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1 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 5:24:24pm
2 bratwurst  Feb 11, 2015 5:26:44pm

Repost:

I stopped subscribing to The Atlantic due to the facts they refuse to acknowledge they sold subscriber info to third party subscription services and they were only in retrospect able to see the problem with turning over a piece of their website to Scientology . Even so, I still follow them on Twitter to remind myself I am not missing anything. Usually those moments come when I see David Frum’s latest idiocy, but not this time…

Give me a fucking break.

3 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 5:29:07pm

Lemme see ya shake a tail feather!

4 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 11, 2015 5:29:23pm

re: #2 bratwurst

What’s their argument - “Now you’re just running up the score”?

5 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 5:29:32pm

re: #2 bratwurst

Conor Friedersdorf, of course. This guy is such an ass.

6 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 5:30:02pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Star Wars reenactment.

7 OhNoZombies!  Feb 11, 2015 5:30:43pm

I just love that song.
Poor neighbor’s dog can probably hear me singing.
Poor fella.

8 BeachDem  Feb 11, 2015 5:32:12pm

Is it time to start the upchuck lawsuit clock again? (I don’t even know what he’s going on about here, but he certainly sounds DETERMINED!!)

9 thedopefishlives  Feb 11, 2015 5:36:02pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Lemme see ya shake a tail feather!

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[Incomprehensible Japanese shouting.]

SUBTITLE: “Super ninja awesome front-flip tail whip ATTACK!”

10 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 5:36:46pm

They really sound excellent. Would’ve loved to be there.

11 GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 11, 2015 5:37:26pm

Well… Netgear WNDR3700v1 has been tossed into the trash (to be brought to Best Buy for recycling), and the new TP-Link Archer C9 is up and running. No need for that dinky unreliable range extender in the dining room. Signal goes all through the house now. Setup was a pain though. Two Roku boxes, of which the older one had to be factory reset before it could connect. The PS3 in the basement, and numerous tablets/laptops/phones. An hour of my life that I may get back in a few months. This router is a huge upgrade. And a 2 year warranty. Phew.

12 A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2015 5:37:53pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Interception! And that’s the game!

13 GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 11, 2015 5:39:11pm

re: #12 A Cranky One

Russell Wilson on the left…

14 Dark_Falcon  Feb 11, 2015 5:39:26pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

Conor Friedersdorf, of course. This guy is such an ass.

That’s his second piece of clueless DERP this week. I called him out on the first piece.

15 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 11, 2015 5:41:40pm

Hey Dark, since I answered your question seriously downstairs, I was wondering if you could answer one of mine. You said yesterday that Whitney Houston’s daughter ODed on drugs. What was your source for that?

I ask because I follow celebrity news as a lunch habit and I haven’t seen any reports that support this. Not to mention I have seen reports that her boyfriend is under investigation at the moment, potentially relating to this.

16 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 5:41:52pm
17 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 11, 2015 5:42:37pm

re: #15 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Hey Dark, since I answered your question seriously downstairs, I was wondering if you could answer one of mine. You said yesterday that Whitney Houston’s daughter ODed on drugs. What was your source for that?

I ask because I follow celebrity news as a lunch habit and I haven’t seen any reports that support this. Not to mention I have seen reports that her boyfriend is under investigation at the moment, potentially relating to this.

He’s “not a dead threader”….

18 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 5:42:57pm

re: #16 Charles Johnson

Does Sue know?

19 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 11, 2015 5:42:58pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s “not a dead threader”….

That’s why I posted it upstairs. :)

20 thedopefishlives  Feb 11, 2015 5:43:23pm

re: #18 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Does Sue know?

MY NAME IS SUE! HOW DO YOU DO! NOW YOU’RE GONNA DIE!

21 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Feb 11, 2015 5:43:28pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

Conor Friedersdorf, of course. This guy is such an ass.

Conor Friedersdork. Same as it ever was.

22 Bubblehead II  Feb 11, 2015 5:44:27pm

re: #12 A Cranky One

Interception! And that’s the game!

Trolling the Seahawks fans are we? :-)

23 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 5:45:27pm
24 thedopefishlives  Feb 11, 2015 5:46:15pm

re: #23 #FergusonFireside

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Aw, man. And I took the over in the lawsuit countdown pool.

25 Dark_Falcon  Feb 11, 2015 5:46:29pm

re: #15 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Hey Dark, since I answered your question seriously downstairs, I was wondering if you could answer one of mine. You said yesterday that Whitney Houston’s daughter ODed on drugs. What was your source for that?

I ask because I follow celebrity news as a lunch habit and I haven’t seen any reports that support this. Not to mention I have seen reports that her boyfriend is under investigation at the moment, potentially relating to this.

That was my understanding, but I may have been wrong about it. I only really followed the early reports in her case. If later reports are showing something else happened then I defer to those reports.

26 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 5:46:54pm

re: #23 #FergusonFireside

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She wins 3 internets.

27 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 5:46:58pm
28 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 5:47:39pm
29 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 5:47:44pm

Three poops for the win!

30 TedStriker  Feb 11, 2015 5:47:53pm

re: #8 BeachDem

Is it time to start the upchuck lawsuit clock again? (I don’t even know what he’s going on about here, but he certainly sounds DETERMINED!!)

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He damn sure is feeling his oats, isn’t he?

31 thedopefishlives  Feb 11, 2015 5:48:41pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

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I love how he’s got the whole tag in his email account’s name: “Charles C. Johnson, Founder of GotNews”.

32 Dark_Falcon  Feb 11, 2015 5:48:44pm

re: #22 Bubblehead II

Trolling the Seahawks fans are we? :-)

Well, those are red squirrels and Tom Brady did give Malcolm Butler the red F-150 he got for being Superbowl MVP…

33 Dark_Falcon  Feb 11, 2015 5:50:08pm

re: #23 #FergusonFireside

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Goldie Taylor rings the dinner bell and Chuckles gets served!

34 Amory Blaine  Feb 11, 2015 5:50:42pm

Haven’t seen this around these parts in a long time, so I had to grab a few.

35 GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 11, 2015 5:50:51pm

re: #16 Charles Johnson

36 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 5:51:09pm
37 Dave In Austin  Feb 11, 2015 5:51:16pm
38 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 11, 2015 5:51:43pm

re: #25 Dark_Falcon

That was my understanding, but I may have been wrong about it. I only really followed the early reports in her case. If later reports are showing something else happened then I defer to those reports.

I might suggest that next time, you should either be sure your report is accurate or think about whether it really needs to be included in the comment.

39 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 11, 2015 5:53:07pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

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He RETREATED it!!11!!

40 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 11, 2015 5:54:08pm

And yeah, repeat what media tells you instead of random anonymous cat ladies on the twitters…

41 dell*nix  Feb 11, 2015 5:55:10pm

O T. Intersting strip. quantumvibe.com

Mentions two names often seen here.

42 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 5:55:33pm
43 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 11, 2015 5:55:33pm

re: #31 thedopefishlives

I love how he’s got the whole tag in his email account’s name: “Charles C. Johnson, Founder of GotNews”.

Dumbass misspelled “flounder.”

44 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 5:56:29pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

Scum-sucking sleaze-vultures.

45 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 5:58:07pm

re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth

And yeah, repeat what media tells you instead of random anonymous cat ladies on the twitters…

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He’s engaging Chris Kluwe? What delusions of grandeur.

46 bratwurst  Feb 11, 2015 5:58:22pm

Another item for the “give me a fucking break” file tonight:

I am so goddamn sick of this Jon Stewart farewell event already and it has barely even started. Literally every person in American who taps on a keyboard or talks into a microphone for fun and/or profit feels obliged to opine on Stewart, his legacy, and his possible replacement.

A FUNNY GUY WHO DID A FUNNY SHOW FOR YEARS IS MOVING ON IN HIS CAREER. CHANCES ARE I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT IT.

/rant off

47 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 5:58:27pm

And I should also point out that Dave Weigel has long been a supporter of the American Spectator paleo-loons, so it’s not surprising he’s at one of their events.

48 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 5:59:00pm
49 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 5:59:25pm

re: #41 dell*nix

O T. Intersting strip. quantumvibe.com

Mentions two names often seen here.

heh

50 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 6:00:40pm
51 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 6:01:20pm

Dave has been playing both sides of the fence for a long time.

52 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 6:01:31pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

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Yep. haha.

53 A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2015 6:02:26pm

re: #31 thedopefishlives

I love how he’s got the whole tag in his email account’s name: “Charles C. Johnson, Founder of gotnews.com”.

How old is Upchuck? Thought he was in his mid-twenties.

gotnews.com
The age of gotnews.com is 13 years 228 days . According to the alexa.com, this site has #42720 rank in the world wide web. Low Alexa rank indicates that the site is visited by a lot of visitors and popular in the Internet. This web site has Google PageRank 0 out of 10 maximal and is Not Listed in DMOZ.

Last updated on 2015-02-10 10:51:52 AM

He founded the site when he was 12 or 13?

54 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 6:03:04pm
55 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 6:03:16pm

re: #46 bratwurst

Another item for the “give me a fucking break” file tonight:

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I am so goddamn sick of this Jon Stewart farewell event already and it has barely even started. Literally every person in American who taps on a keyboard or talks into a microphone for fun and/or profit feels obliged to opine on Stewart, his legacy, and his possible replacement.

A FUNNY GUY WHO DID A FUNNY SHOW FOR YEARS IS MOVING ON IN HIS CAREER. CHANCES ARE I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT IT.

/rant off

We’re onto them, to their peril. Edit: The Democratic fundraisers I mean.

56 thedopefishlives  Feb 11, 2015 6:03:46pm

re: #54 Kragar

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It took me a minute, but I lol’d IRL after it sank in.

57 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 11, 2015 6:04:22pm

re: #53 A Cranky One

How old is Upchuck? Thought he was in his mid-twenties.

gotnews.com
The age of gotnews.com is 13 years 228 days . According to the alexa.com, this site has #42720 rank in the world wide web. Low Alexa rank indicates that the site is visited by a lot of visitors and popular in the Internet. This web site has Google PageRank 0 out of 10 maximal and is Not Listed in DMOZ.

Last updated on 2015-02-10 10:51:52 AM

He founded the site when he was 12 or 13?

Figure that’s been how long that domain name has been registered by someone or another, not how long Upchuck has owned/used it.

58 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2015 6:04:29pm

re: #16 Charles Johnson

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Does that count? chuckcjohnson.info hasn’t updated.

59 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 6:04:49pm
60 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 11, 2015 6:05:04pm
61 thedopefishlives  Feb 11, 2015 6:05:27pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

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Yeah, but campaign finance reform has surely made certain that they can’t spend all of it on one election.

[Cough.]

62 TedStriker  Feb 11, 2015 6:05:47pm

re: #43 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Dumbass misspelled “flounder.”

63 bratwurst  Feb 11, 2015 6:06:10pm

Do we suppose this means the GOP had to return the giant squirrel suit?

64 nines09  Feb 11, 2015 6:06:26pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

I’ll bet that was reported on the nightly news. Not.

65 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Feb 11, 2015 6:06:28pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

I hope everyone’s aware that the Koch brothers have raised nearly a billion dollars to tilt the next presidential election to the far right.

that shows how much weight the progressive agenda has

it takes a billion dollars to throw it off course

66 Dave In Austin  Feb 11, 2015 6:06:39pm

re: #60 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Every Sperm is Sacred, Every Sperm is Good….

67 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 6:07:56pm

re: #57 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Figure that’s been how long that domain name has been registered by someone or another, not how long Upchuck has owned/used it.

Got Milk is such an old thing. I know someone who had it as their Company name, Got(his business) From the fucking 90’s.

Such a lame name.

68 A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2015 6:08:36pm

re: #57 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Figure that’s been how long that domain name has been registered by someone or another, not how long Upchuck has owned/used it.

I can believe that, since he doesn’t appear to own the domain. Just chuckling because he claims to have “founded” it on his letterhead.

Or should that be upchuckling?

69 Belafon  Feb 11, 2015 6:09:40pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

I wouldn’t worry about it too much if I were them. Now that we’ve won two elections in a row, Democrats will spend more time infighting instead of making sure that Republicans don’t get the presidency and lose control of Congress.

70 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 11, 2015 6:12:27pm

been saving this one for a while, so thought it might be a good time since Chuck is a topic tonight:

71 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2015 6:13:20pm

Be afraid, people. Be very afraid.

72 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 6:15:00pm

Fuck Chuck, read this editorial.

73 Great White Snark  Feb 11, 2015 6:15:13pm

Yeah, I’d be tempted to do the same. Maybe not… Couple grab/wrestle and hold man after he wrecks their car in a high speed police pursuit.

Video

74 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 6:15:15pm

re: #67 #FergusonFireside

The domain name belonged to gotmilk: web.archive.org

75 Dave In Austin  Feb 11, 2015 6:15:22pm

Watching Rachel.

Jeb Bush just Doxed half of Florida by dumping all his emails while Gov. complete with SSN’s, medical info, etc…..

That could leave a mark…

76 Dave In Austin  Feb 11, 2015 6:19:26pm

LOLOLOL!! Choke…

“The House has done its job,” Boehner said at a press conference after he met with House Republican members. “Why don’t you go ask the Senate Democrats when they’re going to get off their ass and do something other than to vote no?”

77 thedopefishlives  Feb 11, 2015 6:20:43pm

re: #76 Dave In Austin

LOLOLOL!! Choke…

“The House has done its job,” Boehner said at a press conference after he met with House Republican members. “Why don’t you go ask the Senate Democrats when they’re going to get off their ass and do something other than to vote no?”

Funny, isn’t it, the things they say when the tables are turned. Why doesn’t Sir John of Orange tell us why they’re “doing their job” now as opposed to the last 7 years?

78 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 6:21:11pm

re: #74 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

The domain name belonged to gotmilk: web.archive.org

I wonder what Chuck paid for that domain name?

79 EPR-radar  Feb 11, 2015 6:21:14pm

re: #75 Dave In Austin

Watching Rachel.

Jeb Bush just Doxed half of Florida by dumping all his emails while Gov. complete with SSN’s, medical info, etc…..

That could leave a mark…

Wasn’t Jeb Bush supposed to be competent (for a Republican)?

I suppose he’ll be graded on a curve, and that this is still pretty good (again, for a Republican).

80 thedopefishlives  Feb 11, 2015 6:22:23pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

I wonder what Chuck paid for that domain name?

What little was left of his brain, it appears. I was going to say “his immortal soul”, but I’m pretty sure he never had one. (He is a ginger, after all.)

81 EPR-radar  Feb 11, 2015 6:23:40pm

re: #76 Dave In Austin

LOLOLOL!! Choke…

“The House has done its job,” Boehner said at a press conference after he met with House Republican members. “Why don’t you go ask the Senate Democrats when they’re going to get off their ass and do something other than to vote no?”

CCJ et al. aren’t all that important. Boehner and the rest of the Republican elected officials are the real cancer on society.

82 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 11, 2015 6:23:53pm

heh…

83 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 6:28:03pm
84 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 11, 2015 6:28:44pm

re: #80 thedopefishlives

What little was left of his brain, it appears. I was going to say “his immortal soul”, but I’m pretty sure he never had one. (He is a ginger, after all.)

Gingers do too have soul:Video

85 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2015 6:30:18pm
86 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 11, 2015 6:30:40pm

I see UpChuck has got the whole Chapel Hill shooting motive nailed. gotnwes.com responds.

WE CHECKED IT, TOO: Killings over parking space are way more common that killing Muslims #ChapelHillShooting

87 Great White Snark  Feb 11, 2015 6:30:55pm
88 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 11, 2015 6:31:18pm

re: #85 The Vicious Babushka

Oh, no! I liked Bob Simon.

89 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 6:31:20pm
90 WhatEVs  Feb 11, 2015 6:33:14pm

re: #81 EPR-radar

CCJ et al. aren’t all that important. Boehner and the rest of the Republican elected officials are the real cancer on society.

QFT.

91 A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2015 6:33:32pm

re: #84 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Ah, Van Morrison. Nice!

92 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 11, 2015 6:33:35pm

re: #71 The Vicious Babushka

Be afraid, people. Be very afraid.

Especially if you’re not a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant with libertarian or conservative leanings.

93 EPR-radar  Feb 11, 2015 6:37:15pm

re: #92 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Especially if you’re not a filthy rich white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant straight male with libertarian or conservative leanings.

FTFY

94 bratwurst  Feb 11, 2015 6:37:50pm

On this date in 1990 Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa after 27 years, paving the way for the end of Apartheid…greatly disappointing Dick Cheney.

95 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 6:38:52pm

re: #74 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

The domain name belonged to gotmilk: web.archive.org

L O L.

what a crock.

96 stpaulbear  Feb 11, 2015 6:39:02pm

re: #72 #FergusonFireside

Fuck Chuck, read this editorial.

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I saw that yesterday and my first thought was that I wish the report would have been nationwide so that people couldn’t point to the report as being anti-south and feeding anyone’s sense of victimhood. It reminded me of a story about three men being lynched in Duluth MN.

ON A JUNE NIGHT IN 1920, hundreds of angry men and thousands of curious onlookers surrounded the downtown headquarters of the Duluth police department. The crowd might have reached 10,000. They wanted the handful of police officers inside to turn over their prisoners - a group of young, black circus workers. The police had arrested the men earlier that day. They accused some of the out-of-towners of raping a young, white woman at the circus grounds. Later investigations cast serious doubt on the rape charges, but the howling mob outside the police station had no doubts.

In 2003, the city of Duluth created a memorial to the hanged men.

…the fact that lynchings took place in many parts of the country was underscored recently in the northern Minnesota city of Duluth when the city unveiled a moving memorial commemorating the deaths of Elmer Jackson, Elias Clayton and Isaac McGhie, three young black men who were lynched in Duluth in 1920 while a mob of 10,000 looked on. The dedication drew thousands of people from all over the area. The emotional high point came with a speech by Warren Read, a fourth-grade teacher from Kingston, Wash., who had learned while researching his family that his great-grandfather had helped lead the mob that stormed the local jail and took the three men, who were circus workers, from their cells. His voice choking with emotion, he apologized to the victims and their families.

Here’s a link to a webpage with photos of the memorial. It’s pretty moving even in the photos. This is the kind of memorial that should be built wherever hangings occurred.

