1 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 5:59:29pm

What the hell is wrong with these people? I’ll never understand how you can be so driven by hatred that you debase yourself in public with a comment like this.

2 Targetpractice  Jan 7, 2015 5:59:31pm
3 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 7, 2015 6:01:02pm

Pocket Liberty.

That explains a lot.

4 thedopefishlives  Jan 7, 2015 6:01:31pm

re: #2 Targetpractice

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Picture, one thousand words, I regret that I have but one upding to give, yada yada.

5 jaunte  Jan 7, 2015 6:02:00pm

It’s dim bulb convention.

6 bratwurst  Jan 7, 2015 6:02:02pm

If your tent is big enough to include this guy, it is perfectly acceptable to seek a smaller tent.

7 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 7, 2015 6:02:38pm

re: #5 jaunte

The ALLCAPS is the most convincing part of this guy’s tweets.

8 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:02:46pm

He is spinning wildly right now but never actually explains what he meant.

9 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 7, 2015 6:03:24pm

re: #8 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

He is spinning wildly right now but never actually explains what he meant.

Use the google urself I don’t have to explain my tweets to you!!!!!11

10 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 7, 2015 6:03:28pm

Saved a screenshot in case he deletes it:

11 jaunte  Jan 7, 2015 6:03:28pm

re: #8 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I saw that. It’s apparently too subtle for mere humans to understand.

12 Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 7, 2015 6:03:46pm

re: #7 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

The ALLCAPS is the most convincing part of this guy’s tweets.

If you can’t say something nice, say something real loud.

13 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 7, 2015 6:03:54pm

re: #11 jaunte

It’s the new journalist. We’re all just hopelessly out of touch. /

14 thedopefishlives  Jan 7, 2015 6:04:21pm

re: #8 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

He is spinning wildly right now but never actually explains what he meant.

Wingnut humor is lost on us plebs.

15 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:04:36pm

re: #11 jaunte

- It wasn’t a joke! I destroyed your narrative!

- Uh. Are you high?

16 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 7, 2015 6:04:41pm

#tcot is full of even MOAR DUMBASSERY than yesterday when they turned on their “See I’m Not Teh Racist!!!” girlfriend Mia Love.

17 jaunte  Jan 7, 2015 6:05:35pm

re: #13 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

It’s the new journalist. We’re all just hopelessly out of touch. /

“It’s an obscure little conspiracy/connection, you probably never heard of it.”
— hipster wingnut

18 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 6:05:51pm

How about pipe-dream idealism?

19 Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 7, 2015 6:06:00pm

re: #14 thedopefishlives

Wingnut humor is lost on us plebs.

The poor pleasures of the simple.

20 thedopefishlives  Jan 7, 2015 6:07:19pm

re: #16 The Vicious Babushka

#tcot is full of even MOAR DUMBASSERY than yesterday when they turned on their Negro girlfriend Mia Love.

Wait, who what now? I’ve been, uhh, away from LGF for a while and haven’t had time to keep up with the wingnut stupid.

21 b.d.  Jan 7, 2015 6:07:28pm

Who raised these freakin’ people?

22 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:07:45pm

I think I’m beginning to get it. The poor guy on the photo is a cop.
So this conservative piece of shit thought that it was somehow ironic and somehow destroyed the “liberal narrative” (Ferguson) or something.
It’s like trying to understand how a xenomorph thinks.

23 dog philosopher  Jan 7, 2015 6:08:36pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

What the hell is wrong with these people?

truly a question for our time

24 thedopefishlives  Jan 7, 2015 6:08:41pm

re: #21 b.d.

Who raised these freakin’ people?

People like the fishfolk - fine, upstanding conservative Christians.

Which is incredibly embarrassing for me to state, because descendants of such should be much better people than these fucktards.

25 Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 7, 2015 6:08:49pm

re: #20 thedopefishlives

Wait, who what now? I’ve been, uhh, away from LGF for a while and haven’t had time to keep up with the wingnut stupid.

She voted for Boehner for Speaker, so she was tossed on the RINO list. The butthurt was impressive in its intensity and lack of sense.

26 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 7, 2015 6:09:21pm

re: #20 thedopefishlives

Wait, who what now? I’ve been, uhh, away from LGF for a while and haven’t had time to keep up with the wingnut stupid.

She voted for Boehner for SOTH and now all her white friends want nothing to do with her any more.

27 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 7, 2015 6:09:25pm

re: #22 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

It’s like how all the protesters with their hands up saying hands up don’t shoot were actually shooting all the cops. Or something.

28 #FergusonFireside  Jan 7, 2015 6:09:36pm

Zero empathy.

My empathy say’s fuck that prick.

29 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 7, 2015 6:10:08pm

re: #22 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Checkmate Libtards!!!!

30 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 7, 2015 6:10:16pm

re: #18 teleskiguy

How about pipe-dream idealism?

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If everyone skied the slopes would get overcrowded and fights would break out.

31 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:10:40pm

re: #22 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

BTW, the initial “he was making fun of this guy” interpretation was the most natural one before the lightbulb went on in my head, but the real meaning is no less disgusting. Also, this pocketliberty guy is a terrible communicator.

32 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 7, 2015 6:11:12pm

BTW, speaking of people attacking cops and authority, when is Operation American Spring happening again?

33 Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 7, 2015 6:11:17pm

re: #30 Feline Fearless Leader

If everyone skied the slopes would get overcrowded and fights would break out.

Someone would graft brass knuckles onto the grips of ski poles.

34 Joe Bacon  Jan 7, 2015 6:11:23pm

I wish I could honestly say I could shake my head in disbelief but I can’t. It’s so sad to say that this is the kind of reaction I expect from the insane right…

35 Randall Gross  Jan 7, 2015 6:12:24pm

With fanatics any and all news events are a chance to advance their miserable agenda, they have a one track brain that’s instinctively dashing down the drain.

36 goddamnedfrank  Jan 7, 2015 6:12:42pm

FYI @flippingoffcat has just unlocked their account in case anybody wants to ask them about their fraudulent photography analysis.

37 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 7, 2015 6:12:53pm

OK, so it looks like the youngest of the suspects has turned himself in but the other two are still at large.

38 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 7, 2015 6:13:28pm

re: #37 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

OK, so it looks like the youngest of the suspects has turned himself in but the other two are still at large.

Wait so who was killed by the cops?

39 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 7, 2015 6:13:36pm

re: #36 goddamnedfrank

FYI @flippingoffcat has just unlocked their account in case anybody wants to ask them about their fraudulent photography analysis.

getting a ‘sorry that page doesn’t exist’….

40 goddamnedfrank  Jan 7, 2015 6:13:45pm

re: #36 goddamnedfrank

Oh yeah, and they’ve changed their Twitter handle to @VerumLibertati

41 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:14:20pm

re: #39 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Add an ‘s’

42 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 6:14:20pm

re: #40 goddamnedfrank

Oh yeah, and they’ve changed their Twitter handle to @VerumLibertati

Oddly enough, I am blocked.

43 Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 7, 2015 6:14:30pm

re: #31 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

BTW, the initial “he was making fun of this guy” interpretation was the most natural one before the lightbulb went on in my head, but the real meaning is no less disgusting. Also, this pocketliberty guy is a terrible communicator.

What IS the real meaning? Because if it’s what you posted at #15, then it’s not only disgusting, it’s also really, really stupid.

44 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 7, 2015 6:14:47pm

re: #40 goddamnedfrank

Tweeter is now all about the Paris shooting.

45 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 7, 2015 6:15:49pm

re: #38 The Vicious Babushka

Wait so who was killed by the cops?

Maybe that was a false report?

46 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:16:39pm

re: #43 Blind Frog Belly White

What IS the real meaning? Because if it’s what you posted at #15, then it’s not only disgusting, it’s also really, really stupid.

It’s what I posted, based on his tweets.

47 thedopefishlives  Jan 7, 2015 6:17:26pm

re: #25 Blind Frog Belly White

re: #26 The Vicious Babushka

Well, that’s just too darn bad.

48 Jenner7  Jan 7, 2015 6:17:30pm

This dude said he was destroying the liberal narrative. What is that narrative and how did posting a picture of a human beings last moments on this earth destroy that narrative?

Whatever his point, it was a sick and evil thing to tweet.

49 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 6:17:41pm

re: #30 Feline Fearless Leader

If everyone skied the slopes would get overcrowded and fights would break out.

Which is why I added the “pipe-dream” qualifier.

50 goddamnedfrank  Jan 7, 2015 6:18:04pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

Oddly enough, I am blocked.

Me too.

51 thedopefishlives  Jan 7, 2015 6:18:30pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

Oddly enough, I am blocked.

They’re catching on. Pretty soon you’ll come pre-blocked on new Twitter accounts.

52 Lidane  Jan 7, 2015 6:18:34pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

What the hell is wrong with these people?

The sun will explode before anyone can answer that.

53 Randall Gross  Jan 7, 2015 6:18:52pm

re: #44 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Tweeter is now all about the Paris shooting.

A tweeter who changes profile, handle, and personality for the news event. That means it’s probably a dummy, probably belonging to some bozo ‘ward winnin’ journalist who’s gearing up another imaginary source to report on the latest news flash.

54 goddamnedfrank  Jan 7, 2015 6:19:16pm

re: #44 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Tweeter is now all about the Paris shooting.

The tweets that I posted screenshots of are still there though, and now that that the account is unlocked can again be viewed in their timeline.

55 thedopefishlives  Jan 7, 2015 6:19:45pm

re: #53 Randall Gross

A tweeter who changes profile, handle, and personality for the news event. That means it’s probably a dummy, probably belonging to some bozo ‘ward winnin’ journalist who’s gearing up another imaginary source to report on the latest news flash.

Oh, come now, no one would ever dare to use sockpuppets like that. Certainly no serious journalist.

[Cough.]

56 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 6:20:08pm

re: #33 Blind Frog Belly White

Someone would graft brass knuckles onto the grips of ski poles.

They already make these.

57 Eventual Carrion  Jan 7, 2015 6:20:52pm

re: #22 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I think I’m beginning to get it. The poor guy on the photo is a cop.
So this conservative piece of shit thought that it was somehow ironic and somehow destroyed the “liberal narrative” (Ferguson) or something.
It’s like trying to understand how a xenomorph thinks.

Maybe he is just admitting that Wilson was/is a terrorist.

58 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 6:21:19pm
59 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:21:35pm

re: #53 Randall Gross

Some bored idiot troll with a burn account.

60 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 6:21:59pm

This popped up in one of my TweetDeck columns:

Right. I’m the one who went bananas. Not people like Jay Caruso, using a dying man’s last moments to advance a racist political position. Me.

61 thedopefishlives  Jan 7, 2015 6:23:53pm

re: #60 Charles Johnson

This popped up in one my TweetDeck columns:

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Right. I’m the one who went bananas. Not people like Jay Caruso, using a dying man’s last moments to advance a racist political position. Me.

Remember, these guys are so far off the right side they are incapable of making left-hand turns. From their perspective, you did go bananas - because you held to the moderate course, rather than following them off the deep end.

62 Belafon  Jan 7, 2015 6:24:13pm

re: #5 jaunte

He retweeted this:

And somehow in his brain Paris Shooters::Ferguson Protesters as Paris Protesters::Ferguson Police.

63 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:24:31pm

re: #60 Charles Johnson

wut

64 Lidane  Jan 7, 2015 6:24:49pm

re: #26 The Vicious Babushka

She voted for Boehner for SOTH and now all her white friends want nothing to do with her any more.

She’s also committed the sin of joining the Congressional Black Caucus.

65 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 6:25:09pm

Whoa now.

66 thedopefishlives  Jan 7, 2015 6:26:41pm

re: #65 Charles Johnson

Whoa now.

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Wow. That really provoked a serious reaction. I detect a faint odor of rodent in the vicinity.

67 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 6:27:05pm

re: #65 Charles Johnson

Whoa now.

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68 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:28:28pm

re: #66 thedopefishlives

Wow. That really provoked a serious reaction. I detect a faint odor of rodent in the vicinity.

Well, here is the reason for making her account private:

Yeah, sure.

If not a troll, then some sociopath or an unstable person.

69 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 6:28:37pm

re: #63 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

wut

I see right wingers saying things like this all the time. It’s a nice convenient excuse for why I renounced their sickness — because I “went crazy.” It’s a way to keep from actually confronting the very deep right wing problems I brought up, by demonizing me personally.

70 WhatEVs  Jan 7, 2015 6:30:50pm

re: #21 b.d.

Who raised these freakin’ people?

Assumption. Not in evidence.

71 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 6:30:58pm

re: #69 Charles Johnson

I see right wingers saying things like this all the time. It’s a nice convenient excuse for why I renounced their sickness — because I “went crazy.” It’s a way to keep from actually confronting the very deep right wing problems I brought up, by demonizing me personally.

When everyone in the room is crazy, the one sane guy looks like he’s the crazy one, and everyone else isn’t.

72 Snarknado!  Jan 7, 2015 6:32:01pm

re: #34 Joe Bacon

I wish I could honestly say I could shake my head in disbelief but I can’t. It’s so sad to say that this is the kind of reaction I expect from the insane right…

Welcome, hatchling.

73 b.d.  Jan 7, 2015 6:32:12pm

re: #62 Belafon

He retweeted this:

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And somehow in his brain Paris Shooters::Ferguson Protesters as Paris Protesters::Ferguson Police.

That’s the bozo who use to be TMZ Politics before people here brought his infringement name to the attention of TMZ & support.

74 WhatEVs  Jan 7, 2015 6:32:14pm

re: #25 Blind Frog Belly White

She voted for Boehner for Speaker, so she was tossed on the RINO list. The butthurt was impressive in its intensity and lack of sense.

And she joined the black caucus. They hate Love now.

75 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 6:32:53pm

re: #74 WhatEVs

And she joined the black caucus. They hate Love now.

How dare she be independent-minded!

76 thedopefishlives  Jan 7, 2015 6:33:19pm

re: #75 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

How dare she be independent-minded!

WE ELECTED YOU TO BE A TEA PARTY STOOGE! WE DEMAND A REFUND!

77 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:33:23pm

Seems like Alan Grayson needs more donations.

dailykos.com

78 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 6:35:25pm
79 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 6:36:43pm
80 thedopefishlives  Jan 7, 2015 6:38:20pm

re: #79 Charles Johnson

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The forensic image analyst who doesn’t know how pixels work. What’s next, a French culture expert who doesn’t speak French?

81 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:38:53pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

I thought Cole went all asshole?

82 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:39:33pm

re: #81 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I thought Cole went all asshole?

Or is it a different one?

83 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 7, 2015 6:40:08pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

Do they have you mixed up with lesser Charles? Why else would they be pissed at you? Or GDFrank?!

84 ObserverArt  Jan 7, 2015 6:40:31pm

re: #27 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

It’s like how all the protesters with their hands up saying hands up don’t shoot were actually shooting all the cops. Or something.

I was wondering if he was saying that the cops in Ferguson were acting like terrorists or something.

I guess I can sort of understand that point of view…if that is what he was going for.

/// (uncomfortable quip)

85 dog philosopher  Jan 7, 2015 6:40:53pm

my suggestion would be to paste charlie hebdo cartoons on every public surface in france

86 Belafon  Jan 7, 2015 6:41:36pm

re: #82 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

History of Cole and our Johnson: Both leaned right and both are now left. They get on each others nerves as two intense people do. I read and like both sites whether or not the two of them would have a conversation together.

87 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:43:00pm

re: #83 Rightwingconspirator

Do they have you mixed up with lesser Charles? Why else would they be pissed at you? Or GDFrank?!

Because they’re a troll. Or a wingnut. Or both.

88 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 7, 2015 6:44:57pm

re: #87 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Right, thought it was what it said it was. Twitter. Full o twits.

89 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 6:46:42pm

re: #81 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I thought Cole went all asshole?

He seems to be trying to walk that back lately.

90 Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 7, 2015 6:46:55pm

The perps are dead-eyed creeps with penises, as usual.
The hyper-masculine right wing glories in blood and makes up its own twisted, sick reality on the fly, as usual.

Sometimes I feel like the Y chromosome is a disease.

That cop - a Muslim, yes? - was a goddamned hero, if the accounts coming out are correct. He went up against two men with rifles, severely under-gunned, and walked into the threat, not away from it.

Looking at how tight the shot grouping is on the police car’s windshield, it’s amazing they weren’t all killed. Either the thugs were taking their time or they were firing from very close range. If you told me they had prior gun-handling experience, I’d believe it.

Awful, sickening stuff. Part of me just wants them to burn.

91 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 6:47:28pm

re: #83 Rightwingconspirator

Do they have you mixed up with lesser Charles? Why else would they be pissed at you? Or GDFrank?!

This is Chuck’s source for his ridiculous “different sized pixels” theory.

92 unproven innocence  Jan 7, 2015 6:48:00pm

re: #79 Charles Johnson

Still January 7 in my time zone— EST. Time error somewhere?

93 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:48:57pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

Glad to hear that.

94 unproven innocence  Jan 7, 2015 6:49:15pm

Or maybe twitter uses GMT ?

95 klystron  Jan 7, 2015 6:49:35pm

re: #94 unproven innocence

Or maybe twitter uses GMT ?

Twitter shows you timestamps in your own timezone.

96 electrotek  Jan 7, 2015 6:49:41pm

Isn’t that cop being shot by Salafist scum the Muslim cop? If so, oh boy how will the anti-Muslim bigot brigade spin this one?

97 D_Red  Jan 7, 2015 6:49:47pm

I’m also blocked by the artist formerly known as flippingoffcat. Maybe its Chuckle’s wife? He’s the only other person blocking me on twitter.

98 dog philosopher  Jan 7, 2015 6:50:45pm

who will be the first right wing pundit to insist that progressives approve of the hebdo attack?

