We Got Some Seriously Deranged Mail

Holocaust Remembrance Day always brings out the crazies
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You’ll have to click to see this amazingly crazy email I received tonight from someone in Monterey, because it’s pretty damned disturbing, not to mention racist and antisemitic. Holocaust Remembrance Day always excites the lunatics.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Bring on the crazy.

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515 comments
1 Kragar  Jan 27, 2015 8:37:27pm

HERES YOUR ZARDOZ LOBSTER TELLETUBBY!

What more needs to be said?

2 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 27, 2015 8:38:55pm

Wow, what the fuck did I just read?

Whoever wrote that must have been taking some STRONG stuff!

3 teleskiguy  Jan 27, 2015 8:39:12pm
OR ROCKY SPACE RANGER
FOUND A HITLERSON
BLACK WATER

HELICOPTER RIGHT OVER

4 psddluva4evah  Jan 27, 2015 8:39:32pm

Two stories today, both causing much butthurt for some white males sexist and bigotted dudebros…

1) New All-Female ‘Ghostbusters’ Cast Chosen
All female Ghostbusters have been cast and I say, why the hell not. I like the director, I love 2 of the 4 ladies, and the other 2 ladies particularly McKinnon are good on SNL. So I say again, why the hell not. Now if they bring along Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts…I’ll be happy. From my understanding they could never get Bill Murray to sign on for an original cast reboot, and also RIP Harold Ramis. Original cast Ghostbuster with NO Igon…aint’ gonna work!

Dudebro butthurt level…5 out of 10?

2) Fantastic Four Trailer
The new Fantastic Four reboot released a trailer for the summer. In the reboot, the Human Torch will be played by Micheal P Jordan. Sue Storm and Johnny are supposed to be brother an sister. The new reboot Sue is White, Johnny is Black, so… Other than that, people seemed to love the first two FF so much, but um the Torch is now Cap’n America, and he was the best thing in the first. Jessica Alba nice to look at, but a HORRIBLE actress. At lease the new cast consist of some really good young talent. I mean Micheal P Jordan is a damn good actor. As for Human Torch being Black…so fuckin’ what? Marvel comics has SOOOOO many different universes with the same characters, that you could literally find a universe to darn near fit any number of reboots. Besides…once the Torch is “flame on” it’s the attitude and a good actor brings something good to an otherwise generic character…HELLO…Idris Elba as Heimdall in Thor!!!

Comic dudebro butthurt: 5 for “original” FF comic fans, a big ole…meh from those who’ve read the other universes.

Racist, “what if Shaft was played by a White actor” butthut: 11….and I LMBAO as they cry and kick their feet…bah.

5 Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2015 8:41:04pm
6 jaunte  Jan 27, 2015 8:41:29pm
ANY MOAM WRATHED OUT
SEGOURNEY WEAVER
CRYSTAL BLUE

PERSUASION!
AND FOR MOBY GRABE

ALSO!?

AND RADIO LAB GOT

BRANDO
OR LOGANS RUN JENNIFER
STARSHIP GRUNT OR
CAPTAIN AHAB AND A
SLICK PLUTO KEY TUNED

TOO
A GREMLIN OR TUCO
PINTO?

Sarah, is that you?

7 Kragar  Jan 27, 2015 8:42:41pm
“what if Shaft was played by a White actor”

Should we break the news to them about Jesus not having blonde hair and blue eyes?

8 bratwurst  Jan 27, 2015 8:42:52pm

That was done via some kind of random text generator. There are some seriously insane people on the internet, but I choose…yay NEED…to believe there is not really someone out there on that kind of trip tonight.

9 goddamnedfrank  Jan 27, 2015 8:44:49pm

I posted Bloomberg’s 404 page in the last thread, but it fits much better here.

10 psddluva4evah  Jan 27, 2015 8:46:21pm

re: #7 Kragar

IKR…but it never fails whenever this type of colorblind casting occurs the usual suspects always seem to go with “well what if Shaft was played by a white guy”..

first of all, who the hell even goes to Shaft as an example first. Secondly, what talking points maker when asked to find an example of bad colorblind casting OF FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, went…ooh…SHAFT! Cause I kid you not, go to any blog or entertainment site that mentions colorblind casting where a Black person is playing a “white character”, and you will find the Shaft comparison…I mean really, really?

11 goddamnedfrank  Jan 27, 2015 8:46:29pm

Somebody pointed a Turing bot at Free Republic and it tore a hole in spacetime.

12 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 27, 2015 8:47:40pm

re: #11 goddamnedfrank

Somebody pointed a Turing bot at Free Republic and it tore a hole in spacetime.

And then it became Sarah Palin’s speechwriter.
// :D

13 Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2015 8:49:26pm

I had to post this as a text file instead of including it in the post, because it’s so insanely long. First time this has happened.

14 Great White Snark  Jan 27, 2015 8:50:03pm

If Sarah Palin does a nice “word salad”, that’s more like a randomized hate phrase milk shake. Or imagine the theoretical infinite monkeys typing Shakespeare having an off day and sending that prose through a sausage grinder.

15 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 27, 2015 8:51:37pm

A meth head Brion Gysin.

16 jaunte  Jan 27, 2015 8:53:20pm

The mome-rath and Moby Gra(b)e connection seems more schizophrenic than random, though.

17 klystron  Jan 27, 2015 8:54:21pm

…we’re sure that’s not just random spam?

I couldn’t read through enough of it to find any coherent message.

18 Kragar  Jan 27, 2015 8:54:48pm

re: #10 psddluva4evah

IKR…but it never fails whenever this type of colorblind casting occurs the usual suspects always seem to go with “well what if Shaft was played by a white guy”..

first of all, who the hell even goes to Shaft as an example first. Secondly, what talking points maker when asked to find an example of bad colorblind casting OF FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, went…ooh…SHAFT! Cause I kid you not, go to any blog or entertainment site that mentions colorblind casting where a Black person is playing a “white character”, and you will find the Shaft comparison…I mean really, really?

Coming soon, Danny McBride is WHITE DOLEMITE!

19 psddluva4evah  Jan 27, 2015 8:57:14pm

re: #18 Kragar

shoot, I would pay myself to see Danny McBride as Dolemite. After seeing “This is The End”, I think McBride would be awesome!

lol

20 psddluva4evah  Jan 27, 2015 8:59:22pm

My video of the night courtesy of a teacher in DFW school and the students.

I love seeing teachers who seemingly love interacting with their students.

Plus, I love “Uptown Funk”

…

21 Kragar  Jan 27, 2015 9:01:09pm

re: #19 psddluva4evah

shoot, I would pay myself to see Danny McBride as Dolemite. After seeing “This is The End”, I think McBride would be awesome!

lol

I was thinking to myself “Shit, that would be pretty awesome actually.”

22 Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2015 9:01:44pm

re: #17 klystron

…we’re sure that’s not just random spam?

I couldn’t read through enough of it to find any coherent message.

It’s not spam - it was sent through the contact form, and I have anti-spam measures in place in that code. It was sent by a real human being in Monterey, California.

23 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 27, 2015 9:02:11pm

Shaft? Seriously? These fuckers’ resentments really were frozen in the 1967-72 timeframe and nothing is going to budge them short of death.

24 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 27, 2015 9:02:35pm

It’s like Jabberwocky gone bad.

Really, REALLY bad!

25 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 27, 2015 9:02:58pm

re: #23 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Shaft? Seriously? These fuckers’ resentments really were frozen in the 1967-72 timeframe and nothing is going to budge them short of death.

Shut your mouth.

/

26 Decatur Deb  Jan 27, 2015 9:08:12pm

Interesting text. You could almost write a word-association game to derive much of it from several years of LGF comment archives. Anyone from years past taken up with the Belkan Wars?

27 The War TARDIS  Jan 27, 2015 9:11:40pm

re: #26 Decatur Deb

Interesting text. You could almost write a word-association game to derive much of it from several years of LGF comment archives. Anyone from years past taken up with the Belkan Wars?

Are you sure you are spelling that correctly?

Because, when I see that, I think of Ace Combat 5 and Ace Combat 0.

28 team_fukit  Jan 27, 2015 9:13:05pm

re: #12 Feline Fearless Leader

i was going to say it’s sarah palin’s vocab cloud

29 Decatur Deb  Jan 27, 2015 9:14:04pm

re: #27 The War TARDIS

Are you sure you are spelling that correctly?

Because, when I see that, I think of Ace Combat 5 and Ace Combat 0.

That’s what Google gave me. It’s the text spelling, though there is a lot of playful mis-spelling in it.

30 Decatur Deb  Jan 27, 2015 9:22:27pm

Dropping chunks of that text into Google brought up this blog:

beatlesinstudio.blogspot.com

Don’t know where others might go, and too tired to chase it.

31 psddluva4evah  Jan 27, 2015 9:22:28pm

Back on the Fantastic Four bit, it’s funny enough the same people who take umbrage at Micheal P Jordan playing the Human Torch never seemed to take the same umbrage when Alba who is a Latina, dyed her hair blond and wore contacts to get blue eyes to play white girl Sue Storm?

I mean…come on…

32 Kragar  Jan 27, 2015 9:23:18pm
33 Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2015 9:26:13pm
34 jaunte  Jan 27, 2015 9:32:21pm
35 Decatur Deb  Jan 27, 2015 9:33:04pm

re: #8 bratwurst

That was done via some kind of random text generator. There are some seriously insane people on the internet, but I choose…yay NEED…to believe there is not really someone out there on that kind of trip tonight.

Not so much random as a word-frequency list that’s been manipulated. Someone wants to build a Ginsberg-bot.

36 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 27, 2015 9:36:11pm

re: #32 Kragar

Good Lord, is @ChuckCJohnson about to poop again?

Shouldn’t this be: “Good Lord, is @poop about to ChuckCJohnson again?”

37 Decatur Deb  Jan 27, 2015 9:37:01pm

‘Nite, all. I’ll check back in the morning for any more messages from BEYOND.

38 Jack Burton  Jan 27, 2015 9:38:42pm

Holy… shit…

Dear Mr Crazy Racist Wingbat,

What you just wrote is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling incoherent diatribe were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone at this website is now dumber for having read it.

I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

39 Jack Burton  Jan 27, 2015 9:50:41pm

In my grasping to make sense of this…

Maybe it’s a code. Book Cipher, Bacon’s Cipher, something. I’m sure I’d get a migraine trying to figure it out.

40 Decatur Deb  Jan 27, 2015 9:55:06pm

Damn. Back again. Here is a type of word-manager site that seems to extract text from a large set of news items, controllably. This set, triggered by a query on Patti Smith, yielded a block that coincides with several of the unique terms of our esteemed correspondent.

search24news.com

This is starting to show how it was done, but not why and not why here.

Charles—was the original text in a large monoblock, rather than the verse-like format?

41 psddluva4evah  Jan 27, 2015 9:57:22pm

I’m off to bed, but speaking of movie franchise reboots…i don’t know how to feel about this one. I like Chris Pratt. Loved him in Parks and Rec, loved him in Guardians, and I’ll admit, Jurassic Park’s reboot trailer didn’t suck…but Chris Pratt as Indiana Jones?

IDK…

42 KingKenrod  Jan 27, 2015 10:03:42pm

re: #41 psddluva4evah

I’m off to bed, but speaking of movie franchise reboots…i don’t know how to feel about this one. I like Chris Pratt. Loved him in Parks and Rec, loved him in Guardians, and I’ll admit, Jurassic Park’s reboot trailer didn’t suck…but Chris Pratt as Indiana Jones?

IDK…

[Embedded content]

I see Indiana Jones as someone a bit older, with bookish charisma, Chris Pratt has neither IMO. I think Guy Pearce would be a great Indiana Jones.

43 Jenner7  Jan 27, 2015 10:05:29pm

Oooh, ookay..

Video

44 psddluva4evah  Jan 27, 2015 10:06:07pm

re: #42 KingKenrod

the Indy franchise really did have alot more humor than we always remember, bu first and foremost Indiana Jones was supposed to be an Archaeology professor and I believe a very smart and good one. I just can’t see Pratt as a college professor at all, let alone a brilliant archaeologist!

45 Jenner7  Jan 27, 2015 10:07:23pm

re: #41 psddluva4evah

Re: Indiana Jones

Why mess with a good thing. I like Pratt, but I say leave Indy alone.

Btw, just started binge watching Parks and Recs. Love it.

46 Dr Lizardo  Jan 27, 2015 10:07:31pm

re: #42 KingKenrod

I see Indiana Jones as someone a bit older, with bookish charisma, Chris Pratt has neither IMO. I think Guy Pearce would be a great Indiana Jones.

Good call.

47 Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 27, 2015 10:08:55pm

No sense of irony, no understanding of art. The Right Wing, ladies and gentlemen.

“They made character so and so gay! They made character so and so lesbian/black/muslim! DEATH OF MURICUH!! WE’RE CRUMBLING!”

If these fucknuts actually knew anything about comics and superheroes they’d know that they get re-invented all the time to reflect the culture that produces them. How many times have the DC and Marvel multi-verses been re-shuffled and re-combined?

“They” made Green Lantern a black guy once. “They” sent Green Arrow and Green Lantern across America and dealt with drug addiction… Frank Miller basically has his own Earth in the DC Universe where Superman is doing Ronnie Reagan’s dirty work and Batman kills mutants… This stuff is all malleable and anybody who has an idea can write a story. “They” are just people making things up for fun and profit, which we all should enjoy.

Girl Ghostbusters just means a new way for the story to be funny. A new Fantastic 4 and one guy is brown-skinned? Great! The other movies sucked so bad, I don’t give a shit, the cast could be all black southern grandmas and I wouldn’t care.

Art is art. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. It’s that goddamned simple.

48 Kragar  Jan 27, 2015 10:12:40pm

You know which franchise could use a reboot?

49 Decatur Deb  Jan 27, 2015 10:13:47pm

Welcome, newbie. Shall we call you ‘Fuffle’?

50 psddluva4evah  Jan 27, 2015 10:19:23pm

re: #48 Kragar

is that Darkman? Wait who played that on screen? I just don’t feel like googling it. I really do need to get to sleep…lol

51 Kragar  Jan 27, 2015 10:20:48pm

re: #50 psddluva4evah

is that Darkman? Wait who played that on screen? I just don’t feel like googling it. I really do need to get to sleep…lol

Liam Neeson in the first one, Arnold Vosloo in the two sequels.

52 Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 27, 2015 10:32:01pm

re: #50 psddluva4evah

is that Darkman? Wait who played that on screen? I just don’t feel like googling it. I really do need to get to sleep…lol

Liam Neeson, and Bruce Campbell (for about three uncredited seconds at the end).

53 Varek Raith  Jan 27, 2015 10:50:04pm

Good morning.
What sounded like a fighter flew over the house. Loud as hell. Woke me up.

54 Ace-o-aces  Jan 27, 2015 10:53:39pm

re: #41 psddluva4evah

I’m off to bed, but speaking of movie franchise reboots…i don’t know how to feel about this one. I like Chris Pratt. Loved him in Parks and Rec, loved him in Guardians, and I’ll admit, Jurassic Park’s reboot trailer didn’t suck…but Chris Pratt as Indiana Jones?

IDK…

[Embedded content]

55 Ace-o-aces  Jan 27, 2015 10:59:21pm

By the way, looking at the wacko email Charles got, try imaging someone reading that beatnik style with some bongos or upright bass in the background. Groovy man.

