Sarah Palin Poetry Slam of the Day

We would fall in line and bend our backs as they rode us with reins
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Yes, it’s another monumental wall of authentic wingnut gibberish, brought to you by half-governor Sarah Palin! This time I decided it makes much more sense to look at this as sort of impressionistic free verse. So imagine Sarah in a smoky hipster poetry slam, intoning these words with her usual random pitch variations and weird unpredictable emphasis:

WE DEMAND
A Sarah Palin joint

It’s said
that a man’s word
can affect the course of history.

Certainly a man
with a microphone can.

Mainstream media lies.
Without accountability
their power can influence national debate,
shift momentum,
and destroy a person’s good name.

All affecting history.

When one of their own
repeats a … lie?
for 12 years but is excused
with the help of the media’s herd mentality,
tragic distrust and despondency
blankets our land.

The veil is torn,
however,
with the revelation
of exaggerated, self-centered falsehoods like NBC’s perpetual lie that belittled our soldiers and their truly courageous missions.

The face of that network’s news
lied about combat experiences
in Iraq
and then
with false humility
accepted the title of “war hero”
while the press ignores,
disrespects,
and often destroys
the good name of our true war heroes.

To me, that’s like soiling sacred ground.

Brian Williams equated
himself
with our honorable vets and troops in combat boots
with a made-up story
of his courage and victorious return
to the make-up chair
strolling in his Bruno Maglis back
to read his TelePrompTer’s twisted scripts,

and we were forced to swallow it all.

That was then.

This is now,
when we can thank
God
for new unconventional media that scatters the deceiving herd that would do this to America.

Leftist media
and their minions
in politics
tried for too long
to fundamentally transform
America
with their shared assumption we would fall in line and bend our backs as they rode us with reins to control our individual sovereignty.

WE DEMAND
truth in reporting
by shifting a market away from those refusing to give it.

WE DEMAND
adherence to our Constitution
by taking back our government from those refusing to do it.

WE DEMAND
the fundamental restoration of America
by refusing to bend to anyone dangerously transforming it.

Thank you for that!

[sound of finger snapping]

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378 comments
1 Skip Intro  Feb 5, 2015 5:48:07pm

Guess who’s going to make another drunken rant at CPAC this year.

2 Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 5, 2015 5:48:16pm

Scatters the Deceiving Herd

I’ll take “Rejected Titles for a Rush Album” for $200, Alex.

3 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 5, 2015 5:50:19pm

Once again, I’m terrified by how well this works.

4 BigPapa  Feb 5, 2015 5:50:47pm

smoky hipster poetry slam

Honco Fist Bump.

5 Skip Intro  Feb 5, 2015 5:51:29pm
strolling in his Bruno Maglis back

I admit I had to look this one up

6 b.d.  Feb 5, 2015 5:52:15pm

*shudder*

7 jaunte  Feb 5, 2015 5:52:25pm

He who warned the British
That they weren’t be taking away our arms,
By ringing those bells
And making sure
As he’s riding his horse through town
To send those warning shots and bells
That we were going to be secure
And we were going to be free

Sarah’s still mad at Brian Williams for publicizing that one.

8 Skip Intro  Feb 5, 2015 5:53:29pm
to control our individual sovereignty

I don’t think she knows what that word means.

9 jaunte  Feb 5, 2015 5:53:59pm

Let’s go to the tape

10 b_sharp  Feb 5, 2015 5:54:29pm

She’s so slated for crashville, man.

11 dog philosopher  Feb 5, 2015 5:54:42pm

deadthreaded

12 Single-handed sailor  Feb 5, 2015 5:54:44pm

re: #5 Skip Intro

I admit I had to look this one up

She knows what they are because she bought them for Todd on McCain’s dime.

13 b_sharp  Feb 5, 2015 5:59:13pm

I can just see her in a dumpy smoke filled dive, with the tones of an upright bass thumping in time to her cadence, reading this magic off her palm.

14 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 5, 2015 6:00:04pm

Needz more bongos and stand-up bass.

15 dog philosopher  Feb 5, 2015 6:00:39pm

re: #8 Skip Intro

to control our individual sovereignty

I don’t think she knows what that word means.

no big gummint telling us who we can and cant marry, no big gummint telling women what they can and cant do with their wombs, no big gummint swooping down and tearing apart families because of immigration status, or restricting our right to vote or to get as large a settlement in a lawsuit as the court will allow or to unionize

that’s what she means im sure im sure

16 Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2015 6:00:56pm
17 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 5, 2015 6:01:24pm

It should be possible to Photoshop her head onto Audrey Hepburn’s body in a shot from ‘Funny Face’.

18 b_sharp  Feb 5, 2015 6:02:02pm

re: #14 Blind Frog Belly White

Needz more bongos and stand-up bass.

Look up.

19 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 5, 2015 6:02:48pm

re: #15 dog philosopher

I don’t think she knows what that word means.

no big gummint telling us who we can and cant marry, no big gummint telling women what they can and cant do with their wombs, no big gummint swooping down and tearing apart families because of immigration status, or restricting our right to vote or to get as large a settlement in a lawsuit as the court will allow or to unionize

that’s what she means im sure im sure

who are you

archey or ee fucking cummings

20 Skip Intro  Feb 5, 2015 6:03:37pm

re: #15 dog philosopher

This is from wiki: “Sovereignty, in layman’s terms, means a state or a governing body has the full right and power to govern itself without any interference from outside sources or bodies. “

So it’s safe to say that Sarah is now a member of the sovereign citizen movement, and no longer holds allegiance to anything besides herself.

21 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 5, 2015 6:04:08pm

re: #18 b_sharp

Look up.

Yeah, but I said bongos.

22 Skip Intro  Feb 5, 2015 6:05:15pm

re: #21 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah, but I said bongos.

You rang?

23 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 5, 2015 6:05:24pm

This

Reminds me of this

24 b_sharp  Feb 5, 2015 6:06:01pm

re: #21 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah, but I said bongos.

Yes you did, so you are more complete.

25 Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2015 6:06:42pm

Never understood this tradition of writing messages on bombs. Pretty sure nobody has ever actually read one of these.

26 dog philosopher  Feb 5, 2015 6:06:47pm

re: #19 Blind Frog Belly White

who are you

archey or ee fucking cummings

im following strunk & white & grxxtt’s elements of style year 2130 edition

27 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 5, 2015 6:07:20pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Never understood this tradition of writing messages on bombs. Pretty sure nobody has ever actually read one of these.

“If you can read this, you’re too close”

28 jaunte  Feb 5, 2015 6:07:30pm

“It says BOOM”

29 thedopefishlives  Feb 5, 2015 6:08:10pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Never understood this tradition of writing messages on bombs. Pretty sure nobody has ever actually read one of these.

It makes the guys loading the bombs feel better, like they’re delivering their own personal “fuck you” to the baddies. Think of it as therapy for the guys whose job revolves around handling multiple tons of high explosives every day.

30 b_sharp  Feb 5, 2015 6:10:04pm

re: #28 jaunte

“It says BOOM”

It says: “If this bomb is found unexploded, please return to sender. Return postage is prepaid.”

31 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 5, 2015 6:10:10pm

Oh, wait - you said POETRYslam. Not POULTRYslam.

Nevermind.

32 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 5, 2015 6:10:36pm

re: #26 dog philosopher

who are you

archey or ee fucking cummings

im following strunk & white & grxxtt’s elements of style year 2130 edition

Shouldn’t there be some apostrophes in there someplace? ////

RBS

33 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 5, 2015 6:10:57pm

PIE OF THE WEEK: BLUEBERRY PIE

34 jaunte  Feb 5, 2015 6:12:31pm

I need to consider upping my pie intake.

35 Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2015 6:13:32pm

Oh brother.

36 thedopefishlives  Feb 5, 2015 6:13:53pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

Oh brother.

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Is that supposed to be English?

37 jaunte  Feb 5, 2015 6:14:37pm
heightened entertainmnt4elites&dumbed

New podcast?

38 Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2015 6:14:44pm

re: #36 thedopefishlives

These are Chuck’s fans. His audience. That’s who he attracts.

39 Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 5, 2015 6:14:48pm

re: #23 The Vicious Babushka

Wow. Jordanian news is really melodramatic! That’s the Middle East for you… I noticed they showed some ladies loading the bombs too.

40 thedopefishlives  Feb 5, 2015 6:15:28pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

These are Chuck’s fans. His audience. That’s who he attracts.

We’re going to need a translator. I speak Derp fluently, but apparently I don’t speak Stupid.

41 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 5, 2015 6:15:59pm

re: #33 The Vicious Babushka

PIE OF THE WEEK: BLUEBERRY PIE

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Yea!!! It’s Thursday. I LOVE Blueberry pie. I remember my grandmother making it, that and clam chowder. (New England style)

RBS

42 jaunte  Feb 5, 2015 6:16:17pm

Some seriously low standards at work.

43 Mike Lamb  Feb 5, 2015 6:17:17pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

Oh brother.

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Newscasters embellish for entertainment?!?!?! Alert the media!! Or is that too meta?

44 TedStriker  Feb 5, 2015 6:17:29pm

re: #20 Skip Intro

This is from wiki: “Sovereignty, in layman’s terms, means a state or a governing body has the full right and power to govern itself without any interference from outside sources or bodies. “

So it’s safe to say that Sarah is now a member of the sovereign citizen movement, and no longer holds allegiance to anything besides herself.

That’s perhaps no surprise, since hubby Todd was an Alaskan Independence Party member before she was governor, IIRC.

Whether she herself was or is a member (or is, at least, sympathetic), I don’t know, but, personally, I think she ran as a Republican strictly for political expediency; even in Alaska, third parties are generally unelectable, I surmise.

45 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 5, 2015 6:18:37pm

re: #42 jaunte

I wouldn’t plumb upchuck’s intentions for a million bucks.

46 Belafon  Feb 5, 2015 6:18:38pm

On the topic of remembering events, this is interesting: You Have No Idea What Happened:

… The day following the explosion of the Challenger, in January, 1986, Neisser, then a professor of cognitive psychology at Emory, and his assistant, Nicole Harsch, handed out a questionnaire about the event to the hundred and six students in their ten o’clock psychology 101 class, “Personality Development.” Where were the students when they heard the news? Whom were they with? What were they doing? The professor and his assistant carefully filed the responses away.

In the fall of 1988, two and a half years later, the questionnaire was given a second time to the same students. It was then that R. T. recalled, with absolute confidence, her dorm-room experience. But when Neisser and Harsch compared the two sets of answers, they found barely any similarities. According to R. T.’s first recounting, she’d been in her religion class when she heard some students begin to talk about an explosion. She didn’t know any details of what had happened, “except that it had exploded and the schoolteacher’s students had all been watching, which I thought was sad.” After class, she went to her room, where she watched the news on TV, by herself, and learned more about the tragedy.

R. T. was far from alone in her misplaced confidence. When the psychologists rated the accuracy of the students’ recollections for things like where they were and what they were doing, the average student scored less than three on a scale of seven. A quarter scored zero. But when the students were asked about their confidence levels, with five being the highest, they averaged 4.17. Their memories were vivid, clear—and wrong. There was no relationship at all between confidence and accuracy…

47 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Feb 5, 2015 6:19:03pm

re: #42 jaunte

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Some seriously low standards at work.

intends truth

Intends Truth

That’s funny and tragic and maybe a bit scary.

