The Worst Human Being on Twitter Spews Racist Hate Speech at John Legend

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1 HappyWarrior  Feb 22, 2015 9:06:39pm

Scratch a right winger, find a white supremacist douchebag.

2 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 22, 2015 9:08:47pm

Once again he’s being a hashtag whore.

3 jaunte  Feb 22, 2015 9:09:16pm
4 Jenner7  Feb 22, 2015 9:10:59pm

Waaaah waaah

5 Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 22, 2015 9:11:31pm

re: #3 jaunte

I find your lack of white disturbing.

6 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 22, 2015 9:11:50pm

re: #4 Jenner7

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Waaaah waaah

And so it begins….

7 HappyWarrior  Feb 22, 2015 9:11:51pm

re: #4 Jenner7

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Waaaah waaah

If it was snubbed, it wouldn’t have even been nominated ya dumb fuck.

8 Belafon  Feb 22, 2015 9:13:38pm

re: #4 Jenner7

9 gwangung  Feb 22, 2015 9:13:39pm

re: #4 Jenner7

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Waaaah waaah

SELMA, Hannity, you asshole.

10 team_fukit  Feb 22, 2015 9:13:45pm

MAOA linked to more aggressive fight or flight, not criminality

11 ipsos  Feb 22, 2015 9:13:47pm

I’m confused. This post purports to be about the “worst human being” on Twitter, and then it’s about UpChuck. Shouldn’t “human being” at least be in quotes or something?

12 HappyWarrior  Feb 22, 2015 9:14:59pm

re: #9 gwangung

SELMA, Hannity, you asshole.

Yeah Selma’s cast and crew actually have a legitimate gripe about being snubbed. But leave it to a conservative whiner like Hannity to claim that American Sniper not winning tons of awards is “proof” of Hollywood’s “liberal bias.”

13 Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 22, 2015 9:16:15pm

Wow, he’s gone Full Metal Racist. We just need his Buford T. Justice voice and callin’ dark-skinned folks nigras to complete the transition.

14 Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2015 9:18:12pm
15 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 22, 2015 9:18:33pm

Didn’t The Hurt Locker win an Academy award?

16 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 22, 2015 9:19:27pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

I’m not very hip to Twitter but who really heeds what he says?

17 teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2015 9:19:43pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

18 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 22, 2015 9:20:10pm

re: #17 teleskiguy

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Oh

19 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 22, 2015 9:20:16pm

White we have here is a failure to communicate.
#replacemovielineswithwhite

20 jaunte  Feb 22, 2015 9:21:27pm

re: #16 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

“…It may not help that his last supporters are the kings of the right-wing id, the talk show hosts Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh. Just last week, Limbaugh cited GotNews on his show.”
Read more: politico.com

21 teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2015 9:21:39pm

re: #16 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I’m not very hip to Twitter but who really heeds what he says?

He has almost 20,000 followers. I’m not sure how many of those are authentic, but on Twitter, 20K is a good-sized number of followers.

Granted, he has lost a few thousand followers in recent weeks. He peaked at like 24K during the holiday season and now he’s below 20K.

22 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 22, 2015 9:22:32pm

re: #21 teleskiguy

He has almost 20,000 followers. I’m not sure how many of those are authentic, but on Twitter, 20K is a good-sized number of followers.

Granted, he has lost a few thousand followers in recent weeks. He peaked at like 24K during the holiday season and now he’s below 20K.

Kinda like the retail sales chart

23 jaunte  Feb 22, 2015 9:24:14pm
24 Kragar  Feb 22, 2015 9:24:24pm

MIC DROP.

25 jaunte  Feb 22, 2015 9:25:33pm
26 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 22, 2015 9:27:01pm

If, like me, you missed the Lady Gaga Sound of Music performance, here’s one example of it on YouTube. (Who knows how long it will last, but… enjoy.)

…

27 Kragar  Feb 22, 2015 9:28:00pm

re: #25 jaunte

28 Belafon  Feb 22, 2015 9:28:18pm

re: #24 Kragar

It’s not a movie quote, though it’s from a MLK documentary:

Thank God almighty we’re white at last.

29 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 22, 2015 9:28:22pm

Excuse me while I white this out.

30 teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2015 9:29:03pm

Bill Buckley was firmly against the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act when they were being debated and he bought in to the blah people aren’t as smart as us chosen peoples. He was a fucking chickenhawk who wrote about the necessity of the Vietnam War - a war that is about as terrible as anything in the human experience, for all parties involved - from a nice cozy office in mid-town Manhattan, never to see anything like what the people who actually experienced the war saw.

But yeah, conservatism in the United States today is way way worse.

31 psddluva4evah  Feb 22, 2015 9:29:20pm

Also ICYMI, cause like me you ain’t watching: Common and John Legend perform Glory

Watch Common and John Legend’s moving performance of “Glory” at the Oscars ti.me

ICYMI: Common & John Legend Acceptance speech for Best Original Song

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32 psddluva4evah  Feb 22, 2015 9:29:59pm

Finals thoughts on the Oscars which I didn’t watch, based soley on my twitter feed.

Performances better than host…sorry NPH, you can’t win all of them. Give the show back to Ellen or Hugh Jackman… C

Patricia Arquette shout out for equal pay… A+

The repeated joke with Octavia Spencer and the use of all the people of color as fodder… F.

John Legend and Common Glory Peformance, best of the nominated performances of the night…and Acceptance speech… A+++

Lady Gaga’s singing tribute to Sound of Music… I loved it and if Julie Andrews did too, then hell yeah it gets an A from me… A

Sean Penn’s stupid “who gave this guy a green card” lame joke…. F

Overall impression: I’ll say it again…THERE WERE MORE PEOPLE OF COLOR AS PRESENTERS THAN NOMINATED !!! Grade: C

Honorable Mention: the screenwriter who said something about being weird and being yourself. I didn’t watch that one. Oh and the Mexican director’s movie beating American Sniper

Also mention Crying David Oyelowo and Chris Pine after the Selma performance!

33 HappyWarrior  Feb 22, 2015 9:31:55pm

re: #30 teleskiguy

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Bill Buckley was firmly against the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights act when they were being debated and he bought in to the blah people aren’t as smart as us chosen peoples. He was a fucking chickenhawk who wrote about the necessity of the Vietnam War - a war that is about as terrible as anything in the human experience, for all parties involved - from a nice cozy office in mid-town Manhattan, never to see anything like what the people who actually experienced the war saw.

But yeah, conservatism in the United States is way way worse.

I wouldn’t call Buckley a chickenhawk in the sense that Cheney and those like him are chickenhawks. He was in the OSS during WWII I believe. However, all that aside, I agree with you 100% about WFB. He’s a big reason why I have no regard at all for the NRO. And I feel strongly that the only reason he denounced the Birchers wasn’t because of principle but rather because he saw that they were damaging the credibility of his movement going forward.

34 GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 22, 2015 9:32:24pm

What I am pissed about is CitizenFour winning the Documentary category. Total BS. Virunga should have won hands down. Y’all should watch it on Netflix.

35 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 22, 2015 9:34:30pm

UpChuck’s been so busy drunk watching the Oscars and tweeting, he’s not had time to update GoatNews with BREAKING EXCLUSIVE shit.

36 psddluva4evah  Feb 22, 2015 9:34:38pm

Oh…another great moment…when Common left Oprah hanging…lol

Common…you in danger girl…Lady O gonna get you.

37 jaunte  Feb 22, 2015 9:34:50pm
38 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 22, 2015 9:35:21pm

re: #26 klys (maker of Silmarils)

It was pretty good, but I wouldn’t get carried away. In fact, I’m kind of concerned for the state of vocalists in this pop environment. I don’t mean to be bitchy, but I would bet Julie Andrews’ understudy could have done better.

39 HappyWarrior  Feb 22, 2015 9:35:36pm

re: #37 jaunte

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Tough guys.//

40 teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2015 9:36:43pm

re: #33 HappyWarrior

The only thing I agree with Bill Buckley about is the legalization of cannabis.

And you are right. I had to look it up, but Buckley was indeed a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, for one year (‘44-‘45), before he enrolled at Yale.

41 gwangung  Feb 22, 2015 9:38:20pm

re: #39 HappyWarrior

Tough guys.//

Lot of truth to it, though. The market rewards resting on your laurels over developing your voice and stretching your chops.

42 jaunte  Feb 22, 2015 9:38:21pm
43 OhNoZombies!  Feb 22, 2015 9:38:34pm

re: #38 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

It was pretty good, but I wouldn’t get carried away. In fact, I’m kind of concerned for the state of vocalists in this pop environment. I don’t mean to be bitchy, but I would bet Julie Andrews’ understudy could have done better.

Well actually, I watched Lady G sing with Tony Bennett, and I was really impressed. She just dresses funny.

44 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 22, 2015 9:38:59pm

re: #39 HappyWarrior

Tough guys.//

As long as you’ve got people trying to sneak in, you’ve got to be doing something right. It’s when you’ve got to secure the border to keep people from sneaking out, like East Germany, that you need to do some soul-searching.

45 HappyWarrior  Feb 22, 2015 9:39:57pm

re: #40 teleskiguy

The only thing I agree with Bill Buckley about is the legalization of cannabis.

And you are right. I had to look it up, but Buckley was indeed a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, for one year (‘44-‘45), before he enrolled at Yale.

Yeah, I was pretty sure he had served during WWII. But yeah he was right about cannabis. Aside from that, we’re in agreement, the guy and his publication was scummy. To expand on what you said , he got his start as a McCarthy apologist and I am not sure if he ever recanted that or NRO’s catering to bigotry and paranoia on civil rights.

46 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 22, 2015 9:42:44pm

re: #43 OhNoZombies!

They were on one of the late night shows and spoke before they sang. I didn’t find the connection was really two way. I didn’t stick around for the singing.

47 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 22, 2015 9:43:10pm

re: #45 HappyWarrior

Yeah, I was pretty sure he had served during WWII. But yeah he was right about cannabis. Aside from that, we’re in agreement, the guy and his publication was scummy. To expand on what you said , he got his start as a McCarthy apologist and I am not sure if he ever recanted that or NRO’s catering to bigotry and paranoia on civil rights.

NRO has not moved past that attitude since. Same old shit.

48 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 22, 2015 9:44:32pm

re: #46 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

They were on one of the late night shows and spoke before they sang. I didn’t find the connection was really two way. I didn’t stick around for the singing.

Do you think Gaga is using Tony to improve her reputation/career, or is Tony using Gaga to connect with a younger audience?

49 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 22, 2015 9:45:10pm

re: #48 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I felt it was the former.

50 HappyWarrior  Feb 22, 2015 9:45:12pm

re: #47 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

NRO has not moved past that attitude since. Same old shit.

Yep and that’s why I pounce like a cat whenever one of their articles is posted here.

51 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 22, 2015 9:46:37pm

WFB agreed with the Drug Warriors that pot was super-harmful, he just didn’t give a shit. So I disagreed with him about literally everything. But at least he didn’t embrace ignorance and stupidity as virtues—so yeah, conservatism has gone downhill.

52 retired cynic  Feb 22, 2015 9:47:05pm

re: #49 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

IMO, he was connecting with her and her audience, and she was learning from him just like a sponge. I really loved their special. YMMV

53 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 22, 2015 9:47:20pm

re: #49 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I felt it was the former.

