Monday Night Slam: Foo Fighters, “Congregation”
Congregation - Live from Austin City Limits TV 2014
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Congregation - Live from Austin City Limits TV 2014
Sonic Highways available now:
iTunes - smarturl.it
Direct Vinyl - bit.ly
Amazon - bit.lyFootage courtesy of Austin City Limits - acltv.com
1 | austin_blue Mar 9, 2015 5:56:07pm |
I’m stage right, three rows back. Hell of a show.
2 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 6:10:04pm |
That is why science is so great and conservatives hate it. It doesn't give a damn what you think. @EWErickson— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 10, 2015
3 | Charles Johnson Mar 9, 2015 6:13:02pm |
Meanwhile, tech news site Gigaom is going under: gigaom.com
4 | Nyet Mar 9, 2015 6:15:37pm |
re: #3 Charles Johnson
Such is my luck: the first time ever I hear about the site, and it already goes under. ///
5 | William Barnett-Lewis Mar 9, 2015 6:16:39pm |
Love the Foo Fighters. I wish Kurt could have gotten the help he needed but I really love this band much more. Great stuff from them.
6 | goddamnedfrank Mar 9, 2015 6:16:56pm |
re: #3 Charles Johnson
Meanwhile, tech news site Gigaom is going under: gigaom.com
LOL.
We can’t pay our creditors, mind if we send you Push Notifications?
7 | Charles Johnson Mar 9, 2015 6:19:12pm |
8 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 9, 2015 6:20:22pm |
And they literally stripped SAE of their letters today. pic.twitter.com/WueMi4Eeqp— deray mckesson (@deray) March 10, 2015
9 | austin_blue Mar 9, 2015 6:23:22pm |
re: #8 The Mother Of All Pies
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Good. The little butt-breaths went beyond the pale.
10 | HappyWarrior Mar 9, 2015 6:26:12pm |
11 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 6:28:23pm |
re: #7 Charles Johnson
I remember in season 1 when she was the timid battered wife you felt sorry for.
13 | Charles Johnson Mar 9, 2015 6:29:58pm |
re: #11 Kragar
I remember in season 1 when she was the timid battered wife you felt sorry for.
Now she’s the baddest of bad asses. Nobody fucks with Carol.
14 | goddamnedfrank Mar 9, 2015 6:35:15pm |
He seems nice.
Um, she has cerebral palsy. @_PoorExcuse @ChuckCJohnson— Photonic Gaucho (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2015
Good. @goddamnedfrank @ChuckCJohnson— Choice from WI (@_PoorExcuse) March 10, 2015
15 | thedopefishlives Mar 9, 2015 6:36:16pm |
re: #14 goddamnedfrank
What in the name of all that is holy is that thing.
16 | Drive By Commenter Mar 9, 2015 6:37:23pm |
re: #8 The Mother Of All Pies
“Today our lesson will focus on words and the usage and effect of words. Particularly in the manner of how the words falling from your lips do have consequences. And we have a few large Greek letters for sale. Colored gold. See Sid the janitor about that.”
17 | lawhawk Mar 9, 2015 6:38:50pm |
re: #1 austin_blue
Just caught NIN at ACL on PBS last night. She really digged his stripped down take on Hesitation Marks, given that she’s heard only the studio version and liked the funk vibe and the background singers.
It just made me want to go see him on tour next time he goes out.
18 | Decatur Deb Mar 9, 2015 6:41:44pm |
re: #14 goddamnedfrank
He seems nice.
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On the other hand, the Alabama guy who went viral with the “No gays on my junkpile” shtick is nice. Here’s his post for Butthurt Awareness Week:
“ButtHurtAwareness2015 Well my research team and I did some testing today on how to protect one’s self from butt hurt. We wrapped a towel around my head and I couldn’t see anything. We placed the towel over the screen and I couldn’t see the screen. So we turned off the interwebs and I opened a word document and wrote all the stuff I wanted to share with myself and I gave it a thumbs up. I looked through all my pictures and liked all of them and commented on them. This seemed to work well except Jeremy space only had one user and Jeremy net only had my information. So bravely I logged back on to the interwebs and I saw that there were other people on there that didn’t live life just like me…..I felt the butt hurt level creeping up.. I was scared then I remembered that I am a 39 year old man from Alabama and butt hurt was part of life. The Internet has opened up the entire world to us. We are going to see things we don’t like. Every day I try to use comedy,sarcasm and common sense to illustrate that the universe is a big damn place and there is enough room for your opinion and mine. But if we Shut the world out we become Mississippi. By the way if you hang around long enough I will offend you too; unless you’re a scientology follower Tom Cruise is scary.”
19 | goddamnedfrank Mar 9, 2015 6:43:22pm |
re: #15 thedopefishlives
What in the name of all that is holy is that thing.
A huge fan of the n-word apparently. Advanced Twitter Search - NSFW.
20 | #FergusonFireside Mar 9, 2015 6:43:30pm |
JAWS on AMC. I’m getting ready to re-watch The Walking Dead, but JAWS.
21 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 9, 2015 6:44:01pm |
re: #14 goddamnedfrank
Looking at his TL, this is a guy who can’t even get a date with a first cousin.
22 | wrenchwench Mar 9, 2015 6:44:32pm |
Last night, Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley called on Secretary of State Kris Kobach to resign: http://t.co/auqK7JGLir #ksleg— Justin Wingerter (@JustinWingerter) March 8, 2015
Hensley: Kobach ‘the most racist politician in America today’
23 | goddamnedfrank Mar 9, 2015 6:44:55pm |
24 | Decatur Deb Mar 9, 2015 6:46:18pm |
re: #22 wrenchwench
Hensley: Kobach ‘the most racist politician in America today’
Let’s not award the trophy until all the entries are in.
25 | wrenchwench Mar 9, 2015 6:46:33pm |
Always amusing to spot someone in my mentions carping about somebody else's block. I smile, then block them too…— Goldie Taylor © (@goldietaylor) March 10, 2015
26 | goddamnedfrank Mar 9, 2015 6:46:52pm |
The guys from Pawn Stars are Jews. Kill them on sight— Choice from WI (@_PoorExcuse) October 25, 2014
Bedtime gang. Keep the blacks quiet and the jews away.— Choice from WI (@_PoorExcuse) February 23, 2015
Added to the list of rank anti semites that CCJ chooses to follow.
27 | #FergusonFireside Mar 9, 2015 6:47:18pm |
re: #7 Charles Johnson
If you haven’t seen last night’s episode of The Walking Dead, this is kinda sorta a spoiler, so don’t watch if you DVR’ed it for later. But this scene was just awesome. This is why I love this show.
Carol tells little Sam a bedtime story he probably isn’t going to forget.
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Oh hell yeah.
28 | wrenchwench Mar 9, 2015 6:47:44pm |
re: #24 Decatur Deb
Let’s not award the trophy until all the entries are in.
Competition is certainly stiff.
29 | CuriousLurker Mar 9, 2015 6:48:05pm |
Some totally not scary Muslim guys, LOL:
When you and your goat see a homie at the party https://t.co/5Mn6N2JKHE— Best Daily Videos (@BestDaiIyVideos) March 8, 2015
30 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 9, 2015 6:49:45pm |
me, now…laterz!
after a tough day at the office pic.twitter.com/0Kzs5Ko4Bt— Cute Animal Pics (@CuteAnimalsBaby) March 10, 2015
31 | wrenchwench Mar 9, 2015 6:50:39pm |
32 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 9, 2015 6:51:02pm |
33 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 9, 2015 6:51:11pm |
re: #26 goddamnedfrank
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Added to the list of rank anti semites that CCJ chooses to follow.
HURR HURR IT SATIRE!!!!! U HAVE NO CENTS OF HUMER LIBTARD
35 | BlueSpotinAL Mar 9, 2015 6:54:25pm |
re: #24 Decatur Deb
Let’s not award the trophy until all the entries are in.
Kobach is the one who helped Scott Beason write the model legislation the AL “run off the brown people because the federal government is not doing it fast enough” Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act.
36 | austin_blue Mar 9, 2015 6:55:05pm |
re: #17 lawhawk
Just caught NIN at ACL on PBS last night. She really digged his stripped down take on Hesitation Marks, given that she’s heard only the studio version and liked the funk vibe and the background singers.
It just made me want to go see him on tour next time he goes out.
It’s nice to have lived in Austin for over 25 years, when it was a small(er) town where musicians all knew each other. She Who Must Be Obeyed has played with so many people over the years, and the Musician’s Union is so well respected, that getting tickets to ACL is easier for old timers like us than for the Newbies.
After the Foo Fighters show, my ears bled for two days.
37 | RealityBasedSteve Mar 9, 2015 6:55:13pm |
ARRGH…. Can’t find my IPod Classic. It would be nice to take some tunes with me, not critical, I can load up the tablet with tunes, but I love my IPod. Oh well, it will show back up, or not. I know it’s in the house, just don’t have a clue as to where I put it.
RBS
38 | FemNaziBitch Mar 9, 2015 6:56:28pm |
Talk to me about LifeLock. Does anyone here use it?
39 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 9, 2015 6:58:14pm |
President Obama schools Republican senators over the #IranLetter & sabotage of the #IranTalks @nightlyshow @billmaher pic.twitter.com/oOiLuGkmAl— Democratic Memes (@DemocraticMemes) March 10, 2015
40 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 9, 2015 6:58:32pm |
re: #38 FemNaziBitch
Talk to me about LifeLock. Does anyone here use it?
No. And don’t they advertise on Rush?
41 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 7:00:09pm |
re: #38 FemNaziBitch
Talk to me about LifeLock. Does anyone here use it?
They got busted for deceptive business practices in the past.
42 | #FergusonFireside Mar 9, 2015 7:01:40pm |
re: #38 FemNaziBitch
Talk to me about LifeLock. Does anyone here use it?
Scam. You can do better by paying basic attention.
43 | thedopefishlives Mar 9, 2015 7:02:31pm |
re: #40 The Mother Of All Pies
No. And don’t they advertise on Rush?
They do. And just about anyone who still advertises on Rush is off-limits to sane, rational people.
44 | Nyet Mar 9, 2015 7:05:15pm |
Scam for paranoid wingnuts?
Celebrity spokespersons for LifeLock have included Howard Stern, Paul Harvey, Mark Levin, and Rush Limbaugh.[31] LifeLock is also active in many community groups including the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA) and Junior Achievement.[32][33]
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is a spokesman and was featured in the company’s TV commercials in 2013.
45 | Nyet Mar 9, 2015 7:06:36pm |
Also in 2007, Todd Davis publicly posted his Social Security number as part of an ad campaign to promote the company’s identity theft protection services. As a result, Davis was a victim of 13 cases of identity theft between 2007 and 2008.[57][58][59] Regarding the campaign, Davis said, “we were trying to make the point that … all it takes is one data breach. The point of that campaign was to take proactive steps to protect your identity.”[13]In February 2008, the credit information company Experian sued LifeLock for fraud and false advertising. Experian alleged that LifeLock placed false fraud alerts on behalf of its clients, thus keeping LifeLock clients’ files in a constant state of alert.[60][60][61] As part of a 2009 settlement, LifeLock set up a new proprietary service that does not rely on setting fraud alerts.[62]
In March 2010, LifeLock was fined $12 million by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for deceptive advertising.[5] The FTC called their prior marketing claims misleading to consumers by claiming to be a 100% guarantee against all forms of identity theft.[63]
FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, referring to the LifeLock TV ad showing the truck, said that “the protection they provided left such a large hole … that you could drive that truck through it.”[57] LifeLock agreed to pay $12 million to settle charges, by the FTC and 35 states, that the company’s identity theft prevention and data security claims were false.[64]
46 | Lidane Mar 9, 2015 7:07:26pm |
re: #1 austin_blue
I’m stage right, three rows back. Hell of a show.
And I am insanely jealous. I sign up for every ACL taping that I can. I would’ve loved to see the Foo Fighters.
48 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 9, 2015 7:13:55pm |
CLINTON/DUCKWORTH 2016?
Finished my PhD and was hooded this weekend! #relief #finally #celebrate pic.twitter.com/882bPQOUWZ— Tammy Duckworth (@Tammy4Congress) March 10, 2015
49 | Amory Blaine Mar 9, 2015 7:17:04pm |
Court rules church can’t shield $60 million in abuse cases
In a blow to the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in its ongoing bankruptcy, a federal appeals court on Monday put a $60 million cemetery trust fund back in play to potentially settle claims related to sexual abuse by priests.
The ruling from the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the church cannot use the First Amendment or a 1993 law aimed at protecting religious freedom to shield the funds.
The court also said the judge who put the money off limits, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa, should have disclosed the fact his parents and other relatives are buried in a cemetery maintained by the trust fund. The court remanded the case to a different district court judge.
“This is a highly momentous day for clergy sex abuse survivors in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, who have suffered terribly since they were abused and have continued to suffer greatly as the Archdiocese has gone to great lengths to deny them justice,” said survivors’ attorney Jeff Anderson of St. Paul.
50 | William Barnett-Lewis Mar 9, 2015 7:17:47pm |
re: #48 The Mother Of All Pies
CLINTON/DUCKWORTH 2016?
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Nah, but I could happily get behind Duckworth/Baldwin 2016.
52 | FemNaziBitch Mar 9, 2015 7:18:28pm |
Duckworth is quite formidable.
I admire her quite a bit
53 | HappyWarrior Mar 9, 2015 7:19:05pm |
re: #48 The Mother Of All Pies
CLINTON/DUCKWORTH 2016?
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I really admire her but I’d want her to get into the Senate first. Perhaps the Dems should seriously consider her against Kirk or if Durbin plans to retire soon.
54 | HappyWarrior Mar 9, 2015 7:19:51pm |
re: #52 FemNaziBitch
Duckworth is quite formidable.
I admire her quite a bit
Tough lady. I cannot believe that pos Walsh actually said the crap he did about her. She’s got more honor and courage in her small pinky than that scumbag does in his whole body.
55 | FemNaziBitch Mar 9, 2015 7:20:09pm |
re: #49 Amory Blaine
I find it incredibly sad that so many women still support the church. After so many revelations that the hierarchy does not care nor will ever care about individual health and happiness on Earth, in this lifetime.
57 | FemNaziBitch Mar 9, 2015 7:21:56pm |
LIfelock wants not only your bank account number, but your id and password to access your accounts.
58 | thedopefishlives Mar 9, 2015 7:22:34pm |
re: #57 FemNaziBitch
LIfelock wants not only your bank account number, but your id and password to access your accounts.
Not enough NOPE in the world for that. Hell to the naw.
59 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 9, 2015 7:22:44pm |
re: #57 FemNaziBitch
LIfelock wants not only your bank account number, but your id and password to access your accounts.
FUCK THEM
60 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 7:23:27pm |
Tomorrow's NY Daily News Cover Calls GOP Sens 'Traitors' over Iran Letter http://t.co/U4nbPuUTCO pic.twitter.com/BMB7Y90khg— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 10, 2015
61 | Lidane Mar 9, 2015 7:23:48pm |
So I’m seeing a bunch of hoo-hah with people mentioning the Logan Act with respect to the GOP Senators and their damn near treasonous letter to Iran.
Could one of the legal folks explain it? I’m wondering if it could be applied to what they did today. I’d love to see 47 Senators get a friendly visit from US Marshals, but I know it’s not realistic.
63 | Decatur Deb Mar 9, 2015 7:25:47pm |
64 | #FergusonFireside Mar 9, 2015 7:26:40pm |
re: #49 Amory Blainewa
I want to say, dude your state. Then I realize it is everywhere. Only some places getting exposed.
65 | William Barnett-Lewis Mar 9, 2015 7:27:15pm |
re: #63 Decatur Deb
“When we’ve lost the Daily News, we’ve lost the derp.”
That really is interesting. It’s looking more and more like the GOP scored an Own Goal on this move.
66 | Lidane Mar 9, 2015 7:28:24pm |
re: #65 William Barnett-Lewis
That really is interesting. It’s looking more and more like the GOP scored an Own Goal on this move.
It’s one thing to criticize POTUS. It’s another to send a near-treasonous letter that openly undermines him.
67 | dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Mar 9, 2015 7:29:43pm |
im going to outflank the baggers and come out against illegal eileens
68 | Blind Frog Belly White Mar 9, 2015 7:29:56pm |
re: #66 Lidane
It’s one thing to criticize POTUS. It’s another to send a near-treasonous letter that openly undermines him.
Makes you wonder why they thought it was a good idea.
69 | Nyet Mar 9, 2015 7:29:56pm |
re: #48 The Mother Of All Pies
CLINTON/DUCKWORTH 2016?
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That’s CLINTON/DR. DUCKWORTH 2016 for you!
70 | thedopefishlives Mar 9, 2015 7:30:15pm |
re: #67 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
im going to outflank the baggers and come out against illegal eileens
Eileen? Come on.
72 | thedopefishlives Mar 9, 2015 7:31:33pm |
re: #68 Blind Frog Belly White
Makes you wonder why they thought it was a good idea.
They’re so blinded by fear of the black president that they figured even starting a war would be better than going along with anything he said.
73 | Blind Frog Belly White Mar 9, 2015 7:32:00pm |
re: #71 jaunte
Oops, forgot CPAC isn’t the whole world.
Apparently, these rats WILL fuck themselves.
74 | dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Mar 9, 2015 7:32:53pm |
75 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 7:35:44pm |
re: #61 Lidane
47 Republicans May Have Just Broken the Law By Writing An Outrageous Letter To Iran http://t.co/5o2otO9hR6 via @thedailybanter #news— ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) March 9, 2015
While the letter’s signatories are U.S. senators, that does not mean they have the “authority of the United States” as required by the law since when it comes to conducting foreign policy, the executive branch is the United States, taking into consideration the occasional “Advice and Consent of the Senate” as prescribed by the Constitution. However, this letter is neither advice, nor consent. It’s directly addressed to leaders of a foreign government presently involved in talks with the U.S., and it is designed to thwart those talks. Unless the senators were authorized by the president to address Iran’s leaders in this letter, a case can be made that 47 U.S. senators just violated a federal law that carries a prison term of up to three years.
Whether the law was broken or not, the fact remains that once again Republicans have shown themselves not only unfit to govern, but unwilling to govern, because governance sometimes means making agreements that don’t give you everything you want. That the vast majority of GOP senators have so publicly proclaimed their opposition to any deal that could ensure Iran will not pursue nuclear weapons is a travesty of foreign policy, a breach of custom, and possibly a felony.
76 | William Barnett-Lewis Mar 9, 2015 7:39:43pm |
77 | thedopefishlives Mar 9, 2015 7:40:05pm |
re: #76 William Barnett-Lewis
There we go. Somebody gets it.
78 | goddamnedfrank Mar 9, 2015 7:40:32pm |
re: #61 Lidane
So I’m seeing a bunch of hoo-hah with people mentioning the Logan Act with respect to the GOP Senators and their damn near treasonous letter to Iran.
Could one of the legal folks explain it? I’m wondering if it could be applied to what they did today. I’d love to see 47 Senators get a friendly visit from US Marshals, but I know it’s not realistic.
It’s not going to happen. Technically what they did was kind of violation, sorta, maybe, however the Logan Act is Constitutionally iffy at best. Also, even if the Justice Department was of a mind to charge them the Speech and Debate Clause would be invoked, since I’m fairly certain that they had the letter read into the official record of the current session. Logan is the kind of thing you can threaten an idiotic private citizen with to try and dissuade them from a course of action, but no Administration is ever going to try and apply it to 47 sitting Senators.
80 | William Barnett-Lewis Mar 9, 2015 7:43:01pm |
81 | freetoken Mar 9, 2015 7:44:43pm |
re: #78 goddamnedfrank
Inhofe shows up at UNFCCC meetings telling all the leaders/ambassadors that the US Senate is not going to approve any climate change. If he can do that without consequence then I don’t see this latest stunt as coming to any different conclusion.
82 | FemNaziBitch Mar 9, 2015 7:45:18pm |
LifeLock addresses FTC complaint; more from CEO Todd Davis
Q: Is this the career you thought you’d had at this point in your life? If not, what did you want to do when you were growing up?
A: I did think I would be running my own company, but did not expect to be this blessed.
83 | FemNaziBitch Mar 9, 2015 7:45:50pm |
re: #67 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
im going to outflank the baggers and come out against illegal eileens
What about Irenes?
84 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 7:46:04pm |
re: #78 goddamnedfrank
It’s not going to happen. Technically what they did was kind of violation, sorta, maybe, however the Logan Act is Constitutionally iffy at best. Also, even if the Justice Department was of a mind to charge them the Speech and Debate Clause would be invoked, since I’m fairly certain that they had the letter read into the official record of the current session. Logan is the kind of thing you can threaten an idiotic private citizen with to try and dissuade them from a course of action, but no Administration is ever going to try and apply it to 47 sitting Senators.
Will they be charged? No.
