The Mind-Numbing Hypocrisy of the Stupidest Man on the Internet

Thanks Obama
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For years, the Dumbest Man on the Internet, Jim Hoft, has been barking at the moon that President Obama is solely responsible for high gasoline prices. Just a few examples out of dozens (possibly hundreds — I don’t have time to count them all):

Gas Prices More Than Double Under Obama… State-Run Media Couldn’t Care Less
Obama’s War on the Middle Class: Gas Prices Double - Incomes Drop - Jobs Killed
Confirmed: Obama’s Policies Have Contributed to Record High Gas Prices
Obama Hits the Gas - Prices Double in Just Three Years Due to His Failed & Insane Policies
Thanks to Democrats… Gas Prices Could Top $5 a Gallon This Year
Grim Milestone… Gas Prices Soar Under Obama - Worse Than Carter
Soaring Gas Prices Cause Obama’s Approval Rating to Plummet

And of course, the inevitable “Thanks Obama” post:

Thanks Barack… Gas Prices Hit Record High in 2011 Under Obama

Not that it’s hypocritical or anything — OK, it’s insanely hypocritical — but now that gas prices are at their lowest in years, we find the DMOTI singing a very different tune:

Unreal. Obama Takes Credit for Lower Gas Prices: “You’re Welcome” (VIDEO) | the Gateway Pundit

Only a few months after banning oil drilling in Bristol Bay in Alaska, and a few days from pushing to ban oil drilling in an Alaskan wild life refuge, President Obama has decided that cheap gas prices are somehow because of him.

On Friday, President Obama told a crowd at the Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis that people were saving a lot of money at that gas pump so “You’re Welcome” (video below):

“A lot of families have been saving a lot of money at the gas pump which is putting smiles on folks faces. And (Crowd laughs) No, You’re Welcome.”

The absolute gall of the President for taking credit for something he honestly doesn’t support, and is not responsible for, is mind numbing.

Question for Jim Hoft (not that he’ll answer it): don’t you realize we can still see what you wrote about gas prices in the past?

(Note: after having a public falling out with Chuck C. Johnson over his vicious attack on a Tea Party heroine, Hoft is using one of Johnson’s YouTube videos in this post without credit. Wingnuts do the darndest things!)

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89 comments
1 missliberties  Feb 8, 2015 11:02:51am

Mind numbing isn’t a strong enough word to describe the hate that obsesses these unpatriotic treasonous hypocrites who seem to hold sway over a group of conservative cults.

2 Amory Blaine  Feb 8, 2015 11:03:19am

Dim Jim knows all about mind-numbing.

3 Archangelus  Feb 8, 2015 11:03:24am

re: #1 missliberties

Mind numbing isn’t a strong enough word to describe the hate that obsesses these unpatriotic treasonous hypocrites who seem to hold sway over a group of conservative cults.

Demonic, that good enough?

4 missliberties  Feb 8, 2015 11:05:50am

re: #3 Archangelus

Demonic.

Yes much better. These people are undermining rational critical thinking at every turn. Their cult followers lap up the lies and hate like kittens at the milk saucer.

5 Charles Johnson  Feb 8, 2015 11:08:23am
6 missliberties  Feb 8, 2015 11:08:50am

Lying with abandon. It’s the conservative way.

Meanwhile Sequester Cuts are Hurting America. Why doesn’t anyone every bring up the sanctions that the US imposed on itself. They are ridiculously stupid and unproductive. Ack!

7 Decatur Deb  Feb 8, 2015 11:10:32am

“Success has many fathers. Derp comes from a few muthas on the Internet.”

8 piratedan  Feb 8, 2015 11:11:53am

who could have foreseen that people moving to cleaner energy sources would have damped demand for oil and gas?

So the fallout is that the folks in Texas and Saudi Arabia are just a mite less richer is somehow a bad thing?

