. !!!!!! /11ty

It just means you can reach for the stars if you’re white.

179 Gus  Jan 6, 2015 7:25:16am

Jim Webb and the Democrats’ white-man problem

O.o

180 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 7:26:56am

Happy birthday New Mexico!

There were even blunt spokesmen who went so far as to suggest that the United States had made a bad bargain in annexing New Mexico. Some years after the Civil War, General William T. Sherman, who heartily disliked the arid country and the people of the Southwest, was quoted as saying that “the United States ought to declare war on Mexico and make it take back New Mexico.”

181 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 6, 2015 7:29:30am

re: #179 Gus

(A white woman running for president after the nation’s first black president could certainly underscore the “what about us” feeling among this demographic.)

*eyeroll*

182 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 7:29:31am
183 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 6, 2015 7:30:50am

16 years v. 200+ years. “WHAT ABOUT USSSS?????!!!”

184 b.d.  Jan 6, 2015 7:31:46am

re: #182 darthstar

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Christie is the horizontal candidate.

185 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 7:32:37am

Ben Shapiro, desperately competing for ChuckC’s Internet Attentions

186 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 7:32:47am

This is a great retort.

Great retort. Bunnies, strippers and camels oh my.
187 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 7:33:41am

So I guess wingnuts will use this new scandal to pound Hillary with

188 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 7:34:31am

re: #185 The Vicious Babushka

Ben Shapiro, desperately competing for ChuckC’s Internet Attentions

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189 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 7:37:57am

re: #63 D_Red

Welcome, hatchling.

190 ObserverArt  Jan 6, 2015 7:40:28am

re: #179 Gus

Jim Webb and the Democrats’ white-man problem

O.o

Jim Webb is a Democrat problem.

/

191 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 7:42:48am
192 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 7:45:46am

re: #133 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Dear Mr. Johnson,

We are professional journalists with a full-time professional photography staff on board. We know what we are doing.

Kindly bugger off.

Respectfully yours,
Editors of The Daily Mail

Is this another of the many things that I just don’t “get” about the world today? I would think that asserting that a newspaper committed fraud and that by extension a woman has launched a frivolous lawsuit would require more substantiation than the words of someone going by a Twitter nym.

This reminds of “Professor” Irwin Corey, a stand-up comedian who bills himself as “The World’s Foremost Authority.”

Disclaimer: I have become so old that nearly everything reminds me of something else.

193 Flying Squirrel Girl  Jan 6, 2015 7:46:31am

re: #165 Mattand

My cousin has been dropping the N bomb since he was a toddler. Guy’s repeating the bigoted cycle of his father and grandfather, and he’s most likely going to repeat it with his infant son. I really have no interest in watching this.

*sigh*

My cousins in Oklahoma will scoop their kids up and leave the room at the first F bomb dropped by me or my sister, but have no problem describing my mother’s neighbors as “s***s” and “n*****s” and lamenting how the neighborhood has changed since “they” moved in. Good Baptists.

And that’s why I don’t go to Oklahoma anymore.

194 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 7:46:58am

re: #63 D_Red

Welcome aboard.

195 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 7:47:17am

Random tweets still not working?

196 iossarian  Jan 6, 2015 7:49:00am

re: #183 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

16 years v. 200+ years. “WHAT ABOUT USSSS?????!!!”

I’m reading a good book at the moment about how right-wing governments basically co-opted the traditional labor movement by undermining manufacturing industries and then pitting blue-collar white men against everyone else in the resulting dogfight for shit jobs.

197 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 6, 2015 7:50:02am

re: #192 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Is this another of the many things that I just don’t “get” about the world today? I would think that asserting that a newspaper committed fraud and that by extension a woman has launched a frivolous lawsuit would require more substantiation than the words of someone going by a Twitter nym.

This reminds of “Professor” Irwin Corey, a stand-up comedian who bills himself as “The World’s Foremost Authority.”

Disclaimer: I have become so old that nearly everything reminds me of something else.

The World of Award Winning Journalism, only assertions are necessary. Facts are not.

And I’m old enough to remember who you’re talking about. The man is 100 years old now! irwincorey.org

I should be so lucky.

(corrected to add the website I intended to include)

198 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 7:56:30am
199 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 6, 2015 7:56:54am

re: #196 iossarian

I’m reading a good book at the moment about how right-wing governments basically co-opted the traditional labor movement by undermining manufacturing industries and then pitting blue-collar white men against everyone else in the resulting dogfight for shit jobs.

In the Southern United States, they used the trick of employing slave labor and making the other poor whites scramble for the remaining work.

200 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 7:59:50am
201 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 6, 2015 8:00:12am

I’m currently reading _A World On Fire; a book about Britain’s effect in various areas on the US Civil War.

Just into the early chapters covering the pre-war period, but you can see a political parallel to the current politics. Politicians playing the extremes simply to get support while other are “true believers”. Rhetoric leaning towards name-calling and invective rather than trying to work out political solutions, etc. etc.

Just a reminder that US (and arguably world) politics remains roughly the same game that it always has been. Just additional media to take advantage of, better understanding of how advertising and manipulation work, and a slightly different team of players.

202 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 6, 2015 8:01:04am

re: #192 Higgs Boson’s Mate

The thing is, Irwin Corey knew he was spouting bullshit. Chuck Johnson believes that every word he writes is 100% valid.

203 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 8:01:55am

Another day, another hack is hacked off by hacking:

(From Politico so , no link)

Former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has sued the U.S. Department of Justice for illegal surveillance, alleging that the Obama administration hacked her computers while she was reporting on the Benghazi attacks, Fast and Furious and Obamacare.

“There is an administrative claim for illegal wiretapping and a lawsuit alleging constitutional violations,” Attkisson told POLITICO on Monday, confirming a Fox News report about the lawsuit. She is seeking $35 million in damages.

Despite inconsistencies in Ms. Attkisson’s story and the fact that the alleged government hacking could easily have been technical glitches, including a stuck backspace key on her computer keyboard, she’s brought suit. Popcorn, anyone?

204 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 6, 2015 8:05:16am

re: #203 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Another day, another hack is hacked off by hacking:

(From Politico so , no link)

Despite inconsistencies in Ms. Attkisson’s story and the fact that the alleged government hacking could easily have been technical glitches, including a stuck backspace key on her computer keyboard, she’s brought suit. Popcorn, anyone?

Obviously lawyers are not going to go bankrupt anytime soon.
/

205 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 8:05:41am
206 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 8:06:02am

re: #192 Higgs Boson’s Mate

This reminds of “Professor” Irwin Corey, a stand-up comedian who bills himself as “The World’s Foremost Authority.”

I caught the Professor’s very funny act twice in the mid-eighties, the first time opening for Mort Sahl, who was ho-hum, and the other time opening for Brother Theodore (shown below), who killed.

207 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 6, 2015 8:06:49am

re: #200 The Vicious Babushka

I own like 1 Bitcoin total. There’s no way I’d sock away more than a couple hundred bucks in bitcoins, given the massive failures among the Bitcin exchanges. I feel sorry in some ways for those poor fools who dropped thousands of dollars on trading Bitcoins and left those funds in the hands of the exchanges like Bitstamp. They’re not banks, or stock brokers, with insurance and tons of safeguards developed over decades.

But, I have to say, using the Bitcoin system to transfer money from China to the States saves me money — if I time it when Bitcoin values aren’t dropping like rocks.

208 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 6, 2015 8:08:35am

Ah politics and optics…

It’s disappointing to see that Jeb Bush has the same opinion of marriage equality as the presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton,” Angelo told The Huffington Post. “Jeb had a chance to differentiate himself from her, and at the very least say that, in Florida, marriage equality is settled law and there are more pressing issues demanding attention. As it stands, Jeb tacks the same line as Hillary: that marriage is something that should be left to the states.”

During an interview in June with NPR’s Terry Gross, Clinton repeatedly said that for her, marriage had always been “a matter left to the states” but never clarified whether she believes same-sex marriage bans violate the U.S. Constitution.

But unlike Clinton, Bush has not come out in favor of marriage equality. Clinton announced her evolution in March 2013.