Does the fact they won’t be charged mean they did not behave like treasonous shit weasels? No.
85 | FemNaziBitch Mar 9, 2015 7:47:40pm |
re: #82 FemNaziBitch
In addition to the new PTA partnership, LifeLock has had a 5-year partnership with the FBI to help train law enforcement officers around the company on identity theft.
86 | Decatur Deb Mar 9, 2015 7:47:51pm |
re: #84 Kragar
Will they be charged? No.
Does the fact they won’t be charged mean they did not behave like treasonous shit weasels? No.
“I know they’re not pig-fuckers shit-weasels, I just want to hear them deny it.”
87 | FemNaziBitch Mar 9, 2015 7:48:46pm |
Colin Powell urges minority voters to get whatever IDs necessary to vote racist Republicans out of office #Selma50 http://t.co/sAi2ZmZw79— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) March 8, 2015
88 | austin_blue Mar 9, 2015 7:50:23pm |
re: #81 freetoken
Inhofe shows up at UNFCCC meetings telling all the leaders/ambassadors that the US Senate is not going to approve any climate change. If he can do that without consequence then I don’t see this latest stunt as coming to any different conclusion.
Then again, it’s helpful that Inhofe is a fucking moron acting alone.
47 Senators is a quorum.
89 | Nyet Mar 9, 2015 7:53:11pm |
@Mediaite Good for US Senators !,Fuck Obama the Muslim terrorist pic.twitter.com/NV9l3tIPrY— Pattys4Putin-USA (@PattyDs50) March 10, 2015
Pattys4Putin-USA
@PattyDs50
I’m an American and defend Putin and Russia against my aggressive Government. I defend Benjamin Netanyahu from the crazy Muslim in the WH .NH USA
90 | Romantic Heretic Mar 9, 2015 7:53:31pm |
re: #68 Blind Frog Belly White
Makes you wonder why they thought it was a good idea.
Because they hate Obama so they thought this would hurt him and derail his policy.
But like all crackheads they’re not really accomplished at rational thought.
91 | #FergusonFireside Mar 9, 2015 7:54:20pm |
re: #57 FemNaziBitch
LIfelock wants not only your bank account number, but your id and password to access your accounts.
UH NO
93 | Blind Frog Belly White Mar 9, 2015 7:55:34pm |
94 | Maddies Mom Mar 9, 2015 7:55:34pm |
re: #52 FemNaziBitch
Noooooo! We need her to run against Mark Kirk for senate in ‘16!!!!!!
95 | RealityBasedSteve Mar 9, 2015 7:56:13pm |
re: #86 Decatur Deb
“I know they’re notpig-fuckersshit-weasels, I just want to hear them deny it.”
Is it the treasonous part, or the shit weasel part of the denial that will stick in their throat?
RBS
97 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 7:57:42pm |
re: #89 Nyet
TL full of “Obama is about to be impeached” pipe dreams
98 | Kid A Mar 9, 2015 7:58:05pm |
The last time the GOP wrote letters to the Ayatollah #Iran pic.twitter.com/AyHtEDQu4j— Jeff Gauvin (@JeffersonObama) March 9, 2015
99 | Nyet Mar 9, 2015 7:58:13pm |
re: #92 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
Pattys4Putin
also illegal pattys
Passionate Patty in Pursuit of Putin’s Pulsating Pectorals
100 | RealityBasedSteve Mar 9, 2015 7:58:41pm |
re: #93 Blind Frog Belly White
“Double my IQ or no money back? Sounds like a good deal to me!”
Perhaps I can interest you in a tremendous investment opportunity. If you send me all your 401k, Roth IRA, any loose change you have lying around, whatever cash you can get your hands on, I can promise you a 30% return of your investment in just 1 year.
RBS
102 | Blind Frog Belly White Mar 9, 2015 7:58:55pm |
re: #97 Kragar
TL full of “Obama is about to be impeached” pipe dreams
“Any day now! Just wait! It’ll happen, starting right……NOW! Okay, how about ……NOW!”
103 | RealityBasedSteve Mar 9, 2015 8:00:31pm |
re: #102 Blind Frog Belly White
“Any day now! Just wait! It’ll happen, starting right……NOW! Okay, how about ……NOW!”
They are just waiting for Sheriff Joe and his Cold Case Posse to release their “Universe Shattering Proof”. Should be any day now….
104 | calochortus Mar 9, 2015 8:00:52pm |
re: #102 Blind Frog Belly White
“Any day now! Just wait! It’ll happen, starting right……NOW! Okay, how about ……NOW!”
Maybe they’ll have time to take care of it in 2017?
105 | Blind Frog Belly White Mar 9, 2015 8:01:22pm |
re: #100 RealityBasedSteve
Perhaps I can interest you in a tremendous investment opportunity. If you send me all your 401k, Roth IRA, any loose change you have lying around, whatever cash you can get your hands on, I can promise you a 30% return of your investment in just 1 year.
RBS
Screw that. Tell me about GOLD!!!!
///
106 | RealityBasedSteve Mar 9, 2015 8:03:32pm |
re: #104 calochortus
Maybe they’ll have time to take care of it in 2017?
Hey… WND is already doing the “What if Obama doesn’t leave the White House after his term is up…. just asking” BS already. If I were him, (and thank all that you hold holy I’m not the President), I pull the driver out of the limo, tell Michelle and the girls “Buckle up tight and hold on!!!”, then leave a burnout the length of the driveway to get out of there.
RBS
107 | Blind Frog Belly White Mar 9, 2015 8:03:48pm |
re: #103 RealityBasedSteve
They are just waiting for Sheriff Joe and his Cold Case Posse to release their “Universe Shattering Proof”. Should be any day now….
Where’s the Kaboom Proof? There was supposed to be an Earth Universe Shattering Kaboom Proof!!
108 | TedStriker Mar 9, 2015 8:03:59pm |
re: #7 Charles Johnson
If you haven’t seen last night’s episode of The Walking Dead, this is kinda sorta a spoiler, so don’t watch if you DVR’ed it for later. But this scene was just awesome. This is why I love this show.
Carol tells little Sam a bedtime story he probably isn’t going to forget.
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That’s some hardcore, cold-blooded mindfucking right there.
109 | William Barnett-Lewis Mar 9, 2015 8:05:29pm |
re: #98 Kid A
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That’s another rat fucker who should have had to spend the rest of his life making big rocks into little rocks at Ft. Leavenworth. Fucking disgrace to everyone who ever wore a US uniform.
110 | Blind Frog Belly White Mar 9, 2015 8:05:50pm |
re: #106 RealityBasedSteve
Hey… WND is already doing the “What if Obama doesn’t leave the White House after his term is up…. just asking” BS already. If I were him, (and thank all that you hold holy I’m not the President), I pull the driver out of the limo, tell Michelle and the girls “Buckle up tight and hold on!!!”, then leave a burnout the length of the driveway to get out of there.
RBS
And I got just the car for it…
111 | psddluva4evah Mar 9, 2015 8:06:17pm |
Welp…VP BIden is PISSED!!
Biden issued a statement on the 47 GOP Senators who wrote the letters to Iran.
Damning statement by @VP on #GOP #Iran letter. Stops just short of calling it treason - “longtime foreign adversary” pic.twitter.com/r9jqRGLnJ5— Jon Williams (@WilliamsJon) March 10, 2015
112 | The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Mar 9, 2015 8:07:44pm |
re: #89 Nyet
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I am really puzzled by all these right-wing Putinistas. If they had one thing in common before, it was an insane fear of the Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight KGB. Now they can’t get enough ex-KGB Czar.
113 | thedopefishlives Mar 9, 2015 8:08:48pm |
re: #111 psddluva4evah
I don’t think Mr. Vice President quite understands the situation. They don’t want a diplomatic resolution or any viable alternative. They want to nuke themselves some bitches, to hell with world peace. They think if they fight their holy wars hard enough, White American Jesus will approve when they die.
114 | Blind Frog Belly White Mar 9, 2015 8:09:57pm |
re: #113 thedopefishlives
I don’t think Mr. Vice President quite understands the situation. They don’t want a diplomatic resolution or any viable alternative. They want to nuke themselves some bitches, to hell with world peace. They think if they fight their holy wars hard enough, White American Jesus will approve when they die.
I think you’re giving them FAR too much credit for thinking ahead.
115 | Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing Mar 9, 2015 8:13:08pm |
re: #3 Charles Johnson
Meanwhile, tech news site Gigaom is going under: gigaom.com
Well that fucking sucks. I knew a couple of the journos there who were prolific (Mathew Ingram being one). I hope they all land safely. IIRC, Om had moved on to other things.
116 | goddamnedfrank Mar 9, 2015 8:14:16pm |
If you spend your time thinking about your daughter showering at @PlanetFitness then you'd best not throw stones, bro. @jmattbarber— Photonic Gaucho (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2015
It was about seeing transgender folk in the “wrong” locker room as a threat, and an implied solicitation of violence against them. @kittoms— Photonic Gaucho (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2015
This dude got the message loud and clear. https://t.co/T9EpkBTOb1 @kittoms— Photonic Gaucho (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2015
@jmattbarber @LilianaRose001 @PlanetFitness I'd knock all his teeth out and then tell him to stay away from my daughter….— Bill Ollman (@BillOllman) March 10, 2015
117 | Nyet Mar 9, 2015 8:14:32pm |
re: #112 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I am really puzzled by all these right-wing Putinistas. If they had one thing in common before, it was an insane fear of the
Gang That Couldn’t Shoot StraightKGB. Now they’d can’t get enough ex-KGB Czar.
The one who coddles Islamists, too.
118 | #FergusonFireside Mar 9, 2015 8:15:00pm |
re: #108 TedStriker
That’s some hardcore, cold-blooded mindfucking right there.
I’m re-watching & just saw it. Reanalyzed it. The epitome of survival.
119 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 8:16:32pm |
Remember when the #GOP loved making deals with Iran? pic.twitter.com/8AJP1dz2RV— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 10, 2015
120 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 8:19:49pm |
I’m re-watching & just saw it. Reanalyzed it. The epitome of survival.
Pretty sure the kid would need a change of shorts after that.
121 | Charles Johnson Mar 9, 2015 8:22:42pm |
Oh noez. A Holocaust denying piece of shit doesn't like me. Somehow I'll find the strength to carry on anyway. https://t.co/EhlJFlR88I— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 10, 2015
122 | Nyet Mar 9, 2015 8:24:15pm |
re: #121 Charles Johnson
Holocaust denial is one of his lesser sins. He’s a straight-up neo-Nazi.
123 | Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing Mar 9, 2015 8:26:38pm |
In IRL news, I ripped up my lesson plans for the week and showed the first part of “Freedom Riders” to my class today. We’ll watch the rest later this week. Again, thanks to whoever rec’d it.
124 | Nyet Mar 9, 2015 8:27:13pm |
re: #121 Charles Johnson
JFYI, Linder defended Chuck on his site:
On the media front, jews are attacking CMC graduate Charles C. Johnson of GotNews because he revealed the name of “Jackie” the disturbed rape-liar in Virginia. Of course, what they really dislike is seeing their own jewish liar #SabrinaRubinErdely exposed. So her fellow jews attack Johnson with lies, and he threatens to sue. That was afoot early 12-12-14 on the twitter wires. The funny thing is that jew Erdely went to school with is and is same year (‘94) as fellow jew liar Stephen Glass, the story-concocter at The New Republic, as portrayed in the excellent movie “Shattered Glass” (my 2004 review at the link).
126 | thedopefishlives Mar 9, 2015 8:28:50pm |
127 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 8:29:36pm |
@lawhawk @Kragar_LGF @SenatorReid @JM_Ashby #Congress is a Co-Equal Branch of Gov't having Advise and Consent Rights Concerning Treaties— Bob Wirt (@BobWirt8SF) March 10, 2015
@Kragar_LGF @lawhawk @SenatorReid @JM_Ashby Actually it is a reminder to #Iran & @JohnKerry that Force of Law comes only w/ #Senate Approval— Bob Wirt (@BobWirt8SF) March 10, 2015
@Kragar_LGF @lawhawk @SenatorReid @JM_Ashby >@GOP is a Political Party & didn't sign anything: #Senate asserted it's Constitutional Rights— Bob Wirt (@BobWirt8SF) March 10, 2015
The letter was not signed by the Senate. It was signed by #GOP Senators, for political points @BobWirt8SF @lawhawk @SenatorReid @JM_Ashby— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 10, 2015
129 | retired cynic Mar 9, 2015 8:31:28pm |
re: #127 Kragar
That sounds like that river in Egypt, again!
130 | goddamnedfrank Mar 9, 2015 8:32:02pm |
re: #128 Nyet
And Chuck follows him, because (again) of course he does.
131 | Nyet Mar 9, 2015 8:33:42pm |
Just found this oldie at VNN by a demented denier:
If the winner of THE FINAL SOLUTION FORENSIC CHALLENGE does so by way of the “huge mass grave” of Sobibor, then nafcash will donate $5,000.00 in the winners name to The Sobibor Archaeology Project if said winner can also prove that Sobibors alleged “giant mountain of human ash” is actually comprised of human ash.
Please note: The only people who are currently eligible for the Sobibor bonus reward are: Andrzej Kola, Michael Shermer, Alex Grobman, Andrew Mathias, Roberto Muehlenkamp, Jonathan Harrison, Nick Terry and Sergey Romanov.
132 | goddamnedfrank Mar 9, 2015 8:33:59pm |
You’re publishing your autobiography? @ChuckCJohnson— Photonic Gaucho (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2015
133 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 8:34:00pm |
re: #129 retired cynic
That sounds like that river in Egypt, again!
The fact that they are senators does not give them authority to undermine US negotiations @BobWirt8SF @lawhawk @SenatorReid @JM_Ashby— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 10, 2015
They could choose not to ratify a treaty, but this letter overstepped their authority @BobWirt8SF @lawhawk @SenatorReid @JM_Ashby— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 10, 2015
134 | jaunte Mar 9, 2015 8:35:37pm |
135 | teleskiguy Mar 9, 2015 8:35:39pm |
re: #124 Nyet
UpChuck will never denounce these worthless humans. Motherfucker is out as backward-ass white trash with seething hate in his heart, a walking talking (and fucking tweeting) devolution of the species.
And boy, his followers are dumber than a box of shit. I apologize to the kitty cats out there who may think their boxes of shit aren’t that dumb.
136 | teleskiguy Mar 9, 2015 8:38:10pm |
Congressman from Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District:
47 Republican Senators have aligned themselves with Iran's hard-liners… who would have thought?— Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) March 10, 2015
137 | #FergusonFireside Mar 9, 2015 8:40:35pm |
re: #123 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing
In IRL news, I ripped up my lesson plans for the week and showed the first part of “Freedom Riders” to my class today. We’ll watch the rest later this week. Again, thanks to whoever rec’d it.
Kudos. Major kudos. XXXXXOOOOO
It is upon US to change this racist country.
139 | Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing Mar 9, 2015 8:44:12pm |
Kudos. Major kudos. XXXXXOOOOO
It is upon US to change this racist country.
The interesting thing is, only one (out of 25) had heard of the Freedom Riders. It’s a mixed racial group, and I have a bunch of questions for them to think about. Before we watched, I explained that even though we had the Bill of Rights and the Civil War, minorities were still being denied their rights in the 60s, and if we couldn’t face the bad parts of our history, we wouldn’t be able to achieve the ultimate good in the future.
There were some brutal scenes in that first 45 minutes. I know what the second part holds, but it still makes me wince.
140 | Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing Mar 9, 2015 8:45:33pm |
On another note, read about the SAE chapter in Oklahoma on another thread earlier today and saw the lynching photos on Daily Kos. Ugh. I can’t even with such hatred.
141 | teleskiguy Mar 9, 2015 8:48:13pm |
RT if you love #Puppies + #Powder (Pic today @skiheavenly) pic.twitter.com/kPhFop8xzs
142 | #FergusonFireside Mar 9, 2015 8:49:55pm |
re: #139 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing
The interesting thing is, only one (out of 25) had heard of the Freedom Riders. It’s a mixed racial group, and I have a bunch of questions for them to think about. Before we watched, I explained that even though we had the Bill of Rights and the Civil War, minorities were still being denied their rights in the 60s, and if we couldn’t face the bad parts of our history, we wouldn’t be able to achieve the ultimate good in the future.
There were some brutal scenes in that first 45 minutes. I know what the second part holds, but it still makes me wince.
I had a major conversation with my 78 year old Mother tonight. She watches the news so knows the basics. I emailed her the DOJ report and requested she read it. She is aghast, she thought the 1960’s marches settled it.
I calmly, quietly, succinctly explained to her White Privilege. She got it so well.
Talk to everyone, explain to everyone. We have the bullhorn at the moment. Use it.
143 | #FergusonFireside Mar 9, 2015 8:51:54pm |
re: #140 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing
On another note, read about the SAE chapter in Oklahoma on another thread earlier today and saw the lynching photos on Daily Kos. Ugh. I can’t even with such hatred.
Read this, from the 2nd black SAE member. And as he says it, the last.
“There will never be another Black S-A-E” - Will James on his former fraternity: http://t.co/vxRr5KMlTS
— Ethan Zuckerman (@EthanZ) March 10, 2015
144 | GlutenFreeJesus Mar 9, 2015 8:53:30pm |
re: #116 goddamnedfrank
@BillOllman @jmattbarber @LilianaRose001 @PlanetFitness why are you in the shower with your daughter?— efuseakay (@efuseakay) March 10, 2015
145 | Nyet Mar 9, 2015 8:54:35pm |
So I’m reading about how the Nazis turned Germany from the physics Mecca of the first third of the 20th century into the asylum for the tragicomic deutsche Physik. The champions of this monstrosity were two Nobel laureates, Lenard and Stark, who were bitter at Einstein et al. because their brains apparently refused to accept the new revolutionary ideas, so the geniuses (sarcasm both off & on) simply branded the relativity theory as “the Jewish lie”. Later though their influence waned because the “German physics” was quite simply not in accord with facts, and no matter how ideologically correct it was, it couldn’t deliver any results.
archive.org has an interesting transcript of a debate between Lenard and Einstein that took place in 1920, long before Lenard gained power.
146 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 8:56:22pm |
Just so that we're perfectly clear on this, you're a complete fucking idiot @BigKahuna919191— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 10, 2015
147 | Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing Mar 9, 2015 9:01:06pm |
I had a major conversation with my 78 year old Mother tonight. She watches the news so knows the basics. I emailed her the DOJ report and requested she read it. She is aghast, she thought the 1960’s marches settled it.
I calmly, quietly, succinctly explained to her White Privilege. She got it so well.
Talk to everyone, explain to everyone. We have the bullhorn at the moment. Use it.
i grew up under forced busing back in the 80s in Texas, when a federal judge basically told the school district what was up. My step-father used the N word extensively and said he’d disown any daughter who brought home a black suitor. Since then, they’ve voted for Obama twice, but old racist habits die hard, and I sometimes have to push back. I think they’d align with the protestors in Ferguson, but I haven’t actually broached the subject yet.
The one thing I did really like (I hate to use the word enjoy here) about Freedom Riders was the courage of all the riders - black and white - against pure evil. This wasn’t make believe, it wasn’t some far-away force, this was bats and guns and fire and all kinds of shit raining down on their heads. I still shake my head just thinking about the courage of those college students.
148 | Belafon Mar 9, 2015 9:03:46pm |
re: #144 GlutenFreeJesus
I don’t ever expect to get an answer:
@BillOllman @jmattbarber @LilianaRose001 @PlanetFitness And what would you do if some man punched your transgender daughter?
— Lonnie Mask (@LonnieMask) March 10, 2015
149 | BeachDem Mar 9, 2015 9:04:03pm |
re: #123 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing
In IRL news, I ripped up my lesson plans for the week and showed the first part of “Freedom Riders” to my class today. We’ll watch the rest later this week. Again, thanks to whoever rec’d it.
Raises hand, smiles, applauds wildly and says, “Yay Rev Arthur Icantbreathing.” You are a gentleman AND a scholar, and your students will thank you for years to come for sharing it with them. (Don’t forget, “Freedom Summer” is by the same production folks, and is equally riveting.)
150 | BeachDem Mar 9, 2015 9:07:22pm |
re: #139 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing
The interesting thing is, only one (out of 25) had heard of the Freedom Riders. It’s a mixed racial group, and I have a bunch of questions for them to think about. Before we watched, I explained that even though we had the Bill of Rights and the Civil War, minorities were still being denied their rights in the 60s, and if we couldn’t face the bad parts of our history, we wouldn’t be able to achieve the ultimate good in the future.
There were some brutal scenes in that first 45 minutes. I know what the second part holds, but it still makes me wince.
How old are your students?
151 | Belafon Mar 9, 2015 9:11:18pm |
I watched Steven Universe and Gravity Falls today. Between those and Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Gumball, I am once again jealous of my kids.