Granted, the workers end up suffering, not so much the millionaires and billionaires…

9 Charles Johnson  Feb 8, 2015 11:18:51am

Truth is, Obama has very little to do with the price of gasoline. It’s a simple matter of supply and demand. And if you watch the video Jim posted, you’ll see that Obama said “you’re welcome” in response to someone in the crowd saying “thank you.”

This is such a mindless wingnut talking point it hurts my brain.

10 ObserverArt  Feb 8, 2015 11:20:35am

Ahhh. Charles is back on his game!

Good to see after last night’s slings and arrows.

Aside: I make mention of playing drums. I just put up an image of my set in the last thread if anyone is interested. I didn’t want to mess with this thread.

See you all a bit later…

11 Charles Johnson  Feb 8, 2015 11:23:19am

Jim’s audience responds:

12 missliberties  Feb 8, 2015 11:25:40am

re: #7 Decatur Deb

“Success has many fathers. Derp comes from a few muthas on the Internet.”

Muthas is not a strong enough word.

Wicked treasonous fiendish anti-democratic diabolical wicked zealots is more descriptive. There I feel better now. (Not really)

It is obvious these right wing cultists have intentions that are not good or sparkly.

13 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 8, 2015 11:26:53am

Amateur!

Hate. Let me tell you how much I’ve come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word ‘hate’ was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.

~AM

14 Dr. Matt  Feb 8, 2015 11:29:47am
The absolute gall of the President for taking credit for something he honestly doesn’t support, and is not responsible for, is mind numbing.

The President doesn’t support low gas prices? Really? Since when?

15 HappyWarrior  Feb 8, 2015 11:30:54am

re: #14 Dr. Matt

The President doesn’t support low gas prices? Really? Since when?

Yeah what a dumbass Hoft is. Yeah the president doesn’t support low gas prices. Hoft’s got his head so far up his ass with anti-Obama rage.

16 Khal Wimpo  Feb 8, 2015 11:31:22am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

This is such a mindless wingnut talking point it hurts my brain.

Dunno if I’d characterize this as mindless. That, I reserve for the word salad babbling of Sarah Palin. This is more like petty, spiteful & malevolent.

It’s the slightly more clever kid on the playground getting all the dimwitted bullies amped up to go kick the shit out of the little girl who just beat them all on their times-table test.

What Hoft and CCJ do is not mindless. It’s a move calculated to incite the ire of people who just want something to vent their rage over their own internal inadequacies. It’s an audience-retention and loyalty-building move, and one that Fox News has proven to be surprisingly effective.

17 Khal Wimpo  Feb 8, 2015 11:32:22am

re: #13 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Was that from “I have no mouth, but I must scream” by Harlan Ellison? Haven’t read that one for decades, but like most of Ellison’s work, it sticks with me to this day…

18 Dr. Matt  Feb 8, 2015 11:32:53am

Here’s your modern day conservative ideology in a nutshell

The President doesn’t support low gas prices, the President is responsible for high gas prices, when you zoom in to his birth certificate at 2000x there is a smiley face, and his wedding ring as Islamic scripture on it.

19 missliberties  Feb 8, 2015 11:34:37am

re: #11 Charles Johnson

Dear Kelly Osbourne.

When you use the word hate it makes Jesus cry and it weakens your conservative soul spirit.

20 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 8, 2015 11:34:54am

re: #17 Khal Wimpo

Yep.

21 Charles Johnson  Feb 8, 2015 11:38:15am

re: #14 Dr. Matt

The President doesn’t support low gas prices? Really? Since when?

This is a long-standing conspiracy theory — Obama wants gas prices to be high so America will be driven into bankruptcy and then he can institute martial law and throw all conservatives into FEMA camps.

Not kidding.

22 Dr. Matt  Feb 8, 2015 11:38:55am

Dim Jim must have been jealous that CCJ has been getting all the attention as of late and decided to step-up the idiocy.

23 Decatur Deb  Feb 8, 2015 11:39:43am

re: #21 Charles Johnson

This is a long-standing conspiracy theory — Obama wants gas prices to be high so America will be driven into bankruptcy and then he can institute martial law and throw all conservatives into FEMA camps.

