And Now, the Awful Right Wing Tweet of the Day

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The day is still young, but the usual wingnut suspects are going to have to work hard to top this absolutely awful tweet from convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza.

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243 comments
1 Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2015 8:45:39am

I wasn’t aware that the President lived in “the ghetto.” Hey Dinesh, did you remember to starch those white sheets?

2 lawhawk  Feb 18, 2015 8:46:06am

For a change, this isn’t a Chuck C Johnson production.
Instead, it’s a Dinesh tweet, who’s everything Chuck is but for the conviction.
Rinse and repeat racism from Dinesh and the right wing.
Still, this is early to announce the right wing tweet of the day.
The self-admitted convicted felon has the edge so far.

3 Dr. Matt  Feb 18, 2015 8:46:22am

Wing-nuts/racists just need to get it over and start calling the POTUS “a ni**er”. It’s only a matter of time.

4 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2015 8:46:56am

The tweet responses are generally good.
:)

5 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 8:48:28am

Evidently, the judge erred in sentencing this miscreant who has proved he didn’t deserve the white glove treatment.

reuters.com

Fuck him.

6 lawhawk  Feb 18, 2015 8:49:37am

re: #1 Targetpractice

I wasn’t aware that using a selfie stick is “ghetto”. If so, then there’s a whole lot of white folk poseurs who are doing it.

But this isn’t about facts or logic. It’s about pathological hatred of everything about this President.

This is a right wing that hates that millions have health insurance under a program modeled on a prominent GOPer (and former Presidential candidate) that was incubated at a major right wing think-tank (Heritage). This same right wing wants millions to lose that insurance, and kill the health insurance program by any means necessary, including a misreading of the enabling legislation that even the opponents admitted previously was meant to do the very thing that they now say should be illegal.

7 mr.fusion  Feb 18, 2015 8:49:42am

Seriously, WTF does any of that even mean? It makes no sense other than in the context of a disgustingly racist way

I swear, I can feel the hatred and contempt just dripping off that tweet

8 Shiplord Kirel  Feb 18, 2015 8:49:54am

Free Republic and many other RWNJ hotspots are on fire with the Obama as Muslim Brotherhood infiltrator/operative meme today.

When we contrast this with the bare, easily available facts, it is impossible to overstate just how delusional the right wing has become. This is not mere propaganda or distortion, it is outright fantasy and alternate reality projection.
I really think this is a new kind of mass psychosis, literally a mental illness, spread by mass media to a population that has become steadily more susceptible over the past half century .
Things like this have been foreshadowed in science fiction for a century or more but there is something uncanny about seeing it happen right before your eyes.

9 Iwouldprefernotto  Feb 18, 2015 8:49:59am

Felon says what?

10 Dr. Matt  Feb 18, 2015 8:50:47am
11 lawhawk  Feb 18, 2015 8:51:49am

re: #5 Justanotherhuman

Interesting to note who the prosecutor of that case was too - Preet Bharara, who has been busy indicting or charging NYS politicians of all political stripes, including Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (a Democrat). So it’s not like Dinesh was targeted because he was conservative or helping a GOPer like Wendy Long. Rather, he was targeted for breaking the law.

12 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 18, 2015 8:52:46am

re: #11 lawhawk

Interesting to note who the prosecutor of that case was too - Phreet Bharara, who has been busy indicting or charging NYS politicians of all political stripes, including Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (a Democrat). So it’s not like Dinesh was targeted because he was conservative or helping a GOPer like Wendy Long. Rather, he was targeted for breaking the law.

But that’s so unfair!
/

13 Dr. Matt  Feb 18, 2015 8:54:46am

Be sure to take screenshots of D’Souza’s racist tweet. He might be walking back this one.

14 b.d.  Feb 18, 2015 8:55:34am
Ghetto
15 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 18, 2015 8:55:35am

Arrgh. Water is frozen at Casa Del Steve. It didn’t even get that cold last night, well above the temp where I know it can be a problem. Taps are opened, heat turned up, so hopefully it will start flowing again. If not, it may be a day or so….

What a PITA.

RBS

16 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 8:56:17am

re: #15 RealityBasedSteve

Arrgh. Water is frozen at Casa Del Steve. It didn’t even get that cold last night, well above the temp where I know it can be a problem. Taps are opened, heat turned up, so hopefully it will start flowing again. If not, it may be a day or so….

What a PITA.

RBS

Are you on a well or city water?

17 missliberties  Feb 18, 2015 8:56:20am

I am in a mood today.

This is all just too depressing.

18 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 18, 2015 8:57:08am

Dinesh must go to prison.

19 lawhawk  Feb 18, 2015 8:57:48am

re: #3 Dr. Matt

Oh, they’re on that. Bigtime.

20 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 18, 2015 8:57:48am

It’s almost 9 am Pacific Time and UpChuck’s post smearing Daniel Gouldman is still up. If I understand Gouldman’s ultimatum correctly*, Chuck has to take down the post by noon Central time or there will be a lawsuit filed. So, he’s got another hour.

* Since I don’t know when Chuck received the message, I’m not sure if it’s noon today, or tomorrow. I suspect today is the more likely.

21 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 8:57:52am

re: #17 missliberties

I am in a mood today.

This is all just too depressing.

Don’t feel down—start fighting! If weather permits, take a long walk and clear your head. : )

22 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 8:58:54am

re: #17 missliberties

I am in a mood today.

This is all just too depressing.

((((((((missliberties)))))))))

23 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 18, 2015 9:00:18am

Fireworks have stopped. I’m glad Chinese people typically don’t stay up to all hours of the morning on New Year’s. So, I’m going to bed now that things have quieted down.

Hasta luego!

24 b.d.  Feb 18, 2015 9:00:41am

re: #13 Dr. Matt

Be sure to take screenshots of D’Souza’s racist tweet. He might be walking back this one.

The walkingback has already begun

Obviously the next step is to blame the people who call him on his bs:

Check please.

25 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 9:00:41am

Rooster Crawford
@dukeford7
Theology: Jesus Christ and John Wayne .Be kind first.merciless second.A coyote never regrets eating your chickens.

Mannford Ok

26 lawhawk  Feb 18, 2015 9:02:23am
27 wrenchwench  Feb 18, 2015 9:02:27am
Gus retweeted:
28 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 18, 2015 9:02:34am

re: #24 b.d.

The walkingback has already begun

Obviously the next step is to blame the people who call him on his bs:

Check please.

Dinesh sounds like the kind of fogey who tells you to get off his lawn, and who still thinks Elvis was too sexy for young girls to see on TV.

29 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 9:02:38am

re: #24 b.d.

As if Convicted Felon even knows what “class” is.

More in Pres Obama’s pinky finger than Convicted Felon’s whole body.

30 ramex  Feb 18, 2015 9:03:08am

“Boy.” “Ghetto.” Whatever could he be trying to say?

31 wrenchwench  Feb 18, 2015 9:03:23am
32 Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2015 9:05:56am

Right wing Twitter loved D’Souza’s racist emission, by the way. This stuff goes over big with them.

