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1 darthstar  Mar 12, 2015 7:07:34pm
2 Nyet  Mar 12, 2015 7:08:11pm

Dunno.

3 Charles Johnson  Mar 12, 2015 7:10:39pm
4 Charles Johnson  Mar 12, 2015 7:15:38pm

…

5 darthstar  Mar 12, 2015 7:20:53pm
6 danarchy  Mar 12, 2015 7:22:00pm

re: #1 darthstar

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Only not so much.

CBS 2 News contacted the Senator’s office and are awaiting a formal response. CBS 2 News did get a response from Colonel Greg Hapgood, Director of Public Affairs with the Iowa National Guard. Col. Hapgood says the claim made in the article is simply not true. “As Joni Ernst is a traditional National Guard member (on military duty one weekend a month and for 15 days of Annual Training), both the Iowa Code of Military Justice and federal Uniform Code of Military Justice only apply to her when she serves in a duty status with the Iowa National Guard or the U.S. Army.” Col. Hapgood says when Sen. Ernst is serving in her role as a U.S. Senator, she is subject to the same state and federal laws as any other civillian serving in that position.

Read More at: cbs2iowa.com

7 sagehen  Mar 12, 2015 7:22:47pm

For those in the NYC broadcast area… PBS13 (WNET) tomorrow night is playing “Tribute to Springsteen” (lots of bands doing Springsteen songs) at 9pm and again at 1:30 am. At midnight fri night/sat am (also at 4am fri, DVR because you absolutely should be asleep) “Joe Bonamassa at Red Rocks, tribute to Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf.”

You’re welcome.

8 retired cynic  Mar 12, 2015 7:23:02pm

re: #6 danarchy

Too bad.

9 darthstar  Mar 12, 2015 7:23:39pm

re: #6 danarchy

Only not so much.

yeah…I figured there would be a loophole.

10 darthstar  Mar 12, 2015 7:24:17pm

re: #8 retired cynic

Too bad.

She still violated the spirit of the law, if not the letter of it.

11 darthstar  Mar 12, 2015 7:26:16pm
12 #FergusonFireside  Mar 12, 2015 7:27:31pm

re: #10 darthstar

She still violated the spirit of the law, if not the letter of it.

Do they give a flying fuck? No.

13 Nyet  Mar 12, 2015 7:27:36pm

re: #11 darthstar

Snoop Catty Catt

14 Belafon  Mar 12, 2015 7:28:16pm

re: #5 darthstar

I wish, but an Arkansas state senator is putting a bill up that would allow Cotton to run for both president and senator in 2020.

It would only be a problem for him if 1) Republicans could feel humiliation, 2) governing was more important than power, and 3) the military companies that gave him a million dollars afterwards didn’t think of war as a profit making enterprise.

15 #FergusonFireside  Mar 12, 2015 7:30:11pm

What? Really?

I support these protesters they go through so much. Then some police get dinged.

They want to shut them down. They will not.

16 Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 12, 2015 7:33:17pm

re: #14 Belafon

I wish, but an Arkansas state senator is putting a bill up that would allow Cotton to run for both president and senator in 2020.

That’s kind of dumb. Let’s say he wins both. (I know, I know. Shudder worthy but stay with me here) That means there’d have to be an automatic special election for the senate seat. Isn’t Rand Paul trying to do this crap too?

17 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Mar 12, 2015 7:34:59pm

Say, remember when we were talking about states racing for the stupidest? Texas is making a sprint!

Texas Representative Proposes Bill to Make Filming the Police Illegal for Everyone But MSM

The bill attempts to usurp citizens of the ability to hold law enforcement accountable for their actions by negating people’s ability to create an accurate and impartial record of police interactions.

If passed, the bill would amend the current “INTERFERENCE WITH PUBLIC DUTIES” statute (Sec. 38.15), to include language only allow filming of police (within 25ft) by “news media.”

The term “news media” is then defined as such:

(A) a radio or television station that holds a license issued by the Federal Communications Commission;

(B) a newspaper that is qualified under Section 2051.044, Government Code, to publish legal notices or is a free newspaper of general circulation and that is published at least once a week and available and of interest to the general public in connection with the dissemination of news or public affairs; or

(C) a magazine that appears at a regular interval, that contains stories, articles, and essays by various writers, and that is available and of interest to the general public in connection with the dissemination of news or public affairs.

18 Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 12, 2015 7:35:33pm

re: #15 #FergusonFireside

What? Really?

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I support these protesters they go through so much. Then some police get dinged.

They want to shut them down. They will not.

“Hi, welcome to Fox News, how have you first few days been so far?”

“Not too bad.”

“Good, Good. Well, since you’re the low man on the totem pole, you’re being sent to Ferguson.”

“Ok, what do I have to do?”

“Talk to the black people at the protests.”

“Oh man, really?”

“Yes.”

“Really?”

“Yes”

“But I hate black people!”

“So do the rest of us, but you gotta pay your dues. Enjoy.”

19 b_sharp  Mar 12, 2015 7:37:25pm

Yes, atheists can be as irrational as anybody else.

I had one trying to tell me formal logic is absolute and the law of noncontradiction cannot be broken.

So I parried with superposition and a flash of quantum tunnelling.

He hit me hard with the observation canard. My riposte was a jab of inferential observation. He left, I assume to collect a heavier weapon.

20 Drive By Commenter  Mar 12, 2015 7:37:47pm

The Ballad Of Billy John

NSFW

21 Nyet  Mar 12, 2015 7:43:32pm

re: #19 b_sharp

I don’t think QM challenges formal logic in any way. Only the conventional view of the nature of physical reality.

22 Belafon  Mar 12, 2015 7:44:07pm

re: #19 b_sharp

Yes, atheists can be as irrational as anybody else.

I had one trying to tell me formal logic is absolute and the law of contradiction cannot be broken.

So I parried with superposition and a flash of quantum tunnelling.

He hit me hard with the observation canard. My riposte was a jab of inferential observation. He left, I assume to collect a heavier weapon.

I like how his universe is countable.

23 Charles Johnson  Mar 12, 2015 7:44:13pm

About to launch…

nasa.gov

24 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Mar 12, 2015 7:45:24pm

re: #19 b_sharp

Yes, atheists can be as irrational as anybody else.

I’ve never understood that cognitive dissonance. Humans can be irrational. I’m an atheist. Therefore I can’t be irrational.

Wut?

(edited for clarity)

25 Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 12, 2015 7:46:04pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

About to launch…

nasa.gov

Thanks! Tuned in right at lift off.

I think the desire to learn the secrets of the stars is one of my favourite aspects of humanity.

26 bratwurst  Mar 12, 2015 7:46:29pm

Am I the only one who is upset that Google no longer honors the choice to stick with “classic” Google Maps?

27 Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 12, 2015 7:48:30pm

re: #26 bratwurst

Am I the only one who is upset that Google no longer honors the choice to stick with “classic” Google Maps?

NO.

:)

28 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 12, 2015 7:49:11pm

re: #26 bratwurst

Am I the only one who is upset that Google no longer honors the choice to stick with “classic” Google Maps?

Never get used to a Google UI. They will break it for no good reason whenever they please. Gmail is mess because they keep removing functionality and replacing it with idiocy. I still use it because it’s tolerable unlike the rest but still it used to be much better.

29 Nyet  Mar 12, 2015 7:51:15pm

I don’t think anyone said that atheists are supposed to be rational. Atheism is not defined as being rational.

30 b_sharp  Mar 12, 2015 7:54:30pm

re: #21 Nyet

I don’t think QM challenges formal logic in any way. Only the conventional view of the nature of physical reality.

Noncontradiction states that contradictory statements cannot exist at the same time. Schroedinger’s paradox is a metaphorical representation of contradictory states existing simultaneously.

The point is formal logic is a language construct that in some cases doesn’t apply, such as in portions of the quantum world & pre-big bang.

31 b_sharp  Mar 12, 2015 7:57:50pm

re: #29 Nyet

I don’t think anyone said that atheists are supposed to be rational. Atheism is not defined as being rational.

Atheists self identified as sceptics also pride themselves on using rational reasoning to doubt the existence of god. Those same atheists consider the belief in a god irrational. That’s where the idea of atheists being rational comes from.

32 Belafon  Mar 12, 2015 8:00:48pm

re: #30 b_sharp

And we’ve known since the beginning of the 20th century that systems such as formal logic are incomplete. There are truths that cannot be proved in those systems. Zombie Bertrand Russell needs to come slap this guy.

33 freetoken  Mar 12, 2015 8:02:05pm

re: #1 darthstar

Wasn’t that addressed by GDF last night?

34 Charles Johnson  Mar 12, 2015 8:03:43pm
35 b_sharp  Mar 12, 2015 8:04:54pm

re: #32 Belafon

And we’ve known since the beginning of the 20th century that systems such as formal logic are incomplete. There are truths that cannot be proved in those systems. Zombie Bertrand Russell needs to come slap this guy.

Thanks for that.

36 goddamnedfrank  Mar 12, 2015 8:06:32pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

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Also the link on the second tweet goes to a Council of Conservative Citizens article.

37 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 12, 2015 8:08:11pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

Needs more white sheets for his photos.

38 Nyet  Mar 12, 2015 8:09:31pm

re: #30 b_sharp

Noncontradiction states that contradictory statements cannot exist at the same time. Schroedinger’s paradox is a metaphorical representation of contradictory states existing simultaneously.

Schrödinger’s paradox pertains to physical states, while formal logic pertains to logical statements. When we say that there is a superposition of physical states of the dead and the alive cat, we are not saying that the cat is actually simultaneously dead and alive in one actual physical state. There’s either an “undecided” state (which doesn’t challenge the logic, but does challenge the classical view of physical reality), which collapses to an actual state upon measurement, or a host of “multiple universes”, which are separate from each other and thus again don’t logically contradict each other. Were QM actually to contain logical contradictions, it would have to be rejected as unscientific. It is, after all, one of the ways to evaluate a scientific theory.

39 Nyet  Mar 12, 2015 8:11:21pm

re: #31 b_sharp

Atheists self identified as sceptics also pride themselves on using rational reasoning to doubt the existence of god. Those same atheists consider the belief in a god irrational. That’s where the idea of atheists being rational comes from.

Since atheists can believe in astrology, psi, Tarot, conspiracy theories, souls, afterlife, AGW denial and so on, there is no requirement for an atheist to be rational.

Also, an atheist who doesn’t use rational reasoning to reject God is still an atheist.

40 freetoken  Mar 12, 2015 8:11:34pm

Schrödinger’s UpChuck: Does or does not CCJ exist if we put him in a box?

41 retired cynic  Mar 12, 2015 8:13:01pm

re: #40 freetoken

Let’s try it and see what happens?

42 Belafon  Mar 12, 2015 8:13:30pm

re: #35 b_sharp

I probably should have said zombie Gödel, but I didn’t think to copy the umlaut until later.

43 Belafon  Mar 12, 2015 8:14:30pm

re: #40 freetoken

Schrödinger’s UpChuck: Does or does not CCJ exist if we put him in a box?

“I’m Charles C. Johnson, and I’m stuck in a box. If you’ll pay me $.99, I’ll let you open the box for me.”

44 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 12, 2015 8:15:21pm

re: #42 Belafon

I probably should have said zombie Gödel, but I didn’t think to copy the umlaut until later.

& ouml; = ö —take out the space

45 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 12, 2015 8:16:14pm

re: #43 Belafon

“I’m Charles C. Johnson, and I’m stuck in a box. If you’ll pay me $.99, I’ll let you open the box for me.”

In some ways, he already is stuck in a box of his own making.

46 freetoken  Mar 12, 2015 8:18:04pm

Creationism Canada style, eh?

Being a creationist conservative in Canada ‘gives your opponents a tremendous amount of ammunition’

Alberta premier Jim Prentice’s hand-picked education minister Gordon Dirks told forum attendees last weekend that he was an “Old Earth guy” — a reference to a doctrine of Creationism that generally rejects biological evolution.

[…]

47 austin_blue  Mar 12, 2015 8:20:48pm

re: #45 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

In some ways, he already is stuck in a box of his own making.

Or not. He may not actually exist.

Well, we can hope he suddenly goes *poof!* if someone opens the box.

48 Belafon  Mar 12, 2015 8:27:17pm

re: #47 austin_blue

Proof of the non-existence of God (Hitchhiker’s):

The Final Proof of the non-Existence of God was proved by a Babel Fish.

Now, it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some have chosen to see it as the final proof of the NON-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:

“I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”

“But,” says Man, “the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that You exist, and so therefore, by Your own arguments, You don’t. QED”

“Oh dear,” says God, “I hadn’t thought of that,” and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

“Oh, that was easy,” says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

49 freetoken  Mar 12, 2015 8:27:53pm

The latest GOP spouting of AGW-is-not-a-problem-because-God:

Florida lawmaker skeptical carbon dioxide causes global warming

[…]

“CO2 in my opinion is not a pollutant,” Wood said. “God gave us C02 to grow plants, for us to exhale, everything else.”

[…]

50 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 12, 2015 8:29:03pm

re: #49 freetoken

The latest GOP spouting of AGW-is-not-a-problem-because-God:

Florida lawmaker skeptical carbon dioxide causes global warming

I ask Wood to step into an airtight box and see how long he can live with God’s CO2.

51 Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 12, 2015 8:31:29pm

re: #46 freetoken

Creationism Canada style, eh?

Being a creationist conservative in Canada ‘gives your opponents a tremendous amount of ammunition’

52 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 12, 2015 8:32:25pm

re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg

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Is the one in the middle carrying a Molson’s?

53 Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 12, 2015 8:35:13pm

Ok, Fuck Canon with a sharp object.

I can’t even SCAN on my all in one without ink in it.

54 goddamnedfrank  Mar 12, 2015 8:38:19pm

re: #50 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I ask Wood to step into an airtight box and see how long he can live with God’s CO2.

Or just a room filled with the normal percentage of Oxygen in Air but lower the constituent Nitrogen portion by 15 percent and replace it with CO2. Lethal inside of ten minutes.

55 #FergusonFireside  Mar 12, 2015 8:40:13pm

Ya’ll I’ve been watching the Ferguson live stream all night.

Amaze at how these people are portrayed as instigators. They are just people on the street.

Very interesting watch, none the less.

“they’re suiting up” (the cops)

“we don’t see no riot here, why you got on riot gear?”

ustream.tv

56 Nyet  Mar 12, 2015 8:40:44pm

Another example about how strongly anti-intuitive is not the same as leading to a logical contradiction. Let’s take the statement “Object A can be in place X and place Y at the same time, where X and Y do not spatially intersect”.

Would this statement contradict formal logic if it were true? Not at all, it would only contradict our classical physical intuitions about what it means for an object to “be” somewhere. Such intuitions may not apply in the microworld, for example.

57 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 12, 2015 8:43:02pm

re: #56 Nyet

Another example about how strongly anti-intuitive is not the same as leading to a logical contradiction. Let’s take the statement “Object A can be in place X and place Y at the same time, where X and Y do not spatially intersect”.

Would this statement contradict formal logic if it were true? Not at all, it would only contradict our classical physical intuitions about what it means for an object to “be” somewhere. Such intuitions may not apply in the microworld, for example.

Or for Star Trek transporter beams

58 nearly-headless smith25  Mar 12, 2015 8:43:58pm

re: #55 #FergusonFireside

Ya’ll I’ve been watching the Ferguson live stream all night.

Amaze at how these people are portrayed as instigators. They are just people on the street.

Very interesting watch, none the less.

“they’re suiting up” (the cops)

“we don’t see no riot here, why you got on riot gear?”

ustream.tv

The title of the Ice Cube song says it all.

“My Skin is My Sin”

59 freetoken  Mar 12, 2015 8:46:44pm

I didn’t realize we were suffering this crisis, of not having enough ways to kill people:

Vote for firing squad shows frustration with drug shortages

A vote by Utah lawmakers to bring back executions by firing squad is the most dramatic illustration yet of the nationwide frustration over bungled executions and shortages of lethal-injection drugs.

Utah and several other states are scrambling to modify their laws on the heels of a botched Oklahoma lethal injection last year and one in Arizona in which the condemned man took nearly two hours to die. Meanwhile, Texas executed a Mexican mafia hit man Wednesday evening with its second-to-last dosage of drugs.

[…]

States have struggled to keep up their drug inventories as European manufacturers opposed to capital punishment refuse to sell the components of lethal injections to U.S. prisons. The Texas deadline is the most imminent, but other states are struggling, too.

The Utah bill’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Paul Ray, argues that a team of trained marksmen is faster and more humane than the drawn-out deaths involved when lethal injections go awry.

Though Utah’s next execution is probably a few years away, Ray said Wednesday that he wants to settle on a backup method now so authorities are not racing to find a solution if the drug shortage drags on.

[…]

Because we all want to avoid the tragedy of someone not dying on the day they were supposed to.

60 Belafon  Mar 12, 2015 8:48:54pm

re: #59 freetoken

But what if people find out that leaving a murderer in prison for the rest of his life doesn’t lead to an increase in homicides?

61 goddamnedfrank  Mar 12, 2015 8:49:42pm

re: #54 goddamnedfrank

And by “lethal inside of 10 minutes” I mean you’ll go through a minute or so of exaggerated panic and hallucinations with racing heart, increasing respiratory distress then pass out in a fit of convulsive vomiting and seizures. You’re still getting plenty of Oxygen, unfortunately the CO2 will kill the part of your brain responsible for regulating breathing. The eventual death by asphyxiation is just incidental to this.

62 allegro  Mar 12, 2015 8:55:52pm

re: #61 goddamnedfrank

And by “lethal inside of 10 minutes” I mean you’ll go through a minute or so of exaggerated panic and hallucinations with racing heart, increasing respiratory distress then pass out in a fit of convulsive vomiting and seizures. You’re still getting plenty of Oxygen, unfortunately the CO2 will kill the part of your brain responsible for regulating breathing. The eventual death by asphyxiation is just incidental to this.

Sounds like just the solution Utah is looking for. Saves bullets.

63 BeachDem  Mar 12, 2015 8:58:34pm

re: #7 sagehen

For those in the NYC broadcast area… PBS13 (WNET) tomorrow night is playing “Tribute to Springsteen” (lots of bands doing Springsteen songs) at 9pm and again at 1:30 am. At midnight fri night/sat am (also at 4am fri, DVR because you absolutely should be asleep) “Joe Bonamassa at Red Rocks, tribute to Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf.”

You’re welcome.

The whole show is good, but this is worth the whole thing:

Jackson Browne & Tom Morello doing “American Skin (41 shots)”
…

64 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 12, 2015 9:06:33pm

re: #61 goddamnedfrank

And by “lethal inside of 10 minutes” I mean you’ll go through a minute or so of exaggerated panic and hallucinations with racing heart, increasing respiratory distress then pass out in a fit of convulsive vomiting and seizures. You’re still getting plenty of Oxygen, unfortunately the CO2 will kill the part of your brain responsible for regulating breathing. The eventual death by asphyxiation is just incidental to this.