56 klystron  Jan 27, 2015 11:03:29pm

re: #54 Ace-o-aces

Avoided by Ph.Ds everywhere because once is enough.

57 Ace-o-aces  Jan 27, 2015 11:05:00pm

re: #47 Pawn of the Oppressor

“They” made Green Lantern a black guy once….Frank Miller basically has his own Earth in the DC Universe where Superman is doing Ronnie Reagan’s dirty work and Batman kills mutants.

Ironically, since the DC animated universe from the 1990’s and 2000’s was so popular, Jon Stewart (the black GL) is probably the most well known incarnation of the character.
Also, Batman doesn’t kill mutants. Those were rubber bullets (he swears).

58 Varek Raith  Jan 27, 2015 11:06:03pm

The joys of living below a flight path to Dulles.
Sigh.
Coffee time.

59 klystron  Jan 27, 2015 11:07:27pm

re: #58 Varek Raith

The joys of living below a flight path to Dulles.
Sigh.
Coffee time.

Something keeps making funny noises in my kitchen, you want to check it out?

60 Varek Raith  Jan 27, 2015 11:10:36pm

Virginia’s healthcare exchange is sloooowwwww.

re: #59 klystron

Something keeps making funny noises in my kitchen, you want to check it out?

Sandworm of Araakis.
Walk without rhythm.

61 klystron  Jan 27, 2015 11:12:17pm

re: #60 Varek Raith

Virginia’s healthcare exchange is sloooowwwww.

You’re not supposed to attempt registration during the maintenance period.

Sandworm of Araakis.
Walk without rhythm.

Well crap. I thought we dealt with that infestation last week.

62 Varek Raith  Jan 27, 2015 11:13:49pm

re: #61 klystron

You’re not supposed to attempt registration during the maintenance period.

Well crap. I thought we dealt with that infestation last week.

I did before the maintenance period.
At least I think I did. Right before Christmas I filled out the forms.
:/

63 klystron  Jan 27, 2015 11:15:01pm

re: #62 Varek Raith

I did before the maintenance period.
At least I think I did. Right before Christmas I filled out the forms.
:/

You’re probably ok. I’m just snarking that it’s 2am east coast and so they figure no one needs the site then so they let the hamsters have a break.

64 Varek Raith  Jan 27, 2015 11:16:48pm

re: #63 klystron

You’re probably ok. I’m just snarking that it’s 2am east coast and so they figure no one needs the site then so they let the hamsters have a break.

Yeah, I is cranky.
Stupid plane.
:)

65 Kragar  Jan 27, 2015 11:18:09pm

CCJ’s latest

66 klystron  Jan 27, 2015 11:18:38pm

re: #64 Varek Raith

Yeah, I is cranky.
Stupid plane.
:)

I am never cranky. Except yesterday. And the day before that.

And last week.

Husband’s plane is almost out over the big bay in Canada. At some point I stop stalking it and go to bed but that’s probably a bit off yet. :(

67 Varek Raith  Jan 27, 2015 11:24:31pm

re: #66 klystron

I am never cranky. Except yesterday. And the day before that.

And last week.

Husband’s plane is almost out over the big bay in Canada. At some point I stop stalking it and go to bed but that’s probably a bit off yet. :(

Everything will be fine.
Except the Canada part.
They are tricksy peoples.
/

68 sagehen  Jan 27, 2015 11:33:15pm

re: #44 psddluva4evah

the Indy franchise really did have alot more humor than we always remember, bu first and foremost Indiana Jones was supposed to be an Archaeology professor and I believe a very smart and good one. I just can’t see Pratt as a college professor at all, let alone a brilliant archaeologist!

not so sure he was really a good professor. or a good archaeologist.

mcsweeneys.net

69 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 27, 2015 11:41:05pm

re: #6 jaunte

That was my second thought. The “ALSO?!” is a clue.

70 klystron  Jan 27, 2015 11:45:03pm
71 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 27, 2015 11:49:03pm

re: #65 Kragar

I love it how CCJ whines about “accusations of racism” used as a political tool, but uses the conservative PC “Israel cudgel” with abandon.

Oh noez, he’s anti-Netanyahu! He doesn’t like a far right racist scumbag of a prime minister! Scandal!

72 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 27, 2015 11:49:44pm

re: #68 sagehen

Well, remembering the work of Roy Chapman Andrews or Percy Fawcett , things really were different then. And they were better than the gents that fought the dinosaur Bone Wars in the western US.

73 Charles Johnson  Jan 27, 2015 11:52:04pm
74 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 27, 2015 11:56:33pm

re: #73 Charles Johnson

The dead smear merchant taught him well.

75 klystron  Jan 27, 2015 11:56:38pm

re: #73 Charles Johnson

He’s just trying a case study in which slightly different wording results in the most retweets.

///

76 klystron  Jan 28, 2015 1:47:40am

/grabs a stick

/starts poking the east coast Lizards

77 SteelPH  Jan 28, 2015 1:50:09am

re: #76 klystron

/grabs a stick

/starts poking the east coast Lizards

Ow, my corneas.

78 klystron  Jan 28, 2015 1:52:20am

re: #77 SteelPH

Ow, my corneas.

You didn’t need them anyway.

79 The Ghost of the Vanishing Commissar  Jan 28, 2015 2:24:10am

re: #60 Varek Raith

Sandworm of Araakis.
Walk without rhythm.

The Spice must flow…through’s klys’ kitchen.

(it’s the secret of interstellar travel…and delicious blueberry muffins)

80 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jan 28, 2015 2:29:08am

Jeebus!
Prosecutors: Stanford Swimmer Raped Unconscious Woman in Public

A Stanford University swimmer was caught raping a drunk, unconscious woman near a fraternity house earlier this month, Santa Clara county prosecutors say.

According to reports, 19-year-old Brock Allen Turner was arrested early Jan. 18 when two students riding bikes across campus spotted him on top of an unconscious woman. They tackled him to the ground while another student called authorities, the LA Times reports.

Edit: Right on the heels of this:
Vanderbilt Football Players Found Guilty of Raping Unconscious Student

It only took a few hours for a Nashville jury to convict two former football players accused of raping an unconscious Vanderbilt student in a sickening attack captured on a cell phone video.

Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey were both charged with five counts of aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated sexual battery after university officials discovered surveillance camera footage of the men dragging an unconscious woman into a dorm room.

But until she saw cell phone video of the attack, the woman testified, she believed she had just passed out drunk and even tried to protect Vandenburg.

81 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 2:47:50am

It’s still dark, it’s cold.
But I have coffee.

The email looks like someone went on a binge with the BBC’s Vogon Poetry Generator, using random LGF comments.

82 Thanos  Jan 28, 2015 3:51:50am

You could almost sing this to the tune of “We didn’t start the fire” …

83 A Mom Anon  Jan 28, 2015 4:11:23am

It sounds like either mental illness and/or drug addiction. Which hits close to home right now, sadly. We have a family member(on my husband’s side) who has OD’d FOUR times since the holidays on various pills that stupid doctors keep giving him. He walked out of rehab after 10 days last summer because he had it all figured out. Now he’s half delirious, refusing treatment and it’s to the point a doctor has had to step in and forcefully have him committed to a psych hospital unit. He lost his job as a truck driver for wrecking his rig, is losing his home, his 21 yr old daughter won’t have anything to do with him and his wife is barely hanging in there (I would have left years ago, he’s a mean asshole to her). He’s going to die. It’s that simple. He won’t quit using and no one can reach in there to help him because he doesn’t want help. It’s very heartbreaking.

Anyway, the language of that email sounds just like a conversation my husband tried to have with this family member a couple of weeks ago. He made no sense at all, to the point that my husband called the local police dept to make sure this person didn’t still have access to weapons. Turns out he did and they took the guns out of the house after his wife admitted she was scared to have them in the house. That email is from someone having some serious issues. Stay safe Charles.

We need more trained personnel and facilities for drugs and for mental illness in this country. We’re supposed to be this grade A number one country, right? So why then are there SO many unhappy people on so many medications? Something’s really, really wrong with this picture.

84 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 4:22:40am

DA FUQ did I just read?

Srsly I couldn’t read the whole thing.

It’s probs not a neo-nazi, just somebody on a shitload of drugs.

85 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 4:23:13am

Here’s proof that “Fairtaxers” are too stupid to chew their own food==>

86 Targetpractice  Jan 28, 2015 4:34:44am

re: #85 The Vicious Babushka

Here’s proof that “Fairtaxers” are too stupid to chew their own food==>

[Embedded content]

We didn’t have much of anything 100 years ago. America of 1915 was a third-rate power, most of its potential still untapped.

87 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 28, 2015 4:35:16am

re: #85 The Vicious Babushka

Here’s proof that “Fairtaxers” are too stupid to chew their own food==>

[Embedded content]

Between property taxes, tariffs, duties and excise taxes that were in place in 1900? What’s this no tax fantasy she speaks of? Only the modern income tax wasn’t being charged then.

88 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 4:38:57am

re: #87 William Barnett-Lewis

Between property taxes, tariffs, duties and excise taxes that were in place in 1900? What’s this no tax fantasy she speaks of? Only the modern income tax wasn’t being charged then.

BUT WHEE WON 8 WARS!!!1!!!!

With swords & horse cavalry.

89 Dark_Falcon  Jan 28, 2015 4:43:41am

re: #39 Jack Burton

In my grasping to make sense of this…

Maybe it’s a code. Book Cipher, Bacon’s Cipher, something. I’m sure I’d get a migraine trying to figure it out.

Given its vile and bigoted nature, I guessed it was more likely some weird ENIGMA setting.

90 MomSense  Jan 28, 2015 4:46:19am
Stazi bug drones!

I have no idea what to make of that email. I do think that person needs a psych eval and am concerned for him/her.

91 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 4:46:34am
92 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 28, 2015 4:46:39am

re: #88 The Vicious Babushka

Against Fourth rate powers at that. Any major European power could have spanked us in 1900.

93 Dark_Falcon  Jan 28, 2015 4:47:10am

re: #86 Targetpractice

We didn’t have much of anything 100 years ago. America of 1915 was a third-rate power, most of its potential still untapped.

2nd rate, given how many dreadnaughts we had in service and building. Our army wasn’t much, but our navy was strong.

94 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 4:49:42am

re: #92 William Barnett-Lewis

Against Fourth rate powers at that. Any major European power could have spanked us in 1900.

Consider that none of these wars involved aircraft, tanks, automatic weapons, or communications more advanced than Morse code.

95 meteor  Jan 28, 2015 5:15:14am

Wow, that was… Wow.

Zoiks.

96 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Jan 28, 2015 5:16:44am

AlI see is a whole bunch of interesting band names in that screed.

97 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 28, 2015 5:16:46am

re: #93 Dark_Falcon

2nd rate, given how many dreadnaughts we had in service and building. Our army wasn’t much, but our navy was strong.

Y
Eh, we had a lot of old crud and we were only building the good ones two at a time. Until we got the income tax amendment, there simply wasn’t enough money to build a modern nation.

98 Dark_Falcon  Jan 28, 2015 5:24:17am

re: #97 William Barnett-Lewis

Y
Eh, we had a lot of old crud and we were only building the good ones two at a time. Until we got the income tax amendment, there simply wasn’t enough money to build a modern nation.

The flipside of that is that the 16th Amendment allowed the federal government to think it could do without the excise tax on liquor, thus helping to usher in the 18th Amendment and Prohibition. Proof that even good policy can have bad side-effects.

99 Dr. Matt  Jan 28, 2015 5:25:11am

Palin looks like and sounds like an absolute alcoholic shit-show:

100 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 5:25:34am

No self-awareness whatsoever:

101 Varek Raith  Jan 28, 2015 5:26:35am

re: #100 The Vicious Babushka

No self-awareness whatsoever:

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We do???
/News to me.
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102 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 5:27:10am

re: #98 Dark_Falcon

The flipside of that is that the 16th Amendment allowed the federal government to think it could do without the excise tax on liquor, thus helping to usher in the 18th Amendment and Prohibition. Proof that even good policy can have bad side-effects.

That is coming full circle. Now that tax increases of almost any sort are politically impossible, a lot of states are open to legalizing cannabis for the excise tax.

103 Dr. Matt  Jan 28, 2015 5:28:48am

re: #100 The Vicious Babushka

No self-awareness whatsoever:

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Amusing considering deranged righties wanted to impeach President Elect Obama.

104 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 5:31:03am

re: #103 Dr. Matt

Amusing considering deranged righties wanted to impeach President Elect Obama.

For Presidenting While Black

105 Dark_Falcon  Jan 28, 2015 5:31:24am

re: #97 William Barnett-Lewis

Y
Eh, we had a lot of old crud and we were only building the good ones two at a time. Until we got the income tax amendment, there simply wasn’t enough money to build a modern nation.

I’ll also note that while we were building two at a time, our per-vessel superiority over many European designs meant that by 1915 the USA already had a better battle line than France. And our Pennsylvania-class BBs and the just-laid down New Mexico-class were a match for any BBs save the British Queen Elizabeth-class.

As a side note, given what you wrote: The New Mexico-class was the first US dreadnought class with more than two ships. The third ship, the USS Idaho was financed in large part by the sale of two old predreadnaughts to Greece, with Idaho and her sister Mississippi taking the old ships’ names.

107 Dark_Falcon  Jan 28, 2015 5:35:29am

Cue more spewing at the First Lady:

Michelle Obama is not impressed: Grim-faced First Lady meets the Saudi king as members of his entourage refuse to shake her hand

But you what I think? I say “Good! As a free woman from a free country Michelle Obama shouldn’t be impressed with a medieval-minded monarchy. She should keep things professional, which she’s doing, but no more.”

108 Dark_Falcon  Jan 28, 2015 5:37:11am

re: #106 The Vicious Babushka

Oh and, The Civil War was financed by an income tax.

That only serves to damn Lincoln further in the minds of Neo-Confederates. to which I reply:

…

109 William of Orange  Jan 28, 2015 5:38:30am

HE’S BAAAAACK!!!!!!

110 Decatur Deb  Jan 28, 2015 5:38:53am

re: #96 Rocky-in-Connecticut

AlI see is a whole bunch of interesting band names in that screed.

It was pretty easy to see how the text was generated—found a site that yields extremely similar output last night. The semi-gibberish blocks seem to be spit out between search results. The text from the one I hit included very many of the unusual words in the text Charles posted, though they are not as recursive and not in that ‘verse’ format.

This one that surfaced first is focused on music, popular in a lot of countries, some of them dicey.This is Google’s cache of search24news.com.

My guess is that somone grabbed a block from that or a similar site, altered to make it ‘poetic’ and somewhat syntactic, and forwarded it for reasons unfathomable.

Last night’s Google yield was in the middle of by a search on Patti Smith.
littlegreenfootballs.com

111 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 5:42:47am

Wasn’t there an lgf poster a long time ago that went by the same nick, monteray?

112 Dark_Falcon  Jan 28, 2015 5:43:45am

BBL

113 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 5:43:56am
114 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 5:43:56am

It’s not too terrible in my part of the world, regardless of what they say. It’s bright and white outside my back door.

you?

115 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 5:44:43am

re: #106 The Vicious Babushka

Oh and, The Civil War was financed by an income tax.