Not kidding.

When he hands over the keys in 2017, a great vacuum will open in the RW soul.

24 missliberties  Feb 8, 2015 11:39:59am

re: #18 Dr. Matt

Here’s your modern day conservative ideology in a nutshell

It’s all about Tax Cuts and Deregulation. Period the end.

If you love your country someone has to pay for it to function. The US is the biggest bunch of tax whiners on earth.

Nevermind that the Sequester, mandatory cuts to every single federal agency is weakening our countries standing at home and abroad.

25 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 8, 2015 11:40:15am

That someone can link to DimJim’s website in any type of non-critical fashion and still be taken seriously by supposedly “normal” conservatives is a clear sign of why I can’t take “normal” conservatives seriously either. Sure, they might say they disagree with the “fringe” elements and claim to push back against the whackos, and yet they’re willing to advocate that someone is a “serious” and “real” conservative despite unironically linking to places like DimJim.

26 BigPapa  Feb 8, 2015 11:41:17am
…. is mind numbing.

Oh yes, Great DMOTI. Reality is mind numbing, you poor thing.

27 b.d.  Feb 8, 2015 11:41:22am

re: #21 Charles Johnson

This is a long-standing conspiracy theory — Obama wants gas prices to be high so America will be driven into bankruptcy and then he can institute martial law and throw all conservatives into FEMA camps.

Not kidding.

That makes sense.

//

Obama wants low oil prices so he can punish the oil producing red states that didn’t vote for him and are home to real Christian Americans.

//

28 BigPapa  Feb 8, 2015 11:43:35am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

Truth is, Obama has very little to do with the price of gasoline. It’s a simple matter of supply and demand. And if you watch the video Jim posted, you’ll see that Obama said “you’re welcome” in response to someone in the crowd saying “thank you.”

This is such a mindless wingnut talking point it hurts my brain.

Oh, he’s trolling wingnuts a little in there, in a non-serious way.

And for that, I will vote for him in the next 4 elections.

29 missliberties  Feb 8, 2015 11:44:15am

re: #23 Decatur Deb

When he hands over the keys in 2017, a great vacuum will open in the RW soul.

Deb Deb Deb

How could you so quickly forget that the RW has no soul. Plus whatever soul they thought they had now belongs to the devil. See Jim Hoft.

30 Dr. Matt  Feb 8, 2015 11:44:23am

re: #21 Charles Johnson

This is a long-standing conspiracy theory — Obama wants gas prices to be high so America will be driven into bankruptcy and then he can institute martial law and throw all conservatives into FEMA camps.

Not kidding.

WTF. That hurts my head just trying to wrap my head around such idiocy.

31 Shiplord Kirel  Feb 8, 2015 11:48:55am

Health care report: Possible side effects of recent cessation of smoking, blood pressure reduction, weight loss, etc.

While this hypothesis has not been comprehensively field tested (and cannot be until my surgical recovery is complete) preliminary observations and incidental effects would indicate a strong possibility that I am no longer a patient/candidate for certain categories of pharmaceuticals, specifically Viagra and Cialis.

32 Decatur Deb  Feb 8, 2015 11:49:53am

re: #29 missliberties

Deb Deb Deb

How could you so quickly forget that the RW has no soul. Plus whatever soul they thought they had now belongs to the devil. See Jim Hoft.

Does too have soul:

dentonrc.com

33 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 8, 2015 11:51:35am

Just a small correction: Dim Jim is the SECOND Stupidest Man On The Internet. Chuck C has knocked him out of first place.

34 Dr Lizardo  Feb 8, 2015 11:53:27am

re: #31 Shiplord Kirel

Health care report: Possible side effects of recent cessation of smoking, blood pressure reduction, weight loss, etc.

While this hypothesis has not been comprehensively field tested (and cannot be until my surgical recovery is complete) preliminary observations and incidental effects would indicate a strong possibility that I am no longer a patient/candidate for certain categories of pharmaceuticals, specifically Viagra and Cialis.