152 | Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing Mar 9, 2015 9:12:28pm |
re: #150 BeachDem
How old are your students?
College freshmen. I know.
ETA: I even told them I ripped up the lesson plans because this was too important. I hope they catch the message.
153 | Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing Mar 9, 2015 9:13:46pm |
re: #149 BeachDem
Raises hand, smiles, applauds wildly and says, “Yay Rev Arthur Icantbreathing.” You are a gentleman AND a scholar, and your students will thank you for years to come for sharing it with them. (Don’t forget, “Freedom Summer” is by the same production folks, and is equally riveting.)
I haven’t worked through Freedom Summer yet. I can only take so much at a time. ;)
154 | Charles Johnson Mar 9, 2015 9:23:54pm |
Chuck is really getting crazy tonight.
The U.S. & Israel should be more like Russia's Putin & kill adversaries without asking permission. That's the only path to respect. #Iran— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) March 10, 2015
@MJosephSheppard Not exactly what happened. I know we want to believe the fairy tale but the whites didn't want the blacks to get the bomb.— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) March 10, 2015
155 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 9:26:29pm |
re: #154 Charles Johnson
Wait, is Chuck trying to say Obama isn’t a tyrant worse than Hitler or Stalin?
///
157 | BeachDem Mar 9, 2015 9:29:41pm |
re: #153 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing
I haven’t worked through Freedom Summer yet. I can only take so much at a time. ;)
Maybe toward the end of the school year—show them how some 19-20 year olds spent their summer in 1964. (You can even play Tom Paxton’s Goodman and Schwerner and Chaney for a musical interlude)
158 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 9, 2015 9:30:01pm |
UpChuck is up to his old tricks and doxxing a student at UC-Irvine about that flag thing.
gotnwes.com responds:
BREAKING: Mexican-American UC-Irvine student belongs to secession group — no, not that one
What a complete nontroversy. The student legislature voted to take a US flag down, then the student exec council vetoed that, and the flag is back up. It was inside the student government building, and not even outside on public display.
But flag fetishists get all worked up about this stuff, especially when scary brown people get worked up about the flag.
159 | Lidane Mar 9, 2015 9:38:04pm |
I can’t decide if I’m amused by all the RWNJs defending those GOP Senators and their damn near treasonous letter because IT’S JUST A LETTER U GUISE! AND LETTERS = SPEECH! or if I want to reach through my monitor and punch people.
If 47 Democratic Senators had written a letter like that when Dubya was in office the GOP would’ve drafted legislation to ship them all to Gitmo.
160 | teleskiguy Mar 9, 2015 9:38:26pm |
Holy hell you're a fucking idiot. @ChuckCJohnson— INDY Conservatarian (@TheINDYpundit) March 10, 2015
When you’ve lost the “conservatarian” thinkers…
161 | Amory Blaine Mar 9, 2015 9:38:37pm |
re: #64 #FergusonFireside
You can say it. :P
Wisconsin has gone crazy!
162 | retired cynic Mar 9, 2015 9:42:08pm |
re: #159 Lidane
I can’t decide if I’m amused by all the RWNJs defending those GOP Senators and their damn near treasonous letter because IT’S JUST A LETTER U GUISE! AND LETTERS = SPEECH! or if I want to reach through my monitor and punch people.
If 47 Democratic Senators had written a letter like that when Dubya was in office the GOP would’ve drafted legislation to ship them all to Gitmo.
Punch.
163 | Eclectic Cyborg Mar 9, 2015 9:42:28pm |
164 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 9:43:13pm |
I wrote this days ago, but @ChuckCJohnson is beyond parody @joshtpm pic.twitter.com/4Kty9KMiZy— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 10, 2015
165 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 9, 2015 9:46:26pm |
166 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 9, 2015 9:46:54pm |
re: #163 Eclectic Cyborg
I am so stealing this.
167 | Lidane Mar 9, 2015 9:47:58pm |
OK. Total Mac n00b question — how the hell do I edit and crop screen shots? I have about a dozen of them to go through and add to a client report and I have no idea what I’m doing.
I’m half tempted to email them all to myself and use my Dell laptop to do it instead of this MacBook from work, but I figure I actually need to know this shit. Help would be appreciated. :)
168 | klys (maker of Silmarils) Mar 9, 2015 9:48:43pm |
Oh hey wheat, is there a photo sharing site that works for sharing photos to folks in China? I posted harp pictures and I’d like to be able to send to your student as well (along with a few others) but I am unsure what links might possibly work.
169 | klys (maker of Silmarils) Mar 9, 2015 9:49:57pm |
re: #167 Lidane
I don’t know if you have Keynote on there, but here’s one person who does screenshot editing as a marketer in Keynote.
170 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 9, 2015 9:50:00pm |
re: #168 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Oh hey wheat, is there a photo sharing site that works for sharing photos to folks in China? I posted harp pictures and I’d like to be able to send to your student as well (along with a few others) but I am unsure what links might possibly work.
Flickr seems to work OK.
171 | klys (maker of Silmarils) Mar 9, 2015 9:51:17pm |
re: #170 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality
Flickr seems to work OK.
That is good to know. I figure some of the English I am throwing at her might be better explained with a picture or two. :)
174 | Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing Mar 9, 2015 10:25:53pm |
re: #167 Lidane
OK. Total Mac n00b question — how the hell do I edit and crop screen shots? I have about a dozen of them to go through and add to a client report and I have no idea what I’m doing.
I’m half tempted to email them all to myself and use my Dell laptop to do it instead of this MacBook from work, but I figure I actually need to know this shit. Help would be appreciated. :)
Open in preview then select the area you want and command - K. (crop under Tools)
175 | teleskiguy Mar 9, 2015 10:27:20pm |
Caption contest! Here’s mine: “The seat doesn’t move around like AfterBurner!”
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un watches a Korean People's Army (KPA) Air Force officer operate a flight simulator pic.twitter.com/wryi3ItJ6t— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) March 10, 2015
176 | Amory Blaine Mar 9, 2015 10:33:58pm |
re: #175 teleskiguy
“I’m sorry sir. ‘Butcherboi666’ is taken”
177 | Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing Mar 9, 2015 10:48:48pm |
re: #169 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I don’t know if you have Keynote on there, but here’s one person who does screenshot editing as a marketer in Keynote.
And for FS, don’t use any presentation app (Keynote and PowerPoint, both) unless you absolutely have to.
178 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 9, 2015 11:02:24pm |
re: #177 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing
And for FS, don’t use any presentation app (Keynote and PowerPoint, both) unless you absolutely have to.
Alas, PowerPoint is de rigueur for presentations and lectures in education, especially in China. Educators latched onto the latest, greatest thing back in the 1980s and never let go. I’ve lost count of how many truly awful PPT lectures I’ve attended or had to grade as a teacher.
For some assignments, I have to specifically tell my students here no PPTs, or else they’ll recycle something from the Internet Archive of Bad PPTs That Should Have Been Nuked Years Ago.
179 | Targetpractice Mar 9, 2015 11:02:27pm |
So I missed the Apple presentation, but is the Apple Watch really as ridiculous as it sounds? You have to have an iPhone to get the most of out it, meaning what they’re getting ready to sell is a $350 accessory for your $400 phone?
180 | Higgs Boson's Mate Mar 9, 2015 11:03:23pm |
re: #175 teleskiguy
Caption contest! Here’s mine: “The seat doesn’t move around like AfterBurner!”
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“But, Glorious Leader, this screen will never fit into the cockpit!”
181 | Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing Mar 9, 2015 11:03:31pm |
re: #179 Targetpractice
So I missed the Apple presentation, but is the Apple Watch really as ridiculous as it sounds? You have to have an iPhone to get the most of out it, meaning what they’re getting ready to sell is a $350 accessory for your $400 phone?
Not only that, there’s apparently a $10,000 gold watch!
182 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 9, 2015 11:03:40pm |
re: #179 Targetpractice
So I missed the Apple presentation, but is the Apple Watch really as ridiculous as it sounds? You have to have an iPhone to get the most of out it, meaning what they’re getting ready to sell is a $350 accessory for your $400 phone?
And yet, people will buy them. O_o
183 | teleskiguy Mar 9, 2015 11:04:22pm |
re: #179 Targetpractice
So I missed the Apple presentation, but is the Apple Watch really as ridiculous as it sounds?
The Onion does the hard-hitting reporting.
The new Apple Watch features adjustable ticking volume | More Features: http://t.co/D71vf1Xais pic.twitter.com/YiXW4JeWxf— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 9, 2015
184 | Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing Mar 9, 2015 11:06:06pm |
re: #182 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality
And yet, people will buy them. O_o
This is where I step off the Apple gadget bandwagon. I have an iPhone, and iPod, and iPad (1st gen) and have always used Apple lappies, but this shit is ridiculous, and I can’t even wear a watch because I break out into hives while wearing one. WTF would I want to keep that going?
185 | Targetpractice Mar 9, 2015 11:09:11pm |
re: #182 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality
And yet, people will buy them. O_o
No doubt. After all, there are plenty of nutters out there who line up on the block to buy a new iPhone the day it comes out, then piss and moan because all the technical issues haven’t been ironed out.
I thought the whole point of “smartwatches” was that they were to be a replacement for your phone, not an overpriced accessory for your overpriced phone.
186 | Timothy Watson Mar 9, 2015 11:10:55pm |
re: #178 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality
Alas, PowerPoint is de rigueur for presentations and lectures in education, especially in China. Educators latched onto the latest, greatest thing back in the 1980s and never let go. I’ve lost count of how many truly awful PPT lectures I’ve attended or had to grade as a teacher.
For some assignments, I have to specifically tell my students here no PPTs, or else they’ll recycle something from the Internet Archive of Bad PPTs That Should Have Been Nuked Years Ago.
Students in American universities aren’t much better when they do presentations and I really wish some of the professors would give zeroes if they do death by PowerPoint: I can read the slide just as well as you, thank you very much, I don’t need you to read it to me while making absolutely no eye contact with me.
187 | Higgs Boson's Mate Mar 9, 2015 11:12:25pm |
re: #179 Targetpractice
So I missed the Apple presentation, but is the Apple Watch really as ridiculous as it sounds? You have to have an iPhone to get the most of out it, meaning what they’re getting ready to sell is a $350 accessory for your $400 phone?
The Sport is $350, the next one up is $549 and the Edition is $10,000 and up. I can’t see paying even $350 so that I don’t have to pull my phone out of my pocket to answer it. That said, the thing will probably be a must-have for Apple fanbois.
188 | teleskiguy Mar 9, 2015 11:12:58pm |
re: #185 Targetpractice
After all, there are plenty of nutters out there who line up on the block to buy a new iPhone the day it comes out,
The Onion covered this splendidly in 2012.
189 | Amory Blaine Mar 9, 2015 11:14:16pm |
I see the appeal of a watch coupled with a tiny earpiece replacing the cell phone, but we ain’t there yet.
190 | Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing Mar 9, 2015 11:15:14pm |
re: #188 teleskiguy
The Onion covered this splendidly in 2012.
AKA, Megan McCardle. What has become of her, anyway?
(disclaimer: I have an iPhone 4S that I bought from a friend for $100, contract-free).
192 | Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing Mar 9, 2015 11:16:26pm |
re: #186 Timothy Watson
Students in American universities aren’t much better when they do presentations and I really wish some of the professors would give zeroes if they do death by PowerPoint: I can read the slide just as well as you, thank you very much, I don’t need you to read it to me while making absolutely no eye contact with me.
I wish they’d actually show how to do a proper presentation including PPT or Keynote. It’s not rocket surgery.
193 | Targetpractice Mar 9, 2015 11:18:18pm |
re: #189 Amory Blaine
I see the appeal of a watch coupled with a tiny earpiece replacing the cell phone, but we ain’t there yet.
The whole appeal to me was of being able to replace your cellphone and watch with one device that could do all the functions of both. But it seems that Apple and other phone manufacturers see money to be made in selling people a phone and a watch that cost three figures apiece.
194 | Higgs Boson's Mate Mar 9, 2015 11:19:59pm |
re: #185 Targetpractice
No doubt. After all, there are plenty of nutters out there who line up on the block to buy a new iPhone the day it comes out, then piss and moan because all the technical issues haven’t been ironed out.
I thought the whole point of “smartwatches” was that they were to be a replacement for your phone, not an overpriced accessory for your overpriced phone.
If Apple came up with an iSomething that had to be surgically implanted in a hole drilled in your skull there are plenty of people who would buy that if a large Apple emblem would show through their hair.
195 | teleskiguy Mar 9, 2015 11:25:43pm |
re: #194 Higgs Boson’s Mate
If Apple came up with an iSomething that had to be surgically implanted in a hole drilled in your skull there are plenty of people who would buy that if a large Apple emblem would show through their hair.
Ah Futurama! Highly underrated, that television program.
196 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 11:28:54pm |
re: #194 Higgs Boson’s Mate
If Apple came up with an iSomething that had to be surgically implanted in a hole drilled in your skull there are plenty of people who would buy that if a large Apple emblem would show through their hair.
Sounds like the old Cyberpunk 2020 game.
197 | klys (maker of Silmarils) Mar 9, 2015 11:43:47pm |
re: #178 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality
Alas, PowerPoint is de rigueur for presentations and lectures in education, especially in China. Educators latched onto the latest, greatest thing back in the 1980s and never let go. I’ve lost count of how many truly awful PPT lectures I’ve attended or had to grade as a teacher.
For some assignments, I have to specifically tell my students here no PPTs, or else they’ll recycle something from the Internet Archive of Bad PPTs That Should Have Been Nuked Years Ago.
There’s a lot of people who give bad presentations.
With or without Powerpoint.
I don’t blame the tool for the fact that a lot of people don’t know how to give a good presentation.
I remain eternally grateful that science has been able to move beyond transparencies.
198 | Kragar Mar 9, 2015 11:56:27pm |
.@ChuckCJohnson Yes, I make scatological jokes, but you make scatological messes on the floor.— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) March 10, 2015
199 | Kragar Mar 10, 2015 12:05:57am |
If @ChuckCJohnson were a filmmaker, Coleman Francis and Ed Wood would have someone to look down on. @FrankConniff— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 10, 2015
200 | Kragar Mar 10, 2015 12:23:09am |
201 | goddamnedfrank Mar 10, 2015 2:07:15am |
It’s official, Chuck has officially joined the Neoreactionary movement.
I joined #NRx for the same reason I left the left: when I asked questions the HBD crowd tried to answer them & didn't call me a racist.— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) March 10, 2015
The trick for #NRx will be to build companies that reflect human biodiversity reality.— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) March 10, 2015
He’s basically saying that there will be a preferred career path for every race. But don’t you dare call him a racist or supremacist.
202 | Dr Lizardo Mar 10, 2015 2:14:42am |
203 | Kragar Mar 10, 2015 2:14:59am |
re: #201 goddamnedfrank
Neoreactionaries are the latest in a long line of intellectuals who somehow think that their chosen authoritarian thugs wouldn’t put them up against the wall. Possibly using sheer volume of words as a bulletproof shield.[2] Or that they are somehow too competent, virtuous and useful to end up one of the serfs.
Many neoreactionaries were former libertarians; founder Mencius Moldbug describes his own journey as “from Mises to Carlyle” via Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a “libertarian” who pushed feudalism as his desired end state.[3] It’s ideal for soi-disant libertarians who realise they don’t actually like freedom for others all that much.
The movement is largely insignificant and mostly an object of curiosity (one must hope it remains this way), though it has attracted some racists of the pseudo-intellectual variety.
204 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 2:17:55am |
A nice semantic end-run, as “diversity” is supposed to be one of those inclusive, progressive terms, but these guys seem to mean it in the sense that “we humans are diverse, and some of us are better than others”.
205 | Kragar Mar 10, 2015 2:22:06am |
re: #201 goddamnedfrank
I can understand why you were attracted to it @ChuckCJohnson http://t.co/GUOriYsQR9 pic.twitter.com/oxprLxAIxb— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 10, 2015
206 | goddamnedfrank Mar 10, 2015 2:27:50am |
Neoreactionaries believe “The Cathedral,” is a meta-institution that consists largely of Harvard and other Ivy League schools, The New York Times and various civil servants. Anissimov calls it a “self-organizing consensus.” Sometimes the term is used synonymously with political correctness. The fundamental idea is that the Cathedral regulates our discussions enforces a set of norms as to what sorts of ideas are acceptable and how we view history — it controls the Overton window, in other words.The name comes from Yarvin’s idea that progressivism (and in his view, even today’s far right Republicans are progressive) is a religion, and that the media-academic-civil service complex punishes “heretical” views.
So what exactly is the Cathedral stopping neoreactionaries from talking about? Well, the merits of monarchy for starters. But mostly, as far as I can tell, they want to be able to say stuff like “Asians, Jews and whites are smarter than blacks and Hispanics because genetics” without being called racist. Or at least be able to express such views without the negative consequences of being labeled racist.
Speaking of which, neoreactionaries are obsessed with a concept called “human biodiversity” (HBD) — what used to be called “scientific racism.” Specifically, they believe that IQ is one of — if not the — most important personal traits, and that it’s predominately genetic. Neoreactionaries would replace, or supplement, the “divine right” of kings and the aristocracy with the “genetic right” of elites.
To call these claims “controversial” would be putting it lightly, but they underpin much of anti-egalitarian and pro-traditionalist claims neoreactionaries make. Delving into the scientific debate over race, genetics and IQ is beyond the scope of this article, but I’ve included some links on the topic in the reading list.
It’s not hard to see why this ideology would catch-on with white male geeks. It tells them that they are the natural rulers of the world, but that they are simultaneously being oppressed by a secret religious order. And the more media attention is paid to workplace inequality, gentrification and the wealth gap, the more their bias is confirmed. And the more the neoreactionaries and techbros act out, the more the media heat they bring.
In reality “The Cathedral” is just people who ask themselves “How can we make society better for everyone and not be gigantic douchebags?” #NRx is the natural next evolution of modern conservatism, a gigantic openly racist regression to an old and outmoded social order. One primarily constructed on a race and class based aristocracy wrapped in a thin patina of pseudo-scientific total bullshit.
207 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 2:55:43am |
Arrghh. So I wake up to find out Tom Cotton is going to be on Morning Slow. Mika’s reaction: That’s going to be goood!
Enjoy your money, Mika, because you have no integrity.
208 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 2:59:52am |
Some good news on the ISIL front:
Iraqi security forces start military operation to liberate Tikrit from Islamic State militants - @NBCNews
end of alert
Around 95 captives, including 30 Kurdish fighters, escape Islamic State-run prison in north Syria - @Reuters
end of alert
No wonder ISIL wants to recruit westerners. Those in the danger zone know exactly what they’re capable of and refuse to join in the genocide.
209 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 3:05:14am |
Talk about someone who doesn’t understand the Constitution, cont.
Tom Cotton Denies GOP Letter Undermines Iran Nuclear Talks
Jesus, you have to listen to this interview with Jonathan Karl (yeah, that guy). And to think that the moron Cotton is going to be in office for the next six years. Ambition and ignorance are a deadly combination.
210 | Dr Lizardo Mar 10, 2015 3:29:57am |
re: #209 Justanotherhuman
Talk about someone who doesn’t understand the Constitution, cont.
Tom Cotton Denies GOP Letter Undermines Iran Nuclear Talks
Jesus, you have to listen to this interview with Jonathan Karl (yeah, that guy). And to think that the moron Cotton is going to be in office for the next six years. Ambition and ignorance are a deadly combination.
Reminds me of the quote from Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord:
I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent — their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy — they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent — he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.
211 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 3:31:30am |
The Iranians are just having a good laugh and figuring how to exploit the discord and dysfunctionality of the US government to further their own ends.
But the letter was mainly directed at a domestic audience: the modern GOP is really ready to shoot itself in the foot rather do anything that can be seen as supporting or even cooperating with Obama.
212 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 3:31:58am |
re: #192 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing
I wish they’d actually show how to do a proper presentation including PPT or Keynote. It’s not rocket surgery.
More graphics, fewer words. KISS. (not the band)
213 | Dave In Austin Mar 10, 2015 3:35:16am |
Mom!!?!! @Morning_Joe is being a dick again!!— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) March 10, 2015
214 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 3:35:37am |
re: #212 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality
More graphics, fewer words. KISS. (not the band)
Yes, a .ppt with too much text is like a movie with too much interior monologue.
215 | goddamnedfrank Mar 10, 2015 3:40:54am |
I see you wanting to do a ton of shit that you’re utterly unqualified for. Get a science degree 1st, learn how pixels work. @ChuckCJohnson— Photonic Gaucho (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2015
We get it bro. You’re a creep who wants to hover a camera outside homes and video people on the toilet, to see how it works. @ChuckCJohnson— Photonic Gaucho (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2015
Seriously, that’s the only reason a civilian would want to have a “stealth” drone, to do really creepy shit.