97 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 6:40:18pm

re: #85 The Vicious Babushka

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Too fucking soon. 27 Emmys,

98 A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2015 6:41:49pm

Too cranky to discuss Sir John of Orange.

So I’ll do this instead.

…

99 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 6:43:14pm

Any excuse to become a video game hero. WTF people

100 Dave In Austin  Feb 11, 2015 6:46:37pm

re: #98 A Cranky One

That man has talent….. Listened to him since HS dayz in the 60’s/70’s. Natural white boy soul…

101 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 6:47:20pm
102 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 6:48:14pm
103 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2015 6:49:14pm

STUPIDEST GODWIN OF THE DAY==>

104 Gus  Feb 11, 2015 6:49:32pm

re: #102 Charles Johnson

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105 TedStriker  Feb 11, 2015 6:50:07pm

re: #94 bratwurst

On this date in 1990 Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa after 27 years, paving the way for the end of Apartheid…greatly disappointing Dick Cheney.

Mandela’s dead, while Darth Cheney still draws breath.

Something’s seriously wrong with that.

106 KingKenrod  Feb 11, 2015 6:50:39pm

re: #98 A Cranky One

Too cranky to discuss Sir John of Orange.

So I’ll do this instead.

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Video

Nice selection, from maybe my favorite album. And I mean of all albums, not just Morrison’s.

107 Dave In Austin  Feb 11, 2015 6:50:56pm
108 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 6:51:35pm

I did a pork loin in the pressure cooker. OMG.

109 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 6:51:36pm

re: #105 TedStriker

Mandela’s dead, while Darth Cheney still draws breath.

Something’s seriously wrong here…

Time to put Cheney where Mandela used to be.

110 Gus  Feb 11, 2015 6:52:32pm
111 A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2015 6:52:44pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

I wonder what Chuck paid for that domain name?

Probably not much, since he doesn’t appear to gotmoney. ;)

112 Great White Snark  Feb 11, 2015 6:53:49pm

re: #108 #FergusonFireside

I did a pork loin in the pressure cooker. OMG.

Really? Better that way? Been tempted but the risk of a breach puts me off.

113 EPR-radar  Feb 11, 2015 6:54:31pm

re: #111 A Cranky One

Probably not much, since he doesn’t appear to gotmoney. ;)

Fortunately for us all. CCJ with money would be taken seriously, because all rich people have opinions that are validated by their money.

114 stpaulbear  Feb 11, 2015 6:55:16pm

re: #105 TedStriker

Mandela’s dead, while Darth Cheney still draws breath.

Something’s seriously wrong with that.

Not much of a condolence, but at least Mandela died with his own heart.

115 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 6:55:24pm

Bob Simon was one of the real journalists from a time passed. He’ll be missed.

116 thedopefishlives  Feb 11, 2015 6:56:01pm

re: #115 Charles Johnson

Bob Simon was one of the real journalists from a time passed. He’ll be missed.

Back when journalists did their own investigations, rather than just reading Twitter and Facebook and trying to get ahead of the social media curve.

117 Bubblehead II  Feb 11, 2015 6:56:39pm

re: #105 TedStriker

Mandela’s dead, while Darth Cheney still draws breath.

Something’s seriously wrong with that.

Well when you have a liquid helium pump for a heart, the body does tend to go into a cryogenic state of preservation.

118 OhNoZombies!  Feb 11, 2015 6:58:13pm

re: #105 TedStriker

Mandela’s dead, while Darth Cheney still draws breath.

Something’s seriously wrong here…

Yup.
My guess is that Satan is trying to delay Cheny’s entrance into Hell, so he has provided him an ample supply of human hearts and unicorn tears to feed on.

119 TedStriker  Feb 11, 2015 6:58:20pm

re: #117 Bubblehead II

Well when you have a liquid helium pump for a heart, the body does tend to go into a cryogenic state of preservation.

No, the evil flowing through Cheney’s twisted veins preserved him well before that.

120 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 6:58:59pm

re: #111 A Cranky One

Probably not much, since he doesn’t appear to gotmoney. ;)

Killing me.

121 Bubblehead II  Feb 11, 2015 6:59:06pm

re: #108 #FergusonFireside

I did a pork loin in the pressure cooker. OMG.

Did a pork sirloin roast in the slow cooker tonight. With (real) buttered potatoes and baby carrots, onion and celery. Just letting it settle a bit before I trundle off to bath and bad.

122 TedStriker  Feb 11, 2015 7:00:09pm

re: #118 OhNoZombies!

Yup.
My guess is that Satan is trying to delay Cheny’s entrance into Hell, so he has provided him an ample supply of human hearts and unicorn tears to feed on.

Satan just hates competition.

123 RadicalModerate  Feb 11, 2015 7:00:31pm

re: #34 Amory Blaine

Haven’t seen this around these parts in a long time, so I had to grab a few.

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Everywhere else in the world except for in North America and a few South American countries and England, that beer is known as Budweiser.
There’s really an interesting story regarding how the US brewery basically tried to steal the trademark that two breweries originated in what is now the Czech Republic in the 13th Century - predating Anheuser-Busch by more than 600 years. In just about every court case, the bigger AB brewery has lost- primarily because the name “Budweiser” is derived from the city where the beer was created - Budweis. As a result, Anheuser-Busch is barred from using the name outside of what are considered its home markets.

en.wikipedia.org

124 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 7:00:42pm

re: #112 Great White Snark

Really? Better that way? Been tempted but the risk of a breach puts me off.

It’s like pulled pork actually, falls apart. Very tasty, I did std rosemary & garlic seasoning. & Jasmine rice.

RE: the cooker, Cuisinart 99.00 I think on Amazon. All electric. Easy as pie.

125 Bubblehead II  Feb 11, 2015 7:02:11pm

re: #119 TedStriker

No, the evil flowing through Cheney’s twisted veins preserved him well before that.

Hmmmmm. Is this why we have never seen Cheney and Palpatine in the same room together? Oh Varek?

126 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 7:03:24pm

CNN has a good Bob Simon thingy on now. (warning it’s Don Lemon, but he’s interviewing Anderson Cooper)

127 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 7:04:09pm

I like AC. He’s real.

128 b_sharp  Feb 11, 2015 7:04:12pm

Mom, when can I eat solid food?

129 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 7:06:08pm
130 A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2015 7:06:22pm

re: #128 b_sharp

Mom, when can I eat solid food?

Just get yourself one of these:


Hulu Video

131 Dave In Austin  Feb 11, 2015 7:09:00pm

re: #128 b_sharp

Dental Work?

132 b_sharp  Feb 11, 2015 7:09:09pm

re: #130 A Cranky One

Just get yourself one of these:

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I’ve been eating pudding.

I tried to eat a bun and my mouth started bleeding again.

I’m really getting good at this whining thing.

133 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 7:10:01pm

You know, I listen to NPR religiously, but I guess not at night when Tiny Desk appears. Charles brought it to me & you.

Such a great show.

Here’s are really good story about it, they are announcing the winner of their new artist on tiny desk tomorrow.

They received nearly 7,000 video submissions of bands musicians playing original songs at desks - all sorts of desks all over the place - at the beach, in the woods, in fields, offices and subway stations.

npr.org

134 b_sharp  Feb 11, 2015 7:10:22pm

re: #131 Dave In Austin

Dental Work?

Yah.

135 Bubblehead II  Feb 11, 2015 7:11:55pm

Night Lizards.

136 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 7:12:25pm
137 A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2015 7:12:28pm

re: #132 b_sharp

I’ve been eating pudding.

I tried to eat a bun and my mouth started bleeding again.

I’m really getting good at this whining thing.

Nothing like whining and dining ;)

138 RadicalModerate  Feb 11, 2015 7:13:38pm

re: #103 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST GODWIN OF THE DAY==>

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Says the guy who follows and retweets dyed in the wool white supremacists, neoconfederates, and militia groups.

139 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 7:20:30pm
140 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 11, 2015 7:22:54pm

Ok, I just had to do this:

“Hi, I’m Charles Johnson and I have LGF.”

CCJ: “And I’m Creepy Charles Johnson and I have a lame blog called Gotnews. com”

“On LGF, I host lively political discussions with a diverse range of intellectual commentary.”

CCJ: “I have no actual talent, so I spend my time doxxing rape victims and minorities,”

“I work hard daily to maintain a smooth running, top quality online community.”

CCJ: “I’ll give you sexy pictures of my Hot Asian Wife (tm) if you send me money!”

“Don’t be like this me, stay with LGF.”

141 RadicalModerate  Feb 11, 2015 7:23:00pm

I think someone needs to tell NBC’s web administrators that there’s been a slight change.

nbc.com

Yeah, it’s still up more than a day afterward, and is the active link from the main site.

142 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 11, 2015 7:24:26pm

re: #141 RadicalModerate

I think someone needs to tell NBC’s web administrators that there’s been a slight change.

nbc.com

Yeah, it’s still up more than a day afterward, and is the active link from the main site.

I think the program is still officially called “Nightly News with Brian Williams”. At this junction they are probably still thinking Holt is a temporary change.

143 Great White Snark  Feb 11, 2015 7:24:48pm

re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg

Ok, I just had to do this:

Spot On! Lowe humor.

144 thedopefishlives  Feb 11, 2015 7:25:37pm

re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg

Ok, I just had to do this:

You have won the Internet for tonight. Very well done.

145 Great White Snark  Feb 11, 2015 7:27:45pm

Small tweak.

“Hi, I’m Charles Johnson and I have LGF.”

CCJ: “And I’m Creepy Charles Johnson and I have a lame blog called Gotnews. com”

“On LGF, I host lively political discussions with a diverse range of intellectual commentary.”

CCJ: “I have no actual talent, so I spend my time doxxing rape victims and minorities,”

“I work hard daily to maintain a smooth running, top quality online community.”

CCJ: “I’ll give you sexy pictures of my Hot Asian Wife (tm) if you send me money!”

“Don’t be like this me, stay subscribe with LGF.”

146 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 11, 2015 7:28:09pm

ANALYSIS: It’s always the victim’s fault #ChapelHillShooting

Following the time-honored DARVO* protocol of criminal analysis, GotNwes has concluded that it was the victims of the Chapel Hill shooting that are to blame for their own deaths, not the man who actually shot them dead.

147 Dave In Austin  Feb 11, 2015 7:28:54pm

re: #134 b_sharp

I feel your pain Brother…. I got bone graft surgery in 2 weeks. Joy!

148 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 7:31:59pm

re: #147 Dave In Austin

I feel your pain Brother…. I got bone graft surgery in 2 weeks. Joy!

I go in for an implant next week. Saving money for the nitrous, because I went clean last time and the whole scene hurt me until today. And tomorrow.

Dental work is the biggest ignored problem. Insurance? hahaha. I am in debt now w/second job because of this shit.

i.e., do not get me started.

149 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 7:35:54pm

And WW, fyi, this cat makes my day every day. Petty the beach cat.

When the world is shit, watch Petty (there are videos of him on the dunes)

150 Great White Snark  Feb 11, 2015 7:36:47pm

re: #148 #FergusonFireside

Got me started. ‘Inflation is low”. Uh huh. Except for college tuition, medical costs and food. Details details.

151 Gus  Feb 11, 2015 7:37:32pm

Rand Paul is a dummy.

152 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 11, 2015 7:39:46pm

re: #145 Great White Snark

Nice :P

153 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 11, 2015 7:41:30pm

February is always a fun month in the Cyborg household. Not only do we have Valentines Day, my wife’s birthday is Feb. 17. Suffice to say, the bank account never likes this time of year much. :P

154 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 7:42:56pm
155 thedopefishlives  Feb 11, 2015 7:43:23pm

re: #153 Eclectic Cyborg

February is always a fun month in the Cyborg household. Not only do we have Valentines Day, my wife’s birthday is Feb. 17. Suffice to say, the bank account never likes this time of year much. :P

It’s April in the fish household. Mrs. Fish’s birthday, both the fishspawns’ birthdays, my mother’s birthday, my mother-in-law’s birthday, and at least half a dozen others on Mrs. Fish’s side of the family are all in April.

156 Belafon  Feb 11, 2015 7:43:40pm

re: #153 Eclectic Cyborg

My wife’s birthday is late November, then Christmas, then my youngest son’s birthday in February, Valentine’s day, then my middle son’s birthday in March. Totally understand the paycheck thing.

157 Decatur Deb  Feb 11, 2015 7:44:12pm

Kory Watkins, the deranged hipster from Open Carry TC, really impressed the Speaker of the Texas House with his threatening video:

houstonchronicle.com

158 TedStriker  Feb 11, 2015 7:45:20pm

re: #157 Decatur Deb

Kory Watkins, the deranged hipster from Open Carry TC, really impressed the Speaker of the Texas House with his threatening video:

houstonchronicle.com

Straus will find a horse’s head in his bed before too long…

159 Gus  Feb 11, 2015 7:45:39pm

re: #154 Charles Johnson

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BENGHAZI!

160 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Feb 11, 2015 7:46:26pm
161 Belafon  Feb 11, 2015 7:46:28pm

re: #157 Decatur Deb

Contrary to what the 2nd amendment only people think, this is the point where your rights end: The intimidation of others to achieve your goals is terrorism, not rights.

162 A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2015 7:46:33pm

re: #158 TedStriker

Straus will find a horse’s head in his bed before too long…

He’s already seen the horse’s ass….

163 b_sharp  Feb 11, 2015 7:46:33pm

re: #147 Dave In Austin

I feel your pain Brother…. I got bone graft surgery in 2 weeks. Joy!

Have fun.

164 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 7:46:58pm

re: #153 Eclectic Cyborg

February is always a fun month in the Cyborg household. Not only do we have Valentines Day, my wife’s birthday is Feb. 17. Suffice to say, the bank account never likes this time of year much. :P

Enjoy your good Husbandmanship ranking.

165 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 7:46:59pm
166 Decatur Deb  Feb 11, 2015 7:47:17pm

re: #158 TedStriker

Straus will find a horse’s head in his bed before too long…

Per the article, some not-quite-crazy-enough legislators have been given enhanced security details.

167 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 7:47:36pm

re: #154 Charles Johnson

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Bought and paid for.

168 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 11, 2015 7:47:48pm

re: #164 #FergusonFireside

Enjoy your good Husbandmanship ranking.

lol, my wife has threatened bad things for me if I ever try to give her a combined gift for both occasions. :P

169 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 7:48:43pm

re: #156 Belafon

My wife’s birthday is late November, then Christmas, then my youngest son’s birthday in February, Valentine’s day, then my middle son’s birthday in March. Totally understand the paycheck thing.

Dude, you have year long trauma. Summers off.

170 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Feb 11, 2015 7:50:57pm

re: #160 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss

Remember what I said last thread about epistemology?

Apply directly forehead.

171 A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2015 7:51:33pm

When my kids were growing up, summer was an interesting time. Had my older daughter’s birthday,then a two week break, then my son’s, another two week break, then mine, another two week break and then my (now ex) spouses. So a birthday party every two weeks.

Youngest daughters birthday wasn’t until October. Poor kid used to walk around singing “Happy Birthday to me?”

Broke my heart and made me laugh at the same time.

172 Belafon  Feb 11, 2015 7:52:19pm

re: #169 #FergusonFireside

I think if we all actually wrote down our “obligations” we would be filled with despair. While I can remember the dates, I don’t keep a calendar because I don’t actually want to see them laid out before me. It’s bad enough that I do the bills.

173 b_sharp  Feb 11, 2015 7:53:44pm

re: #156 Belafon

My wife’s birthday is late November, then Christmas, then my youngest son’s birthday in February, Valentine’s day, then my middle son’s birthday in March. Totally understand the paycheck thing.

I have a similar problem. Christmas, wife’s birthday and anniversary all within 10 days. Then both grandkids’ birthdays in April.

174 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 7:55:47pm

You poor things.

Do the right thing and just open the wallet. Best gifts ever, each year.

/hopeless romantic

175 Khal Wimpo  Feb 11, 2015 7:57:40pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

We’re aware. The problem is, the low-information voters are just gonna do what their TV tells them to do, like good little consumers.

176 Gus  Feb 11, 2015 8:00:36pm

re: #160 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss

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177 Gus  Feb 11, 2015 8:01:34pm

Both science…

& my faith…

dictate my belief that we are created by God.

He’s implying that science dictates that God created human primates.

178 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 11, 2015 8:04:36pm

Pretty sure he’s going for the Ken Ham brand of “science” there.

179 WhatEVs  Feb 11, 2015 8:05:02pm

re: #160 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss

180 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 11, 2015 8:06:19pm

re: #94 bratwurst

On this date in 1990 Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa after 27 years, paving the way for the end of Apartheid…greatly disappointing Dick Cheney.

Never mind Cheney. Nelson Mandela was here in Seattle in 1999 to an enthusiastic reception. A week later, we played host to the WTO conference. Now if the WTO (yeah, I know it was called something else then) had had its way before 1990, the sanctions that got Mandela released would have been illegal, and he would still have been rotting on Robben Island. So the whole country’s schizophrenic on the subject.

At least the Battle of Seattle gave them a little pushback. The whole crowd would probably be mowed down with machine guns now….

181 teleskiguy  Feb 11, 2015 8:09:26pm

OK, this Facebook post in my feed cracked me up!

182 Joe Bacon  Feb 11, 2015 8:20:10pm

re: #165 Kragar

I’m sorry, but when it comes to DUMB in the Senate, nobody comes close to Joni Ernst. She makes Bachman look like a Ph.D!

183 teleskiguy  Feb 11, 2015 8:27:17pm

re: #160 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss

The rubber will meet the road come primary time, and I guarantee Walker goes against climate science, stem cell research, women’s reproductive rights, you name it. This next Republican primary is going to be a goddamned shit show of right wing weirdness.

184 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 11, 2015 8:27:21pm

re: #182 Joe Bacon

I’m sorry, but when it comes to DUMB in the Senate, nobody comes close to Joni Ernst. She makes Bachman look like a Ph.D!

Pretty Horrible Dumbass?

185 BeachDem  Feb 11, 2015 8:30:01pm

What the Washington Post said:

Throughout Thursday, Williams was pounded by bloggers and newspaper columnists

How AWARD-WINNING upchuck reported it:

186 Gus  Feb 11, 2015 8:35:24pm

re: #185 BeachDem

What the Washington Post said:

Throughout Thursday, Williams was pounded by bloggers and newspaper columnists

How AWARD-WINNING upchuck reported it:

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Doesn’t mention GotNews. Just says bloggers.

