Short NYT Documentary From 2006 Shows Charlie Hebdo Staff at Work

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In this short documentary filmed at Charlie Hebdo in 2006, cartoonists and editors design a satirical front page image of Muhammad.

Produced by: Jérôme Lambert and Philippe Picard
Read the story here: nyti.ms
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424 comments
1 prairiefire  Jan 9, 2015 6:14:19pm

Their work will continue! Satire will never die, there at not enough bullets in the world.

2 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 6:17:06pm

re: #1 prairiefire

Their work will continue! Satire will never die, there at not enough bullets in the world.

Agreed, the killing of satirists will prove to be as successful as the killing of terrorists.

3 Charles Johnson  Jan 9, 2015 6:21:19pm

I’m still not sure what to think of Charlie Hebdo (some of the cartoons I’ve seen are pretty extreme), but these people don’t come off as a bunch of hateful bigots at all.

4 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 6:22:44pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

But but but you don’t see, that’s the danger of those white privileged sneaky racists! They look like nice guys!

5 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 9, 2015 6:28:23pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Right! These guys use bigotry (and more) as an emotional tool. Insincerely and deliberately. Hardball satire.

6 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 6:29:39pm

re: #5 Rightwingconspirator

These guys use bigotry (and more) as an emotional tool. Insincerely and deliberately. Hardball satire.

Probably the most hardball I’ve seen in my life. Which is why it’s not my cup of tea. But I get where they’re coming from. It’s a cultural French thing.

7 Teukka  Jan 9, 2015 6:30:51pm

Man, CNN just what little credibility they had with me.

In a segment with AC360 just now, they claimed that Sweden had 55 moslem enclaves which are ‘no-go zones’ for law enforcement.

That is a complete and utter lie. There have been instances where gangs of youth have attacked first responders, but that has always been dealt with switfly and harshly.

8 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 6:31:00pm

Greenwald is fond of quoting old LGF posts, but what about his own?

9 Skip Intro  Jan 9, 2015 6:33:02pm
10 Teukka  Jan 9, 2015 6:33:26pm

re: #7 Teukka

Man, CNN just what little credibility they had with me.

In a segment with AC360 just now, they claimed that Sweden had 55 moslem enclaves which are ‘no-go zones’ for law enforcement.

That is a complete and utter lie. There have been instances where gangs of youth have attacked first responders, but that has always been dealt with switfly and harshly.

And of course, you can’t reply to their tweets.

11 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 6:33:52pm

Thanks for that documentary Charles, it is important to see those people as people.

12 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 6:39:46pm
13 Charles Johnson  Jan 9, 2015 6:40:53pm

re: #8 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Greenwald is fond of quoting old LGF posts, but what about his own?

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The Holland-Greenwald schism seems to be widening.

14 Charles Johnson  Jan 9, 2015 6:41:13pm
15 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 6:41:22pm

re: #13 Charles Johnson

Pox on both of them.

16 Charles Johnson  Jan 9, 2015 6:41:28pm
17 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 6:42:00pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

“Moslems”? The dude’s just aged himself. Oh wait, it’s Roopy! /

18 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 6:43:14pm

“Most white people may be peaceful, but…” (from the Annals of Things Rupert Said Never Ever).

19 gwangung  Jan 9, 2015 6:43:45pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

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Maybe most police are good, but until they recognize and destroy the cancer of of violent, racist cops, they should be held responsible.

20 #FergusonFireside  Jan 9, 2015 6:45:26pm

re: #19 gwangung

Maybe most police are good, but until they recognize and destroy the cancer of of violent, racist cops, they should be held responsible.

If I could ding more, I would.

Such selective responsibility.

Racism hides that way.

21 GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 9, 2015 6:45:40pm

re: #16 Charles Johnson

Didnt even have to think of a reply. It just happened.

22 dog philosopher  Jan 9, 2015 6:47:40pm

re: #17 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

“Moslems”? The dude’s just aged himself. Oh wait, it’s Roopy! /

musslemen

23 Charles Johnson  Jan 9, 2015 6:51:04pm
24 Charles Johnson  Jan 9, 2015 6:52:30pm

Shit’s gettin’ crazy out there tonight.

25 lawhawk  Jan 9, 2015 6:53:48pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

Shit’s gettin’ crazy out there tonight.

Getting? Been cray cray for a real long time now… and no sign of it getting any better.

26 Lancelot Link  Jan 9, 2015 6:54:32pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

Perhaps he should take a look at his own business partners

27 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 6:55:40pm

Collective responsibility is pure fascism.

28 lawhawk  Jan 9, 2015 7:00:18pm

Charles,

Been meaning to ask you for a while about this, but my feed links in your left column don’t seem to be working right. Don’t quite know why, or whether the problem is on my end or not. It’s not a big deal, considering that I don’t blog nearly as much as I used to - and most of the time I’m cross posting with pages here.

29 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 7:02:07pm

Agree or disagree with them, one thing they surely deserve respect for is putting their names under their cartoons. They sure didn’t lack courage.

30 Bubblehead II  Jan 9, 2015 7:03:14pm

Night Lizards. See some of you in the morning.

31 Charles Johnson  Jan 9, 2015 7:05:18pm

re: #28 lawhawk

Charles,

Been meaning to ask you for a while about this, but my feed links in your left column don’t seem to be working right. Don’t quite know why, or whether the problem is on my end or not. It’s not a big deal, considering that I don’t blog nearly as much as I used to - and most of the time I’m cross posting with pages here.

Hmm. Looks like a problem in your blog configuration - the links to posts in your RSS feed are going to URLs that look like this:

lawhawk.blogspot.com…/comments/default

32 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 7:07:23pm

In the interest of world peace I humbly suggest that we dismantle the internets.

33 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 7:09:10pm
34 Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 9, 2015 7:09:26pm

I follow Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) on twitter, and online. Whether or not I agree with her politics or opinions, her writing is always thought-provoking.

Laurie has a vagina, and opinions, at the same time. Of course, our brave Y-Chromosome Warriors out there can’t let this stand, so they send her abuse, rape threats, et cetera.

So she retweets an example of the abuse she’s getting - like this:

The egg account reads like your garden-variety, interchangeable Blowhard Misogynist Shitstain Mk.1. It looks like an account set up specifically to abuse people with.

Now, notice that this guy is copying our Neo-Confederate buddy Bobby S. McStain on the tweets. Why?

Why does somebody want to copy some southern-fried tool like RSM on abuse being sent repeatedly to a vocal, generally left-wing woman from the UK?* She doesn’t even live here. S M H

*I know the answer is, all these a-holes have the same disease, so it’s not unusual to see the same smell of trash waft from different places. But it still seems like a very strange cross-connection. I’ve only heard about RSM from LGF; I know about Laurie from her columns overseas… She’s got a much bigger audience.

35 unproven innocence  Jan 9, 2015 7:11:12pm

re: #32 b.d.

In the interest of world peace I humbly suggest that we dismantle the internets.

On that score, N Korea is nearly there already.

36 klystron  Jan 9, 2015 7:16:17pm

Hooray the plane is in the air.

37 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 7:19:13pm

re: #35 unproven innocence

On that score, N Korea is nearly there already.

And look how peaceful they are.

38 goddamnedfrank  Jan 9, 2015 7:19:35pm

Also, Dude, I don’t think Mussulman is the preferred nomenclature.

39 lawhawk  Jan 9, 2015 7:20:53pm

re: #31 Charles Johnson

Odd, since I’ve been using feedburner for years. I just changed the blogger settings to custom and eliminated the blog comment feed. We’ll see if that helps.

40 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 9, 2015 7:22:11pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

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I’ve always believed that he was only interested in destroying democracy for his far right friends. This is just more of the same.

41 D_Red  Jan 9, 2015 7:22:42pm

Why is Murdoch calling the Mahometans Moslems?

42 Charles Johnson  Jan 9, 2015 7:24:30pm
43 EPR-radar  Jan 9, 2015 7:26:16pm

re: #41 D_Red

Why is Murdoch calling the Mahometans Moslems?

Next up will be wingnut references to Saracens in the Holy Land.

44 lawhawk  Jan 9, 2015 7:26:45pm

re: #41 D_Red

Because while the word is a transliteration, there’s a different connotation to adherents based on the pronunciation. Moslem in Arabic means “one who is evil and unjust” versus Muslim, which means one who submits. So you can see why there’s an issue with what he said.

45 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 7:31:54pm

re: #44 lawhawk

historynewsnetwork.org

According to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies,”Moslem and Muslim are basically two different spellings for the same word.” But the seemingly arbitrary choice of spellings is a sensitive subject for many followers of Islam. Whereas for most English speakers, the two words are synonymous in meaning, the Arabic roots of the two words are very different. A Muslim in Arabic means”one who gives himself to God,” and is by definition, someone who adheres to Islam. By contrast, a Moslem in Arabic means”one who is evil and unjust” when the word is pronounced, as it is in English, Mozlem with a z.

46 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 7:32:31pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

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I hope that the only thing his loved ones let Rupert run these days is his Twitter account.

47 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 9, 2015 7:36:11pm

re: #44 lawhawk

Because while the word is a transliteration, there’s a different connotation to adherents based on the pronunciation. Moslem in Arabic means “one who is evil and unjust” versus Muslim, which means one who submits. So you can see why there’s an issue with what he said.

At least he didn’t refer to them as “Musselmen.”

48 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 7:39:51pm

Fuck this shit.

49 Eventual Carrion  Jan 9, 2015 7:42:55pm

re: #47 Higgs Boson’s Mate

At least he didn’t refer to them as “Musselmen.”

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen ; and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Mohammedan] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

50 Gus  Jan 9, 2015 7:43:51pm

re: #48 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Fuck this shit.

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Almost child like.

51 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 7:43:56pm

If you’re using the death of the cartoonists as a cudgel against an average Muslim, you’re an atrocious human being.

52 jaunte  Jan 9, 2015 7:44:18pm

The anti-fascist loyalty test, for people with no sense of irony.

53 jaunte  Jan 9, 2015 7:45:57pm

“We must stand as one to prove our independence!”

54 Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 9, 2015 7:46:33pm

re: #45 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I had no idea. “Stuff they don’t tell you in school”.

I’m playing a word game: Imagine if there were two Arabic words for “European” - “White” and “Twat”. They sound almost alike!

55 Eventual Carrion  Jan 9, 2015 7:47:58pm

re: #53 jaunte

“We must stand as one to prove our independence!”

“Be unique just like everyone else”

56 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 7:49:53pm

Rupert Murdoch is a mozlem.

57 Eventual Carrion  Jan 9, 2015 7:53:10pm

re: #55 Eventual Carrion

“Be unique just like everyone else”

I had to look up where I got that paraphrase. Margaret Mead.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

58 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 7:54:22pm

re: #56 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Rupert Murdoch is a mozlem.

Rupert Murdoch will soon be in a mausoleum*.

*(due to natural causes because he is 3,000 years old, back off hall monitors)

59 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 7:55:09pm

re: #58 b.d.

He’s a Lich King, of course he has a mausoleum.

60 Gus  Jan 9, 2015 7:55:28pm

re: #56 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Rupert Murdoch is a mozlem.

MOOZLAMIC RAY GUNS.

61 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 7:57:35pm

re: #60 Gus

MOOZLAMIC RAY GUNS.

A mooze once byt my sister…

62 goddamnedfrank  Jan 9, 2015 7:57:37pm
63 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 7:59:07pm

re: #53 jaunte

“We must stand as one to prove our independence!”

Every day the same thing, variety, variety, variety.
64 b_sharp  Jan 9, 2015 8:13:46pm

This thread needs CPR.

65 klystron  Jan 9, 2015 8:15:00pm

I’m hungry.

66 b_sharp  Jan 9, 2015 8:15:15pm

re: #65 klystron

I’m hungry.

I’m tired.

67 klystron  Jan 9, 2015 8:15:33pm

re: #66 b_sharp

I’m tired.

Go to bed?

68 #FergusonFireside  Jan 9, 2015 8:15:57pm

re: #64 b_sharp

This thread needs CPR.

huff huff blow huff huff blow huff huff blow

69 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 8:16:09pm

I’m.

70 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 8:17:38pm

DEATH PANEL SAYS WHAT?

71 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 8:18:45pm

re: #70 b.d.

DEATH PANEL SAYS WHAT?