48 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 5, 2015 6:21:05pm

re: #47 The Ghost of the Vanishing Commissar

intends truth

Intends Truth

That’s funny and tragic and maybe a bit scary.

I INTEND to sleep my way through the Sports Illustrated Swim Suit Models. There is exactly as much chance of that happening as upChuck seeking out the truth.

RBS

49 b_sharp  Feb 5, 2015 6:23:09pm

re: #46 Belafon

On the topic of remembering events, this is interesting: You Have No Idea What Happened:

This is a common result. The brain is easily fooled.

50 Justanotherhuman  Feb 5, 2015 6:24:19pm

Needs moar cowbell.

51 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Feb 5, 2015 6:25:19pm

re: #48 RealityBasedSteve

I INTEND to sleep my way through the Sports Illustrated Swim Suit Models. There is exactly as much chance of that happening as upChuck seeking out the truth.

RBS

Yeah, but banging swimsuit models lacks an Orwellian undertone, though.

“Intends truth” is pregnant with sinister assumptions about the nature of veracity.

52 darthstar  Feb 5, 2015 6:25:48pm

I see she’s still bitter about having to give back all those designer clothes after the 2008 election.

53 freetoken  Feb 5, 2015 6:27:08pm

As I am rather disconnected from my society’s obsession with professional sports I missed this one, but it appears as if the latest Super Bowl was less than super for one creationist:

Carnival Responds to Creationists: Super Bowl Ad Wasn’t About Evolution

Creationist leader Ken Ham said that Carnival “blatantly used evolution to advertise its cruises.” In particular, he was upset about the usage of Kennedy’s speech, which said, “I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it’s because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it’s because we all came from the sea.”

54 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 5, 2015 6:27:36pm

re: #46 Belafon

On the topic of remembering events, this is interesting: You Have No Idea What Happened:

They had a nice piece on this the other night on NPR. It seems that memorys are very labile, and each time you pull up a memory, there is a very real chance that it gets changed slightly. Over time it can completely change. It also went into how easy it was to create a false memory in small children, and how they will fill in all the blanks and elaborate on it.

The thing is, those people are aren’t “Lying” in when they relate those memories. At least not in the sense that they are using a falsehood to deceive someone. I would imagine a person would absolutely pass a polygraph test, since they are relating it exactly as the remember it…. <Edited to show what I meant to say>

Interesting stuff, as I recall.

RBS

55 Justanotherhuman  Feb 5, 2015 6:28:58pm

re: #51 The Ghost of the Vanishing Commissar

You may find a treat.

Regular-sized women cause a splash in Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition

wreg.com

They have the nerve to call this woman “plus size”.

Spit.

56 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Feb 5, 2015 6:29:44pm

re: #51 The Ghost of the Vanishing Commissar

On second thought, in the spirit of empiricism, I should probably have sex with as many swimsuit models as possible before declaring what tonal qualities the act is capable of.

57 Belafon  Feb 5, 2015 6:31:10pm

re: #54 RealityBasedSteve

They had a nice piece on this the other night on NPR. It seems that memorys are very labile, and each time you pull up a memory, there is a very real chance that it gets changed slightly. Over time it can completely change. It also went into how easy it was to create a false memory in small children, and how they will fill in all the blanks and elaborate on it.

The thing is, those people are “Lying” in when they relate those memories. At least not in the sense that they are using a falsehood to deceive someone. I would imagine a person would absolutely pass a polygraph test, since they are relating it exactly as the remember it….

Interesting stuff, as I recall.

RBS

And think about the oral histories of civilizations, especially those involved in religions.

58 bratwurst  Feb 5, 2015 6:32:56pm
59 freetoken  Feb 5, 2015 6:34:22pm

re: #57 Belafon

Collective memories become their own thing, the “meme” so to speak, with its own life.

The big fight uphill for modernity is promulgating the discovery that well designed processes to collect and evaluate information are telling us more about “reality” than the group memory constructs that morph over generations of re-telling.

60 #FergusonFireside  Feb 5, 2015 6:35:24pm

re: #31 Blind Frog Belly White

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Oh, wait - you said POETRYslam. Not POULTRYslam.

Nevermind.

That was the best event ever.

History was made.

61 Great White Snark  Feb 5, 2015 6:35:43pm
62 Kragar  Feb 5, 2015 6:36:13pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Never understood this tradition of writing messages on bombs. Pretty sure nobody has ever actually read one of these.

The practice dates back centuries:

Lead sling bullet; almond shape; a winged thunderbolt on one side and on the other, in high relief, the inscription DEXAI “Catch!”

Sling Stones

Almond shaped leaden sling-bullets were typically about 35 mm (1 3/8 in) long and about 20 mm (3/4 in) wide weighing approximately 28 g (0.99 oz). Very often, symbols or writings were moulded into lead sling-bullets. Many examples have been found including a collection of about 80 sling-bullets from the siege of Perusia in Etruria from 41 BC, to be found in the museum of modern Perugia. Examples of symbols include a stylised lightning bolt, a snake, and a scorpion - reminders of how a sling might strike without warning. Writing might include the name of the owning military unit or commander or might be more imaginative: “Take this,” “Ouch,” and even “For Pompey’s backside” added insult to injury, whereas dexai (“take this” or “catch!”)[7] is merely sarcastic.

63 #FergusonFireside  Feb 5, 2015 6:37:49pm

re: #55 Justanotherhuman

You may find a treat.

Regular-sized women cause a splash in Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition

wreg.com

They have the nerve to call this woman “plus size”.

Spit.

I am not impressed by the cover photo. No, not at all.

64 #FergusonFireside  Feb 5, 2015 6:39:48pm

re: #55 Justanotherhuman

You may find a treat.

Regular-sized women cause a splash in Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition

wreg.com

They have the nerve to call this woman “plus size”.

Spit.

There was a twitter hashtag going today, I cannot remember it. But it was real women in bikinis.

Best quote: You want a bikini body? Put your body in a bikini.

65 Great White Snark  Feb 5, 2015 6:41:42pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Haha true enough. But…Just a way for a military technician laborer with a damn dangerous job to say a few things to the enemy by way of trash talk and camaraderie. Who reads it? Your fellow fighters and armorers.

66 Great White Snark  Feb 5, 2015 6:43:52pm

re: #64 #FergusonFireside

Best quote: You want a bikini body? Put your body in a bikini.

Ummm that would just never work out for me. Best leave that to the lovely wife.

67 bratwurst  Feb 5, 2015 6:44:29pm

Ha!

68 #FergusonFireside  Feb 5, 2015 6:44:30pm

re: #66 Great White Snark

Ummm that would just never work out for me.

Better for all of us, I assume.

69 Justanotherhuman  Feb 5, 2015 6:45:53pm

Later, Lizards.

I’m still hoping to find a suitable house. Against all odds. And for no more than $60-$75/sq ft with curb appeal and a sizeable back yard. : )

Yeah, that’s doable down here if you can do without high-end finishes and don’t need cavernous bedrooms.

70 Great White Snark  Feb 5, 2015 6:47:41pm

re: #68 #FergusonFireside

I used to tell my friends I was a believer in the “3 don’t” rule. There are 3 things as a man you don’t do unless you can do it really well. 1. Dancing. 2. Singing. 3. Drag.

71 Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2015 6:47:45pm
72 TedStriker  Feb 5, 2015 6:53:35pm

re: #67 bratwurst

Ha!

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The last paragraph’s really the kicker:

At press time, RNC leaders confirmed they had discontinued the leg of training that involved entering Stocktonville’s African-American neighborhood, saying it was simply too difficult for all of the candidates.

Burn.

73 FemNaziBitch  Feb 5, 2015 6:56:29pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Never understood this tradition of writing messages on bombs. Pretty sure nobody has ever actually read one of these.

The idea of sending a message —that should be pretty fucking obvious by those receiving the bomb in the first place.

“We WANT YOU DEAD”.

74 Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 5, 2015 6:58:13pm

re: #65 Great White Snark

Haha true enough. But…Just a way for a military technician laborer with a damn dangerous job to say a few things to the enemy by way of trash talk and camaraderie. Who reads it? Your fellow fighters and armorers.

I seem to recall that they’ve taken apart historic airplanes or repaired ships and found patriotic graffiti of that sort written in places never intended to see the light of day again.

75 #FergusonFireside  Feb 5, 2015 6:59:40pm

My brother in Florida had a superb owl party at his apartment complex. They brought his 60” tv down from the 3rd floor & hung it on a tree. You can see the grill fired up in the background. What a party.

76 dog philosopher  Feb 5, 2015 7:13:05pm

re: #71 Charles Johnson

there’s just no point in trying to talk to people on Twitter

i dont believe anything i hear, and only half of what i twitter

77 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 5, 2015 7:13:34pm

re: #74 Feline Fearless Leader

I seem to recall that they’ve taken apart historic airplanes or repaired ships and found patriotic graffiti of that sort written in places never intended to see the light of day again.

There was a lot of graffiti found in the pyramids, most of it showing that construction workers haven’t changed a bit over all the years. oh, and dick pics. Lots of dick pics.

RBS

78 #FergusonFireside  Feb 5, 2015 7:13:36pm

That’s my 78 year old Mom chatting up some guy in the center. ha!

Wish I was there.

79 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 5, 2015 7:14:06pm

re: #11 dog philosopher

deadthreaded

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I always kinda liked Eugene Debs because of his “never give up” attitude.
Unlike Sarah Palin, he actually kept running for office over and over and over. And some of his major campaign platforms for workers actually got adopted by the major parties.

80 Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2015 7:14:38pm
81 Decatur Deb  Feb 5, 2015 7:15:01pm

re: #17 Blind Frog Belly White

It should be possible to Photoshop her head onto Audrey Hepburn’s body in a shot from ‘Funny Face’.

Possible, but a hanging offense.

82 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 5, 2015 7:15:58pm

re: #20 Skip Intro

This is from wiki: “Sovereignty, in layman’s terms, means a state or a governing body has the full right and power to govern itself without any interference from outside sources or bodies. “

So it’s safe to say that Sarah is now a member of the sovereign citizen movement, and no longer holds allegiance to anything besides herself.

She always was. Todd was a member of AIP, and AIP was supporting her even when she was mayor of Wasilla.

83 Gus  Feb 5, 2015 7:16:31pm

re: #80 Charles Johnson

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Is he ready to fight in a 21st century Crusade?

84 dog philosopher  Feb 5, 2015 7:17:24pm

re: #55 Justanotherhuman

You may find a treat.

Regular-sized women cause a splash in Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition

wreg.com

They have the nerve to call this woman “plus size”.

Spit.

Graham is modeling for a bathing suit company stressing that bodies come in every shape.

watch out for them möbius wimmen

85 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 5, 2015 7:17:27pm

re: #32 RealityBasedSteve

Shouldn’t there be some apostrophes in there someplace? ////

RBS

and commas…OXFORD COMMAS!

86 FemNaziBitch  Feb 5, 2015 7:17:29pm
87 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 5, 2015 7:18:20pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

Oh brother.

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Did Maria’s cat take over her keyboard for that?

88 FemNaziBitch  Feb 5, 2015 7:18:50pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

She always was. Todd was a member of AIP, and AIP was supporting her even when she was mayor of Wasilla.

I think she is a part of any group who will take her.

