Mind-Bending 4K Video of the Andromeda Galaxy: The Largest Photo Ever Taken

Makes you feel small, don’t it?
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You’ll leave this video with a sense of how unimaginably vast the universe is. This isn’t CGI, and it isn’t animation, it’s the largest photograph of the universe ever taken by the Hubble Space Telescope — and it’s just a small portion of the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor.

Watch and be amazed. (1440p and 2160p versions are included.)

First & Last photo by Cory Poole: https://www.facebook.com/CoryPoolePhotography

Super-high resolution image of Andromeda from Hubble (NASA/ESA): http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/

Music is ‘Koda - The Last Stand’: https://soundcloud.com/kodachrome/koda-the-last-stand

Space is crazy.

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536 comments
1 darthstar  Jan 22, 2015 6:28:32pm

NASA has taken 100 million pictures of the Sun. And they all fit in the wallet NASA wears in the back pocket of its jeans.

2 Varek Raith  Jan 22, 2015 6:32:04pm

0_0

3 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 22, 2015 6:32:11pm

I understand that we are planning a mission to send men to the Sun. Of course we’ll have them land at night.

Thank you…. and tip your server well…

RBS

4 b.d.  Jan 22, 2015 6:32:22pm

And there were people saying we shouldn’t fix the Hubble, that it was too expensive to fix, blah, blah, blah.

I am really glad they didn’t get their way this time.

5 darthstar  Jan 22, 2015 6:33:45pm

Okay, that video was fucking cool.

6 darthstar  Jan 22, 2015 6:34:30pm

re: #2 Varek Raith

0_0

I told you not to eat the chocolates in the freezer before watching that. Now what are you going to do for the next 8 hours?

7 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 22, 2015 6:39:17pm

Just saw this over on the side bar…. and MONSTER Hat Tip to Ace-o-Aces….

…

paged here

it doesn’t get any better than this…. this needs to be spread throughout the blog / twitter sphere in my opinion.

RBS

8 De Kolta Chair  Jan 22, 2015 6:39:21pm

Wow

9 psddluva4evah  Jan 22, 2015 6:39:23pm

So I recall some people commenting that they hoped the White House wouldn’t meet with Bibi when/if he comes to address Congress…

well:

10 D_Red  Jan 22, 2015 6:39:25pm

Hey, you don’t know me, and I have no medical training whatsoever, but do you mind if I stand over here and watch your abortion?

11 unproven innocence  Jan 22, 2015 6:42:44pm

It’s coming right at us, and we’re all gonna die!

12 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 22, 2015 6:43:01pm

Doubly small. I highly recommend The Well Of Stars

LGF Amazon link-Imagine a starship the size of Jupiter, and humans as almost immortal to explore the stars with 11 billion fellow travelers of a thousand species. I just read that last week.

13 psddluva4evah  Jan 22, 2015 6:44:41pm

I mean this can’t be real..this is becoming a joke

14 bratwurst  Jan 22, 2015 6:46:19pm

Whoa, who could have seen this coming?

15 Targetpractice  Jan 22, 2015 6:46:48pm

re: #9 psddluva4evah

So I recall some people commenting that they hoped the White House wouldn’t meet with Bibi when/if he comes to address Congress…

well:

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Best possible move he could make. Prevent Bibi from turning this trip into a photo-op with him at the White House, while excusing it in a way that makes it obvious the President sees this as little more than a campaign stunt. Not that Republicans won’t bitch up a storm about his refusing to meet with their idol, but there’s nothing they can do about it. If anything, it might actually help convince Democrats who are on the fence about sanctions that signing onto this farce is a bad idea.

16 psddluva4evah  Jan 22, 2015 6:48:08pm

Cutest picture ever? At the very least, it does seem kids of all ages and races seem to like the guy on site.

17 #FergusonFireside  Jan 22, 2015 6:49:39pm

re: #4 b.d.

And there were people saying we shouldn’t fix the Hubble, that it was too expensive to fix, blah, blah, blah.

I am really glad they didn’t get their way this time.

Was that GWB time or Reagan time? I don’t remember, I do remember the defund BS.

18 Kragar  Jan 22, 2015 6:49:45pm

re: #14 bratwurst

Whoa, who could have seen this coming?

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19 jaunte  Jan 22, 2015 6:51:18pm

And that’s just one galaxy.
imgkid.com

20 Lumberhead  Jan 22, 2015 6:52:03pm

It’s funny how some people look at these images and say to themselves:
“How can you look at this and not believe in God?”
Others see the same images and say to themselves:
“How can you look at this and believe in God?”

21 Varek Raith  Jan 22, 2015 6:54:39pm

re: #19 jaunte

And that’s just one galaxy.
imgkid.com

Of 170 billion we know about.
Times hundreds of millions of stars each.
Humans alone in all that?
Methinks not.

22 WhatEVs  Jan 22, 2015 6:55:19pm

re: #7 RealityBasedSteve

Just saw this over on the side bar…. and MONSTER Hat Tip to Ace-o-Aces….

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Video

paged here

it doesn’t get any better than this…. this needs to be spread throughout the blog / twitter sphere in my opinion.

RBS

I saw the page but almost never watch videos. That was hysterical. Really well done.

23 OhNoZombies!  Jan 22, 2015 6:55:34pm

Welp, that settles it. No life out there, not a chance.
The Earth is the center of the universe.
And it’s flat.
Astrology 101 people.

24 WhatEVs  Jan 22, 2015 6:56:36pm

re: #10 D_Red

Hey, you don’t know me, and I have no medical training whatsoever, but do you mind if I stand over here and watch your abortion?

Whatchamean? That’s not how it works? (tilting head, batting eyelashes stupidly)

25 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 22, 2015 6:57:22pm

re: #20 Lumberhead

“How can you look at this and believe in God?”

I honestly don’t see how a better view of the heavens runs against a belief in God.

26 jaunte  Jan 22, 2015 6:58:01pm

re: #23 OhNoZombies!

Welp, that settles it. No life out there, not a chance.
The Earth is the center of the universe.
And it’s flat.
Astrology 101 people.

27 Kragar  Jan 22, 2015 6:58:16pm

Barret Brown was a free speech advocate

and Pablo Escobar was a noted drug legalization advocate

28 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 22, 2015 6:58:57pm

re: #8 De Kolta Chair

Caption says “That damn NASA always chasing us with the cameras. Can’t sit still a minute!!”

29 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 22, 2015 6:59:40pm

re: #27 Kragar

Barret Brown was a free speech advocate

and Pablo Escobar was a noted drug legalization advocate

Wanna tweet that!

30 stpaulbear  Jan 22, 2015 7:01:14pm

Needz moar starz.

31 Lumberhead  Jan 22, 2015 7:02:31pm

re: #25 Rightwingconspirator

God as we are taught puts us at the center of the universe and the only living beings are here on Earth. Seeing the vastness of the universe puts that into question. The pale blue dot view of things.

32 OhNoZombies!  Jan 22, 2015 7:02:40pm

re: #26 jaunte

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:-D

33 #FergusonFireside  Jan 22, 2015 7:04:39pm

re: #10 D_Red

Hey, you don’t know me, and I have no medical training whatsoever, but do you mind if I stand over here and watch your abortion?

Never ever happened. And he became a putrid stink to me after that. I will only observe the freak’s antics via LGF.

34 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 22, 2015 7:04:51pm

re: #18 Kragar

Shouldn’t it be “The Persecution and Character Assassination of Barret Brown as Performed by the Inmates of the Libertarian Asylum”?

35 Kragar  Jan 22, 2015 7:05:42pm

re: #29 Rightwingconspirator

Wanna tweet that!

36 #FergusonFireside  Jan 22, 2015 7:06:34pm

re: #16 psddluva4evah

Cutest picture ever? At the very least, it does seem kids of all ages and races seem to like the guy on site.

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POTUS has always been the child whisperer.

Oh the videos.

37 Charles Johnson  Jan 22, 2015 7:08:03pm
38 darthstar  Jan 22, 2015 7:08:14pm

re: #7 RealityBasedSteve

Just saw this over on the side bar…. and MONSTER Hat Tip to Ace-o-Aces….

[Embedded content]

Video

paged here

it doesn’t get any better than this…. this needs to be spread throughout the blog / twitter sphere in my opinion.

RBS

Fucking awesome.

39 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 22, 2015 7:08:25pm

re: #31 Lumberhead

God as we are taught puts us at the center of the universe and the only living beings are here on Earth. Seeing the vastness of the universe puts that into question. The pale blue dot view of things.

Yeah I guess to some literalists. I got two words to confound that level of ego and religious confidence. Gregorian Calendar.

40 Jenner7  Jan 22, 2015 7:10:06pm

re: #13 psddluva4evah

Every time I turn my puter on, it’s more horrible police brutality and murder. And not enough people give a damn. It’s depressing. :(

41 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 22, 2015 7:10:57pm

Also remember that our galaxy and the Great Nebula in Andromeda will collide in 2 billion years or so. The collision between the gas and dust clouds in both galaxies will lead to an enormous burst of star formation—a large number of which will be short-lived supergiants that will shortly explode in supernovae, sterilizing any life-bearing planets.

When you look at the giant elliptical galaxies that contain up to a trillion stars,also remember that they were formed by the collision of a large number of spiral galaxies like ours, with the process repeating itself each time until all the gas was used up.

If YHWH the Wind God is responsible for all that, he’s a complete asshole. Fortunately, he’s just the tribal boogeyman of one band of nomads….

42 Dr. Matt  Jan 22, 2015 7:11:54pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

43 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 22, 2015 7:13:25pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

nice thought but I was there

He also rode a tank, held a general’s rank when the blitzkrieg raged, and the bodies stank.

44 stpaulbear  Jan 22, 2015 7:17:33pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

nice thought but I was there

If Chuck were cool, this would be his song. But he’s not, so it isn’t.

45 Dark_Falcon  Jan 22, 2015 7:19:05pm

re: #43 Higgs Boson’s Mate

He also rode a tank, held a general’s rank when the blitzkrieg raged, and the bodies stank.

As bad as today was for me and the world, its feels like the devil had a hand in it.

46 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 7:19:47pm

re: #44 stpaulbear

If Chuck were cool, this would be his song. But he’s not, so it isn’t.

Linky no worky

47 #FergusonFireside  Jan 22, 2015 7:22:09pm

re: #44 stpaulbear

bad link?

48 GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 22, 2015 7:22:15pm

re: #7 RealityBasedSteve

Downloaded it via mxtube on my phone. It’ll never go away now. Mwahaha!!!

49 stpaulbear  Jan 22, 2015 7:22:28pm

re: #46 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Linky no worky

Oops. It’s fixed now. Thanks.

50 Decatur Deb  Jan 22, 2015 7:25:23pm

re: #34 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Shouldn’t it be “The Persecution and Character Assassination of Barret Brown as Performed by the Inmates of the Libertarian Asylum”?

“…Under the Direction of Hunter Thompson”.

51 Dr. Matt  Jan 22, 2015 7:26:24pm

The details are horrifying:

52 jaunte  Jan 22, 2015 7:29:35pm
53 De Kolta Chair  Jan 22, 2015 7:32:37pm
54 Dark_Falcon  Jan 22, 2015 7:32:42pm

re: #52 jaunte

55 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 22, 2015 7:33:37pm

re: #51 Dr. Matt

That is disgusting. Speaking of disgusting, how long ‘til CCJ announces that his guy in the Nashville PD has told him that the players were framed?

56 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 22, 2015 7:34:08pm

One of the links YouTube offered as a related video at the end of this video is totally insane. It appears to be from an internet-based UFO cult, and the comments are bizarre.

…

57 klystron  Jan 22, 2015 7:34:49pm

re: #54 Dark_Falcon

I’m sorry, I must have been confused by the actual legislation being proposed and voted on, where Republicans seem to make telling women what they can and cannot do with their bodies a priority.

58 jaunte  Jan 22, 2015 7:35:18pm
59 #FergusonFireside  Jan 22, 2015 7:35:47pm

re: #54 Dark_Falcon

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Prove it; Your wish of the pure conservative doesn’t fit the actual narrative.

60 klystron  Jan 22, 2015 7:37:15pm
61 Dark_Falcon  Jan 22, 2015 7:37:19pm

re: #59 #FergusonFireside

“The pure conservative” is a myth, and not a thing I would write about. Conservative purity is what Louise Gohmert and Glenn Beck obsess over.

62 Dr. Matt  Jan 22, 2015 7:37:38pm

re: #57 klystron

I’m sorry, I must have been confused by the actual legislation being proposed and voted on, where Republicans seem to make telling women what they can and cannot do with their bodies a priority.

Let us not forget the Paycheck Fairness Act that the GOP unanimously voted to block (multiple times over several years). Yup, no repression there…..not.at.all.

63 klystron  Jan 22, 2015 7:37:59pm

re: #62 Dr. Matt

Let us not forget the Paycheck Fairness Act that GOP unanimously voted to block (multiple times over several years). Yup, no repression there…..not.at.all.

That’s the economic opportunity part, right?

64 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 22, 2015 7:38:47pm

re: #54 Dark_Falcon

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Of course American conservatives believe in repression. You know that. It’s documented here every day, so why are you lying to Casey? Most Conservatives are not like you.

65 #FergusonFireside  Jan 22, 2015 7:38:52pm

Untilre: #61 Dark_Falcon

“The pure conservative” is a myth, and not a thing I would write about. Conservative purity is what Louise Gohmert and Glenn Beck obsess over.

Don’t defend conservatives then. You so selectively choose the ones you like.

Why are all the freaks getting into office?

66 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 7:39:20pm

Yeah you’d think a party that truly believed in equality would support equal pay for equal work instead of giving some excuse as many GOP elected officials did that women actually like being paid less than men. The party’s sexist, no doubt.

67 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 22, 2015 7:41:31pm

re: #66 HappyWarrior

Yeah you’d think a party that truly believed in equality would support equal pay for equal work instead of giving some excuse as many GOP elected officials did that women actually like being paid less than men. The party’s sexist, no doubt.

Sexist, racist, homophobic, and xenophobic. Many of the worst traits of humanity are concentrated in the Republican party.

68 Dark_Falcon  Jan 22, 2015 7:42:30pm

re: #65 #FergusonFireside

Until

Don’t defend conservatives then. You so selectively choose the ones you like.

Why are all the freaks getting into office?

I said “conservatives”, and then you brought up “pure conservatives”. To me, such a being is a Tea Party myth and I was referring more to the conservative mainstream. I also didn’t much like red states being compared to Saudi Arabia; It’s as bad as comparing blue states to Cuba.

69 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 7:42:37pm

re: #67 No Country For Old Haters

Sexist, racist, homophobic, and xenophobic. Many of the worst traits of humanity are concentrated in the Republican party.

Yep and honestly the bizarre irony is the Democrats resemble an actual conservative party more than the GOP does today. The GOP today is really nothing more than an American BNP.

70 WhatEVs  Jan 22, 2015 7:42:55pm

re: #54 Dark_Falcon

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I really try to not engage you but are you high or simply ignoring what’s been happening over the last five years? You don’t seem to be a stupid person but that was a complete blinders-on tweet.

71 stpaulbear  Jan 22, 2015 7:48:37pm

Sure, conservatives believe in economic opportunity…

California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock said on Thursday that the minimum wage should not be raised because low pay was necessary for minorities and other unskilled workers who were not worth more than $7 an hour.

During an appearance on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, host Greta Brawner asked McClintock if he could get behind a presidential candidate like Mitt Romney, who is one of an increasing number of Republicans saying that the minimum wage should be at least $10.10 an hour.

But McClintock argued that raising the minimum wage would “rip the first rung in the ladder of opportunity for teenagers, for minorities, for people who are trying to get into the job market for their first job.”

72 klystron  Jan 22, 2015 7:48:48pm

re: #68 Dark_Falcon

I said “conservatives”, and then you brought up “pure conservatives”. To me, such a being is a Tea Party myth and I was referring more to the conservative mainstream. I also didn’t much like red states being compared to Saudi Arabia; It’s as bad as comparing blue states to Cuba.

Honestly, just say you were derping again because it hurts your feelings when people suggest that conservatives’ efforts to tell women what to do could result in the extreme that is seen in Saudi Arabia.

Meanwhile, I will still hang out over here and work to make sure conservatives aren’t elected, because I actually believe that I deserve equal pay for equal work and the ability to make decisions about my own body. You know, rights you take for granted but women can’t - especially given the legislative actions of the Republican majorities.

73 jaunte  Jan 22, 2015 7:49:15pm

re: #70 WhatEVs

It is odd.

74 jaunte  Jan 22, 2015 7:51:23pm

“…To call this a moment of clarity for the women of the GOP would be naive to the point of absurdity. This was a calculation about optics and nothing else. Ellmers is not championing women’s rights or women’s health, she is not asking that her party have a come to Jesus moment about its priorities. She is betting, perhaps correctly, that it would look pretty bad to take this specific issue up among the new Congress’ first votes, at a moment when the GOP is fighting, and losing, a battle to shake its image of being anti-woman.”

75 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 7:51:54pm

re: #71 stpaulbear

Sure, conservatives believe in economic opportunity…

This is what I’m talking about. “Conservatives” are full of people like McClintock. Really this guy is making Mitt Romney look like Mitt Romney actually has perspective on an issue. That’s hard to do.

76 Dark_Falcon  Jan 22, 2015 7:54:20pm

re: #68 Dark_Falcon

I also had a truly shitty day at work today despite having done a first-rate job this week and last. Right now my team there is effectively on commission-only status except for one person who is not me.

I’ve got good sales in the pipeline and I expect ‘em to close before the end of the month, but if none of them do I may have to leave. They won’t force me out, but I can’t do without income, even if only unemployment, for long.

