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1 psddluva4evah  Jan 20, 2015 8:14:52pm

The line of the night is of course “I Know Because I Won Both”…

Like I said, the GOP thought they’d be cute an applaude the “no more campaigns” line. So Obama dropped the ad-libbed boom.

I think he set them up. We all know these GOP can’t not talk back at POTUS,,,remember “you lie”…and as usual they fell for it.

ICYMI, the complete clip.
slate.com

2 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 8:15:15pm

Were you particularly deranged tonight, Charles?

I didn’t notice.

3 austin_blue  Jan 20, 2015 8:15:57pm

Ach, my deepest sympathies on your loss.

4 Charles Johnson  Jan 20, 2015 8:16:39pm

re: #2 klystron

Were you particularly deranged tonight, Charles?

I didn’t notice.

I was totally cray. Out of control.

5 Decatur Deb  Jan 20, 2015 8:17:04pm

Not just an unfollow—a public unfollow, a veritable Twitterflounce.

6 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 8:17:30pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

I was totally cray. Out of control.

It might be catching, you never know.

7 Kragar  Jan 20, 2015 8:17:34pm

My condolences in your time of despair

…

8 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 20, 2015 8:18:13pm
I’ve already suffered a crushing blow on Twitter, but I think I’ll make it somehow.

Better watch out lest Brickman will dismantle you like you were a teachers’ union.

9 Charles Johnson  Jan 20, 2015 8:19:00pm
10 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 20, 2015 8:19:30pm

re: #5 Decatur Deb

Not just an unfollow—a public unfollow, a veritable Twitterflounce.

That’s what you do with irrelevant bloggers. ;-)

11 Decatur Deb  Jan 20, 2015 8:21:24pm

re: #7 Kragar

My condolences in your time of despair

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Was that song supposed to suck that much?

12 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 8:22:18pm

I am sure you are all dying to know but garlic squash is better than not-garlic squash.

Ok, it took 10 cloves of garlic to get to that point. May not be recommended if you are not me.

13 jaunte  Jan 20, 2015 8:23:07pm

Why does Michael Brickman think any one would care who he unfollows?

14 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 20, 2015 8:23:11pm

re: #12 klystron

I am sure you are all dying to know but garlic squash is better than not-garlic squash.

Ok, it took 10 cloves of garlic to get to that point. May not be recommended if you are not me.

Do you the know the dish called “the imam fainted”?

15 A Cranky One  Jan 20, 2015 8:23:23pm

I was going to comment, but I’m afraid of what Charles might tweet.

16 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 8:23:28pm

re: #14 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Do you the know the dish called “the imam fainted”?

Nope. Does it involve garlic?

17 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 8:23:45pm

re: #15 A Cranky One

I was going to comment, but I’m afraid of what Charles might tweet.

He’s tweeting about my page. Watch out!

18 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 20, 2015 8:24:32pm

re: #16 klystron

Nope. Does it involve garlic?

You betcha! domesticgoddesses.co.za

That recipe calls for 8 cloves, but I’ve seen recipes with much more.

19 Lidane  Jan 20, 2015 8:24:42pm

re: #1 psddluva4evah

The line of the night is of course “I Know Because I Won Both”…

Like I said, the GOP thought they’d be cute an applaude the “no more campaigns” line. So Obama dropped the ad-libbed boom.

I think he set them up. We all know these GOP can’t not talk back at POTUS,,,remember “you lie”…and as usual they fell for it.

ICYMI, the complete clip.
slate.com

POTUS in a nutshell:

20 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 8:26:33pm

re: #18 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

You betcha! domesticgoddesses.co.za

Huh. I am somewhat skeptical of eggplant but may have to give that a try.

Garlic solves many ills.

/would still probably double the garlic called for. maybe.

21 gwangung  Jan 20, 2015 8:27:39pm

re: #20 klystron

Huh. I am somewhat skeptical of eggplant but may have to give that a try.

Garlic solves many ills.

/would still probably double the garlic called for. maybe.

Is that all?

22 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 8:28:27pm

re: #21 gwangung

Is that all?

For the first time trying a recipe, I generally try to stay within about a factor of 2 on the spices…

…generally…

23 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 20, 2015 8:30:02pm

re: #20 klystron

Huh. I am somewhat skeptical of eggplant but may have to give that a try.

Garlic solves many ills.

/would still probably double the garlic called for. maybe.

Eggplant has to be cooked thoroughly to get rid of its more obnoxious eggplant-y flavor. Salting it draws out excess water, which allows the eggplant to absorb more delicious flavors while cooking. They also have an amazing ability to soak up oil like a sponge, which can be a problem if you don’t like oily food.

It’s one of my favorite vegetables. Eggplant parmigiana. Stir-fried eggplant. Roasted eggplant. …

24 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 20, 2015 8:30:04pm

re: #17 klystron

He’s tweeting about my page. Watch out!

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BEADS! IT’S THE BEADS!!!!

25 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 8:31:05pm

re: #23 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Eggplant has to be cooked thoroughly to get rid of its more obnoxious eggplant-y flavor. Salting it draws out excess water, which allows the eggplant to absorb more delicious flavors while cooking. They also have an amazing ability to soak up oil like a sponge, which can be a problem if you don’t like oily food.

It’s one of my favorite vegetables. Eggplant parmigiana. Stir-fried eggplant. Roasted eggplant. …

Favorited to keep those tips in mind.

I am willing to try - and generally more willing when I am cooking myself. It’s just …a vegetable I remain skeptical of.

26 Jocko's Rocket Ship  Jan 20, 2015 8:32:48pm

Like a tree falling in a forest, if Chuck Todd talks, does he really make a sound?

27 A Cranky One  Jan 20, 2015 8:32:58pm

re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth

BEADS! IT’S THE BEADS!!!!

No wonder Brickman stopped following Charles!

28 teleskiguy  Jan 20, 2015 8:34:11pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

I was totally cray. Out of control.

I think it was this retweet that put him over the edge.

29 psddluva4evah  Jan 20, 2015 8:34:11pm

NYT was first up with the butthurt narrative over Obama’s “I won both” line.

Of course NYT…of course.

“In much of President Obama’s State of the Union speech, he discussed unifying themes.

But in one off-script moment, he flashed his notoriously competitive side.

Mr. Obama likes to remind voters that his days of running for office are over and he did so on Tuesday night, offering, “I have no more campaigns to run.”

The Republican side of the chamber broke out in cheers and Mr. Obama, cracking a sly smile, responded: “I know because I won them both.”

After that, it was back to bipartisanship.”

30 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 20, 2015 8:35:01pm

Kittehs are telling me it’s time to sleep for a while.
The Bear has deep thoughts after tonight’s SOTU:

laterz…

31 Charles Johnson  Jan 20, 2015 8:36:33pm
32 psddluva4evah  Jan 20, 2015 8:37:34pm

So I don’t watch much football, but I saw this and wondered what football fans think?

33 teleskiguy  Jan 20, 2015 8:39:02pm

The right wing in the United States lost me completely about a year after Obama took office. I credit LGF for acutely bringing the bad craziness to my attention over that period of time, but a pattern definitely emerged as time went on. Conservative politicians today are reactionary, atavistic, and completely out of touch with reality. Obama says “voting is sacred,” at his sixth State of the Union address, conservatives in the House Chamber sit on their fucking hands.

34 WhatEVs  Jan 20, 2015 8:42:17pm

So the Spanish translation of the “Earnest Replies to POTUS” show apparently included something on immigration. Anyone speak Spanish?

35 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 20, 2015 8:43:00pm

the “I know, I won both” is going to go down as a classic. Like an experienced boxer he put out a soft jab, and when they fell for it, came over the top with a hard hook. (I know that one… fell for it once. and I mean fell literally, as in when I got hit I just rag-dolled to the ground)

RBS

36 teleskiguy  Jan 20, 2015 8:43:04pm

I used all 140!

37 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 8:43:10pm

re: #34 WhatEVs

So the Spanish translation apparently included something on immigration. Anyone speak Spanish?

If you give me a transcript, I can provide a muddled translation. But I suspect there are better Lizards out there for this.

38 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 8:43:34pm

re: #32 psddluva4evah

So I don’t watch much football, but I saw this and wondered what football fans think?

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Still rooting for that meteor.

39 WhatEVs  Jan 20, 2015 8:43:43pm

re: #32 psddluva4evah

So I don’t watch much football, but I saw this and wondered what football fans think?

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What does that even mean?

40 Kid A  Jan 20, 2015 8:44:20pm
41 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 20, 2015 8:45:41pm

re: #32 psddluva4evah

So I don’t watch much football, but I saw this and wondered what football fans think?

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Fuck the NFL. Well must admit Not A Fan.

42 A Cranky One  Jan 20, 2015 8:46:12pm

re: #17 klystron

He’s tweeting about my page. Watch out!

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Very nice job! Thanks for sharing the results.

It would look very nice in my 1930’s house…grin.

43 Lidane  Jan 20, 2015 8:46:14pm

re: #34 WhatEVs

So the Spanish translation of the “Earnest Replies to POTUS” show apparently included something on immigration. Anyone speak Spanish?

I do. I’d have to see a transcript but I can translate it.

44 makeitstop  Jan 20, 2015 8:46:17pm

Ola, Lizards,

I got out of my rehearsal tonight just in time to catch Joni Ernst’s response to the SOTU.

I don’t want to sound mean, but she sounded like a genuinely stupid person, addressing people that she believes to be even more stupid than she is.

Do the Congressional old heads let the rookies do the response because they simply can’t be bothered to do it themselves? I know it’s supposed to represent some kind of award to the noobs, but damn. Could any casual observer have listened to that rebuttal and not gotten the impression that they were listening to a complete dummy?

45 Jenner7  Jan 20, 2015 8:48:08pm

re: #32 psddluva4evah

Either a massive failure or they cheated.

46 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 8:48:15pm

re: #42 A Cranky One

Very nice job! Thanks for sharing the results.

It would look very nice in my 1930’s house…grin.

Hahaha, we can talk about what reasonable rates are but I think you’d find my charge per hour a bit high. ;)

Also there are probably at least 200 hours in that piece.

47 Lidane  Jan 20, 2015 8:49:32pm

re: #44 makeitstop

The rebuttal has proven to be a career killer lately, so I guess the plan is to give it to someone without a career.

48 WhatEVs  Jan 20, 2015 8:49:54pm

re: #37 klystron

If you give me a transcript, I can provide a muddled translation. But I suspect there are better Lizards out there for this.

There’s a video at the bottom of this page. I’m trying to find text.

cbsnews.com

49 Kid A  Jan 20, 2015 8:49:56pm

HERD! HERD I SAY!!!

50 Mattand  Jan 20, 2015 8:50:25pm

re: #40 Kid A

Yeah, seriously, who is Brickman and why should I care?

51 A Cranky One  Jan 20, 2015 8:50:51pm

re: #32 psddluva4evah

So I don’t watch much football, but I saw this and wondered what football fans think?

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Under-inflated balls are easier to get a grip on when wet. Fully inflated, the balls get slippery; when slightly under-inflated a wet ball is easier to throw and to catch.

Basically, it amounts to a charge that the Patriots cheated. Unfortunately, the coach has a reputation for pushing the line when looking for an advantage. Guess we’ll see what happens.

52 WhatEVs  Jan 20, 2015 8:52:19pm

re: #40 Kid A

53 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 8:52:39pm

re: #48 WhatEVs

There’s a video at the bottom of this page. I’m trying to find text.

cbsnews.com

It’s CNN but it’s in Spanish.

54 psddluva4evah  Jan 20, 2015 8:53:06pm

re: #51 A Cranky One

well as a Saints fan, I’d like to think any form of cheating should get appropriate punishment…right…

but as have been said, Patriots already had issues before

55 WhatEVs  Jan 20, 2015 8:53:09pm

re: #43 Lidane

I do. I’d have to see a transcript but I can translate it.

I posted a link to the video below. I can’t find it in text.

56 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 20, 2015 8:53:18pm

re: #49 Kid A

HERD! HERD I SAY!!!

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57 Decatur Deb  Jan 20, 2015 8:53:30pm

re: #51 A Cranky One

Under-inflated balls are easier to get a grip on when wet. Fully inflated, the balls get slippery; when slightly under-inflated a wet ball is easier to throw and to catch.

Basically, it amounts to a charge that the Patriots cheated. Unfortunately, the coach has a reputation for pushing the line when looking for an advantage. Guess we’ll see what happens.

Why don’t they just put their balls in plastic bread bags to keep them dry?

58 A Cranky One  Jan 20, 2015 8:54:24pm

re: #57 Decatur Deb

Okay, Upding for the actual LOL.

59 jaunte  Jan 20, 2015 8:54:37pm

re: #57 Decatur Deb

Those are used for the ref’s honorarium.

60 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 20, 2015 8:54:58pm

So. I missed the SOTU. How was it?

61 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 8:55:11pm

re: #53 klystron

It’s CNN but it’s in Spanish.

The relevant section is probably:

Sí, el tema de la inmigración todavía levanta pasiones, pero seguramente todos podemos reconocer algo de nosotros mismos en un perseverante estudiante joven y estar de acuerdo en que nadie se beneficia cuando se separa a una madre trabajadora de su hijo, y que es posible mejorar una ley que confirme nuestra tradición como una nación de leyes y una nación de inmigrantes.

My very rough take (more in the spirit than an actual translation) is that he was talking about DREAMers and that it doesn’t benefit us to separate kids from their parents, and that we can be a nation of both laws and immigrants.

62 palomino  Jan 20, 2015 8:55:57pm

re: #51 A Cranky One

Under-inflated balls are easier to get a grip on when wet. Fully inflated, the balls get slippery; when slightly under-inflated a wet ball is easier to throw and to catch.

Basically, it amounts to a charge that the Patriots cheated. Unfortunately, the coach has a reputation for pushing the line when looking for an advantage. Guess we’ll see what happens.