“Hello, Dave.”

72 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 8:19:05pm
73 b_sharp  Jan 9, 2015 8:19:48pm

re: #67 klystron

Go to bed?

Dish washer still washing.

74 b_sharp  Jan 9, 2015 8:20:43pm

re: #69 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I’m.

So, you’re the . everyone is talking about.

75 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 8:20:58pm

re: #72 teleskiguy

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Fake! Look at the pixels.

76 Gus  Jan 9, 2015 8:21:23pm

I am Iron Man.

77 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 8:22:38pm
78 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 8:22:49pm

re: #76 Gus

I am Iron Man.

Elton John - Rocket Man (HQ)

79 GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 9, 2015 8:23:24pm

Hey Rupert.

My Dingaling

80 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 8:24:11pm

re: #72 teleskiguy

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And why the hell is a team based in Salt Lake City still allowed to be named The Jazz?

81 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 8:24:32pm

re: #76 Gus

I am Iron Man.

Those blue pills are amazing.

82 Gus  Jan 9, 2015 8:24:51pm

Glutenshima

83 Gus  Jan 9, 2015 8:26:07pm

Should people with tree nut allergies avoid eating squirrel or elephants?

84 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 8:26:13pm

re: #80 b.d.

And why the hell is a team based in Salt Lake City still allowed to be named The Jazz?

No shit. They should be called the Utah Choir, in honor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, amirite?

85 #FergusonFireside  Jan 9, 2015 8:29:50pm

re: #84 teleskiguy

No shit. They should be called the Utah Choir, in honor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, amirite?

gah

86 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 8:32:15pm

re: #84 teleskiguy

No shit. They should be called the Utah Choir, in honor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, amirite?

The Utah Altos. Anything but Jazz that is like having a team move and calling them the Miami Avalanche, Seattle Suns or the New England Texans.

Utah Jazz? Really?

87 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 8:32:55pm

re: #83 Gus

Should people with tree nut allergies avoid eating squirrel or elephants?

Vegetarians should be allowed to eat deer and other vegetarian animals.

88 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 8:35:42pm

Local DFW news just announced that Chris Christie will be attending the Cowboys v. Packers game this weekend and that he will be wearing that red sweater again.

Us Cowboy fans have it rough enough without that guy thrown around our necks.

89 retired cynic  Jan 9, 2015 8:37:24pm

re: #86 b.d.

The Utah Altos. Anything but Jazz that is like having a team move and calling them the Miami Avalanche, Seattle Suns or the New England Texans.

Utah Jazz? Really?

I’ll take Jazz, wherever it is played well.

90 Gus  Jan 9, 2015 8:39:16pm
91 #FergusonFireside  Jan 9, 2015 8:41:59pm

re: #88 b.d.

Local DFW news just announced that Chris Christie will be attending the Cowboys v. Packers game this weekend and that he will be wearing that red sweater again.

Us Cowboy fans have it rough enough without that guy thrown around our necks.

Go Pack GO

92 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 9, 2015 8:43:08pm

re: #88 b.d.

Local DFW news just announced that Chris Christie will be attending the Cowboys v. Packers game this weekend and that he will be wearing that red sweater again.

Us Cowboy fans have it rough enough without that guy thrown around our necks.

Just for that, this will be the first NFL game I watch this season, simply because rooting against Dallas is an even higher principle.

93 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 8:43:12pm

re: #90 Gus

Anon jerkoffs?

94 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 8:43:42pm

re: #89 retired cynic

I’ll take Jazz, wherever it is played well.

i was fortunate enough to go to school at North Texas where they have a jazz program and there was always a lot of world class jazz to be found if you wanted to hear it.

95 Gus  Jan 9, 2015 8:44:33pm

re: #93 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Anon jerkoffs?

Anon?

96 Kryptik  Jan 9, 2015 8:44:47pm

I honestly cannot see how the attacks in France doesn’t end up with Europe going even further full-bore winger against Muslims and immigration. Not to mention over here. The fucking demands for concentration camps have begun again, not to mention the rising calls of ‘Islam IS the problem, stop them, ban them,, kill them all now!!’

It’s just such a goddamn familiar refrain. Ascribing supernatural power and evil intentions to the entirety of a group, demanding collective blame, insisting that every grievance must be apologized for ad nauseam or else individuals are instantly just as bad as the worst of their group forever….

We talking Muslims or Blacks in America there? Not to mention goddamn near any other group of ‘undesirables’ in the history of forever.

EDIT: I mean…for god’s sake. You’re going to call the entirety of 2 billion self-recognized Muslims as all enemies in their entirety? Every single one of them? Hint: if every single one of them was your enemy and wanted you dead, all 2 billion of them? We’d be in a fucking scorched earth global war tearing everything asunder right now, or under the heel of a 2 billion strong monolithic ‘enemy’. Not dealing with tools and bastards poking hornets nests with terrorism and guerrilla warfare.

97 retired cynic  Jan 9, 2015 8:45:08pm

re: #94 b.d.

I went to the school of music at the U of Illinois, and while I was always to ‘straight’ to play jazz, I loved it, and we had plenty of the good stuff.

98 Gus  Jan 9, 2015 8:45:12pm

re: #93 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Anon jerkoffs?

No. Just that France needs some agency “scans.”

99 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 8:45:15pm

re: #95 Gus

OpFrance or something related to Anon? Or I have misunderstood.

100 RadicalModerate  Jan 9, 2015 8:46:12pm

re: #88 b.d.

Local DFW news just announced that Chris Christie will be attending the Cowboys v. Packers game this weekend and that he will be wearing that red sweater again.

Us Cowboy fans have it rough enough without that guy thrown around our necks.

I really have to ask, who is paying for all of these trips to Cowboys games Christie is making? From my understanding, there is a limit on how many and how often state officials can take personal trips paid for by taxpayers, and if he’s accepting accommodation from the Cowboys’ owner and/or franchise, that can easily fall into the realm of an ethics violation.

disclaimer: I am a Dallas resident, and will be pulling for the Cowboys, even though I am not a fan of the Jones family.

101 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 8:46:20pm

I bit my tongue last week when y’all wailed, tore your garments and gnashed your teeth over being butthurt by my beloved Cowboys. I may not be so much of a gentleman this time around.

//

102 Gus  Jan 9, 2015 8:46:45pm

re: #99 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

OpFrance or something related to Anon? Or I have misunderstood.

I haz made up.

103 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 8:47:53pm

P.C.Roberts:

According to news reports, police found the ID of Said Kouachi at the scene of the Charlie Hebdo shooting. Does this sound familiar? Remember, authorities claimed to have found the undamaged passport of one of the alleged 9/11 hijackers among the massive pulverized ruins of the twin towers. Once the authorities discover that the stupid Western peoples will believe any transparent lie, the authorities use the lie again and again. The police claim to have discovered a dropped ID is a sure indication that the attack on Charlie Hebdo was an inside job and that people identified by NSA as hostile to the Western wars against Muslims are going to be framed for an inside job designed to pull France firmly back under Washington’s thumb.

104 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 8:48:40pm

I thought they would dig up the “found 9/11 ID” trope the moment the IDs were found.

105 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 8:49:54pm
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal.
106 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 8:50:22pm

re: #100 RadicalModerate

I really have to ask, who is paying for all of these trips to Cowboys games Christie is making? From my understanding, there is a limit on how many and how often state officials can take personal trips paid for by taxpayers, and if he’s accepting accommodation from the Cowboys’ owner and/or franchise, that can easily fall into the realm of an ethics violation.

disclaimer: I am a Dallas resident, and will be pulling for the Cowboys, even though I am not a fan of the Jones family.

You aren’t the only one asking questions::

Democrats mull ethics probe over Christie’s Cowboys hug

Washington (CNN) - Chris Christie’s decision to accept a plane ride and a box seat at Sunday’s Dallas Cowboys game has Democrats considering an investigation and even some Republicans questioning the New Jersey governor’s judgment.

On Wednesday, the co-chairman of the New Jersey legislative panel investigating the Bridgegate scandal told CNN that he is considering an inquiry into whether it was appropriate for the governor to accept free tickets from Cowboys owner Jerry Jones after a company the team has a stake in was awarded a contract supported by Christie.

cnn.com

Smells and looks like a rat….

107 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 8:51:19pm

re: #102 Gus

I haz made up.

Don’t say you made it up, claim it is a world exclusive and breaking news.

108 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 9, 2015 8:51:22pm

re: #97 retired cynic

I was in the school Orchestra, played in a punkish new wave band and the bar I hung out at in high school was a great jazz club (no, id was not often checked in the early 80’s. I was first carded the day after my 18th birthday :)

Lots of great music of all kinds.

109 Gus  Jan 9, 2015 8:54:33pm

re: #107 b.d.

Don’t say you made it up, claim it is a world exclusive and breaking news.

BREAKING!

Deblogpixelated!

[Please send money.]

110 #FergusonFireside  Jan 9, 2015 8:54:35pm

re: #96 Kryptik

Thanks for a great post.

Ya’ll, go back & read it.

111 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 8:56:00pm

re: #109 Gus

BREAKING!

Deblogpixelated!

[Please send money.]

Gus needs a verified Twitter blue check mark!!

112 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 8:56:20pm
The legal committee of the European Parliament believes that Hungarian authorities have provided them with sufficient evidence to discuss suspending the immunity of Béla Kovács, the MEP affiliated with the radical nationalist Jobbik party who is alleged to have spied for Russia.

politics.hu

I’m pretty sure that, espionage or not, there’s plenty of the Kremlin money going around the Hungarian far right.

113 Kafitrar  Jan 9, 2015 8:56:21pm

re: #100 RadicalModerate

I really have to ask, who is paying for all of these trips to Cowboys games Christie is making? From my understanding, there is a limit on how many and how often state officials can take personal trips paid for by taxpayers, and if he’s accepting accommodation from the Cowboys’ owner and/or franchise, that can easily fall into the realm of an ethics violation.

Jerry Jones paid for it. This to a governor who told others to not accept gifts, not even a sandwich. And around the same time, the Port Authority of NJ/NY gave a contract to a partnership that includes the Cowboys. Nothing suspicious about this at all. nj.com

114 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 8:57:53pm

Wingnuts outnumber sane people on twitter 2:1?

115 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 9, 2015 8:59:58pm

re: #103 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I always like to greet wingers with a cheerful “Hello!” because I know that they’ll spend at least a day wondering what I meant by that.

116 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 9:00:06pm

Best gut chuckle headline of 2015 so far:

A sober Snowden deems life in Russia ‘great’

washingtonpost.com

117 Gus  Jan 9, 2015 9:00:11pm

Chuck’s a hobo.

118 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 9:03:51pm

re: #117 Gus

Chuck’s a hobo.

With a shotgun.

119 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 9:04:37pm

re: #116 b.d.

Best gut chuckle headline of 2015 so far:

washingtonpost.com

Snowden’s opinions about his new home only came up because toward the end of the interview, the producer offered him a cup of coffee.

“I actually only drink water,” Snowden said, before launching into an explanation of how Hayden wrongly predicted that he would end up drunk, sad and alone, and that nobody expected how much he would like Russia.

I’m glad this fucking traitor will never experience a frothy grape soda or an ice cold IPA.

120 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 9:05:12pm

delete

121 klystron  Jan 9, 2015 9:05:42pm

I think I am not showing my mom this video, given that my sister just spent a good 6+ hours on the road today.

150 Car Pile-Up on Michigan Highway I-94

122 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 9:07:07pm

re: #121 klystron

There’s a special place in hell for those who make vertical vids.

123 Varek Raith  Jan 9, 2015 9:07:15pm

re: #121 klystron

Shit, that was scary to watch.

124 klystron  Jan 9, 2015 9:07:38pm

re: #122 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

There’s a special place in hell for those who make vertical vids.

Given what the guy was seeing, I’m willing to cut him a little slack.

125 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 9:08:12pm

re: #119 teleskiguy

washingtonpost.com

I’m glad this fucking traitor will never experience a frothy grape soda or an ice cold IPA.

“I actually only drink water”

FREEDOM

126 klystron  Jan 9, 2015 9:08:57pm

re: #121 klystron

Apparently 1 dead, 22 injured.

127 jaunte  Jan 9, 2015 9:09:31pm

re: #125 b.d.

“I actually only drink water”

FREEDOM

“Rainwater, Mandrake.”