But again, I don’t think it’ll come to that, because my sales prospects are good. But its been a nasty month for the whole office, and its effecting my mood tonight. Hence I snapped at a snarky Tweet I found annoying.

77 WhatEVs  Jan 22, 2015 7:55:50pm

re: #75 HappyWarrior

This is what I’m talking about. “Conservatives” are full of people like McClintock. Really this guy is making Mitt Romney look like Mitt Romney actually has perspective on an issue. That’s hard to do.

I don’t think I’d go that far. Mitt has foot in mouth disease but, while I’m betting he agrees with this cretin, he’s politically astute enough to know you don’t verbalize your inner asshole to that degree.

78 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 7:56:32pm

re: #77 WhatEVs

I don’t think I’d go that far. Mitt has foot in mouth disease but, while I’m betting he agrees with this cretin, he’s politically astute enough to know you don’t verbalize your inner asshole to that degree.

True that.

79 #FergusonFireside  Jan 22, 2015 7:57:09pm

We are not fucking Saudi Arabia, and the comparison to woman’s rights here is the ultimate duck and cop out Dark.

We are supposed to be better. We should never compare ourselves to SA.

Oh the night of conservative misogyny.

80 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 22, 2015 7:58:58pm

re: #76 Dark_Falcon

Sorry you had a bad day.

You didn’t just snap, you derped dishonest Republican propaganda. I like you Dark, but sometimes you act like a Republican robot.

81 GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 22, 2015 7:59:07pm

Getting hot in here. Expecting a “Be back later”…

82 darthstar  Jan 22, 2015 7:59:26pm

BBL

83 darthstar  Jan 22, 2015 7:59:40pm

re: #82 darthstar

BBL

Oops…I meant, “Hello Whirl!”

84 jaunte  Jan 22, 2015 8:00:43pm
85 Dark_Falcon  Jan 22, 2015 8:00:51pm

re: #81 GlutenFreeJesus

Getting hot in here. Expecting a “Be back later”…

re: #82 darthstar

BBL

That didn’t take long.

86 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 8:01:39pm

re: #84 jaunte

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Oh Germany.

87 klystron  Jan 22, 2015 8:01:45pm

re: #76 Dark_Falcon

So here’s some advice, that I perhaps don’t follow as often as I should but I do try to keep in mind.

There are days where I am cranky as shit. Sometimes, on those days, the appropriate response is to step away from the computer and do something fun. Or do something fun on the computer. But in general not interacting with people, except in very small doses. Because when I am cranky like that, I am likely to over-react, and even policing my reaction wears me out.

Your mileage may vary, of course, but I find that trying to reduce the amount I talk when cranky is helpful. Because otherwise I am going to reap what I have sown, in terms of response to a cranky comment, and people are going to be peeved because I have overreacted to something that was minor, if not completely inexplicable. And I’d rather dig myself out of fewer holes, but that’s just me.

88 jaunte  Jan 22, 2015 8:02:16pm

re: #86 HappyWarrior

That rabbit on the right has a very human face.

89 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 8:02:44pm

re: #88 jaunte

That rabbit on the right has a very human face.

I imagine that’s intentional.

90 jaunte  Jan 22, 2015 8:03:09pm

re: #89 HappyWarrior

Maybe a self portrait of the artist.

91 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 8:03:49pm

re: #90 jaunte

Maybe a self portrait of the artist.

Hmmm perhaps so.

92 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 22, 2015 8:04:21pm

re: #90 jaunte

Maybe a self portrait of the artist.

or the Abbot?

RBS

93 Dark_Falcon  Jan 22, 2015 8:04:45pm

re: #87 klystron

So here’s some advice, that I perhaps don’t follow as often as I should but I do try to keep in mind.

There are days where I am cranky as shit. Sometimes, on those days, the appropriate response is to step away from the computer and do something fun. Or do something fun on the computer. But in general not interacting with people, except in very small doses. Because when I am cranky like that, I am likely to over-react, and even policing my reaction wears me out.

Your mileage may vary, of course, but I find that trying to reduce the amount I talk when cranky is helpful. Because otherwise I am going to reap what I have sown, in terms of response to a cranky comment, and people are going to be peeved because I have overreacted to something that was minor, if not completely inexplicable. And I’d rather dig myself out of fewer holes, but that’s just me.

That’s good advice.

94 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:04:50pm

re: #84 jaunte

There was a movie on tv a couple months ago that was basically about an attack by 10 foot bunnies. They weren’t the rabbits you see running across your lawn, these were extreme close ups of petting zoo bunnies. It was such an awful movie. Loved it. Wish I could remember the title.

95 #FergusonFireside  Jan 22, 2015 8:05:16pm

re: #93 Dark_Falcon

That’s good advice.

heed it mo fo.

96 Decatur Deb  Jan 22, 2015 8:05:39pm

re: #94 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

There was a movie on tv a couple months ago that was basically about an attack by 10 foot bunnies. They weren’t the rabbits you see running across your lawn, these were extreme close ups of petting zoo bunnies. It was such an awful movie. Loved it. Wish I could remember the title.

Night of the Lepus?

97 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:06:06pm

re: #96 Decatur Deb

BINGO!!!!!

98 GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 22, 2015 8:06:07pm

re: #85 Dark_Falcon

Neither did your defense of the racist, mysoginist, xenophobic, theocratic GOP.

99 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:06:30pm

re: #96 Decatur Deb

You must be one sick lizard to remember that.

100 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 8:06:35pm

re: #92 RealityBasedSteve

or the Abbot?

RBS

Aha, see my impression of the painting is about the circle of life in that era. Mass disease kills us the humans and the rabbits (who we normally would feast on) feast on us. But I guess you’re seeing why I didn’t last long in Art History class.

101 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 22, 2015 8:06:39pm

re: #94 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

There was a movie on tv a couple months ago that was basically about an attack by 10 foot bunnies. They weren’t the rabbits you see running across your lawn, these were extreme close ups of petting zoo bunnies. It was such an awful movie. Loved it. Wish I could remember the title.

Night of the Lepus.… an exquisitely bad movie

102 Snarknado!  Jan 22, 2015 8:06:41pm

re: #96 Decatur Deb

Night of the Lepus?

Darn, you beat me to it.

103 darthstar  Jan 22, 2015 8:06:57pm

Hey Dark, I’m having a bad week too at work. I misread my management and was surprised with finding myself on the ropes so to speak. And I do good work, as the fact that I have zero attrition in my career as a manager shows - nobody leaves my team because I hire smart people and I treat them with respect. But I don’t get along with idiots in positions of power, and I stepped on some toes the last few months. Shit happens.

Now I’m just working my way back into their good graces so I can leave on my own terms.

Am I angry? Yeah. Am I disillusioned? Yeah. Will I take it out on anonymous people on the internet? No. I tried that before, and it doesn’t help.

104 WhatEVs  Jan 22, 2015 8:06:58pm

re: #88 jaunte

That rabbit on the right has a very human face.

It looks like (2nd from right) they’re boiling a dog. This I cannot abide. Cooking humans? OK. Dogs, though? “Joo killt my Fido, prepare to die”

105 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:07:43pm

Lots of sickos :)

106 Decatur Deb  Jan 22, 2015 8:07:51pm

re: #99 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

You must be one sick lizard to remember that.

Scared the hell out of my wife decades ago.

107 Dark_Falcon  Jan 22, 2015 8:08:31pm

re: #95 #FergusonFireside

heed it mo fo.

SteveMcG, what’s with the downding? Stanley wasn’t going after me with this post.

108 jaunte  Jan 22, 2015 8:08:33pm

re: #101 RealityBasedSteve

“the film’s biggest failure was considered to be the inability to make the rabbits seem scary”

109 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:08:36pm

re: #106 Decatur Deb

That poor cast was acting their asses off.

110 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:08:53pm

re: #107 Dark_Falcon

mo fo??

111 OhNoZombies!  Jan 22, 2015 8:09:15pm

re: #54 Dark_Falcon

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Bwahahah!
That’s a good one! Thanks for the laughs.
I didn’t know you were that funny!
slappin’ my knee.

112 jaunte  Jan 22, 2015 8:10:06pm

re: #93 Dark_Falcon

Sorry you had a bad day, Dark. I wasn’t trying to troll you.

113 #FergusonFireside  Jan 22, 2015 8:10:29pm

10” probe if I’m pregnant & want to terminate.

Ransom to witnesses if I’m raped.

False witness to abortion to prove it was bad.

What the fuck. This IS a war on women.

114 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:11:22pm

Speaking of “bad” art, I’m listening to an old Queen concert from 1975. It’s actually pretty good. I had forgotten why I used to like them.

115 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:11:47pm

re: #113 #FergusonFireside

Only the bad ones.

116 jaunte  Jan 22, 2015 8:11:49pm

re: #113 #FergusonFireside

10” probe if I’m pregnant & want to terminate.

Ransom to witnesses if I’m raped.

False witness to abortion to prove it was bad.

What the fuck. This IS a war on women.

This is true.

117 WhatEVs  Jan 22, 2015 8:13:19pm

re: #113 #FergusonFireside

10” probe if I’m pregnant & want to terminate.

Ransom to witnesses if I’m raped.

False witness to abortion to prove it was bad.

What the fuck. This IS a war on women.

Can we call that 10” probe what it is, please? State mandated rape.

I’ve had that procedure for medically necessary reasons and it’s fucking horrible. To have it forced on me by the government? Not a chance in hell. Ever.

118 stpaulbear  Jan 22, 2015 8:13:47pm

re: #101 RealityBasedSteve

Night of the Lepus.… an exquisitely bad movie

I reached behind me and grabbed my copy of The Golden Turkey Awards (1980). It’s in there as a nomination for ‘The Worst Rodent Movie of All Time’, but it didn’t win the catagory.

119 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 8:13:57pm

Any good recommends for music documentaries? Watched the Scorsese George Harrison one earlier in the week and watched a Bob Marley one earlier. Really enjoy these. When I was a kid, John was my favorite Beatle but as I’ve grown older, I’ve really started to like George’s stuff in and outside the Beatles.

120 Dark_Falcon  Jan 22, 2015 8:15:54pm

re: #110 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

mo fo??

She meant it light-heartedly.

And now I’m going to step away. Wish me luck for tomorrow, please.

121 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 22, 2015 8:16:37pm

re: #119 HappyWarrior

Any good recommends for music documentaries? Watched the Scorsese George Harrison one earlier in the week and watched a Bob Marley one earlier. Really enjoy these. When I was a kid, John was my favorite Beatle but as I’ve grown older, I’ve really started to like George’s stuff in and outside the Beatles.

I’ll make my pitch for The Last Waltz Directed by Scorsese, featuring “The Band” and pretty much anybody who was anybody in 1976.

RBS

122 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:17:12pm

re: #119 HappyWarrior

The Last Waltz
The Kids are Alright

123 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 22, 2015 8:17:18pm

re: #120 Dark_Falcon

She meant it light-heartedly.

And now I’m going to step away. Wish me luck for tomorrow, please.

Good luck, and remember, Coffee’s for Closers. Get yourself 2 cups tomorrow. :)

RBS

124 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 8:18:03pm

re: #121 RealityBasedSteve

I’ll make my pitch for The Last Waltz Directed by Scorsese, featuring “The Band” and pretty much anybody who was anybody in 1976.

RBS

Oooh good idea. Love “The Band”.

125 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 22, 2015 8:18:57pm

The making of Queen’s “Night at the Opera”…. it’s a great one, and on youtube to boot.

…

RBS

126 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 8:19:15pm

re: #122 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

The Last Waltz
The Kids are Alright

Good ideas. Been trying to get more into The Who.

127 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 8:19:42pm

re: #125 RealityBasedSteve

The making of Queen’s “Night at the Opera”…. it’s a great one, and on youtube to boot.

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RBS

Cool thanks.

128 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 22, 2015 8:19:54pm

re: #124 HappyWarrior

Oooh good idea. Love “The Band”.

Actually had the soundtrack on two 8 track cartridges. Kept me company on many a road trip.

RBS

129 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:20:21pm

VH1 Classic ran a film about the the Monterey Pop Festival, (I think 1967) that was pretty good. I’ve mentioned it here a couple of times. My favorite part is when Michelle Phillips remembers going on AFTER Jimi Hendrix! “He’s fucking his guitar, and we have to go on next.”

130 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:21:23pm

Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, but it ‘snot really a documentary. It has a performance by the Dirty Mac (a band with John Lennon) in which Yoko Ono shares a mic with a violin player and at one point he’s trying not to look at her.

131 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 8:22:07pm

re: #129 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

VH1 Classic ran a film about the the Monterey Pop Festival, (I think 1967) that was pretty good. I’ve mentioned it here a couple of times. My favorite part is when Michelle Phillips remembers going on AFTER Jimi Hendrix! “He’s fucking his guitar, and we have to go on next.”

Yeah can you imagine having to follow up Hendrix? Makes me a little sad though because Jimi was only 27 when he died and the sky was the limit for what he could have accomplished.

132 stpaulbear  Jan 22, 2015 8:23:43pm

re: #119 HappyWarrior

Any good recommends for music documentaries? Watched the Scorsese George Harrison one earlier in the week and watched a Bob Marley one earlier. Really enjoy these. When I was a kid, John was my favorite Beatle but as I’ve grown older, I’ve really started to like George’s stuff in and outside the Beatles.

I recently stumbled onto a series out of England called ‘Under Review’ that put together 70 minute documentaries on a lot of 60’s and early 70’s bands. There are lots of them on YouTube, but occasionally they’re cut into sections and one of the sections is missing, which is mucho frustrating. They’re well done and you can kill an afternoon pretty easy jumping from band to band.

133 Decatur Deb  Jan 22, 2015 8:24:28pm

re: #118 stpaulbear

I reached behind me and grabbed my copy of The Golden Turkey Awards (1980). It’s in there as a nomination for ‘The Worst Rodent Movie of All Time’, but it didn’t win the catagory.

Jeez—look at the cast:

Stuart Whitman
Janet Leigh
Rory Calhoun
DeForest Kelley

134 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:25:46pm

re: #133 Decatur Deb

Geez, I didn’t recognize any of them, but maybe some were nibbled to death before I tuned in.

135 Decatur Deb  Jan 22, 2015 8:26:20pm

re: #134 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Geez, I didn’t recognize any of them, but maybe some were nibbled to death before I tuned in.

Maybe they were in the rabbit suits.

136 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 8:26:43pm

re: #132 stpaulbear

I recently stumbled onto a series out of England called ‘Under Review’ that put together 70 minute documentaries on a lot of 60’s and early 70’s bands. There are lots of them on YouTube, but occasionally they’re cut into sections and one of the sections is missing, which is mucho frustrating. They’re well done and you can kill an afternoon pretty easy jumping from band to band.

That does sound good. I actually have Youtube configured with my PS3. Truly a fascinating era. I would have loved to see many of those bands but was born too late.

137 A Cranky One  Jan 22, 2015 8:27:40pm

re: #87 klystron

There are days where I am cranky as shit.

I’m sorry, but that position has been taken. ;)

Let’s see. Well, grumpy, grouchy and irritable are still available.

Me too.
138 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:29:37pm

The Spring semester last year my clinical site had internet access on the room tvs, so I hooked up some of my patients with YouTube playlists of Syd Caesar and Carol Burnett. They loved it.

139 Decatur Deb  Jan 22, 2015 8:29:39pm

re: #119 HappyWarrior

Any good recommends for music documentaries? Watched the Scorsese George Harrison one earlier in the week and watched a Bob Marley one earlier. Really enjoy these. When I was a kid, John was my favorite Beatle but as I’ve grown older, I’ve really started to like George’s stuff in and outside the Beatles.

Not into glam rock at all, but the accidental turn of events in New York Doll makes it a tremendous human documentary.

imdb.com

141 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 8:31:00pm

re: #139 Decatur Deb

Not into glam rock at all, but the accidental turn of events in New York Doll makes it a tremendous human documentary.

That does sound interesting. They’re really not a band I know a ton about. I do like seeing the human side. That’s why the Harrison documentary was so interesting. Seeing his friendships with people from outside the music world like the Monty Python guys.

142 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:31:33pm

I’ve never seen all of “Gimme Shelter”, but the parts I saw looked good. Mick Jagger shitting himself singing Under My Thumb while surrounded by Hells Angels

143 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 8:31:51pm

re: #140 Single-handed sailor

Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?)

Oh man, I saw that one a few months ago. Wonderful documentary. I grew up listening to Harry a ton since my Dad is a big fan and I recently sorta rediscovered him since some friends that play have called him an influence.

144 LastYearsMan  Jan 22, 2015 8:31:51pm

Re: OP

I’m not a scientist, so I’ll just assume that the NASA “photo” is bullocks… Maybe just really good CGI. Too bad, because it would have been really pretty if it didn’t contradict my world view.

/idiotconservative

145 Decatur Deb  Jan 22, 2015 8:33:17pm

re: #141 HappyWarrior

That does sound interesting. They’re really not a band I know a ton about. I do like seeing the human side. That’s why the Harrison documentary was so interesting. Seeing his friendships with people from outside the music world like the Monty Python guys.

Just added the IMDB listing. Gives a hell of a h/t to a few Mormons.

146 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 8:35:16pm

re: #145 Decatur Deb

Just added the IMDB listing. Gives a hell of a h/t to a few Mormons.

Never would have guessed that. I only really know New York Dolls since they’re often cited as I think an influence on the Ramones and or KISS. I like the Ramones, I’ve never been much of a KISS fan.

147 stpaulbear  Jan 22, 2015 8:36:23pm

re: #136 HappyWarrior

That does sound good. I actually have Youtube configured with my PS3. Truly a fascinating era. I would have loved to see many of those bands but was born too late.