Well, that is two strikes already…

116 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 28, 2015 5:46:41am

re: #105 Dark_Falcon

Valid points. But superiority of quality does not equal superiority overall - a lesson the German fleet was taught, soundly, on several occasions in the North Sea during WWI.

117 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 5:47:12am

re: #114 FemNaziBitch

It’s not too terrible in my part of the world, regardless of what they say. It’s bright and white outside my back door.

you?

118 nearly-headless smith25  Jan 28, 2015 5:48:29am

Morning Everyone.

119 Decatur Deb  Jan 28, 2015 5:49:13am

re: #111 FemNaziBitch

Wasn’t there an lgf poster a long time ago that went by the same nick, monteray?

Not in my memory. There are two interesting organizations in Monterey that bring in a lot of ‘interesting’, bright people. The Defense Language Institute has a couple thousand students and instructors. The students are very busy, but the instructors are mostly native speakers drawn from all over the world. They might be interested in language games. The Naval Postgraduate School is there, as well. Once again a student body, perhaps looking for experiments to write up.

120 Dr. Matt  Jan 28, 2015 5:53:54am

What’s the bet that CCJ will get involved?

121 Targetpractice  Jan 28, 2015 5:54:20am

re: #116 William Barnett-Lewis

Valid points. But superiority of quality does not equal superiority overall - a lesson the German fleet was taught, soundly, on several occasions in the North Sea during WWI.

Quantity has a quality all of its own, as the Germans learned in both wars. While the US Navy really had neither a quantitative or qualitative advantage. Comparing it to the French Navy is sort of misleading, as while France was a major power, it had allowed its military prowess to slip due to thawing of relations with Britain.

122 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 5:56:36am

Tiger Skins And Rhino Horns: Can A Trade Deal Halt The Trafficking?

THE HORROR!

not sarc

123 Sionainn  Jan 28, 2015 6:03:13am

re: #99 Dr. Matt

Palin looks like and sounds like an absolute alcoholic shit-show:

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She’s on drugs. Look at her eyes!

124 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 6:05:29am

alt twitter???

125 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 6:06:55am

re: #123 Sionainn

It’d be easy to explain away Palin’s crazy comments and word salad as the work of someone who has had a few too much to drink or the result of medication.

But the sad fact is that this is probably how she is with no medication and no alcohol. She’s got so much word salad going that she can barely get out of her own way. Her speeches or speech patterns haven’t particularly changed since she was on the campaign trail in 2008.

This is who she is. Someone who is clueless about world events, plays the victim even as she’s victimizing others, and takes no responsibility for her own actions, like many right wingers do. In many respects, her words and deeds, are a fun-house mirror reflection of the right wing at large.

And it isn’t a pretty picture. It’s sad actually.

126 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 6:07:24am

re: #123 Sionainn

She’s on drugs. Look at her eyes!

yeah, she ain’t right. —well, I mean, healthy. She looks skinnier also.

127 darthstar  Jan 28, 2015 6:07:25am

re: #123 Sionainn

She’s on drugs. Look at her eyes!

You can’t beat that Wasilla meth.

128 Dr. Matt  Jan 28, 2015 6:08:17am

re: #123 Sionainn

She’s on drugs. Look at her eyes!

129 Sionainn  Jan 28, 2015 6:09:33am

re: #125 lawhawk

It’d be easy to explain away Palin’s crazy comments and word salad as the work of someone who has had a few too much to drink or the result of medication.

But the sad fact is that this is probably how she is with no medication and no alcohol. She’s got so much word salad going that she can barely get out of her own way. Her speeches or speech patterns haven’t particularly changed since she was on the campaign trail in 2008.

This is who she is. Someone who is clueless about world events, plays the victim even as she’s victimizing others, and takes no responsibility for her own actions, like many right wingers do. In many respects, her words and deeds, are a fun-house mirror reflection of the right wing at large.

And it isn’t a pretty picture. It’s sad actually.

Sure, she’s always been a rotten human being, but she’s gotten worse over the years. She’s a train wreck and I’m waiting for her to disappear off to rehab.

131 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 6:10:49am

re: #120 Dr. Matt

Prosecutors: Stanford Swimmer Raped Unconscious Woman in Public

We need to remind these fellows that sex without consent constitutes rape.

If the consent is not forthcoming because she is too drunk or stoned to grant it is immaterial, even if she got intoxicated of her own free will.

This nuance seems to be lost on a lot of young men these days.

132 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 6:12:34am

Well, Sheldon Silver is stepping down as Speaker, and Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (D-Rochester) is taking over as interim speaker until elections are held February 10 for his replacement. This all makes sense, and I would expect to see a clean break from Silver as some members might want to see the Speaker come from somewhere outside NYC.

But the immediate need for the Speaker is to get the budget talks underway, and this year will see a different dynamic since Silver isn’t in the room.

Gov. Cuomo might try to press Democrats to get an upstate Speaker too, since it would help with his plans for revitalizing upstate communities, such as it is, but the center of Democrats’ support is NYC, so it’s likely that the next speaker will be from downstate.

133 Great White Snark  Jan 28, 2015 6:13:10am

Woke up this morning to the sound of distant popping sounds. Then I saw the headline. It was misogynist heads aspolding!

(The Hollywood Reporter)The all-new, all-female Ghostsbusters are here.

Melissa McCarthy, who was already in talks for one of the leads, has signed on for the Paul Feig-directed reboot, and the studio is now negotiating with Kristen Wiig, as well as “Saturday Night Live” players Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Negotiations are ongoing but the quartet are expected to sign on as the specter-seeking, poltergeist-punishing and phantom-phollowing foursome in the reboot, which is eyeing a summer shoot in New York.

134 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 6:15:11am

re: #133 Rightwingconspirator

I’ll watch just for McCarthy!

135 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 6:17:03am

re: #133 Rightwingconspirator

And Chris Pratt is potentially being tabbed to reboot Indiana Jones.

Pratt’s already rebooting/extending the Jurassic Park franchise, and he’s got his fantasy/scifi cred established with Guardians of the Galaxy, so from a business standpoint, it makes sense to consider him for the iconic role.

But do we really need another Indiana Jones movie? Disney’s bottom line says YES, so we’re getting it, whether we want it or not (Disney now controls the Lucasfilm rights, which is why they’re doing it - and it extends their copyright on the characters further, and if there’s anything Disney knows how to do, it’s control their copyright).

136 danarchy  Jan 28, 2015 6:18:28am

re: #124 FemNaziBitch

alt twitter???

this is one of the reasons I always though google plus would be more successful than it has been. The circle system deals with all of these concerns really well. I think the requirement to use a real name turned a lot of people off at first, but I think google reversed that policy and allow pseudonyms now.

137 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 6:19:29am

re: #135 lawhawk

But do we really need another Indiana Jones movie?

My kids love Indiana Jones and would eat up a new movie, regardless of who plays the lead role. I myself just say “meh”.

138 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 6:21:34am
Furthermore, the law gave child welfare and court officials the authority to terminate parental rights of a parent convicted of trafficking his or her own child.

seems like a no-brainer, but this is from the 2014 Ohio Attorney General’s report on Human Trafficking.

139 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 6:22:07am

re: #131 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Prosecutors: Stanford Swimmer Raped Unconscious Woman in Public

We need to remind these fellows that sex without consent constitutes rape.

If the consent is not forthcoming because she is too drunk or stoned to grant it is immaterial, even if she got intoxicated of her own free will.

This nuance seems to be lost on a lot of young men these days.

females are not people to a stiff prick.

140 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 6:23:24am

re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

My kids love Indiana Jones and would eat up a new movie, regardless of who plays the lead role. I myself just say “meh”.

It’s a great franchise. I’m just too old to really enjoy it the way I did when it was first released.

141 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 6:23:28am

re: #139 FemNaziBitch

females are not people to a stiff prick.

And we are expected to accept the notion that these fellows are governed by their gonads.

142 darthstar  Jan 28, 2015 6:25:01am
143 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 6:26:44am

re: #142 darthstar

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I’d pay money to see Huckabee trapped in an elevator with McCarthy.

144 Great White Snark  Jan 28, 2015 6:28:09am

re: #143 Backwoods_Sleuth

That would be like putting a screaming goat and a fainting goat in the same pen. Back and forth….

145 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 6:28:14am

WEAR ARE THAY!!!!!!11!
Put out of business by guys with snow blowers & other guys with plow blades on their pickup trucks.

146 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 6:28:21am

Release the Huckabeast!

147 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 6:30:12am

re: #145 The Vicious Babushka

WEAR ARE THAY!!!!!!11!
Put out of business by guys with snow blowers & other guys with plow blades on their pickup trucks.

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Used to go out with a buddy who owned a big 4x4 with a winch. He would offer to free stuck cars for $15…if they declined his offer, he would just come back an hour later, and offer to tow them for $30.

148 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 6:30:29am

HURR HURR THE KIDS ARE HOME FROM SCHOOL FOR A SNOW DAY, MAKE THEM CLEAR ALL THE DRIVEWAYS WITH SHOVELS!!!1!!!1!!!!

149 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 6:30:58am

re: #145 The Vicious Babushka

Where are they? Saw a bunch of them by our house, though I didn’t need to use them because of our snow blower, and that everyone else on the block was pretty much dug out because it didn’t snow as much as expected.

My folks have a service that comes and plows them out. My in-laws still shovel/snowblow themselves out, but it’s getting to the point where we have to yell at my FIL to pay someone to do it b/c he’s got a heart condition.

150 Great White Snark  Jan 28, 2015 6:31:13am

re: #144 Rightwingconspirator

That would be like putting a screaming goat and a fainting goat in the same pen. Back and forth….

Oops. I was thinking Jenny…

151 Decatur Deb  Jan 28, 2015 6:31:38am

re: #145 The Vicious Babushka

WEAR ARE THAY!!!!!!11!
Put out of business by guys with snow blowers & other guys with plow blades on their pickup trucks.

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Those poor kids need breadbags.

152 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 6:31:49am

re: #148 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR THE KIDS ARE HOME FROM SCHOOL FOR A SNOW DAY, MAKE THEM CLEAR ALL THE DRIVEWAYS WITH SHOVELS!!!1!!!1!!!!

Snow shoveling was one of my standard chores: grass mowing in the summer, leaf raking in the fall, turning over garden beds in the spring.

153 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 6:32:35am

re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Snow shoveling was one of my standard chores: grass mowing in the summer, leaf raking in the fall, turning over garden beds in the spring.

HURR HURR KIDS THESE DAYS!!!!!!1!!

154 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 6:32:45am

re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I remember going around as a kid and shoveling out folks for $20-40 a shot per storm. There were a couple of elderly folks that I knew would need the help, so made sure to check on them. Now, you’ve got landscape services that do plowing and snowblowing in the winter, so some of those kids are put out by the guys with the heavy gear. But when it snows real bad, everyone can make some coin.

155 Maggie's Pa  Jan 28, 2015 6:32:56am

re: #144 Rightwingconspirator

…

156 Bass Reeves  Jan 28, 2015 6:33:24am

re: #120 Dr. Matt

Y’all remember that #iftheygunnedmedown thing that was going around, where black victims are treated more harshly by the media than suspected perps? For some reason that is where my mind went when I saw that picture. I was impressed to read that he will actually be punished, a little saddened someone ponied up the bail to get him out of jail.

157 Targetpractice  Jan 28, 2015 6:35:00am

re: #145 The Vicious Babushka

WEAR ARE THAY!!!!!!11!
Put out of business by guys with snow blowers & other guys with plow blades on their pickup trucks.

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Must be a Northern thing. Down here, buying a snow shovel is like buying a emergency generator if you live in the city limits: Most years it’s just going to sit in the corner and take up space.

158 Decatur Deb  Jan 28, 2015 6:36:20am

re: #157 Targetpractice

Must be a Northern thing. Down here, buying a snow shovel is like buying a emergency generator if you live in the city limits: Most years it’s just going to sit in the corner and take up space.

Yet every time we get a two-inch snowfall, once per decade, kids are out with Flexible Flyers.

159 Bubblehead II  Jan 28, 2015 6:36:36am

Morning Lizards. I hope today finds you all well. I on the other hand am off to a rocky start. As many of you early birds might know, today is laundry day at the BH II homestead. Tossed the first load of the day in and started the washer. Filled just fine. But when it kicked over to agitate, well, lets just say it didn’t. So, I get to go not only to the local laundromat to do laundry today, I get to go shopping for a new washer. Can’t complain over much though, It lasted for at least 10 years with only needing the water pump replaced in that time.

/yeah I know, first world problems and all that :-)

160 darthstar  Jan 28, 2015 6:37:01am
161 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 6:37:37am
162 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 6:37:46am

re: #154 lawhawk

I remember going around as a kid and shoveling out folks for $20-40 a shot per storm. There were a couple of elderly folks that I knew would need the help, so made sure to check on them. Now, you’ve got landscape services that do plowing and snowblowing in the winter, so some of those kids are put out by the guys with the heavy gear. But when it snows real bad, everyone can make some coin.

There’s a stupid TCOT meme that shows a kid about 7 or 8 pushing a manual lawn mower and the WTF caption is HURR HURR TEH BEST WAY TO GET MONEY FROM A RICH PERSON IS GET A JRRB!!!1!!!!

Obvious “rich people” do not hire little kids pushing manual mowers to maintain their grounds. The photo was obviously of some kid doing chores for his own, not-rich, parents.

Well, the landscaping team of illegals that the rich folks use might have an underage kid or two, because hey how are they supposed to know? They look 18!

163 darthstar  Jan 28, 2015 6:37:49am

re: #159 Bubblehead II

Morning Lizards. I hope today finds you all well. I on the other hand am off to a rocky start. As many of you early birds might know, today is laundry day at the BH II homestead. Tossed the first load of the day in and started the washer. Filled just fine. But when it kicked over to agitate, well, lets just say it didn’t. So, I get to go not only to the local laundromat to do laundry today, I get to go shopping for a new washer. Can’t complain over much though, It lasted for at least 10 years with only needing the water pump replaced in that time.

/yeah I know, first world problems and all that :-)

I’d say it’s agitating just fine.

164 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 6:38:10am

re:
#6

Sarah, is that you?

Although this posted last night I just saw it now, which means it’s eligible for today’s Win The Internets prize.

165 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 6:38:15am

re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

And we are expected to accept the notion that these fellows are governed by their gonads.

sure takes the “free will” argument out of the equation—doesn’t it?

166 Decatur Deb  Jan 28, 2015 6:38:27am

re: #159 Bubblehead II

Morning Lizards. I hope today finds you all well. I on the other hand am off to a rocky start. As many of you early birds might know, today is laundry day at the BH II homestead. Tossed the first load of the day in and started the washer. Filled just fine. But when it kicked over to agitate, well, lets just say it didn’t. So, I get to go not only to the local laundromat to do laundry today, I get to go shopping for a new washer. Can’t complain over much though, It lasted for at least 10 years with only needing the water pump replaced in that time.

/yeah I know, first world problems and all that :-)

Like, sychronicity, man. Trying to get up steam to change out the pressure relief valve on the hot water heater. No H/W wash for us this morning.

167 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 6:38:56am

re: #161 FemNaziBitch

Congressmoron Louie Gohmert Quite Displeased With ‘Our Republican Females’

To people like him, women are there to look good and do what they are told.