128 Gus  Jan 9, 2015 9:09:50pm

re: #125 b.d.

“I actually only drink water”

FREEDOM

Chemical free water.

129 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 9:10:07pm
130 klystron  Jan 9, 2015 9:10:34pm

re: #126 klystron

What an exploding fireworks truck looks like:

Truck Carrying Fireworks Explodes on Michigan Highway

131 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 9:10:51pm

re: #128 Gus

Chemical free water.

No H, O or other chemical additives.

132 klystron  Jan 9, 2015 9:11:00pm

re: #130 klystron

Also, exploding firework trucks are loud.

133 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 9:11:10pm

re: #121 klystron

I think I am not showing my mom this video, given that my sister just spent a good 6+ hours on the road today.

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Video

holy sh*t!

134 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 9:11:27pm

re: #121 klystron

I think I am not showing my mom this video, given that my sister just spent a good 6+ hours on the road today.

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Video

Holy. Fucking. Shit. That is fucking terrifying!

135 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 9:12:19pm

re: #131 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

No H, O or other chemical additives.

One part oxygen, two parts hydrogen shaken (very hard) not stirred.

136 Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 9, 2015 9:15:28pm

FOOOOTBLERRRR! Gentlemen, I am given to understand there is a sportsball contest this weekend? How droll!

It’s gonna be nothing but Cowboys Cowboys Cowboys everywhere for the next several days.

I don’t get football. I’ve tried. I enjoy a long running play or an amazing catch like any evolved primate, but 95% of it doesn’t twitch the needle on the ol’ Give-a-Fsck-o-Meter. I’m turned off pretty hard by things that smell like a wishful rehash of 14th-century Germanic knighthood, when a bunch of overpaid celebrities get paid with other people’s money to armor up and smash things for god and tribe.

If it doesn’t have an engine, preferably one that shoots fire out the back, I’m unlikely to be interested.

137 b.d.  Jan 9, 2015 9:16:28pm

Hey Vlad, my water is frozen again

139 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 9:19:51pm

I have a number of friends from Kalamazoo living here in Colorado. I just shared klys’s comments above about the I-94 pile-up on the FaceSpace stuff.

The iPhone video of car crashes is one of the most chilling videos of car crashes I have ever seen. What a mess.

140 Varek Raith  Jan 9, 2015 9:20:28pm

re: #139 teleskiguy

I have a number of friends from Kalamazoo living here in Colorado. I just shared klys’s comments above about the I-94 pile-up on the FaceSpace stuff.

The iPhone video of car crashes is one of the most chilling videos of car crashes I have ever seen. What a mess.

Indeed.
The sounds.
*Shudders*

141 jaunte  Jan 9, 2015 9:20:55pm

re: #138 klystron

One of the new feline overlords, Tina, camping out in a nice tent on the kitchen counter.

142 jaunte  Jan 9, 2015 9:21:49pm

Checking the eastern view.

143 jaunte  Jan 9, 2015 9:22:37pm

Chloe had to check it out, too.

144 jaunte  Jan 9, 2015 9:24:33pm

Plenty of windows.

145 #FergusonFireside  Jan 9, 2015 9:24:52pm

Love ya LGF, nighty.

146 Gus  Jan 9, 2015 9:24:53pm

re: #144 jaunte

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Plenty of windows.

Pictures?

147 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 9, 2015 9:24:54pm

I used to dread going from the Gary terminal to places in Michigan or Ohio during the winters I drove for Schneider National. I preferred getting complaints for being too cautious aka slow than being a 55 ton participant in someone else’s video like that.

148 jaunte  Jan 9, 2015 9:25:20pm

re: #146 Gus

Yes.

149 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 9:33:20pm
150 Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 9, 2015 9:33:32pm

re: #121 klystron

Gods almighty, that’s awful.

News focuses on death and horror inflicted by people. I see this and I think of the mayhem caused by things like motor vehicles, every day…

My thought would be to run down the highway and try to wave at people to slow down, but at those traffic speeds you’d have to be a mile upstream with flares and flashing lights to have an effect.

151 klystron  Jan 9, 2015 9:36:10pm

re: #150 Pawn of the Oppressor

Gods almighty, that’s awful.

News focuses on death and horror inflicted by people. I see this and I think of the mayhem caused by things like motor vehicles, every day…

My thought would be to run down the highway and try to wave at people to slow down, but at those traffic speeds you’d have to be a mile upstream with flares and flashing lights to have an effect.

A lot of folks driving way too fast for the conditions, sadly unsurprisingly. :/ Most folks don’t respect what can happen in a car accident.

152 jaunte  Jan 9, 2015 9:41:35pm
153 Gus  Jan 9, 2015 10:06:47pm
154 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 10:07:13pm

For those Lizards with kids about to become teenagers.

155 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 9, 2015 10:08:59pm

re: #154 teleskiguy

For those Lizards with kids about to become teenagers.

Embedded Image

Heh. My boy became a teen today.

156 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 10:09:51pm

re: #155 William Barnett-Lewis

Heh. My boy became a teen today.

Happy Birthday to your boy *ahem*, man!

157 goddamnedfrank  Jan 9, 2015 10:26:11pm

Crowdsourcing envy and spite, what a fantastic idea! It’s simply amazing how much of his focus is on harming other people. His ideas of how he wants to reshape the media are atavistic and mercenary as fuck.

158 klystron  Jan 9, 2015 10:27:37pm

re: #157 goddamnedfrank

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Crowdsourcing envy and spite, what a fantastic idea! It’s simply amazing how much of his focus is on harming other people. His ideas of how he wants to reshape the media are atavistic and mercenary as fuck.

That’s …disgusting.

159 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 10:29:08pm

re: #157 goddamnedfrank

What a malevolent dark-hearted human. I’ll bet he sleeps like a fucking baby a night.

160 Gus  Jan 9, 2015 10:29:32pm

re: #157 goddamnedfrank

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Crowdsourcing envy and spite, what a fantastic idea! It’s simply amazing how much of his focus is on harming other people. His ideas of how he wants to reshape the media are atavistic and mercenary as fuck.

Oh boy.

161 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 9, 2015 10:39:57pm

re: #157 goddamnedfrank

If he was at all competent I’d be a little annoyed. The qualities that led him to Tweet that notion are the same qualities that will cause him to keep stepping on his own dick. He’ll spend his days as the butt of jokes.

162 Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 9, 2015 10:42:31pm

re: #157 goddamnedfrank

He’s probably drunk. But so am I, a little.

Thought of this in the shower*, turning over this terrorist thing in my head… I’m a guy myself but for purposes of discussion when I say “Y-Chromosome Disease” below I don’t mean literally every man is diseased, but some of us clearly have this problem - bold emphasis to something I see every. goddamned. day. with the right wing:

The Y-Chromosome Disease works the same way no matter what culture it’s placed in - hate the Woman, hate the Jew, hate the Other. Form a tribe, claim you’re oppressed, lash out. Love violence and its tools, love seeing others hurt. Never forgive, never comprehend, never create. And always, always: Your miseries are somebody else’s fault.

* was thinking over this notion that in a meta sense, the problem of global political violence - almost universally committed by men aged 18-35, with some outlying exceptions in their 50s caused by American capitalism, for example - may be, at its root, just the same ghost in different robes, haunting every corner of the globe in different forms. Take a guy who feels impotent, give him a cause, plug religion (political or traditional) into his brain, give him a ghost to serve and an Other to blame, and if he’s mad enough, and disconnected enough, and he can get a gun… Death results statistically often enough to warrant serious study.

163 goddamnedfrank  Jan 9, 2015 10:43:16pm

re: #158 klystron

That’s …disgusting.

In a way it reminds me of the insane billionaire in the last few episodes of The Newsroom:

“Let me tell you what I’m about, Disruption. User-generated content. Crowd-sourcing the news. Why (do we have) one channel? Why not 500? I’m not talking about guys with head-cams in Syria. I don’t know, maybe I am … a disaster channel … a stalker channel … Danny Glover just came to mind. We could have a channel devoted to people who are stalking Danny Glover.”

In that brilliantly random little bit of nonsense Sorkin managed to hit a lot of what’s wrong with attention deficit millennial tech worship, narcissistic psychopathy, and the shallow fixation with all things “disruptive.” Which, speaking of, if there’s one word that really needs to fucking die this year, that’s it. Most of the Silicon Valley and other scattered tech / business people sprinkling it around as a buzz term have no idea what it actually means in terms of markets. It’s become the new value-added aligning synergy of core competency impactful cock-faced tard-asseries.

164 klystron  Jan 9, 2015 10:45:00pm

re: #163 goddamnedfrank

You do have such a way with words.

165 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 10:45:06pm

re: #162 Pawn of the Oppressor

The Y-Chromosome Disease

Testosterone. Nature and science can explain so many things.

166 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 10:46:19pm

re: #163 goddamnedfrank

This comment was a pleasure to read.

167 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 9, 2015 10:49:15pm

re: #163 goddamnedfrank

I need a cigarette.

168 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 10:52:16pm

As an old Millennial (32 y.o.), I find every opportunity I can to openly satirize people looking at their smartphones. I’ll get my iPhone out and look at some stuff, and if I notice that people around me are doing the same thing as me, I’ll casually ask one of my neighbors “Is there anything interesting on your glowing rectangle?!?”

Usually they get perplexed by the term “glowing rectangle.” “What’s that?” They ask. “The thing in your hand,” I say.

Works great on buses and crowded gondola cars at the ski area. I’ve made some friends this way, I’ve also totally alienated people this way.

169 klystron  Jan 9, 2015 10:53:34pm

re: #168 teleskiguy

Just to be different, we call them glowing squares in our house.

170 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 10:57:11pm

re: #169 klystron

Just to be different, we call them glowing squares in our house.

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“Squares” is only one syllable, easy to say. But in the end it’s inaccurate. They’re rectangles.

Much like there’s no blue food.

George Carlin - Where’s the Blue Food?

171 Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 9, 2015 10:58:29pm

re: #165 teleskiguy

Is it just one hormone though?

The fact that the cop executed on the sidewalk in Paris was Muslim, is what cracked my mind open. If we turn this into the mythical “White vs. Moozlim” war that the right wants, if that image was in any way true, by rights that guy should not have been there, taking on two “fellow Muslims”, severely under-gunned, going INTO the attack and not away. But he did, and he died, as a Frenchman.

It’s a childishly simple fact, but combined with the intel that these attackers were just loser douchebags before they discovered Mohammed and found a way to “redeem” their own sick little souls, I saw the false tribal narrative of the right in clearer relief than usual.

It’s a very subtle point, and it’s very hard to let go of that impulse to tribalize - and I do maintain that religion is poison on the whole, and needs to be examined critically - but this is just another shocking revelation to me, that the “left” has been right all along. :O

172 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 11:08:30pm

re: #171 Pawn of the Oppressor

Is it just one hormone though?

The fact that the cop executed on the sidewalk in Paris was Muslim, is what cracked my mind open. If we turn this into the mythical “White vs. Moozlim” war that the right wants, if that image was in any way true, by rights that guy should not have been there, taking on two “fellow Muslims”, severely under-gunned, going INTO the attack and not away. But he did, and he died, as a Frenchman.

It’s a childishly simple fact, but combined with the intel that these attackers were just loser douchebags before they discovered Mohammed and found a way to “redeem” their own sick little souls, I saw the false tribal narrative of the right in clearer relief than usual.

It’s a very subtle point, and it’s very hard to let go of that impulse to tribalize - and I do maintain that religion is poison on the whole, and needs to be examined critically - but this is just another shocking revelation to me, that the “left” has been right all along. :O

As a non-believer I agree that religion should be examined critically. We’re living in times where that is happening, and the religious tend to push back, sometimes violently. We’ve seen it over and over again as a species.

That police officer that died at the hands of these religious kooks probably heard his killers say something about Islam - how what they were doing was righteous - and he, as a Muslim, knew better. That police officer is a martyr to good and righteous humans everywhere.

As far as left vs. right is concerned about religion, well, fuck. Many parts of the right want to turn the United States into a Protestant Christian theocracy.

173 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 9, 2015 11:10:10pm

re: #163 goddamnedfrank

I worked for three internet startups. People who frequently used buzzwords were the people who had no precise idea of what they wanted or even the vaguest notion of what it would take to implement any of their breakthrough fever dreams.