You gotta give the Patriots credit. When they cheat, they come up with really new and creative ways to do so.

But they will probably lose some draft choices or something over this as punishment. Really really dumb.

63 Mich-again  Jan 20, 2015 8:56:13pm

re: #51 A Cranky One

Under-inflated balls are easier to get a grip on when wet. Fully inflated, the balls get slippery; when slightly under-inflated a wet ball is easier to throw and to catch.

Basically, it amounts to a charge that the Patriots cheated. Unfortunately, the coach has a reputation for pushing the line when looking for an advantage. Guess we’ll see what happens.

Well hold on. As I understand it, the home team preps 36 balls for the game. The refs inspect a sampling of them before the game. Both teams use the same balls. It is kind of hard to make a case that underinflated balls helped one team while they simultaneously hurt the other team. And if anyone is at fault it is the referees for not being diligent in the inspections.

64 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 20, 2015 8:56:21pm

re: #60 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

So. I missed the SOTU. How was it?

It was pretty much a List of Things Congress Will Never Do.

65 WhatEVs  Jan 20, 2015 8:57:19pm

re: #44 makeitstop

Ola, Lizards,

I got out of my rehearsal tonight just in time to catch Joni Ernst’s response to the SOTU.

I don’t want to sound mean, but she sounded like a genuinely stupid person, addressing people that she believes to be even more stupid than she is.

So you’re saying she understands her audience? //

Do the Congressional old heads let the rookies do the response because they simply can’t be bothered to do it themselves? I know it’s supposed to represent some kind of award to the noobs, but damn. Could any casual observer have listened to that rebuttal and not gotten the impression that they were listening to a complete dummy?

I swear it’s the Any Woman Will Do mentality to show their inclusiness. McRodgers was equally Stepfordy. And as terrible as this is, because old Cath was pretty bad, this was worse. Joni the Castrator was not ready for prime time. Not in any way, shape or form.

It was pretty pathetic.

66 Decatur Deb  Jan 20, 2015 8:57:34pm

re: #64 Higgs Boson’s Mate

It was pretty much a List of Things Congress Will Never Do.

Then there was a bag lady.

67 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 20, 2015 8:58:14pm

How the GOP thinks we all must be living….

Night all… I need my beauty coma. Catch you later.

RBS

68 teleskiguy  Jan 20, 2015 8:58:15pm

re: #41 Rightwingconspirator

Fuck the NFL.

Yes Rightwingconspirator! Fuck the NFL with a big rubber dick!

I watched half a game with a friend, to be friendly. It was Patriots v Packers, Packers won. My friend is a Patriots fan. His mood became so dark as to be intolerable during that rendezvous.

That’s the only NFL I watched all season. And it hardened my resolve to Just Say No to the National Fuckers League.

69 WhatEVs  Jan 20, 2015 8:59:02pm

re: #49 Kid A

HERD! HERD I SAY!!!

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70 A Cranky One  Jan 20, 2015 8:59:04pm

re: #46 klystron

Hahaha, we can talk about what reasonable rates are but I think you’d find my charge per hour a bit high. ;)

Also there are probably at least 200 hours in that piece.

I understand completely. My wife does quilting and some of her show quality quilts have taken months. She gets a lot of offers for the quilts, but when you figure in materials and the countless hours, a realistic price would be ridiculous.

But I can still covet your piece ;)

71 Mich-again  Jan 20, 2015 9:00:34pm

And keep in mind a football inflated properly inside at 70F could end up below the required pressure once it goes outside where ambient temperature drops down to 20F. PV=nRt.

72 WhatEVs  Jan 20, 2015 9:00:44pm

re: #61 klystron

The relevant section is probably:

My very rough take (more in the spirit than an actual translation) is that he was talking about DREAMers and that it doesn’t benefit us to separate kids from their parents, and that we can be a nation of both laws and immigrants.

Which the GOP *totally* supports. (Eye roll)

73 Kragar  Jan 20, 2015 9:01:50pm

re: #49 Kid A

HERD! HERD I SAY!!!

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74 Kragar  Jan 20, 2015 9:02:07pm

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75 teleskiguy  Jan 20, 2015 9:02:14pm

Oh, Rightwingconspirator, I hope that bummer you’re dealing with with work is working itself out the best it can. I hope it’s not as bad as this car inspection.

76 austin_blue  Jan 20, 2015 9:02:18pm

???

77 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:02:32pm

re: #70 A Cranky One

I understand completely. My wife does quilting and some of her show quality quilts have taken months. She gets a lot of offers for the quilts, but when you figure in materials and the countless hours, a realistic price would be ridiculous.

But I can still covet your piece ;)

Quilting is on the “to try” list, but I have already given my hobby heart to a true love, and so it will never rank higher than second best.

…granted, I can still spend a stupid amount of time on second best hobbies.

78 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 20, 2015 9:02:45pm

re: #64 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I kinda figured it would be. Do like that line of the night tho.

79 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 20, 2015 9:03:08pm

re: #73 Kragar

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re: #75 teleskiguy

…

re: #76 austin_blue

…

re: #77 klystron

…

I concur…

RBS

80 jaunte  Jan 20, 2015 9:03:20pm

(-)
(-)

81 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:03:35pm

On the off chance that these comments reappear, it’s really funny to see all the “…” offerings.

82 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 20, 2015 9:03:36pm

what the heck…. it’s all dots.

83 Charles Johnson  Jan 20, 2015 9:03:56pm

Little glitch in the matrix there.

84 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 20, 2015 9:04:21pm

So, am i the only one who is seeing all commwents as “…” (using mobile)

85 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 20, 2015 9:04:33pm

Charles!!!!! Krager broke the internez again!

RBS

86 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:04:47pm

re: #77 klystron

…

Well, ok, this was supposed to be a response to re: #70 A Cranky One

I understand completely. My wife does quilting and some of her show quality quilts have taken months. She gets a lot of offers for the quilts, but when you figure in materials and the countless hours, a realistic price would be ridiculous.

But I can still covet your piece ;)

…about how stitching is my first love but I want to try quilting.

I will say the key to getting sucked into stitching is an amazing piece. Maybe you should show the photos to your wife.

87 Charles Johnson  Jan 20, 2015 9:04:53pm

Can’t sneak anything past you guys.

88 A Cranky One  Jan 20, 2015 9:05:30pm

re: #71 Mich-again

And keep in mind a football inflated properly inside at 70F could end up below the required pressure once it goes outside where ambient temperature drops down to 20F. PV=nRt.

Yup. And I suspect you just nailed the reason.

89 Targetpractice  Jan 20, 2015 9:05:45pm

re: #83 Charles Johnson

Little glitch in the matrix there.

Oh, so that’s why I saw the black cat walk by twice. Just thought it was deja vu.

90 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 20, 2015 9:05:58pm

So as i was saying i figured it was a bunch of proposals that people will like but congress won’t do.

91 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 20, 2015 9:06:16pm

re: #87 Charles Johnson

Can’t sneak anything past you guys.

How do we know that you’re the real Charles Johnson, and not an Agent impersonating him???

RBS

92 Decatur Deb  Jan 20, 2015 9:06:59pm

re: #89 Targetpractice

Oh, so that’s why I saw the black cat walk by twice. Just thought it was deja vu.

Or two cats.

93 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 20, 2015 9:07:19pm

re: #46 klystron

Hahaha, we can talk about what reasonable rates are but I think you’d find my charge per hour a bit high. ;)

Also there are probably at least 200 hours in that piece.

Did I lose the link to more pics in the slipstream? Beautiful work. As an aside, I worked in pen and ink for years. I finally reached the point where I had a real agent who placed my stuff in real galleries. When I divided what I received for those that sold by the number of hours I put into them it turned out that I was working for less than minimum wage. Being a top tier machinist paid way better and it was just as satisfying in its own way.

94 teleskiguy  Jan 20, 2015 9:07:52pm

re: #87 Charles Johnson

Can’t sneak anything past you guys.

OK, was this a joke? ‘Cause I saw something wrong and decided to tweet you, but by the time I finished typing the word “ellipses” you fixed it. Breaking things and fixing it faster than I can type a tweet.

You li’l devil!

95 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:08:14pm

re: #93 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Did I lose the link to more pics in the slipstream? Beautiful work. As an aside, I worked in pen and ink for years. I finally reached the point where I had a real agent who placed my stuff in real galleries. When I divided what I received for those that sold by the number of hours I put into them it turned out that I was working for less than minimum wage. Being a top tier machinist paid way better and it was just as satisfying in its own way.

I paged it and there will probably be more tomorrow, when I am not racing the sunset.

I was just so excited to share with you guys that I pulled out what I could.

96 jaunte  Jan 20, 2015 9:08:27pm

re: #92 Decatur Deb

Or two cats.

97 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 20, 2015 9:08:55pm

re: #34 WhatEVs

So the Spanish translation of the “Earnest Replies to POTUS” show apparently included something on immigration. Anyone speak Spanish?

No lo puedo ver aqui en China.

98 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:08:57pm

re: #93 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Also, machine work is amazingly fun and beautiful in its own right, and I have really enjoyed the (very small) bit of time I have gotten to play in a machine shop.

99 Targetpractice  Jan 20, 2015 9:09:01pm

re: #96 jaunte

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I’m seeing double!

/

100 jaunte  Jan 20, 2015 9:09:28pm
101 Decatur Deb  Jan 20, 2015 9:10:13pm

re: #93 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Did I lose the link to more pics in the slipstream? Beautiful work. As an aside, I worked in pen and ink for years. I finally reached the point where I had a real agent who placed my stuff in real galleries. When I divided what I received for those that sold by the number of hours I put into them it turned out that I was working for less than minimum wage. Being a top tier machinist paid way better and it was just as satisfying in its own way.

One of the Smithsonian buildings features an ‘amateur’ telescope made from Ford truck parts by an unemployed machinist. Spent a long time looking at it, and realized I was never going to build a telescope.

102 Lidane  Jan 20, 2015 9:11:08pm

re: #61 klystron

Yeah, that’s how it sounds to me, but that’s the text from Obama’s speech. I wonder what the GOP response said. Probably something about deportation.

103 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 20, 2015 9:11:54pm

re: #61 klystron

The relevant section is probably:

My very rough take (more in the spirit than an actual translation) is that he was talking about DREAMers and that it doesn’t benefit us to separate kids from their parents, and that we can be a nation of both laws and immigrants.

What she said.

104 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:12:10pm

re: #88 A Cranky One

Yup. And I suspect you just nailed the reason.

That wouldn’t account for a 2 psi drop in pressure, I’m pretty sure.

You’re talking a 30 degree (Celsius) drop in temperature. R stays the same, V stays the same*, n stays the same, so P1/T1 = P2/T2.

I can’t be bothered to look up conversion factors right now though.

* Approximately enough.

105 makeitstop  Jan 20, 2015 9:12:31pm

re: #100 jaunte

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“Bready??”

I know what she’s getting at, but even on Twitter that looks dumb.

106 Targetpractice  Jan 20, 2015 9:12:46pm

I like to think of this speech as the “Line in the Sand” speech, particularly with this bit:

At every step, we were told our goals were misguided or too ambitious; that we would crush jobs and explode deficits. Instead, we’ve seen the fastest economic growth in over a decade, our deficits cut by two-thirds, a stock market that has doubled, and health care inflation at its lowest rate in fifty years.

So the verdict is clear. Middle-class economics works. Expanding opportunity works. And these policies will continue to work, as long as politics don’t get in the way. We can’t slow down businesses or put our economy at risk with government shutdowns or fiscal showdowns. We can’t put the security of families at risk by taking away their health insurance, or unraveling the new rules on Wall Street, or refighting past battles on immigration when we’ve got a system to fix. And if a bill comes to my desk that tries to do any of these things, it will earn my veto.

107 Charles Johnson  Jan 20, 2015 9:16:05pm

re: #94 teleskiguy

Not a joke - just a regular expression going haywire. Fixed now.

108 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:16:26pm

re: #107 Charles Johnson

Not a joke - just a regular expression going haywire. Fixed now.

Best. Explanation. Ever.

109 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 20, 2015 9:16:49pm

re: #106 Targetpractice

I like to think of this speech as the “Line in the Sand” speech, particularly with this bit:

Machine gunner Obama, shooting vetoes from his presidential pen.

110 KiTA  Jan 20, 2015 9:17:27pm

Still at work. What did Jindal do that ruined his presidential hopes?

111 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:18:12pm

re: #110 KiTA

Still at work. What did Jindal do that ruined his presidential hopes?

I am sort of assuming it is something beyond the you’re/your fiasco in his rebuttal, but I really don’t know.

Oh, and the “no go zones” double-down.

112 teleskiguy  Jan 20, 2015 9:19:03pm

I agree completely.

113 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 20, 2015 9:19:36pm

re: #110 KiTA

Still at work. What did Jindal do that ruined his presidential hopes?

He opened his mouth.

114 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:19:56pm

On the Spanish side of things, apparently (hattip to jaunte):

115 Ace-o-aces  Jan 20, 2015 9:21:26pm
116 Jenner7  Jan 20, 2015 9:21:34pm

re: #112 teleskiguy

::clapping::

Bravo! Hurrah! Spot on.

117 Mattand  Jan 20, 2015 9:22:19pm

Getting caught up on the Joni Ernst response.

We were so poor we had to use sandwich bags as goulashes, so therefore Obama sucks.

They should have gone with this instead: …

118 Decatur Deb  Jan 20, 2015 9:23:22pm

re: #101 Decatur Deb

One of the Smithsonian buildings features an ‘amateur’ telescope made from Ford truck parts by an unemployed machinist. Spent a long time looking at it, and realized I was never going to build a telescope.

This guy:

nytimes.com

news.google.com

119 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:23:26pm
120 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:24:13pm

re: #119 klystron

Depressingly, replies to this tweet include MBF and “get over it” …and that was within the first two.