89 Bubblehead II  Feb 5, 2015 7:19:46pm

Night Lizards.

90 dog philosopher  Feb 5, 2015 7:20:37pm

re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth

I always kinda liked Eugene Debs because of his “never give up” attitude.
Unlike Sarah Palin, he actually kept running for office over and over and over. And some of his major campaign platforms for workers actually got adopted by the major parties.

it was said of bismarck that he threw the socialists in jail and then stole their ideas

“napoleon became a brandy, bismarck became a herring, und ze fuhrer will end up as a piece of cheese”

…also, american socialists in the 19th century ran on radical issues like a minimum wage, a 60 (!) hour work week, voting rights for women, and banning child labor

91 Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2015 7:21:18pm
92 Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 5, 2015 7:21:34pm

re: #88 FemNaziBitch

I think she is a part of any group who will pay take her.

FTFY.

93 nines09  Feb 5, 2015 7:23:47pm

GOP Lawmaker: Pregnancy From Rape ‘Is The Silver Lining’
Yes and then with visitation rights it’s like Leave It To Beaver. Just like Ozzie and Harriet. Furiously Re-Branding the same old shit.

94 Kragar  Feb 5, 2015 7:24:34pm

re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth

You’ve got mail.

95 nines09  Feb 5, 2015 7:25:41pm

More bad news for His Largeness Chris Christie.

96 TedStriker  Feb 5, 2015 7:26:20pm

re: #93 nines09

GOP Lawmaker: Pregnancy From Rape ‘Is The Silver Lining’
Yes and then with visitation rights it’s like Leave It To Beaver. Just like Ozzie and Harriet. Furiously Re-Branding the same old shit.

Shitheads never learn from the reactions to their fellow shitheads’ gaffes, do they?

97 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 5, 2015 7:26:22pm

It’s not only memory that’s unreliable—you can see the goddamndest shit just as clearly as you see reality.

Many years ago at work, I was driving the security van around and around the hospital I worked at at night. Parked on the end of one row of the parking lot was a blue Firebird with a white interior, and the driver’s seat was folded forward. And…that’s what I saw, the first umpty-kajillion times I went by.

Finally, one time as my headlights swept across this blue Firebird with its weird-shaped-headrest driver’s seat folded forward, I saw, as clearly as I’ve ever seen anything, a blue Firebird with Quick-Draw McGraw in the driver’s seat.

If I were a wingnut, I’d probably try to torture reality into fitting in with what I saw—ZOMG!!! TERRISTS IN CARTOON COSTOOMZ!!!11!!. But I’m not, and that made me a true believer in the heavily-edited nature of vision and memory.

98 Lidane  Feb 5, 2015 7:26:45pm

re: #93 nines09

Republicans just need to STFU about sex, abortion, rape, pregnancy, and anything related to morality. They’re really bad at it.

99 TedStriker  Feb 5, 2015 7:28:08pm

re: #95 nines09

More bad news for His Largeness Chris Christie.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

100 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 5, 2015 7:29:29pm

re: #94 Kragar

You’ve got mail.

got it!

101 Kragar  Feb 5, 2015 7:30:41pm
102 FemNaziBitch  Feb 5, 2015 7:32:43pm

re: #93 nines09

GOP Lawmaker: Pregnancy From Rape ‘Is The Silver Lining’
Yes and then with visitation rights it’s like Leave It To Beaver. Just like Ozzie and Harriet. Furiously Re-Branding the same old shit.

something that is said only by men.

103 nines09  Feb 5, 2015 7:33:33pm

re: #98 Lidane

Republicans just need to STFU about sex, abortion, rape, pregnancy, and anything related to morality. They’re really bad at it.

I’m sure if he had a daughter and she was raped, and beat up and left maybe for dead, that a pregnancy would be a message from above. Yes it would. And this cretin is from West Virginia where THIS is legal.

104 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 5, 2015 7:34:29pm

re: #93 nines09

GOP Lawmaker: Pregnancy From Rape ‘Is The Silver Lining’
Yes and then with visitation rights it’s like Leave It To Beaver. Just like Ozzie and Harriet. Furiously Re-Branding the same old shit.

It’s like rape lemonade!

105 Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2015 7:37:26pm
106 nines09  Feb 5, 2015 7:38:11pm

re: #104 The Vicious Babushka

I liked the episode where June walked gingerly across the room and put her hand on Wards shoulder and said; “Don’t you think you were a little hard on The Beaver last night?” Then she limps away…….
Goodnight Lizards. Try the chicken, I’m here all week…

107 Single-handed sailor  Feb 5, 2015 7:42:13pm
108 wrenchwench  Feb 5, 2015 7:43:12pm
109 #FergusonFireside  Feb 5, 2015 7:45:50pm

re: #108 wrenchwench

How’s it going WW?

110 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 5, 2015 7:46:01pm

re: #108 wrenchwench

That should totally be an album cover.

111 Varek Raith  Feb 5, 2015 7:46:04pm

Laurence O’Donnell is a prick.
WTF is he going on about?
Yeesh.
TV Off

112 FemNaziBitch  Feb 5, 2015 7:47:39pm

How would you like to be the kid who is fathered thru rape?

How do you tell a kid about his father, when the father is a rapist?

113 Belafon  Feb 5, 2015 7:47:59pm

re: #71 Charles Johnson

The question I have for you, though, is when, after a person has been on the wrong side of an issue for a while, at what point in time are they credited for changing the way they acted and are now on the correct side?

114 Kragar  Feb 5, 2015 7:48:51pm
115 Kragar  Feb 5, 2015 7:49:49pm

re: #112 FemNaziBitch

How would you like to be the kid who is fathered thru rape?

How do you tell a kid about his father, when the father is a rapist?

Its win-win for these assholes. They get to either complain about single moms or they get to force a woman into marrying her rapist.

116 FemNaziBitch  Feb 5, 2015 7:49:50pm
The bill is funded by a $32 million cut to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the agency created by President Barack Obama’s 2010 Wall Street reform bill to crack down on predatory lending, mortgage abuses and unscrupulous credit card companies .
117 Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2015 7:49:51pm
118 wrenchwench  Feb 5, 2015 7:50:13pm

re: #109 #FergusonFireside

How’s it going WW?

The right direction, but ssllloowwwwwly.

120 Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2015 7:52:10pm

re: #113 Belafon

There’s more going on than that, and I get the parallel to my own situation, believe me. But this group was one of the main forces that convinced hundreds of thousands of parents they didn’t need to vaccinate their kids. I think it’s pretty outrageous for them to now pretend it never even happened.

121 Kragar  Feb 5, 2015 7:52:37pm

re: #119 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

gotnwes.com exclusive!

EXCLUSIVE: Award Winning ‘Journalist’ Chuck C. Johnson vs. Award Winning Journalist Brian Williams

You’ll note all of Chuck’s journalism “awards” were college scholarship deals paid for by RWNJs, not actual journalism awards.

122 Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2015 7:54:10pm
123 FemNaziBitch  Feb 5, 2015 7:54:17pm

re: #121 Kragar

You’ll note all of Chuck’s journalism “awards” were college scholarship deals paid for by RWNJs, not actual journalism awards.

Is that like people who have 2 year associate degrees telling people they have a college degree?

124 FemNaziBitch  Feb 5, 2015 7:54:45pm

re: #122 Charles Johnson

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I whhhhaaaannnnnt a Fluffle.

125 Kragar  Feb 5, 2015 7:55:38pm

re: #123 FemNaziBitch

Is that like people who have 2 year associate degrees telling people they have a college degree?

Nope, its like saying your learner’s permit makes you a NASCAR driver

126 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 5, 2015 7:55:45pm

re: #121 Kragar

You’ll note all of Chuck’s journalism “awards” were college scholarship deals paid for by RWNJs, not actual journalism awards.

Yes, and the field of competitors was notably smaller.

127 #FergusonFireside  Feb 5, 2015 7:56:29pm

re: #118 wrenchwench

The right direction, but ssllloowwwwwly.

Good. Strength to you.

128 Decatur Deb  Feb 5, 2015 7:56:52pm

A group of rabbits is called a “stew”.

129 #FergusonFireside  Feb 5, 2015 7:57:32pm

re: #128 Decatur Deb

A group of rabbits is called a “stew”.

brutal

130 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 5, 2015 7:57:56pm

re: #128 Decatur Deb

A group of rabbits is called a “stew”.

Amen.

131 Kragar  Feb 5, 2015 7:58:10pm

re: #128 Decatur Deb

A group of rabbits is called a “stew”.

My default response to that kind of picture is “and they’re great on the grill.”

132 FemNaziBitch  Feb 5, 2015 8:01:34pm
133 ObserverArt  Feb 5, 2015 8:04:40pm

re: #80 Charles Johnson

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re: #91 Charles Johnson

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I had to log in when I saw your comments. I was sitting here at my computer looking at some code recommendations and had O’Donnell on in the background.

Just glad to know I wasn’t the only one going what the fu…

Everyone is getting freaky. And that professor guy (didn’t catch his name) what the hell was he even saying???

And Obama was on his high horse by saying ISIS is not real Islam…makes the President automatically saying he knows real Islam. Alex Jones can twist like that. It means Obama is a Muslim for sure.

And he said it at a prayer meeting!!!

Wow, just wow.

I fear what is around the corner. The next couple months are going to be real ( your answer here ).

134 lawhawk  Feb 5, 2015 8:06:50pm

Re: Katrina flooding:

nola.com

Let the animation run the full way. You will see that parts of the French Quarter were indeed flooded. Not to the extent of the Lower Ninth, but parts did get damaged. Parts of the French Quarter are at a higher elevation than the surrounding area, so they escaped the worst of the damage.

135 FemNaziBitch  Feb 5, 2015 8:08:47pm

2016 is coming fast and it seems a lot of fortunes are depending on military action.

Add fuel to the flame of hate and xenophobia —name it Islam and send more soldiers to the ME.

Does that sound like the current formula used by the WHACKOS?

136 ObserverArt  Feb 5, 2015 8:09:30pm

re: #114 Kragar

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So, that’s what happened to me. That is why I didn’t work to have the math skillz my brothers had and became an artist.

And now it is very clear why I was a big fan of Leonardo da Vinci.

Damn…all these years wandering in the field. I feel like I was just listed in the phone book!

: )

137 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 5, 2015 8:10:07pm

re: #112 FemNaziBitch

How would you like to be the kid who is fathered thru rape?

How do you tell a kid about his father, when the father is a rapist?

You’ll be forced to explain how what you were wearing made it your own fault. /Not even kidding.

138 Great White Snark  Feb 5, 2015 8:10:12pm

re: #128 Decatur Deb

A group of rabbits is called a “stew”.

In this kerfuffle my goose may be cooked, but almost nobody has a goose for a pet.

139 FemNaziBitch  Feb 5, 2015 8:11:41pm

re: #136 ObserverArt

So, that’s what happened to me. That is why I didn’t work to have the math skillz my brothers had and became an artist.

And now it is very clear why I was a big fan of Leonardo da Vinci.

Damn…all these years wandering in the field. I feel like I was just listed in the phone book!

: )

math and art are two sides of the same coin.

140 ObserverArt  Feb 5, 2015 8:11:51pm

re: #118 wrenchwench

The right direction, but ssllloowwwwwly.

Ahhh. Just like riding a bike. It all comes back to you.