Heh.

It’s been two weeks since I quit smoking, and I do feel better. My lungs don’t hurt and they’re clearing out. The downside of that is noticing that my phlegm has a grayish tone to it…..yeech. But I can breathe now. I don’t get winded walking 25 feet or out of breath from tying my shoes.

Just gotta stick with it. I’m on a 10-week nicotine patch program.

35 Decatur Deb  Feb 8, 2015 11:55:27am

Off to shovel real world dirt, if there is to be a veggie garden this year. BBL

36 TedStriker  Feb 8, 2015 12:01:08pm

re: #31 Shiplord Kirel

Health care report: Possible side effects of recent cessation of smoking, blood pressure reduction, weight loss, etc.

While this hypothesis has not been comprehensively field tested (and cannot be until my surgical recovery is complete) preliminary observations and incidental effects would indicate a strong possibility that I am no longer a patient/candidate for certain categories of pharmaceuticals, specifically Viagra and Cialis.

Getting a bit randy, are we?

;-)

37 Charles Johnson  Feb 8, 2015 12:01:45pm

re: #33 The Vicious Babushka

Just a small correction: Dim Jim is the SECOND Stupidest Man On The Internet. Chuck C has knocked him out of first place.

I don’t actually agree with that one — Chuck is more malicious than stupid, and he’s cunning enough to usually cover his tracks and give himself excuses when his lies are exposed.

Jim, on the other hand, is a complete freaking moron in every way.

38 Charles Johnson  Feb 8, 2015 12:04:28pm
39 BigPapa  Feb 8, 2015 12:06:14pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Really messed up people.

40 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 8, 2015 12:08:17pm

How apropos:
Physician Ben Carson eyes May announcement of presidential bid

(Reuters) - Retired surgeon Ben Carson on Sunday said he could form a committee to explore a bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination this month and make a formal announcement in May.

“That’s a reasonable time frame,” Carson told “Fox News Sunday” when asked by host Chris Wallace about the timing of an exploratory committee and formal announcement. “We’re putting all that together.”

41 Justanotherhuman  Feb 8, 2015 12:11:07pm

Does anyone but the stupidest of the stupid (and those looking to make a buck) pay attention to DMOTI anyway?

42 BigPapa  Feb 8, 2015 12:14:26pm

I think stupid is a cover, almost an excuse. Hoft is stupid, but also cunning, and there’s a strain of hate laced in.

CCJ is more cunning that Hoft.

It’s almost as if these men are somewhat intelligent but their hate and ego cause them to do such stupid things.

Either way, they’re tortured souls that drag the rest of us down.

43 Charles Johnson  Feb 8, 2015 12:18:41pm

re: #41 Justanotherhuman

Does anyone but the stupidest of the stupid (and those looking to make a buck) pay attention to DMOTI anyway?

Yes, unfortunately. He is regularly cited on Fox News, and I’ve seen more than one highly-placed Republican politician link to his site.

44 Justanotherhuman  Feb 8, 2015 12:19:47pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

Yes, unfortunately. He is regularly cited on Fox News, and I’ve seen more than one highly-placed Republican politician link to his site.

{sigh}

45 Dr. Matt  Feb 8, 2015 12:26:23pm

Drudge is featuring this “story” from SMOTI:

Gallup CEO: I May “Suddenly Disappear” For Telling Truth About Obama Unemployment Rate (Video)

Edit: And sure enough it’s all over the wingnut sites

46 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 8, 2015 12:35:26pm

re: #44 Justanotherhuman

{sigh}

re: #45 Dr. Matt

Edit: And sure enough it’s all over the wingnut sites

This is why. He’s near to the “head” of the wingnut human centipede.

47 missliberties  Feb 8, 2015 12:36:19pm

re: #3 Archangelus

Demonic, that good enough?

I think I found the word I was looking for.