174 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 11:10:48pm

re: #149 teleskiguy

Mmmm.

cnn.com
bigstory.ap.org
wsj.com

These are just the first 3 results I found. This seems to be well covered.

175 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 11:14:16pm

re: #174 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I’m judging from the mass media that I have access to. TV, radio. Even my Twitter feed has been somewhat scarce on the subject.

It’s out there, but folks in the United States are mostly oblivious. And that makes me sad. :(

176 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 11:16:03pm

I love it when @NeilHamburger tweets!

177 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 11:16:27pm

re: #175 teleskiguy

Gotcha.

178 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 11:17:51pm

It used to be worse though. Remember how the whole Western media missed the Rwandan genocide until weeks after it happened?

179 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 9, 2015 11:20:55pm

re: #172 teleskiguy

Just keep in mind that there are those of us who are believers and who oppose the theocrats here as well. That French policeman is a reminder of what Bowie put well about what all can be “just for one day.”

180 teleskiguy  Jan 9, 2015 11:21:11pm

re: #178 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I want Obama to say something about Boko Haram. Maybe - in his “all-out-of-fucks-to-give” mode - he will.

And he’ll remove cannabis from the FDA drug schedule after the 2016 election!

One can dream, right?

182 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 11:40:14pm

Russian Orthodox Activists Say Charlie Hebdo Shooting Was ‘Just Punishment’

The fascist mindset spreads among the Russians.

“Among my acquaintances, those who do not condemn the attack against the magazine are pretty much the same people with whom we have always argued about Putin, Crimea, Donbass and so on,” Varfolomeyev, a critic of the Kremlin’s policies, said in his blog on the Ekho Moskvy website Thursday.

183 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 11:41:45pm

Blame the victim.

Russia’s Muslim leaders have condemned the terror attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo but appeared to spread the blame for the mass shooting that claimed 12 lives by suggesting the publication was guilty of the “sin of provocation.”

themoscowtimes.com

184 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 9, 2015 11:44:52pm
For years, it was thought that Israel had destroyed Syria’s nuclear weapons capability with its 2007 raid on the Kibar complex. Not so. New intelligence suggests that Bashar al-Assad is still trying to built the bomb. And he may be getting help from North Korea and Iran.

spiegel.de

185 Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 10, 2015 12:08:16am

re: #183 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Dear religious “leaders”,

If you can’t handle provocation, how can you dare say you’re secure in your faith? If your god is really on your side, what do you care?

Love and kiss (my ass),

-Me

re: #182 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Russian Orthodox Activists Say Charlie Hebdo Shooting Was ‘Just Punishment’

The fascist mindset spreads among the Russians.

I think it’s always been there.

The other day somebody - I think it was here - linked some info on the Soviet Union’s “league of militant atheists” which was active during the 2nd Red Scare and then disbanded. I was thinking of the relationship between religion and government in Russia and how it’s changed over the years… It’s telling that the one constant in Russia’s political landscape has been the presence of this brutal, stupid, blinkered, absolute, unapologetic, filthy, clumsy, ugly, king-of-all-assholes tyranny. Always with them there is the dark hand reaching out to strangle somebody in the name of Empire.

Over the decades the Orthodox Church has been suppressed, but since the dissolution of the USSR it appears that the Russian State has cozied up to the power of the church. When religion was a threat? Crush the church! We’re atheist! Now that it’s useful? Well hey there honey, how about you help us stick it in the eye of our enemies…

I can’t help but think that the Balkan wars were a new beginning for the nastier, shittier elements of religious leadership in Russia - a new era in which they had power and influence to reach people in partnership with the State.

186 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 12:18:21am

re: #185 Pawn of the Oppressor

I think it’s always been there.

It’s always there - in Americans, in Germans, in Russians, in Arabs, in Jews, in French, in Nigerians… In humans.
In the right environment it blooms. The environment in Russia is almost perfect at the moment. It wasn’t so in the brief period after the perestroika.

187 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 10, 2015 12:41:35am

re: #186 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Alas Gorbachev… They put a guy who really believed in charge and he reformed it all away. I wonder how history will remember him and perestroika?

188 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 12:53:06am

Spiegel has a great report on their investigation of the MH-17 incident. In German.

spiegel.de

189 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 12:56:57am

I didn’t know Archive org now has thousands of DOS games which one can play in a browser. And not some throwaways either. Here’s the great Freddy Pharkas, the Frontier Pharmacist:

archive.org

190 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 1:06:20am

LSL :)

191 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 10, 2015 1:06:51am

UpChuck is now trying to convince his audience that the bombing in Colorado Springs never took place. He’s using a blurry Google Earth image to show another mark (in a different place) from 9/2014 as “proof” that the cops and the media are all being suckered by the NAACP.

Words fail me.

192 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 1:07:49am
193 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 1:10:41am

re: #187 William Barnett-Lewis

Alas Gorbachev… They put a guy who really believed in charge and he reformed it all away. I wonder how history will remember him and perestroika?

Speaking of that, I used to play this :)

194 teleskiguy  Jan 10, 2015 1:25:27am
195 klystron  Jan 10, 2015 1:25:33am

All siblings safely where they should be.

Several hours late, but I’ll take it.

196 teleskiguy  Jan 10, 2015 1:27:38am

re: #195 klystron

All siblings safely where they should be.

Several hours late, but I’ll take it.

Sister Sledge - We Are Family

197 CleverToad  Jan 10, 2015 1:33:40am

re: #195 klystron

Yay!
*whew*

198 klystron  Jan 10, 2015 1:35:37am

re: #197 CleverToad

I am relieved, and I know my mother is.

I think I would have preferred the messed up travel schedule over getting to deal with my mom’s extra stress about it all.

But tomorrow I get to go to the stitchy store with my sister! Hooray! And in the meantime I stitch and she has gone to bed because stupid things like “time zones.”

199 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 10, 2015 1:37:08am

My words came back, so here’s the GotNwes take on the latest upchuck from UpChuck.

gotnwes.wheatdogg.com

200 klystron  Jan 10, 2015 1:39:43am

Oh hey, launch coming up for awake lizards.

We are at T-8 minutes.

201 CleverToad  Jan 10, 2015 1:51:52am

re: #131 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

What, no one’s going to bring up the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide in this discussion of nasty chemical concoctions?

I’m disappointed in the lizards, missing a straight line like that.

202 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 1:56:33am

re: #201 CleverToad

We’re slipping :(

203 klystron  Jan 10, 2015 2:05:33am

re: #200 klystron

Oh hey, launch coming up for awake lizards.

We are at T-8 minutes.

Less rockets-exploding, more successful delivery of payload into orbit than the last launch I watched.

204 Ace-o-aces  Jan 10, 2015 2:48:48am

re: #191 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

UpChuck is now trying to convince his audience that the bombing in Colorado Springs never took place. He’s using a blurry Google Earth image to show another mark (in a different place) from 9/2014 as “proof” that the cops and the media are all being suckered by the NAACP.

Well there is something in that picture. Not clear if it is a shadow or mark on the wall. It is on the Northeast corner of the building where the device went off. Of course Chucky neglects the fact that they found an actual incendiary device at the scene. He seem to think the NAACP just called the cops, pointed to an old mark on the building as said, “uh, there used to be a bomb here.”

205 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 10, 2015 2:54:33am

re: #204 Ace-o-aces

Well there is something in that picture. Not clear if it is a shadow or mark on the wall. It is on the Northeast corner of the building where the device went off. Of course Chucky neglects the fact that they found an actual incendiary device at the scene. He seem to think the NAACP just called the cops, pointed to an old mark on the building as said, “uh, there used to be a bomb here.”

When I looked at the images, it appears the recent mark is in the middle of the wall, at least 20 feet from the corner of the building. UpChuck’s Google Earth blur has a dark mark right next to the corner. As usual, he’s obfuscating the possibility the two smudges are different, and ignoring the other physical evidence, as you say.

His dumbass readers won’t know the difference, sadly.

206 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 10, 2015 3:38:39am

4F and the water pipes are doing OK so far…

207 Amory Blaine  Jan 10, 2015 3:52:17am

Walker touts unconventional ‘master’s degree’

In a radio interview earlier this week, Walker unveiled a slightly different response when asked about his lack of a college degree. The governor, who left Marquette University in his senior year to take a full-time job, could be in a presidential field that includes lawyers, doctors and business people with bachelor’s and advanced degrees.

“I’m like the majority of people in America,” Walker told Hugh Hewitt. “I’m someone who went to college, had the opportunity in my senior year to go and take a job full-time, which was not the only reason I went to college, but one of the biggest reasons was to get a job.”

Then he got married and started a family. “Like a lot of folks in America, you know, your family and your job take the time away from you finishing it up,” Walker continued. “I’ve got a master’s degree in taking on the big government special interests, and I think that is worth more than anything else that anybody can point to.”

208 Amory Blaine  Jan 10, 2015 3:58:56am

re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah I got a milkhouse heater under my kitchen sink. I think there’s a spot I just can’t get to with heat. The heater is heating enough water in the pipes that the water is hot for about 10 seconds (although slowly). I want to bring the water up through the floor bypassing the exterior wall entirely, but I wanted to do the whole house (haven’t decided copper or PEX).

209 goddamnedfrank  Jan 10, 2015 4:04:51am

BREAKING, EXCLUSIVE, ELEVENTY!!

George Zimmerman is in jail again.

210 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 4:07:48am

re: #209 goddamnedfrank

BREAKING, EXCLUSIVE, ELEVENTY!!

George Zimmerman is in jail again.

Obama jails a patriot!

211 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 10, 2015 4:09:23am

re: #209 goddamnedfrank

BREAKING, EXCLUSIVE, ELEVENTY!!

George Zimmerman is in jail again.

What kind of country is this that does not let a man Stand His Ground?

212 Timothy Watson  Jan 10, 2015 4:09:24am

re: #207 Amory Blaine

Walker touts unconventional ‘master’s degree’

“Master’s degree equivalent” bullshit?

213 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 4:13:29am

re: #209 goddamnedfrank

And once again, violence with a weapon.

214 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 4:15:29am

Because nothing says “civilization” like stuffed human corpses.

215 Timothy Watson  Jan 10, 2015 4:18:54am

Dammit, I hate it when someone makes PowerPoint slides that have text so small you can’t print off 6 slides on a single page.

And I hate the fact that PowerPoint only uses about 50% of the page to print off those 6 slides.

216 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 10, 2015 4:22:04am

re: #212 Timothy Watson

“Master’s degree equivalent” bullshit?

A master of arts in the fine art of bullshit perhaps?

217 Dr Lizardo  Jan 10, 2015 4:27:08am

re: #209 goddamnedfrank

BREAKING, EXCLUSIVE, ELEVENTY!!

George Zimmerman is in jail again.

My shocked face, my surprise, etc., etc.

218 goddamnedfrank  Jan 10, 2015 4:28:10am

re: #207 Amory Blaine

Walker touts unconventional ‘master’s degree’

It’s been awhile since I mentioned that Walker’s grandmother fucked a flounder.

I mean that’s *probably* not exactly true, but it’s what I heard.

219 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 4:29:20am

re: #215 Timothy Watson

Solvable if you have a decent pdf printing program.

220 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 4:32:19am

Ukrainians have created a searchable database of about 9000 bandits fighting in Donbass. Info was taken … from social networks.

psb4ukr.org

221 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 5:15:13am

re: #220 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Ukrainians have created a searchable database of about 9000 bandits fighting in Donbass. Info was taken … from social networks.

psb4ukr.org

To which Putin’s proxies have replied with more lies and with increased shelling. Because 152mm howitzers make great “friendship aides” apparently.

222 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 5:19:23am

It’s still freakin’ cold in my part of the world. They say it will be a bit better tomorrow.

223 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 5:24:00am

Rupert Murdoch sees himself as a modern day Edward Bernays?

Now strange.

224 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 5:24:59am

re: #223 FemNaziBitch

Rupert Murdoch sees himself as a modern day Edward Bernays?

Now strange.

[The] American business community was also very impressed with the propaganda effort. They had a problem at that time. The country was becoming formally more democratic. A lot more people were able to vote and that sort of thing. The country was becoming wealthier and more people could participate and a lot of new immigrants were coming in, and so on.