Probably doesn’t hurt Tony any — more record sales and gigs

54 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 22, 2015 9:47:24pm

To elaborate, I don’t think her career needs any credibility. I have plenty of respect for her. I wouldn’t say she is trying to be something she isn’t because you have to do stuff like that to grow. Rather, I think she tried to bite off more than she could chew. There is more to singing with Tony Bennett than hitting the notes.

55 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 22, 2015 9:48:43pm

Maybe the point I’m stumbling towards is that Tony Bennett has a vibe that Lady Gaga doesn’t have.

56 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 22, 2015 9:48:47pm

re: #54 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

To elaborate, I don’t think her career needs any credibility. I have plenty of respect for her. I wouldn’t say she is trying to be something she isn’t because you have to do stuff like that to grow. Rather, I think she tried to bite off more than she could chew. There is more to singing with Tony Bennett than hitting the notes.

She’s young still. Give her time to develop her technique.

57 jaunte  Feb 22, 2015 9:49:33pm
58 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 22, 2015 9:51:35pm

re: #52 retired cynic

IMO, he was connecting with her and her audience, and she was learning from him just like a sponge. I really loved their special. YMMV

Yeah, that’s my idea, too. Also, I suspect Gaga is planning her future as a singer. Eventually, she’s going to grow too old for her teenage pop fans to care about, and she’s needs to develop a broader appeal.

Britney Spears, for example, never understood this concept. Also, she’s not nearly as talented as Gaga.

59 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 22, 2015 9:52:06pm

re: #57 jaunte

Wow, that thing got retweeted almost 3500 times in just 90 minutes?

60 jaunte  Feb 22, 2015 9:53:47pm

re: #59 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Must have struck a chord.

61 OhNoZombies!  Feb 22, 2015 9:56:03pm

Travolta was being creepy tonight, I think…

62 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 22, 2015 9:57:38pm

re: #58 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Keep in mind her teenage pop fans are growing up too, and I don’t know that they’re really going to be digging much Tony Bennett. I have no problem with a divergence. Elvis Costello had a fling with a string quartet, Freddie Mercury did one with an opera singer, Pat Boone went, well you know…
I just thing this collaboration has taken on more steam than it merits,

63 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 22, 2015 9:58:42pm

re: #60 jaunte

[small]But I don’t get it[/small]

large works. Nuts

64 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 22, 2015 10:01:03pm

I’m not a Twit™, so I can’t embed the twitters directly, but this is funny.

65 BeachDem  Feb 22, 2015 10:04:13pm

#replacemovielineswithwhite

White’s up, doc.

66 De Kolta Chair  Feb 22, 2015 10:13:54pm

re: #61 OhNoZombies!

Travolta was being creepy tonight, I think…

67 jonhendry  Feb 22, 2015 10:16:07pm

re: #61 OhNoZombies!

Travolta was being creepy tonight, I think…

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Kill? No, not kill. I expect the plan involves a massage.

68 teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2015 10:16:17pm
69 OhNoZombies!  Feb 22, 2015 10:16:45pm

Looks like it’s time for me to block an old H.S. friend. I will NOT have shit-riddled racist, draft dodging, pedo on my TL.

This is some bullshit.
70 jonhendry  Feb 22, 2015 10:17:20pm

re: #62 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Elvis Costello married Diana Krall, Canadian jazz pianist and singer.

71 teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2015 10:18:36pm

re: #69 OhNoZombies!

Looks like it’s time for me to block an old H.S. friend.

They were never your friend. Acquaintance, maybe.

72 OhNoZombies!  Feb 22, 2015 10:19:48pm

re: #67 jonhendry

Kill? No, not kill. I expect the plan involves a massage.

Bow chika wow-wow !

73 teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2015 10:21:40pm

re: #64 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I’m not a TwitTM, so I can’t embed the twitters directly, but this is funny.

Embedding tweets at LGF is really easy. You don’t even need an account. If you see some cool tweets on a blog like you did, just copy/paste the timestamp URL.

74 OhNoZombies!  Feb 22, 2015 10:21:48pm

re: #71 teleskiguy

They were never your friend. Acquaintance, maybe.

Well, people change.
It’s been more than 20 years.
Who cares, she’s blocked.

75 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 22, 2015 10:22:36pm

re: #73 teleskiguy

Embedding tweets at LGF is really easy. You don’t even need an account. If you see some cool tweets on a blog like you did, just copy/paste the timestamp URL.

Thanks.

76 Apocalypse  Feb 22, 2015 10:25:04pm

Just found out “Birdman” wasn’t about an attorney called Harvey or an Actual Man/bird Hybrid.

Disappointed.

77 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 22, 2015 10:27:50pm

re: #73 teleskiguy

I just found this cooking blog. Her bio might interest you, and I wonder if you know her.
userealbutter.com

78 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 22, 2015 10:30:20pm

Well, I’m safely back from Scuba trip to the Bonne Terre Mine. A good time was had by all, only down side is that somewhere along the way my 300 dollar diver computer got misplaced. We did a sweep of the area down there, but no joy. I’m hoping that it shows up in somebodys bag when they start unpacking. Oh well, could always be worse.

Shot a LOT of video, most of it is way too dark to see anything but the occasional flash of a spotlight. We all gave our videos to one guy who is going to try and edit something out of the 5% that actually looks good.

Here’s a pic of the band of pirates, brigands and scoundrels that I run with. I’m easy to spot, I have something that makes me unique in the group. 3 one hour dives, with a walk back up 130 feet to the surface after each one has left me tired out. I’m off to bed and I’ll see you all in the AM.

Who’s the old guy?
79 teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2015 10:33:41pm

re: #77 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I don’t know her but this item in her bio made me love her instantly!

I managed 23 days of telemark skiing during chemotherapy. Rock on.

80 teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2015 10:38:04pm

re: #77 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

I just found this cooking blog. Her bio might interest you, and I wonder if you know her.
userealbutter.com

I had to reach out, what a cool gal!

81 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 22, 2015 10:38:46pm

re: #79 teleskiguy

I don’t know her but this item in her bio made me love her instantly!

Got a question on thermal gear for you. What’s the best way to wash a fleece and thinsulate stretch undergarment. It doesn’t have a laundry tag, I was thinking wash it by itself, cold water, about 1/2 the detergent (woolite) that’s called for, and then wash it a second time, this time just plain water. I know no fabric softeners, stuff like that.

Tumble dry until just damp on low heat, then let hang dry.

Does that sound like a reasonable plan?

RBS

82 De Kolta Chair  Feb 22, 2015 10:38:56pm
83 teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2015 10:42:05pm

re: #81 RealityBasedSteve

Sounds like the way I’d do it. When it’s synthetic, wash cold and dry the fuck out of it.

84 teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2015 10:44:49pm

re: #81 RealityBasedSteve

Do keep in mind that synthetic fibers will gather and accumulate and keep some of the things that have been sweated from you into the fibers. Over time, your synthetic clothing will smell like shit no matter what because you’ve used it so much.

85 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 22, 2015 10:47:08pm

re: #83 teleskiguy

Sounds like the way I’d do it. When it’s synthetic, wash cold and dry the fuck out of it.

Thank you. I figured that was probably the way to go…

RBS

86 Kragar  Feb 22, 2015 10:48:11pm

And the comments are about as bad as you would think

87 RealityBasedSteve  Feb 22, 2015 10:51:07pm

re: #84 teleskiguy

Do keep in mind that synthetic fibers will gather and accumulate and keep some of the things that have been sweated from you into the fibers. Over time, your synthetic clothing will smell like shit no matter what because you’ve used it so much.

Yea, I’m thinking of throwing in a cup or two of white vinegar in the wash to help with that. It doesn’t help them that the dry suit is basically a giant plastic suit, and you can’t help but sweat in it, and there is no place for it to go. (Like those rubber / vinyl sweatsuits we use to wear to cut weight for wrestling matches.)

RBS

88 BadExampleMan  Feb 22, 2015 10:51:46pm

MAN, I’m sick of this guy. Could Glenn Greenwald please do something obnoxious and then get all thin-skinned about it so we can get back to the entertaining stuff?

89 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 22, 2015 10:52:03pm

re: #80 teleskiguy

I had to reach out, what a cool gal!

Nice work. I’m going to explore her cooking blog more. She’s got Asian and non-Asian recipes to try out.

90 De Kolta Chair  Feb 22, 2015 10:57:27pm
“Say hello to my little friend!”
91 Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2015 10:58:17pm

It would be difficult to miss the point more completely than this.

92 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 22, 2015 11:00:58pm

UpChuck has this news on his blog:

Award Winning Copyediting!
93 teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2015 11:01:43pm
94 De Kolta Chair  Feb 22, 2015 11:03:41pm

re: #91 Charles Johnson

It would be difficult to miss the point more completely than this.

1) It’s a learning moment

or

2) It’s Derp-O-Rama 2015!!!

95 teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2015 11:13:23pm

re: #92 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Dumbass. I thought he was a genius.

No, wait. He’s a hateful racist misogynist smear merchant who has a severe inferiority complex and spends too much of his time learnin’ up on modern-day white supremacy.

In other words, a total fucking loser.

96 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 22, 2015 11:13:46pm

UpChuck fact-checks John Legend and gets it wrong. I fact-checked UpChuck’s fact-check and found this:
politifact.com

97 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 22, 2015 11:13:47pm

So I see the District 9/Elysium guy is going to do another Alien movie. I swore they’d never get me to another one of those after Alien Cubed, but….

98 Kragar  Feb 22, 2015 11:16:32pm

re: #97 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

So I see the District 9/Elysium guy is going to do another Alien movie. I swore they’d never get me to another one of those after Alien Cubed, but….

Complete reboot/remake of the original

99 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 22, 2015 11:17:23pm

re: #98 Kragar

Complete reboot/remake of the original

Cool!

100 De Kolta Chair  Feb 22, 2015 11:18:19pm
Meanwhile in Paris, Frank Tashlin’s Cinderfella, starring Jerry Lewis, won in every Cesar Award category except for Best Boy, which went to Ricky Gervais (pictured celebrating below).
101 teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2015 11:18:32pm

re: #96 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

102 Kragar  Feb 22, 2015 11:20:12pm

re: #99 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Cool!

Blomkamp started off as an effects guy, here is a bunch of his concept art he came up with

io9.com

103 teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2015 11:23:46pm

re: #93 teleskiguy

This is totally true, people. I live about 30 miles away and 2000 feet lower than Vail, CO. In the winter our climates differ greatly, especially falling moisture. Vail will get 200 inches of snow in a season. 30 miles to the west, where I’m at, we’ll get 50 inches in the same season. I believe the term is “micro-climate.”

105 Kragar  Feb 22, 2015 11:43:58pm

So apparently in Blomkamp’s treatment of the Alien story, Hicks and Ripley both survive long enough to confront Weyland-Yutani.

Now I am interested.

106 Kragar  Feb 22, 2015 11:50:42pm

And speaking of classic Sci-Fi:

…

107 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 22, 2015 11:58:44pm

I’m sure that UpChuck deliberately used a misquote of Legend’s remarks, just to write a screed about scary black men.

108 teleskiguy  Feb 23, 2015 12:12:43am

America is the Greatest Country on the Planet!

109 Kragar  Feb 23, 2015 12:24:06am

Movie Pet Peeve:

When the bomb “expert” disarms a bomb by pulling the blasting cap out of an explosive, but then lays the still armed blasting cap onto the TNT/C4 and says that its clear.