Desecrate

As in defiling, debasing, degrading, defacing, vandalizing, destroying.

Jim Hoft is intentionally desecrating the truth.

Hoft and crew must have peeps that spend hours scouring videos to figure out how to take Obama’s words out of context so they can descrate the truth.

Jim Hoft dishonors America with his violent disrespect for the truth.

Forgive my raving but Lordy I am so sick of these people are their intentional lies that are hurting my country.

48 missliberties  Feb 8, 2015 12:39:19pm

re: #44 Justanotherhuman

And these same folks are literally obsessed with Brian Williams.

Does anyone remember the time that Bill O said he was in combat duty and he wasn’t. Or Rush was caught importing oxy illegally. But Brian Williams.

49 Kragar  Feb 8, 2015 12:41:35pm

If Star Wars had mechs:

The good news is they have the firepower to level a whole city.

The bad news is they can’t hit it.

50 The Dude Abides  Feb 8, 2015 12:45:20pm

re: #30 Dr. Matt

WTF. That hurts my head just trying to wrap my head around such idiocy.

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Mind if I do a J?

51 The Dude Abides  Feb 8, 2015 12:46:58pm

re: #31 Shiplord Kirel

Health care report: Possible side effects of recent cessation of smoking, blood pressure reduction, weight loss, etc.

While this hypothesis has not been comprehensively field tested (and cannot be until my surgical recovery is complete) preliminary observations and incidental effects would indicate a strong possibility that I am no longer a patient/candidate for certain categories of pharmaceuticals, specifically Viagra and Cialis.

Looking forward to the field report.

52 missliberties  Feb 8, 2015 12:49:44pm

re: #45 Dr. Matt

Drudge is featuring this “story” from SMOTI:

Gallup CEO: I May “Suddenly Disappear” For Telling Truth About Obama Unemployment Rate (Video)

Edit: And sure enough it’s all over the wingnut sites

Is Gallop CEO married to Sheryl Atkinson. Remember Obama disappeared her computer sentences and stuff.

53 Amory Blaine  Feb 8, 2015 12:50:14pm

rttggggggggggggggggggggfrededw445

edit: Sorry, George is frisky. Also demanding.

54 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 8, 2015 12:53:59pm

re: #53 Amory Blaine

rttggggggggggggggggggggfrededw445

Maybe.

55 Romantic Heretic  Feb 8, 2015 12:54:15pm

re: #4 missliberties

Demonic.

Yes much better. These people are undermining rational critical thinking at every turn. Their cult followers lap up the lies and hate like kittens at the milk saucer.

Well, hate (along with its close cousins fear and anger) makes you high so that’s not surprising. Addicts need regular hits.

56 missliberties  Feb 8, 2015 12:54:19pm

Dear Jim Hoft

The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

57 Romantic Heretic  Feb 8, 2015 12:56:09pm

re: #13 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Amateur!

~AM

Ah. Ellison. A wonderful writer but one of the more accomplished dicks on the planet.

58 Dr. Matt  Feb 8, 2015 12:56:41pm

re: #52 missliberties

Is Gallop CEO married to Sheryl Atkinson. Remember Obama disappeared her computer sentences and stuff.

The Gallop CEO could be the offspring of Nugent and Atkinson.

59 Justanotherhuman  Feb 8, 2015 12:57:32pm

Today started as a beautiful day and turned into shit. I had to file a complaint against a woman who would not allow me into my granddaughter’s house and continued to shove me until I fell out on the porch. This was after my granddaughter called me in crying hysterics and wanted me to come over and pick up my g-grandson (her son) because she claims she didn’t want him in the middle of an argument. After the assault, I went to the local middle school, parked, and called 911 and the deputy who came advised me where to file an assault complaint after they did a check at the house and got her information (I barely know the in-laws). This woman was probably twice my size and 44 yrs younger. Besides, I didn’t fight back because that would have escalated things, and I simply wanted to get out of there because I didn’t know what else she would do and I wasn’t going to take a beating (yes, that entered my mind).