So what do you do? It’s going to be harder to run things as a private club. Therefore, obviously, you have to control what people think. There had been public relation specialists but there was never a public relations industry. There was a guy hired to make Rockefeller’s image look prettier and that sort of thing… . .

225 PhillyPretzel  Jan 10, 2015 5:25:26am

re: #222 FemNaziBitch

It is pretty darn cold in PA. This morning I am in King of Prussia, PA. forecast.weather.gov

226 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 5:26:04am

re: #225 PhillyPretzel

It is pretty darn cold in PA. This morning I am in King of Prussia, PA. forecast.weather.gov

oooh, your Sunday doesn’t look very nice.

227 PhillyPretzel  Jan 10, 2015 5:26:53am

re: #226 FemNaziBitch

Monday is going to be a mess. :(

228 Aye Pod  Jan 10, 2015 5:33:36am

re: #3 Charles Johnson

I’m still not sure what to think of Charlie Hebdo (some of the cartoons I’ve seen are pretty extreme), but these people don’t come off as a bunch of hateful bigots at all.

Many people seem to be checking CH out specifically to see how naughty they might have been before they were murdered. It’s what people do when faced with victims of an unspeakable crime, but they aren’t comfortable giving sympathy to those victims, or actually would prefer to shit all over them. It reminds me of wingnuts reaction to black victims of police murder in America all last year.

On the other hand, with all the “Je Suis Charlie” stuff that’s going around at the moment, I guess it’s inevitable that people will look into them further to see how accurate that statement could be for them. Personally, I don’t feel I have to ‘be’ CH in order to feel sympathy for them. They exercised their freedom of expression and got murdered for it.

229 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 5:37:23am
230 Aye Pod  Jan 10, 2015 5:37:49am

re: #214 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Because nothing says “civilization” like stuffed human corpses.

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That guy is so unfunny it’s painful. Don’t know why, but I now have a mental image of him screaming for his life inside a giant wicker Rush Limbaugh.

231 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 5:38:52am

re: #228 Aye Pod

It reminds me of wingnuts reaction to black victims of police murder in America all last year.

One to one.

232 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 5:39:07am

re: #228 Aye Pod

Many people seem to be checking CH out specifically to see how naughty they might have been before they were murdered. It’s what people do when faced with victims of an unspeakable crime, but they aren’t comfortable giving sympathy to those victims, or actually would prefer to shit all over them. It reminds me of wingnuts reaction to black victims of police murder in America all last year.

On the other hand, with all the “Je Suis Charlie” stuff that’s going around at the moment, I guess it’s inevitable that people will look into them further to see how accurate that statement could be for them. Personally, I don’t feel I have to ‘be’ CH in order to feel sympathy for them. They exercised their freedom of expression and got murdered for it.

Quite concur.
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On the other hand, in the case of the Kouachi brothers’ murderous associate, Amedy Coulibaly, we can safely assign blame:

As Coulibaly was black and killed a policewoman, his rampage was obviously Bill de Blasio’s fault.

/Kidding about everything below the line.

233 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 5:50:12am
234 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 5:52:53am
235 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 5:54:39am
236 psddluva4evah  Jan 10, 2015 6:04:30am

George Zimmerman arrested for DV and assault with a gun…!

237 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 6:05:09am

re: #234 FemNaziBitch

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Would you kindly Page that one, GGT. It needs its own discussion.

238 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 10, 2015 6:14:34am

I have paged my analysis of UpChuck’s latest photographic fail.

littlegreenfootballs.com

239 lawhawk  Jan 10, 2015 6:15:18am

re: #236 psddluva4evah

And you’re surprised at this?

The only thing that’s surprising is that there isn’t a body count associated with his arrest. It’s only a matter of time before he does kill someone.

Again.

240 Dr. Matt  Jan 10, 2015 6:17:48am
241 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 6:19:27am

re: #234 FemNaziBitch

1. This study shows that many are in denial. This also justifies the mandatory rape prevention courses, about which someone complained recently. Young men don’t always understand rape and sexual assault, so saying “rape is rape, what is not clear about that” to object to such courses misses the point.

2. A bit of pedantry: the report uses the incorrect “1 in 5” (20%) statistic. The authors of the cited study say that it is “inappropriate to use the number as a baseline when discussing rape and sexual assault on campus”. A much more comprehensive DOJ study has found that the number is actually 0.61% (that is, 1 in 164).

242 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 6:21:57am

re: #238 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I have paged my analysis of UpChuck’s latest photographic fail.

littlegreenfootballs.com

Actually, his lies will succeed in what he wants them to do: He’ll be the quoted source when racists DERP out that the attempted arson was “Nothing but a filthy [n-word] lie!!1.

So yeah, he pooped on the floor, but Stormfront will say that poop smells like fine perfume.

/spits

243 Dr. Matt  Jan 10, 2015 6:30:45am
Eighty-six male college students received extra credit for their participation. All participants were over 18 (M=21, SD=3.6) and most were juniors in college

Crap study design. Crap sample. Crap publication. Crap journal. It’s open access, the journal isn’t even indexed by pubmed, only publishes quarterly, and it just started in June 2014….hence, they are willing to accept just about anything. And it looks like it did. The MSM was duped once again.

244 lawhawk  Jan 10, 2015 6:32:31am

re: #238 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Not bad. I’d just fix the capitalization on the first sentence. I’d also consider adding the actual distance between Colorado Springs and Denver. 70 miles.

245 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 6:34:30am

re: #243 Dr. Matt

No idea. Explain?

246 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 10, 2015 6:38:09am

re: #244 lawhawk

Not bad. I’d just fix the capitalization on the first sentence. I’d also consider adding the actual distance between Colorado Springs and Denver. 70 miles.

Roger that.

247 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 6:39:52am

re: #237 Dark_Falcon

Would you kindly Page that one, GGT. It needs its own discussion.

done

248 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 6:41:49am

re: #243 Dr. Matt

Crap study design. Crap sample. Crap publication. Crap journal. It’s open access, the journal isn’t even indexed by pubmed, only publishes quarterly, and it just started in June 2014….hence, they are willing to accept just about anything. And it looks like it did. The MSM was duped once again.

If it wasn’t really random, then I’d agree the study has a serious flaw.

249 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 6:43:18am

Looks as tho he has lost his license to kill:

250 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 6:54:43am
251 darthstar  Jan 10, 2015 6:59:37am
253 darthstar  Jan 10, 2015 7:04:19am
254 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 7:04:38am

I’m finding it hard to stay on LGF. My browser keeps trying to load an ad page onto LGF’s tab. I’m not having the problem with other sites. Anyone else having a problem?

255 darthstar  Jan 10, 2015 7:05:33am

re: #254 Dark_Falcon

I’m finding it hard to stay on LGF. My browser keeps trying to load an ad page onto LGF’s tab. I’m not having the problem with other sites. Anyone else having a problem?

Time to get off of WIndows 95 and IE 6.

256 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 7:06:32am

re: #255 darthstar

Time to get off of WIndows 95 and IE 6.

Given that I have Windows 7 and Firefox that isn’t helpful, DS.

257 PhillyPretzel  Jan 10, 2015 7:06:46am

re: #254 Dark_Falcon

I am on my MacBook Pro and using free Wi-Fi at Wegmans. No problems here.

258 darthstar  Jan 10, 2015 7:07:08am

re: #256 Dark_Falcon

Download Opera. It’s like Firefox, only cleaner.

259 darthstar  Jan 10, 2015 7:08:22am
260 darthstar  Jan 10, 2015 7:10:17am

Even Florida Man is baffled by Zimmerman.

261 PhillyPretzel  Jan 10, 2015 7:11:18am

re: #260 darthstar

He had his fifteen minutes of fame and now he wants more. /half

262 darthstar  Jan 10, 2015 7:12:00am
263 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 10, 2015 7:13:25am

re: #240 Dr. Matt

Schadenfreude

f*cking inevitable

264 darthstar  Jan 10, 2015 7:15:42am
265 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 7:15:54am

re: #262 darthstar

You double-posted that Tweet of yours. And how, if I may ask, is anyone at Fox News responsible for that attempted arson in Colorado Springs? We don’t even know who tried to burn down that NAACP office, so how can we even begin to apportion blame?

266 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 7:17:48am

re: #264 darthstar

Oh Blitzer.

267 ObserverArt  Jan 10, 2015 7:18:43am

re: #14 Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson @Green_Footballs
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lolwut RT @rupertmurdoch: Maybe most Moslems peaceful but until they recognize & destroy growing jihadist cancer must be held responsible

I wrote a fairly long comment based on this very sentiment, but with feelings a bit raw around here yesterday, I promptly deleted it before posting.

Sometimes it is hard to pull the trigger on a comment when it has the possibility of being read and taken wrong.

I just wanted to say time for the Muslims of the world to go beyond words saying they do not condone terrorism and go out and start to kick some terrorist ass. There is a huge clean up needed on isle #9!

That is all.

268 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 10, 2015 7:19:17am

re: #250 FemNaziBitch

O’Reilly: “France Brought A Lot Of This Terrorism On Itself”

True to an extent: nobody made them colonize large parts of Africa and the Middle East…

269 darthstar  Jan 10, 2015 7:20:05am

re: #265 Dark_Falcon

You double-posted that Tweet of yours. And how, if I may ask, is anyone at Fox News responsible for that attempted arson in Colorado Springs? We don’t even know who tried to burn down that NAACP office, so how can we even begin to apportion blame?

Oops…I did.

They’re white. The suspect’s white. Murdoch’s logic.

270 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 7:23:48am

re: #267 ObserverArt

I wrote a fairly long comment based on this very sentiment, but with feelings a bit raw around here yesterday, I promptly deleted it before posting.

Sometimes it is hard to pull the trigger on a comment when it has the possibility of being read and taken wrong.

I just wanted to say time for the Muslims of the world to go beyond words saying they do not condone terrorism and go out and start to kick some terrorist ass. There is a huge clean up needed on isle #9!

That is all.

I don’t understand. What exactly should the Muslims do? What do you do when a member of your group commits an act of terror?

271 CuriousLurker  Jan 10, 2015 7:24:24am

re: #267 ObserverArt

I just wanted to say time for the Muslims of the world to go beyond words saying they do not condone terrorism and go out and start to kick some terrorist ass. There is a huge clean up needed on isle #9!

That’s one big fucking umbrella there, which happens to include me. Just exactly WTF do you expect me to do about it from here in NJ? Am I supposed to hop on plane to Paris or Iraq or Yemen or wherever and start my own jihad?

FFS. *smh*

272 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 7:25:37am

re: #270 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I don’t understand. What exactly should the Muslims do? What do you do when a member of your group commits an act of terror?

And I mean “a member of your group” in a very wide sense. What do Christians do when a Christian commits an act of terror? Whites? Etc.

273 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 7:26:47am

re: #272 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

What do Christians do when a Christian commits an act of terror? Whites? Etc.

(Many cheer.)

274 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 7:28:53am

This apportionment to “groups” is very arbitrary. Why stop at “Muslims”? You’re a human. What do you, as a human, do against a human terrorist?

275 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 7:31:00am

re: #274 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

This apportionment to “groups” is very arbitrary. Why stop at “Muslims”? You’re a human. What do you, as a human, do against a human terrorist?

And if you think this is a stretch, why is not the piling of all the different, often radically opposed to each other, Muslims in one group that “has to do something”?

276 CuriousLurker  Jan 10, 2015 7:33:43am

re: #274 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

This apportionment to “groups” is very arbitrary. Why stop at “Muslims”? You’re a human. What do you, as a human, do against a human terrorist?

It’s precisely the logic used by terrorists—it’s okay indiscriminately to kill whoever you consider your enemy (Americans, Israelis/Jews, etc.) because all share the guilt for the actions of a few, therefore none are innocent.

277 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 7:34:04am

Should an evangelical apologize for the actions of a Catholic pedophile priest? They’re both Christians.

278 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 7:37:57am

Such a question is possible, but under very specific circumstances, e.g. a local, very close-knit community, or a group under a very strong leadership (cf. cults). Not exactly a “monolith”, but close.

Obviously, “Muslims of the world” aren’t anywhere close to being a monolith.

279 bratwurst  Jan 10, 2015 7:54:18am
280 Lidane  Jan 10, 2015 7:55:01am

OUTRAGE!