121 Charles Johnson  Jan 20, 2015 9:24:19pm
122 psddluva4evah  Jan 20, 2015 9:25:55pm

so apparently Ted Cruz was giving his own SOTU response, but there was a “glitch” . the video was swiftly deleted but Cruz crew, but some enterprising person caught the video…

123 Charles Johnson  Jan 20, 2015 9:26:49pm

The endless butthurt of the spurned wingnut.

124 Mattand  Jan 20, 2015 9:27:08pm

re: #122 psddluva4evah

so apparently Ted Cruz was giving his own SOTU response, but there was a “glitch” . the video was swiftly deleted but Cruz crew, but some enterprising person caught the video…

[Embedded content]

“Fuck it! We’ll do it live!”

He then took a sip of water while slipping on his bread bag shoes.

125 Charles Johnson  Jan 20, 2015 9:28:55pm
126 A Cranky One  Jan 20, 2015 9:29:35pm

re: #95 klystron

Mrs Cranky’s Quilt

This is a quilt my spouse made that is hanging behind the bed. Not one of her fancier pieces, but an interesting design. Unfortunately, the picture quality makes it impossible to see how many pieces are used, but it’s in the high hundreds. I’ll get some pics for her to share of some of her other work if you are interested.

127 Dark_Falcon  Jan 20, 2015 9:30:37pm

re: #117 Mattand

I thought she did just fine. Stayed on message and didn’t get caught unprepared like Governor No-Go Zone, nor did she end up needing water like Marco Rubio. She kept her tone even and worked in her own life experience in a constructive fashion.

128 A Cranky One  Jan 20, 2015 9:31:17pm

re: #104 klystron

That wouldn’t account for a 2 psi drop in pressure, I’m pretty sure.

You’re talking a 30 degree (Celsius) drop in temperature. R stays the same, V stays the same*, n stays the same, so P1/T1 = P2/T2.

I can’t be bothered to look up conversion factors right now though.

* Approximately enough.

Doggone it, don’t be using that fancy science and math stuff, we’re talking football! Who uses facts in an argument anymore anyway?

129 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:31:34pm

re: #126 A Cranky One

Image: Mrs Cranky’s QuiltThis is a quilt my spouse made that is hanging behind the bed. Not one of her fancier pieces, but an interesting design. Unfortunately, the picture quality makes it impossible to see how many pieces are used, but it’s in the high hundreds. I’ll get some pics for her to share of some of her other work if you are interested.

Absolutely! (And I am not the only Lizard who would be.)

It is gorgeous. The one quilt I have was made by my grandmother for my wedding - she passed away 8 months afterwards so it has a HUGE amount of sentimental value and I feel the need to make for my sisters/cousin. Which means learning how to quilt, and then being capable of giving them away.

130 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:32:00pm

re: #128 A Cranky One

Doggone it, don’t be using that fancy science and math stuff, we’re talking football! Who uses facts in an argument anymore anyway?

Sorry, I have a degree in chemistry.

Among others. >.>

131 Charles Johnson  Jan 20, 2015 9:32:25pm

re: #127 Dark_Falcon

Bread bags.

132 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 20, 2015 9:32:33pm

re: #32 psddluva4evah

Nothing new, I doubt Belacheat has ever played the game completely honest even when they’d win without cheating.

133 teleskiguy  Jan 20, 2015 9:33:27pm

re: #127 Dark_Falcon

I thought she did just fine. Stayed on message and didn’t get caught unprepared like Governor No-Go Zone, nor did she end up needing water like Marco Rubio. She kept her tone even and worked in her own life experience in a constructive fashion.

She sounded like a robot, like Siri even. She spoke like she was speaking to 5th graders. And it was all boilerplate GOP talking points that have nothing to do with anything constructive policy-wise.

It was pathetic. I think bratwurst is correct in saying that the party rebuttal of the SOTU is a “walking the plank” moment for inexperienced politicians.

134 Dark_Falcon  Jan 20, 2015 9:34:22pm

re: #131 Charles Johnson

Bread bags.

I don’t follow. Did miss something? I missed a couple of spots of both speeches watching the Blackhawks clobber the Coyotes 6-1.

135 Charles Johnson  Jan 20, 2015 9:34:33pm
136 makeitstop  Jan 20, 2015 9:35:26pm

re: #127 Dark_Falcon

I thought she did just fine. Stayed on message and didn’t get caught unprepared like Governor No-Go Zone, nor did she end up needing water like Marco Rubio. She kept her tone even and worked in her own life experience in a constructive fashion.

She sounded like the Romper Room Lady talking to a room full of three year olds.

137 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:35:34pm

re: #134 Dark_Falcon

I don’t follow. Did miss something? I missed a couple of spots of both speeches watching the Blackhawks clobber the Coyotes 6-1.

Yeah, you did.

So what didn’t you like about Obama’s speech, that you liked the rebuttal so much?

138 Mattand  Jan 20, 2015 9:36:07pm

re: #127 Dark_Falcon

I thought she did just fine. Stayed on message and didn’t get caught unprepared like Governor No-Go Zone, nor did she end up needing water like Marco Rubio. She kept her tone even and worked in her own life experience in a constructive fashion.

LOL, the pre-speech advice of shutting her mouth about hog castratin’ and Agenda 21 took.

139 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 20, 2015 9:38:29pm

re: #131 Charles Johnson

Her family got almost half a million in farm subsidies. Those were some expensive bread bags. Oh and the speech was written for her.

140 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:38:58pm

re: #139 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Her family got almost half a million in farm subsidies. Those were some expensive bread bags. Oh and the speech was written for her.

That’s not welfare, though, and don’t you dare imply otherwise.

///

141 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 20, 2015 9:39:57pm

re: #125 Charles Johnson

Isn’t it going to look wrong if the GOP Congress presses for a project that requires a land grab by the state of Nebraska? Of course they could try to portray those 90 land owners as tree hugging hippies…

142 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 20, 2015 9:40:34pm

re: #140 klystron

It’s only welfare if it’s given to city dwellers not if it’s given to the so-called american farmer.

143 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 20, 2015 9:40:41pm

re: #104 klystron

That wouldn’t account for a 2 psi drop in pressure, I’m pretty sure.

You’re talking a 30 degree (Celsius) drop in temperature. R stays the same, V stays the same*, n stays the same, so P1/T1 = P2/T2.

I can’t be bothered to look up conversion factors right now though.

* Approximately enough.

You have to use degrees Kelvin: (I think the starting pressure is 13 psig
13/294 = x/268
=> .0442=x/268; => 11.9 psi

144 Targetpractice  Jan 20, 2015 9:40:42pm

re: #138 Mattand

LOL, the pre-speech advice of shutting her mouth about hog castratin’ and Agenda 21 took.

Hell, let’s see the practice runs where they had to jab her with a cattle prod every time she started nattering about Agenda 21, nullification, or calling the President a “dictator.”

145 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 20, 2015 9:41:38pm

re: #144 Targetpractice

That just screams SNL or TDS sketch

146 Targetpractice  Jan 20, 2015 9:42:26pm

re: #141 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Isn’t it going to look wrong if the GOP Congress presses for a project that requires a land grab by the state of Nebraska? Of course they could try to portray those 90 land owners as tree hugging hippies…

Of course not. I think at this point we can just assume that nothing the GOP does will matter to voters in a year’s time.

147 Dark_Falcon  Jan 20, 2015 9:43:02pm

re: #144 Targetpractice

Hell, let’s see the practice runs where they had to jab her with a cattle prod every time she started nattering about Agenda 21, nullification, or calling the President a “dictator.”

They tried that, but Senator Ernst is military trained and Army Strong, so she disarmed the guy with the cattle prod then shoved it so far up his ass the guy’s stomach was feeling the voltage.

148 CleverToad  Jan 20, 2015 9:43:30pm

re: #126
A Cranky One

Wow. More pics, please, and a close-up would be cool. I need to show this to my mother the quilter. Original design or working from a pattern?

149 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:43:58pm

re: #143 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

You have to use degrees Kelvin: (I think the starting pressure is 13 psig
13/294 = x/268
=> .0442=x/268; => 11.9 psi

Celsius and Kelvin are equivalent in degree spacing - add 273.15 to get the temperature in Kelvin when working in Celsius.

I’m pretty sure their significant digits are more than the 2; that’s a 1psi difference. Not 2.

150 Lidane  Jan 20, 2015 9:44:25pm

re: #127 Dark_Falcon

I thought she did just fine. Stayed on message and didn’t get caught unprepared like Governor No-Go Zone, nor did she end up needing water like Marco Rubio. She kept her tone even and worked in her own life experience in a constructive fashion.

All of which is easy to do when your SOTU response doesn’t actually respond to the SOTU.

151 teleskiguy  Jan 20, 2015 9:44:36pm

re: #147 Dark_Falcon

They tried that, but Senator Ernst is military trained and Army Strong, so she disarmed the guy with the cattle prod then shoved it so far up his ass the guy’s stomach was feeling the voltage.

Sounds like you’ve got quite a liking for the junior Senator from Iowa.

152 GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 20, 2015 9:45:48pm

re: #127 Dark_Falcon

Go team!!!!!

153 Targetpractice  Jan 20, 2015 9:46:05pm

re: #150 Lidane

All of which is easy to do when your SOTU response doesn’t actually respond to the SOTU.

Yeah, as I surmised when they announced she’d be giving the “rebuttal,” it was party boilerplate. Humble origins? Check. Everything President is doing is wrong? Check. We want to work with the man we’re actively sabotaging? Check. We’ve got good ideas, but we can’t tell you what they are? Double check.

154 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 20, 2015 9:46:19pm

re: #149 klystron

It’s nice to see somebody worry about sig figs. The rule is the balls are inflated to 12.5 to 13.5 psig, so I used 13 for the calc. That only leaves a 1.1 psi drop attributable to temperature. EDIT without showing it in my work I used 13.0 in my calcs (hangs head)

155 A Cranky One  Jan 20, 2015 9:46:35pm

re: #148 CleverToad

Wow. More pics, please, and a close-up would be cool. I need to show this to my mother the quilter. Original design or working from a pattern?

Thanks! Not sure if it was a pattern or her design. I’ll ask.

156 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 20, 2015 9:47:10pm

re: #147 Dark_Falcon

They tried that, but Senator Ernst is military trained and Army Strong, so she disarmed the guy with the cattle prod then shoved it so far up his ass the guy’s stomach was feeling the voltage.

And then she’d make him eat his own lips and then she’d tear his heart out and stomp on it and then she’d…

157 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 20, 2015 9:48:33pm

She may be Army strong but she ain’t Army bright.

158 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 20, 2015 9:48:33pm

re: #143 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

You have to use degrees Kelvin: (I think the starting pressure is 13 psig
13/294 = x/268
=> .0442=x/268; => 11.9 psi

That’s overpressure, though, isn’t it? Don’t forget the 15 psi atmospheric.

28/294=x/268

=> .0952=x/268; => 25.5. (25.5-15=10.5)

159 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:49:48pm

re: #154 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

It’s nice to see somebody worry about sig figs. The rule is the balls are inflated to 12.5 to 13.5 psig, so I used 13 for the calc. That only leaves a 1.1 psi drop attributable to temperature.

You don’t go through analytic chemistry/instrumental analysis and not know your sig figs. So 13 would still be read as 13.0 (assuming the gauge is at 1 psi increments and analog - with a digital you have to assume the tenths place is the variable one), which gives you three.

Presumably the balls were tested post-game after they had been allowed to acclimate too - not immediately after the game. Which would make the difference (which I have read quoted as 2psi in the article linked above) substantial - and probably not linked to the temperature. I would think they would test multiple times over multiple days to be sure, especially for something like this.

160 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 20, 2015 9:50:39pm

re: #151 teleskiguy

Schwing!

161 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 20, 2015 9:53:43pm

re: #158 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I use gauge pressure because that’s what is measured. On second thought, that is right to use the absolute pressure because the air pressure inside will be the same as the air pressure outside, in spite of the temp differential.
Recalculationg,
27.7/294 = x/268
=> .094=x/268, => 25.2 psi-14.7 = 10.6, a 2.4 psi drop

Using 14.7 as a standard outdoor air pressure at sea level, the actual barometer reading will be close enough

162 Decatur Deb  Jan 20, 2015 9:55:19pm

re: #157 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

She may be Army strong but she ain’t Army bright.

She seemed well-hydrated.

163 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 20, 2015 9:55:20pm

re: #159 klystron

Personally, I HATE digital pressure gauges. I want to see the needle move.

164 Targetpractice  Jan 20, 2015 9:55:25pm

LGF: Watch as a news story about under-inflated footballs becomes an impromptu physics lesson.

165 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:55:39pm

re: #164 Targetpractice

LGF: Watch as a news story about under-inflated footballs becomes an impromptu physics lesson.

Sorry. >.>

166 Charles Johnson  Jan 20, 2015 9:56:29pm
167 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 20, 2015 9:57:09pm

re: #165 klystron

Don’t be sorry. Enjoy the moments of geek.

168 Targetpractice  Jan 20, 2015 9:57:46pm

re: #165 klystron

Sorry. >.>

I didn’t say it was a bad thing.

169 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 9:57:53pm

re: #167 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Don’t be sorry. Enjoy the moments of geek.

I’m not really sorry, I haven’t started droning on about glass structure yet. You’re all safe.

170 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 20, 2015 9:59:08pm

I also feel the same way about the old triple beam balance. If there is friction, it is immediately obvious.
I can’t tell you how many times I would mass something and get three different results with an electronic scale.

171 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 10:00:51pm

re: #170 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I also feel the same way about the old triple beam balance. If there is friction, it is immediately obvious.
I can’t tell you how many times I would mass something and get three different results with an electronic scale.

That’s why the last digit on the digital ones is +/- 1-4. Ish. Depending on the balance.