216 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 3:41:53am |
re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
The Iranians are just having a good laugh and figuring how to exploit the discord and dysfunctionality of the US government to further their own ends.
But the letter was mainly directed at a domestic audience: the modern GOP is really ready to shoot itself in the foot rather do anything that can be seen as supporting or even cooperating with Obama.
It’s pretty rich that the Iranian foreign minister has to teach 47 US Senators what their Constitutional role in American government is. I even predicted that would be Iran’s reaction. I feel so smart now.
Dear 47 US Senators,
Thank you for your recent correspondence. We all had a big laugh at your joking around. ROFL.
But in case you were being serious, you might want to know that most of Iran’s cabinet has attended US or UK schools, and we know your Constitution pretty well. So, we know none of what you wrote makes any sense at all. So, it’s doubly funny.
Anyway, thanks for making our day.
All the best,
Your friends in Iran
217 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 3:41:57am |
re: #213 Dave In Austin
I’ll let you know if Cotton has rehearsed the same lines (he’s coming up on MS) as he did in the Karl interview. : )
218 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 3:42:42am |
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Yes, a .ppt with too much text is like a movie with too much interior monologue.
DUNE! (The 1984 Kyle McLachlan version)
219 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 3:46:35am |
re: #218 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality
DUNE! (The 1984 Kyle McLachlan version)
Just about what I had in mind. Although it was not so much the interior monologue that bothered as the notion that on a planet where water is more precious than blood, the hero’s hair always look freshly washed and blow-dried…
220 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 3:52:09am |
re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Just about what I had in mind. Although it was not so much the interior monologue that bothered as the notion that on a planet where water is more precious than blood, the hero’s hair always look freshly washed and blow-dried…
This is a problem with most any Hollywood movie. How do people wake up with their hair perfectly coiffed? How does Indy’s hat always stay on his head? How come 007 never gets his tux or Savile Row suit dirty?
I think it’s all a conspiracy. The haircare and clothing industries are holding onto secrets so they can extract money from us poor saps. /
221 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 3:54:11am |
Well, it’s not hard to figure out where Cotton is coming from—he quoted Netanyahu. They are mixing apples and oranges since they think all nuclear material is the same and want Iran to be totally “nuclear free”.
Some members of the Senate should be recalled just for their ignorant rhetoric, not to mention trying this end-run about the President they all despise and who’s smarter than the entire lot of them.
222 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 4:11:32am |
re: #221 Justanotherhuman
Well, it’s not hard to figure out where Cotton is coming from—he quoted Netanyahu. They are mixing apples and oranges since they think all nuclear material is the same and want Iran to be totally “nuclear free”.
Some members of the Senate should be recalled just for their ignorant rhetoric, not to mention trying this end-run about the President they all despise and who’s smarter than the entire lot of them.
It has all the elements of a Hollywood farce. Dumb and Dumberer Go to Washington.
223 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 4:15:15am |
Snowden gives Apple an ad boost. Maybe he’s hoping for one of the $10K watches?
Report: CIA researchers conducted multi-year effort to break security of Apple’s iPhones, iPads, according to documents obtained by Edward Snowden - @the_intercept
read more on firstlook.org
It’s OK if China or Russia or any other country does the same thing, though. Nothing to see at The Intercept, though, about this because the US is always the bad guy over there.
“Apple declined to comment for this story, instead pointing to previous comments Cook and the company have made defending Apple’s privacy record.”
224 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 4:24:32am |
GG is resorting to this RW commentary to draw more eyes and trying to insinuate that Dems tried to undercut Bush the same way Cotton & Co is trying to undermine a multi-national agreement w/Iran. The Logan Act? Really?
“Check what people were saying in 2007 when Pelosi “interfered” in Bush’s foreign policy by meeting with Assad hotair.com …”
Pretty soon GG will be linking to Upchuck who is more like his own ideology—total shithead.
225 | Lidane Mar 10, 2015 4:25:18am |
Iran letter could backfire, GOP dissenters say. http://t.co/O6hsUnZAzq— POLITICO (@politico) March 10, 2015
With Republicans needing significant Democratic support to achieve their goal of derailing the talks — or at least altering the emerging deal — some senators said Cotton’s effort could backfire by injecting excessive partisanship into the debate over how best to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker said he was approached to sign the letter by Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, but he concluded it might set back his ultimate goal: veto-proof support for a bill he has sponsored requiring a congressional vote to approve or reject an Iran deal.
226 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 4:28:04am |
Well, well, well. Look who Cotton is speaking to today:
Theme
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Event Number
5LD3
Event Date
3/10/2015 to 3/10/2015
Event Location
The Army and Navy Club
Event Contact
Mrs. Christy J. Mason, CMP at cmason@ndia.org or (703)247-2586
227 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 4:30:32am |
re: #226 Justanotherhuman
Oh, and BTW:
“All remarks are Off the Record and strictly Non-Attribution.”
228 | goddamnedfrank Mar 10, 2015 4:30:54am |
Dear Apple, it’s 2015, figure out how to let us merge IDs. Stop saying it can’t be done and just use some of that $10K watch know-how to solve this bullshit. I get that it’ll be a bit messy and irreversible, but lots of your users want it so just fucking do it already.
229 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 4:33:51am |
re: #225 Lidane
Can they please say it louder and have it read into the Congressional Record as well as on teh TV?
How about sanctioning those who signed the letter? Put some damned teeth into your words.
230 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 4:36:40am |
231 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 4:37:36am |
re: #227 Justanotherhuman
Oh, and BTW:
“All remarks are Off the Record and strictly Non-Attribution.”
Is it too much to hope someone will secretly tape it, and then release the tape into the wild?
232 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 4:39:18am |
Good luck with this. I mean, how does Wikipedia figure it has any standing? Are they going to name all their “volunteer editors” as plaintiffs as well?
///
Wikipedia to file lawsuit challenging mass surveillance by NSA
233 | goddamnedfrank Mar 10, 2015 4:40:31am |
She seems nice.
After crying on TV about never hearing n-word in the SAE house, a vine surfaced of the “house mom” with loose lips: https://t.co/L4xLIrMfa0— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) March 10, 2015
234 | The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Mar 10, 2015 4:40:48am |
“Gun Ownership Rate Hits Record Low”
235 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 4:46:19am |
re: #234 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
“Gun Ownership Rate Hits Record Low”
Guns are going the way of personal wealth in the USA: more and more of them are owned by fewer and fewer.
236 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 4:46:41am |
re: #234 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
So, fewer hunters and more guns concentrated in fewer hands.
What does that suggest? I think we know.
237 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 4:55:22am |
re: #236 Justanotherhuman
So, fewer hunters and more guns concentrated in fewer hands.
What does that suggest? I think we know.
A well regulated militia?
238 | Lidane Mar 10, 2015 4:58:00am |
re: #236 Justanotherhuman
So, fewer hunters and more guns concentrated in fewer hands.
What does that suggest? I think we know.
That Obama is destroying America one gun law at a time?
/////
239 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 5:02:50am |
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Ha. Unregulated, illegal “militias”. You know, those “sovereign citizen” types and others who actually are just fear-mongers who think they know more than the entirety of the country’s existence and actually think they could “overthrow” this govt and for what? Anarchy? Fascism in which they would be the “leaders” and have complete control?
240 | The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Mar 10, 2015 5:04:42am |
These gunfuckers would soil their underoos if they had any idea what the 18th-century military term of art “well-regulated” actually meant.
241 | Dark_Falcon Mar 10, 2015 5:05:23am |
re: #160 teleskiguy
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When you’ve lost the “conservatarian” thinkers…
UpChuck has lost everyone except the racist far-right. Mainstream conservatives won’t have anything to do with him. His irrationality and misogyny have made him a toxic pariah, as Goddamnfrank correctly called him
242 | goddamnedfrank Mar 10, 2015 5:06:02am |
re: #236 Justanotherhuman
So, fewer hunters and more guns concentrated in fewer hands.
What does that suggest? I think we know.
If things ever got bad in this country we would be hunting the SJWs for food.— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) March 10, 2015
Here’s the thing, having a lot of guns isn’t useful unless you have lots of hands, and last I checked most folk only come with two of those. People who are super into conservative gun rights bullshit only have so many friends or like minded people around them, because as stated, most people don’t own guns.
Therefore it doesn’t take very many outliers like me, liberals with a lot of guns, to act as force multipliers, able to arm the absolute fuck out of the hoards of like minded deliberate non-gun owners in any hypothetical crisis.
End result, ain’t nobody hunting their political enemies for food. Seriously, that’s just fucking retarded, who talks like that?
243 | Dark_Falcon Mar 10, 2015 5:10:15am |
re: #242 goddamnedfrank
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Here’s the thing, having a lot of guns isn’t useful unless you have lots of hands, and last I checked most folk only come with two of those. People who are super into conservative gun rights bullshit only have so many friends or like minded people around them, because as state, most people don’t own guns.
Therefore it doesn’t take very many outliers like me, liberals with a lot of guns, to act as force multipliers, able to arm the absolute fuck out of the hoards of like minded deliberate non-gun owners in any hypothetical crisis.
End result, ain’t nobody hunting their political enemies for food. Seriously, that’s just fucking retarded, who talks like that?
UpChuck apparently. The man’s now gotten to fantasies of killing and eating women. Somebody needs to have him committed before he kills a woman. Because I can clearly see him doing that.
244 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 5:12:06am |
re: #243 Dark_Falcon
UpChuck apparently. The man’s now gotten to fantasies of killing and eating women. Somebody needs to have him committed before he kills a woman. Because I can clearly see him doing that.
His wife, when she gets tired of supporting him and makes him go get a real job….
245 | goddamnedfrank Mar 10, 2015 5:12:37am |
re: #241 Dark_Falcon
UpChuck has lost everyone except the racist far-right. Mainstream conservatives won’t have anything to do with him. His irrationality and misogyny have made him a toxic pariah, as Goddamnfrank correctly called him
He may be a toxic pariah, but he’s always just one bullshit attack piece on a Dem away from being embraced again by much of the conservative media. Because that’s the nature of the modern right.
246 | Dark_Falcon Mar 10, 2015 5:14:34am |
re: #245 goddamnedfrank
He may be a toxic pariah, but he’s always just one bullshit attack piece on a Dem away from being embraced again by much of the conservative media. Because that’s the nature of the modern right.
I don’t agree on this one, Frank. It’s not his hateful politics, its his personal attacks. Chuckles has made too many enemies to be able to come back. When enough people despise you, it doesn’t matter what you say.
247 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 5:15:18am |
Between the RWNJ and the dudebro/moonbat convergence, I don’t think I’ve seen this much anti-govt sentiment ever, even during my own days as an activist.
Does anyone think that the blatant racism of the right and the deeply held but hidden racism of far left moonbats and their reactionary ideologies has anything to do with it?
248 | Dr. Matt Mar 10, 2015 5:18:02am |
re: #241 Dark_Falcon
UpChuck has lost everyone except the racist far-right. Mainstream conservatives won’t have anything to do with him. His irrationality and misogyny have made him a toxic pariah, as Goddamnfrank correctly called him
So, CPAC is part of the racist far-right?
249 | Dark_Falcon Mar 10, 2015 5:20:50am |
re: #248 Dr. Matt
So, CPAC is part of the racist far-right?
He was at CPAC, but was avoided by almost all the major conservative figures there. So yeah, he was a toxic pariah at CPAC. And that’s what GDF and Charles said, I’m just repeating it.
250 | goddamnedfrank Mar 10, 2015 5:21:47am |
re: #241 Dark_Falcon
Also, since you’re here, take a look above at this bit about the neoreactionaries:
To call these claims “controversial” would be putting it lightly, but they underpin much of anti-egalitarian and pro-traditionalist claims neoreactionaries make.
You’ve literally described yourself as “anti egalitarian” before. There is a lot of overlap with that term and elitist classism, along with abject racism. I hope you’re beginning to see the path that such ideologies inevitably lead, that in the end anti-egalitarianism dovetails with a contempt for democracy itself. I’d advise you to abandon using it as a self descriptor in the future.
251 | Dark_Falcon Mar 10, 2015 5:23:10am |
But while I’m pretty sure UpChuck can’t make a comeback, here’s a better man who might try one. Not sure if he could but it made for an interesting morning item yesterday:
Tim Tebow ‘throwing very accurate,’ could try out at NFL veteran combine
252 | Dark_Falcon Mar 10, 2015 5:24:17am |
253 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 5:25:23am |
re: #246 Dark_Falcon
I don’t agree on this one, Frank. It’s not his hateful politics, its his personal attacks. Chuckles has made too many enemies to be able to come back. When enough people despise you, it doesn’t matter what you say.
In short order, he’s gone after Holly Fisher, Dana Loesch and Bill O’Reilly, written off Rand Paul, Huckaroo and Jeb Bush as candidates, and insulted gods know how many cons via Twitter. He’s like the cartoon character sitting on a tree limb while sawing it off.
254 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 5:26:39am |
re: #251 Dark_Falcon
But while I’m pretty sure UpChuck can’t make a comeback, here’s a better man who might try one. Not sure if he could but it made for an interesting morning item yesterday:
Tim Tebow ‘throwing very accurate,’ could try out at NFL veteran combine
Well, Tebow has a marketable skill. UpChuck has none that I perceive.
255 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 5:31:39am |
How parents may help create their own little narcissists
(snip)
“While parental overvaluation was associated with higher levels of child narcissism over time, it was not associated with more self-esteem. In contrast, parents who showed more emotional warmth did have children with higher self-esteem over time. Parental warmth was not associated with narcissism.
“Overvaluation predicted narcissism, not self-esteem, whereas warmth predicted self-esteem, not narcissism,” Bushman said.
“Parental overvaluation was connected to narcissism even after the researchers took into account the narcissism levels of the parents. In other words, it is not just that narcissistic parents have narcissistic children - the parental overvaluation played a key role.” More
256 | Dr. Matt Mar 10, 2015 5:33:48am |
Quite cool.
Via @nprnews: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years http://t.co/LdYbic72HD
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 10, 2015
257 | goddamnedfrank Mar 10, 2015 5:34:05am |
re: #244 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
His wife, when she gets tired of supporting him and makes him go get a real job….
Seriously, if she ever does leave him it’s likely to get really ugly, she’d better have her exit strategy all secretly gamed out in advance. On top of just being plain mentally unwell, he’s sold himself on a shit ton of alpha male MRA bullshit and is a convert to Catholicism. Anybody who’s gone through a divorce knows how stressful and trying it can be for the most well balanced of us. The odds of a guy like that handling such a thing gracefully are anemic at best.
258 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 5:35:18am |
Today’s cute animal photo, courtesy of bing.com
259 | wrenchwench Mar 10, 2015 5:37:39am |
Even cuter:
Just discovered that there's an animal called the bumblebee bat. Very cute! https://t.co/3dbct76gUI pic.twitter.com/Z4QrRWUmnx— Jon Tennant (@Protohedgehog) March 10, 2015
260 | Decatur Deb Mar 10, 2015 5:37:54am |
re: #257 goddamnedfrank
Seriously, if she ever does leave him it’s likely to get really ugly, she’d better have her exit strategy all secretly gamed out in advance. On top of just being plain mentally unwell, he’s sold himself on a shit ton of alpha male MRA bullshit and is a convert to Catholicism. Anybody who’s gone through a divorce knows how stressful and trying it can be for the most well balanced of us. The odds of a guy like that handling such a thing gracefully are anemic at best.
Easy-peasy. A good Catholic would never kill and eat an SJW on Friday in Lent.
261 | The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Mar 10, 2015 5:38:34am |
262 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 5:39:49am |
re: #260 Decatur Deb
Our local Catholic church is having Friday fish fries so that doesn’t happen as people deprive themselves during Lent. : )
263 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 5:40:49am |
re: #260 Decatur Deb
Easy-peasy. A good Catholic would never kill and eat an SJW on Friday in Lent.
I had to turn to Urban Dictionary to find out what SJW means. It’s not Single Jewish Woman, as I suspected, but Social Justice Warrior.
Or is there another meaning?
264 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 5:42:35am |
Stepping up to the plate…
King Abdullah II of Jordan gives great address to Europarl on ISIS: 'we will not allow them to hijack our faith' pic.twitter.com/6xHrHIAT2E
— D Campbell Bannerman (@DCBMEP) March 10, 2015
265 | Decatur Deb Mar 10, 2015 5:43:24am |
re: #262 Justanotherhuman
Our local Catholic church is having Friday fish fries so that doesn’t happen as people deprive themselves during Lent. : )
I invite our parish’s only nun for al fresco feasts. (Salmon grilled on a cedar plank, etc.) She is beginning to catch on to how subversive of penance that is.
266 | Decatur Deb Mar 10, 2015 5:44:07am |
re: #263 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality
I had to turn to Urban Dictionary to find out what SJW means. It’s not Single Jewish Woman, as I suspected, but Social Justice Warrior.
Or is there another meaning?
Was thinking the same thing, but it was the first Google hit.
267 | Dr. Matt Mar 10, 2015 5:44:09am |
CCJ is fat, slow, out of shape, and faaaaar from being an alpha. IF the world really did turn to shit, it wouldn’t take long at all before an ammosexual puts CCJ on the spit-roast.
268 | Decatur Deb Mar 10, 2015 5:47:03am |
re: #267 Dr. Matt
CCJ is fat, slow, out of shape, and faaaaar from being an alpha. IF the world really did turn to shit, it wouldn’t take long at all before an ammosexual puts CCJ on the spit-roast.
Hasenpooper.
269 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 5:48:28am |
re: #267 Dr. Matt
CCJ is fat, slow, out of shape, and faaaaar from being an alpha. IF the world really did turn to shit, it wouldn’t take long at all before an ammosexual puts CCJ on the spit-roast.
Considering how much time he spends on Twitter all day, I kinda suspect he’s glued to his computer most of the time, except when necessary. Not much time for exercise.
If I lived in California, I’d be out and about as much as possible.
270 | wrenchwench Mar 10, 2015 5:48:42am |
re: #263 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality
I had to turn to Urban Dictionary to find out what SJW means. It’s not Single Jewish Woman, as I suspected, but Social Justice Warrior.
Or is there another meaning?
I thought it was Social Justice Worker.
271 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 5:50:02am |
re: #270 wrenchwench
I thought it was Social Justice Worker.
Social Justice Warrior is somewhat pejorative, like Tom Lehrer’s “folksong army” snark.
272 | Decatur Deb Mar 10, 2015 5:50:31am |
re: #270 wrenchwench
I thought it was Social Justice Worker.
Yeah—that’s what Googles. Reading NYT apartment classifieds creates habit interference.
273 | goddamnedfrank Mar 10, 2015 5:51:17am |
274 | The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Mar 10, 2015 5:52:15am |
No, Social Justice Warrior is a derogatory term used by MRA (Men’s Rights Activists) and similar vermin for anyone who’s not a total sociopath.
Also known as “the antihuman transhumanist super-Nazis who are the feminazis.”
275 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 5:52:22am |
re: #272 Decatur Deb
Yeah—that’s what Googles. Reading NYT apartment classifieds creates habit interference.
I was thinking more along the lines of Village Voice personals. ;-)
276 | Decatur Deb Mar 10, 2015 5:52:31am |
re: #273 goddamnedfrank
Not condescending enough.
You have to say it with the curl of a furry red lip.
277 | Dr. Matt Mar 10, 2015 5:52:39am |
I assumed it was Social Justice Warrior since they are a frequent target of the MRM victimhood.
278 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 5:53:56am |
re: #277 Dr. Matt
I assumed it was Social Justice Warrior since they are a frequent target of the MRM victimhood.
UpChuck is appealing to his core (and remaining) audience, I guess. Trying to be one of the cool kids.
279 | goddamnedfrank Mar 10, 2015 5:54:19am |
280 | The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Mar 10, 2015 5:59:14am |
re: #279 goddamnedfrank
Joe Biden Literally Cannot Believe What Dicks Republican Senators Are
Joe was my man in ‘88 until that crap about “plagiarism” for forgetting to credit Neil Kinnock one time out of a thousand knocked him out of the race.
Whoever started that shit has a lot to answer for. I don’t think Uncle Joe would have frozen like a deer in the headlights under the Atwater onslaught like Dukakis did, and I know he could have talked rings around that inarticulate gomer Bush.
281 | wrenchwench Mar 10, 2015 5:59:41am |
Here is Zarif's response to the Senators' letter in cat pic format: pic.twitter.com/rm5RvRW7j0— Hend (@LibyaLiberty) March 10, 2015
282 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 6:01:57am |
Hillary Clinton giving presser on emails today.
BBL.
283 | Targetpractice Mar 10, 2015 6:04:09am |
re: #282 Justanotherhuman
Hillary Clinton giving presser on emails today.
BBL.
“Give it the fuck up, people!”
