Trevor Moore’s Alternate Universe Kitty History
In this vast uncharted universe, somewhere there is a planet on which the kittehs have their own catspiracy theories.
In this vast uncharted universe, somewhere there is a planet on which the kittehs have their own catspiracy theories.
1 | darthstar Mar 12, 2015 7:07:34pm |
#GOPWantsWar pic.twitter.com/MHrdM7SNWY— PoppaWillie (@PoppaWillie2) March 13, 2015
5 | darthstar Mar 12, 2015 7:20:53pm |
Phone rings in GOP Sen office next week: ”Hello.” ”Hi, this is Sen Tom Cotton. May I speak to Senator …. #CLICK #47Traitors #GOPWantsWar— Cletis Stump (@CletisStump) March 13, 2015
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.
9 | darthstar Mar 12, 2015 7:23:39pm |
10 | darthstar Mar 12, 2015 7:24:17pm |
11 | darthstar Mar 12, 2015 7:26:16pm |
Someone at the Wisconsin Humane Society is really good at naming cats. pic.twitter.com/3xNvDLmWFE— Cats (@SpaceCatPics) March 13, 2015
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.
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?
The Fox News reporter was WILD disrespectful to protesters just now pic.twitter.com/AWjHz1VwfU
— ShordeeDooWhop (@Nettaaaaaaaa) March 13, 2015
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 |
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.
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 |
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.
34 | Charles Johnson Mar 12, 2015 8:03:43pm |
It's great that @ChuckCJohnson keeps retweeting these “human biodiversity” white supremacists. Very clarifying! pic.twitter.com/Pt8h1DFxaR— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 13, 2015
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?
42 | Belafon Mar 12, 2015 8:13:30pm |
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 |
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 |
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?”
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?”
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 |
Rick Santorum warned us about this pic.twitter.com/tIocdGVFRg
— Gen JC Xtian patriot (@JC_Christian) March 13, 2015
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 |
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:
Took me a year but I finally got my tv off the floor. finally put together tv stand I bought last week. Before/After pic.twitter.com/Fff4sWtVd9— Nelly B (@psddluva4evah) March 13, 2015
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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 |
Yes, the guy twice elected President is the loser in this equation. Momentous, incisive criticism from a rancid dumpling. @ChuckCJohnson— Photonic Gaucho (@goddamnedfrank) March 13, 2015
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.
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 |
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).
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.
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.
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:
S. Carolina Republican: Constitutional ban on same-sex marriage would help 'propagation of our species' http://t.co/F3N22M9mrW— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 12, 2015
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 |
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 -
138 | Feline Fearless Leader Mar 13, 2015 5:18:46am |
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 |
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 |
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.
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 |
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?”
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.
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 |
164 | Targetpractice Mar 13, 2015 5:46:57am |
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.
166 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Mar 13, 2015 5:49:57am |
re: #165 Timothy Watson
Speaking of crabs:
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 |
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!!!”:
Rudy Giuliani: #Ferguson police officer should be “commended” for shooting Michael Brown http://t.co/snLEWoBgfH— HuffPost BlackVoices (@blackvoices) March 13, 2015
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 |
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.
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 |
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 |
Accident Or Design? @TIME Cover Gives #HillaryClinton Horns / If she as an 'R', conservs would act as whining victims http://t.co/6sG3EE9nAl— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 13, 2015
Edit: 34 TIME Magazine Covers That Appeared to Give People Horns
178 | Feline Fearless Leader Mar 13, 2015 6:03:56am |
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 |
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
White Victimhood: #SAE Oklahoma chapter angry at being tarred & feathered; plans to sue university & president Boren http://t.co/hVWF6Q5sgX
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 13, 2015
183 | wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Mar 13, 2015 6:12:55am |
re: #181 Feline Fearless Leader
And a bit of whimsy courtesy of my niece.
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?
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 |
.@kurteichenwald because they want to ignore the harsh reality in favor of an outdated and bogus meme that it must be rap? Easier sell?— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 13, 2015
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.