In 2012, Bush offered some support for individuals in same-sex relationships, but he ultimately backed “traditional marriage.”

209 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 6, 2015 8:08:43am

re: #207 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I own like 1 Bitcoin total. There’s no way I’d sock away more than a couple hundred bucks in bitcoins, given the massive failures among the Bitcin exchanges. I feel sorry in some ways for those poor fools who dropped thousands of dollars on trading Bitcoins and left those funds in the hands of the exchanges like Bitstamp. They’re not banks, or stock brokers, with insurance and tons of safeguards developed over decades.

But, I have to say, using the Bitcoin system to transfer money from China to the States saves me money — if I time it when Bitcoin values aren’t dropping like rocks.

Maybe add an extra exchange in using rubles just to be safe…
/// ;)

210 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 8:09:40am

re: #206 De Kolta Chair

I caught the Professor’s very funny act twice in the mid-eighties, the first time opening for Mort Sahl, who was ho-hum, and the other time opening for Brother Theodore (shown below), who killed.

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Saw Brother Theodore more than once during the 70’s and he was always amazing.

211 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 8:09:56am
212 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 8:10:59am

Banter is banning the “D” word

213 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 8:11:11am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

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214 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 8:12:39am

re: #213 wrenchwench

215 Timothy Watson  Jan 6, 2015 8:13:12am

re: #179 Gus

Jim Webb and the Democrats’ white-man problem

O.o

He still cutting checks to family members from his PAC?

216 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 6, 2015 8:14:54am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

Ban this, bro…

217 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 8:15:29am
218 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 8:16:43am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

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The ad in the middle of that piece is very relevant to the subject:

219 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 8:17:39am

re: #218 De Kolta Chair

The ad in the middle of that piece is very relevant to the subject:

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I use Adblock so I don’t see that shit.

220 b.d.  Jan 6, 2015 8:17:46am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

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When dudebros are outlawed, only outlaws will have dudebros

221 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 8:18:21am
222 b.d.  Jan 6, 2015 8:18:58am

David Sirota has not been reached for comment.

223 Dr. Matt  Jan 6, 2015 8:19:41am

re: #63 D_Red

re: #194 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Welcome aboard.

Newbie lizards are required to bring good coffee and homemade brownies.

224 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 8:20:16am
225 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 8:20:55am

re: #223 Dr. Matt

Newbie lizards are required to bring good coffee and homemade brownies.

Double points if they’re Alice B. Toklas brownies?

226 Varek Raith  Jan 6, 2015 8:23:46am

re: #179 Gus

Jim Webb and the Democrats’ white-man problem

O.o

Whut.

227 Dr. Matt  Jan 6, 2015 8:25:10am

Jeffrey Epstein should become a teaparty member because the RWNJs would then line up to defend him.

228 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 6, 2015 8:28:31am

re: #227 Dr. Matt

Jeffrey Epstein should become a teaparty member because the RWNJs would then line up to defend him.

Imagine if one of the Kochs were caught running a prostitution business. All the conservatarians would say it’s the free market at work.

229 Gus  Jan 6, 2015 8:31:37am

re: #226 Varek Raith

Whut.

He also spoke at some Confederacy confab.

230 Gus  Jan 6, 2015 8:32:26am

OK, time for an errand. Hope the car battery cooperates. Later.

231 Dr. Matt  Jan 6, 2015 8:38:34am

Shaken more than 560 times, Okla. is top state for quakes in 2014

Oklahoma had a fivefold surge in earthquakes last year, making it by far the most seismically active state in the Lower 48.

The Sooner State was shaken by 564 quakes of magnitude 3 and larger, compared with only 100 in 2013, according to an EnergyWire analysis of federal earthquake data. California, which is twice the size of Oklahoma, had fewer than half as many quakes.

But, but, but frackening = freedom!

232 BeachDem  Jan 6, 2015 8:40:37am

re: #170 darthstar

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Even without that similarity, it’s one creepy logo and tagline.

233 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 8:43:10am

re: #228 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Imagine if one of the Kochs were caught running a prostitution business. All the conservatarians would say it’s the free market at work.

The Kochs would never be caught, there would be hundreds of layers between them and the pimps.

Look at the Waltons and their human slavery ring, known as “Walmart associates”

234 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 8:46:48am

re: #170 darthstar

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The Right To Rise? Is Jeb Bush angling to be Viagra’s next spokesman?

235 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 8:51:37am

re: #218 De Kolta Chair

The ad in the middle of that piece is very relevant to the subject:

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Oh wait, I’m getting that same ad on the front page of LGF. Time to clean my Chrome cache!

236 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 8:52:03am

re: #234 De Kolta Chair

If you have an erection election erection (was right the first time) every 4 years to consider seeking invasion of foreign country, consult a foreign policy expert/historian about why it’s a bad idea.

237 iossarian  Jan 6, 2015 8:53:12am

re: #236 lawhawk

Win.

238 iossarian  Jan 6, 2015 8:54:06am

re: #231 Dr. Matt

Shaken more than 560 times, Okla. is top state for quakes in 2014

But, but, but frackening = freedom!

The good news is, after your house falls down, you can heat yourself by flaring the gas from your burst water pipes!

239 goddamnedfrank  Jan 6, 2015 8:54:56am

re: #172 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

He doesn’t understand much of what he is talking about anyway, and if he does, he can’t express himself properly, not being a journalist or a bright human being, but what he means is probably what I have indicated above (even if he actually believes in literal differently sized pixels). Namely, that it’s a paste job from digital pics of different resolutions, where one pic is zoomed relative to another, thus the “squares” (which are no longer pixels of course) being different.

You’re both right. He thinks that a composited image retains the differing pixel sizes of its original constituent components. So that the pixels from Roberts’ eye are larger than the pixels in Prince Andrew’s eye. He thinks that because that’s what his expert @FlippingOffCat has told him -> that if you zoom way in using her special scientific software suite, this is what she sees, two different sized pixels at the exact same level of magnification.

Except as we all know raster images don’t work that way, because motherfucking math that’s why. All pixels are addressed according to X by Y coordinates, and within any given raster image they are always the exact same size. If they ever aren’t the exact same size they’re no longer pixels in a raster image, but texels, or some kind of Voronoi / Vector based abstract shit, or the dots in an AM halftone print rip file, or anything other than the elements in a jpeg that you can zoom in on and view using your goddamned computer monitor.

240 Varek Raith  Jan 6, 2015 8:55:20am

re: #238 iossarian

The good news is, after your house falls down, you can heat yourself by flaring the gas from your burst water pipes!

That’s the spirit!
FREEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMBBBBBBBBBBBBBB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

241 Dr. Matt  Jan 6, 2015 8:56:35am

I’m just asking question!!!!!!

242 BeachDem  Jan 6, 2015 8:57:15am

re: #234 De Kolta Chair

The Right To Rise? Is Jeb Bush angling to be Viagra’s next spokesman?

Or the head of the New Confederacy?

243 iossarian  Jan 6, 2015 8:57:33am

re: #241 Dr. Matt

Uncanny.

Jeb Bush is clearly a Nazi and a Communist.

In other words…

A LIBRUL.

244 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 8:58:14am

Does GOHMERT!!!!1!!!! have an actual chance in freaking hell of becoming SOTH? Because he could fuck some serious shit up.

245 BeachDem  Jan 6, 2015 8:59:55am

re: #239 goddamnedfrank

You’re both right. He thinks that a composited image retains the differing pixel sizes of its original constituent components. So that the pixels from Roberts’ eye are larger than the pixels in Prince Andrew’s eye. He thinks that because that’s what his expert @FlippingOffCat has told him, that if you zoom way in using her special scientific software suite, this is what she sees, two different sized pixels at the exact same level of magnification.

Except as we all know raster images don’t work that way, because motherfucking math that’s why. All pixels are addressed according to X by Y coordinates, and within any given raster image they are always the exact same size. If they ever aren’t the exact same size they’re no longer pixels in a raster image, but texels, or some kind of Voronoi / Vector based abstract shit, or the dots in an AM halftone rip file, or anything other than the elements in a goddamned jpeg that you can zoom in on and view using your goddamned computer monitor.