284 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 6:05:39am |
Neoreaction is just a more honest logical development of libertarianism. Without the facade of “liberty”.
285 | The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Mar 10, 2015 6:06:28am |
287 | goddamnedfrank Mar 10, 2015 6:07:28am |
re: #280 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Anita Hill: Joe Biden Botched The Clarence Thomas Hearings
Anita Hill, the woman who accused then-Supreme Court justice nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, said Vice President Joe Biden did a “terrible job” as Senate Judiciary Committee chairman during the 1991 hearings.
Hill spoke about the hearings in an interview on HuffPost Live Thursday, saying they were meant to “inform the public.”
But Hill said Biden never called three women to testify who were subpoenaed to discuss alleged inappropriate behavior by Thomas. In addition, Hill said there were experts available who could have “given information and helped the public understand sexual harassment.”
Hill is right, Biden fucked that one up badly.
288 | lawhawk Mar 10, 2015 6:08:34am |
re: #133 Kragar
The Senate can ratify treaties, but the GOP seriously overstepped its authority to act on foreign policy matters with that letter. And any deal with Iran doesn’t necessarily rise to the level of a treaty requiring ratification in any event.
The WH has already signaled that very point.
All the GOP wants to do is scuttle the negotiations and they don’t have any plan B except to blame Obama for its failure.
In other news, the latest polls from Israel seem to show that Likud is behind Zionist Block, so Netanyahu may not be PM for much longer.
BREAKING: New @knesset99 poll gives Zionist union 24 seats and Likud only 21— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) March 10, 2015
Take it with grain of salt though as other polls are all over the map.
289 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 6:10:35am |
What an average US libertarian is thinking, a Neoreactionary is saying.
290 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 6:11:26am |
Lord Our Lucifer
I agree with some of #nrx though not all upon further review.— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) March 10, 2015
291 | The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Mar 10, 2015 6:13:22am |
re: #284 Nyet
Neoreaction is just a more honest logical development of libertarianism. Without the facade of “liberty”.
They don’t want anybody fooled into thinking, like I was to some extent 35 years ago, that “Libertarian” means “Antiauthoritarian”.
292 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 10, 2015 6:17:06am |
re: #290 Nyet
Lord Our Lucifer
In other words, he thought he found a group to hang with until he found out they’re more wacko than he is?
293 | lawhawk Mar 10, 2015 6:17:17am |
re: #285 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
For all the supposed boost that the speech before Congress would give him, it’s turned out to be anything but.
Frankly, it’s not surprising that Netanyahu was engaging in backchannels with the Palestinians and that the 1967 borders came up, since that’s the starting point on any final status talks. Pretty much anyone who follows the conflict knows that the borders will be a variation on the 1967 border between West Bank and Israel (Green Line) with the variations being related to givebacks - Israel keeps X acres to maintain contiguous communities, gives back Y equivalent). There was a Times article from a few years back goes into the various formulations that could be part of the final status.
But that he’s even floated this pierces that whole notion he wouldn’t budge on land givebacks. It seriously narrows the gap between what Likud and Zionist Bloc would do.
And that ad that follows a familiar GOP script of equating union folks with terrorists (like Walker and his union negotiations being experience for dealing with ISIL) went so far over the line that Israelis are fed up with his BS.
294 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 6:18:12am |
re: #292 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality
In other words, he thought he found a group to hang with until he found out they’re more wacko than he is?
He’s with them on everything but the Jews. /
295 | goddamnedfrank Mar 10, 2015 6:19:44am |
You were down with the HBD racialism and urine drinking but drew the line at Monarchy? @ChuckCJohnson— Photonic Gaucho (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2015
296 | The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Mar 10, 2015 6:20:05am |
re: #294 Nyet
He’s with them on everything but the Jews. /
If Nut-‘n’-Yahoo loses, he’ll turn on them, too.
297 | Decatur Deb Mar 10, 2015 6:22:22am |
re: #295 goddamnedfrank
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Make the monarchy small enough to drown in a horse-through!!1!
Baron’s Rights11!
298 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 6:24:36am |
re: #297 Decatur Deb
Make the monarchy small enough to drown in a horse-through!!1!
Baron’s Rights11!
I think you have summed up modern Libertarian thinking in a nutshell.
299 | Feline Fearless Leader Mar 10, 2015 6:24:39am |
Good morning Lizards from overcast and currently dry Pensacola.
Plan this morning once the niece gets up is to drive over to Mobile and tour the USS Alabama and various other pieces of interesting hardware at the park there. Then down to Dauphin Island to visit the marine research lab and aquarium there. After that it will depend on time and weather.
The pho was good last night. :)
And I need to get some lotion for my bit of sunburn from walking on the beach yesterday.
300 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 6:26:23am |
re: #296 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
If Nut-‘n’-Yahoo loses, he’ll turn on them, too.
Expect a major RW outrage if Nethanyahu loses, it will be spun as a betrayal of the Jewish people by Obama and the White House.
302 | Mattand Mar 10, 2015 6:28:57am |
re: #287 goddamnedfrank
Anita Hill: Joe Biden Botched The Clarence Thomas Hearings
Hill is right, Biden fucked that one up badly.
Not to excuse any gaffes on Biden’s part, but why is this coming up now? Is this some half-assed attempt to knock the wind out of a Biden run for POTUS?
303 | lawhawk Mar 10, 2015 6:31:36am |
Reset the counter on officer involved shootings to zero. Again. US can't go more than a few days without one. Pitiful— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 10, 2015
This is yet another shooting that involved an unarmed black man. He was, in fact, naked. There may have been drugs and/or mental health issues involved. Yet the man is dead.
Law enforcement simply refuses to recognize that there’s a huge problem with excessive force and officer involved shootings, especially when it comes to dealing with the mentally ill.
It goes to training, legal protections for use of deadly force, and a system that allows officers to use deadly force even though circumstances would seem to indicate that deadly force is not warranted.
This person was a threat to themselves and needed medical care and treatment. Not to be shot to death.
304 | Dr Lizardo Mar 10, 2015 6:32:16am |
re: #300 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Expect a major RW outrage if Nethanyahu loses, it will be spun as a betrayal of the Jewish people by Obama and the White House.
Oh, definitely. I’ve already seen a similar line of thought on FR from one of the inmates there a few days ago.
305 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 6:34:15am |
re: #304 Dr Lizardo
Oh, definitely. I’ve already seen a similar line of thought on FR from one of the inmates there a few days ago.
Because Nethanyahu has come to stand for the RWNJ Vision of Biblical Israel, the one they need to precipitate Armageddon and fulfill their prophecies of the End Times. Truly sick shit.
306 | The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Mar 10, 2015 6:34:27am |
re: #300 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Expect a major RW outrage if Nethanyahu loses, it will be spun as a betrayal of the Jewish people by Obama and the White House.
I’m trying not to get my hopes up, but those sweet, sweet wingnut tears are just irresistible!
307 | Decatur Deb Mar 10, 2015 6:36:41am |
re: #303 lawhawk
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This is yet another shooting that involved an unarmed black man. He was, in fact, naked. There may have been drugs and/or mental health issues involved. Yet the man is dead.
Law enforcement simply refuses to recognize that there’s a huge problem with excessive force and officer involved shootings, especially when it comes to dealing with the mentally ill.
It goes to training, legal protections for use of deadly force, and a system that allows officers to use deadly force even though circumstances would seem to indicate that deadly force is not warranted.
This person was a threat to themselves and needed medical care and treatment. Not to be shot to death.
Well, he sure as hell wasn’t concealing a weapon.
308 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 6:38:51am |
Flashback: Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt call Herut, which in time morphed into Likud, a fascist party:
309 | Teukka Mar 10, 2015 6:44:52am |
re: #308 Nyet
Flashback: Albert Einstein and Hanna Arendt call Herut, which in time morphed into Likud, a fascist party:
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Why am I not the least surprised?
310 | Dr Lizardo Mar 10, 2015 6:46:40am |
re: #308 Nyet
[PamGeller]THEY’RE NOT REAL JEWS!! THEY’RE JINO’S!!![/PamGeller]
311 | goddamnedfrank Mar 10, 2015 6:47:00am |
re: #302 Mattand
Not to excuse any gaffes on Biden’s part, but why is this coming up now? Is this some half-assed attempt to knock the wind out of a Biden run for POTUS?
LOL no. A documentary came out last year, that’s why it’s been in the press again. It was a long time ago and I’d like to think that the mistake shaped some of Biden’s views about the trustworthiness of Republicans and subsequent willingness to fight for his beliefs. I don’t even think it compares to some of Hillary’s more noteworthy blunders like the sniper fire story fiasco, but it was definitely one of Biden’s lowest points.
312 | lawhawk Mar 10, 2015 6:47:32am |
We all know that Buzz Aldren is badass. But that he’s friends with Jack White? That’s badass.
“@RockNRollPics: Jack White & Buzz Aldrin pic.twitter.com/It5JBx73dz” This is from the last time I saw my friend Jack. Gotta check in with him.— Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz) March 10, 2015
313 | Decatur Deb Mar 10, 2015 6:47:52am |
Shortly after the Rabin assassination my work involved constant visits to Israeli plants and corporate HQs. At that time you could instantly tell if you were dealing with a Likudnik or an old Histadrut guy by the wear of neckties. I didn’t wear a tie for two years, and only saw our commander in uniform twice, for formal functions.
314 | Higgs Boson's Mate Mar 10, 2015 6:50:20am |
re: #300 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Expect a major RW outrage if Nethanyahu loses, it will be spun as a betrayal of the Jewish people by Obama and the White House.
Netanyahu is their hero so it can’t be his fault. The House is held by the GOP and in thrall to its fringe so it can’t be their fault either. That just leaves the sinister powers mustered by the most-inept-President-ever-except-this-time because black people hate Jews and Jesse Jackson once said “Hymietown.”
316 | The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Mar 10, 2015 6:53:39am |
When Begin was in power, it was absolutely amazing to me that nobody I talked to had ever heard about the King David Hotel.
317 | Dr Lizardo Mar 10, 2015 6:53:44am |
re: #314 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Netanyahu is their hero so it can’t be his fault. The House is held by the GOP and in thrall to its fringe so it can’t be their fault either. That just leaves the sinister powers mustered by the most-inept-President-ever-except-this-time because black people hate Jews and Jesse Jackson once said “Hymietown.”
Yeah; if Bibi loses, the RWNJ’s will be apoplectic, blaming President Obama for Netanyahu’s defeat.
318 | lawhawk Mar 10, 2015 6:54:52am |
re: #308 Nyet
Let’s not kid ourselves about Likud’s founding and development as a political movement in Israel. But let’s also not forget that Likud’s Menachem Begin was integral to signing the Camp David Accords, which helped set the table for land for peace deals that have have been the framework of the Israel-Palestinian/Arab negotiations ever since.
Likewise, the Gaza disengagement was pulled off by Ariel Sharon, who had been with Likud for decades until splitting off and forming Kadima.
Those two actions could be seen as equivalents of Nixon going to China.
The current Likud movement looks little like its origins, but Netanyahu runs a very tight ship and doesn’t tolerate any opposition. He’d like people to think that he’s got all the security answers for Israel (which is #1 on Israelis’ minds), but fact is that there’s very little different between Likud and Labor on this, especially as word comes that he was floating the idea of 1967 borders in some form during backchannel talks with the Palestinians.
Without the security issue, there’s little reason to give Likud another shot at running the coalition government especially since Zionist bloc does so much better on economic and housing issues, which are the next two top concerns.
319 | Targetpractice Mar 10, 2015 6:55:23am |
re: #317 Dr Lizardo
Yeah; if Bibi loses, the RWNJ’s will be apoplectic, blaming President Obama for Netanyahu’s defeat.
And they’ll declare that it’s a victory for Iran/ISIS/insert scary Muslim group here, which is why they’re further convinced that he’s in reality a secret Muslim.
320 | Dr Lizardo Mar 10, 2015 6:59:42am |
re: #319 Targetpractice
And they’ll declare that it’s a victory for Iran/ISIS/insert scary Muslim group here, which is why they’re further convinced that he’s in reality a secret Muslim.
Alternatively, I’m sure more than a few of the wingnuts will blame Israelis for “suicidal behavior” by not voting for Bibi, and accuse them of being “self-hating Jews” or some such drivel.
321 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 7:08:15am |
re: #320 Dr Lizardo
Alternatively, I’m sure more than a few of the wingnuts will blame Israelis for “suicidal behavior” by not voting for Bibi, and accuse them of being “self-hating Jews” or some such drivel.
Because they do not really give a shit about Jews or Israel, only their own warped ideas about Israel’s role in bringing about the Second Coming.
322 | makeitstop Mar 10, 2015 7:09:10am |
I have to say that I’m kind of surprised by the amount of negative blowback Tom Cotton and his merry band of seditionists are getting today.
The outrage could be a few notches higher, but even the amount I’m seeing is kind of a shock. The Daily News’ editorial (while engaging in some of the usual both-siderism) is justifiably harsh.
Regardless of President Obama’s fecklessness in negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran, 47 Republican U.S. senators engaged in treachery by sending a letter to the mullahs aimed at cutting the legs out from under America’s commander-in-chief.
We join GOP signatories in opposing the pact as outlined, but we strenuously condemn their betrayal of the U.S. constitutional system.
The participants represented the bulk of the Republicans’ 54-member senatorial majority, vesting their petulant, condescending stunt with the coloration of an institutional foreign policy statement.
They are an embarrassment to the Senate and to the nation.
Dems should seize on this and beat the crap out of them with this stunt. Tom Cotton handed them a Louisville Slugger, and they should damn well get to using it.
323 | Dr Lizardo Mar 10, 2015 7:09:13am |
re: #321 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Precisely.
324 | Targetpractice Mar 10, 2015 7:13:18am |
re: #322 makeitstop
I have to say that I’m kind of surprised by the amount of negative blowback Tom Cotton and his merry band of seditionists are getting today.
The outrage could be a few notches higher, but even the amount I’m seeing is kind of a shock. The Daily News’ editorial (while engaging in some of the usual both-siderism) is justifiably harsh.
Dems should seize on this and beat the crap out of them with this stunt. Tom Cotton handed them a Louisville Slugger, and they should damn well get to using it.
I think the reason the Dems are not making more of this is because too many of them in the Senate really do think the deal is a “bad” one and want to vote on it so as to provide themselves some cover next year. But this letter has only made that a harder task than it already was after Bibi’s speech.
325 | Lidane Mar 10, 2015 7:17:42am |
re: #322 makeitstop
Tom Cotton handed them a Louisville Slugger, and they should damn well get to using it.
And now I’m picturing that scene from Inglorious Basterds. Heh.
326 | lawhawk Mar 10, 2015 7:18:40am |
re: #325 Lidane
And now I’m picturing that scene from Inglorious Basterds. Heh.
Who gets to be the Bear Jew? /
327 | Lidane Mar 10, 2015 7:22:52am |
re: #326 lawhawk
Who gets to be the Bear Jew? /
Eli Roth, obviously. He had so much fun the first time. Heh.
328 | lawhawk Mar 10, 2015 7:23:05am |
BURN. @GOP truly is the party of the dumb. #IranLetter MT @JZarif: .@SenTomCotton ICYMI my response. In English. pic.twitter.com/7b5vYpJQEf— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) March 10, 2015
329 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 7:30:25am |
re: #328 lawhawk
Zarif’s King’s English might be a tad bit difficult for the Republican senators to understand. He should have offered a translation into the Tea Party dialect.
330 | darthstar Mar 10, 2015 7:30:46am |
re: #328 lawhawk
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“no legal value and mostly a propaganda ploy” - just like the Bibi speech…another swing and miss by Republicans.
331 | Lidane Mar 10, 2015 7:33:34am |
Millions of Americans don't have full voting rights. Let John Oliver explain how crazy that is http://t.co/EbS5FP43zE pic.twitter.com/EbMsrgPsSo— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 10, 2015
333 | darthstar Mar 10, 2015 7:35:08am |
re: #329 Nyet
Zarif’s King’s English might be a tad bit difficult for the Republican senators to understand. He should have offered a translation into the Tea Party dialect.
Senator country-first McCain signed that letter too. Stupid fucker.
335 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 7:38:38am |
Yeah, but we got a rate hike…
Duke Energy settles lawsuit over post-merger ouster of its CEO in 2012 for $146 million - @AP
end of alert
336 | b.d. Mar 10, 2015 7:40:12am |
#47Traitors is the #1 Twitter trending tag right now.
Great job GOP, keep it coming.
337 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 7:41:31am |
Get ready for the RW slam…
Obama to sign a “student aid bill of rights”: http://t.co/Yw4Nxi0GVC pic.twitter.com/3R0KTtlb9U
— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) March 10, 2015
338 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 7:43:25am |
re: #337 Justanotherhuman
Get ready for the RW slam…
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Because all public education is left-wing indoctrination…
339 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 7:45:13am |
In video, Rep Donna Edwards (D-MD) announces she will run for #MDSEN: https://t.co/1mhpZ2h10a
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorpNBC) March 10, 2015
340 | lawhawk Mar 10, 2015 7:47:15am |
re: #330 darthstar
“no legal value and mostly a propaganda ploy” - just like the Bibi speech…another swing and miss by Republicans.
The Iranians know all about propaganda, so they recognize it when they see it. They also seem to have a better grasp of international law than the GOP does, which is rather comical.
No one knows the actual details of what the negotiations are or what the specifics of the deal will be as it’s still being negotiated.
It just seems that the GOP is far more interested in scuttling the talks, to proceed directly to further sanctions, or military action, even though Iran seems to be in the same position as North Korea - on track to eventually get nuclear weapons, and constraining them seems to be the only alternative.
Heck, this seems to be a situation straight out of ST: Undiscovered Country, where Klingon, Vulcan, and Earth reps all conspired to thwart peace talks because peace was a greater danger to their belief system than ongoing conflict that was unsustainable. Iranian hardliners may be thinking that these talks are denying them their right to pursue nukes, while GOPers in the US want to see talks fail because they want to pursue harsher sanctions or even military action to thwart Iran. Throw in Israeli and Saudi interests that might want to see talks fail and you’ve got vested interests in watching this fail.
On the other side of the ledger, there are a lot of people who want to see them succeed because of the costs of going nuclear in Iran is sapping the economy at a time they can ill afford it; the difficulty of figuring out a military option that wouldn’t turn out to be a clusterfuck; and practical considerations that a nuclear North Korea hasn’t actually changed the dynamics there, so why would a nuclear Iran be different.
Now, there are significant differences between the Iranian and North Korean experience, not the least of which is a religious fervor in Iran that includes a centuries long conflict between Sunni and Shi’a, with Shi’ites gaining the upper hand in the Middle East (though Pakistan could arm Saudi Arabia to negate that advantage). Self preservation might limit what Iran is willing to do (and what North Korea has done so far), and continuing the regime means doing only so much sabre rattling (turning the nukes into an empty threat).
North Korea is contained, so it isn’t a stretch to see a contained Iran.
341 | Timothy Watson Mar 10, 2015 7:47:47am |
Always fun trying to find that perfect college schedule when they get around to posting next semester’s schedule.
/
342 | darthstar Mar 10, 2015 7:47:54am |
After reading Zarif's response, it's obvious @SenTomCotton didn't think this thing through completely. #47Traitors pic.twitter.com/PkD4wiiiWx— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 10, 2015
343 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 7:50:05am |
Who do you think will fall for this and vote for this clown?
Rand Paul to introduce medical marijuana bill in Congress
344 | Higgs Boson's Mate Mar 10, 2015 8:00:32am |
re: #324 Targetpractice
I think the reason the Dems are not making more of this is because too many of them in the Senate really do think the deal is a “bad” one and want to vote on it so as to provide themselves some cover next year. But this letter has only made that a harder task than it already was after Bibi’s speech.
“We’re really, really, better than the GOP, it’s just that we can’t take a stand on anything or support our party’s President because that might cause people who would never vote for us not to vote for us.”
Way to cultivate indifference Dems.
346 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 8:01:58am |
re: #344 Higgs Boson’s Mate
“We’re really, really, better than the GOP, it’s just that we can’t take a stand on anything or support our party’s President because that might cause people who would never vote for us not to vote for us.”
Way to cultivate indifference Dems.
They are still smarting from the last mid-terms, forgetting that general elections are an entirely different ballgame.
347 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 8:02:30am |
re: #345 b_sharp
I did that with a fork. I was four.
I remember totally dismantling one to see how it works…taught me a lesson I will not forget.
348 | Targetpractice Mar 10, 2015 8:09:10am |
re: #340 lawhawk
ST:VI is a rather appropriate analogy to the present situation, much as it was to the fall of the USSR. You have the hardliners in Iran in the form of Chang, who cannot accept a situation where Iran is not the dominant power in the region and see any deal that would mean delaying or abandoning nuclear weapons as denying them that which they view as rightfully theirs.