Great to hear wrench.

141 Decatur Deb  Feb 5, 2015 8:13:13pm

re: #135 FemNaziBitch

2016 is coming fast and it seems a lot of fortunes are depending on military action.

Add fuel to the flame of hate and xenophobia —name it Islam and send more soldiers to the ME.

Does that sound like the current formula used by the WHACKOS?

In effect, we’re already flying air cover for Assad and for the Iranians.

142 FemNaziBitch  Feb 5, 2015 8:13:57pm

bbl

143 lawhawk  Feb 5, 2015 8:16:16pm

rant on:

/rant off

144 ObserverArt  Feb 5, 2015 8:16:52pm

re: #139 FemNaziBitch

math and art are two sides of the same coin.

I still had the genes. Once I got into advanced algebra/trig Junior year high school I grew disinterested. I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was born with a pencil and a piece of paper.

I killed geometry…go figure.

145 teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2015 8:18:30pm

So I got a good view of the Men’s Super G today for the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.

Bode Miller was having the run of his life - he was a half a second ahead - when he sustained a horrific crash. The collective gasp from the grandstand was clearly audible from way above where he crashed (where I was).

146 retired cynic  Feb 5, 2015 8:20:36pm

re: #145 teleskiguy

How’s Body?

147 retired cynic  Feb 5, 2015 8:20:53pm

re: #146 retired cynic

How’s Body?

Uh, Bode.

148 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 5, 2015 8:21:12pm

re: #145 teleskiguy

Good to see him stand up at the end.

149 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 5, 2015 8:22:18pm

re: #145 teleskiguy

So I got a good view of the Men’s Super G today for the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.

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Bode Miller was having the run of his life - he was a half a second ahead - when he sustained a horrific crash. The collective gasp from the grandstand was clearly audible from way above where he crashed (where I was).

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Just curious, I know that you’re an excellent skier. How well would you fare on the courses that they have out there. I know that even a good golfer would be totally out of his league if he was playing a course set up for a PGA event, especially something like the US Open.

RBS

150 Gus  Feb 5, 2015 8:22:45pm
151 Jenner7  Feb 5, 2015 8:23:17pm
152 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 5, 2015 8:24:23pm

re: #101 Kragar

And, worth repeating from downstairs (I think this tweet is so full on win!)

153 ObserverArt  Feb 5, 2015 8:24:41pm

Heh…just a moment ago in the ad slot at the page bottom.

Join John Kasich and GOP Leaders Ad at LGF - Targeted!

Teleskiguy, that run reminds me of Eau Rouge, the very fast downhill, uphill turn complex at the Belgium Spa race circuit. F1 on snow!

154 teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2015 8:26:24pm

re: #149 RealityBasedSteve

Just curious, I know that you’re an excellent skier. How well would you fare on the courses that they have out there. I know that even a good golfer would be totally out of his league if he was playing a course set up for a PGA event, especially something like the US Open.

RBS

Oh I could ski it with the right gear - World Cup race stock skis with 20-din bindings and 150-flex boots. I wouldn’t be competitive at all.

I was a forerunner for a World Cup Giant Slalom when I was 18, hardest course I’ve ever raced, and I missed a gate close to the bottom.

155 makeitstop  Feb 5, 2015 8:27:19pm

I meant to post this last night, but forgot. Driftglass delivers a solid takedown of The Greenwald.

Read it, it’s short but epic..

156 Mattand  Feb 5, 2015 8:27:31pm

re: #91 Charles Johnson

We talking Maher/Harris level bigotry here?

I was never a huge fan of O’Donnell’s, but I’m kinda shocked to hear this.

157 Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2015 8:27:35pm

Coming up next on MSNBC, right after “Lockup” — “The Last Word,” with Robert Spencer, Walid Shoebat, and Pamela Geller.

158 retired cynic  Feb 5, 2015 8:27:58pm

re: #157 Charles Johnson

No!

159 Gus  Feb 5, 2015 8:29:05pm
160 dog philosopher  Feb 5, 2015 8:30:19pm

re: #147 retired cynic

Uh, Bode.

here goes bode!

161 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 5, 2015 8:30:24pm

re: #122 Charles Johnson

Back in the day when I lived in a very rural area of Illinois, one of my cats brought a baby bunny to the front porch.
A few minutes later, she was back with another baby bunny.
By the time she was finished, there were 10 baby bunnies, all unharmed, and different sizes.
Guess she just wanted to be a momma.

162 #FergusonFireside  Feb 5, 2015 8:31:15pm

You, Mr., are our Gus 1st. Don’t forget your roots sonny.

163 teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2015 8:32:57pm

re: #146 retired cynic

How’s Body?

re: #147 retired cynic

Uh, Bode.

He suffered a deep laceration on his leg, will require many many stitches. Problem is, the Men’s Downhill is on Saturday. I bet we’ll hear tomorrow sometime if he’s done or not.

Bode will survive.

I wasn’t a great day for the American men. Bode and Travis Ganong DNF’d. At least Ted Ligety got in the top 10 (9th). Steven Nyman and Andrew Weibrecht both placed 20th.

Canada did great. Dustin Cook took the Silver Medal today.

164 Timothy Watson  Feb 5, 2015 8:33:01pm

Apparently there’s some story going around claiming the Jordanian pilot, who executed, was shot down by accident by his own wingman.

Based on my lay notice of fighter aircraft, how the frak would that happen? On an F-16, the pilot has to first set the Master Aim to On, right? He would then need to switch to air-to-air missiles (or gun), select the aircraft as a target if using an AIM-120 or AIM-7 missile or, at the very least, uncage an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile, right?

165 ObserverArt  Feb 5, 2015 8:33:20pm

re: #157 Charles Johnson

Coming up next on MSNBC, right after “Lockup” — “The Last Word,” with Robert Spencer, Walid Shoebat, and Pamela Geller.

You know, thankfully, I really have not listened to Robert Spencer enough to know the full depth. But after learning about him here, from you and others, I don’t think I want to. All hate is the same. Evil.

Later…going down fast…helter skelter…

166 Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 5, 2015 8:34:03pm

re: #153 ObserverArt

Heh…just a moment ago in the ad slot at the page bottom.

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Teleskiguy, that run reminds me of Eau Rouge, the very fast downhill, uphill turn complex at the Belgium Spa race circuit. F1 on snow!

That ad makes it look like Ohio caught some sort of mutant measles!
//

167 Jocko's Rocket Ship  Feb 5, 2015 8:34:31pm

re: #131 Kragar

My default response to that kind of picture is “and they’re great on the grill.”

My girlfriend has a pet rabbit; she probably loves it so. It somehow gives her great pleasure. It’s cute, but it’s not a dog that actively is part or your life, but hey, whatever. She’s a wonderful, peaceful person and it works for her.

One time out a friend-couple ordered - knowing she had a loved rabbit pet - ordered the rabbit sausage after I said out loud not to order the rabbit. And they talked about how good it was and insisted she should try it, putting a fork full or rabbit towards her face. It was obnoxious. So to the rabbit-eating lovers, don’t throw that in our rabbit-loving faces so much.

168 Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 5, 2015 8:35:32pm

re: #155 makeitstop

I meant to post this last night, but forgot. Driftglass delivers a solid takedown of The Greenwald.

Read it, it’s short but epic..

Link looks like it has a double HTTP in it.

169 BeachDem  Feb 5, 2015 8:35:50pm

re: #121 Kragar

You’ll note all of Chuck’s journalism “awards” were college scholarship deals paid for by RWNJs, not actual journalism awards.

Guess we know how he got that Phillips fellowship.
Here’s who he interviewed with: (in his own words)

Al Regnery of one of the finest conservative publishing houses; John Farley, the executive director of the Phillips Foundation; Jonathan Last (one of my favorite writers at The Weekly Standard) and Mollie Hemingway of Christianity Today

170 #FergusonFireside  Feb 5, 2015 8:35:59pm

Welp, double jobbing tomorrow, so I’m going to get my sweet dreams.

Take care LGF.

171 Charles Johnson  Feb 5, 2015 8:36:34pm

Meanwhile, Chuck is now getting into a pissing match with the cretins from Ace of Spades, and I’m all out of popcorn.

172 Gus  Feb 5, 2015 8:36:49pm

re: #162 #FergusonFireside

You, Mr., are our Gus 1st. Don’t forget your roots sonny.

OK :D

173 makeitstop  Feb 5, 2015 8:39:57pm

re: #168 Feline Fearless Leader

Link looks like it has a double HTTP in it.

Damn it. I’m on my Kindle, which kinda sucks for any kind of web based activity besides lurking. Here’s the link. Trying to negotiate the link box is an exercise in futility on this thing.

driftglass.blogspot.com

174 BeachDem  Feb 5, 2015 8:40:56pm

re: #132 FemNaziBitch

I LOVE Madison Kimrey. She is THE coolest kid I’ve ever met. And she’s the real deal. Right wingers say she’s “coached” and “scripted,” but she’s not. We had her at an event last year and she was on a panel with all adults and totally held her own, off the cuff. And talking with her one on one is such a treat.

One of my favorite pics of her:

175 Kragar  Feb 5, 2015 8:45:31pm

re: #167 Jocko’s Rocket Ship

So I guess I’m supposed to feel bad when I use the same joke for pandas or puppies?

Nah, fuck that.

176 teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2015 8:56:23pm

FFS

177 Belafon  Feb 5, 2015 8:58:18pm

re: #167 Jocko’s Rocket Ship

Life saving rabbit: dailymail.co.uk.

178 teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2015 9:05:50pm
179 teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2015 9:13:35pm

I’m seeing some great weird shit in my Twitter timeline tonight.

180 dog philosopher  Feb 5, 2015 9:15:20pm

enjoying a desk side snack of bumble bee tuna fish human pet chow and potato toe toe chips

181 dog philosopher  Feb 5, 2015 9:28:55pm

re: #180 dog philosopher

enjoying a desk side snack of bumble bee tuna fish human pet chow and potato toe toe chips

somebody ask me how it tastes

182 CleverToad  Feb 5, 2015 9:29:08pm

re: #128 Decatur Deb

Holding out for Louisiana Back-bay Bayou Bunny Bordelaise, a la Antoine…
not of Flatbush

(with apologies to Jocko. Welsh is the only kind I’ve ever had, myself.)

183 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 5, 2015 9:38:05pm

re: #181 dog philosopher

How does it taste?

184 BeenHereAwhile  Feb 5, 2015 9:40:53pm

re: #15 dog philosopher

no big gummint telling us who we can and cant marry, no big gummint telling women what they can and cant do with their wombs, no big gummint swooping down and tearing apart families because of immigration status, or restricting our right to vote or to get as large a settlement in a lawsuit as the court will allow or to unionize

that’s what she means im sure im sure

Made me think of this:

“by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?”
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water”

e. e. cummings.

185 dog philosopher  Feb 5, 2015 9:44:20pm

re: #183 Higgs Boson’s Mate

How does it taste?

disgusting fabulous!

186 Lidane  Feb 5, 2015 9:49:33pm

Wheee!

187 Lidane  Feb 5, 2015 9:59:40pm
188 dell*nix  Feb 5, 2015 10:02:04pm

MIG-17. flickr.com Spent a few minutes at the museum this afternoon.