99 WhatEVs  Jan 7, 2015 6:51:41pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

He seems to be trying to walk that back lately.

Wasn’t he sick? Like life-altering sick?

100 goddamnedfrank  Jan 7, 2015 6:51:55pm
101 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:52:51pm

re: #96 electrotek

Isn’t that cop being shot by Salafist scum the Muslim cop? If so, oh boy how will the anti-Muslim bigot brigade spin this one?

One of the two cops was Muslim.

102 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 6:54:38pm

Did you all see these tweets by UpChuck earlier? He’s in his hater mode now.

103 jaunte  Jan 7, 2015 6:55:39pm

Baby elephant break.

104 unproven innocence  Jan 7, 2015 6:56:15pm

re: #95 klystron

Twitter shows you timestamps in your own timezone.

Receiver or sender? (I’ve never tweeted.)

105 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 6:56:45pm

I’m pissed when I read something like “[Topic]: n facts you need to know”. Fuck you, how would you know what I need?
/rant off

106 ObserverArt  Jan 7, 2015 6:56:47pm

re: #74 WhatEVs

And she joined the black caucus. They hate Love now.

Interesting sentence that which I have highlighted in bold type.

Also, it sort of reminds me of the Supremes “You Can’t Hurry Love” in a weird way.

Think of the lyrics as if you are a RWNJ defending the lack of color in your party.

I need love, love
To ease my mind
I need to find, find someone to call mine
But mama said

You can’t hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love don’t come easy
It’s a game of give and take

You can’t hurry love
No, you just have to wait
You got to trust, give it time
No matter how long it takes

…con’t

So RWNJs…you tried to hurry Love because you thought she was someone you could call your own. But your mommas told you, Love don’t come easy! I guess you’ll just have to wait, and it is going to take a long time, if ever.

/

/

107 klystron  Jan 7, 2015 6:57:33pm

re: #104 unproven innocence

Receiver or sender? (I’ve never tweeted.)

All tweets are shown to you in your timezone. If you’re looking at a screencap of a tweet, then it’s the timezone of the person who took the screencap.

It makes following breaking news a pain in the butt, at times.

108 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 6:57:33pm

I mentioned an avalanche accident last night. The person caught in the avalanche on Kendall Mountain outside of Silverton, CO succumbed to her injuries. 23-year-old woman, resident of Durango. My raft-guide friend employed her last year. Very sad.

She’s the 4th avalanche death in the U.S. this winter.

109 unproven innocence  Jan 7, 2015 6:59:37pm

re: #107 klystron

All tweets are shown to you in your timezone. If you’re looking at a screencap of a tweet, then it’s the timezone of the person who took the screencap.

It makes following breaking news a pain in the butt, at times.

That clarifies things much. Thank you.

110 Egregious Philbin  Jan 7, 2015 6:59:48pm

On exhibit, the results of people who purposely pickle their brains in hours of regurgitated echo chamber right wing hate. The crassness level of people has gotten too high. What the hell ever happened to reasoned debate and intellect? Oh yeah, Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, etc.

111 dog philosopher  Jan 7, 2015 7:03:21pm

re: #102 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Did you all see these tweets by UpChuck earlier? He’s in his hater mode now.

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he seems like someone in ‘go ahead, hit me’ mode

112 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 7, 2015 7:05:56pm

re: #58 teleskiguy

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Family Circus still blows.

113 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 7, 2015 7:06:41pm

re: #66 thedopefishlives

Wow. That really provoked a serious reaction. I detect a faint odor of rodent in the vicinity.

Smells like unwashed socks.

114 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 7:07:03pm

re: #112 The Vicious Babushka

Family Circus still blows.

Agreed.

115 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 7:08:52pm

re: #113 The Vicious Babushka

Smells like unwashed socks.

There is a distinct eau de sock puppet going on.

116 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 7:09:33pm

re: #111 dog philosopher

he seems like someone in ‘go ahead, hit me’ mode

He’s tweeted that his wife left Indonesia because of Muslims, and has offered to print any offensive (to Muslims) cartoons on his website.

But I bet the minute anyone threatens him with mayhem, those cartoons and tweets would be gone in a jiffy.

117 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 7:10:44pm

They were born for each other.
[rest self-censored]

118 ObserverArt  Jan 7, 2015 7:11:27pm

re: #112 The Vicious Babushka

Family Circus still blows.

Barfy!

///

Later all, had enough human craziness and death for the day. Unfortunately there will be more to discuss tomorrow.

119 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 7:11:36pm

re: #117 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

And this - USA Today, what the fuck?

usatoday.com

120 dog philosopher  Jan 7, 2015 7:11:59pm

re: #116 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

He’s tweeted that his wife left Indonesia because of Muslims, and has offered to print any offensive (to Muslims) cartoons on his website.

But I bet the minute anyone threatens him with mayhem, those cartoons and tweets would be gone in a jiffy.

actually i should have said that i think he means to provoke a reaction from “libberuls”

121 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 7:14:21pm

re: #119 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Feeding the fire.

122 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 7, 2015 7:14:51pm

re: #119 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

And this - USA Today, what the fuck?

usatoday.com

PAGE VIEWS!!! OUTRAGE1!!!! CLICKS!!! ADS!!!!!!

123 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 7:15:43pm
124 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 7, 2015 7:15:57pm

Somebody is dropping hits of acid

125 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 7:17:07pm

re: #120 dog philosopher

actually i should have said that i think he means to provoke a reaction from “libberuls”

He’s just trying to get street creds with his nutjob followers.

Also, his bragging about his French skills is fucking annoying me. He was in some French language program in Boston when he was younger, and now says he is fluent in French.

I think @aceoaces called him on it.

126 Targetpractice  Jan 7, 2015 7:17:27pm

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

Somebody is dropping hits of acid

[Embedded content]

So the Founding Fathers worshiped bearded aliens?

127 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 7:18:25pm

re: #126 Targetpractice

So the Founding Fathers worshiped bearded aliens?

Dude, they WERE bearded aliens. Then they got shaves. Sneaky bastards.

128 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 7:19:10pm

Choudary needs the anti-Muslim brigade just as the anti-Muslim brigade needs Choudary. (Also, Choudary needs to be in prison for incitement.)

129 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 7:19:38pm

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

Somebody is dropping hits of acid

[Embedded content]

You ever seen the back of a 20 dollar bill, ON WEED?!?
130 dog philosopher  Jan 7, 2015 7:19:54pm

the charlie hebdo cartoons that led to the massacre

truly, i must take my hat off to those who were martyred for the freedom of speech of all of us

131 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 7:20:07pm

I’ve updated the Dossier on UpChuck, BTW. Still need to work in the whole photographic analysis stuff.

wheatdogg.com

132 b_sharp  Jan 7, 2015 7:21:16pm

I’m going to bed to watch a movie from netflix.

Any movie.

133 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 7:21:59pm

re: #130 dog philosopher

The one where an Islamist kills Mohammed for being an infidel is pretty poignant.

134 jaunte  Jan 7, 2015 7:22:07pm

re: #132 b_sharp

The Bletchley Circle was good.

135 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 7:26:46pm

Vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity doesn’t help though.

136 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 7:28:33pm

re: #132 b_sharp

I’m going to bed to watch a movie from netflix.

Any movie.

Avoid “Dream House.” It’s amazingly bad and not in a good way.

137 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 7, 2015 7:29:30pm

re: #133 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

The one where an Islamist kills Mohammed for being an infidel is pretty poignant.

Reminds me of Dostoyevski’s bit on the Grand Inquisitor…

138 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 7:31:46pm

Slate republished this essay by Christopher Hitchens, titled “Cartoon Debate: The case for mocking religion.” The man definitely had a way with words.

139 goddamnedfrank  Jan 7, 2015 7:35:53pm

I’m going to pay some Borderlands 2, listen to Brick call me Slab over and over.

140 electrotek  Jan 7, 2015 7:42:38pm

re: #138 teleskiguy

Just a heads up: Christopher Hitchens interviewed Alija Izzetbegovic, the late leader of Bosnia, and Hitchens asked him what he thought of the Rushdie fatwa. Alija’s response? He stated that while he would not have liked the book, he did state that it would be wrong to kill him for it. And this, coming from a man who was once himself jailed by Tito in the 80s for his Islamic teachings.

Some food for thought for the keyboard jihadis on Twitter, since those freaks and the wingnuts all feed off of each other.

Excerpt from For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
141 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 7:44:38pm

re: #131 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I’ve updated the Dossier on UpChuck, BTW. Still need to work in the whole photographic analysis stuff.

wheatdogg.com

Good work, wheatdogg! By the time UpChuck turns 30 you could publish a book!

142 electrotek  Jan 7, 2015 7:44:40pm

re: #123 Charles Johnson

How much did USA Today pay that piece of shit for that horrible piece?

143 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 7:47:28pm

Gus is making too much sense on Twitter.

144 ipsos  Jan 7, 2015 7:47:55pm

re: #141 teleskiguy

“Why UpChuck Never Mattered” ??

145 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 7, 2015 7:48:51pm

re: #119 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

And this - USA Today, what the fuck?

usatoday.com

Ah, the Useless Today strikes again. I am reminded why even the propagandists at Fox have a better reputation than they do. The only thing worse is the Useless News And World Distortion.

146 Gus  Jan 7, 2015 7:49:22pm

re: #143 teleskiguy

Gus is making too much sense on Twitter.

Gracias.

147 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 7:49:36pm

re: #145 William Barnett-Lewis

USAToday, Happy News for Happy People with Happy Problems.

148 calochortus  Jan 7, 2015 7:49:52pm

It has probably been said before here, but my sincere sympathy to all our Muslim friends here and elsewhere.
I can’t imagine waking up every morning being expected to be responsible for the actions of some whack-job just because you share a religion.
As far as I am concerned, you are welcome in my country, and my life.

149 ipsos  Jan 7, 2015 7:50:24pm

What Cable News Taught Me Today:

100 different ways to mispronounce “Hebdo”

(and not much else)

150 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 7:51:05pm

Ancient scriptures are like time bombs. The original rants of ancient “prophets”, priests, rabbis and mullahs, the n-th century morality - all that is out of place in the modern world and liberal democracy. Religious moderates will reinterpret or conveniently forget the bad parts, but there will always be someone who still takes them seriously and acts on them. That’s why we can’t have nice things.

151 calochortus  Jan 7, 2015 7:51:52pm

re: #145 William Barnett-Lewis

Ah, the Useless Today strikes again. I am reminded why even the propagandists at Fox have a better reputation than they do. The only thing worse is the Useless News And World Distortion.

Heck, I couldn’t really figure out what he was trying to tell us. Senile dementia on my part, or maybe it’s just hard to understand rambling, illogical commentary.

152 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 7:53:08pm

re: #144 ipsos

“Why UpChuck Never Mattered” ??

“Diary of a Mad House-husband”

153 electrotek  Jan 7, 2015 7:53:20pm

re: #148 calochortus

It has probably been said before here, but my sincere sympathy to all our Muslim friends here and elsewhere.
I can’t imagine waking up every morning being expected to be responsible for the actions of some whack-job just because you share a religion.
As far as I am concerned, you are welcome in my country, and my life.

Appreciate the kind words. I’m staying the fuck off social media because of gung-ho idiots wanting to engage in some false bravado by reposting those stupid photos as an act of “solidarity” with those who perished. Too much stupid for me to endure on FB and Twitter and Instagram even.

Not going to lie, times like this wished I would work from home. I dread going into the office and overhearing conversation about any terror attack or anything that involves Muslims in general. It’s fucking frustrating to deal with it. You know the Islamophobic right doesn’t distinguish between liberal and conservative Muslims so we’re all a target, including the “cultural Muslims” who don’t practice.

154 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 8:04:49pm

Damn, it’s been 16 years.

155 Areopagitica  Jan 7, 2015 8:06:44pm

What a sick piece of dog poop. This guy just brought down humanity a bit.

156 ipsos  Jan 7, 2015 8:07:29pm

re: #152 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

“Diary of a Wimpy Semi-Adult”

157 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 8:07:53pm
158 jaunte  Jan 7, 2015 8:10:56pm
“— Breivik extensively quotes Robert Spencer, a leading anti-Muslim writer sponsored by David Horowitz: Spencer’s blog Jihad Watch, along with Geller’s site (Spencer and Geller created the group “Stop Islamization of America” to distribute action alerts), have driven anti-Muslim memes in the news for years. Sponsored by David Horowitz’s think tank, Jihad Watch has led efforts to purge the Republican Party of Muslim Americans and is a constant purveyor of strange anti-Muslim claims, like one recently that former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) had secretly converted to Islam. Despite his links to Holocaust deniers and other unsavory individuals, Spencer provides punditry for Fox News, National Review, and other top conservative media organs. ThinkProgress has found his books sold at CPAC, the College Republican conference, and events for Young Americans for Freedom.”
thinkprogress.org
159 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 8:12:44pm
160 The War TARDIS  Jan 7, 2015 8:12:45pm

re: #157 Charles Johnson

Do you have his contact information?

I want to yell at him, and he blocked me.

161 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 8:12:56pm

re: #157 Charles Johnson

They never quit, do they?

162 The War TARDIS  Jan 7, 2015 8:13:13pm

re: #159 Charles Johnson

I think you should pursue libel on this clown.

163 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 8:13:45pm

re: #157 Charles Johnson

164 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 8:14:55pm

re: #163 teleskiguy

Better send him a tweet in French, ‘cause he’s fluent in that language.

165 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 8:14:57pm
166 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 8:15:10pm

Hey ProLifeLiberal. You still want the city my sister and her family has called home for two decades to be “judged”?

167 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 8:16:01pm

Oh, I’m already seeing the “Charlie Hebdo was like KKK” comparisons. Plus digging up dirt on the dead people. The far left and the far right are so similar sometimes. *spit*

168 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 8:17:19pm

re: #163 teleskiguy

A bit of pedantry: it was Fjordman (though apparently Breivik agreed, seeing how he inserted it in his manifesto).

169 The War TARDIS  Jan 7, 2015 8:17:25pm

re: #166 teleskiguy

I have cooled down. No I do not.

However, I have enough bad memories there that I will never go back.

170 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 8:18:44pm

The left-wing version of “he was no angel”, on steroids.

171 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 7, 2015 8:19:04pm

re: #157 Charles Johnson

172 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 8:21:29pm

re: #169 The War TARDIS

I have cooled down. No I do not.

However, I have enough bad memories there that I will never go back.

That’s fair. C. Springs isn’t the most tolerant place, I’m well aware.

Your comments last night were unworthy of LGF, as your karma count shows. Think before you comment, dude. Condemning an entire city to “judgment” is entirely too fucked up.

173 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 8:22:08pm

re: #160 The War TARDIS

Do you have his contact information?

I want to yell at him, and he blocked me.

You can find his email on his website GotNews. It’s embedded in the PayPal donation plea.

174 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 8:23:35pm

re: #160 The War TARDIS

I want to yell at him, and he blocked me.

I’ve been blocked by UpChuck for a while now. I still engage him when appropriate, I can still see his tweets on TweetDeck.

175 Jenner7  Jan 7, 2015 8:25:22pm

I don’t have it in me to watch this. I’ve seen his murder once, don’t want to see it again.

176 CleverToad  Jan 7, 2015 8:27:09pm

re: #103 jaunte

All the up dings
Thank you, needed that infant elephant break

177 Charles Johnson  Jan 7, 2015 8:27:21pm
178 The War TARDIS  Jan 7, 2015 8:28:22pm

re: #174 teleskiguy

Chuck-bucket there seems a lot like Breivik, if I am being honest. The grandiosity, delusions of grandeur, the hate, the lust for violence.

I think Chuck will eventually cause a major tragedy. I also think he is lying about having a wife. I cannot fathom a woman who would be able to deal with his shit.

179 Dark_Falcon  Jan 7, 2015 8:28:22pm

re: #28 #FergusonFireside

Zero empathy.

My empathy say’s fuck that prick.

Mine too.

180 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 7, 2015 8:28:23pm

Well, I’m off to bed. Going to be manning the “Be A Diver” booth and demo tank at the Nashville Boat Show starting tomorrow. Going to be a very brisk 1 degree or so tomorrow AM. When I was down helping with the setup on Tuesday, they were bringing in the Geico Offshore Racing Boat. (Miss Geico). What a way to turn lots of dollars into noise.

181 goddamnedfrank  Jan 7, 2015 8:28:52pm
182 Lidane  Jan 7, 2015 8:29:00pm

My managers have clearly had the hammer brought down on their heads by their higher ups. After months of basically slacking, they’re suddenly running morning meetings on time, sending notices to people who are late, enforcing the dress code, and are planning on “getting more involved” by having more 1-on-1 meetings and “coaching sessions”. They also had what amounts to a fire sale on performance improvement plans for damn near everyone on the floor.

It’s definitely time to update my resume. I don’t get paid enough to deal with this shit.

183 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 8:31:58pm

re: #178 The War TARDIS

I also think he is lying about having a wife.

He’s got pictures of him and his unnamed spouse on his Facebook page. Here’s one, their wedding.

184 Dark_Falcon  Jan 7, 2015 8:32:37pm

re: #178 The War TARDIS

Chuck-bucket there seems a lot like Breivik, if I am being honest. The grandiosity, delusions of grandeur, the hate, the lust for violence.

I think Chuck will eventually cause a major tragedy. I also think he is lying about having a wife. I cannot fathom a woman who would be able to deal with his shit.

I don’t agree about the major tragedy. “The grandiosity, delusions of grandeur, the hate, the lust for violence”, on those I agree completely. But as vile as Anders Brevik is, his attack was planned with skill and precision. He’s a monster, but a meticulous monster.