Seen this in 3 different shows now.

110 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 23, 2015 12:26:44am

re: #109 Kragar

Movie Pet Peeve:

When the bomb “expert” disarms a bomb by pulling the blasting cap out of an explosive, but then lays the still armed blasting cap onto the TNT/C4 and says that its clear.

Seen this in 3 different shows now.

My pet peeve: commander turns to archers and cries “Fire!” (unless they are in fact burning arrows)

At least in “Troy” they got it right, the command would have been “Loose!”

111 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 23, 2015 12:35:52am

re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

My pet peeve: commander turns to archers and cries “Fire!” (unless they are in fact burning arrows)

At least in “Troy” they got it right, the command would have been “Loose!”

Hell, λύω is always the paradigm of a (thematic) verb in any Greek text. If you only know one verb, that will be it.

112 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 23, 2015 12:40:04am

Buncha loosers

113 Shiplord Kirel  Feb 23, 2015 12:49:47am

re: #69 OhNoZombies!

Looks like it’s time for me to block an old H.S. friend. I will NOT have shit-riddled racist, draft dodging, pedo on my TL.

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(I’ve posted this before but there is no such thing as excess when one is bashing chickenhawk assholes.)

I have a picture of myself with a 1911, one Ted will never match because it was taken in Vietnam.

114 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 23, 2015 12:54:19am

re: #113 Shiplord Kirel

(I’ve posted this before but there is no such thing as excess when one is bashing chickenhawk assholes.)

I have a picture of myself with a 1911, one Ted will never match because it was taken in Vietnam.

I like photos of classic weapons in the right settings, but not in the hands of some open-carry idiot in a public place.

115 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 23, 2015 1:01:27am

Yeah, Ted’s so butch—let’s see him cut down a tree with a minigun like Kari Byron in Mythbusters, then we’ll talk.

116 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 1:15:10am

re: #109 Kragar

Movie Pet Peeve:

When the bomb “expert” disarms a bomb by pulling the blasting cap out of an explosive, but then lays the still armed blasting cap onto the TNT/C4 and says that its clear.

Seen this in 3 different shows now.

My fave is when a completely untrained person/LEO/CSI/whatever disarms a ticking bomb in no time flat.

And the red/green/blue/yellow wire trope.

117 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Feb 23, 2015 1:18:54am

re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I like photos of classic weapons in the right settings, but not in the hands of some open-carry idiot in a public place.

Ted uses his public profile to talk about all the groups of people in the US that don’t get rights unless he and his League of the South buddies hand them to us like table slops.

The whole “2nd amendment” thing from wingnuts and paleoconservatives feels just as cynical as their commitment to the other civil liberties.

118 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 23, 2015 1:30:22am

re: #117 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss

Ted uses his public profile to talk about all the groups of people in the US that don’t get rights unless he and his League of the South buddies hand them to us like table slops.

Yes, well, he did not hesitate to serve his country when called to duty, right?

119 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Feb 23, 2015 1:38:19am

re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Yes, well, he did not hesitate to serve his country when called to duty, right?

The Confederacy never called him up.

120 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 23, 2015 1:45:43am

re: #119 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss

The Confederacy never called him up.

What’s hilarious is the Union Army had draft-dodgers and deserters galore—Lincoln called trying to get an intake of draftees to their training regiments “Like carrying fleas across a barnlot in a shovel”.

Meanwhile, the CSA didn’t take any crap—you were called up, you were in. And they shot deserters left and right. Ted’s pants-shitting wouldn’t have cut any ice down there.

121 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 1:46:22am

I made a page about John Legend’s remark about slavery and UpChuck’s misquoting of him. I’m that pissed.

littlegreenfootballs.com

122 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 1:47:52am

re: #120 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

What’s hilarious is the Union Army had draft-dodgers and deserters galore—Lincoln called trying to get an intake of draftees to their training regiments “Like carrying fleas across a barnlot in a shovel”.

Meanwhile, the CSA didn’t take any crap—you were called up, you were in. And they shot deserters left and right. Ted’s pants-shitting wouldn’t have cut any ice down there.

Ted would have been one of those Yankees who paid a poor guy to take his place.

123 wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2015 2:41:49am

Pretty soon Ernest Moniz is going to need a hair tie.

124 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Feb 23, 2015 2:50:46am

re: #123 wrenchwench

It’s reassuring to see adults in the real world dealing with a situation through normal diplomatic channels. I wonder who would be Secretary of State under President Palin? (Nobody imagines Gramps would still be alive, I hope.)

125 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 2:55:03am

re: #124 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

It’s reassuring to see adults in the real world dealing with a situation through normal diplomatic channels. I wonder who would be Secretary of State under President Palin? (Nobody imagines Gramps would still be alive, I hope.)

Dinesh D’Souza, probably.

126 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 23, 2015 3:55:55am

re: #26 klys (maker of Silmarils)

If, like me, you missed the Lady Gaga Sound of Music performance, here’s one example of it on YouTube. (Who knows how long it will last, but… enjoy.)

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Video

Gone already. I’m trying to find the Campbell tribute as well and no joy.

127 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 4:08:26am

re: #126 William Barnett-Lewis

Try this. It’s a Chinese site, but it may be unavailable in the States.

Ads will precede the video.

v.youku.com

128 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 23, 2015 4:14:39am

Nice vocal. Thank you for helping me hear it.

Good year for tributes.

Hell of a song, that one of Campbell’s. Sad to know that was the last thing he’ll ever record now that he’s in a home for people with Alzheimer’s… :(

129 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 4:19:39am

re: #126 William Barnett-Lewis

Gone already. I’m trying to find the Campbell tribute as well and no joy.

For Tim McGraw, try this perezhilton.com

Perez’s site has Gaga, too, if the youku.com link is a bust.

130 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 23, 2015 4:22:49am

Thank you. They both nailed their songs, I’d have to say.

131 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 4:26:50am

re: #130 William Barnett-Lewis

Thank you. They both nailed their songs, I’d have to say.

Both Tim and Gaga had terrific performances, but my trained ear caught a couple of flat notes.

Gaga, at the finale, didn’t up to the high note that I expected, maybe because it’s out of her range. She went down, instead, and was a wee bit flat. Tim also went a wee flat on his last note, also because it was low note. It’s harder to stay in tune when singing down than singing up.

132 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 23, 2015 4:29:36am

My own ear is rather Rock decimated so I have a hard time noticing those issues, I’ll admit. I am getting better at it out of necessity - getting the fingers in the wrong places on the frets makes me much more aware of sharp/flat than I’ve been in a long time :)

133 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 23, 2015 4:35:49am

Ok, got the boy onto his bus to school. Now I can huddle inside, listening to music & pretending it’s not -21 degrees Fahrenheit outside my trailer…

134 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 4:37:10am

re: #132 William Barnett-Lewis

My own ear is rather Rock decimated so I have a hard time noticing those issues, I’ll admit. I am getting better at it out of necessity - getting the fingers in the wrong places on the frets makes me much more aware of sharp/flat than I’ve been in a long time :)

Singing and playing the violin, or any other unfretted instrument, is a lot alike. It’s easy to hit the notes “in the cracks” of the piano keyboard, and go off key. At least with a fretted or a keyed instrument, or a keyboard, the goofs are easier to hear and correct.

135 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 4:38:10am

re: #133 William Barnett-Lewis

Ok, got the boy onto his bus to school. Now I can huddle inside, listening to music & pretending it’s not -21 degrees Fahrenheit outside my trailer…

Your boy can regale his grandchildren about going to school in -21 degree weather.

136 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 4:40:09am

Whitey doesn’t have it all?

It did at the Oscars, except for John Legend and “Glory”.”

So, WTF…never mind.

I was pleased by the news this am that Moore, Redmayne, Arquette and Simmons won for their acting chops, but disappointed that C4 won best doc.

BTW, if you haven’t seen Virunga yet, it’s sad, beautiful and gives you an idea of how, while I wouldn’t describe it as neo-colonialism so much, western cos are raiding Africa and its people of too many of their natural resources and destroying others in the process.

137 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 4:43:04am

re: #136 Justanotherhuman

Whitey doesn’t have it all?

It did at the Oscars, except for John Legend and “Glory”.”

So, WTF…never mind.

I was pleased by the news this am that Moore, Redmayne, Arquette and Simmons won for their acting chops, but disappointed that C4 won best doc.

BTW, if you haven’t seen Virunga yet, it’s sad, beautiful and gives you an idea of how, while I wouldn’t describe it as neo-colonialism so much, western cos are raiding Africa and its people of too many of their natural resources and destroying others in the process.

It’s not just western cos. China is the new economic colonial power, and already running into troubles with locals, particularly workers and neighbors of their various commercial ventures, because what Chinese companies say and what they do are two different things.

138 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 4:46:12am

re: #137 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Yes, and I assume they’re ready to pay off the locals and officials w/bribes, the same as western co, but I expect that’s not a problem w/the Chinese. : )

139 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 4:53:36am

Did I hear correctly that Glenn Greenwald won an award for Biggest Douche in the Universe?

140 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 4:57:00am

Haha, Harris: “The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason.”

141 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 5:00:22am

re: #139 The Vicious Babushka

That’s all his Twatter acct is about this am. He also called Lindsay Mills “brave and impressive” for standing on the Oscar stage…why?

142 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 5:01:26am

re: #141 Justanotherhuman

That’s all his Twatter acct is about this am. He also called Lindsay Mills “brave and impressive” for standing on the Oscar stage…why?

I don’t know who Lindsay Mills even is.

143 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 23, 2015 5:03:04am

re: #142 The Vicious Babushka

I don’t know who Lindsay Mills even is.

Snowflake’s GF.

144 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 5:03:20am

Lots of butthurt at #tcot that American Sniper only won sound mixing.

145 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 5:03:25am

Snowden congratulates Poitras for winning an Oscar for a movie about him.

aclu.org

146 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 5:03:34am

re: #143 William Barnett-Lewis

Snowflake’s GF.

Oh, the pole dancer?

147 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 5:03:41am

re: #143 William Barnett-Lewis

Snowflake’s GF.

The stripper?

148 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 23, 2015 5:04:51am

re: #146 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Oh, the pole dancer?

I believe so from what I googled. Not my type so I really haven’t paid much attention.

149 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 5:05:27am

re: #147 The Vicious Babushka

The stripper?

Pole dancer. She lives in Russia w/Snowflake.

150 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 5:07:24am

re: #149 Justanotherhuman

Pole dancer. She lives in Russia w/Snowflake.

Did she perform?

151 b.d.  Feb 23, 2015 5:07:48am

re: #141 Justanotherhuman

That’s all his Twatter acct is about this am. He also called Lindsay Mills “brave and impressive” for standing on the Oscar stage…why?

Lindsay is teh brave for setting foot in the tyrant Obama’s America where she faces certain jail and torture for being the girlfriend of Comrade Patriot Snowden

152 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 5:07:52am

You just know their egos are so puffed up they could get out of the country to the homes in Brazil, Berlin and Russia just on the hot air.

153 Shiplord Kirel  Feb 23, 2015 5:08:26am

We are used to rank insanity and drooling ignorance at free republic but this reckless idiocy is exceptional even by their standards of mega-derp:

Myth: You Must Be Highly Trained for Successful Handgun use

The article features an illustration with the usual gun babe, this time armed with one of those .22 micro-revolvers (a difficult weapon to use, btw).
The author’s premise seems to be that, yes, you can use a gun to kill or frighten people if you have no training. What is left out is that an untrained shooter is many times more likely to shoot without justification, shoot the wrong person, lose the gun to an oncoming offender, or have it end up in the hands of a toddler.