189 teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2015 10:10:11pm
190 teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2015 10:16:05pm

re: #145 teleskiguy

This is me skiing the run the race course is on last year on a big powder day. I’m the one with the Sears (not real Mexican) Poncho jacket, executing some fun freeheel turns.

Video

191 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 5, 2015 10:22:21pm

re: #188 dell*nix

MIG-17. flickr.com Spent a few minutes at the museum this afternoon.

Always liked the look of that MIG. Did they mention whose colors are those? That’s some flashy paint job.

192 teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2015 10:30:22pm

Update on Bode Miller, from the He-Man himself.

193 GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 5, 2015 10:35:42pm

re: #187 Lidane

Rauner is going to do the same in IL. We are some $300m short.

194 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 5, 2015 10:49:02pm

re: #187 Lidane

re: #193 GlutenFreeJesus

The school children of those two states have my sympathy. They are going to suffer the consequences of their elders’ stupidity and indifference.

195 Lidane  Feb 5, 2015 10:53:08pm

Still a better love story than Twilight:

196 teleskiguy  Feb 5, 2015 11:12:28pm

Today - 6 February - is Ronald Reagan’s and Eva Braun’s birthday.

197 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 5, 2015 11:21:48pm

And in only two weeks—Hitler’s and Sandy Duncan’s birthday.

198 plansbandc  Feb 5, 2015 11:29:45pm

Will facebook do anything about someone posting a picture of a noose in an anti Obama thread? Just saw it in my timeline. FFS

199 Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 5, 2015 11:31:38pm

Re: bunnies

A few years ago on a family trip to Germany, I was out walking with my mother near the ICE train bridge a few miles from the family village. This bridge is a small two-lane footbridge over the tracks, with grassy slopes above the rail bed.

Across the tracks, up on the opposite hillside, we suddenly both saw what, to my eyes, were two of the biggest goddamned rabbits I’ll ever see in my life outside of a stock show - big fat Feldhasen, probably a couple of juvenile males sorting out a territory beef, running in and out of the small shrubs at the top of the hillside. They were clearly visible fifty meters away and if I had to guess they were probably each about a foot long.

My mother, who is not one for soft moments, suddenly said “I could never shoot one of those.” (My father is a hunter - she was referring to him, in a way).

I said “Me neither”. I just can’t do it. I know meat is delicious, but I can’t harvest it myself. :P

200 Single-handed sailor  Feb 6, 2015 12:18:37am
201 Single-handed sailor  Feb 6, 2015 12:20:19am

202 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 6, 2015 12:26:13am

re: #201 Single-handed sailor

If I wasn’t on my phone (plugging in YouTube video doesn’t work for me), I’d see your video and raise it with,, Morphine “Cure For Pain”.

203 freetoken  Feb 6, 2015 2:25:21am
204 Dave In Austin  Feb 6, 2015 3:16:35am
205 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 6, 2015 4:00:46am

UpChuck is beating the Brian Williams horse again.

GotNwes responds.

BREAKING (from 2005): #BrianWilliams said 2 different things about floating bodies, so he’s a total loser

As a footnote, I have covered disasters as a reporter. There’s always a lot going on at the same time. As a result, some details can get lost, misremembered, or distorted. UpChuck has never worked in the field as a reporter, AFAIK, and certainly not in a disaster zone or combat zone. His going after Williams for such a picayune (pun intended) thing speaks volumes to UpChuck’s total ignorance of what being a reporter is.

206 Bubblehead II  Feb 6, 2015 4:11:16am

Morning Lizards just a quick drive by.

I’m laying odds that they will pay the bill for this school year, but come time to renegotiate the contract for next year, they will give it a pass claiming fiscal responsibility. This is just how anti-education Idaho is.

Lawmakers given ultimatum on troubled broadband program

207 A Mom Anon  Feb 6, 2015 4:13:28am

re: #120 Charles Johnson

And if I may interject a bit about Autism Speaks….

One BIG glaring reason to dislike Autism Speaks beyond the vaccine issue is how Autism Speaks makes autism into a tragedy of lost and broken children. NO. Nope. NONONONONONONO. I also loathe the fucking puzzle piece logo, like a person with autism is not a complete and whole human, but one in pieces.

Their website has a good list of resources, especially for parents with a new diagnosis. But beyond that, the hell with them. If I had believed all the tragic shit I heard when my son was little about how hopeless it was he wouldn’t be where he is now. I would have given up or got sucked into quackery to “cure” him.

208 Bubblehead II  Feb 6, 2015 4:16:29am

L8R Lizards.

209 Dave In Austin  Feb 6, 2015 4:25:22am

Boss and co-workers have diagnosed Flu cases. Blah… Woke up snotty nosed and coughing. Flu test first thing then Tamiflu if it turns that way. And I planned on fishing this weekend.

210 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 4:31:54am

re: #155 makeitstop

I meant to post this last night, but forgot. Driftglass delivers a solid takedown of The Greenwald.

Read it, it’s short but epic..

Every Glenn Greenwald article ever:

TEH U.S. IS TEH MOAST WORSE NATION IN TEH HISTORY OF ALL HISTORIES!!!!! THEIR IS NO WORSER COUNTRY THEN TEH U.S. EXCEPT FOR ISREAL WHICH IS TEH WOOOOORRRSSEEEEE!!!!!!!

211 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 5:04:58am

Did I break the thread? :(

212 wrenchwench  Feb 6, 2015 5:33:33am

And considering the violence and discrimination that transgender people endure, no one would go through this except for the most profound of motivations: to be authentic to one’s inner self.

213 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 6, 2015 5:41:20am

re: #212 wrenchwench

One of my former American students, Samantha, has become Sam in more ways than shortening his name. It took me a minute to realize who was in a Facebook photo in her timeline — same face, same short hair, but with a beard and moustache. It was Sam! She’s been going through hormonal treatments for a couple of years now.

I have no beef with her/his change, but it’s going to take me awhile to adjust to Sam as a young man now.

214 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 5:46:12am

re: #213 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

One of my former American students, Samantha, has become Sam in more ways than shortening his name. It took me a minute to realize who was in a Facebook photo in her timeline — same face, same short hair, but with a beard and moustache. It was Sam! She’s been going through hormonal treatments for a couple of years now.

I have no beef with her/his change, but it’s going to take me awhile to adjust to Sam as a young man now.

Yeah the adjustment is tough but yeah no beefs and definitely no way in hell transgender people like Sam and Bruce Jenner should be discriminated against. I hope they find happiness.

215 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 5:46:35am

re:
#34

I need to consider upping my pie intake.

Pie has never failed. It has only been failed.

216 KerFuFFler  Feb 6, 2015 5:49:21am

re: #54 RealityBasedSteve

They had a nice piece on this the other night on NPR. It seems that memorys are very labile, and each time you pull up a memory, there is a very real chance that it gets changed slightly. Over time it can completely change. It also went into how easy it was to create a false memory in small children, and how they will fill in all the blanks and elaborate on it.

The thing is, those people are aren’t “Lying” in when they relate those memories. At least not in the sense that they are using a falsehood to deceive someone. I would imagine a person would absolutely pass a polygraph test, since they are relating it exactly as the remember it….

And yet many people were accused of being defenders of rape for saying that Woody Allen may have been innocent after all.

217 wrenchwench  Feb 6, 2015 5:51:23am
218 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 5:52:09am

re:
#174

I LOVE Madison Kimrey. She is THE coolest kid I’ve ever met. And she’s the real deal. Right wingers say she’s “coached” and “scripted,” but she’s not. We had her at an event last year and she was on a panel with all adults and totally held her own, off the cuff. And talking with her one on one is such a treat.

[ccj]Ima need somebody get Kimrey address and juvy records for me to tell the whole truth to the whole world![/ccj]
Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

219 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 5:55:40am

re:
#35

Y,tht is t pic showing.bt BW ‘embellished’drama4heightened entertainmnt4elites&dumbed!

Needs moar #hashtags#

220 darthstar  Feb 6, 2015 6:07:21am
221 Varek Raith  Feb 6, 2015 6:18:22am

re: #192 teleskiguy

Update on Bode Miller, from the He-Man himself.

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OUCH.

222 Varek Raith  Feb 6, 2015 6:18:49am

Also, hi.

224 darthstar  Feb 6, 2015 6:24:53am

re: #223 Varek Raith

Israeli official suggests Boehner misled Netanyahu on Congress speech

I wonder if Bibi’s looking for a way to back out because of the optics…nah, he doesn’t give a shit about optics.

225 darthstar  Feb 6, 2015 6:28:12am
226 Varek Raith  Feb 6, 2015 6:28:29am

re: #224 darthstar

I wonder if Bibi’s looking for a way to back out because of the optics…nah, he doesn’t give a shit about optics.

Funny watching the Speaker and Bibi in CYA mode.

227 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Feb 6, 2015 6:29:11am

re: #171 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, Chuck is now getting into a pissing match with the cretins from Ace of Spades, and I’m all out of popcorn.

I thought you’d have a popcorn delivery service by now. Maybe use that Amazon referral. :)

228 darthstar  Feb 6, 2015 6:29:17am
229 darthstar  Feb 6, 2015 6:29:31am
230 RadicalModerate  Feb 6, 2015 6:29:59am

Any bets that this would have played out completely differently if she wasn’t white and the daughter of a State Police officer?

Teens’ tweets on killing, bombing Jews deemed no threat

JACKSON - A State Police sergeant’s teenage daughter who dressed like Hitler and posted on social media a picture of a popular gathering spot for Orthodox Jews — with the caption “perfect bombing time” — may have behaved offensively, but not criminally, authorities said.

The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office examined the Twitter post and a cache of other pro-Hitler images by the Jackson teen and her associates and concluded that they did not amount to any credible threat.

231 darthstar  Feb 6, 2015 6:30:53am

re: #226 Varek Raith

Funny watching the Speaker and Bibi in CYA mode.

It’s like they both got caught naked together and only have one towel between them to cover themselves.

232 Varek Raith  Feb 6, 2015 6:30:59am

re: #230 RadicalModerate

Any bets that this would have played out completely differently if she wasn’t white and the daughter of a State Police officer?

Teens’ tweets on killing, bombing Jews deemed no threat

FFS. And in Ocean County no less.

233 Timothy Watson  Feb 6, 2015 6:32:40am
The unemployment rate, calculated from a separate survey of households, climbed to 5.7% in January, up from December’s 5.6%. The rate rose because the labor force grew as more Americans searched for jobs, a sign of growing confidence among households.

IMPOSSIBLE THE SOCIALIST MOOCHERS ARE TOO BUSY MOOCHING OFF THE OBAMAPHONES AND THE WELFARES!!1!
wsj.com

234 lawhawk  Feb 6, 2015 6:32:49am

re: #226 Varek Raith

The Speaker’s got bigger problems than the Bibi speech.

He’s been harping on jobs jobs jobs in his tweets since, well, forever. Of course, his GOP hasn’t done anything on jobs and has blocked infrastructure bills, pushed Keystone to the exclusion of all else, sought a repeal Obamacare for the 50th+ time, and despite all that the economy is growing nicely. Job growth is up, and revised upwards significantly.

The GOP, which keeps claiming that the U3 (official rate) is really closer to 10% keeps having to invent new reasons to ignore facts, statistics, and the official rates, because if they don’t, they’d have to admit that the President has been right all along.