Charles C. Johnson lacks the precision and the patience of an Anders Brevik and for that reason will never be able to do as much damage. Chuckles is and will remain a fuck-up floor-pooper.

185 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 8:35:30pm

re: #184 Dark_Falcon

Having read his manifesto, I agree. Breivik is a total nutso, but a “highly-functioning” one. Chuckie can’t find his way out of a paper bag.

186 WhatEVs  Jan 7, 2015 8:35:58pm

re: #183 teleskiguy

He’s got pictures of him and his unnamed spouse on his Facebook page. Here’s one, their wedding.

Embedded Image

It still looks more graduation than wedding to me.

187 retired cynic  Jan 7, 2015 8:36:09pm

re: #148 calochortus

It has probably been said before here, but my sincere sympathy to all our Muslim friends here and elsewhere.
I can’t imagine waking up every morning being expected to be responsible for the actions of some whack-job just because you share a religion.
As far as I am concerned, you are welcome in my country, and my life.

Right. Fred Clark had a good one: patheos.com

I’m sorry, I don’t know how to make that URL shorter!

188 calochortus  Jan 7, 2015 8:37:58pm

re: #187 retired cynic

Right. Fred Clark had a good one: patheos.com

I’m sorry, I don’t know how to make that URL shorter!

Excellent.

189 retired cynic  Jan 7, 2015 8:41:18pm

re: #187 retired cynic

Well! Thank you, Charles, for doing it for me!

190 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 8:43:38pm

Hillary Clinton at age 22 was a very pretty woman, IMHO.

191 GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 7, 2015 8:44:00pm

re: #68 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Must be his pretend wife’s account.

192 GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 7, 2015 8:54:18pm

re: #183 teleskiguy

Someone needs to pull a pixel size trick on him and that woman to prove its fake! *snark*

193 Jenner7  Jan 7, 2015 8:54:46pm

2 Utah County youths get measles at Disneyland

ksl.com

I live in Utah County and this infuriates me. Ugh, stupid people.

194 klystron  Jan 7, 2015 8:57:43pm

Because life goes on:

Maple-mustard glazed pork (starting recipe here calls for chicken, I have modified it extensively) with wild mushroom and herb couscous (out of a box) and garlicky green beans.

Fantastic success.

195 Dark_Falcon  Jan 7, 2015 8:58:23pm

re: #193 Jenner7

2 Utah County youths get measles at Disneyland

ksl.com

I live in Utah County and this infuriates me. Ugh, stupid people.

The Anti-Vaxxer Credo: Fuck the needs of others, I’m going to service my own ego, paranoia, and butthurt!

/spits

196 Jenner7  Jan 7, 2015 9:00:35pm

Gnight all, back to Supernatural….

197 Teukka  Jan 7, 2015 9:01:41pm

re: #195 Dark_Falcon

The Anti-Vaxxer Credo: Fuck the needs of others, I’m going to service my own ego, paranoia, and butthurt!

/spits

*sighs*

It is only a question of when, not if, a major epidemic or pandemic is facilitated by anti-vaxxers.

198 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 9:02:20pm

re: #185 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Having read his manifesto, I agree. Breivik is a total nutso, but a “highly-functioning” one. Chuckie can’t find his way out of a paper bag.

He said a website mentioned in one of his articles was “down” when in fact he garbled the link in the article and got a 404 page in French. He’s since fixed the article to omit the link altogether.

199 Dark_Falcon  Jan 7, 2015 9:02:40pm

I know we give the Daily Mail a lot of well-earned grief, but it has a very good graphic of how the Charlie Hebdo Attack went down:

Image: 247DFCC000000578-2901191-image-m-54_1420680144982.jpg

Full article is here.

200 calochortus  Jan 7, 2015 9:07:32pm

Goodnight all. Hasta mañana.
And may mañana be a better day.

201 klystron  Jan 7, 2015 9:10:23pm

May possibly apply to me.

202 Dark_Falcon  Jan 7, 2015 9:12:16pm

re: #200 calochortus

Goodnight all. Hasta mañana.
And may mañana be a better day.

I’m going to sign off as well. Good night, all.

203 jaunte  Jan 7, 2015 9:12:39pm

re: #201 klystron

I don’t know my voicemail access code. I told my partners when they got it that it would be wasted on me.

204 klystron  Jan 7, 2015 9:14:39pm

re: #203 jaunte

I don’t know my voicemail access code. I told my partners when they got it that it would be wasted on me.

I have mostly trained my family out of leaving it.

Mostly.

Google Voice does some hysterical things transcribing my baby sister’s messages.

205 Gus  Jan 7, 2015 9:15:07pm

re: #202 Dark_Falcon

I’m going to sign off as well. Good night, all.

Hey there Jody boy!

206 jaunte  Jan 7, 2015 9:15:13pm

“I left you a voicemail.”
“How convenient for you.”

207 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 9:18:21pm

re: #198 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Regarding UpChuck

He said a website mentioned in one of his articles was “down” when in fact he garbled the link in the article and got a 404 page in French. He’s since fixed the article to omit the link altogether.

Because he garbled a link, his article led to this:

The language master took this to mean the page was down, when in fact it was his bad linkage skills.

208 Single-handed sailor  Jan 7, 2015 9:20:19pm
209 funky chicken  Jan 7, 2015 9:20:46pm

re: #98 dog philosopher

who will be the first right wing pundit to insist that progressives approve of the hebdo attack?

Bill Donohue?

210 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 9:20:59pm

An all around jerk-off Max Blumenthal posts this (because, of course, he needs to be a jerk-off on every issue):

The problem is, of course, that Blumenthal ignores the context.
The context was a publication by a far-right rag Minute of a photo of Taubira with a caption about a banana, a usual racist trope. The Minute tried to defend themselves by referencing Charlie Hebdo, saying, no one gets offended about their covers. CH’s response:

“Some people have actually taken offense at the covers of Charlie Hebdo, among which the Catholic far-right which has sued us 12 times in 20 years (…) Minute does not defend the freedom of the press. It prepares the ground for future racist crimes.”

An unequivocal condemnation of the racist photo. So what about this cartoon? This was juxtaposed in a 2013 edition of CH with the aforementioned Minute photo. The original was “the 1st degree”, this one was the “2nd degree”, or, “what they really mean”. Note the symbol of the National Front on the cartoon and the caption which satirizes this group, in effect calling them racists. This cartoon basically shows the minister through the eyes of the far right.
That’s right, Blumenthal turned CH’s condemnation of racism into an expression of racism. On the day of the murder.

211 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 7, 2015 9:21:03pm

re: #201 klystron

Voicemail is okay, I guess. I don’t text so sending me a text is pretty much like sending me smoke signals from Mombasa.

212 funky chicken  Jan 7, 2015 9:22:05pm

re: #203 jaunte

I don’t know my voicemail access code. I told my partners when they got it that it would be wasted on me.

I didn’t even bother to set it up on my new phone.

213 klystron  Jan 7, 2015 9:22:45pm

re: #211 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Voicemail is okay, I guess. I don’t text so sending me a text is pretty much like sending me smoke signals from Mombasa.

Argh, don’t get me started on texts.

A lot of my contemporaries still have trouble with the concept that not everyone pays for a texting plan and therefore each text costs me $$$.

214 Gus  Jan 7, 2015 9:23:58pm

So many stupid people.

215 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 9:24:34pm

re: #213 klystron

Argh, don’t get me started on texts.

A lot of my contemporaries still have trouble with the concept that not everyone pays for a texting plan and therefore each text costs me $$$.

You have to pay extra for a texting plan? Mine’s included in my China Mobile service plan.

216 WhatEVs  Jan 7, 2015 9:25:25pm

re: #207 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Regarding UpChuck

Because he garbled a link, his article led to this:

Embedded Image

The language master took this to mean the page was down, when in fact it was his bad linkage skills.

THAT is freaking hysterical. That guy is so full of shit.

217 klystron  Jan 7, 2015 9:26:06pm

re: #215 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

You have to pay extra for a texting plan? Mine’s included in my China Mobile service plan.

YES.

I’m clinging to my unlimited data plan which means things like “unlimited texting” require extra fees which I don’t bother with. I have mostly convinced people not to text me.

218 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 9:26:19pm

re: #214 Gus

So many stupid people.

I’d reach that conclusion too if I hung out where you hang out on Twitter.

I clicked on #tcot for the first time in a looong time to check out what was happening with the SOTH vote. I became very angry and sullen quickly.

I don’t know how you do it, man. How many keyboards do you go through per year?

219 WhatEVs  Jan 7, 2015 9:29:31pm

re: #217 klystron

YES.

I’m clinging to my unlimited data plan which means things like “unlimited texting” require extra fees which I don’t bother with. I have mostly convinced people not to text me.

I couldn’t live without texting. I loathe, hate, despise talking on the phone.

220 Gus  Jan 7, 2015 9:29:41pm

re: #218 teleskiguy

I’d reach that conclusion too if I hung out where you hang out on Twitter.

I clicked on #tcot for the first time in a looong time to check out what was happening with the SOTH vote. I became very angry and sullen quickly.

I don’t know how you do it, man. How many keyboards do you go through per year?

She’s so fine.

221 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 9:32:55pm

re: #216 WhatEVs

THAT is freaking hysterical. That guy is so full of shit.

I wish I had captured his page, but he edited the link out entirely. He had his website URL spliced to the Liberation URL with some extra stuff on the end. When I took the GotNews link off myself, that 404 page is what I got.

Trying the full garbled link would have got you a generic 404 page from your browser — here it is from downstairs: gotnews dot com/breaking-charliehebdo-terrorists-attended-radical-mosque-paris-jesuischarlie/%20http://liberation.fr portrait/1995/08/17/l-imam-que-la-france-habille-en-fou-de-dieu_141282 &usg=ALkJrhj230OyszW2lxVutuKh_EzcfqP2ew

I added spaces so the whole mess can be seen

222 funky chicken  Jan 7, 2015 9:36:57pm

re: #193 Jenner7

2 Utah County youths get measles at Disneyland

ksl.com

I live in Utah County and this infuriates me. Ugh, stupid people.

Those kids spend a lot of time at the movies. The hospital visits are bizarre too. Don’t Utah hospitals have infectious disease protocols? I’ve never been sent to the lab waiting room from an ER for tests. The tech has always come in to draw blood in the room.

223 klystron  Jan 7, 2015 9:37:57pm

re: #219 WhatEVs

I couldn’t live without texting. I loathe, hate, despise talking on the phone.

I’m not a fan of it either, but I solve this problem by not communicating with people.

/half

224 The War TARDIS  Jan 7, 2015 9:38:46pm

I am going to try to win you all back over. I have been a foul up.

In regards to the shooters, I saw this just now on Wiki, sourced to the NYT.

One of the suspects in the killings, Hamyd Mourad, volunteerily surrenders to police in Charleville-Mézières while the other two suspects are still at large.

I think I have an idea, looking at details in the articles themselves.

Suspects

Saïd Kouachi and Chérif Kouachi were identified by French police as the main suspects in the shooting. The two Franco-Algerian brothers, both from Gennevilliers, are aged 34 and 32, respectively.[55][56] In 2008, Chérif Kouachi was convicted of terrorism charges and sentenced to three years in prison, along with 18 months of suspension, for having assisted in sending fighters to Iraq’s insurgency.[57][56] Chérif Kouachi said he was inspired to help Iraq’s insurgency by outrage at the torture of inmates of the U.S. prison at Abu Ghraib.[58][59]

Hamyd Mourad, an 18-year-old homeless man of unknown nationality, was identified by the police as a third suspect in the shooting.[60][61] He is believed to have been living recently in Charleville-Mezieres, approximately 140 miles northeast of Paris near France’s border with Belgium.[62] AFP news agency reported that France’s elite anti-terrorist unit had gone to Reims.[63][64] At 2.22 a.m. CET on 8 January, it was reported he had turned himself in at a Charleville-Mezieres police station.

Two nutjobs convince a third homeless man, possibly with mental defect, to join them?

225 WhatEVs  Jan 7, 2015 9:43:04pm

re: #223 klystron

I’m not a fan of it either, but I solve this problem by not communicating with people.

/half

Ah, if only. I work at home and if I never had to deal with anyone but my dogs, I’d be content for life!

226 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 7, 2015 9:47:34pm

re: #223 klystron

I’m not a fan of it either, but I solve this problem by not communicating with people.

/half

Growing up as a military brat left me affable, but not social. The only people who call me at all are my wife and son. We’re a close-knit family and we live in the same home so we rarely have to call.

227 klystron  Jan 7, 2015 9:49:44pm

re: #226 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Growing up as a military brat left me affable, but not social. The only people who call me at all are my wife and son. We’re a close-knit family and we live in the same home so we rarely have to call.

My cell exists from going off to college, and my folks are still the main folks I talk to on it. Sometimes my sisters, or my in-laws. Occasionally friends. The dentist’s office when it is time for my appointment reminder.

My husband runs cell phones through the wash, so his is an el-cheapo model and the only time we actually call each other is either a request for an errand or one of us it out of town and the other calls the home #.

228 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 9:49:44pm

I imagine this is CL :)

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229 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 9:50:55pm

re: #112 The Vicious Babushka

Family Circus still blows.

This is for you Alouette! It was retweeted By G-d Himself.

230 WhatEVs  Jan 7, 2015 9:55:49pm

Good night all. Sweet dreams.

231 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 9:59:24pm

Gawker’s weather guru (who I think writes well about meteorology) just tried the ol’ “throw boiling water into freezing-ass dry atmosphere” trick, where the water appears to turn to snow.

He’s in western North Carolina, if I’m not mistaken.

Stay warm, Lizards!

232 funky chicken  Jan 7, 2015 10:00:59pm

re: #225 WhatEVs

My dogs are both sick right now so they aren’t even too fun right now. I just found out today that one of them has lymphoma and she seems to have caught the diarrhea that the other one had last week and got over by taking flagyl. Ugh.

233 klystron  Jan 7, 2015 10:02:10pm

re: #232 funky chicken

My dogs are both sick right now so they aren’t even too fun right now. I just found out today that one of them has lymphoma and she seems to have caught the diarrhea that the other one had last week and got over by taking flagyl. Ugh.

:(

Keeping you (and your doggies!) in mind over here.

234 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 10:02:45pm

re: #232 funky chicken

My dogs are both sick right now so they aren’t even too fun right now. I just found out today that one of them has lymphoma and she seems to have caught the diarrhea that the other one had last week and got over by taking flagyl. Ugh.

My younger stepson just had to put his pit bull to sleep. Poor dog was 14 and in failing health. One of the biggest overgrown puppies you’d ever meet. We’re all sad about it.

235 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 10:07:45pm

re: #231 teleskiguy

236 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 7, 2015 10:08:54pm

- This is atrocious.
- But what about [a long list]?

237 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 7, 2015 10:09:31pm

re: #232 funky chicken

Holding you and your pets in my thoughts.

238 funky chicken  Jan 7, 2015 10:13:26pm

Thanks. They bring so much joy but it’s hard on the way down :(. We will just go without pets for a while after we lose these guys I think. Do some traveling and see if we want to dive back in later.

239 Kragar  Jan 7, 2015 10:16:53pm

Well, with the new year upon us, its time for me to face facts that Obdi has taken off to parts unknown while recovering and the book we were working on isn’t going to write itself. If anyone is interested in working on a scifi/supernatural novel, let me know. I enabled my email.

240 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 10:20:59pm

Vile filth attract, nod heads. Retweeted by UpChuck.

241 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 7, 2015 10:37:22pm

Good night all.

242 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 10:38:57pm

re: #240 teleskiguy

Dullard is a fanboi of UpChuck’s, no matter how wrong or ridiculous the issue may be.

243 klystron  Jan 7, 2015 10:39:14pm

I hope Backwoods Sleuth is keeping the pipes warm.

244 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 10:43:18pm

UpChuck is the laziest internet sleuth out there.

245 Targetpractice  Jan 7, 2015 10:43:27pm

re: #243 klystron

I hope Backwoods Sleuth is keeping the pipes warm.

Is that what they call it these days?

//

246 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 10:44:53pm

re: #244 teleskiguy

UpChuck is the laziest internet sleuth out there.

Good call. Gotnwes is on the story!

247 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 10:49:41pm

re: #244 teleskiguy

I have no qualms using such salty language with UpChuck on Twitter. He blocked me, so…

248 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 11:02:58pm
249 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 11:06:52pm

re: #247 teleskiguy

I have no qualms using such salty language with UpChuck on Twitter. He blocked me, so…

Here’s the scoop.

gotnwes.com

250 BeachDem  Jan 7, 2015 11:21:51pm

re: #244 teleskiguy

UpChuck is the laziest internet sleuth out there.

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Did you say lazy? Oh yeah.

251 teleskiguy  Jan 7, 2015 11:22:14pm

re: #249 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Here’s the scoop.

gotnwes.com

I just shared the shit out of that!

wheatdogg in China, everybody!

252 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 11:25:26pm

re: #250 BeachDem

We need to send him a shitload of stuff in French.

253 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 11:26:08pm

re: #251 teleskiguy

Updinging as a big thanks! Let’s see if he catches on and corrects the page.

254 BeachDem  Jan 7, 2015 11:28:45pm

re: #249 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Here’s the scoop.

gotnwes.com

That’s hilarious. Perhaps a map showing the distance between Denver and Colorado Springs (with a goatnwes.com watermark, of course) would be a good enhancement.

You are funny, wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality (But if you add one more hyphen to your name, I’m going to have to hurt you.)

255 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 11:29:28pm

He’s got some article about someone in the Colo Spgs NAACP, but I have to go out and do real world shit. I’ll get to that later.