The advantage to the digital ones is doors. Air currents matter a lot when you are on the microgram level.

172 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 20, 2015 10:03:12pm

re: #123 Charles Johnson

The endless butthurt of the spurned wingnut.

Eternal sunshine of the empty mind.

173 Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 20, 2015 10:04:55pm

re: #49 Kid A

Is that real…?

I can’t believe these fucknauts are real people. What on god’s blue earth is in the water in this country? Cartoons are becoming people that breathe and walk and vote. It’s horrifying.

174 Targetpractice  Jan 20, 2015 10:07:33pm

The most that can be said about Ernst’s performance is that it underwhelmed. It would be like giving the speech to Louie Gohmert and then listening to him drone on like somebody pumped him full of thorazine. Besides the “bread bags” bit, the rest was pretty much interchangeable with every other speech the GOP has given in the last six years.

175 A Cranky One  Jan 20, 2015 10:07:51pm

re: #164 Targetpractice

LGF: Watch as a news story about under-inflated footballs becomes an impromptu physics lesson.

Isn’t it wonderful? It actually goes to the core question to whether the balls were deliberately under-inflated or if the difference was due to the temperature. If the temp difference wasn’t the cause then maybe there is something to the cheating allegations.

And now the geek confession: I actually enjoyed the physics lesson more than I do football ;)

176 Dark_Falcon  Jan 20, 2015 10:08:10pm

re: #151 teleskiguy

No, I just think she gets a bad rap and she’ll prove more effective than many here believe.

As for the Wayne’s World image, take that one up with GGT. She the one from Aurora. :)

177 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 20, 2015 10:09:23pm

re: #176 Dark_Falcon

If I remember correctly, wasn’t GGT a weird lizard?

178 Lancelot Link  Jan 20, 2015 10:09:56pm

re: #173 Pawn of the Oppressor

Is that real…?

I can’t believe these fucknauts are real people. What on god’s blue earth is in the water in this country? Cartoons are becoming people that breathe and walk and vote. It’s horrifying.

No, that one’s a parody. Does that make you feel a little better?

179 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 10:16:23pm

re: #175 A Cranky One

Isn’t it wonderful? It actually goes to the core question to whether the balls were deliberately under-inflated or if the difference was due to the temperature. If the temp difference wasn’t the cause then maybe there is something to the cheating allegations.

And now the geek confession: I actually enjoyed the physics lesson more than I do football ;)

I root for the Packers because of family obligation. And also because I like seeing a collectively fan-owned team do well.

Presumably the league has set a temperature at which the measurement is to be met; this isn’t rocket science, people know that the tire pressure is dependent on whether the tires are hot or cold, and it’s the same concept. I would guess, given the leaks, that the balls have failed the test at the set standard. That won’t be due to temperature fluctuation on the field, although your explanation of why it matters is helpful (I had no idea).

I could tell you all sorts of interesting temperature-dependent shit, specifically to do with glass. :) The challenge of smart-phone screens: how do you make them durable without compromising the internal structure in the ion-substitution phase!

180 Ace-o-aces  Jan 20, 2015 10:19:45pm

I was always suspicious. They seemed too polite.

181 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 10:20:18pm
182 A Cranky One  Jan 20, 2015 10:23:07pm

When Joni said she wasn’t directly responding to the SOTU, I was immediately reminded of this:

“And I may not answer the questions the way that either the moderator or you want to hear”- Sarah Palin during VP debate with Joe Biden.

And that was the sense I got of Joni’s performance. It was a carefully scripted set of platitudes that in no way actually rebutted anything Obama said; just a script to be read by a talking head with a minimal opportunity for gaffes. Given the GOP’s past history of rebuttals that’s probably a high standard to meet. But isn’t the whole point to rebut the SOTU? They had one job. Sigh.

And who in the world thought the bread bag story was a good idea?

183 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 10:23:37pm

re: #182 A Cranky One

And who in the world thought the bread bag story was a good idea?

Wonder Bread.

184 Ace-o-aces  Jan 20, 2015 10:23:50pm
185 Targetpractice  Jan 20, 2015 10:24:19pm

A foreign company is asking a US state to seize private property and assume liability for a project that will not benefit the US and actually endanger our fresh water supply.

If that company were based in the Middle East, the wingnuts would be going apeshit right about now and trying to pass legislation to block the deal.

186 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 10:24:44pm

re: #185 Targetpractice

A foreign company is asking a US state to seize private property and assume liability for a project that will not benefit the US and actually endanger our fresh water supply.

If that company were based in the Middle East, the wingnuts would be going apeshit right about now and trying to pass legislation to block the deal.

DRILL BABY DRILL.

187 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 10:26:00pm

re: #185 Targetpractice

A foreign company is asking a US state to seize private property and assume liability for a project that will not benefit the US and actually endanger our fresh water supply.

If that company were based in the Middle East, the wingnuts would be going apeshit right about now and trying to pass legislation to block the deal.

I actually saw a commercial encouraging the passage of the Keystone bill during one of my hockey games.

I came very, very close to shutting the stream down over that.

I think it was a Dallas game, so it’s not terribly surprising, but.

188 teleskiguy  Jan 20, 2015 10:26:24pm

re: #184 Ace-o-aces

Wow! That guy is a dyed-in-the-wool RWNJ.

Popcorn Time!
189 Viscous Obama  Jan 20, 2015 10:30:36pm

190 Targetpractice  Jan 20, 2015 10:35:42pm

GOP has a sad.

Here we are, six years on, and the GOP still wants people to buy into the BS about their “wanting to work” with the President who they’ve called a “dictator” and worse.

191 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 10:38:43pm

re: #190 Targetpractice

GOP has a sad.

[Embedded content]

Here we are, six years on, and the GOP still wants people to buy into the BS about their “wanting to work” with the President who they’ve called a “dictator” and worse.

The number of people who will buy this is depressingly high.

192 teleskiguy  Jan 20, 2015 10:48:26pm
193 goddamnedfrank  Jan 20, 2015 10:50:06pm
194 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 10:52:51pm

For the late night Lizards:

An elephant seal, doing its best to avoid the sun.

I did manage to catch what I think is the placenta with the zoom lens (it is BRIGHT RED) but nothing that looks like a newborn pup, so you are all out of luck there. I highly recommend getting tickets to the walking tour at Ano Nuevo State Park if you are in the area, especially during breeding season (Dec - Feb).

195 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 11:01:13pm

Hi, I’m processing photos off my camera from the past 6 months.

This was a fucking huge hill and I am ignoring anyone who says otherwise because I walked down the fucker and regretted every instant of it.

I HATE HILLS.
196 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 20, 2015 11:05:39pm

So, here’s GotNews’ latest non-scoop: for now, illegal immigrants with those new CA drivers licenses can fly on commercial flights. Oh noez!

UpChuck has a buddy in the TSA who passed a memo his way. It says, basically, the TSA will accept the new IDs until the TSA changes its regulations.

gotnwes.com responds:

BREAKING, EXCLUSIVE: TSA whistleblower confirms grubby illegals can fly in planes with you

197 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 20, 2015 11:13:52pm

re: #192 teleskiguy

[Embedded content]

MAKE IT STOP!!!!

198 Targetpractice  Jan 20, 2015 11:16:46pm

Really, I gotta say two things: First, I absolutely love “No More Fucks to Give” Obama. And second, WHERE THE FUCK HAS HE BEEN THE LAST SIX YEARS?!

199 klystron  Jan 20, 2015 11:17:26pm

re: #197 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

MAKE IT STOP!!!!

Click on the Vine and it stops playing.

/friendly non-intuitive UI reminder

200 Areopagitica  Jan 20, 2015 11:28:25pm

You just know that at some point Joni is going to file a trademark application on BREADBAGS for motivational speaking services and farm animal castration equipment. It’s going to happen!!!

201 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 20, 2015 11:30:16pm

re: #199 klystron

Click on the Vine and it stops playing.

/friendly non-intuitive UI reminder

Whew

202 BeachDem  Jan 20, 2015 11:37:25pm

What has set upchuck off on his latest twitter frenzy about facebook and fake news stories? He was silent for several hours and now he’s tweeting about Gepetto and Pinocchio and marriage definitions and Rolling Stone and Jesus and Darwin and Mendel and Rodney King and Iran Contra and HandsUpDon’tShoot and Monica Lewinsky and George Zimmerman and hoodies and Santa Claus and illegal aliens and Cuba and student loans and—the guy has totally gone round the bend.

203 Flavia  Jan 20, 2015 11:44:16pm

re: #49 Kid A

Sadly, it took me about 8 or 9 posts to make sure exactly what sort of site it was. Poe’s Law, yet again….

204 Viscous Obama  Jan 21, 2015 12:25:45am

baked buttery fresh

205 Ace-o-aces  Jan 21, 2015 12:26:02am

What kind of lame-ass whistleblower sends their info to Chuck? What is the thought process here? “Oh boy, I’ve got some important information for the public to find out. I’d better send it to the guy who wrote two stories about Ted Cruz’s college debate team!”.

206 Ace-o-aces  Jan 21, 2015 12:39:11am

re: #202 BeachDem

What has set upchuck off on his latest twitter frenzy about facebook and fake news stories?

Yeah, how dare Facebook try to control content on their own website! Seriously, does he not understand that Facebook already determines what content you see based on popularity?

207 goddamnedfrank  Jan 21, 2015 1:03:59am

Chuck sure hangs out with some interesting folk.

208 goddamnedfrank  Jan 21, 2015 1:11:01am

re: #205 Ace-o-aces

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What kind of lame-ass whistleblower sends their info to Chuck? What is the thought process here? “Oh boy, I’ve got some important information for the public to find out. I’d better send it to the guy who wrote two stories about Ted Cruz’s college debate team!”.

Why wouldn’t deferred action (DACA) immigrants who reside in California and have gotten an ID not be able to fly within the country?

Customers applying for an original driver license will need to do the following:
Study for the driver license knowledge test
Make an appointment before visiting a DMV office (walk-ins are only accepted at our Driver License Processing Centers)
Complete a driver license application form (DL 44) available at the DMV office
Under AB 60, applicants will need to provide DMV with:
Proof of identity and California residency
Pass a vision test, knowledge test, and if applicable, a road sign test
Give a thumb print
Have a picture taken
Schedule a future appointment for the behind-the-wheel driving test, if applicable

Why would we want them not to be able to fly within the country, where their movements are tracked, their id’s checked and verified? Why would we want to deprive the airlines of their dollars? Or force them onto busses and carpools?

The only reason is to inconvenience them, out of spite, there’s no other rationale.

209 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 21, 2015 1:26:34am

re: #208 goddamnedfrank

The only reason is to inconvenience them, out of spite, there’s no other rationale.

They are violating the law. They deserve all the spiting they get. Just like welfare recipients deserve to be given urine tests and pregnant teens who seek an abortion should have to undergo to an invasive ultrasound.

God wants us to do it. We spite, or he smites.

/

210 Ace-o-aces  Jan 21, 2015 1:36:44am

re: #208 goddamnedfrank

Why wouldn’t deferred action (DACA) immigrants who reside in California and have gotten an ID not be able to fly within the country?

Well, apparently, when the REAL ID act is implemented in 2016 the AB60 licenses won’t be good for air travel anymore. Until then, the Feds have to accept these documents despite the documents themselves saying the Feds shouldn’t accept them. It’s a weird bureaucratic mess, I’ll admit. But since they have the same ID requirements as regular driver’s licenses, It’s not a huge issue (unless you’re afraid of flying Mexicans).

211 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 21, 2015 1:51:37am

re: #210 Ace-o-aces

I know…how about a national ID card? One for all citizens (which would also serve as voter ID) and one for all legal resident aliens. One that you will need to produce to register kids for school, open a bank account, get a driver’s license, register a car or sign a lease…

It would solve a lot of these petty issues in one fell swoop.

Any takers out there?

Hmmm, I’ll just go out for coffee now, you can contact me when you have come around to the idea…

212 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 21, 2015 2:15:47am

re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I think pretty much every civilized country has one.

213 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 21, 2015 2:29:19am

I always throw that one out there rhetorically: neither the Right or the Left would ever countenance such a thing, even though it would end a lot of pointless and circular discussions about how to deal with voter fraud, welfare fraud, illegal residence and employment.

214 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 21, 2015 2:46:35am

re: #205 Ace-o-aces

What kind of lame-ass whistleblower sends their info to Chuck? What is the thought process here? “Oh boy, I’ve got some important information for the public to find out. I’d better send it to the guy who wrote two stories about Ted Cruz’s college debate team!”.

If you read the memo carefully, which UpChuck didn’t do, it states that the waiver is only temporary. Once the TSA moves its sluggardly bureaucratic ass, those “not for federal use” IDs will be refused at airports.

IOW, another non-story from the Award Winning Journalist.

215 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 21, 2015 2:51:53am

re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I know…how about a national ID card? One for all citizens (which would also serve as voter ID) and one for all legal resident aliens. One that you will need to produce to register kids for school, open a bank account, get a driver’s license, register a car or sign a lease…

It would solve a lot of these petty issues in one fell swoop.

Any takers out there?

Hmmm, I’ll just go out for coffee now, you can contact me when you have come around to the idea…

I wish China would issue a kind of resident alien ID card, so I wouldn’t need to wave my passport around when booking hotels and the like. Also, it might let me skip the ticket counters at the train stations and use the ATMs to buy tickets. Here at least, a national ID card lets you do a lot of online stuff that we furners can’t do without jumping through all kinds of hoops.

If the USA ever gets around to issuing national ID cards, they need to consult with me about how not to do it.

Not holding my breath.

216 Archangelus  Jan 21, 2015 3:36:34am

re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I know…how about a national ID card? One for all citizens (which would also serve as voter ID) and one for all legal resident aliens. One that you will need to produce to register kids for school, open a bank account, get a driver’s license, register a car or sign a lease…

It would solve a lot of these petty issues in one fell swoop.

