Cooking for Vegans and Other Horrible People: Sushi for Pregnant Women

McGyvering foods together that in no way, shape or form should you be allowed to eat
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Join Rachel Staman as she cooks for Vegans and Other Horrible People.

Episode 2- Sushi for Pregnant Women

Here’s how ya do it:

Ingredients:
Personal watermelon, or about 1/4 of a big boy.
2 tablespoons oil
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 cup cooked sushi rice
Green onions, chopped (for garnish)
Teriyaki sauce or jizz

Directions:
Preheat the oven to Broil.
Cut up watermelon pieces to the size of little dominos and put them on a tin foiled sheet and drizzle with the olive oil and soy sauce.
Bake for about 90 minutes, turning every so often to not burn.
Remove the watermelon from the oven, and let it cool. It looks like fish!
Form the cooked rice into the shape of sashimi.
Top each rice roll with a piece of the watermelon.
Garnish with chopped green onions, and optional teriyaki jizz.

Enjoy the sushi your little parasite has heretofore robbed you the pleasure of enjoying.

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601 comments
1 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2015 6:10:48pm

It does not look like fish.

2 b_sharp  Mar 22, 2015 6:13:07pm

What is teriyaki jizz?

3 RealityBasedSteve  Mar 22, 2015 6:14:45pm

No. Not Now. Not Ever.

RBS

4 TedStriker  Mar 22, 2015 6:15:09pm

re: #2 b_sharp

What is teriyaki jizz?

It’s really salty, but a little sweet.

///

5 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 22, 2015 6:18:17pm
You want this beer? Let’s talk catnip.
6 Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2015 6:22:06pm

I’ll bet you guys aren’t pregnant, or you’d understand.

7 A Cranky One  Mar 22, 2015 6:22:20pm

re: #2 b_sharp

What is teriyaki jizz?

Well, sweetie, when a male teriyaki and a female teriyaki love each other very much, then …

8 Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2015 6:22:38pm
9 Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2015 6:22:46pm
10 Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2015 6:22:57pm
11 Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2015 6:23:10pm
12 Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2015 6:23:20pm
13 Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2015 6:23:31pm
14 Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2015 6:23:42pm
15 Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2015 6:23:59pm
16 Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2015 6:24:07pm
17 HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2015 6:24:32pm

re: #16 Charles Johnson

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You mean the 1950’s BC Charles.

18 goddamnedfrank  Mar 22, 2015 6:27:46pm

Tomato makes much better veg sushi than watermelon. Watermelon is too sweet for that.

19 lawhawk  Mar 22, 2015 6:28:18pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

Joe McCarthy? You mean Jenny McCarthy? SS/DMcC Cruz is a twofer. Twice the McCarthy, twice the crazy.

20 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 22, 2015 6:29:55pm

re: #19 lawhawk

Joe McCarthy? You mean Jenny McCarthy? SS/DMcC Cruz is a twofer. Twice the McCarthy, twice the crazy.

Somebody please tell me Melissa McCarthy isn’t an anti-vaxer like her cousin Jenny….

21 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 22, 2015 6:31:36pm

re: #17 HappyWarrior

You mean the 1950’s BC Charles.

Before Abraham’s time? Sounding better every day.

22 Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2015 6:31:39pm
23 Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2015 6:34:03pm
24 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 22, 2015 6:35:22pm
37 states have now legalized same sex marriage. When should we expect America to be destroyed?

Well, there are only 50 states, so the Crazification Factor™ is 13.5, so…we’re already there. I’d say now.

25 goddamnedfrank  Mar 22, 2015 6:35:29pm
26 HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2015 6:35:50pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

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Man that’s incredible. I think SCOTUS will pretty much have its hand forced. I wouldn’t be shocked if it’s a 6-3 decision that rules all these SSM bans unconstitutional. I’d love for it to be unanimous i.e. Brown and Loving but Alito, Scalia, and Thomas don’t have the basic sense of justice that the 9 judges on those two cases did.

27 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 22, 2015 6:38:20pm
28 b_sharp  Mar 22, 2015 6:39:40pm

Looks like some people are pissed at me.

Not unexpected.

29 Lancelot Link  Mar 22, 2015 6:51:13pm

re: #25 goddamnedfrank

Mayonnaise libel!

30 RealityBasedSteve  Mar 22, 2015 6:53:44pm

re: #25 goddamnedfrank

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Ted Cruz is proof that not everything is good with mayo, even that Chipotle mayo that is incredible on a roast beef sammy.

31 #FergusonFireside  Mar 22, 2015 6:57:18pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

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I have graduated to watching it live. Took me 3 years to figure it out. All those Sunday nights of torture.

Yah, small screen, but its live.

32 Great White Snark  Mar 22, 2015 6:57:23pm

re: #28 b_sharp

Who?

33 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Mar 22, 2015 6:59:06pm

OT, but I was watching Crosby, Stills, and Nash on public television. Good show and all, but if I understand right they were one of the first acts to book stadiums for their concerts? I remember a lot of their music and I was about 6 to 8 years old at that time span, but I just can’t believe they were insanely popular. And Steven Stills has got to be THE most underrated guitarist ever.

34 b_sharp  Mar 22, 2015 6:59:32pm

re: #32 Great White Snark

Who?

Doesn’t matter.

36 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 22, 2015 7:04:57pm

re: #35 The Mother Of All Pies

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Looks legit!

37 Great White Snark  Mar 22, 2015 7:06:36pm

I never seem to have computer hardware good luck. I had hoped it was just a power supply but after a new case and power, the board is dead. So considering I have case, 750 watt power, and 3 functioning drives I gotta take a look at board, cpu and RAM. Given a budget of about $1000 thinking probably 6 core intel, new board and not yet sure about the ram. Suggestions?

38 PhillyPretzel  Mar 22, 2015 7:07:24pm

re: #35 The Mother Of All Pies

Not bad. But we have to cover up the top. That Province of Alberta just does not look like it belongs there.

39 Timothy Watson  Mar 22, 2015 7:09:53pm

re: #35 The Mother Of All Pies

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HIS MOTHER WAS FROM DELAWARE?!?! YANKEE SCUM!!1!!

40 HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2015 7:13:28pm

re: #39 Timothy Watson

HIS MOTHER WAS FROM DELAWARE?!?! YANKEE SCUM!!1!!

You know whose else had a mother from Delaware!

41 RealityBasedSteve  Mar 22, 2015 7:19:14pm

well gang, the tree pollen is kicking my butt, so I think I’m going to fix a cold drink and go to bed early this evening. I’ll see you all later.

And remember, Cruz with Cheese Curds and Gravy, while Canadian, just isn’t poutine.

RBS

42 sagehen  Mar 22, 2015 7:23:18pm

great theory suggested on “Talking Dead” —

Click to Reveal

Those aren’t W’s. They’re M’s; Morgan’s been carving them on people when they’re on the ground and he’s standing above their heads…

I will say… it’s kind of annoying that they’ve been teasing it all season, and now we’re going to find out just in time for the season finale cliffhanger. I guess it’s next year’s storyline.

43 #FergusonFireside  Mar 22, 2015 7:25:10pm

re: #42 sagehen

I read a spoiler from the comic book. It might be much much worse.

44 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 22, 2015 7:26:08pm

re: #37 Great White Snark

I never seem to have computer hardware good luck. I had hoped it was just a power supply but after a new case and power, the board is dead. So considering I have case, 750 watt power, and 3 functioning drives I gotta take a look at board, cpu and RAM. Given a budget of about $1000 thinking probably 6 core intel, new board and not yet sure about the ram. Suggestions?

What are you using the PC for and what kind of graphics setup do you have at the moment?

45 Great White Snark  Mar 22, 2015 7:27:59pm

re: #44 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I use it for video editing, photoshop, and blogging. Win 7 64 bit. Lots of rendering, color correction in SpeedGrade etc. Single 2k monitor, probably replacing the graphics card. Hoping that stays under $200

46 prairiefire  Mar 22, 2015 7:28:36pm

“Girls” finale was good. There is also a document on artist Hilary Knight of “Eloise” fame on HBO tomorrow night.

47 #FergusonFireside  Mar 22, 2015 7:37:03pm
48 Great White Snark  Mar 22, 2015 7:41:40pm

re: #47 #FergusonFireside

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What if it said fishermen? Heh…

49 Great White Snark  Mar 22, 2015 7:50:19pm

Just stepped outside to see the most gorgeous thin crescent moon and Venus (?). Beauty in the twilight.