168 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 6:40:51am

I find that kids have to be college age these days before they will do grunt work to make money. And, by then, they can get a job, so they don’t want to work when they are “off-work”.

*sigh*

169 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 6:42:25am

re: #160 darthstar

170 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 6:42:49am

re:
#65

OK, I had no idea who Jeremy Bird was.

171 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 6:44:31am
172 Targetpractice  Jan 28, 2015 6:45:04am

re: #161 FemNaziBitch

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This is one of the reasons why I don’t feel wrong in referring to women or minorities in the Republican Party as “token,” because that’s pretty much how the party views them. They play up how many they have, they talk about how having them gives them weight on issues that “matter,” but they get all sorts of ticked off when the party members they’re so “proud” to have stray off the party line.

173 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 6:45:26am

re:
#33

I’ll have something big on Jeremy Bird in an hour.

Translation: One of my egg followers promised he’d send me something to post.

174 iossarian  Jan 28, 2015 6:46:15am

re: #168 FemNaziBitch

I find that kids have to be college age these days before they will do grunt work to make money. And, by then, they can get a job, so they don’t want to work when they are “off-work”.

*sigh*

Lots of factors:

1) Professionalization of casual labor, as noted above (“guys with snowblowers and pickup trucks”)

2) Increased time demands on K-12 age kids (homework, activities)

3) Reduction in adult availability to find and supervise kids doing such work:

3a) face it, if you hire a 12-year old to mow your lawn, you’re going to have to go out and get the bits he didn’t get to

3b) a lot of hiring kids in this way comes from knowing your neighbors (and their kids)

etc. etc.

175 Decatur Deb  Jan 28, 2015 6:48:31am

re: #174 iossarian

Lots of factors:

1) Professionalization of casual labor, as noted above (“guys with snowblowers and pickup trucks”)

2) Increased time demands on K-12 age kids (homework, activities)

3) Reduction in adult availability to find and supervise kids doing such work:

3a) face it, if you hire a 12-year old to mow your lawn, you’re going to have to go out and get the bits he didn’t get to

3b) a lot of hiring kids in this way comes from knowing your neighbors (and their kids)

etc. etc.

3a(i) Homeowner liability. Twelve-year olds have no business running a (crappy) lawnmower.

176 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 6:49:13am

re: #175 Decatur Deb

3a(i) Homeowner liability. Twelve-year olds have no business running a (crappy) lawnmower.

I did —and it was a riding lawnmower.

177 Decatur Deb  Jan 28, 2015 6:49:48am

re: #176 FemNaziBitch

I did —and it was a riding lawnmower.

Stay off my lawn.

178 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 28, 2015 6:50:59am

re: #114 FemNaziBitch

It’s not too terrible in my part of the world, regardless of what they say. It’s bright and white outside my back door.

you?

Clear and cold this morning in Philly. On my second cup of coffee and the overnight IT routines went off fairly well given that we shifted a lot of stuff around over the weekend. (Fixing 1-2 bugs from this per day the last three days.*)

Could easily be worse.

* - A few things my fault in typing up a spec and doing a typo on a server location. The rest due to a team in Brazil who we are not fond of not doing work in a timely manner over the weekend, and also making more transcription mistakes or copy/pasta errors than the ones I handed them.

179 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 6:51:57am
DEACE: Do our rights really come from God? Or do they come from the mob, do they come from the state? (because, I guess there are no other choices)

CARSON: I think you’re right about that. The Constitution actually [inaudible] this message. It says that those kinds of matters are in the jurisdiction of the state. That is not a federal issue. And, what the president and what the Supreme Court needs to reiterate is the states have a mechanism whereby they can determine the will of the people. It’s called ballot referendum. It has been done multiple times already. 32 states have indicated that marriage is between a man and a woman, and a few judges have come and overturn that. That, as far as I’m concerned, is unconstitutional. And Congress actually has oversight of what they call the inferior courts, everything below the Supreme Court. That’s where those overturns have come. When judges do not carry out their duties in an appropriate way, our Congress actually has the right to reprimand or remove them. Most people don’t know that because they don’t know the Constitution.

bolded area mine.

180 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 6:52:27am

re: #177 Decatur Deb

Stay off my lawn.

I only work where I will be paid.

181 Bubblehead II  Jan 28, 2015 6:52:27am

re: #163 darthstar

I’d say it’s agitating just fine.

LMAO! I kinda figured something was going south last night when I did a load of towels. Just didn’t sound right. Well off to Lowes to see what they got. The fun part as always is getting the blasted thing out of the house and the new one in.

182 Decatur Deb  Jan 28, 2015 6:53:15am

American Academy of Pediatrics:

Steer Children Clear of Lawn Mower Injuries

www2.aap.org

183 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 6:54:41am

re: #179 FemNaziBitch

The Constitution makes it clear that Federal Law takes precedent over state laws, Carson and other conservatives are trying to turn that notion on its head when it comes to anything they disagree with.

184 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 6:55:34am

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The Constitution makes it clear that Federal Law takes precedent over state laws, Carson and other conservatives are trying to turn that notion on its head when it comes to anything they disagree with.

Federalism for everything but taxes they like?

185 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 6:56:15am

re: #184 FemNaziBitch

Federalism for everything but taxes any laws they like

186 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 6:57:00am
187 Maggie's Pa  Jan 28, 2015 6:58:21am

re: #181 Bubblehead II

I have had good luck with Sears appliances on clearance, ask them if that is their lowest price.

188 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 28, 2015 6:59:34am

re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Snow shoveling was one of my standard chores: grass mowing in the summer, leaf raking in the fall, turning over garden beds in the spring.

My father didn’t buy a snowblower until two of his three children had left for college. And the third was on a winter sport high school team and didn’t get home until about 5pm. (This was living in northern NY state in an area that got about 40-50” of snow a year - and it didn’t melt very much.)

I *hated* that machine. Pull-start engine like a lawn mower and I could never get it started. Would try for 10 minutes and then eventually give up. My father would get home and it would start on the first pull. >_<

189 Maggie's Pa  Jan 28, 2015 7:00:52am

re: #187 Maggie’s Pa

Oh, and good luck! Don’t buy the extended warranties, they will replace every single part in your appliance, and even if it still doesn’t work right, they will never replace the unit.

190 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 28, 2015 7:01:12am

This is why we can’t have nice things:

Lynch Nomination hearings promise to be as stupid as the GOP can make them

191 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 7:01:23am
192 Decatur Deb  Jan 28, 2015 7:01:28am

re: #186 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Which god might that be? Jindal is on his third major religion.

193 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 28, 2015 7:01:37am

re: #181 Bubblehead II

LMAO! I kinda figured something was going south last night when I did a load of towels. Just didn’t sound right. Well off to Lowes to see what they got. The fun part as always is getting the blasted thing out of the house and the new one in.

Consider asking if your stores have any floor models on sale as well. I’ve managed to get some deep discounts on appliances whose only wear was sitting on the display floor.

194 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 7:01:50am

heh:

195 Romantic Heretic  Jan 28, 2015 7:02:15am

re: #48 Kragar

You know which franchise could use a reboot?

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Oh yeah. When Liam Neeson showed what a fine ass kicker he could play.

196 Maggie's Pa  Jan 28, 2015 7:02:35am

Now I want to go out and buy a new warshing machine…

197 Decatur Deb  Jan 28, 2015 7:03:47am

re: #196 Maggie’s Pa

Now I want to go out and buy a new warshing machine…

Make sure it’s properly connected to the soorage.

198 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 28, 2015 7:04:27am

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The Constitution makes it clear that Federal Law takes precedent over state laws, Carson and other conservatives are trying to turn that notion on its head when it comes to anything they disagree with.

Conservatives are just looking for post hoc justification. They really want things to be exactly as they say they should be *at that moment*. That the target changes two days later means nothing. It’s power and control all the way down.
:p

199 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 7:05:22am

re: #188 Feline Fearless Leader

My father didn’t buy a snowblower until two of his three children had left for college. And the third was on a winter sport high school team and didn’t get home until about 5pm. (This was living in northern NY state in an area that got about 40-50” of snow a year - and it didn’t melt very much.)

I *hated* that machine. Pull-start engine like a lawn mower and I could never get it started. Would try for 10 minutes and then eventually give up. My father would get home and it would start on the first pull. >_<

That’s because you primed it just right for him to get it going. I remember mowing the lawn with a gas mower, and it was a pain to start with the pull start (first world problems).

After we bought our own house, I’ve gotten both an electric mower and snowblower (just sufficient for the area I have to mow/clear). Don’t have to deal with gas cans and all the maintenance issues with either. But neither does nearly as good a job as a gas mower or snowblower. I’ll take it though.

200 Romantic Heretic  Jan 28, 2015 7:05:49am

re: #47 Pawn of the Oppressor

DC may be sucking on the big screen but their animateds are great.

The best one yet was about one of the universe resets; The Flashpoint Paradox.

Had to pop my eyes back n after the first time I watched it.

201 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 7:05:51am

re: #195 Romantic Heretic

Now that’s a man with a particular set of skills…

202 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 7:06:33am
203 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 7:06:55am

re: #186 Backwoods_Sleuth

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IIRC, there is only one.

204 Romantic Heretic  Jan 28, 2015 7:07:14am

re: #201 lawhawk

As one of the Cracked writers put it, “One of these days I’m going to convince someone to kidnap my wife just so I can use that speech myself.”

205 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 28, 2015 7:07:30am

re: #181 Bubblehead II

LMAO! I kinda figured something was going south last night when I did a load of towels. Just didn’t sound right. Well off to Lowes to see what they got. The fun part as always is getting the blasted thing out of the house and the new one in.

When I moved out of my house back in 2007 I had *six* washers or dryers in my house. Of which one of each worked, and all were pretty old and had been purchased used or gotten from relatives. Used 1-800-GOT-JUNK to clean all of them out of the house along with some other rubbish that the local garbage collection would generally not touch.

207 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 7:08:58am

WTFITS==>

208 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 7:09:24am

Paged

209 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 7:09:45am
210 Eventual Carrion  Jan 28, 2015 7:09:56am

re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Snow shoveling was one of my standard chores: grass mowing in the summer, leaf raking in the fall, turning over garden beds in the spring.

Yep. My youngest does the snow shoveling now, it is his turn. People will say they just bought a dishwasher and ask me if I have one. I tell them yes, we named them at birth.

211 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 28, 2015 7:09:57am

re: #207 The Vicious Babushka

Formally speaking, he is correct.

Jesus is never wrong. Neither is Napoleon.

212 Romantic Heretic  Jan 28, 2015 7:10:05am

re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh:

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Time to break out the popcorn.

213 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 28, 2015 7:10:53am

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The Constitution makes it clear that Federal Law takes precedent over state laws, Carson and other conservatives are trying to turn that notion on its head when it comes to anything they disagree with.

It follows then that Carson is okay with the fact that some of his ancestors may have been considered chattels and used as agricultural equipment until they wore out because owning human beings was the will of the people in some states.

214 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 7:11:37am

Like Don Feder saying Jews living in Obama land is worser then teh Holocausts!!!1!!

215 Decatur Deb  Jan 28, 2015 7:11:45am

Aaaakk. Time to bite the bullet and fire up the ol’ blowtorch.

216 Romantic Heretic  Jan 28, 2015 7:11:49am

re: #207 The Vicious Babushka

WTFITS==>

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What he’s saying is, “With Jaysus! I don’t have to think. I only have to believe…and hate.”

217 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 7:12:46am

MOAR WTF

218 Romantic Heretic  Jan 28, 2015 7:13:47am

re: #214 The Vicious Babushka

Once again I must ask these wingnuts, “If Obama is such a dictator why are you still posting on the internet? Or breathing for that matter?”

220 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 28, 2015 7:15:25am

re: #207 The Vicious Babushka

WTFITS==>

Jesus is like conservatism. He can only be failed.
/

221 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 7:15:39am

It’s an actual BBC article but apparently the headline has been Photoshopped with something from David Duke’s site.

222 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 7:15:40am

re: #217 The Vicious Babushka

cannot find original article on BBC site

223 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 28, 2015 7:16:34am

re: #207 The Vicious Babushka

And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these my brothers, you have done it to me. And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me.
Matthew 25:40

You must remember that Jesus was more right sometimes than he was at others. Conservatives like Erickson feel free to skip over the less-right parts like the one quoted above.

224 nearly-headless smith25  Jan 28, 2015 7:16:44am

Many (not all) conservatives that I know love Israel, have disdain for Jewish people in America, and fear President Obama is going to destroy both Israel and somehow allow the Jews to be “destroyed” (overheard this line, and just had to walk away…)

No sense to me. Fit the pattern of people you know?

225 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 28, 2015 7:16:51am

re: #215 Decatur Deb

Aaaakk. Time to bite the bullet and fire up the ol’ blowtorch.

Frozen pipes?

226 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 7:17:42am

re: #221 The Vicious Babushka

It’s an actual BBC article but apparently the headline has been Photoshopped with something from David Duke’s site.

227 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 7:18:10am

Yeah, these look like something out of Plants vs. Zombies.

228 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 7:18:56am

re: #223 Higgs Boson’s Mate

You must remember that Jesus was more right sometimes than he was at others. Conservatives like Erickson feel free to skip over the less-right parts like the one quoted above.

Some animals are more equal than others …

229 Romantic Heretic  Jan 28, 2015 7:19:58am

re: #217 The Vicious Babushka

MOAR WTF

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I think this is a hoax. I did a quick web search and the only places mentioning this are white supremacy and neo-fascist web sites. The top hit was David Duke’s web site.

230 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 7:20:11am

re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I see, just restating the Jewish Question…

231 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 7:20:56am

re: #229 Romantic Heretic

I think this is a hoax. I did a quick web search and the only places mentioning this are white supremacy and neo-fascist web sites. The top hit was David Duke’s web site.

The article is from BBC, the headline is from David Duke.

232 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 7:22:03am

SCIENCE is so freakin’ kewl!

233 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 28, 2015 7:22:19am

re: #228 FemNaziBitch

Some animals are more equal than others …

I read Animal Farm before I was old enough to tie onions on my belt. It has informed my regard for governments throughout my life.

234 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 7:22:46am

re: #233 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I read Animal Farm before I was old enough to tie onions on my belt. It has informed my regard for governments throughout my life.

governments and human nature.

235 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 7:26:42am
class=”twitter-tweet”>No matter how much our society advances, Conservatives are still living in a world of “Survival of the fittest” until they need a subsidy.

— From A Citizen (@CuestionMarque) January 28, 2015

236 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 7:27:29am

I watched the launch on TV and to this day remember “go at throttle up” then the explosion:

237 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 7:27:48am

<blockquote? class=”twitter-tweet”>Immigration Offenses Made Up Half Of All Federal Arrests In 2012 | ThinkProgress http://t.co/iY05MOZLsH

— Rick Cooley (@rcooley123) January 28, 2015

238 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 7:28:45am
<class=”twitter-tweet”>Immigration Offenses Made Up Half Of All Federal Arrests In 2012 | ThinkProgress http://t.co/iY05MOZLsH

— Rick Cooley (@rcooley123) January 28, 2015

The BJS report comes amidst President Obama’s latest pitch to prosecute and deport “felons, not families” through his executive action, with his administration set to protect upwards of five million undocumented immigrants from deportation. Obama’s executive action could potentially blunt the number of immigration-related arrests going forward, especially since two-thirds of the country’s population live within the 100-mile boundary surrounding the nation’s exterior “border zone.” Immigrants living in the “border zone” are theoretically provided an immigration hearing, but the Obama administration has increasingly deported people in the “border zone” through a process known as “expedited removal.” Those caught up in expedited removal could include immigrants who have lived in the country for years. As of 2012, 62 percent of undocumented immigrants have lived in the country for more than a decade, the Pew Research Center found.