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 |
University of Washington investigates claims of racial slurs by SAE frat members: http://t.co/kS7WpiAQBH
— The Seattle Times (@seattletimes) March 13, 2015
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.
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 …books.google.com
Robert A. Pratt - 2005 - Preview - More editions
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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Michael Mewshaw - 1970 - Snippet view - More editions
“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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1968 - Snippet view - More editions
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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Michael Krasny - 2008 - Snippet view - More editions
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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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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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…
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 |
Obama ‘embarrassed’ for GOP senators who signed Iran letter http://t.co/GK4ljYAxx4 | AP Photo pic.twitter.com/Ci2K2UN3cA
— POLITICO (@politico) March 13, 2015
@JRubinBlogger @politico Why would President Obama go to Congress since they have spent 6 years undermining his Presidency? #reality— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 13, 2015
Sadly, Jennifer Rubin actually thinks going to Congress is a real idea.
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…
/
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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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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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.
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 |
All-purpose evil schmuck Ted Cruz says NASA shouldn't be studying Earth's climate. http://t.co/WFSxYLota3— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) March 13, 2015
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!
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
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
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:
Truth !! Seems like a rare commodity #WakeUpAmerica #WakeUpSheeple #tcot pic.twitter.com/KeUx8tJREx— Katt ?Country (@TrucksHorsesDog) March 13, 2015
ACTUAL FACT:
AL turned GOP in 1964. Learn some actual history. @TrucksHorsesDog @vargo0515 #tcot #UniteBlue #Selma pic.twitter.com/phQAoXKwuQ
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 13, 2015
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Edits to @Wikipedia pages on Bell, #EricGarner, Diallo traced to 1 Police Plaza http://t.co/XZjz7YOiaR— Capital New York (@capitalnewyork) March 13, 2015
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 |
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
@JRubinBlogger @politico they were supposed to have the bomb 10 yrs ago. And 10 yrs b4 that. And 10 yrs b4 that. IMMINENT THREAT!!!!!— efuseakay (@efuseakay) March 13, 2015
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 |
An arrest has been made on the murder of Ahmed Al-Jumaili. A press conference will be scheduled later today.— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) March 13, 2015
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. […]
293 | #FergusonFireside Mar 13, 2015 8:02:56am |
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?
“Crisis Pregnancy Center” told woman her IUD was a baby http://t.co/CAQeOqIfi4 pic.twitter.com/bm8SSiUqZr— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) March 13, 2015
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:
Who's lying about texting: Obama or Jay Z? http://t.co/0V9lVxZEJE— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 13, 2015
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
304 | lawhawk Mar 13, 2015 8:10:51am |
Rand Paul, Vaccinations, and the (Not So) Secret History of White Supremacy http://t.co/AyKoE4j50N pic.twitter.com/MNzKzynlCG— The Nation (@thenation) March 13, 2015
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 |
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.
Police union rep stands by his remark that Ferguson protestors “want dead cops” http://t.co/F72RgGzQzg— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) March 13, 2015
But you’d be forgiven for thinking that Roorda has no grip on reality, because the NYPD thinks that reality is subject to revision:
NYPD reportedly tried to scrub Wikipedia pages on Eric Garner and other police killings http://t.co/FmT8ErV5bZ— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) March 13, 2015
310 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 13, 2015 8:14:16am |
WATCH LIVE: Dallas police provide an update on their arrest in the killing of an Iraqi immigrant taking snow pics. http://t.co/wZcGN4FbB8— NBC DFW (@NBCDFW) March 13, 2015
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==>
My mean tweet about Obama was read on the first five minutes of “Good Morning America.” If anyone can find the link let me know. ??— CDM (@RWSurferGirl) March 13, 2015
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 |
Another Horrifying Deluge of Hate Speech & Racism at Breitbart “Spews” http://t.co/EFp7LcmcMw @Breitbart #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/9MYdOVkLrf— McSpocky (@mcspocky) March 13, 2015
329 | b.d. Mar 13, 2015 8:28:20am |
#SXSW party tip: Avoid long lines by not attending SXSW
— SXSW Partyzzzzz (@SXSWPartyzzzzz) March 4, 2014
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 |
Pi Day Pies! See where your state falls in the debate & @MS_Living shares favorite recipes: http://t.co/AIWorDcDRI pic.twitter.com/ROVe3MxhHU— thinkgeek (@thinkgeek) March 13, 2015
332 | Justanotherhuman Mar 13, 2015 8:33:52am |
Holy crap!