Any takers out there?

Hmmm, I’ll just go out for coffee now, you can contact me when you have come around to the idea…

The Israeli national ID card system operates on a decent enough system - just do away the reference to religion and it should work well enough.

Mind you, that’s with regards to the old, existing system, not the terrible terrible stupid-beyond-belief disaster-waiting-to-happen that is the new biometric system they’re trying to implement amid a long-lasting wave of citizen protests (it involves the creation of a database center holding all the biometric details, among many bad elements that can easily explode in the country’s collective face).

217 Archangelus  Jan 21, 2015 3:42:58am

And in today’s Terrible World News category:

Ynet: 13 stabbed in terror attack on Tel Aviv bus; 4 badly hurt

A Palestinian terrorist armed with a knife stabbed 13 people during rush hour on Wednesday morning in a terror attack on a bus in central Tel Aviv. Four of the victims were badly hurt in the attack.

At roughly 7:15 am, the terrorist, a 22-year-old from the West Bank town of Tul Karem, boarded Dan bus number 40 on Begin Road in Tel Aviv, close to Beit Maariv Bridge, and stabbed the driver and more than a dozen passengers before fleeing the scene. He was quickly tracked down by Israel Prison Service officers present in the area, shot and apprehended.

Of the wounded, four are in serious condition, three sustained moderate wounds and the rest were lightly hurt. People were also being treated for shock after the attack.

Hamas has welcomed the attack as an “heroic and courageous act.”

Oh yeah, quite the “heroic and courageous act” -

‘I threw my bag at the terrorist and smashed the window,’ says eighth grader in Tel Aviv attack

“The terrorist suddenly began stabbing,” the 13-year-old recalled. “We all ran back. Most people came flying towards me.

“I was sitting on the bus and I heard people shouting. The terrorist had suddenly gone to the driver and stabbed him. He was shouting things, but I couldn’t hear clearly. I saw him stab the driver, and I ran to the back with the others to get away from him. He approached us, I broke the window and got out.”

If the leaders of Hamas were to be torn to shreds by a pack of rabid animals, it’d still be better than they deserve… *spits*

218 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 21, 2015 3:45:50am

re: #216 Archangelus

A government database of biometric data is a big step toward a surveillance state. I’m OK with a national ID card, but sharing my fingerprints, palm prints or retinal scans with the government is a non-starter.

219 Archangelus  Jan 21, 2015 3:58:08am

re: #218 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

A government database of biometric data is a big step toward a surveillance state. I’m OK with a national ID card, but sharing my fingerprints, palm prints or retinal scans with the government is a non-starter.

That’s precisely the sentiment shared by roughly 99% of Israeli citizens. Right now, the whole thing essentially limited to those willing to volunteer for it and it is primarily used at the Ben Gurion Airport - those using the automatic biometric system can pretty much go through the standard customs inspections much quicker, without being in line.

The real concern in Israel is not with the ‘surveillance state’ part, but rather that it’s only a matter of time before such a system can be hacked (previous databses which the government deemed ‘secure’ were breached in the past), and the biometric data could be used for all manner of terrible uses - with the potential use of such data for identity theft being the least of the potential consequences…

I should also point out that the whole thing only became a reality because of the cooperation of several short-sighted politicians in the Israeli government a few years back with a couple of high-tech companies looking to score government contracts when there were discussions on how to improve the existing national IDs.

220 Timothy Watson  Jan 21, 2015 4:00:22am

re: #217 Archangelus

And in today’s Terrible World News category:

Ynet: 13 stabbed in terror attack on Tel Aviv bus; 4 badly hurt

Oh yeah, quite the “heroic and courageous act” -

‘I threw my bag at the terrorist and smashed the window,’ says eighth grader in Tel Aviv attack

If the leaders of Hamas were to be torn to shreds by a pack of rabid animals, it’d still be better than they deserve… *spits*

But, but, the wingnuts ensure me that everyone in Israel has a firearm and wouldn’t allow this to happen!

/

221 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 21, 2015 4:02:59am

re: #219 Archangelus

That’s precisely the sentiment shared by roughly 99% of Israeli citizens. Right now, the whole thing essentially limited to those willing to volunteer for it and it is primarily used at the Ben Gurion Airport - those using the automatic biometric system can pretty much go through the standard customs inspections much quicker, without being in line.

The real concern in Israel is not with the ‘surveillance state’ part, but rather that it’s only a matter of time before such a system can be hacked (previous databses which the government deemed ‘secure’ were breached in the past), and the biometric data could be used for all manner of terrible uses - with the potential use of such data for identity theft being the least of the potential consequences…

I should also point out that the whole thing only became a reality because of the cooperation of several short-sighted politicians in the Israeli government a few years back with a couple of high-tech companies looking to score government contracts when there were discussions on how to improve the existing national IDs.

Of course, our Congressmen and women would never make such a mistake.
/// x 100

222 Archangelus  Jan 21, 2015 4:04:32am

re: #220 Timothy Watson

But, but, the wingnuts ensure me that everyone in Israel has a firearm and wouldn’t allow this to happen!

/

You know what’s the most ironic thing when it comes to the demented gun ownership issue? Even when taking all of the terrorist attacks and casualties of terrorism AND crime into account, the statistics for total death rates from the past 10+ years in Israel is still WAY lower than the US - and that’s when all those holding weapons - including every IDF soldier (not all of which are armed beyond the point of boot camp) - account for less than 5% of the population.

223 Archangelus  Jan 21, 2015 4:10:55am

Made a page of the terror attack in Tel Aviv.

Having gone over all the little details of today’s attack, I realize now that had I not decided yesterday to delay my plans for tomorrow, I’d have been present at the exact time and place it went down. Yet another bullet dodged (or blade, in this case)… for someone that’s survived plural terrorist attacks in the past, I reckon it’s more of a thing than for most people.

Excuse me while i go take a cold shower, schedule an appointment at a therapist and once more look at one-way ticket prices… /OnlyKinda

224 KiTA  Jan 21, 2015 4:22:49am

Woo hoo, I got a VGA signal generator in the mail today. Tiny little thing, about the size of a deck of cards. Will help out a TON at work.

226 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 4:40:29am
227 Decatur Deb  Jan 21, 2015 4:41:19am

re: #225 Timothy Watson

Worst passwords of 2014 are just as awful as you can imagine

I’m sticking with “Test”.

228 nearly-headless smith25  Jan 21, 2015 4:43:13am

re: #225 Timothy Watson

Worst passwords of 2014 are just as awful as you can imagine

229 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 4:49:03am

#TCOT lost its collective shit last night. But they gathered it all up and now they are fully loaded with shit again.

230 Decatur Deb  Jan 21, 2015 4:50:53am

re: #229 The Vicious Babushka

#TCOT lost its collective shit last night. But they gathered it all up and now they are fully loaded with shit again.

What’s the whine du jour?

231 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 21, 2015 4:57:10am

re: #230 Decatur Deb

What’s the whine du jour?

I assume the reaction to SOTU…how dare he remind us that he won…twice!!!

232 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 5:00:28am

re: #230 Decatur Deb

What’s the whine du jour?

LIES!!! LIES FROM TEH LIPS OF SATAN!!!1!!!!

233 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 5:01:48am

Also:

ANY CRITICISMS & MOCKERYS OF JONI ERNT IS TEH REAL WAR ON WOMENS!!!!111!!1!!!!

234 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 21, 2015 5:14:50am

re: #232 The Vicious Babushka

What was this “sick burn” the Left is creaming their jeans about? The “I won 2 elections” thing? Please.

Everyone knows that he stole them with the help of ACORN voter fraud and giving away free stuff to freeloaders.

We need unskewered ballot boxes!!!

/

235 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 21, 2015 5:15:05am
236 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 21, 2015 5:19:01am

re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth

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with smoked salmon insoles…

237 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 5:21:02am

Speaking of bread on your feet, when I was a kid my parents bought this expensive edition of Anderson’s Fairy Tales which included this grotesque illustration of “The Girl Who Trod On A Loaf” a cautionary tale about naughty children who disrespect valuable food.

This story, and most of the illustrations in this book, scared the living shit out of me and I can’t look at a Szyk drawing to this day without a little shudder. His anti-Nazi cartoons kick ass, though.

Zeduahka said his parents bought him the same book and it scared the crap out of him too.

238 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 5:28:17am

Artur Szyk was a brilliant artist, just too scary for little kids. We have his Illuminated Haggadah which is exquisite. He also did a lot of anti-Nazi posters during World War 2 as well as many patriotic American and Israeli posters.

Artur Szyk Gallery

239 Dr. Matt  Jan 21, 2015 5:28:54am

Ugh, just made the mistake of turning on MSNBC where reince was whining that the President doesn’t even need to give the SOTU and that he can email it instead. What a fucking douche.

240 Franklin  Jan 21, 2015 5:29:38am

re: #189 Viscous Obama

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By far my favorite version of this meme.

241 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 21, 2015 5:32:59am

re: #239 Dr. Matt

Ugh, just made the mistake of turning on MSNBC where reince was whining that the President doesn’t even need to give the SOTU and that he can email it instead. What a fucking douche.

Well, if the responses and punditry were also emailed in, it might not be so bad.

242 Dr. Matt  Jan 21, 2015 5:36:38am

Oh, gawd, this is fucking terrible:

What a complete and utter clown

243 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 5:43:08am

re: #242 Dr. Matt

Oh, gawd, this is fucking terrible:

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What a complete and utter clown

That 92 MILLION AMERICANS OUT OF WORK & GAVE UP ALL HOPES OF LOOKING FOR A JRRB!!!!!!!! includes high school students, full-time college students, stay-at-home moms, disabled, and retired people.

244 wrenchwench  Jan 21, 2015 5:44:01am

Isn’t that what the defense is for?

245 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 21, 2015 5:49:59am

re: #243 The Vicious Babushka

That 92 MILLION AMERICANS OUT OF WORK & GAVE UP ALL HOPES OF LOOKING FOR A JRRB!!!!!!!! includes high school students, full-time college students, stay-at-home moms, disabled, and retired people.

Don’t forget us ex-pats!

246 Belafon  Jan 21, 2015 5:51:33am

@244 wrenchwrench: I believe the law requires that any evidence the prosecution acquires must be given to the defense so that they can “defend” against it. If the prosecution had this evidence, did not share it, and used it at the trial, that is a violation of the defendants rights.

247 darthstar  Jan 21, 2015 5:53:01am

re: #246 Belafon

Evidence is presented at trial, not sentencing.

248 wrenchwench  Jan 21, 2015 5:56:23am

re: #247 darthstar

Evidence is presented at trial, not sentencing.

Or in the comments, not the article,

/

249 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 21, 2015 5:56:41am

re: #244 wrenchwench

Isn’t that what the defense is for?

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A professional hacker hoist by the petard of his own hacked mails?

250 b.d.  Jan 21, 2015 5:58:40am

re: #244 wrenchwench

Isn’t that what the defense is for?

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The takeaway I get from that article is that nobody liked or trusted Brown, even his co-slimeballs

251 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 21, 2015 5:59:07am

re: #242 Dr. Matt

Oh, gawd, this is fucking terrible:

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What a complete and utter clown

Jeez, he cannot even preach to the choir…

252 b.d.  Jan 21, 2015 5:59:45am

re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

A professional hacker hoist by the petard of his own hacked mails?

Oh sweet tears of irony, I’ll only reply with Brown’s old Twitter address:

Barrett BrownLOL

253 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 6:02:59am

re:
#13

Why does Michael Brickman think any one would care who he unfollows?

Is he an award-winning journalist?

/

254 darthstar  Jan 21, 2015 6:03:59am

Ha!

255 lawhawk  Jan 21, 2015 6:05:20am

re: #123 Charles Johnson

The endless butthurt of the spurned wingnut.

Who continue to treat you irrelevant, but you’ve wormed yourself into every thought - if you really were irrelevant, why announce your unfollow on Twitter? Unless it means … something.

Seriously, these people really have issues that go beyond what a stay in a Holiday Inn Express can fix.

256 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 6:06:49am

re:
#29

The Republican side of the chamber broke out in cheers and Mr. Obama, cracking a sly smile, responded: “I know because I won them both.”

I haven’t checked, but I assume that FoxNation, FreeRepublic, RedState, and other various wingnut haunts reacted with Christian grace and patriotic class to this statement.

//

257 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 21, 2015 6:08:47am

re: #256 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#29

I haven’t checked, but I assume that FoxNation, FreeRepublic, RedState, and other various wingnut haunts reacted with Christian grace and patriotic class to this statement.

//

“The American public was subjected to a verbal waterboarding”

258 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 6:13:54am

re:
#242

Obama didn’t say the words Radical Islamic Terrorism!

Trainwreck that is Obamacare!!!

How come Obama won’t be bipartisan and work in bipartisan fashion with all the bipartisans in Congress?

259 Dr. Matt  Jan 21, 2015 6:17:08am

re: #258 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#242

Obama didn’t say the words Radical Islamic Terrorism!

Trainwreck that is Obamacare!!!

How come Obama won’t be bipartisan and work in bipartisan fashion with all the bipartisans in Congress?

Every year some wingnut comes up with their list of the things the POTUS didn’t say. It’s sad and predictable.

260 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 6:18:11am

re:
#241

Well, if the responses and punditry were also emailed in, it might not be so bad.

Damn.

Proposal: When the Internets get won before 9 a.m. EST it should be declared a national holiday.

261 Dr. Matt  Jan 21, 2015 6:22:14am
262 lawhawk  Jan 21, 2015 6:22:15am

re: #241 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Well, if the responses and punditry were also emailed in, it might not be so bad.

Well, the punditry and GOP simply play word salad mad libs with their response.

All seem to start with the same opening.
Obama ___(sucks)___. He engages in ___illegal_ and _unconstitutional_ acts by _destroying health insurance as we know it_.