240 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 28, 2015 7:31:00am

re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth

He shouldn’t have retweeted without checking first. But I understand, googling is soooo hard…

241 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 7:35:20am

BARACK OBAMA IS A BAD SOCIALIST! @JohnFugelsang / Caffeinated #14
…

242 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 7:36:51am

My post content is disappearing.

243 CuriousLurker  Jan 28, 2015 7:38:22am

re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah, I just looked at it.

The first paragraph and the first sentence of the second paragraph are the same, but the rest appears to be different (I stopped after the four paragraphs). The photos are different as well.

244 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 28, 2015 7:40:45am

An Ukrainian Auschwitz survivor Igor Malitsky, a 90 y.o. professor from Kharkov, appeared at the ceremony with an Ukrainian flag ribbon. After Russian internet users saw the photo, they began attacking him, calling him a kapo, a “faggot”, a fascist and so on.

snob.ru

245 CuriousLurker  Jan 28, 2015 7:40:57am

re: #240 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

He shouldn’t have retweeted without checking first. But I understand, googling is soooo hard…

The fake is very sneaky. It seems they’re well aware that many most people don’t read the entire article, so even when you compare them, you have to keep reading to see they’re different.

246 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 7:42:32am

re: #245 CuriousLurker

The fake is very sneaky. It seems they’re well aware that many most people don’t read the entire article, so even when you compare them, you have to keep reading to see they’re different.

It’s so common anymore in the Internet that when you see something that makes you go WTF???, your very first inclination should be to go with your gut instinct and check it out.

247 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 7:42:33am

re: #245 CuriousLurker

The fake is very sneaky. It seems they’re well aware that many most people don’t read the entire article, so even when you compare them, you have to keep reading to see they’re different.

I Googled the first paragraph and got a hit at the legit BBC site, but saw immediately that the headlines didn’t match.

248 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 7:42:59am

John Cleese on Sarah Palin — (well-trained parrot)
…

249 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 28, 2015 7:43:26am

re: #245 CuriousLurker

The URLs are different, there is no article with such a headline on the BBC (which is a reason for more research: was the headline changed, for example?), and so on. No excuse for a high-profile blogger.

250 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 28, 2015 7:44:34am

re: #248 FemNaziBitch

Awesome.

251 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 7:45:47am

re: #244 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Look, the Russian MSM all have the Russian populace convinced that Ukraine = fasict junta, and nothing, not even the memory of Auschwitz, is allowed to cast doubt on that claim

252 Decatur Deb  Jan 28, 2015 7:50:09am

re: #225 Feline Fearless Leader

Frozen pipes?

Nah—just changing a valve on the water heater. On hold now while it drains down below the safety valve.

253 Timothy Watson  Jan 28, 2015 7:50:10am

re: #145 The Vicious Babushka

WEAR ARE THAY!!!!!!11!
Put out of business by guys with snow blowers & other guys with plow blades on their pickup trucks.

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Those evil videogames and that rock and roll music!1!!

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254 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 7:50:51am

re: #253 Timothy Watson

Those evil videogames and that rock and roll music!1!!

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Obama has encouraged them not to work for sub-minimum wage!!!

255 Lidane  Jan 28, 2015 7:51:09am

I love the sound of a circular firing squad in the morning:

256 Eventual Carrion  Jan 28, 2015 7:55:23am

re: #186 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Let the Battle on Olympus begin!

257 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 7:56:34am
258 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 7:58:22am

re: #255 Lidane

I love the sound of a circular firing squad in the morning:

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Politics used to be about winning people over to your point of view, both within your party and without. Now it is about insulting, demeaning or even threatening people who do not share your agenda.

259 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 7:58:37am

oh, and to go with all the various recasting of films:

260 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 7:59:14am

Cats eat Bats

261 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 7:59:22am

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh, and to go with all the various recasting of films:

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Yes, but the cat could be Catman.

262 Flying Squirrel Girl  Jan 28, 2015 7:59:27am

re: #20 psddluva4evah

I went to HS not far from A. Maceo Smith, and back in my day it was where pregnant students were sent (not sure why). This makes me have a major happy to see 1) the students have an awesome new facility (AMS is an inner city school), 2) this teacher interacting in such an uplifting way with students, and 3) that the video is going viral. Bravo!

263 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 8:00:08am

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh, and to go with all the various recasting of films:

My cat is sad because my other cat is very upset about never being able to be Batman, due to being female, & a cat.

But I hear they are casting cats for a “Prowling Dead” zombie series.

264 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 8:00:29am

re: #262 Flying Squirrel Girl

I went to HS not far from A. Maceo Smith, and back in my day it was where pregnant students were sent (not sure why). This makes me have a major happy to see 1) the students have an awesome new facility (AMS is an inner city school), 2) this teacher interacting in such an uplifting way with students, and 3) that the video is going viral. Bravo!

sluts couldn’t be seen by good girls. Good girls were brainwashed to believe such things didn’t happen.

265 Lidane  Jan 28, 2015 8:01:23am

OK, I admit it. I laughed:

266 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 8:02:00am

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

I watched the launch on TV and to this day remember “go at throttle up” then the explosion:

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yup, I was 21 when it happened. It took a few minutes to absorb the news. It was a very strange day.

267 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 8:03:22am

re: #266 FemNaziBitch

yup, I was 21 when it happened. It took a few minutes to absorb the news. It was a very strange day.

Yeah, I also recall the moment coming into the office and hearing the news…

268 nearly-headless smith25  Jan 28, 2015 8:04:00am
269 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 8:07:00am
270 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 28, 2015 8:08:43am

re: #268 nearly-headless smith25

Sad that this even has to be said, much less defended.

271 Bubblehead II  Jan 28, 2015 8:09:32am

re: #214 The Vicious Babushka

Like Don Feder saying Jews living in Obama land is worser then teh Holocausts!!!1!!

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272 Bubblehead II  Jan 28, 2015 8:14:49am

re: #219 FemNaziBitch

The Living, Breathing World of Borneo’s Carnivorous Pitcher Plants

Next time you see Kita online you might want to direct his attention to that site. One of his hobbies is growing plants.

273 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 28, 2015 8:17:25am

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

I watched the launch on TV and to this day remember “go at throttle up” then the explosion:

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Most of us who had a part in the Shuttle project knew how close to the ragged edge of catastrophic failure the thing was at the time. Its designers pushed materials and technology right to their limits. I wouldn’t have gone up in one for anything.

274 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 28, 2015 8:19:07am

re: #219 FemNaziBitch

The Living, Breathing World of Borneo’s Carnivorous Pitcher Plants

That’s a counterpart to vagina dentata. *ducks*

275 b_sharp  Jan 28, 2015 8:21:44am

re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Are those your cats?

276 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 8:22:00am

Astronaut Leland Melvin:

277 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 8:22:47am

re: #275 b_sharp

Are those your cats?

No, that’s Tom Cox’s black cat The Bear (aka My Sad Cat) and his tuxedo kitten.

278 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 8:23:00am

re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth

Astronaut Leland Melvin:

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I totally disagree.

279 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 8:23:55am

My printer said I needed a new black printer cartridge. I replaced it and the printer said the new one was damaged.

I hate when that happens.

280 CuriousLurker  Jan 28, 2015 8:25:11am

LOL, oh man, you can’t make this stuff up.

Apparently, Islam itself is a Jewish false flag operation. I kid you not. I’m not gonna link to the site, not even even using donotlink—it’s just too stupid. You can find it easily enough if you want to read it.

lolwut?

I guess my doctor was right back in September when she said the ISIS beheadings were also a false flag being used to deflect attention from what was happening in Gaza, huh? My bad, I should’ve listened to her. //

281 b_sharp  Jan 28, 2015 8:25:21am

re: #279 FemNaziBitch

My printer said I needed a new black printer cartridge. I replaced it and the printer said the new one was damaged.

I hate when that happens.

Sending good vibes your way.

But I’m not sending a black cartridge.

282 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 8:26:18am

The Israel-Lebanon border just got hot again. Two Israeli soldiers and a Spanish peacekeeper were killed. The Israeli soldiers were killed when their convoy came under attack. The peacekeeper was killed in Israel’s reprisal attacks against Hizbullah positions in the Sheeba Farms area of Lebanon.

All this comes days after an Israeli airstrike either incidentally or on purpose killed major figures in Hizbullah and an Iranian general inside Syria. Hizbullah had been threatening reprisals since then, and now the area is on the brink of further violence.

It’s possible that this is a way to draw Israel further into the violence in Syria, but Israel has largely stayed on the sidelines - attacking scattered targets over the past several years that have been identified as weapons transfers between Iran and/or Syria and Hizbullah.

Israel blames the Lebanese government for any fire directed at Israel, even if Hizbullah operates semi-autonomously/independent of the government in Beirut.

Israel is apparently sending more tanks and troops to the Golan as a precaution. IDF forces are also redoubling efforts to identify whether Hizbullah has built tunnels under the border. Locals have reported hearing sounds that could be related to tunneling activities but so far nothing has been found.

283 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 28, 2015 8:26:54am

re: #279 FemNaziBitch

My printer said I needed a new black printer cartridge. I replaced it and the printer said the new one was damaged.

I hate when that happens.

Your printer is obviously a bigot.

284 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 8:27:07am

re: #279 FemNaziBitch

My printer said I needed a new black printer cartridge. I replaced it and the printer said the new one was damaged.

I hate when that happens.

Take it out, put it back in, maybe it’ll work.

285 Timothy Watson  Jan 28, 2015 8:27:44am

re: #280 CuriousLurker

LOL, oh man, you can’t make this stuff up.

Apparently, Islam itself is a Jewish false flag operation. I kid you not. I’m not gonna link to the site, not even even using donotlink—it’s just too stupid. You can find it easily enough if you want to read it.

Image: lolwut?I guess my doctor was right back in September when she said the ISIS beheadings were also a false flag being used to deflect attention from what was happening in Gaza, huh? My bad, I should’ve listened to her. //

“was a Jews [sic]”? Grammar is dead.

286 b_sharp  Jan 28, 2015 8:28:17am

re: #284 Backwoods_Sleuth

Take it out, put it back in, maybe it’ll work.

Don’t forget to spin around & shake 7 times before replacing it though.

287 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 8:28:41am

re: #285 Timothy Watson

“was a Jews [sic]”? Grammar is dead.

It’s a very common feature for conspiracy theorists.

288 nearly-headless smith25  Jan 28, 2015 8:29:58am
289 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 28, 2015 8:30:22am

re: #255 Lidane

I love the sound of a circular firing squad in the morning:

The Tea Party libertarians are refusing to knuckle under to the establishment GOP despite getting lip service during the campaigns.

290 Maggie's Pa  Jan 28, 2015 8:31:21am

re: #286 b_sharp

Stick your tongue out at the proper angle while reinserting

291 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 28, 2015 8:31:40am

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh, and to go with all the various recasting of films:

I’m sure if there is ever open talk about a female “Batman” the same jerks who go on about Shaft will demand a “CatMan” villain in the same film.
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292 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 28, 2015 8:33:22am

re: #260 FemNaziBitch

Cats eat Bats

That’s because cats know that flying mice don’t deserve any sort of break simply because they have wings.

(Though I give bats a break because most of the ones I see are insect eaters and thus are possibly affecting the local mosquito population.)

293 CuriousLurker  Jan 28, 2015 8:35:41am

re: #285 Timothy Watson

“was a Jews [sic]”? Grammar is dead.

Forget the spelling, how am I going to break it to my doctor that we’re actually Jews? She’s prolly gonna be really pissed. //

294 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 8:38:33am
295 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 28, 2015 8:38:38am

re: #293 CuriousLurker

Forget the spelling, how am I going to break it to my doctor that we’re actually Jews? She’s prolly gonna be really pissed. //

What? You didn’t wear your Judenstern Badge to the doctor’s?

296 Bubblehead II  Jan 28, 2015 8:40:03am

Well the new washer is ordered and will be delivered tomorrow. Not a top of the line unit, but good enough to meet our needs.

297 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 8:41:28am

bbl

298 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 8:42:05am

re: #284 Backwoods_Sleuth

Take it out, put it back in, maybe it’ll work.

I did that!

Didn’t unplug the printer tho …

299 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 8:43:04am

re: #298 FemNaziBitch

I did that!

Didn’t unplug the printer tho …

well, doh!!!

:D

300 FemNaziBitch  Jan 28, 2015 8:43:40am

off to return the printer cartridge and get a replacement.

This is why I always have an extra to begin with!

*sign*

my life is so hard!

/white priviledge.

301 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 8:45:14am

Got a live anti-vaxxer troofer here. If you believe in vaccination, you’re a member of a cult. And they’re spouting off bs stats that the vaccines fail 85% of the time or worse.

Too bad they’ve got that backwards. A single dose vaccine will give at least 85% protection, 2 doses is close to 99%, but there’s always a chance that someone will get measles even with vaccination because it’s not 100% effective.

But your odds of getting measles increases without taking it.

Oh, and he’s a troofer. Should have seen that coming. Blocked.

302 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 8:45:55am

re: #298 FemNaziBitch

I did that!

Didn’t unplug the printer tho …

Sounds silly, but you can also trying shaking the cartridge for a moment or two and re-inserting.

303 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 8:46:29am

re:
#255

‘Time to Hunt Some Republicans’: Texas Open Carry Group Picks Fights with Lt. Gov

I’d assumed Open Carry was already the law in Texas.

304 b_sharp  Jan 28, 2015 8:47:14am

re: #302 Eclectic Cyborg

Sounds silly, but you can also trying shaking the cartridge for a moment or two and re-inserting.

Taking the tape off of the connectors always helps too.

305 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 8:47:25am

On a related note, one of the things I can’t stand about my printer is that it will not let you even print in black if the COLOR ink runs out.

It could be worse though. There are all-in-one models on the market that won’t even let you SCAN if the ink runs out.

306 CuriousLurker  Jan 28, 2015 8:47:36am

re: #301 lawhawk

Okay, that’s enough bad crazy for one morning. I’m gonna go write some code.

Later, lizards.

307 TedStriker  Jan 28, 2015 8:48:47am

re: #195 Romantic Heretic

Oh yeah. When Liam Neeson showed what a fine ass kicker he could play.

He was doing that pretty good before then as Patrick Swayze’s Kentucky hillbilly brother in Next of Kin.

308 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 8:49:20am

WTFITS I just can’t even

309 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 8:49:56am

re:
#255

its antics at the legislature two weeks ago, two weeks ago, which Open Carry Texas head CJ Grisham denounced as the legislative equivalent of pooping on the floor

This troubling behavior seems to be getting around.

310 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 8:50:03am

re: #308 The Vicious Babushka

Well, it’s in her name. SpecialSnowflakeCzar. She’s another one of those impervious to all facts and logic.

311 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 8:50:40am

re: #303 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#255

I’d assumed Open Carry was already the law in Texas.