Of course, watch the GOP attempt to pivot to claim credit for the job growth - that their policies of blocking the President at every turn has given business owners the confidence to do something.

It’s hard to be a GOPer when reality is stacked against you. Which is why the GOP now has adopted an alt-reality dogma that defies logic, facts, or science.

235 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Feb 6, 2015 6:33:14am

Good morning, Lizards.

Went to a really interesting presentation about Ferguson from some journalists yesterday. One interesting thing is that I mostly followed the protests here in the LGF threads, and really, nothing they said was something I didn’t already know from the comments here at LGF, so kudos to you all. There was one thing about the timing of the announcement of the grand jury verdict that was explained that I didn’t know, but major points, including the actions of police in letting the chaos go on, were all aligned with what was mentioned here.

Hope to post a page about it, but I’ve already sorta blown my pseudonymity, and I need to figure out a way to do so without totally going above ground.

Anyway, I’m planning to take a trip to the animal rescue shelter this morning to play with some animals to destress from the week.

236 darthstar  Feb 6, 2015 6:33:20am
237 darthstar  Feb 6, 2015 6:34:19am
238 wrenchwench  Feb 6, 2015 6:34:30am
239 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Feb 6, 2015 6:34:36am

re: #236 darthstar

Damn, talk about misrepresenting with graphics!

240 Dr. Matt  Feb 6, 2015 6:35:14am

104 years ago today St. Ronny was born which led to the most dangerous cult in American history.

241 darthstar  Feb 6, 2015 6:37:04am
242 wrenchwench  Feb 6, 2015 6:38:40am

re: #240 Dr. Matt

104 years ago today St. Ronny was born which led to the most dangerous cult in American history.

243 darthstar  Feb 6, 2015 6:39:01am

You’d think the Speaker would get advance notice of the jobs numbers so he wouldn’t stick his foot in his mouth like that.

244 darthstar  Feb 6, 2015 6:39:43am

re: #242 wrenchwench

I’ve always been a fan of rastanomics.

245 Varek Raith  Feb 6, 2015 6:40:24am

re: #239 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Damn, talk about misrepresenting with graphics!

246 Varek Raith  Feb 6, 2015 6:43:01am

WTFWTFWTFWTF
amazon.com

247 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 6:44:51am

re: #246 Varek Raith

WTFWTFWTFWTF
amazon.com

Penny’s Perfect Plague will be on shelves next.

248 Doofus  Feb 6, 2015 6:47:30am

Randy Jones from the band the Village People, weighs in on Bruce Jenner’s transformation

Jones met Jenner when the Olympian was cast in his acting debut, the 1980 Village People movie “Can’t Stop the Music.” On camera, Jenner “wore these eye-opening Daisy Duke cutoff shorts during the ‘YMCA’ number,” recalls Jones. “Those thighs were incredible!”

249 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Feb 6, 2015 6:48:01am

re: #240 Dr. Matt

104 years ago today St. Ronny was born which led to the most dangerous cult in American history.

One could argue that the most dangerous cult, in terms of US citizens (and non-citizens) killed, was born long before St. Ronnie. (I’m side-eyeing you, Confederate States of America)

250 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 6:48:54am

re: #249 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

One could argue that the most dangerous cult, in terms of US citizens (and non-citizens) killed, was born long before St. Ronnie. (I’m side-eyeing you, Confederate States of America)

States rights.//

251 Varek Raith  Feb 6, 2015 6:49:08am

re: #247 HappyWarrior

Penny’s Perfect Plague will be on shelves next.

Everyone Enjoys Ebola!

252 Doofus  Feb 6, 2015 6:49:47am
253 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Feb 6, 2015 6:50:00am

re: #250 HappyWarrior

Apparently, nobody in the “state’s rights” crowd ever read Mills’ On Liberty. Tyranny of the Majority and all that.

254 lawhawk  Feb 6, 2015 6:50:10am

So, my commute (along with hundreds of thousands of other people) was snarled this morning because of a fire at a welding company. There was an explosion at the welding company and 2 were injured, one with bad burns. The local police called multiple alarms, and they shut down both Route 46, which is a major E/W road through northern NJ, and NJ Transit Main Line (which runs behind the property) as a precaution. That led to long delays on the train, and detours for all the cars that normally take Route 46 (and added traffic to Route 80, Route 3, and Route 4.

What a mess.

255 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Feb 6, 2015 6:51:02am

re: #246 Varek Raith

re: #247 HappyWarrior

I cannot believe this is a thing.

quick, someone with the desk-flip gif, stat!

256 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 6, 2015 6:51:22am

re: #246 Varek Raith

WTFWTFWTFWTF
amazon.com

Samantha’s Silly Smallpox
Paula’s Perfect Polio
Terry’s Terrific Tetanus

257 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 6:55:15am

Freddy’s Fantastic Flu

Mikey’s Magnificent Malaria

258 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 6:55:58am

re: #256 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Samantha’s Silly Smallpox
Paula’s Perfect Polio
Terry’s Terrific Tetanus

The title of the anti-vaxxer book is a direct slap at Roald Dahl’s Marvelous Children’s Charity

259 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 6:56:59am

re: #253 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Apparently, nobody in the “state’s rights” crowd ever read Mills’ On Liberty. Tyranny of the Majority and all that.

They’re hypocrites anyhow. See Fugitive Slave Act. It was always about the right to own another human being and don’t let them try to blame Lincoln since most of the states that made up the CSA seceded while Buchanan was still president. The CSA was basically a 1860’s wingnut version of making good on promises to secede if a president they did not like was elected.

260 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Feb 6, 2015 6:57:44am

I kinda like this one for morning WTF moments.

WTF?!

Edit: not sure why it’s not giffing. Here’s a link to the original:
Image: tumblr_inline_mqhj1iqVts1qz4rgp.gif

261 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 6:58:13am

The Little Deadly Virus That Could

Are You There God? It’s me, Measles

262 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Feb 6, 2015 6:58:48am

re: #261 HappyWarrior

Are You There God? It’s me, Measles

That is a thing of beauty!

263 Doofus  Feb 6, 2015 6:59:59am

re: #254 lawhawk

264 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 7:00:32am

Damn i should email that to the show @Midnight. Virus children’s book titles would make a great hashtag war.

265 Doofus  Feb 6, 2015 7:01:15am

re: #247 HappyWarrior

I’ve got the clap and I am giving it to you!

266 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 7:01:44am

The Lion, the Witch, and that virus you wouldn’t have caught if you had just gotten that damn vaccine.

The Lord of the Ringworms.

267 RadicalModerate  Feb 6, 2015 7:02:06am

re: #246 Varek Raith

WTFWTFWTFWTF
amazon.com

Yet another anti-vaxxer who has absolutely no sense about the history of immunology, and how bad disease epidemics were before the widespread availability of vaccines.

Let’s just talk about Rubella, one of the targets of the anti-vaxx crowd.
Between 1962 and 1965 there were over 12.5 million diagnosed cases of the disease, which has no cure - only treatment of symptoms is available. Hundreds of thousands of cases of blindness, deafness, brain damage and death resulted from this.
After the development of the MMR vaccine in 1969, that number dropped to under 100,000 worldwide in 2012, with many nations reporting as being now totally free of the disease.

268 Varek Raith  Feb 6, 2015 7:02:17am

re: #263 Maggie’s Pa

Good gravy.

269 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Feb 6, 2015 7:02:45am

Goodbye, Rubella Tuesday
(I think song titles should count)

270 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 7:03:35am

re: #267 RadicalModerate

Yet another anti-vaxxer who has absolutely no sense about the history of immunology, and how bad disease epidemics were before the widespread availability of vaccines.

Let’s just talk about Rubella, one of the targets of the anti-vaxx crowd.
Between 1962 and 1965 there were over 12.5 million diagnosed cases of the disease, which has no cure - only treatment of symptoms is available. Hundreds of thousands of cases of blindness, deafness, brain damage and death resulted from this.
After the development of the MMR vaccine in 1969, that number dropped to under 100,000 worldwide in 2012, with many nations reporting as being now totally free of the disease.

The Anti-Vaxxers are a sad byproduct unfortunately of nations being free of the disease. The relative non-existence of diseases like Rubella and Measles is what leads idiots to act like “Oh they’re no big deal”, “My kid doesn’t need a vaccine for that.”

271 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 7:04:02am

re: #269 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Goodbye, Rubella Tuesday
(I think song titles should count)

Who could be the name of you and yes we can do song titles.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Fever.

272 Varek Raith  Feb 6, 2015 7:05:07am

273 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 7:06:55am

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY (so far)
I believe they are called “convents” not “harems”

274 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 7:07:42am
275 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 7:08:35am

re: #274 The Vicious Babushka

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Gee who didn’t see that coming from thousands of miles away?

276 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 7:10:50am

re:
#233

“Official” unemployment rate skyrockets to 5.7%!!! Real unemployment rate grows to 15.3%!!!! Our experts weigh in on how tax cuts and less regulation will restore America!!

277 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Feb 6, 2015 7:11:11am

re: #271 HappyWarrior

Who could be the name of you and yes we can do song titles.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Fever.

“My mumps, my mumps, my lovely, lovely mumps”

“Polio my wayward son”

(realizing I’m doing more song lyrics than titles - oh, well)

278 Gus  Feb 6, 2015 7:13:42am

re: #274 The Vicious Babushka

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But Republicans are pro-Jewish! Right. They’re barely even pro-Israel. More like pro-Rapture. Or something.

279 Decatur Deb  Feb 6, 2015 7:15:08am

re: #272 Varek Raith

[Embedded content]

What we used to call ‘job security’ in the munitions safety business.

(Newsman is doing the usual derp language in his description.)

280 lawhawk  Feb 6, 2015 7:17:47am

re: #263 Maggie’s Pa

Thankfully, it wasn’t nearly so bad as that. The fire and explosion were contained, and the fire department did a good job containing things. But we’re talking about a welding facility with oxygen tanks, acetylene tanks, and other assorted compressed gases and chemicals on site.

It could have been so much worse than that. As it was, it was bad enough.

281 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Feb 6, 2015 7:18:17am

re: #278 Gus

But Republicans are pro-Jewish! Right. They’re barely even pro-Israel. More like pro-Rapture. Or something.

Even in my most rabid fundamentalist days, the “conversion” of the Jews to Christianity just gave me the heebie jeebies.

282 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 7:21:04am

re:
#69

I’m still hoping to find a suitable house. Against all odds. And for no more than $60-$75/sq ft with curb appeal and a sizeable back yard. : )

Oh I love house searches. And home decorating and all that stuff. Yeah I’m becoming one of those people.

Over the past couple of days I’ve rearranged the furniture, which necessitated lots of vaccuming, which the Overlords did not care for one bit. Basically I moved the TV and favorite recliner back into the living room. I had set up my lounging empire in the smaller “dining” room because it’s further from the front door and presents a better view and more light.

But there wasn’t much room to spread out for me and the kittehs. And because of where the cable outlet was located it required putting the TV in an awkward position between the two rooms. So we’ll see how the rearrange goes, but it’s inspired me to think more about how the living room and the house overall might be better made into an actual home. I’ve lived there for 11+ years but like many bachelors, haven’t put much TLC into the place.

284 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 7:23:50am

re:
#246

WTFWTFWTFWTF
amazon.com

Now I’ll have to endure Amazon showing me all kinds of vaccination-truther books and possibly other loony reading materials.