50 Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2015 7:50:55pm

In case you were wondering, here’s where Babycakes Johnson was today:

ocgop.org

51 Kragar  Mar 22, 2015 7:54:00pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

We will toast to Ronald Regan and carry on the freedom revolution in the spirit of Andrew Breitbart!

So they’ll fail to tip the wait staff, then go out screaming at lawful protestors to behave themselves and keel over and die the next day?

52 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 22, 2015 7:57:44pm

re: #45 Great White Snark

I use it for video editing, photoshop, and blogging. Win 7 64 bit. Lots of rendering, color correction in SpeedGrade etc.

I’ve had good results with GSkill RAM. I’m running 16GB of it on an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX MB with an AMD Vishera FX-8350 CPU and two overclocked 1GB NVIDIA GTX 550ti’s for 3D modeling and rendering as well as PS for textures and compositing. Never had a problem. I did, however, shovel all of those goodies into a full tower case with seven fans just to keep things as cool as possible.

53 A Cranky One  Mar 22, 2015 8:00:08pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

In case you were wondering, here’s where Babycakes Johnson was today:

ocgop.org

Must not have been any Capitol police there. ;)

54 Kragar  Mar 22, 2015 8:00:44pm

“That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of the existing scientific data. It’s shocking, and I think that man has rendered himself absolutely unfit to be running for office.”

55 jaunte  Mar 22, 2015 8:00:51pm

Nothing says devotion like misspelling his name.

56 Timothy Watson  Mar 22, 2015 8:02:43pm

re: #54 Kragar

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Unfit at any speed?

(To go with all the “Cruz control” jokes.)

57 Kragar  Mar 22, 2015 8:07:10pm
58 Great White Snark  Mar 22, 2015 8:08:14pm

re: #52 Higgs Boson’s Mate

You went AMD huh? I never have always went Intel. But love the ASUS boards! Always served me well. I like he look of this cpu
Intel Core i7 I7-5930K 3.5 GHz 6-core Processor

59 Kragar  Mar 22, 2015 8:09:21pm
60 jaunte  Mar 22, 2015 8:11:45pm
61 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Mar 22, 2015 8:13:48pm

re: #55 jaunte

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Nothing says devotion like misspelling his name.

Maybe they meant Donald Regan.

62 BigPapa  Mar 22, 2015 8:15:10pm

I call him by his street name, Big Ro

63 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 22, 2015 8:18:13pm

re: #61 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Maybe they meant Donald Regan.

Or Regan MacNeil:

64 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 22, 2015 8:18:21pm

re: #58 Great White Snark

You went AMD huh? I never have always went Intel. But love the ASUS boards! Always served me well. I like he look of this cpu
Intel Core i7 I7-5930K 3.5 GHz 6-core Processor

Intel i7s are great CPUs. I became hooked on AMD back in DX2 66 days and have used their stuff ever since. The one I’m running has 8 cores, nice amounts of cache and I can overclock it to a stable 4.2GHz all day long.

65 jaunte  Mar 22, 2015 8:25:11pm
66 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 22, 2015 8:27:51pm

re: #64 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Intel i7s are great CPUs. I became hooked on AMD back in DX2 66 days and have used their stuff ever since. The one I’m running has 8 cores, nice amounts of cache and I can overclock it to a stable 4.2GHz all day long.

Sounds nice. Pity none of the fun CPU’s I’ve used in the past are available anymore…

68000
68030
68040
88000
POWER or PPC
SPARC
PA-RISC
MIPS
ALPHA
and the greatest of them all:
VAX

x86, sigh, is all that’s left. Dual core Decelleron in my Acer Chromebook for example. At least phones and tablets have a healthy ecosystem at the present with lots of price/performance options.

67 Timothy Watson  Mar 22, 2015 8:28:18pm

re: #65 jaunte

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…that moron didn’t grab the domain name of his own name?

*facepalm*

68 Great White Snark  Mar 22, 2015 8:28:39pm

re: #64 Higgs Boson’s Mate

8 core is what tempts me to go AMD for the money. The math- How long to render a frame? Times 29.95 per second. 1797 frames to make a minute of HD.

69 Kragar  Mar 22, 2015 8:33:03pm

re: #67 Timothy Watson

…that moron didn’t grab the domain name of his own name?

*facepalm*

Or .net either

70 jaunte  Mar 22, 2015 8:37:22pm
GoDaddy
71 TedStriker  Mar 22, 2015 8:37:47pm

re: #70 jaunte

Image: GoDaddy

Do it…

72 jaunte  Mar 22, 2015 8:37:57pm
73 prairiefire  Mar 22, 2015 8:41:17pm

re: #72 jaunte

Fire sale!

74 Kragar  Mar 22, 2015 8:43:09pm
75 Kragar  Mar 22, 2015 8:57:16pm
76 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 22, 2015 8:57:43pm

re: #68 Great White Snark

8 core is what tempts me to go AMD for the money. The math- How long to render a frame? Times 29.95 per second. 1797 frames to make a minute of HD.

Many Adobe programs are SMP (Symmetric Multi Processor) enabled which in turn means the more cores, the better. I believe that Intel uses some engineering that enables each CPU core to run two threads so that a four core CPU functions pretty much like one with eight dedicated cores. It’s just that my unlocked Vishera is selling for well under two hundred bucks right now and I’m cheap. Best way to add speed in something that’s read/write intensive is to go to a solid state drive. I did and the performance increase was amazing.

77 Kragar  Mar 22, 2015 9:01:36pm
78 teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2015 9:15:33pm
79 Kragar  Mar 22, 2015 9:17:39pm

re: #78 teleskiguy

80 Kragar  Mar 22, 2015 9:24:46pm
81 The Mountain That Blogs  Mar 22, 2015 9:25:41pm

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that ad starts with “it’s a time for truth”

82 teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2015 9:27:03pm

Announcing a presidential candidacy on Twitter. Is it a first, lizards?

83 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 22, 2015 9:31:33pm

re: #82 teleskiguy

Announcing a presidential candidacy on Twitter. Is it a first, lizards?

It could have been worse: he could have set up a Kickstarter.

84 Kragar  Mar 22, 2015 9:34:29pm
85 teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2015 9:40:29pm
86 teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2015 9:44:50pm
87 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 22, 2015 9:47:35pm
Ted Cruz was born in Canada, joining George Romney (Mexico) and B. Goldwater (Arizona Territory) as pres. candidates not born on U.S. soil.

Poor Chester A. Arthur—everybody always forgets him….

88 teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2015 9:55:13pm

re: #87 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Poor Chester A. Arthur—everybody always forgets him….

Rite?!? Tweets do have a strict 140 character limit.

Lest we forget the first few eleventy presidents. The country wasn’t even a country when they were born!

89 Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2015 10:17:10pm
91 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 22, 2015 10:31:15pm

re: #90 teleskiguy

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Oh, that’s brilliant. It needs to be plastered everywhere.

Not fair to Ted Levine, I guess—after so many years of Leland Stottlemeyer people stopped seeing him as Buffalo Bill, but omelettes, eggs, etc.

Damn you, spellcheck, that is too how you spell omelette!

92 Ace-o-aces  Mar 22, 2015 10:37:39pm

Hey, I just realized. If Ted Cruz doesn’t believe in evolution, it means he can’t believe in CCJ’s “human biodiversity” crap.

93 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 22, 2015 10:47:23pm

re: #92 Ace-o-aces

Hey, I just realized. If Ted Cruz doesn’t believe in evolution, it means he can’t believe in CCJ’s “human biodiversity” crap.

Oh, even the creationists believe in natural selection culling the unfit—lower fitness can totally reduce reproductive success* but higher fitness can never increase it, nosiree bob!

*Meanwhile, the lower orders are breeding like rabbits—and that’s what makes them “lower”. Confusion is a prerequisite.

94 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 22, 2015 11:01:07pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

.@TedCruz’ election website is asking for donations, including credit card details via an entirely non-#SSL website

If the site designers are that slack then the thing is likely to be owned as we write. Cruz will blame ACORN when his donors’ accounts are tapped.

95 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 22, 2015 11:15:59pm

re: #91 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Oh, that’s brilliant. It needs to be plastered everywhere.