I have absolutely no idea what any of that says, but I like your style! (And believe you know what you’re talking about.)

246 Dr. Matt  Jan 6, 2015 9:02:02am
How uncanny
247 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 9:03:13am

re: #244 The Vicious Babushka

Does GOHMERT!!!!1!!!! have an actual chance in freaking hell of becoming SOTH? Because he could fuck some serious shit up.

Not likely. I give him about a 10% chance. And that’s probably too much.

As for the damage he could do, what exactly can he do?

Push the House to open impeachment? The TP has been begging to do that for years.

Push to defund Obamacare? They’ve been attempting that for years, and President would eventually veto anything coming across his desk.

Attack science and education? They’ve been on that road for years, and it would be all the more public as to what the GOP agenda is all about.

It would be ugly, but there’d be more sound and fury, and less results. The GOP has to actually attempt to govern, and it simply isn’t in their DNA to do that now, or at any time in the past decade. They want to defund, delay, and destroy the federal government by any means necessary. That’s not governance. It’s a recipe for disaster for the GOP (and the nation if anything manages to survive a Presidential veto - which until now have been few and far between).

248 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 6, 2015 9:03:53am

re: #242 BeachDem

Or the head of the New Confederacy?

Or a ninja throwing stars.
/

249 iossarian  Jan 6, 2015 9:06:19am

re: #247 lawhawk

The current GOP approach (which is in fact very similar, I think, to other RW parties around the world) is to make a bunch of noise about stuff which doesn’t actually happen, and meanwhile to fractionally divert money from poor people to rich people.

If you shift 0.1% of Federal spending from food stamps to some bland-sounding contracted program, you’ve suddenly taken a massive amount of money from a lot of poor people and given it to one very rich person.

250 Dr. Matt  Jan 6, 2015 9:08:22am

Considering the Cowboys is one of the most despised teams (and fan base) in the NFL, Chris Christie has luckily sunk his presidential run [once again] by pissing off voters in ALL 50 states.

251 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 6, 2015 9:09:20am

re: #249 iossarian

The current GOP approach (which is in fact very similar, I think, to other RW parties around the world) is to make a bunch of noise about stuff which doesn’t actually happen, and meanwhile to fractionally divert money from poor people to rich people.

If you shift 0.1% of Federal spending from food stamps to some bland-sounding contracted program, you’ve suddenly taken a massive amount of money from a lot of poor people and given it to one very rich person.

Especially if it is a no-bid, cost-plus contract.

252 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 9:09:25am

Clinton vs Bush 2016:

253 iossarian  Jan 6, 2015 9:10:07am

re: #250 Dr. Matt

Considering the Cowboys is one of the most despised teams (and fan base) in the NFL, Chris Christie has luckily sunk his presidential run [once again] by pissing off voters in ALL 50 states.

I heard the Jerry-Christie cinch described as the Emperor hugging Jabba yesterday.

254 iossarian  Jan 6, 2015 9:11:09am

re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Especially if it is a no-bid, cost-plus contract.

“But these are the only people who can install shower heads in war zones!”

255 ObserverArt  Jan 6, 2015 9:12:28am

Wow. A reference to “Professor” Irwin Corey.

I always liked seeing him on TV. He had a hell of a rap to explain just about anything in the most incredibly ridiculous ways.

But who knew that he could be a model for people to explain complete bullshit and have people take it seriously.

I think I need “Professor” Irwin Corey to explain how that happened.

256 Varek Raith  Jan 6, 2015 9:12:35am

re: #254 iossarian

“But these are the only people who can install shower heads in war zones!”

That also zap you!

257 Franklin  Jan 6, 2015 9:13:05am

re: #239 goddamnedfrank

You’re both right. He thinks that a composited image retains the differing pixel sizes of its original constituent components. So that the pixels from Roberts’ eye are larger than the pixels in Prince Andrew’s eye. He thinks that because that’s what his expert @FlippingOffCat has told him -> that if you zoom way in using her special scientific software suite, this is what she sees, two different sized pixels at the exact same level of magnification.

Except as we all know raster images don’t work that way, because motherfucking math that’s why. All pixels are addressed according to X by Y coordinates, and within any given raster image they are always the exact same size. If they ever aren’t the exact same size they’re no longer pixels in a raster image, but texels, or some kind of Voronoi / Vector based abstract shit, or the dots in an AM halftone print rip file, or anything other than the elements in a jpeg that you can zoom in on and view using your goddamned computer monitor.

Well said. And that takes me back to the good old days in print production. Adobe Photoshop 5.0 and Illustrator 7 to go along with Quark Express (then switched to InDesign). Memories.

258 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 9:13:36am

re: #250 Dr. Matt

And hurt his chances of even holding NJ, which is split between being Giants and Philly fans.

But that’s not what bothers me about his presence in the Jones’ box at the Cowboys stadium. It’s that he wrote an executive order that essentially exempts him from gifting rules applicable to other state officials, and that the Port Authority, which answers to both Christie and Gov. Cuomo, is in a long term deal with Legends Hospitality (which is coowned by the Yankees, Cowboys, and several other players) to operate the 1WTC observation deck and food services. There’s conflicts of interest there, and the ethics of his presence, is well, questionable.

Add to that the fact that Christie allowed the NFL to fleece the state for the Super Bowl, and you’ve got a toxic mess there in that photo.

259 iossarian  Jan 6, 2015 9:14:33am

re: #256 Varek Raith

That also zap you!

These are the highest quality war zone shower heads. Pay no attention to the pallets of cash being unloaded out of the warehouse behind you. Look at this shower head!

260 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 9:15:28am

re: #254 iossarian

“But these are the only people who can install shower heads in war zones!”

Previous experience: Installed shower heads and door knobs at the Sochi Olympic hotels!

261 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 6, 2015 9:16:47am

re: #259 iossarian

These are the highest quality war zone shower heads. Pay no attention to the pallets of cash being unloaded out of the warehouse behind you. Look at this shower head!

Or I will hit you over the head with this $495 military-grade hammer!!!

262 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 9:17:11am
263 ObserverArt  Jan 6, 2015 9:17:44am

re: #250 Dr. Matt

Considering the Cowboys is one of the most despised teams (and fan base) in the NFL, Chris Christie has luckily sunk his presidential run [once again] by pissing off voters in ALL 50 states.

But after hearing him say he doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks, he has been a Cowboys fan forever, it becomes clear that it is just more arrogance on his part.

He has that lovely attitude in everything he does. Hopefully that is what keeps him from being presidential material. Even if he is correct that being a fan of a team shouldn’t matter, his arrogant bully explanation takes away from what he means and makes him an ass. He is very good at being an ass.

264 Mattand  Jan 6, 2015 9:18:37am

re: #212 The Vicious Babushka

Banter is banning the “D” word

There’s a live one in their comments section complaining that “mansplaining” and “whitesplaining” should be banned as well, because… oh, Christ, you know the drill.

It’s been very entertaining. I really don’t know much about the Daily Banter but it’s being implied this particular commenter seems to have a penchant for denying white privilige. People are actually calling him out.

265 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 9:19:01am

re: #256 Varek Raith

That also zap you!

WASHINGTON — In October 2004, the United States Army issued an urgent bulletin to commanders across Iraq, warning them of a deadly new threat to American soldiers. Because of flawed electrical work by contractors, the bulletin stated, soldiers at American bases in Iraq had received severe electrical shocks, and some had even been electrocuted.

266 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 9:20:20am
267 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 9:20:57am

Years back, I was out in WA and visited Snoqualmie Falls, which is a very pretty 270 foot cascade out between Seattle and Yakima.

Well, after all that rain they’ve been having, those falls are thundering with massive flooding in the region.

Those falls are probably twice their normal width and are dumping massive amounts of water, with peak cfm of more than 25 times the normal flow.

268 Dr. Matt  Jan 6, 2015 9:20:58am

re: #258 lawhawk

re: #263 ObserverArt

And, why isn’t Chuck Todd, and the rest of the librul media, lamenting about the “optics” of the Jones-Christie bromance?