263 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 21, 2015 6:23:45am

re: #241 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Well, if the responses and punditry were also emailed in, it might not be so bad.

The very second Obama finished we shut off the TV and put on Spotify. No English To English translators™ required.

264 darthstar  Jan 21, 2015 6:24:34am
265 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 6:25:31am

re:
#232

Does the free tuition include the payment of part of the $40,000 debt YYOU incurred for YOUR education?

This doesn’t even make sense.

I know, I know, tcot doesn’t make any sense….

266 darthstar  Jan 21, 2015 6:26:01am
267 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 21, 2015 6:26:59am

re: #266 darthstar

It may replace the “onions on the belt” meme from the Simpsons.

268 darthstar  Jan 21, 2015 6:27:25am

I’m sure she thought the bread bags would add just enough poverty imagery to her story.

269 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 6:33:33am

re:
#232

Reminder: Income Inequality Got WORSE Under Obama

I thought this was what RWNJ wanted.

Guess this is what happens when someone crosses the streams.

270 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 6:33:35am

This is the MOAST INSANE DERP on SOTU I have seen today (but never fear, THEIR WILL BE MOAR INSANE DERP)
Warning: link leads straight to WTFLand

271 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 21, 2015 6:37:22am

re: #218 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

A government database of biometric data is a big step toward a surveillance state. I’m OK with a national ID card, but sharing my fingerprints, palm prints or retinal scans with the government is a non-starter.

Combine the high confidence in biometrics with the fact that fingerprints can be printed with commercially available 3D printers from 2D data, add in the hacking and loss of information through error and you have another mess. Remember when holograms were going to make credit cards and ATM cards impossible to forge? Biometrics will just add a very expensive hurdle for the bad guys to jump at little cost to them.

272 nearly-headless smith25  Jan 21, 2015 6:37:30am

Because when your husband is the Republican Senate Majority Leader, you can’t be associated with any effort to fight climate change. And here in KY, King Coal is a cancer that has affected members of both parties.

273 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 21, 2015 6:40:48am

re: #268 darthstar

I’m sure she thought the bread bags would add just enough poverty imagery to her story.

The GOP is tripping all over itself to prove to Americans that they’re just plain folks. Just plain folks would never fuck you over even if it looks like they’re zealously fucking you over just as hard as they can.

274 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 21, 2015 6:48:01am

good morning Lizards.

275 Decatur Deb  Jan 21, 2015 6:51:29am

Don’t know if this has been brought to LGF:

‘Use Me Instead’ Campaign Shames Cops Who Use Mugshots Of Black Men For Target Practice

thenewcivilrightsmovement.com

276 Areopagitica  Jan 21, 2015 6:52:35am

re: #125 Charles Johnson

re: #125 Charles Johnson

where are all those pro-property rights GOPers??? Oh wait….

277 lawhawk  Jan 21, 2015 6:54:11am
278 lawhawk  Jan 21, 2015 7:02:41am

11 stabbed by Palestinian in Jerusalem; most victims were on a bus; the suspect was captured after being shot.

And Hamas cheers this.

279 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 7:10:14am

SSMOTI probably thinks FLOTUS should be wearing a black dress with an apron and a white cap.

280 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 21, 2015 7:13:18am

re: #279 The Vicious Babushka

SSMOTI probably thinks FLOTUS should be wearing a black dress with an apron and a white cap.

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In accordance with the GOP’s New Folksiness all women will be required to dress like extras on “Little House on the Prairie,” lest they be called out as self-indulgent sluts.

281 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 7:14:54am

re: #280 Higgs Boson’s Mate

In accordance with the GOP’s New Folksiness all women will be required to dress like extras on “Little House on the Prairie,” lest they be called out as self-indulgent sluts.

FLOTUS was wearing the outfit from “The Good Wife” show:

282 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 7:15:30am

RAUNER PICKS PLANNED PARENTHOOD VICE-CHAIR TO HEAD HEALTHCARE AND FAMILY SERVICES

Way kewl, right?

My not so favorite conservative email digest source (source of article) doesn’t thing so:

Last week, a report on the conditions of Illinois abortions clinics found during Illinois Public Health Department inspections was made public, showing that none of Illinois Planned Parenthood clinics are licensed by the State Health Department, and none of them were visited during the 2011-2012 round of inspections. Of the other 14 clinics visited - some after not being inspected for nine years - 193 safety and health violations were found.

“I’m very disappointed to hear of Governor Rauner’s pick for the Department of Health and Family Services,” said Illinois Family Institute’s David Smith. “Let’s hope Ms. Norwood uses her position to encourage healthy families in Illinois. Let’s also hope she supports changing the state’s policy to include annually inspecting Planned Parenthood clinics.”

Norwood could face a conflict of interests if lawmakers point out that the Planned Parenthood clinics, of which she vice-chairs the directors’ board, are not licensed nor inspected by the state of Illinois. A call for routine clinic inspections is expected in the upcoming legislative session.

283 De Kolta Chair  Jan 21, 2015 7:15:31am
284 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 7:16:05am

re: #281 The Vicious Babushka

FLOTUS was wearing the outfit from “The Good Wife” show:

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looks better on Michelle.

285 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 7:16:15am

I don’t think $1,400 is an outrageous price for an outfit worn by FLOTUS.

Mary Lincoln’s gowns cost over $5,000 in 1860’s money.

286 lawhawk  Jan 21, 2015 7:16:28am

re: #279 The Vicious Babushka

Didn’t see GOPers complaining about the costs for whatever outfits Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, or Laura Bush wore. But what is it about Michelle Obama that gets under their skin so badly that they have to complain about everything, including the cost?

Oh wait…

287 Dr. Matt  Jan 21, 2015 7:17:35am

re: #279 The Vicious Babushka

Wow, that’s some hard hitting “news”. SMOTI is now a fashion Diva.

288 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 21, 2015 7:18:04am

re: #285 The Vicious Babushka

I don’t think $1,400 is an outrageous price for an outfit worn by FLOTUS.

Mary Lincoln’s gowns cost over $5,000 in 1860’s money.

Also, the Obamas are not exactly poor.

A tailored men’s wool suit can run that much, too. You know, the kind worn by Congressmen.

289 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 7:21:48am

re: #288 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Also, the Obamas are not exactly poor.

HURR HURR HOW CAN HE TALK ABOUT INEQUALITY WHEN HE’S ONE OF TEH 1%!!!!1!!!!!

290 Dr. Matt  Jan 21, 2015 7:24:08am

It’s a safe bet that 75% of the men’s suits in the chamber last night were over $1000 and probably quite a few over $2000.

291 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 7:24:11am

re:
#287

Wow, that’s some hard hitting “news”. SMOTI is now a fashion Diva.

Can’t believe Award-Winning Journalist didn’t BREAK this story.

//

292 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 21, 2015 7:25:05am

re: #285 The Vicious Babushka

I don’t think $1,400 is an outrageous price for an outfit worn by FLOTUS.

Mary Lincoln’s gowns cost over $5,000 in 1860’s money.

Michelle could have worn in a coal scuttle bonnet and a homespun dress dyed with walnut juice and the wingers would bitch about that. They have no plans, they have no solutions but, they sure can bitch about anyone who does.

293 GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 21, 2015 7:25:24am

re: #279 The Vicious Babushka

294 b.d.  Jan 21, 2015 7:25:44am

I like this Obama:

Place-cards at State of the Union Lunch hosted by the White House.

Brian Williams
NBC News

David Muir
ABC News

Scott Pelley
CBS News

Shepard Smith
Fox

Bret Baier
Fox

dailykos.com

295 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 7:26:20am

This just showed up in my Timeline==>

296 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 7:28:13am

re:
#292

Then they’d complain that FLOTUS was dishonoring the presidential office by dressing shabbishly, not showing class, etc. Wins they win, tails you lose.

297 Dr. Matt  Jan 21, 2015 7:28:38am

re: #294 b.d.

I like this Obama:

dailykos.com

HAHAHA. That’s awesome. And Shep claims he “doesn’t care”….but, spends 46 seconds talking about it.

298 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 7:29:16am

re:
#294

Major League trolling there. I approve.

299 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 7:29:35am
300 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 7:30:26am

When I was a kid the live-in nanny made me put plastic bags over my shoes so they would slip easily into the galoshes. I had more than one pair of shoes.

301 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 7:31:26am

re: #292 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Michelle could have worn in a coal scuttle bonnet and a homespun dress dyed with walnut juice and the wingers would bitch about that. They have no plans, they have no solutions but, they sure can bitch about anyone who does.

FLOTUS didn’t choose a couture ensemble. Those are made by hand, like Mary Lincoln’s was- (and Nancy Reagan).

302 De Kolta Chair  Jan 21, 2015 7:31:49am

From the NY Times last night:

Cruz Stumbles in His Response to Obama

It was a night of slickly choreographed speechmaking, but not for Senator Ted Cruz of Texas…

MP4 Video

303 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 7:31:52am

re: #290 Dr. Matt

It’s a safe bet that 75% of the men’s suits in the chamber last night were over $1000 and probably quite a few over $2000.

Quite a few over $5K.

304 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 7:32:00am

MOAST STUPID TWEET OF THE DAY (but it’s still early, so expect MOAR STUPIDS)==>

305 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 21, 2015 7:32:17am

re: #295 The Vicious Babushka

Because one successfully repelled home invasion (If true) totally trumps the fact that you’re more likely to be killed in a gun-related incident than you are in an automobile accident.

306 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 7:32:55am
307 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 7:34:42am

re: #305 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Because one successfully repelled home invasion (If true) totally trumps the fact that you’re more likely to be killed in a gun-related incident than you are in an automobile accident.

Actually I did have a home invasion in 2010. Fucker climbed in through the kitchen window and stole the TV.

The police officer who came to investigate the next day did not recommend getting a gun, he recommended locking all the first-floor doors and windows and installing an alarm system.

308 De Kolta Chair  Jan 21, 2015 7:35:40am

re: #304 The Vicious Babushka

THEY’RE HERE!!!1!!

… Exclusive video from an ISIS training camp somewhere in Wisconsin

310 wrenchwench  Jan 21, 2015 7:36:33am

re: #299 FemNaziBitch

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Dr. Moniz!

311 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 7:38:09am
312 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 7:39:08am
No, LSD doesn’t stay in your spinal cord forever. Out of all the myths about LSD out there, this one may be the strangest. -

See more at: shouldbelegal.com

313 jaunte  Jan 21, 2015 7:39:10am

“…On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, a case that could leave many victims of housing discrimination unable to win their case in court. Based on the justices’ unusual eagerness to hear the issue presented by Inclusive Communities, their decision is likely to end badly for civil rights.”

314 jaunte  Jan 21, 2015 7:41:38am

The Roberts Court continues to be eager to decree that racial discrimination has ended.

315 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 7:41:58am
BANGKOK — A Burmese Buddhist monk who called a UN human rights envoy a “whore” has violated his monastic code and could damage his religion, another prominent monk said on Tuesday, but he is unlikely to face censure.

U Wirathu denounced Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, in a speech in Rangoon on Friday, after she questioned draft laws that critics say discriminate against women and non-Buddhists.

“Just because you hold a position in the United Nations doesn’t make you an honorable woman. In our country, you are just a whore,” U Wirathu told a cheering crowd of several hundred people in Rangoon on Friday.

316 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 21, 2015 7:43:29am

re: #308 De Kolta Chair

Impossiwobble! ISIS is training thousands in Mexico, and then they’ll hide themselves among all those other brown-skinned invaders! //

317 Targetpractice  Jan 21, 2015 7:43:40am

So either Marco is signaling that he’s not planning a run or he’s signaling a strong suspicion that he can’t win reelection next year.

318 jaunte  Jan 21, 2015 7:44:34am

“Cameroon says its military has freed a German hostage kidnapped in Nigeria by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.”
bbc.com

319 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 7:45:26am

VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY (via Fermilab):
Holometer

The Fermilab Holometer is a new kind of instrument designed to study the quantum character of space itself. It measures the quantum coherence of location with unprecedented precision.

Laser light passing through an arrangement of mirrors will show whether space stands still, or whether it always jitters by a tiny amount, carrying all matter with it, due to quantum-geometrical fluctuations. We call this new property of space time “holographic” noise.

320 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 21, 2015 7:46:02am

re: #314 jaunte

The Roberts Court continues to be eager to decree that racial discrimination has ended.

The Roberts Court does have a black friend:

321 b.d.  Jan 21, 2015 7:46:16am

re: #317 Targetpractice

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So either Marco is signaling that he’s not planning a run or he’s signaling a strong suspicion that he can’t win reelection next year.

Mario wants to chase the big check and I think he’s figured out that his shtick has grown old in the Senate.

322 makeitstop  Jan 21, 2015 7:47:19am

re: #317 Targetpractice

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So either Marco is signaling that he’s not planning a run or he’s signaling a strong suspicion that he can’t win reelection next year.

Rubio seems to be the norm for Republican ‘rising stars’ nowadays - get elected, lionized by the media as the Next Big Thing, accomplish nothing of note while in office, out on his ass after a term or two.

It pretty much proves that guys like him really have zero vision, outside of running against the establishment - and once winning, having zero clue what to do.

(See West, Allen)

323 Dr Lizardo  Jan 21, 2015 7:47:43am

re: #318 jaunte

I can’t help but wonder if Boko Haram may have bitten off more than it can chew in regard to Cameroon. From the Cameroonians I met in Berlin, the one thing they all agreed on was a good deal of pride in their military and its ability to meet potential threats. They’re not a big army, but from what I gathered, well-trained and well-disciplined.

324 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 7:48:24am
325 Targetpractice  Jan 21, 2015 7:52:11am

re: #322 makeitstop

Rubio seems to be the norm for Republican ‘rising stars’ nowadays - get elected, lionized by the media as the Next Big Thing, accomplish nothing of note while in office, out on his ass after a term or two.