Not fair to Ted Levine, I guess—after so many years of Leland Stottlemeyer people stopped seeing him as Buffalo Bill, but omelettes, eggs, etc.

Damn you, spellcheck, that is too how you spell omelette!

As we say in my family, “It puts the lotion on it’s skin, Monk!”

96 Kragar  Mar 22, 2015 11:44:20pm
97 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 22, 2015 11:49:50pm
Basic net security is a burdensome government regulation @pwnallthethings @tedcruz

Anything happens it’s Obama’s fault, because net neutrality, gummint takeover, mumble, mumble….

98 Amory Blaine  Mar 23, 2015 12:36:00am

I want to see Cruz and Walker go at it.

99 Kragar  Mar 23, 2015 12:55:35am

re: #98 Amory Blaine

I want to see Cruz and Walker go at it.

The real fun starts when the also rans start the “I would have won if you dropped out”!

100 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 23, 2015 2:16:51am

I just don’t know how this is going to shake out. The Kochs and the plutocrats in general seem to have settled on Walker; The “reasonable” “conservatives” would seem to prefer JEB! or Christie, but would probably settle for Walker…but there’s no way Walker is wingnutty enough for the teabaggers. Can the money boys keep them in line for one more election? I don’t know. I think the boiler’s about to blow.

The one thing I do know: If they nominate another “safe” candidate like any of the above and lose—if you think you’ve seen insanity the last seven years, you haven’t seen anything yet.

101 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 2:53:54am

Happy 133rd Birthday, Emmy Noether, compatriot of Einstein.

google.com

Happy 133rd Birthday Emmy Noether!

Just because I can only handle arithmetic doesn’t mean other women can’t be math geniuses!

102 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 3:21:16am

re: #100 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I just hope the ultra-lefties don’t take the advice of The Boston Globe in their editorial and try to “draft” Elizabeth Warren. She says she’s not running and I believe her.

bostonglobe.com

It’s not that I don’t like Warren; it’s that this is exactly the kind of bullshit that should be reserved for the RWNJs.

Correction: The editorial was by Anna Galland, exec dir of MoveOn. Still, the Globe published it in is entirety.

103 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 3:41:16am

Lee’s authoritarian legacy may fall short for new Singapore

bigstory.ap.org

Excellent article.

104 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 23, 2015 3:43:43am

re: #102 Justanotherhuman

I tend to get very nervous when elections are approaching, because—without going into detail about our situation—GOP control of congress and the WH would mean absolute ruin for my girlfriend and me.

Here’s what I console myself with: They have really won—numerically—only one out of the last six elections, and that one was pretty narrow. That one victory was an incumbent, wartime president, against an opponent most people affected to find unexciting. And this 1 in 6 record is choosing the least frightening candidates they could come up with. This time will either be more of the same, or a real nutbar.

I just don’t think they can find a candidate any more who can win in an honest election. They can gerrymander the hell out of state houses and congress, but to win the White House is going to take voter suppression on a massive scale—which of course they’re doing. Will it be enough? Maybe. That’s why I get nervous.

105 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 3:48:36am

Haha, the big announcement—on Twitter.

6500 retweets, 5200 “likes”

106 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 3:55:53am

re: #104 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Yes, a GOP win would mean ruin for many, many of us.

Our household income teeters on the brink of poverty and w/o my SS check remaining untouched even at its present level, inflation could be disastrous, esp if my grandson and g-g-son are left without my input. He simply couldn’t cope w/o another income and they would be sunk into deep poverty in his present job. We’ve managed to survive on my SS for 6 mos a few years ago, but only because I know how to manage on very little and where to get help; still my g-son is at an age today where unemployment means much more as he matures and pursues a suitable mate.

107 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 4:10:40am
108 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 4:11:04am

Doesn’t appear that fans of fringe candidate Blowhard Cruz are all that enthusiastic. Or probably they don’t use Twitter and are just getting up, but with only about 3% supporting him in recent polls, it’s unlikely he’s going anywhere soon.

He’ll probably collect a few bucks to run an ill-fated, short campaign from those least able to afford it. At least it’ll keep him partially out of the Senate as he makes personal appearances. I can’t really see established funders offering him any more than a few bones, pocket change, really.

109 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 4:14:27am

BBIAB.

110 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 23, 2015 4:16:03am

The Freepers aren’t going to take it well when he craters. They’ve got incontrovertible arithmetic that shows he can’t lose. I’m sure ACORN will be to blame again.

111 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 4:20:49am

re: #110 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Cruz couldn’t even win at CPAC and he’s supposed to be “destined” for the White House according to Free Republic.

Heh.

112 Nyet  Mar 23, 2015 4:23:21am

re: #92 Ace-o-aces

Hey, I just realized. If Ted Cruz doesn’t believe in evolution, it means he can’t believe in CCJ’s “human biodiversity” crap.

Why? It’s all within one kind.

113 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 4:38:01am
114 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 4:38:46am
115 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 23, 2015 4:45:47am

Good morning Lizards. 28F and some light clouds here in Philadelphia as the sun shines upon the wreckage of brackets.

Photos from trip to Florida and Alabama edited, so now I can toss some up now and then. Plenty of warbird photos as well since I visited two museums that had planes. Plus the usual wildlife and macro shots.

I might also try to write up some text for a few locations and make a page or two as time permits.

How are things with the Lizard Folk this morning?

116 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 4:57:09am

DUMBEST MEME OF THE DAY
Of course it’s early, there will be dumber memes as the day goes on
It looks like they are hauling up the rungs and taking them away, because they want poors to stay deep in the pit

117 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 5:03:48am

re: #115 Feline Fearless Leader

Good morning Lizards. 28F and some light clouds here in Philadelphia as the sun shines upon the wreckage of brackets.

Photos from trip to Florida and Alabama edited, so now I can toss some up now and then. Plenty of warbird photos as well since I visited two museums that had planes. Plus the usual wildlife and macro shots.

I might also try to write up some text for a few locations and make a page or two as time permits.

How are things with the Lizard Folk this morning?

Now that you’re gone, things are returning to normal in Alabama. The county seat had competing demonstrations on same-sex marriage, and plans for the gumbo fest continue. One of these will be well attended.

dothaneagle.com

118 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 5:12:00am

re: #116 The Mother Of All Pies

DUMBEST MEME OF THE DAY
Of course it’s early, there will be dumber memes as the day goes on
It looks like they are hauling up the rungs and taking them away, because they want poors to stay deep in the pit

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A realistic picture would have the rope ladder on the left side, with rungs labeled things like “Public education,” “business loans,” and “tax rebates,” while the right picture would be garbage dumped into the hole while the “free marketers” sneer about “trickle down.”

Anyone who believes the free market is designed to help people out of the pit is naive in the extreme. If they don’t believe me, look at the Gilded Age and tell me how an unregulated market helped the poor out of the pit.

119 Frenchy  Mar 23, 2015 5:12:26am

re: #116 The Mother Of All Pies

So the best way to help the poor is with “freedom”?

I’ve never eaten freedom, or used it to pay rent or utility bills.

120 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2015 5:15:35am

re: #33 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

OT, but I was watching Crosby, Stills, and Nash on public television. Good show and all, but if I understand right they were one of the first acts to book stadiums for their concerts? I remember a lot of their music and I was about 6 to 8 years old at that time span, but I just can’t believe they were insanely popular. And Steven Stills has got to be THE most underrated guitarist ever.

They were one of the first “supergroups”, Still & Young coming from The Buffalo Springfield, Nash from the Hollies and Crosby from the Byrds.

And their first public performance was a Woodstock.

121 Varek Raith  Mar 23, 2015 5:15:51am

re: #119 Frenchy

So the best way to help the poor is with “freedom”?

I’ve never eaten freedom, or used it to pay rent or utility bills.

You’re missing out.

122 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 5:16:36am

re: #119 Frenchy

So the best way to help the poor is with “freedom”?

I’ve never eaten freedom, or used it to pay rent or utility bills.

“Freedom” means the “Jerb Creators” should be free to pay whatever they feel like and not be constrained by tyrannical “minimum wage” laws, because the lower the wage, TEH MOAR JERBS!!!!!!!

123 Varek Raith  Mar 23, 2015 5:18:44am

Naples man hand-delivers pizza to Pope Francis
It’s good to be Pope.
XD

124 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2015 5:19:22am

re: #93 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Oh, even the creationists believe in natural selection culling the unfit—lower fitness can totally reduce reproductive success* but higher fitness can never increase it, nosiree bob!