281 ObserverArt  Jan 10, 2015 7:58:37am

re: #271 CuriousLurker

That’s one big fucking umbrella there, which happens to include me. Just exactly WTF do you expect me to do about it from here in NJ? Am I supposed to hop on plane to Paris or Iraq or Yemen or wherever and start my own jihad?

FFS. *smh*

Well, it is hard to put into words. Sorry I offended. Like I said, I already booted one comment because of having trouble figuring how it would be accepted as worded.

I don’t hate anyone or any religion, and I understand the backlash against what I posted. Sorry. I really can not word what I want to say. Maybe some day I’ll be able to see something that I can point to and say that is what is needed to be done.

I’ll let myself out and again sorry. I feel really bad.

282 Dr Lizardo  Jan 10, 2015 8:07:15am

re: #280 Lidane

OUTRAGE!

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Exclusive video of wingnut heads everywhere right now!
283 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 8:08:54am

re: #282 Dr Lizardo

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I thought I smelled something burning. But yeah can’t wait to hear how this ad somehow is discriminating against Christians because you know acknowledging gay couples have love too is an afront to heterosexual conservative Christians who are the only people who love their spouses.//

284 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 10, 2015 8:10:19am

re: #275 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

And if you think this is a stretch, why is not the piling of all the different, often radically opposed to each other, Muslims in one group that “has to do something”?

And do not even get going on the fact that the chief victims of Islamist terror are other Muslims. It only matters when it involves white Christians.

285 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 8:10:25am

Well on another note, I finally decided to do a family tree. Turns out my family’s been in the US longer than I thought.

286 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 10, 2015 8:11:01am

re: #280 Lidane

OUTRAGE!

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The guy on the left looks like Paul Ryan…

287 Lidane  Jan 10, 2015 8:11:05am

re: #282 Dr Lizardo

Heh. I was just over at the Tiffany FB page and there are a small handful of wingnut comments:

“Where are the STRAIGHT couples buying engagement rings?”

“Are your sales that low that you celebrate same sex couples? Change your ad for traditional marriage!”

You know, because 177 years of advertising aimed at straight couples isn’t enough.

288 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 8:12:24am

re: #283 HappyWarrior

Breaking: Tiffany has just been prohibited in Russia.
/

289 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 8:13:43am

re: #287 Lidane

Heh. I was just over at the Tiffany FB page and there are a small handful of wingnut comments:

“Where are the STRAIGHT couples buying engagement rings?”

“Are your sales that low that you celebrate same sex couples? Change your ad for traditional marriage!”

You know, because 177 years of advertising aimed at straight couples isn’t enough.

Yeah one ad out of thousands that have featured straight couples and their shit boils. Really if your panties are bunched up because a company showed a gay couple giving the other a ring, you really need to get a fucking life. Maybe if so called Christian wingnuts cared more about real problems in the world i.e. poverty and hunger rather than say gay coupels being happy and having the same rights as them and not being treated like perverts, the world might be a better place.

290 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 8:14:02am

re: #288 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Breaking: Tiffany has just been prohibited in Russia.
/

Don’t give Vlad ideas.

291 CuriousLurker  Jan 10, 2015 8:14:48am

re: #276 CuriousLurker

It’s precisely the logic used by terrorists—it’s okay indiscriminately to kill whoever you consider your enemy (Americans, Israelis/Jews, etc.) because all share the guilt for the actions of a few, therefore none are innocent.

I would add that the Pakistani Taliban used this logic just last month to justify the slaughter of 132 Muslim schoolchildren in Peshawar:

Yar Wazir justified the killings as fitting retribution. “The parents of the army school are army soldiers and they are behind the massive killing of our kids and indiscriminate bombing in North and South Waziristan,” which are the TTP strongholds. “To hurt them at their safe haven and homes—such an attack is perfect revenge.”

thedailybeast.com

That’s a really fucked-up dangerous logic. Anyone wanting to apply it who considers him/herself “civilized” should think twice about where it can lead.

Gawd. that kind of shit makes me so mad I could just spit.

292 Dr Lizardo  Jan 10, 2015 8:16:12am

re: #283 HappyWarrior

I thought I smelled something burning. But yeah can’t wait to hear how this ad somehow is discriminating against Christians because you know acknowledging gay couples have love too is an afront to heterosexual conservative Christians who are the only people who love their spouses.//

I’m seeing a RWNJ boycott of Tiffany’s any minute now……

293 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 8:16:59am

re: #184 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

spiegel.de

Yet another independent report just in:

mh17.correctiv.org

294 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 8:18:33am

re: #292 Dr Lizardo

I’m seeing a RWNJ boycott of Tiffany’s any minute now……

Given the flip out over JCPenney over Ellen Degeneres in one of their ads, it wouldn’t surprise me. The best part was they were complaining that Ellen’s “problem” is that she’s a nice and well-adjusted person. So their problem with Ellen is that she blows their bullshit bigoted myths about LGBT people out of the water.

295 jaunte  Jan 10, 2015 8:19:24am

re: #287 Lidane

You can bet these comments are from people who have never been in a Tiffany’s store.

296 Dr Lizardo  Jan 10, 2015 8:22:29am

re: #294 HappyWarrior

Given the flip out over JCPenney over Ellen Degeneres in one of their ads, it wouldn’t surprise me. The best part was they were complaining that Ellen’s “problem” is that she’s a nice and well-adjusted person. So their problem with Ellen is that she blows their bullshit bigoted myths about LGBT people out of the water.

Yeah, that’s pretty much exactly what their problem with Ellen DeGeneres is.

297 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 10, 2015 8:22:50am

re: #295 jaunte

You can bet these comments are from people who have never been in a Tiffany’s store.

They bought their wife’s engagement ring from the jewelry counter at the Wal-Mart while they were there stocking up on buckshot.

298 electrotek  Jan 10, 2015 8:27:15am

re: #267 ObserverArt

I’m sure you will demand the same from white Christians when it comes to people like Scott Roeder or Anders Breivik, right?

299 jaunte  Jan 10, 2015 8:27:35am
300 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 10, 2015 8:28:19am

re: #296 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, that’s pretty much exactly what their problem with Ellen DeGeneres is.

They don’t seem to like successful people who are well-liked by the majority of Americans. Take the Obamas, for example.

I will point out that Ellen is popular in China, too.

301 Dr Lizardo  Jan 10, 2015 8:31:58am

re: #300 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

They don’t seem to like successful people who are well-liked by the majority of Americans. Take the Obamas, for example.

I will point out that Ellen is popular in China, too.

Yep…..it’s that same old song of burning resentment and screeching envy sung by the wingnuts.

302 thedopefishlives  Jan 10, 2015 8:33:49am

Morning Lizardim.

303 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 10, 2015 8:34:13am

re: #282 Dr Lizardo

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I must have missed the part where those outraged Christians worked so hard to shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, and provide free daycare to single parents and the working poor. I know that I missed it because they had to have fulfilled the tenets of their own religion before moving on to something as minor as complaining about gay marriage.

304 CuriousLurker  Jan 10, 2015 8:34:55am

re: #281 ObserverArt

Well, it is hard to put into words. Sorry I offended. Like I said, I already booted one comment because of having trouble figuring how it would be accepted as worded.

I don’t hate anyone or any religion, and I understand the backlash against what I posted. Sorry. I really can not word what I want to say. Maybe some day I’ll be able to see something that I can point to and say that is what is needed to be done.

I’ll let myself out and again sorry. I feel really bad.

Oh, I see—so the fault isn’t with your logic, it’s with your inability to effectively articulate what you’re thinking, hence people get offended.

You feel bad? Yeah, me too when I wake up every day and have to deal with hearing this kind of dreck.

I’ll tell you what, when you figure out “what is needed to be done” you get on the phone and call up all the leaders of the world as I’m sure they’ll be happy to hear that someone’s finally come up with a solution.

Now please excuse me while I go extinguish my hair.

305 thedopefishlives  Jan 10, 2015 8:36:52am

re: #303 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I must have missed the part where those outraged Christians worked so hard to shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, and provide free daycare to single parents and the working poor. I know that I missed it because they had to have fulfilled the tenets of their own religion before moving on to something as minor as complaining about gay marriage.

No, no, you’re not getting it. Gay marriage is a much, MUCH bigger deal in the Bible than taking care of the disadvantaged. You have to read between the lines.

306 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 8:37:05am

re: #304 CuriousLurker

Oh, I see—so the fault isn’t with your logic, it’s with your inability to effectively articulate you’re thinking, hence people get offended.

You feel bad? Yeah, me too when I wake up every day and have to deal with hearing this kind of dreck.

I’ll tell you what, when you figure out “what is needed to be done” you get on the phone and call up all the leaders of the world as I’m sure they’ll be happy to hear that someone’s finally come up with a solution.

Now please excuse me while I go extinguish my hair.

[passes CL a bucket filled with 2 gallons of Ice Mountain Spring Water. (Nothing but the best, of course.)]

307 Iwouldprefernotto  Jan 10, 2015 8:37:43am

Is anyone suprised that Zimmerman has more legal trouibles involving guns?

From slate

308 jaunte  Jan 10, 2015 8:39:02am
309 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 10, 2015 8:39:35am

re: #227 PhillyPretzel

Monday is going to be a mess. :(

I’m going out today to run errands in King of Prussia and West Chester just to make sure they get done before it gets nasty weather-wise.

310 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 8:39:40am

Tea Party in Donbass?

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311 Dr Lizardo  Jan 10, 2015 8:39:57am

re: #307 Iwouldprefernotto

Is anyone suprised that Zimmerman has more legal trouibles involving guns?

From slate

Zimmerman’s a major hothead with a hair-trigger temper; that’s pretty obvious. And one of these days, he’s totally gonna mess with the wrong person.

312 thedopefishlives  Jan 10, 2015 8:41:11am

So the Nickelodeon Network now has a show about a girl quarterback. Hmm. I’m waiting for the wingnut outrage, but I suppose they have much bigger things to be outraged about these days.

313 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 8:41:16am

re: #308 jaunte

Hero.

314 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 10, 2015 8:41:55am

re: #310 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Tea Party in Donbass?

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Donbasshats

315 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 10, 2015 8:42:15am

re: #308 jaunte

Movie script material there.

316 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 8:42:41am

But he didn’t kick the terrorists’ asses, so I guess that doesn’t count. ////

317 thedopefishlives  Jan 10, 2015 8:44:18am

re: #316 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

But he didn’t kick the terrorists’ asses, so I guess that doesn’t count. ////

Everybody knows a REAL HERO would’ve pulled a gun and shot all the bad guys dead. Don’t you watch any movies or have any wingnut fantasies?

318 jaunte  Jan 10, 2015 8:44:34am

re: #316 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

*Bryan Fischer derides this further ‘feminization’ of heroism*
motherjones.com

319 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 10, 2015 8:45:55am

re: #312 thedopefishlives

So the Nickelodeon Network now has a show about a girl quarterback. Hmm. I’m waiting for the wingnut outrage, but I suppose they have much bigger things to be outraged about these days.

Tony Romo broke a lot of ground in that regard.
j/k ;)

320 thedopefishlives  Jan 10, 2015 8:46:52am

re: #319 Feline Fearless Leader

Tony Romo broke a lot of ground in that regard.
j/k ;)

Alright, I’m not going to lie, that made me laugh. You win an Internet. First one of the morning.

321 Dr. Matt  Jan 10, 2015 8:46:59am
322 Iwouldprefernotto  Jan 10, 2015 8:48:30am

re: #319 Feline Fearless Leader

Tony Romo broke a lot of ground in that regard.
j/k ;)

I love you.

323 bratwurst  Jan 10, 2015 8:48:49am

re: #319 Feline Fearless Leader

Tony Romo broke a lot of ground in that regard.
j/k ;)

324 jaunte  Jan 10, 2015 8:56:01am
325 BigPapa  Jan 10, 2015 8:56:21am
326 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 8:57:06am

re: #317 thedopefishlives

Everybody knows a REAL HERO would’ve pulled a gun and shot all the bad guys dead. Don’t you watch any movies or have any wingnut fantasies?

Well, another man grabbed one of the terror scums’ guns and tried to shoot the dirtbag, but he found out that the scumbag had set that gun aside because it had jammed. The terrorist then shot that brave man dead.

Life isn’t like a movie.