256 BeachDem  Jan 7, 2015 11:33:04pm

re: #253 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Updinging as a big thanks! Let’s see if he catches on and corrects the page.

Well, he’d have to explain why his “police sources” in Denver had all that to say in the first place, wouldn’t he? And why they would have mentioned it not being brought up at roll call, since it happened 70 fucking miles away.

He’ll just do what the rest of the wingers do—delete it altogether and pretend it never happened.

257 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 7, 2015 11:34:32pm

re: #256 BeachDem

Well, he’d have to explain why his “police sources” in Denver had all that to say in the first place, wouldn’t he? And why they would have mentioned it not being brought up at roll call, since it happened 70 fucking miles away.

He’ll just do what the rest of the wingers do—delete it altogether and pretend it never happened.

I have a screencap.

258 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 7, 2015 11:38:33pm

re: #243 klystron

I hope Backwoods Sleuth is keeping the pipes warm.

I got a couple hours of sleep, now awake (more or less) for the next six hours or so. Temperature has hit 0F, wind chill -18. Water taps are still dripping (bathroom sink cold water tap is trying to freeze, despite dripping).
Kittehs are having way too much fun with water dripping from the bathtub taps.

My feet are cold.

259 klystron  Jan 7, 2015 11:41:25pm

re: #258 Backwoods_Sleuth

I got a couple hours of sleep, now awake (more or less) for the next six hours or so. Temperature has hit 0F, wind chill -18. Water taps are still dripping (bathroom sink cold water tap is trying to freeze, despite dripping).
Kittehs are having way too much fun with water dripping from the bathtub taps.

My feet are cold.

/provides fluffy slippers

260 BeachDem  Jan 7, 2015 11:41:43pm

re: #257 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I have a screencap.

I had no doubt that you would. But now upchuck is rambling about how he and his staff all have guns (multiple). He is so full of shit, it is hardly even amusing anymore.

261 BeachDem  Jan 7, 2015 11:48:27pm

Wonkette has now picked up on the moronic bill that my moronic rep has proposed

littlegreenfootballs.com

And yet another braintrust has added another wonderful idea.

Lock-N-Load High School
South Carolina Will Learn Your Kids To Love The Second Amendment Proper

wonkette.com

262 Kragar  Jan 8, 2015 12:02:49am
263 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 12:14:14am

re: #239 Kragar

What kind of assistance with the book do you need?

264 Kragar  Jan 8, 2015 12:23:34am

re: #263 Backwoods_Sleuth

What kind of assistance with the book do you need?

Fleshing out the story, helping with the writing, making sure it all fits together. I had worked out the story, plot, characters, everything to make the story, and Obdi had been working with me to turn it into an actual novel. We had been making steady process when his medical stuff started and I haven’t heard from him since summer.

265 Charles Johnson  Jan 8, 2015 12:29:03am
266 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 8, 2015 12:32:28am

re: #265 Charles Johnson

[grumpy cat says no.jpg]

267 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 8, 2015 12:33:30am

A neofascist party sponsored by Putin. Fitting for an NK apologist like Chuck.

268 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 8, 2015 12:35:31am

There is a nice pic of LePen Sr. together with David Duke.

269 Dr Lizardo  Jan 8, 2015 12:36:58am

re: #267 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

A neofascist party sponsored by Putin. Fitting for an NK apologist like Chuck.

Didn’t FN (National Front) get a rather sizeable loan from some Russian bank not long ago? I’m pretty sure I read that somewhere.

In France, thus far, seven people have been arrested in connection to the Charlie Hebdo massacre yesterday - the shooters themselves are still on the run, but one of the seven arrested was the 18 year-old accused getaway driver, who turned himself in to the police.

270 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 8, 2015 12:38:05am

re: #269 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, I meant that loan.

271 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 12:41:28am

re: #264 Kragar

I can’t get the LGF email thing to work.

272 Kragar  Jan 8, 2015 12:44:24am

re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth

I can’t get the LGF email thing to work.

You should just be able to click my name.

273 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 12:46:12am

re: #272 Kragar

You should just be able to click my name.

The verification thing keeps repeating.

Oh wait, just figured it out.
:D

274 klystron  Jan 8, 2015 12:46:50am

re: #272 Kragar

You should just be able to click my name.

I got the box to come up when I clicked on the comment from spy, but the form keeps looping me around.

Although if you have two emails from me now that’s why, since I was trying to test it.

275 klystron  Jan 8, 2015 12:47:13am

re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth

The verification thing keeps repeating.

Oh wait, just figured it out.
:D

Oh good, someone is more awake than me tonight.

276 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 12:52:37am

re: #272 Kragar

email sent

277 Kragar  Jan 8, 2015 12:59:43am

re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth

email sent

Got it, I’ll shoot you a reply with more info tomorrow

278 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 1:03:29am

re: #277 Kragar

Got it, I’ll shoot you a reply with more info tomorrow

OK. I might be sleeping for a while.
:D

279 Varek Raith  Jan 8, 2015 1:06:10am

re: #264 Kragar

Fleshing out the story, helping with the writing, making sure it all fits together. I had worked out the story, plot, characters, everything to make the story, and Obdi had been working with me to turn it into an actual novel. We had been making steady process when his medical stuff started and I haven’t heard from him since summer.

I can help.
Add as many cliched bs as you can.
/

280 Kragar  Jan 8, 2015 1:08:43am

re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth

OK. I might be sleeping for a while.
:D

Its not a rush.

281 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 1:37:37am

Under current regulations, coal companies pay royalties on the first sale to another company after mining coal on federal land. The coal then can be bought and sold multiple times until it reaches a final destination and is sold to an end user, such as a power plant where it is burned for electricity. By building up hundreds of subsidiaries, coal companies have been able to sell to their own companies and partners, allegedly paying royalties based on an artificially low sale price. The CAP analysis presents evidence that captive transactions are common practice in the coal industry and regularly exploited to evade royalty payments and maximize subsidies.

“Increasingly, the major coal companies are selling Powder River Basin coal not on an open market, but to an elaborate network of shell companies that they own and control,” said Matt Lee-Ashley, a Senior Fellow and Director of the Public Lands Project at CAP in a press release. “This gaming of the system is costing federal and state governments millions of dollars in lost royalty payments and giving the Powder River Basin an unfair advantage over other U.S. coal producing regions.”

282 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 1:39:11am
283 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 1:39:14am

re: #280 Kragar

Its not a rush.

I’m not an SF writer, but I got a young friend in Chicago who is. You want her contact info?

284 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 1:47:40am

Now -1F.

blech…

285 Kragar  Jan 8, 2015 2:06:19am

re: #283 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

sure

286 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 2:14:05am

re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth

Coal companies are selling coal to themselves to get more government subsidies

As soon as they figure out how to do that with solar, we will see panels on every rooftop.

287 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 2:44:45am
288 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 3:22:59am

UpChuck is keeping me busy today.

gotnwes.com

289 Bubblehead II  Jan 8, 2015 3:37:16am

Morning Lizards.

290 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 8, 2015 3:40:21am

re: #289 Bubblehead II

Morning Lizards.

Good to see you up and about - means I’m getting close to being done with my night :)

291 Bubblehead II  Jan 8, 2015 3:41:27am

re: #290 William Barnett-Lewis

Good to see you up and about - means I’m getting close to being done with my night :)

Anything to pass on?

292 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 3:45:23am

Good morning

It’s evening on my side of the globe. Two of the Charlie Hegbo attackers are still on the run. The third turned himself in. There was another shooting incident in Paris, leaving a female officer dead.

UpChuck has been busy smearing anyone even vaguely associated with any news event, and confused Denver with Colorado Springs.

293 Bubblehead II  Jan 8, 2015 3:55:17am

bbc.com

11:35

A local television station, BFMTV, reports that the main entrance points to Paris have been blocked by police, and the car with suspects in is believed to be to the west of the city.

294 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 3:58:08am
295 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 4:13:04am

re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth

Paris update 3: Multiple mosques attacked in France after CharlieHebdo.

That’ll show ‘em which culture is superior!!!

/

296 Dark_Falcon  Jan 8, 2015 4:18:18am

re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Stupid and wrong, but predictable. Not the actions people actually fighting Salafist Radical Islam, but those who want to vent their hate and rage at their perceived inferiors. The effect will be to be to gain recruits for the jihadi, for terrorists and insurgents gain when retaliation is random and clumsy. The bigotry of attacking mosques goes without saying, as a grenade attack on a mosque in Le Mans is morally the same as an IED attack on a black church in Birmingham, AL.

297 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 4:35:48am

re: #210 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

An all around jerk-off Max Blumenthal posts this (because, of course, he needs to be a jerk-off on every issue):

Has Blumenthal blamed the attack on Mossad, like some of his compatriots have done?

298 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 8, 2015 4:36:18am

re: #296 Dark_Falcon

Or an NAACP office being bombed in Colorado., just don’t expect Fox or CNN to care.

299 Bubblehead II  Jan 8, 2015 4:38:04am

re: #298 William Barnett-Lewis

Or an NAACP office being bombed in Colorado., just don’t expect Fox or CNN to care.

H/T to Dr. Matt for the retweet.

300 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 4:45:11am

Wingnuts have a meme in which they justify the shooting of Tamir Rice and John Crawford:

301 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 4:47:22am

re: #300 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts have a meme in which they justify the shooting of Tamir Rice:

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Which nicely leaves out the entire context and situation leading up to and following his shooting…

302 Decatur Deb  Jan 8, 2015 4:47:55am

re: #300 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts have a meme in which they justify the shooting of Tamir Rice:

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Trans: “Kill them all, and let our grand jury sort out the innocent.”

303 Dr. Matt  Jan 8, 2015 4:48:05am

re: #300 The Vicious Babushka

But Ohio is an open carry state.

304 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 8, 2015 4:48:51am

re: #300 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts have a meme in which they justify the shooting of Tamir Rice:

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Hmmm. Maybe we shouldn’t allow so many gunz.

305 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 8, 2015 4:49:35am

re: #300 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts have a meme in which they justify the shooting of Tamir Rice:

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Reply is “Survey says oops you’re Incompetent and a murderer.”

Said in your best Richard Dawson voice…

306 Decatur Deb  Jan 8, 2015 4:49:53am

re: #304 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Hmmm. Maybe we shouldn’t allow so many gunz.

And train and pay more competent cops.

307 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 4:53:56am

BUT HOW CAN A COP KNOW WHAT’S A REAL GUN & WHAT’S A TOY GUN?

EASY!!! IF THE PERSON HOLDING THE GUN IS BLACK, SHOOT TO KILL!!!!!!

308 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 8, 2015 5:02:51am

re: #300 The Vicious Babushka

Quick, which one is a 12 year old child?
Oops, too late…he’s dead.

309 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 8, 2015 5:10:24am

re: #252 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

We need to send him a shitload of stuff in French.

And slip in a couple of Hebdo cartoons poking fun at the right as well since he won’t vet them.

310 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 5:11:41am

re: #309 Feline Fearless Leader

And slip in a couple of Hebdo cartoons poking fun at the right as well since he won’t vet them.

311 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 5:12:18am

re: #309 Feline Fearless Leader

And slip in a couple of Hebdo cartoons poking fun at the right as well since he won’t vet them.

The thing is, with Google Translate, he can fake his way through most anything. We need someone who’s really fluent in French — like a native speaker — to exchange tweets with him to see if CCJ really is fluent.

312 Dr. Matt  Jan 8, 2015 5:12:27am

Hopefully Chuck Todd jumps all over this and disqualifies Carson’s presidential campaign:

313 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 5:16:19am

re: #308 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Quick, which one is a 12 year old child?
Oops, too late…he’s dead.

Which one is being held by a customer standing in the toy aisle of a Wal-Mart? Oops, too late…he’s dead!!!

314 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 5:17:30am

re: #311 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

The thing is, with Google Translate, he can fake his way through most anything. We need someone who’s really fluent in French — like a native speaker — to exchange tweets with him to see if CCJ really is fluent.

He has an excuse lined up:

315 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 8, 2015 5:17:47am

Good morning Lizards! 10 F in Center City Philadelphia. Some co-workers staying home, but others have been trickling in heavily bundled up. The native Brazilians especially so. (Was talking with one who is from Salvador, below freezing weather there is something very very rare.)

Feline Overlords are enjoying extra window sill space since I moved all the plants into the center of the room. Better view, but also frost on the windows to sniff at as well.

Less wind than last night, so walking in this is more comfortable even if it is 8-10 degrees colder out.

Time for a 2nd cup of coffee.

316 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 5:21:32am

Mild and rainy and storm warnings out for parts of Germany, tropical storm blowing in by way of the Gulf Stream…

317 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 5:21:52am
318 PhillyPretzel  Jan 8, 2015 5:24:04am

re: #315 Feline Fearless Leader

Since I work outside I used a day off and I am at home today. :)

319 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 5:24:18am

re: #317 The Vicious Babushka

Thank you for reminding us all that Twitter is not the place to discuss a matter as involved and nuanced as this, or basically, anything deeper than where your homies are hanging and what you had for lunch…

320 FemNaziBitch  Jan 8, 2015 5:25:43am

re: #6 bratwurst

If your tent is big enough to include this guy, it is perfectly acceptable to seek a smaller tent.

Or perhaps, look around and realize you ARE in the small tent.

321 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 5:25:44am

Wingnuts still listening to the voices in their heads in their hermetically sealed fact-free universe

322 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 8, 2015 5:27:31am

re: #318 PhillyPretzel

Since I work outside I used a day off and I am at home today. :)

Probably a good idea. I feel sorry for the construction workers across the street since I presume things are a bit miserable, and also a bit more hazardous as well since cold metal surfaces can get you.

I came in wearing a squall jacket and a baseball cap. Then again, I have a fairly short walk and thus can dress lighter than I would if I knew I would be spending a greater amount of time exposed to the elements.

323 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 5:28:12am

re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth

He has an excuse lined up:

Well, he’s either fluent, or rusty. You really can’t be both at once. Fluent means you can code switch without thinking between languages. Rusty means you have to think before speaking/writing.

324 FemNaziBitch  Jan 8, 2015 5:28:18am

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

Somebody is dropping hits of acid

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Like I said yesterday —ALIENS!!!

325 BlueSpotinAL  Jan 8, 2015 5:29:06am

re: #320 FemNaziBitch

Or perhaps, look around and realize you ARE in the small tent.

Scalise can fit in a small tent with David Duke because they don’t need room for baggage.

326 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 5:29:24am

re: #323 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Well, he’s either fluent, or rusty. You really can’t be both at once. Fluent means you can code switch without thinking between languages. Rusty means you have to think before speaking/writing.

“Fluent and rusty” means you are talking out your ass in both languages.

327 FemNaziBitch  Jan 8, 2015 5:30:35am

re: #190 teleskiguy

Hillary Clinton at age 22 was a very pretty woman, IMHO.

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Yes, and she still is.

328 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 5:31:07am

re: #322 Feline Fearless Leader

Probably a good idea. I feel sorry for the construction workers across the street since I presume things are a bit miserable, and also a bit more hazardous as well since cold metal surfaces can get you.

I came in wearing a squall jacket and a baseball cap. Then again, I have a fairly short walk and thus can dress lighter than I would if I knew I would be spending a greater amount of time exposed to the elements.

I used to have an insulated coverall to work on my cars in cold weather. I bet those guys have something similar.

329 Maggie's Pa  Jan 8, 2015 5:31:39am

-15 F At my house in upstate NY this morning.

330 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 8, 2015 5:31:40am

re: #310 The Vicious Babushka

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heh. I have to remember that when I’m trying to make sense out of the mystery of the Trinity ;)

331 FemNaziBitch  Jan 8, 2015 5:32:52am

Ok, I’m not scanning the rest of the posts. I’m barely awake and it’s still freakin’ cold in my part of the world. With snow in the forecast.

332 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 8, 2015 5:34:52am

re: #328 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I used to have an insulated coverall to work on my cars in cold weather. I bet those guys have something similar.

They’re bundled up pretty well from what I can see. But still the cold will start seeping in unless you’re moving around, especially with a wind blowing. Plus, with activity, you can easily start sweating in the coverall and that gets uncomfortable real quickly as well.

In addition to the additional hazards from wearing bulky clothing that may affect your balance, hearing, and maneuverability, cold surfaces (metal, ice, etc.), and the fact that it’s also a potential distraction (e.g. hurrying in order to get out of it.)

333 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 5:39:25am

re: #332 Feline Fearless Leader

They’re bundled up pretty well from what I can see. But still the cold will start seeping in unless you’re moving around, especially with a wind blowing. Plus, with activity, you can easily start sweating in the coverall and that gets uncomfortable real quickly as well.

In addition to the additional hazards from wearing bulky clothing that may affect your balance, hearing, and maneuverability, cold surfaces (metal, ice, etc.), and the fact that it’s also a potential distraction (e.g. hurrying in order to get out of it.)

I don’t doubt it. Not a job I’d like to do, especially in my late middle age.

334 Timothy Watson  Jan 8, 2015 5:40:45am

re: #329 Maggie’s Pa

-15 F At my house in upstate NY this morning.

Down to 9 F here in Virginia, thankfully I’m off today.

335 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 5:40:53am

I am sooo tired…

336 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 5:41:12am

Solzenitsyn wrote in “Ivan Denisovich” that the convicts were not sent out to work at temperatures below minus 40 degrees (which is identical in both F and C)

337 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 5:41:55am

That segment of the I-80 is horrific. I narrowly avoided a 20-car pileup 3 years ago in the same place.

338 Franklin  Jan 8, 2015 5:44:38am

-1 here in Boston. Schools cancelled due to extreme cold. Dog refusing to go outside. How goes it?