*Meanwhile, the lower orders are breeding like rabbits—and that’s what makes them “lower”. Confusion is a prerequisite.

Funny how people who reject Evolution outright have no trouble embracing Social Darwinism.

125 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2015 5:22:17am

re: #122 The Mother Of All Pies

“Freedom” means the “Jerb Creators” should be free to pay whatever they feel like and not be constrained by tyrannical “minimum wage” laws, because the lower the wage, TEH MOAR JERBS!!!!!!!

It means that individuals and families with limited income and assets should be free to negotiate for terms of employment, insurance and financial services with multi-billion-dollar international corporations without pesky unions, consumer advocacy groups or state insurance exchanges interfering in the process

126 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 5:26:26am

re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It means that individuals and families should be free to negotiate for terms of employment, insurance and financial services with multi-billion-dollar international corporations without pesky unions, consumer advocacy groups or state insurance exchanges interfering in the process

That makes sense//

127 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 5:28:14am

Godwins are fucking dumb whether a liberal or a conservative post them==>

128 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 5:40:38am

re: #123 Varek Raith

Naples man hand-delivers pizza to Pope Francis
It’s good to be Pope.
XD

It had ananas.

129 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2015 5:41:43am

re: #128 Decatur Deb

It had ananas.

St Thomas Aqananas?

130 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 5:50:49am

The Yahoo main news page has been derpy for a while, but this is a sponsored “news” link all over Yahoo pages this morning:

The Ron Paul crowd got all pearl clutching about it last year, and now it’s back.

jeez.

snopes.com

131 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 6:10:58am

on my FB feed this morning:

132 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 6:17:49am

re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth

on my FB feed this morning:

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Great article I just read about how the press should treat climate denying candidates:

Q. Is the equivalency issue dead? To what extent should we feel obligated to include the views of climate change skeptics?

A. Claims that the entire field of climate science is some kind of giant hoax do not hold water, and we have made a conscious decision that we are not going to take that point of view seriously.

There’s some good news.

Good morning.

133 lawhawk  Mar 23, 2015 6:28:55am

re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth

That must be Jack talking. ////

134 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 6:30:25am

He’s going for Rubio’s Senate seat:

135 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 6:34:57am
136 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 6:36:24am

tedcruz.com

Hit it. You won’t be disappointed.

137 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 6:38:08am

re: #136 darthstar

tedcruz.com

Hit it. You won’t be disappointed.

Cruz has assembled an awesome campaign staff. i read that on Freep.

(OTOH, if nominated he will carry Alabama.)

138 wrenchwench  Mar 23, 2015 6:41:53am
139 lawhawk  Mar 23, 2015 6:45:41am

re: #136 darthstar

140 Timothy Watson  Mar 23, 2015 6:50:44am

re: #127 The Mother Of All Pies

Godwins are fucking dumb whether a liberal or a conservative post them==>

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Not to mention, Hitler’s parents were never immigrants.

141 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 6:50:58am

re: #123 Varek Raith

His taster will destroy it.

142 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 6:53:15am

re: #140 Timothy Watson

Not to mention, Hitler’s parents were never immigrants.

That makes it even MOAR STUPIDS.

143 Mattand  Mar 23, 2015 6:54:04am

re: #137 Decatur Deb

Cruz has assembled an awesome campaign staff. i read that on Freep.

(OTOH, if nominated he will carry Alabama.)

Free Republic: the only website in the world written in crayon.

Poorly.

144 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 6:55:20am
145 Archangelus  Mar 23, 2015 6:55:55am

re: #136 darthstar

tedcruz.com

Hit it. You won’t be disappointed.

Video

146 lawhawk  Mar 23, 2015 6:58:47am
147 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 7:00:50am

re: #127 The Mother Of All Pies

Godwins are fucking dumb whether a liberal or a conservative post them==>

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Agreed. But OTOH, there’s this.

It could be photo-shopped for “effect”, though. I have a wait and see attitude about whether or not he’ll repeat it. : )

148 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 7:02:52am

re: #146 lawhawk

Remember when Christie was a serious candidate? Back before he was willing to run.

149 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 7:04:00am

Fuuuuck.

Supreme Court lets Wisconsin voter ID law stand

usatoday.com

150 Dr. Matt  Mar 23, 2015 7:04:08am
151 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 7:05:42am

re: #149 Justanotherhuman

Fuuuuck.

Supreme Court lets Wisconsin voter ID law stand

usatoday.com

We really need a fourth reliably liberal voice on the court.

152 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 7:07:51am
153 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 7:09:24am

re: #152 darthstar

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Further proof that it’s all a communist plot!!

154 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 7:12:30am

Cruz for president because you’d want a person who hates children to be your parent too.

155 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 7:12:59am

That Ted Cruz hugging Fidel Castro is a Photoshop==>

156 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 7:13:14am

WTFISTS? There are 245 Rs in the House; 188 Ds, 2 vacancies. If all Rs signed it, this means 122 Ds did, also.

367 bipartisan US House members send President Obama a letter on Iran - @burgessev

157 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 7:14:17am
158 lawhawk  Mar 23, 2015 7:15:32am

The close captioning for the speaker:

Our G-d is greater.
Our G-d is stronger.

“Puny God” /Hulk

If there’s only one G-d, then there can be no one stronger, greater, etc. Seems like the speaker is off-message, in accepting that there’s more than one god.

159 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 7:19:02am

re: #156 Justanotherhuman

WTFISTS? There are 245 Rs in the House; 188 Ds, 2 vacancies. If all Rs signed it, this means 122 Ds did, also.

367 bipartisan US House members send President Obama a letter on Iran - @burgessev

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On a quick read, it’s fairly innocuous, much less outrageous than the Senate letter from the wingnuts.

160 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 7:22:50am
161 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 7:23:09am
162 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 7:23:46am

DIM JIM IS OUTRAGED

163 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 7:24:52am

OH LOOK==>

164 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 7:25:15am

In Clinton Emails on Benghazi, a Rare Glimpse at Her Concerns

nytimes.com

“The roughly 300 emails from Mrs. Clinton’s private account that were turned over last month to a House committee investigating the attack showed the secretary and her aides closely monitoring the fallout from the tragedy, which threatened to damage her image and reflect poorly on the State Department.

“They provided no evidence that Mrs. Clinton, as the most incendiary Republican attacks have suggested, issued a “stand down” order to halt American forces responding to the violence in Benghazi, or took part in a broad cover-up of the administration’s response, according to senior American officials.”

Then, the Times does this:

“But they did show that Mrs. Clinton’s top aides at times corresponded with her about State Department matters from their personal email accounts, raising questions about her recent assertions that she made it her practice to email aides at their government addresses so the messages would be preserved, in compliance with federal record-keeping regulations.”

So what? It was her “top aides” who emailed her; not the reverse, unless you want to count her replies, which more than likely are on the record.

We shall see that this is nothing but a tempest in a teapot.

165 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 7:25:34am

re: #158 lawhawk

I see deluded people.

166 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 23, 2015 7:25:42am

re: #159 Decatur Deb

On a quick read, it’s fairly innocuous, much less outrageous than the Senate letter from the wingnuts.

And there is a difference between sending a letter to the POTUS and sending one to the Iranian government.

167 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 7:26:43am

I would hate to see Dems spend any money or energy fighting a Cruz campaign. Unmolested, he will do a good bit of damage to the GOP before they kneecap him.

168 Dave In Austin  Mar 23, 2015 7:26:44am
169 Eventual Carrion  Mar 23, 2015 7:27:09am

re: #158 lawhawk

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The close captioning for the speaker:

Our G-d is greater.
Our G-d is stronger.

“Puny God” /Hulk

If there’s only one G-d, then there can be no one stronger, greater, etc. Seems like the speaker is off-message, in accepting that there’s more than one god.

I believe at one point the bible spoke in the plural of “gods”.

170 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mar 23, 2015 7:27:50am

Ok, had to take my headphones off until they have someone with intelligence back on MSNBC. I Can’t listen to Cruz without feeling the need to shower,

171 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 7:28:34am
172 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 7:29:49am

re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Best Takei yet.