I didn’t get to see many of the bands, but I was a bit of a vinyl junkie by 1969 so it’s really easy for me to waste half a day watching those mini-histories.

148 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:37:30pm

Biography channel ran a film about Freddie Mercury. One guys says he went to one of Freddie’s parties and didn’t come out for two days. I probably won’t go to hell over that but I’ll probably spend a few years in Purgatory he says

149 A Cranky One  Jan 22, 2015 8:37:45pm

re: #119 HappyWarrior

Any good recommends for music documentaries? Watched the Scorsese George Harrison one earlier in the week and watched a Bob Marley one earlier. Really enjoy these. When I was a kid, John was my favorite Beatle but as I’ve grown older, I’ve really started to like George’s stuff in and outside the Beatles.

I haven’t seen it, but have heard this is very good:

“Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll

150 The Ghost of the Vanishing Commissar  Jan 22, 2015 8:38:13pm

re: #79 #FergusonFireside

We are not fucking Saudi Arabia, and the comparison to woman’s rights here is the ultimate duck and cop out Dark.

We are supposed to be better. We should never compare ourselves to SA.

Oh the night of conservative misogyny.

We’re not Saudi Arabia.

Unless you’re a Quiverfull wife, or have a husband that’s into Gothard’s Institute of Basic Life Principles. Or a Christian Patriarchy ministry, or a FLDS sect.

In which case, shit is pretty fucking Saudi.

Coincidentally 3/4 of those groups are involved with GOP. Not deep-dicking involved perhaps, but some under-the-clothes heavy petting, finger gently circling the Duggar and Robertson families. Mike Huckabee is a sad, ridiculous joke who will be taken seriously by millions of Americans who aren’t Democrats, and deeply understand his fears about Beyonce. Because, by God, somebody has to ride herd over vaginas. Watch and learn as Jim Bob Duggar—Republican luminary, Mike Huckabee favorite—wrangles his daughters right up until he finds a younger Jim-Bob Duggar proxy man to knock them up.

Was that vulgar? Grossed out? It is, and you fucking should be. Traditional values porn is still fucking porn. The idea that “real” women are moms that understand they need to stand by their husbands no matter what is being sold, who’s buying it?

(Answer: the same people buying the most ass-intensive, sloppiest actually-about-fucking porn, because Madonna/Whore Complex is not a 80s band that toured with Siouxsie and the Banshees.

If someone made Fuck Dynasty, it would sell a million copies. In Colorado Springs.)

Oh, and it’s not a coincidence that the same people buying “family value” shit love it when Rush breathily explains his eye-fucking habits, and share those stupid photo collections of “Hot Conservative Babes.”

It’s not Saudi Arabia, it’s fucking halfway to Gilead.

151 Decatur Deb  Jan 22, 2015 8:42:40pm

re: #150 The Ghost of the Vanishing Commissar

Ya got’cher religious bundlers and yer political bundlers…

152 The War TARDIS  Jan 22, 2015 8:45:12pm

I also am having a bad time at work. The job is literally making me sick, so my attendance has gotten worse.

I apply to a large number of places, only get a call back 1 out of 5 times. And none of the 6 interviews have resulted in jobs.

153 Decatur Deb  Jan 22, 2015 8:46:40pm

re: #152 The War TARDIS

I also am having a bad time at work. The job is literally making me sick, so my attendance has gotten worse.

I apply to a large number of places, only get a call back 1 out of 5 times. And none of the 6 interviews have resulted in jobs.

Hang with it. One out of 5 sounds like a recovering job market.

154 bratwurst  Jan 22, 2015 8:49:07pm

re: #152 The War TARDIS

I apply to a large number of places, only get a call back 1 out of 5 times. And none of the 6 interviews have resulted in jobs.

My last job search I only even got an ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of my application 1 out of 50 times…much less an interview.

Try counting your blessings for a change.

155 The Ghost of the Vanishing Commissar  Jan 22, 2015 8:49:26pm

re: #150 The Ghost of the Vanishing Commissar

In other words:

I’m not going to fucking cheer for people who celebrate the freedoms granted by secular, multi-level governance while simultaneously making a bunch of noise about how secular, multi-level governance absolutely has to go, so that our inherent American unique blessedness can once again shine through, or possibly drop out Sky-Daddy’s cosmic urethra like some kind of theophanic money shot.

156 Romantic Heretic  Jan 22, 2015 8:53:17pm

re: #31 Lumberhead

God as we are taught puts us at the center of the universe and the only living beings are here on Earth. Seeing the vastness of the universe puts that into question. The pale blue dot view of things.

Humans are without a doubt the most conceited species in the universe. Who else believes that God has nothing better to do except sit around and help them out of tight spots? - !7th Psalm of Indifferent Contentment, The Book of Universal Truths and Other Humorous Anecdotes

157 WhatEVs  Jan 22, 2015 8:53:33pm

re: #150 The Ghost of the Vanishing Commissar

A-fucking-men!

Now that’s how it’s done! *

(*Bowing to your greatness [not a GWB to Saudi king from the waist bow, more of an Obama to Japan’s Prime Minister slumped shoulder bow]).

158 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 22, 2015 8:55:14pm

re: #84 jaunte

Here it is

digital.wlb-stuttgart.de

159 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 8:56:43pm

re: #155 The Ghost of the Vanishing Commissar

In other words:

I’m not going to fucking cheer for people who celebrate the freedoms granted by secular, multi-level governance while simultaneously making a bunch of noise about how secular, multi-level governance absolutely has to go, so that our inherent American unique blessedness can once again shine through, or possibly drop out Sky-Daddy’s cosmic urethra like some kind of theophanic money shot.

Nice rant. Both posts. Really, when Huckabee says crap like Americans should be forced to read David Barton at gunpoint, yeah he comes off as no different than the Taliban in my book. Frankly, I worry more about Christian Law taking over here than I ever would Shariah. Why? Because there are actually politicians in this country pandering to those who want a country ruled by the Bible and hell some of them like Huckabee himself actually believe. I’ve not seen one Muslim-American politician suggest that Shariah is the path for America’s legal system. I have seen Huckabee, who is prominent and influential in Republican/conservative circles suggesting that we need the Bible more in our society. Really Huckabee can believe whatever he wants but the desire to marry his idea of church with the state is a dangerous one.

160 dholmes32  Jan 22, 2015 8:57:08pm

I predicted years ago that if access to abortion services was curtailed, there’d be a boom in underground acquisition of abortion drugs.

Sales of Misoprostol, a drug intended to prevent stomach ulcers but also used to induce abortions, are rising as desperate women seek ways to terminate pregnancies.

Cartons of the drug are now valued at £130, as its value rises due to Texan women turning to the black market to terminate their pregnancies, according to a Sunday Times report.

ibtimes.co.uk

The article mentions Texas; I remember reading an article last year about going to a border flea market and asking around carefully to get the drug. Obviously, there’s no supervision and no follow up when done under the table like this, to say nothing of quality control. The pills could be sand for all they know.

161 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 8:58:04pm

Dumb-ass of the day. Real estate tycoon buys a townhouse and gives his mistress a 40 year lease for $1 a month. Then he puts the property under the control of a corporation (I guess for liability purposes) but his wife is the property manager. Mrs finds out there is a property only getting $1 a month rent, checks it out and finds the mistress. Fun fun fun.

philly.com

162 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 8:59:27pm

re: #161 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Dumb-ass of the day. Real estate tycoon buys a townhouse and gives his mistress a 40 year lease for $1 a month. Then he puts the property under the control of a corporation (I guess for liability purposes) but his wife is the property manager. Mrs finds out there is a property only getting $1 a month rent, checks it out and finds the mistress. Fun fun fun.

philly.com

Oh to be a fly on the wall when she found out.

163 teleskiguy  Jan 22, 2015 8:59:43pm

I’m one minute into this video. I had to pause to say something.

My jaw is agape. Absolutely mind blowing.

164 WhatEVs  Jan 22, 2015 9:00:20pm

re: #160 dholmes32

It’s like making abortion illegal will stop it from happening. It won’t. But lots of women will die.

I suppose thats a feature not a bug for those sluts who deserve dying.

165 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 22, 2015 9:01:07pm

re: #161 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Dumb-ass of the day. Real estate tycoon buys a townhouse and gives his mistress a 40 year lease for $1 a month. Then he puts the property under the control of a corporation (I guess for liability purposes) but his wife is the property manager. Mrs finds out there is a property only getting $1 a month rent, checks it out and finds the mistress. Fun fun fun.

philly.com

ROFL…. It’s always the little things that will trip you up… the forgotten jewelry receipt in the pocket, the unexplained phone calls on your private cell, the 1 dollar a month luxury townhouse.

RBS

166 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 22, 2015 9:02:03pm

re: #163 teleskiguy

I’m one minute into this video. I had to pause to say something.

My jaw is agape. Absolutely mind blowing.

and you could share what video please that has blown your mind?

RBS

167 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 9:03:02pm

re: #164 WhatEVs

It’s like making abortion illegal will stop it from happening. It won’t. But lots of women will die.

I suppose thats a feature not a bug for those sluts who deserve dying.

Given what NRO’s Kevin Williamson and RedState’s Erick Erickson have to say about women who get abortions, I have no doubt that’s one of those feature not a bug things. Really, I’m all for working on the conditions that lower abortions but the problem of course is political and theological wingnuts want nothing to do with that. They’d rather just shout slut and murderer at a woman who choosing to get an abortion.

168 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 9:04:23pm

re: #166 RealityBasedSteve

and you could share what video please that has blown your mind?

RBS

I think it’s the one at the top of the page (The Andromeda galaxy)

169 Romantic Heretic  Jan 22, 2015 9:06:28pm

re: #140 Single-handed sailor

Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?)

Used to own several albums by Nilsson. A quirky and very enjoyable singer/songwriter.

He did a rather nice little movie that I caught by accident on TV one day. Much enjoyed. The Point.

170 teleskiguy  Jan 22, 2015 9:07:01pm

This video blew me the fuck away. I’m very nearly in tears right now.

Thanks Charles for posting the coolest shit!

:’-D

171 WhatEVs  Jan 22, 2015 9:07:37pm

re: #165 RealityBasedSteve

ROFL…. It’s always the little things that will trip you up… the forgotten jewelry receipt in the pocket, the unexplained phone calls on your private cell, the 1 dollar a month luxury townhouse.

RBS

I notice the wife is suing for the other woman to vacate the property, not for divorce.

I guess it’s just me but I’d be gone. Things are so different for multimillionaires.

172 teleskiguy  Jan 22, 2015 9:08:09pm

re: #166 RealityBasedSteve

Oh Hai Steve!

Just getting here.

173 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 22, 2015 9:08:13pm

We are not alone in the Universe. Problem is all the intelligent species are pretending not to notice us.

174 WhatEVs  Jan 22, 2015 9:09:27pm

re: #167 HappyWarrior

And by all means, make birth control as hard as possible to get because that’s a big help.

They want to control women. Period. Full stop.

175 Kragar  Jan 22, 2015 9:09:51pm

re: #173 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

We are not alone in the Universe. Problem is all the intelligent species are pretending not to notice us.

The fact we have not been contacted is proof that intelligent life exists in outer space.

176 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 22, 2015 9:10:08pm

Well, I’m off to bed. The dive shop would like me come in and start an inventory of all the rental gear. Those hours, combined with what I’ve already done for them will pay off the Florida trip and pay to get the dive light I’ve been eyeing.

Be Good, don’t tease the kitten, and NO RUNNING WITH SCISSORS!

RBS

177 Kragar  Jan 22, 2015 9:11:22pm

Conservatives always love to say that banning firearms will never stop a person who really wants to get their hands on one, then proceed to go around and attempt banning abortions.

178 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 22, 2015 9:11:34pm

re: #173 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

We are not alone in the Universe. Problem is all the intelligent species are pretending not to notice us.

OMG!!!! maybe they view us as the CCJs of interplanetary life? That would explain a lot.

RBS

179 The Ghost of the Vanishing Commissar  Jan 22, 2015 9:13:03pm

re: #173 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

We are not alone in the Universe. Problem is all the intelligent species are pretending not to notice us.

Intelligent life composed of mucilage?

Formed on a planet with a magnetic field and a tilted rotation, orbiting a single yellow sun?

Bilateral symmetry? Binary gender? Cripplingly small range of perceptible radiation?

Preposterous.

180 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 9:13:28pm

re: #177 Kragar

Conservatives always love to say that banning firearms will never stop a person who really wants to get their hands on one, then proceed to go around and attempt banning abortions.

Well it’s like that with spending and defense too. Conservatives love to say that you can’t throw money to solve a problem but they’re the ones including “budget hawk” Ryan who called the joint chiefs liars when they said some defense cuts were needed because of waste. And don’t forget conservatives love to talk about “intrusion on to people’s liberties by the government” but yet these guys love supporting all the restrictions that can be done on what is a legal procedure.

181 Romantic Heretic  Jan 22, 2015 9:14:36pm

re: #173 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

We are not alone in the Universe. Problem is all the intelligent species are pretending not to notice us.

Second time I’ve linked to this cartoon today.

182 klystron  Jan 22, 2015 9:15:20pm

re: #177 Kragar

Conservatives always love to say that banning firearms will never stop a person who really wants to get their hands on one, then proceed to go around and attempt banning abortions.

I just gotta say, thanks for being so consistently awesome, Kragar. You have such a gift.

183 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 22, 2015 9:18:04pm

re: #173 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

We are not alone in the Universe.

Not a given for a self-contained finite universe.

Problem is all the intelligent species are pretending not to notice us.

We have no way of knowing that though.

184 Kragar  Jan 22, 2015 9:18:38pm

re: #180 HappyWarrior

Well it’s like that with spending and defense too. Conservatives love to say that you can’t throw money to solve a problem but they’re the ones including “budget hawk” Ryan who called the joint chiefs liars when they said some defense cuts were needed because of waste. And don’t forget conservatives love to talk about “intrusion on to people’s liberties by the government” but yet these guys love supporting all the restrictions that can be done on what is a legal procedure.

“We are against big government curtailing the liberties of American citizens, which is why we want to pass legislation forcing our religious beliefs onto millions of women.”

185 jaunte  Jan 22, 2015 9:19:15pm

re: #177 Kragar

Conservatives always love to say that banning firearms will never stop a person who really wants to get their hands on one, then proceed to go around and attempt banning abortions.

What year is this in the War on Drugs?

186 klystron  Jan 22, 2015 9:19:26pm

re: #184 Kragar

“We are against big government curtailing the liberties of American citizens, which is why we want to pass legislation forcing our religious beliefs onto millions of women.”

Which is perfectly logical when you realize that they don’t consider women citizens.

187 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 9:19:27pm

re: #184 Kragar

“We are against big government curtailing the liberties of American citizens, which is why we want to pass legislation forcing our religious beliefs onto millions of women.”

Yep that’s them in a nutshell.

188 Kragar  Jan 22, 2015 9:19:31pm

re: #182 klystron

I just gotta say, thanks for being so consistently awesome, Kragar. You have such a gift.

It comes from years of being a smartass and an asshole.

189 klystron  Jan 22, 2015 9:20:03pm

re: #188 Kragar

It comes from years of being a smartass and an asshole.

A talent well developed.

190 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 22, 2015 9:20:23pm

re: #164 WhatEVs

It’s like making abortion illegal will stop it from happening. It won’t. But lots of women will die.

I suppose thats a feature not a bug for those sluts who deserve dying.

I graduated High School well before Roe v Wade. In those days, girls from wealthy families would take sudden vacations. Girls from other families were sluts who had to get married.

191 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 9:20:40pm

re: #186 klystron

Which is perfectly logical when you realize that they don’t consider women citizens.

landowning white gentry only! But yeah their statements along with their actions show their true contempt for representative democracy. It really is no wonder that so many of them look up to Putin and not Obama as what a leader ought to be.

192 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 9:22:21pm

What makes it really sad is you see that these guys are to the right on George W Bush’s…………..grandfather on choice.

193 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 22, 2015 9:23:15pm

re: #177 Kragar

Conservatives always love to say that banning firearms will never stop a person who really wants to get their hands on one, then proceed to go around and attempt banning abortions.

Banning marijuana has worked out well. Last year marked the centennial of the Harrison Narcotics Act. Talk about your Hundred Years’ War.

194 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 9:25:33pm

re: #190 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I graduated High School well before Roe v Wade. In those days, girls from wealthy families would take sudden vacations. Girls from other families were sluts who had to get married.

It was knowing about that sort of thing that I believe played a big part in Senator Kennedy becoming pro-choice. He saw that the wealthy would get abortions Roe or no Roe and that the poor would be screwed. Really, their whole abortion policy is formulated by men who have never attempted to empathize with women but I guess that’s the point of what modern American conservatism is. It’s an ideology formulated by wealthy white guys for wealthy white guys without attempting to empathizing how those policies may effect other.

195 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 9:29:20pm

washingtonpost.com
Meanwhile in my own backyard. I have to say. I’m not a Terry Mac fan but mad props to him for doing this. This is something that obviously never would have happened under Cuccinnelli’s watch and frankly it’s why people need to actually vote in so called off year elections. Please people. See who is representing you on the most local of levels. My state senator is a right wing kook who actually doubts that women can get raped by their spouse.

196 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 22, 2015 9:30:08pm

re: #185 jaunte

What year is this in the War on Drugs?

The war is over. The Drugs won.

197 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 9:31:03pm

re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg

The war is over. The Drugs won.


I for one welcome our new drug overlords.

198 Jenner7  Jan 22, 2015 9:41:09pm

Video

nothing i do is good enough for you

Night all. Going to crawl under my covers….