33 Minor_L  Feb 18, 2015 9:06:26am

This whole “Obama isn’t classy” meme has been around for a long time, and I’ve always understood it to be racist. So, D’Souza isn’t walking anything back by falling back on that. Either way, what he’s saying is racist.

Also, as noted above, it takes a lot of chutzpah for this guy to be telling anyone else how to be classy.

34 makeitstop  Feb 18, 2015 9:06:47am

I’d get suspended from LGF if I were to post my hopes for Dinesh’s future, so I’ll refrain.

How dare he? What the fuck has Dinesh D’Souza accomplished in his miserable life that gives him any moral standing to criticize Barack Obama?

35 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 9:06:54am

re: #29 Justanotherhuman

As if Convicted Felon even knows what “class” is.

More in Pres Obama’s pinky finger than Convicted Felon’s whole body.

With the number of people in prison for so-called felony crimes these days, I don’t see a felony conviction as meaning anything anymore.

Violent Felon —yes —but otherwise, it has become meaningless.

36 lawhawk  Feb 18, 2015 9:07:11am
37 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 9:07:48am

I hope Phreet Bharara is reviewing the contents of his file and sentence and passing it on to the “community facility” where D’Souza gets to hang out.

Also pass on to his therapist because D’Souza is a prominent sociopath that obviously is getting away with character assassination and is a mind-blowing racist.

38 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 9:09:21am

So much Derp today.

39 Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2015 9:11:03am

re: #38 The Vicious Babushka

So much Derp today.

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Wait, I have to have similar interests to the owners in order to work for a company?

40 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 18, 2015 9:11:08am

re: #16 Justanotherhuman

Are you on a well or city water?

City… and it’s not an outage, it’s me. :{ (

41 Tigger2  Feb 18, 2015 9:11:31am

The Republicans don’t know how fucking stupid they sound and look to the young people in America when they say stuff like that.

42 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 9:12:14am

re: #39 Targetpractice

Wait, I have to have similar interests to the owners in order to work for a company?

I wonder if he thinks a labor union can be a “person” or does this pretzel logic only apply to “corporations”

43 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 9:12:51am

re: #40 RealityBasedSteve

City… and it’s not an outage, it’s me. :{ (

Ah, try the hairdryer bit if you have one. I just hope you don’t have a burst pipe in the yard…

44 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 9:13:22am

re: #42 The Vicious Babushka

I wonder if he thinks a labor union can be a “person” or does this pretzel logic only apply to “corporations”

I think you know the answer to that one.

45 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 9:14:21am
46 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 9:16:36am
47 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 9:16:59am

Well, this will upset the gold bugs and you know Beck is crying again (does he ever stop?).

Gold slips below $1,200 for first time in over a month - @Reuters
read more on cnbc.com

48 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 9:17:19am

re: #46 The Vicious Babushka

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Except that the East Cost and parts of the South are covered in Snow right now —LOL

49 wrenchwench  Feb 18, 2015 9:17:30am
50 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 9:19:41am

This guy is a freaking idiot.

51 Shiplord Kirel  Feb 18, 2015 9:21:16am

re: #42 The Vicious Babushka

I wonder if he thinks a labor union can be a “person” or does this pretzel logic only apply to “corporations”

Well, labor unions did not exist in Biblical times while business enterprises obviously did. So, obviously, businesses rate as persons while unions do not.

52 Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2015 9:21:34am

re: #50 The Vicious Babushka

This guy is a freaking idiot.

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Wait, so they’re saying they want unions to be legally allowed to use dues however they like? Or they want corporations to have to set up a separate political fund that their employees can opt out of donating to?

53 piratedan  Feb 18, 2015 9:22:39am

so who to believe… a guy who violated campaign finance laws who makes his living as a political gadfly or a guy who has been elected to the highest office in our land, twice; as the guy who should be determining what constitutes acceptable behavior while talking a picture on a cell phone… tough call there….////

54 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 9:22:48am

1 troy ounce =
31.1034768 grams

3.4 gram 14K necklace = $187.00

Pure Gold per troy ounce: 1208.60 troy ounce

Someone do the math.

55 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 9:23:06am
56 Romantic Heretic  Feb 18, 2015 9:24:36am

re: #24 b.d.

The walkingback has already begun

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Check please.

What in the name of Joseph Smith and The Latter Day Saints would you know about class, D’Souza.

You brainless, vicious, little hate addict.

57 missliberties  Feb 18, 2015 9:24:45am

Can you get banned from twitter for saying, “Fuck You”?

Wait! Hold on. Get a grip. Must withhold impulse. Don’t want to lower oneself to their level. …. breathe, breathe, whew

BTW, Isn’t this Ash Wednesday?

Repent ye sinners! Repent! I said Repent NOW!! No really I mean it.

What can you do with people like Dinesh? Worse he has followers. Will his soul go down the sewer pipe when he dies and stay there? Am I supposed to have empathy for him as a human. That just seems like to much to ask.

58 nearly-headless smith25  Feb 18, 2015 9:25:56am

God I hate adfly pop-ups

59 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 9:26:50am

re: #55 The Vicious Babushka

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This is excellent!

60 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 9:28:03am

I so want to steal this Twitter avi:

61 Romantic Heretic  Feb 18, 2015 9:28:05am

re: #38 The Vicious Babushka

So much Derp today.

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So I ask the man, do the employees and stockholders own the corporation or does the corporation own them?

62 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 9:30:08am
63 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 9:30:20am

re: #61 Romantic Heretic

So I ask the man, do the employees and stockholders own the corporation or does the corporation own them?

I’m done with that idiot.

64 Mattand  Feb 18, 2015 9:32:04am

Let’s see…

Bill O’Reilly calling for a holy war.

Dinesh D’Souza spouting racist bile.

And it’s just past 12:30 EST.

Reach for the stars, Grand Ol’ Tea Party. Reach for the stars…

65 makeitstop  Feb 18, 2015 9:32:23am

re: #49 wrenchwench

Dinesh thinks the GOP view him as an honorary white man. Lol. Nope

This is what guys like Jindal and D’Souza don’t understand and never will.

They cast their lot with people who, given their choice, would just as soon send them ‘back to where they came from’ in a New York minute.

66 OhNoZombies!  Feb 18, 2015 9:33:24am

So…he called the president boy…
Ok.
That attitude will serve him well in prison. He can educate the other felons on what is and isn’t classy.

67 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 9:33:48am

Wait, I thought Limpet was a movie—no?
Limpet teeth set new strength record

68 Mattand  Feb 18, 2015 9:34:27am

re: #65 makeitstop

This is what guys like Jindal and D’Souza don’t understand and never will.

They cast their lot with people who, given their choice, would just as soon send them ‘back to where they came from’ in a New York minute.

Thank you. I’ve been trying to properly phrase that thought for years.

69 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 18, 2015 9:35:06am

re: #39 Targetpractice

Wait, I have to have similar interests to the owners in order to work for a company?

No, but you do have an interest in the company continuing to make a profit and pay your salary.

But a lot of Free Market fanatics forget that limited-liability corporations only exist because the government has created a body of laws that allow investors to make unlimited sums of money off a company but only have to be liable to the extent of their investment.

That is the main difference between a corporation and a flesh-and-blood person who does not need laws to exist.