269 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 9:23:30am

Spotted at The Mysterious Bookshop the other day:

270 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 9:23:31am

A new name has surfaced to challenge Boehner for speaker: Daniel Webster (R-FL).
The GOP is bringing out all of the loons.

271 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 9:23:35am

re: #262 darthstar

Jeb Bush’s New PAC Website Pretends George W. Bush Never Existed

Just like the rest of the Republican party.

272 Mattand  Jan 6, 2015 9:24:31am

re: #263 ObserverArt

But after hearing him say he doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks, he has been a Cowboys fan forever, it becomes clear that it is just more arrogance on his part.

He has that lovely attitude in everything he does. Hopefully that is what keeps him from being presidential material. Even if he is correct that being a fan of a team shouldn’t matter, his arrogant bully explanation takes away from what he means and makes him an ass. He is very good at being an ass.

Seriously. I said this last night. I mean, I get Christie’s football team preference is trivial in the long run, but he knows how much the Cowboys are despised in this state. Both he and his brother are openly telling the NJ electorate to go fuck themselves if they don’t like it.

Can you image if this guy were President, how he would handle diplomatic matters of global import? Christ, we’d be in World Wars 3 through 7.5 by the end of his first term.

And hey, would it be too much to ask TO STOP THE NONSTOP TRAVELLING AND SPEND ONE SOLID WEEK IN NJ AND DO YOUR GODDAMNED JOB???

Urgh…

273 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 9:25:02am

Heh…

274 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 9:25:50am

re:
#268

And, why isn’t Chuck Todd, and the rest of the librul media, lamenting about the “optics†of the Jones-Christie bromance?

[media]Because Christie is a great leader and is such a straight-talking, truth telling, straight-shooter and because shutup.[/media]

275 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 9:27:59am

re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth

A new name has surfaced to challenge Boehner for speaker: Daniel Webster (R-FL).
The GOP is bringing out all of the loons.

Daniel Webster (R-FL) elected Speaker in stunning upset. Webster supporters attribute the lopsided victory to the fact that Webster beat the devil in court.

276 Ace-o-aces  Jan 6, 2015 9:28:18am
278 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 9:31:38am

re: #276 Ace-o-aces

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279 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 9:31:43am

re:
#275

That’s too bad. Daniel Webster was once a great man. Used to live in Massachusetts, too. Wonder what happened?

280 ObserverArt  Jan 6, 2015 9:31:48am

re: #272 Mattand

Seriously. I said this last night. I mean, I get Christie’s football team preference is trivial in the long run, but he knows how much the Cowboys are despised in this state. Both he and his brother are openly telling the NJ electorate to go fuck themselves if they don’t like it.

Can you image if this guy were President, how he would handle diplomatic matters of global import? Christ, we’d be in World Wars 3 through 7.5 by the end of his first term.

And hey, would it be too much to ask TO STOP THE NONSTOP TRAVELLING AND SPEND ONE SOLID WEEK IN NJ AND DO YOUR GODDAMNED JOB???

Urgh…

Does Christie even understand the word negotiate? Seems he substitutes for it with the word threaten.

281 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 9:32:26am

re: #276 Ace-o-aces

Charles C. Johnson @ChuckCJohnson

I’m requesting comment on my article about how the Daily Mail published a fake photo from #VirginiaRoberts for money.

How was it published? Even an idiot like Chucky should know the answer to that one:

282 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 9:34:51am

re: #279 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#275

That’s too bad. Daniel Webster was once a great man. Used to live in Massachusetts, too. Wonder what happened?

Silk stocking poisoning?

283 Ace-o-aces  Jan 6, 2015 9:35:09am

re: #66 Pawn of the Oppressor

It helps to know about their relationship. They loved needling each other. If you don’t know about those two guys, you think Roger Ebert is the biggest a-hole in the world :D

That was a great documentary. I used to love watching those two argue over the movies. My favorite revelation in the documentary is how Siskel was afraid Ebert was going to leave the show, and how happy he was when Ebert got married, because that meant he would have to settle down and buy a house and new stuff for his wife and would therefore never leave the show.

284 Ace-o-aces  Jan 6, 2015 9:35:28am

re: #278 The Vicious Babushka

Doh!
Actually, there is a bot that retweets every incident of someone writing “your an idiot” on twitter, and I was trying to set it off on purpose.

285 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 9:35:54am

re: #276 Ace-o-aces

The Daily Mail is a real business with real revenue and real lawyers.
File under: The things that upchuck doesn’t seem to know.

286 Gus  Jan 6, 2015 9:38:11am
287 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 9:39:21am

Speaker of the House nominations have just opened.

POPCORN TIME!!!

288 Franklin  Jan 6, 2015 9:40:11am
289 jimmyvluv4u  Jan 6, 2015 9:40:33am

re: #286 Gus

Isn’t a totally expected, planned event the total opposite of “BREAKING”? Gawd has that word gotten overused.

290 calochortus  Jan 6, 2015 9:40:36am

re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth

Freepers are hyperventilating about it.

291 Varek Raith  Jan 6, 2015 9:40:38am

re: #264 Mattand

Of course Luciano wrote that article.
He is the very meaning of the word ‘dudebro’.

292 Ace-o-aces  Jan 6, 2015 9:40:58am
293 Franklin  Jan 6, 2015 9:41:03am
294 Mattand  Jan 6, 2015 9:41:28am

re: #280 ObserverArt

Does Christie even understand the word negotiate? Seems he substitutes for it with the word threaten.

When your only tool is screaming at the top of your lungs, every problem is a teacher.

295 BeachDem  Jan 6, 2015 9:42:08am

re: #281 De Kolta Chair

How was it published? Even an idiot like Chucky should know the answer to that one:

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And, in his brilliant grammatical form, he asks,” how the Daily Mail published a fake photo from #VirginiaRoberts for money,” implying that the Daily Mail was the recipient of the money rather than the payer.

296 ObserverArt  Jan 6, 2015 9:42:38am

re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth

Speaker of the House nominations have just opened.

POPCORN TIME!!!

So, of the two Tea Party dudes, Yoho and Gohmert!, who is the more wacky?

I say it is a toss up. Gohmert! has the edge because he has been more out front in the public eye. But they both are tea loons.

297 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 9:43:22am
298 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 9:43:51am

gaaaahhhhhhhh

My congresscritter has just nominated Yoho.

299 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 9:44:19am

re: #288 Franklin

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FREEDOM OF THE PRESS HAS A LIBRAL AGENDA!!!1!!

300 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 9:44:30am

Gohmert just nominated.

301 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 9:45:03am

My congressperson is a Democrat.

302 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 9:45:47am

Daniel Webster nominated.

303 Franklin  Jan 6, 2015 9:46:00am
304 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 9:46:04am

A while back, Bill O’Reilly was on Oprah talking about one of his books (Culture Warrier?).

Oprah said she was suprised when he accepted her invitation. He replied “Well, I’ll sell a lot of books.”

I believe it was from this episode, aired 10/27/2006. The transcript is not complete and I can’t fine the video. :(

305 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 9:46:19am

As promised:

306 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 9:46:31am

Yoho ho and a bottle of dumb

307 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 9:46:47am

re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth

re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth

Midget wrestling.

308 Franklin  Jan 6, 2015 9:47:15am
309 Varek Raith  Jan 6, 2015 9:47:33am

re: #306 The Vicious Babushka

Yoho ho and a bottle of dumb

My money’s on the bottle of dumb.

310 Varek Raith  Jan 6, 2015 9:48:38am

They wouldn’t be so dumb as to dump the current speaker, would they?

311 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 9:48:43am
Pass the popcorn

The House GOP clown car is underway. Drivers sought. No requisite experience required.

312 Gus  Jan 6, 2015 9:48:49am
313 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 9:49:24am
314 b_sharp  Jan 6, 2015 9:49:39am

re: #310 Varek Raith

They wouldn’t be so dumb as to dump the current speaker, would they?

A politician’s agenda’s agenda has an agenda. So, yes.