#CyclonePam crushing the island of Efate of the #Vanuatu island chain. https://t.co/geLSzxU8IL
— Tim Ballisty (@IrishEagle) March 13, 2015
333 | HappyWarrior Mar 13, 2015 8:35:26am |
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==>
Pi r square but pie are round Michigan Cherry Pie #PiDay2015 @JihadiJew @KosherSoul pic.twitter.com/RFE2yokMwN— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 13, 2015
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.
The states where second (and third, and fourth) marriages are most common: http://t.co/rCgPhr2ZHL pic.twitter.com/zJ9oLKnoob— Slate (@Slate) March 13, 2015
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.
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:
BAN #GeoEngineering NOW http://t.co/PFJjJFPUCz @SamsPressShop @johncornyn @SenTedCruz @TeamRickPerry @SkyderALERT— Selina (@selinasorrels) March 13, 2015
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 |
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 |
Mat Staver vows to disobey a SCOTUS pro-marriage equality ruling just as he'd refuse to turn over Jews to the Nazis: http://t.co/FBEiSR7VWL— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 13, 2015
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 |
351 | nearly-headless smith25 Mar 13, 2015 8:45:28am |
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
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 |
Letting a loud fart @ Applebees is lacking judgment in a social setting. Chanting about hanging black men from trees is violent racism
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) March 13, 2015
365 | HappyWarrior Mar 13, 2015 8:54:39am |
366 | Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Mar 13, 2015 8:54:56am |
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 |
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 |
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==>
@viciousbabushka @chuckhoward50 @Mr_Republican12 @AIIAmericanGirI @BuhByeGOP how Black is our POTUS who has a white mother? Oh, the facts!— Freedom isnt Free (@msut14) March 13, 2015
375 | Lidane Mar 13, 2015 9:02:59am |
re: #369 Dr. Matt
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 |
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
excusesapologies 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
385 | Dave In Austin Mar 13, 2015 9:09:58am |
Hahaha RT @Sttbs73: pic.twitter.com/MitYrwbjgQ”— Jeff Gauvin (@JeffersonObama) March 13, 2015
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 |
@chuckhoward50 @viciousbabushka @Mr_Republican12 @AIIAmericanGirI @BuhByeGOP Libtard history rewritten every day, FACT!!— Freedom isnt Free (@msut14) March 13, 2015
@viciousbabushka @chuckhoward50 @Mr_Republican12 @AIIAmericanGirI @BuhByeGOP thats the #falsenarrative we hear every day #Liberallogic #tcot— Freedom isnt Free (@msut14) March 13, 2015
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 |
More here http://t.co/wZcGN4FbB8 MT @KenKalthoffNBC5: 17 y/o Nykerion Nealon arrested for Ahmed Al Jumaili's murder pic.twitter.com/JQrziemOA6— NBC DFW (@NBCDFW) March 13, 2015
More here http://t.co/wZcGN4FbB8 MT @AmandaNBC5 DPD says more arrests possible after man killed taking pics in snow pic.twitter.com/XyNWfLU96b— NBC DFW (@NBCDFW) March 13, 2015
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
Libs use statistics to OBSCURE facts not illuminate them! If this is success how could a lib ever fail? #tcot ???? pic.twitter.com/DUA9G4CG3d— Scott Barbour (@drscott_atlanta) March 13, 2015
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.
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==>
434 | wrenchwench Mar 13, 2015 9:45:39am |
Bald #Eagles in #Hanover, PA Live WebCam: http://t.co/1qv9mJSlGx (Watch Live Here) #BaldEagle #Birds pic.twitter.com/xwoIDRvvlo— Haida Princess (@HaidaPrincess) March 13, 2015
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:
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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?