That was the danger the Apollo 13 astronauts faced, IIRC.

65 #FergusonFireside  Mar 12, 2015 9:11:46pm

who ever is talking at the ferguson protest is saying it. Gah, hope it’s more documented than this vid.

66 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 12, 2015 9:26:16pm

If this is an alternative universe, can the kittehs please give me the box sets of Blu-ray for seasons 1 - 8 of Firefly and 1 - 6 of Dark Angel?

67 Kid A  Mar 12, 2015 9:31:50pm
68 sagehen  Mar 12, 2015 9:32:40pm

re: #63 BeachDem

The whole show is good, but this is worth the whole thing:

Jackson Browne & Tom Morello doing “American Skin (41 shots)”
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The whole show is good enough I bought the DVD… but I’ll probably watch it on broadcast anyway. (as long as I was supporting the PBS store, I also bought a production of Sondheim’s “Company” — cast includes Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert, Patti Lupone and Christina Hendrix, music by the New York Philharmonic).

69 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 12, 2015 9:37:20pm

Here’s the prototype for Apple’s upcoming environmentally friendly Apple Watch/

70 BeachDem  Mar 12, 2015 9:42:26pm

re: #68 sagehen

The whole show is good enough I bought the DVD… but I’ll probably watch it on broadcast anyway. (as long as I was supporting the PBS store, I also bought a production of Sondheim’s “Company” — cast includes Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert, Patti Lupone and Christina Hendrix, music by the New York Philharmonic).

And here’s something I didn’t know. I knew Patrick Lynch was a dick to De Blasio, but he was also a total dick about Springsteen after American Skin (of which Lynch’s is obviously paper thin.)

71 freetoken  Mar 12, 2015 9:54:23pm

The weather here has been rather unusual for winter. Warm, with occasional clouds, highs in the upper 80’s.

The humidity goes up but alas there is no rain… and then the dry air pushes outward to the ocean.

It just isn’t right around here, and it looks like the loquat trees are rapidly turning their fruit, many of which appear to be about half the size of a good year.

72 freetoken  Mar 12, 2015 10:04:24pm

Walter Williams dusts off bits and pieces of old (and debunked) arguments, because he knows his marks keep on buying:

Climate change argument a ruse for socialist agenda

[…]

Today CO2 concentrations worldwide average about 380 parts per million. This level of CO2 concentration is trivial compared with the concentrations during earlier geologic periods.

[…]

Climate change predictions have been wrong for decades. Let’s look at some. At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.” C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, “The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed.”

[…]

The CO2 concentration hasn’t been at 380ppm since about 8 years ago.

What Williams is doing is just recycling old articles, with even older claims.

This sort of chanting - reiteration without analysis - is a classic way of programming humans. We see it in all aspects of our lives, but especially religion.

Williams knows that all he has to do is repeat the same thing over and over and over…

Repetition will convince people to accept something, even if it is not true.

73 psddluva4evah  Mar 12, 2015 10:04:58pm

Took me a year but I finally got my tv off the floor. I got off early today so I put together the tv stand I bought last week with a little help from my lil sister.

Here are before and after:


.

74 freetoken  Mar 12, 2015 10:06:47pm

Once again, that was from a Gannett company outlet.

I’ve noticed that they like to run all sorts of idiocy in their local-focused online outlets.

Since the collapse of the newspaper industry Gannett and such will do anything to keep eyes on their products.

75 goddamnedfrank  Mar 12, 2015 10:30:52pm
76 Jenner7  Mar 12, 2015 10:34:44pm

Finished House of Cards. Wowzer. I can’t say enough how wonderful Kevin Spacey is. I’ve always liked him since Seven.

Now…what to watch next??

77 Amory Blaine  Mar 12, 2015 10:39:51pm

Received the pair of used Yamaha HS7 Monitors I bought off ebay and they look brand new. No marks at any input or anywhere else.

78 LastYearsMan  Mar 12, 2015 10:52:14pm

re: #76 Jenner7

I’m loving Fortitude at the moment. Scary at times. Weird (and getting weirder). And, shot in Iceland, it is full of shots I’ve never seen on TV before; just gorgeous.

79 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 12, 2015 11:20:10pm

re: #76 Jenner7

Finished House of Cards. Wowzer. I can’t say enough how wonderful Kevin Spacey is. I’ve always liked him since Seven.

Now…what to watch next??

Unbreakable Kitty Schmidt?

80 Kragar  Mar 12, 2015 11:22:54pm

re: #76 Jenner7

Finished House of Cards. Wowzer. I can’t say enough how wonderful Kevin Spacey is. I’ve always liked him since Seven.

Now…what to watch next??

I’ve been watching the new Hawaii 5-0. Not a bad show.

81 freetoken  Mar 13, 2015 12:59:47am

MP3 Audio

82 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 13, 2015 1:07:28am

re: #76 Jenner7

Finished House of Cards. Wowzer. I can’t say enough how wonderful Kevin Spacey is. I’ve always liked him since Seven.

Now…what to watch next??

We are actually pacing ourselves on HoC after binge-viewing season 2 in less than a week…

waiting for next season releases of Masters of Sex and Mad Men in coming weeks.

83 goddamnedfrank  Mar 13, 2015 2:22:44am

Video of a Coehorn mortar being fired with explosive shell. The ground effect of the shrapnel from the airburst is pretty scary. It gives a good idea of how deadly the Civil War battlefield really was.

…

This was apparently shot as part of some competition event in the 1980’s. I have no idea how they got away with it, since the shell itself was a Destructive Device under the NFA. The ATF may have turned a blind eye back then but nowadays it’s solid shot or go to jail.

84 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 13, 2015 2:25:55am

re: #83 goddamnedfrank

Video of a Coehorn mortar being fired with explosive shell. The ground effect of the shrapnel from the airburst is pretty scary. It gives a good idea of how deadly the Civil War battlefield really was.

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This was apparently shot as part of some competition event in the 1980’s. I have no idea how they got away with it, since the shell itself was a Destructive Device under the NFA. The ATF may have turned a blind eye back then but nowadays it’s solid shot or go to jail.

You get a tax stamp per round with all the paperwork that implies. Then if your state law allows, you go to a big enough range and fire it. DD are just another weapon in the end.

85 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 13, 2015 3:04:11am

re: #84 William Barnett-Lewis

You get a tax stamp per round with all the paperwork that implies. Then if your state law allows, you go to a big enough range and fire it. DD are just another weapon in the end.

You just show your membership card in your local well-regulated militia and make sure you are wearing historical headgear when you fire it…

86 goddamnedfrank  Mar 13, 2015 3:06:23am

re: #84 William Barnett-Lewis

You get a tax stamp per round with all the paperwork that implies. Then if your state law allows, you go to a big enough range and fire it. DD are just another weapon in the end.

This is more theoretical than practical though I think. Even if the ATF approves your Form 4 you’d still need a separate explosives license just to handle the components, which generally means forming a corporation, charter, insurance, lawyers, etc. Then you have to obey all the distancing, storage magazine and transportation regs, have to engrave all your info on the device, name, address and serial number. Then Lord help you if you have a dud and need to try and get your local EOD to come out and deal with your homemade bomb.

The level of crazy involved in just being willing to do all that should be an instant disqualifer.

87 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 3:21:52am

re: #80 Kragar

I’ve been watching the new Hawaii 5-0. Not a bad show.

It has Grace Park in it. Reason enough for me to watch it. ;-)

88 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 13, 2015 3:23:07am

re: #86 goddamnedfrank

That’s why many of these kinds of people are already in the fireworks industry. There are more folks who are into great big kabooms than most realize.

89 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 3:23:33am

re: #73 psddluva4evah

I despise this new “furniture” which requires hours of assembly by you, the consumer. And it costs about the same as any fully assembled piece, which is why I haunt thrift stores. I’d rather put up with a few nicks (easily camo’d w/a kid’s magic marker) than having to put something together by myself or waiting for my my g-son doing it. Right now, the big flat screen he bought resides on a long rectangular coffee table his dad gave him and it has a bottom shelf holding the Xbox and cable box, and even has a drawer for small stuff. Serves the purpose very well. : P

90 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 13, 2015 3:24:21am

re: #88 William Barnett-Lewis

That’s why many of these kinds of people are already in the fireworks industry. There are more folks who are into great big kabooms than most realize.

I am not into owning weapons, but I enjoy watching guns go off.

91 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 3:25:01am

re: #79 William Barnett-Lewis

I watched about 5 min of that.

Not long enough?

92 freetoken  Mar 13, 2015 3:25:50am

MP3 Audio

93 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 3:28:56am

re: #76 Jenner7

Try Foyle’s War. British series about crime during WWII. With the wonderful Michael Kitchen. Or you could watch the original British “House of Cards” from which the US version was inspired.

94 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 13, 2015 3:30:58am

re: #93 Justanotherhuman

Try Foyle’s War. British series about crime during WWII. With the wonderful Michael Kitchen. Or you could watch the original British “House of Cards” from which the US version was inspired.

I really liked Foyle’s War. As a WWII buff, I was really tickled at how they wove actual historical events into the plot lines.

95 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 3:36:28am

re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Yes, same here. Loved how it was well done with the historical aspects. I just wish they had more British TV, I’ve re-seen “Morse”, watched what they have of “Lewis”, its successor, went through the entirety of “Midsomer Murders” and “Martin” for fun, and a number of others. But they do the historical ones very, very well and have good production values.

96 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 3:39:42am

re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

You might also like “Island at War” (about the Nazi occupation in the Channel Islands), “Peaky Blinders”, “Broadchurch” (the last 2 not about WWII, though).

97 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 3:43:24am

BBL.

98 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 13, 2015 3:43:53am

Seem to be a lot of shows about WWI and WWII and their aftermath(s).

But think about it, standing up to Hitler on their own was the last great thing that Great Britain ever did, besides giving us the Beatles, Stones, Kinks and Eric Clapton…

99 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 3:45:02am

The outside temp is pulling its yo-yo act again, so that must me Spring is soon to be here.

Morning, folks. What’s the word?

100 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 13, 2015 3:48:24am

re: #99 Targetpractice

The outside temp is pulling its yo-yo act again, so that must me Spring is soon to be here.

Morning, folks. What’s the word?

Same here in Germany, we had temps pushing 70’s at the start of the week, back in the 50’s again this week and predicted to top 70 degrees next week,

101 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 3:50:35am

re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Same here in Germany, we had temps pushing 70’s at the start of the week, back in the 50’s again this week and predicted to top 70 degrees next week,

We had temps nearly into the 70s Tuesday with rain, now a high today in the 50s, but back up to 65 or so tomorrow. Overnight temps are still rather brisk, 30-40s, but it’s an improvement over this time last month, when overnights were in the 10-20s.

102 Decatur Deb  Mar 13, 2015 3:54:12am

re: #99 Targetpractice

The outside temp is pulling its yo-yo act again, so that must me Spring is soon to be here.

Morning, folks. What’s the word?

Bird.

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103 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 3:59:58am

Been following the whole Clarkson/BBC mess and apparently the change.org petition to get him back on the show has over 700K signatures and is the officially the fastest growing petition on the site.

104 Decatur Deb  Mar 13, 2015 4:02:55am

re: #103 Targetpractice

Been following the whole Clarkson/BBC mess and apparently the change.org petition to get him back on the show has over 700K signatures and is the officially the fastest growing petition on the site.

Asshole Liberation Movement.

105 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 4:06:43am

re: #104 Decatur Deb

Asshole Liberation Movement.

Apparently he’s an asshole with over 350 million fans. Just checked the petition and indeed I was off on the count. It’s now over 820K and still going.

106 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 13, 2015 4:09:00am

re: #105 Targetpractice

Apparently he’s an asshole with over 350 million fans. Just checked the petition and indeed I was off on the count. It’s now over 820K and still going.

AFAIK, he did not assault any women or sexually abuse any minors…

107 Decatur Deb  Mar 13, 2015 4:11:18am

re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

AFAIK, he did not assault any women or sexually abuse any minors…

I like many of the shows. He’s still an Upper Class Twit.

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108 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 4:11:24am

re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

AFAIK, he did not assault any women or sexually abuse any minors…

As I understand it, he did something stars are prone to: He got irate over something minor and chewed out a producer over it. Only difference this time is it turned into a shoving match and the producer claims Clarkson took a swing at him. Afterward, he seemed to realize he’d fucked up, because he informed the BBC about the altercation.

109 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 4:14:06am

re: #108 Targetpractice

As I understand it, he did something stars are prone to: He got irate over something minor and chewed out a producer over it. Only difference this time is it turned into a shoving match and the producer claims Clarkson took a swing at him. Afterward, he seemed to realize he’d fucked up, because he informed the BBC about the altercation.

He also has a tendency to make racial and ethnic slurs at the most inappropriate times and places.

110 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 13, 2015 4:15:01am

re: #107 Decatur Deb

I like many of the shows. He’s still an Upper Class Twit.

I gather that it is what British Men talk about when they are not talking about football, but I have never watched an entire episode of it.

111 Lidane  Mar 13, 2015 4:15:34am

Because gay marriage keeps people from breeding, apparently:

112 Decatur Deb  Mar 13, 2015 4:17:07am

re: #111 Lidane

Because gay marriage keeps people from breeding, apparently:

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Species is propagating just fine.

113 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 13, 2015 4:18:01am

re: #111 Lidane

Because gay marriage keeps people from breeding, apparently:

The point is to frame it as a threat to the future of humanity.

114 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 4:18:04am

re: #109 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

He also has a tendency to make racial and ethnic slurs at the most inappropriate times and places.

I question if there’s really ever an appropriate time or place. But that aside, he’s something we political junkies are familiar with: An old white guy from lower-middle class roots who has enjoyed success in later life and thus been granted a platform by which to speak his mind. I gather from remarks made by his co-presenters that half the shit he says is just to cause a stir, as he’s one of those people who gets off on being “controversial.”

115 Decatur Deb  Mar 13, 2015 4:21:55am

re: #114 Targetpractice

I question if there’s really ever an appropriate time or place. But that aside, he’s something we political junkies are familiar with: An old white guy from lower-middle class roots who has enjoyed success in later life and thus been granted a platform by which to speak his mind. I gather from remarks made by his co-presenters that half the shit he says is just to cause a stir, as he’s one of those people who gets off on being “controversial.”

The dynamic between him and the other two stars is based on a ritualized mean-spiritedness. His ‘Alabama’ show was a play to obsolete stereotype. Alabamans will fuck you up, but they’re not going to chase you down the road in daylight.

116 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 4:24:10am

re: #115 Decatur Deb

The dynamic between him and the other two stars is based on a ritualized mean-spiritedness. His ‘Alabama’ show was a play to obsolete stereotype. Alabamans will fuck you up, but they’re not going to chase you down the road in daylight.

Right, like a lot of “reality” shows, half of its real and the other half’s scripted. I don’t think one can get throw an entire series (read: season) with realizing at some point that so many of the “sudden” occurrences are too convenient to be anything other than planned in advance.

117 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 4:29:47am

re: #114 Targetpractice

I question if there’s really ever an appropriate time or place. But that aside, he’s something we political junkies are familiar with: An old white guy from lower-middle class roots who has enjoyed success in later life and thus been granted a platform by which to speak his mind. I gather from remarks made by his co-presenters that half the shit he says is just to cause a stir, as he’s one of those people who gets off on being “controversial.”

What I meant by inappropriate time and place was that most sensible people will bite their tongue before insulting, say, the Asian manufacturers of a car, with an ethnic slur on air, or within earshot of the media. Clarkson has no such governor on his tongue. He just spouts off like he’s talking to his mates back in his hometown pub. I suppose to a lot of his fans that’s quite endearing, but it’s not so great when you’re the target of the barb.

118 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 4:34:29am

re: #117 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

What I meant by inappropriate time and place was that most sensible people will bite their tongue before insulting, say, the Asian manufacturers of a car, with an ethnic slur on air, or within earshot of the media. Clarkson has no such governor on his tongue. He just spouts off like he’s talking to his mates back in his hometown pub. I suppose to a lot of his fans that’s quite endearing, but it’s not so great when you’re the target of the barb.

I rather think what is so popular about the show is that, due to the BBC being run by the government on license fees, the presenters don’t feel pressured by the fear of advertiser boycotts, allowing them to be brutally honest. And part of being brutally honest is speaking your mind and dealing with the consequences.

119 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 4:35:04am

I found one of Clarkson’s books in a used book store for a $1. Since it was about cars, I picked it up, but by the time I got 40% of the way through, I tossed it aside. The man is a font of constant complaining … about everything. It got really old. Sometimes he’s quite witty. Most of the time, he’s quite predictable.

Maybe if I were a Brit, I’d have a different attitude. Who knows?

120 Decatur Deb  Mar 13, 2015 4:36:31am

re: #117 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

What I meant by inappropriate time and place was that most sensible people will bite their tongue before insulting, say, the Asian manufacturers of a car, with an ethnic slur on air, or within earshot of the media. Clarkson has no such governor on his tongue. He just spouts off like he’s talking to his mates back in his hometown pub. I suppose to a lot of his fans that’s quite endearing, but it’s not so great when you’re the target of the barb.

It’s his karma that Land Rover is a Tata subsidiary.

121 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 4:36:35am

What gets me, Clarkson gets pulled off the air for his shit. O’Reilly and Limbaugh are still on the air, despite their shit.

122 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 4:37:25am

re: #120 Decatur Deb

It’s his karma that Land Rover is a Tata subsidiary.

The Chinese own all or part of several other British marques now.

123 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 4:38:36am

re: #121 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

What gets me, Clarkson gets pulled off the air for his shit. O’Reilly and Limbaugh are still on the air, despite their shit.

The wonders of privately owned media.

124 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 4:39:33am

re: #123 Targetpractice

The wonders of privately owned media.

Yeah, that’s the big difference.

125 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 4:39:49am

re: #122 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The Chinese own all or part of several other British marques now.

And those they don’t are owned by the Germans.

126 Decatur Deb  Mar 13, 2015 4:40:28am

re: #122 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The Chinese own all or part of several other British marques now.

It’s all good, as long as I can get gudgeon pins and footman’s loops.

127 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 4:44:26am

re: #126 Decatur Deb

It’s all good, as long as I can get gudgeon pins and footman’s loops.

Made in China, I’m sure.

Now that Downton Abbey has become a thing in China, there is an increased demand for British-trained butlers among the wealthy Chinese.

128 Decatur Deb  Mar 13, 2015 4:50:24am

re: #127 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Made in China, I’m sure.