199 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 22, 2015 9:44:28pm

GotNwes is off to a slow start today. Here’s the latest scoop from the monkey master.

BUSTED: Hillary Clinton once spoke to corrupt NY politician Sheldon Silver

I’m riffing on this hard hitting nwes from UpChuck.

200 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 22, 2015 9:45:47pm

re: #161 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Dumb-ass of the day. Real estate tycoon buys a townhouse and gives his mistress a 40 year lease for $1 a month. Then he puts the property under the control of a corporation (I guess for liability purposes) but his wife is the property manager. Mrs finds out there is a property only getting $1 a month rent, checks it out and finds the mistress. Fun fun fun.

philly.com

Money doesn’t buy you smarts.

201 goddamnedfrank  Jan 22, 2015 9:47:37pm

I made a Photoshop thingy for my peeps.

202 teleskiguy  Jan 22, 2015 9:53:44pm

re: #201 goddamnedfrank

I made a Photoshop thingy for my peeps.

[Embedded content]

Thanks dude! Just tweeted.

203 HappyWarrior  Jan 22, 2015 9:59:38pm

re: #199 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

GotNwes is off to a slow start today. Here’s the latest scoop from the monkey master.

BUSTED: Hillary Clinton once spoke to corrupt NY politician Sheldon Silver

I’m riffing on this hard hitting nwes from UpChuck.

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That’s the best he’s got? That she once talked to a corrupt politician. As opposed to you know actually being a corrupt politician like many of the GOP candidates are.

204 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 22, 2015 10:04:39pm

re: #203 HappyWarrior

That’s the best he’s got? That she once talked to a corrupt politician. As opposed to you know actually being a corrupt politician like many of the GOP candidates are.

He’s forcing the dots to connect, under threat of severe, prolonged doxxing.

1. Silver is a Democrat.
2. Clinton is too.
3. They represented NY State.
4. They spoke to each other at least twice, in 1999.
5. He’s being investigated for corruption.
6. Hillary is silent on the matter.
7. ——?
8. She’s a crook!
9. Please send me money.

205 teleskiguy  Jan 22, 2015 10:06:33pm

re: #204 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I find it odd and rather funny that a dude in China understands UpChuck better than UpChuck understands himself.

:-D

206 goddamnedfrank  Jan 22, 2015 10:06:56pm

BTW here’s a blank. Just credit me if anybody asks who made it.

blank_creepsauce.png
207 Kragar  Jan 22, 2015 10:09:05pm

re: #199 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

GotNwes is off to a slow start today. Here’s the latest scoop from the monkey master.

BUSTED: Hillary Clinton once spoke to corrupt NY politician Sheldon Silver

I’m riffing on this hard hitting nwes from UpChuck.

[Embedded content]

So his stunning news is a state politician from NY endorsed one of the Senators from NY for President?

208 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 22, 2015 10:09:39pm

re: #207 Kragar

So his stunning news is a state politician from NY endorsed one of the Senators from NY for President?

For Senator. In 1999.

209 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 22, 2015 10:10:21pm

re: #206 goddamnedfrank

Classic! I’ll use it. Hehehehe

210 goddamnedfrank  Jan 22, 2015 10:13:02pm

re: #209 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

The font I used was Gulim.

I don’t know why, just landed on it and thought it worked for this.

I suck at fonts.

211 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 22, 2015 10:14:19pm

re: #205 teleskiguy

I find it odd and rather funny that a dude in China understands UpChuck better than UpChuck understands himself.

:-D

CCJ operates within the “guilt by association” spectrum of innuendo, just a hair this side of conspiracy theorist. In his feeble mind, all blacks are criminals, all women are whores and tricksters, all liberals are crooks and deviants, all Muslims are terrorists, and anyone who questions him is a stalker.

It’s a very simplistic world view. Totally wrong, but simple.

212 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 22, 2015 10:15:16pm

re: #210 goddamnedfrank

The font I used was Gulim.

I don’t know why, just landed on it and thought it worked for this.

I suck at fonts.

Sounds like Gollum, which would be even more fitting.

213 teleskiguy  Jan 22, 2015 10:16:35pm

re: #211 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

CCJ operates within the “guilt by association” spectrum of innuendo, just a hair this side of conspiracy theorist. In his feeble mind, all blacks are criminals, all women are whores and tricksters, all liberals are crooks and deviants, all Muslims are terrorists, and anyone who questions him is a stalker.

It’s a very simplistic world view. Totally wrong, but simple.

…

214 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 22, 2015 10:36:54pm
215 BeenHereAwhile  Jan 22, 2015 10:40:46pm

re: #34 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Shouldn’t it be “The Persecution and Character Assassination of Barret Brown as Performed by the Inmates of the Libertarian Asylum”?

“Poor old Barret,
They hunt you down.
The bloodhounds are sniffing all over the town.
Just yesterday, your printing press was smashed
Now they’re asking your home address.”

216 klystron  Jan 22, 2015 10:46:44pm

For the few other WoW players here…

217 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 22, 2015 10:52:17pm

re: #214 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

“BREAKING My researchers have revealed that the woman making the false claims is named Ellen Parsons. I shall be devoting all of my time for the next few weeks to The Ellen Parsons Project.”

218 BeenHereAwhile  Jan 22, 2015 10:54:05pm

re: #119 HappyWarrior

Any good recommends for music documentaries? Watched the Scorsese George Harrison one earlier in the week and watched a Bob Marley one earlier. Really enjoy these. When I was a kid, John was my favorite Beatle but as I’ve grown older, I’ve really started to like George’s stuff in and outside the Beatles.

Mad Dogs & Englishmen

m.imdb.com

219 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 22, 2015 11:03:04pm

re: #214 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

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I would see that as Baldrick & “a cunning plan”…

220 Ace-o-aces  Jan 22, 2015 11:03:37pm

re: #7 RealityBasedSteve

Just saw this over on the side bar…. and MONSTER Hat Tip to Ace-o-Aces….

Aww shucks, that’s just something I threw together on a slow day. Glad you enjoyed it though.

221 Ace-o-aces  Jan 22, 2015 11:07:25pm

I should not have found this as funny as I did.

222 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 22, 2015 11:20:59pm

It took time, but GotNwes found and deciphered it.

BUSTED: The @GotNewsdotcom Master Plan

223 Kragar  Jan 22, 2015 11:21:29pm

re: #221 Ace-o-aces

[Embedded content]

I should not have found this as funny as I did.

Some balls are held for charity, and some for fancy dress, but when they’re held for pleasure? They’re the balls that I love best.

224 goddamnedfrank  Jan 22, 2015 11:27:57pm

Also, the kind of asshole who was never actually pro-choice. Who as a right wing nut job Catholic convert just wants to put out a compelling “come to Jesus” narrative for his religious fanatic base.

225 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 22, 2015 11:31:55pm

re: #223 Kragar

Some balls are held for charity, and some for fancy dress, but when they’re held for pleasure? They’re the balls that I love best.

Don’t forget those Chocolate Salty Balls.
…

226 Lancelot Link  Jan 22, 2015 11:46:41pm

re: #224 goddamnedfrank

Who, WHO would LIE about seeing an abortion as a pro choice person and having the act change their mind?

“How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could”
Chuck would.

227 goddamnedfrank  Jan 23, 2015 12:46:55am
228 goddamnedfrank  Jan 23, 2015 12:58:14am
229 goddamnedfrank  Jan 23, 2015 1:07:12am

Closing out this ad campaign:

230 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 1:07:51am

re: #119 HappyWarrior

Any good recommends for music documentaries? Watched the Scorsese George Harrison one earlier in the week and watched a Bob Marley one earlier. Really enjoy these. When I was a kid, John was my favorite Beatle but as I’ve grown older, I’ve really started to like George’s stuff in and outside the Beatles.

I liked the first part of the documentary on the Eagles, especially where it discusses their musical pedigree as members of Poco, the Flying Burrito Brothers and Linda Ronstadt’s backing band.

231 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 1:11:09am

re: #177 Kragar

Conservatives always love to say that banning firearms will never stop a person who really wants to get their hands on one, then proceed to go around and attempt banning abortions.

Their argument is clear: Firearms are a God-Given right, abortions are an abomination unto the Lord.

232 Dr Lizardo  Jan 23, 2015 1:32:06am

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has died:

aljazeera.com

He’s been succeeded by Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 79.

233 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 2:25:44am

re: #232 Dr Lizardo

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has died:

aljazeera.com

He’s been succeeded by Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 79.

Glad to see some young blood in there…

234 Dr Lizardo  Jan 23, 2015 2:32:21am

re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Glad to see some young blood in there…

Yep……these crazy kids today! What’ll these young, 79-year old whippersnappers do next?!

235 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 2:52:27am

re: #234 Dr Lizardo

Yep……these crazy kids today! What’ll these young, 79-year old whippersnappers do next?!

Get off my sandlot!

236 freetoken  Jan 23, 2015 3:30:42am

MP3 Audio

237 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 3:50:29am

dead thread…back on the FT drip…

238 freetoken  Jan 23, 2015 4:17:15am

MP3 Audio

239 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 4:58:42am

UCCCCH

240 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 5:01:26am

re: #239 The Vicious Babushka

UCCCCH

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This is what Dominionism is about: the notion that America enjoys God’s blessings because our laws reflect (their view of) His Divine Will. If we allow abominations like abortion, gay marriage, progressive taxation, subsidized health care, etc., then He will smite us with His Divine Wrath and it will be Our Own Stupid Fault.

241 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 5:03:06am

re: #240 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

This is what Dominionism is about: the notion that America enjoys God’s blessings because our laws reflect (their view of) His Divine Will. If we allow abominations like abortion, gay marriage, progressive taxation, subsidized health care, etc., then He will smite us with His Divine Wrath and it will be Our Own Stupid Fault.

We see how G-D smote the slave owners with His Terrible Swift Sword.

242 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 5:12:59am

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

We see how G-D smote the slave owners with His Terrible Swift Sword.

Why should he have? Slavery is in the Bible…

243 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 5:13:49am

re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Why should he have? Slavery is in the Bible…

Terrible Swift Sword=Union Army

244 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 5:19:52am

re: #243 The Vicious Babushka

Terrible Swift Sword=Union Army

Everybody knows that God was on the side of Gen’ls Lee and Jackson, but they were overcome by the forces of Evil…His Will Shall be Done!!!

/

245 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2015 5:29:30am
246 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 23, 2015 5:31:25am

re: #239 The Vicious Babushka

UCCCCH

[Embedded content]

Exodus 20:7. But these twits don’t get that, do they?

247 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 23, 2015 5:35:38am

re: #177 Kragar

Conservatives always love to say that banning firearms will never stop a person who really wants to get their hands on one, then proceed to go around and attempt banning abortions.

Pretty soon the drones crossing the Mexican border will be carrying abortion drugs rather than meth.
///

248 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 23, 2015 5:37:35am

re: #179 The Ghost of the Vanishing Commissar

Intelligent life composed of mucilage?

Formed on a planet with a magnetic field and a tilted rotation, orbiting a single yellow sun?

Bilateral symmetry? Binary gender? Cripplingly small range of perceptible radiation?

Preposterous.

Human thought is so primitive that it’s looked upon as an infectious disease in some of the better galaxies.
- Agent K

249 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 5:38:59am

re: #248 Feline Fearless Leader

Human thought is so primitive that it’s looked upon as an infectious disease in some of the better galaxies.
- Agent K

Human thought is impressive only when compared to the primordial ooze that it originated from.

250 Romantic Heretic  Jan 23, 2015 5:40:32am

Grrrr. Skype is such a pain.

Wife has been visiting. (We’re still working on immigration.) Didn’t use Skype in all that time. My Mac never crashed.

Now she’s back home and we use Skype to communicate. BOOM! Constant crashes.

Annoying POS program.

251 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 23, 2015 5:41:39am

re: #211 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

CCJ operates within the “guilt by association” spectrum of innuendo, just a hair this side of conspiracy theorist. In his feeble mind, all blacks are criminals, all women are whores and tricksters, all liberals are crooks and deviants, all Muslims are terrorists, and anyone who questions him is a stalker.

It’s a very simplistic world view. Totally wrong, but simple.

All the cops are criminals, and all the sinners saints.
;p

252 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 23, 2015 5:44:31am

re: #239 The Vicious Babushka

UCCCCH

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253 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 5:44:38am

re: #251 Feline Fearless Leader

All the cops are criminals, and all the sinners saints.
;p

and Anastasia screamed in vain

254 nearly-headless smith25  Jan 23, 2015 5:46:53am
255 goddamnedfrank  Jan 23, 2015 5:48:19am

This has now come up twice this week in two different photographs.

256 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 23, 2015 5:48:43am

Good morning Lizards from currently sunny Philadelphia. (Weather expected to be a wee bit uglier the next few days.)

Hectic week with a server migration this weekend that keeps tossing complications and additional tasks on my plate. Pretty confident that most of the stuff I am usually responsible for will ride this out with few issues. Beyond that — could be a long weekend.

Also need to do a shopping trip today to stock up on treats for the co-workers tomorrow. 3-4 of us here in Philly have to come in tomorrow. The folk in Pittsburgh will have to fend for themselves. :p

The Feline Overlords have not been pleased with the long hours this week. Staff is returning late and the evening meal has not been served on schedule. This will be reflected in the next staff review! >^._.^< !!

257 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 23, 2015 5:49:59am

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

Human thought is impressive only when compared to the primordial ooze that it originated from.

And that particular evolutionary branch experiment has still not proved to have been that efficient.

258 Belafon  Jan 23, 2015 5:54:47am

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

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” -Calvin

259 Belafon  Jan 23, 2015 6:01:37am

re: #244Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Everybody knows that God was on the side of Generals Lee and Jackson, but they were overcome by the forces of Evil; His Will Shall be Done!!!

I wish this were snark, but there are some that believe that because those on the side of God can’t lose, the war must not be over.

260 lawhawk  Jan 23, 2015 6:02:01am

re: #229 goddamnedfrank

Ah CCJ logic:

There is no murder victim until the justice system tries and convicts an offender.

There is no robbery victim until the justice system tries and convicts an offender.

There is no rape victim until the justice system tries and convicts an offender.

He has a warped sense of logic there.

Convicting an offender has nothing to do with whether a person is a victim of the crime. They are separate and distinct legal issues.

A person can be raped, and the accused can avoid rape conviction any number of ways: failure to indict; indictment but plea deal on lesser charges; indictment, but trial finds not guilty (which as I don’t have to remind you is not the same as innocent).

But this is CCJ, and facts and logic are meaningless.

261 lawhawk  Jan 23, 2015 6:04:04am


Heh

262 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2015 6:06:06am
263 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 23, 2015 6:06:54am

re: #260 lawhawk

Ah CCJ logic:

There is no murder victim until the justice system tries and convicts an offender.

There is no robbery victim until the justice system tries and convicts an offender.

There is no rape victim until the justice system tries and convicts an offender.

He has a warped sense of logic there.

Convicting an offender has nothing to do with whether a person is a victim of the crime. They are separate and distinct legal issues.

A person can be raped, and the accused can avoid rape conviction any number of ways: failure to indict; indictment but plea deal on lesser charges; indictment, but trial finds not guilty (which as I don’t have to remind you is not the same as innocent).

But this is CCJ, and facts and logic are meaningless.

But you’re obviously guilty of libel is you say something truthful that hurts his feelings.
///

264 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 23, 2015 6:11:37am

re: #263 Feline Fearless Leader

But you’re obviously guilty of libel is you say something truthful that hurts his feelings.
///

Also, you’re a stalker.

265 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 6:11:54am

#TCOT is having a convulsion (it is a day ending in day!) over POTUS meeting with Green Lipstick Lady but not Bibi.

266 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 6:13:35am

re:
#206

Some mighty nice work.

267 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 23, 2015 6:14:07am

re: #265 The Vicious Babushka

#TCOT is having a convulsion (it is a day ending in day!) over POTUS meeting with Green Lipstick Lady but not Bibi.

Those citizen-journalist interviews were set up weeks ago, of course, while the Bibi show in Washington seems rather last minute.

268 lawhawk  Jan 23, 2015 6:15:35am

These people really do live in a different universe.

These people really think that Obama hates Israel or thinks more highly of Iran or Cuba than they do of Israel.

They have to ignore years of support, including direct assistance and military support during the various battles of late (including last year’s Gaza war), that includes funding development and deployment of Iron Dome systems faster than the IDF had envisioned originally.

It also ignores that the US has taken hands off on diplomatic front for a peace deal. Obama isn’t pushing for a peace deal in the overt and usual manner as seen in 2d term lame ducks for decades. There is almost certainly back-door talks ongoing, but that’s always the case. Obama isn’t demanding Israel stop settlements or other actions, and isn’t siding with the PA on the ICC or statehood. So, to claim that the President is now against Israel is a truly misleading notion.

What is apparently true is that there is no love between Netenyahu and Obama, but that isn’t the be-all and end-all of the Israel-US relationship. GOPers and right wingers are busy trying to divine intent from that alone, and the President’s refusal to meet with Netenyahu after the GOP invited him to speak in front of Congress. The interests of Netenyahu and the President don’t fully align here either - Netenyahu has an election to win, and a speech before Congress may help his chances. That’s Israeli domestic politics at work, and Obama doesn’t have to help Netenyahu either way.

Mossad’s split with Netenyahu - whether it’s as bad as some of the reports were claiming, or is simply a matter of degree shows that Israeli opinion on Netenyahu isn’t as monolithic as the right wingers and GOPers would want people to think either. Shades of grey (which is always the case when you’re talking ME politics).

And so it goes.