Then you have those like Cotton and McCain in the form of Cartwright, convinced that they finally have Iran on the ropes and they only need to keep the pressure on a bit longer. In their minds, the sanctions have proven that Iran is vulnerable, that if they just hold on a bit longer or tighten the screws a bit more, the Ayatollahs will come to them begging for mercy.
And finally you have Bibi in the form of Ambassador Nanclus, who can only view the matter in the danger (phantom or real) posed to his power if the US and Iran begin to ratchet down the mutual animosity. Making a deal like this would not only making beating the war drums harder, but it could serve as a pathway to future deals and possibly a normalization between us. And that’s something that scares the bejesus out of Cold Warriors like Bibi, the idea that Israel would no longer be the only ally in the region.
349 | Higgs Boson's Mate Mar 10, 2015 8:10:34am |
re: #346 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
They are still smarting from the last mid-terms, forgetting that general elections are an entirely different ballgame.
They still can’t figure out how candidates who stood strongly for something, even if many of us find that something repellent, whipped the living shit out of candidates who didn’t stand for anything. Timidity doesn’t win elections these days - if it ever did at all.
350 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 10, 2015 8:10:41am |
“Honorable people can disagree over policy. But this is no way to make America safer or stronger.” -VP Biden https://t.co/E5WS4nOHGf— Vice President Biden (@VP) March 10, 2015
351 | Dr. Matt Mar 10, 2015 8:11:41am |
While flipping through the morning shows today, I heard Morning Joe (R-Dead Intern) call the #47Traitors letter “just a piece of paper”. Yet, moments early he was ranting about Hillary’s email will fullforce faux outrage.
352 | Targetpractice Mar 10, 2015 8:13:11am |
re: #351 Dr. Matt
While flipping through the morning shows today, I heard Morning Joe (R-Dead Intern) call the #47Traitors letter “just a piece of paper”. Yet, moments early he was ranting about Hillary’s email will fullforce faux outrage.
I always get amusement out of those who claim MSNBC is “Far Left” when they lead off every day with 3 hours of Morning Joke.
353 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 8:13:42am |
re: #351 Dr. Matt
While flipping through the morning shows today, I heard Morning Joe (R-Dead Intern) call the #47Traitors letter “just a piece of paper”. Yet, moments early he was ranting about Hillary’s email will fullforce faux outrage.
Which he called “home brewed”, also.
354 | Great White Snark Mar 10, 2015 8:15:20am |
How To Get Anti Terror Enforcement Dead Wrong.
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SMH
355 | Targetpractice Mar 10, 2015 8:15:26am |
re: #352 Targetpractice
That should have been “Far Left.” Obviously I need more caffeine.
356 | Dr. Matt Mar 10, 2015 8:20:33am |
re: #352 Targetpractice
I always get amusement out of those who claim MSNBC is “Far Left” when they lead off every day with 3 hours of Morning Joke.
Yeah, if MSNBC is so “far left”, why does the actual Left continuously reject and criticize the network? Dolts
357 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 10, 2015 8:21:04am |
re: #259 wrenchwench
Even cuter:
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358 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 10, 2015 8:24:40am |
re: #298 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I think you have summed up modern Libertarian thinking in a nutshell.
HURR HURR THEIR ROAD-BUILDING BARONS NOT ROBBER BARONS!!!! STOP CALLING ARE HEROES ROBBER BARONS!!!!!!
359 | lawhawk Mar 10, 2015 8:26:26am |
re: #348 Targetpractice
And the bizarre thing is that Israel and Iran do have a whole lot more in common than either would care to admit being minority populations in the region (Shi’a are a majority in Iran, but minority in Middle East; Jews are a majority in Israel, but minority elsewhere); the persecution complex runs deep, both have long and storied histories, and there’s a secret history of the two countries working together (see Iran-Contra). Detente between US and Iran would actually improve matters between Israel and Iran, especially as it relates to Hizbullah, Lebanon, Syria, and could lead to improved border security at a minimum and normalization of relations down the road (even if the state of war continues - at least they’d all be talking).
361 | Targetpractice Mar 10, 2015 8:30:28am |
re: #359 lawhawk
And the bizarre thing is that Israel and Iran do have a whole lot more in common than either would care to admit being minority populations in the region (Shi’a are a majority in Iran, but minority in Middle East; Jews are a majority in Israel, but minority elsewhere); the persecution complex runs deep, both have long and storied histories, and there’s a secret history of the two countries working together (see Iran-Contra). Detente between US and Iran would actually improve matters between Israel and Iran, especially as it relates to Hizbullah, Lebanon, Syria, and could lead to improved border security at a minimum and normalization of relations down the road (even if the state of war continues - at least they’d all be talking).
Indeed, but that actually threatens the careers of men like Bibi, who rely upon the strife to sell themselves as “protectors.” The man has developed a bit of a messiah complex, feeling he not only speaks for all Israelis, but now all Jews. So the idea of reproach with Iran, dealing with them as equals rather than the subject of his decades long scaremongering campaign? It would never happen, at least not with him in power.
362 | The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Mar 10, 2015 8:31:08am |
re: #359 lawhawk
And the bizarre thing is that Israel and Iran do have a whole lot more in common than either would care to admit being minority populations in the region (Shi’a are a majority in Iran, but minority in Middle East; Jews are a majority in Israel, but minority elsewhere); the persecution complex runs deep, both have long and storied histories, and there’s a secret history of the two countries working together (see Iran-Contra). Detente between US and Iran would actually improve matters between Israel and Iran, especially as it relates to Hizbullah, Lebanon, Syria, and could lead to improved border security at a minimum and normalization of relations down the road (even if the state of war continues - at least they’d all be talking).
Couldn’t be that Iran might feel a little less need of a nuclear deterrent if there were a sane government in Israel, of course—that’s crazy talk!
363 | FemNaziBitch Mar 10, 2015 8:34:40am |
Carlson was raised in a Lutheran family in Anoka, Minnesota, the daughter of Karen and Lee Carlson.[3] She is of Swedish descent.[4] Her father owned a car dealership with her uncle.[3] She has two brothers and one sister.[3] Her grandfather was the pastor of the then second-largest Lutheran church in the United States.[5] She graduated from Anoka-Hennepin School District 11’s Anoka High School, where she was the 1984 class valedictorian.[6] One of her childhood nannies was Michele Bachmann, the future Republican congresswoman.[7]
She graduated from college with a sociology degree in 1990. Started working for CBS in 2000. No reference to what she did in teh 10 years in between.
Like Hasselback, her husband is a Sports guy.
364 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 8:34:55am |
Harrison Ford had no choice but to try to crash land after engine quit on his World War II-era plane, preliminary NTSB report says - @latimes
read more on latimes.com
365 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 10, 2015 8:35:29am |
ATLANTA (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Claude Sitton, who covered civil rights movement, dies at 89.— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) March 10, 2015
366 | FemNaziBitch Mar 10, 2015 8:35:35am |
The problem with all the Whackos screaming that the sky is falling all the time is that when it does fall, no one will believe them.
I’m tired of the constant high-anxiety state they seem to live.
368 | wrenchwench Mar 10, 2015 8:37:36am |
Tribes now free to prosecute non-Indians for certain crimes http://t.co/OCt5p6obe2 @washingtonpost— AmericanIndianMuseum (@SmithsonianNMAI) March 10, 2015
369 | FemNaziBitch Mar 10, 2015 8:39:17am |
re: #368 wrenchwench
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Hopefully this will help reduce the incidence of rape on Tribal Lands.
370 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 8:40:43am |
re: #363 FemNaziBitch
Obviously she sat on her ass, perfecting her blonde TV persona.
371 | wrenchwench Mar 10, 2015 8:41:00am |
re: #369 FemNaziBitch
Hopefully this will help reduce the incidence of rape on Tribal Lands.
Indeed. It was a crazy situation when some people could not be prosecuted for their crimes.
372 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 8:44:08am |
re: #367 FemNaziBitch
Looks like you’re in for some spring-like weather, also, this week. I’ll take rain in the 50s any day over what we’ve been through.
373 | FemNaziBitch Mar 10, 2015 8:50:54am |
VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:
Semiotics (also called semiotic studies; not to be confused with the Saussurean tradition called semiology) is the study of meaning-making, the philosophical theory of signs and symbols.[1] This includes the study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Semiotics is closely related to the field of linguistics, which, for its part, studies the structure and meaning of language more specifically. The Semiotic Tradition explores the study of signs and symbols as a significant part of communications. As different from linguistics, however, semiotics also studies non-linguistic sign systems. Semiotics often is divided into three branches:
Semantics: relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata, or meaning
Syntactics: relations among signs in formal structures
Pragmatics: relation between signs and sign-using agents
374 | lawhawk Mar 10, 2015 8:51:34am |
United States, Planet Earth, c. early 2015 pic.twitter.com/kCGEGbbrIu— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) March 10, 2015
375 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 8:54:02am |
#47Traitors So stupid this is how they like to learn. Send our kids to THEIR wars! pic.twitter.com/AAu4iLxRmg
— melissa jacobs (@deathrep) March 10, 2015
376 | Justanotherhuman Mar 10, 2015 8:55:28am |
378 | Charles Johnson Mar 10, 2015 8:58:52am |
More neoreactionary cavemen ranting all over my mentions this morning. Block, mute, rinse, repeat.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 10, 2015
Good grief, what a bunch of loons.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 10, 2015
OK, that's more than two dozen of these neoreactionary racist goons blocked so far. How many more can there be?— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 10, 2015
379 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 10, 2015 9:01:40am |
re: #378 Charles Johnson
Maybe there a fewer of them than you think, just with a lot of multiple accounts.
382 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 9:08:43am |
And right under one of those tweets:
Magus Janus @Magus_Janus 21m21 minutes ago
@Green_Footballs respectfully, you should probably read up a bit on genetics. here’s a black guy talking about it:
*eyeroll*
383 | Higgs Boson's Mate Mar 10, 2015 9:11:14am |
re: #378 Charles Johnson
OK, that’s more than two dozen of these neoreactionary racist goons blocked so far. How many more can there be?
Probably not many more than 86,130,000 (27% of 319 million).
384 | Ace-o-aces Mar 10, 2015 9:13:49am |
You know how you can tell this guy is white? Because he is not currently dead. @RawStory @owillis
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) March 10, 2015
385 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 9:16:22am |
re: #382 Nyet
Same guy:
if i could go back in time and kill one person, it’s a close call btw luther and marx. maybe tom paine or Rousseau
386 | Varek Raith Mar 10, 2015 9:16:29am |
Anyone else see those ridiculously over the top commercials on any deals with Iran?
387 | Charles Johnson Mar 10, 2015 9:20:27am |
Speaking of weird ranting, looks like @ChuckCJohnson got into the Peruvian marching powder again. He babbled all night.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 10, 2015
388 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 9:21:05am |
re: #384 Ace-o-aces
Watch this open-carry activist taunt cops outside a school: ‘I’m talking to you, tough guy
Some day an incident like this is all going to go terribly wrong and many, many heads are going to explode in rage at how our Police State curtails our God Given Rights…
389 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 9:21:05am |
re: #385 Nyet
But this tweet of his gets right to the core:
@socialmattermag not without a lot of zyklon b it's not.— Magus Janus (@Magus_Janus) March 3, 2015
390 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 10, 2015 9:21:40am |
391 | Charles Johnson Mar 10, 2015 9:24:43am |
re: #382 Nyet
And right under one of those tweets:
*eyeroll*
Yeah, that’s one of the jackasses I blocked immediately. Respectfully, of course.
392 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 9:30:37am |
re: #289 Nyet
What an average US libertarian is thinking, a Neoreactionary is saying.
What an average Neoreactionary is thinking, a neo-Nazi is saying.
393 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 10, 2015 9:32:38am |
JUST IN: University of Oklahoma president expels two students 'identified as playing a leadership role' in racist video, university says— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) March 10, 2015
394 | makeitstop Mar 10, 2015 9:34:08am |
A song parody that was begging to be written. Apologies to Bock, Harnick, and Stein,
Sedition, Sedition! Sedition!
Sedition, Sedition! Sedition!Who, day and night, must protect the country,
Tend to the government, deal with a hostile press?
And who has the right, as leader of the nation,
To have the final word at home?The President, the President! Tradition.
The President, the President! Tradition.Who must know the way to manufacture outrage,
An anger pure, a rage divine?
Who must rile the ignorant, comfort the bigoted,
While the President tries to do his work?The Media, the Media! Sedition!
The Media, the Media! Sedition!In 2013, I became a representative. In 2015, I joined the Senate.
I sent a letter to the leaders of Iran. They read it and laughed.The Senator, the Senator! Sedition!
The Senator, the Senator! Sedition!And who does Media treat like jerks,
While the President tries to do his work?The public, the public! Sedition!
The public, the public! Sedition!
395 | lawhawk Mar 10, 2015 9:35:20am |
Late to the whole NRx nonsense, and frankly, I hadn’t bothered to look into it until reading about who was aligning with it, even briefly, this morning.
You cannot take these folks seriously. They’ve got such a warped worldview, and rational wiki definitely treats them with the respect they deserve.
Neoreactionaries are the latest in a long line of intellectuals who somehow think that their chosen authoritarian thugs wouldn’t put them up against the wall. Possibly using sheer volume of words as a bulletproof shield.[2] Or that they are somehow too competent, virtuous and useful to end up one of the serfs.
Many neoreactionaries were former libertarians; founder Mencius Moldbug describes his own journey as “from Mises to Carlyle” via Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a “libertarian” who pushed feudalism as his desired end state.[3] It’s ideal for soi-disant libertarians who realise they don’t actually like freedom for others all that much.
It attracts pseudo intellectuals, which would explain CCJ’s attraction.
Each one of these nuts is crazier than the next.
396 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 9:37:39am |
Moskovsky Komsomolets says that the murderers’ car was seen not far away from Nemtsov’s house before the CH murders, which kinda undermindes the whole bullshit excuse (aside from it simply not being true because Nemtsov never insulted Mohammed).
397 | Eventual Carrion Mar 10, 2015 9:45:18am |
Good news to share. My wife had her right foot amputated about 8 months ago. All has gone fine with the prosthetic (other than losing the first one in a kayak flip over last summer, but that is another adventure story for another time :-)). So with the right foot gone she has not been able to drive.
All last week and yesterday she has been down in Johnstown training to use a left foot pedal. This morning she passed her driving test and we are just waiting for the garage to call and set up a day and time to go have the left foot pedal installed on her car. This is such a boost for her outlook on things. The loss of the freedom of driving and having to depend on someone to get her here and there (especially when I am at work) has been bothering her.
It is a happy day for her.
398 | iossarian Mar 10, 2015 9:48:07am |
re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth
Boom. I wonder if the freedom of speech crowd will weigh in.
399 | Dr. Matt Mar 10, 2015 9:48:37am |
re: #395 lawhawk
Late to the whole NRx nonsense, and frankly, I hadn’t bothered to look into it until reading about who was aligning with it, even briefly, this morning.
You cannot take these folks seriously. They’ve got such a warped worldview, and rational wiki definitely treats them with the respect they deserve.
It attracts pseudo intellectuals, which would explain CCJ’s attraction.
Each one of these nuts is crazier than the next.
Yeah, wow, they are so brave and “intellectual” as they sit in the comfort of their homes espousing such idiotic views. But, let’s be real, they wouldn’t last a minute in a society following their NRx cult.
400 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 10, 2015 9:50:03am |
Frat which declared they'll never be a nigg*r in SAE recently hazed black pledgee to death http://t.co/twV62OOCEe #SAE #UniteBlue— Siri (@SLSiri) March 10, 2015
401 | #FergusonFireside Mar 10, 2015 9:51:27am |
402 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 9:51:37am |
re: #400 The Mother Of All Pies
Just read it.
Never understood the whole fraternities crap. Close them all and fucking study.
403 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 9:51:53am |
There seems to me to be a deep contempt for democracy by so called libertarians. They really see the country as intended only for the elite and it’s why they deserve to be called reactionary. What’s frustrating though is a lot of young people hear libertarian ideas and talk of liberty and freedom and ignore the big picture which is if the Austrian school economists had their way, we’d live in a society with little to no upward mobility with no middle class. Unfortunately a lot of young people love hearing the idea of liberty and “the government off my back”.
404 | Dr. Matt Mar 10, 2015 9:53:06am |
At this point, the SAE frat is only slightly more popular than the Tea Party and #47Traitors
405 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 9:53:18am |
re: #400 The Mother Of All Pies
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Heartbreaking. Poor guy. I wouldn’t let my son pledge to a frat or my daughter a sorority.
406 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 9:53:46am |
re: #403 HappyWarrior
, we’d live in a society with little to no upward mobility with no middle class. Unfortunately a lot of young people love hearing the idea of liberty and “the government off my back”.
Because they are young and feel immortal and are convinced that the only thing between them and the Fame and Fortune they deserve is a lot of government red tape.
407 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 9:53:59am |
re: #402 Nyet
Just read it.
Never understood the whole fraternities crap. Close them all and fucking study.
You’ll never abolish fraternities but they definitely do need oversight.
408 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 10, 2015 9:54:02am |
I have acted today to expel two students who were leaders in the singing of a racist chant. See press release - DBo pic.twitter.com/VypOiVqXi7— David Boren (@President_Boren) March 10, 2015
410 | Dr. Matt Mar 10, 2015 9:56:15am |
re: #402 Nyet
Just read it.
Never understood the whole fraternities crap. Close them all and fucking study.
Simple: Booze and girls.
P.S. I was never a frat boy.
411 | iossarian Mar 10, 2015 9:57:12am |
re: #402 Nyet
Just read it.
Never understood the whole fraternities crap. Close them all and fucking study.
They’re social living/eating organizations. Every university in the world I’ve ever come into contact with has them (though I don’t know much about your neck of the woods, it’s true). They tend towards the small-c conservative.
It’s just that in the US (surprise, surprise) they tend to be even more conservative (big and small c) than in other places.
412 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 10, 2015 9:57:14am |
re: #402 Nyet
Just read it.
Never understood the whole fraternities crap. Close them all and fucking study.
My mother, who went to University of Michigan in the 1940’s, warned me, NEVER JOIN A SORORITY!! THEY ARE THE MEAN GIRLS!!
Fortunately I attended a local college, lived at home and never got into that whole “campus life” thing.
413 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 9:57:14am |
re: #406 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Because they are young and feel immortal and are convinced that the only thing between them and the Fame and Fortune they deserve is a lot of government red tape.
I think it’s that but I think it really is the abstract concepts that libertarians in the media talk about. It’s easy to be attracted to something when all you hear is about how you deserve total liberty and freedom from government but the fact is you are the government and the government is you. Unfortunately and I blame Reagan and a lot of Republicans for this is the creation of this idea that government employees are somehow different from the rest of society but a government employee can be anyone from a PFC in the Army to your teacher. I think a lot though goes back to why we need better history programs. Too many young people and I say this as a twenty seven year old don’t fully appreciate how hard much of the progress we enjoy today was fought for. That weekend we enjoy wasn’t just given by employers out of the kindenss of their hearts. It took unions for that.
414 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 9:57:38am |
re: #410 Dr. Matt
Simple: Booze and girls.
P.S. I was never a frat boy.
All the more reason to stop the practice cold turkey.
415 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 10, 2015 9:57:49am |
re: #409 Nyet
Is dicktective Chuck already on the case?
I think he’s still sleeping off a drunken stupor.
416 | iossarian Mar 10, 2015 9:58:55am |
David Cameron was in the Oxford University equivalent of a blue-blood reactionary frat.
417 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:00:58am |
re: #416 iossarian
David Cameron was in the Oxford University equivalent of a blue-blood reactionary frat.
I’m not surprised by that unfortunately. That’s what a lot of these frats are. They’re old boys clubs. I won’t lie. I have attended fraternity parties and had fun at them but fraternity culture is something that rubs me the wrong way.
418 | RealityBasedSteve Mar 10, 2015 10:01:31am |
Has upChuck released the earth shattering, universe realigning, breaking and exclusive story yet he was promising us?
RBS
419 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 10:01:37am |
Obviously, there’s freedom of association, etc. outside the campus, but there’s no reason whatsoever for a college or a university to allow any frat buildings on its property, for example.
420 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 10:02:02am |
re: #416 iossarian
David Cameron was in the Oxford University equivalent of a blue-blood reactionary frat.
Yes, during the London summer riots of 2011, it came out that his “dining club” used to go out and trash restaurants and then have mummy and daddy pay the cleanup bills…
In other words, the same thing the rioters were doing, except that the taxpayers and insurance customers wound up footing the bill.
421 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 10, 2015 10:02:52am |
re: #418 RealityBasedSteve
Has upChuck released the earth shattering, universe realigning, breaking and exclusive story yet he was promising us?
RBS
He’s passed out drunk in a pile of his own poop.
422 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:03:31am |
re: #421 The Mother Of All Pies
He’s passed out drunk in a pile of his own poop.