Now that Downton Abbey has become a thing in China, there is an increased demand for British-trained butlers among the wealthy Chinese.

The last couple years, the sources for Rover parts have centered on Malta and Malaysia. The last spark plugs I bought were from a kid on eBay who found them on a training range in Alberta while collecting shed antlers.

129 Dark_Falcon  Mar 13, 2015 4:53:25am

re: #34 Charles Johnson

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It took me a good bit of time to find a story that put the lie to that “Whites in South Africa to be replaced by [the n-word]!!!11” story, but I found one. Interestingly, it is a story of Chinese origin that explains the truth:

South Africa power utility denies race-based layoff

South Africa’s power utility Eskom on Monday denied reports that it would lay off thousands of white engineers to meet a new government policy.

Eskom will not dismiss anybody based on race, the company’s spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe said.
He made the remarks after a local newspaper reported on Sunday that Eskom has to reduce the number of white engineers by 1,081 and white artisans by 2,179 in order to comply with an alleged new government policy to make way for black people.
According to the report, the Department of Labor is insisting that Eskom make changes to ensure its employee demographics reflect South Africa’s “national and regional demography.”
“Eskom has new power stations coming on-line in the next several years and therefore the company needs all the help it can get,” Phasiwe said.

As ever, stupid racist panic is stupid. Note that I found that story without clicking on any story with the racist headline UpChuck retweeted.

130 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 13, 2015 4:53:59am

I still just look on cars a means to get from A to B as quickly, comfortably and economically as possible, never cared for driving as a pastime in itself nor am I a big fan of motor sports.

In other words, I would have a heck of a time having a conversation in the average bar or pub in the USA or UK.

131 Decatur Deb  Mar 13, 2015 4:58:02am

re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I still just look on cars a means to get from A to B as quickly, comfortably and economically as possible, never cared for driving as a pastime in itself nor am I a big fan of motor sports.

In other words, I would have a heck of a time having a conversation in the average bar or pub in the USA or UK.

What is this word “driving’? An old Land Rover is a puzzle that you can make run in your driveway—indefinitely.

132 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 4:58:57am

re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I still just look on cars a means to get from A to B as quickly, comfortably and economically as possible, never cared for driving as a pastime in itself nor am I a big fan of motor sports.

In other words, I would have a heck of a time having a conversation in the average bar or pub in the USA or UK.

I’ve actually learned more about cars by watching Top Gear that I’d ever wanted to know before. Found myself leafing through Wiki time from time just to understand what it is they’re on about. And because of that, I think I’ve developed a greater appreciation for good cars.

133 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 13, 2015 4:59:45am

re: #131 Decatur Deb

What is this word “driving’? An old Land Rover is a puzzle that you can make run in your driveway—indefinitely.

Yes, I recall having serious issues with (friends’) Land Rovers. On vacation. In Spain…Fun to ride in when they do drive, though.

134 Decatur Deb  Mar 13, 2015 5:02:25am

Dogwalk—BBLre: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Yes, I recall having serious issues with (friends’) Land Rovers. On vacation. In Spain…Fun to ride in when they do drive, though.

One hour of motion for one hour of maintenance. You can go across any continent like that, though.

135 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 5:09:38am

re: #132 Targetpractice

I’ve actually learned more about cars by watching Top Gear that I’d ever wanted to know before. Found myself leafing through Wiki time from time just to understand what it is they’re on about. And because of that, I think I’ve developed a greater appreciation for good cars.

As a kid, I watched my dad work on our cars. He was quite good at mechanics and electrical stuff, especially air cooled VWs. So, I learned to do car repairs myself and by the way learned that some cars are easy to fix and maintain and others require professional work. The tendency of some manufacturers to require special tools for otherwise routine jobs is a real thorn in my side. And new cars have so much electronics in them that a home mechanic realistically can only do the most basic of chores now.

136 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 5:12:55am

re: #135 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

As a kid, I watched my dad work on our cars. He was quite good at mechanics and electrical stuff, especially air cooled VWs. So, I learned to do car repairs myself and by the way learned that some cars are easy to fix and maintain and others require professional work. The tendency of some manufacturers to require special tools for otherwise routine jobs is a real thorn in my side. And new cars have so much electronics in them that a home mechanic realistically can only do the most basic of chores now.

Yeah, I know enough to do basic work on a car, mostly because I’ve never had the need or the desire to learn more. Wish I had know more, because I probably could have saved my first car. No idea what went wrong with it, but I’m pretty sure it would have involved tearing the motor half apart just to get to it.

137 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:16:57am

re: #115 Decatur Deb

The dynamic between him and the other two stars is based on a ritualized mean-spiritedness. His ‘Alabama’ show was a play to obsolete stereotype. Alabamans will fuck you up, but they’re not going to chase you down the road in daylight.

Alabamans just sneak within twenty miles of you and use this -

And you thought you were safe… you silly person you!
138 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:18:46am

And if you live more than twenty miles from the ocean they have this as a backup -

Special Major Kong package included!
139 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:20:00am

Good morning Lizards. 53 F and cloudy here in South Carolina today. Area also comes with loud motel guests who seem to not understand that other guests might be trying to sleep at 4:30am. :(

140 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 5:21:28am

re: #136 Targetpractice

Yeah, I know enough to do basic work on a car, mostly because I’ve never had the need or the desire to learn more. Wish I had know more, because I probably could have saved my first car. No idea what went wrong with it, but I’m pretty sure it would have involved tearing the motor half apart just to get to it.

I had great fun years ago pulling the head on my Slant 6 Dodge Dart so I could have a shop do a valve job. Even more satisfying was putting it all back together and having the engine run on the first try.

The next job was to either get a reman engine block or re-ring the pistons. But one day my then-wife took the car on a trip to another town without bothering to top off the oil. It was using oil pretty bad, and I warned her to keep an eye on the pressure gauge I’d installed. She got halfway to her destination before the engine seized up. When I finally got a look at the crankshaft, it looked like Superman had used it as a twist-tie. That’s when the Dart went to the junkers after 14 years of service.

141 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 13, 2015 5:22:10am

re: #139 Feline Fearless Leader

Good morning Lizards. 53 F and cloudy here in South Carolina today. Area also comes with loud motel guests who seem to not understand that other guests might be trying to sleep at 4:30am. :(

Hey, what happens in a motel in SC at 4.30 am stays in a motel in SC at 4.30 am…just ask the governor.

142 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:22:16am

And since I am feeling a bit crabby this morning. Crab pictures!

Salutations to the lowly two-legged humans!
143 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 5:23:04am

re: #137 Feline Fearless Leader

Alabamans just sneak within twenty miles of you and use this -

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Yeah, sneak up on this:

144 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:23:43am
I carry my own shell - therefore your argument is invalid
145 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:24:13am

re: #143 Targetpractice

Yeah, sneak up on this:

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That’s the one I hope to go see in August.

146 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 5:25:18am

Bob Corker on CNBC now complaining that Obama was negotiating with Iran without running the deal past Congress first.

Because every president in history has asked Congress for permission before negotiating with other countries.

147 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:25:36am
148 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 5:25:44am

re: #145 Feline Fearless Leader

That’s the one I hope to go see in August.

It’s pretty amazing up close. And talking to the old salts about their time aboard her is always good for some interesting stories.

149 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 5:27:34am

re: #146 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Bob Corker on CNBC now complaining that Obama was negotiating with Iran without running the deal past Congress first.

Because every president in history has asked Congress for permission before negotiating with other countries.

95% of the deals made in the last few decades have been through executive agreements that did not get Congressional approval. Why? Take a second to look at the number of international treaties that the US continues not to be party to because Republicans insist we’d be “giving up our sovereignty” by signing them and you’ve a good idea why presidents just prefer to bypass them.

150 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:27:35am
Some two-legged bastard dug up my burrow
151 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 5:29:31am

re: #149 Targetpractice

95% of the deals made in the last few decades have been through executive agreements that did not get Congressional approval. Why? Take a second to look at the number of international treaties that the US continues not to be party to because Republicans insist we’d be “giving up our sovereignty” by signing them and you’ve a good idea why presidents just prefer to bypass them.

Exactly. And if there were a Republican in the WH doing the same thing, the GOP Congress would be as quiet as church mice about it.

152 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:32:55am

re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Hey, what happens in a motel in SC at 4.30 am stays in a motel in SC at 4.30 am…just ask the governor.

I guess so. But I don’t want to hear some argument about getting money from the S.O. in order to go buy a pack of cigarettes.

153 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 5:37:59am

re: #151 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Exactly. And if there were a Republican in the WH doing the same thing, the GOP Congress would be as quiet as church mice about it.

Considering the present political environment, I doubt we’d be arguing over the specifics of multi-party talks with Iran. Instead, we’d be gearing up for 2016 on the question of whether we should just settle for a limited military strike or go for a full invasion and occupation. The opposition to these talks is being mostly driven by a base which has spent years being told that Iran can’t be bargained with, can’t be reasoned with, and won’t stop until it has a nuke that it can plant in Tel Aviv or Washington D.C.

154 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 5:38:04am

re: #152 Feline Fearless Leader

I guess so. But I don’t want to hear some argument about getting money from the S.O. in order to go buy a pack of cigarettes.

In my mid-20s, I lived in an apartment house on the second floor. The first floor had a family whose periodic conversations about buying groceries, etc., were always conducted loud enough for the whole neighborhood to hear, with one partner inside and the other out in the street by the car.

“D’ya wan’ some aigs? Whatta you wanna eeeyut tonight?”

155 Varek Raith  Mar 13, 2015 5:39:50am

Good morning.
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156 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 5:40:06am

re: #153 Targetpractice

Considering the present political environment, I doubt we’d be arguing over the specifics of multi-party talks with Iran. Instead, we’d be gearing up for 2016 on the question of whether we should just settle for a limited military strike or go for a full invasion and occupation. The opposition to these talks is being mostly driven by a base which has spent years being told that Iran can’t be bargained with, can’t be reasoned with, and won’t stop until it has a nuke that it can plant in Tel Aviv or Washington D.C.

QFT. More of the manichaean world view of the RW, which gave us Iraq and the “war on terror.”

157 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 13, 2015 5:40:23am

re: #152 Feline Fearless Leader

I guess so. But I don’t want to hear some argument about getting money from the S.O. in order to go buy a pack of cigarettes.

It is especially fun to share a campground with a family that communicates like that.

158 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:40:57am

re: #153 Targetpractice

Considering the present political environment, I doubt we’d be arguing over the specifics of multi-party talks with Iran. Instead, we’d be gearing up for 2016 on the question of whether we should just settle for a limited military strike or go for a full invasion and occupation. The opposition to these talks is being mostly driven by a base which has spent years being told that Iran can’t be bargained with, can’t be reasoned with, and won’t stop until it has a nuke that it can plant in Tel Aviv or Washington D.C.

Obama could cut a deal that allowed the US full inspections of Iranian facilities, etc. etc. and Congress would vote it down because Obama.
/// (spit)

We make a lovely example of how representative democracy works.

159 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:42:10am

re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It is especially fun to share a campground with a family that communicates like that.

The example I heard at 4:30am and again at 7:30am included a nice amount of invective as well.

160 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:43:01am
Has anyone seen my pledge pin?
161 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 5:43:05am

re: #156 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

QFT. More of the manichaean world view of the RW, which gave us Iraq and the “war on terror.”

Indeed, which is what makes it so appropriate that the voice they felt we needed to listen to most was the same voice who told us 13 years ago that invading Iraq would lead to “good things” and even the fall of Iran’s regime.

162 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 5:45:32am

re: #158 Feline Fearless Leader

Obama could cut a deal that allowed the US full inspections of Iranian facilities, etc. etc. and Congress would vote it down because Obama.
/// (spit)

We make a lovely example of how representative democracy works.

It could work if one side were willing to compromise. As it is, there are too many hardliners in the GOP who are convinced, either by their religious faith or political slant, that their position is the One True Way.

163 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:45:34am
It’s still 1861 and we’re ready to go!
164 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 5:46:57am

re: #160 Feline Fearless Leader

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A pledge pin?! ON YOUR UNIFORM!?!

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165 Timothy Watson  Mar 13, 2015 5:47:52am

Speaking of crabs:

WALDORF, Md. - A Waldorf minor league baseball team is abandoning a plan to give away 1,000 live hermit crabs on Opening Day.

After announcing the plan, the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs received thousands of emails, calls and posts on social media— both for and against the promotion.

In response, the team says it will change its name to the “Southern Maryland Hermit Crabs” for Opening Day, which is April 24.

Players will wear special jerseys that day, which will be auctioned off to benefit the Hermit Crab Association. Members from that organization will be invited to throw out the first pitch.

Hermit crab activists will also be given the chance to speak to fans attending the game.

Md. baseball team scraps hermit crab giveaway

166 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 13, 2015 5:49:57am

re: #165 Timothy Watson

Speaking of crabs:

Md. baseball team scraps hermit crab giveaway

I have always wanted my own hermit crab. I will hug him and love him and call him George…

167 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:51:12am

Speaking of George - note the pilot name painted on the TBM Avenger at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola.

168 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 5:52:04am

re: #165 Timothy Watson

Well, at least they didn’t propose dropping them out of an airplane.

“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”

169 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 5:52:50am

File under “Please pay attention to me!!!”:

170 b.d.  Mar 13, 2015 5:54:21am

re: #167 Feline Fearless Leader

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Speaking of George - note the pilot name painted on the TBM Avenger at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola.

There is one of those hanging from the ceiling at the George Bush Library in College Station, it’s a great library btw.

171 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:54:43am

And I noted another George-related aircraft at Pensacola.

Mission Accomplished - maybe
172 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 5:54:56am

Old recording artists stage comeback tours. Old politicians insert themselves into the news cycle. Can’t anybody just retire anymore?

173 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:56:22am

And so that we approach balance - a plaque seen on the ferry running between Dauphin Island and Fort Morgan in Mobile Bay.

A bit more humble of a transport than an S-3 Viking
174 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 5:58:58am

Now I wish I’d been old enough to appreciate history when I lived in Florida, because I would have probably made multiple trips to Pensacola.

175 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 5:59:37am
Beach on Santa Rosa Island

And because life is a beach.

176 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 6:00:52am

re: #174 Targetpractice

Now I wish I’d been old enough to appreciate history when I lived in Florida, because I would have probably made multiple trips to Pensacola.

It’s nice and hopefully I can make another trip in the future. There are some open beach areas. Most of the rest is horribly overbuilt. And I don’t want to imagine the chaos in another month or so.

177 Dr. Matt  Mar 13, 2015 6:02:53am

Edit: 34 TIME Magazine Covers That Appeared to Give People Horns

178 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 6:03:56am
Wrecked Wildcat

A bit surreal looking one here. It’s an F4F that they fished out of Lake Michigan. The display area is very dark and sort of lit to imply the displayed aircraft are still underwater. So I ended up with a very long exposure and this result.

There was this F4F and an SBD that are unrestored. And a F6F nearby that was also fished out and has been fully restored.

179 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 6:06:46am

re: #170 b.d.

There is one of those hanging from the ceiling at the George Bush Library in College Station, it’s a great library btw.

I especially love the fountain.

180 Romantic Heretic  Mar 13, 2015 6:07:37am

re: #19 b_sharp

Yes, atheists can be as irrational as anybody else.

I had one trying to tell me formal logic is absolute and the law of noncontradiction cannot be broken.

So I parried with superposition and a flash of quantum tunnelling.

He hit me hard with the observation canard. My riposte was a jab of inferential observation. He left, I assume to collect a heavier weapon.

I know.

When I was setting up my new news aggregator on my iPad a couple of months ago I selected ‘Humanism’ as one of the topics to mine.

I took it off after the first time I read the articles it found me. Save for the fact the people being written about were atheists they sounded just like the various religious nuts they claim to hate so much.

181 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 6:08:02am

And a bit of whimsy courtesy of my niece.

182 Dr. Matt  Mar 13, 2015 6:09:36am

There are times in life when it is best you just shut-up and go away. This is one of them times. Since they are painting themselves as “victims”, it’s pretty safe to say at this point that these are card-carrying conservatives

183 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 6:12:55am

re: #181 Feline Fearless Leader

And a bit of whimsy courtesy of my niece.

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Speaking of unicycles, have these contraptions been seen in the wild in the USA yet?

This one’s called the Solowheel, basically a one-wheeled segway.

184 Romantic Heretic  Mar 13, 2015 6:13:24am

re: #46 freetoken

Creationism Canada style, eh?

Being a creationist conservative in Canada ‘gives your opponents a tremendous amount of ammunition’

Well, it is Alberta, which is Canada’s Texas. We currently have an Albertan running Canada and he’s even worse than George W. Bush.

Witness Bill C-51. Our Dear Leader claims it is an anti-terrorism bill. It’s actually a pro-spying bill.

185 b.d.  Mar 13, 2015 6:14:44am

re: #179 The Mother Of All Pies

I especially love the fountain.

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Daddy Bush’s library is the one I was talking about being cool because he actually had an interesting life and did stuff before being president.

I’ve been to the W library and it bothered me very much, I got angry in there with their sugar coating everything.

186 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 6:15:23am

re: #182 Dr. Matt

There are times in life when it is best you just shut-up and go away. This is one of them times. Since they are painting themselves as “victims”, it’s pretty safe to say at this point that these are card-carrying conservatives

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The students are trying to claim they apologized. Except they didn’t, their parents did it for them. And one set of parents even tried to spin their son as the “victim” in all this because they claim he was taught the chant by someone else.

Really, if they want to take the university to court, I say go for it. They might get the expulsions overturned, but SAE cannot force the university to allow them to remain on-campus. If they wanna run their little KKK fan club out of their frat house, it’s gonna be off campus, on property they own.

187 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 6:16:45am

re: #183 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Speaking of unicycles, have these contraptions been seen in the wild in the USA yet?

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This one’s called the Solowheel, basically a one-wheeled segway.

I’ve seen one in Philadelphia twice.

My niece considers them “cheating”.

188 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 6:20:38am

re: #187 Feline Fearless Leader

I’ve seen one in Philadelphia twice.

My niece considers them “cheating”.

Haha! They’ve become popular in China with college students, and younger kids. But I have seen a 30-something businessman on one. It’s a bit eerie to watch someone glide by, because they’re so quiet.

189 Romantic Heretic  Mar 13, 2015 6:21:38am

re: #178 Feline Fearless Leader

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A bit surreal looking one here. It’s an F4F that they fished out of Lake Michigan. The display area is very dark and sort of lit to imply the displayed aircraft are still underwater. So I ended up with a very long exposure and this result.

There was this F4F and an SBD that are unrestored. And a F6F nearby that was also fished out and has been fully restored.

Currently working my way up the American aircraft tree in War Thunder. The Wildcat is next on my grind.