327 thedopefishlives  Jan 10, 2015 8:57:26am

re: #325 BigPapa

Cops find loaded gun in Tennessee woman’s vagina: report

Stand Your Ground indeed.

Okay, when we talk about “gun fuckers”, I don’t think we were really intending that to be literal…

328 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 10, 2015 8:58:45am

re: #267 ObserverArt

I have no downding for you because I understand we can’t always hit the right words for the right tone for the folks in a given emotional venue (like when we are reeling from awful news) and posting is hard if you care and you do.

My $.02
Looking at the logic, it would apply to different peoples and venues.

The average Muslim has no resources beyond words. Depending on location, might not even have that. The average Jew has nothing beyond words or maybe a vote on what the Israeli government decides or a Rabbinical council decides. The average Palestinian has nothing at all to reduce Palestinian militancy or target choices. Even the average soldier or pilot have little impact on their orders. Bringing this all the way home, the average Republican, Democrat or Indy has only words and a few votes unless wealthy. The gun owner can’t change the NRA. All I can do about PETA is send my tiny contribution to ASPCA.

When we talk about strife-We have to separate militants and leadership when we use those words. Try to reach one another and do some good for a heart or mind if only among us average folks.

329 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 8:59:21am

re: #327 thedopefishlives

Okay, when we talk about “gun fuckers”, I don’t think we were really intending that to be literal…

Somebody should come up with a holster for safe vaginal carry.

/wingnut logic

330 alpuzzzzz (I, R & sometimes why?)  Jan 10, 2015 9:00:53am

re: #207 Amory Blaine

He left to get a job? Where, with the WisGOP? The guy has never held a job outside of ‘big government’ in his freakin’ life. He’s a career politician. *sigh*

331 BigPapa  Jan 10, 2015 9:06:34am

re: #327 thedopefishlives

Okay, when we talk about “gun fuckers”, I don’t think we were really intending that to be literal…

This is my rifle, this is my gun…

332 Snarknado!  Jan 10, 2015 9:07:01am

re: #325 BigPapa

Cops find loaded gun in Tennessee woman’s vagina: report

Stand Your Ground indeed.

Pointed which way? Inquiring minds want to know.

333 De Kolta Chair  Jan 10, 2015 9:14:09am

— Chris Christie hugs football team owner
— Mitt Romney may run again says football team owner

334 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 10, 2015 9:23:10am

re: #329 Dark_Falcon

Somebody should come up with a holster for safe vaginal carry.

/wingnut logic

open vaginal carry?

335 b_sharp  Jan 10, 2015 9:26:27am

re: #334 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

open vaginal carry?

The non-sexist version would be the open asshole carry.

336 thedopefishlives  Jan 10, 2015 9:28:30am

re: #335 b_sharp

The non-sexist version would be the open asshole carry.

Yeah, but thanks to the NRA, we already have that.

337 goddamnedfrank  Jan 10, 2015 9:28:44am

The Zimmerman arrest page has been updated. He’s now being held on $5000 bail. Also, the weapon was a wine bottle.

338 BeenHereAwhile  Jan 10, 2015 9:31:09am

re: #297 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They bought their wife’s engagement ring from the jewelry counter at the Wal-Mart while they were there stocking up on buckshot.

More like .22LR that they can shoot in their converted .223 assault rifle.

339 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 10, 2015 9:33:09am

re: #337 goddamnedfrank

The Zimmerman arrest page has been updated. He’s now being held on $5000 bail. Also, the weapon was a wine bottle.

If we make wine bottles illegal, then only criminals, etc…

340 BeenHereAwhile  Jan 10, 2015 9:38:24am

re: #311 Dr Lizardo

Zimmerman’s a major hothead with a hair-trigger temper; that’s pretty obvious. And one of these days, he’s totally gonna mess with the wrong person.

Who will then have the perfect Florida “stand your ground defense.”

341 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 10, 2015 9:40:58am

re: #340 BeenHereAwhile

Who will then have the perfect Florida “stand your ground defense.”

and will be white

342 Lidane  Jan 10, 2015 9:42:47am

Mental health break:

343 Dr Lizardo  Jan 10, 2015 9:44:57am

re: #342 Lidane

Not so much a mustache as it is a declaration of war.
344 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 9:51:29am

re: #343 Dr Lizardo

Image: Not so much a mustache as it is a declaration of war.

We meet again Otto von Bismarck!

345 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 9:52:50am

I’m so tired of the “when will the moderate muslim …” or the “when muslims control their own …” arguments.

I wonder if Murdoch would appreciate all men being held responsible for the violent actions of a few serial rapists or domestic violence perpetrators.

*spit*

346 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 9:53:57am

re: #345 FemNaziBitch

I’m so tired of the “when will the moderate muslim …” or the “when muslims control their own …” arguments.

I wonder if Murdoch would appreciate all men being held responsible for the violent actions of a few serial rapists or domestic violence perpetrators.

*spit*

Right on.

347 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 9:56:17am
348 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 9:56:49am

re: #346 HappyWarrior

Right on.

I think we should hold all white men responsible for George Zimmerman.

/

349 darthstar  Jan 10, 2015 9:57:30am
350 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 9:58:31am

re: #349 darthstar

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351 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 9:58:45am
352 BeachDem  Jan 10, 2015 9:58:52am

More EBOLA 11ty!! fallout from the doxxing of the Dallas nurse:

Amber Vinson contracted the disease and, before she was aware of that fact, flew to Cleveland, and then drove to Akron, for a wedding. She shopped for a dress at a place in Akron called Coming Attractions… The sad punchline is that, because of the publicity around Vinson’s visit, and the subsequent mindless terror, Coming Attractions announced it was going out of business…

This blows so many goats in so many different ways. But it is a measure of what fear can do even in the smallest places when it is fanned vigorously enough by the institutions that profit from it.

Once again, the monsters are due on Maple Street.

esquire.com

(Wonder if the “blowing goats” line is in reference to anyone in particular? //

353 darthstar  Jan 10, 2015 10:00:07am
354 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 10:02:07am
355 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 10:03:05am

re: #354 FemNaziBitch

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356 The Ghost of a Funky Discarded Egg  Jan 10, 2015 10:03:09am

re: #328 Rightwingconspirator

I have no downding for you because I understand we can’t always hit the right words for the right tone for the folks in a given emotional venue (like when we are reeling from awful news) and posting is hard if you care and you do.

My $.02
Looking at the logic, it would apply to different peoples and venues.

The average Muslim has no resources beyond words. Depending on location, might not even have that. The average Jew has nothing beyond words or maybe a vote on what the Israeli government decides or a Rabbinical council decides. The average Palestinian has nothing at all to reduce Palestinian militancy or target choices. Even the average soldier or pilot have little impact on their orders. Bringing this all the way home, the average Republican, Democrat or Indy has only words and a few votes unless wealthy. The gun owner can’t change the NRA. All I can do about PETA is send my tiny contribution to ASPCA.

When we talk about strife-We have to separate militants and leadership when we use those words. Try to reach one another and do some good for a heart or mind if only among us average folks.

I concur, and have bolded the part your statement I want to emphasize.

Jihadists, Islamists, takfiris—pick your title—kill to silence critics and re-inforce their groups’ internal solidarity. It works exactly like street cred for an organized crime family: don’t fuck with us, do what we want, because we can touch you. Indeed, the comparison to organized crime can be stretched farther, in that terrorists act as para-government, providing protection and handing out punishment.

Every time a bomb goes off in the Middle East (or Africa, etc), it’s a Charlie Hebdo massacre. It is the same kind of tragedy, engineered and executed with the same intentions.

Statements like “Muslims must condemn X, or they’re complicit” are easy to make when you’re spectating from a country where there’s a government, a military, and a police force that will attempt to defend you. But the chunks of the world that are suffering the most from terrorism are—surprise!—the places where there’s no such thing, and often has never been such a thing. Government, police, military are all forces serving their own agendas, that might or might not intersect with keeping you, squishy non-notable citizen, from being murdered. The violent, arbitrary rule of terrorism is not a vague threat; it is a certainty.

While we speak of free speech in the US as a right, it is only a right because we have built a system that protects the individual speaker. Murder is the exceptional response to public statements. It is shocking when someone dies for their speech. It’s hard to imagine living in a place where murder is the expected response, that there are words you can’t say.*

The terrorist organizations we now know as global threats have been killing outspoken journalists, mullahs, and other public figures in the Middle East for decades. The chilling of free (critical) speech is not some new phenomenon; it is a long-term, curated process**, and we are observing not opening moves, but the mid-game.

*actually, there’s an entire rabbit hole of forgetting that certain Americans do have to think about whether their self-expression will get them killed.

**another can of worms is that way that terrorist suppression of free speech piggybacks upon a larger set of trends that have quashed free exchange of ideas. The Islamic world is largely comprised of post-colonial societies with vast income inequality and authoritarian governance: dissent from the positions of the hegemons disappears. The largest regional power, Saudi Arabia, is a theocratic monarchy that has spent trillions of dollars supporting hyper-conservative, Islamic political movements and stamping out left and liberal political traditions.

357 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 10:03:28am
358 GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 10, 2015 10:04:37am

re: #267 ObserverArt

More Muslims die trying to fight Jihadists than do non-Muslims.

359 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 10:10:54am

for real?

360 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 10:12:08am

re: #359 FemNaziBitch

for real?

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Gerrymandering in action.

361 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 10:14:30am
362 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 10:15:05am
363 kirkspencer  Jan 10, 2015 10:17:44am

re: #360 HappyWarrior

Gerrymandering in action.

A very little bit. Voter suppression is another very little bit.

A huge bit is just voter apathy that is (due to both the preceding, and a host of other issues) not equal across gender and race and age.

364 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 10:18:11am

re: #363 kirkspencer

A very little bit. Voter suppression is another very little bit.

A huge bit is just voter apathy that is (due to both the preceding, and a host of other issues) not equal across gender and race and age.

Right, a little bit of everything.

365 Ace-o-aces  Jan 10, 2015 10:18:47am

Zimmerman now has been arrested five times. If your keeping track, that’s five more times than Trayvon Martin. Remind me again who the right wing felt was a danger to society?

366 GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 10, 2015 10:19:43am

re: #355 HappyWarrior

Some of them are even under 60!

367 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 10:21:19am

re: #366 GlutenFreeJesus

Some of them are even under 60!

Some of them aren’t Evangelicals!

368 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 10:28:54am
369 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 10:29:58am

re: #359 FemNaziBitch

for real?

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Some progress has been made:

The youngest woman ever to be elected to the House is now in. As is the first black senator to be elected from a Deep South state since 1881.

Both of those folks are Republicans.

370 Mattand  Jan 10, 2015 10:34:29am

re: #369 Dark_Falcon

Some progress has been made:

The youngest woman ever to be elected to the House is now in. As is the first black senator to be elected from a Deep South state since 1881.

Both of those folks are Republicans.

LOL, the gender/race glass ceiling for people working against their own self-interest is broken once again!

371 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 10:37:15am
372 Dr Lizardo  Jan 10, 2015 10:43:52am

re: #368 FemNaziBitch

Yep, just like these Muslims chilling at a cafe when they were blown to bits by suicide bombers.

At least seven people were killed and more than 20 were wounded on Saturday after a two suicide bombers detonated their charges at a a coffee shop in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.

According to state-run agency, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a café in Jabal Mohsen, a predominantly Alawite neighborhood, before a second bomber set off his charge when people gathered at the scene, resulting in more casualties.

Yes, just sitting there drinking some coffee and relaxing no doubt makes all us Muslims responsible for terrorism.

Fuck that. And fuck those imbeciles who actually believe that shit.

english.alarabiya.net

373 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 10:52:44am

Meanwhile in Virginia … .

HB 1414 Government-issued licenses, etc.; obtaining or renewing, conscience clause.

Introduced by: Robert G. Marshall

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Obtaining or renewing government-issued licenses, etc.; conscience clause. Provides that a person shall not be required to perform, assist, consent to, or participate in any action or refrain from performing, assisting, consenting to, or participating in any action as a condition of obtaining or renewing a government-issued license, registration, or certificate where such condition would violate the religious or moral convictions of such person with respect to same-sex marriage or homosexual behavior.

Amendment I

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Be ready for the rhetoric …

374 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 10:57:04am
375 Mattand  Jan 10, 2015 10:57:05am

re: #373 FemNaziBitch

Meanwhile in Virginia … .