187 BeachDem  Feb 11, 2015 8:35:45pm

Upchuck states:

188 BeachDem  Feb 11, 2015 8:36:20pm

re: #186 Gus

Doesn’t mention GotNews. Just says bloggers.

BINGO

189 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 8:36:58pm
190 Gus  Feb 11, 2015 8:38:20pm

re: #188 BeachDem

BINGO

Soylent Green is GotNews!

//

191 teleskiguy  Feb 11, 2015 8:39:32pm

UpChuck has the mind of a fucking 8-year-old.

192 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 8:40:16pm

Nighty. Onto my no less than 8 hours of sleep goal.

193 Gus  Feb 11, 2015 8:40:20pm

re: #191 teleskiguy

UpChuck has the mind of a fucking 8-year-old.

So he’s Rand Paul?

194 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 11, 2015 8:42:18pm

The Rude Pundit re Sam Brownback:

Kansas Governor, and a sexual position just waiting to be defined,

Brownback (definition: fucking in a bed after a diarrhea accident there)

Brownback (definition: two partners take a bunch of Ex-Lax and then use a double-sided dildo to go ass-to-ass)

Brownback (definition: when you’re fucking in a field and roll into cow shit, but you don’t stop fucking)

Dan Savage has been surpassed.

195 teleskiguy  Feb 11, 2015 8:45:09pm

Charles,

Is there any such thing as UpChuck fatigue? I figure you’d know the best.

UpChuck is such a festering pustule, a bloody boil, he proves his worthlessness to the human race over and over and over, seemingly on an hourly basis.

I agree that folks should keep hammering at the miserable fuck, for the reasons you mentioned above. I surely hope our fierce push back bears fruit. It’d be nice if UpChuck gets banned like Todd Kincannon got banned.

196 wrenchwench  Feb 11, 2015 8:45:18pm

re: #192 #FergusonFireside

Nighty. Onto my no less than 8 hours of sleep goal.

197 VegasGolfer  Feb 11, 2015 8:49:31pm

re: #34 Amory Blaine
Love that, and Budvar. Going to Germany in September, looking forward to drinking a few of those.

198 BeachDem  Feb 11, 2015 8:53:23pm

Is there anyone who’s been killed recently who has escaped being maligned posthumously by upchuck?

Let’s see:

Trayvon Martin
Michael Brown
Tamir Rice
James Foley
Kayla Mueller
the Chapel Hill three

I’m sure I’ve missed some—in addition to being an insufferable asshole, he’s also a total ghoul.

199 RadicalModerate  Feb 11, 2015 8:54:56pm

re: #195 teleskiguy

Charles,

Is there any such thing as UpChuck fatigue? I figure you’d know the best.

When that happens do we get to change his name to DryHeave?

200 teleskiguy  Feb 11, 2015 8:57:20pm
201 Dark_Falcon  Feb 11, 2015 8:57:39pm

re: #194 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

202 BeachDem  Feb 11, 2015 9:01:30pm

re: #195 teleskiguy

Well, Chris Kluwe is on the case now, so it’s only a matter of time…

203 teleskiguy  Feb 11, 2015 9:02:46pm

re: #200 teleskiguy

I’ve skied damn near every inch of what you see in this video. I’ll never ski those slopes like that!

I love how the very first place I skied is home to the most fearsome Downhill courses in the world.

204 VegasGolfer  Feb 11, 2015 9:03:43pm

re: #37 Dave In Austin
I always think of this scene from The Sopranos when someone mentions Chucky shits on the floor.
…

205 A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2015 9:04:29pm

re: #200 teleskiguy

Damn! How fast was he going?

206 Dark_Falcon  Feb 11, 2015 9:05:25pm

re: #202 BeachDem

Well, Chris Kluwe is on the case now, so it’s only a matter of time…

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UpChuck’s been on a tear ever since learning he wasn’t going to win his normal “Sick Fuck of the Month Award”. The award for February is going to Omar al-Hagdadi for ISIS having burned a man alive and filmed it. So Chuck’s peeved about being upstaged.

/spits

207 teleskiguy  Feb 11, 2015 9:07:10pm

Dude, Bob Simon’s passing is a real bummer. That guy was one of those “last” links to a bygone era of journalism. Crazy that the man survived in so many ridiculously violent situations - barely escaping by the skin of his teeth in Saigon, to name one incident - only to die in a car crash in New York City.

RIP

208 RadicalModerate  Feb 11, 2015 9:07:32pm

Before anyone thinks that the Texas Legislature is having a bout of sanity in regards to their reaction to the open-carry nutcase, this bit of news came out of Austin today -
(forgive the cache, apparently Houston Chronicle has a good bit of its site behind a paywall now)

Lawmaker seeks to eliminate state Confederate holiday

The pushback that Republicans are putting on this is absolutely insane.

Democrat suggests Texas recognize Union too, but a critic says if one must change, it should be King’s birthday

In fact, the Austin Democrat can expect to hear more than that in response to her bill to replace Texas’ Confederate Heroes Day with a springtime Civil War Remembrance Day to honor all who fought in the Civil War. That’s all as in, both the Confederate and Union sides.

“We have quite a few holidays throughout the year that are either national holidays or are days of recognition,” Howard said. “I think there are so many that certain things get lost in the shuffle.”

This year, for instance, Confederate Heroes Day shared its traditional Jan. 19 commemoration with the national Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

[…]

Brand said she was not concerned with the coinciding holidays, but said if one has to change it should be the King holiday.

“We had Confederate Heroes Day before there was a Martin Luther King Jr. Day, why can’t they change theirs?” she asked. “I have no problem with them both being celebrated on the same day because most of the people who celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day don’t celebrate Confederate Heroes Day.”

Brand also is a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a sister organization to the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Both groups organize memorials for prominent Confederate soldiers, as well as host banquets and reenactments throughout the year. The Sons of Confederate Veterans currently is in a legal battle with the state over its refusal to offer specialty license plates with the Confederate flag. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on March 23.

209 BeachDem  Feb 11, 2015 9:10:38pm

I can’t believe:
1. He’s calling Chris Kluwe a “beta male”
2. He’s calling the Chapel Hill shooting a “hoax.”

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry (or as my dad always said, whether to shit or go blind.)

210 teleskiguy  Feb 11, 2015 9:11:20pm

re: #205 A Cranky One

Damn! How fast was he going?

Near the bottom of Pete’s Arena skiers regularly get clocked at over 80 m.p.h. in competition. They’re only going that fast for a few seconds, as the Birds of Prey is a terrain-filled course.

The skier in the video, Daron Rahlves, is a retired racer, so he held back to be sure. At his fastest at the bottom of Pete’s Arena he was definitely going well over 70 m.p.h.

211 Dark_Falcon  Feb 11, 2015 9:11:51pm

‘I’m tired of running’: John McAfee reveals he’s settled with his wife in Tennessee - but is always armed and ready for a government raid

‘I’m finally tired of it, I’m settling down and I’m defending my home,’ he said.’ I’m tired of running. I’ve gone from being frightened to mostly angry.’

Still - he’s prepared for if authorities turn up at his door. He says it’s just a matter of time.

‘I’m fully prepared for the eventuality that there will be an attempted raid on my residence or my car or my person at some place or at some time,’ he said. ‘At some point you have to stand up and defend your position, your home, your family - and that’s what I’m doing.’

He claimed that his car had recently been shot at, but that the vehicle has been fitted with a heavy-duty crash guard in case he is ever cornered and needs to force his way through vehicles.

He added, ‘I am constantly armed, I am an excellent shot’ - explaining that he has won numerous shooting contests.

Authorities in Lexington [TN] and the mayor have welcomed him and his tech acumen with open arms, he said. He now lives there with his wife Janice, whom he married in 2013.

He works as a security expert for Fox News via Skype and occasionally appears at hacker conferences, where his security is tight.

(Bolding mine)

Is this guy sick in the head or just emulating UpChuck? Either way, I’m sure he fits in just fine at Fox News, as his paranoia and gun-stroking fit key demographics there.

John McAffee: A man whose guns actually should be grabbed by law enforcement.

212 Dark_Falcon  Feb 11, 2015 9:13:18pm

re: #209 BeachDem

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I can’t believe:
1. He’s calling Chris Kluwe a “beta male”
2. He’s calling the Chapel Hill shooting a “hoax.”

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry (or as my dad always said, whether to shit or go blind.)

You should go blind, because shitting in inopportune places at inopportune times is what Chuckles does.

213 Gus  Feb 11, 2015 9:13:18pm
214 Timothy Watson  Feb 11, 2015 9:16:16pm

re: #160 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss

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I have more questions about that fugly shirt/sweater he’s wearing.

215 teleskiguy  Feb 11, 2015 9:19:25pm

re: #200 teleskiguy

Note that Daron Rahlves skied the course in a 1:55. The winner of the gold medal at the World Championships this year (skied on the same course) was Patrick Kueng, he did it in a 1:43.

So crazy. Insane. It takes a special kind of crazy to do those things. And I tell ya, people, I’m not that crazy.

216 Dark_Falcon  Feb 11, 2015 9:20:06pm

re: #213 Gus

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Watch out Gus! Chuckles is gonna try to have you deported as an “Argentine Peronist Progressive!!1”.

/Kidding, but I can actually see him trying to do that.

217 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 9:21:15pm
218 Gus  Feb 11, 2015 9:22:58pm

re: #216 Dark_Falcon

Watch out Gus! Chuckles is gonna try to have you deported as an “Argentine Peronist Progressive!!1”.

/Kidding, but I can actually see him trying to do that.

“Argentine commie.”

219 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 9:24:36pm
220 Dark_Falcon  Feb 11, 2015 9:28:11pm

re: #219 Kragar

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So he feigns concern over a rape while using the #GamerGate hashtag?

221 Varek Raith  Feb 11, 2015 9:42:56pm

Internet be fucked up in these parts.
Hi.

222 Lidane  Feb 11, 2015 9:45:59pm

Got an onsite job interview tomorrow afternoon. It’s for a company that specializes in RFID tracking and business intel for trade shows. Should be fun.

223 Varek Raith  Feb 11, 2015 9:47:38pm

re: #222 Lidane

Got an onsite job interview tomorrow afternoon. It’s for a company that specializes in RFID tracking and business intel for trade shows. Should be fun.

SPY!11!1ty

Good luck. :)

224 Lidane  Feb 11, 2015 9:53:13pm

re: #223 Varek Raith

SPY!11!1ty

Good luck. :)

Yeah, I won’t exactly be burnishing my Snowden cred.

OTOH, it has the potential to pay me close to double what the last gig paid, so there’s that. I can live with it.

225 Lidane  Feb 11, 2015 10:06:05pm

*facepalm*

Tea Party darling Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced an anti-same-sex marriage bill that would strip federal marriage benefits from same-sex couples living in states where only mixed-gender marriages are recognized.

According to David Badash at the New Civil Rights Movement, Cruz’s State Marriage Defense Act will also give anti-same-sex marriage states the right to nullify the marriages of same-sex couples living within their borders, should the Supreme Court find that such couples ultimately do not have the same right to marry as other U.S. citizens.

Cruz has framed the bill as a “states’ rights” issue, insisting that the federal government has no say in determining whose marriages a state will recognize and whose it will not.

226 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 10:06:34pm

OK, This is simply amazing:

…

“You bet your keister I’m gonna get a piece of that pie.”

227 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 11, 2015 10:13:52pm

Captain Coward gets 16 years.

Should take the 1.2 gigabucks it cost to raise the ship out of his hide at 89¢ a pound.

228 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 11, 2015 10:53:42pm

Maybe those of you on Twitter should start calling Upchuck an Omega male?

229 Shiplord Kirel  Feb 11, 2015 10:54:01pm

re: #227 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Captain Coward gets 16 years.

Should take the 1.2 gigabucks it cost to raise the ship out of his hide at 89¢ a pound.

What a poltroon. I’ll never forget the video of an Italian Coast Guard officer approaching Captain Schettino’s lifeboat and screaming “return to your ship!” while passengers were still trapped on board.

230 TedStriker  Feb 11, 2015 10:55:42pm

re: #229 Shiplord Kirel

What a poltroon. I’ll never forget the video of an Italian Coast Guard officer approaching Captain Schettino’s lifeboat and screaming “return to your ship!” while passengers were still trapped on board.

And his bullshit excuse that he “slipped and fell into the lifeboat”.

231 BeachDem  Feb 11, 2015 10:58:40pm

re: #228 William Barnett-Lewis

Maybe those of you on Twitter should start calling Upchuck an Omega male?

I must admit, I get some perverse pleasure in knowing that, whatever happens in his life going forward, upchuck will always have to defend himself against the floor-shitting accusation.

232 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 11, 2015 10:59:38pm

re: #225 Lidane

Doesn’t anybody read the fuckin’ Constitution anymore? A high school student could tell Cruz his legislation violates the equal protection clause, and the “states’ rights” angle is pure bullshit.

233 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 11, 2015 11:01:14pm

re: #231 BeachDem

Yours truly

It’s all about me!

234 Shiplord Kirel  Feb 11, 2015 11:01:16pm

re: #227 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Captain Coward gets 16 years.

Should take the 1.2 gigabucks it cost to raise the ship out of his hide at 89¢ a pound.

On a different note, this reminds me of a joke from WW2. A recent draftee is going through infantry training in Geogia. One exercise involves crossing an unstable rope bridge above a fast flowing stream. The soldier slips and catches himself but his rifle falls into the torrent. A search is hopeless so he returns to the barracks and reports the loss.

Payday rolls around and the soldier finds that his envelope contains only 27 dollars instead of the expected 82.
He returns to the paymaster, “Hey, sarge, what gives? Where’s the rest of my dough?”
The sergeant looks at him as though he were a bug, “Uncle Sam took it to pay for that rifle you lost. It’s a rule, you lose government property, you pay for it.”

The soldier responds, “Gee, now I see why the captain always goes down with his ship.”

235 Mentis Fugit  Feb 11, 2015 11:38:41pm

re: #123 RadicalModerate

Everywhere else in the world except for in North America and a few South American countries and England, that beer is known as Budweiser.

Compare and contrast this with #34:


Currently $22/doz at New World Porirua.
236 Mentis Fugit  Feb 11, 2015 11:44:40pm

re: #228 William Barnett-Lewis

Maybe those of you on Twitter should start calling Upchuck an Omega male?

Not Omega. Epsilon.

Being of a more sophomoric bent, I’m more inclined to think of him as Notorious P.O.O. myself.

237 Dr Lizardo  Feb 11, 2015 11:47:03pm

re: #34 Amory Blaine

Haven’t seen this around these parts in a long time, so I had to grab a few.

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Cool. That’s Budvar (aka, original Budweiser) over here in the Czech Republic.

238 Mentis Fugit  Feb 11, 2015 11:55:36pm

Last comment - promise.

Check out this video, from 1980, for Neil Finn’s first taste of international success.
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239 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 12, 2015 12:44:53am

re: #110 Gus

If you want to be loved make a living wage, journalism is a poor career choice.

240 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 1:05:41am

Buzzfeed has a link to Hicks’ old posting:

buzzfeed.com

The first amendment to our constitution guarantees freedom of religion, which takes precedence over any other “feeling” that any of us as Americans may have.
Beyond that though after being in D.C. for a decade and knowing several dozen Muslims for most of that time I can say that they aren’t what most think of them. In fact, I’d prefer them to most Christians as I was never coerced in any way by the Muslims to follow their religion, which I cannot say about many Christians.
While the terrorists who did the 9/11 attacks were Muslims, they were extremists in that faith which isn’t common. I know of many Christian extremists personally, much less the ones we have heard about on the news. People of this country don’t seem to hold that against Christianity though(probably because they’re a majority in this country).
While it may cause problems with those that don’t want it there with vandalizing and such, what if that excuse stopped our forefathers from starting a new nation. Civil rights, suffrage, heck even our own gun rights have been “fought” for at times. On that matter, the vast majority of our own ancestors in this country had to fight for their rights as Americans as most of the ethnic groups in this country were looked down on at some point(some still are).
This country was founded on freedoms, and many forget that one of the biggest freedoms that was fought for was freedom of religion. Then after all was said and done, Americans pushed west and took the lands of the Native Americans, put them on reservations(land that has no use), and stuffed religion down their throat. Their children were often taken from them to be taught Christianity(brainwashed might be a better word). They were not allowed to have their ancestral hair or garments, not allowed to use their given names but had to use the Christian ones assigned to them, and not allowed to speak their native tongue among other things. Funny how during World War 2, the same government that violated the Native Americans 1st amendment rights in the previous century were called upon because of their ancestral language.
With all that being said, I don’t see how anyone who calls themselves American can claim that a Mosque shouldn’t be TWO BLOCKS AWAY from what is known as ground zero.

(Side note: it’s interesting that in an article pompously entitled “Everything We Know So Far About The Alleged Chapel Hill Shooter” Buzzfeed totally omits him being a liberal).

241 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 12, 2015 1:24:22am

re: #240 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

It is funny how the victims are generally ignored (except to mention their religious affiliation) in order to use the shooter to make political talking points.

242 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 1:27:26am

re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It is funny how the victims are generally ignored (except to mention their religious affiliation) in order to use the shooter to make political talking points.

Thankfully this hasn’t been the case in this instance.

243 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 1:40:11am
244 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 12, 2015 1:41:27am

re: #243 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

If fighters in eastern Ukraine are not Putin’s proxies, why is Putin representing them in Minsk?

He is the Spiritual Father of all Russians, no matter where the winds of fate have cast them…

245 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 1:50:43am
246 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 2:20:39am
247 Ace-o-aces  Feb 12, 2015 2:26:17am

re: #209 BeachDem

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I can’t believe:
2. He’s calling the Chapel Hill shooting a “hoax.”

Does Mr. Award winning Journalist not know what “hoax” means? “Hoax” implies the shootings were somehow faked. All he’s shown is that an Arab Muslim re-tweeted a few anti-Zionist posts, along with many calls for peace. (Have you seen the victim’s Twitter feed? It’s 90% basketball, maybe 1% religion).

248 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 12, 2015 2:31:52am

re: #247 Ace-o-aces

Does Mr. Award winning Journalist not know what “hoax” means? “Hoax” implies the shootings were somehow faked. All he’s shown is that an Arab Muslim re-tweeted a few anti-Zionist posts, along with many calls for peace. (Have you seen the victim’s Twitter feed? It’s 90% basketball, maybe 1% religion).