339 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 8, 2015 5:47:20am

re: #337 The Vicious Babushka

That segment of the I-80 is horrific. I narrowly avoided a 20-car pileup 3 years ago in the same place.

I-80 through PA is a nice “good weather” road when the rolling terrain is sort of enjoyable to drive through. Outside of that it should be avoided since the same rolling terrain is dangerous in wet/snowy conditions.

And the highway is particularly dangerous in winter. It is also within lake effect snow range of Lake Erie, and often right on the thaw/freeze line and thus more prone to ice than either I-90 to the north or I-70/I-76 farther south.

340 PhillyPretzel  Jan 8, 2015 5:47:20am

Current conditions in NE Philly. Brrrr.
forecast.weather.gov

341 Dr. Matt  Jan 8, 2015 5:50:03am

re: #321 The Vicious Babushka

nationaljournal.com “I strongly condemn the horrific shooting at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris that has reportedly killed 12 people. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this terrorist attack and the people of France at this difficult time. France is America’s oldest ally, and has stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States in the fight against terrorists who threaten our shared security and the world. Time and again, the French people have stood up for the universal values that generations of our people have defended. France, and the great city of Paris where this outrageous attack took place, offer the world a timeless example that will endure well beyond the hateful vision of these killers. We are in touch with French officials and I have directed my Administration to provide any assistance needed to help bring these terrorists to justice.”

342 Bubblehead II  Jan 8, 2015 5:51:20am

re: #338 Franklin

-1 here in Boston. Schools cancelled due to extreme cold. Dog refusing to go outside. How goes it?

Foggy.

Current conditions in Twin Falls, Id.

343 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 5:51:53am

re: #341 Dr. Matt

He did not call it Islamist terror and remind us that the Koran calls on all true Muslims to be terrorists in Allah’s name.

/

344 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 5:53:21am

re: #339 Feline Fearless Leader

I-80 through PA is a nice “good weather” road when the rolling terrain is sort of enjoyable to drive through. Outside of that it should be avoided since the same rolling terrain is dangerous in wet/snowy conditions.

And the highway is particularly dangerous in winter. It is also within lake effect snow range of Lake Erie, and often right on the thaw/freeze line and thus more prone to ice than either I-90 to the north or I-70/I-76 farther south.

I have driven the I-80 from Detroit to New York many times, but now we stay overnight at about the halfway point which is Clarion or Lock Haven.

No more winter drives, though. Next planned visit to NY is in August for my grandson’s Bar Mitzvah.

345 FemNaziBitch  Jan 8, 2015 5:53:58am

re: #337 The Vicious Babushka

That segment of the I-80 is horrific. I narrowly avoided a 20-car pileup 3 years ago in the same place.

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driving in parts of Pennsylvaia are treacherous in the best of conditions!

346 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 8, 2015 5:54:43am

Staying home today. It’s obscenely cold out. Near zero with windchill. F that.

347 FemNaziBitch  Jan 8, 2015 5:54:57am

re: #338 Franklin

-1 here in Boston. Schools cancelled due to extreme cold. Dog refusing to go outside. How goes it?

It helps.

348 Dr. Matt  Jan 8, 2015 5:55:07am

Not sure if this is verified yet:

349 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 5:56:12am

re: #348 Dr. Matt

Not sure if this is verified yet:

It’s been shown on BBC and elsewhere. He left it in the car they were driving.

350 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 5:56:56am

re: #349 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

It’s been shown on BBC and elsewhere. He left it in the car they were driving.

What a moron

351 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 8, 2015 5:57:22am

re: #341 Dr. Matt

Took him too long to say it. Didn’t say ISIS or AlQ. Didn’t say how it was his fault. ////

352 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 8, 2015 5:57:44am

re: #350 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

What a moron

Or a clever move by the Mossad.
///

353 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 8, 2015 5:58:01am

re: #350 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Thankfully.

354 Dr. Matt  Jan 8, 2015 5:59:39am
355 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 8, 2015 6:00:21am

re: #354 Dr. Matt

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Police might have found the ID but CCJ identified the identification by the pixels.

356 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 6:01:11am

re: #349 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

It’s been shown on BBC and elsewhere. He left it in the car they were driving.

FALSE FLAG!!!! TEH MOSSADS STOLED ID CARD OF TEH INNOCENT TO SET HIM UP!!!!!!

357 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 6:01:13am

Yay! Temperature is rising here in the backwoods.
We hit a low of -2 at 6:30 a.m. and now up to zero.
Hoping I can stop worrying about the plumbing soon and finally go to bed.

358 ChuckJager95  Jan 8, 2015 6:01:15am

So this appears to be making it’s way through my ever decreasing list of RWNJ friends:

youngcons.com

SUCH SCIENCE!

359 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 6:01:47am
360 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 8, 2015 6:02:11am

re: #348 Dr. Matt

Seems a bit odd though stranger things have happened. If he’d dropped his wallet I’d buy it. Dropping an ID belonging to someone else might delay investigators.

361 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 6:03:24am

re: #354 Dr. Matt

He’s trying to tie them to the Democrat party and Obama

362 Bubblehead II  Jan 8, 2015 6:03:57am

Question for you Lizards on Facebook. I had to log into my Facebook account in order to post to a local rags comment section. Did I just reactivate/make public my Facebook profile?

363 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 6:05:41am

re: #362 Bubblehead II

Question for you Lizards on Facebook. I had to log into my Facebook account in order to post to a local rags comment section. Did I just reactivate/make public my Facebook profile?

You allowed that comment section to access your Facebook.

364 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 6:06:39am

re: #362 Bubblehead II

Question for you Lizards on Facebook. I had to log into my Facebook account in order to post to a local rags comment section. Did I just reactivate/make public my Facebook profile?

Theoretically, no. The local rag probably uses OAuth to log you in using the FB credentials, so there’s a layer of anonymity between the rag and FB

365 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 8, 2015 6:10:03am

re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth

He has an excuse lined up:

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He’s won all the academic awards all over the American country. //

366 lawhawk  Jan 8, 2015 6:10:32am

Haven’t had a chance to read through all the overnight thread, but there’s some serious bad crazy out there - especially among the right wingers. Chuck Johnson isn’t some outlier. He’s preaching to the choir who think just as he does.

And it’s some sick stuff too. He’s all for ignoring the 1st Amendment when it suits him (banning Muslims from coming to America etc), and his followers go way over the line to calling for genocide - nuking all of them.

I tweeted out a bunch of stuff this morning about how the right wing thinks bombing someone is the solution - more than a few pundits were claiming that this is the result of the US policy not being harsh enough against ISIL.

That’s right folks, if you’re saying that the US hasn’t done enough, what more should be done and be specific. Let’s see that rabbit hole you’re going down towards calling for genocide (and already blocked one for the nuke ‘em all route). If you think that sending multiple airstrikes on a daily basis isn’t enough, or that providing aid to Kurds and Iraq, and carrying out UAV airstrikes against Islamic terror groups all over the Middle East and South Asia to go after ISIL, AQ in Yemen, AQ affiliates in South Asia, and Taliban forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan are chump change, then you’re clearly not paying attention.

And that’s really what this is all about; media outlets feed a steady stream of pundits who don’t know what they’re talking about and misinforming the public about what is going on - that Muslims are the predominant target of Islamic terrorists the world over, and that the attacks on the West are increasingly rare. They’re not completely prevented (no one ever is), but the threat is far less than say in Islamabad or Karachi, let alone Nigeria, where Boko Haram runs rampant and slaughters kids in schools and teachers on a regular basis (that’s a tactic shared by LeT and other Taliban elements in Pakistan too - go after soft targets rather than military).

Or, you get the “Europe brought this on itself for letting Muslims immigrate”. Ummm, wrong again. Muslims were among the victims here again too - one of the editors was Muslim as was one of the policemen gunned down in cold blood.

But if you want to play underlying sources, how about autocratic regimes in the ME that export their extremists, courtesy of petrodollars from the US and the West, or colonialism that split up the ME in the first place, or the Ottoman Empire whose decadence and failings influenced the rise of Islamic extremist thought as a way to restore the grandeur of the Islamic caliphate, or hey, why not go back to the Romans, Babylonians, or Persians.

367 Eventual Carrion  Jan 8, 2015 6:12:09am

re: #348 Dr. Matt

Not sure if this is verified yet:

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At the point in the video of the cop being shot while lying down on the sidewalk, when they were going back to the car, one of the men had dropped something and bent down to pick it up. Maybe it fell out at that point and he didn’t notice it.

368 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 8, 2015 6:12:29am

re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth

I seem to remember awhile back reading something about, I think it was Steel companies, who were making money by effectively just moving their stock around the country from yard to another because they were able to charge the government some kind of transport fees or something every time they moved it.

369 Eventual Carrion  Jan 8, 2015 6:13:14am

re: #349 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

It’s been shown on BBC and elsewhere. He left it in the car they were driving.

Ok. I had read someone speculate about that possibility but had not heard verification that that was where the ID was found.

370 Bubblehead II  Jan 8, 2015 6:13:46am

re: #363 The Vicious Babushka

re: #364 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Thanks. I had thought I deactivated that account a while back and was surprised when it actually logged me in. Guess I’m stuck with it.

371 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 6:14:10am

re: #368 Eclectic Cyborg

I seem to remember awhile back reading something about, I think it was Steel companies, who were making money by effectively just moving their stock around the country from yard to another because they were able to charge the government some kind of transport fees or something every time they moved it.

The Aluminum Shuffle

372 lawhawk  Jan 8, 2015 6:14:40am

Seriously, WTF. There are more cops killed every year in the US than killed in the Charlie Hebdo attack. The homicide rate in US is 4.7 per 100k versus 1.0 per 100k in France. We’ve got a huge problem with firearms, and Loesch and the rest of the gun fetishists see nothing wrong with this - or that more firearms can’t solve. When all you see is guns, the only solution is even more guns.

The right wing’s debasement continues to shine through.

373 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 6:15:02am

re: #367 Eventual Carrion

At the point in the video of the cop being shot while lying down on the sidewalk, when they were going back to the car, one of the men had dropped something and bent down to pick it up. Maybe it fell out at that point and he didn’t notice it.

I’m still wondering what the deal was with what looked like a pair of shoes on the pavement right next to the open passenger side door of their car.

374 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 6:15:29am

re: #370 Bubblehead II

Thanks. I had thought I deactivated that account a while back and was surprised when it actually logged me in. Guess I’m stuck with it.

Deactivate is not the same as delete.

375 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 8, 2015 6:15:56am

re: #348 Dr. Matt

How soon until some aspiring wingnut Photoshops that with Obama’s headshot?

376 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 8, 2015 6:17:31am

re: #371 The Vicious Babushka

The Aluminum Shuffle

That’s it! Thanks VB, you rock!

377 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 8, 2015 6:18:13am

re: #374 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Deactivate is not the same as delete.

That’s the thing about the internet. Once you remove something…is it ever truly deleted?

378 FemNaziBitch  Jan 8, 2015 6:18:42am

Rare Butterfly is Half Male, Half Female

379 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 8, 2015 6:20:06am

re: #373 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m still wondering what the deal was with what looked like a pair of shoes on the pavement right next to the open passenger side door of their car.

I haven’t looked at the video. But if it was a well-prepared attack they might have worn shoes and then dropped them before entering the car to reduce evidence traces - especially if they might have stepped in blood, glass, or something else that could be easily connected to the attack site.
(Just thinking aloud here for the most part, but part of the logistics of such an operation is minimizing leads in getting traced.)

380 ObserverArt  Jan 8, 2015 6:20:32am

re: #335 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I am sooo tired…

GooBrrrddd Morbrrrrnning.

See that -8 right there in the south/middle of Ohio? That would be Coolumbus.

Hopefully you got through the night and will get through today with no frozen water pipes.

381 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 6:20:57am

re: #379 Feline Fearless Leader

I haven’t looked at the video. But if it was a well-prepared attack they might have worn shoes and then dropped them before entering the car to reduce evidence traces - especially if they might have stepped in blood, glass, or something else that could be easily connected to the attack site.
(Just thinking aloud here for the most part, but part of the logistics of such an operation is minimizing leads in getting traced.)

They were spotted at a gas station, so they’re not exactly Jason Bourne.

382 FemNaziBitch  Jan 8, 2015 6:21:10am
383 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 6:21:16am

re: #378 FemNaziBitch

Rare Butterfly is Half Male, Half Female

That is not the work of the Lord! It is an abomination!!! Burn it!!!!

/

384 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 8, 2015 6:21:53am

re: #370 Bubblehead II

Thanks. I had thought I deactivated that account a while back and was surprised when it actually logged me in. Guess I’m stuck with it.

I have been trying to get Eprey to delete my account for years (since they forced the use of the Paypal thieves). I still get crap from them about that account. I expect that would be the case with Facebook too.

385 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 8, 2015 6:21:57am

re: #382 FemNaziBitch

And everybody should believe my Faith or else!

386 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 6:22:22am

re: #382 FemNaziBitch

Preach all you want. Finances can be objectively measured, faith cannot.

387 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 6:24:20am

re: #380 ObserverArt

GooBrrrddd Morbrrrrnning.

See that -8 right there in the south/middle of Ohio? That would be Coolumbus.

Hopefully you got through the night and will get through today with no frozen water pipes.

Temperature here is now up to 1F and the water pipes are doing good so far. (fingers crossed!) Kittehs are having too much fun with the taps running in the bathroom.

388 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 6:25:09am

I learned today from the BBC that French law prohibits the census to ask a person’s religious affiliation or ethnic background. So French RWNJs can overinflate the number of Muslims and no one can contradict them

389 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 6:26:17am

re: #388 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I learned today from the BBC that French law prohibits the census to ask a person’s religious affiliation or ethnic background. So French RWNJs can overinflate the number of Muslims and no one can contradict them

Nor are these guys going to address France’s colonial history in Africa and the Muslim world.

390 FemNaziBitch  Jan 8, 2015 6:26:33am
391 ObserverArt  Jan 8, 2015 6:26:35am

re: #372 lawhawk

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Seriously, WTF. There are more cops killed every year in the US than killed in the Charlie Hebdo attack. The homicide rate in US is 4.7 per 100k versus 1.0 per 100k in France. We’ve got a huge problem with firearms, and Loesch and the rest of the gun fetishists see nothing wrong with this - or that more firearms can’t solve. When all you see is guns, the only solution is even more guns.

The right wing’s debasement continues to shine through.

Dana Lowsch knows all about insensitivity and insanity.

392 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 8, 2015 6:26:49am

re: #382 FemNaziBitch

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As someone who tries to be a Christian, I have to say that I feel that Mike Huckabee is the personification of everything wrong with Christianity in America. A 24 k example of what the cheap grace of pretending to believe so that you don’t actually have to _do_ what Christ told us to do. Feh.

394 Franklin  Jan 8, 2015 6:28:55am

re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

He did not call it Islamist terror and remind us that the Koran calls on all true Muslims to be terrorists in Allah’s name.

/

The true Koran? Are those the ones strewn along the southern border with the prayer rugs?? //

395 Dr. Matt  Jan 8, 2015 6:29:49am

re: #391 ObserverArt

Dana Lowsch knows all about insensitivity and insanity.

Shouldn’t she be fantasizing about squatting over them and taking a piss?

396 Franklin  Jan 8, 2015 6:30:17am

re: #347 FemNaziBitch

It helps.

Ooooh! I like! He refuses to wear a sweater/jacket. Just won’t budge with it on. H’e a tiny yorkie about 8 lbs so no fat to keep him warm!

397 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 6:30:33am

I see Dana Loesch has endorsed the Most Disgusting Right Wing Tweet On The Paris Terrorist Attack

398 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 8, 2015 6:31:11am

re: #397 The Vicious Babushka

But everybody else should take down their tweets if they offend Dana. /

399 ObserverArt  Jan 8, 2015 6:31:40am

re: #387 Backwoods_Sleuth

Temperature here is now up to 1F and the water pipes are doing good so far. (fingers crossed!) Kittehs are having too much fun with the taps running in the bathroom.

It’s a heat wave!!!

Just checked, now -3° with 10 mph winds, so it now feels like -18°.

But, we will get to 18° today which is a few degrees warmer than yesterday and it is predicted to be 16° for the low tonight. I’ll take it.

400 FemNaziBitch  Jan 8, 2015 6:32:10am

re: #386 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Preach all you want. Finances can be objectively measured, faith cannot.

I think the Dalai Lama had something to say about hunger and faith. Something about basic needs being met …

401 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 6:33:15am

re: #398 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

But everybody else should take down their tweets if they offend Dana. /

Every time I see that photo she uses in her Twitter avi I wonder why she doesn’t get treatment for her severe scoliosis.

Then I realize that’s just a shitty Photoshop to make her look “hot”

402 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 6:34:02am

re: #400 FemNaziBitch

I think the Dalai Lama had something to say about hunger and faith. Something about basic needs being met …

That is the philosophy behind Catholic Revolution Theology as well.

403 FemNaziBitch  Jan 8, 2015 6:35:17am

Dalai Lama

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.
The New York Times (12 November 2005).

404 ObserverArt  Jan 8, 2015 6:36:26am

re: #392 William Barnett-Lewis

As someone who tries to be a Christian, I have to say that I feel that Mike Huckabee is the personification of everything wrong with Christianity in America. A 24 k example of what the cheap grace of pretending to believe so that you don’t actually have to _do_ what Christ told us to do. Feh.

Love the way you worded that William. “Tries to be a Christian” is the way to go about it. Huckabee, as you are saying, already thinks he is and he is ‘saved’ so he can go on being a judgmental ass. It does not work that way.

Even if you are an atheist, you can still work to try to be a good human being. Huckabee even fails that.

405 darthstar  Jan 8, 2015 6:37:35am
406 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 6:37:41am

Jon Stewart is the first person I want to hear.