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 |
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.
445 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 13, 2015 9:52:06am |
Hey, Sergey. The linked article is in Russian:
Kremlin asks journalists not to leave Moscow for weekend, important statement pending /via @tuumapomm https://t.co/GxSWf4iTOJ— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) March 13, 2015
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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OMG, I love how @RWSurferGirl is proud of millions of people laughing at her. That's so freaking hysterical I can't stop LMAO.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 13, 2015
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%…
452 | wrenchwench Mar 13, 2015 9:54:22am |
This guy misses Jan Brewer and her finger.
Mike Fontana, 24, Tempe : here to show @BarackObama “he's not welcome.” pic.twitter.com/IDxgOK5Xvc— YvonneWingettSanchez (@yvonnewingett) March 13, 2015
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.
455 | The Mother Of All Pies Mar 13, 2015 9:56:19am |
“If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve”
“If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.” #uniteblue #p2 pic.twitter.com/Ineh6inCsd— Occupy Chic (@occupy_chic) March 13, 2015
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.
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.
466 | Varek Raith Mar 13, 2015 10:02:22am |
467 | Nyet Mar 13, 2015 10:02:40am |
Let's recap: Obama goes around Congress. Congress explains to Iran that's a no no. The left implodes. The right laughs… a lot. #47Traitors— KillerBunnyFooFoo(TM) (@PolitiBunny) March 11, 2015
Uh, yeah, doofus, it’s probably gonna be a UN-level treaty, not something between the US and Iran.
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.
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
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!
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:
Fake, Phoshopping or true? Flag down from Kreml? - what this means? MT @sranysovok: ???? ????? IT'S HAPPENING pic.twitter.com/o7vz19L8Y3— Juhani Kaukoranta (@jukaukor) March 13, 2015
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
Does Erick Erickson think every liberal black person is out to get revenge on whites? http://t.co/O02Gfu6mDd— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) March 13, 2015
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 |
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.
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.
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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.
507 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 13, 2015 10:37:08am |
heh…
Kremlin strongly denies Putin's disappearance. New photos released today show him alive and healthy | via @DXujove pic.twitter.com/dsfQDG41bp— Bogdan Babych (@bogdan_babych) March 13, 2015
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.
/
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….
513 | b.d. Mar 13, 2015 10:41:36am |
We can't afford another costly war in the Middle East. #IranLetter #GOPWantsWar pic.twitter.com/Z9tjKcmv88
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
A liberal is starting to wake up to the effects of liberalism http://t.co/QYWDPmlS7T— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) March 13, 2015
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 |
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/1dSKXDlMMR
— TC (@tchopstl) March 13, 2015
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[Embedded content]
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 |
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.
526 | Dr. Matt Mar 13, 2015 10:50:52am |
Speaking of Erick son of Erick:
Erick Erickson: All of Obama’s Policies Are Designed To “Humble The Arrogant Crackers”
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==>
#UniteBlue #DemocratsAreEvil @BarackObama pic.twitter.com/uzF1G6n2IH— Keeping It 100 (@JamesRitch1) March 9, 2015
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 |
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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.
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 |
NASA administrator gives Ted Cruz an epic lesson in how science works http://t.co/fHe7lE5xGw pic.twitter.com/tyb6Cr2Bgt— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) March 13, 2015
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 Erickwhites./
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?
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 |
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 |
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
GO, AND RANDOMIZE YOUR MEME ILLUSTRATIONS
Looks like something from Assassin’s Creed.
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?
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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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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 |
This made us smile. You go, girl!—> Indian bride walks out of wedding when groom fails math test http://t.co/FdmahSROq6 #educationmatters— Malala Fund (@MalalaFund) March 13, 2015
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:
This is “y” she became an “x” pic.twitter.com/IKgtF14lMP— SciencePorn (@SciencePorn) March 12, 2015
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 |
When did God take the job of “Judging” away from you Brian? Thought you had that market locked up. @BryanJFischer— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) March 13, 2015