190 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 6:23:53am

re: #189 Romantic Heretic

Currently working my way up the American aircraft tree in War Thunder. The Wildcat is next on my grind.

What are you going up against in those?

191 makeitstop  Mar 13, 2015 6:24:21am

re: #186 Targetpractice

The students are trying to claim they apologized. Except they didn’t, their parents did it for them. And one set of parents even tried to spin their son as the “victim” in all this because they claim he was taught the chant by someone else.

Really, if they want to take the university to court, I say go for it. They might get the expulsions overturned, but SAE cannot force the university to allow them to remain on-campus. If they wanna run their little KKK fan club out of their frat house, it’s gonna be off campus, on property they own.

SAE’s already washed their hands of these little racist punks, haven’t they?

192 lawhawk  Mar 13, 2015 6:26:03am

re: #185 b.d.

The Presidential Libraries seem to tend towards hagiography instead of history. However, the NPS presidential sites are a lot more even-handed as far as I’ve seen thus far. I went to the LBJ Western White House out in Texas, and thought it was fair; it didn’t sugar coat any of his actions, good or bad. Plus, they had the ranch and the presidential jet outside too (the ranch had its own airport and control tower/facility to handle the flights from back East).

Similarly, the Grant home in STL was interesting because it addressed the fact that Grant fought for the Union but had married into a slaveholding family and the way that affected his views (and how it affected his wife’s views). And how his presidency was largely viewed as middling to a failure. Pretty interesting.

193 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 6:28:30am

re: #191 makeitstop

SAE’s already washed their hands of these little racist punks, haven’t they?

Yes officially. If you search you can find their statement about suspending the chapter and members, and also moving to revoke the fraternity membership of the two students expelled by the university.

Probably won’t come out who they learned the song from and how much the local alumni organization knew, allowed, or colluded with.

194 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 6:29:36am

re: #191 makeitstop

SAE’s already washed their hands of these little racist punks, haven’t they?

They have indeed, which is what makes me wonder how far these frat boys really willing to take this. If they’d settled for quietly suing to overturn the expulsions, that would have been one thing. But making a big noise about being the “victims” and planning to sue the university over being “tarred and feathered”?

How far into this you figure they’ll go before they figure out how badly they’ve fucked up? Perhaps the discovery phase, when the university gets access to all correspondence made by the frat, including emails that might contain evidence of hazing or providing minors with alcohol?

195 Timothy Watson  Mar 13, 2015 6:33:20am

Has anyone tried Sid Meier’s Starships yet?

196 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 6:35:12am
I feel the need for speed
197 Dr. Matt  Mar 13, 2015 6:35:50am

re: #191 makeitstop

SAE’s already washed their hands of these little racist punks, haven’t they?

Indeed. They are not making the situation better by keeping it in the news. The quicker this fades into history, the better for them to move on into their next phase of life: conservative blogger or Fox contributor.

198 Snarknado!  Mar 13, 2015 6:40:21am

re: #139 Feline Fearless Leader

Good morning Lizards. 53 F and cloudy here in South Carolina today. Area also comes with loud motel guests who seem to not understand that other guests might be trying to sleep at 4:30am. :(

Good morning to you. I swear by +32 earplugs from Walgreens. They block conversation noises (and snoring), and won’t stop you hearing your alarm click, if it’s high-pitched.

199 lawhawk  Mar 13, 2015 6:40:34am

Kurt makes an interesting point - the n-word is bad enough when SAE used it, but the chant also makes explicit reference to lynching (hangin him from a tree). Given that these kinds of chants are passed down from year to year by the fraternities, there’s no way that this just magically appeared in the SAE lexicon. You can’t tell me that no one there failed to notice the words or that it might be inappropriate.

The OU Code of Conduct doesn’t directly address racism, but it does indicate that abusive conduct is a violation. A lawyer might try to argue that the free speech of the group trumps what can be construed as an overbroad reading of “abusive conduct”, but I don’t think it’ll stick. Students have a right to form/join/participate in a group without regard to race. That’s clearly being violated by SAE chanting clearly racist chants. Such a group is in violation of Section III, 1, and as such the group would not have a right to exist on campus.

The expulsions might be overturned, but the group’s right to continue on campus wouldn’t.

200 lawhawk  Mar 13, 2015 6:43:02am

re: #196 Feline Fearless Leader

That looks like a Skyraider hung above the F-14 (sorry Ghostrider, but the pattern is full).

201 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 6:43:57am

re: #200 lawhawk

That looks like a Skyraider hung above the F-14 (sorry Ghostrider, but the pattern is full).

Yep. I saw three of them so far on this trip.

202 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 13, 2015 6:45:29am

re: #199 lawhawk

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Kurt makes an interesting point - the n-word is bad enough when SAE used it, but the chant also makes explicit reference to lynching (hangin him from a tree). Given that these kinds of chants are passed down from year to year by the fraternities, there’s no way that this just magically appeared in the SAE lexicon. You can’t tell me that no one there failed to notice the words or that it might be inappropriate.

It is not just about isolated words, it is about the context.

203 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 6:45:56am

Squadron my father served in. :)

204 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 13, 2015 6:46:21am

Later folks. Off to look at rocks.

205 lawhawk  Mar 13, 2015 6:48:19am

Meanwhile, Texas legislators are pursing a bill that would make filming police illegal (within 100 feet of a police activity). That’s exactly the wrong tact to take. We need more oversight and examination of police, not less.

House Bill 2918, introduced by Texas Rep. Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) on Tuesday, would make the offense a misdemeanor. Citizens who are armed would not be permitted to record police activity within 100 feet of an officer, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Only representatives of radio or TV organizations that hold an FCC license, newspapers and magazines would have the right to record police.

The legislator disagreed with people on Twitter who said he’s seeking to make all filming of cops illegal.

“My bill … just asks filmers to stand back a little so as not to interfere with law enforcement,” Villalba tweeted.

Filming police should be legal at any distance so long as you’re not interfering in the police activity being filmed. It’s been documented time and again that police will try to deny people the ability to film the police in action even when they’re legally allowed to do so, so this would give the police another reason to keep their actions from public scrutiny.

I can stand 25 feet away without being in the way of an activity. Heck, I could be 10 feet away and not in the way (say an arrest of a person akin to the Eric Garner case - which was clearly taken from less than 100 feet away). Or I could be 100 feet away but be in the way depending on the kind of police action involved (say a very large and complicated crime scene).

206 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 6:50:14am
207 Iwouldprefernotto  Mar 13, 2015 6:50:25am

re: #205 lawhawk

Meanwhile, Texas legislators are pursing a bill that would make filming police illegal (within 100 feet of a police activity). That’s exactly the wrong tact to take. We need more oversight and examination of police, not less.

Filming police should be legal at any distance so long as you’re not interfering in the police activity being filmed. It’s been documented time and again that police will try to deny people the ability to film the police in action even when they’re legally allowed to do so, so this would give the police another reason to keep their actions from public scrutiny.

I can stand 25 feet away without being in the way of an activity. Heck, I could be 10 feet away and not in the way (say an arrest of a person akin to the Eric Garner case - which was clearly taken from less than 100 feet away). Or I could be 100 feet away but be in the way depending on the kind of police action involved (say a very large and complicated crime scene).

The Supreme Court has already ruled on this. It is legal as long as you are NOT interfering. This law will not hold up in court, but why would that stop the #$@$#@$#@ in Texas.

208 Eventual Carrion  Mar 13, 2015 6:50:29am

re: #194 Targetpractice

They have indeed, which is what makes me wonder how far these frat boys really willing to take this. If they’d settled for quietly suing to overturn the expulsions, that would have been one thing. But making a big noise about being the “victims” and planning to sue the university over being “tarred and feathered”?

How far into this you figure they’ll go before they figure out how badly they’ve fucked up? Perhaps the discovery phase, when the university gets access to all correspondence made by the frat, including emails that might contain evidence of hazing or providing minors with alcohol?

Or the house mother repeatedly saying N*Clang over and over again.

209 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 6:50:50am

re: #199 lawhawk

The chant itself is a classic in the American frat folklore. It was often publicly sung by various fraternities during desegregation.

210 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 6:52:56am

re: #199 lawhawk

The little ditty they were singing was not a rap tune.

211 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 6:54:04am

Your chapter’s charter has been suspended, the college is making noises that it’s considering kicking your chapter out, and your two top members have been expelled. Do you quietly wait for things to die down? Fuck no, you throw fuel on the fire by declaring you’re the “victim” and sue the college for “tarring and feathering” you.

Brilliant!////

212 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 6:55:30am

re: #205 lawhawk

House Bill 2918, introduced by Texas Rep. Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) on Tuesday, would make the offense a misdemeanor. Citizens who are armed would not be permitted to record police activity within 100 feet of an officer, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Hurr hurr what about mah 2nd Amendment raghts?????

213 Mattand  Mar 13, 2015 7:00:26am

re: #211 Targetpractice

Your chapter’s charter has been suspended, the college is making noises that it’s considering kicking your chapter out, and your two top members have been expelled. Do you quietly wait for things to die down? Fuck no, you throw fuel on the fire by declaring you’re the “victim” and sue the college for “tarring and feathering” you.

Brilliant!////

I’m literally just coming on LGF for the morning.

Please, please, tell me this is not happening. I realize we’re dealing with racist frat boys, but no one can be that dumb.

214 lawhawk  Mar 13, 2015 7:01:01am

Forget slow jamming the news.

President Obama reads mean tweets (and these are pretty tame knowing what we doing about the insane clown right wing nut job tweets we see on a daily basis):

…

The funniest one - the one about a 30-rack (sp?!) of beer costing more. Thanks Obama!

215 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 7:01:08am

re: #192 lawhawk

Similarly, the Grant home in STL was interesting because it addressed the fact that Grant fought for the Union but had married into a slaveholding family and the way that affected his views (and how it affected his wife’s views). And how his presidency was largely viewed as middling to a failure. Pretty interesting.

I had assumed Grant was a Republican from the beginning, but he wasn’t. He voted for Douglas. I don’t know much about his presidency, but I seem to recall he made a good faith effort to protect former slaves in the south, attempted to make reconstruction a success.

216 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 7:01:37am
We Shall Not Be Moved: The Desegregation of the University …

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The students “serenaded the effigy with choruses of Dixie,” and sang “There’ll never be a n***** in the [fraternity] house,” whose various names they inserted. They also chanted, “Two, four, six, eight, we don’t want to integrate.” 84 We SMI Not …

Man in Motion - Page 198

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“Oh, there’ll never be a n***** Sigma Chi No, there’ll never be a n***** Sigma Chi. There’ll be n***** SAE’s and n***** Zeta Psi’s, But there’ll never be a n***** Sigma Chi.” As if afraid this had broken his continuity, Jim Guy repeated, “Yeah, …

Western Folklore - Volumes 27-28 - Page 39

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1 Thus Richard A. Reuss reports the following from the Sigma Pi National Convention in the summer of 1964 at Biloxi, Mississippi (sung to the tune of “I Was Born about 10,000 Years Ago”): There’ll never be a n***** Sigma Pi, There’ll never …

Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life - Page 13

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I remained mute one night when I heard a Sigma Chi drunkenly singing, “There’ll never be a n***** who will be a Sigma Chi.” And I remained silent when my fellow Jewish fraternity brothers in Phi Sigma Delta, Alpha Delta chapter, joked …

217 Mattand  Mar 13, 2015 7:03:30am

re: #182 Dr. Matt

There are times in life when it is best you just shut-up and go away. This is one of them times. Since they are painting themselves as “victims”, it’s pretty safe to say at this point that these are card-carrying conservatives

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Oh for God’s sake…

Absolutely agree about the white-victim-whining=conservative diagnosis.

218 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 7:04:13am

re: #214 lawhawk

Forget slow jamming the news.

President Obama reads mean tweets (and these are pretty tame knowing what we doing about the insane clown right wing nut job tweets we see on a daily basis):

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The funniest one - the one about a 30-rack (sp?!) of beer costing more. Thanks Obama!

hurr hurr Obama demeaning dignity of Office!!!!1

219 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 7:07:16am

re: #218 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

hurr hurr Obama demeaning dignity of Office!!!!1

I’d half-expect the pope to accept an invitation to appear on Kimmel’s show. He strikes me as someone who enjoys a good joke.

220 Mattand  Mar 13, 2015 7:07:20am

re: #146 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Bob Corker on CNBC now complaining that Obama was negotiating with Iran without running the deal past Congress first.

Because every president in history has asked Congress for permission before negotiating with other countries.

It’s amazing the amount of talking heads who are painfully (and in Fox News’s case, unapologetically) ignorant about how American government works. HUGE part of the problem in this country.

221 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 7:07:35am

re: #214 lawhawk

Forget slow jamming the news.

President Obama reads mean tweets (and these are pretty tame knowing what we doing about the insane clown right wing nut job tweets we see on a daily basis):

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Video

The funniest one - the one about a 30-rack (sp?!) of beer costing more. Thanks Obama!

RWSurferGirl is one of the more batshit insane wingnuts. I wonder how she reacted to POTUS reading her Tweet on TV.

222 Dr. Matt  Mar 13, 2015 7:08:02am

re: #214 lawhawk

Forget slow jamming the news.

President Obama reads mean tweets (and these are pretty tame knowing what we doing about the insane clown right wing nut job tweets we see on a daily basis):

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Video

The funniest one - the one about a 30-rack (sp?!) of beer costing more. Thanks Obama!

RWSurfergirl is vile asshole. I wish they didn’t give her more attention than she deserves.

223 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 7:08:09am

re: #213 Mattand

I’m literally just coming on LGF for the morning.

Please, please, tell me this is not happening. I realize we’re dealing with racist frat boys, but no one can be that dumb.

It’s happening, but I don’t know what they expect. The decision to suspended the chapter’s charter lies with the fraternity, not the college. And if they’re expecting an apology, they’re not going to get one. The more noise they make, the more likely that the university is going to fight that much harder to keep the expulsions permanent.

224 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 7:08:51am

re: #216 Nyet

So I went to see what this Sigma Chi is. The latest news on their page is about expelling the Westminster college chapter. So I went to the news:
abc17news.com

FULTON, Mo. -
A fraternity in mid-Missouri is being shut down after an investigation reveals hazing and more.
The Sigma Chi International Headquarters and Westminster College has suspended all operations indefinitely at Westminster College in the Delta Tau chapter.
In a statement Wednesday night, Westminster college President Barney Forsythe said, “Earlier today, Westminster College received new evidence of offensive comments posted between Sigma Chi members on a private social media page. In light of this new information, Westminster and SCIH resolved to extend the chapter’s suspension indefinitely.”

[…]
But Westminster College senior Timothy Aldred said there’s more to the allegations and said he saw a disturbing Facebook conversation between Sigma Chi fraternity members.

“There was a report released by a sophomore member of Sigma Chi with an audio recording of a pledge that night, screen shots from a Facebook page, just horrifically racist,” Aldred said. “I’ve seen some of them, horrifically racist, violent, just disgusting screenshot, disgusting comments being made.”

Aldred showed ABC 17 News the screenshots, which included, among other things, racist comments following the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson.

So if you think this is just about SAE…

225 Dr. Matt  Mar 13, 2015 7:09:22am

re: #221 The Mother Of All Pies

RWSurferGirl is one of the more batshit insane wingnuts. I wonder how she reacted to POTUS reading her Tweet on TV.

re: #222 Dr. Matt

RWSurfergirl is vile asshole. I wish they didn’t give her more attention than she deserves.

Stop reading my mind!!!!

226 lawhawk  Mar 13, 2015 7:10:05am

re: #222 Dr. Matt

These nuts deserve to be mocked mercilessly. Of course, they’ll ignore that they’re being mocked by most sane folks, and double down on their derp.

227 Dr. Matt  Mar 13, 2015 7:11:35am

re: #226 lawhawk

These nuts deserve to be mocked mercilessly. Of course, they’ll ignore that they’re being mocked by most sane folks, and double down on their derp.

True. But now she’s going to another heroine of the right, i.e, Hobby Lobby Holly part II

228 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 13, 2015 7:12:28am

re: #178 Feline Fearless Leader

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A bit surreal looking one here. It’s an F4F that they fished out of Lake Michigan. The display area is very dark and sort of lit to imply the displayed aircraft are still underwater. So I ended up with a very long exposure and this result.

There was this F4F and an SBD that are unrestored. And a F6F nearby that was also fished out and has been fully restored.

Those aircraft most likely splashed on training missions launched from one of the Navy’s two paddle wheel aircraft carriers, the USS Wolverine (IX-61) or the USS Sable (IX81). The Navy’s pressing need to train carrier pilots and flight crews combined with the need to keep its carriers deployed led it to requisition two aging Great Lakes ferries and cut down their superstructures to accommodate flight decks. They retained their steam engines and side paddle wheel propulsion.
Here’s a picture of the USS Wolverine underway on Lake Michigan:

229 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)  Mar 13, 2015 7:12:46am

Guess who passed his last MRI with flying colors?

This guy.

I saw WrenchWrench also got some TBI. Lizards need to preserve our skulls better.

230 Dr. Matt  Mar 13, 2015 7:14:01am

Sadly, Jennifer Rubin actually thinks going to Congress is a real idea.

231 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 7:14:12am

re: #229 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

YAY!

232 Doofus  Mar 13, 2015 7:16:27am

re: #229 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

You have been missed Obdicut

233 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)  Mar 13, 2015 7:16:31am

In a side note, I took a near-total break from politics while recovering and getting back into it is like deciding to jump into a ball bit composed of decaying tomatoes and urine-filled gourds.

234 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 7:17:23am

re: #229 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Guess who passed his last MRI with flying colors?

This guy.

I saw WrenchWrench also got some TBI. Lizards need to preserve our skulls better.

Welcome back. Stay a while. Have some pie.

235 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 7:17:42am

re: #233 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

In a side note, I took a near-total break from politics while recovering and getting back into it is like deciding to jump into a ball bit composed of decaying tomatoes and urine-filled gourds.

Wait, is that what that smell is? I just thought I’d forgotten to take out the trash today…

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236 CuriousLurker  Mar 13, 2015 7:17:57am

re: #229 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

Excellent—good to see you!

237 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 13, 2015 7:19:18am

re: #230 Dr. Matt

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Sadly, Jennifer Rubin actually thinks going to Congress is a real idea.

One bomb in ten years when best guesses place Israel’s nuclear arsenal at around 80 of the things. Because she is a conservative and therefore incapable of appreciating irony, Rubin is unaware of the ironic twist that Iran has been far more open about having its nuclear facilities inspected than Israel ever has.

238 makeitstop  Mar 13, 2015 7:20:56am

re: #229 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Guess who passed his last MRI with flying colors?

This guy.

I saw WrenchWrench also got some TBI. Lizards need to preserve our skulls better.