70 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 9:35:35am

What’s their worth these days?

On a downward trend…still that would put $12M in real cash into the govt coffers.

coindesk.com

71 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 9:35:36am
72 wrenchwench  Feb 18, 2015 9:36:37am

re: #65 makeitstop

This is what guys like Jindal and D’Souza don’t understand and never will.

They cast their lot with people who, given their choice, would just as soon send them ‘back to where they came from’ in a New York minute.

Or pose them as ‘diversity’ for their cause.

73 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 9:36:58am
74 Romantic Heretic  Feb 18, 2015 9:37:26am

re: #69 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Corporation (n): An ingenious device to obtain individual profit while avoiding individual responsibility.

The Devil’s Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce.

75 makeitstop  Feb 18, 2015 9:37:44am

re: #72 wrenchwench

Or pose them as ‘diversity’ for their cause.

But they’ll never, ever get to sit at the Big Folks’ table.

76 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 9:38:27am
77 GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 18, 2015 9:38:30am

re: #10 Dr. Matt

Actually, this was embarrassing.

78 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 9:38:54am
79 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 9:39:28am

re: #71 FemNaziBitch

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Not that specious argument AGAIN.

More work needs to be done on the male inhabitants of colleges about the rights of women to be left unmolested, you asshats.

80 iossarian  Feb 18, 2015 9:40:33am

re: #71 FemNaziBitch

Wait until the first lacrosse-playing frat boy gets shot in the nuts by an irate female undergrad. We’ll see how fervently the wingers believe in their own crap then.

81 Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2015 9:41:05am

re: #71 FemNaziBitch

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Yeah, great idea. Don’t address the on-campus behavior and culture, just put guns in the hands of women and say “This magical device will protect you from rape.”

82 lawhawk  Feb 18, 2015 9:41:14am

re: #78 FemNaziBitch

Waiting for them to claim that homeopathy is consumer fraud and ban it. And for chiropractors who claim that spinal adjustments will prevent you from getting diseases that require vaccination should lose whatever licensing they have. These are quacks and charlatans who prey on the gullible and wishful thinking for profit.

83 OhNoZombies!  Feb 18, 2015 9:41:19am

re: #65 makeitstop

This is what guys like Jindal and D’Souza don’t understand and never will.

They cast their lot with people who, given their choice, would just as soon send them ‘back to where they came from’ in a New York minute.

Exactly.
And if they saw him on the street, 2/3 of them would call him al Qaeda.
Alas, many dark people in this world have, um, issues stemming from colonialism. *sigh*

84 iossarian  Feb 18, 2015 9:42:34am

If women were actually shooting would-be rapists in any significant numbers, right-wing politicians would be all about restricting the ownership of guns to level-headed male people.

85 Lancelot Link  Feb 18, 2015 9:43:43am

re: #71 FemNaziBitch

In Bid to Allow Guns on Campus, Weapons Are Linked to Fighting Sexual Assault

And meanwhile, in local news…

Feb 8, 2015 - A Domino’s delivery woman was kidnapped and raped at gunpoint by a teen customer Sunday morning…..

86 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 9:44:25am

The birds must have gotten a real belly full yesterday. The feeder is only a quarter down right now. And they have fresh water, too. : )

87 BlueGrl21  Feb 18, 2015 9:45:06am

Thank you for using his proper title, “Convicted Felon” Dinesh D’Souza. We must never forget our manners if we wish to live in a civilized society.

88 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 9:45:26am

re: #84 iossarian

If women were actually shooting would-be rapists in any significant numbers, right-wing politicians would be all about restricting the ownership of guns to level-headed male people.

If women used guns to defend their access to abortion facilities, guns would be banned yesterday.

89 wrenchwench  Feb 18, 2015 9:45:58am
90 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 9:47:14am
91 OhNoZombies!  Feb 18, 2015 9:47:41am

Guns…
Apparently there’s a magic bullet that will solve all of our society’s woes.
:-P

92 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 18, 2015 9:48:32am

re: #76 FemNaziBitch

Happy 82nd Birthday, Yoko Ono. Hopefully Yoko will spend the day breaking up Nickleback.

Do we really want to subject the world to Chad Kroeger solo projects?

93 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 9:49:23am

Meanwhile, the Marie Harf ragegasm has still not abated.

94 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 9:49:53am
95 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 9:50:48am
96 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 18, 2015 9:51:46am

re: #95 FemNaziBitch

Let the ‘splodey heads start popping like popcorn!

97 wrenchwench  Feb 18, 2015 9:54:10am
98 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 9:54:23am

re: #95 FemNaziBitch

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Does anyone on the planet read FDL anymore?

99 makeitstop  Feb 18, 2015 9:55:50am

re: #98 Justanotherhuman

Does anyone on the planet read FDL anymore?

I was just wondering the same thing.

100 CuriousLurker  Feb 18, 2015 9:56:37am

re: #95 FemNaziBitch

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Glad I caught you here. A couple of days ago D_F posted this page and he asked that we make sure you see it. Since I didn’t see any comments of dings from you I figured I’d bring it to your attention.

101 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 9:57:15am
102 bratwurst  Feb 18, 2015 9:57:23am

OH NOES!

Drudge knows his audience, that is for sure.

103 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 9:57:36am
104 Minor_L  Feb 18, 2015 9:58:13am

re: #73 FemNaziBitch

What if a woman doesn’t want to carry a gun? Does that mean it’s her fault if she gets raped?

105 iossarian  Feb 18, 2015 9:59:16am

re: #101 FemNaziBitch

An acceptable casualty in the war on sexual assault (not really).

106 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 9:59:20am

re: #101 FemNaziBitch

One of those “It seemed like a good idea at the time” tragedies.

107 iossarian  Feb 18, 2015 9:59:53am

re: #104 Minor_L

What if a woman doesn’t want to carry a gun? Does that mean it’s her fault if she gets raped?

Yes, that is what it means. Except that, if she does actually shoot a man, she’s being influenced by the lunar cycle and should be institutionalized.

108 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 18, 2015 10:00:40am

re: #54 FemNaziBitch

1 troy ounce =
31.1034768 grams

3.4 gram 14K necklace = $187.00

Pure Gold per troy ounce: 1208.60 troy ounce

Someone do the math.

14/24 * 3.4 g = 2.0 g of gold
2.0/31.1 * 1208.60 = $77.72 worth of gold, then workmanship and markup
What’s the issue?

109 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 10:00:44am

re: #104 Minor_L

What if a woman doesn’t want to carry a gun? Does that mean it’s her fault if she gets raped?

Pretty much, according to the gun-fuckers.

110 wrenchwench  Feb 18, 2015 10:01:33am

re: #107 iossarian

Yes, that is what it means. Except that, if she does actually shoot a man, she’s being influenced by the lunar cycle and should be institutionalized.

…until she can get a gun comfortably in her bra, which would be never…

111 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 10:01:45am

re: #100 CuriousLurker

Glad I caught you here. A couple of days ago D_F posted this page and he asked that we make sure you see it. Since I didn’t see any comments of dings from I figured I’d bring it to your attention.