315 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 9:49:45am

A Democrat could be nominated for Speaker?

316 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 9:50:28am

re: #312 Gus

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Justin Amash just voted for Jim Jordan (R-OH).

317 Varek Raith  Jan 6, 2015 9:50:42am

re: #313 wrenchwench

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I did not need to read that.
:/

318 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 9:50:49am

re: #315 The Vicious Babushka

A Democrat could be nominated for Speaker?

yep

319 ObserverArt  Jan 6, 2015 9:51:02am

They should keep all those youngsters out of the House chambers. They do not need to see all this ugliness.

///

320 Gus  Jan 6, 2015 9:51:56am

re: #315 The Vicious Babushka

A Democrat could be nominated for Speaker?

Yep. Apparently doesn’t’ even have to be a rep.

321 ObserverArt  Jan 6, 2015 9:52:30am

Heh. No vote from Boehner.

He doesn’t like himself either.

322 Varek Raith  Jan 6, 2015 9:52:35am

I nominate myself.

323 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 9:52:45am

re: #313 wrenchwench

Do the Senators like to watch gladiator movies?

324 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 9:52:49am

Brat votes for Jeff Duncan (R-SC).

325 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 9:53:22am

re: #317 Varek Raith

I did not need to read that.
:/

326 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 9:54:27am
327 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 9:54:53am

Ucch who would want to swim in the Senate pool contaminated by Old White Man Jizz?

328 Varek Raith  Jan 6, 2015 9:55:16am

Stop it!
/

329 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 9:55:29am

I just made myself throw up in my mouth.

330 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 9:55:41am

re: #313 wrenchwench

331 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 9:55:53am

Somebody just voted for Sen. Rand Paul.

O_O

332 Gus  Jan 6, 2015 9:55:57am
333 ObserverArt  Jan 6, 2015 9:56:23am

re: #320 Gus

Yep. Apparently doesn’t’ even have to be a rep.

I think someone just voted for Rand Paul.

334 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 9:56:24am

re: #301 The Vicious Babushka

My congressperson is a Democrat.

My congressperson was once the size of two Democrats. /////

335 goddamnedfrank  Jan 6, 2015 9:56:30am
Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature.
336 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 9:56:44am

re: #329 The Vicious Babushka

I just made myself throw up in my mouth.

So? I’m frantically trying to find the melon scoop so that I can gouge out the part of my brain that has that comment stuck in it.

337 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 9:57:00am

Colin Powell just got a vote.

338 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 9:57:04am
339 Varek Raith  Jan 6, 2015 9:57:53am

I voted for Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

340 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 9:58:25am

I think that Sen. Rafael Cruz will be elected Speaker on the second ballot.

341 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 9:58:59am
342 goddamnedfrank  Jan 6, 2015 9:59:09am

re: #339 Varek Raith

Biz Markie, his mouth agape.

343 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 9:59:13am

There are no requirements to be Speaker, other than apparently being a live body. So Rand gets a vote even though he’s a Senator, and is looking to run for the White House.

The minority party could potentially win the Speaker if the majority party is sufficiently fractured, but it’s never happened before, and wont happen here either. If it does, that goes directly at Steve Scalise’s abilities, since he’s the majority whip - the job description involves rounding up the votes and getting the counts on key issues.

344 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 9:59:17am

Jordan? As in Michael?

345 ObserverArt  Jan 6, 2015 9:59:23am

Do you hear it?

The screams of the Tea Party.

Louie and Teddy aren’t getting it done. Whaaaaaaa!!!

346 Varek Raith  Jan 6, 2015 9:59:28am

What a clown show.
XD

347 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 10:00:07am

Duncan of SC just voted for Trey Gowdy

348 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 10:00:25am

WTFITS

349 Varek Raith  Jan 6, 2015 10:01:38am

re: #348 The Vicious Babushka

WTFITS

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Satan ain’t so stupidly obvious.

350 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 10:03:05am

This is some crazy shit from somebody that I was following.
BLOCKED THIS CRAZY ASS FUCKER.

351 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 10:03:55am

Which US State Has Highest Concentration of Pot Smokers? You Will Be Surprised

Washington D.C. is #2

352 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 10:04:46am
353 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 10:04:59am
354 Targetpractice  Jan 6, 2015 10:05:02am

re: #351 FemNaziBitch

Which US State Has Highest Concentration of Pot Smokers? You Will Be Surprised

Washington D.C. is #2

Which is pretty good, since D.C. isn’t officially a state.

355 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 10:07:10am

The speaker’s job is so rewarding.

356 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 10:07:14am

Webster is getting the most non-Boehner GOP votes.

357 Kragar  Jan 6, 2015 10:07:25am
358 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 10:07:51am

re: #350 The Vicious Babushka

This is some crazy shit from somebody that I was following.
BLOCKED THIS CRAZY ASS FUCKER.

I would never join a synagogue of Satan that would have me as a member.

And yes, he is a crazy ass fucker.

359 D_Red  Jan 6, 2015 10:07:52am

I dont think I’ve ever laughed before during a vote for speaker

360 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 10:08:53am

Considering we don’t know how many, this is a cautious step in the right direction. The GOP had been complaining since Obama normalized relations (which essentially means setting up diplomatic posts rather than working through 3d parties) that Obama got nothing in return for shipping off a couple of spies for a handful of US ppl held in Cuba. They apparently forgot the fine print about how the Cubans would release a bunch of political prisoners.

Again, a baby step, but a good one in the right direction.

361 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 10:10:17am

Only 17 non-Boehner votes. Need another dozen.

362 b.d.  Jan 6, 2015 10:12:07am

Any votes for David Duke yet?

363 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 10:12:08am
364 BeachDem  Jan 6, 2015 10:12:11am

re: #347 Backwoods_Sleuth

Duncan of SC just voted for Trey Gowdy

Well of course he did.

365 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 10:12:32am

Labrador voted for Boehner - Teabaggers are throwing in the towel.

366 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 10:12:36am

Lipinski (D-IL) votes for Peter DeFazio (D-OR).

367 Franklin  Jan 6, 2015 10:13:13am
368 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 10:13:22am

re: #362 b.d.

Any votes for David Duke yet?

Echoes.

369 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 10:14:23am
370 b.d.  Jan 6, 2015 10:14:33am

re: #368 wrenchwench

Echoes.

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He copied me, you can tell by the pixels.

371 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 10:15:03am

re: #368 wrenchwench

Echoes.

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Shit…someone else tweeted it first.

372 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 10:15:03am

BWAHAHAA!

373 Dr Lizardo  Jan 6, 2015 10:16:35am

re: #363 lawhawk

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“Nobody cared about me until I took up this gavel.”
- Speaker Bane

374 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 10:16:54am
375 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 10:17:25am
376 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 10:17:42am

Sessions gets a vote!

377 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 10:17:46am

Vote Luap Nor for Speaker!!!!!11

378 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 10:17:51am

re: #332 Gus

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I nominate Gus.

Any seconds?

379 Dr. Matt  Jan 6, 2015 10:18:06am
380 b.d.  Jan 6, 2015 10:18:32am

re: #378 FemNaziBitch

I nominate Gus.

Any seconds?

Second

381 b_sharp  Jan 6, 2015 10:18:43am

re: #378 FemNaziBitch

I nominate Gus.

Any seconds?

Seconds of pie? Sure.

382 D_Red  Jan 6, 2015 10:18:50am

Mia Love is already a RINO!

383 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 10:19:06am
384 b.d.  Jan 6, 2015 10:19:34am

re: #372 The Vicious Babushka

BWAHAHAA!

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Well, that Love love affair lasted about 20 minutes.

385 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 10:19:40am

re: #355 wrenchwench

The speaker’s job is so rewarding.

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They had both chambers in firm control.

386 Dr Lizardo  Jan 6, 2015 10:20:03am

re: #382 D_Red

Mia Love is already a RINO!

She’s already being slammed over at the FR fever swamp.

387 Gus  Jan 6, 2015 10:20:03am

re: #378 FemNaziBitch

I nominate Gus.

Any seconds?