Good to see you here. You’ve been missed.

239 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 7:24:22am

Keystone Apostolic Church this morning:

Residents allowed to gather belongings in evacuated area below Yeager Airport

And the big rains haven’t arrived yet; that happens later today.

240 Eventual Carrion  Mar 13, 2015 7:24:47am

re: #230 Dr. Matt

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Sadly, Jennifer Rubin actually thinks going to Congress is a real idea.

And Bush ignoring Iran was a big reason that they have all those centrifuges. And they have been on the verge of acquiring “the bomb” in 10 years for a long time.

241 Eventual Carrion  Mar 13, 2015 7:26:01am

re: #233 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

In a side note, I took a near-total break from politics while recovering and getting back into it is like deciding to jump into a ball bit composed of decaying tomatoes and urine-filled gourds.

Hey, it took us a whole keg to fill all those gourds.

242 Lidane  Mar 13, 2015 7:26:20am

Because it’s that time of year again:

Heh.

243 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 7:30:45am

re: #239 Backwoods_Sleuth

Homeowners on both roads were evacuated after parts of Yeager Airports runway 5 started to slip down the mountain.

Uh, whut?

244 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 7:32:26am

re: #243 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Uh, whut?

Lots of discussion in the last thread, starting at comment # 59, about what’s happening there.

245 Lidane  Mar 13, 2015 7:32:27am
246 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 7:33:33am

re: #220 Mattand

It’s amazing the amount of talking heads who are painfully (and in Fox News’s case, unapologetically) ignorant about how American government works. HUGE part of the problem in this country.

I can’t wait until President Walker and a return of the Unitary Executive theory. /

247 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 7:34:05am

re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth

Just really weird. Never heard of anything like that before.

248 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 7:35:00am

re: #245 Lidane

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He’s going to be real upset when he finds out that moon pies don’t actually come from the moon too. I really really hope that the Texas Democratic Party finds someone good to run against this schmuck in a few years. He’s a disgrace to the Senate.

249 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 7:35:57am

re: #247 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Just really weird. Never heard of anything like that before.

The slide is from a manmade engineered fill project eight years ago for the airport. There’s been an awful lot of rain and snow and I guess it was just too much water.

250 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 7:36:36am

re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lots of discussion in the last thread, starting at comment # 59, about what’s happening there.

Mudslides?

nevermind. Just saw the comment you made at the same time as mine.

We have mudslides in China’s mountains quite often, especially in areas where trees have been removed for development.

251 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 13, 2015 7:36:52am

re: #245 Lidane

Yeah, buddy. They should be using all that sciencey stuff to take a picture of God.

252 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 7:38:59am

re: #251 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Yeah, buddy. They should be using all that sciencey stuff to take a picture of God.

I think he seriously thinks NASA’s mission should just be space missions and that’s it. Cruz doesn’t even try to hide the fact he’s a demagogue hack that Joe McCarthy would find to be an attention whore.

253 Jenner7  Mar 13, 2015 7:39:05am

re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I’m waiting for Masters as well. I like that Nefltix releases whole seasons, but if you binge watch them, you wait much longer than if you’re watching one each week.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I didn’t realize HoC was a British show first. We always steal their shows, don’t we?

Have a good weekend, everyone!

254 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 7:39:43am

re: #245 Lidane

Selfish, pandering prick.

255 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 7:40:14am

re: #252 HappyWarrior

I think he seriously thinks NASA’s mission should just be space missions and that’s it. Cruz doesn’t even try to hide the fact he’s a demagogue hack that Joe McCarthy would find to be an attention whore.

If LBJ were still around, Cruz would have never been elected dogcatcher.

256 Lidane  Mar 13, 2015 7:40:24am

re: #248 HappyWarrior

He’s going to be real upset when he finds out that moon pies don’t actually come from the moon too. I really really hope that the Texas Democratic Party finds someone good to run against this schmuck in a few years. He’s a disgrace to the Senate.

I swear the only thing that came to mind when I read that article was Guardians of the Galaxy:

“Why would you wanna to save the galaxy?!”

“‘Cause I’m one of the idiots who lives in it!”

Ted Cruz is an embarrassment. WTF Texas?

257 Lidane  Mar 13, 2015 7:41:14am

re: #251 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Yeah, buddy. They should be using all that sciencey stuff to take a picture of God.

258 #FergusonFireside  Mar 13, 2015 7:41:57am

re: #233 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

Glad to see ya.

259 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 7:42:01am

re: #256 Lidane

I swear the only thing that came to mind when I read that article was Guardians of the Galaxy:

Ted Cruz is an embarrassment. WTF Texas?

His biggest fan is Chuck C. Johnson, so that gives you an idea of Cruz’s appeal.

260 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 7:43:11am

re: #245 Lidane

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Translation: “Why do you guys need to keep calling attention to the shit we’re trying to ignore?!”

261 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 7:43:32am

re: #256 Lidane

I swear the only thing that came to mind when I read that article was Guardians of the Galaxy:

Ted Cruz is an embarrassment. WTF Texas?

He just astounds me daily with how he consistently panders to the lowest common denominator. The other day he was bitching about “un-elected judges ruling on laws” which uh is in the job description. Really for someone who went to Harvard, he sure acts like he’s about as educated as Sarah Palin is.

262 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 7:44:03am

re: #255 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

If LBJ were still around, Cruz would have never been elected dogcatcher.

Yep. Really the guy is such a moron.

263 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 7:44:20am

Kappa Sigma—isn’t that one of those KKK fraternities?

UM College Park investigating email containing racial, ethnic slurs

baltimoresun.com

264 lawhawk  Mar 13, 2015 7:44:35am

re: #229 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Welcome back. We missed you.

265 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 7:45:11am

re: #233 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

Welcome back! Glad to see you’re doing so well : )

266 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 7:45:46am

re: #263 Justanotherhuman

Kappa Sigma—isn’t that one of those KKK fraternities?

UM College Park investigating email containing racial, ethnic slurs

baltimoresun.com

Damn that rap music causing poor innocent impressionable white fraternity members to say racist crap.

267 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 7:46:19am

re: #229 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

Guess who passed his last MRI with flying colors?

This guy.

I saw WrenchWrench also got some TBI. Lizards need to preserve our skulls better.

Already said by others but welcome back man. You’ve been missed. Glad you are doing well too.

268 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 7:46:26am

STUPID WINGNUT MEME:

ACTUAL FACT:

269 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 7:47:13am

re: #261 HappyWarrior

He just astounds me daily with how he consistently panders to the lowest common denominator. The other day he was bitching about “un-elected judges ruling on laws” which uh is in the job description. Really for someone who went to Harvard, he sure acts like he’s about as educated as Sarah Palin is.

He’s either really ignorant, or pretends to be, to appeal to the base he privately holds in contempt (probably). He says stupid shit to dispel that “smart boy” perception he would otherwise have among the rank and file.

270 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 7:47:20am

re: #263 Justanotherhuman

Kappa Sigma—isn’t that one of those KKK fraternities?

UM College Park investigating email containing racial, ethnic slurs

baltimoresun.com

It’s looks like an epidemic, doesn’t it? But only because these things are coming to light now.

271 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 13, 2015 7:47:58am

re: #261 HappyWarrior

Really for someone who went to Harvard, he sure acts like he’s about as educated as Sarah Palin is.

He’s much like Bobby Jindal in that respect. Both of them know that if they spoke and acted like the educated men they are there would be no place for them in today’s GOP.

272 #FergusonFireside  Mar 13, 2015 7:48:08am

re: #270 Nyet

It’s looks like an epidemic, doesn’t it? But only because these things are coming to light now.

The light is shining bright. I swear this is one of the best benefits of technology & social media.

273 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 7:48:21am

I see Chuck has been überdickish again. Must be another day ending in y.

274 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 7:48:27am

re: #268 The Mother Of All Pies

STUPID WINGNUT MEME:

WakeUPAmerica!!!!111

275 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 7:49:00am

re: #271 Higgs Boson’s Mate

The real question to ask, though, is “Did the education actually ‘take’?”

276 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 7:49:45am

re: #271 Higgs Boson’s Mate

He’s much like Bobby Jindal in that respect. Both of them know that if they spoke and acted like the educated men they are there would be no place for them in today’s GOP.

Which is frankly why they’re worse than the Palins of the party. She’s ignorant but she can’t help it. These guys though are well educated guys who know that by sounding like know nothing idiots they’ll get more votes.

277 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 7:50:08am

re: #259 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

His biggest fan is Chuck C. Johnson, so that gives you an idea of Cruz’s appeal.

CCJ has “vetted” Cruz.

The whole GOP primary should be over, really. What more info do they need?

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278 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 7:50:11am

re: #275 Justanotherhuman

The real question to ask, though, is “Did the education actually ‘take’?”

I would argue, no. It’s possible to go through college and law school, get high marks, and not learn a damn thing about the world.

279 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 7:52:35am

Computers operating on the New York Police Department’s computer network at its 1 Police Plaza headquarters have been used to alter Wikipedia pages containing details of alleged police brutality, a review by Capital has revealed.

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Computer users identified by Capital as working on the NYPD headquarters’ network have edited and attempted to delete Wikipedia entries for several well-known victims of police altercations, including entries for Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo. Capital identified 85 NYPD addresses that have edited Wikipedia, although it is unclear how many users were involved, as computers on the NYPD network can operate on the department’s range of IP addresses.
NYPD IP addresses have also been used to edit entries on stop-and-frisk, NYPD scandals, and prominent figures in the city’s political and police leadership.

280 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 7:53:05am

re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Classy guys.

281 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 7:53:34am

re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, this is all very assuring. //

282 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 7:54:21am

Friday the 13th and all I had to do was spent $180 on my car for the EVAP check (turned out to be a hose that had come off) and have a serpentine belt put on. Check engine light off for now and they did a smoke test, which was negative after reconnection of the hose. Hopefully, that was the “fix” but I won’t know until I’ve put a few miles on the car. I want this one to last another 150K miles because I love it—stripped down manual and simple. : )

283 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 7:55:00am

Honestly if I were a cop, I’d be more pissed at the cops shooting all the unarmed people because they’re the ones making my profession look bad. But then again I’m not a knuckledragging asshole who sees every criticism of individual police conduct as an attack on me personally.

284 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 7:56:43am

Darren Wilson, the officers who put Garner in the stranglehold, the cop that shot Tamir Rice, etc have done more to harm the image of the police than anything Obama or Holder have ever done or said.

285 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 8:00:01am

re: #284 HappyWarrior

Darren Wilson, the officers who put Garner in the stranglehold, the cop that shot Tamir Rice, etc have done more to harm the image of the police than anything Obama or Holder have ever done or said.

Racists are unmoved by such logic.

286 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:00:29am

Cop gets killed, Obama is out there loudly to condemn that action. Unarmed person gets killed, the guys on PoliceOne are there to find any rationale to justify that person’s death. Yeah blue lives do matter but so do black lives and so do the lives of all those who have been killed unarmed by the police over the years. And as sad as it is for a police officer to be killed in the line of duty, it does bother me more when an unarmed person is killed by a cop for this very simple reason. A cop knows what he’s signed up for. Those of us walking the streets shouldn’t have to fear losing our lives to the cops and despite what some police members believe just because we don’t do everything they tell us to do isn’t grounds for killing people. I read something like 50% of those killed by police were unarmed. That’s scary and an overwhelming number of them were racial minorities.

287 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:00:52am

re: #285 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Racists are unmoved by such logic.

Yeah well too bad many of them are in our police departments.

288 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 8:00:52am

re: #283 HappyWarrior

My grandson, who used to live not too far from here was stopped by a cop w/his friend when he was 16 since they were still out at midnight walking home.

Said he was the most helpful and nicest cop he’d seen around there, even gave them a ride home, just concerned for their safety. But he was a young Asian guy from CA, so there’s that. Around here, the cop probably had to put up with his own measure of shit from the pinheads he worked with. : )

289 GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 13, 2015 8:01:04am

re: #230 Dr. Matt

290 Mattand  Mar 13, 2015 8:01:18am

re: #229 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

Guess who passed his last MRI with flying colors?

This guy.

I saw WrenchWrench also got some TBI. Lizards need to preserve our skulls better.

You’ve read my posts. You know damn well I have nothing in my skull to preserve.

Glad to see you back!

291 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 8:01:55am
292 CuriousLurker  Mar 13, 2015 8:02:35am

WTF?

Killing of 11 Sufis at Afghan mosque mystifies authorities

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Even in a country wracked by violence for decades, the killing of a senior Afghan Sufi religious leader and 10 other men stands out from the statistics: shot in the backs of their heads while bowed in prayer, in a ruthless and apparently well-planned operation.

The attack Saturday night has mystified authorities and a government investigation has come up empty handed, with no suspects so far, Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday ordered a report on the probe, according to his spokesman, Ajmal Abidy. […]

bigstory.ap.org

293 #FergusonFireside  Mar 13, 2015 8:02:56am

re: #291 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Good.

294 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:04:17am

re: #289 GlutenFreeJesus

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Yeah they were fearmongreling about Iran getting the bomb before Ahmadinjad even got into office. Of course, everyone who doesn’t want WAR with Iran is obviously just like Neville Chamberlain and everyone who supports it is a latter day Churchill. Just ask them!

295 Great White Snark  Mar 13, 2015 8:05:23am

re: #229 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

Guess who passed his last MRI with flying colors?

This guy.

I saw WrenchWrench also got some TBI. Lizards need to preserve our skulls better.

Ah sorry I missed this post earlier. Congrats on the MRI and good to see you back.

296 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 8:05:26am

Egypt President Sisi, at economic conference, specifically thanks Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates for helping his country’s economic recovery - @WSJSolomon
see original on twitter.com

43m
Despite International Criminal Court warrants for his arrest on war crimes, Sudan’s President Omar Bashir is seated front row next to Jordan’s King at Egypt summit - @margbrennan
see original on twitter.com

297 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:05:31am

re: #288 Justanotherhuman

My grandson, who used to live not too far from here was stopped by a cop w/his friend when he was 16 since they were still out at midnight walking home.

Said he was the most helpful and nicest cop he’d seen around there, even gave them a ride home, just concerned for their safety. But he was a young Asian guy from CA, so there’s that. Around here, the cop probably had to put up with his own measure of shit from the pinheads he worked with. : )

There’s obviously some damn good cops out there. It must be frustrating for the good ones to see the comments on PoliceOne.

298 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 8:05:43am

re: #292 CuriousLurker

Killing people while they’re praying is offensive on multiple levels. Those poor souls had no idea what was coming.

I suspect Taliban, but it’s just a wild guess.

299 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 8:06:16am

Who needs science?

300 Romantic Heretic  Mar 13, 2015 8:06:17am

re: #190 Feline Fearless Leader

What are you going up against in those?

Don’t have the Wildcat just yet. Best I’ve got at the moment in the American line is the P36 Hawk.

So anything from reserve aircraft up to Hurricanes and Spits, Yak 1s and LaGG-3s, 109Es and lowest tier Fw190s, plus whatever the Japanese equivalent of those planes are. So, generally outclassed. ;)

Still, most US planes at that tier have at least one .50cal so they can hit pretty damned hard.

Flew my Spit yesterday. Very nice maneuverability but the guns are lacking. Eight spitball guns is eight spitball guns. Looking forward to the cannon armed Brits.

301 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 8:07:01am

re: #299 Backwoods_Sleuth

Who needs science?

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IT HAS TWO ARMS!!! SO WHAT IF IT HAS NO LEGS & NO HEAD!!!! IT’S A GIFT FROM JEBUS!!!!!1!!!

302 Lidane  Mar 13, 2015 8:08:59am

Focused on the important issues:

Good god, our media sucks.

303 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 8:09:56am

Literary agent says Harper Lee is ‘delighted’ new book will be published; says author is ‘in full possession of her mental faculties’ - @nytimes

nytimes.com

304 lawhawk  Mar 13, 2015 8:10:51am
305 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 8:11:28am

re: #301 The Mother Of All Pies

IT HAS TWO ARMS!!! SO WHAT IF IT HAS NO LEGS & NO HEAD!!!! IT’S A GIFT FROM JEBUS!!!!!1!!!

But it also haz a leash…how do they know she isn’t going to birth a puppy??11??

306 Dave In Austin  Mar 13, 2015 8:11:31am

re: #303 Justanotherhuman

Literary agent says Harper Lee is ‘delighted’ new book will be published; says author is ‘in full possession of her mental faculties’ - @nytimes

In other words, she’s happy it’s Friday…

Then again, so am I.

nytimes.com

307 Romantic Heretic  Mar 13, 2015 8:11:56am

re: #200 lawhawk

That looks like a Skyraider hung above the F-14 (sorry Ghostrider, but the pattern is full).

Pretty sure it is. One of my favourite planes from that era. A beast of an aircraft. One of them even got a MiG kill during the Vietnam War.

I saw one at an airshow about a decade ago. It had been converted by the Finns into an air ambulance. The interior was roomy enough that there was easily room for a stretcher and medics.

308 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:13:26am

re: #302 Lidane

Focused on the important issues:

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Good god, our media sucks.

Time to get Darrell Issa on the case. And yes our media sucks. CNN is the moderate GOPer of the media. Someone who could be a reasonable adult but chooses to be a pandering asshat.

309 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 8:14:04am

So Jeff Roorda’s back in the news.

But you’d be forgiven for thinking that Roorda has no grip on reality, because the NYPD thinks that reality is subject to revision:

310 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 8:14:16am
311 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 8:14:44am

re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth

But it also haz a leash…how do they know she isn’t going to birth a puppy??11??

HURR HURR THAT TEH UMBILICAL, THAT’S HOW WE KNOW IT A BABBY!!!!1!! SCIENCE LIBTARD!!!!!!

312 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:16:06am

re: #309 Targetpractice

So Jeff Roorda’s back in the news.

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And Roorda continues to show he doesn’t care about dead unarmed people. Fucking asshole just loves flaming the flames of hate doesn’t he but tell us again Jeff how it’s Obama and Holder’s fault.

313 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 8:16:27am

This fucking idiot so proud of herself==>

314 Romantic Heretic  Mar 13, 2015 8:17:03am

re: #229 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

Guess who passed his last MRI with flying colors?

This guy.

I saw WrenchWrench also got some TBI. Lizards need to preserve our skulls better.

Glad to see you back.

315 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 8:17:17am

re: #313 The Mother Of All Pies

This fucking idiot so proud of herself==>

Hurr hurr but I am so hard worker I don’t have time to look for mah mean tweet!!!

316 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 8:17:57am

re: #309 Targetpractice

So Jeff Roorda’s back in the news.

But you’d be forgiven for thinking that Roorda has no grip on reality, because the NYPD thinks that reality is subject to revision:

Oh, that’s who this Jeff guy is. Didn’t recognize name at first.