She had no right to tell me I couldn’t see my granddaughter or g-grandson, but certainly felt she had that right. She doesn’t even live there, and I had no idea whether or not my g-daughter was in harm’s way and I was very worried after that phone call.

I called my granddaughter after the complaint was filed and she was timid about the entire episode, saying she was “all right”, but I’m not so sure. I’ve been told the SIL intends to file a complaint against me, saying I “scratched” her, although if i did, it was trying to get away from her assault. I don’t remember doing so as she kept shoving me and I was trying not to fall. Even worse to me was that my 5 yr old great-grandson was in my car and witnessed the entire episode.

Deliver me from violent rednecks.

60 Charles Johnson  Feb 8, 2015 12:57:40pm
61 Kragar  Feb 8, 2015 12:57:46pm
62 Romantic Heretic  Feb 8, 2015 12:58:24pm

re: #17 Khal Wimpo

Was that from “I have no mouth, but I must scream” by Harlan Ellison? Haven’t read that one for decades, but like most of Ellison’s work, it sticks with me to this day…

That story and ‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said The Ticktock Man as two of the finest short stories in English literature.

But Ellison himself is an utter jerk.

63 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 8, 2015 12:59:59pm

re: #59 Justanotherhuman

Today started as a beautiful day and turned into shit. I had to file a complaint against a woman who would not allow me into my granddaughter’s house and continued to shove me until I fell out on the porch. This was after my granddaughter called me in crying hysterics and wanted me to come over and pick up my g-grandson (her son) because she claims she didn’t want him in the middle of an argument. After the assault, I went to the local middle school, parked, and called 911 and the deputy who came advised me where to file an assault complaint after they did a check at the house and got her information (I barely know the in-laws). This woman was probably twice my size and 44 yrs younger. Besides, I didn’t fight back because that would have escalated things, and I simply wanted to get out of there because I didn’t know what else she would do and I wasn’t going to take a beating (yes, that entered my mind).

She had no right to tell me I couldn’t see my granddaughter or g-grandson, but certainly felt she had that right. She doesn’t even live there, and I had no idea whether or not my g-daughter was in harm’s way and I was very worried after that phone call.

I called my granddaughter after the complaint was filed and she was timid about the entire episode, saying she was “all right”, but I’m not so sure. I’ve been told the SIL intends to file a complaint against me, saying I “scratched” her, although if i did, it was trying to get away from her assault. I don’t remember doing so as she kept shoving me and I was trying not to fall. Even worse to me was that my 5 yr old great-grandson was in my car and witnessed the entire episode.

Deliver me from violent rednecks.

WTF

Do you even know who this attacker is?

64 Romantic Heretic  Feb 8, 2015 12:59:59pm

re: #24 missliberties

It’s all about Tax Cuts and Deregulation. Period the end.

If you love your country someone has to pay for it to function. The US is the biggest bunch of tax whiners on earth.

Nevermind that the Sequester, mandatory cuts to every single federal agency is weakening our countries standing at home and abroad.

I made a wing nut’s head explode on Facebook recently by noting, “We don’t have a debt crisis. We have a taxation crisis.”

That resulted in ALLCAPS!

65 Justanotherhuman  Feb 8, 2015 1:00:25pm

re: #61 Kragar

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Was there any evidence that Jonah even existed, much less The Whale and the entire, made-up fiction?

66 Justanotherhuman  Feb 8, 2015 1:02:42pm

re: #63 The Vicious Babushka

WTF

Do you even know who this attacker is?

She’s the SIL of my granddaughter, and I’ve only seen her a couple of times. I couldn’t even remember what her last name is (married).

These are controlling people who are estranged from their mother (who no longer lives in the home w/the father, although the adult children and grandchildren moved in), and my granddaughter’s husband’s family lives right next door and he had no problem getting them to come over. The father controls the siblings w/money and the “estate” he has. I don’t believe she’s entirely safe, yet it seems there is nothing else that we can do to bring her to her senses.