I’m beginning to think testosterone is to blame for everything.

;)

112 Kragar  Feb 18, 2015 10:01:55am

re: #109 The Vicious Babushka

Pretty much, according to the gun-fuckers.

113 Minor_L  Feb 18, 2015 10:02:29am

re: #109 The Vicious Babushka

This “plan” also seems to rest on the theory that all rapes are committed by a creeper who jumps out of the bushes, which ignores all available evidence. (Imagine that!)

114 Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2015 10:03:07am

re: #103 Justanotherhuman

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I’m curious if this will cause the ongoing worker strikes to expand.

115 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 10:04:29am

Yeah, this looks entirely safe, duddenit?

116 Kryptik  Feb 18, 2015 10:04:42am

re: #91 OhNoZombies!

I swear that people really do believe in guns as a magical panacea that cures everything and applies to every single situation imaginable. Guns are the most fucking sacrosanct thing in America and only becoming even more of a sacred cow by the day, and I don’t know how we change that as a society or a culture.

We basically live in NRAmerica at this point.

117 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 18, 2015 10:04:45am

re: #101 FemNaziBitch

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Is that a pair of 38’s you’re packing there? /sorry

RBS

118 iossarian  Feb 18, 2015 10:04:47am

You know who else should be heavily armed to prevent illegal harassment? Labor organizers in non-union workplaces!

119 wrenchwench  Feb 18, 2015 10:05:10am

re: #115 Justanotherhuman

Yeah, this looks entirely safe, duddenit?

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And comfy!

120 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 18, 2015 10:05:12am

re: #104 Minor_L

What if a woman doesn’t want to carry a gun? Does that mean it’s her fault if she gets raped?

Especially if she also dresses like a slut and hangs out at places where alcohol is served and lewd music is played.

/

121 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 10:05:23am

I just had two wingnuts crying because I called them “dumbasses”

HURR HURR IF U SAY CUSS WORD UR A MEANYHEAD!!!!!!

Fuck you (and blocked)

122 Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2015 10:06:03am

re: #113 Minor_L

This “plan” also seems to rest on the theory that all rapes are committed by a creeper who jumps out of the bushes, which ignores all available evidence. (Imagine that!)

That’s pretty much because they think the only “true rapes” that happen are ones where the victim doesn’t know her rapist, it happens suddenly, and involved violence. Which is largely why every report of campus rape is now met with sneers about how the victims are not “real” because violence wasn’t involved.

123 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 10:06:11am

re: #98 Justanotherhuman

Does anyone on the planet read FDL anymore?

FON du Lac Reporter?

124 Kragar  Feb 18, 2015 10:06:42am

re: #121 The Vicious Babushka

I just had two wingnuts crying because I called them “dumbasses”

HURR HURR IF U SAY CUSS WORD UR A MEANYHEAD!!!!!!

Fuck you (and blocked)

I get that all the time

“YOU CALLED ME A NAME, MEANING I WON THE ARGUMENT”

“No, I called you a fucking idiot because your argument is fucking idiotic”

125 OhNoZombies!  Feb 18, 2015 10:06:53am

re: #115 Justanotherhuman

Yeah, this looks entirely safe, duddenit?

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Only if you never want to have to wear a bra ever again.

126 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 10:07:20am

re: #108 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

14/24 * 3.4 g = 2.0 g of gold
2.0/31.1 * 1208.60 = $77.72 worth of gold, then workmanship and markup
What’s the issue?

No issue, just trying to keep perspective on the cost of the gold vs cost of jewelry.

This is what many people don’t understand when they go to sell their jewelry.

127 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 10:07:32am

re: #124 Kragar

I get that all the time

“YOU CALLED ME A NAME, MEANING I WON THE ARGUMENT”

“No, I called you a fucking idiot because your argument is fucking idiotic”

People who clutch pearls over being called “dumbass” prove they are dumbasses and shouldn’t be allowed on Twitter.

128 BlueGrl21  Feb 18, 2015 10:08:31am

re: #104 Minor_L

What if a woman doesn’t want to carry a gun? Does that mean it’s her fault if she gets raped?

Yes…but it always tends to be, you know.

I was telling a male friend all of the rules my mother taught me about how to be “safe.” Never walk through an unlit parking garage or lot. Carry keys in your hand with one pointed out. Walk quickly with purpose. Watch under your car and look in before you open the door. These are just the car rules.

He was shocked.

129 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 10:09:22am

re: #119 wrenchwench

And comfy!

re: #119 wrenchwench

And comfy!

As comfortable as carrying a live grenade…

130 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 10:09:48am
131 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 10:10:17am
132 OhNoZombies!  Feb 18, 2015 10:11:12am

Because being called a libtard makes a body feel all warm and fuzzy.

133 #FergusonFireside  Feb 18, 2015 10:11:19am

re: #103 Justanotherhuman

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There’s a copter flying showing the damage. Wow.

nbclosangeles.com

134 wrenchwench  Feb 18, 2015 10:12:10am
135 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 10:14:54am

Roof collapse in Sutton, MA.

vine.co

136 Timothy Watson  Feb 18, 2015 10:15:04am
Kristen Bell may have been part of the most shrill, self-entitled celebrity hissy fit that equated paparazzi photos with child porn, but sometimes that shrill, self-righteousness can be forged for a good cause. Namely shaming idiots into vaccinating themselves and their kids because it works. Via Us Weekly:

She explained her pro-immunization philosophy to the Hollywood Reporter, and revealed she even bans friends of hers from visiting newborns unless they are up to date with their own shots.

“When Lincoln was born (in March 2013), the whooping cough epidemic was growing, and before she was 2 months old, we simply said, ‘You have to get a whooping cough vaccination if you are going to hold our baby,’” she told the outlet.

The Frozen actress is taking the same approach with her new bundle of joy. “It’s a very simple logic,” Bell, 34, insisted to the mag. “I believe in trusting doctors, not know-it-alls,” she said.

thesuperficial.com (LSFW/NSFW due to the some of the photos in the sidebar)

137 iossarian  Feb 18, 2015 10:16:07am

re: #128 BlueGrl21

Yes…but it always tends to be, you know.

I was telling a male friend all of the rules my mother taught me about how to be “safe.” Never walk through an unlit parking garage or lot. Carry keys in your hand with one pointed out. Walk quickly with purpose. Watch under your car and look in before you open the door. These are just the car rules.

He was shocked.

I think the “what are the things you have to do to be safe” question should be asked frequently of white men.

138 Dr. Matt  Feb 18, 2015 10:16:36am

Dinesh D’Souza will start claiming that the librul media took his “boy” and “ghetto” comments out of context.

139 ObserverArt  Feb 18, 2015 10:16:45am

Following along as bit as I work and just have to say in regards to this thread content…

WTF???!!!

Another day of outrageous derp in America.

Two points.

Has Dinesh D’Souza ever looked in the mirror? Dude doesn’t seem to realize the people he attracts probably don’t like him due to skin color, and a portion of them would most likely want to see him out of America at the least and dead at the most.

(Remember this commercial?)

What’s for Dinner? GUNS!

Same as breakfast and lunch and snack time. What? You don’t like guns???