I thought I smelled something.
423 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:04:06am |
re: #419 Nyet
Obviously, there’s freedom of association, etc. outside the campus, but there’s no reason whatsoever for a college or a university to allow any frat buildings on its property, for example.
I definitely agree but if they go off campus, it’s much more easy for them to do these hazing rituals that get kids killed.
424 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:05:33am |
The problem though is at pretty much any university, your student government is going to be represented heavily by the Greek community. People join these frats as a means of creating connections and of course having a good time. You’ll never abolish them as I said but there has to be better oversight over them too.
425 | iossarian Mar 10, 2015 10:06:51am |
re: #419 Nyet
Obviously, there’s freedom of association, etc. outside the campus, but there’s no reason whatsoever for a college or a university to allow any frat buildings on its property, for example.
Part of it is another unfortunate consequence of the US university funding and governance model: a lot of your big-time donors and influential alumni are ex-fraternity members. So that’s a powerful group you don’t want to alienate.
426 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 10:06:59am |
re: #423 HappyWarrior
I definitely agree but if they go off campus, it’s much more easy for them to do these hazing rituals that get kids killed.
But would they survive off campus at all? Seems like it would be a great inconvenience. Otherwise that SAE chapter could have just continued to function.
427 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 10:07:19am |
re: #424 HappyWarrior
The problem though is at pretty much any university, your student government is going to be represented heavily by the Greek community. People join these frats as a means of creating connections and of course having a good time. You’ll never abolish them as I said but there has to be better oversight over them too.
It was also very different before Twitter and Instagram turned every frat party into an event subject to public scrutiny
428 | Romantic Heretic Mar 10, 2015 10:07:46am |
re: #303 lawhawk
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This is yet another shooting that involved an unarmed black man. He was, in fact, naked. There may have been drugs and/or mental health issues involved. Yet the man is dead.
Law enforcement simply refuses to recognize that there’s a huge problem with excessive force and officer involved shootings, especially when it comes to dealing with the mentally ill.
It goes to training, legal protections for use of deadly force, and a system that allows officers to use deadly force even though circumstances would seem to indicate that deadly force is not warranted.
This person was a threat to themselves and needed medical care and treatment. Not to be shot to death.
Speaking as someone mentally ill people generally have little problem with the mentally ill being shot to death or otherwise mistreated. Because they don’t really believe in mental illness. They believe in mental weakness.
They honestly think that if the mentally ill just applied themselves, grew a backbone, toughened up, they’d get better. Since ours is a society that worships strength, whatever the fuck that is, there isn’t a lot of pity spent on the mentally ill.
Been on the receiving end of that attitude most of my life.
Occasionally I try to get through to them with this cartoon, but it rarely works.
429 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:08:36am |
re: #426 Nyet
But would they survive off campus at all? Seems like it would be a great inconvenience. Otherwise that SAE chapter could have just continued to function.
They would and they have. The frat my roommate was in had its building off campus and the frat whose parties I went to had their house off campus. Moving frats off campus won’t solve the problem.
430 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:09:03am |
re: #427 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
It was also very different before Twitter and Instagram turned every frat party into an event subject to public scrutiny
Yeah hell things have even changed a lot and I’ve only been out three years myself.
431 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 10:10:43am |
re: #428 Romantic Heretic
Speaking as someone mentally ill people generally have little problem with the mentally ill being shot to death or otherwise mistreated. Because they don’t really believe in mental illness. They believe in mental weakness.
They honestly think that if the mentally ill just applied themselves, grew a backbone, toughened up, they’d get better. Since ours is a society that worships strength, whatever the fuck that is, there isn’t a lot of pity spent on the mentally ill.
Been on the receiving end of that attitude most of my life.
Occasionally I try to get through to them with this cartoon, but it rarely works.
Even among veterans with PTSD.
432 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:11:18am |
re: #428 Romantic Heretic
Speaking as someone mentally ill people generally have little problem with the mentally ill being shot to death or otherwise mistreated. Because they don’t really believe in mental illness. They believe in mental weakness.
They honestly think that if the mentally ill just applied themselves, grew a backbone, toughened up, they’d get better. Since ours is a society that worships strength, whatever the fuck that is, there isn’t a lot of pity spent on the mentally ill.
Been on the receiving end of that attitude most of my life.
Occasionally I try to get through to them with this cartoon, but it rarely works.
I love that cartoon. And you’re right. There’s too many people out there who think getting over mental illness is just that simple. Fact is I’ve struggled with anxiety and depression for much of my life. I would love just to “get over it” and move on but I am not wired that way.
433 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:12:14am |
re: #431 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Even among veterans with PTSD.
Yep, see Patton slapping the soldier which made him even more of an icon in wingnut lore. Not knocking Patton’s abilities as a general but as a human being, he was pretty shitty.
434 | Flying Squirrel Girl Mar 10, 2015 10:13:13am |
re: #412 The Mother Of All Pies
In college, my roommates and I made fun of them. We hosted a “pledge” party one semester and spray-painted EATME in Greek letters on T-shirts to wear at the party. We thought we were so clever!
435 | iossarian Mar 10, 2015 10:13:15am |
re: #426 Nyet
But would they survive off campus at all? Seems like it would be a great inconvenience. Otherwise that SAE chapter could have just continued to function.
Quite a few universities don’t have official, on-campus fraternities and sororities. In those places, the buildings are just across the street. “Off-campus” really only means that they aren’t official student groups (and thus are somewhat restricted in how they can recruit people, e.g., during orientation weeks).
From a practical point of view it’s not a huge restriction on their activities. As HW points out above, it can also have negative effects.
436 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:17:16am |
People rag on hipsters but bros are the much more annoying subculture IMHO.
437 | Lidane Mar 10, 2015 10:17:29am |
University Of Oklahoma Expels Two Frat Members Who Led Racist Chant @TPM http://t.co/s0bf6DVsrF— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 10, 2015
438 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:18:08am |
439 | Romantic Heretic Mar 10, 2015 10:19:12am |
re: #350 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Hate to break it to you, VP Biden, but the GOP, as currently constituted, has no honour. They have only hatred and ambition.
440 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:21:01am |
re: #435 iossarian
Quite a few universities don’t have official, on-campus fraternities and sororities. In those places, the buildings are just across the street. “Off-campus” really only means that they aren’t official student groups (and thus are somewhat restricted in how they can recruit people, e.g., during orientation weeks).
From a practical point of view it’s not a huge restriction on their activities. As HW points out above, it can also have negative effects.
If they’re off campus. All they can and will do is just drive pledges to the house. At most universities, non-freshmen can have cars and if you’re in an urban campus, it’s probably easy to get near the off campus house by public transit anyhow. But yeah the one frat whose parties I went to, their house was only a couple blocks from the campus or so. I could leave my apartment on campus and be there within ten minutes.
441 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 10:21:19am |
The vine has already been posted above, but it bears repeating:
The fraternity’s 79-year-old house mother, Beauton Gilbow, told Oklahoma’s News9 that she’d never heard the song, with the lyrics “There will never be a n***** at SAE,” before the video went viral.
“I don’t know what I’m doing. I mean, I’m in shock,” she told a reporter on the day that the fraternity was booted from their house.
“”Did you ever get any indication there was anything like this going on?” they asked.
“No, no, no. Never heard the song,” she said.
And then student newspaper The Oklahoma Daily dug up a 2013 Vine featuring Gilbow, in which she repeatedly chanted the word “n*****”, to the tune of Trinidad James’ “All Gold Everything.”
442 | iossarian Mar 10, 2015 10:21:49am |
re: #437 Lidane
FIRE, the “free speech on campus” organization, believes that OU has acted illegally:
As a private organization, the SAE national fraternity is free to punish the chapter, as it has done. Other citizens and groups are free to refuse to associate with the fraternity members based on their expression, and students, faculty, and administrators may of course condemn it. If the expression itself is evidence of other unlawful activity, such activity may be investigated. But the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled time and time again that government institutions like the University of Oklahoma may not punish people for expression protected by the First Amendment.
443 | iossarian Mar 10, 2015 10:24:47am |
First they came for the racist frat boys, and I did not speak up, for I was quite pleased to see the racist frat boys get a kicking for a change.
445 | lawhawk Mar 10, 2015 10:25:24am |
re: #407 HappyWarrior
There are colleges around the country that have done exactly that. Alfred University for one - occurring after a pledge died after drowning in a creek. They can be shut down, but it typically takes a crisis and death to make happen.
When hazing goes very wrong. Drugs and alcohol frequently play a big part in that - to the point that insuring these groups becomes prohibitively expensive. Going dry can seriously reduce the exposure to lawsuit, as can eliminating the pledge/hazing process.
446 | Lidane Mar 10, 2015 10:25:47am |
re: #442 iossarian
I would imagine that the president of OU consulted actual lawyers before pulling the trigger. I think the university will survive any legal challenges just fine.
447 | Romantic Heretic Mar 10, 2015 10:26:59am |
re: #397 Eventual Carrion
Good news to share. My wife had her right foot amputated about 8 months ago. All has gone fine with the prosthetic (other than losing the first one in a kayak flip over last summer, but that is another adventure story for another time :-)). So with the right foot gone she has not been able to drive.
All last week and yesterday she has been down in Johnstown training to use a left foot pedal. This morning she passed her driving test and we are just waiting for the garage to call and set up a day and time to go have the left foot pedal installed on her car. This is such a boost for her outlook on things. The loss of the freedom of driving and having to depend on someone to get her here and there (especially when I am at work) has been bothering her.
It is a happy day for her.
That’s great news.
448 | lawhawk Mar 10, 2015 10:27:07am |
A cute OT:
The women U.S. Supreme Court justices, past and present, are now in Lego form http://t.co/ShKKwOTLJa pic.twitter.com/tTFPJGcUo3— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) March 10, 2015
449 | iossarian Mar 10, 2015 10:27:13am |
re: #446 Lidane
I would imagine that the president of OU consulted actual lawyers before pulling the trigger. I think the university will survive any legal challenges just fine.
I think they could very well get sued, but they’ve calculated that the benefit from taking a stand outweighs the cost of defending themselves and/or paying penalties. Good for them.
450 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 10, 2015 10:28:17am |
re: #445 lawhawk
There are colleges around the country that have done exactly that. Alfred University for one - occurring after a pledge died after drowning in a creek. They can be shut down, but it typically takes a crisis and death to make happen.
When hazing goes very wrong. Drugs and alcohol frequently play a big part in that - to the point that insuring these groups becomes prohibitively expensive. Going dry can seriously reduce the exposure to lawsuit, as can eliminating the pledge/hazing process.
What is the purpose of these torture rituals?
451 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 10:28:47am |
re: #450 The Mother Of All Pies
Same as in the Russian army, I guess.
452 | Skip Intro Mar 10, 2015 10:28:58am |
453 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:29:07am |
re: #450 The Mother Of All Pies
What is the purpose of these torture rituals?
To build “brotherhood” rolls eyes because ya know having to do five shots of Burnetts vodka makes you more of a man.
454 | Timothy Watson Mar 10, 2015 10:29:24am |
re: #449 iossarian
I think they could very well get sued, but they’ve calculated that the benefit from taking a stand outweighs the cost of defending themselves and/or paying penalties. Good for them.
I would imagine that all the university has to say is that they can’t legally support a student organization that discriminates on admission due to race.
455 | iossarian Mar 10, 2015 10:29:48am |
re: #450 The Mother Of All Pies
What is the purpose of these torture rituals?
Male bonding. Easy to point and laugh, but they exist in every society in some form or other.
456 | Romantic Heretic Mar 10, 2015 10:29:52am |
re: #399 Dr. Matt
Yeah, wow, they are so brave and “intellectual” as they sit in the comfort of their homes espousing such idiotic views. But, let’s be real, they wouldn’t last a minute in a society following their NRx cult.
‘Meanest-Son-Of-A-Bitch-In-The-Valley’ Syndrome. As in, “Yea, though I walk through The Valley of Fear in the shadow of Death I will fear no evil. For I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.”
Every person I’ve encountered with this syndrome are kidding themselves, big time.
457 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 10, 2015 10:30:00am |
re: #442 iossarian
FIRE, the “free speech on campus” organization, believes that OU has acted illegally:
After having a look at OU’s Student Rights and Responsibilities Code (PDF), I’m pretty sure that OU is on solid ground.
458 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:30:20am |
re: #454 Timothy Watson
I would imagine that all the university has to say is that they can’t legally support a student organization that discriminates on admission due to race.
Yeah weren’t they singing there will never be a n-word in SAE?
459 | iossarian Mar 10, 2015 10:31:34am |
re: #454 Timothy Watson
I would imagine that all the university has to say is that they can’t legally support a student organization that discriminates on admission due to race.
In a sane world something like that would probably prevail, but in the US you’ve got this whole thing of defining anything and everything as “protected speech”.
460 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 10, 2015 10:33:00am |
re: #450 The Mother Of All Pies
What is the purpose of these torture rituals?
Because the previous class of pledges had to endure them they feel it would be unfair not to subject the subsequent classes to the same inane humiliations.
It is a tradition that is deeply rooted in history.
461 | Lidane Mar 10, 2015 10:33:22am |
And this guy is 100% total fucking moron:
RNC Committeeman Dave Agema claims “Obama is 50% white, 43.75% Arabic and 6,26% black” http://t.co/C29aegyiCy— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 10, 2015
*facepalm*
462 | wrenchwench Mar 10, 2015 10:33:56am |
re: #457 Backwoods_Sleuth
After having a look at OU’s Student Rights and Responsibilities Code (PDF), I’m pretty sure that OU is on solid ground.
FIRE doesn’t seem to care about that. They have an issue and an agenda and no time for the ‘politically correct’.
465 | iossarian Mar 10, 2015 10:34:34am |
re: #457 Backwoods_Sleuth
After having a look at OU’s Student Rights and Responsibilities Code (PDF), I’m pretty sure that OU is on solid ground.
That is, until (often, sadly, well-meaning) organizations like FIRE take them to court for the handbook as well.
NOTHING TRUMPS THE FREEDOM OF THE SPEECH!
To be clear, I think OU has done the right thing. But the free speech zealots are never sated in their quest for unlimited speech-freedom.
466 | Lidane Mar 10, 2015 10:35:39am |
League of the South is furious about positive portrayals of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights march, wants balance http://t.co/dFiZjt9IXW— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 10, 2015
467 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 10:35:41am |
re: #461 Lidane
Even if he weren’t so factually incorrect, the only proper question would be “why the fuck do you bring this up at all?”, which would be a rhetorical question, looking at Steve “David Duke Lite” Scalise et al.
468 | Timothy Watson Mar 10, 2015 10:36:25am |
re: #461 Lidane
And this guy is 100% total fucking moron:
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*facepalm*
So…Obama’s 100.01% human?
469 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:36:30am |
re: #461 Lidane
And this guy is 100% total fucking moron:
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*facepalm*
I wasn’t aware that the RNC did DNA testing and even if he were right, who the fuck cares.
470 | Varek Raith Mar 10, 2015 10:38:01am |
471 | iossarian Mar 10, 2015 10:38:43am |
472 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 10, 2015 10:39:09am |
THIS SHIRT HAS NEVER BEEN WASHED==>
pic.twitter.com/FUcYyxDP8M— miles reed (@milesjreed) March 10, 2015
473 | wrenchwench Mar 10, 2015 10:40:05am |
re: #470 Varek Raith
It’s from the superpowers I gave him.
Found that yesterday, and you said ‘superpowers’ so….
474 | Kragar Mar 10, 2015 10:42:40am |
FYI: Congress didn't ratify peace with Japan until 1952. 1945 Surrender on the USS Missouri entirely a deal between heads of state.— Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) March 10, 2015
475 | Varek Raith Mar 10, 2015 10:42:44am |
re: #473 wrenchwench
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Found that yesterday, and you said ‘superpowers’ so….
Mmmm, bacon.
476 | Timothy Watson Mar 10, 2015 10:44:43am |
re: #461 Lidane
And this guy is 100% total fucking moron:
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*facepalm*
Wingnuts like to go after Al Gore’s dad, I guess it’s not worth the trouble to point out that Al Gore’s dad was beaten by a Republican who won by claiming that Gore’s dad was too soft on civil rights?
477 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:45:58am |
re: #467 Nyet
Even if he weren’t so factually incorrect, the only proper question would be “why the fuck do you bring this up at all?”, which would be a rhetorical question, looking at Steve “David Duke Lite” Scalise et al.
It’s their party and David Duke can cry if he wants to.
478 | jaunte Mar 10, 2015 10:46:52am |
Fun 2 share #txcapitol history w/ my kiddos. Spring break wont stop us from celebrating the history of our gr8 state pic.twitter.com/V03VxGaonn
— Texas Comptroller (@txcomptroller) March 10, 2015
“Come on kids, look like you’re having fun for the camera, dammit.”
479 | BeachDem Mar 10, 2015 10:47:00am |
re: #442 iossarian
FIRE, the “free speech on campus” organization, believes that OU has acted illegally:
Uh oh, this means as soon as he wakes up from his latest stupor, upchuck will be all over it, because, if I remember correctly (don’t care enough to check) upchuck met “asian wife” at a FIRE convention where he ran his mouth about whatnot.
481 | Romantic Heretic Mar 10, 2015 10:48:44am |
re: #433 HappyWarrior
Yep, see Patton slapping the soldier which made him even more of an icon in wingnut lore. Not knocking Patton’s abilities as a general but as a human being, he was pretty shitty.
Personally, I never thought Patton was that great a general.
Must admit to prejudice though, Germany had people like Guderian and von Manstein and the Soviet Union people like Chuikov and Zhukov.
I’m afraid I regard most of the Western Allied generals as competent at best. I think Vandergrift and Collins were the best Americans. Montgomery (much as I dislike him, the glory hound) and Horrocks were the best Brits.
Just my opinion though.
482 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:49:51am |
He may have distant Arab ancestry given East Africa’s history with Arab traders and such but who fucking cares. I swear the Republican party has gotten more and more toxic with their xenophobia. Note that when McCain “defended” Obama against the bigoted woman who called him an Arab, he didn’t point out that it was bigoted to call him an Arab.
483 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 10, 2015 10:50:09am |
Chuck is awake and blathering about how hacking Hillary’s emails isn’t illegal.
484 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:50:42am |
re: #481 Romantic Heretic
Personally, I never thought Patton was that great a general.
Must admit to prejudice though, Germany had people like Guderian and von Manstein and the Soviet Union people like Chuikov and Zhukov.
I’m afraid I regard most of the Western Allied generals as competent at best. I think Vandergrift and Collins were the best Americans. Montgomery (much as I dislike him, the glory hound) and Horrocks were the best Brits.
Just my opinion though.
I am not saying he was great. My favorite field Allied American general FWIW is Omar Bradley. I am also fond of George C. Marshall who had to juggle all those egos.
485 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:51:01am |
re: #483 Backwoods_Sleuth
Chuck is awake and blathering about how hacking Hillary’s emails isn’t illegal.
Perhaps someone should hack his emails then.//
486 | Kragar Mar 10, 2015 10:51:51am |
re: #483 Backwoods_Sleuth
Chuck is awake and blathering about how hacking Hillary’s emails isn’t illegal.
How did that turn out for the last dozen or so hackers who claimed that when the Feds got ahold of them?
487 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 10, 2015 10:52:04am |
LOLOLOLOLOL!
Now Chuck is calling for a citizens arrest of Hillary.
488 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:52:33am |
re: #487 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOL!
Now Chuck is calling for a citizens arrest of Hillary.
Isn’t 10:52)he’s in Fresno IIRC) a little early to start drinking?
489 | Romantic Heretic Mar 10, 2015 10:52:53am |
re: #465 iossarian
That is, until (often, sadly, well-meaning) organizations like FIRE take them to court for the handbook as well.
NOTHING TRUMPS THE FREEDOM OF THE SPEECH!
To be clear, I think OU has done the right thing. But the free speech zealots are never sated in their quest for unlimited speech-freedom.
Nobody stopped them from saying their racist shit. But actions have consequences and the fraternity being shut down was a consequence of their actions.
This is one of the things the ‘free speech advocates’ have a lot of trouble comprehending.
490 | Targetpractice Mar 10, 2015 10:54:00am |
Speaking of the emails, Hillary’s supposed to be addressing the “scandal” at 2:20pm EST. Don’t know why, it’s not like there’s much of anything she can say that won’t either be twisted or ignored by the wingnuts.
491 | klys (maker of Silmarils) Mar 10, 2015 10:54:06am |
I’m so glad free speech discussions are no longer a reason to start leaving cat pictures all over the thread.
492 | Targetpractice Mar 10, 2015 10:54:57am |
re: #491 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I’m so glad free speech discussions are no longer a reason to start leaving cat pictures all over the thread.
No cat pictures? What sort of insanity is this?!