Same deal with the death of the Saudi King Abdullah and installation of his successor, Salman. Salman has been essentially ruling Saudi Arabia for the past year, and has been defense minister since 2011. The US knows him - he’s a known quantity, and the regime there has been charting this course for years. It’s not like the situation in Yemen, where no one knows what will happen now that the regime has fallen to Iranian backed rebel forces.

What is likely is that the Saudis will take the events in Yemen seriously and likely mount their own insurgency to install a Saudi-friendly regime and oust the Houthi group.

269 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 6:16:18am

re: #267 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Those citizen-journalist interviews were set up weeks ago, of course, while the Bibi show in Washington seems rather last minute.

…and he came at the invitation of the GOP, not the President.

I suppose that was part of the plan in inviting him in the first place.

270 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 6:18:16am

re:
#199

Well, that does it!

Can’t support or vote for Hillary now. Only option is to vote for teabag candidate. //

271 darthstar  Jan 23, 2015 6:19:58am

re: #268 lawhawk

Chuck Woolery also sells miracle creams, anti-IRS scams, and some miracle ‘willow curve’ device on the radio.

272 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 6:20:17am

re:
#204

“10. Can someone send me some more stuff linking Silver to Hillary? (Fake, photoshopped material is OK)”

//

273 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 6:20:26am

re: #268 lawhawk

These people really do live in a different universe.

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These people really think that Obama hates Israel or thinks more highly of Iran or Cuba than they do of Israel.

They have to ignore years of support, including direct assistance and military support during the various battles of late (including last year’s Gaza war), that includes funding development and deployment of Iron Dome systems faster than the IDF had envisioned originally.

It also ignores that the US has taken hands off on diplomatic front for a peace deal. Obama isn’t pushing for a peace deal in the overt and usual manner as seen in 2d term lame ducks for decades. There is almost certainly back-door talks ongoing, but that’s always the case. Obama isn’t demanding Israel stop settlements or other actions, and isn’t siding with the PA on the ICC or statehood. So, to claim that the President is now against Israel is a truly misleading notion.

What is apparently true is that there is no love between Netenyahu and Obama, but that isn’t the be-all and end-all of the Israel-US relationship. GOPers and right wingers are busy trying to divine intent from that alone, and the President’s refusal to meet with Netenyahu after the GOP invited him to speak in front of Congress. The interests of Netenyahu and the President don’t fully align here either - Netenyahu has an election to win, and a speech before Congress may help his chances. That’s Israeli domestic politics at work, and Obama doesn’t have to help Netenyahu either way.

Mossad’s split with Netenyahu - whether it’s as bad as some of the reports were claiming, or is simply a matter of degree shows that Israeli opinion on Netenyahu isn’t as monolithic as the right wingers and GOPers would want people to think either. Shades of grey (which is always the case when you’re talking ME politics).

And so it goes.

Same deal with the death of the Saudi King Abdullah and installation of his successor, Salman. Salman has been essentially ruling Saudi Arabia for the past year, and has been defense minister since 2011. The US knows him - he’s a known quantity, and the regime there has been charting this course for years. It’s not like the situation in Yemen, where no one knows what will happen now that the regime has fallen to Iranian backed rebel forces.

What is likely is that the Saudis will take the events in Yemen seriously and likely mount their own insurgency to install a Saudi-friendly regime and oust the Houthi group.

Last night Zedushka was ranting and raving about the “snub” to Bibi which totes means OBAMA HATE TEH JUICE!!!!!

He gets all his info from reading Drudge and Arutz 7.

When he gets into these frenzies I just change the subject.

WHAT HAS OBAMA EVER DONE FOR US!!!!!!

Because of the GM bailout I was able to rejoin the work force and we got 3 new cars and vacations to Israel, Florida and Canada.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER 92MILLION AMERICANS WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED!!!!!!

At that point I just shove some pie in his mouth.

274 darthstar  Jan 23, 2015 6:22:14am

BTW, did anyone else catch Maddow last night? She introduced her segment on the Patriots with the “Due to mature subject matter” screen, then played clips of Tom Brady talking about how he liked his balls.

275 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2015 6:33:27am

MrBWS just called. He’s taking the day off from work and heading home early because … manflu …

*sigh*

276 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 23, 2015 6:37:11am

Not sure who puts new Pages up in featured this early, but thank you.

277 lawhawk  Jan 23, 2015 6:45:29am

re: #204 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

He’s forcing the dots to connect, under threat of severe, prolonged doxxing.

1. Silver is a Democrat.
2. Clinton is too.
3. They represented NY State.
4. They spoke to each other at least twice, in 1999.
5. He’s being investigated for corruption.
6. Hillary is silent on the matter.
7. ——?
8. She’s a crook!
9. Please send me money.

Silver has been Speaker of the NYS Assembly since 1994. He’s spoken to lots of people in elected office, since he’s one of the 3 men in the room that decide the state budget each year.

He’s probably spoken with a bunch of GOPers too.

And it’s not like he’s the first of that troika to get indicted or run afoul of the law or have to resign from office.

Joe Bruno was indicted and convicted (but the sentence was overturned).
Eliot Spitzer ran afoul and had to resign.
Silver was last man standing, though what he’s done is ostensibly worse than both of those guys combined. Not only did he likely engage in corrupt practices but he’s responsible for paying out hush money on sexual harassment suits against members using state money - which shouldn’t have been done in the first place. He was more interested in keeping the sexual harassment suits quiet than he was in seeing justice done.

He deserves all he gets here.

Everyone kowtows to Silver up to now because he was the longest lasting member of the troika in the room. Now, everyone should start a scramble to see who replaces him because we’re entering budget season - and the state budget is supposed to be in place by April 1. With Silver essentially getting sidelined here (and there may be more indictments to come), it’s going to be interesting to see who takes the helm for the Assembly in budget talks. If I had to guess, it’d probably be Majority Leader Joseph Morelle but also in the room would be Herman Farrell who’s been in the Assembly for as long as I can remember, and is the Chair of the Assembly Ways and Means. Deputy Speaker Earlene Hooper may move up, but it’ll be interesting to see how the Democratic party caucus deals with this.

FYI, a recent history lesson for the NYS Assembly:

Prior to Silver becoming Speaker, there was turmoil in the Assembly Speakership too. Mel Miller was speaker from 1987 until 1991. He was indicted on fraud and other charges (and convicted on same). Upon conviction, he was expelled from the legislature. The Democratic party majority leader James Tallon assumed the speakership temporarily, and ultimately Saul Weprin was elected as Speaker at the end of 1991 (Weprin had run and lost for the Speakership previously). Silver was then elected speaker in 1994, and he’s been in that position ever since.

If that’s any guide, this will play out in much the same way.

278 Targetpractice  Jan 23, 2015 6:46:58am

Another day, another case of wingnuts nattering about what is “beneath” the President.

What I see is a desperate cry for attention from a network that hasn’t felt loved by the White House in quite awhile.

279 lawhawk  Jan 23, 2015 6:51:56am

re: #278 Targetpractice

See and raise:

Obama talks too much. Dog whistle much? Can’t come out and say uppity?

Seriously? NRO keep talking. You’re letting your racist flags fly.

280 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 6:52:36am

re: #273 The Vicious Babushka

Last night Zedushka was ranting and raving about the “snub” to Bibi which totes means OBAMA HATE TEH JUICE!!!!!

He gets all his info from reading Drudge and Arutz 7.

When he gets into these frenzies I just change the subject.

WHAT HAS OBAMA EVER DONE FOR US!!!!!!

Because of the GM bailout I was able to rejoin the work force and we got 3 new cars and vacations to Israel, Florida and Canada.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER 92MILLION AMERICANS WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED!!!!!!

At that point I just shove some pie in his mouth.

That sounds like an action plan for the next time the fishfolk visit. Might have to use barbecue instead of pie, depending on how Mrs. Fish’s experiments in learning to cook are going (they usually go well, but mistakes happen).

281 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 6:54:19am

Oh, and morning Lizardim from the unseasonably warm wild north country. We’re having a mild winter so far, both in temperature and in snowfall, with the latter being a bit more concerning than the former - we could certainly use the groundwater come spring… Unless, that is, we have a spring like last year. How go things among the lizardfolk?

282 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 23, 2015 6:54:26am

re: #279 lawhawk

See and raise:

Obama talks too much. Dog whistle much? Can’t come out and say uppity?

Seriously? NRO keep talking. You’re letting your racist flags fly.

Goldberg writes too much.

283 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 6:55:32am

ICYMI, Michigan Cherry Pie

284 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 23, 2015 6:56:40am

Is CCJ the first person to live-Tweet his own descent into complete irrelevance? Those snapshots of his decline are bound to become more appalling as he flails for purchase with some sub-subset of the fringe to whom he isn’t a clown or a traitor.

285 goddamnedfrank  Jan 23, 2015 7:00:18am

Y’know, the whole thanking veterans for their service thing may have kind of started off in a nice way, but it’s kind of bullshit too. I realize that after 9/11 there was this big push to rally around the troops and not repeat the societal malaise and antipathy towards some soldiers that followed in the wake of the Viet Nam debacle. But that’s exactly what “thank you for your service” is all about, and it’s become a facile kind of rote / kneejerk sentiment at this point. And if douchebags like Dondero are using it as a passive aggressive club against folk then it’s definitely past time to confront the fact it may have jumped the shark.

As much as I think serving is a laudable thing, I also don’t really think veterans did it for me or so that people can thank them for it later. I think mostly they did it for themselves, because it was a cool job, and they got to go off and do cool shit, get paid for it and have some decent benefits. If you’re doing it so that people can kiss your ass for it later in life that seems kind of fucked up, priority wise.

286 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 7:01:34am

re: #284 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Is CCJ the first person to live-Tweet his own descent into complete irrelevance? Those snapshots of his decline are bound to become more appalling as he flails for purchase with some sub-subset of the fringe to whom he isn’t a clown or a traitor.

It is a world in which success and failure are entirely subjective…if he flames out, he will do so convinced that the world is jut not ready for his genius.

287 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 7:02:22am

You want to thank veterans for their service? How about paying them a living wage!

288 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 23, 2015 7:03:37am

That image is absolutely amazing. I would love to have a super jumbo print out for my wall, as in the whole wall.

289 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 7:03:48am
290 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 23, 2015 7:05:29am

re: #279 lawhawk

See and raise:

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Obama talks too much. Dog whistle much? Can’t come out and say uppity?

Seriously? NRO keep talking. You’re letting your racist flags fly.

291 lawhawk  Jan 23, 2015 7:07:52am

BWAHAHAHA!

292 retired cynic  Jan 23, 2015 7:11:52am

re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wow, meals on wheels!

293 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 7:12:26am
294 Mike Lamb  Jan 23, 2015 7:15:59am

And let’s call CCJ’s view on rape what it really is: it’s not rape unless or until he’s personally convinced that it was rape.

The corollary, of course, being that date rape doesn’t exist, and that rape must involve a direct threat of violence.

A conviction for date rape? Railroaded. A conviction based on raping a woman that was passed out at a party? Why isn’t she on trial?

295 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 7:17:32am

re: #294 Mike Lamb

And let’s call CCJ’s view on rape what it really is: it’s not rape unless or until he’s personally convinced that it was rape.

The corollary, of course, being that date rape doesn’t exist, and that rape must involve a direct threat of violence.

A conviction for date rape? Railroaded. A conviction based on raping a woman that was passed out at a party? Why isn’t she on trial?

IF A WOMEN IS GRABBED BY A STRANGER DRAGGED INTO AN ALLEY & RAPED TO DEATH IT’S HER OWN FAULT FOR NOT CARRYING A GUN!!!!1!!!!

296 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 7:17:57am

re: #294 Mike Lamb

And let’s call CCJ’s view on rape what it really is: it’s not rape unless or until he’s personally convinced that it was rape.

The corollary, of course, being that date rape doesn’t exist, and that rape must involve a direct threat of violence.

A conviction for date rape? Railroaded. A conviction based on raping a woman that was passed out at a party? Why isn’t she on trial?

Because clearly, a woman attending a party indicates her consent to sleep with any man who approaches her regardless of circumstances.

297 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 7:19:13am
298 Targetpractice  Jan 23, 2015 7:19:54am

re: #294 Mike Lamb

And let’s call CCJ’s view on rape what it really is: it’s not rape unless or until he’s personally convinced that it was rape.

The corollary, of course, being that date rape doesn’t exist, and that rape must involve a direct threat of violence.

A conviction for date rape? Railroaded. A conviction based on raping a woman that was passed out at a party? Why isn’t she on trial?

As much as he’ll deny it, Chucky is an MRA devotee. He won’t admit as such, but you can tell in the way he approaches every public allegation of rape by immediately launching into a campaign to smear the victim.

299 lawhawk  Jan 23, 2015 7:20:32am

re: #297 The Vicious Babushka

He seems nice. /

300 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 7:21:10am

re: #298 Targetpractice

As much as he’ll deny it, Chucky is an MRA devotee. He won’t admit as such, but you can tell in the way he approaches every public allegation of rape by immediately launching into a campaign to smear the victim.

Actually, I don’t know that he would deny it. Most people who are of their mindset are proud of it, as if it’s something special to “stick up for mens’ rights”.

301 De Kolta Chair  Jan 23, 2015 7:21:13am

re: #289 The Vicious Babushka

This is more my style, though I would think twice about wearing it in some parts of NYC:

302 Mike Lamb  Jan 23, 2015 7:21:24am

re: #295 The Vicious Babushka

IF A WOMEN IS GRABBED BY A STRANGER DRAGGED INTO AN ALLEY & RAPED TO DEATH IT’S HER OWN FAULT FOR NOT CARRYING A GUN!!!!1!!!!

Well, you can’t carry a concealed weapon when your dressed all slutty like.

303 Mike Lamb  Jan 23, 2015 7:22:33am

re: #300 thedopefishlives

Actually, I don’t know that he would deny it. Most people who are of their mindset are proud of it, as if it’s something special to “stick up for mens’ rights”.

Exactly. Being an MRA is a badge of honor for these neanderthals.

304 De Kolta Chair  Jan 23, 2015 7:23:35am

re: #297 The Vicious Babushka

Anto gun? Au contraire, Kevin Kelley!

His middle initial has gotta be K.

305 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 7:23:35am

re: #294 Mike Lamb

The corollary, of course, being that date rape doesn’t exist, and that rape must involve a direct threat of violence.

Rape is sex without consent. Whether she was forced or was simply unable to grant consent for not being compos mentis at the time is irrelevant, even if it is because she drank too much of her own accord.

This is a lesson that a lot of young men fail to learn or put into practice and it has led to a lot of long, tedious discussions

306 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 23, 2015 7:24:51am

re: #295 The Vicious Babushka

IF A WOMEN IS GRABBED BY A STRANGER DRAGGED INTO AN ALLEY & RAPED TO DEATH IT’S HER OWN FAULT FOR NOT CARRYING A GUN!!!!1!!!!

How about if she’s dragged into an alley and shot with her own gun? The wingnuts never seem to think of that scenario, because gun fuckers think that guns make them invincible.

307 goddamnedfrank  Jan 23, 2015 7:25:17am

re: #298 Targetpractice

As much as he’ll deny it, Chucky is an MRA devotee. He won’t admit as such, but you can tell in the way he approaches every public allegation of rape by immediately launching into a campaign to smear the victim.

Not sure he’d deny it even. He talks a lot about beta males.

308 Mike Lamb  Jan 23, 2015 7:25:22am

re: #305 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Rape is sex without consent. Whether she was forced or was simply unable to grant consent for not being compos mentis at the time is irrelevant, even if it is because she drank too much of her own accord.

This is a lesson that a lot of young men fail to learn or put into practice and it has led to a lot of long, tedious discussions

I’m aware of that. But RWNJs don’t believe that. “Legitimate rape” Akin just pulled the lid off for a brief moment.

309 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 7:26:40am

re: #306 No Country For Old Haters

How about if she’s dragged into an alley and shot with her own gun? The wingnuts never seem to think of that scenario, because gun fuckers think that guns make them invincible.

Hell, there are men who get overpowered by assailants and shot with their own gun. A gun isn’t a guarantee of safety from anyone, for anyone.

310 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 7:29:58am

re:
#278

Watch Fox Host Howie Kurtz say Obama’s interview with YouTube stars is “beneath the dignity of the office”

I’m glad Howie’s wingnut bootlicking can now be done out in the open, on behalf of Faux, unencumbered by affiliation with the so-called liberal media.

311 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2015 7:30:26am

He’s awake and still a stupid liar:

312 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 7:31:42am

MRA’s basically spring up out of the same mindset as slut-shaming. The idea being that a woman who is a slut, but doesn’t want to appear to be a slut, would lie and say she was raped in order to gain sympathy and cause trouble for her boyfriends. Therefore, it becomes the goal of the MRA to uncover the truth about the woman’s promiscuity so as to cast doubt on the idea that she could ever be truly “raped”, because clearly she enjoys indiscriminate intercourse too much to ever say no to a man. If she does say no, she’s “playing hard to get” or “being a cocktease” and therefore gets what she deserves. And somehow this all excuses the fact that men who rape are brutal animals with no control over their baser urges.

313 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 23, 2015 7:31:48am

re: #309 thedopefishlives

Hell, there are men who get overpowered by assailants and shot with their own gun. A gun isn’t a guarantee of safety from anyone, for anyone.

LEOs have been shot with their own guns.

314 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 7:31:53am

re:
#311

CCJ is an expert on all thing abortion clinics, I’m sure.

//

315 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 7:32:02am

re: #313 Higgs Boson’s Mate

LEOs have been shot with their own guns.

My point exactly.

316 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2015 7:33:00am

re: #313 Higgs Boson’s Mate

LEOs have been shot with their own guns.

Some LEOs even shoot themselves with their own guns.