154 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 5:10:38am

re: #153 Shiplord Kirel

We are used to rank insanity and drooling ignorance at free republic but this reckless idiocy is exceptional even by their standards of mega-derp:

Myth: You Must Be Highly Trained for Successful Handgun use

The article features an illustration with the usual gun babe, this time armed with one of those .22 micro-revolvers (a difficult weapon to use, btw).
The author’s premise seems to be that, yes, you can use a gun to kill or frighten people if you have no training. What is left out is that an untrained shooter is many times more likely to shoot without justification, shoot the wrong person, lose the gun to an oncoming offender, or have it end up in the hands of a toddler.

Or have it hit them in the head if there is sufficient recoil.

155 b.d.  Feb 23, 2015 5:10:46am

Pretty soon Greenwald is going to start chunking rocks at cops so somebody with authority in the US will pay attention to him.

It really is hard playing the role of repressed, targeted journalist when they ignore you.

156 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 5:11:08am

One thing I’ll say about the “dresses” at this year’s event (from what I saw): There was nowhere near the boobage freak show of the past few years. The costumes this year seemed fairly—dare I say?—conservative for the attention seekers.

157 b.d.  Feb 23, 2015 5:12:54am

Iced in here in Ft. Worth this AM and I’m ok with it.

158 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 5:19:24am

HURR HURR IF YOUR POOR & COMPLAIN ABOUT INCOME INEQUALITY YOUR JUST JEALOUS OF TEH SUCCESS!!!!!

HURR HURR IF YOUR RICH & COMPLAIN ABOUT INCOME INEQUALITY GIVE AWAY ALL YOU’RE MONEYS TO TEH POORS U HYPOCRITES!!!!!

HURR HURR YOU GAVE AWAY ALL YOUR’RE MONEYS TO TEH POORS NOW YOUR POOR UR JEALOUS OF TEH SUCCESS!!!!!!!

159 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 5:20:58am

Heh. Politibunny is in Twitter Gulag.

160 Mattand  Feb 23, 2015 5:26:35am

re: #14 Charles Johnson

you give this guy a lot of free publicity.

I’d love to see how Jim Collins would react to having a highly active, unapologetically racist Twitter user who has the same name as him.

162 Belafon  Feb 23, 2015 5:30:19am

re: #157 b.d.

Listening to the ice fall in Rockwall right now.

163 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 5:36:54am

The only place even remotely in this area that C4 is playing is in south Charlotte, near 2 country clubs. google.com

Not that I’d drive that far to give Snowald & Co my little bit of coin…

164 meteor  Feb 23, 2015 5:45:44am

re: #76 Apocalypse

Yeah, dammit.

165 darthstar  Feb 23, 2015 5:47:41am
166 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 23, 2015 5:48:35am

I think Chuck c Johnson, Award-winning Journalist, has been hanging around Storm Front too long.

167 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 5:50:26am

re: #165 darthstar

In retrospect, I’d like to thank McCain for picking Palin as his VP.

We probably escaped a lot of bullets when he lost.

168 b.d.  Feb 23, 2015 5:50:30am

re: #162 Belafon

Listening to the ice fall in Rockwall right now.

They got the forecast right today, what a mess.

169 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 23, 2015 5:50:32am

re: #158 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR IF YOUR POOR & COMPLAIN ABOUT INCOME INEQUALITY YOUR JUST JEALOUS OF TEH SUCCESS!!!!!

HURR HURR IF YOUR RICH & COMPLAIN ABOUT INCOME INEQUALITY GIVE AWAY ALL YOU’RE MONEYS TO TEH POORS U HYPOCRITES!!!!!

HURR HURR YOU GAVE AWAY ALL YOUR’RE MONEYS TO TEH POORS NOW YOUR POOR UR JEALOUS OF TEH SUCCESS!!!!!!!

RWNJ who complain about how sensitive everyone is these days sure do seem mighty sensitive about a lot of things.

170 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 23, 2015 5:52:26am

re: #144 The Vicious Babushka

Lots of butthurt at #tcot that American Sniper only won sound mixing.

It’s going to be a long Monday, isn’t it?

/

171 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 5:54:19am

This still isn’t enough for that old warmonger McCain.

US-led coalition stages 25 air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq, Syria, military confirms - @Reuters
end of alert

172 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 23, 2015 5:56:11am

re: #92 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

UpChuck has this news on his blog:

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We all need to send upchuck some money for this latest piece of ground-breaking news. //

173 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 6:00:51am

No squeaks from Palin this morning, either, about Julianne Moore’s Oscar win. She’s probably paralyzed with rage…

174 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 6:05:14am

Who ever said “I’m going to see this awesome Academy-Award winning movie for best sound mixing”?

175 b.d.  Feb 23, 2015 6:06:02am

re: #174 The Vicious Babushka

Who ever said “I’m going to see this awesome Academy-Award winning movie for best sound mixing”?

THAT MOVIE SOUNDED LIKE IRAQ

176 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 6:17:01am

DUMBASS, if it was really “snubbed” it wouldn’t have even been nominated, much less won Best Sound Mixing.

177 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 6:20:28am

re: #176 The Vicious Babushka

DUMBASS, if it was really “snubbed” it wouldn’t have even been nominated, much less won Best Sound Mixing.

Is Stacey Dash the source of this deep political analysis? She works for Fox News now.

178 b.d.  Feb 23, 2015 6:21:12am

SNUBBED!!

179 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2015 6:21:51am
180 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2015 6:23:32am

re: #157 b.d.

Iced in here in Ft. Worth this AM and I’m ok with it.

181 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 23, 2015 6:26:31am

re: #176 The Vicious Babushka

DUMBASS, if it was really “snubbed” it wouldn’t have even been nominated, much less won Best Sound Mixing.

Dim Jim claiming RWNJ victim-hood? Is today a day ending in -day?

182 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 6:28:02am

HURR HURR HOLLYWOOD STARS DON’T WORK THEY IS JUST LAZY MOOCHERS!!!!!!!

183 Timothy Watson  Feb 23, 2015 6:29:10am

re: #176 The Vicious Babushka

DUMBASS, if it was really “snubbed” it wouldn’t have even been nominated, much less won Best Sound Mixing.

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PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!!1!

184 thedopefishlives  Feb 23, 2015 6:30:13am

re: #182 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR HOLLYWOOD STARS DON’T WORK THEY IS JUST LAZY MOOCHERS!!!!!!!

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Do these people not read the articles where extras on movie sets have been severely injured or killed? Making movies isn’t all fun and games and some of these actors go to extreme lengths to prep for roles. Not going to say their job is easy even if it is a “cushy” job compared to some.

Morning Lizardim.

185 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 6:32:18am

re: #182 The Vicious Babushka

Speaking as someone who’s been an extra and had a non-speaking role in an Internet movie, I can say actors do in fact work their asses off, especially the ones who appear in Hollywood flicks. Sure, they’re pampered, can earn big bucks, and get attention, but the profession is not an easy paycheck. The hours suck. The director may ask you to work in the cold and rain, and redo the same scene dozens of times. And until you become a Name, your efforts may end up on the cutting room floor.

186 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 6:32:41am

re: #184 thedopefishlives

Do these people not read the articles where extras on movie sets have been severely injured or killed? Making movies isn’t all fun and games and some of these actors go to extreme lengths to prep for roles. Not going to say their job is easy even if it is a “cushy” job compared to some.

Morning Lizardim.

Not to mention working on a movie that took 18 years to film.

187 lawhawk  Feb 23, 2015 6:33:01am

I didn’t see any of the Academy Awards, nor did I pay any heed to the Twitter feeds covering it. Just not into it. But these are industry awards and the Academy voters clearly have something in mind when they pick the nominees out of the hundreds of movies issued every year, and when they select the actors/actresses, and all the other key awards plus all the technical achievements (SFX, visuals, sound, etc.)

Sometimes the Academy gets it right.

Sometimes, it’s a debatable choice.

Sometimes, you just have to wonder what the Academy was doing when they picked X over Y.

Last night? American Sniper, which had bigger box office than all the other nominees for Best Picture combined, got shut out on all the big awards. I’d say that’s a debatable option.

Eastwood hasn’t been snubbed for his career by a longshot. He’s quite lauded as a filmmaker. Bradley Cooper has come up short several times - all within the past couple of years, but he’s won at the Golden Globes, so it’s not like he isn’t recognized.

Snubbed is saying English Patient was better than Fargo. Snubbed is saying both Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction were not better than Forrest Gump. Or Dances with Wolves were better than GoodFellas.

I guess it comes down to the fact that Sniper had box office, while the others weren’t widely seen. Maybe after seeing them, people will have a different view.

But snubbed? Nope.

If you want to talk snubbed? Talk to Selma. Because that film was snubbed across the board. Hands down. Snubbed.

188 b.d.  Feb 23, 2015 6:33:41am

THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO WORK HARD IN HOLLYWOOD ARE CLINT EASTWOOD AND JAMES WOODS

189 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 6:35:56am

Wingnuts think that the only people who “work hard” are themselves, CEO’s, Koch Brothers and the Waltons.

Salaried professionals, Union members, food service workers, minimum wage retail associates, government employees ALL LAZY MOOCHERS!!!!!

190 thedopefishlives  Feb 23, 2015 6:37:16am

re: #189 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts think that the only people who “work hard” are themselves, CEO’s, Koch Brothers and the Waltons.

Salaried professionals, Union members, food service workers, minimum wage retail associates, government employees ALL LAZY MOOCHERS!!!!!

Alright, fine. I’ll just be a “lazy programmer” and do nothing but surf the Web all day. Let’s see how quickly they change their tune when EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET DIES thanks to a strike by my “salaried professional” brethren. ;)

191 wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2015 6:38:37am
192 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 23, 2015 6:42:54am

re: #182 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR HOLLYWOOD STARS DON’T WORK THEY IS JUST LAZY MOOCHERS!!!!!!!

This tweeter sure is working hard for their money, doing all the tweeting like that. Let’s see all the liberal Hollyweird people work as hard as this tweeter. /

193 Belafon  Feb 23, 2015 6:43:39am

re: #182 The Vicious Babushka

A conservative friend of mine points out that Jesus wasn’t poor. Not only was his earth dad in a respected profession, he received gold, frankincense, and myrrh as gifts when he was born. This obviously makes him ill-suited to be a spokesman for the poor.

194 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 6:46:42am

re: #193 Belafon

A conservative friend of mine points out that Jesus wasn’t poor. Not only was his earth dad in a respected profession, he received gold, frankincense, and myrrh as gifts when he was born. This obviously makes him ill-suited to be a spokesman for the poor.

So, Jesus was living on the gains from selling the gifts when he reached the age of majority?

195 Tigger2  Feb 23, 2015 6:47:33am

re: #193 Belafon

A conservative friend of mine points out that Jesus wasn’t poor. Not only was his earth dad in a respected profession, he received gold, frankincense, and myrrh as gifts when he was born. This obviously makes him ill-suited to be a spokesman for the poor.

Your Conservative friend sounds like he has a screw or two loose.