493 | klys (maker of Silmarils) Mar 10, 2015 10:55:19am |
494 | Kragar Mar 10, 2015 10:56:18am |
re: #487 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOL!
Now Chuck is calling for a citizens arrest of Hillary.
Subpoena dodger says what?
495 | goddamnedfrank Mar 10, 2015 10:56:31am |
Lord, this shit again.
Law pertaining to email wasn’t in effect when she was SoS. @ChuckCJohnson— Photonic Gaucho (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2015
I love to see Chuck actually try this and get his fat slammed to the ground by the Secret Service. What he’s actually encouraging however is stochastic terrorism.
496 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:57:08am |
A lot of so called free speech advocates see free speech as “I can say anything I want and you have to tolerate it.” Uh no. That’s what was missed by a certain someone during the Limbaugh calling Sandra Fluke a slut discussion. Rush could call Sandra a slut all he wanted but people were well within their rights to call for boycotts of him and his show’s sponsors.
498 | Romantic Heretic Mar 10, 2015 10:57:24am |
re: #484 HappyWarrior
I am not saying he was great. My favorite field Allied American general FWIW is Omar Bradley. I am also fond of George C. Marshall who had to juggle all those egos.
How’d I forget about Marshall? He is one of the greats. I blame lack of coffee.
What he went on to accomplish after the war was even better. The Marshall Plan is the best example of winning the peace there is.
That’s one thing warmongers forget. After the war there is a lot to do and it has to be done right or too many people will have given up their lives for nothing.
499 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 10:58:01am |
re: #489 Romantic Heretic
Nobody stopped them from saying their racist shit. But actions have consequences and the fraternity being shut down was a consequence of their actions.
This is one of the things the ‘free speech advocates’ have a lot of trouble comprehending.
Just to be clear, this org doesn’t argue against the shutdown.
500 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 10:58:27am |
re: #498 Romantic Heretic
How’d I forget about Marshall? He is one of the greats. I blame lack of coffee.
What he went on to accomplish after the war was even better. The Marshall Plan is the best example of winning the peace there is.
That’s one thing warmongers forget. After the war there is a lot to do and it has to be done right or too many people will have given up their lives for nothing.
I live pretty near where he had a home. Great man. And that’s a great point about warmongrels. Knowing how to make peace is arguably more important for a general than knowing how to make war. The Marshall Plan was an act of genius by him and Truman.
501 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 10, 2015 10:59:05am |
re: #496 HappyWarrior
A lot of so called free speech advocates see free speech as “I can say anything I want and you have to tolerate it.” Uh no. That’s what was missed by a certain someone during the Limbaugh calling Sandra Fluke a slut discussion. Rush could call Sandra a slut all he wanted but people were well within their rights to call for boycotts of him and his show’s sponsors.
This is a popular wingnut meme==>
502 | Timothy Watson Mar 10, 2015 10:59:56am |
re: #487 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOL!
Now Chuck is calling for a citizens arrest of Hillary.
CITIZENS GRAND JURY!1!! THE FOURTH BRANCH OF GUBERMENT!!1!
(Seriously, that’s some of the more extreme militia/sovereign citizen shit that was going to depose Obama a couple years back.)
503 | wrenchwench Mar 10, 2015 11:00:08am |
re: #491 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I’m so glad free speech discussions are no longer a reason to start leaving cat pictures all over the thread.
No reason needed.
504 | Kragar Mar 10, 2015 11:00:57am |
re: #495 goddamnedfrank
Yes. We call those people complete fucking idiots. @ChuckCJohnson— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 10, 2015
505 | No Country For Old Haters Mar 10, 2015 11:01:11am |
re: #136 teleskiguy
Congressman from Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District:
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@jaredpolis One group is authoritarian religious fanatics, and the other group is Iranian hard-liners.— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) March 10, 2015
506 | Lidane Mar 10, 2015 11:01:41am |
“All we have left in the house is puppy chow- I'll run to the store tomorrow. Is that OK?” #impendingdoom pic.twitter.com/68mMR5x5bl— Cute Overload (@CuteOverload) March 9, 2015
507 | Romantic Heretic Mar 10, 2015 11:02:23am |
re: #500 HappyWarrior
I live pretty near where he had a home. Great man. And that’s a great point about warmongrels. Knowing how to make peace is arguably more important for a general than knowing how to make war. The Marshall Plan was an act of genius by him and Truman.
I read a biography of Truman years ago. He said it was his experience as a Southerner that influenced the Marshall Plan.
He knew what a clusterfuck the Reconstruction was, and how that had poisoned American society. He wanted to avoid that after WWII. His idea was to make sure the Axis nations didn’t feel like ‘conquered people’.
It worked too.
508 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 10, 2015 11:02:28am |
Israeli Channel 2's final poll before March 17 elections has Labor leading Likud 25-21, its largest lead of the campaign.— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) March 10, 2015
509 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 11:03:57am |
re: #504 Kragar
If Chuck wants to commit suicide by the Secret Service, I, for one, wouldn’t stop him.
510 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 10, 2015 11:04:21am |
Must have been a sneaky stealth middle of the night when no one was looking Presidential Pardon:
It is obvious that Obama would give her a Presidential Pardon for any crimes committed (he already has on Benghazi). But Citizens can arrest— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) March 10, 2015
511 | makeitstop Mar 10, 2015 11:04:50am |
512 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 11:04:54am |
re: #501 The Mother Of All Pies
This is a popular wingnut meme==>
Yeah well that’s why they’re fucking morons. Despite what cons believe, most liberals will you give the benefit of the doubt but the minute you start making blanket statements about people of a race, hell fucking yeah I am going to call you fucking racist and hell yeah I will call you homophobic if your opposition to gays having rights is that you find homosexuality sinful. Divorce is also seen as sinful yet no one outside some kooks wants that to be criminalized.
513 | jaunte Mar 10, 2015 11:05:10am |
re: #510 Backwoods_Sleuth
He must be trying to gin up a ‘stochastic’ citizen’s arrest.
514 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 11:05:23am |
re: #510 Backwoods_Sleuth
Must have been a sneaky stealth middle of the night when no one was looking Presidential Pardon:
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Hard to give someone a pardon for a crime they didn’t commit.
516 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 10, 2015 11:06:45am |
re: #514 HappyWarrior
Hard to give someone a pardon for a crime they didn’t commit.
details…pesky, pesky details…
517 | Targetpractice Mar 10, 2015 11:06:47am |
re: #511 makeitstop
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Damnit, how did you find a picture of my cat?!
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I swear, I’ve got a little calico and that’s exactly the look she gives me every morning. That look that says “Alright, where’s my food?”
518 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 11:06:52am |
re: #507 Romantic Heretic
I read a biography of Truman years ago. He said it was his experience as a Southerner that influenced the Marshall Plan.
He knew what a clusterfuck the Reconstruction was, and how that had poisoned American society. He wanted to avoid that after WWII. His idea was to make sure the Axis nations didn’t feel like ‘conquered people’.
It worked too.
Interesting. I thought he would have considered himself a Pennsylvanian. I think he was born there but perhaps he was raised in the South and had Southern born parents. He did a great job of that. It would have been even better if Stalin hadn’t told the nations that became the Warsaw Pact nations to accept Marshall Plan aid.
519 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 10, 2015 11:07:02am |
re: #512 HappyWarrior
Yeah well that’s why they’re fucking morons. Despite what cons believe, most liberals will you give the benefit of the doubt but the minute you start making blanket statements about people of a race, hell fucking yeah I am going to call you fucking racist and hell yeah I will call you homophobic if your opposition to gays having rights is that you find homosexuality sinful. Divorce is also seen as sinful yet no one outside some kooks wants that to be criminalized.
HURR HURR HOW DARE YOU BE INTOLERANT OF MY RACISM, MISO MYSO WIMMENS-HATIN’ & HOMOPHOBIA!!!! UR TEH REAL RACIST HEAR!!!1!!!
520 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 11:07:52am |
re: #516 Backwoods_Sleuth
details…pesky, pesky details…
You’d think that an award winning journalist/rocket builder/Iron Man/creator of the world’s greatest cocktail would know this.
521 | makeitstop Mar 10, 2015 11:08:19am |
522 | No Country For Old Haters Mar 10, 2015 11:09:02am |
re: #510 Backwoods_Sleuth
Must have been a sneaky stealth middle of the night when no one was looking Presidential Pardon:
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Citizens can also be delusional, and go to jail for illegal detention. It's way past time for @ChuckCJohnson to see a psychiatrist.— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) March 10, 2015
523 | makeitstop Mar 10, 2015 11:09:05am |
re: #517 Targetpractice
Damnit, how did you find a picture of my cat?!
//
I swear, I’ve got a little calico and that’s exactly the look she gives me every morning. That look that says “Alright, where’s my food?”
She’s our littlest. 8 years old and we still call her ‘the kitten.’
524 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 11:09:24am |
re: #519 The Mother Of All Pies
HURR HURR HOW DARE YOU BE INTOLERANT OF MY RACISM,
MISOMYSOWIMMENS-HATIN’ & HOMOPHOBIA!!!! UR TEH REAL RACIST HEAR!!!1!!!
As I said fucking morons who think liberals calling their bullshit out is discrimination but them discriminating against gay people because of their “morals” is freedom of religion. I really do try to give conservatives even the benefit of the doubt and I don’t think all criticism of Obama is racist but when I hear some of the shit I’ve heard many conservatives say about him, they just prove that a lot of it is motivated by racism especially when they dismiss him as a mere community organizer.
525 | jaunte Mar 10, 2015 11:09:45am |
More frat life revealed, this time at University of Texas:
The letter prohibits “fagetry,” “interracial dating,” and “Mexicans.”
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Members were also warned against “crying to Mom,” “being a pussy (quiting),” and being “deuschbags.”
No word on spelling rules.
527 | Targetpractice Mar 10, 2015 11:10:20am |
re: #523 makeitstop
She’s our littlest. 8 years old and we still call her ‘the kitten.’
I swear, she and my cat must be twins. She’s about the same age, give or take, and is actually the oldest cat in the house. But she’s also tiny, doesn’t weigh more than 7lb.
528 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 11:10:21am |
What Bill O’Reilly ignored about George Patton
In a letter to Eisenhower, Truman quoted from a report on conditions in the DP camps. “As matters now stand, we appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them except that we do not exterminate them. They are in concentration camps in large numbers under our military guard instead of SS troops. One is led to wonder whether the German people, seeing this, are not supposing that we are following or at least condoning Nazi policy.”
The “military guard” that Truman mentioned was Patton’s idea. He had his reasons, Patton wrote in his diary: “If they [the Jewish DPs] were not kept under guard they would not stay in the camps, would spread over the country like locusts, and would eventually have to be rounded up after quite a few of them had been shot and quite a few Germans murdered and pillaged.” At least twice in his diary, Patton referred to the Jewish DPs as “animals.”
The report to Truman was written by Earl G. Harrison, the dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s law school who had inspected the camps. Here is what Patton thought about Harrison: “Harrison and his ilk believe that the Displaced Person is a human being, which he is not, and this applies particularly to Jews who are lower than animals.”
529 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 10, 2015 11:10:25am |
Congratulations to my good friend @RepDuckworth on receiving her PhD in public health this weekend. pic.twitter.com/jDxERCov6A— Steny Hoyer (@WhipHoyer) March 10, 2015
530 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 10, 2015 11:11:01am |
re: #524 HappyWarrior
As I said fucking morons who think liberals calling their bullshit out is discrimination but them discriminating against gay people because of their “morals” is freedom of religion. I really do try to give conservatives even the benefit of the doubt and I don’t think all criticism of Obama is racist but when I hear some of the shit I’ve heard many conservatives say about him, they just prove that a lot of it is motivated by racism especially when they dismiss him as a mere community organizer.
There is another wingnut meme HURR HURR ALL TEH TEA PARTY WANTS TO DO IS LEAVE EVERYBODY THE HELL ALONE!!!!1!! to which I always say “Unless they’re gay or a woman choosing abortion” then their heads explode
531 | Targetpractice Mar 10, 2015 11:11:28am |
re: #526 Dr. Matt
Derpness down below: littlegreenfootballs.com
Alright, who forgot to flush? Fess up!
533 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 11:12:48am |
re: #530 The Mother Of All Pies
There is another wingnut meme HURR HURR ALL TEH TEA PARTY WANTS TO DO IS LEAVE EVERYBODY THE HELL ALONE!!!!1!! to which I always say “Unless they’re gay or a woman choosing abortion” then their heads explode
Yeah the TP wanting the government to just leave people alone is a fucking lie. No, they want the government to leave business alone, that’s different from government leaving the individual alone which the TP is totally opposed for especially if they’re gay, a woman, or a non-Christian.
534 | lawhawk Mar 10, 2015 11:12:50am |
re: #510 Backwoods_Sleuth
.@ChuckCJohnson you're laying into the sauce pretty hard if you think there's been a pardon. Or that you can do a citizen's arrest.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 10, 2015
536 | klys (maker of Silmarils) Mar 10, 2015 11:13:31am |
re: #534 lawhawk
He’s probably still drunk from last night.
537 | Targetpractice Mar 10, 2015 11:14:07am |
538 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 11:14:35am |
re: #529 Backwoods_Sleuth
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She really is such a nice contrast to that dirtbag who she beat to get into Congress. I said it last night but I really hope the DSCC considers her as a possilbe Senate candidate down the line. Kirk is an ass and Durbin isn’t getting younger I think she understandably though being a new mother and freshman Congresswoman will want to focus on that though. She along with John Lewis is again one of those rare Congresspeople I admire as human beings. .
539 | Lidane Mar 10, 2015 11:15:10am |
*cough*
Mike Huckabee's angry that “secularists” are imposing their values on him, something conservative Christians never do http://t.co/cpJGiCMjdh— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 10, 2015
540 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 11:15:15am |
541 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 11:15:22am |
542 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 11:16:17am |
re: #539 Lidane
*cough*
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Hahahaha yeah Mike, conservative Christians never try to impose their values on anyone except all the time when you want secular law to resemble your holy book. What a fucking joke Huckabee is. Give it up Mike, you’re a theocratic fascist, you know it, I know it, and the dog your sicko son tortured knew it.
543 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 11:17:01am |
As if he had it.
I'll give $5000 to the person who gives me #clintonEmail. #ReadyForHillary— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) March 10, 2015
544 | makeitstop Mar 10, 2015 11:17:25am |
re: #527 Targetpractice
I swear, she and my cat must be twins. She’s about the same age, give or take, and is actually the oldest cat in the house. But she’s also tiny, doesn’t weigh more than 7lb.
My wife found her under my truck at a gig one night - the club was in a shopping center with a pretty large feral colony. There were two of them, but the other one was too fast and my wife couldn’t catch him. :)
Trixie looks surly, but she’s just the sweetest cat. She hangs out here in the office with me all day long.
545 | klys (maker of Silmarils) Mar 10, 2015 11:17:36am |
re: #539 Lidane
From the article:
“The point is that for many of us we’re accused of wanting to impose our religious values on someone else; the fact is we just don’t want someone’s secular values imposed upon us,” he said.
We’re the real victims heres!!!
546 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 10, 2015 11:17:58am |
More open racism on TCOT
WARNING: click at your own risk, not embedding that shit here
547 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 11:18:18am |
re: #543 Nyet
As if he had it.
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You know Chucky if you were such a great journalist, you wouldn’t be begging on Twitter. You’d actually be investigating rather than hitting the sauce every night and looking like a pathetic wanker.
548 | darthstar Mar 10, 2015 11:18:39am |
He's out of control now. pic.twitter.com/YFEhVc7TX5— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) March 10, 2015
549 | No Country For Old Haters Mar 10, 2015 11:18:47am |
re: #539 Lidane
*cough*
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I think at this point, conservatives are too wrapped up in their own bullshit to even comprehend that they're hypocrites. @RightWingWatch— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) March 10, 2015
550 | lawhawk Mar 10, 2015 11:19:07am |
The tyrannical omnipotent (yet incompetent) Obama banning firearms somehow thwarted by ATF dropping proposed regs on ammo restrictions for AR-15s.
551 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 11:20:44am |
re: #545 klys (maker of Silmarils)
From the article:
We’re the real victims heres!!!
The fact is no one’s telling him he has to now believe homosexuality is moral. No one is telling him as a minister that he has to perform SSM but they are telling him and this is what numbnuts like him don’t get is that they can’t discriminate against them. And I can’t discriminate Mike either. Even if I find his brand of Christianity to be disgusting and to resemble a Christian form of Islamism, I cannot lawfully refuse to serve him in my place of business because he is protected by that. It’s amusing to me how fuckers like Huck love to claim GAYS WANT SPECIAL RIGHTS when it’s really the other way around, they want special rights for them as conservative Christians to be able to treat whoever they see as “sinful” to be discriminated against.
552 | Dr. Matt Mar 10, 2015 11:21:11am |
re: #550 lawhawk
The tyrannical omnipotent (yet incompetent) Obama banning firearms somehow thwarted by ATF dropping proposed regs on ammo restrictions for AR-15s.
There was a Gun Show in town last weekend. I wonder how much the vendors jacked up the price of 5.56 and laughed as the sheeple bought it in bulk.
553 | wrenchwench Mar 10, 2015 11:21:13am |
New rangeland fire strategy will protect sagebrush habitat—vital for sage grouse, Western econ http://t.co/bMiU5ErvNS pic.twitter.com/O80AlNRtqq— US Dept of Interior (@Interior) March 10, 2015
554 | No Country For Old Haters Mar 10, 2015 11:21:22am |
re: #548 darthstar
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.@Rschooley When was he not? Conservatives need to stop voting if they're going to elect any idiot that panders to their absurd bigotry.— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) March 10, 2015
555 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 11:21:55am |
re: #550 lawhawk
The tyrannical omnipotent (yet incompetent) Obama banning firearms somehow thwarted by ATF dropping proposed regs on ammo restrictions for AR-15s.
This was a ban on armor piercing ammo yes? Because you need armor piercing bullets for hunting(you know game they’re always wearing armor) or targets. Not to mention your home invader who shows up wearing kevlar vests to rob your home.
556 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 11:22:26am |
re: #554 No Country For Old Haters
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557 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 11:22:35am |
re: #545 klys (maker of Silmarils)
In an non-theocracy all religious claims are (or should be) equal before the law. This leaves the basic “secular” assumptions as the only common basis. Anything beyond that is a movement in some religious direction.
558 | Kragar Mar 10, 2015 11:23:09am |
“[U]nelected judges cannot set aside the democratically elected legislature’s…decisions” -Ted Cruz, failing to comprehend checks & balances— Turd Ferguson (@donachaidh) March 10, 2015
559 | jaunte Mar 10, 2015 11:23:19am |
re: #551 HappyWarrior
Ted Cruz: Freedom won’t survive unless we deny gay people theirs
560 | Targetpractice Mar 10, 2015 11:23:51am |
re: #544 makeitstop
My wife found her under my truck at a gig one night - the club was in a shopping center with a pretty large feral colony. There were two of them, but the other one was too fast and my wife couldn’t catch him. :)
Trixie looks surly, but she’s just the sweetest cat. She hangs out here in the office with me all day long.
My mother found Cally while out with my grandmother going to yard sales. While she was out at a farm for one of them, this little kitten who couldn’t have been more than a few months old just walked up to her, brave as could be. And when my mother asked the lady running the yard sale about who the cat belonged to because she was absolutely smitten with her, the woman said she came from a farm up the way and they had so many cats running around that she didn’t figure the owners would notice one missing.
561 | makeitstop Mar 10, 2015 11:24:13am |
562 | Nyet Mar 10, 2015 11:24:47am |
re: #558 Kragar
No one ever accused him of being a bright legal scholar (except Alan Dershowitz).
563 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 11:25:09am |
re: #558 Kragar
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Figures that he doesn’t understand basic civics. This is fucking elementary Ted. The legislature makes the laws and the judiciary does have the power to deem them unconstitutional. It’s judicial fucking review you fucking moron, it goes all the way basic to the early years of our country. Seems to me that Ted and his kind are the real ones with a problem with our Constitution if he’s going to bitch about the judiciary doing its fucking job.
564 | HappyWarrior Mar 10, 2015 11:25:26am |
re: #559 jaunte
Ted Cruz: Freedom won’t survive unless we deny gay people theirs
That man is a menace.
566 | Ace-o-aces Mar 10, 2015 12:16:04pm |
re: #465 iossarian
That is, until (often, sadly, well-meaning) organizations like FIRE take them to court for the handbook as well.
NOTHING TRUMPS THE FREEDOM OF THE SPEECH!
To be clear, I think OU has done the right thing. But the free speech zealots are never sated in their quest for unlimited speech-freedom.
The frat was shut down by the national organization. Even FIRE has not problem with that since they’re a private organization. And since that means the SAE no longer exists at OU, then they don’t’ get to keep their campus housing. FIRE is questioning if the students can be expelled based on their speech.