1% religion is all that is needed to fly an airplane into a skyscraper.

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249 Ace-o-aces  Feb 12, 2015 2:40:50am

re: #248 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

1% religion is all that is needed to fly an airplane into a skyscraper.

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Yeah, but this was not that kind of religious posts.

250 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 12, 2015 2:45:21am

re: #249 Ace-o-aces

Yeah, but this was not that kind of religious posts.

Remember, he was a Muslim, to some, that makes him automatically complicit.

251 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 2:46:51am
252 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 12, 2015 2:53:20am

re: #247 Ace-o-aces

Does Mr. Award winning Journalist not know what “hoax” means? “Hoax” implies the shootings were somehow faked. All he’s shown is that an Arab Muslim re-tweeted a few anti-Zionist posts, along with many calls for peace. (Have you seen the victim’s Twitter feed? It’s 90% basketball, maybe 1% religion).

In his mind, the only hate crimes that exist are against white men. Crimes of hate against blacks, Muslims, women, etc., are all hoaxes. UpChuck and his loyal followers are still insisting the bomb attempt on the Colo Springs NAACP offices was a hoax.

Thanks for the tip about the victim’s Twitter feed. I need to edit my GotNwes post to reflect the proportion of sports vs. other stuff.

253 Timothy Watson  Feb 12, 2015 3:22:05am

re: #225 Lidane

*facepalm*

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Cruz has framed the bill as a “states’ rights” issue, insisting that the federal government has no say in determining whose marriages a state will recognize and whose it will not.

What will it take for a reporter to grow a pair and ask him if that’s true, does that mean that states don’t have to recognize interracial marriages if they don’t want to?

255 Romantic Heretic  Feb 12, 2015 3:43:10am

re: #160 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss

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Aaaand with that Walker loses the GOP primary.

The base knows science is evil and they will not stand for it being equal to their American faith.

256 Timothy Watson  Feb 12, 2015 3:44:00am

re: #254 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

BATTING AVERAGE .000: How many stories has @GotNewsDotCom got right so far?

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Uh…what? I guess McChuckleNuts doesn’t know anything about baseball either.

257 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 12, 2015 3:44:54am

re: #255 Romantic Heretic

Aaaand with that Walker loses the GOP primary.

The base knows science is evil and they will not stand for it being equal to their American faith.

Moderates don’t play well in front of an audience that only wants fire-breathing extremists.

258 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 12, 2015 3:46:23am

re: #256 Timothy Watson

Uh…what? I guess McChuckleNuts doesn’t know anything about baseball either.

Right. Everyone remembers Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron for those times they struck out.

Only Casey gets that accolade.

259 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 3:50:41am

This. Is. Awesome. That is all.
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260 Romantic Heretic  Feb 12, 2015 4:02:39am

re: #259 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Agreed.

261 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 12, 2015 4:10:34am

: #257 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Moderates don’t play well in front of an audience that only wants fire-breathing extremists.

Oh he’s only playing at being moderate for the media. His inner theocrat comes out as soon as decent people look away.

You have to remember that he’s a college dropout who has made it his life’s purpose to destroy public education and all unions. The only thing he is concerned about is that his real bosses, the Koch brothers, are happy with him. And he sells it to the older voters via the usual racist fear and anti tax greed.

(I really hate posting from my phone.)

262 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 12, 2015 4:15:05am

re: #261 William Barnett-Lewis

Oh he’s only playing at being moderate for the media. His inner theocrat comes out as soon as decent people look away.

You have to remember that he’s a college dropout who has made it his life’s purpose to destroy public education and all unions. The only thing he is concerned about is that his real bosses, the Koch brothers, are happy with him. And he sells via anti tax greed.

I don’t doubt it. Walker’s a consummate politician. He can say one thing to his UK audience, and quite another to his Tea Party audience. He knows if he said he accepts evolution, his chances of election are nil. The fan base would disappear faster than the UW budget.

263 freetoken  Feb 12, 2015 4:26:23am

MP3 Audio

265 Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 12, 2015 5:12:15am

re: #259 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

This. Is. Awesome. That is all.
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Aren’t we supposed to start the day thinking *everything* is awesome. I seem to recall the President saying that. It’s in the instructions!
;)

266 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 5:14:28am

re: #265 Feline Fearless Leader

Aren’t we supposed to start the day thinking *everything* is awesome. I seem to recall the President saying that. It’s in the instructions!
;)

Doooode… ur comment is awesome…
My hand is awesome too…

267 Dr. Matt  Feb 12, 2015 5:15:10am
268 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 5:16:45am

re: #267 Dr. Matt

If any Fox personality was suspended for one day for every significant lie, there would be no Fox.

269 Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2015 5:16:48am

Aw. Some asshole called and woke me up.

270 Dr. Matt  Feb 12, 2015 5:20:14am

re: #269 Decatur Deb

Aw. Some asshole called and woke me up.

Sorry. I was trying to text you a dirty joke but accidentally dialed the phone.

271 Doofus  Feb 12, 2015 5:24:41am

re: #269 Decatur Deb

One day the different parts of the body were having an argument to see which should be in charge.
The brain said “I do all the thinking so I’m the most important and I should be in charge.”
The eyes said “I see everything and let the rest of you know where we are, so I’m the most important and I should be in charge.”
The hands said “Without me we wouldn’t be able to pick anything up or move anything. So I’m the most important and I should be in charge.”
The stomach said “I turn the food we eat into energy for the rest of you. Without me, we’d starve. So I’m the most important and I should be in charge.”
The legs said “Without me we wouldn’t be able to move anywhere. So I’m the most important and I should be in charge.”
Then the rectum said “I think I should be in charge.”
All the rest of the parts said “YOU? You don’t do anything! You’re not important! You can’t be in charge.”
So the rectum closed up. After a few days, the legs were all wobbly, the stomach was all queasy, the hands were all shaky, the eyes were all watery, and the brain was all cloudy.
They all agreed that they couldn’t take any more of this and agreed to put the rectum in charge.
The moral of the story: You don’t have to be the most important to be in charge, just an asshole.

272 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 5:27:00am

I’ve read the Minsk-2 agreement. Not bad. Except of course Putin can hardly be expected to follow it.

273 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 5:32:57am

i sometimes have to reach back for a little optimism. Can’t resist since I’ve been hearing these for over 60 yrs. And today’s guitarists have a lot to be thankful for even as they innovate. Upbeat music to start the day since I’ll have to stop to clean the bathroom and get some other work done. : )

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274 Dr. Matt  Feb 12, 2015 5:36:10am

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275 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 5:42:36am

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276 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 5:48:39am

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277 darthstar  Feb 12, 2015 5:52:14am
278 Dr. Matt  Feb 12, 2015 5:54:08am
279 Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2015 5:56:21am

re: #274 Dr. Matt

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What’s Spanish for “zoning commission”?

280 Dr. Matt  Feb 12, 2015 5:58:13am

I can’t believe cavemen like this still exist:

281 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 5:59:31am

re: #279 Decatur Deb

And I’m going to Barcelona in a few days. Such a “good luck”.

282 darthstar  Feb 12, 2015 6:00:21am
283 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 6:00:28am

re: #280 Dr. Matt

It’s notable that he even has to defend himself. I see that as progress (not for him personally, he’ll die an incorrigible bigot).

284 darthstar  Feb 12, 2015 6:01:07am

re: #281 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

And I’m going to Barcelona in a few days. Such a “good luck”.

It doesn’t look all that toxic to me. Just a little orange.

285 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 6:01:43am

re: #284 darthstar

It doesn’t look all that toxic to me. Just a little orange.

Relax and smell the oranges.

286 darthstar  Feb 12, 2015 6:02:43am

re: #285 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Relax and smell the oranges.

Breathe.

287 darthstar  Feb 12, 2015 6:03:26am
288 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 6:06:51am

If people weren’t all tapped out by xmas…

Falling gas prices, car purchases send US retail sales down 0.8% in January, but other spending categories up - @AP
read more on retail sales dropped 0.8 percent in january

When filling up the other day, I said to the clerk, “You’re selling more gas, aren’t you?” He replied, “Yeah, a little.” Not making much on people like me, though, when it only takes $20 to fill up my tank. : )

Then, we have this:

Oil bounces back toward $56 as dollar weakens

reuters.com

I only really worry about food costs.

289 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 6:08:08am

How is it now?

Kinda cold where I am and the dogs want to go out … .

290 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 6:09:16am

You gotta feel sorry for Boston’s weather.

291 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 6:09:48am

re: #274 Dr. Matt

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Igualada.

I like that name.

292 Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2015 6:10:15am

re: #280 Dr. Matt

I can’t believe cavemen like this still exist:

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore: I Have ‘Many Friends Who Are Homosexual’ // And some of his best friends are Black!

His gay friend is a Black female. Three-fer !1!!

We know how this works in Alabama.

293 thedopefishlives  Feb 12, 2015 6:11:31am

re: #290 Justanotherhuman

This, right here, is the #1 reason why Spring Training is always held in warm climates. I should dig up images of the Target Field grounds crew using massive slides to shovel out the stadium in the runup to last year’s Opening Day.

294 darthstar  Feb 12, 2015 6:11:42am

re: #290 Justanotherhuman

You gotta feel sorry for Boston’s weather.

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Pitchers and catchers report in six days.

295 Dr. Matt  Feb 12, 2015 6:12:58am

Another one bites the dust: @SharylAttkisson has now blocked me.

296 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 6:13:10am

re: #289 FemNaziBitch

It was 29 when i took the Munchkin to school at 7:30; will get up to bout 50-53 today. Overnight in the low teens Sat and Sun and not getting out of the 30s during those days. : (

I’m too ready for spring…

297 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 6:13:21am

re:
#287

Rand Paul? You mean, Less Government Libertarian, Rand Paul? Get government off our backs, Rand Paul? Liberty Freedom Rand Paul is in an anti-gay documentary?

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298 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 6:13:51am

re: #292 Decatur Deb

Is she also disabled? : (

299 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 6:13:53am

LOL

300 thedopefishlives  Feb 12, 2015 6:14:17am

re: #296 Justanotherhuman

It was 29 when i took the Munchkin to school at 7:30; will get up to bout 50-53 today. Overnight in the low teens Sat and Sun and not getting out of the 30s during those days. : (

I’m too ready for spring…

It was -2 degrees F (-19 degrees C) when I left for work this morning. It’s supposed to get colder tonight, I believe.

301 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 6:14:35am

re:
#295

Another one bites the dust: @SharylAttkisson has now blocked me.

Now you’re just showing off…

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302 Dr. Matt  Feb 12, 2015 6:15:06am

Ms. Ghosts in the Keyboard is linking to an anti-vaxxer site. How fitting

303 Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 12, 2015 6:15:18am

re: #299 FemNaziBitch

LOL

Who has been running the state while Christie is out collecting donors for his 2016 run with the Clown Car?
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304 Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2015 6:15:54am

re: #298 Justanotherhuman

Is she also disabled? : (

Just a little peculiar.

305 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 6:15:59am

re:
#299

I coulda sworn Christie still had a state to govern. //

306 thedopefishlives  Feb 12, 2015 6:16:34am

re: #303 Feline Fearless Leader

Who has been running the state while Christie is out collecting donors for his 2016 run with the Clown Car?
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Let’s be fair here: It is New Jersey. There’s nothing to run except a gianormous traffic jam.

307 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 6:17:24am

A wingnut retweeted this:

308 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 6:17:38am

re: #305 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#299

I coulda sworn Christie still had a state to govern. //

Hasn’t it always been on auto-pilot with him and his cronies?

309 Dr. Matt  Feb 12, 2015 6:18:37am

re: #307 The Vicious Babushka

In wingnut world, Megyn Kelly is too librul.

310 Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2015 6:19:17am

re: #307 The Vicious Babushka

A wingnut retweeted this:

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You only have to go as far as Freep to learn that Fox is part of the left-wing media conspiracy.

311 Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 12, 2015 6:19:19am

re: #306 thedopefishlives

Let’s be fair here: It is New Jersey. There’s nothing to run except a gianormous traffic jam.

Lots of tensions to be adjusted for to avoid the state turning into the US equivalent of the asteroid belt as part rips off to orbit Philadelphia, a bigger chunk to orbit New York City, and then a bunch of quasi-independent townships that are too small to support life.

And I’m sure a chunk or two that will simply hold large signs saying “TRUMP”.

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312 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 12, 2015 6:20:20am

re: #309 Dr. Matt

In wingnut world, Megyn Kelly is too librul.

Also too smart

313 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 6:20:36am

re:
#302

Which wingnut welfare magnet is now paying Ms. Ghosts in the Keyboard (what an awesome name) for her daily dribblings?

314 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 6:22:14am

re:
#302

What does “TT” mean?

315 Dr. Matt  Feb 12, 2015 6:23:02am

re: #314 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#302

What does “TT” mean?

Trending Tweet?

316 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 6:23:37am

re:
#308

Yeah I guess there can only be so many town halls you can organize where you get to yell at people. Eventually people don’t need the show anymore.

317 wrenchwench  Feb 12, 2015 6:23:52am
318 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 6:26:51am
319 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 6:26:58am

Ancient Turtle Fossils Uncovered in San Juan Capistrano

nbclosangeles.com

320 Dr. Matt  Feb 12, 2015 6:28:49am
321 lawhawk  Feb 12, 2015 6:30:24am

re: #290 Justanotherhuman

You gotta feel sorry for Boston’s weather.

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7 days to pitchers and catchers for most teams!

322 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 6:31:05am

re: #320 Dr. Matt

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And I made it a point to only give to the needy, not the greedy. : )

323 thedopefishlives  Feb 12, 2015 6:31:26am

re: #320 Dr. Matt

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You know, I’ve mentioned this before, but with regard to some of the nuttier elements of the religious right, I often wonder if they couldn’t do with just a single good mind-blowing lay to give them a fresh perspective. It’s like many of them have never had real sex before.

324 lawhawk  Feb 12, 2015 6:32:30am

re: #295 Dr. Matt

Another one bites the dust: @SharylAttkisson has now blocked me.

You sure it wasn’t a stuck keyboard?

She’s stuck on stupid with her anti-vax tweets though.

325 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 12, 2015 6:33:13am

re: #323 thedopefishlives

You know, I’ve mentioned this before, but with regard to some of the nuttier elements of the religious right, I often wonder if they couldn’t do with just a single good mind-blowing lay to give them a fresh perspective. It’s like many of them have never had real sex before.

Wouldn’t work. They’d be too guilt-ridden to enjoy the moment.

326 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 6:34:12am

re: #323 thedopefishlives

You know, I’ve mentioned this before, but with regard to some of the nuttier elements of the religious right, I often wonder if they couldn’t do with just a single good mind-blowing lay to give them a fresh perspective. It’s like many of them have never had real sex before.

first let them have some weed!

327 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 6:36:09am

Good news for Detroiters…

328 thedopefishlives  Feb 12, 2015 6:36:28am

re: #326 FemNaziBitch

first let them have some weed!

Whatever it takes to get them to unclench their chronically tight sphincters. Though it must be said, when a fundamentalist Christian does cut loose, they can get into some surprisingly kinky stuff. All that repressing and inhibiting of desires kinda builds up after a while.

329 Great White Snark  Feb 12, 2015 6:37:04am

Well now somebody just put me on to Puddles Pity Party, the All Clown Band. All clown band ??? But the guys voice is just rich velvet. Kinda voice that sounds good reading a EULA.

Video

Video

330 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 12, 2015 6:37:35am

re: #326 FemNaziBitch

first let them have some weed!

Brownies, without telling them what’s inside.

331 Patricia Kayden  Feb 12, 2015 6:38:27am

re: #208 RadicalModerate

What is it about the pro-slavery Confederacy that deserves celebration?

332 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 12, 2015 6:40:01am

re: #331 Patricia Kayden

What is it about the pro-slavery Confederacy that deserves celebration?

It was a happy time. Everyone was happy. Everyone.

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333 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 6:40:23am

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334 wrenchwench  Feb 12, 2015 6:42:03am

I don’t have to go to court. The woman who hit me pleaded guilty to a felony. I only had to agree that community service was OK vs jail time (up to 3 years if she was found guilty).

Now I can focus on recovery, not, “Look how bad off I am.”

335 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 12, 2015 6:43:30am

re: #334 wrenchwench

I don’t have to go to court. The woman who hit me pleaded guilty to a felony. I only had to agree that community service was OK vs jail time (up to 3 years if she was found guilty).

Now I can focus on recovery, not, “Look how bad off I am.”

Good news. How about the insurance?

336 Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2015 6:43:39am

re: #334 wrenchwench

I don’t have to go to court. The woman who hit me pleaded guilty to a felony. I only had to agree that community service was OK vs jail time (up to 3 years if she was found guilty).

Now I can focus on recovery, not, “Look how bad off I am.”

Put her to painting crosswalks.

337 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 6:43:42am

Later, Lizards. Off to do an income tax return for my DIL.

338 thedopefishlives  Feb 12, 2015 6:44:22am

re: #334 wrenchwench

I don’t have to go to court. The woman who hit me pleaded guilty to a felony. I only had to agree that community service was OK vs jail time (up to 3 years if she was found guilty).

Now I can focus on recovery, not, “Look how bad off I am.”

Good for you. Kinda wish they’d thrown the book at her, but I’m protective of my people.

339 lawhawk  Feb 12, 2015 6:45:05am

A chemical plant explosion outside Barcelona has meant 60,000 are told to stay inside to avoid exposure to potentially toxic chemical brew.

A blast at a chemical plant cloaked a region in northern Spain in a huge orange toxic cloud on Thursday, according to local reports. Three at the plant some 30 miles from the city of Barcelona were injured in the explosion, which also forced some 60,000 people in the surrounding communities to remain confined indoors for hours, La Verdad newspaper reported.

The explosion at the installation owned by Simar — which distributes and stores chemicals, according to its website — occurred at 9:45 a.m. (3:45 a.m. ET), the newspaper reported. Company officials were not immediately available for comment.

Officials ordered school and university students to remain indoors and said parents should not pick them up, news website 20 Minutes reported. Pregnant women, children, the elderly and those with respiratory problems were told to remain indoors even after the general warning was lifted, according to La Verdad.