407 darthstar  Jan 8, 2015 6:38:47am
408 ObserverArt  Jan 8, 2015 6:39:07am

re: #400 FemNaziBitch

I think the Dalai Lama had something to say about hunger and faith. Something about basic needs being met …

But the Dalai Lama is not a Christian…so he is disqualified.

/

409 FemNaziBitch  Jan 8, 2015 6:39:12am
410 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 6:39:59am

re: #409 FemNaziBitch

Demoted Catholic cardinal: ‘Radical feminists’ are to blame for pedophile priests

Anything but a culture of denial and coverup…

411 thedopefishlives  Jan 8, 2015 6:40:26am

Morning Lizardim from the frozen popsicle wild north country. How go things on this frigid wintry Thursday?

412 FemNaziBitch  Jan 8, 2015 6:40:54am
413 ObserverArt  Jan 8, 2015 6:42:12am

re: #409 FemNaziBitch

Cathy Kaelin @EE_Woman
Follow
Demoted Catholic cardinal: ‘Radical feminists’ are to blame for pedophile priests rawstory.com … #fem2

He needs more demotion. Like right on out the door of the church. Hopefully by boot.

414 Sionainn  Jan 8, 2015 6:43:29am

re: #409 FemNaziBitch

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He needs to be excommunicated, not just demoted.

415 ObserverArt  Jan 8, 2015 6:44:09am

re: #411 thedopefishlives

Morning Lizardim from the frozen popsicle wild north country. How go things on this frigid wintry Thursday?

Just frozen. No artificial or real fruit flavors and no coloring dyes.

416 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 8, 2015 6:44:11am

re: #382 FemNaziBitch

Huckabee scores a twofer by simultaneously blaming the victims and absolving the perpetrators of income inequality. That’s very Christian of you, Mike.

417 b.d.  Jan 8, 2015 6:45:08am

re: #414 Sionainn

He needs to be excommunicated, not just demoted.

Excommunicated from the Catholic Church for being a dumbass sexist bigot? That’s a slippery slope if I have ever have heard of one.

//

418 FemNaziBitch  Jan 8, 2015 6:45:10am

falling asleep, Dogs got me up too early.

bbl

419 darthstar  Jan 8, 2015 6:46:00am
420 Eventual Carrion  Jan 8, 2015 6:46:16am

re: #373 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m still wondering what the deal was with what looked like a pair of shoes on the pavement right next to the open passenger side door of their car.

Thinking on it more I could see this scenario.

Gunman drops wallet/holder out of car in haste to get to the officer that was executed on sidewalk. Returning he picks up bundle/wallet which had hit the ground. ID is dislodged a bit from impact with the ground and falls out when he gets back into car (unnoticed by him in haste). Ditch car with ID still inside. Found by cops and identified.

421 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 8, 2015 6:47:27am

re: #400 FemNaziBitch

I think the Dalai Lama had something to say about hunger and faith. Something about basic needs being met …

Epistle of James, Chapter 2:
“14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”

Yep. It’s a really simple thing to treat everyone else the way you’d like to be treated. So why do these asshats refuse to do so?

422 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 6:48:38am

re: #421 William Barnett-Lewis

Yep. It’s a really simple thing to treat everyone else the way you’d like to be treated. So why do these asshats refuse to do so?

Because they hate themselves and therefore have no problem hating everyone.

423 thedopefishlives  Jan 8, 2015 6:48:45am

re: #421 William Barnett-Lewis

Epistle of James, Chapter 2:
“14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”

Yep. It’s a really simple thing to treat everyone else the way you’d like to be treated. So why do these asshats refuse to do so?

Most of the time, they claim to have read the words but never really did. They just signed on for some of that old-time religion because it’s what everybody around them does, not because they’re genuinely trying to follow the beliefs.

424 darthstar  Jan 8, 2015 6:50:24am
425 darthstar  Jan 8, 2015 6:51:56am

Supposed to get into the low-mid 60s today. Brr.

426 CuriousLurker  Jan 8, 2015 6:53:16am

Oh look—imagine my surprise, this is all the fault of the Jews:

If you look at their Twitter timeline, you’ll see them also trying to use this attack to their advantage and showing what brave defenders of freedom they are by Tweeting the most offensive CH cartoons they can find.

427 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 8, 2015 6:54:01am

re: #423 thedopefishlives

Most of the time, they claim to have read the words but never really did. They just signed on for some of that old-time religion because it’s what everybody around them does, not because they’re genuinely trying to follow the beliefs.

I know. I attend a tiny church in the middle of flyover. We do the best we can with what little we have. Then I turn on a TV and I see rich asshats calling themselves Christians but pissing on the backs of the poor and telling them it is raining. And then I see decent people who actually are doing good calling themselves atheists.

I find it very easy to understand how Atheism has become one of the most holy paths in modern America.

428 CuriousLurker  Jan 8, 2015 6:54:57am

re: #228 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I imagine this is CL :)

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LOL! I love the look on her face.

429 Mike Lamb  Jan 8, 2015 6:57:54am

re: #300 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts have a meme in which they justify the shooting of Tamir Rice and John Crawford:

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That does sound difficult. Now, pray tell, at which police officers were Rice and Crawford pointing their bb guns?

430 thedopefishlives  Jan 8, 2015 6:59:10am

re: #427 William Barnett-Lewis

I know. I attend a tiny church in the middle of flyover. We do the best we can with what little we have. Then I turn on a TV and I see rich asshats calling themselves Christians but pissing on the backs of the poor and telling them it is raining. And then I see decent people who actually are doing good calling themselves atheists.

I find it very easy to understand how Atheism has become one of the most holy paths in modern America.

I attend a medium-sized church in the heart of the western suburbs right now, but my previous church was one of the megachurches in the area. When the pastor spoke about how he was making a great personal sacrifice by giving up the church jet to help pay the bills, I realized just how out of touch with Christianity the place really was. I think of these “Christian” right-wing nutjobs as just the type of people who eagerly sign on to that Prosperity Gospel type of religion, all in the name of selfish advancement.

431 KerFuFFler  Jan 8, 2015 6:59:13am

re: #210 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

An all around jerk-off Max Blumenthal posts this (because, of course, he needs to be a jerk-off on every issue):

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The problem is, of course, that Blumenthal ignores the context.
The context was a publication by a far-right rag Minute of a photo of Taubira with a caption about a banana, a usual racist trope. The Minute tried to defend themselves by referencing Charlie Hebdo, saying, no one gets offended about their covers. CH’s response:

An unequivocal condemnation of the racist photo. So what about this cartoon? This was juxtaposed in a 2013 edition of CH with the aforementioned Minute photo. The original was “the 1st degree”, this one was the “2nd degree”, or, “what they really mean”. Note the symbol of the National Front on the cartoon and the caption which satirizes this group, in effect calling them racists. This cartoon basically shows the minister through the eyes of the far right.
That’s right, Blumenthal turned CH’s condemnation of racism into an expression of racism. On the day of the murder.

It’s nice to know that Hebdo sought to fight racism. Clearly this image was one such effort. But I have to say that several of his depictions of Arabs look startlingly like the ones of Jews nazis put in their propaganda with grossly enlarged hook noses. I find the bulk of his stuff repellent. No one should be killed over it, but I am sorry it has enough of a market to keep it funded. I am sure the right wingers who are frothing at the mouth with anger at all Muslims just love those horrid images.

432 Mike Lamb  Jan 8, 2015 6:59:29am

re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth

He has an excuse lined up:

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Chuck took the French SATs?

433 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 7:00:28am

re: #432 Mike Lamb

Chuck took the French SATs?

And flunked, so he ended up a Claremont McKenna. //

434 Dr Lizardo  Jan 8, 2015 7:00:55am

re: #388 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I learned today from the BBC that French law prohibits the census to ask a person’s religious affiliation or ethnic background. So French RWNJs can overinflate the number of Muslims and no one can contradict them

I recall reading that somewhere - it has to do with laïte, the French concept of secularism.

Thus, French RWNJ’s can claim THERE’S 100 BAZILLION MUSLIMS IN FRANCE!! pretty much with impunity.

435 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 7:01:03am

re: #431 KerFuFFler

It’s nice to know that Hebdo sought to fight racism. Clearly this image was one such effort. But I have to say that several of his depictions of Arabs look startlingly like the ones of Jews nazis put in their propaganda with grossly enlarged hook noses. I find the bulk of his stuff repellent. No one should be killed over it, but I am sorry it has enough of a market to keep it funded. I am sure the right wingers who are frothing at the mouth with anger at all Muslims just love those horrid images.

I do not recall CH promoting an ideology that called for the eradication of all Muslims. That is where any comparison of those caricatures with Nazi imagery must end.

436 KerFuFFler  Jan 8, 2015 7:06:00am

re: #435 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I do not recall CH promoting an ideology that called for the eradication of all Muslims.

I did not say that he did. But some of his depictions of Arabs seem to be inspired by racial animus. Depicting people in such an intentionally ugly and exaggerated manner comes across as hateful. Look at the cartoon of the Arab saying “100 lashes if you don’t die laughing”. That is a vile depiction of an ethnicity.

437 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 7:07:44am

re: #436 KerFuFFler

I did not say that he did. But some of his depictions of Arabs seem to be inspired by racial animus. Depicting people in such an intentionally ugly and exaggerated manner comes across as hateful. Look at the cartoon of the Arab saying “100 lashes if you don’t die laughing”. That is a vile depiction of an ethnicity.

Do you understand that Charlie Hebdo is not a person, but the name of the magazine?

438 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 7:09:01am

re: #436 KerFuFFler

I did not say that he did. But some of his depictions of Arabs seem to be inspired by racial animus. Depicting people in such an intentionally ugly and exaggerated manner comes across as hateful. Look at the cartoon of the Arab saying “100 lashes if you don’t die laughing”. That is a vile depiction of an ethnicity.

That is one of the reasons that we have free speech: often what we see as “racial animus” is actually intended as a caricature of people who truly hold those views.

Do you think that the people who presented us characters like Alf Garnett or Archie Bunker held those racist views? They wanted to make fun of those very sorts of people.

439 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 7:09:03am

Hebdo is short for ‘hebdomadaire’ - ‘weekly’

440 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 7:14:47am

Some wingnut tweeted this incomprehensible shit:

441 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 7:16:16am

re: #440 The Vicious Babushka

I think he is referring to certain Indian tribes that kept slaves.

442 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 8, 2015 7:18:16am

re: #440 The Vicious Babushka

Some wingnut tweeted this incomprehensible shit:

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Actually very comprehensible. It’s pure Stormfront.

He’s equating blacks with domesticated livestock and Indians with feral animals with the feral being slightly more honorable but still animals. Frankly that’s more despicable than 99% of the right wing’s tweets and that saying something.

443 b.d.  Jan 8, 2015 7:19:10am

re: #440 The Vicious Babushka

Some wingnut tweeted this incomprehensible shit:

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I think he is saying that Indians had guns and shot people who would have tried to enslave them.

That guy watched to many John Wayne movies.

444 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 7:23:10am

re: #442 William Barnett-Lewis

Actually very comprehensible. It’s pure Stormfront.

He’s equating blacks with domesticated livestock and Indians with feral animals with the feral being slightly more honorable but still animals. Frankly that’s more despicable than 99% of the right wing’s tweets and that saying something.

It is incomprehensible to me.

My point in creating that meme is that Patrick Henry used rhetoric about slavery and freedom, which wingnuts love to quote, but choose to ignore the irony that this eloquent “freedom lover” owned other human beings to whom this rhetoric did not apply.

445 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 7:24:27am

IBTIMES has joined the ITS A JUICE CONSPIRISY!!!!1!!!!

ibtimes.co.in

446 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 8, 2015 7:24:32am

re: #421 William Barnett-Lewis

Epistle of James, Chapter 2:
“14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”

Yep. It’s a really simple thing to treat everyone else the way you’d like to be treated. So why do these asshats refuse to do so?

Because the goal is control and power, not justice.
//

447 Eventual Carrion  Jan 8, 2015 7:26:09am

re: #430 thedopefishlives

I attend a medium-sized church in the heart of the western suburbs right now, but my previous church was one of the megachurches in the area. When the pastor spoke about how he was making a great personal sacrifice by giving up the church jet to help pay the bills, I realized just how out of touch with Christianity the place really was. I think of these “Christian” right-wing nutjobs as just the type of people who eagerly sign on to that Prosperity Gospel type of religion, all in the name of selfish advancement.

They should just change to Scientology then. At least they can truthfully claim to be following the teachings of the church leader then rather than have to bastardize the bible to justify their money grubbing.

448 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 8, 2015 7:26:29am

re: #431 KerFuFFler

It’s nice to know that Hebdo sought to fight racism. Clearly this image was one such effort. But I have to say that several of his depictions of Arabs look startlingly like the ones of Jews nazis put in their propaganda with grossly enlarged hook noses. I find the bulk of his stuff repellent. No one should be killed over it, but I am sorry it has enough of a market to keep it funded. I am sure the right wingers who are frothing at the mouth with anger at all Muslims just love those horrid images.

Probably to the point that a Hebdo cartoon is rolled out that gores their particular ox. Since I doubt their entire body of work was just anti-Muslim, there are probably anti-right, anti-left, anti-Catholic, etc. cartoons there as well.

449 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 7:27:17am

FUCK YOU ANTI VAXXERS

450 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 7:27:34am

re: #448 Feline Fearless Leader

Probably to the point that a Hebdo cartoon is rolled out that gores their particular ox. Since I doubt their entire body of work was just anti-Muslim, there are probably anti-right, anti-left, anti-Catholic, etc. cartoons there as well.

yes, that is the point.

451 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 8, 2015 7:30:59am

somebody flinging downdings on the Limbaugh page…

452 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 7:31:43am

re: #450 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

yes, that is the point.

CH skewers everyone, not just Muslims. They’re pretty merciless with Catholics, for example.

453 iossarian  Jan 8, 2015 7:32:45am

re: #435 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I do not recall CH promoting an ideology that called for the eradication of all Muslims. That is where any comparison of those caricatures with Nazi imagery must end.

Two observations:

1) Freedom of speech issues get really complicated. I think the cliched American “100% freedom of speech all the time” position is unhelpful, FWIW.

2) It’ll be really interesting to see how the chips fall with right-wing US commentators in the next couple of days, since CH was fundamentally a left-liberal organ critical of capitalism, corporatism, and religious conservatism in general.

454 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 8, 2015 7:33:45am

re: #452 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

CH skewers everyone, not just Muslims. They’re pretty merciless with Catholics, for example.

When Donohoe hedged yesterday I was pretty sure that CH had taken it’s share of shots at conservative Catholics and The Church in general.

455 iossarian  Jan 8, 2015 7:35:40am

This could be the best article I’ve read about the CH attack so far:

salon.com

Excerpt:

The civil society made possible by Western capitalism is a great accomplishment, and also one that has external costs and consequences we rarely witness. One can believe both things at once. Similarly, the carnage in Paris represents a tiny proportion of the bloodshed inflicted on civilians in the Arab-Muslim world by both foreign military forces and Islamic militants. At virtually the same time as the Charlie Hebdo attack, 37 people were killed in a terrorist bombing in Yemen, likely the work of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. (Another 26 people died there last week in a suicide bombing.) None of which excuses the criminality of the Paris attack in the slightest, or lessens its horror.

456 Dr Lizardo  Jan 8, 2015 7:36:32am

re: #452 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

CH skewers everyone, not just Muslims. They’re pretty merciless with Catholics, for example.

Yeah, from what I’ve seen of their cartoons at least, they’re pretty equal opportunity in the ruthless satire department.

457 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 8, 2015 7:38:11am

re: #453 iossarian

Two observations:

1) Freedom of speech issues get really complicated. I think the cliched American “100% freedom of speech all the time” position is unhelpful, FWIW.

Good thing KT’s not here to hear you say that … :roll eyes:

458 lawhawk  Jan 8, 2015 7:39:46am

Heh.

Meanwhile, still no real coverage of the bombing of the NAACP offices in Colorado. Pathetic. Domestic terrorists carry out attack, and the media gives a collective shrug. I get that it’s not the top story - that’d be the Charlie Hebdo bombing, but this should be right behind it.

And if you think that the lack of casualties is reason enough to demote it as a story, consider then that the Times Square bombing didn’t result in any casualties either. Yet that was plastered coverage wall to wall.

I can’t quite pin my finger on why. ////11ty

Oh, and I get that some people will point out that the reason that the TS bombing got higher billing was because it was Times Square, and that it was a terrorist who was inspired by Islamic terror groups, but then again given what we know so far of the NAACP bombing it’s likely someone who is inspired by right wing extremists or white nationalists - who are just as much of a threat to people. But because this was in the hinterlands (Colorado), it simply doesn’t rate.

The media in this country sucks. Bleed = it leads.

459 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 8, 2015 7:40:00am

re: #454 Feline Fearless Leader

When Donohoe hedged yesterday I was pretty sure that CH had taken it’s share of shots at conservative Catholics and The Church in general.

He would be a prime target if CH paid any attention to American public figures.

460 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 7:40:03am

re: #453 iossarian

Two observations:

1) Freedom of speech issues get really complicated. I think the cliched American “100% freedom of speech all the time” position is unhelpful, FWIW.

2) It’ll be really interesting to see how the chips fall with right-wing US commentators in the next couple of days, since CH was fundamentally a left-liberal organ critical of capitalism, corporatism, and religious conservatism in general.

If you do not like what a person says, then you are free to speak or act out against it. But not to kill, injure or destroy. That seems pretty clear.

Even the most liberal interpretation of Freedom of Speech draws a line at incitement to crime or violence.