317 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 7:33:38am

re:
#279

Obama talks too much, my column

Seems like an awful lot of derp going around for a Friday morning.

Derp never takes a minute, much less a day, off.

318 goddamnedfrank  Jan 23, 2015 7:33:42am

Also, his wife is a pro-life pharmacist. Let that thought comfort you a bit.

319 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 23, 2015 7:34:15am

re: #311 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s awake and still a stupid liar:

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Add HIPAA to the growing list of Things CCJ Does Not Know. It’s pretty pathetic when you can’t correctly spell an acronym. Guessing that the lad misspells “UCLA.”

320 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 7:35:25am

re: #314 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#311

CCJ is an expert on all thing abortion clinics, I’m sure.

//

He has an inside guy at the clinic.

321 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 7:36:01am

re: #318 goddamnedfrank

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Also, his wife is a pro-life pharmacist. Let that thought comfort you a bit.

Oh? So one of those pharmacists that think it’s their job to decide what you and cannot be prescribed with. Lovely.

322 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2015 7:36:10am

re: #318 goddamnedfrank

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Also, his wife is a pro-life pharmacist. Let that thought comfort you a bit.

And he admits right there that he has no qualms about violating HIPAA.

323 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2015 7:37:29am

pot/kettle:

324 De Kolta Chair  Jan 23, 2015 7:37:45am
It’s well known that King Abdullah was a falconer in his youth, but less well known is his successful early career as a professional Jose Ferrer impersonator.
325 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 23, 2015 7:44:49am

re: #322 Backwoods_Sleuth

And he admits right there that he has no qualms about violating HIPAA.

He may not have any qualms but, I can assure you that providers have them in spades. HIPAA violations caused by willful neglect incur fines from $10K to $50K.

326 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 7:46:05am

I bet we won’t see that video at the MTV Annual Awards.

I sure sign of it’s excellence.

Thanks for posting, Charles.

327 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 23, 2015 7:46:19am

re: #325 Higgs Boson’s Mate

He may not have any qualms but, I can assure you that providers have them in spades. HIPAA violations caused by willful neglect incur fines from $10K to $50K.

Yep. I work for a health care fund, and people here get ticketed if they even leave PHI on their desks when they go to the bathroom. This stuff is taken very seriously, but Chuckles lives in a fantasy world.

328 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2015 7:46:22am
329 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 7:47:37am

re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth

It also needs a dumptruck to carry the charcoal

330 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 7:49:36am

re: #327 No Country For Old Haters

Yep. I work for a health care fund, and people here get ticketed if they even leave PHI on their desks when they go to the bathroom. This stuff is taken very seriously, but Chuckles lives in a fantasy world.

But that’s not an abortion clinic, things are different there, I’ve seen it with my own two eyes

Gag me with a spoon, but he’s becoming so … predictable.

331 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 7:51:46am

re: #268 lawhawk

Chuck Woolery? For Real?

I think he’s been married as many times as Newt has.

332 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2015 7:53:27am

hahahahaaaa!

333 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 7:54:42am

re: #296 thedopefishlives

Because clearly, a woman attending a party indicates her consent to sleep with any man who approaches her regardless of circumstances.

That would be the thinking of fundamentalists of all religions. If she presents herself in public without a male family member —she is a whore.

334 De Kolta Chair  Jan 23, 2015 7:56:06am

re: #268 lawhawk

335 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 7:56:52am

re: #312 thedopefishlives

MRA’s basically spring up out of the same mindset as slut-shaming. The idea being that a woman who is a slut, but doesn’t want to appear to be a slut, would lie and say she was raped in order to gain sympathy and cause trouble for her boyfriends. Therefore, it becomes the goal of the MRA to uncover the truth about the woman’s promiscuity so as to cast doubt on the idea that she could ever be truly “raped”, because clearly she enjoys indiscriminate intercourse too much to ever say no to a man. If she does say no, she’s “playing hard to get” or “being a cocktease” and therefore gets what she deserves. And somehow this all excuses the fact that men who rape are brutal animals with no control over their baser urges.

it’s not about their baser urges. It’s about Power and Control.

336 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 23, 2015 7:56:53am

re: #327 No Country For Old Haters

Yep. I work for a health care fund, and people here get ticketed if they even leave PHI on their desks when they go to the bathroom. This stuff is taken very seriously, but Chuckles lives in a fantasy world.

One of my last jobs in IT was making a medical practice HIPAA-compliant. That involved everything from replacing all of their PC monitors, to rearranging workstations, to going paperless so that they’d have complete control over who could see which portions of patient data. The notion that anyone could walk in off of the street and witness a procedure at the potential cost of shutting the place down is ludicrous.

337 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2015 7:58:40am

re: #333 FemNaziBitch

That would be the thinking of fundamentalists of all religions. If she presents herself in public without a male family member —she is a whore.

and she deserves anything bad that happens to her…

*spit*

338 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 7:59:22am

re: #337 Backwoods_Sleuth

and she deserves anything bad that happens to her…

*spit*

If she is lucky, she’ll produce a child from the encounter and get to fufill her god-given purpose.

339 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:02:57am
340 lawhawk  Jan 23, 2015 8:04:50am

If a clinic violated the HIPAA standards, that could be grounds for state/fed officials to fine; repeat violations would be significant. We’re talking max penalties of $50,000 per violation & a max of $1.5 million per year. So, if some anti-abortion activist thought that there were violations, they could contact the state AG or federal officials and push for imposition of these sanctions.

Due to the financial hardship of a max penalty, that could potentially shut down the facility.

In other words, if CCJ, who claims to be anti-abortion, thought that these violations existed, and claims to know HIPAA, would have contacted the necessary authorities to launch an investigation to shut down the facility. No proof that he did any such thing. No proof that he ever went anywhere near an abortion clinic.

That he took no action shows that he’s just lying his ass off once again.

Taking random statements from unknown persons online isn’t how you get your facts.

341 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 8:04:54am

re: #339 FemNaziBitch

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vaccines are dangerous and measles is not…what sort of world do these people live in?

342 Ace-o-aces  Jan 23, 2015 8:05:45am

re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth

“HIPPA, how the fuck does that work?” - CCJ

343 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:06:01am
Nutrition and sanitation are no panacea for measles and no substitute for measles vaccination. Living in the United States does not magically protect you from dying from measles or other infectious diseases. Being generally healthy alone is not a guarantee that you won’t end up hospitalized from a measles infection. Your best defense against measles is an up-to-date MMR vaccine for yourself and your family, checking to see that you live in a neighborhood and school system where others are likewise vaccinated, and spreading the word that vaccines are safe and life-saving. The best way to respect measles is to acknowledge its potential to cause serious illness.

Nutrition and Sanitiation in this country aren’t all that great either. We’ve become lax on many fronts.

344 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 23, 2015 8:10:30am

re: #340 lawhawk

Taking random statements from unknown persons online isn’t how you get your facts.

That’s how it’s worked for years now among the RWNJs.
Person A makes a ridiculous statement.
Person B says “A is absolutely right”
Persons C through infinity grant factual status to A’s original statement.

345 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 8:11:40am

re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth

hahahahaaaa!

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BUSTED!

346 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:11:57am

Lindsey Graham Finding It Difficult To Separate Good Girls From Lying Sluts, Would Appreciate Suggestions

How do you write a rape exception that only includes “worthy” victims and excludes slutty ones? How do you separate the “legitimate” victims from the lying ladies who want to get their boyfriends in trouble? How in US Jesus America is the GOP able to believe on one hand that abortion is some kind of prize that worthy and pure victims can access and slutty accusers cannot, and on the other hand that abortion is the most evil act there is? These are literally the problems that Republicans struggle with when they write abortion legislation.

347 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:12:36am
348 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 8:13:09am

What in the living hell is wrong with these people.

349 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 8:13:35am

re: #346 FemNaziBitch

Lindsey Graham Finding It Difficult To Separate Good Girls From Lying Sluts, Would Appreciate Suggestions

Here’s a suggestion Lindsay, stop being a dick.

350 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 8:14:02am

re: #346 FemNaziBitch

Lindsey Graham Finding It Difficult To Separate Good Girls From Lying Sluts, Would Appreciate Suggestions

They have to write something that looks like a rape exception in order to appear reasonable to voters, but one which is all but impossible to apply in practice.

351 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 8:14:12am

re: #348 thedopefishlives

What in the living hell is wrong with these people.

Moreover, what in living hell is wrong with the people who vote for them?

352 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:14:20am

???

353 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:15:44am
354 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 23, 2015 8:15:48am

speaking of Derp (and on a lighter note) I really have a new appreciation for arty players in WoT. Doing the personal missions for Arty is not easy.

355 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 8:15:51am

re: #349 HappyWarrior

Here’s a suggestion Lindsay, stop being a dick.

I’m beginning to think that anyone who thinks along the same lines as this dick should have his cut off.

356 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:18:24am

And fat, balding bastards?

357 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 8:19:39am

re: #356 FemNaziBitch

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And fat, balding bastards?

Ouch, now that’s hitting just a little too close to home.

358 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:20:02am
359 retired cynic  Jan 23, 2015 8:21:06am

re: #356 FemNaziBitch

And I just bet he thinks he’s attractive. <<shudder>>

360 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 8:21:34am

re: #356 FemNaziBitch

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And fat, balding bastards?

Talk radio. Really, Rush of all people shouldn’t be talking about unattractive people. Rush is just a fat fuck who can’t stand feminists because the idea of women being equal offends his primitive ass.

361 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:22:12am

re: #358 FemNaziBitch

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I like:

-March for Mansplaining

362 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 8:22:25am

re: #359 retired cynic

And I just bet he thinks he’s attractive. <<shudder>>

Of course, why bring the condoms for the Dominican trip.

363 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 8:23:27am

re: #355 thedopefishlives

I’m beginning to think that anyone who thinks along the same lines as this dick should have his cut off.

I’m just sick of it. God to think I used to think that rape was one of those things that even people of differing political persuasions could agree “Yeah man that’s fucked up.” Graham’s no different from pigs like Akin and Mourdock on this issue.

364 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:23:28am

And the best so far today:

365 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 8:24:17am

re: #364 FemNaziBitch

And the best so far today:

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Brilliant.

366 Dave In Austin  Jan 23, 2015 8:24:31am

Jonah Goldberg does not like being called a douchebag..

367 lawhawk  Jan 23, 2015 8:26:16am

re: #366 Dave In Austin

“Editor at NRO, which repeatedly hires and fires racists, misogynists, and excuses others who are racists and misogynists” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.

368 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 23, 2015 8:26:28am

re: #366 Dave In Austin

Jonah Goldberg does not like being called a douchebag..

He used to be referred to as Doughy Pantload.

369 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 8:26:47am

re: #366 Dave In Austin

Jonah Goldberg does not like being called a douchebag..

Nobody does, least of all actual douchebags.

370 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:27:21am

Watchdog group: Gohmert improperly used campaign funds

371 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:29:13am
372 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 8:30:46am

re: #367 lawhawk

“Editor at NRO, which repeatedly hires and fires racists, misogynists, and excuses others who are racists and misogynists” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.

Yeah.

373 lawhawk  Jan 23, 2015 8:31:11am

re: #371 FemNaziBitch

The President may not be a scientist, but he knows a bunch of good ones at NOAA, NASA, and at American Universities.

The GOP-controlled Congress refuses to listen to any of them. So they claim that climate change isn’t influenced by man.

Head meet sand. Dig. Keep digging.

That’s the GOP position.

374 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:32:04am
375 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:34:22am

re: #373 lawhawk

The President may not be a scientist, but he knows a bunch of good ones at NOAA, NASA, and at American Universities.

The GOP-controlled Congress refuses to listen to any of them. So they claim that climate change isn’t influenced by man.

Head meet sand. Dig. Keep digging.

That’s the GOP position.

They see climate change as an attempt to grow big government. It’s an economic issue to them. They don’t want any more regulation on business or re-alighnment of the budget for a doo-gooder issue such as the environment.

It’s just too much outside the man box for them.

To which I am reminded: Those who cannot embrace change become a victim of it.

376 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 8:34:26am

re: #302 Mike Lamb

Well, you can’t carry a concealed weapon when your dressed all slutty like.

OPEN CARRY AR-15 EVERYWHERES!!!1!!!!

377 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 8:34:30am

re: #374 FemNaziBitch

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I’d love to put him on 7.00 a hour and send him to an apartment in D.C then and tell him to provide for his family with that. Using teenagers as an excuse as he and several others have used not to raise the minimum wage is a load of horseshit too. What so teenagers don’t need money?

378 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 8:34:45am

re: #374 FemNaziBitch

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How do people seriously think they can think or say things like this? I mean, do they seriously not realize how utterly racist that shit sounds? Or maybe they do and that’s what they’re going for? I don’t get it.

379 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 8:34:47am

re: #376 The Vicious Babushka

OPEN CARRY AR-15 EVERYWHERES!!!1!!!!

while wearing a bikini of course.

380 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 8:36:17am

re: #378 thedopefishlives

How do people seriously think they can think or say things like this? I mean, do they seriously not realize how utterly racist that shit sounds? Or maybe they do and that’s what they’re going for? I don’t get it.

They do because they’re part of a party where racist shit like this is the norm. From Ronnie Reagan’s young bucks and t-bones to Santorum saying “blah” people take all the welfare. It’s perfectly understandable when you see that the Republican Party wants to be the party of bigoted assholes who still aren’t over the 60’s.*
*The 1860’s in some parts of the country

381 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:36:45am

re: #378 thedopefishlives

How do people seriously think they can think or say things like this? I mean, do they seriously not realize how utterly racist that shit sounds? Or maybe they do and that’s what they’re going for? I don’t get it.

it’s a man box thing. Those minimum wage jobs are for college-students, women, LGBT, and brown people. Real Men have real jobs after college. Everyone else doesn’t count—except in as much as they are a satellite of the Real Man.

382 FemNaziBitch  Jan 23, 2015 8:37:03am

bbl

383 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 8:37:10am

re: #377 HappyWarrior

I’d love to put him on 7.00 a hour and send him to an apartment in D.C then and tell him to provide for his family with that. Using teenagers as an excuse as he and several others have used not to raise the minimum wage is a load of horseshit too. What so teenagers don’t need money?

Especially because many teenagers are trying to save for college, for which a huge majority of the youngest portions of our professional workforce are now drowning in DEBT. Pay the teenagers more, less student loan debt, a better educated workforce. But wait, that makes sense, so it’ll never happen.

384 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Jan 23, 2015 8:37:48am

re: #375 FemNaziBitch

They see climate change as an attempt to grow big government. It’s an economic issue to them. They don’t want any more regulation on business or re-alighnment of the budget for a doo-gooder issue such as the environment.

It’s just too much outside the man box for them.

To which I am reminded: Those who cannot embrace change become a victim of it.

It would be nice if the blowback could be so delicately targeted. But it’s looking a lot more like Those who cannot embrace change force the rest of us to become victims of it.

385 De Kolta Chair  Jan 23, 2015 8:39:22am

re: #370 FemNaziBitch

Watchdog group: Gohmert improperly used campaign funds

Gohmert spoke to several groups during his stay in England, including… one of “the most elite female high schools in the U.K.”

386 ObserverArt  Jan 23, 2015 8:40:56am

re: #278 Targetpractice

Another day, another case of wingnuts nattering about what is “beneath” the President.

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What I see is a desperate cry for attention from a network that hasn’t felt loved by the White House in quite awhile.

Good day all.

You know what is beneath the office of the President?

The pack of lame-brained GOP asses they keep putting up as candidates.

And…the way they treat the current President is often beneath the office.

387 b_sharp  Jan 23, 2015 8:41:43am

re: #309 thedopefishlives

Hell, there are men who get overpowered by assailants and shot with their own gun. A gun isn’t a guarantee of safety from anyone, for anyone.

A sneaky assailant doesn’t even have to overpower someone with open carry.

388 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 23, 2015 8:41:52am

re: #375 FemNaziBitch

They see climate change as an attempt to grow big government. It’s an economic issue to them. They don’t want any more regulation on business or re-alighnment of the budget for a doo-gooder issue such as the environment.

It’s just too much outside the man box for them.

To which I am reminded: Those who cannot embrace change become a victim of it.

They will be the first ones insisting that the government make them whole when their property is damaged by GCC-caused weather and tidal events.

389 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 8:42:12am

re: #356 FemNaziBitch

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And fat, balding bastards?

Are the ones who control access: the fatter, the balder, the better.

390 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 8:43:22am

re: #383 thedopefishlives

Especially because many teenagers are trying to save for college, for which a huge majority of the youngest portions of our professional workforce are now drowning in DEBT. Pay the teenagers more, less student loan debt, a better educated workforce. But wait, that makes sense, so it’ll never happen.

Right, I was thinking that too. Plus many especially poorer teenagers are working a job to help provide for their family. Really, it makes no fucking sense to pay a teenager less because they’re a teenager and then use the existence of teen workers as an excuse not to raise the minimum wage.

391 lawhawk  Jan 23, 2015 8:45:14am

Heh

392 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 8:45:23am

re: #390 HappyWarrior

Right, I was thinking that too. Plus many especially poorer teenagers are working a job to help provide for their family. Really, it makes no fucking sense to pay a teenager less because they’re a teenager and then use the existence of teen workers as an excuse not to raise the minimum wage.

It only makes sense in that, as long as the two arguments aren’t placed side-by-side, it’s a perfectly circular way to debate against people who want to raise the minimum wage.

393 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 8:47:22am

re: #379 HappyWarrior

while wearing a bikini of course.

You just described 95% of all gun-fucking memes on Twitter.

394 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 8:48:04am

re: #393 The Vicious Babushka

You just described 95% of all gun-fucking memes on Twitter.

That was the point.