340 lawhawk  Feb 12, 2015 6:47:46am
341 lawhawk  Feb 12, 2015 6:49:13am
342 wrenchwench  Feb 12, 2015 6:49:50am

re: #335 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Good news. How about the insurance?

She has none,

re: #336 Decatur Deb

Put her to painting crosswalks.

You share a brain with Mr.w. He actually called the state’s Loss Prevention office a number of years ago and the next day that very crosswalk (and several others) was painted. He would like to see her with a bucket and a brush.

re: #338 thedopefishlives

Good for you. Kinda wish they’d thrown the book at her, but I’m protective of my people.

Mr.w would have liked that too. I should have done it for him, his life has been as disturbed as mine.

343 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 6:50:07am

re:
#340

So Dems haven’t done Phily since 1948? I wouldn’t have imagined that. And before the GOP in 2000, neither party had done since 1948.

344 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 6:50:17am
345 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 6:51:41am

Philadelphia
…

347 Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2015 6:53:32am

re: #342 wrenchwench

She has none,

You share a brain with Mr.w. He actually called the state’s Loss Prevention office a number of years ago and the next day that very crosswalk (and several others) was painted. He would like to see her with a bucket and a brush.

Mr.w would have liked that too. I should have done it for him, his life has been as disturbed as mine.

Since it was a felony, do you qualify for a crime victim’s fund?

348 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 12, 2015 6:53:51am

re: #342 wrenchwench

She has none,

You share a brain with Mr.w. He actually called the state’s Loss Prevention office a number of years ago and the next day that very crosswalk (and several others) was painted. He would like to see her with a bucket and a brush.

Mr.w would have liked that too. I should have done it for him, his life has been as disturbed as mine.

So, are you considering a civil suit, or would that be trying to get blood from a turnip?

349 Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2015 6:54:40am

Dogwalk. BBL

350 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 6:57:09am
“It also propagates the strange myth of the artist as a special class of human… . “

HA!

351 thedopefishlives  Feb 12, 2015 7:04:14am

re: #342 wrenchwench

You share a brain with Mr.w. He actually called the state’s Loss Prevention office a number of years ago and the next day that very crosswalk (and several others) was painted. He would like to see her with a bucket and a brush.

Mr.w would have liked that too. I should have done it for him, his life has been as disturbed as mine.

Mr. W sounds like a good man.

352 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 7:06:13am
353 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 12, 2015 7:06:36am

re: #225 Lidane

Tea Party darling Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced an anti-same-sex marriage bill that would strip federal marriage benefits from same-sex couples living in states where only mixed-gender marriages are recognized.

According to David Badash at the New Civil Rights Movement, Cruz’s State Marriage Defense Act will also give anti-same-sex marriage states the right to nullify the marriages of same-sex couples living within their borders, should the Supreme Court find that such couples ultimately do not have the same right to marry as other U.S. citizens.

Cruz has framed the bill as a “states’ rights” issue, insisting that the federal government has no say in determining whose marriages a state will recognize and whose it will not.

This would be the same Ted Cruz who’s repeatedly criticized the Obama administration for not vigorously enforcing federal drug laws in those states which have legalized marijuana.
Like all of the GOP’s other staunch defenders of states; rights, Cruz’s stance on the issue depends on whether or not the states enact laws of which he approves.

354 b_sharp  Feb 12, 2015 7:06:59am

re: #295 Dr. Matt

Another one bites the dust: @SharylAttkisson has now blocked me.

How do you do that?

355 wrenchwench  Feb 12, 2015 7:07:25am

re: #347 Decatur Deb

Since it was a felony, do you qualify for a crime victim’s fund?

Must apply.

356 Teukka  Feb 12, 2015 7:07:59am

Man, I just dropped this in a RWNJ infested chat, and they are actually rushing to defend the actions of the parents…. O.O

Texas teen fighting legal ID hurdles because of parents’ homeschooling Christian ways

357 wrenchwench  Feb 12, 2015 7:08:15am

re: #348 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

So, are you considering a civil suit, or would that be trying to get blood from a turnip?

Turnip juice, and other lawyer strategies.

358 wrenchwench  Feb 12, 2015 7:08:48am

re: #351 thedopefishlives

Mr. W sounds like a good man.

That he is.

359 b_sharp  Feb 12, 2015 7:08:54am

re: #300 thedopefishlives

It was -2 degrees F (-19 degrees C) when I left for work this morning. It’s supposed to get colder tonight, I believe.

Same as the temp here.

You poor people seem to be suffering Canadian prairie weather. I wouldn’t wish that on even Chuckie. Well, actually I would. I’d like to see his ass freeze solid.

360 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 7:09:08am

re:
#341

New Va. GOP leader’s toxic Twitter account via

She sounds nice./

361 GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 12, 2015 7:10:26am
362 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 7:10:35am

eek!

363 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 7:11:09am

re:
#334

I don’t have to go to court. The woman who hit me pleaded guilty to a felony.

Was she intoxicated or impaired in some way?

Sorry it looks like I’ve missed your story but glad the case is getting resolved.

364 Mike Lamb  Feb 12, 2015 7:14:10am

re: #362 FemNaziBitch

eek!

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It’s been north of 80 in Phoenix for about a week now, and probably won’t get chilly (75) until Monday.

365 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 7:14:11am

N . E . E . D . M . O . R . E . C . O . F . F . E . E

366 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 7:14:13am

re:
#362

Yeah even here in the Chesapeake we’re supposed to see some of this frozenness. But don’t think we’ll be hit this hard.

367 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 7:14:25am

re: #364 Mike Lamb

It’s been north of 80 in Phoenix for about a week now, and probably won’t get chilly (75) until Monday.

show off!

368 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 12, 2015 7:15:35am

re: #341 lawhawk
New Va. GOP leader’s toxic Twitter account…

Describing herself as a Libertarian, she said, “I don’t fit in with any of the factions anyway.

Ah, to be present at the birth of a euphemism. In this case, “Libertarian” for “asshole.”

369 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 7:15:53am

the 1 degree we are forecasted for tonite doesn’t seem so cold in comparison!

370 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 7:16:58am

re:
#353

Cruz has framed the bill as a “states’ rights” issue, insisting that the federal government has no say in determining whose marriages a state will recognize and whose it will not.

So the states’, that is governments’, rights are greater than a person’s, a couple’s, rights.

Yes this is the less government conservatism I’ve come to know. ///

371 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 7:17:50am

Remember when our parents would go to whereever the had the “record player”, pick-out an albumn, blow on it to remove any dust and carefully place it on the turntable and place the needle to play it?

Now, I have no idea where my various CD’s are —don’t feel like messing with my iTunes library, so I go to youtube and find what I want there.
…

372 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 12, 2015 7:18:28am

re: #369 FemNaziBitch

Meanwhile, in SoCal we’re looking at a high of 84° today and 86° tomorrow.
But there’s nothing to see here folks, just move along.

373 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 7:19:19am

re: #370 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#353

So the states’, that is governments’, rights are greater than a person’s, a couple’s, rights.

Yes this is the less government conservatism I’ve come to know. ///

Less government except military. “The only role of Federal government is to protect against foreign invaders.”

How do we keep the union together when the various states decide to squabble, cedeed or disobey the rules about making independent treaties with other countries?

374 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Feb 12, 2015 7:19:32am

re: #372 Higgs Boson’s Mate

yeah I wish the weather would make up its mind. I want the cooler temps back!

375 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 7:19:35am

re: #372 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Meanwhile, in SoCal we’re looking at a high of 84° today and 86° tomorrow.
But there’s nothing to see here folks, just move along.

*sigh*

376 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 7:20:13am

re:
#368

Describing herself as a Libertarian, she said, “I don’t fit in with any of the factions anyway.

Oh, so she doesn’t really believe in or support anything.

But let me guess: she’s opposed to SSM and abortion rights.

377 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 7:20:36am

re: #374 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

yeah I wish the weather would make up its mind. I want the cooler temps back!

I just wish we’d get a hard freeze that lasted a few days. I really need some allergens and other micro beasties to be killed dead by it.

Also the bees and wasps will be vicious in the spring without a general die-off caused by the freeze.

379 thedopefishlives  Feb 12, 2015 7:21:25am

re: #359 b_sharp

Same as the temp here.

You poor people seem to be suffering Canadian prairie weather. I wouldn’t wish that on even Chuckie. Well, actually I would. I’d like to see his ass freeze solid.

Considering I don’t live all that far from the Canadian prairie, it’s not entirely surprising. Occasionally we get bursts of warm from the more southerly plains, but more often we are cursed to endure the ill wind blowing nobody any good from across the Canuckistan border.

380 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 7:21:51am

re: #377 FemNaziBitch

I just wish we’d get a hard freeze that lasted a few days. I really need some allergens and other micro beasties to be killed dead by it.

Also the bees and wasps will be vicious in the spring without a general die-off caused by the freeze.

We need bees. Wasps can die in a fire.

381 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 12, 2015 7:21:51am

re: #375 FemNaziBitch

*sigh*

That does sound good when you’re freezing your tail off. Only thing is, we’ll likely see some days in the low 100s come March.

382 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 7:24:13am

What kind of pie this week? I’m thinking Lemon Meringue.

383 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Feb 12, 2015 7:25:48am

re: #377 FemNaziBitch

I just wish we’d get a hard freeze that lasted a few days. I really need some allergens and other micro beasties to be killed dead by it.

Also the bees and wasps will be vicious in the spring without a general die-off caused by the freeze.

we recently had to deal with the pets getting fleas. Usually there are none in the winter, only summer. Last summer I don’t think we had to give them flea treatment at all. Last month they showed up.

384 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 7:26:20am

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY (so far)==>

385 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 12, 2015 7:26:52am

re: #371 FemNaziBitch

Remember when our parents would go to whereever the had the “record player”, pick-out an albumn, blow on it to remove any dust and carefully place it on the turntable and place the needle to play it?

Now, I have no idea where my various CD’s are —don’t feel like messing with my iTunes library, so I go to youtube and find what I want there.
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A couple of months after I digitized my LP collection, sold a few and gave the rest away to the Goodwill, my son and stepson suddenly got interested in vinyl. Now they scour thrift stores for vintage vinyl to play on their USB-equipped turntables.

Life is strange.

386 wrenchwench  Feb 12, 2015 7:27:14am

re: #363 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#334

Was she intoxicated or impaired in some way?

Sorry it looks like I’ve missed your story but glad the case is getting resolved.

Nope, just in a hurry.

387 Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2015 7:32:27am

re: #381 Higgs Boson’s Mate

That does sound good when you’re freezing your tail off. Only thing is, we’ll likely see some days in the low 100s come March.

Now off to mow up a couple month’s worth of pine debris. We’re on a warm break now. We pay for it in August.

(Radishes are up, tulip trees blooming.)

388 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 7:32:57am

re:
#384

It is far less troubling to have doubts about evolution than to cheer the murder of a million unborn children each year as a right.

OFFS

389 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 12, 2015 7:36:12am

re: #371 FemNaziBitch

Respectfully, I don’t think it’s proper to substitute youtube for music that can be purchased.

390 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 12, 2015 7:38:58am

WXPN in Philadelphia has a relativedly new slogan “Vinyl at heart”, yet they keep playing digital versions of songs. I went through a big stack of LPs I had in storage, but there wasn’t anything I hadn’t bought in CD form or got from iTunes.

391 WhatEVs  Feb 12, 2015 7:41:06am

re: #247 Ace-o-aces

Does Mr. Award winning Journalist not know what “hoax” means? “Hoax” implies the shootings were somehow faked. All he’s shown is that an Arab Muslim re-tweeted a few anti-Zionist posts, along with many calls for peace. (Have you seen the victim’s Twitter feed? It’s 90% basketball, maybe 1% religion).

That was my first thought, too. But I give up on paying attention to this clown. He is really, truly stupid. Not just ignorant (for he is that, as well), but out and out stupid.

Hence how he fits in well with the rest of the Clown Car.

392 #FergusonFireside  Feb 12, 2015 7:41:25am

NPR Tiny Desk winner:

npr.org

393 #FergusonFireside  Feb 12, 2015 7:42:06am

Good morning btw.

394 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 7:42:17am

We have a new STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

395 WhatEVs  Feb 12, 2015 7:42:19am

re: #253 Timothy Watson

What will it take for a reporter to grow a pair and ask him if that’s true, does that mean that states don’t have to recognize interracial marriages if they don’t want to?

I don’t know how many actual reporters are near him. If he’s like a good amount of his brethren, he only has Fox types around him.

396 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 12, 2015 7:45:21am

re: #395 WhatEVs

What will it take for a reporter to grow a pair and ask him if that’s true, does that mean that states don’t have to recognize interracial marriages if they don’t want to?

I don’t know how many actual reporters are near him. If he’s like a good amount of his brethren, he only has Fox types around him.

First, we’ll have to import an actual reporter from England.

397 jaunte  Feb 12, 2015 7:47:20am

re: #394 The Vicious Babushka

If we had relied on private industry for rural electrification, we might not be reading a lot of these tweets now.

398 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 7:47:32am
399 lawhawk  Feb 12, 2015 7:48:09am
400 lawhawk  Feb 12, 2015 7:50:07am

re: #398 The Vicious Babushka

#NetNeutrality. They keep using that term. It doesn’t mean what they think it means.

401 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 12, 2015 7:51:33am

re: #394 The Vicious Babushka

We have a new STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

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Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle would like a word with Equality 7-2521 .

402 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 7:53:15am

re: #401 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle would like a word with Equality 7-2521 .

He named himself after the character in the only Ayn Rand book I ever read, when in 8th grade.

403 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 12, 2015 7:55:13am

re: #391 WhatEVs

That was my first thought, too. But I give up on paying attention to this clown. He is really, truly stupid. Not just ignorant (for he is that, as well), but out and out stupid.

Hence how he fits in well with the rest of the Clown Car.

I’ve watched both his videos in order to parody them. It’s easy to do; I can just rephrase what he says and maybe exaggerate here and there. He parodies himself — no understanding of fact-based journalism, no realization of how his big scoops are big jokes to everyone else, no conception of how he’s “an empty hat, no cattle” figure in journalism.

Besides all that, he can’t write, and can’t develop a logical argument. UpChuck is not a shining example of the quality of a Claremont McKenna education.

Then, again, neither are Ted Cruz and Andy Schlafly shining examples of a Princeton education.

404 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Feb 12, 2015 7:56:17am

LOL:

On DHS funding Sen. Kirk goes from “Dems killing Americans” to “I agree with Dems” at warp speed

what a fucking tool.

405 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 7:58:30am

re: #403 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I’ve watched both his videos in order to parody them. It’s easy to do; I can just rephrase what he says and maybe exaggerate here and there. He parodies himself — no understanding of fact-based journalism, no realization of how his big scoops are big jokes to everyone else, no conception of how he’s “an empty hat, no cattle” figure in journalism.

Besides all that, he can’t write, and can’t develop a logical argument. UpChuck is not a shining example of the quality of a Claremont McKenna education.

Then, again, neither are Ted Cruz and Andy Schlafly shining examples of a Princeton education.

Ben Shapiro went to Harvard.

406 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 12, 2015 8:01:14am

It just started snowing.
Big fat fluffy stuff.

407 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 12, 2015 8:01:26am

re: #405 The Vicious Babushka

Ben Shapiro went to Harvard.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.

A liberal education sadly does not always produce liberal minds.

408 Varek Raith  Feb 12, 2015 8:01:53am

re: #398 The Vicious Babushka

Switch isps?
Lol.
My ‘choices’ are;
Verizon.
Comcast.

409 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 12, 2015 8:02:28am

re: #404 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

LOL:

On DHS funding Sen. Kirk goes from “Dems killing Americans” to “I agree with Dems” at warp speed

what a fucking tool.

Whiplash ALERT!

410 Timothy Watson  Feb 12, 2015 8:03:06am

In Virginia: ONOES SNOW FLURRIES EVERYONE RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!1!

411 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 12, 2015 8:03:32am

re: #408 Varek Raith

Switch isps?
Lol.
My ‘choices’ are;
Verizon.
Comcast.

[ comcast ]
There’s a ton of competition in the ISP market! That’s why we’ve got to Merge with Time Warner to stay competitive!
[ /comcast ]

412 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 8:03:34am

re: #408 Varek Raith

Switch isps?
Lol.
My ‘choices’ are;
Verizon.
Comcast.

My “choices” are:
Comcast.

There is AT&T but it’s so shitty and just as expensive that it’s not even a choice.

413 Eventual Carrion  Feb 12, 2015 8:03:58am

re: #339 lawhawk

A chemical plant explosion outside Barcelona has meant 60,000 are told to stay inside to avoid exposure to potentially toxic chemical brew.

Warnings like that would happen in Houston/Baytown TX area every once in a while. Some storage tank of killer chemicals would rupture or an explosion at a plant. They would warn you to stay inside and shut off your air conditioner for a period of time. Breath in the chemicals.

414 Varek Raith  Feb 12, 2015 8:04:24am

re: #410 Timothy Watson

In Virginia: ONOES SNOW FLURRIES EVERYONE RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!1!

We can’t drive in this!
/seriously.
:P

415 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 8:04:34am

re: #410 Timothy Watson

In Virginia: ONOES SNOW FLURRIES EVERYONE RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!1!

Almost the same here in NC, except it’s time to go get bread and milk.

Except we’ve had more than just one—but nothing stuck.

416 thedopefishlives  Feb 12, 2015 8:05:38am

re: #412 The Vicious Babushka

My “choices” are:
Comcast.

There is AT&T but it’s so shitty and just as expensive that it’s not even a choice.

We are Comcast-free here, thankfully. Well, in my neighborhood we are. We have Mediacom and Frontier. Uptown, it’s Comcast and CenturyLink. Funny how there’s only ever two choices; almost like there isn’t any competition…

417 Teukka  Feb 12, 2015 8:06:51am

re: #408 Varek Raith

Switch isps?
Lol.
My ‘choices’ are;
Verizon.
Comcast.

My choices?

Let’s see…

ComHem
Telia
3*
Tele2/Comviq*
Telenor*
Bahnhof
Bredbandsbolaget
STOKAB

418 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 8:07:12am

re: #413 Eventual Carrion

Warnings like that would happen in Houston/Baytown TX area every once in a while. Some storage tank of killer chemicals would rupture or an explosion at a plant. They would warn you to stay inside and shut off your air conditioner for a period of time. Breath in the chemicals.