67 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 8, 2015 1:03:50pm

I assume that all the wingnuts hollering for Brian Williams’ ouster are conscientious in pointing out that he was hired by
Roger Ailes when he was running NBC News—right?

That’s all the proof I need that he’s a wild-eyed lefty!

68 WhatEVs  Feb 8, 2015 1:05:45pm

re: #56 missliberties

Dear Jim Hoft

The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

You get to keep everybody’s values because you have none of your own. . :-)

69 Lidane  Feb 8, 2015 1:06:38pm
70 Romantic Heretic  Feb 8, 2015 1:07:33pm

re: #59 Justanotherhuman

As the saying goes, “My family is a gift from God because I certainly wouldn’t pay for them.”

Sending strength and positive vibes your way.

By the way, the behaviour of your granddaughter is exactly the sort of behaviour any victim of abuse shows. Like someone sitting on a land mine they’re afraid to move for fear of setting it off.

Find out what resources for victims of domestic abuse are nearby and talk to them. I believe it would be much safer for your grand and great grand kids to be out of that situation.

71 Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 8, 2015 1:08:29pm

re: #45 Dr. Matt

Drudge is featuring this “story” from SMOTI:

Gallup CEO: I May “Suddenly Disappear” For Telling Truth About Obama Unemployment Rate (Video)

Edit: And sure enough it’s all over the wingnut sites

That’s the crap article that energized me enough to go delete my LinkedIn account.
:p

72 aagcobb  Feb 8, 2015 1:09:37pm

re: #45 Dr. Matt

Drudge is featuring this “story” from SMOTI:

Gallup CEO: I May “Suddenly Disappear” For Telling Truth About Obama Unemployment Rate (Video)

Edit: And sure enough it’s all over the wingnut sites

Of course, how dare he reveal that there is a U-6 unemployment rate that the BLS updates on its website every month that anyone can click on and look at!

73 Kragar  Feb 8, 2015 1:10:32pm
74 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 8, 2015 1:11:44pm

There’s one thing “Idiocracy” wrong. Walmart, not Costco, will control All The Things.

75 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 8, 2015 1:15:06pm

re: #61 Kragar

He said that about Jesus. Yes, he was asked Jonah and Noah, and sort of switched the topics, but he didn’t explicitly say that there’s great evidence for the Jonah story. In fact, he starts out by admitting that there’s less evidence than a devout Christian would hope for.

76 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 8, 2015 1:16:25pm

re: #74 The Vicious Babushka

There’s one thing “Idiocracy” wrong. Walmart, not Costco, will control All The Things.

Idiocracy is all wrong, genetics doesn’t work like this. But it had a couple of funny moments. “A pimp’s love is very different from that of a square…”

77 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 8, 2015 1:17:05pm

re: #31 Shiplord Kirel

Sending positive vibes.

Here at the Backwoods Stronghold, we’re trying to pretend that this is just another regular day.
Tomorrow we travel 200 miles roundtrip to visit the pulmonary specialist to discuss the recent CT scan scary results and learn what our options may be.

MrBWS would stop smoking, but he never did smoke.

go figure…

78 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 8, 2015 1:17:43pm

re: #65 Justanotherhuman

Was there any evidence that Jonah even existed, much less The Whale and the entire, made-up fiction?

Nope.

79 Justanotherhuman  Feb 8, 2015 1:18:57pm

re: #70 Romantic Heretic

Thanks. I’m pretty familiar with domestic abuse, having worked with abused women many years ago. I never thought my granddaughter would be in this situation, and I’ve always tried to talk with her and offer her my protection. That instinct was what drove me to drop everything at 9 am this morning and go over to her house to pick up my g-grandson. I’ve never actually seen physical abuse, per se, and I think this is about money—income tax refund, and SS from her dad, which is going to run into a pretty good sum. Her MIL moved back into her family home last summer but when her disability settlement came in, the father took the lump sum money and kicked the mother out again.