317 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:18:31am

re: #315 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Hurr hurr but I am so hard worker I don’t have time to look for mah mean tweet!!!

Well the other thing is this. Does she have that many pathetic tweets at Obama that she can’t remember the one?

318 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 8:19:08am

re: #317 HappyWarrior

Well the other thing is this. Does she have that many pathetic tweets at Obama that she can’t remember the one?

She has a shitload of anti-Obama tweets.

319 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 8:19:24am

re: #306 Dave In Austin

The disgruntled relatives who were questioning her mental faculties may have just wanted to wait until after she was dead so they could rake in the dough themselves?

“As widely reported, the Alabama Securities Commission closed the investigation and issued the following statement:

‘We made a determination that Ms. Lee, based on our interview with her, was aware that her book was going to be published. She wanted it published. She made it quite clear she did.’”

She’s 88—I’m glad she’s seeing this get done.

320 Romantic Heretic  Mar 13, 2015 8:20:46am

re: #245 Lidane

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Because that’s part of their job, Ted Cruz, you dickless, brainless wonder.

321 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 13, 2015 8:21:09am

Bing gave me a hint that it’s for me to go to bed.

Good night from the Middle Kingdom.

322 sagehen  Mar 13, 2015 8:22:44am

re: #304 lawhawk

Funny how that article makes no mention of the Tuskegee Syphillis Experiments.

323 lawhawk  Mar 13, 2015 8:22:54am

BTW, the lawyer that SAE has retained to sue OU and the OU President: Stephen Jones. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Jones was Timothy McVeigh’s defense lawyer.

324 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:23:05am

re: #318 The Mother Of All Pies

She has a shitload of anti-Obama tweets.

What a sad life. She should surf more and hate less.

325 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 8:24:00am

re: #313 The Mother Of All Pies

It’s probably the only “claim to fame” that this brain-dead idiot will ever have.

326 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:24:36am

re: #323 lawhawk

BTW, the lawyer that SAE has retained to sue OU and the OU President: Stephen Jones. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Jones was Timothy McVeigh’s defense lawyer.

Seems that Jones is also misinformed. He’s claiming OU shut down their charter when it fact it was their national frat that did that.

327 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 8:24:49am
328 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 8:27:24am

re: #323 lawhawk

Jones was Timothy McVeigh’s defense lawyer.

Which is neither here, nor there.

329 b.d.  Mar 13, 2015 8:28:20am

pando.com

330 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 13, 2015 8:30:56am

re: #251 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Yeah, buddy. They should be using all that sciencey stuff to take a picture of God.

Nah, they wouldn’t like that, either. When the 200” mirror blank for the Palomar telescope was being transported from Rochester to California, one of the most popular radio preachers was inciting his flock to destroy it lest it get a glimpse of God and bring down a Babel-type judgment.

331 Lidane  Mar 13, 2015 8:32:41am
332 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 8:33:52am

Holy crap!

333 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:35:26am

re: #331 Lidane

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Lemon meringue.

334 PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2015 8:36:41am

re: #331 Lidane

PA apple. :)

335 lawhawk  Mar 13, 2015 8:37:18am

re: #328 Nyet

It does go to his ability to navigate the media circus likely to follow the case more than someone who isn’t used to high profile cases. That is a significant need for the SAE plaintiffs in this case.

336 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 8:38:39am

One of the cats is dragging the waterbowl around the kitchen.

It’s full of water.

O_o

337 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 8:38:43am

re: #331 Lidane

I’m surprised Michigan is apple, I would expect it to be cherry==>

338 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 8:38:57am

re: #331 Lidane

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Does “Dutch Apple” count as Apple? Lemon Meringue for me even though I live in NC,

339 lawhawk  Mar 13, 2015 8:39:15am

re: #331 Lidane

A slightly different map. Curiously though, the Sodom and Gomorrahs of NY and CA are far less likely to see multiple marriages than say Bible Belt states like OK or AR. Heck, NY’s rate of people in 2d, 3d, 4th, or more marriages is half that of OK.

340 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:39:35am

re: #338 Justanotherhuman

Does “Dutch Apple” count as Apple? Lemon Meringue for me even though I live in NC,

I think so and I prefer Dutch Apple over regular apple too.

341 PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2015 8:39:48am

re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth

Paper towels or mop?

342 CuriousLurker  Mar 13, 2015 8:41:09am

Oh joy, I’ve got a live one: Fluoride, geoengineering/weather modificaton, chemtrails, “white dots” writing code in our sky (hadn’t heard that one before). She’s from TX and is calling on John Cornyn, Ted Cruz & Rick Perry to save us:

Apparently this tweet on climate change attracted her attention since she started following me around the same time. *facepalm*

343 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 8:41:35am

re: #335 lawhawk

He’s also known for free speech cases, which might be one reason why he was chosen:

On May 5, 1970, the day after National Guardsmen had shot and killed four students at Kent State University, Keith Green was arrested at the University of Oklahoma for carrying a Viet Cong flag in violation of a state law prohibiting the display of a “red flag or emblem of anarchy or rebellion”. After 12 lawyers had refused to defend the student, Jones took the case and was promptly dismissed from the Enid, Oklahoma law firm where he was employed. Jones argued in court that the disloyalty statute was unconstitutional and the judge dismissed the case, overturning the statute. Later Jones would go on to represent Abbie Hoffman, the radical Yippie, when Oklahoma State University refused to let him speak on campus.

344 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:42:35am

re: #339 lawhawk

A slightly different map. Curiously though, the Sodom and Gomorrahs of NY and CA are far less likely to see multiple marriages than say Bible Belt states like OK or AR. Heck, NY’s rate of people in 2d, 3d, 4th, or more marriages is half that of OK.

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So where are the “Christian bakers” out there denying cakes to people who re-marry? After all, divorce if you were to truly interpret the Bible literally is immoral. Oh wait, you mean so called Christian businesses pick and choose and just want an excuse to be dicks to LGBT patrons. Nah can’t be. This doesn’t surprise me though LH. The divorce rate is highest in those areas too so it’s not surprising that people on a 2nd/3rd/4th marriage would be also higher in those areas.

345 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 8:42:39am

re: #341 PhillyPretzel

Paper towels or mop?

So far she hasn’t spilled any of it.

346 Timothy Watson  Mar 13, 2015 8:42:51am

re: #342 CuriousLurker

Oh joy, I’ve got a live one: Fluoride, geoengineering/weather modificaton, chemtrails, “white dots” writing code in our sky (hadn’t heard that one before). She’s from TX and is calling on John Cornyn, Ted Cruz & Rick Perry to save us:

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Apparently this tweet on climate change attracted her attention since she started following me around the same time. *facepalm*

She’s definitely one of the special people.

347 Bear  Mar 13, 2015 8:43:07am

Ash from volcanic eruption in 1912 shuts down some scheduled flights. adn.com

348 Lidane  Mar 13, 2015 8:44:07am
349 ObserverArt  Mar 13, 2015 8:44:29am

re: #337 The Mother Of All Pies

I’m surprised Michigan is apple, I would expect it to be cherry==>

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Morning!

I would have thought Ohio would have been apple. We have apple orchards and great apples all over this state.

I claim a faulty poll!

350 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 8:45:06am

re: #348 Lidane

Mat Staver is one brave dude. Who is Mat Staver again?

////

351 nearly-headless smith25  Mar 13, 2015 8:45:28am

re: #331 Lidane

That should be KY Derby Pie, or if you don’t have the copyright, 1st Saturday in May Pie

Derby Pie

352 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:45:40am

re: #348 Lidane

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Yeah because gay couples having the same rights in marriage as you do Matty is just like systematic genocide. Read a fucking history book and grow a fucking brain you pathetic imbecile.

353 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:46:35am

A comedy sketch show really needs to do a sketch to illustrate how downright absurd it is for RRers like Stayer to liken same sex marriage to the Nazis rounding people up.

354 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 8:46:51am

re: #348 Lidane

“You also have to be ready to pay the consequences,” Staver continued, “because the civil government wrath is going to be poured out on you.

Cups of WRATH will be poured upon Mat Staver. /

355 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 8:47:27am

re: #351 nearly-headless smith25

That should be KY Derby Pie, or if you don’t have the copyright, 1st Saturday in May Pie

Derby Pie

I would have thought transparent pie for Kentucky, at least for eastern Kentucky.

356 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:48:12am

And as much as I hate to liken Stayer and his allies to the Nazis but the uh homophobia, Mat, that’s something you and the Nazis share. The Nazis hated the Weimar Republic in part because of its laws especially in Berlin on homosexuality. But I get it, you’re such a poor widdle victim because you actually have to treat gays like they’re human beings rather than demonically possessed like your twisted interpretation of your Bible says.

357 GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 13, 2015 8:48:43am

re: #294 HappyWarrior

Anyone who doesn’t want war is worsr than ISIS!

358 Lidane  Mar 13, 2015 8:48:48am

re: #349 ObserverArt

Morning!

I would have thought Ohio would have been apple. We have apple orchards and great apples all over this state.

I claim a faulty poll!

I’m honestly surprised that sweet potato and pecan pies don’t show up in the South all that much, given how much hoo-hah is usually made about them being a staple.

359 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 8:49:05am

re: #342 CuriousLurker

Oh joy, I’ve got a live one: Fluoride, geoengineering/weather modificaton, chemtrails, “white dots” writing code in our sky (hadn’t heard that one before). She’s from TX and is calling on John Cornyn, Ted Cruz & Rick Perry to save us:

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Apparently this tweet on climate change attracted her attention since she started following me around the same time. *facepalm*

I sometimes get this garbage in my timeline. Do not engage, just mute & block.

360 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 8:49:13am

re: #351 nearly-headless smith25

Ugh. Sound as bad as pecan pie.

361 ObserverArt  Mar 13, 2015 8:49:44am

re: #332 Justanotherhuman

Holy crap!

Tim Ballisty @IrishEagle

#CyclonePam crushing the island of Efate of the #Vanuatu island chain. vine.co

It sort of looks like Pamela Geller.

It has that flaming red flowing around the outside with a black center (soul) and is full of hot air yet dangerous.

362 CuriousLurker  Mar 13, 2015 8:50:20am

re: #359 The Mother Of All Pies

I sometimes get this garbage in my timeline. Do not engage, just mute & block.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I just did.

363 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 8:50:44am

re: #359 The Mother Of All Pies

Those are usually seasonal, around Tksgiving and xmas.

364 #FergusonFireside  Mar 13, 2015 8:51:50am
365 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 8:54:39am

re: #364 #FergusonFireside

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Yep.

366 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 8:54:56am

re: #364 #FergusonFireside

Yeah but their parents say their kids aren’t racists, that they know their kids hearts and it was just a mistake. ///

367 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 8:58:34am

re: #348 Lidane

What does it even mean for a non-official to “disobey” this decision? He won’t gay-marry? He will sit in a corner and pout?

368 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 9:00:11am

re: #367 Nyet

What does it even mean for a non-official to “disobey” this decision? He won’t gay-marry? He will sit in a corner and pout?

It means he’ll advocate for other people/officials to disobey the ruling.

Friends, that’s what we call true bravery. ///

370 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 9:00:57am

South African surgeons claim world’s 1st successful penis transplant, Stellenbosch University announces - @USATODAY
usatoday.com

371 ObserverArt  Mar 13, 2015 9:02:26am

re: #364 #FergusonFireside

Shaun King @ShaunKing

Letting a loud fart @ Applebees is lacking judgment in a social setting.

Chanting about hanging black men from trees is violent racism
11:02 AM - 13 Mar 2015

You know what really bothers me with some of these far from honest and meaningful excuses apologies is when they state: “I made a mistake.”

How is something that came out of your mouth a mistake? Was it because you knew you shouldn’t have but you did? Or, was it because someone heard it and the mistake was they shouldn’t have?

Try some other words other than mistake.

I guess in the long run though…words will not really not matter as everyone knows it was what you intended all along.

So, instead of an apology how about just admitting you have race issues and you need to work on your character. Now, that might be a bit believable.

372 Eventual Carrion  Mar 13, 2015 9:02:33am

re: #334 PhillyPretzel

PA apple. :)

Yeah man.

373 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 9:02:34am

re: #369 Dr. Matt

A lot of people in Israel were not happy with his visit here, of course.

374 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 9:02:53am

LOL Got a live one here==>

375 Lidane  Mar 13, 2015 9:02:59am

re: #369 Dr. Matt

Netanyahu lags centre-left in last polls before Israel vote

I eagerly await the inevitable RWNJ meltdowns if Netanyahu loses.

I don’t know anything about Israeli politics, but watching American conservatives flip out would be entertaining.

376 nearly-headless smith25  Mar 13, 2015 9:03:28am

re: #355 Backwoods_Sleuth

I would have thought transparent pie for Kentucky, at least for eastern Kentucky.

My grandmother makes that sometimes. She always called it Chess Pie.

377 calochortus  Mar 13, 2015 9:03:47am

re: #339 lawhawk

A slightly different map. Curiously though, the Sodom and Gomorrahs of NY and CA are far less likely to see multiple marriages than say Bible Belt states like OK or AR. Heck, NY’s rate of people in 2d, 3d, 4th, or more marriages is half that of OK.

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One possible explanation is that conservatives marry young because living in sin is not an option. When they break up it is a divorce statistic, whereas in liberal areas, young people are more likely to live in sin, so no official statistics exist for the break ups.

378 Sionainn  Mar 13, 2015 9:03:54am

re: #331 Lidane

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Shepherd’s pie isn’t a pie!

379 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 9:04:03am

re: #374 The Mother Of All Pies

LOL Got a live one here==>

Another RWNJ working so hard they have time to tweet during the work day.

380 Dr. Matt  Mar 13, 2015 9:04:30am

re: #373 Justanotherhuman

A lot of people in Israel were not happy with his visit here, of course.

That’s very good to hear. According to the link above today is the last day to release opinion polls prior to the election. Hopefully the good people of Israel punish Bibi for his idiocy.

381 Sionainn  Mar 13, 2015 9:05:15am

re: #371 ObserverArt

You know what really bothers me with some of these far from honest and meaningful excuses apologies is when they state: “I made a mistake.”

How is something that came out of your mouth a mistake? Was it because you knew you shouldn’t have but you did? Or, was it because someone heard it and the mistake was they shouldn’t have?

Try some other words other than mistake.

I guess in the long run though…words will not really not matter as everyone knows it was what you intended all along.

So, instead of an apology how about just admitting you have race issues and you need to work on your character. Now, that might be a bit believable.

I get on my children about that “it’s a mistake, I didn’t mean to say it” nonsense. It came out of your mouth. You have complete control over what comes out of your mouth. There was no accident involved.

382 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 9:07:18am

re: #378 Sionainn

If you live in Britain, it is. A meat pie by any other name…

Originally called “cottage pie” made by the not-well-off to use up leftover meat.

383 ObserverArt  Mar 13, 2015 9:08:41am

re: #374 The Mother Of All Pies

LOL Got a live one here==>

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I guess Barack Obama is a true shapeshifter.

He can be Black when you hate Black people.

He can be White when you need to say you don’t hate him because he is Black.

Pretty slick trick.

384 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 9:09:58am

Pakistan successfully test-fires its own drone aircraft to target militants, army says - @Reuters

uk.reuters.com

385 Dave In Austin  Mar 13, 2015 9:09:58am
386 Eventual Carrion  Mar 13, 2015 9:10:12am

re: #358 Lidane

I’m honestly surprised that sweet potato and pecan pies don’t show up in the South all that much, given how much hoo-hah is usually made about them being a staple.

Mississippi mud pie isn’t even on the list for Mississippi. Pecan is tho, which I can vouch is very popular in Mississippi.

387 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 9:10:46am

re: #382 Justanotherhuman

If you live in Britain, it is. A meat pie by any other name…

Originally called “cottage pie” made by the not-well-off to use up leftover meat.

Actually, there’s a difference in ingredients. Cottage pie uses minced beef, shepherd’s pie uses lamb.

388 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 9:11:25am

re: #383 ObserverArt

I guess Barack Obama is a true shapeshifter.

He can be Black when you hate Black people.

He can be white when you need to say you don’t hate him because he is Black.

Pretty slick trick.

Yeah funny that. I’d love to see him explain that if the Democratic Party is truly a white supremacist party why their party is more representative of America as a whole than the lily white Republican party. But I think I already know what he would say and it’s probably some historically ignorant crap about how black people are stuck on the Dem plantation and are too stupid to know that the GOP actually has their best interests at heart despite you know the fact that they’ve been pandering to racist bullshit for years.

389 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 9:11:56am
390 Sionainn  Mar 13, 2015 9:12:09am

re: #382 Justanotherhuman

If you live in Britain, it is. A meat pie by any other name…

Originally called “cottage pie” made by the not-well-off to use up leftover meat.

No. Just no, no, no. Shepherd’s pie is like a casserole.

391 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 9:12:39am

re: #373 Justanotherhuman

A lot of people in Israel were not happy with his visit here, of course.

True. Then again, a lot were:
972mag.com

As far as Netanyahu’s political interests are concerned, however, the speech was a major success. Israelis were highly impressed, a sentiment I even heard coming from Bibi’s critics.

392 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 9:13:37am

re: #385 Dave In Austin

Haha, in his latest “reverse mortgage” TV ad, Fred Thompson brags about how Reagan got this to happen.

How many old people are falling for this and won’t have the equity in their homes they were counting on to help pay for those nursing homes? Just because Ronnie wanted to “help” them. Heh.

393 PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2015 9:15:49am

re: #391 Nyet

True. Then again, a lot were:
972mag.com

One of the many things I have learned being involved in local politics in Philly is that no matter how good you think you are at predicting elections is that the results cannot be predicted.

394 Lidane  Mar 13, 2015 9:16:08am

re: #390 Sionainn

No. Just no, no, no. Shepherd’s pie is like a casserole.

I will never forget a guy I knew back in college describing shepherd’s pie as a pot pie casserole with mashed potatoes on top instead of a pie crust.

I said that to a British friend I met years later and I could swear I saw their eyes twitch. Haha.

395 calochortus  Mar 13, 2015 9:16:24am

re: #383 ObserverArt

I guess Barack Obama is a true shapeshifter.

He can be Black when you hate Black people.

He can be White when you need to say you don’t hate him because he is Black.

Pretty slick trick.

So, doesn’t that put him about on par, genetically speaking with most American Blacks? I suppose that means they missed the opportunity to use the “White” drinking fountain. Or does it only matter when the mother is white and not the assorted fathers and grandfathers, and other owners involved?

396 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 9:16:27am

re: #387 Backwoods_Sleuth

Beef and mutton can both be used, although recently the sheep lobby has pushed the use of mutton.