173 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 7:30:15am

re: #159 Decatur Deb

It may seem “innocuous” but OTOH, I do think Pres Obama knows that everything Iran says and does isn’t all “truth”. The letter is condescending and makes him appear naive, at the least.

174 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 7:33:43am

re: #173 Justanotherhuman

It may seem “innocuous” but OTOH, I do think Pres Obama knows that everything Iran says and does isn’t all “truth”. The letter is condescending and makes him appear naive, at the least.

Don’ make no never-mind. The Prez is in honey badger mode.

175 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 23, 2015 7:37:23am

re: #158 lawhawk

The close captioning for the speaker:

Our G-d is greater.
Our G-d is stronger.

“Puny God” /Hulk

If there’s only one G-d, then there can be no one stronger, greater, etc. Seems like the speaker is off-message, in accepting that there’s more than one god.

Very Old Testament. You’d think after 2,000 years the Christians could work out the unitary god concept, but nooooo!

176 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 7:38:47am
177 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2015 7:38:59am

re: #175 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Very Old Testament. You’d think after 2,000 years the Christians could work out the unitary god concept, but nooooo!

It is just their ability to at once hold the notion that their God is the only one and yet still act as if God, Allah, Buddha and Shiva, etc. were all up there duking it out in the clouds…

178 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 7:40:22am

This freeper has certainly convinced me:

To: E. Pluribus Unum
I am also pretty sure Cruz, as president, would bomb Iran. And if Russia tried to interfere, he’d bomb them, too. We need a president like that.
17 posted on 3/23/2015, 9:22:52 AM by GodAndCountryFirst

179 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 7:40:25am
180 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 23, 2015 7:40:58am

re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It is just their ability to at once hold the notion that their God is the only one and yet still act as if God, Allah, Buddha and Shiva, etc. were all up there duking it out in the clouds…

I guess they can just say that the others are not actually gods, but lesser supernatural beings claiming to be gods.

Watch out for the little turtle smiting you for not giving it lettuce.

181 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 7:41:00am
182 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 7:41:07am

How about just having a prior commitment when they want to reschedule? You’re not going to change any of the puny minds over there anyway, even if you are governor.

Virginia Gov. McAuliffe office says he did not cancel speech today but said Liberty University asked to reschedule - @KellyO
see original on twitter.com

183 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 23, 2015 7:41:12am

re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It is just their ability to at once hold the notion that their God is the only one and yet still act as if God, Allah, Buddha and Shiva, etc. were all up there duking it out in the clouds…

My God is an awesome god
in WWE heaven above

184 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 7:41:12am

re: #179 The Mother Of All Pies

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185 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 7:41:22am

re: #179 The Mother Of All Pies

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Because I get so excited thinking about people with pre-existing conditions being able to be denied insurance again Ted. What about people losing their insurance gets your juices going so hard anyhow Ted?

186 makeitstop  Mar 23, 2015 7:41:34am

Well, he got that out of the way early.

He must have a few bags of filthy lucre to pick up this afternoon.
/

187 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 7:42:18am

re: #179 The Mother Of All Pies

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188 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 7:42:47am
189 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 7:43:38am
190 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 7:44:55am
191 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 7:45:00am
192 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 7:45:22am
193 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 7:45:51am

WAIT…WHAT?

194 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 7:45:59am

re: #181 The Mother Of All Pies

195 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 7:46:38am

re: #194 darthstar

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*perks up*

196 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 7:47:05am

Oh, for chrissakes, what are we, animals with no language and tiny brains?

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaking at Liberty University: ‘Our rights don’t come from man; they come from God Almighty’ - @JohnJHarwood
see original on twitter.com

I wouldn’t advise anyone to wait around their entire life waiting for “God Almighty” to provide rights of any sort at all.

Old Ted is in Dominionist bullshit territory.

197 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 7:47:42am
198 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 7:49:03am
199 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 7:49:08am

re: #190 The Mother Of All Pies

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30%!?!!? God I remember when Jim Demint wanted a 18% one and that was pathetic. Goes to show you that the only problem conservatives have with taxes are on those who are the most wealthy. The average American trying to get buy, sure tax em like hell in their everyday life.

200 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 23, 2015 7:49:19am

re: #196 Justanotherhuman

Oh, for chrissakes, what are we, animals with no language and tiny brains?

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaking at Liberty University: ‘Our rights don’t come from man; they come from God Almighty’ - @JohnJHarwood
see original on twitter.com

I wouldn’t advise anyone to wait around their entire life waiting for “God Almighty” to provide rights of any sort at all.

Old Ted is in Dominionist bullshit territory.

I hope the ghost of King George III haunts Ted for a few years. Perhaps along with a few other absolutist monarchs who pedaled that line.
//

201 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 7:49:45am

In other news Central Park was wracked by several ground tremors as the ghost of John Lennon expressed his displeasure.

202 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 7:49:51am

Your dog or cat is waaaaay smarter than Ted Cruz.

203 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 23, 2015 7:50:29am

re: #202 Justanotherhuman

Your dog or cat is waaaaay smarter than Ted Cruz.

My cat wants to tax me based on beer usage.
//

204 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 7:50:50am
205 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 7:50:53am
206 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 7:51:03am

re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Fine little future Congressional Republicans they’ll make.

207 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 7:51:28am

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Cut him a break, he couldn’t get one applause line when speaking with fire fighters.

208 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 7:51:49am

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Reminds me of the video of his speech before a firefighters union, where all the lines that had gotten huge applause in Iowa fell flat.

209 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 23, 2015 7:52:58am

re: #208 Targetpractice

Reminds me of the video of his speech before a firefighters union, where all the lines that had gotten huge applause in Iowa fell flat.

Apparently, no one paid the firefighters to be enthusiastic.
//

210 Eventual Carrion  Mar 23, 2015 7:53:26am

re: #164 Justanotherhuman

In Clinton Emails on Benghazi, a Rare Glimpse at Her Concerns

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So what? It was her “top aides” who emailed her; not the reverse, unless you want to count her replies, which more than likely are on the record.

We shall see that this is nothing but a tempest in a teapot.

They should be happy there were emails turned in at all. Cheney, Bush and the RNC email servers “lost” a shit load of emails. And that didn’t seem to bother the wingnuts in the least.

211 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 7:53:55am

Somebody isn’t happy with Ted Cruz

212 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 7:54:08am
213 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 7:54:56am
214 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 23, 2015 7:55:26am

re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth

At Liberty, it is spelled B - I - B - L - E.

215 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 7:56:08am

Embarrassing to think that Cruz went to Harvard Law and graduated, but I think most of us know how school politics work.

And you have to question whether Dershowitz was actually telling the truth about Cruz, too; no doubt he saw him as one who could be groomed in RW cant.

216 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 7:56:12am

re: #214 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

At Liberty, it is spelled B - I - B - L - E.

The Conserveopedia approved edition. Not the kind that talks about charity as a good thing.

217 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 7:56:58am
218 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 7:57:59am

re: #215 Justanotherhuman

Embarrassing to think that Cruz went to Harvard Law and graduated, but I think most of us know how school politics work.

And you have to question whether Dershowitz was actually telling the truth about Cruz, too; no doubt he saw him as one who could be groomed in RW cant.

I think like Bobby Jindal, he’s someone who is probably intellectually capable but someone who sees the path to career advancement by playing the know-nothing dummy. Betcha you won’t hear him talk about his Harvard education at all on the campaign trail since attending Harvard to GOP voters is almost as bad as attending a madressa.

219 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 7:58:38am

re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth

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They’re making the kids be there?!?

220 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 7:59:11am

re: #219 HappyWarrior

yep.

221 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 7:59:18am
222 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 23, 2015 7:59:28am

re: #218 HappyWarrior

I think like Bobby Jindal, he’s someone who is probably intellectually capable but someone who sees the path to career advancement by playing the know-nothing dummy. Betcha you won’t hear him talk about his Harvard education at all on the campaign trail since attending Harvard to GOP voters is almost as bad as attending a madressa.

Is a madressa an Italian countess who’s a mother?

223 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 8:00:46am
224 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 8:00:58am

re: #222 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Is a madressa an Italian countess who’s a mother?

yes, and she’s very angry…

225 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 8:01:19am

In which Ted Cruz shows that he is too stupid to chew his own food==>

226 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:01:26am

re: #222 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Is a madressa an Italian countess who’s a mother?

Madrasah. Man my spelling is awful.