At least the book has a ton of one-star reviews.

285 lawhawk  Feb 6, 2015 7:24:02am

re: #283 Dr. Matt

I told Quint that he needed a bigger boat. /Brian Williams

I told Quint the story of the USS Indianapolis, because I was there. /Brian Williams

286 Gus  Feb 6, 2015 7:25:15am
287 Gus  Feb 6, 2015 7:25:34am
288 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 6, 2015 7:25:34am

re: #284 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#246

Now I’ll have to endure Amazon showing me all kinds of vaccination-truther books and possibly other loony reading materials.

At least the book has a ton of one-star reviews.

And the five star reviews are all sarcasm.

289 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 7:26:10am

re: #284 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#246

Now I’ll have to endure Amazon showing me all kinds of vaccination-truther books and possibly other loony reading materials.

At least the book has a ton of one-star reviews.

Yeah you’ll have to go into your Amazon browsing history and delete that product.

290 Doofus  Feb 6, 2015 7:28:41am

re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth

Finally! A children’s book with an agenda I can get behind! I always thought I loved kids until I actually had one of my own and boy was I wrong! I researched anything and everything I could possibly do to get rid of the little brat, but I didn’t want to be arrested for murder and childhood cancer is just too darn unpredictable. Fortunately, I stumbled upon “Melanie’s Marvelous Measles”, and learned that there is a huge community of people who hate children as much as me! Thanks to Melanie, I was able to ignore my pediatrician’s recommendations to vaccinate my daughter before our trip to Disney World, all while acting like I want what is “best” for my child.

291 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 7:31:04am

re:
#289

That’s a good idea.

Fortunately Amazon tends to have a real short memory—as soon as I go back to my regular browsing my screen will fill up with whatever I just looked at.

292 RadicalModerate  Feb 6, 2015 7:31:06am

re: #263 Maggie’s Pa

I remember when that took place here in Dallas - it shut down two major highways for about 5 hours, and as bad as it was, there were two tankers for 18-wheelers on the premises that were full of acetylene fortunately did not explode - it was estimated that if either of those went off, roughly 4 city blocks would have been either severely damaged or destroyed.
So yeah. It could have been MUCH worse.

293 Dr. Matt  Feb 6, 2015 7:32:52am
#Christianity: The religion of peace. #tcot #ccot #uniteblue #libcrib
294 Decatur Deb  Feb 6, 2015 7:33:33am

re: #291 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#289

That’s a good idea.

Fortunately Amazon tends to have a real short memory—as soon as I go back to my regular browsing my screen will fill up with whatever I just looked at.

Yeah—but every time CCJ shows up on a thread my margins fill up with Hot Asian Women.

295 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 6, 2015 7:36:55am

re: #294 Decatur Deb

Yeah—but every time CCJ shows up on a thread my margins fill up with Hot Asian Women.

What is the margin on Hot Asian Women™

296 lawhawk  Feb 6, 2015 7:37:00am

re: #293 Dr. Matt

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He’s got a beard. Just like Chris Kyle’s killer. I swear that makes him a Muslim!

297 Decatur Deb  Feb 6, 2015 7:38:57am

re: #295 RealityBasedSteve

What is the margin on Hot Asian WomenTM

The part on which you write notes.

298 lawhawk  Feb 6, 2015 7:41:48am

re: #295 RealityBasedSteve

I’m not quite sure what the market is, but apparently China’s trying to corner it. /

299 RadicalModerate  Feb 6, 2015 7:47:05am

re: #287 Gus

Remember a few years back when Ann Coulter said out loud that “Jews needed to be perfected” and the right lined up in support?

haaretz.com

300 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 7:47:48am

re:
#294

Yeah—but every time CCJ shows up on a thread my margins fill up with Hot Asian Women.

It’s all about the IQ.
//

301 Gus  Feb 6, 2015 7:48:58am

re: #299 RadicalModerate

Remember a few years back when Ann Coulter said out loud that “Jews needed to be perfected” and the right lined up in support?

haaretz.com

Yep.

302 ObserverArt  Feb 6, 2015 7:49:31am

Morning !

What is a better way to start a Friday morning than ‘shopping beatnik Sarah spoutin’ some cool beat poetry!

Click on way cool larger image!

303 prairiefire  Feb 6, 2015 7:50:13am

Speaking of Asians, ABC’s new show “Fresh Off The Boat” was mostly gosh awful stuff with a few true notes/: “Asians nurture through criticism and micro-management.”

304 #FergusonFireside  Feb 6, 2015 7:54:25am

re: #303 prairiefire

Speaking of Asians, ABC’s new show “Fresh Off The Boat” was mostly gosh awful stuff with a few true notes/: “Asians nurture through criticism and micro-management.”

I heard that the book was really good. Hmmmm.

305 Skip Intro  Feb 6, 2015 7:57:05am

This is who UpChuck seems to think he is.

And I’m still waiting for some evidence that he’s actually married at all.

306 lawhawk  Feb 6, 2015 7:58:55am

Echoes, the acoustic version (need to mellow a bit given how the anti-vax nuts have really really really pissed me off):

307 Skip Intro  Feb 6, 2015 8:04:06am

Things are starting go south fast for Brian Williams.

NBC News anchor Brian Williams’ comments about dead bodies, Hurricane Katrina starting to gain attention, draw scrutiny

theneworleansadvocate.com

308 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 8:06:47am
309 gwangung  Feb 6, 2015 8:11:05am

re: #303 prairiefire

Speaking of Asians, ABC’s new show “Fresh Off The Boat” was mostly gosh awful stuff with a few true notes/: “Asians nurture through criticism and micro-management.”

Hm. I counted those are more of the trite moments. Truer was the C-word fight and the resulting confrontation with the school principal and the roller blading moments.

BTW….how many of the white folks here are offended by the show? There’s been some push on Twitter about the show being racist against whites….was wondering if a lot of folks were feeling that or it was the usual band of idiots?

310 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 8:14:41am
Brian Williams equated
himself
with our honorable vets and troops in combat boots
with a made-up story
of his courage and victorious return
to the make-up chair
strolling in his Bruno Maglis back
to read his TelePrompTer’s twisted scripts,

and we were forced to swallow it all.

“we were forced to swallow it all.”

Drama queen much, half gov?

I’d never heard Brian Williams’ story to begin with. Maybe half gov spends too much time drenched in the world of Hollywood culture and entertainment personalities than she wants to admit.

311 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 6, 2015 8:15:42am

The anti-vaxxers remind me very much of libertarians:
No one gets measles any more, we don’t need to vaccinate.
The infrastructure is already built, we don’t need to pay taxes.

Both will get people hurt or killed and both begin and end with “I, me, mine.”

312 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 8:16:36am

re: #311 Higgs Boson’s Mate

The anti-vaxxers remind me very much of ARE libertarians:
No one gets measles any more, we don’t need to vaccinate.
The infrastructure is already built, we don’t need to pay taxes.

Both will get people hurt or killed and both begin and end with “I, me, mine.”

313 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 8:16:55am

THIS IS THE STUPIDEST GUN-FUCKING MEME OF THE DAY:

314 Decatur Deb  Feb 6, 2015 8:17:21am

re: #311 Higgs Boson’s Mate

The anti-vaxxers remind me very much of libertarians:
No one gets measles any more, we don’t need to vaccinate.
The infrastructure is already built, we don’t need to pay taxes.

Both will get people hurt or killed and both begin and end with “I, me, mine.”

With a touch of the labor open shop attitude found among Free Riders.

315 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 8:17:28am

What are those things, bazookas?

316 bratwurst  Feb 6, 2015 8:19:46am
317 Timothy Watson  Feb 6, 2015 8:20:08am

I knew Sarah Palin’s writings reminded of something:

318 lawhawk  Feb 6, 2015 8:20:48am

re: #315 The Vicious Babushka

Yup. Bazookas, which are not for civilian use.

319 Decatur Deb  Feb 6, 2015 8:20:48am

re: #315 The Vicious Babushka

What are those things, bazookas?

A couple look like spent MANPAD tubes.

320 Ace-o-aces  Feb 6, 2015 8:21:26am

re: #305 Skip Intro

This is who UpChuck seems to think he is.

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And I’m still waiting for some evidence that he’s actually married at all.

Well, there is a picture of him standing next to an Asian woman. Quick, somebody check the pixels.

321 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 8:25:24am
322 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 8:29:17am

Michael Gerson on Ayn Rand Paul:

Paul’s domestic libertarianism provides no philosophic foundation for most of the federal government. As a practical matter, he can call for the end of Obamacare but not for the abolition of Medicare, or Medicaid, or the National Institutes of Health. Yet these concessions to reality are fundamentally arbitrary. The only principle guiding Paul’s selectivity is the avoidance of gaffes. Of which he is not always the best judge.

“concessions to reality….”

This, I think, is what was at the root of what troubled me about the religious fundamentalism in which I was raised and adhered to for much of my life. Although Gerson is talking about politics here, his point is even more applicable to “selectivity” involved in deciding how church doctrines were constructed, and especially how some Bible verses were held to be of particular importance, but many thousands of others were not. All of which is more or less harmless until a church or organization attempts to apply its spurious “principles” to real life people and circumstances, deciding some people, practices, or “lifestyles” are unbiblical.

But I like how Gerson picks up on the essential “selectivity” and “arbitrary” quality to Paul’s Libertarianism.

courier-journal.com

323 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 6, 2015 8:30:18am
324 bratwurst  Feb 6, 2015 8:30:27am

re: #321 The Vicious Babushka

Until every single Christian in the world condemns Eric Rudolph for killing two people and injuring 111 in the name of Jesus during the 1990s, I am afraid they must all be held responsible.

325 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 6, 2015 8:30:54am

I usally don’t like unrhymed “poetry” that is not hexameter. Todesfuge [eng|ger] excepted.

326 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 8:31:02am

re: #324 bratwurst

Until every single Christian in the world condemns Eric Rudolph for killing two people and injuring 111 in the name of Jesus during he 1990s, I am afraid they must all be held responsible.

The LRA and Joseph Kony too.

327 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 8:33:20am

re:
#313

Girls Just Wanna Have Guns Oh wait, I made it better

If it’s a day ending in -day, it means there must be a gun meme. (Checks day…). Yep, today is Friday, which is a day ending in -day.

328 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 8:35:32am

re: #326 HappyWarrior

The LRA and Joseph Kony too.

Phineas Priesthood
Threepers
Oathkeepers
Operation Rescue

329 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 8:35:32am

re: #327 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#313

If it’s a day ending in -day, it means there must be a gun meme. (Checks day…). Yep, today is Friday, which is a day ending in -day.

I think it’s funny how they think scantily clad women posing with guns is somehow a policy argument. But we’re dealing with a middle school mentality. Remember conservatives constantly have to tell us how “hot” their women our versus how “ugly” our women are. This really is but another version of my dad can beat up your dad.

330 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 8:35:47am

re: #328 The Vicious Babushka

Phineas Priesthood
Threepers
Oathkeepers
Operation Rescue

Yep.

331 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 8:36:28am

re: #329 HappyWarrior

I think it’s funny how they think scantily clad women posing with guns is somehow a policy argument. But we’re dealing with a middle school mentality. Remember conservatives constantly have to tell us how “hot” their women our versus how “ugly” our women are. This really is but another version of my dad can beat up your dad.