Gawd, I hated lamb and mutton when I was a meat eater, long ago.

397 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 9:17:35am
398 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 9:17:49am

re: #389 The Mother Of All Pies

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Conservative logic is that the Dixiecrats were liberals simply because they were Democrats and that the Republican supporters of civil rights were conservatives simply because they were Republicans. The reality is and I know you this too is that it was geographical and ideological. Liberal Republicans like Rockefeller supported Civil Rights and guess what they were hated by the party’s right because of it. I’d love to if I were on Twitter ask one of these numbskulls that if the GOP was so supportive of Civil Rights and thought it that big of an issue why did they first nominate one of the opponents of the CRA-64 and furthermore why have they run away from Civil Rights since then. And how about Ronnie opening his presidential campaign where three civil rights workers were kidnapped and later murdered with a speech about states rights. Yeah but that’s just a concidink I’m sure.//

399 calochortus  Mar 13, 2015 9:17:59am

re: #392 Justanotherhuman

Haha, in his latest “reverse mortgage” TV ad, Fred Thompson brags about how Reagan got this to happen.

How many old people are falling for this and won’t have the equity in their homes they were counting on to help pay for those nursing homes? Just because Ronnie wanted to “help” them. Heh.

That ad drives me nuts. Aside from being a scam, how exactly do you sign “a notion Reagan had” into law?

400 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 9:19:00am

re: #394 Lidane

And “pot pies” can have a bottom crust or no, but always have to have a top one.

401 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 9:20:15am

re: #397 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wingnuts now conflicted, don’t know whether this case still doesn’t matter or if only matters now because the accused is black.

402 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 9:21:30am

re: #400 Justanotherhuman

And “pot pies” can have a bottom crust or no, but always have to have a top one.

I have never made a “pot pie” but we do make “Shepherd’s Pie” during the Passover week.

403 Dr. Matt  Mar 13, 2015 9:21:37am

re: #397 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s a Blah teen. DimJim and CCJ are going to duel it out on who can be the most racist.

404 ObserverArt  Mar 13, 2015 9:21:43am

See you all later…just got a call to make some changes in a piece of artwork that needs to be done pronto. People can’t seem to schedule!

405 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 9:21:47am

By the way, they’re fond of bringing up Byrd who actually apologized for being a racist asshole. Did Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond ever come close to apologizing? Hell not only did Helms not apologize, he remained unrepentant and bragged that he was going to sing Dixie until Carol Mosely Braun cried. I would have loved to seen Jesse be alive when Obama got elected just so that pathetic old bigot would have had to see a black man in the WH after his career of being a latter day Pitchfork Ben Tillman.

406 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 9:21:58am

My kids could not be tricked into eating “used chicken” by putting a pie crust over it.

407 wrenchwench  Mar 13, 2015 9:22:00am

re: #229 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

Guess who passed his last MRI with flying colors?

This guy.

I saw WrenchWrench also got some TBI. Lizards need to preserve our skulls better.

Good to see you. {{{Obdicut}}} {{{{{{{{{{{{{obdi’s head}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

408 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 9:22:11am

re: #403 Dr. Matt

He’s a Blah teen. DimJim and CCJ are going to duel it out on who can be the most racist.

CCJ will probably compliment him for a change.

409 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 9:22:14am

re: #403 Dr. Matt

He’s a Blah teen. DimJim and CCJ are going to duel it out on who can be the most racist.

I’m glad I’m going to be out tonight and tomorrow then.

410 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 9:22:24am

re: #402 The Mother Of All Pies

I usually make at least one from leftover turkey. It’s always a hit because it’s considered “comfort food”.

411 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 9:23:33am

re: #410 Justanotherhuman

I usually make at least one from leftover turkey. It’s always a hit because it’s considered “comfort food”.

A good thing to do with leftover turkey but also stuffing and cranberry sauce is to make a sandwich out of it.

412 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 9:23:39am

re: #401 Targetpractice

Or are trying like crazy to “kill 2 birds with one stone”.

413 Dr. Matt  Mar 13, 2015 9:23:51am

re: #398 HappyWarrior

Conservative logic is that the Dixiecrats were liberals simply because they were Democrats and that the Republican supporters of civil rights were conservatives simply because they were Republicans.

When has the South/RedStates/Confederacy ever been a hotbed of liberalism? Moreover, why are conservatives/southerners/redstates the ONLY people who defend and uphold the Confederate rag? The idiocy is amazing.

414 Jenner7  Mar 13, 2015 9:25:25am

I just caught two birds mating at my back door. I have never witnessed something like that. It wasn’t the door opening that startled them, it was me yelling at them like old man Simpson. Hahahaha!

We have an opening in an awning on the roof and every year we get nests and baby birds and lots of poop. You’d think after three years, we’d cover that hole, but nope.

415 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 9:25:25am

re: #413 Dr. Matt

Because they consider it part of their “cult-cha”, doncha know. Racist idiots.

416 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 9:25:57am

Here is a meme which proves WINGNUTS DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW TO USE STATISTICS TABLES

417 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 9:26:44am

re: #414 Jenner7

I once observed 2 squirrels mating outside my second story window on a large branch. It was quite a courting ritual. : )

418 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 9:27:13am

re: #413 Dr. Matt

When has the South/RedStates/Confederacy ever been a hotbed of liberalism? Moreover, why are conservatives/southerners/redstates the ONLY people who defend and uphold the Confederate rag? The idiocy is amazing.

They understand it very, very well. This game is akin to what an average Russian online patriot plays: “there’s no evidence of Russian troops in Donbass!” (all the while knowing full well that there are Russian troops there and being proud of it).

419 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 9:27:21am

re: #413 Dr. Matt

When has the South/RedStates/Confederacy ever been a hotbed of liberalism? Moreover, why are conservatives/southerners/redstates the ONLY people who defend and uphold the Confederate rag? The idiocy is amazing.

Yeah even when the South was a Democratic stronghold, it was never a hotbed of liberalism and in fact, there was a thing called the Conservative coalition where the Conservative southern Dems worked with the GOP to block progressive legislation. The South was also home to some of the biggest union busting efforts in the country too. It wasn’t just Jim Crow that made them right wingers. And you’re right. It’s always conservatives/southerners/red staters that defend the CSA rag.

420 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 9:27:50am

I can always tell when the skunks are doing the nasty in the backyard, because it is nasty.

421 Justanotherhuman  Mar 13, 2015 9:31:37am

BBL.

422 Jenner7  Mar 13, 2015 9:31:45am

re: #417 Justanotherhuman

Their bird calls were SO loud, like they were in the house, so I went to investigate. I heard them two mornings ago as well, so we’ll be seeing her nest soon.

423 calochortus  Mar 13, 2015 9:33:03am

re: #417 Justanotherhuman

I saw a couple golden eagles mating in the tree across the street a few weeks ago. I missed the courtship part.

In the summer we see Western Fence Lizards courting and mating in the back yard. There are a lot of push ups, hopping and chasing around.

424 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 9:33:20am

re: #422 Jenner7

Their bird calls were SO loud, like they were in the house, so I went to investigate. I heard them two mornings ago as well, so we’ll be seeing her nest soon.

Were they robins? Robins are horny little buggers.

425 PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2015 9:33:43am

re: #422 Jenner7

I had a bird’s nest under my a/c unit. That 5 am wake up call was loud. :(

426 makeitstop  Mar 13, 2015 9:35:59am

re: #420 The Mother Of All Pies

I can always tell when the skunks are doing the nasty in the backyard, because it is nasty.

We don’t have many skunks here on LI, although they’re supposedly making a comeback.

When I was growing up in PA, I used to smell ‘em all the time. Around here, catching a whiff of a skunk is pretty rare.

427 Varek Raith  Mar 13, 2015 9:37:38am

…
You are all talking about animal sex.
I’ll come back later.
/

428 Jenner7  Mar 13, 2015 9:37:48am

re: #424 The Mother Of All Pies

I don’t think so, they were dark with what looked like little dots markings on their backs.

429 WhatEVs  Mar 13, 2015 9:37:56am

re: #227 Dr. Matt

True. But now she’s going to another heroine of the right, i.e, Hobby Lobby Holly part II

Great. Another asshole whose personal life will be exposed by some other asshole. Weeeeeeeee.

430 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 9:39:33am

re: #427 Varek Raith

…
You are all talking about animal sex.
I’ll come back later.
/

What non-animal sex do you wish to talk about? A hot toaster on microwave action? Or the forbidden pleasures of a rocket in a black hole?

431 b_sharp  Mar 13, 2015 9:40:11am

re: #358 Lidane

I’m honestly surprised that sweet potato and pecan pies don’t show up in the South all that much, given how much hoo-hah is usually made about them being a staple.

Like they say, don’t get your hoo-hah in a knot.

432 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 9:41:57am

re: #428 Jenner7

I don’t think so, they were dark with what looked like little dots markings on their backs.

FLYING RAT==>

433 Jenner7  Mar 13, 2015 9:44:01am

re: #432 The Mother Of All Pies

That’s pretty close.

434 wrenchwench  Mar 13, 2015 9:45:39am
435 Great White Snark  Mar 13, 2015 9:45:44am

re: #342 CuriousLurker

Oh joy, I’ve got a live one: Fluoride, geoengineering/weather modificaton, chemtrails, “white dots” writing code in our sky (hadn’t heard that one before). She’s from TX and is calling on John Cornyn, Ted Cruz & Rick Perry to save us:

[Embedded content]

Apparently this tweet on climate change attracted her attention since she started following me around the same time. *facepalm*

Scariest part by far-Very likely to vote. Us moderates gotta crank it up a bit. Get our “base” out there.

436 calochortus  Mar 13, 2015 9:46:39am

re: #432 The Mother Of All Pies

Ahhhh, the birds of Shakespeare…

437 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 13, 2015 9:47:14am

re: #427 Varek Raith

…
You are all talking about animal sex.
I’ll come back later.
/

How many comments on this topic before Rick Santorum drops by?

438 PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2015 9:47:22am

re: #432 The Mother Of All Pies

Starlings noisy and ugly.

439 calochortus  Mar 13, 2015 9:47:34am

re: #434 wrenchwench

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Looks more comfortable than when snow-covered a couple weeks ago. Still seems to have an attitude.

440 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 9:48:01am

re: #438 PhillyPretzel

Starlings noisy and ugly.

And they swarm like vermin.

441 PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2015 9:48:48am

re: #440 The Mother Of All Pies

Yes they do. I hate them.

442 wrenchwench  Mar 13, 2015 9:49:02am

re: #439 calochortus

Looks more comfortable than when snow-covered a couple weeks ago. Still seems to have an attitude.

She’s training her second mate, according to the comments there.

443 b_sharp  Mar 13, 2015 9:50:29am

blarp

444 PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2015 9:51:54am

re: #443 b_sharp

I do not need any drama.

445 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 9:52:06am

Hey, Sergey. The linked article is in Russian:

446 lawhawk  Mar 13, 2015 9:52:09am

re: #402 The Mother Of All Pies

Made a chicken pot pie a while back, and it was quite good. Used coconut milk (so it was dairy-free) and didn’t use any margarine either, so it resulted in a light, tasty, and reasonably healthy facsimile of chicken pot pie. Used all kinds of vegies, in addition to peas and carrots.

447 WhatEVs  Mar 13, 2015 9:53:18am

re: #313 The Mother Of All Pies

This fucking idiot so proud of herself==>

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448 Varek Raith  Mar 13, 2015 9:53:30am

Putin is on Mars.
Confirmed Fact.

449 Mike Lamb  Mar 13, 2015 9:53:54am

re: #374 The Mother Of All Pies

LOL Got a live one here==>

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According to this jackass’s southern brethren, 100%…

450 b_sharp  Mar 13, 2015 9:54:06am

double blarp

452 wrenchwench  Mar 13, 2015 9:54:22am

This guy misses Jan Brewer and her finger.

453 b_sharp  Mar 13, 2015 9:54:31am

re: #446 lawhawk

Made a chicken pot pie a while back, and it was quite good. Used coconut milk (so it was dairy-free) and didn’t use any margarine either, so it resulted in a light, tasty, and reasonably healthy facsimile of chicken pot pie. Used all kinds of vegies, in addition to peas and carrots.

Pies that have meat in them are not pies.

454 b_sharp  Mar 13, 2015 9:55:32am

re: #444 PhillyPretzel

I do not need any drama.

You down dinged me!

455 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 9:56:19am

“If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve”

456 Varek Raith  Mar 13, 2015 9:56:33am

re: #454 b_sharp

You down dinged me!

Boom!

457 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 9:56:45am

re: #445 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hey, Sergey. The linked article is in Russian:

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I will wait for a more credible source than an Ukrainian news site ;)

458 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 9:57:39am

re: #457 Nyet

I will wait for a more credible source than an Ukrainian news site ;)

I had no idea what it was saying, so thought I’d get your reaction.

459 b_sharp  Mar 13, 2015 9:57:44am

re: #456 Varek Raith

Boom!

I guess I deserved it.

460 Varek Raith  Mar 13, 2015 9:58:49am

Raw Story is real good with the Truther bait.

461 WhatEVs  Mar 13, 2015 10:00:09am

re: #332 Justanotherhuman

Holy crap!

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Apparently earthquakes are not enough for Vanuatu. They have earthquakes - literally - almost every single day.

462 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 10:00:19am

re: #458 Backwoods_Sleuth

I had no idea what it was saying, so thought I’d get your reaction.

Right now it looks like BS. If more credible sources confirm, I will reevaluate this conclusion.

463 Varek Raith  Mar 13, 2015 10:01:07am

re: #462 Nyet

Right now it looks like BS. If more credible sources confirm, I will reevaluate this conclusion.

Maybe that bear got him.
/

464 WhatEVs  Mar 13, 2015 10:01:32am

re: #375 Lidane

I eagerly await the inevitable RWNJ meltdowns if Netanyahu loses.

I don’t know anything about Israeli politics, but watching American conservatives flip out would be entertaining.

Almost as good as pie! Hmmm…perhaps better.

465 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 10:01:59am

re: #463 Varek Raith

Maybe that bear got him.
/

You mean the tiger…

466 Varek Raith  Mar 13, 2015 10:02:22am

re: #465 Nyet

You mean the tiger…

Bear.
Tiger.
Beartiger.
Same thing?

467 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 10:02:40am

Uh, yeah, doofus, it’s probably gonna be a UN-level treaty, not something between the US and Iran.

468 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 10:02:53am

re: #466 Varek Raith

Bear.
Tiger.
Beartiger.
Same thing?

Mammal!

469 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 10:04:08am

re: #467 Nyet

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Uh, yeah, doofus, it’s probably gonna be a UN-level treaty, not something between the US and Iran.

KillerBunny probably butthurt right now that Obama read RWSurferGirl’s Mean Tweet but not hers.

470 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 10:04:11am

- All you mammals are alike to me!
- Cladist!

471 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 10:04:17am

re: #467 Nyet

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Uh, yeah, doofus, it’s probably gonna be a UN-level treaty, not something between the US and Iran.

“The left implodes”? Is that why Republicans are now racing to get in front of the yawning chasm that has broken open in the wake of this letter, in the hopes that they might still be able to salvage the Senate bills that they gambled everything on?

472 Snarknado!  Mar 13, 2015 10:05:31am

re: #229 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

Good to see you, Obdicut.

473 Dr. Matt  Mar 13, 2015 10:06:25am

re: #375 Lidane

I eagerly await the inevitable RWNJ meltdowns if Netanyahu loses.

I don’t know anything about Israeli politics, but watching American conservatives flip out would be entertaining.

If Bibi wins, the librul media will be claiming his rant to Congress was brilliant and a game changer. The GOP will be patting themselves on their backs.

If Bibi loses, the media and GOP will both claim that the election results really don’t matter that much.

474 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 10:08:11am

It seems the investigators will be going with the “Ukrainians ordered it” after all. Oh well.

475 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 10:08:40am

re: #473 Dr. Matt

If Bibi wins, the librul media will be claiming his rant to Congress was brilliant and a game changer. The GOP will be patting themselves on their backs.

If Bibi loses, the media and GOP will both claim that the election results really don’t matter that much.

Even if Bibi loses he can still become Prime Minister if his party can gather a coalition before Zionist Union can.

476 WhatEVs  Mar 13, 2015 10:08:43am

re: #473 Dr. Matt

If Bibi wins, the librul media will be claiming his rant to Congress was brilliant and a game changer. The GOP will be patting themselves on their backs.

If Bibi loses, the media and GOP will both claim that the election results really don’t matter that much.

Unfortunately, that pretty well sums it up.

477 Timothy Watson  Mar 13, 2015 10:08:49am

re: #473 Dr. Matt

If Bibi loses, the media and GOP will both claim that the election results really don’t matter that much.

No, it will be: OBAMA OVERTHREW THE LEADER OF OUR BESTEST ALLY EVER!11!!

478 Jenner7  Mar 13, 2015 10:10:58am

Edits to Wikipedia pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo traced to 1 Police Plaza

capitalnewyork.com

479 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 10:11:02am

So they are polluting our precious bodily fluids after all! /

Water Fluoridation Linked to Higher ADHD Rates

480 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 10:11:10am

re: #477 Timothy Watson

No, it will be: OBAMA OVERTHREW THE LEADER OF OUR BESTEST ALLY EVER!11!!

Indeed. If Likud loses the chance to form a coalition and thus Bibi ceases to be PM, the wingnuts will fuel their frothing rage by declaring the White House orchestrated the loss in order to appease Iran/ISIS.

481 b_sharp  Mar 13, 2015 10:14:02am

Did I hear that Obdi is back?

Woot!

Good to hear it.

Maybe Sergey won’t feel so lonely now when he pokes me with a stick when I’m wrong.

482 lawhawk  Mar 13, 2015 10:14:23am

re: #473 Dr. Matt

The thing is that Likud may well end up losing to Zionist Union in seats, but Likud will still get to form the government because more total seats of parties that are willing to form a coalition with them than with Zionist Union.

IOW, even if he loses, Netanyahu might still win.

Sauce for the goose.

What the Israeli left needs is to force an outright loss - total seats for Zionist Union v. Likud, plus more seats than any coalition Likud could form.

The problem is that the parties remaining aren’t likely to form a government with the others included in the coalition unless there are massive concessions or some serious cognitive dissonance.

483 Varek Raith  Mar 13, 2015 10:16:02am

re: #229 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

Guess who passed his last MRI with flying colors?

This guy.

I saw WrenchWrench also got some TBI. Lizards need to preserve our skulls better.

Good to fucking see you!

484 Dr. Matt  Mar 13, 2015 10:18:04am

re: #482 lawhawk

485 Timothy Watson  Mar 13, 2015 10:19:32am

re: #482 lawhawk

The thing is that Likud may well end up losing to Zionist Union in seats, but Likud will still get to form the government because more total seats of parties that are willing to form a coalition with them than with Zionist Union.