395 b_sharp  Jan 23, 2015 8:49:12am

re: #356 FemNaziBitch

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And fat, balding bastards?

Hey, I resemble that remark.

396 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 8:49:22am

re: #391 lawhawk

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Heh

My personal feeling on Jindal is that he’s being a panderer. Not that it makes his lies about American Muslims anymore better.

397 ObserverArt  Jan 23, 2015 8:52:37am

re: #319 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Add HIPAA to the growing list of Things CCJ Does Not Know. It’s pretty pathetic when you can’t correctly spell an acronym. Guessing that the lad misspells “UCLA.”

I guess li’l’ Chucky doesn’t like to follow laws. Real conservative type there…

398 Mike Lamb  Jan 23, 2015 8:53:29am

Assuming momentarily that there are providers that play fast and loose with HIPPA—given the RWNJ/Pro-Forced Birth folks out there, the one place that I would expect to strictly adhere to HIPPA regs at all times would be at a family planning clinic.

399 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 23, 2015 8:53:32am

re: #396 HappyWarrior

My personal feeling on Jindal is that he’s being a panderer. Not that it makes his lies about American Muslims anymore better.

My take on Jindal is that he’s obsessed with the notion that he could have been a contender and that at this point he’ll say just about anything to regain that status - just like CCJ.

400 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 8:55:17am

re: #399 Higgs Boson’s Mate

My take on Jindal is that he’s obsessed with the notion that he could have been a contender and that at this point he’ll say just about anything to regain that status - just like CCJ.

No doubt.

401 CuriousLurker  Jan 23, 2015 8:55:18am

Imagine my surprise. //

Senate Republicans Reverse “Open” Pledge, Deny Right to Debate

Last night, Senator McConnell and Senate Republicans refused to allow five Senators their basic right to debate on the Senate floor for even one minute. Senator McConnell committed to a free and open Senate where “we are entitled to have our ideas debated,” “regardless of whether the majority party thinks those issues are worth debating” and “any Member of the Senate ought to be able to have a fair chance to get his or her amendment adopted.” Before work on even the first bill of the 114th Congress is done, Senator McConnell has broken this fundamental commitment. […]

dpcc.senate.gov

402 Targetpractice  Jan 23, 2015 8:58:03am

re: #401 CuriousLurker

Imagine my surprise. //

My surprise, etc.

403 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 8:58:04am

re: #401 CuriousLurker

Imagine my surprise. //

Thanks Americans who gave the Turtle the Majority Leader job that he’s done nothing to earn/deserve.

404 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 8:59:47am
405 De Kolta Chair  Jan 23, 2015 9:01:16am

re: #401 CuriousLurker

Remember the last time the GOP ruled both Houses and the Dems had to hold hearings on issues the GOP didn’t want to talk about in the basement of the Capitol building?

406 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 9:02:25am

re: #405 De Kolta Chair

Remember the last time the GOP ruled both Houses and the Dems had to hold hearings on issues the GOP didn’t want to talk about in the basement of the Capitol building?

Good grief. It sounds like a teenage girl slumber party.

407 darthstar  Jan 23, 2015 9:04:47am
408 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 23, 2015 9:06:02am

re: #404 The Vicious Babushka

409 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 9:07:52am
410 A Cranky One  Jan 23, 2015 9:08:48am

re: #283 The Vicious Babushka

ICYMI, Michigan Cherry Pie

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It’s National Pie Day!

American Pie Council

411 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:08:54am

re: #405 De Kolta Chair

Remember the last time the GOP ruled both Houses and the Dems had to hold hearings on issues the GOP didn’t want to talk about in the basement of the Capitol building?

I do.

412 A Cranky One  Jan 23, 2015 9:09:10am

re: #409 The Vicious Babushka

Missed it by THAT much.

413 Targetpractice  Jan 23, 2015 9:09:52am

re: #409 The Vicious Babushka

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*perks up* Somebody say “pie”?

414 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:12:12am

Do pies cure colds?

415 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 9:13:37am

re: #414 HappyWarrior

Do pies cure colds?

Pie cures everything!

And even if it doesn’t, you still had pie.

416 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:14:24am

re: #415 The Vicious Babushka

Pie cures everything!

Good because I’ve been under the weather the past few days. Could go for a good banana cream.

417 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:16:00am

Seems to me that Joni Ernst may as well be another Marco Rubio. A flashy new toy for the GOP to go “See, we’re not just old white guys, we have women and Hispanics who can sound like old white guys too” and then Ernst will do something like Rubio and inevitably shatter her star with the true conservative faithful.

418 Targetpractice  Jan 23, 2015 9:17:54am

re: #417 HappyWarrior

Seems to me that Joni Ernst may as well be another Marco Rubio. A flashy new toy for the GOP to go “See, we’re not just old white guys, we have women and Hispanics who can sound like old white guys too” and then Ernst will do something like Rubio and inevitably shatter her star with the true conservative faithful.

No, the Rubio of this cycle was Mia Love. And she didn’t even hold her office for a week before her star shattered. Ernst is the replacement for Michele “Girl With The Faraway Eyes” Bachmann.

419 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:19:39am

re: #418 Targetpractice

No, the Rubio of this cycle was Mia Love. And she didn’t even hold her office for a week before her star shattered. Ernst is the replacement for Michele “Girl With The Faraway Eyes” Bachmann.

What did Love (heh-heh, get it her last name is Love!) do break their hearts? But yeah I guess Love is a better analogy for Rubio, the immigrants’ child narrative. I am honestly surprised that Ted Cruz hasn’t broken their hearts yet but Cruz is perhaps the biggest panderer of them all with his equally kooky father.

420 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 9:21:08am

re: #419 HappyWarrior

What did Love (heh-heh, get it her last name is Love!) do break their hearts? But yeah I guess Love is a better analogy for Rubio, the immigrants’ child narrative. I am honestly surprised that Ted Cruz hasn’t broken their hearts yet but Cruz is perhaps the biggest panderer of them all with his equally kooky father.

Wasn’t she the one that joined up with the National Black Caucus and really upset all the teabaggers who swore that she’d be a self-hating black?

421 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 23, 2015 9:21:26am

re: #418 Targetpractice

No, the Rubio of this cycle was Mia Love. And she didn’t even hold her office for a week before her star shattered. Ernst is the replacement for Michele “Girl With The Faraway Eyes” Bachmann.

Yep, and she sounds like she’s heavily medicated with whatever they have Michelle on. What’s up with these Stepford Republicans?

422 thedopefishlives  Jan 23, 2015 9:22:32am

re: #421 No Country For Old Haters

Yep, and she sounds like she’s heavily medicated with whatever they have Michelle on. What’s up with these Stepford Republicans?

Behold, the power of religious brainwashing. Bachmann is a well-known regular guest at the local megachurch on the north side of the Cities.

423 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 23, 2015 9:23:32am

re: #375 FemNaziBitch

They see climate change as an attempt to grow big government. It’s an economic issue to them. They don’t want any more regulation on business or re-alighnment of the budget for a doo-gooder issue such as the environment.

It’s just too much outside the man box for them.

To which I am reminded: Those who cannot embrace change become a victim of it.

The problem is that we are *chained* to them in regards to this one. So we’re going to be victims too.

424 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:23:43am

re: #420 thedopefishlives

Wasn’t she the one that joined up with the National Black Caucus and really upset all the teabaggers who swore that she’d be a self-hating black?

I dunno. That’s why I asked. It’s not hard to break their wittle hearts though.

425 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 9:25:12am

re:
#417

Marco Rubio. (shakes head).

The clown car is filling up fast.

426 Targetpractice  Jan 23, 2015 9:25:24am

re: #419 HappyWarrior

What did Love (heh-heh, get it her last name is Love!) do break their hearts? But yeah I guess Love is a better analogy for Rubio, the immigrants’ child narrative. I am honestly surprised that Ted Cruz hasn’t broken their hearts yet but Cruz is perhaps the biggest panderer of them all with his equally kooky father.

She voted for Boehner to remain Speaker. The wingnuts had high hopes that she’d join their little temper tantrum and she disappointed them.

427 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:25:30am

But Ernst, Love, and others get me to another point that I’ve been trying to make since the GOP wave in 2010. The GOP and right may present to us more youthful and culturally diverse candidates but it doesn’t mean a damn thing for actual change if they’re going to be right wing lunatics.I suppose this was the rebranding after all though. “Hey America, we’re going to give you Todd Akin but except this time he’s a woman!”

428 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 23, 2015 9:25:34am

re: #422 thedopefishlives

Behold, the power of religious brainwashing. Bachmann is a well-known regular guest at the local megachurch on the north side of the Cities.

I used to think that religion was useful, despite being an absurd lie, because it kept bad people in line, but the conservatives use their alternative version of Christianity as a justification for being bad people, so I’d prefer that we all shed our superstitions and grow the hell up at this point.

429 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:26:04am

re: #426 Targetpractice

She voted for Boehner to remain Speaker. The wingnuts had high hopes that she’d join their little temper tantrum and she disappointed them.

That’s right. I remember now. Don’t know why they’d think she’d do that.

430 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 9:26:25am

re: #420 thedopefishlives

Wasn’t she the one that joined up with the National Black Caucus and really upset all the teabaggers who swore that she’d be a self-hating black?

She voted for Boehner for SOTH instead of Louie Asparagus

431 De Kolta Chair  Jan 23, 2015 9:27:06am

re: #406 thedopefishlives

Good grief. It sounds like a teenage girl slumber party.

No doubt it creeped the hell out of the pages.

432 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 9:27:23am

re:
#419

When does Ted Cruz start his own prez campaign? The clown car is filling up fast. He might have to ride on the bumper.

433 Targetpractice  Jan 23, 2015 9:28:25am

re: #421 No Country For Old Haters

Yep, and she sounds like she’s heavily medicated with whatever they have Michelle on. What’s up with these Stepford Republicans?

I think it was equal parts the leadership feeding her a prepared script and her wanting to avoid becoming a joke like Jindal or Rubio.

434 ObserverArt  Jan 23, 2015 9:29:27am

re: #343 FemNaziBitch

Nutrition and Sanitiation in this country aren’t all that great either. We’ve become lax on many fronts.

And many of the anti vaxxers have become lax in their thinking. I get the feeling they think measles are no big problem because they hadn’t had to worry about them in America.

Hello! Guess why they haven’t had to worry? That’s right…all the people before you that knew the problems and gladly took their kids in to get the vaccinations.

By the way, I wonder how many anti vaxxers had their vaccinations when they were younger?

435 De Kolta Chair  Jan 23, 2015 9:30:04am

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th — 3/14, get it?

436 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:30:37am

re: #435 De Kolta Chair

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Ha! Yes!

437 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2015 9:30:48am

re: #415 The Vicious Babushka

Pie cures everything!

And even if it doesn’t, you still had pie.

MrBWS is home early suffering mightily from manflu.
I made some chicken soup for him and he asked (very weakly) if he could also have a grilled cheese sammich.
Then I read your comment out loud to him and he perked right up: “Pie? I can haz PIE???”

the man is hopeless….

438 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 23, 2015 9:30:59am

re: #410 A Cranky One

It’s National Pie Day!

American Pie Council

Every day is Pie Day!

439 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 9:33:51am

For some reason I thought National Pie Day was March 14, with Free Pie at one minute before 2:00

440 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2015 9:35:00am

re: #434 ObserverArt

And many of the anti vaxxers have become lax in their thinking. I get the feeling the they think measles are no big problem because they hadn’t had to worry about them in America.

Hello! Guess why they haven’t had to worry? That’s right…all the people before you that knew the problems and gladly took their kids in to get the vaccinations.

By the way, I wonder how many anti vaxxers had their vaccinations when they were younger?

Also, do they realize that those measles vaccinations they had in their childhood most likely aren’t effective anymore for immunity in adulthood. They need a new booster shot.

441 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:36:46am

It’s one thing for anti-vaxxers to put themselves in danger. It’s another to put the public in danger which is what they do.

442 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 23, 2015 9:38:30am

re: #433 Targetpractice

her wanting to avoid becoming a joke like Jindal or Rubio.

Well, that did not work out. People should not sound less human than machine-generated speech.

443 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 23, 2015 9:39:04am

re: #441 HappyWarrior

It’s one thing for anti-vaxxers to put themselves in danger. It’s another to put the public in danger which is what they do.

Yep. They should live on reservations if they refuse their responsibility to the rest of us.

444 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 9:39:09am

re: #440 Backwoods_Sleuth

Also, do they realize that those measles vaccinations they had in their childhood most likely aren’t effective anymore for immunity in adulthood. They need a new booster shot.

The vaccine is good for 15 years, then a booster shot is required. I don’t know if all public high schools require vaccination for all incoming freshmen but now they should.

445 De Kolta Chair  Jan 23, 2015 9:40:04am
J. Robert Oppenheimer’s greatest regret was the failure of the Manhattan Pizza Pie Project.
446 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2015 9:40:36am

re: #444 The Vicious Babushka

The vaccine is good for 15 years, then a booster shot is required. I don’t know if all public high schools require vaccination for all incoming freshmen but now they should.

Exactly…15 years is a long, long, time ago for most adults.

447 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:40:58am

re: #445 De Kolta Chair

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I have become God, destroyer of cheese and crust.

448 ObserverArt  Jan 23, 2015 9:41:42am

re: #399 Higgs Boson’s Mate

My take on Jindal is that he’s obsessed with the notion that he could have been a contender and that at this point he’ll say just about anything to regain that status - just like CCJ.

Time for a ‘shop from the archive…

Everyone is MAD about Alfred E. Jindal. Don’t you worry!
449 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 9:44:22am

He seems nice==>

450 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 9:44:43am

re:
#445

I hate to see a pizza suffer.

451 ObserverArt  Jan 23, 2015 9:45:59am

re: #417 HappyWarrior

Seems to me that Joni Ernst may as well be another Marco Rubio. A flashy new toy for the GOP to go “See, we’re not just old white guys, we have women and Hispanics who can sound like old white guys too” and then Ernst will do something like Rubio and inevitably shatter her star with the true conservative faithful.

Speaking of Marco…I heard a report this morning he is in discovery mode for a presidential run.

Dude is way dense. His own party doesn’t even seem to want him. But hey, go ahead and pack the clown car some more.

452 A Cranky One  Jan 23, 2015 9:47:02am

I get crankier when I hear people dismiss measles as no big deal. When I had measles as a child, I developed pneumonia and almost died; I spent quite a while in the hospital.

Measles Complications

Idiots.

453 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 9:47:07am

DUMBFUCKERY

454 Charles Johnson  Jan 23, 2015 9:47:28am
455 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:49:01am

re: #451 ObserverArt

Speaking of Marco…I heard a report this morning he is in discovery mode for a presidential run.

Dude is way dense. His own party doesn’t even seem to want him. But hey, go ahead and pack the clown car some more.

Yeah I guess he didn’t read his facebook or twitter feed after he had a rare moment of clarity on immigration. Hell if I’m the Dems, I’m looking for a good candidate to beat him in 2016. P Residential election year and all.

456 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 9:49:19am
457 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:49:39am

Chuckles watched mountain lions do an abortion on South Park is what happened I think.

458 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 9:50:33am

re: #457 HappyWarrior

Chuckles watched mountain lions do an abortion on South Park is what happened I think.

LOL. Tweeted.

459 Skip Intro  Jan 23, 2015 9:52:40am

re: #453 The Vicious Babushka

“Medical school friend” implies that UpChuck was at med school with him.

I don’t think so.

460 lawhawk  Jan 23, 2015 9:53:42am

re: #454 Charles Johnson

Why do I keep following CCJ’s venomous/insulting nonsense day after day? Could it be because it’s worse than a train wreck that everyone has to stare at as they pass by?

But the reality is that his lies and smears have consequences - not for him for the most part - but for the targets of his lies and smears, and for that it’s unforgiveable.

Yet Twitter still wont pull the ban hammer.

It’s also worth noting that pretty much every utterance he’s made about, well, everything is a lie or a smear or an obfuscation, so the retort “CCJ lies” should be a macro you insert every time you respond to something he says or does. Because 99/100 times, that’s exactly what it is.

461 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:54:06am

So, Russia gets talked here a lot. Got done reading a good one from NPR’s David Greene called Midnight in Siberia. Interesting read. He goes from Moscow to Vladivostok on the Siberian railway and with his Russian producer/friend meets many Russians on the way and gets their take on contemporary Russia and Putin.

462 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:55:18am

CCJ and Jimmy O’Keefe need to have a douchebag off so we can find out once and for all who the most pathetic right wing douchebag under 30 is once and for all.

463 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 9:55:46am

re:
#459

Is CCJ an accomplished medical doctor in addition to being an Awardwinning Journalist?

/

464 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 9:56:43am

re: #463 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#459

Is CCJ an accomplished medical doctor in addition to being an Awardwinning Journalist?

/

That’s accomplished medical doctor rocket scientist award winning journalist to you!

465 lawhawk  Jan 23, 2015 9:57:15am
466 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 23, 2015 9:58:34am

BREAKING: Charles C Johnson provides irrefutable photographic proof that he witnessed an abortion!

467 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 10:01:49am
468 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 10:03:23am

re:
#465

Yeah, why won’t Obama interview with one of our many barking lunatics?

469 A Cranky One  Jan 23, 2015 10:08:44am

re: #467 The Vicious Babushka

Gave one of these to my brother for Xmas last year!

From the company’s own ad:

As the box says, “CATS LOVE IT” and you can tell from the picture!
470 CuriousLurker  Jan 23, 2015 10:09:42am

Uh-oh, I hear heads exploding…

471 Skip Intro  Jan 23, 2015 10:11:25am

re: #470 CuriousLurker

“We have to keep our heads,” Kerry said.