“Your mother wears army shoes” has become MY SENATOR WEARS BREAD BAGS OVER HER ARMY SHOES!!!!!!!

332 bratwurst  Feb 6, 2015 8:38:15am
333 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 8:39:48am

re:
#329

I think it’s funny how they think scantily clad women posing with guns is somehow a policy argument.

While also claiming Liberals and seculars are pushing pornography on us and sexing up the culture too much, etc

334 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 8:41:29am

re: #333 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#329

While also claiming Liberals and seculars are pushing pornography on us and sexing up the culture too much, etc

Yeah weird eh? But then again it’s kind of like how Mike Huckabee attacked Natalie Portman for being an unwed pregnant mother even though she was in a stable relationship with the father of her child and had a steady income while he said nothing about Bristol Palin. Conservatives give themselves different standards.

335 bratwurst  Feb 6, 2015 8:41:40am

So many on the right have opined idiotically on this topic…it’s time for a professional wacko to check in:

Glenn Beck: The Measles Outbreak Is A ‘Hoax’ Meant To Convince People To ‘Obey The Government’

336 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 8:41:55am

While complaining that Muslims “objectify women” wingnuts objectify women:

337 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 8:42:50am

re: #335 bratwurst

So many on the right have opined idiotically on this topic…it’s time for a professional wacko to check in:

Glenn Beck: The Measles Outbreak Is A ‘Hoax’ Meant To Convince People To ‘Obey The Government’

Remember when Glenn tried in vain to say he was different than Alex Jones. The only difference between Glenn Beck and Alex Jones is 25-50 pounds and a few inches and the name on their driver’s licenses.

338 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 8:42:53am

re:
#335

Aren’t we all supposed to obey the government, cops, etc? I thought that was the Grand Principle that emerged in the wake of Ferguson?

////

339 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 8:44:04am

re: #338 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#335

Aren’t we all supposed to obey the government, cops, etc? I thought that was the Grand Principle that emerged in the wake of Ferguson?

////

Only if we’re black and pissed off about a blatant cover up of a killing of a black teenager. Otherwise, anarchy in the USA!

340 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 8:46:11am

On another note, I decided to check out Jay Barchuel’s new show, Man Seeking Woman. It’s a little out there and silly but I find it funny. He’s coming out of a long relationship and his sister sets him up on a date with a literal troll. And he goes to a party that his ex invites him to only to find his ex is literally dating Hitler. I know not everyone has that sense of humor but I like the surreality of it. Kind of reminds me of Louie in that way and I can relate to Jay’s character more than I could on Stephen Merchant’s on Hello Ladies since he’s more of an everyman and not an egomaniac expecting to date models.

341 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 8:48:03am

If I post an attractive woman supporting gun control, does that make gun control valid? And honestly there’s nothing erotic about gun porn.

342 lawhawk  Feb 6, 2015 8:49:12am

re: #340 HappyWarrior

I’m an Archer guy. The absurdity of the whole setup is funny. It’s funny and cringe-worthy all at once.

343 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 8:50:28am

re: #342 lawhawk

I’m an Archer guy. The absurdity of the whole setup is funny. It’s funny and cringe-worthy all at once.

I enjoy Archer as well. Bojack Horseman is another absurd one that is good.

344 Lidane  Feb 6, 2015 9:04:25am

re: #342 lawhawk

I’m an Archer guy. The absurdity of the whole setup is funny. It’s funny and cringe-worthy all at once.

Archer is hilarious. It’s just so ridiculous I can’t help but laugh.

The Bob’s Burgers crossover was brilliant.

345 thedopefishlives  Feb 6, 2015 9:06:01am

Morning Lizardim.

346 Flying Squirrel Girl  Feb 6, 2015 9:07:12am

re: #313 The Vicious Babushka

No doubt the assholes pushing this meme are the same assholes who think women are horrible drivers.

347 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 9:08:07am

re: #346 Flying Squirrel Girl

No doubt the assholes pushing this meme are the same assholes who think women are horrible drivers.

And they think nobody would want to rape “feminazis” because they’re all ugly.

348 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 9:10:19am

re:
#322

“concessions to reality….â€

This is really highlighted by the way many fundamentalists respond to feminists and feminism (often qualified as “radical feminism”, etc), especially in churches where the ordination of women to the priesthood/pastor/apostle is not permitted.

What exactly is the principle here? That women shouldn’t be lawyers, doctors, heads of corporations, voters, jurors, etc, for fear that in so doing they would be infringing on the “Biblical command” that “headship” be restricted to men? These may seem laughable to us today, but national voting rights for women is less than a century old. Many leading Christians opposed the advancement of women’s rights for Biblical reasons. But ultimately society debated these issues for decades with the outcome of women being admitted to equal citizenship and this is the world fundamentalism now inhabits. Does it recommend or seek to return to a past era of female subordination? They don’t really say.

349 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 9:12:52am

Z0MG TEH TYRANNY!!!!! COMING HERE BY OBAMA!!!!!1!!!

350 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 9:19:38am

re:
#341

If I post an attractive woman supporting gun control, does that make gun control valid? And honestly there’s nothing erotic about gun porn.

Gun control grabbers are Constitution vilaters and so automaticlly UNVALIDATED!!!!111

351 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 9:22:30am
352 Timothy Watson  Feb 6, 2015 9:25:03am

re: #351 The Vicious Babushka

[Embedded content]

BOTH SIDES DO IT!1!!

353 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 9:26:45am

I just learned today who the Daesh is.

#TryingToKeepUp

354 GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 6, 2015 9:27:27am

I’m a genius. Used the egg slicer to slice mushrooms. That is all. Over.

355 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 9:28:30am

re: #354 GlutenFreeJesus

I’m a genius. Used the egg slicer to slice mushrooms. That is all. Over.

I don’t have an egg slicer.

I’ll just use the avocado slicer.

356 b_sharp  Feb 6, 2015 9:29:24am

re: #355 The Vicious Babushka

I don’t have an egg slicer.

I’ll just use the avocado slicer.

I’m forced to do it the old fashioned way, with a knife.

357 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 6, 2015 9:32:04am

re: #356 b_sharp

I’m forced to do it the old fashioned way, with a knife.

Primitive.

358 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Feb 6, 2015 9:33:07am

re: #356 b_sharp

I’m forced to do it the old fashioned way, with a knife.

I do it the older fashioned way, by having a scullery maid do it.

With a piece of knapped flint.

359 3eff Jeff  Feb 6, 2015 9:36:22am

re: #3 klystron

Once again, I’m terrified by how well this works.

I suspect this may be a generalizable technique. It’s certainly the first time I made it through an entire Sarah Palin Word Salad.

She has a long way to go before she matches Allen Ginsberg’s open letter to the Hell’s Angels, though.

360 urbanmeemaw  Feb 6, 2015 9:41:20am

re: #307 Skip Intro

Things are starting go south fast for Brian Williams.

NBC News anchor Brian Williams’ comments about dead bodies, Hurricane Katrina starting to gain attention, draw scrutiny

theneworleansadvocate.com

Interesting that Williams’ accounts as reported in this story focused on tales about lawlessness and threats, which I interpret as “scary black people gangs” subtext. None of this surprises me. I never mistook him for a “journalist” at any time.

361 Lidane  Feb 6, 2015 9:49:09am

Raving freakazoid nut sandwich:

362 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 9:50:19am

re:
#354

I’m a genius. Used the egg slicer to slice mushrooms. That is all. Over.

I bow humbly at your demonstrated genius.

363 JustMark  Feb 6, 2015 9:51:33am

re: #354 GlutenFreeJesus

I’m a genius. Used the egg slicer to slice mushrooms. That is all. Over.

Nice. I use an apple corer to prep tomatoes for salads…

364 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 9:55:12am

re:
#360

I never mistook him for a “journalist” at any time.

Yeah, and on the Iraq war, I don’t recall Williams as being any kind of skeptic or critic. As the tale of the helicopter would indicate, he seemed to highly value his embeddedness, America F*ck Yeah.

365 Romantic Heretic  Feb 6, 2015 9:56:08am

re: #315 The Vicious Babushka

What are those things, bazookas?

RPGs.

366 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 6, 2015 9:57:02am

re: #357 The Vicious Babushka

Primitive.

Like me, a traditionalist. No wonder that this once proud nation has sunk into a sea of compulsory education and vaccination.

367 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 9:59:20am

re:
#335

Glenn Beck: The Measles Outbreak Is A ‘Hoax’ Meant To Convince People To ‘Obey The Government’

I eagerly await the time when Independent Glenn Beck lectures us all on our Constitutional requirement to obey whatever President Ted Cruz commands of us, or else be thrown in prison for Treason.

/

368 GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 6, 2015 10:01:16am

re: #362 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Bow, lesser being!

369 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 10:01:27am

re:
#366

Once we changed the definition of slicing food things, the nation started its inevitable path to Sodom and Gommorah./

370 Ace-o-aces  Feb 6, 2015 10:03:17am

re: #307 Skip Intro

Things are starting go south fast for Brian Williams.

NBC News anchor Brian Williams’ comments about dead bodies, Hurricane Katrina starting to gain attention, draw scrutiny

theneworleansadvocate.com

I read the article. Looks like it might just be a case of not understanding what counts as the “French Quarter”. There were bodies floating in the water after Katrina. Williams wasn’t the only one to see them. (I have family in N.O, and helped in some post Katrina cleanup).

371 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 6, 2015 10:12:52am

re: #370 Ace-o-aces

Photos show Katrina flooding around the hotel where Brian Williams said he saw a body float by his room

Hell, I once saw Brian Williams float by my room.

372 Ace-o-aces  Feb 6, 2015 10:13:28am

What can I say. It’s my new favorite meme. Applies to about 90% of Twitter.

373 De Kolta Chair  Feb 6, 2015 10:14:51am

re: #114 Kragar

Kragar @Kragar_LGF

Wait, they have a shot that makes you artistic?

That would explain why Van Gogh liked to paint his doctors.

Portrait of Doctor Gachet
Portrait of Doctor Felix Rey
374 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 6, 2015 10:16:06am

re:
#370

Actually we now know Katrina never happened. It was just a government hoax to collect more welfares money. And expand Big Government.

////

375 Eventual Carrion  Feb 6, 2015 10:17:17am

re: #323 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Diseaseneyland

376 HappyWarrior  Feb 6, 2015 10:17:41am

re: #374 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#370

Actually we now know Katrina never happened. It was just a government hoax to collect more welfares money. And expand Big Government.

////

What are Bush administration events if that happened under Obama, Alex?

377 lawhawk  Feb 6, 2015 10:20:03am

re: #372 Ace-o-aces

I couldn’t care about who wins the awards. Haven’t given a hoot since ASCAP decided that Jethro Tull should get the first Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental of the year over Metallica’s And Justice for All.

And that’s not even the worst Grammy’s mistake either. That’d be Milli Vanilli. Or any number of best new artist awards.

And after last year’s mess with QoTSA and NIN (where they cut off the ending to run commercials), I have questions about hearing the musical acts too for fear they might cut them short too.

378 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Feb 6, 2015 10:25:36am

re: #257 HappyWarrior

Freddy’s Fantastic Flu

Mikey’s Magnificent Malaria

read the first review, it’s full of awesome.


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