I nominated myself on Twitter just 5 minutes ago. Got three “votes.” :D

388 Franklin  Jan 6, 2015 10:20:42am

Michelle haz sad

389 Varek Raith  Jan 6, 2015 10:21:00am

Vote for me!
I’ll bring war, famine, pestilence and death!
Don’t vote for me and I’ll bring war, famine, pestilence and death!

390 Targetpractice  Jan 6, 2015 10:21:33am

re: #373 Dr Lizardo

“Nobody cared about me until I took up this gavel.”
- Speaker Bane

“We will destroy America and then, when it is done and America is in ashes, then you have my permission to die.”
- Speaker Bane

391 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 10:21:37am

Laughable that the pundit class is waiting with bated breath for the Speaker to be elected, when it’s essentially a foregone conclusion that Boehner is being reelected rather handily. Despite all the nitwits and nincompoops who have voted for themselves or other nitwits, Boehner is the one everyone is resigned to driving the House GOP clown car like no other.

392 b.d.  Jan 6, 2015 10:21:38am

re: #388 Franklin

Michelle haz sad

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Michelle better just quit dividing then.

393 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 10:21:39am
394 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 10:22:09am

re: #376 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sessions gets a vote!

Decatur Deb must be around there.

395 Targetpractice  Jan 6, 2015 10:22:30am

re: #393 darthstar

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Good times.

396 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 10:24:20am

re:
#372

What a sell-out.

/

397 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 10:24:46am

Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) voted for Lewis.

398 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 10:25:51am
399 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 10:26:13am

The bloom is off the rose.
How soon before she gets called the “N-Word”

400 BeachDem  Jan 6, 2015 10:26:49am

re: #397 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) voted for Lewis.

John or Jerry?

401 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 6, 2015 10:28:26am

re: #400 BeachDem

John or Jerry?

Jerry or Jerry Lee?

402 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 10:28:40am

Never paid attention to these Speaker elections before. I’d assumed, at least recently, that there were only two candidates, one from each party.

403 Gus  Jan 6, 2015 10:28:42am

re: #399 The Vicious Babushka

The bloom is off the rose.
How soon before she gets called the “N-Word”

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They can’t complain unless she’s their representative. Those are the rules.

404 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 6, 2015 10:28:47am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

They have a point about the word’s general meaninglessness. E.g. at LGF it is seemingly used to denote young libertarian-ish guys regardless of demeanor, the UD thinks it’s something very different altogether, in wiktionary (which I usually trust) it’s any homophobic, misogynist macho, and so on.

405 Dr. Matt  Jan 6, 2015 10:29:14am

nytimes.com No sitting Speaker has seen so many defections from his or her own party in the first vote of a new Congress. Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) saw nine defections in 1997, while Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) watched five fellow Republicans cast votes against him in 2005,

406 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 10:29:20am

re: #381 b_sharp

Seconds of pie? Sure.

KEY LIME?

407 BeachDem  Jan 6, 2015 10:29:54am

re: #401 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Jerry or Jerry Lee?

Jerry or Shari?

408 Kragar  Jan 6, 2015 10:30:19am

re: #402 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Never paid attention to these Speaker elections before. I’d assumed, at least recently, that there were only two candidates, one from each party.

Nope, its wide open. Technically, they can vote for anyone. There is no requirement for them to vote for a serving congressman.

409 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 10:30:28am

Yoho votes for himself, the second vote for him.
The Chamber laughs and laughs.

410 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 10:30:44am

re:
#399

Even Bayner isn’t good enough for the Teatards.

411 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 6, 2015 10:31:23am

re: #404 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

They have a point about the word’s general meaninglessness. E.g. at LGF it is seemingly used to denote young libertarian-ish guys regardless of demeanor, the UD thinks it’s something very different altogether, in wiktionary (which I usually trust) it’s any homophobic, misogynist macho, and so on.

to me, it simply means anyone who thinks that Edward Snowden is a hero

412 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 10:32:09am

Calling those who didn’t respond, Boehner still doesn’t vote.

413 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 10:32:18am

re: #404 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

They have a point about the word’s general meaninglessness. E.g. at LGF it is seemingly used to denote young libertarian-ish guys regardless of demeanor, the UD thinks it’s something very different altogether, in wiktionary (which I usually trust) it’s any homophobic, misogynist macho, and so on.

My definition:

Any Senator who used the Senate swimming pool before 2008.

414 Mattand  Jan 6, 2015 10:32:32am

re: #399 The Vicious Babushka

The bloom is off the rose.
How soon before she gets called the “N-Word”

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I still shake my head when I remember that photo of her giving a speech to a bunch of old white guys, with a Confederate flag in plain view.

415 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 10:32:58am

Eagerly awaiting the results of archmoron blogger Chuk c Johnson’s secret “mission” to influence the GOP House leadership vote.

416 Mattand  Jan 6, 2015 10:33:06am

Have Senator Hugh Jas and Dick Hertz, both of Springfield, been nominated yet?

417 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 10:33:11am
418 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 6, 2015 10:33:31am

re: #411 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

to me, it simply means anyone who thinks that Edward Snowden is a hero

Because that’s the definition you heard here. Which doesn’t mesh with definitions elsewhere. Underscores my point.

419 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 10:34:08am

Don Young (R-AK) didn’t vote first time around, but he’s standing in the aisle looking like an asshat.

420 Timothy Watson  Jan 6, 2015 10:34:25am

re: #389 Varek Raith

Vote for me!
I’ll bring war, famine, pestilence and death!
Don’t vote for me and I’ll bring war, famine, pestilence and death!

Kane and Kodos Abortion

421 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 6, 2015 10:34:31am

re: #369 darthstar

What was “Duke, without the baggage.” an analogy for in that ST:NG episode?
//

422 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 10:34:39am

So if the anti-Boehners get 29 votes what does that mean? Black smoke up the chimney?

423 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 10:34:54am

re:
#408

I just didn’t think anyone from the ruling party would vote for anyone other than the current Speaker.

Fascinating times we live in.

424 Mattand  Jan 6, 2015 10:35:49am

re: #421 Feline Fearless Leader

What was “Duke, without the baggage.” an analogy for in that ST:NG episode?
//

Boehner, with the gavel, whimpering profusely.

425 #FergusonFireside  Jan 6, 2015 10:36:45am
426 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 6, 2015 10:36:58am

re: #418 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Because that’s the definition you heard here. Which doesn’t mesh with definitions elsewhere. Underscores my point.

The other definition I got here is “anyone who thinks that Gamergate is about ethics in video game journalism”

427 Mattand  Jan 6, 2015 10:38:14am

re: #421 Feline Fearless Leader

What was “Duke, without the baggage.” an analogy for in that ST:NG episode?
//

nerdvanaclothing.com

428 Jenner7  Jan 6, 2015 10:38:18am

How many defection votes??

429 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 10:38:31am

Gohmert standing looking sad…

430 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 6, 2015 10:39:11am

re: #429 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gohmert standing looking sad…

Is that asparagus sneaking up behind him?
//

431 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 10:39:59am

re:
#429

Obviously a victim of Obama thugs who want their puppet, Bayner, as Speaker.

//

432 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 10:40:27am

re: #398 darthstar

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Clever idea, fantastic photograph!

433 BeachDem  Jan 6, 2015 10:40:54am

re: #415 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Eagerly awaiting the results of archmoron blogger Chuk c Johnson’s secret “mission” to influence the GOP House leadership vote.

Well, he’s going to Bakersfield today, so there’s that…(not sure if that “number 2” is supposed to be Boehner’s mistress, his second-in-command or a dump he took on a floor in Bakersfield.)

434 wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2015 10:40:56am

Oh, yes, John Lewis is also a member of Congress.

435 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 10:41:06am

TCOT haz teh sads

436 Franklin  Jan 6, 2015 10:41:40am

re: #433 BeachDem

WHO DOES NUMBER 2 WORK FOR???!?!?!?!

437 Kragar  Jan 6, 2015 10:42:06am

re: #433 BeachDem

Well, he’s going to Bakersfield today, so there’s that…(not sure if that “number 2” is supposed to be Boehner’s mistress, his second-in-command or a dump he took on a floor in Bakersfield.)