HURR HURR IT TEH SMELL OF NO REGULASHUNS FREEDOM!!!!!1!!!

419 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 8:07:12am

So tired of this shit. Find and prosecute.

Middle school students in East Windsor, Conn., sent home due to bomb threat - @ WTIC1080
read more on cbslocal.com

420 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 8:07:39am

re: #417 Teukka

My choices?

Let’s see…

ComHem
Telia
3*
Tele2/Comviq*
Telenor*
Bahnhof
Bredbandsbolaget
STOKAB

U COMMUNIST!!!!!!

421 Varek Raith  Feb 12, 2015 8:08:16am

re: #417 Teukka

My choices?

Let’s see…

ComHem
Telia
3*
Tele2/Comviq*
Telenor*
Bahnhof
Bredbandsbolaget
STOKAB

Cheater.

422 Teukka  Feb 12, 2015 8:08:46am

re: #420 The Vicious Babushka

U COMMUNIST!!!!!!

WUT? I thought being a commie meant you had to make do with what the state offered?

Also * in the above means wireless provider.

423 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 8:09:02am

re: #418 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR IT TEH SMELL OF NO REGULASHUNS FREEDOM!!!!!1!!!

See, they have all these regulations in soshulist Europe and they don’t help, let’s get rid of them! /wingnut

424 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 12, 2015 8:10:11am

re: #420 The Vicious Babushka

U COMMUNIST!!!!!!

And, besides that: Jobs! Never forget that whatever the megacorps want will create Jobs! - even if it provably doesn’t.

425 Teukka  Feb 12, 2015 8:12:03am

re: #422 Teukka

WUT? I thought being a commie meant you had to make do with what the state offered?

Also * in the above means wireless provider.

Oh, and did I mention that I am a happy customer of ComHem, which uses the same type of gear as Comcast (only thing different is that it’s Eurodocsis), yet manages a triple-nine uptime and always deliver what or slightly more what I pay for (50/10).

426 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 8:13:06am

Yesterday some idiot tried to Kochsplain that HURR HURR YOONYUNZ IS GREEDY THAT WHY TEH MIDDLE CLASS IS SHRINKING!!!!!!

So I created these helpful memes:

427 lawhawk  Feb 12, 2015 8:13:53am

re: #413 Eventual Carrion

…

428 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 8:14:11am

I suppose they want to kick around Eric Holder some more.

Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans request delay in vote on Loretta Lynch’s nomination until after Presidents’ Day recess - @NBCNews
end of alert

429 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 8:15:03am

Reading about the Old East Slavic past verb forms. We used to have 4 past tenses: perfect, pluperfect, aorist and imperfect, but somehow lost that all along the way. The auxiliary verb was “be”, unlike in the Germanic languages, which had both “be” and “have”.

430 lawhawk  Feb 12, 2015 8:16:38am

re: #426 The Vicious Babushka

Stock buybacks are another way that workers get screwed. Instead of passing on the profits to employees, the companies buy back company stock, which benefits a few shareholders at the expense of everyone else.

You’ve got Apple sitting on a hoard of cash that would make Smaug grin with delight. If they upped their wages to every last employee down to the idiots at the Genius bar, it might reduce that hoard by a few hundred million, but the ripple effect would be huge across the economy. And other companies might do the same in order to retain workers.

431 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 8:21:06am

re: #430 lawhawk

Stock buybacks are another way that workers get screwed. Instead of passing on the profits to employees, the companies buy back company stock, which benefits a few shareholders at the expense of everyone else.

You’ve got Apple sitting on a hoard of cash that would make Smaug grin with delight. If they upped their wages to every last employee down to the idiots at the Genius bar, it might reduce that hoard by a few hundred million, but the ripple effect would be huge across the economy. And other companies might do the same in order to retain workers.

i thought about getting a Mac, but figured the 3x price tag wasn’t worth it in the long run. Happy w/this HP w/a 15” screen.

432 Eventual Carrion  Feb 12, 2015 8:22:42am

re: #382 The Vicious Babushka

What kind of pie this week? I’m thinking Lemon Meringue.

I saw a recipe for an orange meringue a month or so ago, it looked really good.

433 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 12, 2015 8:23:09am

re: #426 The Vicious Babushka

How long a timespan does the second graph cover?

434 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 8:24:11am

Radical Brownies?

435 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 8:25:07am

re: #389 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Respectfully, I don’t think it’s proper to substitute youtube for music that can be purchased.

Wel, I did purchase the albumn, years ago.

436 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 8:26:20am

re: #383 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

we recently had to deal with the pets getting fleas. Usually there are none in the winter, only summer. Last summer I don’t think we had to give them flea treatment at all. Last month they showed up.

I treat all year long —because 2 of our dogs hunt and they all have social outings with other dogs.

you just never know …

437 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 8:26:52am

re: #380 The Vicious Babushka

We need bees. Wasps can die in a fire.

Ok, I mean the little yellow jackets —I think they are technically wasps . .

438 Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 12, 2015 8:28:17am

re: #413 Eventual Carrion

Warnings like that would happen in Houston/Baytown TX area every once in a while. Some storage tank of killer chemicals would rupture or an explosion at a plant. They would warn you to stay inside and shut off your air conditioner for a period of time. Breath in the chemicals.

I’ve been in a plant* in Pasadena and during the tour was shown where the shrapnel rained down and damaged buildings after the plant next door had an alcohol reactor blow up.

The control room for the plant a few miles up the road in Laporte is a big concrete bunker.

* - We shared the site with 2-3 other companies and the buildings and support services were split up. Sunoco sold it off to someone else back in the 2000s when they started shedding their chemical plants and refineries.

439 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 8:29:50am

re: #390 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

WXPN in Philadelphia has a relativedly new slogan “Vinyl at heart”, yet they keep playing digital versions of songs. I went through a big stack of LPs I had in storage, but there wasn’t anything I hadn’t bought in CD form or got from iTunes.

I’m a little miffed that I’ve bought multiple versions of the same music over the years. I know I can digitize the albums, but it’s honestly just to freakin’ hard for old(er) people.

440 Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 12, 2015 8:30:18am

re: #432 Eventual Carrion

I saw a recipe for an orange meringue a month or so ago, it looked really good.

Boehner pie - orange outside and fluffy inside full of air. Except for the pie being sweet and appetizing.
//

442 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 12, 2015 8:33:40am

Forgive my mini rant, but when did it become so hard to just pay for something at a store?

I was at a pharmacy last night to pick up two over the counter medicines for my wife.

That’s all. Nothing else.

I’m paying with debit and after swiping my card, this is what I go through:

1) Do you have one of our super awesome reward cards? YES/NO

NO

2) Would you like to sign up for one of our super awesome reward cards? YES/NO

NO

3) Care to donate to the American Heart Association? $1 $2 $5 NO THANKS

NO THANKS
(In my defense I donated to them the LAST time I was at this Pharmacy)

4) Would you like cash back? $20 $40 $60 OTHER NO

NO

5) TOTAL CORRECT? YES/NO

YES

6) PLEASE ENTER PIN

***

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PURCHASE.

I’m not against rewards cards (well ok, I sort of am but that’s a topic for another post) and I’m not against charitable giving but surely the cashier could have covered all that with me BEFORE I swiped the card?

I can’t help but wonder if this nonsense is a passive aggressive effort to make me switch back to using cash.

443 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 12, 2015 8:34:11am

re: #441 FemNaziBitch

FBI Director To Address Law Enforcement’s Relationship With Minorities

Sounds like a great idea for an SNL cold open.

444 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 8:34:16am

Chicago Little League Team Stripped Of U.S. Championship

On Wednesday, league officials said adult mangers of the team cheated by skirting fair play rules that require all players to live inside the same geographical boundaries.

Kids are hurt because of adults … .

*spit*

445 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 8:34:22am

re: #433 Eclectic Cyborg

How long a timespan does the second graph cover?

Here’s the original page, can’t get a higher res.

446 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 8:34:54am

re: #442 Eclectic Cyborg

believe me, it’s just as infuriating for the cashier.

447 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 8:36:22am

re: #442 Eclectic Cyborg

3) Care to donate to the American Heart Association? $1 $2 $5 NO THANKS

I don’t think they should be asking that at all.

448 #FergusonFireside  Feb 12, 2015 8:36:42am

re: #444 FemNaziBitch

Chicago Little League Team Stripped Of U.S. Championship

Kids are hurt because of adults … .

*spit*

449 nearly-headless smith25  Feb 12, 2015 8:42:37am

re: #448 #FergusonFireside

I wan’t Mike Wilbon of ESPN do a column on this. He is from the area and knows the neighborhoods.

I wan’t to know how the boundaries are agreed to and decided. Are the boundaries population based, or area based.

Once again, not excusing any rule breaking by adults, but if the structure of the system is faulty you would expect some of this to happen. Was it the Atlanta area school principals and teachers caught “fixing” some students standardized tests?

450 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 12, 2015 8:43:51am

re: #445 The Vicious Babushka

Here’s the original page, can’t get a higher res.

I zoomed in but you’re right, the res makes it impossible to know for sure. I did determine that there are exactly 64 entries on the lower axis so I’m thinking 1950-2014 seems logical.

451 iossarian  Feb 12, 2015 8:44:23am

re: #449 nearly-headless smith25

I wan’t Mike Wilbon of ESPN do a column on this. He is from the area and knows the neighborhoods.

I wan’t to know how the boundaries are agreed to and decided. Are the boundaries population based, or area based.

Once again, not excusing any rule breaking by adults, but if the structure of the system is faulty you would expect some of this to happen. Was it the Atlanta area school principals and teachers caught “fixing” some students standardized tests?

Black people in Chicago were frozen out of neighborhoods and the accompanying government mortgage assistance for decades.

Where are the righteous crusaders for truth demanding that the injustice be corrected?

452 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 8:47:27am

re: #447 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I don’t think they should be asking that at all.

and they count it as “corporate” donations when marketing themselves as a “good corporation”.

453 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 8:48:56am

re: #451 iossarian

Black people in Chicago were frozen out of neighborhoods and the accompanying government mortgage assistance for decades.

Where are the righteous crusaders for truth demanding that the injustice be corrected?

I can’t imagine how crushed these kids are.

What are they to think of our world now?

454 makeitstop  Feb 12, 2015 8:49:21am

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY (so far)==>

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Wingnut Mad Libs.

He’s comparing apples and cucumbers here.

455 lawhawk  Feb 12, 2015 8:50:04am

re: #452 FemNaziBitch

And a portion of that amount likely goes to overhead, so your $1 donation is actually less than that. But the corporation gets the benefit of your donation on their tax returns. That’s why you see a proliferation of these requests at checkout.

456 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 12, 2015 8:50:25am

re: #446 FemNaziBitch

believe me, it’s just as infuriating for the cashier.

Oh I know. I’ve worked retail and I know they get no say in crap like this. I don’t take it out on them.

457 iossarian  Feb 12, 2015 8:50:38am

re: #453 FemNaziBitch

I can’t imagine how crushed these kids are.

What are they to think of our world now?

It really sucks for them. And they (and their parents) can quite clearly see that the rules that are being strictly applied in their case are very easily bent when it comes to rich white guys making a shitload of money on Wall Street.

458 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 8:51:31am

re: #455 lawhawk

Pure emotional blackmail. If they want these donations, they should put up a jar, that’s all.

459 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 8:53:18am

The only “Women’s Right” that Dana cares about is the “right” to shoot people.

460 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 12, 2015 8:57:57am

re: #447 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I don’t think they should be asking that at all.

Agreed. Radio Shack in fact got in some hot water a few years back when a bunch of cashiers added $1 LIVESTRONG donations to customers bills without their knowledge or consent.

Sometimes companies go way overboard with the charitable giving stuff. The last company I worked for ran a huge United Way campaign every year and, while employees were not required to donate (by way of a paycheck deduction), they sure pressured us to do so. Every year around the same time we were pulled into a two hour long “pep rally” and told about how awesome it was to donate and help those in need. The company also required us to fill out paperwork whether we donated or not. If you didn’t, you basically had to check a box that said “I do not wish to donate” and sign it.

It got so old listening to my supervisor telling us every single day how it was a really good idea to donate and that we should all seriously consider it. He even told me it’s a great way to “look good with the company”, implying that it might be good idea to donate if I was interested in advancing my career.

I still declined.

461 iossarian  Feb 12, 2015 8:59:06am

re: #460 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ve always assumed that United Way is a massive scam. Happy to be educated otherwise but I start from a point of skepticism!

462 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 12, 2015 9:00:17am

re: #461 iossarian

I’ve always assumed that United Way is a massive scam. Happy to be educated otherwise but I start from a point of skepticism!

I feel the same way. I DO donate to charitable causes but I don’t always donate money, sometimes I donate my time to local organizations. If I do donate money, I give it to groups where I KNOW it’s being used directly to help people and not to pay the salary of some “Executive director”.

463 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 9:00:32am

re:
#459

Hurr hurr until I can carry my bazooka with me everywhere at all times than you suffer me with the Tyrannies!!!

464 nearly-headless smith25  Feb 12, 2015 9:00:32am

If you check out @deray ‘s TL, you’ll see another police shooting. Kid started running, ran across intersection, turned, did not in my opinion appear to be a threat to their safety as he turned. They shot and killed him. Pasco Washington.

465 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 9:00:37am

- Do you wish to donate to the Cute Puppies With Huge Eyes Who Are Sick With Cancer Foundation?
- No, thanks.
- OK. [Heartless asshole.]

466 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 9:02:21am

The Debtor’s Prison resurgence I’ve posted about for a couple of years and now made it to the national state. Attorneys are suing #Ferguson , Missouri for jailing poor people for failing to pay court costs etc.

It’s a shitty system.

Much of it, it seems, stems from a lack of public transportation … .

467 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 9:03:34am

re: #464 nearly-headless smith25

Looks like a straightforward murder.

468 iossarian  Feb 12, 2015 9:04:45am

re: #463 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#459

Hurr hurr until I can carry my bazooka with me everywhere at all times than you suffer me with the Tyrannies!!!

Some of these fake quotes are getting really refined in terms of tone capture. “You suffer me with the Tyrannies” is today’s leader so far.

469 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 9:05:08am

re: #462 Eclectic Cyborg

I feel the same way. I DO donate to charitable causes but I don’t always donate money, sometimes I donate my time to local organizations. If I do donate money, I give it to groups where I KNOW it’s being used directly to help people and not to pay the salary of some “Executive director”.

The local Domestic Violence shelter and Sexual Assault center for which I volunteer depends on their partnership with the United Way. As does Planned Parenthood.

GOP in Illinois (now with their governor) is proposed cutting even more funding for VAWA related agencies.

penny wise and pound foolish —as always.

470 Dr. Matt  Feb 12, 2015 9:05:14am

VIDEO: White man pulls gun on black Minnesota man he assumes is a drug dealer (SPOILER: He’s NOT a drug dealer)

…

And this exemplifies the underlying pathology of the ammosexuals: they stock up on weapons and ammunition hoping that someday they can use them. When that day never arrives, they become frustrated and invent a reason to murder someone with their penis extensions.

471 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 9:06:12am

Speaking of MN, here’s a good thing:

472 lawhawk  Feb 12, 2015 9:06:20am

re: #464 nearly-headless smith25

473 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 9:06:28am

re:
#401

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle would like a word with Equality 7-2521 .

Equality 7-2521 sounds like a name spit out by a Koch Industries twitter name generator.

474 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 9:07:49am

re: #473 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#401

Equality 7-2521 sounds like a name spit out by a Koch Industries twitter name generator.

It’s the name of a character in an Ayn Rand novel, Anthem.

475 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 9:09:28am

Anthem is so horribly written, it’s like 50 Shades of Grey without the sex.

476 nearly-headless smith25  Feb 12, 2015 9:10:18am

re: #470 Dr. Matt

VIDEO: White man pulls gun on black Minnesota man he assumes is a drug dealer
(SPOILER: He’s NOT a drug dealer)

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And this exemplifies the underlying pathology of the ammosexuals: they stock up on weapons and ammunition hoping that someday they can use them. When that day never arrives, they become frustrated and invent a reason to murder someone with their penis extensions.

This vigilante action is also crazy (Yes you Zimmerman). Call the police(not always going to end much better). And this vigilante actions don’t seem to be forgiven if the races/cultures are reversed.

477 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 9:11:33am

I like how this pro-choice activist took the gun-fucking meme and turned it around.

478 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 9:12:17am
479 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 9:13:21am

re:
#474

It’s the name of a character in an Ayn Rand novel, Anthem.

Ayn Rand sounds like a name spit out by a Koch Industries name generator….

480 De Kolta Chair  Feb 12, 2015 9:15:20am

re: #277 darthstar

Sean McCabe @darthstar99

Oh, dear…I have a LinkedIn account.

481 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 9:15:22am

re: #397 jaunte

If we had relied on private industry for rural electrification, we might not be reading a lot of these tweets now.

One of LBJ’s hot buttons IIRC.

482 thedopefishlives  Feb 12, 2015 9:15:35am

re: #470 Dr. Matt

VIDEO: White man pulls gun on black Minnesota man he assumes is a drug dealer
(SPOILER: He’s NOT a drug dealer)

And this exemplifies the underlying pathology of the ammosexuals: they stock up on weapons and ammunition hoping that someday they can use them. When that day never arrives, they become frustrated and invent a reason to murder someone with their penis extensions.

I love my adoptive home state, I really do. But this just goes to show that Teh Crazy is just as prevalent here in the wild north country as it is anywhere. Well, okay, maybe the gun-fuckers are more prevalent down in the South, but we have our fair share of wackos. Never forget, Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) is from the state whose official bird is the loon.

483 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 9:16:11am

re:
#468

I’m all about the tone capture.

484 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 9:16:36am

re: #472 lawhawk

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Well, I hope she gets a shit-ton of money for punitive damages.

485 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 9:17:42am

re:
#480

….and they’re both spambots.

486 ObserverArt  Feb 12, 2015 9:17:47am

re: #340 lawhawk

RT @SteveKornacki: Philly convention hosting history: 1856 GOP, 1872 GOP, 1900 GOP, 1936 Dem, 1940 GOP, 1948 Dem & GOP, 2000 GOP, 2016 Dem

Awww, bummer. I guess it has been decided. No Dem Convention for Columbus.