196 Timothy Watson  Feb 23, 2015 6:49:38am

re: #193 Belafon

A conservative friend of mine points out that Jesus wasn’t poor. Not only was his earth dad in a respected profession, he received gold, frankincense, and myrrh as gifts when he was born. This obviously makes him ill-suited to be a spokesman for the poor.

Penny Arcade - “Relative Wisdom”

penny-arcade.com

197 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 23, 2015 6:53:48am

re: #194 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

So, Jesus was living on the gains from selling the gifts when he reached the age of majority?

Yes and he owned guns and went on to become a world famous sniper.

198 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 6:53:49am

Jesus-Kid, Lamest. Superhero. Ever.

199 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 6:55:55am

re: #197 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Yes and he owned guns and went on to become a world famous sniper.

That’s what he was doing in the wilderness. Then Satan challenged him to a shooting contest. Jesus won, and said, “Get thee behind me, Satan.”

200 Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2015 6:57:30am

re: #194 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

So, Jesus was living on the gains from selling the gifts when he reached the age of majority?

It financed his trip to India when he was 14 to study the Buda and his message of peace and inner tranquility. He also wanted to ride the elephants and photograph Tigers in the wild. Oh, and monkeys. Don’t forget monkeys.
//maybe//

201 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 6:58:51am

re: #198 The Vicious Babushka

Even in my Christian believing days, I found this particular phrase really annoying, even sacrilegious. I can do ALL things through Christ? Make toast? Win a bet? Drive home drunk and not kill someone in the process? Comb your hair? Beat your kids? Really, Christ had a hand in all those things?

202 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 7:00:13am

re: #200 Dave In Austin

It financed his trip to India when he was 14 to study the Buda and his message of peace and inner tranquility. He also wanted to ride the elephants and photograph Tigers in the wild. Oh, and monkeys. Don’t forget monkeys.
//maybe//

But it was those side trips to the bars in Phuket that really kept him busy.

203 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 7:01:40am

re: #182 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR HOLLYWOOD STARS DON’T WORK THEY IS JUST LAZY MOOCHERS!!!!!!!

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Self-described Canadian narcissist says what? Fucking Alberta RW scum is giving everyone the finger in his header photo.

Also, he’s probably pissed because his podcast is off the air: “Sun News Network is off the air but the voices have not been silenced.”

204 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Feb 23, 2015 7:01:44am

good morning lizards.

205 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2015 7:02:16am
206 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 7:02:36am
207 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 7:04:33am

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Thundersleet”? They’re getting waaay too original with this stuff.

208 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 7:12:41am

re: #207 Justanotherhuman

“Thundersleet”? They’re getting waaay too original with this stuff.

Did you catch this vid? mashable.com

Youtube Video

209 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 7:13:52am

Wut’s up in CT?

Major Police Activity Closes Route 72 in New Britain

nbcconnecticut.com

Bomb squad called in.

210 Dr. Matt  Feb 23, 2015 7:15:29am

re: #187 lawhawk

I didn’t see any of the Academy Awards, nor did I pay any heed to the Twitter feeds covering it. Just not into it. But these are industry awards and the Academy voters clearly have something in mind when they pick the nominees out of the hundreds of movies issued every year, and when they select the actors/actresses, and all the other key awards plus all the technical achievements (SFX, visuals, sound, etc.)

You didn’t much….at all. GF and I both fell asleep around 10:30 on the couch. It really was a very boring show all around. It’s last time she’s allowed to pick the programming for a while.

211 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 7:16:00am

I’m a newbie to laptops, so can someone tell me what the avg time is on the battery? Mine only has about 5 hrs.

212 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 7:17:32am

re: #211 Justanotherhuman

I’m a newbie to laptops, so can someone tell me what the avg time is on the battery? Mine only has about 5 hrs.

For a Windows machine, that’s about right. You can tweak the power use to get maybe another hour.

213 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 7:18:54am

re: #212 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

For a Windows machine, that’s about right. You can tweak the power use to get maybe another hour.

That’s OK, I’m sitting right next to a wall plug. : )

214 Dr. Matt  Feb 23, 2015 7:19:35am

re: #211 Justanotherhuman

I’m a newbie to laptops, so can someone tell me what the avg time is on the battery? Mine only has about 5 hrs.

Laptop battery life varies as much as gas mileage on cars. Depends on the size of the battery, size of your screen, the settings for brightness, screen-saver, auto-sleep, etc. But, I highly recommend purchasing an extended run laptop battery. They are larger in size but also in battery life. It’s a good investment.

215 Mattand  Feb 23, 2015 7:20:50am

re: #187 lawhawk

Sometimes the Academy gets it right.

Sometimes, it’s a debatable choice.

That’s where I am with Birdman. It’s an excellent film; well-crafted and fires on all cylinders.

It’s also at times, IMO, the poster child for the film industry’s habit of pretentious navel gazing when the subject deals with the creative process.

Snubbed is saying English Patient was better than Fargo.

I hate Fargo as much as I love The Big Lebowski. Not a problem with Fargo getting snubbed.

If you want to talk snubbed? Talk to Selma. Because that film was snubbed across the board. Hands down. Snubbed.

No argument there.

216 lawhawk  Feb 23, 2015 7:21:11am

re: #209 Justanotherhuman

Appears to be some kind of incident at a credit union.

The mayor’s office would not specify the reason, but said the closure is affecting Route 72 eastbound at exit 7, Lincoln Street, West Main Street and Blackrock Avenue.

On Route 72, the Department of Transportation reported a backup to about exit 9.

The incident appears to be stemming from the Achieve Financial Credit Union at 450 West Main St. Live pictures of the scene can be viewed here.

Mayor Erin Stewart said from her Twitter account that precautionary measures were being taken for all resident and commuter safety.

Police called in a serious situation.

They said neither of the nearby schools, Slade and Lincoln Elementary, are in lockdown.

217 ObserverArt  Feb 23, 2015 7:21:30am

Good morning. Brrrrrr. That is all.

Oh yeah, as far as little imp Chucky…he seems to want to go back to 1850. Can we build a time machine and send him there, and then leave him? Please!!!

218 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 7:21:52am

Politibunny (another batshit crazy frothing right-wing nutjob) has just been suspended from Twitter, but Chuck is still there?

219 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 7:22:32am

re: #214 Dr. Matt

This is a 15” (diag) screen. My grandson says use it on battery, then plug it in when down, and don’t leave it plugged in since it could screw up the battery.

I can wait until this battery expires, I suppose, then get another one, take this to the store and let them recycle it or whatever they do with dead and gone batteries.

220 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Feb 23, 2015 7:22:52am

re: #217 ObserverArt

Good morning. Brrrrrr. That is all.

Oh yeah, as far as little imp Chucky…he seems to want to go back to 1850. Can we build a time machine and send him there, and then leave him? Please!!!

Using the Skynet time portal would require he travel back nude. I’m not sure I’d want to subject anyone anywhere to that sight.

221 lawhawk  Feb 23, 2015 7:23:03am

The sound of a billion voices, snuffed out and only silence. And corporate masters wondering why productivity has just gone up 100% over last year on the Monday after The Oscars?

Facebook is down.

222 WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2015 7:24:38am

re: #4 Jenner7

The wingnut tears last night was spectacular.

223 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 7:25:30am

re: #215 Mattand

Damn! I loved Fargo almost as much as I love Frances McDormand and the rest of that cast. : )

224 Lidane  Feb 23, 2015 7:26:26am

Speaking of terrible human beings:

225 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2015 7:26:32am
226 lawhawk  Feb 23, 2015 7:26:37am

Jindal’s back on how Obama doesn’t recognize Islamists as a problem and therefore can’t address how to solve it.

Jindal on Obama & Islamists: ‘If You Cannot Admit the Problem, You Cannot Fix the Problem’ bit.ly

Umm, let’s flip that script, because it seems to me that the GOP doesn’t recognize that its blatant racism/misogyny/xenophobia are a problem and by not addressing it the GOP therefore wont ever solve it.

Because they don’t want to solve it. It’s what the GOP is these days.

227 Dr. Matt  Feb 23, 2015 7:26:49am

re: #219 Justanotherhuman

This is a 15” (diag) screen. My grandson says use it on battery, then plug it in when down, and don’t leave it plugged in since it could screw up the battery.

I can wait until this battery expires, I suppose, then get another one, take this to the store and let them recycle it or whatever they do with dead and gone batteries.

Yeah, he’s correct. It’s a good idea when you have a new laptop to run down the battery and then charge it back up fully several times. This allows the battery to reach its max capacity.

228 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 7:29:56am

Bank robbery?

229 Mattand  Feb 23, 2015 7:30:00am

re: #223 Justanotherhuman

Damn! I loved Fargo almost as much as I love Frances McDormand and the rest of that cast. : )

LOL, there were five of us who went to see it opening weekend. Four of us walked out going “WTF?”

Then the reviews came in. Definitely in the minority about that one.

I just don’t know what it was about that film that turned me off. It’s a well done film. I just did not like it, and when everyone started talking Best Picture, I dug in my heels further.

I also have this weird Star Trek thing (the odd numbered ones suck, the even numbered ones rule) with the Cohen Bros. Hated Barton Fink, but loved Irreconcilable Differences.

230 Dr. Matt  Feb 23, 2015 7:31:52am
231 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 7:34:07am

re: #216 lawhawk

Thanks! Posted above before I saw your comment. : )

232 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 7:37:18am

The Outrage Du Jour is alternating between “American Sniper” only taking “Best Sound Mixing” and Patricia Arquette’s “Equal Pay” acceptance speech.

233 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 7:37:49am

re: #229 Mattand

Haha. I saw the first Star Wars and none after that. Might be hearing them, tough, since g-son bought the entire set the other day.

234 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 7:41:15am

These people are going to be surveiled around the clock, I’ll bet.

France seizes passports of 6 alleged jihadis bound for Syria; 1st time since anti-terror bill passed in November - @NBCNews
read more on nbcnews.com

France to ban ‘around 40’ from leaving for jihad, minister says - @AFP
end of alert

235 Jenner7  Feb 23, 2015 7:41:36am

Now she’s getting hammered by both sides.

Yeah.

236 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 7:42:50am

I just gave myself a paper cut. Those fuckers hurt!

237 Justanotherhuman  Feb 23, 2015 7:46:14am

re: #235 Jenner7

Hey, Jesus approves!

238 Belafon  Feb 23, 2015 7:53:10am

re: #195 Tigger2

Your Conservative friend sounds like he has a screw or two loose.

I don’t know, though. Think about people who fashioned themselves as radical religious leaders throughout history. They were mostly middle and upper class, not poor.

239 Lidane  Feb 23, 2015 7:54:22am

re: #210 Dr. Matt

You didn’t much….at all. GF and I both fell asleep around 10:30 on the couch. It really was a very boring show all around. It’s last time she’s allowed to pick the programming for a while.

There was a new episode of The Walking Dead last night. Boyfriend and I skipped the Oscars to watch that instead.

240 Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 23, 2015 8:04:55am

re: #201 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Even in my Christian believing days, I found this particular phrase really annoying, even sacrilegious. I can do ALL things through Christ? Make toast? Win a bet? Drive home drunk and not kill someone in the process? Comb your hair? Beat your kids? Really, Christ had a hand in all those things?

Only the *good* things. All the bad stuff is Satan.

IF you make good toast - Jesus. If you burn the toast - Satan.

Score the winning touchdown - Jesus. Slip and allow someone to score against you - Satan.