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438 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 10:42:09am

re:
#433

Damn. Can’t influence House GOP elections there.

//

439 makeitstop  Jan 6, 2015 10:42:53am

re: #401 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Jerry or Jerry Lee?

Jerry Lee or Jenny?

440 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 10:43:13am

Starting to think that archmoran blogger Chuk cee Johnson might not always be telling the truth with his various BREAKING headlines.

/

441 ipsos  Jan 6, 2015 10:43:22am

“WHO IS NUMBER ONE?”

“YOU WENT NUMBER TWO. ALL OVER THE FLOOR OF YOUR DORM.”

“I AM NOT A NUMBER. I AM AN AWARD-WINNING JOURNAMALIST (TM)”

442 Mattand  Jan 6, 2015 10:43:32am

re: #436 Franklin

WHO DOES NUMBER 2 WORK FOR???!?!?!?!

Got a real world LOL from me with that one!

443 #FergusonFireside  Jan 6, 2015 10:43:51am

Fresno to Bakersfield, he really knows the best of California.

444 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 10:44:55am

re:
#435

TCOT haz teh sads

Winning the Senate, the governorships, getting Mia Love elected, all for nothing if Obama puppet, John Bayner gets re-elected Speaker.

/

445 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 10:45:47am

re: #441 ipsos

446 Varek Raith  Jan 6, 2015 10:46:00am

re: #437 Kragar

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He sure is good at walking into them.

447 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 10:46:02am

re:
#441

Thanks for the Iron Maiden there.

448 Dr Lizardo  Jan 6, 2015 10:46:02am

re: #433 BeachDem

Ah, so UpChuck’s gonna go stalk someone.

Nice.

*spit*

449 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 10:46:40am

SO, I read this tweet and in verifying it, started to remember Victor Borge.

from the wiki:

<blockquote>Among Borge’s other famous routines is the “Phonetic Punctuation” routine, in which he recites a story, with full punctuation (comma, period, exclamation mark, etc.) as exaggerated onomatopoeic sounds.[16] Another is his “Inflationary Language”, where he incremented numbers embedded in words, whether they are visible or not (“once upon a time” becomes “twice upon a time”, “wonderful” becomes “twoderful”, “forehead” becomes “fivehead”, “tennis” becomes “elevennis”, “I ate a tenderloin with my fork and so on and so forth” becomes “‘I nine an elevenderloin with my five’k’ and so on and so fifth”).[13]

The quote, BTW, is from his autobiography which doesn’t seem to be on Amazon.

450 Dr. Matt  Jan 6, 2015 10:46:56am

The butthurt at The Hill is classic schadenfreude: thehill.com

451 Kragar  Jan 6, 2015 10:48:02am
452 Kragar  Jan 6, 2015 10:49:30am

re: #447 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#441

Thanks for the Iron Maiden there.

Its originally from “The Prisoner”

The Prisoner - Intro

453 darthstar  Jan 6, 2015 10:49:59am

re: #448 Dr Lizardo

Ah, so UpChuck’s gonna go stalk someone.

Nice.

*spit*

He’s just driving down to Bakersfield, will get some Chicken McNuggets, then drive back to Fresno to tweet about it.

454 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 10:50:05am

re: #423 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#408

I just didn’t think anyone from the ruling party would vote for anyone other than the current Speaker.

Fascinating times we live in.

they are positioning themselves for 2016.

455 Dr. Matt  Jan 6, 2015 10:50:40am

re: #447 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#441

Thanks for the Iron Maiden there.

Funny coincidence. I downloaded Live after Death over the holiday break. I haven’t listened to it since I was in junior high school when I actually owned the double live albums.

456 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 10:50:48am

re: #451 Kragar

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Zedushka is still beating himself up because he spent $500 on a 40MB HD in 1989.

457 Targetpractice  Jan 6, 2015 10:51:16am

re: #451 Kragar

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10 whole megabytes?! Amazing!

458 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 6, 2015 10:52:30am

re: #426 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Which, given how many Snowden’s fans hate gamergate, once again shows the meaninglessness of the term.

459 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 10:52:33am

re: #418 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Because that’s the definition you heard here. Which doesn’t mesh with definitions elsewhere. Underscores my point.

Which is why I stick to the generic WHACKO™ for just about everything. Labels seem to confuse communication instead of enhancing it.

460 Varek Raith  Jan 6, 2015 10:52:35am

64K RAM!

461 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 10:53:25am

re: #456 The Vicious Babushka

Zedushka is still beating himself up because he spent $500 on a 40MB HD in 1989.

If he had just waited 10 years!

462 lawhawk  Jan 6, 2015 10:53:32am

re: #456 The Vicious Babushka

I remember spending about $200 on 48k upgrades back in early 80s.

463 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 10:54:23am

re:
#452

Cool, cool.

464 Mattand  Jan 6, 2015 10:55:20am

re: #450 Dr. Matt

The butthurt at The Hill is classic schadenfreude: thehill.com

The comments are full metal Stormfront. Makes the Freepers look lifetime ACLU members.

465 Dr. Matt  Jan 6, 2015 10:55:28am

re: #462 lawhawk

I remember spending about $200 on 48k upgrades back in early 80s.

My first Pentium PC with Windows 95 was $2,100 back in December 1995.

466 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 10:56:18am

re: #462 lawhawk

I remember spending about $200 on 48k upgrades back in early 80s.

I told this story at a staff meeting and my boss said so what? I threw out $30,000 of obsolete equipment.

467 Dr. Matt  Jan 6, 2015 10:56:35am

re: #464 Mattand

The comments are full metal Stormfront. Makes the Freepers look lifetime ACLU members.

“Diversity” is:

No white countries
No white cities
No white people

Diversity means Chasing Down the Last White Person

Racial/cultural elimination is the white “privilege”

whitegenocideproject (dot) com
Twitter: #antiwhite

468 Dr Lizardo  Jan 6, 2015 10:57:07am

re: #464 Mattand

The comments are full metal Stormfront. Makes the Freepers look lifetime ACLU members.

Yeah, I noticed that. Quite a few “white genocide” comments and variations on that (utterly risible) theme.

469 Mattand  Jan 6, 2015 10:57:44am

re: #467 Dr. Matt

“Diversity” is:

No white countries
No white cities
No white people

Diversity means Chasing Down the Last White Person

Racial/cultural elimination is the white “privilege”

whitegenocideproject (dot) com
Twitter: #antiwhite

Yeah, that was the one that caught my attention.

470 BeachDem  Jan 6, 2015 10:58:24am

re: #450 Dr. Matt

The butthurt at The Hill is classic schadenfreude: thehill.com

What the hell does this comment even mean?

Of course Beohner is still speaker. Obola Hussein never gets rid of anybody in his administration.

These people are truly deranged.

471 ObserverArt  Jan 6, 2015 10:58:31am

Only 3 votes for Gohmert!…how sad.

I think my Gohmert! 2015 Series Speaker system done blew up.

And there are no returns.

472 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 6, 2015 10:58:37am

Wow, TCOT haz Teh Rage against their little Sweetheart Miss Mia.

473 Gus  Jan 6, 2015 10:59:31am
474 Targetpractice  Jan 6, 2015 10:59:42am
475 Franklin  Jan 6, 2015 11:00:21am

This has some great photoshop potential:

476 Franklin  Jan 6, 2015 11:00:30am
477 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 11:00:48am

from the comments:

Africa has a lot of open land. You can move your drug dealing buddies there and make all the meth you want Oh scratch that no welfare!!!

Well, that escalated quickly.

478 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 6, 2015 11:00:56am

re: #471 ObserverArt

Only 3 votes for Gohmert!…how sad.

I think my Gohmert! 2015 Series Speaker system done blew up.

And there are no returns.

Needed to connect it with higher quality wires obviously.
//

479 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 11:01:21am

re: #433 BeachDem

Well, he’s going to Bakersfield today, so there’s that…(not sure if that “number 2” is supposed to be Boehner’s mistress, his second-in-command or a dump he took on a floor in Bakersfield.)