Warning Democrats…Ohio has been a big decider for your presidential candidate lately. This may have just cost you this state since the GOP will be up in Cleveland pounding hard. It would not surprise me if some buckeyes vote on that decision alone.

: (

487 iossarian  Feb 12, 2015 9:19:14am

re: #469 FemNaziBitch

The local Domestic Violence shelter and Sexual Assault center for which I volunteer depends on their partnership with the United Way. As does Planned Parenthood.

GOP in Illinois (now with their governor) is proposed cutting even more funding for VAWA related agencies.

penny wise and pound foolish —as always.

I’m looking at some charity ratings websites right now. It actually seems that UW isn’t all that bad after all. Still prefer to give directly though.

488 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 9:20:23am

re: #475 The Vicious Babushka

Anthem is so horribly written, it’s like 50 Shades of Grey without the sex.

You mean you actually suffered through both of them? : )

489 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 9:20:28am

*spit!

490 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 9:21:27am

re: #488 Justanotherhuman

You mean you actually suffered through both of them? : )

I have never read “50 Shades” just hate-read some excerpts that were posted on Gawker.

491 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 12, 2015 9:21:49am

re:
#489

Said by the leader of a group of celibate men.

492 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 9:22:12am

re: #490 The Vicious Babushka

Same here. i don’t intend to see the movie they’re heavily promoting, either.

493 GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 12, 2015 9:22:29am

re: #476 nearly-headless smith25

No need for me to invent any reasons to use my ammo. That’s what the range is for. ;)

P.S. That dude with the gun in that video = douchebag.

494 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 9:24:23am

??????
New Evidence that Half of America is Broke

495 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 9:24:48am

re: #491 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#489

Said by the leader of a group of celibate men.

exactly!

fucking hypocrites.

496 lawhawk  Feb 12, 2015 9:25:30am

re: #490 The Vicious Babushka

(note that the video does include a brief potential NSFW glimpse of a woman’s breasts and couples engaging in movie coitus). /as everyone now rushes to watch…

497 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 9:25:31am

re: #489 FemNaziBitch

Eh, I’ve given up on him. He’s better than his predecessors, but that’s not saying much.

498 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 9:26:22am

re: #497 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Eh, I’ve given up on him. He’s better than his predecessors, but that’s not saying much.

NPSAOP

new pope same as old pope

499 nearly-headless smith25  Feb 12, 2015 9:26:57am

re: #497 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Eh, I’ve given up on him. He’s better than his predecessors, but that’s not saying much.

And I work at a Catholic school with some Teachers, Students and Parents who think he is “Dangerous” because he is so Liberal.

500 ObserverArt  Feb 12, 2015 9:27:48am

re: #412 The Vicious Babushka

My “choices” are:
Comcast.

There is AT&T but it’s so shitty and just as expensive that it’s not even a choice.

Do you have ATT Uverse up there?

I have it, and I find no problems with it. I watched a livestream feed of an auto race from Australia last weekend, and it ran almost 8 hours with no real hiccups in download speed, bandwidth, etc.

501 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 9:28:25am

re: #496 lawhawk

I always love “Rosenthal’s” reviews.

502 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 9:29:11am

re: #499 nearly-headless smith25

And I work at a Catholic school with some Teachers, Students and Parents who think he is “Dangerous” because he is so Liberal.

For the freepers he’s the Antichrist.

503 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 9:29:13am
504 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 12, 2015 9:30:05am

re: #489 FemNaziBitch

Couples Who Chose Not To Have Children Are ‘Selfish,’ Pope Says

What ever happened to respecting people for the decisions they make?

Might as well say that people who take vows of celibacy are “selfish” for not choosing to procreate.

505 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 9:30:39am

re: #503 FemNaziBitch

Cashill is such a distilled “high-brow” wingnut…

506 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 9:31:18am

But just because freepers hate him doesn’t mean that we have to like him.

507 De Kolta Chair  Feb 12, 2015 9:33:01am

re: #496 lawhawk

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Judging by the trailer, a better title might be The Dark Knight 4: Bruce Wayne & The Chamber of Secrets.

508 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 9:33:26am
509 lawhawk  Feb 12, 2015 9:35:14am

re: #472 lawhawk

And I have to wonder if they’re going to count that miscarriage as a murder charge against the officer (it wont). You know, because the so-con right is all about being pro-life and that life begins at conception, so the miscarriage is a homicide by the cop. /so-con logic

The same people who claim abortion is murder will simply gloss this over, or claim that it was the woman’s fault for talking back to the officers who were detaining her son. These officers didnt’ like her tone, so they gave her a beating sufficient to induce a miscarriage. Odds are they’ll take the latter route, rather than admit that the officer committed a homicide and ignore the double standard they hold to.

510 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 12, 2015 9:36:07am

re: #489 FemNaziBitch

Well Mr. Pope, my wife and I infertile. What say you about that?

511 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 9:36:36am

LOVE THIS

512 makeitstop  Feb 12, 2015 9:36:59am

re: #509 lawhawk

And I have to wonder if they’re going to count that miscarriage as a murder charge against the officer (it wont). You know, because the so-con right is all about being pro-life and that life begins at conception, so the miscarriage is a homicide by the cop. /so-con logic

The same people who claim abortion is murder will simply gloss this over, or claim that it was the woman’s fault for talking back to the officers who were detaining her son. These officers didnt’ like her tone, so they gave her a beating sufficient to induce a miscarriage. Odds are they’ll take the latter route, rather than admit that the officer committed a homicide and ignore the double standard they hold to.

A friend on Facebook raised that question yesterday - which do conservatives like better, embryos or cops?

513 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 9:38:21am

re: #512 makeitstop

A friend on Facebook raised that question yesterday - which do conservatives like better, embryos or cops?

embryos cost them less

514 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 9:38:56am

re: #510 Eclectic Cyborg

Well Mr. Pope, my wife and I infertile. What say you about that?

you must be at fault, repent!

515 ObserverArt  Feb 12, 2015 9:40:34am

re: #462 Eclectic Cyborg

I feel the same way. I DO donate to charitable causes but I don’t always donate money, sometimes I donate my time to local organizations. If I do donate money, I give it to groups where I KNOW it’s being used directly to help people and not to pay the salary of some “Executive director”.

I give to Charity Newsies here in Columbus. They have a huge fund drive around Christmas where their volunteer members are out on major street corners from 8 am until about 4 pm collecting from people driving by. The police are usually helping them form a lane to pull up and stop and give your donation safely. You get a copy of the Columbus Dispatch for that day with a donation.

100% of the money goes into buying coats, pants, skirts, shirts, socks, underwear, gloves shoes and hats. They operate a store for people in the community to go to to get free clothing for school age children.

The volunteers receive recommendations and requests the rest of the year and then go out to the folk’s houses to do an interview of the needs. If a family qualifies, they get a certificate and then can go to the store to pick out the clothes for the kiddies. The store is also all volunteer operated,

It has been ongoing since the early 1900s. A great program.

516 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 9:41:11am

re: #504 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

What ever happened to respecting people for the decisions they make?

Might as well say that people who take vows of celibacy are “selfish” for not choosing to procreate.

Free Will only applies if you compliantly obey.

517 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 12, 2015 9:42:03am

re: #516 FemNaziBitch

Free Will only applies if you compliantly obey.

Freedom is Slavery.

518 FemNaziBitch  Feb 12, 2015 9:42:19am

bbl

519 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 12, 2015 9:46:32am

Musk comments unsettle investors, stock falls

Tesla Motor shares dived in morning trading today after an unsettling analysts’ conference call with CEO Elon Musk late Wednesday, after the company announced large losses in the fourth quarter and for all of 2014.

The share price dropped as low as $193.40 this morning, down 9.1% from Wednesday’s close of $212.80. The price had worked back up near $200 by noon.

One of the comments by Musk that seemed to rattle investors was: “We’re going to spend staggering amounts of money on capex,” referring to capital expenditures on development of the Model X and Model 3, as well as the huge battery “gigafactory” under construction in Nevada.

Even though he reassured analysts the outlay will have “good ROI,” or return on investment, their remarks and questions in the call made clear that it was a startling comment.

He also said the effect of very slow sales in China had been “blown out of proportion,” even though he has said previously that China’s an important part of Tesla’s global expansion plans.

Tesla on Wednesday reported a loss of $107;.6 million, or $0.86 a share, in the fourth quarter, worse than the $74.7 million it lost a year earlier.

For all of 2014, the maker of electric luxury cars reported, it lost $294 million, vs. a loss of $74 million for all of 2013.

520 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 9:48:07am

Bipartisan group of 5 senators introduces bill seeking to lift Cuba trade embargo - @Reuters
read more on reuters.com

521 WhatEVs  Feb 12, 2015 9:52:15am

re: #341 lawhawk

Karen Tumulty ✔ @ktumulty
Follow

New Va. GOP leader’s toxic Twitter account via @paulschwartzman wpo.st

From the article:

Another tweet from her account that month offered an analysis of the Republicans running for lieutenant governor, using three words to describe Davis’s wife, Jeannemarie Davis, a former state delegate.

“She’s a slut,” read the tweet.

…

Not all of the derision was aimed at Republicans. At one point, a tweet from the account lashed out at Terry McAuliffe, then a candidate for governor, for his support for abortion rights.

“McAuliffe,” the tweet said, “just wants to kill babies for sport.”

She sounds nice.

522 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 9:56:10am

No doubt under different circumstances, other than living in a Mormon community and being out of her mind on meth, no doubt, she could have had abortions or put those babies up for adoption, or at least used some form of b/c. Instead, she killed them.

Utah mother accused of killing six babies pleads guilty

bigstory.ap.org

523 Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2015 10:07:45am

re: #487 iossarian

I’m looking at some charity ratings websites right now. It actually seems that UW isn’t all that bad after all. Still prefer to give directly though.

UW isn’t a charity as much as it is an umbrella support structure for other groups. Our Habitat affiliate coordinates most of their fund raising through UW. UW also runs the 211 front-end service, getting callers plugged into the agency that can help them.

524 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 12, 2015 10:08:01am

so, I see that Chuck thanked Tommy Robinson for a tweet and retweeted him overnight…

O_o

525 Ace-o-aces  Feb 12, 2015 10:12:13am
526 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 10:12:13am

Al-Qaida militants seize control of important army base in Sanaa, Yemeni military officials say - @AP
read more on bigstory.ap.org

I’d say Yemen is already engaged in civil war.

527 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 12, 2015 10:13:20am
528 WhatEVs  Feb 12, 2015 10:13:32am

re: #405 The Vicious Babushka

Ben Shapiro went to Harvard.

No kidding. Wow.

529 WhatEVs  Feb 12, 2015 10:13:57am

re: #407 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.

A liberal education sadly does not always produce liberal minds.

Or the ability to actually, you know, use that mind and think.

530 Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2015 10:15:35am

Worthy rip from TPM: Firsthand report from the front on the gay marriage wars in Blount County, AL

talkingpointsmemo.com

531 GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 12, 2015 10:16:20am

re: #405 The Vicious Babushka

He must have been rejected by all the sororities. That would explain his attitude.

532 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 10:16:22am

re: #528 WhatEVs

No kidding. Wow.

At the bottom of his class?

533 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 12, 2015 10:17:48am

Time for a new thread. This one’s getting old and fat.

I was dismayed to read a post on TPM by Amanda Marcotte, about how atheists should not blind ourselves to the possibility of violence in the name of atheism, after yesterday’s murderous attack on 3 Muslims in NC.

She speaks of atheism as a movement, a community, etc. I realize that humans are inherently tribal, but if atheism really is the rational conclusion, then it also gives atheists the opportunity to rise above irrational tribalism, by understanding that NOT believing in something is not an organizing principle. Forming communities and movements organized around a shared lack of belief is falling into the same trap we decry in religions.

But hey, I guess I’m becoming the voice that crieth in the wilderness.

534 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 10:20:01am

re: #533 Blind Frog Belly White

Famous Marxist quote:

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
Groucho Marx

535 b_sharp  Feb 12, 2015 10:22:12am

re: #533 Blind Frog Belly White

Time for a new thread. This one’s getting old and fat.

I was dismayed to read a post on TPM by Amanda Marcotte, about how atheists should not blind ourselves to the possibility of violence in the name of atheism, after yesterday’s murderous attack on 3 Muslims in NC.

She speaks of atheism as a movement, a community, etc. I realize that humans are inherently tribal, but if atheism really is the rational conclusion, then it also gives atheists the opportunity to rise above irrational tribalism, by understanding that NOT believing in something is not an organizing principle. Forming communities and movements organized around a shared lack of belief is falling into the same trap we decry in religions.

But hey, I guess I’m becoming the voice that crieth in the wilderness.

I’m with you.

536 GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 12, 2015 10:22:19am

re: #519 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m still absolutely sold on Tesla. A friend of mine brought home a P85D. That thing is amazing.

537 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 10:23:18am

re: #524 Backwoods_Sleuth

so, I see that Chuck thanked Tommy Robinson for a tweet and retweeted him overnight…

O_o

TR may be out of the EDL, but I doubt he’s changed his ideology.

538 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 12, 2015 10:23:45am

re: #535 b_sharp

I’m with you.

Think I should lead an anti-movement movement?
//

539 GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 12, 2015 10:24:42am

re: #530 Decatur Deb

I’m out and can’t watch. All I can say is that I hope that guy is being sarcastic.

540 iossarian  Feb 12, 2015 10:24:47am

re: #523 Decatur Deb

UW isn’t a charity as much as it is an umbrella support structure for other groups. Our Habitat affiliate coordinates most of their fund raising through UW. UW also runs the 211 front-end service, getting callers plugged into the agency that can help them.

Fair enough. I’m naturally suspicious of big charitable umbrella orgs, but they do seem to have good transparency procedures etc. in place.

541 Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2015 10:25:11am

re: #538 Blind Frog Belly White

Think I should lead an anti-movement movement?
//

Think an anti-movement movement is called a “still”.

542 rhuarc  Feb 12, 2015 10:25:44am

re: #539 GlutenFreeJesus

He is being hugely facetious. It’s actually really funny to read/watch. :)

543 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 12, 2015 10:25:49am

re: #541 Decatur Deb

Think an anti-movement movement is called a “still”.

Aren’t they illegal?

544 Great White Snark  Feb 12, 2015 10:26:23am

re: #536 GlutenFreeJesus

I love the car, the looks and I’m a fan of the founder.
The first electric car I buy won’t have batteries or an engine. I’m holding out for H power via fuel cells. Maybe with the methane reactor to get the H and box the carbon as soot. I’m convinced the current tech is a dead end over charging times and battery fire risks. It’s gonna go like diesel in the EU. Ooops policy fail. Maybe 5-10 years about the time we realize what a toxic waste problem lithium ion batteries are.

H is the one solitary clean fuel to use.

545 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 10:26:56am

re: #533 Blind Frog Belly White

Of course there can be and has been violence in the name of atheism. Everybody remembers about communists.

Why “remember” about it now? The evidence so far points to an armed gun nut with short temper, not to a religion-based hate crime.

546 Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2015 10:27:33am

re: #539 GlutenFreeJesus

I’m out and can’t watch. All I can say is that I hope that guy is being sarcastic.

Well, some of us might be concerned that the squirrels are playing more grab-ass than usual.

547 b_sharp  Feb 12, 2015 10:28:32am

re: #538 Blind Frog Belly White

Think I should lead an anti-movement movement?
//

I’ll bring the Kaopectate.

548 Great White Snark  Feb 12, 2015 10:29:34am

re: #527 Backwoods_Sleuth

My father & uncle served in the 50’s on a navy blimp. Out of Long Beach I think.

Pics

549 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 12, 2015 10:30:08am

re: #545 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Of course there can be and has been violence in the name of atheism. Everybody remembers about communists.

Why “remember” about it now? The evidence so far points to an armed gun nut with short temper, not to a religion-based hate crime.

I would argue, as Marcotte does, the violence in the name of Communism is not violence in the name of atheism. Communism is not inherently atheist, nor atheism inherently communist.

550 Ace-o-aces  Feb 12, 2015 10:30:18am

re: #405 The Vicious Babushka

Ben Shapiro went to Harvard.

re: #528 WhatEVs

No kidding. Wow.

I’ve always said an Ivy League education was overrated.

551 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 10:31:11am

Wake-up call my ass. Just as easily one can blame liberal, Obama-voting, pro-choice, pro-LGBT activists. Hicks is one after all.

552 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 10:31:21am

Wowser, I can hear the wind roaring outside, bringing in those really cold temps.

Did I mention lately that I’m ready for spring? : )

553 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 12, 2015 10:31:28am

re: #546 Decatur Deb

Well, some of us might be concerned that the squirrels are playing more grab-ass than usual.

“Anyone caught playing grab-ass spends a night in the box!”

554 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 12, 2015 10:32:14am

re: #545 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Of course there can be and has been violence in the name of atheism. Everybody remembers about communists.

Why “remember” about it now? The evidence so far points to an armed gun nut with short temper, not to a religion-based hate crime.

I’m not sure you’re going to get much more evidence. The police have a confession, the murder weapon, all the evidence they need to put the guy away. I think the only source for evidence will be a defense lawyer who might try for some sort of case. From what we already know, this doesn’t look to me like a rage crime. I would expect a guy in a rage to be shouting at his victims, and he probably wouldn’t get a chance to shoot all 3 in the head.

555 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 12, 2015 10:32:26am

re: #549 Blind Frog Belly White

I would argue, as Marcotte does, the violence in the name of Communism is not violence in the name of atheism. Communism is not inherently atheist, nor atheism inherently communist.

There are people who respect others’ beliefs (or lack thereof) and those who don’t. The MBF has scattered them all about the world like pixie dust…

556 Eventual Carrion  Feb 12, 2015 10:32:26am

re: #534 Justanotherhuman

Famous Marxist quote:

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
Groucho Marx

Another one:
I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I’ll never know.

557 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 10:32:46am

re: #549 Blind Frog Belly White

I would argue, as Marcotte does, the violence in the name of Communism is not violence in the name of atheism. Communism is not inherently atheist, nor atheism inherently communist.

Yes, not all communist violence is atheistic violence, but anti-believer violence in officially atheistic communist states, i.e. violence against believers for being believers, is atheistic violence. No, it doesn’t represent atheists, but it’s still atheistic violence.