Sounds really immature, doesn’t it? Not responsible for anything youself. And all glory to Jesus. Of course.
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241 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 8:09:04am

#tcot has decided that “Equal Pay” is more Outrage-worthy than their favorite movie not winning anything other than “Best Sound Mixing”

242 Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2015 8:10:27am

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

#tcot has decided that “Equal Pay” is more Outrage-worthy than their favorite movie not winning anything other than “Best Sound Mixing”

And their equal pay freakout is the usual “You’re so rich, so you can’t say anything!” bilge.

243 lawhawk  Feb 23, 2015 8:10:38am

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

Does the right wing really want to go there? It’s indisputable that women are paid a fraction of what men get paid for the same job. It’s further indisputable that minorities get a fraction of what whites get for the same job.

So, equal pay for equal work is something worth fighting for.

244 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 8:11:09am
245 Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 23, 2015 8:11:59am

re: #211 Justanotherhuman

I’m a newbie to laptops, so can someone tell me what the avg time is on the battery? Mine only has about 5 hrs.

My new work on is good for about two. One reason I carry an extra power converter around.

246 lawhawk  Feb 23, 2015 8:14:10am

And again. A good guy with a gun kills two of his three his daughters, and then kills himself. The guy was a former White Plains NY cop, and had been going through marriage issues and separation was coming up.

Police believe 52-year-old Glen Hochman shot and killed his daughters, 17-year-old Alissa and 13-year-old Deanna, and himself on Saturday. His wife and a third, older, daughter were not at home.

On the day before the killings, his wife had gone to police to report an argument over an $80 cell phone bill, said Harrison police Chief Anthony Marraccini, but there was no indication of violence.

“I can verify that the day prior to this incident there was a domestic incident report that was filed,” Marraccini told WCBS 880’s Sean Adams. “There was no indication in that report of any type of violence.”

The chief said his investigation had turned up that there had been “a family discussion about a possible separation.” He would not say whether the discussion was considered a motive in the killings.

Marraccini said police found a note with Hochman’s body in the garage of their home in Harrison, and that the note “gave some indication of motive,” but he would not elaborate pending a news conference later Monday.

247 gwangung  Feb 23, 2015 8:15:33am

re: #244 The Vicious Babushka

I thought she HAS done both in the past.

248 Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2015 8:16:16am

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

#tcot has decided that “Equal Pay” is more Outrage-worthy
than their favorite movie not winning anything other than “Best Sound Mixing”

Except if your name is Mitt. Then it’s OK.

249 Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2015 8:20:25am

re: #244 The Vicious Babushka

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That seems to be their response now to everything: “So what if they did something bad? They didn’t hack anybody’s head off!!” Yegods.

250 Lidane  Feb 23, 2015 8:21:51am

re: #238 Belafon

I don’t know, though. Think about people who fashioned themselves as radical religious leaders throughout history. They were mostly middle and upper class, not poor.

I’ve always thought the gifts weren’t real, but symbolic. Gold, frankincense, and myrrh sound more like temple offerings than baby gifts.

251 Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 23, 2015 8:22:04am

re: #158 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR IF YOUR POOR & COMPLAIN ABOUT INCOME INEQUALITY YOUR JUST JEALOUS OF TEH SUCCESS!!!!!

HURR HURR IF YOUR RICH & COMPLAIN ABOUT INCOME INEQUALITY GIVE AWAY ALL YOU’RE MONEYS TO TEH POORS U HYPOCRITES!!!!!

HURR HURR YOU GAVE AWAY ALL YOUR’RE MONEYS TO TEH POORS NOW YOUR POOR UR JEALOUS OF TEH SUCCESS!!!!!!!

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Keanu Reeves, Bill Gates (I don’t think he’s a conservative), and Angelina Jolie come immediately to mind… Not that they give away all their money, but they are known for charitable work. Ewan McGregor is a voice for UNICEF. That’s just off the top of my head.

Edit: Can’t forget Sean Penn. The man is de facto volunteer mayor of a small refugee city in Haiti, last I heard. I used to think he was silly but he walks the walk.

252 b_sharp  Feb 23, 2015 8:24:02am

re: #219 Justanotherhuman

This is a 15” (diag) screen. My grandson says use it on battery, then plug it in when down, and don’t leave it plugged in since it could screw up the battery.

I can wait until this battery expires, I suppose, then get another one, take this to the store and let them recycle it or whatever they do with dead and gone batteries.

batterycare.net

253 gwangung  Feb 23, 2015 8:26:23am

re: #251 Pawn of the Oppressor

Don’t forget
en.wikipedia.org (The Giving Pledge)

128 Billionaires have taken the pledge. And we can track their giving.

254 b_sharp  Feb 23, 2015 8:27:16am

re: #249 Targetpractice

That seems to be their response now to everything: “So what if they did something bad? They didn’t hack anybody’s head off!!” Yegods.

Thinking is hard. How are we supposed to do something like that?

255 Timothy Watson  Feb 23, 2015 8:27:34am

re: #249 Targetpractice

That seems to be their response now to everything: “So what if they did something bad? They didn’t hack anybody’s head off!!” Yegods.

Which is the very definition of moral relativism, which conservatives will spend all day bitching about.

“Sure, maybe we suck, but we’re not as bad as those guys.”

256 WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2015 8:27:40am

re: #218 The Vicious Babushka

Politibunny (another batshit crazy frothing right-wing nutjob) has just been suspended from Twitter, but Chuck is still there?

I wonder if this is because he whines the loudest?

257 WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2015 8:29:54am

re: #229 Mattand

LOL, there were five of us who went to see it opening weekend. Four of us walked out going “WTF?”

Then the reviews came in. Definitely in the minority about that one.

That’s how I feel about The Grand Budapest Hotel. Hubby fell asleep. I had to make myself finish watching it. While it (and Fargo) had some really funny moments, overall, I found both boring.

258 ObserverArt  Feb 23, 2015 8:30:07am

Thank you Twitter! Before you came around I only suspected hate was still a big part of the American way.

With you I not only know it is still around but how it is celebrated proudly and colored with American flags, bald eagles and religious affiliations.

And, others just as loud and proud of their narrow-mindedness, bigotry, hatred and ignorance can like you and add you to their lists to be followed and admired.

Is this country not great or what???

/

259 lawhawk  Feb 23, 2015 8:32:46am

re: #246 lawhawk

Down in Georgia, fired police officer shoots and injuring a sheriff and deputy, before killing himself.

Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell and Deputy Bill Zigan were responding to a call at a former police officer’s home near Clarkesville when the two were shot by 41-year-old Anthony Giaquinta, the GBI said late Sunday. Both the sheriff and deputy were taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center for treatment, according to Capt. Mark Perry with the Georgia State Patrol.

“As EMS and law enforcement arrived, he started shooting at Habersham County Sheriff’s deputies,” Perry said. “Two have been wounded. At this point it doesn’t appear serious.”

Terrell was released from the hospital at about 11 p.m. Sunday, Channel 2 Action News reported.

Giaquinta, a former City of Gainesville officer who had been fired, shot and killed his wife and then shot Terrell and Zigan, according to the GBI. Giaquinta and another man were both found dead late Sunday. It was not known whether Giaquinta shot himself.

260 WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2015 8:34:52am

re: #235 Jenner7

I don’t think Willis is slamming her. I think he’s referencing what others are bitching about.

261 TedStriker  Feb 23, 2015 8:35:25am

re: #229 Mattand

LOL, there were five of us who went to see it opening weekend. Four of us walked out going “WTF?”

Then the reviews came in. Definitely in the minority about that one.

I just don’t know what it was about that film that turned me off. It’s a well done film. I just did not like it, and when everyone started talking Best Picture, I dug in my heels further.

I also have this weird Star Trek thing (the odd numbered ones suck, the even numbered ones rule) with the Cohen Bros. Hated Barton Fink, but loved Irreconcilable Differences.

Hey, IMO, the only ST:TOS movie that was debateably bad was V: The Final Frontier; ST: TMP was the bridge that brought the franchise into feature films and the story was originally written for TV as the pilot for the ST: Phase Two series that was to anchor a planned Paramount TV network in the late 70s. Yeah, the pacing’s slow in quite a few places in the movie, but it was intended to be 2001-esque. I’ve seen both the theatrical cut and the director’s cut (that Robert Wise and Paramount put together in the late 90s); the director’s cut smoothed out a lot of the rough edges and, to me, is the definitive version of the film.

III: The Search for Spock isn’t bad at all; in fact, Christopher Lloyd’s Kruge makes the movie, for one.

262 Jenner7  Feb 23, 2015 8:37:41am

re: #260 WhatEVs

Yeah, I know. I agree with him.

263 b_sharp  Feb 23, 2015 8:39:01am

re: #261 TedStriker

Hey, IMO, the only ST:TOS movie that was debateably bad was V: The Final Frontier; ST: TMP was the bridge that brought the franchise into feature films and the story was originally written for TV as the pilot for the ST: Phase Two series that was to anchor a planned Paramount TV network in the late 70s. I’ve seen both the theatrical cut and the director’s cut (that Robert Wise and Paramount put together in the late 90s); the director’s cut smoothed out a lot of the rough edges and, to me, is the definitive version of the film.

The Search for Spock isn’t bad at all; in fact, Christopher Lloyd’s Kruge makes the movie, for one.

The fact that I do not know the Star Trek movies by name, but only by number bothers me not in the slightest.

264 Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2015 8:41:48am

re: #261 TedStriker

Hey, IMO, the only ST:TOS movie that was debateably bad was V: The Final Frontier; ST: TMP was the bridge that brought the franchise into feature films and the story was originally written for TV as the pilot for the ST: Phase Two series that was to anchor a planned Paramount TV network in the late 70s. I’ve seen both the theatrical cut and the director’s cut (that Robert Wise and Paramount put together in the late 90s); the director’s cut smoothed out a lot of the rough edges and, to me, is the definitive version of the film.

The Search for Spock isn’t bad at all; in fact, Christopher Lloyd’s Kruge makes the movie, for one.

TMP’s problem is that it was paced like an ant pushing a brick up a hill. It did well to at least help the TV series make the transition to the big screen, but it lacked the action that had made the TV series popular. Search for Spock was a good film, it just had compete with Wrath of Khan and came up short. Final Frontier, we speak not of. Generations had an identity crisis between being the first outing of the TNG crew and a “passing of the torch” film. Insurrection was just forgettable. And Nemesis was godawful.

265 Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 23, 2015 8:43:15am

re: #259 lawhawk

Chucksie Johnson should read up on the NRA gene and white middle-aged male crime.

266 Romantic Heretic  Feb 23, 2015 8:45:48am

re: #246 lawhawk

Christ. Grrrr.

Buddy? Your children are not property and you can’t destroy them to keep them out of other people’s hands.

267 iossarian  Feb 23, 2015 8:46:27am

re: #243 lawhawk

Does the right wing really want to go there? It’s indisputable that women are paid a fraction of what men get paid for the same job. It’s further indisputable that minorities get a fraction of what whites get for the same job.

People on here will know, I hope, that I am no enemy to women’s rights or equality. I agree it’s indisputable that women are paid less than men - ditto minorities. But, it’s actually quite hard (and it’s something that I’m coincidentally analyzing right now) to separate out the “same job” pay effect from other things such as age, qualifications, time in the position and so on.