Bakersfield always puts me in mind of the late great Buck Owens

480 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 11:02:16am
481 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 11:02:29am

re:
#468

True American loving American Christian patriots are busy working and don’t have time to comment at TheHill or other libtard publications!!!

482 Mattand  Jan 6, 2015 11:02:31am

re: #477 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

from the comments:

Well, that escalated quickly.

One guy wrote in complaining that the racists and whackos were out in force, and then went on to whine about how Obamacare is still in place.

This stuff just writes itself…

483 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 11:02:59am

Looks like Gohmert might be tweeting something on his phone…

484 Sionainn  Jan 6, 2015 11:03:06am

Why do all those people have to escort Boehner in? Seems a little overkill.

485 Jenner7  Jan 6, 2015 11:03:16am
486 makeitstop  Jan 6, 2015 11:03:17am

re: #457 Targetpractice

10 whole megabytes?! Amazing!

And all for only 6 GRAND!

487 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 11:04:30am

re: #466 The Vicious Babushka

I told this story at a staff meeting and my boss said so what? I threw out $30,000 of obsolete equipment.

I remember when the first handheld calculators were so expensive the children in the house weren’t allowed to touch it.

488 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 11:04:31am

re: #484 Sionainn

Why do all those people have to escort Boehner in? Seems a little overkill.

They have to make sure he can walk. Pretty sure he’s been hanging out at the bar all morning, so it’s a pretty good precautionary measure…

489 Targetpractice  Jan 6, 2015 11:05:01am
Headdesk
490 b.d.  Jan 6, 2015 11:05:04am

This is a sad day for the Gohmertarians

491 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 11:05:43am

re: #483 Backwoods_Sleuth

Looks like Gohmert might be tweeting something on his phone…

492 ObserverArt  Jan 6, 2015 11:05:52am

re: #465 Dr. Matt

My first Pentium PC with Windows 95 was $2,100 back in December 1995.

I had one in June of ‘95 that was around $3000 because it had a SCSI card for my scanner and SyQuest Data Cartridges. I think it had a huge 64megs of RAM too. Woot!

493 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 11:06:10am

re: #488 Backwoods_Sleuth

They have to make sure he can walk. Pretty sure he’s been hanging out at the bar all morning, so it’s a pretty good precautionary measure…

Aren’t prize fighers escorted in? Like gladiators … .their handlers have to make sure they do their job.

494 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 11:06:30am

Boehner: “I eat your asparagus!”

495 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 11:06:34am

re: #489 Targetpractice

[Embedded content]

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because CEO’s are whores who only do it for the money?

496 teleskiguy  Jan 6, 2015 11:06:39am

92-year-old Twitter fiend about to get serious!

497 Jenner7  Jan 6, 2015 11:06:49am

Well Palin threw in her support for Gohmert, so….yeah.

Thanks Sarah for the three votes!

498 makeitstop  Jan 6, 2015 11:07:07am

Scout just got his first exposure to snow-covered ground.

He wanted to eat all the snow.

499 Targetpractice  Jan 6, 2015 11:07:40am

re: #497 Jenner7

Well Palin threw in her support for Gohmert, so….yeah.

Thanks Sarah for the three votes!

So another candidate experienced the patented Palin “Kiss of Death”?

500 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 11:07:45am

re:
#489

Totally. Can’t we drug test all the welfares and show the test on teh Fox News?

/

501 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 11:08:09am

My short term memory is getting so bad, I just wrote a cheat note on the back of my hand… .

502 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 11:08:15am

re: #498 makeitstop

Scout just got his first exposure to snow-covered ground.

He wanted to eat all the snow.

A picture please, that I can add fun captions to mark this significant event?

503 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 11:09:09am

re: #501 FemNaziBitch

My short term memory is getting so bad, I just wrote a cheat note on the back of my hand… .

and now you can’t remember where you left the note?

504 Sionainn  Jan 6, 2015 11:09:56am

Why is Pelosi thanking everyone? Did I miss something? She wasn’t Speaker of the House last time, was she?

505 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 11:10:14am

re: #464 Mattand

The comments are full metal Stormfront. Makes the Freepers look lifetime ACLU members.

MJ_LANDER Dan • 2 hours ago
Boehner flushed away the most significant election of a lifetime and caved to the demands of Obama. Boehner is a traitor. Dump the chump Boehner!

So far, this one has 1026 likes butthurts!

506 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 6, 2015 11:10:25am

re: #492 ObserverArt

I had one in June of ‘95 that was around $3000 because it had a SCSI card for my scanner and SyQuest Data Cartridges. I think it had a huge 64megs of RAM too. Woot!

The good old days. Those of us in IT firmly believed that SCSI was an acronym for System Can’t See It.

507 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 6, 2015 11:10:55am

re: #504 Sionainn

Why is Pelosi thanking everyone? Did I miss something? She wasn’t Speaker of the House last time, was she?

As Minority Leader, she introduces the Speaker-elect.

508 makeitstop  Jan 6, 2015 11:11:21am

re: #502 Backwoods_Sleuth

A picture please, that I can add fun captions to mark this significant event?

I didn’t get one, I had him on a lead so I could get him back inside after he did a Chuck Johnson in the yard.

Back on a work schedule here, and he would have been out there for an hour if I let him run free.

509 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 6, 2015 11:11:29am

re:
#497

Like General Alexander Haig throwing his (<1%) “support” to Bob Dole in 1988.

510 ObserverArt  Jan 6, 2015 11:12:26am

re: #493 FemNaziBitch

Aren’t prize fighers escorted in? Like gladiators … .their handlers have to make sure they do their job.

I think Boehner should have the dude that runs up and puts the gold lamé cape around him just like James Brown used to have done during a show.

511 Sionainn  Jan 6, 2015 11:12:35am

re: #507 Backwoods_Sleuth

As Minority Leader, she introduces the Speaker-elect.

I would truly hate to be in government…sitting through a bunch of time-wasting people speaking to hear themselves talk. Ugh.

512 Franklin  Jan 6, 2015 11:12:57am
513 TedStriker  Jan 6, 2015 11:15:07am

re: #451 Kragar

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“Shall we play a game?”

514 Dr Lizardo  Jan 6, 2015 11:15:43am

re: #494 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Boehner: “I eat your asparagus!”

I heard that in Daniel Day Lewis’ voice.

515 De Kolta Chair  Jan 6, 2015 11:19:01am

516 WhatEVs  Jan 6, 2015 11:28:18am

re: #433 BeachDem

Boehner took a dump in Bakersfield?

517 retired cynic  Jan 6, 2015 11:30:42am

re: #457 Targetpractice

The first computer I worked on was 8K, and filled a room. The firm I worked for rented time on it at night. Lord only knows how much that thing cost.

518 WhatEVs  Jan 6, 2015 11:31:13am

re: #468 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, I noticed that. Quite a few “white genocide” comments and variations on that (utterly risible) theme.

And then there’s this… (chuckling)

BOEHNER LIES LIKE HIS BOSS! THE KENYAN CALIGULA!

519 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 6, 2015 11:37:14am

re: #510 ObserverArt

I think Boehner should have the dude that runs up and puts the gold lamé cape around him just like James Brown used to have done during a show.

Or maybe bring up a mobile tanning bed?
/

520 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 11:46:29am
First up isn’t a prediction as much as a major milestone that’s reflective of escalating healthcare costs. According to CMS (here) our National Healthcare Expenditure (NHE) is projected to hit $3.207 trillion this year. The U.S. Population is currently hovering at around 320 million, so 2015 looks to be the first year healthcare spending will reach $10,000 per person. We may be “bending the cost growth curve,” but the per capita amount continues to grow.

Forbes

521 FemNaziBitch  Jan 6, 2015 11:47:02am

re: #503 Backwoods_Sleuth

and now you can’t remember where you left the note?

No, I look at my hand and wonder “why did I write that and what does it mean.”

:)

522 BlueSpotinAL  Jan 6, 2015 6:34:16pm

re: #376 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sessions gets a vote!

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. Show some respect for a Southern gentleman!


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