My g-daughter knows who has her interests at heart, and for some reason, she refuses to face reality, even when it means harm to members of her own family.

She knows she has somewhere to go when she wants to leave.

80 aagcobb  Feb 8, 2015 1:19:33pm

re: #64 Romantic Heretic

I made a wing nut’s head explode on Facebook recently by noting, “We don’t have a debt crisis. We have a taxation crisis.”

That resulted in ALLCAPS!

We really don’t have either. Interest rates are so low for the Feds they are basically negative, so there isn’t any reason we shouldn’t borrow more money for infrastructure; the investment would pay for itself.

81 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 8, 2015 1:19:40pm

re: #74 The Vicious Babushka

There’s one thing “Idiocracy” wrong. Walmart, not Costco, will control All The Things.

Walmart’s close enough to controlling All The Things right now. The world would be a different (and better) place if it was Costco.

82 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 8, 2015 1:20:16pm

re: #76 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Idiocracy is all wrong, genetics doesn’t work like this. But it had a couple of funny moments. “A pimp’s love is very different from that of a square…”

83 Dr. Matt  Feb 8, 2015 1:25:46pm

re: #72 aagcobb

Of course, how dare he reveal that there is a U-6 unemployment rate that the BLS updates on its website every month that anyone can click on and look at!

U6 Unemployment Rates for george w. bush vs. President Obama #BLS #unemployment
84 Joe Bacon  Feb 8, 2015 1:43:54pm

re: #73 Kragar

WOW! Is this the same John Stossel who received Government assistance when his house was damaged in a hurricane????

crooksandliars.com

Seems like Johnnyboy is every bit the hypocrite as his beloved God, Ayn Rand!

85 Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 8, 2015 1:53:03pm

re: #83 Dr. Matt

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That article annoyed me for three reasons:
1. He treated the U3 and U6 as the same thing without making a distinction. And these are not new metrics.

2. He made the whole thing “The White House” chortling about reduced unemployment - while ignoring that it had been an improvement in the metric over the past few years. (Thus implying that the White House is essentially just lying.)

3. He defines “a good job” as >30 hours a weak with a regular paycheck. Well - there are a pile of industries out there (Looking at you Walmart) that specifically avoid delivering a “good job” while pointing these same desperate employees to public assistance in order to make ends meet. (Essentially passing on their obligation to fairly pay their employees on to the government and others.)

It was a dishonest article. And that LinkedIn spawned it out as a headline link on an email is them essentially propagandizing to their members with a bunch of bullshit painted up to be anti-government (well anti Obama government at least.)

86 vgranucci  Feb 8, 2015 3:14:15pm

re: #17 Khal Wimpo

Creepiest story I have ever read.

87 BeenHereAwhile  Feb 8, 2015 3:50:26pm

re: #57 Romantic Heretic

Ah. Ellison. A wonderful writer but one of the more accomplished dicks on the planet.

The Glass Teat:
Essays of Opinion on Television (ISBN 0-515-03701-X) is a compilation of television reviews and essays written by Harlan Ellison as a regular weekly column for the Los Angeles Free Press from late 1968 into early 1970, discussing the effects of television upon society. The title implies that TV viewers are analogous with unweaned children. Discussion of television is frequently interspersed in the essays with lengthy asides about Ellison’s personal life, experiences and opinions in general[…]

en.m.wikipedia.org

88 Khal Wimpo  Feb 8, 2015 6:12:20pm

re: #62 Romantic Heretic

That story and ‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said The Ticktock Man as two of the finest short stories in English literature.

But Ellison himself is an utter jerk.

Yeah, I ran into him at the Hugo awards almost a decade ago. He was a spoiled, petulant brat. Still. It might have been charming when he was flipping off Frank Sinatra back in the 60s. Worn a little thin these days.

89 Romantic Heretic  Feb 8, 2015 7:28:05pm

re: #87 BeenHereAwhile

I’ve got original paperback copies of both Glass Teats. Most enjoyable, and sometimes incendiary.


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