BY the way, after being outside and cleaning my walkways from the overnight snow I want to know if anyone has anything like an airplane, race car, passenger car, glider, etc, that needs some aerodynamic testing? I have the windtunnel between my house and my neighbors up and running today.

Derp on America!

140 lawhawk  Feb 18, 2015 10:17:57am

re: #115 Justanotherhuman

Well, slightly better than this.

…

141 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 10:18:23am

Wow, the hits keep on coming everywhere.

vine.co

142 lawhawk  Feb 18, 2015 10:18:49am

re: #138 Dr. Matt

But it’s impossible to take his being a convicted felon out of context.

143 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 10:19:46am

re: #140 lawhawk

Well, slightly better than this.

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Video

I hated that movie. : )

144 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 18, 2015 10:19:48am

re: #142 lawhawk

But it’s impossible to take his being a convicted felon out of context.

He was persecuted by the Obama administration for his political views!!!

/

145 Kragar  Feb 18, 2015 10:22:04am

Burleigh said The Daily Mail, which apparently was the only media outlet to publish the photo, badly misinterpreted the gesture as “finger wagging” - but he knows what was really going on.

“The one-finger display is the distinctive Muslim gang sign: The index finger points straight up while the thumb wraps underneath and presses against the digital phalange of the middle finger,” Burleigh argued.

“The remaining fingers are squeezed against the palm in order to highlight the extended forefinger,” he said. “The extended finger is symbolic of the one-God concept of Muhammad and is understood by all believers to be a symbolic shahada, the Muslim affirmation of faith: There is but one God and Muhammad is his messenger.”

146 Khal Wimpo  Feb 18, 2015 10:22:05am

re: #8 Shiplord Kirel

Free Republic and many other RWNJ hotspots are on fire with the Obama as Muslim Brotherhood infiltrator/operative meme today.

When we contrast this with the bare, easily available facts, it is impossible to overstate just how delusional the right wing has become. This is not mere propaganda or distortion, it is outright fantasy and alternate reality projection.
I really think this is a new kind of mass psychosis, literally a mental illness, spread by mass media to a population that has become steadily more susceptible over the past half century .
Things like this have been foreshadowed in science fiction for a century or more but there is something uncanny about seeing it happen right before your eyes.

Yeah, it’s all the worst parts of Heinlein’s stories of dystopian Americas, ruled by religious dictatorships. During the 2nd half of the Bush administration, I felt like I was shambling through a waking nightmare, in which half the U.S. population cheered as they doused all of humanity with gasoline and fumbled with a book of matches.

147 Amory Blaine  Feb 18, 2015 10:22:47am

re: #129 Justanotherhuman

As comfortable as carrying a live grenade…

Grenades are to be dangled on the nipples. They are available in pink too!!

148 lawhawk  Feb 18, 2015 10:23:12am
149 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 10:23:13am
150 wrenchwench  Feb 18, 2015 10:24:18am

re: #138 Dr. Matt

Dinesh D’Souza will start claiming that the librul media took his “boy” and “ghetto” comments out of context.

He’s already said he didn’t literally mean ‘ghetto’, he just meant wherever black people live can be called that.

Wait, that’s not exactly what he said.

151 CuriousLurker  Feb 18, 2015 10:24:40am

Dinesh D’Souza… Convicted felon says what? Seems to me being a convicted felon fits a lot better with the whole snarky vulgar “ghetto” thing than being POTUS. Envious bigoted troll is envious.

152 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 18, 2015 10:25:54am

re: #145 Kragar

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So Obama indicates he believes in only ONE God…not the Trinity.

IMPEACH!!! FINGAZI!!!

153 Kragar  Feb 18, 2015 10:26:00am

re: #147 Amory Blaine

Grenades are to be dangled on the nipples. They are available in pink too!!

By the nipples? Well damn, I’ve been doing it wrong.

On the bright side, I’ll be able to sit comfortably now.

154 wrenchwench  Feb 18, 2015 10:27:58am

It’s not like racism has consequences..

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155 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 10:28:25am

Ah, it’s starting to snow here. The Munchkin is out with the kids next door. Too cold (24) for me…

We’re all going to have cabin fever before this is over, but at least we have lights and heat. I can hibernate now.

156 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 10:28:44am

OK I want to use my phone when I’m overseas on vacation. What’s the best SIM card or app? My carrier is t-mobile.

157 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 10:29:37am

re: #154 wrenchwench

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It’s not like racism has consequences..

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HURR HURR FDR WAS DEMOCRAT!!!!!

158 iossarian  Feb 18, 2015 10:30:34am

re: #156 The Vicious Babushka

OK I want to use my phone when I’m overseas on vacation. What’s the best SIM card or app? My carrier is t-mobile.

Probably depends on how much you want to do (smart vs. dumb phone). I’ve had success with buying a sim card from the airport vending machines in Europe just for calls - I’ve also done the rentable wireless hotspot and used skype out for calls, if you need the full data experience.

159 Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2015 10:32:07am

re: #154 wrenchwench

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It’s not like racism has consequences..

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And wingnuts look at this and long for the days when they could slander an entire people for the actions of a few and lock them up in camps for fear that they might be disloyal.

160 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 10:33:49am

re: #158 iossarian

Probably depends on how much you want to do (smart vs. dumb phone). I’ve had success with buying a sim card from the airport vending machines in Europe just for calls - I’ve also done the rentable wireless hotspot and used skype out for calls, if you need the full data experience.

I’m bringing my laptop but will need the phone for short calls, text & uploading photos.

t-mobile roaming charges are horrific in Canada, I can’t imagine what they would be like in Europe or Israel.

161 Minor_L  Feb 18, 2015 10:34:17am

re: #128 BlueGrl21

Yeah, it would never occur to a guy that he would need to do any of those things. Sad.

162 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2015 10:34:44am

Between yesterday’s huge snowfall and the new snow since 5 am today, my ruler has finally run out of inches…

163 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 10:35:24am

re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth

Between yesterday’s huge snowfall and the new snow since 5 am today, my ruler has finally run out of inches…

Hubby is in KY right now. He says it’s not that bad.

164 Kragar  Feb 18, 2015 10:35:50am

MRA are lower than gutter scum

165 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 18, 2015 10:36:59am

And in other energy news….

Nebraska Judge Stops TransCanada from Using Eminent Domain for Keystone XL

I’m sure the RWNJs are wandering in circles right now… they hate the idea of eminent domain, (as do I, when it’s used for anything less that a demonstrable public good), but it’s Keystone, so it’s good. I’m sure they will get their marching orders soon, but for now I’ll just sit and smirk. The fact that it’s a foreign company that is using eminent domain has got to factor into this also.

RBS

166 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2015 10:37:06am

re: #163 FemNaziBitch

Hubby is in KY right now. He says it’s not that bad.

It all depends on where in Kentucky. My part got hit pretty good; everything is closed and it’s still snowing (along with a 20+ mph wind).

167 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 18, 2015 10:37:15am

re: #159 Targetpractice

And wingnuts look at this and long for the days when they could slander an entire people for the actions of a few and lock them up in camps for fear that they might be disloyal.