IOW, even if he loses, Netanyahu might still win.

Sauce for the goose.

What the Israeli left needs is to force an outright loss - total seats for Zionist Union v. Likud, plus more seats than any coalition Likud could form.

The problem is that the parties remaining aren’t likely to form a government with the others included in the coalition unless there are massive concessions or some serious cognitive dissonance.

What happens if a coalition doesn’t form? Netanyahu stays in power and they have another round of elections in a couple months?

486 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 10:19:42am

All kinds of Kremlin craziness starting to show up on my twitter TL.

487 Varek Raith  Mar 13, 2015 10:20:37am

re: #486 Backwoods_Sleuth

All kinds of Kremlin craziness starting to show up on my twitter TL.

Yeah, noticed that.
It’s clearly aliens.

488 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 10:22:15am

re: #485 Timothy Watson

What happens if a coalition doesn’t form? Netanyahu stays in power and they have another round of elections in a couple months?

Yeah, pretty much. Either the opposition parties manage to bang together a coalition that can oust him, or he puts together a coalition that is almost guaranteed to fall apart in less than two years.

489 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 10:22:51am

re: #486 Backwoods_Sleuth

All kinds of Kremlin craziness starting to show up on my twitter TL.

In what context?

490 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 10:23:27am

re: #489 Nyet

Here’s one:

491 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 10:25:13am

re: #452 wrenchwench

This guy misses Jan Brewer and her finger.

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I wasn’t aware you could impeach a dictator. If only Germany had impeached Hitler.

492 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 10:25:39am

ANSWER: YES

493 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 10:25:58am

re: #490 Backwoods_Sleuth

*eyeroll*

Just because Putin is a tyrant doesn’t mean that lots of his critics aren’t idiots.

495 Varek Raith  Mar 13, 2015 10:27:55am

re: #490 Backwoods_Sleuth

Here’s one:

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Or, you know, they took it down to replace it with a newer one.
Nah, too neat.
/

496 WhatEVs  Mar 13, 2015 10:28:04am

The very scary reality behind the silly rumors of Putin’s death

Fascinating.

497 Varek Raith  Mar 13, 2015 10:29:08am

re: #496 WhatEVs

The very scary reality behind the silly rumors of Putin’s death

Fascinating.

He’s undead!

498 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 10:29:35am

re: #492 The Mother Of All Pies

ANSWER: YES

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Erick’s a paranoid little freak isn’t he? He sees in Obama the bigot he and so many of his fellow conservatives actually are.

499 b_sharp  Mar 13, 2015 10:29:38am

re: #497 Varek Raith

He’s undead!

Didn’t we know that?

500 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 10:32:02am

re: #498 HappyWarrior

Erick’s a paranoid little freak isn’t he? He sees in Obama the bigot he and so many of his fellow conservatives actually are.

He’s setting himself up as Rush’s heir apparent for when the Fat Fuck keels over from a morphone overdose or an erection that lasts more than 4 hours.

501 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 13, 2015 10:32:32am

re: #496 WhatEVs

The very scary reality behind the silly rumors of Putin’s death

Fascinating.

Apparently there are also rumors he’s having a baby.

The Kremlin denies it, it must be true.

///

502 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 10:32:52am

re: #500 The Mother Of All Pies

He’s setting himself up as Rush’s heir apparent for when the Fat Fuck keels over from a morphone overdose or an erection that lasts more than 4 hours.

I think that’s Chuckle’s dream too. These guys are all the same.

503 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 10:33:14am

re: #501 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Apparently there are also rumors he’s having a baby.

The Kremlin denies it, it must be true.

///

The Immaculate Putinception.

504 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 10:34:06am

re: #502 HappyWarrior

I think that’s Chuckle’s dream too. These guys are all the same.

Erick the Erick is ahead of Chuck in the line.

505 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 10:35:27am

re: #504 The Mother Of All Pies

Erick the Erick is ahead of Chuck in the line.

No doubt. Chuckles is even younger than I am. Erick’s around the same age I think as Rush when Rush got big in Clinton’s first term.

506 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 10:36:32am

Has there been any news on Michael Mann’s suit against NR?

507 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 10:37:08am

heh…

508 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 10:38:12am

re: #507 Backwoods_Sleuth

Weekend at Vova’s…

509 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 10:38:12am

re: #497 Varek Raith

He’s undead!

He’s mostly dead. I knew a guy once who was mostly dead all day.

/

510 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 10:38:32am

Weekend at Vladdy’s.

511 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 13, 2015 10:39:13am

God, if the RWNJs’ hero Vladdie-poo actually did croak, I don’t think I’ve got what it takes to put up with their BS. I’d have to take a couple of days off till the next shiny object grabs their attention, like the Israeli elections. Fortunately, that’s St. Patrick’s Day, so I’ll be drunk….

512 PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2015 10:39:22am

re: #507 Backwoods_Sleuth

He had a very bad hangover. ///

513 b.d.  Mar 13, 2015 10:41:36am

GOP losing another hashtag battle

514 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 10:41:39am

re: #511 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

God, if the RWNJs’ hero Vladdie-poo actually did croak, I don’t think I’ve got what it takes to put up with their BS. I’d have to take a couple of days off till the next shiny object grabs their attention, like the Israeli elections. Fortunately, that’s St. Patrick’s Day, so I’ll be drunk….

They’ll probably claim Obama killed him and demand Obama be arrested.

515 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 10:41:45am

This article (which I actually read) says exactly the opposite of what Erick the Erick is saying about it==>
He makes shit up just like Rush

516 Varek Raith  Mar 13, 2015 10:41:57am

I had honestly thought he would never be on TV again.
twitter.com

517 lawhawk  Mar 13, 2015 10:43:26am

re: #485 Timothy Watson

What happens if a coalition doesn’t form? Netanyahu stays in power and they have another round of elections in a couple months?

Likud and Zionist Union will be given opportunities to form a new coalition. If neither can make a go of it, we’d probably see another round of elections. I can’t recall the last time something like that happened. Usually, there’s enough seats to form a coalition for at least a short period of time (and when that collapses, a new election would be called).

518 #FergusonFireside  Mar 13, 2015 10:44:18am
519 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 10:45:23am

re: #515 The Mother Of All Pies

This article (which I actually read) says exactly the opposite of what Erick the Erick is saying about it==>
He makes shit up just like Rush

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It’s actually a very interesting article.If Erick actually read it, he’d find out that Putnam is far from being on his side since Putnam isn’t talking about shaming poor people.

520 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 10:46:36am

Liberalism doesn’t cause poverty. Refusing to consider decent wages for workers and then cutting assistance like Erick and conservatives want to do OTOH…………

521 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 10:47:06am

re: #519 HappyWarrior

It’s actually a very interesting article.If Erick actually read it, he’d find out that Putnam is far from being on his side since Putnam isn’t talking about shaming poor people.

He does say that statistically, children of single mothers are more likely to grow up poor than children of 2-parent families.

What he does NOT say is WE SHOULD ROUND UP ALL TEH SLUTS & SHOTGUN-MARRY ‘EM TO THERE BABY DADDIES!!!!!!!11!!

522 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 10:49:02am

re: #521 The Mother Of All Pies

He does say that statistically, children of single mothers are more likely to grow up poor than children of 2-parent families.

Hurr hurr this true but still don’t let gays marry so child can have two parents!!!!11

523 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 10:49:05am

re: #521 The Mother Of All Pies

He does say that statistically, children of single mothers are more likely to grow up poor than children of 2-parent families.

What he does NOT say is WE SHOULD ROUND UP ALL TEH SLUTS & SHOTGUN-MARRY ‘EM TO THERE BABY DADDIES!!!!!!!11!!

Which frankly is common sense. A single parent household is far more likely to be less well off than a two parent household and frankly if Erick and his allies really valued two parent households, they wouldn’t be against allowing same sex couples to adopt but what do ya know, they oppose that too. Erick just cares about poor shaming and making himself feel better about himself by putting others down. He’s nothing but a bullying chode.

524 Dr. Matt  Mar 13, 2015 10:49:13am

re: #518 #FergusonFireside

County PD says shooter used a .40 c handgun, from this vantage-point at night, targeted/hit 2 officers from 3 shots. pic.twitter.com
— TC (@tchopstl) March 13, 2015

Wow, the cop survived a 0.40 cal to the face. I really thought it would have been a small caliber weapon.

525 jaunte  Mar 13, 2015 10:49:15am

re: #519 HappyWarrior

If Erick actually read it

He probably did, but the article just confirmed his prejudices.

527 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 10:51:48am

re: #525 jaunte

He probably did, but the article just confirmed his prejudices.

Sure I guess I mean actually analyzed it. If he actually read it, he’d realize that Putnam and Obama’s views aren’t in conflict at all. But the impression I get from his smug tweet is that he like pretty much every other conservative I’ve talked actually believes liberals like people being impoverished so they can be dependent on government when it’s in reality the total opposite but I don’t expect intellectual thought from that dickhead.

528 jaunte  Mar 13, 2015 10:52:03am

re: #526 Dr. Matt

Having health insurance despite a pre-existing condition: humbling for arrogant crackers.

529 jaunte  Mar 13, 2015 10:53:14am

re: #527 HappyWarrior

He probably believes liberal attitudes like wanting a social safety net led to higher divorce rates, single mothers, bad parenting, crime, etc. etc.

530 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 10:53:35am

Wingnuts are so fucking stupid, I am seeing this meme everywhere==>

531 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 10:54:08am

Conservatives want to both refuse to raise the minimum wage and want welfare to be harder to get even though a huge percentage of those on welfare are kids. They talk a lot about raising yourself up by the bootstraps. Well conservatives are the people who want to cut the bootstraps in half and without giving you any instruction on how to reattach them expect you to learn yourself. Meanwhile, they want policies that give extra bootstraps to those who have already made it. Their ideology is a form of oligarchy and would have been considered backwards a century ago.

532 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 10:54:57am

re: #529 jaunte

He probably believes liberal attitudes like wanting a social safety net led to higher divorce rates, single mothers, bad parenting, crime, etc. etc.

No doubt in which I’d point to him that the higher divorce rates, crime rates, etc are mostly in red states.

533 WhatEVs  Mar 13, 2015 10:55:27am

re: #518 #FergusonFireside

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Is the target (where the cops were) at the bottom of that hill? If so, really? That seems rather far for a handgun. I couldn’t see that far without a sight to be sure.

534 jaunte  Mar 13, 2015 10:56:41am

re: #533 WhatEVs

I’m reading estimates of 125 yards.

535 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 13, 2015 10:56:56am
Erick Erickson: All of Obama’s Policies Are Designed To “Humble The Arrogant Crackers”

And this is bad because….?

536 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 10:57:31am

re: #526 Dr. Matt

Speaking of Erick son of Erick:

Erick Erickson: All of Obama’s Policies Are Designed To “Humble The Arrogant Crackers”

Who pissed in Erick of Erick’s honey nut cheerios this morning?

537 WhatEVs  Mar 13, 2015 10:58:18am

re: #536 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Who pissed in Erick of Erick’s honey nut cheerios this morning?

He doesn’t need an excuse to be an asshole. He just is one.

538 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 10:58:26am

re: #536 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Who pissed in Erick of Erick’s honey nut cheerios this morning?

What? He’s always like this. I think he pees in his own cheerios.

539 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 10:59:01am

I am looking at the illustration of that white woman on the wingnut meme, and I can’t understand who the fuck eats hot soup, iced tea and tossed salad in bed?

Or is she serving the folks out on the verandah in which case WHY IS SHE WHITE?

540 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 13, 2015 10:59:46am

re: #528 jaunte

Having health insurance despite a pre-existing condition: humbling for arrogant crackers.

Whites like Erick of Erick had regular employer subsidized health insurance and now those other people can get good health insurance too which was just done to humiliate Erick son of Erick whites.

/

541 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 10:59:53am

re: #539 The Mother Of All Pies

I am looking at the illustration of that white woman on the wingnut meme, and I can’t understand who the fuck eats hot soup, iced tea and tossed salad in bed?

Or is she serving the folks out on the verandah in which case WHY IS SHE WHITE?

Do wingnut memes ever make any sense?

542 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 13, 2015 11:00:01am
543 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 11:00:54am

re: #540 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Whites like Erick of Erick had regular employer subsidized health insurance and now those other people can get good health insurance to which was just done to humiliate Erick son of Erick whites.

/

I tell you it was just humiliating to me as a white person when Obama pushed for a prohibition of denying insurance based on pre-existing conditions. Just horrible.

544 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 11:00:58am

re: #541 HappyWarrior

Do wingnut memes ever make any sense?

Do they just go to some site of STOCK ILLUSTRATIONS OF 1950’S WHITE PEOPLE and just pick one at random?

545 jaunte  Mar 13, 2015 11:01:08am

re: #539 The Mother Of All Pies

I am looking at the illustration of that white woman on the wingnut meme, and I can’t understand who the fuck eats hot soup, iced tea and tossed salad in bed?

Or is she serving the folks out on the verandah in which case WHY IS SHE WHITE?

Not sure what a piece of random cookbook art from the 50’s has to do with that meme, either.

546 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 11:02:27am

re: #544 The Mother Of All Pies

Do they just go to some site of STOCK ILLUSTRATIONS OF 1950’S WHITE PEOPLE and just pick one at random?

I have no idea. That sounds plausible.

547 HappyWarrior  Mar 13, 2015 11:03:43am

re: #542 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He really is a pathetic hack. He’s upset that NASA is doing something that is in their mission. How the fuck are we supposed to send people to space if we don’t understand our own earth dumbass?

548 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 11:04:36am

re: #542 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ugh, the face.

549 #FergusonFireside  Mar 13, 2015 11:04:43am

re: #524 Dr. Matt

Wow, the cop survived a 0.40 cal to the face. I really thought it would have been a small caliber weapon.

So .40 isn’t a small caliber? I have no clue on this stuff. I’m more focused on the precision from that distance!!!

550 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 11:05:26am

re: #548 Nyet

Ugh, the face.

Backpfeifengesicht :)

551 Ace-o-aces  Mar 13, 2015 11:05:38am

#AskHamas going about as well as expected.

552 jaunte  Mar 13, 2015 11:05:41am

GO, AND RANDOMIZE YOUR MEME ILLUSTRATIONS

553 No Country For Old Haters  Mar 13, 2015 11:05:55am

re: #222 Dr. Matt

RWSurfergirl is vile asshole. I wish they didn’t give her more attention than she deserves.

Which goes to show that being right-wing ruins everything, even something as inherently cool as being a surfer.

554 makeitstop  Mar 13, 2015 11:07:41am

re: #518 #FergusonFireside

County PD says shooter used a .40 c handgun, from this vantage-point at night, targeted/hit 2 officers from 3 shots.

Why, oh why am I finding hard to buy that story?

//

555 Timothy Watson  Mar 13, 2015 11:08:10am

re: #552 jaunte

Embedded Image

GO, AND RANDOMIZE YOUR MEME ILLUSTRATIONS

Looks like something from Assassin’s Creed.

556 jaunte  Mar 13, 2015 11:08:58am

re: #555 Timothy Watson

Just a random shutterstock image

557 Nyet  Mar 13, 2015 11:09:12am

That’s a pretty daring article by Belkovsky in MK: mk.ru

Plus the new meme - Kadyrov is now to be known as RAK [i.e. cancer].

558 WhatEVs  Mar 13, 2015 11:10:50am

re: #554 makeitstop

Why, oh why am I finding hard to buy that story?

//

Or that the police reported the cops who were shot included one who was shot in the face, yet was released a few hours later.

It all makes perfect sense now.

Or not.

559 Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2015 11:11:34am

re: #552 jaunte

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GO, AND RANDOMIZE YOUR MEME ILLUSTRATIONS

“Decades developing holodeck technology…just to play Minecraft.”

/

560 b_sharp  Mar 13, 2015 11:23:42am

re: #558 WhatEVs

Or that the police reported the cops who were shot included one who was shot in the face, yet was released a few hours later.

It all makes perfect sense now.

Or not.

Let’s not make too much of the lack of clear information.

561 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 11:25:53am

ISIS and Boko Haram have joined together to form an Axis, just like Germany and Japan! But without the aircraft.

562 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 11:28:55am
563 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 13, 2015 11:30:18am

LOL when I graduated with a degree in Mathematics, Zedushka was so jealous that he went out and got a degree in Mathematics. :)

564 WhatEVs  Mar 13, 2015 11:36:30am

re: #560 b_sharp

Let’s not make too much of the lack of clear information.

It’s not the lack of clarity I take issue with. It’s the fact that the police put information into the public domain that is incorrect and making its way around the world…and that information is not lacking in clarity, it’s factually dubious (at best, incorrect as in lying at worse).

My complaint doesn’t originate with this picture or the space from where the shots were fired from or to. It’s the continual…misdirections, shall we say…from police that anger me.

565 wrenchwench  Mar 13, 2015 11:37:18am

re: #562 The Mother Of All Pies

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Reminds me of the cartoon I posted yesterday:

566 Timothy Watson  Mar 13, 2015 11:37:37am

re: #562 The Mother Of All Pies

Last month, another bride in Uttar Pradesh married a wedding guest after the original groom had a seizure and collapsed at the wedding venue.

The groom’s family had not revealed that the groom was epileptic. While the groom was rushed to a hospital in Rampur town, the bride asked one of the wedding guests to step in and married him.

I take it there’s some stigma or taboo about epilepsy in India?

567 b_sharp  Mar 13, 2015 11:38:56am

re: #564 WhatEVs

It’s not the lack of clarity I take issue with. It’s the fact that the police put information into the public domain that is incorrect and making its way around the world…and that information is not lacking in clarity, it’s factually dubious (at best, incorrect as in lying at worse).

My complaint doesn’t originate with this picture or the space from where the shots were fired from or to. It’s the continual…misdirections, shall we say…from police that anger me.

My advice when this shit happens - wait a bit, let the story flesh itself out. If it’s bullshit it will degrade, if it’s the fog of war, it will clear up.

568 WhatEVs  Mar 13, 2015 11:41:49am

re: #567 b_sharp

My advice when this shit happens - wait a bit, let the story flesh itself out. If it’s bullshit it will degrade, if it’s the fog of war, it will clear up.

In general I agree with you completely. The 24 hour rule is a good one.

That said, in 24 hours, the whole world was told that a cop was shot in the face. And the old adage about a lie traveling the world while the truth is barely out of the gate holds true. How many wingnuts are still saying a cop was shot in the face?

This is my biggest issue with what is happening in Ferguson and throughout LE around the country. They have the microphone and they drive the dialog.

569 Dave In Austin  Mar 13, 2015 12:17:03pm

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