It pretty much proves that guys like him really have zero vision, outside of running against the establishment - and once winning, having zero clue what to do.

(See West, Allen)

It also helps to remember that Marco is one of the Class of 2010, who are up for reelection next year. And in a swing state that has gone strongly for Obama in the last two elections, I think he sees the writing on the wall. So unlike Rand, who figures he can just skirt state law to run for both the White House and reelection to the Senate, Marco realizes he has to devote himself to one or the other.

327 Varek Raith  Jan 21, 2015 7:57:34am

It’s snowing.

328 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 7:58:50am

re: #326 FemNaziBitch

Rich Couple Lives Beyond Their Means - Complains That They’re Broke

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I have seen claims that “Eric” and “Ilsa” do not exist, that it’s impossible for Canadians in their profession to work just 2 days a week and make that kind of money.

329 lawhawk  Jan 21, 2015 7:58:56am

re: #304 The Vicious Babushka

Statistics. How do they work.

The odds of an individual American getting beheaded is extremely low. Far higher odds? Getting shot by a firearm somewhere in the US (whether self-inflicted or by someone else).

The odds that some American will be affected by global warming and climate change? 100%. All Americans will be affected, whether it’s the direct costs of rising sea levels (the 180 million Americans living on or near coastal areas), or those who indirectly experience it through higher food costs resulting from droughts and changed weather patterns over long term periods (as already seeing from extreme drought in CA). Severe weather will be seen over wider region and for longer periods of time - affecting tornado alley (which is pretty much the entire southeast and midwest); lake effect snows might be more severe as well as warmer weather will mean the lakes stay open water allowing more moisture to be picked up and dropped as precipitation downwind.

Etc.

330 Decatur Deb  Jan 21, 2015 7:59:53am

re: #315 FemNaziBitch

Bad Buddhist.

331 lawhawk  Jan 21, 2015 8:00:26am

re: #317 Targetpractice

Why not both. He’s signaling a run for the WH, and knows he can’t win reelection in his home state.

332 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 8:01:25am

re: #328 The Vicious Babushka

I have seen claims that “Eric” and “Ilsa” do not exist, that it’s impossible for Canadians in their profession to work just 2 days a week and make that kind of money.

I like this part:

I’m actually thankful to Eric and Ilsa. We’ve been hearing from their American counterparts for years now - people complaining that at only $250,000 a year, there’s no way they could afford to pay a few extra dollars in taxes.

They’re right. Under their current budget, they can’t, but no one forgives or pities the poor for living outside their means. No, the poor are shamed for buying a steak instead of hamburger, for buying an occasional candy bar or for driving a car that might have been purchased under better circumstances.

333 Tigger2  Jan 21, 2015 8:01:42am

re: #294 b.d.

I like this Obama:

dailykos.com

Fox isn’t News most of the time, I don’t see the problem with taking New off of their cards.

334 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 8:02:48am
335 Varek Raith  Jan 21, 2015 8:03:38am

Photo of Germany’s anti-Islam movement leader posing as Adolf Hitler goes viral

A photo of the founder of Germany’s new anti-“Islamisation” movement showing him wearing an Adolf Hitler-like moustache and hair style surfaced in German media Wednesday.

Bild daily quoted PEGIDA spokeswoman Kathrin Oertel as saying the photo of Lutz Bachmann was “a joke”.

It cited Bachmann himself as saying he had taken the picture, which shows him with a small black moustache and wet hair swept into a side-parting reminiscent of the Nazi leader, around the time of the publication of a bestselling satirical audiobook about Hitler entitled “He’s Back”.

336 Targetpractice  Jan 21, 2015 8:12:48am

And according to CNN legal analysts, Fox News may get away with stretching the truth in the U.S., but it should take the threat of a French lawsuit very seriously.

“Under U.S. law, I would say there is no chance of bringing a defamation case against the Fox network,” CNN legal analyst Paul Callan explained. “Under French law, however, if they can get jurisdiction over Fox, there’s a law from 1881 — believe it or not — that says if you insult the honor of a French body or person, you can sue for defamation. So under the 1881 French law, they might have a case against the Fox network in France.”

337 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 8:18:56am

re: #335 Varek Raith

Photo of Germany’s anti-Islam movement leader posing as Adolf Hitler goes viral

Obviously, this guy is not interested in appealingl to the ladies.

338 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 8:27:31am

LOL wingnuts still believe this fairy tale==>

339 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 8:28:31am
340 Dr Lizardo  Jan 21, 2015 8:30:14am

re: #337 FemNaziBitch

Obviously, this guy is not interested in appealingl to the ladies.

Wollen Sie sagen, ich habe keine Sex-Appeal?!

Warning: Brain Bleach May Be Required

Image: tumblr_lpvgsn3ViP1r07ipbo1_500.jpg

341 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 8:35:55am
342 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 8:36:38am

re: #340 Dr Lizardo

Wollen Sie sagen, ich habe keine Sex-Appeal?!

Image: tumblr_lpvgsn3ViP1r07ipbo1_500.jpg

eeeeeeek! Mind Bleach Warning!!!!!

343 Dr Lizardo  Jan 21, 2015 8:37:52am

re: #342 FemNaziBitch

eeeeeeek! Mind Bleach Warning!!!!!

Edited to add a brain bleach warning.

344 Targetpractice  Jan 21, 2015 8:40:32am

re: #338 The Vicious Babushka

LOL wingnuts still believe this fairy tale==>

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A platitude spoken by a man who spent most of his adult life either as a union worker or a government employee.

345 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 8:41:02am

Meanwhile over at SSMOTI’s Derphole they’re still bitching over the Goodwife outfit:

346 Targetpractice  Jan 21, 2015 8:42:59am

re: #345 The Vicious Babushka

Meanwhile over at SSMOTI’s Derphole they’re still bitching over the Goodwife outfit:

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Yet another issue that didn’t become one until a black man took office.

347 Dr. Matt  Jan 21, 2015 8:43:40am

re: #345 The Vicious Babushka

And in SMOTI world that dress was paid for with taxpayers dollars. More proof that the RWNJs live in an alternate reality.

348 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 8:45:04am

re: #347 Dr. Matt

And in SMOTI world that dress was paid for with taxpayers dollars. More proof that the RWNJs live in an alternate reality.

This is an actual wingnut talking point:

HURR HURR OBAMA WANTS EVERY AMERICAN TO BE POOR SO THAT HE & MOOCHELLE CAN BE TEH 1%!!!!!1!!1!!

349 Targetpractice  Jan 21, 2015 8:46:47am

re: #347 Dr. Matt

And in SMOTI world that dress was paid for with taxpayers dollars. More proof that the RWNJs live in an alternate reality.

The wingnuts like to believe in a contradiction: The First Family is so rich that they’re hypocrites for suggesting the rich pay more in taxes, but they also lack any means of buying clothing except on the taxpayer dime.

Note these are the same nimrods who overlooked Caribou Barbie using the GOP’s expense account to buy her entire clan a new wardrobe. And tried to play up Willard Romney, a man whose mansion includes a car lift, as a man of modest means.

350 #FergusonFireside  Jan 21, 2015 8:48:34am

Just saw this one. Hahahahahahaha

351 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 8:49:08am

re: #345 The Vicious Babushka

Meanwhile over at SSMOTI’s Derphole they’re still bitching over the Goodwife outfit:

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Did she ask how much the suit worn by her GOP Congress Critters cost?

Does she indicate in what state she lives?

352 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 8:51:38am

I just can’t even

353 Mike Lamb  Jan 21, 2015 8:51:40am

re: #350 #FergusonFireside

Just saw this one. Hahahahahahaha

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The crazy thing is that the towel is actually white.

354 De Kolta Chair  Jan 21, 2015 8:51:44am

re: #337 FemNaziBitch

Obviously, this guy is not interested in appealingl to the ladies.

355 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 21, 2015 8:52:00am

re: #341 FemNaziBitch

Researchers decipher letters from Herculaneum papyri carbonized by eruption that destroyed Pompeii.

“Flavia nearly swooned as Julius Silanus roughly tore away her gown , exposing her milk white…”

356 Mike Lamb  Jan 21, 2015 8:52:23am

re: #345 The Vicious Babushka

This from people that supported Mitt fucking Romney.

357 Targetpractice  Jan 21, 2015 8:52:30am

re: #351 FemNaziBitch

Did she ask how much the suit worn by her GOP Congress Critters cost?

Does she indicate in what state she lives?

Yeah, I’m curious just how much she thinks a custom-tailored wool suit cost these days. Sure as fuck ain’t all that cheap.

358 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 8:53:39am
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”
— Kofi Annan

from the Wikimedia Foundation 2014

While I agree, I am reminded of a quote about knowledge and wisdom —which I can’t recall.

359 #FergusonFireside  Jan 21, 2015 8:56:09am
360 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 8:56:23am

re: #357 Targetpractice

Yeah, I’m curious just how much she thinks a custom-tailored wool suit cost these days. Sure as fuck ain’t all that cheap.

Nothing that expensive at Sears.

361 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 8:58:17am

Of the many retail settings in which I’ve worked, most have been high end. People from the hinterlands will make such stores a destination when travelling to the City, as if they are a tourist attraction.

The gawking and outright indignation and anger when they see the price tags is priceless.

“Who the hell does XXXX designer think he/she is … ?”

362 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 21, 2015 8:58:20am

re: #357 Targetpractice

Yeah, I’m curious just how much she thinks a custom-tailored wool suit cost these days. Sure as fuck ain’t all that cheap.

It’s a well known Wingnut Fact that Laura Bush bought all of her clothes at Kmart and the Army Surplus Store.

363 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 9:01:20am

re: #361 FemNaziBitch

Of the many retail settings in which I’ve worked, most have been high end. People from the hinterlands will make such stores a destination when travelling to the City, as if they are a tourist attraction.

The gawking and outright indignation and anger when they see the price tags is priceless.

“Who the hell does XXXX designer think he/she is … ?”

And these are products that are mass produced …

People would probably go code blue if they saw what custom items went for in some places.

I’ve seen $3000 dollar bed sheets. And yes, they were smooth as a baby’s ass.

364 Targetpractice  Jan 21, 2015 9:01:30am

Really, though, it’s a sign of just how petty wingnuts are that they’ve no constructive criticism of the SOTU, so they’ve sunk to attacking the First Lady’s wardrobe.

365 wrenchwench  Jan 21, 2015 9:02:59am
366 De Kolta Chair  Jan 21, 2015 9:04:17am
John Bolton’s reaction to the SOTU
367 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 9:05:25am

CAn someone translate please?

368 Targetpractice  Jan 21, 2015 9:06:59am

re: #366 De Kolta Chair

[Embedded content]

Speaking of His Orangeness:

369 #FergusonFireside  Jan 21, 2015 9:08:11am

re: #368 Targetpractice

Speaking of His Orangeness:

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It’s Todd, but it says it.

370 iossarian  Jan 21, 2015 9:08:32am

re: #367 FemNaziBitch

CAn someone translate please?

[Embedded content]

The tweet reads, roughly:

:)) MT @pmartin_UdeM #NoGoZones in the EU. When the French twitterverse takes the piss out of the @FoxNews clowns.

371 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 9:08:35am

I’ve heard individuals talk about the insanity of prices on items.

“Who would ever need such and such?”

As if the very item’s existence is a stupid venture on the part of the manufacturer.

They truly think the whole work lives like they do, thinks as they do, and can’t possibly pay cash for the item.

They wouldn’t go into debt for such at item, who would? Therefore it is stupid to produce it.

372 Mike Lamb  Jan 21, 2015 9:09:41am

re: #365 wrenchwench

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D’Nesh D’souza isn’t human-American, because he didn’t grow up on earth…

373 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 21, 2015 9:11:03am

re: #368 Targetpractice

John Boehner invites Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress


He’s their kind of guy.
374 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 9:13:05am
Some 87% of U.S. counties do not have an abortion provider and 35% of women aged 15-44 live in those counties.[32] The proportions are lower in the Northeast (53% and 18%) and the West (74% and 13%). In 2005, nonhospital providers estimated that while more than seven in 10 women traveled less than 50 miles to access abortion services, nearly two in 10 traveled 50-100 miles and almost one in 10 traveled more than 100 miles.[42]
375 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 9:13:37am
376 De Kolta Chair  Jan 21, 2015 9:13:40am

re: #369 #FergusonFireside

It’s not unprecedented that Todd is too dim to recall that Netanyahu has already addressed the Congress twice.

377 Dr. Matt  Jan 21, 2015 9:15:57am

re: #368 Targetpractice

John Boehner invites Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress t.co
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 21, 2015

In other words, the GOP are continuing to attempt to undermine this President. Same shit, different year.

378 Romantic Heretic  Jan 21, 2015 9:16:16am

re: #315 FemNaziBitch

Buddha wept.

379 Dr Lizardo  Jan 21, 2015 9:18:47am

Thanks, anti-vaxxers:

Public health officials in Lane County said they have confirmed a case of measles that’s believed to be related to a California outbreak linked to visits to Disney theme parks in Orange County during the winter holiday.

Spokesman Jason Davis says the case involves a Eugene man in his 40s who went with his family to a Disney park in the outbreak area, traveled back to Eugene, began displaying symptoms and went to a medical provider.

Davis says he believes this is the first Oregon case linked to the Disney parks outbreak. It’s the first measles case in Lane County since 2007.

kptv.com

*smh*

380 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 9:18:52am

Lindsay Graham’s wardrobe bill?

Now there is some investigative reporting I’d like to see.

What many don’t know is that high-profile people do not or cannot shop in stores like everyone else (for obvious reasons).

Either a personal shopper comes to their home/office or they have to come into the store before or after normal store hours.

Not every store has these services and those that do charge for them (one way or another)

381 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 9:22:45am

re: #380 FemNaziBitch

Lindsay Graham’s wardrobe bill?