This is not a glowing chapter of US history, but do look at the context: we had been massively attacked and our West Coast was all but undefended.

One can understand that the level of panic was nearly as high as that which was generated by Fox over ebola or ISIS beheadings…

168 wrenchwench  Feb 18, 2015 10:38:10am

re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth

Between yesterday’s huge snowfall and the new snow since 5 am today, my ruler has finally run out of inches…

Yardstick?

169 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 18, 2015 10:38:34am

re: #160 The Vicious Babushka

I’m bringing my laptop but will need the phone for short calls, text & uploading photos.

t-mobile roaming charges are horrific in Canada, I can’t imagine what they would be like in Europe or Israel.

Thanks for reminding me. I need to check with Verizon to see if there is any way I can use my phone in Curacao without racking up a huge bill. I suspect not. Hopefully the resort we are staying at has wifi, so I can still stay in touch with people.

RBS

170 Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2015 10:38:55am

re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

This is not a glowing chapter of US history, but do look at the context: we had been massively attacked and our West Coast was all but undefended.

Yes, like a lot of the darkest chapters in our history, it happened in a state of confusion and fear.

171 GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 18, 2015 10:39:23am

Um, what??!!!!!!

Tool’s Danny Carey Jams With Rush’s Neil Peart At Stewart Copeland’s Studio

172 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2015 10:39:25am

re: #168 wrenchwench

Yardstick?

Can’t find it and I don’t want to go outside to measure any more until next winter…

173 wrenchwench  Feb 18, 2015 10:39:44am

re: #170 Targetpractice

Yes, like a lot of the darkest chapters in our history, it happened in a state of confusion and fear.

…and hate.

174 Kryptik  Feb 18, 2015 10:41:47am

re: #164 Kragar

What the green fuck.

These people are simply fucking savage, I swear.

175 Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2015 10:41:50am
176 CuriousLurker  Feb 18, 2015 10:43:41am

re: #145 Kragar

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Srsly? We have a “gang sign” now?

This is where—either out of ignorance or pure malice—these assholes make up new bullshit. That “gang sign” is done during prayer, while one is in the sitting position reciting the Tashahhud. The finger is tapped up & down during the recitation, symbolically smacking Satan in the head, or so I was taught. There’s a visual shown in steps 8-9 on this wikiHow page.

Now I’m going to be on the lookout for Republicans & Tea Baggers throwing our gang sign. //

177 Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2015 10:44:00am

re: #175 Charles Johnson

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And a lot less intelligent, if Chucky is the vanguard.

178 iossarian  Feb 18, 2015 10:44:54am

re: #160 The Vicious Babushka

I’m bringing my laptop but will need the phone for short calls, text & uploading photos.

t-mobile roaming charges are horrific in Canada, I can’t imagine what they would be like in Europe or Israel.

So in France, I basically rented one of these:

travel-wifi.com

6-10 euros a day, depending on how long you’re looking at, I think. Then I just used wifi-based skype in/out for all my phone needs.

179 CuriousLurker  Feb 18, 2015 10:45:30am

re: #176 CuriousLurker

Well that was weird. I guess when you embed an image in a comment the float doesn’t get cleared when you add something after it.

180 Kryptik  Feb 18, 2015 10:45:55am

re: #175 Charles Johnson

I’d say it’s already here, if Chuckles would look in the mirror for once in his life.

Blind squirrel finds a nut, not realizing its his own.

181 Minor_L  Feb 18, 2015 10:46:23am

re: #175 Charles Johnson

“Predatory”? He is so creepy.

182 Kragar  Feb 18, 2015 10:47:40am

re: #176 CuriousLurker

Srsly? We have a “gang sign” now?

This is where—either out of ignorance or pure malice—these assholes make up new bullshit. That “gang sign” is done during prayer, while one is in the sitting position reciting the Tashahhud. The finger is tapped up & down during the recitation, symbolically smacking Satan in the head, or so I was taught. There’s a visual shown in steps 8-9 on this wikiHow page.

Now I’m going to be on the lookout for Republicans & Tea Baggers trowing our gang sign. //

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I was unaware so many sports were pro-Muslim

183 Kragar  Feb 18, 2015 10:48:10am
184 Lancelot Link  Feb 18, 2015 10:48:27am

re: #176 CuriousLurker

Now I’m going to be on the lookout for Republicans & Tea Baggers throwing our gang sign. //

Like this?

185 CuriousLurker  Feb 18, 2015 10:48:53am

re: #182 Kragar

I was unaware so many sports were pro-Muslim

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ZOMG!!11! Noooooooo….

186 iossarian  Feb 18, 2015 10:48:57am

re: #184 Lancelot Link

Like this?

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SEKRIT MUSLIM #1

187 makeitstop  Feb 18, 2015 10:49:25am

re: #145 Kragar

Conservative author says photo shows Obama ‘flashing one-finger affirmation of Islamic faith’

Oh, FFFS.

188 SteelPH  Feb 18, 2015 10:49:59am

Image: Sonics_zpsqaim1eav.png

Gang signs!!11ty

189 Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2015 10:51:16am
190 Shiplord Kirel  Feb 18, 2015 10:52:26am
191 Kragar  Feb 18, 2015 10:52:43am

re: #184 Lancelot Link

Like this?

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192 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 10:53:19am

Rooster Cogburn is retweeting the entire conversation about firearms on twitter. WTF?

193 Romantic Heretic  Feb 18, 2015 10:53:56am

re: #165 RealityBasedSteve

And in other energy news….

Nebraska Judge Stops TransCanada from Using Eminent Domain for Keystone XL

I’m sure the RWNJs are wandering in circles right now… they hate the idea of eminent domain, (as do I, when it’s used for anything less that a demonstrable public good), but it’s Keystone, so it’s good. I’m sure they will get their marching orders soon, but for now I’ll just sit and smirk. The fact that it’s a foreign company that is using eminent domain has got to factor into this also.

RBS

I keep expecting the RWNJs to have a Norman moment any day now.

…

194 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 10:54:15am

Ouch.

Here’s our current advisory…

The National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg has issued
a Wind Advisory… which is in effect until 7 PM EST this evening.

* Locations… in North Carolina… the central and southern
mountains and the southern foothills and Piedmont. Along with
the upstate of South Carolina and northeast Georgia.

* Hazards… very gusty winds may create isolated downed trees and
power lines.

* Timing… gusty winds develop this afternoon and diminish early
this evening.

* Winds… west 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 50 mph.

* Impacts… very gusty winds combined with ice laden trees could
lead to isolated downed trees and power lines.

Expecting 1-3” of snow and it’s starting to come down heavier, although flakes look small and dry.

195 Kragar  Feb 18, 2015 10:55:36am
196 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 10:55:55am
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” Dr. Seuss
197 FemNaziBitch  Feb 18, 2015 10:56:09am

re: #195 Kragar

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IIRC, Obama never lived in the Ghetto.

198 CuriousLurker  Feb 18, 2015 10:56:30am

Okay, I win: St. Ronnie flashing the Muslim gang sign.