227 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 8:02:24am

re: #225 The Mother Of All Pies

In which Ted Cruz shows that he is too stupid to chew his own food==>

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How does it sound? Like a recipe for a return to the Gilded Age.

228 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:02:50am

This seems to be a common theme. Get rid of income and corporate taxes and institute a huge sales tax. That’s terrible economics. You want a lower sales tax you’ll encourage people to spend since this is you know a consumer economy.

229 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 23, 2015 8:03:05am

re: #226 HappyWarrior

Madrasah. Man my spelling is awful.

I knew what you meant. Just having some fun.

230 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:03:07am

re: #227 Targetpractice

How does it sound? Like a recipe for a return to the Gilded Age.

That’s what he wants.

231 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:03:23am

re: #229 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I knew what you meant. Just having some fun.

I know you were. S’all good.

232 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 8:03:29am
233 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 8:03:40am

re: #223 darthstar

“A leap forward would be inviting someone with a differentpolitical viewpoint than the majority of this school and people be respectful of them.”
BOOM.
There’s at least one thinking person at Liberty U.

234 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:04:30am

re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I was told we were also scared of Fred Thompson. The only way I’d be afraid of Fred Thompson is if he was speaking and I was having re-occurring nightmares.

235 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 23, 2015 8:04:42am

re: #228 HappyWarrior

This seems to be a common theme. Get rid of income and corporate taxes and institute a huge sales tax. That’s terrible economics. You want a lower sales tax you’ll encourage people to spend since this is you know a consumer economy.

Oh, but there will be sales tax on food, dontcha know?

I’m just guessing.

It’ll never fly, Teddy.

236 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 8:04:51am

re: #228 HappyWarrior

This seems to be a common theme. Get rid of income and corporate taxes and institute a huge sales tax. That’s terrible economics. You want a lower sales tax you’ll encourage people to spend since this is you know a consumer economy.

Cruz is a left-wing mole assigned to bring on the Cloward-Piven Rapture.

237 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:05:49am

re: #233 darthstar

“A leap forward would be inviting someone with a differentpolitical viewpoint than the majority of this school and people be respectful of them.”
BOOM.
There’s at least one thinking person at Liberty U.

Probably someone whose parents forced them to go there but yeah the kids at Liberty learn nothing by constantly have preach to the choir types like Ted there. If they saw that liberals weren’t the demonic possessed that the Falwells claim, they would have to re-evaluate their being there in the first place though and Liberty would probably shut down.

238 Eventual Carrion  Mar 23, 2015 8:06:00am

re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth

Every moron kid in that audience cheered against Obamacare, and all are now covered under their parent’s insurance because of it.

And I would bet, unlike me, most of them have no preexisting conditions. Maybe a diabetic or 3 in the audience. Myself, I had had my second open heart surgery by the time I was 12 years old, so I haven’t really ever know insurance without a preexisting condition. it even kept me out of the military when I enlisted, even with my doctors affidavit.

239 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 8:06:01am
240 lawhawk  Mar 23, 2015 8:08:20am

re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth

His constitution roll is a 12. Wisdom roll is a 7. Charisma is a 5. Intelligence 8. Greed 18/100.

241 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:08:45am

re: #238 Eventual Carrion

And I would bet, unlike me, most of them have no preexisting conditions. Maybe a diabetic or 3 in the audience. Myself, I had had my second open heart surgery by the time I was 12 years old, so I haven’t really ever know insurance without a preexisting condition. it even kept me out of the military when I enlisted, even with my doctors affidavit.

That’s part of why the repeal ACA crowd pisses me off. Like you, I too have a heart problems. I have Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. I actually only discovered I had it when I was considering going out for the freshman football team and my mom wanted me tested since my grandfather had a murmur. It’s a damned good thing they did find it since it’s a condition that often is discovered post-mardem in student athletes.

242 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 8:10:10am

re: #233 darthstar

“A leap forward would be inviting someone with a differentpolitical viewpoint than the majority of this school and people be respectful of them.”
BOOM.
There’s at least one thinking person at Liberty U.

Yeah, the kid whose parents said, It’s Liberty or no school at all! So s/he buckled.

243 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 23, 2015 8:10:17am

re: #239 darthstar

I predict the teachers and administrators at Liberty U will have some words to say to their students about respect, etc., etc.,tomorrow.

244 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 8:10:53am

re: #162 The Mother Of All Pies

DIM JIM IS OUTRAGED

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245 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 8:11:16am

re: #243 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I predict the teachers and administrators at Liberty U will have some words to say to their students about respect, etc., etc.,tomorrow.

And there won’t be any wifi devices at the next convocation.

246 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 8:11:25am
247 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 8:13:05am

re: #245 Decatur Deb

And there won’t be any wifi devices at the next convocation.

Nah, they’ll just turn off the router during the speech.

248 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 23, 2015 8:13:30am

re: #245 Decatur Deb

And there won’t be any wifi devices at the next convocation.

Also, YikYak will be blocked by the IT dept. YikYak users will be suspended. And so on.

Liberty is big on rules, I have heard.

249 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 8:14:10am

re: #248 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Liberty is no liberty. Worse than prison.

250 #FergusonFireside  Mar 23, 2015 8:14:14am
251 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:14:46am

re: #248 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Also, YikYak will be blocked by the IT dept. YikYak users will be suspended. And so on.

Liberty is big on rules, I have heard.

I remember reading their rulebook for kicks back when I was applying for colleges. I obviously had no desire to go there but I was curious. And oh man. Really calling the place Liberty is the biggest joke in the world since the student body has practically none of it.

252 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:15:11am

re: #250 #FergusonFireside

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.Ca :)

253 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 8:15:12am

re: #250 #FergusonFireside

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He can always grab a .ca domain.

254 #FergusonFireside  Mar 23, 2015 8:15:15am
255 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 8:15:27am

re: #248 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Also, YikYak will be blocked by the IT dept. YikYak users will be suspended. And so on.

Liberty is big on rules, I have heard.

I’m guessing they use YikYak because it gives them an internally controlled social media resource, like hipchat - which also logs all messages from users to each other.

256 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 8:15:52am

re: #252 HappyWarrior

.Ca :)

One fuckn’ second.

257 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 23, 2015 8:16:31am

re: #251 HappyWarrior

I remember reading their rulebook for kicks back when I was applying for colleges. I obviously had no desire to go there but I was curious. And oh man. Really calling the place Liberty is the biggest joke in the world since the student body has practically none of it.

Most of the fervently Christian schools are like that, especially in re: sex, as you can imagine.

258 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:16:37am

re: #256 Decatur Deb

One fuckn’ second.

Hey great minds and all that.

259 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:17:30am

re: #257 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Most of the fervently Christian schools are like that, especially in re: sex, as you can imagine.

Yeah I can imagine. I’d really hate to go to a school like that. They treat their students like they’re children.

260 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 8:17:56am

re: #259 HappyWarrior

Yeah I can imagine.

Oh no… not you too…

261 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:18:21am

IIRC Liberty’s administration was also incredibly hostile when someone tried to former a College Democrats chapter. I am not sure what happened or frankly why any self described Democrat would want to attend that hellhole.

262 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:19:05am

re: #260 freetoken

Oh no… not you too…

I imagine a world with no Grandpa Munster lookalikes in office.

263 Timothy Watson  Mar 23, 2015 8:19:48am

How long until Ted Cruz starts filing complaints with ICANN and WIPO?

264 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 8:19:53am

re: #257 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Most of the fervently Christian schools are like that, especially in re: sex, as you can imagine.

Our Catholic seminary censored the mail to and from our parents. (They never caught on to the route using the USPS laundry parcels.)

265 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 8:19:58am

re: #234 HappyWarrior

266 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 8:22:27am
267 lawhawk  Mar 23, 2015 8:22:30am

re: #263 Timothy Watson

How long until Ted Cruz starts filing complaints with ICANN and WIPO?

You mean relying upon the quasi governmental agency and international organization to get control over a domain that could be his (but isn’t)? Isn’t he against government control over the Internet?

268 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 8:24:19am

re: #266 Backwoods_Sleuth

Is Ted Cruz the Manchurian Nigerian candidate?

269 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:24:46am

You’d think that even without an exploratory committee that someone would be “Hey, Ted, remember to buy the URLs so you don’t get clowned.” I wonder who’s telling this guy that he could be nominated or heaven forbid elected President. I don’t think he has the big money backers of say a Bush, Walker, or Christie.