Uh, maybe he’d like to rephrase that.

472 CuriousLurker  Jan 23, 2015 10:11:57am

re: #471 Skip Intro

Uh, maybe he’d like to rephrase that.

LOL!

473 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 10:13:04am

re: #470 CuriousLurker

Uh-oh, I hear heads exploding…

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Brevik was a violent extremist who wasn’t a Muslim and neither have been most of the mass shooters in this country but bigots are yeah going to freak out over that. It’s pretty much the same thing Bush said after 9/11 but because an Obama administration said it, expert the flip out to be big.

474 Slap  Jan 23, 2015 10:14:07am

re: #119 HappyWarrior

Late response, but….

Tom Dowd and the Language of Music
Sound City
Runnin’ Down a Dream
The Rhythm of Life (Sir George Martin)
The Wrecking Crew
20 Feet from Stardom
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Let’s Get Lost
A Great Day in Harlem

….that’s a start, anyway….

475 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 10:14:37am

re: #474 Slap

Late response, but….

Tom Dowd and the Language of Music
Sound City
Runnin’ Down a Dream
The Rhythm of Life (Sir George Martin)
The Wrecking Crew
20 Feet from Stardom
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Let’s Get Lost
A Great Day in Harlem

….that’s a start, anyway….

No, it’s never too late for music.

476 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 10:16:53am

re: #462 HappyWarrior

CCJ and Jimmy O’Keefe need to have a douchebag off so we can find out once and for all who the most pathetic right wing douchebag under 30 is once and for all.

Neither of them has hit Peak Douche.

477 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 10:18:04am

re: #462 HappyWarrior

CCJ and Jimmy O’Keefe need to have a douchebag off so we can find out once and for all who the most pathetic right wing douchebag under 30 is once and for all.

Winner takes on Todd Kincannon!

478 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 23, 2015 10:18:20am

re: #462 HappyWarrior

maybe have a wannabe version of celebrity death match between the 2?

479 De Kolta Chair  Jan 23, 2015 10:18:48am

News for Bob-bleheads “of a certain age”:

Bob Dylan’s latest cd, a tribute to Frank Sinatra, will be inserted randomly into 50,000 copies of the February/March issue of AARP The Magazine.

Bob Dylan in Retirement by Drew Friedman
480 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 10:18:49am

re: #476 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Neither of them has hit Peak Douche.

Touche but those two surely would be the frontrunner for the biggest RW douche under 30. I think Shapiro despite looking like a middle school kid is over 30.

481 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 23, 2015 10:19:02am

re: #475 HappyWarrior

No, it’s never too late for music.

The Police around the world, about their first major US/world Tour

and The Kids are Alright about the Who

482 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 10:19:30am

re: #477 The Vicious Babushka

Winner takes on Todd Kincannon!

Yes, Todd Kincannon may be the biggest douche in the whole right wing twitsphere.

483 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 10:20:57am

re: #479 De Kolta Chair

News for Bob-bleheads “of a certain age”:

Bob Dylan’s latest cd, a tribute to Frank Sinatra, will be inserted randomly into 50,000 copies of the February/March issue of AARP The Magazine.

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I am actually looking forward to hearing this. A lot of people are meh on covers but covers are neat to me because you can see an old song done a new way. No idea what to really expect from this but I’ll definitely listen.

484 Skip Intro  Jan 23, 2015 10:21:32am

Oh noes,

SkyMall Declares Bankruptcy

Now where am I going to find quality products like these?

Leo Men’s Padded Butt Enhancer Brief: $35

Who needs an Apple Watch when you can have this?

huffingtonpost.com

485 klystron  Jan 23, 2015 10:22:20am

re: #484 Skip Intro

I has a sad. Now what am I going to look through when I want to kill time on the airplane?

…of course, I never did buy anything, probably part of the problem.

486 Kragar  Jan 23, 2015 10:22:32am
487 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 23, 2015 10:23:05am

re: #483 HappyWarrior

I am actually looking forward to hearing this. A lot of people are meh on covers but covers are neat to me because you can see an old song done a new way. No idea what to really expect from this but I’ll definitely listen.

I initially read that as “an old song drone a new way” - which given the current state of Dylan’s voice might be an accurate assessment.

488 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 10:23:24am

re: #486 Kragar

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Hahaha that is AWESOME.

489 CuriousLurker  Jan 23, 2015 10:23:38am

re: #473 HappyWarrior

Yeah, the usual suspects will be screaming that he’s nothing but a lying appeaser who won’t admit what Islam is really about. Ugh.

Pam’s favorite thing these days is to say “devout Muslims” when describing terrorist attacks—i.e. any Muslim who’s devout is a violent extremist/terrorist and anyone who isn’t a violent extremist/terrorist doesn’t take their Islam seriously, they’re not Real Muslims™.

Of course in her book “devout” also means any Muslim who prays, fasts, eats halal food, etc. It makes me LOL because seeing as how 1/5 of the planet is Muslim, there are more than likely hundreds of millions of “devout” Muslims scattered around the globe. If we were truly as she describes, then there would be constant chaos & slaughter in every city in every country of the world.

490 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 23, 2015 10:24:01am

re: #483 HappyWarrior

I am actually looking forward to hearing this. A lot of people are meh on covers but covers are neat to me because you can see an old song done a new way. No idea what to really expect from this but I’ll definitely listen.

Um, no. Ol’ Blue Eyes could carry a tune in a bucket, but Bob never could.

491 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 10:25:26am

re: #490 The Vicious Babushka

Um, no. Ol’ Blue Eyes could carry a tune in a bucket, but Bob never could.

I still want to hear it. Bob was always a better songwriter than singer though hence why I think you saw more covers of his songs than people trying to emulate his vocal style. My favorite Dylan album is Nashville Skyline and his voice is a lot more smoother on that one given that he had quit smoking prior to recording.

492 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 23, 2015 10:25:35am

re: #462 HappyWarrior

CCJ and Jimmy O’Keefe need to have a douchebag off so we can find out once and for all who the most pathetic right wing douchebag under 30 is once and for all.

Wrong! Bad idea. Such an event would cause a tear in the fabric of the douchesphere with a resultant release of douchness.

493 klystron  Jan 23, 2015 10:25:42am

My harp is scheduled to arrive between 1 and 5 today.

No, I have no patience, why do you ask?

494 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 10:26:27am

re: #489 CuriousLurker

Yeah, the usual suspects will be screaming that he’s nothing but a lying appeaser who won’t admit what Islam is really about. Ugh.

Pam’s favorite thing these days is to say “devout Muslims” when describing terrorist attacks—i.e. any Muslim who’s devout is a violent extremist/terrorist and anyone who isn’t a violent extremist/terrorist doesn’t take their Islam seriously, they’re not Real MuslimsTM.

Of course in her book “devout” also means any Muslim who prays, fasts, eats halal food, etc. It makes me LOL because seeing as how 1/5 of the planet is Muslim, there are more than likely hundreds of millions of “devout” Muslims scattered around the globe. If we were truly as she describes, then there would be constant chaos & slaughter in every city in every country of the world.

The shit gets old and then it’s even more irritating to see elected officials like Jindal spread fear and paranoia about the American Muslim community.

495 Slap  Jan 23, 2015 10:26:55am

re: #481 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Eeek! I forgot:

Amazing Journey - the Story of the Who
Bring on the Night - Sting

The Who doc differs from the utterly deightful “The Kids…” in that it’s a narrative timeline documentary, complete with interviews and analyses. “Kids” is a chronological collection of filmed appearances and is immensely fun.

496 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 10:27:02am

re: #493 klystron

My harp is scheduled to arrive between 1 and 5 today.

No, I have no patience, why do you ask?

Learning to play or do you already know? Such a beautiful instrument.

497 lawhawk  Jan 23, 2015 10:27:26am

“trolling, life ruining… shit makes me hard”

Could be attributed to any number of current trolls, including Barrett Brown (who wrote it originally), but also CCJ.

498 klystron  Jan 23, 2015 10:27:55am

re: #496 HappyWarrior

Learning to play or do you already know? Such a beautiful instrument.

I have been studying folk harp for the past …2 years? Three years? Somewhere in there.

It is mostly a hobby and I would not call myself very good, but I like playing it so I do.

499 lawhawk  Jan 23, 2015 10:27:55am
500 CuriousLurker  Jan 23, 2015 10:29:17am

re: #497 lawhawk

“trolling, life ruining… shit makes me hard”

Could be attributed to any number of current trolls, including Barrett Brown (who wrote it originally), but also CCJ.

It’s an utterly pathological mindset.

501 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 10:29:37am

re: #498 klystron

I have been studying folk harp for the past …2 years? Three years? Somewhere in there.

It is mostly a hobby and I would not call myself very good, but I like playing it so I do.

Ah excellent. Keep it up.

502 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 23, 2015 10:29:41am

re: #499 lawhawk

Why is Eric Idle in that picture?

503 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 10:30:35am

re: #499 lawhawk

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Wouldn’t be surprised if they were remnants of the junta.

504 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 23, 2015 10:30:53am

re: #493 klystron

My harp is scheduled to arrive between 1 and 5 today.

No, I have no patience, why do you ask?

You just have to slow some pluck for just a little longer.

505 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 23, 2015 10:31:09am

re: #491 HappyWarrior

I still want to hear it. Bob was always a better songwriter than singer though hence why I think you saw more covers of his songs than people trying to emulate his vocal style. My favorite Dylan album is Nashville Skyline and his voice is a lot more smoother on that one given that he had quit smoking prior to recording.

Only example I can think of was John Lennon in You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away….

506 Skip Intro  Jan 23, 2015 10:32:08am

RedState goes to the mattresses on their attack of the Republican Party.

Maybe it is time for a third party to give the GOP competition. Yesterday, the GOP threw its base under the bus. The Republicans who claim to support the pro-life movement, including Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) who claimed she’d vote for the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act after she ensured it would not pass, need to be beaten. Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC), in particular, must be ruined politically even if it means the pro-life community sends a pro-abortion Democrat in her place. They’ll still have improved the seat by replacing Ellmers with someone who is not a damnable liar.

In short, the pro-life movement must stop being the whores of the GOP. The Republican Leadership knows the pro-life movement is in its pocket. They have nowhere else to go. They have no one else to vote for. As much as Republicans look at black voters and tut-tut that they are being taken advantage of by a Democratic Party that knows black voters will not go anywhere, the Republicans are doing precisely the same to pro-life voters.

Should be fun to watch.

redstate.com

507 A Cranky One  Jan 23, 2015 10:36:21am

Been posting a few pictures of quilts done by Mrs Cranky.

Here is something a little different. What makes this quilt interesting is that EVERY seam is straight, there are no curved seams. The curves are an optical illusion.

Illusion quilt
508 HappyWarrior  Jan 23, 2015 10:37:07am

re: #506 Skip Intro

RedState goes to the mattresses on their attack of the Republican Party.

Should be fun to watch.

redstate.com

They’ve been saying one thing to pro-life voters and doing another for years now.

509 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 23, 2015 10:37:19am

re: #507 A Cranky One

Been posting a few pictures of quilts done by Mrs Cranky.

Here is something a little different. What makes this quilt interesting is that EVERY seam is straight, there are no curved seams. The curves are an optical illusion.

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Gimme!

510 De Kolta Chair  Jan 23, 2015 10:39:42am

re: #483 HappyWarrior

I really like his version of an obscure (to me at least) Sinatra tune, “Stay With Me,” from the new album.

…

511 klystron  Jan 23, 2015 10:41:03am
512 Decatur Deb  Jan 23, 2015 10:43:26am

re: #493 klystron

My harp is scheduled to arrive between 1 and 5 today.

No, I have no patience, why do you ask?

Harp and castanets…and spiders.

…

513 subterraneanhomesickalien  Jan 23, 2015 10:44:52am

re: #506 Skip Intro

The mooks will fall in line. Don’t worry.

514 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 10:46:00am

re:
#506

Maybe it is time for a third party…

Please proceed, wingnuts

515 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 10:46:47am

Wingnuts are so cute when they talk about creating third parties…

516 allegro  Jan 23, 2015 10:47:50am

re: #507 A Cranky One

Been posting a few pictures of quilts done by Mrs Cranky.

Here is something a little different. What makes this quilt interesting is that EVERY seam is straight, there are no curved seams. The curves are an optical illusion.

[Embedded content]

Wow! That is breathtaking! That level of talent, skill, and craftsmanship smacks my gob. Simply exquisite.

517 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 10:50:18am

re:
#506

The Republicans who claim to support the pro-life movement, including Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC)

Purists. Gotta love ‘em.
/

“Unless you’re with us on the most extreme legislation we’ve thought up this week then you are a vile heathen who deserves to be exiled from Amercia.”

518 klystron  Jan 23, 2015 10:50:38am

re: #512 Decatur Deb

I’m trying to figure out that harp. I think it is triple strung - avoiding the need for pedals/levers but a whole different style of playing.

I really want to learn the hammer dulcimer someday too.

519 Kid A  Jan 23, 2015 10:50:38am

Sports Illustrated lays off remaining six staff photographers:
nppa.org

520 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 23, 2015 10:51:01am

re: #507 A Cranky One

That really is a beautiful quilt and the optical illusion is awesome.

521 CuriousLurker  Jan 23, 2015 10:52:22am

One of my feline overlords, about 45 minutes ago—nice afternoon light coming in the window. Her white fur got a bit blown out in the first one, but I’m pretty happy with the other two despite the obviously shallow depth of field (especially since cats never fail to move as soon as you focus on them).

All shots were taken with my 40mm prime lens in aperture priority mode and are straight out of the camera (unretouched and uncropped).

1/80 sec. at f/4.0, ISO 2500
1/30 sec. at f/4.0, ISO 3200
1/80 sec. at f/4.0, ISO 640
522 A Cranky One  Jan 23, 2015 10:53:08am

re: #518 klystron

Is it shipped fully strung or do you have to do that? Also, how long does it take to tune?

523 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 10:53:31am

re:
#506

Shorter RedState: WTF Ellmers? What’s wrong with demanding rape victims go to the cops, file a report, fulfill whatever other requirements we demand, before we consent to letting them murder their full grown baby in their wombs? FREEDOM!!!

//

524 klystron  Jan 23, 2015 10:53:33am

re: #518 klystron

Apparently the triple harp is a Welsh style.

525 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 10:54:39am

re:
#521

What a sweetie :)

526 klystron  Jan 23, 2015 10:55:19am

re: #522 A Cranky One

Is it shipped fully strung or do you have to do that? Also, how long does it take to tune?

Shipped fully strung, and should be relatively in tune - to fully tune a new set of strings such that they hold tune can take weeks, but they strung it back before Christmas so it’s had some time.

To tune up, maybe 15 minutes-ish. Although my tuner batteries are dead. As I discovered at the Christmas concert. Oops.

527 klystron  Jan 23, 2015 10:56:19am
528 Decatur Deb  Jan 23, 2015 10:56:48am

re: #518 klystron

I’m trying to figure out that harp. I think it is triple strung - avoiding the need for pedals/levers but a whole different style of playing.

I really want to learn the hammer dulcimer someday too.

She and her group hang about the 17th Cent, period instruments usually doing Mediterranean Baroque and folk.

529 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 23, 2015 10:57:37am

re: #486 Kragar

There are a bunch of similar ones available. Google helmet novelty cover, or novelty helmet to find all kinds of weird stuff.

530 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 23, 2015 11:00:21am

re: #506 Skip Intro

RedState goes to the mattresses on their attack of the Republican Party.

Should be fun to watch.

redstate.com

They really don’t understand that the Republican party can’t seek the votes of smart people if they cater to religious fanatics. The problem with being as insane as Erickson is that you wind up believing that everyone outside your cult is crazy, instead of seeing the problem with the cult itself.

531 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 23, 2015 11:01:08am

Tea Party November 2014: Down with government coercion, regulation, interference with personal choices!

Tea Party January 2015: Oh, here is our totally reasonable, popular, innocuous bill to ban abortions and require “rape victims” jump through a whole bunch of hoops before they can get an abortion.

532 Slap  Jan 23, 2015 11:02:15am

re: #491 HappyWarrior

Me, I’ve long been a proponent of making a distinction between the quality of someone’s voice and their skill at singing. Dylan doesn’t have the most pleasant of voices — but the expression in tunes like Like a Rolling Stone, Idiot Wind, Absolutely Sweet Marie, and Forever Young, to pick a few — and even older standards like Don’t Think Twice and Tomorrow is a Long Time — are, IMO, almost unmatched. I consider him to be a truly great singer with an odd voice.

There are plenty of people who have quite pleasant and well-trained voices who are incapable of nuance and emotional expressiveness. (Many of them are contemporary pop stars, none of whom I intend to slag.) I’ll take Nina Simone over Carrie Underwood any day, for example….

533 Single-handed sailor  Jan 23, 2015 11:03:59am

re: #527 klystron

The last rain I’ve measured was December 24th, which made a season total of 12.74”. I have been getting 0.01”of dew the past few days to bring up the season total to 12.82”

534 klystron  Jan 23, 2015 11:05:53am

re: #533 Single-handed sailor

The last rain I’ve measured was December 24th, which made a season total of 12.74”. I have been getting 0.01”of dew the past few days to bring up the season total to 12.82”

I don’t have a weather gauge, but our sidewalk was damp …3 days ago? Maybe? That’s really the best we’ve had all month, and I’m not sure it wasn’t dew.

But hey, we can have some record highs this weekend.

535 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2015 11:11:38am

re: #502 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Why is Eric Idle in that picture?

I thought it was Phil Spector…

536 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2015 11:19:08am

re: #527 klystron

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I haz snow falling here right now. I keep telling it to head west, but it’s not listening to me…


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