Not for handguns, and that’s what the Tarrant County lunatics are pissed off about.

312 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 8:51:29am

good freaking grief:

313 ObserverArt  Jan 28, 2015 8:51:30am

Hey all.

I am not reading that email that was sent to Charles. No way…no how. Far too much crazy BS to take anymore. Plus, after a few years, you can almost guess the hate terms they would spew. Hate cliches.

I just caught up to this thread a bit, so a couple mentions…

Loved the Uptown Funk High School video. Mr. Teacher is way cool. And in good shape! I wonder how long they worked that all up and was the drama department and cheerleader/dance team involved to help out.

I’d love to know if the groups of students were homeroom classes, or the teachers classes, etc. Pretty cool And the fact that it was all from Texas…makes it ever cooler. I hope it upset the more conservative types.

New York and points just west and south missing out on the blizzard and people upset and causing weather forecasters and politicians to explain and apologize for being wrong. “Get a F’n life!” You’d bitch no matter what. In fact all you do is bitch. You’re worthless!

Damn, there sure are a bunch of Americans that are a miserable lot these days. Bitch, bitch, bitch…that’s all they are good for. I thought we were a country of rugged individuals. (Did I just type that?) Pffft. All some of them can do is flap the jaw and make Palin-like noises. Stuff a sock in them.

Femnazi…do all men go into that ‘man box’ with the stiff members that cannot control themselves and become criminals? I have to ask, is there a woman box too?

It appears to be warming up out of the single digits we had earlier. I think I can actually move now that I am slightly unfrozen. So, time to get something done. Going to lurk mode…later!

314 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 8:51:32am
315 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 8:53:21am

SMOTI/SMUT:

316 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 8:54:08am

hahahahahaha(takes a breath) bwahahaaaaa!!

317 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 28, 2015 8:54:24am

Feline Overlord says, WANT!

petronics.io

318 Targetpractice  Jan 28, 2015 8:55:04am

re: #312 Backwoods_Sleuth

good freaking grief:

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Yes, as much as we try to maintain the fiction that we’re a modern and sophisticated state, Virginia is still very much stuck in the 19th century. To give you an idea, it was only a few years ago that we finally abolished “Lee-Jackson-King Day.”

319 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 28, 2015 8:55:09am

re: #308 The Vicious Babushka

“If…than” must be the wingnut conditional.

320 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 8:55:53am
321 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 8:56:43am

re:
#319

Wingnuts must not code very much.

322 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 28, 2015 8:59:04am

re: #321 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#319

Wingnuts must not code very much.

I take it you’ve never heard of goneto statements.

323 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 8:59:23am

re: #318 Targetpractice

Yes, as much as we try to maintain the fiction that we’re a modern and sophisticated state, Virginia is still very much stuck in the 19th century. To give you an idea, it was only a few years ago that we finally abolished “Lee-Jackson-King Day.”

From this article, the guy isn’t great with the back pedaling excuse:

Pyles said it’s just the way he talks, even to those who are dearest to him.

“It’s the way I talk to my sons here,” he said, according to the News Leader. “As soon as it left my mouth, I knew it was going to be misinterpreted.”

“I have boys,” Pyles continued. “‘Listen boy, you can’t do that.’ That’s the way I talk to them. The fact that I think of Calvin no differently than I do anybody else, it came out, but I know the world looks at things differently.”

324 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 8:59:56am

re: #303 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#255

I’d assumed Open Carry was already the law in Texas.

I think it concerns open carry in the Texas State House.

325 Targetpractice  Jan 28, 2015 9:00:45am
326 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 9:00:48am

re:
#320

@imwithglennbeck

Oh, so he’s the one.

327 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 9:02:38am

re: #324 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I think it concerns open carry in the Texas State House.

No, it’s about open carry of handguns everywhere.

328 wrenchwench  Jan 28, 2015 9:03:09am

Look out, mouse!

329 Targetpractice  Jan 28, 2015 9:03:26am

Ted Cruz and Scott Walker…

I picked the wrong week to quit drinkin’.

330 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 9:03:33am

re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth

No, it’s about open carry of handguns everywhere.

Including the State House. Which has even GOP legislators scared shitless.

331 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 9:04:22am

re: #328 wrenchwench

Look out, mouse!

[Embedded content]

DIVE! DIVE! DIVE!

332 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 9:05:12am

re: #330 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Including the State House. Which has even GOP legislators scared shitless.

That’s why they’re installing panic buttons in the state house offices now.

333 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 9:07:36am

re:
#330

Including the State House. Which has even GOP legislators scared shitless.

Another example of creators not being able to control the monsters they birthed.

334 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 9:08:12am

Ah, the Al Gore defense:

335 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 9:09:08am

imwithglennbeck blocked, too stupid even to make fun of.

336 BeachDem  Jan 28, 2015 9:09:47am

Good grief—I thought having Sharyl Attkisson spewing during the Loretta Lynch “hearing” dog and pony show was as low as it could get, but now I see True the Vote’s Fuck the Voters’ Catherine Engelbrecht is also going to share her idiocy.

Great job, Grassley.

337 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 9:13:55am

re:
#336

Is the actual nominee going to be allowed to give a statement?
/

338 nearly-headless smith25  Jan 28, 2015 9:14:02am

re: #336 BeachDem

Good grief—I thought having Sharyl Attkisson spewing during the Loretta Lynch “hearing” dog and pony show was as low as it could get, but now I see True the Vote’s Fuck the Voters’ Catherine Engelbrecht is also going to share her idiocy.

Great job, Grassley.

I tried to watch some of this hearing, but man it’s hard.
Figured out some things though:

Loretta Lynch, to me is a Card Carrying Bad Ass.

If you are named Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, you are a dick.

339 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 9:15:19am

re:
#336

Was Glenn Beck not available?
//

340 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 9:15:20am
341 Dr Lizardo  Jan 28, 2015 9:15:40am

OK….I’ve used the nicotine transdermal patch before, and I’m using it again now. It was 20 years ago when I initially stopped smoking, and I curse myself for starting again. But I’m going to change that.

Anyway, the patch gives you weird dreams. For instance, overnight I dreamed that I woke up, and went to the kitchen and my roomate Tommy was there.

Tommy Shaw. As in Tommy Shaw from Styx.

Then Dennis DeYoung came in, and pretty soon James Young as well, and James made breakfast. We all shot the bull about the new album - apparently, I was the new drummer.

I haven’t thought about Styx since I was 15 or something. Very odd.

342 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 9:16:46am

re: #339 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#336

Was Glenn Beck not available?
//

Glenn Beck was wearing the “I’m With Stupid” T-shirt

343 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 9:16:50am

re: #341 Dr Lizardo

OK….I’ve used the nicotine transdermal patch before, and I’m using it again now. It was 20 years ago when I initially stopped smoking, and I curse myself for starting again. But I’m going to change that.

Anyway, the patch gives you weird dreams. For instance, overnight I dreamed that I woke up, and went to the kitchen and my roomate Tommy was there.

Tommy Shaw. As in Tommy Shaw from Styx.

Then Dennis DeYoung came in, and pretty soon James Young as well, and James made breakfast. We all shot the bull about the new album - apparently, I was the new drummer.

I haven’t thought about Styx since I was 15 or something. Very odd.

sailin’ away?

344 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 9:18:12am

And in Louisville, Kentucky, today we have this happening:

345 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 9:19:00am

re: #344 Backwoods_Sleuth

And in Louisville, Kentucky, today we have this happening:

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Wait, what?

346 Lidane  Jan 28, 2015 9:19:06am

re: #341 Dr Lizardo

southpark.cc.com

347 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 9:20:31am

re:
#344

Praying to lure a Walmart to the area?

348 Lidane  Jan 28, 2015 9:20:42am

re: #344 Backwoods_Sleuth

A prayer circle for Walmart? WTF.

349 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 9:21:45am

re:
#341

Just Rockin’ The Paradise

350 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 9:21:59am

The city where I live denied a tender to Walmart to build a superstore. The property they bid on has now been zoned for small business.

Sometimes the good guys win.

351 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 9:22:14am

re: #348 Lidane

A prayer circle for Walmart? WTF.

So that God will make them strong and keep them safe from unions and minimum-wage increases.

352 Eventual Carrion  Jan 28, 2015 9:23:34am

re: #341 Dr Lizardo

OK….I’ve used the nicotine transdermal patch before, and I’m using it again now. It was 20 years ago when I initially stopped smoking, and I curse myself for starting again. But I’m going to change that.

Anyway, the patch gives you weird dreams. For instance, overnight I dreamed that I woke up, and went to the kitchen and my roomate Tommy was there.

Tommy Shaw. As in Tommy Shaw from Styx.

Then Dennis DeYoung came in, and pretty soon James Young as well, and James made breakfast. We all shot the bull about the new album - apparently, I was the new drummer.

I haven’t thought about Styx since I was 15 or something. Very odd.

Come sail away.

353 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 9:23:53am

I swear, these idiots think that if it didn’t hit the US it doesn’t count?

354 Eventual Carrion  Jan 28, 2015 9:23:56am

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

sailin’ away?

Damn, beat me to it.

355 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 9:24:30am
356 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 9:25:13am

re: #345 The Vicious Babushka

Wait, what?

I’m waiting for Joe Sonka to tweet a link to a story explaining it.

357 Charles Johnson  Jan 28, 2015 9:27:16am

re: #334 lawhawk

That ProgsToday guy is an extremely dense form of wingnut. Idiot is way too kind.

358 TedStriker  Jan 28, 2015 9:27:57am

re: #328 wrenchwench

Look out, mouse!

[Embedded content]

The mouse is completely fucked…

359 Charles Johnson  Jan 28, 2015 9:29:03am
360 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 9:30:33am

re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m waiting for Joe Sonka to tweet a link to a story explaining it.

Hints:

361 Charles Johnson  Jan 28, 2015 9:31:30am
362 WhatEVs  Jan 28, 2015 9:31:47am

re: #100 The Vicious Babushka

No self-awareness whatsoever:

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363 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 9:31:50am

re: #357 Charles Johnson

Yup. Well aware of that. He’s simply incapable of doing anything but spewing BS talking points. Al Gore. And not a single actual fact.

And his followers aren’t any better. They’re all - what about the 3.5 billion years before humans, what about that climate? Except that the scientists who study this stuff have taken that into account, and can see the difference by factoring out what we’re doing to the atmosphere.

I know you know all that stuff, but these people are neutron star dense when it comes to their anti-science anti-fact ahistorical mumbo jumbo.

364 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 9:32:38am
365 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 9:34:50am

re: #364 Backwoods_Sleuth

The definition of puppy dog eyes

Bette Davis Puppy Dog Eyes

366 Dr Lizardo  Jan 28, 2015 9:40:05am

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

re: #352 Eventual Carrion

Yeah….maybe. But Styx? Are they even around anymore? And of all the bands, why them? I used to like them when I was a teenager and whatnot, but still, very weird.

Eh…..maybe it’s just the patch.

367 b_sharp  Jan 28, 2015 9:41:03am

We need a button that takes a snapshot of a comment here and tweets it.

368 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 9:41:13am

re: #366 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, they’re still around. And touring. Even though DeYoung’s voice is, well, shot.

369 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 9:41:14am

re: #366 Dr Lizardo

Yeah….maybe. But Styx? Are they even around anymore? And of all the bands, why them? I used to like them when I was a teenager and whatnot, but still, very weird.

Eh…..maybe it’s just the patch.

They were local heroes around Chicago before they went full-on arena. We used to go see them play for a crowd of 2,000 at the Hammond Civic Auditorium.

370 Targetpractice  Jan 28, 2015 9:42:17am

re: #359 Charles Johnson

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The source on this story is an ex-Lt. Col who was on O’Reilly last night to totally insist that “officials” within the Army had told him that the decision’s been made, the report has sat on a general’s desk since last October, and (of course) that the White House is forcing the Army to sit on the report rather than charge Bergdahl.

371 Lidane  Jan 28, 2015 9:43:15am
372 Dr Lizardo  Jan 28, 2015 9:43:18am

re: #368 lawhawk

Yeah, they’re still around. And touring. Even though DeYoung’s voice is, well, shot.

I was always more partial to the material James Young wrote.

373 TedStriker  Jan 28, 2015 9:43:29am

re: #368 lawhawk

Yeah, they’re still around. And touring. Even though DeYoung’s voice is, well, shot.

DeYoung hasn’t been in Styx for 15 years.

Talks of Reunion with DeYoung[edit]
In a July 7, 2011 interview with Rolling Stone music magazine Tommy Shaw stated that he “[doesn’t] think [a reunion with DeYoung] is realistic,” and that “what was true in 1983 was only more true in 1996”, in which his coming together with DeYoung had “a very negative effect on each other”.[32]

DeYoung, however, has repeatedly stated that he’s open to a reunion with the other members and that what he really wants is for all of them to “come together as a band.” DeYoung also refuted the claim that Shaw and Young wanted a harder-edged rock sound in contrast to his, saying Shaw’s “Renegade” “wasn’t a rock song when he brought it in. It was my idea to make it into a rock song.”

374 WhatEVs  Jan 28, 2015 9:43:49am

re: #308 The Vicious Babushka

WTFITS I just can’t even

If you’re not pregnant with a human-being, than you don’t need maternity care or a baby shower… perhaps a brain scan?

I no understand. Can someone un-wingnut that for me, please?

375 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 9:44:52am

re: #371 Lidane

Sarah Palin complains that ‘quasi-right’ Fox News thinks she’s a joke: ‘This is war’

If Fox News is “quasi-right” then the New Testament is “quasi-Christian”.

376 Lidane  Jan 28, 2015 9:45:52am

GOHMERT!

377 Targetpractice  Jan 28, 2015 9:47:04am

Well, to my total lack of surprise, Faux hasn’t wasted any time spinning Lynch’s answers on illegal immigration as a “defense” of the President.

378 b_sharp  Jan 28, 2015 9:47:17am

re: #363 lawhawk

Yup. Well aware of that. He’s simply incapable of doing anything but spewing BS talking points. Al Gore. And not a single actual fact.

And his followers aren’t any better. They’re all - what about the 3.5 billion years before humans, what about that climate? Except that the scientists who study this stuff have taken that into account, and can see the difference by factoring out what we’re doing to the atmosphere.

I know you know all that stuff, but these people are neutron star dense when it comes to their anti-science anti-fact ahistorical mumbo jumbo.

I took him/them on. They ran away.

379 Skip Intro  Jan 28, 2015 9:47:17am

re: #371 Lidane

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All the Alaskan Idiot has to do is actually mount a campaign to show she’s serious.

Chances of that happening? I’ll go way out on a limb and say 0.

380 blueraven  Jan 28, 2015 9:47:57am

re: #366 Dr Lizardo

Yeah….maybe. But Styx? Are they even around anymore? And of all the bands, why them? I used to like them when I was a teenager and whatnot, but still, very weird.

Eh…..maybe it’s just the patch.

Styx=sticks=cigarettes

/

381 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 9:49:09am

re: #376 Lidane

GOHMERT!