Taking a slightly different tack, the case of minorities in higher education is informative: there are very few black/hispanic tenured professors around, especially in the sciences. However, those that do make it through the system are actually relatively well compensated in most cases. Probably in part because they have to be good to make it, and also because, frankly, there’s a “premium” associated with having a black professor on staff.

This is not just a nit-pick: I think it’s just as important to criticize the barriers to women and minorities getting into positions in the first place, and advancing through the ranks, as it is to campaign for equal pay once there. In fact, the former problem may be the bigger barrier to equality right now.

TL;DR: we should make sure that women get jobs and get promoted at the same rate as men.

268 TedStriker  Feb 23, 2015 8:46:50am

re: #263 b_sharp

The fact that I do not know the Star Trek movies by name, but only by number bothers me not in the slightest.

I’m rattling these off the top of my head, with no help from looking at my collection or the internets:

TOS Cast:
Star Trek; The Motion Picture
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

TNG Cast:
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: Insurrection
Star Trek: Nemesis

JJ Abrams “alternate timeline” reboot:
Star Trek
Star Trek Into Darkness

Damn, I’m such a nerd…

269 Romantic Heretic  Feb 23, 2015 8:49:35am

re: #255 Timothy Watson

Which is the very definition of moral relativism, which conservatives will spend all day bitching about.

“Sure, maybe we suck, but we’re not as bad as those guys.”

The final point of one of my favorite Cracked articles.

Sure, I’m unemployed and I’m mean to my kids and fewer than 50 percent of my urinations have been into toilets, but you’d never catch me acting like that.

270 Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2015 8:51:22am

re: #268 TedStriker

I’m rattling these off the top of my head, with no help from looking at my collection or the internets:

Damn, I’m such a nerd…

That reminds me, on my list of critiques, I should also add that Into Darkness suffers from basically being a rehash of a good story, done without any idea what made the original good and with so many glaring issues its a wonder nobody noticed any of them in the script.

271 Romantic Heretic  Feb 23, 2015 8:51:57am

re: #261 TedStriker

Looking forward to this ST movie being released.

…

272 thedopefishlives  Feb 23, 2015 8:52:04am

re: #270 Targetpractice

That reminds me, on my list of critiques, I should also add that Into Darkness suffers from basically being a rehash of a good story, done without any idea what made the original good and with so many glaring issues its a wonder nobody noticed any of them in the script.

And Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan? Seriously?

273 Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 23, 2015 8:52:36am

re: #69 OhNoZombies!

Looks like it’s time for me to block an old H.S. friend. I will NOT have shit-riddled racist, draft dodging, pedo on my TL.

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What annoys me is that I don’t have the scratch for a boutique 1911. Mine’s an old Series 70 with a wear spot on the slide and a dented rear sight - both gifts from the previous owner which I haven’t had time or funds to rectify.

(I don’t care for the loon holding it, either.)

274 Great White Snark  Feb 23, 2015 8:52:55am

Which Oscars really hewed to cinematic and artistic merit?

American Sniper. I think it got the award it deserved, no less and no more.
After all it has done really well in awards.

After all ignoring award other than Oscar and multiple nominations is just ignorant.

Who got screwed?
IMHO Virunga

275 WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2015 8:53:47am

re: #268 TedStriker

I may be a heretic, but the JJ Abrams reboots were, IMHO, the best of the lot.

276 TedStriker  Feb 23, 2015 8:53:54am

re: #264 Targetpractice

TMP’s problem is that it was paced like an ant pushing a brick up a hill. It did well to at least help the TV series make the transition to the big screen, but it lacked the action that had made the TV series popular. Search for Spock was a good film, it just had compete with Wrath of Khan and came up short. Final Frontier, we speak not of. Generations had an identity crisis between being the first outing of the TNG crew and a “passing of the torch” film. Insurrection was just forgettable. And Nemesis was godawful.

Wise tried to make the repurposed and rejiggered screenplay for ST:TMP into something 2001-esque. If you think of it like that, he did a decent job, but trying to compare it to TOS episodes (and the later feature films), even though the original screenplay for the movie was written for TV, is really a fool’s errand; it’s best to take TMP as a standalone film, because, at the time, there were no guarantees that TMP would spawn the juggernaut that the ST franchise later became.

277 Jenner7  Feb 23, 2015 8:55:39am

re: #275 WhatEVs

I like the reboots as well. Brings new life to them. And of course, I love the originals.

278 Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2015 8:56:32am

re: #272 thedopefishlives

And Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan? Seriously?

I remember there being talk when the film was being cast of Benicio Del Toro’s name being thrown around. In retrospect, while he doesn’t have the complexion for it, that would have been a better choice. Casting an Englishman to play a Mexican playing a Indian Sikh dictator was a serious misstep, no matter how good an actor Cumberbatch is.

279 thedopefishlives  Feb 23, 2015 8:57:14am

re: #275 WhatEVs

I may be a heretic, but the JJ Abrams reboots were, IMHO, the best of the lot.

I don’t know if I necessarily agree with that. I don’t hate them, for sure, but there’s something timelessly classic about Wrath of Khan or First Contact (two of my personal favorites). That being said, the rebooted series has sparked a serious new interest in Star Trek in this sci-fi geek; I was never that much of a Trekkie before.

280 Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2015 8:58:29am

re: #276 TedStriker

Wise tried to make the repurposed and rejiggered screenplay for ST:TMP into something 2001-esque. If you think of it like that, he did a decent job, but trying to compare it to TOS episodes (and the later feature films), even though the original screenplay for the movie was written for TV, is really a fool’s errand; it’s really best to take it as a standalone film, because, at the time, there were no guarantees that TMP would spawn the powerhouse that it later became.

I think it did well to set the stage for the powerhouse that was ST II, but in retrospect it does deserve some of the derision its received. Yes, it was the result of a lot of stalled efforts and fighting with Gene every step of the way, but it just tries to hard to be “cerebral” and ends up being boring.

281 Dr. Matt  Feb 23, 2015 8:58:42am

I can’t imagine anything more assisine and pathetic than female conservatives raging about the notion of equal pay for women. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

282 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Feb 23, 2015 8:58:50am

re: #275 WhatEVs

I may be a heretic, but the JJ Abrams reboots were, IMHO, the best of the lot.

I’ve watched some of the originals and grew up watching the original shows (my aunt was a trekkie) and watching Star Trek TNG. I really liked the JJ Abrams flicks given they are “origin” types. And, well, modernized special effects are always a plus.

283 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Feb 23, 2015 8:59:26am

re: #281 Dr. Matt

I can’t imagine anything more assisine and pathetic than female conservatives raging about the notion of equal pay for women. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

Yeah I mean what’s their slogan supposed to be? “We’re paid less and we like it”?

284 thedopefishlives  Feb 23, 2015 9:00:10am

re: #283 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Yeah I mean what’s their slogan supposed to be? “We’re paid less and we like it”?

“Get back in the kitchen and make your man a sandwich.”

285 TedStriker  Feb 23, 2015 9:00:48am

re: #276 TedStriker

Also, you have to remember that Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock, and Voyage Home is a three-part story arc, something that wouldn’t really be seen again in any great measure in the Star Trek universe until the Dominion War arc in DS9.

286 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 9:01:58am

re: #281 Dr. Matt

I can’t imagine anything more assisine and pathetic than female conservatives raging about the notion of equal pay for women. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

HURR HURR WHO NEED EQUAL PAY WHEN I CAN HAZ GUNZ!!!!

287 thedopefishlives  Feb 23, 2015 9:03:31am

re: #286 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR WHO NEED EQUAL PAY WHEN I CAN HAZ GUNZ!!!!

I’m waiting for one of these super-awesome conservative employers like Hobby Lobby to start giving guns and/or ammunition as an “employment perk”. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?!

288 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 9:05:17am

LOLWHUT==>

289 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 23, 2015 9:06:33am

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

#tcot has decided that “Equal Pay” is more Outrage-worthy than their favorite movie not winning anything other than “Best Sound Mixing”

The Koch Industries Talking Points have arrived.

290 thedopefishlives  Feb 23, 2015 9:06:48am

re: #278 Targetpractice

I remember there being talk when the film was being cast of Benicio Del Toro’s name being thrown around. In retrospect, while he doesn’t have the complexion for it, that would have been a better choice. Casting an Englishman to play a Mexican playing a Indian Sikh dictator was a serious misstep, no matter how good an actor Cumberbatch is.

I haven’t been able to bring myself to like him ever since he took the role of Julian Assange in that godawful movie The Fifth Estate. Good actor he may or may not be, but that was a serious well-poisoning act on his part.

291 WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2015 9:07:59am

re: #278 Targetpractice

I remember there being talk when the film was being cast of Benicio Del Toro’s name being thrown around. In retrospect, while he doesn’t have the complexion for it, that would have been a better choice. Casting an Englishman to play a Mexican playing a Indian Sikh dictator was a serious misstep, no matter how good an actor Cumberbatch is.

I am struggling with who is cast for a part of a non-existent race should be concerned with whether an Englishman is playing a Mexican playing a Sikh. Because, and do correct me if I am wrong, Cumberbatch wasn’t trying to play Ricardo Montalban. He was playing Kahn…as a villan, not a dictator (this was in his youth, no?)

292 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 23, 2015 9:08:11am

re: #288 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWHUT==>

Hurr hurr there are not any leftist business owners because theyre all welfare dependents not being job creators like conservatives!!1

293 Timothy Watson  Feb 23, 2015 9:10:43am

re: #277 Jenner7

I like the reboots as well. Brings new life to them. And of course, I love the originals.

I haven’t seen Into Darkness, but I just can’t make myself like the first reboot, the slapstick comedy aspects are just too distracting.

294 WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2015 9:11:05am

re: #281 Dr. Matt

I can’t imagine anything more assisine and pathetic than female conservatives raging about the notion of equal pay for women. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

Conservatives shoot themselves in the foot about everything from good pay to right to work (for nothing) to the environment. They are so conditioned (from 30 years of brainwashing) to be nothing but reactionary to anything a Dem thinks is good.

I have been saying this since day 1. Obama would get the treatment conservatives give him if he was white (see: Clinton, Bill or Kerry. John). That he is half-black is icing on the cake and that gives every racist their own angle. Hillary is going to get the sexists out in full force. The thing that brings it all together is that they are democrats. Extra hate is icing on the asshole cake.

295 WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2015 9:13:56am

re: #282 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

I’ve watched some of the originals and grew up watching the original shows (my aunt was a trekkie) and watching Star Trek TNG. I really liked the JJ Abrams flicks given they are “origin” types. And, well, modernized special effects are always a plus.

I watched TOS when I was a kid and enjoyed it. I became obsessed during the TNG years. Loved Enterprise, too (Scott, seriously, who doesn’t love Scott?), thought Voyager was ok (which was a shame since I always loved Kate Mulgrew; Janeway, not so much).

But Chris Pine really did it for me as Kirk. There was something about watching his growth to become captain that I really liked.

296 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2015 9:15:09am
297 WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2015 9:16:55am

re: #293 Timothy Watson

I haven’t seen Into Darkness, but I just can’t make myself like the first reboot, the slapstick comedy aspects are just too distracting.

Really? Interesting. I loved the comedy aspects. The “numb tongue” thing had me in stitches.

298 Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2015 9:17:10am

re: #291 WhatEVs

I am struggling with who is cast for a part of a non-existent race should be concerned with whether an Englishman is playing a Mexican playing a Sikh. Because, and do correct me if I am wrong, Cumberbatch wasn’t trying to play Ricardo Montalban. He was playing Kahn…as a villan, not a dictator (this was in his youth, no?)