Now there is some investigative reporting I’d like to see.

What many don’t know is that high-profile people do not or cannot shop in stores like everyone else (for obvious reasons).

Either a personal shopper comes to their home/office or they have to come into the store before or after normal store hours.

Not every store has these services and those that do charge for them (one way or another)

HURR HURR BUT MICHELLE WENT TO TARGET & GOT OFFENDED THAT A SHORT WHITE LADY SHOPPER ASKED HER TO REACH SOMETHING ON THE HIGH SHELF!!!!!!

382 Dr. Matt  Jan 21, 2015 9:23:07am
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey, have increased their criticism of the White House.

“The more I hear from the administration and its quotes, the more it sounds like talking points that come straight out of Tehran,” railed Menendez at a hearing with administration officials on Capitol Hill.

Bob can switch parties any day now.

383 De Kolta Chair  Jan 21, 2015 9:27:31am

Google Images result for “Michael Brickman” (warning: may not be SFW):

google.com

384 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 9:31:17am

re: #383 De Kolta Chair

Google Images result for “Michael Brickman” (warning: may not be SFW):

google.com

I didn’t mind that one bit.

385 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 9:31:31am

Hitler photo guy just resigned his position.

386 FemNaziBitch  Jan 21, 2015 9:35:49am

bbl

387 De Kolta Chair  Jan 21, 2015 9:36:32am

re: #384 FemNaziBitch

I didn’t mind that one bit.

;-) The one of chiropractor Michael Brickman (third row) in his regulation chiropracty tuxedo is quite fetching.

388 Targetpractice  Jan 21, 2015 9:37:25am

Further proof that being a brain surgeon does not exempt you from being an idiot.

389 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 9:37:41am

re:
#345

Meanwhile over at SSMOTI’s Derphole they’re still bitching over the Goodwife outfit

Wingnuts are just faithful American patriots concerned about substantive policy issues like less government and too much government spending.

//

390 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 9:40:44am

re:
#388

Ben Carson thinks Congress should remove judges who rule for gay marriage

Needs to read up on the whole “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” part of the Constitution dealing with the removal of government officials.

391 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 9:41:47am

The Epic Trolling continues:

392 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 9:42:12am

re:
#382

Wait, how did we get back to Iraq’s new major ally, Iran?

393 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 21, 2015 9:42:44am

re: #388 Targetpractice

The phrase “Ben Carson thinks…” has become the political equivalent of ” A guy walks into a bar…”

394 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 9:46:56am

re:
#393

It’s almost as if he’s trying to show everyone how dimwitted he is.

395 makeitstop  Jan 21, 2015 9:51:28am

Seen on Facebook…

396 GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 21, 2015 9:53:59am

re: #385 FemNaziBitch

Now he can be on Fox News as an expert on xyz issue of the day.

397 Franklin  Jan 21, 2015 9:55:35am

re: #267 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

It may replace the “onions on the belt” meme from the Simpsons.

But not the yellow ones. Because of the war. Now where was I….

398 lawhawk  Jan 21, 2015 9:56:33am

re: #397 Franklin

Yelling at the Cloud has taken on new meaning since that episode aired.

399 Targetpractice  Jan 21, 2015 9:59:31am

“Mitt Romney has a lakeside mansion with a car lift.”

“So what?! He’s earned that, he can live as extravagently as he likes!”

“The First Lady bought an expensive dress for the State of the Union Address.”

“THEY’RE LIVING ON ROYALTY ON OUR TAX DOLLARS!!!”

401 Targetpractice  Jan 21, 2015 10:02:45am

Joni Ernst was born a poor black child.

///

402 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 21, 2015 10:06:32am

Man CCJ is flying off the rails on this new FB policy of trying to better identify hoax stories.

403 iossarian  Jan 21, 2015 10:11:12am

re: #401 Targetpractice

Joni Ernst was born a poor black child.

///

Lol.

Sitting on the porch…

singing and dancing…

405 Targetpractice  Jan 21, 2015 10:15:57am

So has the tcot crowd started whining about how mockery of Joni Ernst is really attacks on “strong Republican women”?

406 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 10:16:02am

re:
#402

FB must not like the New Journalism. ///

407 b.d.  Jan 21, 2015 10:17:53am

re: #402 Eclectic Cyborg

Man CCJ is flying off the rails on this new FB policy of trying to better identify hoax stories.

Because he knows that the flag is going to be raised on everything he puts out there and he hates it.

408 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 10:19:40am

re: #405 Targetpractice

So has the tcot crowd started whining about how mockery of Joni Ernst is really attacks on “strong Republican women”?

409 Targetpractice  Jan 21, 2015 10:21:39am

re: #408 The Vicious Babushka

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Predictable to a fault.

410 De Kolta Chair  Jan 21, 2015 10:22:00am
411 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 10:22:07am

Erick the Erick just retweeted this shit. (Not embedding, click through at your own risk)

412 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 10:22:38am

re: #410 De Kolta Chair

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Fucking Boyle’s Law, how does it work?

413 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 21, 2015 10:22:57am

Meet Graham Phillips, “journalist”. I’m sure if he’s killed during some battle there will be a lot of outrage from pro-Putin circles.

414 WhatEVs  Jan 21, 2015 10:24:03am

re: #279 The Vicious Babushka

Now that the internet gods have graciously given me internet access again, I am catching up on the thread I got bounced from last night.

SSMOTI probably thinks FLOTUS should be wearing a black dress with an apron and a white cap.

415 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 21, 2015 10:25:48am

re: #388 Targetpractice

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Further proof that being a brain surgeon does not exempt you from being an idiot.

Lately there even seems to be a positive correlation.

416 #FergusonFireside  Jan 21, 2015 10:28:18am
417 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 10:28:57am
418 Targetpractice  Jan 21, 2015 10:34:09am

Two years ago: “Christie is a force to be reckoned with! He won reelection in a blue state!”

Last year: “Nobody cares anymore about Bridgegate! The man’s doing great work in the state!”

This year: *crickets*

419 Mike Lamb  Jan 21, 2015 10:35:03am

re: #408 The Vicious Babushka

Throwing in that she’s a combat veteran is a nice two-fer for these mouth breathers.

420 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 10:36:55am

re: #419 Mike Lamb

Throwing in that she’s a combat veteran is a nice two-fer for these mouth breathers.

She serves in the National Guard. I don’t know that she has ever been in combat.

421 De Kolta Chair  Jan 21, 2015 10:37:52am

re: #412 The Vicious Babushka

Fucking Boyle’s Law, how does it work?

422 dog philosopher  Jan 21, 2015 10:38:07am

joni castrator speech highlights stagnant wages and other not rich people money problems, demands gummint answers

SNOSHIALISM!

423 Timothy Watson  Jan 21, 2015 10:38:08am

re: #420 The Vicious Babushka

She serves in the National Guard. I don’t know that she has ever been in combat.

According to Wikipedia she was in Kuwait 2003-2004, so probably considered a warzone during the initial invasion of Iraq.

424 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 21, 2015 10:39:17am

re: #423 Timothy Watson

According to Wikipedia she was in Kuwait 2003-2004, so probably considered a warzone during the initial invasion of Iraq.

I saw that but it says logistics support, so she was basically what real combat veterans call REMF

425 b.d.  Jan 21, 2015 10:39:28am

re: #418 Targetpractice

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Two years ago: “Christie is a force to be reckoned with! He won reelection in a blue state!”

Last year: “Nobody cares anymore about Bridgegate! The man’s doing great work in the state!”

This year: *crickets*

CowboyGate and imprisoning that Ebola nurse in a parking lot tent hurt him a lot more than BridgeGate imo.

In hindsight people don’t like remembering that they were part of a panicking, pitchfork brandishing mob

426 klystron  Jan 21, 2015 10:41:09am
427 b.d.  Jan 21, 2015 10:42:23am

re: #419 Mike Lamb

Throwing in that she’s a combat veteran is a nice two-fer for these mouth breathers.

Because the wingnuts would never say anything bad about a veteran, just ask Max Cleland or John Kerry or Tammy Duckworth or Chuck Hagel or…..

428 b.d.  Jan 21, 2015 10:43:28am

re: #419 Mike Lamb

Throwing in that she’s a combat veteran is a nice two-fer for these mouth breathers.

I thought that the GOP was against wimmens being in combat?

429 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 21, 2015 10:43:46am

htwins.net

430 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 10:43:46am

re:
#422

joni castrator speech highlights stagnant wages and other not rich people money problems, demands gummint answers

Fortunately the problem of stagnant wages and other not rich people money problems can be solved by less taxes and less govment. And securing the border. ////

431 Bubblehead II  Jan 21, 2015 10:44:04am

[rant on]

Morning/Afternoon Lizards. Well, PBO will be here in Boise, Id. today giving a speech at the BSU campus. Being a couple of hours away, I really would have liked to have attended it. Unfortunately, I can’t because some &^#@^%% numb skull decided that the tickets (free) would only be given out at the BSU stadium on a first come first serve basis. This effectively froze out those of us who don’t live in the Boise area or lacked the financial resources to get there ahead of time in order to get a ticket. Needless to say, I am a bit pissed about this. Just because I live in a red sector of the State doesn’t mean I wouldn’t have been interested in attending.

[/rant off]

432 Timothy Watson  Jan 21, 2015 10:44:39am

I really think that accountants shouldn’t be allowed near graphic design programs:

I think those two diagrams would be better suited for a surrealism art gallery than a textbook (and associated slides).

433 klystron  Jan 21, 2015 10:45:20am

re: #432 Timothy Watson

I really think that accountants shouldn’t be allowed near graphic design programs:

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I think those two diagrams would be better suited for a surrealism art gallery than a textbook (and associated slides).

The graphics designers all fell asleep when the accountants tried to describe what they needed.

/

434 Charles Johnson  Jan 21, 2015 10:46:02am
435 #FergusonFireside  Jan 21, 2015 10:46:38am

re: #429 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

htwins.net

V E R Y COOL!!!

436 dog philosopher  Jan 21, 2015 10:47:56am

re: #430 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#422

Fortunately the problem of stagnant wages and other not rich people money problems can be solved by less taxes and less govment. And securing the border. ////

indeed mitt is sure to tell about this miracle cure also

btw, when are we gonna get the massive employment program building a giant wall from matamoros to san diego and a million new border guards? ive been waiting to see this bill from the true americans in congress forever now

437 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 10:48:04am

re:
#425

And some of the governed might not appreciate Christie’s running for president while governoring, talking about his travels across this great nation of ours in his supposedly state of the state address…..

438 WhatEVs  Jan 21, 2015 10:48:06am

So, while my internet crapped out on me last night, I was trying to determine what the Spanish GOP Response was. Originally, it was supposed to be the guy from FL repeating Joni the Castrator’s speech in full, but in Spanish. I am Googling to see how they managed to give Curbelo the aw-shucks Iowa upbringing and pretty bread bag shoes.

This shows differences clearly…but nothing about them baggy shoes.

vox.com

Ah, here it is! He did not simply translate her speech. No bread bags for him! I wonder how the GOP faithful will feel about his speech since it is nothing like what they believe or will do.

washingtonpost.com

This is amusing.

msnbc.com

439 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 21, 2015 10:50:20am

re:
#431

Glad to hear POTUS will be in Idaho. Always been in favor of his getting out more. Too bad they distributed the tickets this way, though, and you weren’t able to witness the visit.

440 WhatEVs  Jan 21, 2015 10:50:42am

re: #429 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

htwins.net

OMG! That is AMAZING!

441 Decatur Deb  Jan 21, 2015 10:50:50am

re: #419 Mike Lamb

Throwing in that she’s a combat veteran is a nice two-fer for these mouth breathers.

She was in a war zone, commanded a log unit in Kuwait.

As of 2014, Ernst had served 21 years between the Army Reserve and the National Guard. She spent 14 months in Kuwait in 2003-2004 as a company commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom.[9][13][14]
-Wiki

442 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 21, 2015 11:00:25am

re: #424 The Vicious Babushka

I saw that but it says logistics support, so she was basically what real combat veterans call REMF

Until the supply convoy you were a guard or driver on got ambushed.

(Friend of mine who was a USAF NCO and did weapons training down in Texas got a flood of enlisted USAF through his courses. They were being given weapons training and then being sent over to Iraq to serve as guards on supply convoys.

He also did two stints over in Iraq himself as a liaison with Iraqi troops. Due to that he has an ongoing dislike bordering on hatred for PA National Guard troops. Said NG troops at the base he was at would fire at patrols out beyond the perimeter even though there were notices sent out repeatedly that a friendly patrol would be out in that area at that time.)

443 Dr. Matt  Jan 21, 2015 11:00:27am

re: #434 Charles Johnson

Translation: CCJ is now smearing a dead WWII vet because he can’t find the exact cause of KIA.

444 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 21, 2015 11:00:40am

re: #436 dog philosopher

indeed mitt is sure to tell about this miracle cure also

btw, when are we gonna get the massive employment program building a giant wall from matamoros to san diego and a million new border guards? ive been waiting to see this bill from the true americans in congress forever now

Not to worry, cleaning up the spills and other ecological damage from the Keystone XL pipeline will employ plenty of people - not to mention all of the tanker truck drivers who will be needed when one of the spills pollutes the aquifer.

445 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 21, 2015 11:09:01am

re: #429 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

htwins.net

Everybody notice Russell’s Teapot in there?

446 Dave In Austin  Jan 21, 2015 11:11:19am

re: #424 The Vicious Babushka

I saw that but it says logistics support, so she was basically what real combat veterans call REMF

She was in charge of overseeing that sox and bread bags got on the trucks to the front lines.

447 JustMark  Jan 21, 2015 12:43:14pm

re: #429 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

htwins.net

That was fuckin’ cool!

448 Eventual Carrion  Jan 21, 2015 2:02:29pm

re: #410 De Kolta Chair

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Him being an over-inflated ball himself.


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