270 Timothy Watson  Mar 23, 2015 8:25:13am

re: #267 lawhawk

You mean relying upon the quasi governmental agency and international organization to get control over a domain that could be his (but isn’t)? Isn’t he against government control over the Internet?

Well, if it was good enough for Ron Paul…

And I’m sure Cruz was one of the RWNJs that just a couple years ago was saying OBAMA IS SURRENDERING U.S. CONTROL OF THE INTERNET TO TEH UN!!1!

271 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 8:25:59am

OH UCCCCH==>

272 Timothy Watson  Mar 23, 2015 8:26:01am

re: #269 HappyWarrior

You’d think that even without an exploratory committee that someone would be “Hey, Ted, remember to buy the URLs so you don’t get clowned.” I wonder who’s telling this guy that he could be nominated or heaven forbid elected President. I don’t think he has the big money backers of say a Bush, Walker, or Christie.

Yeah, I thought Lindsey Graham’s campaign would be the worst when it came to the Internet and social media.

Lesson learned.

273 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 8:27:03am
274 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 8:27:36am

re: #273 Justanotherhuman

275 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:29:10am

re: #273 Justanotherhuman

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Now that would be a lot more fun than any Ted Cruz speech.

276 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 8:29:14am
277 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 8:30:11am

re: #276 Lidane

THERE’S A CHEMTRAIL IN THAT PICTURE!!11!!

278 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:30:59am

re: #272 Timothy Watson

Yeah, I thought Lindsey Graham’s campaign would be the worse when it came to the Internet and social media.

Lesson learned.

McCain was going to endorse Graham via the Pony Express. But yeah I’m actually shocked how inept Cruz’s campaign logistics are. I mean ideology aside, you’d think that someone elected for the first time nationally and is fairly young would be aware of these type of things. It’s downright genius that someone made TedCruzforamerica into a link that goes to the ACA page.

279 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:31:27am

re: #276 Lidane

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Impeach judges for disagreeing with us. Yeah that makes sense.

280 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 8:31:39am

These are smart, hardworking kids.

281 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 8:32:46am
282 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 8:32:58am

re: #266 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

From the Vox article:

For some reason, the SSL certificate for tedcruz.org lists nigerian-prince.com as another valid address for Cruz’s website. (Update: the Cruz campaign appears to have removed nigerian-prince.com from the certificate around 11am.)

I have no idea how that got there. Maybe it’s a practical joke by whoever set up the senator’s website. But it doesn’t seem like a good sign.

283 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 8:35:06am

You know why John? NOBODY GIVES A SHIT.

284 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:36:52am

re: #283 The Mother Of All Pies

You know why John? NOBODY GIVES A SHIT.

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John knows a thing or two about villainy and scum.

285 BlueSpotinAL  Mar 23, 2015 8:36:58am

re: #119 Frenchy

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose. - Janis Joplin

286 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 8:37:35am
287 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 8:38:15am

re: #283 The Mother Of All Pies

You know why John? NOBODY GIVES A SHIT.

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Why John, are ya’ll hoping to further demonstrate your hypocrisy by focusing totally on Ted’s race and saying anybody who doesn’t vote for him is a racist?

288 Camp Waconda  Mar 23, 2015 8:40:04am

re: #254 #FergusonFireside

Awesome.

289 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 8:41:07am

My co-workers are distinctly unimpressed with Ted Cruz. I am amused.

The fact that Ted failed to secure some very obvious domains was met with eye rolling and laughter. This is intern level shit and Teddy couldn’t even manage that— AND that’s with his office paying for an in-house social media team. Someone’s not doing their job.

290 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 8:43:41am

re: #289 Lidane

They’re probably either Dems or Rand supporters. I’d bank on the latter—Dems are too nice to do something like that, but I wouldn’t put anything past a Rand supporter, like curbing a protester at a rally, for instance.

291 FemNaziBitch  Mar 23, 2015 8:45:57am

Yes, it is snowing in my Part of the World.

you?

292 Eventual Carrion  Mar 23, 2015 8:46:34am

re: #241 HappyWarrior

That’s part of why the repeal ACA crowd pisses me off. Like you, I too have a heart problems. I have Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. I actually only discovered I had it when I was considering going out for the freshman football team and my mom wanted me tested since my grandfather had a murmur. It’s a damned good thing they did find it since it’s a condition that often is discovered post-mardem in student athletes.

Mine, Aortic stenosis, would have taken me by the time i was 10 if they hadn’t gone in the first time (at 7 yo in 1968). And then as I grew the obstruction grew so another had to be done at 12 yo. I am pushing 54 now and chugging along fine (for the most part). Pittsburgh Children’s hospital and doctor Zuberbuehler, life savers.

293 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 8:46:57am

In Raleigh…shit.

294 A Cranky One  Mar 23, 2015 8:47:17am

re: #291 FemNaziBitch

Yes, it is snowing in my Part of the World.

Yah. Grumble. Saw two accidents and 3 cars off the road today on the way to work. You’d think people in the Chicago area would know how to drive in snow. Sigh.

295 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 8:47:43am

re: #290 Justanotherhuman

My co-workers would probably be Rand, Christie, or Bush supporters. I work for an openly conservative/Republican company, but guys like Cruz and Santorum are met with derision and babbling carnival barkers like Trump, Fiorina, and Carson are treated like the un-serious jokes they are.

As for Ted’s social media team, I wouldn’t doubt it if some of them are Rand supporters. Silicon Valley types tend to lean dudebro.

296 thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2015 8:48:09am

re: #294 A Cranky One

Yah. Grumble. Saw two accidents and 3 cars off the road today on the way to work. You’d think people in the Chicago area would know how to drive in snow. Sigh.

Yep. We had a pretty good snow load overnight. I am at home today after coming down with Mysterious Illness #457 for the season. I haven’t yet summoned the motivation to go clear the driveway of 3-4” of thick white heavy snow.

Morning Lizardim.

297 FemNaziBitch  Mar 23, 2015 8:48:22am

re: #271 The Mother Of All Pies

OH UCCCCH==>

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WHAT?????

*grrrr***

298 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 8:49:01am

No surprise here. RWNJs have wanted this for ages:

299 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 8:49:12am

Mid 50s, cloud cover but I’m still using my new sunglasses. Gotta go Hollywood, doncha know. : )

forecast.weather.gov

300 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 8:49:57am

Today in Theocracy:

GOP lawmaker: Air Force cadets must pledge to God because there is no ‘freedom from religion’

A Republican congressman has introduced legislation that would force cadets at the Air Force’s Academy to say “so help me God” during their oaths every school year. He said the legislation is necessary because Americans don’t have “freedom from religion.”

Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX) said the bill, called the Preserve and Protect God in Military Oaths Act of 2015, would protect the religious freedom of American troops.

[…]

Look fer yerself:

301 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 8:50:44am

hey, VB!

302 FemNaziBitch  Mar 23, 2015 8:51:18am
303 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 8:51:23am

re: #298 Lidane

So Robertson wishes Reagan were Jesus Christ?

Heh.

304 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 8:52:10am

Larry’s not even trying anymore:

305 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 8:53:07am

Hmm… the first page doesn’t show in that pdf.

Anyway, here is the text file, with the title about keeping “God”:

congress.gov

306 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 8:53:30am

re: #303 Justanotherhuman

So Robertson wishes Reagan were Jesus Christ?

Heh.

They already do revere him in a Christ like fashion so this is the logical next step. Next up requiring American school children to pray to him.

307 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 8:53:42am

re: #305 freetoken

Hmm… the first page doesn’t show in that pdf.

Anyway, here is the text file, with the title about keeping “God”:

congress.gov

Johnson can go screw himself.

308 Camp Waconda  Mar 23, 2015 8:54:48am

tedcruz.com

309 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 8:55:17am

Oh fuck.

Police say at least 3 killed in scaffolding accident in Downtown Raleigh, NC - @WRAL

wral.com

310 #FergusonFireside  Mar 23, 2015 8:55:55am

re: #308 Camp Waconda

tedcruz.com

hahahaha

311 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 8:56:19am

re: #308 Camp Waconda

Wish that I had more than one upding for ya’. What a bunch of tyros.