558 Eventual Carrion  Feb 12, 2015 10:34:09am

re: #538 Blind Frog Belly White

Think I should lead an anti-movement movement?
//

Cool, we could put out signs that read:

“Do not read this sign under penalty of the law!”

559 iossarian  Feb 12, 2015 10:34:50am

re: #556 Eventual Carrion

Another one:
I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I’ll never know.

I have a brother-in-law who once shot a deer in his pajamas, for real.

560 Justanotherhuman  Feb 12, 2015 10:35:22am

Later, Lizards!

561 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 10:35:35am

re: #554 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

We can’t get into his head, and new evidence may come up during the investigation. Right now we can only base our conclusions on the available evidence. This evidence doesn’t point to a religion-based hate crime.

562 Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2015 10:35:52am

re: #559 iossarian

I have a brother-in-law who once shot a deer in his pajamas, for real.

Isn’t it more sporting to let the deer wake up and get a cup of coffee first?

563 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 12, 2015 10:35:54am

re: #557 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Yes, not all communist violence is atheistic violence, but anti-believer violence in officially atheistic communist states, i.e. violence against believers for being believers, is atheistic violence. No, it doesn’t represent atheists, but it’s still atheistic violence.

Can’t agree on that. It was violence in the name of CONTROL, and in the countries like Russia where it occurred, the Church was competition for the State for control. It was primarily to wrest control from the church, much like Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries, and the establishment of the CofE.

564 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 12, 2015 10:38:00am

re: #561 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

We can’t get into his head, and new evidence may come up during the investigation. Right now we can only base our conclusions on the available evidence. This evidence doesn’t point to a religion-based hate crime.

I agree. I know that by some accounts he called them nasty, religion-based names, but it’s my observation that when angry we say nasty shit.

I think it was a parking-based crime, committed by an angry guy.

565 Charles Johnson  Feb 12, 2015 10:39:15am

re: #537 Justanotherhuman

TR may be out of the EDL, but I doubt he’s changed his ideology.

He hasn’t. His ‘renunciation’ of his extremism was a total sham; just look at his Twitter timeline. He’s every bit as hateful as ever, and it’s still directed at Muslims mostly.

A lot of people fell for his ‘change of heart’ who should have known better than to trust a duplicitous neo-Nazi skinhead piece of trash.

566 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 10:39:59am

re: #563 Blind Frog Belly White

Can’t agree on that. It was violence in the name of CONTROL, and in the countries like Russia where it occurred, the Church was competition for the State for control. It was primarily to wrest control from the church, much like Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries, and the establishment of the CofE.

I’m not talking about violence against organizations, such as the church. I’m talking about violence against believers for believing. USSR was an officially atheistic state. An atheistic terror-state’s violence against believers based on their mere beliefs is atheistic violence, just as violence against non-Christians (non-Muslims, non-Jews, non-Hindus. …) in a Christian (Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, …) theocracy would be Christian (Muslim, Jewish, Hindu…) violence.

567 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 10:40:45am

re: #564 Blind Frog Belly White

I agree. I know that by some accounts he called them nasty, religion-based names, but it’s my observation that when angry we say nasty shit.

I think it was a parking-based crime, committed by an angry guy.

The only accounts I have read from relatives and neighbors say that the topic of religion never came up.

568 gwangung  Feb 12, 2015 10:42:54am

re: #567 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

The only accounts I have read from relatives and neighbors say that the topic of religion never came up.

Hm. Not what I’ve read. The father and sister mentioned it came up more than once.

569 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 10:45:51am

re: #568 gwangung

Hm. Not what I’ve read. The father and sister mentioned it came up more than once.

That’s not what I read about their accounts. So please quote.

570 WhatEVs  Feb 12, 2015 10:47:10am

re: #530 Decatur Deb

Worthy rip from TPM: Firsthand report from the front on the gay marriage wars in Blount County, AL

talkingpointsmemo.com

That was hysterical! What a great video.

Maybe he can get some fabulous homosexuals to help him out with that junk pile. I bet he could get a nice sculpture up since we all know how absolutely fabulous they all are at home design. /

571 lawhawk  Feb 12, 2015 10:48:43am

Ah, so today’s outrageous outrage? The President used a selfie stick.

The right wing needs to get a hobby. Stat. Because a President already has an official photographer to record their actions for posterity. It’s not like the selfie stick is going to get much use.

But as a tool to troll the right? It’s once again spot on. I get the sense that the President is all in on trolling the GOP because they simply can’t help themselves.

572 gwangung  Feb 12, 2015 10:49:36am

re: #569 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

That’s not what I read about their accounts. So please quote.

Well, there’s

Abu-Salha said his daughter, who lived next door to Hicks, wore a Muslim head scarf and told her family a week ago that she had “a hateful neighbor.”

“Honest to God, she said, ‘He hates us for what we are and how we look,’ ” he said.

newsobserver.com

I couldn’t interpret that as being that connected to the parking.

573 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 10:53:48am

re: #572 gwangung

Well, there’s

newsobserver.com

I couldn’t interpret that as being that connected to the parking.

There you go, that’s what I read. Not a word about religion coming up in talks. Only an opinion as to why he was hostile (the article omits the words “I think”: “‘Dad, I think he hates us for what we are and how we look”).
We have learned since then that he was hostile to all neighbors and was seen as a menace in the community. Then there’s this:

littlegreenfootballs.com

Farris Barakat, Deah Barakat’s brother, said Hicks had confronted his brother previously about a dispute over a parking space, adding that he never heard Hicks make any anti-Muslim remarks.

574 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 12, 2015 10:54:00am

Well, I now have my guitar. No cord to the amp or picks or stand alone tuner (still waiting on Amazon) but I’ve tuned up with the phone and have a couple of lessons on the A & D chords to practice.

Later folks… ;)

575 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 12, 2015 10:55:36am

re: #566 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I’m not talking about violence against organizations, such as the church. I’m talking about violence against believers for believing. USSR was an officially atheistic state. An atheistic terror-state’s violence against believers based on their mere beliefs is atheistic violence, just as violence against non-Christians (non-Muslims, non-Jews, non-Hindus. …) in a Christian (Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, …) theocracy would be Christian (Muslim, Jewish, Hindu…) violence.

I see what you’re saying, but I don’t agree with your conclusion. IMO the USSR’s attack on religion was all about consolidating total control over the population, wresting it from any historical institution that might compete for that control.

But I’m also not happy with referring to violence against non-Christians by Christians as ‘Christian Violence’ (for example).

576 Great White Snark  Feb 12, 2015 10:57:28am

re: #574 William Barnett-Lewis

Well, I now have my guitar. No cord to the amp or picks or stand alone tuner (still waiting on Amazon) but I’ve tuned up with the phone and have a couple of lessons on the A & D chords to practice.

Embedded Image

Later folks… ;)

Heh, we’ll miss you around here.

577 Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2015 10:57:33am

re: #570 WhatEVs

That was hysterical! What a great video.

Maybe he can get some fabulous homosexuals to help him out with that junk pile. I bet he could get a nice sculpture up since we all know how absolutely fabulous they all are at home design. /

Can’t speak to their orientation, but a pair of brothers near here do some extremely cool junk sculpture.

953thebear.com

themadhouseartists.com

578 WhatEVs  Feb 12, 2015 10:57:48am

re: #569 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

re: #572 gwangung

I read an article last night in which they reported talking to neighbors at the apartment complex. Not one of the people interviewed mentioned religion. They just said Hicks was angry all the time; angry to the point that it was brought up to the management how several people felt threatened by him, but nothing was ever done. Not one person mentioned religion as any sort of factor. Just that he was always extremely angry.

579 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 10:59:10am

re: #575 Blind Frog Belly White

It doesn’t matter what the real goal was (assuming there was some hidden goal). The actions themselves were by atheists in an officially atheistic state with officially atheistic purposes. That makes them acts of atheistic violence.

And yes, Inquisition was an example of Christian violence.

580 WhatEVs  Feb 12, 2015 10:59:49am

re: #577 Decatur Deb

Can’t speak to their orientation, but a pair of brothers near here do some extremely cool junk sculpture.

953thebear.com

I have seen some amazing junk art. I personally love it. Especially when it’s a dog. Some have been really nice.

581 gwangung  Feb 12, 2015 11:00:01am

re: #573 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

There you go, that’s what I read. Not a word about religion coming up in talks. Only an opinion as to why he was hostile (the article omits the words “I think”: “‘Dad, I think he hates us for what we are and how we look”).
We have learned since then then he was hostile to all neighbors and was seen as a menace in the community. Then there’s this:

littlegreenfootballs.com

I think that’s a little disingenuous, given the rather visible signs of their religion.

I’m not arguing that religious hate is the primary impulse here, but I just don’t think you can ignore it here (and that minorities, as a survival trait, cannot afford to rule it out). (Though, whatever the reason, I do find it interesting that for such an angry individual, this was a fairly clinical, methodical crime).

582 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 12, 2015 11:00:36am
583 b_sharp  Feb 12, 2015 11:01:43am

re: #557 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Yes, not all communist violence is atheistic violence, but anti-believer violence in officially atheistic communist states, i.e. violence against believers for being believers, is atheistic violence. No, it doesn’t represent atheists, but it’s still atheistic violence.

Was it done for control or to eliminate religion?
My belief is that it was done because religion is a method of control and the communists wanted the state to have that control.

That isn’t anti-religion in quite the same way one religion hates another.

584 b_sharp  Feb 12, 2015 11:02:44am

re: #563 Blind Frog Belly White

Can’t agree on that. It was violence in the name of CONTROL, and in the countries like Russia where it occurred, the Church was competition for the State for control. It was primarily to wrest control from the church, much like Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries, and the establishment of the CofE.

I guess I’m too late.

That’s what I get for bouncing between twitter and LGF I suppose.

585 b_sharp  Feb 12, 2015 11:04:15am

re: #571 lawhawk

Ah, so today’s outrageous outrage? The President used a selfie stick.

The right wing needs to get a hobby. Stat. Because a President already has an official photographer to record their actions for posterity. It’s not like the selfie stick is going to get much use.

But as a tool to troll the right? It’s once again spot on. I get the sense that the President is all in on trolling the GOP because they simply can’t help themselves.

I’m pretty sure that’s Obama’s latest troll stick.

586 b_sharp  Feb 12, 2015 11:05:41am

re: #574 William Barnett-Lewis

Well, I now have my guitar. No cord to the amp or picks or stand alone tuner (still waiting on Amazon) but I’ve tuned up with the phone and have a couple of lessons on the A & D chords to practice.

Embedded Image

Later folks… ;)

Don’t forget your B# chords.

587 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 11:08:50am

re: #581 gwangung

I think that’s a little disingenuous, given the rather visible signs of their religion.

That’s illogical, for it would automatically make any crime against any person with visible signs of being a minority a hate crime.

If he were hostile only to this family, that would be probative, but as he was hostile to everybody, it can’t, by itself, prove much. Someone would interpret it as religion-based hostility, someone else in a different way. As you write:

minorities, as a survival trait, cannot afford to rule it out).

- this explains why such an interpretation came up. In a world full of folks with anti-Muslim sentiments it was plausible for them to do so. But right now we know a bit more. For example, that he didn’t exhibit the typical anti-Muslim behavior online, going as far as to defend the Muslims during the Park51 brouhaha. That’s not a typical redneck Islamophobe behavior and this also should be taken into account, together with the lack of evidence that the topic of religion came up during altercations.

Note that I’m formulating very carefully here: I’m not excluding a possible ideological motive. I’m saying that so far there is no evidence for it.

588 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 11:11:47am

re: #583 b_sharp

That isn’t anti-religion in quite the same way one religion hates another.

Sorry, I find this to be hair-splitting.

589 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 12, 2015 11:15:10am

re: #586 b_sharp

Don’t forget your B# chords.

I’ll be sure to C what I can do about it ;)

/// piano lessons showing through there.

590 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 12, 2015 11:15:46am

re: #559 iossarian

I have a brother-in-law who once shot a deer in his pajamas, for real.

do tell us how the deer got into them…

591 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 11:16:35am
592 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 12, 2015 11:16:59am

re: #563 Blind Frog Belly White

Can’t agree on that. It was violence in the name of CONTROL, and in the countries like Russia where it occurred, the Church was competition for the State for control. It was primarily to wrest control from the church, much like Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries, and the establishment of the CofE.

Do not forget that the Church worked hand-in-hand with their arch-enemies, the Romanov dynasty. Not that it justifies their violence, but put it into some perspective, they were not just picking on a few poor, helpless clerics.

593 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2015 11:17:05am

re: #590 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

do tell us how the deer got there…

The deer was wearing his own pajamas!

594 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 12, 2015 11:17:55am

re: #574 William Barnett-Lewis

Well, I now have my guitar. No cord to the amp or picks or stand alone tuner (still waiting on Amazon) but I’ve tuned up with the phone and have a couple of lessons on the A & D chords to practice.

Embedded Image

Later folks… ;)

dude, looks awesome, I like the color

595 Eventual Carrion  Feb 12, 2015 11:18:13am

re: #582 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

My dad and I would take a yearly trip up into Quebec fishing. Driving up, once you got past North Bay Ont. and heading into Quebec there would be signs showing a moose walking to signify that moose cross the roads. As you got closer to the lake where we rented our fishing cabin the signs changed from a moose walking to a moose, head down, charging. And if you have ever seen a full grown moose close up, you don’t want to be in front of it when it is charging.

596 Mattand  Feb 12, 2015 11:18:33am

re: #533 Blind Frog Belly White

Time for a new thread. This one’s getting old and fat.

I was dismayed to read a post on TPM by Amanda Marcotte, about how atheists should not blind ourselves to the possibility of violence in the name of atheism, after yesterday’s murderous attack on 3 Muslims in NC.

She speaks of atheism as a movement, a community, etc. I realize that humans are inherently tribal, but if atheism really is the rational conclusion, then it also gives atheists the opportunity to rise above irrational tribalism, by understanding that NOT believing in something is not an organizing principle. Forming communities and movements organized around a shared lack of belief is falling into the same trap we decry in religions.

But hey, I guess I’m becoming the voice that crieth in the wilderness.

I think the inherit idea of atheists falling into the No True Scotsman fallacy is always a problem. Of course, the few atheists I know are smart enough to know that rationality isn’t a vaccine against making bad choices, but there’s people out there who aren’t.

*COUGH* Bill Maher Sam Harris *COUGH*

As for the issue of tribalism: not sure where I am on that. I see the point of the Atheism Plus crowd: being an atheist can be more than just sleeping in on Sundays. Exposing and fighting against the misogyny and bigotry problems within the atheist ranks demonstrates that.

I also get where you’re coming on that. To twist a cliché around, declaring I don’t collect stamps should not force membership in the non-stamp collecting community on me.

597 b_sharp  Feb 12, 2015 11:19:07am

re: #574 William Barnett-Lewis

Well, I now have my guitar. No cord to the amp or picks or stand alone tuner (still waiting on Amazon) but I’ve tuned up with the phone and have a couple of lessons on the A & D chords to practice.

Embedded Image

Later folks… ;)

Here is the guitar I’m keeping:

Ibanez

Here are the rest waiting for cleaning, restringing, packaging and to be sold. All of the cases you see there have guitars in them.

The rest of them

Oops I lied. The one soft case in the centre is empty.

598 Eventual Carrion  Feb 12, 2015 11:21:26am

re: #594 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

dude, looks awesome, I like the color

I liked that too. I was picking up strings a couple months ago and saw that Dean guitars had an orange color model, it looked sweet. My Dean is a smokey brown finish that I love, but the orange stands out.

599 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 11:23:20am

re: #592 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Do not forget that the Church worked hand-in-hand with their arch-enemies, the Romanov dynasty. Not that it justifies their violence, but put it into some perspective, they were not just picking on a few poor, helpless clerics.

I can’t blame commies for kicking the ROC’s ass as an organization. For example, it was previously a part of a repressive state which severely limited religious freedom (e.g. atheism was prohibited), so as an org it was complicit in this. The organization was hardly better than the Bolsheviks. That’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about personal repression for belief.

600 Higgs Boson's Mate  Feb 12, 2015 11:25:09am

re: #595 Eventual Carrion

My dad and I would take a yearly trip up into Quebec fishing. Driving up, once you got past North Bay Ont. and heading into Quebec there would be signs showing a moose walking to signify that moose cross the roads. As you got closer to the lake where we rented our fishing cabin the signs changed from a moose walking to a moose, head down, charging. And if you have ever seen a full grown moose close up, you don’t want to be in front of it when it is charging.

- or even paying cash.

601 makeitstop  Feb 12, 2015 11:25:54am

re: #574 William Barnett-Lewis

Well, I now have my guitar. No cord to the amp or picks or stand alone tuner (still waiting on Amazon) but I’ve tuned up with the phone and have a couple of lessons on the A & D chords to practice.

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Later folks… ;)

Jazzmaster pickup in the neck position? Brilliant.

602 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 12, 2015 11:27:43am

re: #596 Mattand

I think the inherit idea of atheists falling into the No True Scotsman fallacy is always a problem.

Thankfully, I haven’t yet seen a single atheist or an atheist org claim that he wasn’t really an atheist ;)

603 makeitstop  Feb 12, 2015 11:30:47am

re: #597 b_sharp

Here is the guitar I’m keeping:

Image: Ibanez

I like that one! Got sort of an ES-175 vibe about it.

Here are the rest waiting for cleaning, restringing, packaging and to be sold. All of the cases you see there have guitars in them.

You’re really gonna sell them? Boo, I say!

604 makeitstop  Feb 12, 2015 11:31:29am

re: #598 Eventual Carrion

I liked that too. I was picking up strings a couple months ago and saw that Dean guitars had an orange color model, it looked sweet. My Dean is a smokey brown finish that I love, but the orange stands out.

Fender calls that finish ‘Butterscotch Blonde.’

605 iossarian  Feb 12, 2015 11:39:00am

re: #593 The Vicious Babushka

The deer was wearing his own pajamas!

Surprise! This all happened in Michigan.

606 b_sharp  Feb 12, 2015 11:44:41am

re: #603 makeitstop

You’re really gonna sell them? Boo, I say!

I no longer give them the attention they crave.

607 victor27  Feb 16, 2015 7:03:18am

re: #445 The Vicious Babushka

Thanks for linking that chart - the original source comes from here: nytimes.com

(I’ll see if I can work on an updated version, since this one’s originally from 2011.)

Update: here’s a version from FRED: research.stlouisfed.org


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