199 Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2015 10:59:11am
200 nines09  Feb 18, 2015 11:00:16am

re: #6 lawhawk

I wasn’t aware that using a selfie stick is “ghetto”. If so, then there’s a whole lot of white folk poseurs who are doing it.

But this isn’t about facts or logic. It’s about pathological hatred of everything about this President.

This is a right wing that hates that millions have health insurance under a program modeled on a prominent GOPer (and former Presidential candidate) that was incubated at a major right wing think-tank (Heritage). This same right wing wants millions to lose that insurance, and kill the health insurance program by any means necessary, including a misreading of the enabling legislation that even the opponents admitted previously was meant to do the very thing that they now say should be illegal.

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Key words that sum up the many diseased parts that currently form the Cult known as the GOP. Pathological. Sociopathic. Ignorant. Liars. Bigoted. Racist. Petty. Hypocrite. Dumb as a box of rocks and all wrapped up in Stars and Stripes with a Bible in one hand and a knife in the other. They are pathetic.

201 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 11:00:46am

Wow,snow is really coming down now, thickly, and windy as well.

Expecting white-out conditions.

202 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 18, 2015 11:01:03am

Does this meme take over for MOAST AWFUL RIGHT-WING TWEET OF THE DAY

203 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 11:01:58am

re: #200 nines09

Key words that sum up the many diseased parts that currently form the Cult known as the GOP. Pathological. Sociopathic. Ignorant. Liars. Bigoted. Racist. Petty. Hypocrite. Dumb as a box of rocks and all wrapped up in Stars and Stripes with a Bible in one hand and a knife gun in the other. They are pathetic.

FTFY

204 Khal Wimpo  Feb 18, 2015 11:03:07am

re: #175 Charles Johnson

Journalism … violent and predatory

Only when it’s being done by people that confuse journalism with being a hyper-partisan political shill for the ultra-wealthy. And if, by journalism, you replace “reporting the truth” with “twisting facts to sadistically hurt people for your own amusement.”

CCJ’s journalism school consists of classes to teach young sadists how best to incinerate ants with a magnifying glass, and moves on to drowning puppies in a barrel of sewage.

205 GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 18, 2015 11:04:57am

re: #128 BlueGrl21

Shit. I do that as a male.

206 WhatEVs  Feb 18, 2015 11:06:40am

re: #104 Minor_L

What if a woman doesn’t want to carry a gun? Does that mean it’s her fault if she gets raped?

It’s her fault no matter what (according to any Republican).

207 darthstar  Feb 18, 2015 11:07:07am
208 Kragar  Feb 18, 2015 11:08:21am
209 nines09  Feb 18, 2015 11:09:21am

The peak of hypocrisy in the last presidential election was when Mitt Romney went on TV and told the American people that his one great achievement as a human being was wrong. He would dissolve RomneyCare. He would not do it again. He stood there and told the American people that his masters did not like that. And that his base was completely selfish, bigoted and stupid or uninformed stooges. Sad day in his life. Nice work Mitt. How did that shoe leather taste? Now we get to watch another Clown Car Cavalcade meander between insane and stupid.

210 darthstar  Feb 18, 2015 11:09:44am
211 nines09  Feb 18, 2015 11:10:37am

re: #203 Justanotherhuman

But they are really out to cut you. In so many ways.

212 ObserverArt  Feb 18, 2015 11:10:43am

re: #175 Charles Johnson

The next generation of journalism…

Is going to be a lot less read.

213 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 11:11:46am

re: #210 darthstar

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All that time as governor gave him foreign policy experience?

We’re supposed to swallow that whole?

I suppose he can see Cuba from his house…

214 BeachDem  Feb 18, 2015 11:12:10am

re: #24 b.d.

The walkingback has already begun

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Check please.

Well, Dinesh certainly knows first-hand about a guy without class—he lives that every day.

215 Varek Raith  Feb 18, 2015 11:14:59am

re: #207 darthstar

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It doesn’t matter when we all know he’ll hire the same idiots who got so much wrong on foreign policy.

216 subterraneanhomesickalien  Feb 18, 2015 11:15:15am

Isn’t there a history of resentment going back to the British colonial days with the people of the Sub Continent and Sub-Saharans Africans?

I believe there is and I think it could explain a lot about why Dinesh D’Souza is such a racist sack of shit.

I think I read somewhere that even Ghandi thought of Africans as being subhuman.

217 WhatEVs  Feb 18, 2015 11:15:56am

re: #160 The Vicious Babushka

I’m bringing my laptop but will need the phone for short calls, text & uploading photos.

t-mobile roaming charges are horrific in Canada, I can’t imagine what they would be like in Europe or Israel.

Uploading photos is going to kill you in data charges. You’re better off getting a voice SIM (locally when you land, or you can try to find some online before you go) but save the uploading anything for WiFi. Data charges are insanely expensive in Europe.

218 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 11:16:05am

So, we’re right back to “good guys and bad guys” with absolutely no nuance.

Yeah, Jeb probably will say, “I can see Cuba from my house.”

On Iraq, Republican Jeb Bush says mistakes were made on WMDs but hails his brother’s, former President George Bush, surge as a heroic act; says President Obama left a void that’s been filled by bad guys - @AthenaCNN
see original on twitter.com

219 Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2015 11:18:02am

re: #218 Justanotherhuman

So, we’re right back to “good guys and bad guys” with absolutely no nuance.

Yeah, Jeb probably will say, “I can see Cuba from my house.”

On Iraq, Republican Jeb Bush says mistakes were made on WMDs but hails his brother’s, former President George Bush, surge as a heroic act; says President Obama left a void that’s been filled by bad guys - @AthenaCNN
see original on twitter.com

Well, considering the IQ level of his party’s base, “good guy” and “bad guy” are about as sophisticated as he can get.

220 Dr. Matt  Feb 18, 2015 11:18:41am

What a day for the wingnuts: “Muslim gang signs” and “ghetto/boy” comments.

221 lawhawk  Feb 18, 2015 11:19:10am

re: #175 Charles Johnson

He forgot the bit about being a whole lot more bullshitty. Guess he left that bit on the college room floor. /

222 WhatEVs  Feb 18, 2015 11:20:15am

re: #178 iossarian

So in France, I basically rented one of these:

travel-wifi.com

6-10 euros a day, depending on how long you’re looking at, I think. Then I just used wifi-based skype in/out for all my phone needs.

I think many McDonalds in France have free WiFi.

223 lawhawk  Feb 18, 2015 11:21:11am

re: #192 FemNaziBitch

Broadcasting how derptastic he was, or that he thinks he won by derplanche?

224 iossarian  Feb 18, 2015 11:22:38am

re: #222 WhatEVs

I think many McDonalds in France have free WiFi.

Sure, you can get that stuff figured out. For me, $10 a day was totally worth it, knowing you then don’t have to screw around with hotel wifi charges, airport wifi charges, etc. etc.

225 jaunte  Feb 18, 2015 11:22:39am

re: #210 darthstar

“He knows this stuff cold.”

No way a claim like that could come back to bite ya, hey Chris?

226 Kragar  Feb 18, 2015 11:24:18am

This guy is a 9/11 Truther

227 WhatEVs  Feb 18, 2015 11:25:30am

re: #224 iossarian

Sure, you can get that stuff figured out. For me, $10 a day was totally worth it, knowing you then don’t have to screw around with hotel wifi charges, airport wifi charges, etc. etc.