Amendment I

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Be ready for the rhetoric …

This is what kills me with the opposition to gay marriage: it all boils down to “My religion says it’s icky.”

The more I’ve learned about politics and the Constitution over the years, the more I’m amazed how people are in denial about how the United States is a secular country.

376 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 10:59:26am

For those posting Pages —Charles recommends images!
[Infographic] 2015 Social Media Image Size Cheat Sheet and Image Tricks

377 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 11:00:08am

re: #375 Mattand

This is what kills me with the opposition to gay marriage: it all boils down to “My religion says it’s icky.”

The more I’ve learned about politics and the Constitution over the years, the more I’m amazed how people are in denial about how the United States is a secular country.

Those who wanted to create a schism were handed 9/11.

378 Charles Johnson  Jan 10, 2015 11:08:15am
379 Charles Johnson  Jan 10, 2015 11:10:34am

These people are really twisted. I almost feel sorry for them.

380 Kid A  Jan 10, 2015 11:11:48am

re: #378 Charles Johnson

381 ObserverArt  Jan 10, 2015 11:12:10am

Comment eliminated.

I give up, my apologies to all I seem to have offended.

382 Kid A  Jan 10, 2015 11:14:41am
383 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 11:17:01am

re: #380 Kid A

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That’s the thing. Many of us have had Muslim friends and neighbors. We don’t see them as the “other” like the bigoted asshole Murdoch does. Whereas Rupert sees people who don’t condemn terrorists. I see classmates, business owners, doctors, etc. So yeah I’ll go “live” with them like I do everyone else.

384 Kid A  Jan 10, 2015 11:17:51am
385 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jan 10, 2015 11:19:28am

re: #383 HappyWarrior

That’s the thing. Many of us have had Muslim friends and neighbors. We don’t see them as the “other” like the bigoted asshole Murdoch does. Whereas Rupert sees people who don’t condemn terrorists. I see classmates, business owners, doctors, etc. So yeah I’ll go “live” with them like I do everyone else.

THIS!

386 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 11:25:16am
387 jaunte  Jan 10, 2015 11:26:42am

re: #382 Kid A

You’d take them over Murdoch?

What are we, choosing up sides for a ball game?

388 Kid A  Jan 10, 2015 11:29:05am

re: #387 jaunte

What are we, choosing up sides for a ball game?

My Muslims can stay away from backdoor sliders on a two-strike count. Murdoch can’t.

389 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 10, 2015 11:32:50am

On a lighter note, just bought 2 seat to American Sniper to see at the grand old Hollywood Dome tomorrow. Love that place, Arclight really fixed it up right. I read the book through more than once. The trailer looks like a heck of a performance.

390 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 11:32:54am
391 ObserverArt  Jan 10, 2015 11:33:59am

re: #304 CuriousLurker

Oh, I see—so the fault isn’t with your logic, it’s with your inability to effectively articulate what you’re thinking, hence people get offended.

You feel bad? Yeah, me too when I wake up every day and have to deal with hearing this kind of dreck.

I’ll tell you what, when you figure out “what is needed to be done” you get on the phone and call up all the leaders of the world as I’m sure they’ll be happy to hear that someone’s finally come up with a solution.

Now please excuse me while I go extinguish my hair.

No, my words are not explaining my logic and that is why you are offended. My apology is heartfelt, but you can keep kicking my ass if you want.

392 Justanotherhuman  Jan 10, 2015 11:37:17am

Signs now being seen in Paris: “Je suis juif”.

And countries like Saudi Arabia should examine their own extreme forms of punishment and lack of civil liberties.

US urges Saudi to cancel whipping of citizen journalist
Blogger and activist sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for questioning the ban of his website

timesofisrael.com

And to differentiate between ordinary, peaceful Muslims, even in traditionally Muslim countries, who simply wish to practice their religion without hate, we have this assessment:

“There is something malignant in the brittle world the Arab peoples inhabit. A murderous, fanatical, atavistic Islamist ideology espoused by Salafi Jihadist killers is sweeping that world and shaking it to its foundations, and the reverberations are felt in faraway continents. On the day the globalized wrath of these assassins claimed the lives of the Charlie Hebdo twelve in Paris, it almost simultaneously claimed the lives of 38 Yemenis in their capital Sana’a, and an undetermined number of victims in Syria and Iraq. Like the Hydra beast of ancient Greece this malignancy has many heads: al Qaeda, the Islamic State, Sunni Salafists and Shiite fanatics, armies and parties of God and militias of the Mahdi. This monstrous ideology has been terrorizing Arab lands long before it visited New York on 9/11, and its butchers assassinated Arab journalists and intellectuals years before committing the Paris massacre of French journalists, cartoonists and police officers.

“The devil’s rejects of this ideology engage in wanton ritualistic beheadings while intoxicated with shouts of Allahu Akbar, oblivious to the fact that most of their victims are Muslims. They are perpetuating mass killings and rapes, uprooting ancient communities, declaring war on the great pre-Islamic civilizations and religions of the Fertile Crescent, and managing to turn large swaths of Syria and Iraq into earthly provinces of hell.

“The time of the assassins is upon us. And the true tragedy of the Arab and Muslim world today is that there is no organized, legitimate counterforce to oppose these murderers—neither one of governments nor of “moderate” Islam. Nor is there any refuge for those who want to escape the assassins.”

Read more: politico.com

393 Romantic Heretic  Jan 10, 2015 11:39:13am

re: #325 BigPapa

Cops find loaded gun in Tennessee woman’s vagina: report

Stand Your Ground indeed.

I took one look at the gun and thought, “Holy crap! Was she lucky!”

My wife noted, “God really does look after idiots and fools.”

394 Justanotherhuman  Jan 10, 2015 11:40:22am

re: #393 Romantic Heretic

I took one look at the gun and thought, “Holy crap! Was she lucky!”

My wife noted, “God really does look after idiots and fools.”

How in hell did she get a gun in there in the first place? : /

395 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 11:40:58am

re: #392 Justanotherhuman

Somehow, the Western and Eastern worlds seem to have downplayed an individuals loyalty to the tribe and substituted the Country.

Middle East seems to be stuck in a tribal world.

Unfailing loyalty to the point of committing murder is in any setting is wrong. The tribal/clan/sect insanity has to stop.

It’s infuriating when we see it in American in the form of “my version of America”. The KKK, IMHO, is just another inbred clan.

396 Decatur Deb  Jan 10, 2015 11:41:19am
397 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 11:42:05am

re: #394 Justanotherhuman

How in hell did she get a gun in there in the first place? : /

TMI

398 BigPapa  Jan 10, 2015 11:43:21am

re: #394 Justanotherhuman

How in hell did she get a gun in there in the first place? : /

She put it in her Lady Holster.

399 Kid A  Jan 10, 2015 11:43:25am

Aaaaannnnnnd Muslim hater has been blocked…

400 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 11:45:21am
401 Kid A  Jan 10, 2015 11:46:15am
402 Justanotherhuman  Jan 10, 2015 11:46:47am

re: #395 FemNaziBitch

Somehow, the Western and Eastern worlds seem to have downplayed an individuals loyalty to the tribe and substituted the Country.

Middle East seems to be stuck in a tribal world.

Unfailing loyalty to the point of committing murder is in any setting is wrong. The tribal/clan/sect insanity has to stop.

It’s infuriating when we see it in American in the form of “my version of America”. The KKK, IMHO, is just another inbred clan.

Any form of “fundamentalism”, no matter where it’s played out (and members of the KKK are more than likely to be that form of “christian”) should always be shunned

We’ve seen the rise of fundamentalism in this country and how it’s tried to curtail civil liberties and change policies for all of us, and it should be as rejected here as it should be in any other country.

403 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 11:47:45am
404 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 11:48:06am

BBL

405 electrotek  Jan 10, 2015 11:49:28am

So I had read that the magazine publication was in danger of bankruptcy. Well the actions of the 2 Salafi shitheads surely changed all that.

406 jaunte  Jan 10, 2015 11:50:10am

re: #401 Kid A

Personal responsibility!

407 Justanotherhuman  Jan 10, 2015 11:50:37am

re: #400 FemNaziBitch

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Any woman who would hook up with this criminally-minded loser must not be quite bright.

He is incorrigible, and will likely remain that way, raging on any woman who has the misfortune to enter into his life.

408 Kid A  Jan 10, 2015 11:50:45am
409 jaunte  Jan 10, 2015 11:52:28am

re: #408 Kid A

May this be the start of his successful ‘prison artist’ career.

410 Dr Lizardo  Jan 10, 2015 11:53:01am

re: #408 Kid A

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Crocs are of the devil.

:p

411 Justanotherhuman  Jan 10, 2015 11:55:03am
412 Justanotherhuman  Jan 10, 2015 11:59:43am

There are reports that Hayat Boumeddiene, common law wife of the kosher grocery store killer and most wanted woman on the planet, left France on Jan 2, traveled to Spain where she left for Turkey and then entered Syria, possibly to make contact with ISIS.

Evidently she was on no country’s radar.

413 FemNaziBitch  Jan 10, 2015 12:00:17pm
414 electrotek  Jan 10, 2015 12:01:59pm

re: #412 Justanotherhuman

There are reports that Hayat Boumeddiene, common law wife of the kosher grocery store killer and most wanted woman on the planet, left France on Jan 2, traveled to Spain where she left for Turkey and then entered Syria, possibly to make contact with ISIS.

Evidently she was on no country’s radar.

So she was never at the supermarket to begin with?

415 Justanotherhuman  Jan 10, 2015 12:06:23pm

re: #414 electrotek

So she was never at the supermarket to begin with?

French authorities are saying no, from what’s being reported.

416 Dr Lizardo  Jan 10, 2015 12:06:58pm

re: #414 electrotek

So she was never at the supermarket to begin with?

They’re thinking she might have split the country prior to all the shit going down. If she went to Syria, she probably went off to seek shelter with IS.

417 De Kolta Chair  Jan 10, 2015 12:08:44pm

NY Times yesterday: Rumor Fatigue Sets In at False Alarms of Castro’s Death

The bulletin now falls squarely in the pantheon of unconfirmed phenomena, along with U.F.O.s, sightings of the Loch Ness monster and the breakup of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie:

Fidel Castro is dead.

[…] “Hope springs eternal,” said James Cason, the former head of the United States Interests Section in Cuba from 2002 to 2005 and now the mayor of Coral Gables, a wealthy enclave in Miami-Dade County. “He must have died 20 times since the time I went to Cuba.”

418 electrotek  Jan 10, 2015 12:10:51pm

re: #415 Justanotherhuman

French authorities are saying no, from what’s being reported.

Makes sense. Highly doubt a woman in a niqab would have been able to flee easily in light of the operation at that time.

419 Decatur Deb  Jan 10, 2015 12:15:18pm

re: #414 electrotek

So she was never at the supermarket to begin with?

This small detail can be usefully remembered when we respond to the next rush of news about a distant atrocity, osterized through layers of language, editorial competence, and presuppositions.

420 Khal Wimpo  Jan 10, 2015 12:16:49pm

re: #379 Charles Johnson

Obvious trolls are obvious. Note the signage in his Twitter background.

And yes, they are pathetic. Toddlers screaming and throwing a tantrum show more maturity.

421 electrotek  Jan 10, 2015 12:20:12pm

I just can’t believe we have to go through this again, a decade later! Only difference is, this time, blood was shed, and it didn’t have to be this way. And now we will have to pay the price for years to come thanks to Salafi scum. And as a result, we will quite possibly see more Anders Breivik’s to emerge, who will cite this horrific act of carnage on January 7th as justification for any attack they will inflict upon Muslims in Europe.

God help us all.

422 Romantic Heretic  Jan 10, 2015 12:22:30pm

re: #357 FemNaziBitch

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I do beg your pardon. I’m a dropout also and I quite dislike your linking education and ethics.

Limbaugh et al. have no ethics. Their lack of education is secondary to that. Ben Carson and Erick Erickson are both well educated and just as vile as Limbaugh and company.

423 Romantic Heretic  Jan 10, 2015 12:29:25pm

re: #386 FemNaziBitch

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A familiar picture from my railroad days.

424 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 10, 2015 2:33:27pm

re: #351 FemNaziBitch

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That’s a bit of hairsplitting, IMHO.


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