Khan was still very much a dictator when he and his fellow supermen were forced into exile aboard a sleeper ship. And the part about his race has a lot to do with the established back story of the character. It’s a bit like rewriting James Bond as American, and then arguing that it doesn’t matter that his nationality has been changed, it’s still the same character.

299 Lidane  Feb 23, 2015 9:18:15am

Yet another shining example of the Texas Republican party:

300 WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2015 9:18:33am

re: #296 Backwoods_Sleuth

Texas? Holy. Moley. I didn’t think it snowed in TX, like…ever.

301 WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2015 9:19:58am

re: #298 Targetpractice

Ok. I get your point. I wouldn’t like Bond as an American because he wouldn’t be Bond.

Still liked Cumberbatch in STITD. :-)

302 Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2015 9:20:20am

re: #299 Lidane

Yet another shining example of the Texas Republican party:

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Meanwhile, the AUMF request he sent to Congress continues to gather dust.

303 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2015 9:20:41am

re: #300 WhatEVs

Texas? Holy. Moley. I didn’t think it snowed in TX, like…ever.

Pretty sure it’s ice.

304 lawhawk  Feb 23, 2015 9:21:34am

re: #299 Lidane

305 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 9:22:53am

[Never mind, spoof account]

306 Dr. Matt  Feb 23, 2015 9:23:15am
307 WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2015 9:23:28am

re: #303 Backwoods_Sleuth

Pretty sure it’s ice.

From rain? I could see that. I thought I saw snow on the median.

I only think of TX from being there when it was 105+ every day for the week I was last down there. It was brutal.

308 WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2015 9:24:27am

re: #304 lawhawk

Obama isn’t bombing a country to liberate them. That’s all they need to know.

309 Lidane  Feb 23, 2015 9:24:49am

re: #300 WhatEVs

Texas? Holy. Moley. I didn’t think it snowed in TX, like…ever.

It snows in the Panhandle every year, IIRC. Here in Austin we usually have ice.

310 Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2015 9:25:35am

It’s like I said the other day, the President could come out at lunch and say he’s planning to send 100,000 troops overseas to fight Daesh and by the 6pm news every Republican across the land would want his head on a pike for sending our troops “into harm’s way.”

311 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 23, 2015 9:26:17am

Why isn’t John Legend considering that blacks commit way more crimes?

Because just like assuming that IQ test scores = intelligence, it is asinine to assume that arrest & conviction rates = criminality rates.

There are too many other factors here to consider race alone, but some people seem to be fixated on one factor alone.

There is a word for such people.

312 Lidane  Feb 23, 2015 9:27:46am

re: #310 Targetpractice

It’s like I said the other day, the President could come out at lunch and say he’s planning to send 100,000 troops overseas to fight Daesh and by the 6pm news every Republican across the land would want his head on a pike for sending our troops “into harm’s way.”

Obama could broadcast from the Oval Office and announce that he’d ordered nuclear strikes on Mecca and Medina and the RWNJs would still call him an ISIS sympathizer and a Seekrit Moozlim.

Nothing he says or does will ever satisfy them, so why bother trying?

313 scottslemmons  Feb 23, 2015 9:30:29am

Dallas has had decent amounts of snow and ice for the past five years I’ve lived here. This year has actually been the outlier — today’s ice storm is the first time we’ve had a serious bout of cold weather this winter.

Basically, y’all, Texas isn’t just like in the joke postcards in the tourist traps. We have cold weather, we don’t ride horses everywhere, it’s not all a cartoon desert with cacti and buzzards and grizzled prospectors.

314 lawhawk  Feb 23, 2015 9:30:41am

re: #312 Lidane

No, they’ll flip it around and claim that Obama’s a genocidal dictator for launching those strikes. The default position for the right wing is reactionary. If Obama is for it, they’re reflexively against it. Doesn’t matter if it’s a position that they held (or even a policy that they championed for years - see mandate, individual); the GOP and the right are opposed.

315 Belafon  Feb 23, 2015 9:34:14am

re: #307 WhatEVs

The Dallas-Ft. Worth Area - and it’s a big area - is covered in a few hours worth of sleet. It’s only-if-you-have-to-be-in-it stuff. The schools closed last night.

316 b_sharp  Feb 23, 2015 9:35:25am

re: #268 TedStriker

I’m rattling these off the top of my head, with no help from looking at my collection or the internets:

Damn, I’m such a nerd…

I’m a nerd too, but I have trouble remembering names of movies, actors, music, and my socks.

317 wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2015 9:36:11am

re: #313 scottslemmons

Basically, y’all, Texas isn’t just like in the joke postcards in the tourist traps. We have cold weather, we don’t ride horses everywhere, it’s not all a cartoon desert with cacti and buzzards and grizzled prospectors.

Right. That’s New Mexico. :)

318 Lidane  Feb 23, 2015 9:37:13am

re: #315 Belafon

The Dallas-Ft. Worth Area - and it’s a big area - is covered in a few hours worth of sleet. It’s only-if-you-have-to-be-in-it stuff. The schools closed last night.

If we get hit with a bad bit of ice here, everything in Austin pretty much shuts down. Schools, businesses, etc. The city becomes a ghost town for a day.

319 Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2015 9:38:45am

Wingnuts found themselves a new useful idiot:

320 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 9:41:08am

LOLWHUT==>

321 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 23, 2015 9:42:42am

re: #319 Targetpractice

Conservatives go wild for a 12-year-old’s Obama rant: “You don’t love America!”(VIDEO)

Finally. someone who challenges them on an intellectual level.

322 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 23, 2015 9:43:51am

re: #319 Targetpractice

Wingnuts found themselves a new useful idiot:

Should prove devastating to Obama’s re-election campaign.

323 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 23, 2015 9:46:06am

re: #313 scottslemmons

My favorite Texas snowstorm was the time it snowed in Dallas and the Cowboys were playing the Dolphins. It was funny how much snow came in through that little opening. But the best part was when Leon Lett tried to pick up a loose ball and wound up letting the Dolphins score the winning touchdown. I mean the Tony Romo botched field goal is still my favorite (or was it Jackie Slater’s dropped touchdown pass - no it’s Romo) football play of all time.

324 scottslemmons  Feb 23, 2015 9:46:06am

re: #317 wrenchwench

I see the smiley, but I’ll also stick up for New Mexico anyway. It’s the most beautiful state in the entire country. My sister lives up in the mountains, and it’s unspeakably, gloriously beautiful there almost all year ‘round. :)

325 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 23, 2015 9:46:11am

re: #320 The Vicious Babushka

<blockquotewomen don’t get paid as much in Holywood bcuz you don’t bring in as much money as the men! DUH! It’s all about money.

I must admit that I am less concerned about how much female entertainers make in comparison to their male counterparts than I am about how much female accountants, managers, teachers, administrators, etc. earn.

It is just a lot more high-profile and sound-bite friendly.

326 b_sharp  Feb 23, 2015 9:46:19am

Do these anti big government people know what size of government they would be happy with?

327 gwangung  Feb 23, 2015 9:46:45am

re: #320 The Vicious Babushka

Women don’t bring in as much money because they don’t have as many roles. DUH.

(But when they do have roles, they bring in MORE money)

328 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 9:46:58am

re: #326 b_sharp

Do these anti big government people know what size of government they would be happy with?

It has to be small enough to fit inside a vagina.

329 scottslemmons  Feb 23, 2015 9:47:37am

re: #320 The Vicious Babushka

The wingnuts should actually look at the movies that’ve brought in the most money. In the last few years, movies starring women have been top of the box office.

330 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 9:47:46am

The Patricia Arquette outrage continues==>

331 b_sharp  Feb 23, 2015 9:51:13am

WTF?

Was Patricia speaking about her own income, or the income of the majority of women working in the US?

Do I sense a failure of the RWNJ masses in comprehension?

332 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Feb 23, 2015 9:53:25am

re: #324 scottslemmons

I see the smiley, but I’ll also stick up for New Mexico anyway. It’s the most beautiful state in the entire country. My sister lives up in the mountains, and it’s unspeakably, gloriously beautiful there almost all year ‘round. :)

Oh, sure, maybe you like dirt and rocks and sunburn and dry river beds and all that kind of garbage. After God got done making the rest of the world he had to take a dump somewhere. And that somewhere is Arizona. He used New Mexico to wipe his ass.

/

333 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 23, 2015 9:53:32am

re: #330 The Vicious Babushka

The Patricia Arquette outrage continues==>

[Embedded content]

Feh…

Hey, Mr. In God I Trust, Jesus says that workers should receive the same pay if they start at dawn or are start at 5:00 PM - a full day’s wage. (Matthew 20:1-16). How about we do that then?
//////
(Yes, I understand the metaphor of the parable, Still a good way to P.O. a biblically illiterate wingnut).

334 WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2015 9:54:04am

re: #325 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I must admit that I am less concerned about how much female entertainers make in comparison to their male counterparts than I am about how much female accountants, managers, teachers, administrators, etc. earn.

It is just a lot more high-profile and sound-bite friendly.

I see it differently. This is something that affects all women, no matter what they do. When you see someone like Merryl Streep being concerned about being paid less (and some of the salaries were part of that Sony dump), this is an across the board problem affecting women. These guys get a platform that I, for example, would never have.

335 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 9:54:06am
336 lawhawk  Feb 23, 2015 9:54:36am

re: #320 The Vicious Babushka

Seen and raised, courtesy of Heritage:

337 The Mother Of All Pies  Feb 23, 2015 9:56:18am

Sure enough:

338 gwangung  Feb 23, 2015 9:58:05am

re: #334 WhatEVs

I see it differently. This is something that affects all women, no matter what they do. When you see someone like Merryl Streep being concerned about being paid less (and some of the salaries were part of that Sony dump), this is an across the board problem affecting women. These guys get a platform that I, for example, would never have.

Charlize Theron agrees with you.

339 wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2015 9:58:22am

re: #324 scottslemmons

I see the smiley, but I’ll also stick up for New Mexico anyway. It’s the most beautiful state in the entire country. My sister lives up in the mountains, and it’s unspeakably, gloriously beautiful there almost all year ‘round. :)

Me too, and I love the buzzards and the cactus.

340 Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2015 9:58:41am

re: #331 b_sharp

WTF?

Was Patricia speaking about her own income, or the income of the majority of women working in the US?

Do I sense a failure of the RWNJ masses in comprehension?

On the contrary, it’s not a failure. It’s movement of the goalposts to something they feel they can win, namely asserting that Patricia was just another actress whining about her pay. Address the inequality women face in the workplace? HA!

341 Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 23, 2015 10:01:05am

re: #326 b_sharp

Do these anti big government people know what size of government they would be happy with?

That’s not the true criteria they are interested in.

342 lawhawk  Feb 23, 2015 10:13:32am
343 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 23, 2015 10:29:41am

re: #326 b_sharp

Do these anti big government people know what size of government they would be happy with?

small enough to drown in a bathtub, I believe…

344 jonhendry  Feb 23, 2015 12:30:14pm

re: #136 Justanotherhuman

“western cos are raiding Africa and its people of too many of their natural resources and destroying others in the process.”

I’d think Chinese companies are part of the problem now, in addition to fueling the slaughter of African wildlife.

aljazeera.com


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