You paid $10 a day for enough data to upload pictures? Where did you get that?

I know AT&T offers packages for like $30 a month for when you travel now (they didn’t when I used to travel a lot). It’s not a ton of data but it’s something.

228 jaunte  Feb 18, 2015 11:26:29am

re: #226 Kragar

FACT! CASE CLOSED!!!

229 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 18, 2015 11:26:30am

re: #160 The Vicious Babushka

I’m bringing my laptop but will need the phone for short calls, text & uploading photos.

t-mobile roaming charges are horrific in Canada, I can’t imagine what they would be like in Europe or Israel.

I would plan on doing a prepaid SIM card; you do need to make sure your phone is unlocked for accepting another SIM, and know what size SIM card you need (most these days are either micro or nano, I think). This is less an issue with newer phones but worth double checking because you don’t want it to surprise you over there.

This site goes into a lot of the options, so it might be helpful.

230 WhatEVs  Feb 18, 2015 11:27:34am

Oh, and VB…if you have a smartphone, be sure to turn off automatic download of email before you land. That will eat all your data allowances without you even realizing it’s happening.

231 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 18, 2015 11:28:15am

re: #229 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I should note some of their data on Verizon is incorrect (depending on the phone, Verizon phones these days can work on other networks around the world - I took mine to Ireland and was able to get a prepaid SIM card just fine) but that shouldn’t be an issue for you since you are with T-Mobile.

232 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 11:28:21am

White House: It is clear that Moscow and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have not lived up to the terms of the Minsk deal - @Reuters
end of alert

233 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Feb 18, 2015 11:28:25am

re: #216 subterraneanhomesickalien

Isn’t there a history of resentment going back to the British colonial days with the people of the Sub Continent and Sub-Saharans Africans?

I believe there is and I think it could explain a lot about why Dinesh D’Souza is such a racist sack of shit.

I think I read somewhere that even Ghandi thought of Africans as being subhuman.

South Asian were brought in to Africa to act as administrators during the colonial period. That’s how Ghandi ended up a lawyer in South Africa. And South Asians are certainly capable of racism. Prejudice against dark skin is endemic to the subcontinent, and their knowledge of Africa is studded with English racist attitudes about Africa. I’m not sure about Indians in Africa; there’s certainly a component of racial tension in Trinidad…but again, it’s hard to ignore the way the racist tropes were set up by the colonizers, then perpetuated by the colonized. The British were big fans of “divide and conquer” and the side-effects are still biting places in the ass.

And the situation with Ghandi is accurate, but only with some provisos. Early in his career, Ghandi attempted to use English-style racial arguments about the hierarchy of racial characteristics as a means of getting better results for Indians in Africa. Back when he was still dude in a suit, not advocating satyagraha and wearing a lungi.

…but chances are pretty damn good that Dinesh D’Souza is reflecting American conservative racism. That’s the language, the code, he’s speaking.

234 Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2015 11:30:49am

re: #232 Justanotherhuman

White House: It is clear that Moscow and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have not lived up to the terms of the Minsk deal - @Reuters
end of alert

Ya don’t say!

/////

235 iossarian  Feb 18, 2015 11:31:09am

re: #227 WhatEVs

You paid $10 a day for enough data to upload pictures? Where did you get that?

I know AT&T offers packages for like $30 a month for when you travel now (they didn’t when I used to travel a lot). It’s not a ton of data but it’s something.

travel-wifi.com

They were awesome, btw. They deliver the package to your hotel - mine wasn’t there because the post office screwed up (I had the tracking confirmation so I know they posted it in time). They expedited me a replacement and discounted the day I didn’t have it.

I think they’re just in France but I imagine there are similar services elsewhere.

We had several people voice-skyping simultaneously. Would recommend.

236 iossarian  Feb 18, 2015 11:33:18am

re: #235 iossarian

travel-wifi.com

They were awesome, btw. They deliver the package to your hotel - mine wasn’t there because the post office screwed up (I had the tracking confirmation so I know they posted it in time). They expedited me a replacement and discounted the day I didn’t have it.

I think they’re just in France but I imagine there are similar services elsewhere.

We had several people voice-skyping simultaneously. Would recommend.

Just as a follow-up to this - if you use this type of service you can put your phone in airplane mode but with wi-fi enabled. Then you basically get the advantage of your smart phone minus the worry of accidentally downloading some massive chunk of data and getting charged le $$$.

237 Khal Wimpo  Feb 18, 2015 11:33:30am

re: #227 WhatEVs

You paid $10 a day for enough data to upload pictures? Where did you get that?

I know AT&T offers packages for like $30 a month for when you travel now (they didn’t when I used to travel a lot). It’s not a ton of data but it’s something.

Been using TMobile for travel to the Middle East and South America. Unlimited data (although they slow it down when you reach a cap.) Unilmited text. Much lower charges on voice. The data is worth it, because it means you can use it to navigate using GPS & mapping if you get off the beaten track (which is the whole point, innit?)

238 WhatEVs  Feb 18, 2015 11:34:56am

re: #237 Khal Wimpo

Been using TMobile for travel to the Middle East and South America. Unlimited data (although they slow it down when you reach a cap.) Unilmited text. Much lower charges on voice. The data is worth it, because it means you can use it to navigate using GPS & mapping if you get off the beaten track (which is the whole point, innit?)

I didn’t even think of GPS because I always had a car and just rented a GPS unit from Europa along with the car. That’s a very good point.

239 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 11:36:08am

Grrrrrr! In England…

Department Store Installs ‘Anti-Homeless’ Spikes

thinkprogress.org

(snip)

“”Rough sleeping,” the British term for unsheltered homeless, has risen in the country in recent years thanks to the economy and cuts to housing benefits, spiking by 75 percent in London over the past three. Across England, there were 2,414 people experiencing rough sleeping as of fall of 2013, up 37 percent over 2010. A national homeless charity, No One Turned Away, sent undercover researchers to 16 local authorities in search of homelessness assistance and found that the majority received little or no help.

“The United States has a far larger number of unsheltered homeless people on any given night, although of course a much larger population. More than 135,000 people have no indoor place to sleep. Many cities have decided that the solution is to try to drive the homeless away by closing parks, offering them one-way bus tickets, and criminalizing things like sleeping outside or panhandling.

“Yet other places have found that it is far cheaper to find housing for the homeless than to leave them outside and risk run-ins with the police or emergency room visits. Three cities have sheltered entire swaths of their homeless populations.”

240 Justanotherhuman  Feb 18, 2015 11:37:41am

re: #236 iossarian

Haha, I have airplane mode on this laptop. Which I’ll probably never use. : )

241 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2015 11:38:57am

re: #215 Varek Raith

It doesn’t matter when we all know he’ll hire the same idiots who got so much wrong on foreign policy.

He already has

242 De Kolta Chair  Feb 18, 2015 1:30:00pm
243 ilovedalia  Feb 19, 2015 6:45:21am

Very disappointed in D’Souza. Shameful.


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