461 iossarian  Jan 8, 2015 7:43:53am

re: #460 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

If you do not like what a person says, then you are free to speak or act out against it. But not to kill, injure or destroy. That seems pretty clear.

Even the most liberal interpretation of Freedom of Speech draws a line at incitement to crime or violence.

My view (which I don’t intend to push on anyone particularly hard) is that this dualism between “speech” and “action” is too neat and doesn’t reflect what happens in the real world well enough. I think there need to be some curtailments on speech, in some cases. Verbal bullying of children and teens would be an example; there are others.

But I will agree that the US position is close to being ideal. In general it’s probably better to err on that side of the line than the other.

462 CuriousLurker  Jan 8, 2015 7:44:27am

re: #448 Feline Fearless Leader

Probably to the point that a Hebdo cartoon is rolled out that gores their particular ox. Since I doubt their entire body of work was just anti-Muslim, there are probably anti-right, anti-left, anti-Catholic, etc. cartoons there as well.

Correct, there are, but as Sergey said in his #135, “Vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity doesn’t help though.” Some of the cartoons were just plain vulgar, unnecessarily so. I found many of them disgusting—not just the ones about Muslims, but the ones about other religions too.

I mean seriously, what’s the point, just to offend? Because that’s all most people belonging to those (religious) groups are going to see—any other message will be completely lost. If the point is to educate or communicate, then they’re doing it wrong. I’m not sure when needless vulgarity began being perceived as brave truth-telling, but I don’t buy it.

463 Dr. Matt  Jan 8, 2015 7:45:39am

Last night at dinner there was a guy sitting behind me wearing an infowars.com t-shirt. Never in my life have I been so tempted to smack someone in the back of the head….but, I resisted because I’m too pretty for jail.

464 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 7:45:42am

re: #461 iossarian

My view (which I don’t intend to push on anyone particularly hard) is that this dualism between “speech” and “action” is too neat and doesn’t reflect what happens in the real world well enough. I think there need to be some curtailments on speech, in some cases. Verbal bullying of children and teens would be an example; there are others.

But I will agree that the US position is close to being ideal. In general it’s probably better to err on that side of the line than the other.

I was talking about adults. We certainly observe restrictions regarding minors.

A lot of humor goes around several corners to make its point, the fact that it offends a few people along the way is irrelevant.

465 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 7:47:32am

re: #463 Dr. Matt

Last night at dinner there was a guy sitting behind me wearing an infowars.com t-shirt. Never in my life have I been so tempted to smack someone in the back of the head….but, I resisted because I’m too pretty for jail.

I was at a biker festival in Germany, some fellow there was wearing a T-shirt covered in total white supremacist text…in English. And, of course, it was shot through with grammatical and spelling errors. I resisted my temptation to approach him with a marker and correct the errors…

466 iossarian  Jan 8, 2015 7:47:35am

re: #462 CuriousLurker

I mean seriously, what’s the point, just to offend? Because that’s all most people belonging to those (religious) groups are going to see—any other message will be completely lost. If the point is to educate or communicate, then they’re doing it wrong. I’m not sure when needless vulgarity began being perceived as brave truth-telling, but I don’t buy it.

I think a big part of America’s unchecked militarism is that it’s become a social taboo to criticize the military at any time, in any place. I think one major point to some people being deliberately offensive is that it keeps open the possibility of being mildly offensive and irreverent for everyone else.

467 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 7:51:42am

re: #462 CuriousLurker

I mean seriously, what’s the point, just to offend?

I find an offensive cartoon a lot less disgusting than a religious leader who tolerates or advocates violence, rape or abuse.

468 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 7:52:16am

IBTimes responds to the Mossad Conspiracy story it published:

469 Decatur Deb  Jan 8, 2015 7:52:24am

re: #462 CuriousLurker

Correct, there are, but as Sergey said in his #135, “Vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity doesn’t help though.” Some of the cartoons were just plain vulgar, unnecessarily so. I found many of them disgusting—not just the ones about Muslims, but the ones about other religions too.

I mean seriously, what’s the point, just to offend? Because that’s all most people belonging to those (religious) groups are going to see—any other message will be completely lost. If the point is to educate or communicate, then they’re doing it wrong. I’m not sure when needless vulgarity began being perceived as brave truth-telling, but I don’t buy it.

Free speech is not always effective speech, is not always wise speech, and is very often not well-mannered speech. Fumbling that can get you killed in Paris, France and Paris, TX.

470 CuriousLurker  Jan 8, 2015 7:53:00am

re: #466 iossarian

I think a big part of America’s unchecked militarism is that it’s become a social taboo to criticize the military at any time, in any place. I think one major point to some people being deliberately offensive is that it keeps open the possibility of being mildly offensive and irreverent for everyone else.

I hear you, but being offensive isn’t the same as being needlessly vulgar, just like there’s a point at which criticism of Islam, Judaism, Christianity, atheism, blacks, hispanics, etc. ceases being such and crosses over into bigotry/racism.

Criticism can be constructive, but I’ve never heard of such a thing as “constructive vulgarity”.

471 lawhawk  Jan 8, 2015 7:53:03am

But remember, the right wing thinks Obama isn’t going after AQ or ISIL and right wing outlets spread this misinformation ad nauseum:

472 iossarian  Jan 8, 2015 7:54:12am

re: #464 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I was talking about adults. We certainly observe restrictions regarding minors.

A lot of humor goes around several corners to make its point, the fact that it offends a few people along the way is irrelevant.

I agree about humor, and it seems we also agree somewhat about balancing the protection of vulnerable people against unlimited speech.

When it comes to adults, that’s where it gets really complicated IMO. There are issues of power imbalance and social injustice which I think are reinforced by unchecked “speech”. Although maybe it would be more accurate for me to say that there are forms of behavior that get characterized as “speech” in the US which I don’t think deserve the same level of protection as actual making-a-noise-via-my-mouth speech.

With freedom of speech also comes the responsibility not to be a dick for no good reason, which is fundamentally the problem, isn’t it?

473 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 7:57:09am

re: #470 CuriousLurker

I hear you, but being offensive isn’t the same as being needlessly vulgar, just like there’s a point at which criticism of Islam, Judaism, Christianity, atheism, blacks, hispanics, etc. ceases being such and crosses over into bigotry/racism.

Criticism can be constructive, but I’ve never heard of such a thing as “constructive vulgarity”.

Some comedians rely excessively on vulgarity. If they are talented, you say “OK it’s gross but it made me LOL” If they are less talented you say “How disgusting”

There are some comedians (no names) who are excessively vile and disgusting and racist and hateful because they lack the talent to be actually funny.

474 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 8, 2015 7:57:28am

re: #471 lawhawk

But remember, the right wing thinks Obama isn’t going after AQ or ISIL and right wing outlets spread this misinformation ad nauseum:

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There are three reasons for that:
1) We haven’t issued a deck of cards with ISIS and AQ luminaries on them.
2) Halliburton hasn’t been issued any contracts to rebuild something that we blew up.
3) We haven’t killed the #2 man in either organization several dozen times.

475 Dr Lizardo  Jan 8, 2015 7:57:42am

re: #471 lawhawk

There was a suicide bombing attack in Istanbul the other day. At first, a far-left group, the DHKP/C, took credit for it. However, it’s now turned out that the bomber was a Russian woman, a Russian national who entered Turkey in June 2014 as a tourist and she may have been one of the Chechen “black widows” - the Turks are currently exploring that angle.

hurriyetdailynews.com

476 iossarian  Jan 8, 2015 7:59:38am

re: #470 CuriousLurker

I hear you, but being offensive isn’t the same as being needlessly vulgar, just like there’s a point at which criticism of Islam, Judaism, Christianity, atheism, blacks, hispanics, etc. ceases being such and crosses over into bigotry/racism.

Criticism can be constructive, but I’ve never heard of such a thing as “constructive vulgarity”.

That’s where context is everything. In context, CH were always attacking the leaders of groups that they saw as exerting various forms of social or physical oppression on people. At some point, though, that starts to grate if the person doing the attacking isn’t closely connected enough to the actual oppressed groups. That’s the whole “they may be assholes but they’re our assholes” thing.

477 CuriousLurker  Jan 8, 2015 8:00:39am

re: #467 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I find an offensive cartoon a lot less disgusting than a religious leader who tolerates or advocates violence, rape or abuse.

So do I. Was there some point at which I implied otherwise?

If free speech grants people the right to offend, then it also grants people the right to say they’re offended, doesn’t it? What would be the point of being offensive in the first place if it didn’t provoke?

478 CuriousLurker  Jan 8, 2015 8:01:56am

re: #469 Decatur Deb

Free speech is not always effective speech, is not always wise speech, and is very often not well-mannered speech. Fumbling that can get you killed in Paris, France and Paris, TX.

I get that and I agree, but free speech also works both ways.

479 Decatur Deb  Jan 8, 2015 8:02:26am

re: #477 CuriousLurker

…snip

What would be the point of being offensive in the first place if it didn’t provoke?

Sometimes being a dick becomes a lifestyle.

480 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 8, 2015 8:03:38am

A quick OT:

Is it wrong to want to throw into the nearest river people who paint perfectly good antique and vintage furniture pastel colors and then “distress” the result?

481 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 8, 2015 8:03:43am

Good night all, see you in 8 or so hours.

482 Dr. Matt  Jan 8, 2015 8:04:44am

re: #469 Decatur Deb

Free speech is not always effective speech, is not always wise speech, and is very often not well-mannered speech. Fumbling that can get you killed in Paris, France and Paris, TX.

A RWNJ should walk into a biker bar and start calling the patrons “fat hick rednecks who drive POS American-made bikes”….see how well that “free speech” work out for them.

483 lawhawk  Jan 8, 2015 8:05:19am

re: #480 Higgs Boson’s Mate

A quick OT:

Is it wrong to want to throw into the nearest river people who paint perfectly good antique and vintage furniture pastel colors and then “distress” the result?

Watching Flea Market Flip? /

484 lawhawk  Jan 8, 2015 8:05:24am
485 Dr. Matt  Jan 8, 2015 8:06:03am

Very good news: Feds Subpoena Christie’s Reelection Campaign

486 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 8:06:06am

re: #482 Dr. Matt

A RWNJ should walk into a biker bar and start calling the patrons “fat hick rednecks who drive POS American-made bikes”….see how well that “free speech” work out for them.

There is a reason PETA avoids confronting leather-clad bikers.

487 CuriousLurker  Jan 8, 2015 8:06:45am

Okay, time to get some work done. BBL.

488 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 8:07:25am

re: #482 Dr. Matt

A RWNJ should walk into a biker bar and start calling the patrons “fat hick rednecks who drive POS American-made bikes”….see how well that “free speech” work out for them.

In an ideal world, the biker gentlemen there would sit down at a table and take him to task for his choice of language and attempt to discern in civilized accord why he is so unfairly judging their lifestyle choice of motorized transport.

In the real world, however, he would be dog meat…

489 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 8, 2015 8:07:57am

re: #483 lawhawk

Watching Flea Market Flip? /

Never have. I’ve been searching for waterfall-style furniture for years. I just tried Etsy and was treated to several examples of furniture abuse that should be indictable.

490 Decatur Deb  Jan 8, 2015 8:08:07am

re: #482 Dr. Matt

A RWNJ should walk into a biker bar and start calling the patrons “fat hick rednecks who drive POS American-made bikes”….see how well that “free speech” work out for them.

Don’t blame the victim defunctus.

491 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 8:08:25am

re: #489 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Never have. I’ve been searching for waterfall-style furniture for years. I just tried Etsy and was treated to several examples of furniture abuse that should be indictable.

Alas, furniture hath no voice…

492 Decatur Deb  Jan 8, 2015 8:09:11am

re: #491 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Alas, furniture hath no voice…

My dresser has a tongue and grooves.

493 iossarian  Jan 8, 2015 8:11:30am

re: #492 Decatur Deb

My dresser has a tongue and groove.

It would go well next to my rocking chair.

494 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 8:16:11am

OUTRAGE!!!! SPITTLE!!! FROTH!!!!

495 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 8, 2015 8:19:05am

re: #485 Dr. Matt

Very good news: Feds Subpoena Christie’s Reelection Campaign

Witch hunt!

496 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 8, 2015 8:20:02am

Speaking as a Christian, I think there are a lot more similarities between Christian ideology and Muslim ideology than most Christians care to admit. I don’t believe either religion is at its heart violent. It’s what the believers twist it into that causes problems.

497 #FergusonFireside  Jan 8, 2015 8:20:07am

re: #484 lawhawk

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Woah.

498 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 8, 2015 8:20:55am

Of course I’m not sure I’d even post such a thing to my FB because many of my Christian friends would probably go into “Christianity is NOT ISLAM!” overdrive and overload me with all this supposed “information” showing the two are radically different.

499 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 8:21:48am

SMH

500 Franklin  Jan 8, 2015 8:22:19am

re: #494 The Vicious Babushka

Is this an implication that perhaps the TAX PAYERS bore the cost of a teenage girls rap tshirt?

501 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 8, 2015 8:22:23am

Starting to think these guys were on to something…

502 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 8:23:05am

Dear Ben:

“Comedy Central” is a privately owned venue that has the right to decide their own content.

503 Franklin  Jan 8, 2015 8:23:22am

re: #499 The Vicious Babushka

He just doesn’t get it. If CC decided to air that episode, Stewart would have equally said (or atleast thought) Heh, It’s their right.

504 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 8, 2015 8:23:39am

re: #494 The Vicious Babushka

Oh, yes we got lots and lots a’ trouble.
I’m thinkin’ of the kids in the knickerbockers,
Shirt-tail young ones, peekin’ in the pool
Hall window after school, ya got trouble, folks!
Right here in River City.
Trouble with a capital “T”
And that rhymes with “P” and that stands for pool!

505 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 8:24:10am

re: #500 Franklin

Is this an implication that perhaps the TAX PAYERS bore the cost of a teenage girls rap tshirt?

The word “unemployed” implies that the child is a MOOCHING MOOCHER LIKE HER MOTHER MOOCHELLE!!!!11!!!!!

506 lawhawk  Jan 8, 2015 8:25:03am

Barbara Boxer will not run for reelection in 2016.

A Message from Barbara Boxer

507 Decatur Deb  Jan 8, 2015 8:25:39am

re: #505 The Vicious Babushka

The word “unemployed” implies that the child is a MOOCHING MOOCHER LIKE HER MOTHER MOOCHELLE!!!!11!!!!!

In a properly ordered society, there would be work for First Children at the coal tipples.

508 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 8, 2015 8:26:11am

re: #506 lawhawk

Barbara Boxer will not run for reelection in 2016.

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Well, we do need some new blood from CA. I just wish it was Feinstein who was retiring. Boxer hasn’t been bad.

509 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 8:26:30am

The problem is not with artists and authors performing/publishing offensive content or venues not allowing it, the problem is with MURDEROUS ASSHOLES WHO THINK IT’S OK TO KILL PEOPLE WHO PERFORM/PUBLISH CONTENT THEY DON’T LIKE.

How difficult is that to comprehend?

510 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 8, 2015 8:27:37am
MURDEROUS ASSHOLES WHO THINK IT’S OK TO KILL PEOPLE WHO PERFORM/PUBLISH CONTENT THEY DON’T LIKE.

Reposting with emphasis to drive the point home.

511 Franklin  Jan 8, 2015 8:28:02am

I’m still trying to figure out exactly what about the rap group Pro Era makes them anti-cop?

Is it this?

They ran around the park—Steez in the panda mask that he would later wear in the video for “Survival Tactics,” and Sanchez in a ski mask—screaming “Stop stop-and-frisk!” and “Fuck police” at the cops, according to Sanchez.

Source: thefader.com

I mean, yeah. Young black males get shafted by the system that was designed to shaft them. Speak out via the platform they created (rap collective) about getting the shaft. Sounds logical to me. Doesn’t make you anti-cop.

512 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 8:28:16am

re: #507 Decatur Deb

In a properly ordered society, there would be work for First Children at the coal tipples.

YOONYUNS TOOK THESE KIDS JRRBS!!!!1!!!!

513 iossarian  Jan 8, 2015 8:28:40am

Gotta go. Thoughtful commentary and bad puns as always.

514 b.d.  Jan 8, 2015 8:28:40am

re: #506 lawhawk

Barbara Boxer will not run for reelection in 2016.

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I wonder who the 1,200 candidates running for Boxer’s seat will be?

515 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 8:29:43am

STUPIDEST DUDEBRO MEME OF THE DAY

516 Mattand  Jan 8, 2015 8:30:43am

But, you see, we can’t call Bill Maher an Islamophobe because his family voted for JFK.

Seriously, fuck this guy. And I say this as an atheist who thinks humanity needs to ween itself off of religion at this point.

I’ve been watching bigoted behavior in my family for nearly half a century.

Every.

Single.

One of them.

Has themselves convinced they’re not racist/prejudiced, they’re just telling the truth.

EDIT: Changed composition.

517 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 8, 2015 8:31:06am

re: #515 The Vicious Babushka

Forgive my ignorance but who’s the dude on the bottom left?

518 b.d.  Jan 8, 2015 8:32:10am

re: #517 Eclectic Cyborg

Forgive my ignorance but who’s the dude on the bottom left?

Pfc Manning

519 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 8:32:19am

re: #517 Eclectic Cyborg

Forgive my ignorance but who’s the dude on the bottom left?

That’s not a dude, that’s Chelsea Manning.

520 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 8, 2015 8:32:59am

re: #518 b.d.

Pfc Manning

OFFS…REALLY?

Honestly, only Peyton Manning and Lebron James in that photo would even be potential candidates to look up to.

Me, I look up to people like Stephen Hawking.

521 Mattand  Jan 8, 2015 8:33:45am

re: #517 Eclectic Cyborg

Forgive my ignorance but who’s the dude on the bottom left?