Gohmert: ‘Our Republican females sent entirely wrong message’ by wanting rape exception to abortion ban

They sent entirely the wrong message by putting on shoes and leaving the kitchen…

382 Lidane  Jan 28, 2015 9:49:22am
383 Dr Lizardo  Jan 28, 2015 9:50:30am

re: #380 blueraven

Who knows? I do recall the dream quite vividly, and the appearance of the band members was from the Cornerstone era - late 1970s. James Young had the long hair, DeYoung had a moustache and Tommy Shaw had the shoulder-length hair.

:D

384 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 9:52:31am

re: #383 Dr Lizardo

Who knows? I do recall the dream quite vividly, and the appearance of the band members was from the Cornerstone era - late 1970s. James Young had the long hair, DeYoung had a moustache and Tommy Shaw had the shoulder-length hair.

:D

And sometimes Styx is just a river and you want to go fishing…

385 b_sharp  Jan 28, 2015 9:52:35am

re: #383 Dr Lizardo

Who knows? I do recall the dream quite vividly, and the appearance of the band members was from the Cornerstone era - late 1970s. James Young had the long hair, DeYoung had a moustache and Tommy Shaw had the shoulder-length hair.

:D

You have weird rooms in your brain.

386 blueraven  Jan 28, 2015 9:53:03am

re: #383 Dr Lizardo

Who knows? I do recall the dream quite vividly, and the appearance of the band members was from the Cornerstone era - late 1970s. James Young had the long hair, DeYoung had a moustache and Tommy Shaw had the shoulder-length hair.

:D

Yeah, I used the patch when I quit years ago. I remember the really weird, vivid dreams. Had to stop and switch to the gum.

Seriously though, Good Luck!

387 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 9:53:33am

re: #382 Lidane

An ongoing spiritual struggle of mine has been the apparent notion that God would rather a child be with abusive heterosexual parents than stable homosexual parents.

388 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 9:53:35am

re:
#371

Sarah Palin complains that ‘quasi-right’ Fox News thinks she’s a joke: ‘This is war’

Microwave is getting quite the workout nuking up All The Popcorns.

389 Dr Lizardo  Jan 28, 2015 9:53:39am

re: #385 b_sharp

You have weird rooms in your brain.

Yes. Yes I do.

390 Dr Lizardo  Jan 28, 2015 9:53:52am

re: #386 blueraven

Yeah, I used the patch when I quit years ago. I remember the really weird, vivid dreams. Had to stop and switch to the gum.

Seriously though, Good Luck!

Thanks!

391 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 9:55:12am

re: #374 WhatEVs

I no understand. Can someone un-wingnut that for me, please?

Best I can tell, they are “mocking” pro-life people who insist that a fetus/embryo is NOT a person with rights but a clump of cells. I.E. in their mind a pro life woman does not accept a baby as an actual person until it’s out of the womb and they think that’s incredibly stupid.

392 Skip Intro  Jan 28, 2015 9:55:27am

re: #388 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I didn’t watch the Palin/Hannity goon show last night, but would I be wrong to assume that Palin was not embarrassed in the least about her performance Saturday, and Hannity never even brought it up?

393 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 9:55:28am

re:
#382

And there goes the next GOP VP nominee…..

394 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 28, 2015 9:55:39am

re: #280 CuriousLurker

The neo-pagan theory that Christianity was invented by the Jews to destroy the real cultural and religious roots of the goyim (with the formula “Christianity is a step towards freemasonry, freemasonry is a step towards Judaism”) has been around for some time now. Welcome to the club.

395 Dr. Matt  Jan 28, 2015 9:56:02am

The latest scorecard showed more than 60 percent of the claims made on Fox News were mostly false or worse - and half of all claims were either demonstrably false or outright lies.

396 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 9:56:17am

re: #390 Dr Lizardo

When I did the patch years ago, I suffered from a serious nicotine overdose (really!).
Had to toss the patches and go cold turkey.

397 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 9:56:25am

re: #389 Dr Lizardo

Yes. Yes I do.

I sometimes have vivid dreams WITHOUT the patch. No idea why but my ADD (which gives me heightened mental activity) may have something to do with it.

My wife tells me I should blog about them.

398 Skip Intro  Jan 28, 2015 9:56:29am

re: #393 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#382

And there goes the next GOP VP nominee…..

First choice for a slot on the Supreme Court should the GOP win in 2016.

399 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 9:56:59am

re: #392 Skip Intro

I didn’t watch the Palin/Hannity goon show last night, but would I be wrong to assume that Palin was not embarrassed in the least about her performance Saturday, and Hannity never even brought it up?

She was incredibly angry.

400 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 9:57:17am

If Sarah Palin becomes President, I’m going back to Canada.

401 Skip Intro  Jan 28, 2015 9:57:32am

re: #399 Backwoods_Sleuth

She was incredibly angry.

Really? That’s so out of character for her.

402 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 9:58:12am

re: #401 Skip Intro

Really? That’s so out of character for her.

No, really, she was so out of control it was stunning.

403 Iwouldprefernotto  Jan 28, 2015 9:59:22am

re: #400 Eclectic Cyborg

If Sarah Palin becomes President, I’m going back to Canada.

That will not work, If Palin become president, the US will invade Canada.

404 Dr. Matt  Jan 28, 2015 10:00:31am

re: #400 Eclectic Cyborg

If Sarah Palin becomes President, I’m going back to Canada.

Palin’s political career has long been over. She will never, ever hold another elected office again. Her only use for the GOP is to be a yapping flamethrower.

405 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 10:01:27am

Here’s a screengrab from a valued-added comment at politicalgates:

406 Dr Lizardo  Jan 28, 2015 10:03:00am

BBL

407 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 10:03:42am

re:
#214

Personal liberty is under attack more than @ any other time in @USA history since slavery.

Fortunately people can still twitter.

//

408 Skip Intro  Jan 28, 2015 10:04:25am

re: #405 Backwoods_Sleuth

I don’t think the glasses are working for her any more.

They don’t work for Rick Perry either. He just looks like a dumb hick wearing glasses.

409 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 10:04:58am

re: #408 Skip Intro

I don’t think the glasses are working for her any more.

They don’t work for Rick Perry either. He just looks like a dumb hick wearing glasses.

batshit crazy isn’t working for her anymore, either.

410 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 10:05:06am

Ted Cruz just endorsed #FreeCommunityCollege!
Oh wait no…

411 Targetpractice  Jan 28, 2015 10:05:51am

re: #410 The Vicious Babushka

Ted Cruz just endorsed #FreeCommunityCollege!
Oh wait no…

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Translation: We shouldn’t rest until we’ve dismantled the public school system!

412 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 10:06:08am
413 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 28, 2015 10:06:32am

re: #410 The Vicious Babushka

Ted Cruz just endorsed #FreeCommunityCollege!
Oh wait no…

We shouldn’t rest until every child in America has a chance to receive an excellent educationbe home schooled or taught at a religious institution paid for by tax credits

414 Timothy Watson  Jan 28, 2015 10:06:58am

re: #411 Targetpractice

Translation: We shouldn’t rest until we’ve dismantled the public school system!

And after we’ve done that, we can destroy public higher education too!!

415 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 28, 2015 10:08:09am
Coming to The Learning Channel: “When Grifters Lose Their Mojo”
TLC announced the new reality show last night, In the first episode, to be aired during Sweeps Week, Sarah Palin will be locked for a month in a house with Donald Trump. Pauly Shore, and Gilbert Gottfried will be aboard to provide comedy relief.
416 b_sharp  Jan 28, 2015 10:09:39am

re: #410 The Vicious Babushka

Ted Cruz just endorsed #FreeCommunityCollege!
Oh wait no…

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As long as that education dumps evolution and climate science.

417 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 10:10:07am

re: #412 lawhawk

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Roy Moore…is that the Ten Commandments guy?

418 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 10:11:29am

re: #415 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Week #2: CCJ, Dana Loesch, Todd Kincannon and former SNL star Victoria Jackson.

419 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 10:11:43am

re: #417 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes, it is. And the complaint is because of his clearly illegal and unconstitutional view that AL can ignore federal law and federal court rulings on SSM.

420 Charles Johnson  Jan 28, 2015 10:12:05am
421 Skip Intro  Jan 28, 2015 10:12:22am

re: #417 Eclectic Cyborg

Roy Moore…is that the Ten Commandments guy?

Yeah. It must be scary as hell living in a fevered swamp like Alabama if you’ve got an IQ over 90. They’ll be coming for you soon, you pointy headed intellectual.

422 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 10:13:26am

re: #420 Charles Johnson

And I thought Justin Bieber had the worst songs ever.

423 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 10:14:23am

re: #421 Skip Intro

Yeah. It must be scary as hell living in a fevered swamp like Alabama if you’ve got an IQ over 90. They’ll be coming for you soon, you pointy headed intellectual.

I don’t live in Alabama, I’m in MS. Granted that doesn’t necessarily change much…

424 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 10:16:16am

re: #423 Eclectic Cyborg

I don’t live in Alabama, I’m in MS. Granted that doesn’t necessarily change much…

they will sneak over the state line in the middle of the night…

425 ObserverArt  Jan 28, 2015 10:16:53am

Styx!!!

Just want to mention that Tommy Shaw was a member of Damn Yankees with one Ted Nugent.

Maybe that formed a back channel in Dr Lizardo’s dream state and formed a connection from the politics of wingnuttia into a meeting of his band mates.

It happens. I’ve had some crazy mash-up dreams that tie all kinds of lose ends into one crazy vision. I too sometimes awake and can almost keep the state of the dream going and then reality hits and it like WTF was that?

At least The Nuge wasn’t present. That would have moved it into a full blown nightmare.

426 Charles Johnson  Jan 28, 2015 10:17:36am
427 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 28, 2015 10:18:34am

re: #420 Charles Johnson

plus.google.com

428 Charles Johnson  Jan 28, 2015 10:19:09am
429 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 10:19:27am

I see CCJ’s emo headshot lasted all of about a week.

430 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 28, 2015 10:19:39am

re: #427 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

767 followers|4,506,030 views

431 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 10:20:14am

re: #428 Charles Johnson

What’s with the whole hair messed up/untuck shirt thing? Yeah, that’s TOTALLY the look of a professional journalist.

432 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 10:21:24am

Why do wingnuts refer to Glenn Greenwald doppelganger Chris McDaniel as “Senator McDaniel” when Cochran won the election?

433 b_sharp  Jan 28, 2015 10:21:41am

re: #431 Eclectic Cyborg

What’s with the whole hair messed up/untuck shirt thing? Yeah, that’s TOTALLY the look of a professional journalist.

But dig those rolled up sleeves. He’s a hard working journalist.

434 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 10:22:49am

re: #431 Eclectic Cyborg

What’s with the whole hair messed up/untuck shirt thing? Yeah, that’s TOTALLY the look of a professional journalist.

Easier to dump and run? /

435 ObserverArt  Jan 28, 2015 10:23:41am

re: #428 Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson @Green_Footballs
Follow
Stalker. RT @ChuckCJohnson: Here I am in front of the home of Sen Cochran’s taxpayer funded mistress in DC.

Is this like some kind of “Where is Waldo” thing this new journalist CCJ has going?

436 psddluva4evah  Jan 28, 2015 10:24:12am
437 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 10:25:08am

re: #426 Charles Johnson

438 unproven innocence  Jan 28, 2015 10:25:52am

re: #433 b_sharp

But dig those rolled up sleeves. He’s a hard working journalist.

Those are vitamin D augmentation sleeves. /

439 Charles Johnson  Jan 28, 2015 10:25:59am
440 Targetpractice  Jan 28, 2015 10:26:12am

When your argument is “If we give some people rights, then everybody’s gonna want rights!,” then you’re pretty much lost.

441 b.d.  Jan 28, 2015 10:26:51am

re: #432 The Vicious Babushka

Why do wingnuts refer to Glenn Greenwald doppelganger Chris McDaniel as “Senator McDaniel” when Cochran won the election?

State Senator

442 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 10:27:27am

Wow, Five (count ‘em) FIVE FAKE QUOTES in one Tweet

443 BeachDem  Jan 28, 2015 10:27:43am

re: #432 The Vicious Babushka

Why do wingnuts refer to Glenn Greenwald doppelganger Chris McDaniel as “Senator McDaniel” when Cochran won the election?

The similarity is frightening

444 darthstar  Jan 28, 2015 10:27:55am
445 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 10:28:00am

I wonder if Sullivan quit because he pulled a CCJ and burned too many bridges?

446 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 10:28:45am

re: #443 BeachDem

The similarity is frightening

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Has anyone ever seen them both in the same room?

447 iossarian  Jan 28, 2015 10:28:49am

re: #439 Charles Johnson

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I knew it.

You don’t read The Dish.

Therefore, liberals are the real bigots.

448 calochortus  Jan 28, 2015 10:29:17am

re: #431 Eclectic Cyborg

What’s with the whole hair messed up/untuck shirt thing? Yeah, that’s TOTALLY the look of a professional journalist.

Wasn’t the half untucked shirt kind of a ‘thing’ a few years ago? Mercifully brief.

On the other hand, is it wrong that my eye went right past Chuck to look at the garden in the front yard? It’s not wildly exciting, plant-wise, but still more interesting than a lawn. I think I’m ready to get out in my own yard!

449 Timothy Watson  Jan 28, 2015 10:29:30am

re: #428 Charles Johnson

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Who paid for his airplane ticket?

450 darthstar  Jan 28, 2015 10:29:31am

Ah, others already noted this…oh well.

Sully had his moments - I have to say, it was a decent read, his first of several farewell posts.

451 CuriousLurker  Jan 28, 2015 10:30:52am

re: #394 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

The neo-pagan theory that Christianity was invented by the Jews to destroy the real cultural and religious roots of the goyim (with the formula “Christianity is a step towards freemasonry, freemasonry is a step towards Judaism”) has been around for some time now. Welcome to the club.

Thanks, I had no idea. Sheesh… O_o

452 ObserverArt  Jan 28, 2015 10:31:11am

re: #440 Targetpractice

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When your argument is “If we give some people rights, then everybody’s gonna want rights!,” then you’re pretty much lost.

I guess it is a good thing he didn’t go with bestiality.

Maybe this is an off-hand way to attack Mitt. Maybe Mitt has a wife in every one of those houses or something?

453 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 28, 2015 10:31:12am

Wait, what?

According to the Palm Springs Desert Sun, the former Massachusetts governor “said that while he hopes the skeptics about global climate change are right, he believes it’s real and a major problem,” and he lamented that Washington had done “almost nothing” to stop it.

motherjones.com

454 BeachDem  Jan 28, 2015 10:31:26am

re: #449 Timothy Watson

Who paid for his airplane ticket?

And who took the picture?

455 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 28, 2015 10:32:17am

The nerve.

456 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 10:33:08am

re: #454 BeachDem

And who took the picture?

Mr. Tripod?

457 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 10:35:16am

re:
#436

The second is that I am saturated in digital life and I want to return to the actual world again.

Oh no, anything but that.

///

I used to read Sully regularly. Used to read a lot of other bloggers regularly.

Than I came here and started drinking whatever that stuff is in the fridge.

458 blueraven  Jan 28, 2015 10:36:19am

I am really quite sad to hear that Sully is quitting. I have read him for years. He often infuriated me, but just as often inspired me.

459 iossarian  Jan 28, 2015 10:36:35am

Isn’t it annoying when right-wing obstructionists suddenly pivot to WHY HASN’T ANYTHING BEEN DONE?

460 Eventual Carrion  Jan 28, 2015 10:37:37am

re: #384 Backwoods_Sleuth

And sometimes Styx is just a river and you want to go fishing…

But don’t pay the ferryman until he gets you to the other side.

461 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 10:38:37am

re:
#459

Rinse, repeat.

462 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 10:38:47am

Just because someone leaves doesn’t mean they’ll never come back.

463 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 10:39:10am

Wasn’t it Sully who spread the conspiracy theory that Trig was really Bristol’s son? Did he keep it up even after Bristol came out with her own pregnancy?

464 darthstar  Jan 28, 2015 10:39:14am
465 lawhawk  Jan 28, 2015 10:40:20am
466 Skip Intro  Jan 28, 2015 10:41:39am

I’m surprised I haven’t seen this here yet.

talkingpointsmemo.com

But then I’m also surprised by the total lack of response to the news that the Koch Bros plan to spend nearly one billion dollars to take over the government in 2016.

Must be superhero movie season or something.

467 Charles Johnson  Jan 28, 2015 10:41:49am

re: #463 The Vicious Babushka

Wasn’t it Sully who spread the conspiracy theory that Trig was really Bristol’s son? Did he keep it up even after Bristol came out with her own pregnancy?

Yes.

468 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 10:43:51am

re:
#442

RT True #Patriots & We The People don’t back down to a corrupt Govt. #USA #TeaParty #PJNET #tcot #TPFA #2A #NRA @GOP

No, you just keep tweeting from your basement.

469 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2015 10:44:02am

re: #467 Charles Johnson

Yes.

Even after it became ridiculously obvious that Bristol could not have birthed two babies within 6 months?

470 Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 28, 2015 10:44:27am

Has anybody had an experience on twitter trying to talk to some of the more radical academic feminist types who demand you observe certain unspecified boundaries??

I just had a bizarre conversation (if you can call it that) with a deeply unpleasant person named Mikki Kendall (Michelle Goldberg at The Nation had a few obervations about her…not good) who promptly comlained I violated her boundaries and muted me for observing that maybe we can forgive Benedict Cumberbatch for his verbal miscue, and that by association we should not automatically assume malevolent intent from other people if they say something we don’t like.

Holy shit.

471 dog philosopher  Jan 28, 2015 10:44:28am

This Washington Post headline says it all: “Two weeks after Zuckerberg said ‘je suis Charlie,’ Facebook begins censoring images of prophet Muhammad”

wingnut morons thought the je suis charlie movement was all about standing up for our god given right to made crude jokes mocking muslims

472 Ace-o-aces  Jan 28, 2015 10:44:54am

re: #463 The Vicious Babushka

Wasn’t it Sully who spread the conspiracy theory that Trig was really Bristol’s son? Did he keep it up even after Bristol came out with her own pregnancy?

Yeah, with typical conspiracy monger, “I’m just asking questions” excuse. I despise Palin, but dragging her infant son into some ridiculous and easily disproved conspiracy was just despicable.

473 Kragar  Jan 28, 2015 10:45:22am
474 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 10:46:02am

re:
#440

Lindsey Graham: If gay marriage is a constitutional right, why not polygamy?

If inter-racial marriage is a constitutional right, why not polygamy, incest?

If Black voting is a constitutional right, why not child voting, illegal immigrant voting?

//

475 Skip Intro  Jan 28, 2015 10:46:41am

re: #473 Kragar

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Everything is war to Palin and the GOP.

476 Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 28, 2015 10:46:44am

re: #464 darthstar

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But wasn’t Thelma and Louise ALREADY a remake of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with a FEMALE cast?

477 Ace-o-aces  Jan 28, 2015 10:47:02am

re: #469 The Vicious Babushka

Even after it became ridiculously obvious that Bristol could not have birthed two babies within 6 months?

Yes, even then. He usually picked up on some small inconsistency in Palin’s story about her pregnancy, and hammered at it.

478 dog philosopher  Jan 28, 2015 10:47:49am

re: #473 Kragar

Sarah Palin complains that ‘quasi-right’ Fox News thinks she’s a joke: ‘This is war’

splitter!

479 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 28, 2015 10:48:08am

re: #429 Eclectic Cyborg

I see CCJ’s emo headshot lasted all of about a week.

He has to keep changing identities or the clowns will get him.
//

480 Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 28, 2015 10:49:13am

re: #473 Kragar

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“FORM CIRCLE! MAKE READY! AIM! FIRE!!!!”

481 Targetpractice  Jan 28, 2015 10:49:13am

“Andrew Sullivan To Quit Blogging, Millions Report Inability To Give A Shit.”

482 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 10:49:18am

Where did Palin learn the word “quasi”?

483 darthstar  Jan 28, 2015 10:49:24am

re: #476 Blind Frog Belly White

But wasn’t Thelma and Louise ALREADY a remake of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with a FEMALE cast?

Shush. They’re even planning a remake of Tomb Raider with a male archaeologist who carries a whip.

484 darthstar  Jan 28, 2015 10:49:33am

re: #482 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Where did Palin learn the word “quasi”?

Trig.

485 Timothy Watson  Jan 28, 2015 10:49:41am

re: #470 Aunty Entity Dragon

Has anybody had an experience on twitter trying to talk to some of the more radical academic feminist types who demand you observe certain unspecified boundaries??

I just had a bizarre conversation (if you can call it that) with a deeply unpleasant person named Mikki Kendall (Michelle Goldberg at The Nation had a few obervations about her…not good) who promptly comlained I violated her boundaries and muted me for observing that maybe we can forgive Benedict Cumberbatch for his verbal miscue, and that by association we should not automatically assume malevolent intent from other people if they say something we don’t like.

Holy shit.

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If an American used the term “colo[u]red”, I would have serious problems with it. A Brit? Not sure, but I’m willing to give a bit more leeway.

486 Ace-o-aces  Jan 28, 2015 10:50:15am

re: #428 Charles Johnson

487 Skip Intro  Jan 28, 2015 10:50:21am

re: #482 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Where did Palin learn the word “quasi”?

It’s Latin for “war on the middle class by the no more retreads we must have”.

488 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jan 28, 2015 10:51:54am

re:
#

Palin was quasi-governor of Alaska.

489 iossarian  Jan 28, 2015 10:52:23am

re: #485 Timothy Watson

If an American used the term “colo[u]red”, I would have serious problems with it. A Brit? Not sure, but I’m willing to give a bit more leeway.

It’s bad in the UK as well, and has been since (at least) the 80s. Left-wing comics over there have been mocking use of “the coloureds” to describe Jamaican and other immigrant populations for ages.

490 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 28, 2015 10:53:07am

re: #482 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Where did Palin learn the word “quasi”?

That’s just her way of pronouncing “Crazy”.

491 Kragar  Jan 28, 2015 10:53:35am
492 Ace-o-aces  Jan 28, 2015 10:53:36am
493 Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 28, 2015 10:55:12am

re: #485 Timothy Watson

If an American used the term “colo[u]red”, I would have serious problems with it. A Brit? Not sure, but I’m willing to give a bit more leeway.

I tried to make that argument.

I was told under no certain terms that the interwebz have rendered all cultural sensitvuty issues TREASON!!!!11tY! (because with 5 minutes you can master every more, custom and language nuance from anywhere in anytime!!!) and that anybody anywhere cannot make mistakes of whatever kind.

Also, by the very act of trying to politely dasgree (at least at first), and am trying to police her emotions.

Somehow.

494 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Jan 28, 2015 10:56:55am

Global Warming denialism makes strange bedfellows.

From Science magazine:

On 1 January, a reputed climate change denier took the reins of Brazil’s science ministry, causing some scientists to worry about the country’s environmental future. Aldo Rebelo, a hard-line communist whose party supported the October reelection of President Dilma Rousseff, has called climate change an “environmental scam” and dubbed the movement to curb greenhouse emissions “the bridgehead of imperialism.” As a member of Brazil’s Congress, Rebelo also worked on a 2012 revision of the country’s forest code that many experts believe will increase deforestation.

Can we convince Inhofe and his cronies that climate change mitigation is now an anti-communist imperative?

495 Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 28, 2015 10:59:14am

I think the funniest thing about the whole Palin meltdown is the way that early fans, who savagely attacked early Conservative critics, are turning against her, but talking about wasted potential, and how she changed after losing the election.

Where they ASLEEP in September and October of 2008? She gave a good speech at the Convention, and a passable debate performance, but beyond that it was patently obvious she had not the slightest clue about any policy issues and her sole benefit to the ticket was tapping into the chronic resentment of the Right. IOW, it was patently obvious who she was long before the election, and nothing that she’s done since should be at all surprising to anyone with a pulse - even a Conservative.

But I did like one thing I read in Charles Cooke’s takedown of her meltdown:

It is deeply unconservative, too. The Right will likely never agree on how best it should move forward, but we might at least unite against the belief that there exist superheroes who are able to save the country from itself; against the idea that any one person can be the official standard bearer of a whole ideological or demographic group; and against the presumption that conservatism will gain anything much at all from the promotion and advancement of its most erratic champions.

IMO, it’s deeply un-self aware for a Conservative to decry hero worship in a profoundly authoritarian movement that defies people like the Founding Fathers as More Than Mere Mortals, and a dead actor whose actual record they ignore.

496 klystron  Jan 28, 2015 10:59:38am

Fuck fuck fuck I woke up to email that they are admitting mr. klys to the hospital overnight in London.

497 b_sharp  Jan 28, 2015 11:01:58am

re: #496 klystron

Fuck fuck fuck I woke up to email that they are admitting mr. klys to the hospital overnight in London.

What’s wrong?
{{K}}

498 klystron  Jan 28, 2015 11:03:45am

re: #497 b_sharp

What’s wrong?
{{K}}

Apparently the worst headache ever plus nausea and nearly passing out.

499 goddamnedfrank  Jan 28, 2015 11:04:26am

re: #440 Targetpractice

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When your argument is “If we give some people rights, then everybody’s gonna want rights!,” then you’re pretty much lost.

Also, the argument is math. The equation governing the number of these bilateral relationships is (n!/(n-1)!)/2. So a married couple has one bilateral testimonial and marital confidences privilege between two people, , one inheritance right, one “tenancy by the entirety,” but a 6 person marriage has 15 such bilateral privileges. So what happens when those overlapping rights and privileges compete or are in direct conflict with one another?

The existing set of laws don’t need to be rewritten in any meaningful way to accommodate same sex marriage, because the math stays the same, it’s simples and already hashed out in the courts. I don’t have a moral objection to polygamy, but it’s a practical legal nightmare, and certain privileges would definitely become much more prone to abuse, including the furtherance of large criminal conspiracies.

500 b_sharp  Jan 28, 2015 11:05:04am

re: #498 klystron

Apparently the worst headache ever plus nausea and nearly passing out.

Not good.
You’re both in my thoughts.

501 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 11:05:57am

re: #498 klystron

Apparently the worst headache ever plus nausea and nearly passing out.

They should have fed him on the plane instead of just serving beverages…

Very lame kidding aside, hope it’s nothing serious, but it’s particularly worrisome symptoms after an 11-hour flight.

502 klystron  Jan 28, 2015 11:07:25am

re: #501 Backwoods_Sleuth

They should have fed him on the plane instead of just serving beverages…

Kidding aside, hope it’s nothing serious, but it’s particularly worrisome symptoms after an 11-hour flight.

It sounds like they are doing what needs doing to take care of him I am just freaking out now. Which his first email said not to do but that of course was followed up by the second one.

503 ObserverArt  Jan 28, 2015 11:10:19am

re: #479 Feline Fearless Leader

He has to keep changing identities or the clowns will get him.
//

Too late…

Chuck Clown Johnson - goatnews on a serious mission to take down the journalism industry
504 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 28, 2015 11:15:25am

re: #453 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Wait, what?

motherjones.com

All positions on an issue are OmniRomney’s position. His opinion is legion. (And highly subjective based on his current audience.)
//

505 ObserverArt  Jan 28, 2015 11:16:57am

re: #498 klystron

Apparently the worst headache ever plus nausea and nearly passing out.

Wishing him good health. And strength for you! Best to the both of you…

506 calochortus  Jan 28, 2015 11:20:26am

re: #498 klystron

Apparently the worst headache ever plus nausea and nearly passing out.

Bad enough when he’s home, but on another continent (or island near another continent?) That’s so much tougher to deal with. I hope it ends up being a false alarm of some sort.

507 klystron  Jan 28, 2015 11:23:15am

re: #506 calochortus

Bad enough when he’s home, but on another continent (or island near another continent?) That’s so much tougher to deal with. I hope it ends up being a false alarm of some sort.

He was travelling with sinus congestion so it is hopefully related to that - the pain seems to have passed after about five minutes - but they aren’t taking chances. Which I approve of. But I am not there.

508 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 28, 2015 11:24:39am

re: #507 klystron

He was travelling with sinus congestion so it is hopefully related to that - the pain seems to have passed after about five minutes - but they aren’t taking chances. Which I approve of. But I am not there.

ahh! sinus congestion will definitely do that.

509 calochortus  Jan 28, 2015 11:25:57am

re: #508 Backwoods_Sleuth

ahh! sinus congestion will definitely do that.

Ah yes. Planes and congested sinuses do not play well together. I hope that is all it was. Still scary for all involved.

510 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 28, 2015 11:25:59am

re: #499 goddamnedfrank

Also, the argument is math. The equation governing the number of these bilateral relationships is (n!/(n-1)!)/2. So a married couple has one bilateral testimonial and marital confidences privilege between two people, , one inheritance right, one “tenancy by the entirety,” but a 6 person marriage has 15 such bilateral privileges. So what happens when those overlapping rights and privileges compete or are in direct conflict with one another?

The existing set of laws don’t need to be rewritten in any meaningful way to accommodate same sex marriage, because the math stays the same, it’s simples and already hashed out in the courts. I don’t have a moral objection to polygamy, but it’s a practical legal nightmare, and certain privileges would definitely become much more prone to abuse, including the furtherance of large criminal conspiracies.

QFT.

511 klystron  Jan 28, 2015 11:26:00am

re: #508 Backwoods_Sleuth

ahh! sinus congestion will definitely do that.

I was the grumpy wife who made him to go urgent care on Monday to get some decongestants, which he was taking. His blood pressure was apparently uber-low too when the paramedics came.

512 calochortus  Jan 28, 2015 11:34:26am

re: #511 klystron

I was going to mention blood pressure in relation to the nausea. A serious drop in BP will do that, along with the dizzinessnearly passing out. May all tie in to the decongestants as well. I’m sure you’ll find out, but not soon enough for your peace of mind. (Or as I originally typed, piece of mind. Which is probably what you feel like you have right now.)

513 klystron  Jan 28, 2015 11:39:32am

re: #512 calochortus

I am trying rather desperately to hold it together and not go get on a flight to Heathrow later today.

514 CuriousLurker  Jan 28, 2015 11:41:37am

re: #507 klystron

He was travelling with sinus congestion so it is hopefully related to that - the pain seems to have passed after about five minutes - but they aren’t taking chances. Which I approve of. But I am not there.

Dammit. You must be climbing the walls. {{{klys}}}

Sending prayers & good thoughts your way (and his).

515 Eventual Carrion  Jan 28, 2015 1:25:55pm

re: #496 klystron

Fuck fuck fuck I woke up to email that they are admitting mr. klys to the hospital overnight in London.

{klys and the mister}


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