Formely Bradely, now Chelsea Manning. The person who released the video of the gunship mowing down the Iraqi civilians, along with millions of other classified military documents.

Same smash and grab mentality as Snowden. For every leak that the public needed to see, there were tons others that should have remained classified.

522 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 8, 2015 8:34:42am

re: #506 lawhawk

Barbara Boxer will not run for reelection in 2016.

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Video

Now for the return of Carly Fiorina and her Demon Sheep. Damn it, every wingnut in California will be running because “California’s Conservatives Deserve a Voice.” Those assholes will handily overlook the fact that the state has thrived since we elected a Democratic governor and broke the Republican minority’s stranglehold on the state lege.

523 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 8:35:13am

re: #521 Mattand

Formely Bradely, now Chelsea Manning. The person who released the video of the gunship mowing down the Iraqi civilians, along with millions of other classified military documents.

Same smash and grab mentality as Snowden. For every leak that the public needed to see, there were tons others that should have remained classified.

Snowden and Manning are criminals, period end of sentence. At least Manning stayed to face the consequences. Snowden is just a cowardly snivelling shitbag.

524 Skip Intro  Jan 8, 2015 8:38:06am

re: #522 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Now for the return of Carly Fiorina and her Demon Sheep. Damn it, every wingnut in California will be running because “California’s Conservatives Deserve a Voice.” Those assholes will handily overlook the fact that the state has thrived since we elected a Democratic governor and broke the Republican minority’s stranglehold on the state lege.

Carly wants to be president, not senator. If Kamala Harris runs, it won’t matter what clown the GOP puts up, Game over, GOPers.

525 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 8, 2015 8:44:05am

re: #504 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Oh, yes we got lots and lots a’ trouble.
I’m thinkin’ of the kids in the knickerbockers,
Shirt-tail young ones, peekin’ in the pool
Hall window after school, ya got trouble, folks!
Right here in River City.
Trouble with a capital “T”
And that rhymes with “P” and that stands for pool!

I’ve been introducing some co-workers to Robert Preston’s donation to physical fitness - “Chicken Fat”.*

* - And finding out that quite a few of them were not scarred for life via this song in elementary school, even the ones my age.

526 b.d.  Jan 8, 2015 8:45:01am

re: #522 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Now for the return of Carly Fiorina and her Demon Sheep. Damn it, every wingnut in California will be running because “California’s Conservatives Deserve a Voice.” Those assholes will handily overlook the fact that the state has thrived since we elected a Democratic governor and broke the Republican minority’s stranglehold on the state lege.

Carly Fiorina
@CarlyFiorina

195,855 Real
145,952 Fake

Followers


57%

Audit score

Tweet Re-Audit!

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527 Franklin  Jan 8, 2015 8:45:19am
528 Eventual Carrion  Jan 8, 2015 8:46:46am

re: #501 Eclectic Cyborg

Starting to think these guys were on to something…

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I’m sure they lived the problem, not just heard about it.

529 Dr Lizardo  Jan 8, 2015 8:47:11am

re: #527 Franklin

Sounds like the GOP’s California Clown Car is gonna be filled to overflowing by the end of next week.

530 Franklin  Jan 8, 2015 8:47:53am
531 b_sharp  Jan 8, 2015 8:50:32am

Morning chilly lizards. How goes it in the frigid south?

Up here it’s 3C, sunny with no wind. Beautiful weather.

532 Dr Lizardo  Jan 8, 2015 8:51:50am

re: #530 Franklin

Bugs had it right all those years ago.

533 Franklin  Jan 8, 2015 8:52:01am

Charles, would rearranging the order of the Back, Forward, First, Last buttons to be like the below make sense? I always find myself clicking the Last Page button when I want to move ahead a page.

534 Franklin  Jan 8, 2015 8:53:31am

I was just thinking of the Carpet Bagger™ himself, and here we are:

535 nearly-headless smith25  Jan 8, 2015 8:55:39am

Just showed my class (HS Seniors) PBS Frontline: Death By Fire, the story of the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham. Almost makes me puke that America has so callously executed innocent people.

536 Franklin  Jan 8, 2015 8:57:55am

NO!!! IT”S THE YOONYUNS AND TEACHERS FOR LYFE THT CAUSE BAD STUDENT PERFORMACE!!!!

h/t Gus for the RT

537 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 8, 2015 9:00:17am

re: #536 Franklin

NO!!! IT”S THE YOONYUNS AND TEACHERS FOR LYFE THT CAUSE BAD STUDENT PERFORMACE!!!!

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h/t Gus for the RT

They just want to have a brown bag lunch packed by a stay-at-home mommy

/

538 Franklin  Jan 8, 2015 9:01:44am

Holy shit these people just don’t get it:

That’s how you got here in the first place!!!

539 b_sharp  Jan 8, 2015 9:02:18am

Oh crap, I lied.

It’s -18C and going down, with 60Km winds gusting to 80Kms,

I thought the howling and creaking I heard was all in my mind. Now I find out it’s just the wind outside and the house complaining about it.

540 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 8, 2015 9:03:44am

re: #529 Dr Lizardo

Sounds like the GOP’s California Clown Car is gonna be filled to overflowing by the end of next week.

Oh hell yes! Many of us here are sick to death of a solvent state with the cleanest air it’s had in decades and that lacks the savage beauty of offshore oil rigs. The time is ripe for a bigoted, free market worshiping Real American™ to run for one of our Senate seats.

Even money that when one of the ratweasels finally claws his or her way to the top Dianne Feinstein will issue a statement saying that she could work with that person.

541 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 9:04:20am

Dim “SSMOTI” Jim doesn’t want to give up his crown too easily:

542 b_sharp  Jan 8, 2015 9:06:05am

re: #536 Franklin

NO!!! IT”S THE YOONYUNS AND TEACHERS FOR LYFE THT CAUSE BAD STUDENT PERFORMACE!!!!

[Embedded content]

Back in the ’40s (I think) there was a study done in a few First Nation residential schools that showed depriving kids of nutrition made learning more difficult for them.

Not one of Canada’s prouder moments.

543 darthstar  Jan 8, 2015 9:11:11am

Elvis would be 80 today, and women would be throwing their Depends on stage.

544 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 9:11:49am

re: #543 darthstar

Elvis would be 80 today, and women would be throwing their Depends on stage.

You made me throw up in my mouth.

545 The War TARDIS  Jan 8, 2015 9:15:31am

re: #540 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Color me skeptical that a Republican will be able to get the seat.

Feinstein needs to go though. How she got on the intelligence committee is beyond me.

546 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 8, 2015 9:17:14am

re: #543 darthstar

Elvis would be 80 today, and women would be throwing their Depends on stage.

Now I have to go to the market and buy a jug of Brano.

547 lawhawk  Jan 8, 2015 9:18:21am

re: #541 The Vicious Babushka

Not sure that is SMOTI material; an actual report claimed at least two attacks on or around mosques. The kebab location was near a mosque.

One attack took place at a kebab shop next to a mosque in the town of Villefranche-sur-Saône, north of Lyon.

A blast was reported at about 6am and destroyed the glass frontage of the kebab shop. No injuries were reported.

Hand grenades were reportedly thrown at another mosque in Le Mans, which lies south west of Paris.

Four training grenades were lobbed into the mosque, local media said.

SMOTI material, however, was trying to blame one of the Charlie Hebdo editors for letting the gunmen into the building and then cowering under her desk. I think it was a tweet, but haven’t been able to find it since. Blaming victims. Lovely attitude there.

548 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 9:19:44am

re: #547 lawhawk

Not sure that is SMOTI material; an actual report claimed at least two attacks on or around mosques. The kebab location was near a mosque.

SMOTI material, however, was trying to blame one of the Charlie Hebdo editors for letting the gunmen into the building and then cowering under her desk. I think it was a tweet, but haven’t been able to find it since. Blaming victims. Lovely attitude there.

I’m pretty sure SSMOTI was whipping up his followers to cheer on the attacks.

549 Bubblehead II  Jan 8, 2015 9:20:15am

re: #546 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Now I have to go to the market and buy a jug of Brano.

Would you settle for a bottle of brain bleach instead?

550 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 8, 2015 9:21:47am

re: #549 Bubblehead II

Would you settle for a bottle of brain bleach instead?

[Embedded content]

Lamentably, I have an old brain and it’s not colorfast.

551 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 9:25:04am

[tweet deleted]

552 lawhawk  Jan 8, 2015 9:28:17am
553 BeachDem  Jan 8, 2015 9:31:33am

re: #506 lawhawk

Barbara Boxer will not run for reelection in 2016.

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I wonder if this will encourage Carly to give up her lofty presidential ambitions and dust off the demon sheep campaign for Boxer’s seat.
It went so well the last time…

554 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 9:34:16am

Ben wants to get in on the SMOTI challenge:

555 Franklin  Jan 8, 2015 9:37:18am
556 b.d.  Jan 8, 2015 9:40:45am

re: #554 The Vicious Babushka

Ben wants to get in on the SMOTI challenge:

[Embedded content]

My brain hurts

557 lawhawk  Jan 8, 2015 9:41:34am

re: #554 The Vicious Babushka

So too does Sen. Lindsay Graham.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said the deadly Paris attack on Wednesday shows the U.S. faces a “religious war” with Islamic extremists, and he blamed President Obama’s policies for “getting a lot of people killed.”

Appearing on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom” on Thursday, Graham said Obama’s policies “are making us very much less safe here at home.”

He goes on to quote closing Gitmo (which so far hasn’t happened, and any released recidivists were on Bush’s watch, not Obama’s), claiming a treasure trove of intel, even though there’s no proof that anyone currently in Gitmo has actionable intel, or that treating them in the criminal justice system has harmed US national security, or well, that anyone has actually been killed (other than terrorists eliminated by the ongoing UAV attacks against targets of opportunity or airstrikes against ISIL).

Graham simply flings nonsense up against the wall to see what sticks, and Hewitt and other right wingers lap that crap up.

558 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 9:45:41am
559 b_sharp  Jan 8, 2015 9:46:55am

re: #551 The Vicious Babushka

[tweet deleted]

[tweet unseen]

560 lawhawk  Jan 8, 2015 9:49:37am

Hecka job there Boehner. Consistently attempting to simultaneously dismantle the safety net and further enrich the already wealthy is not something anyone should ever be proud of.

561 Mike Lamb  Jan 8, 2015 9:51:35am

re: #554 The Vicious Babushka

Ben wants to get in on the SMOTI challenge:

[Embedded content]

All hail Ben Shapiro! Sofa King Dumb! Long live the king!

562 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 8, 2015 10:06:29am

re: #499 The Vicious Babushka

Ben works from home right? I can’t imagine him being able to figure out the whole commuting thing, bus schedules, etc.

/

563 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 10:08:03am
564 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 10:14:13am

NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN…

565 Kragar  Jan 8, 2015 10:17:30am

re: #564 The Vicious Babushka

NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN…

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566 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 8, 2015 10:18:03am

re: #564 The Vicious Babushka

I wonder how many of the murdered Parisians, including police, would be alive today had they been armed?

At least as many and the terrorists would have a few more guns. They shot down two armed, trained policemen. Untrained, unprepared people with guns would be dead before they got the safety off.

567 BeachDem  Jan 8, 2015 10:20:43am

Speaking of Colorado Springs (or, in the case of upchuck, Denver):

Zany CO Springs Mayoral Candidate In Jail For Menacing With AR-15, Other Hijinks

According to her Facebook page, Justine Herring is the next mayor of Colorado Springs. According to Colorado Springs law enforcement, Justine Herring is in jail for pointing an AR-15 assault rifle at her boyfriend in a public park, and, in a separate incident, impersonating an ATF agent.

wonkette.com

568 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 8, 2015 10:21:19am

re: #566 Higgs Boson’s Mate

At least as many and the terrorists would have a few more guns. They shot down two armed, trained policemen. Untrained, unprepared people with guns would be dead before they got the safety off.

Don’t interrupt their meme with facts.

I had to stop RT’ing my “No, a bunch of civilians with guns could not have stopped the Holocaust” because no actual history can penetrate the gun-fuckers fact-proof kevlar.

569 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 8, 2015 10:23:34am

re: #568 The Vicious Babushka

Don’t interrupt their meme with facts.

I had to stop RT’ing my “No, a bunch of civilians with guns could not have stopped the Holocaust” because no actual history can penetrate the gun-fuckers fact-proof kevlar.

Derplar. Stronger than steel since it is fact-proof.

570 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 8, 2015 10:24:58am

re: #564 The Vicious Babushka

NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN…

[Embedded content]

*headdesk*

They busted in on an OFFICE MEETING. How many office buildings do you know in America that are filled with people packing heat? Would you really want to work for a company where EVERYONE had a gun at the job site? Because nothing could EVER possibly go wrong…

571 iossarian  Jan 8, 2015 10:26:27am

re: #570 Eclectic Cyborg

*headdesk*

They busted in on an OFFICE MEETING. How many office buildings do you know in America that are filled with people packing heat? Would you really want to work for a company where EVERYONE had a gun at the job site? Because nothing could EVER possibly go wrong…

Srsly. There are people out there who think you should have a machine-gun under your desk at all times, with the safety off.

Just in case!

572 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 8, 2015 10:27:36am

re: #571 iossarian

Srsly. There are people out there who think you should have a machine-gun under your desk at all times, with the safety off.

Just in case!

Imagine having to be the guy who announces layoffs in a company like THAT.

/

573 Ace-o-aces  Jan 8, 2015 10:27:52am
574 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 8, 2015 10:31:46am

re: #573 Ace-o-aces

Little grifter with 5.56mm dildo says what?

575 De Kolta Chair  Jan 8, 2015 10:32:04am

Not sure if this has been mentioned here already so here goes — “Kevin Vickers, the House of Commons sergeant-at-arms who became a household name in October after his confrontation with a gunman in the hallway on Parliament Hill, will be Canada’s next ambassador to Ireland.”

CBC link

576 blueraven  Jan 8, 2015 10:32:39am

Heh

577 iossarian  Jan 8, 2015 10:33:49am

re: #572 Eclectic Cyborg

Imagine having to be the guy who announces layoffs in a company like THAT.

/

Even worse: imagine trying to tell someone in that office “you’re /F/antastic”.

I think you’d have to pre-clear it via email first.

578 lawhawk  Jan 8, 2015 10:38:56am

Because stopping would have accomplished what exactly. Be specific there right wingers? Hoping the President would give apologies for what, that GOPers in Congress continue screwing over veterans in every way imaginable?

Long waits? That’s inexcusable, and heads should roll (and some did). But what exactly has the GOP done to fix the problem? They’re agitating once again for more military action, even as they’re doing whatever they can to undermine the support net for servicemembers once they separate from service. They’ve fought against minimum wage hikes (which also affect service members out of service); they’ve fought pay hikes for in-service, etc.

Far too many in the GOP sees the military as disposable heroes. Out of sight. Out of mind.

579 Ace-o-aces  Jan 8, 2015 10:40:03am
580 lawhawk  Jan 8, 2015 10:45:04am

re: #579 Ace-o-aces

SAT subject test in French? Really, that’s what he’s going to go with? As proof of what? That his logic and reasoning are as screwed up in French as they are in English? Seriously, who cares what his scores on standardized tests are; his logic/reasoning skills are beyond compare - as in godawful.

581 De Kolta Chair  Jan 8, 2015 10:47:41am
582 De Kolta Chair  Jan 8, 2015 10:50:23am

re: #579 Ace-o-aces

Charles C. Johnson @ChuckCJohnson

I took le Bac.

That’s a typo. He meant Mel Blanc, the voice of Pepé Le Pew.

583 Kragar  Jan 8, 2015 10:51:57am

Get your screen shots while its up

584 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 8, 2015 10:52:07am

re: #579 Ace-o-aces

He seems to never have learned the word “poseur.”

585 darthstar  Jan 8, 2015 10:52:30am
586 lawhawk  Jan 8, 2015 10:56:54am

My response, which can’t be printed, will boil down to this:

Because invading Iraq, Afghanistan, and killing tens of thousands of terrorists in both countries (along with UAV strikes and airstrikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere) including the leaders who carried out major terror attacks against the US domestically and overseas, is somehow a sign of weakness?

Since Obama took office, he’s made sure AQ has gone through a steady stream of #2s (something that Chuckles would know all about, but I digress), and OBL was killed on Pakistani soil by US special forces.

587 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 8, 2015 11:13:10am

re: #494 The Vicious Babushka

OUTRAGE!!!! SPITTLE!!! FROTH!!!!

[Embedded content]

588 Eventual Carrion  Jan 8, 2015 12:41:53pm

re: #564 The Vicious Babushka

NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN…

[Embedded content]

Or how many more people that decided to pull a gun on them would have died rather than being left alone to concentrate on the ones they were there to kill.

589 Eventual Carrion  Jan 8, 2015 12:42:14pm

re: #566 Higgs Boson’s Mate

At least as many and the terrorists would have a few more guns. They shot down two armed, trained policemen. Untrained, unprepared people with guns would be dead before they got the safety off.

Exactly.

590 jonhendry  Jan 8, 2015 12:51:59pm

So basically this wingnut is comparing American cops to French terrorists.

591 BeenHereAwhile  Jan 8, 2015 3:18:12pm

re: #180 RealityBasedSteve

Well, I’m off to bed. Going to be manning the “Be A Diver” booth and demo tank at the Nashville Boat Show starting tomorrow. Going to be a very brisk 1 degree or so tomorrow AM. When I was down helping with the setup on Tuesday, they were bringing in the Geico Offshore Racing Boat. (Miss Geico). What a way to turn lots of dollars into noise.

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Offshore boat racing AKA “wallet racing.”


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