312 A Cranky One  Mar 23, 2015 8:56:46am

re: #298 Lidane

No surprise here. RWNJs have wanted this for ages:

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Zombie Reagan would need an astrologer to tell him when to want brains. Good news is he’d starve if he went to CPAC. ///

313 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 8:56:53am

re: #308 Camp Waconda

tedcruz.com

tedcruzforamerica.com

You’re welcome. :)

314 Camp Waconda  Mar 23, 2015 8:58:32am

re: #313 Lidane

tedcruzforamerica.com

You’re welcome. :)

Funny and sad all at the same time.

315 Justanotherhuman  Mar 23, 2015 8:59:36am

BBL.

316 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 8:59:48am

re: #302 FemNaziBitch

I left something for you downstairs the other day:

littlegreenfootballs.com

317 makeitstop  Mar 23, 2015 9:00:11am

re: #234 HappyWarrior

I was told we were also scared of Fred Thompson. The only way I’d be afraid of Fred Thompson is if he was speaking and I was having re-occurring nightmares.

Yeah, we were all scared to death of Palin, too.

To be honest, I was pretty scared of her in the VP chair, but not for any of the reasons envisioned by her sycophants.

318 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 9:02:39am

re: #317 makeitstop

Yeah, we were all scared to death of Palin, too.

To be honest, I was pretty scared of her in the VP chair, but not for any of the reasons envisioned by her sycophants.

Honestly, it’s stupid shit. I mean I thought Biden was a great VP pick for Obama but I wasn’t going around telling conservatives that they should be “afraid.” But that’s how they want their country led. It’s sad really but yet telling of their ideology and worldview.

319 FemNaziBitch  Mar 23, 2015 9:05:14am

OMG! The dogs HAD to go out …

to eat snow.

320 FemNaziBitch  Mar 23, 2015 9:06:05am

re: #316 Backwoods_Sleuth

I left something for you downstairs the other day:

littlegreenfootballs.com

SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!

I whaaaaaant one!

321 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 9:07:38am
322 FemNaziBitch  Mar 23, 2015 9:07:47am

I shake my head when I realize the number of people who by into the idiocy of forcing the US to fundy xtian is as some Arab Countries are fundy muslim.

Let’s be just like them!!!

323 A Cranky One  Mar 23, 2015 9:07:54am

re: #319 FemNaziBitch

OMG! The dogs HAD to go out …

to eat snow.

Watch out where the huskies go and don’t you eat that yellow snow…

I miss Frank Z. :(

324 Romantic Heretic  Mar 23, 2015 9:08:36am

re: #158 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

The close captioning for the speaker:

Our G-d is greater.
Our G-d is stronger.

“Puny God” /Hulk

If there’s only one G-d, then there can be no one stronger, greater, etc. Seems like the speaker is off-message, in accepting that there’s more than one god.

So, what they are saying is ‘Allah akbar’ in English?

325 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 9:08:55am

re: #321 Lidane

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Obama doesn’t get gleeful about people being without health insurance.

326 Jenner7  Mar 23, 2015 9:09:20am
327 FemNaziBitch  Mar 23, 2015 9:10:11am
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Backers of an effort to legalize marijuana in Ohio for medicinal and recreational use can now collect the thousands of signatures needed to get the proposal before voters.

The Ohio Ballot Board certified the measure as a single ballot issue on Friday.

Way to Go Ooooo-hi-o.

328 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 9:10:34am

re: #326 Jenner7

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Hitchens had the best line on Falwell. A pity there was no hell for him to go to.

329 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 9:11:27am

Anyone who has followed the climate change denial bandwagon knows the role that the Heartland Institute has played in sowing confusion.

Well, an article today on one of their blogsites, by a guy who comments in their Environment/Energy section, writes this:

The Question of Evolution

[…]

Second, there is no evidence of macro-evolution. […]

The whole entry is the usual screed.

I bring it up here because it is very clear that creationists are quite at home at Heartland.

Surprised?

330 Romantic Heretic  Mar 23, 2015 9:11:50am

re: #181 The Mother Of All Pies

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Imagine the nation going broke!

331 FemNaziBitch  Mar 23, 2015 9:11:52am
332 Jenner7  Mar 23, 2015 9:13:26am

If I knew nothing about Ted Cruz, and was told he was speaking at Liberty U, that would be enough for me to say he was unqualified to hold office. Just my opinion.

333 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 9:17:18am

re: #322 FemNaziBitch

I shake my head when I realize the number of people who by into the idiocy of forcing the US to fundy xtian is as some Arab Countries are fundy muslim.

Let’s be just like them!!!

I think some of them have admitted to having a bit of envy for ISIL since they have more people in their region who want church and state to be fused together. Their problem with groups like ISIL is only with their religion. In fact, I’d bet good money if ISIL were a Christian group, they’d be wanting Congress to give them aid and support.

334 A Cranky One  Mar 23, 2015 9:18:04am

re: #332 Jenner7

If I knew nothing about Ted Cruz, and was told he was speaking at Liberty U, that would be enough for me to say he was unqualified to hold office. Just my opinion.

I love how some of the media are talking about Cruz making the announcement to a packed venue. The fact that students were told it was mandatory or that some students were wearing Rand t-shirts isn’t mentioned. Journalism at it’s finest. SMH

335 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 9:20:12am

re: #334 A Cranky One

I love how some of the media are talking about Cruz making the announcement to a packed venue. The fact that students were told it was mandatory or that some students were wearing Rand t-shirts isn’t mentioned. Journalism at it’s finest. SMH

Can you imagine a university forcing students to attend a Democratic candidate’s announcement speech in this manner and what the right’s response would be? But I guess indoctrination is great if it’s the conservative kind.

336 A Cranky One  Mar 23, 2015 9:25:08am

re: #335 HappyWarrior

Can you imagine a university forcing students to attend a Democratic candidate’s announcement speech in this manner and what the right’s response would be? But I guess indoctrination is great if it’s the conservative kind.

Yah. Just look at the complaints about Common Core and contrast that with the attempts to rewrite history books to leave out inconvenient facts and turn the books into propaganda. But if RWNJs minded hypocrisy, they wouldn’t be RWNJs.

337 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 9:25:53am

OMGOMGOMGOMG OUTRAGE!!!!!!!! TEH DEMS IS TEH REAL HATERS & RACIST1!!1BYRDBYRDBYRDBYRD!!!!!!!

338 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 9:27:30am

re: #337 The Mother Of All Pies

OMGOMGOMGOMG OUTRAGE!!!!!!!! TEH DEMS IS TEH REAL HATERS & RACIST1!!1BYRDBYRDBYRDBYRD!!!!!!!

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Well did they or did they not threaten fines to students who did not attend? That’s forcing. And it’s not hatred at all. I actually feel bad for the student body of Liberty being subjected to a pathetic hack who thinks he should be president. Not how I’d like to spend one of the first mornings of Spring.

339 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 9:28:10am

re: #336 A Cranky One

Yah. Just look at the complaints about Common Core and contrast that with the attempts to rewrite history books to leave out inconvenient facts and turn the books into propaganda. But if RWNJs minded hypocrisy, they wouldn’t be RWNJs.

I’ve read about the propaganda efforts. Sheesh. But yeah you’re right. If they cared about hypocrisy at all, they wouldn’t be who they are.

340 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 9:29:21am

re: #337 The Mother Of All Pies

OMGOMGOMGOMG OUTRAGE!!!!!!!! TEH DEMS IS TEH REAL HATERS & RACIST1!!1BYRDBYRDBYRDBYRD!!!!!!!

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And how many times have we heard wingnuts go nuts over the President using children as “props”?

341 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 9:31:41am

This is not the 2% group I want to be in:

342 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 23, 2015 9:32:29am

re: #338 HappyWarrior

Well did they or did they not threaten fines to students who did not attend? That’s forcing. And it’s not hatred at all. I actually feel bad for the student body of Liberty being subjected to a pathetic hack who thinks he should be president. Not how I’d like to spend one of the first mornings of Spring.

Heh. Considering how I’d have spent a nice spring morning at that age (FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat comes to mind:
“A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!” )
would get one kicked out of “Liberty” University anyway, I’ll just chalk it up to the Grace of the Lord that I didn’t end up in that man made purgatory.

343 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 9:32:57am

HURR HURR YOUR ALL TEH RACIST!!!!!!

344 Eventual Carrion  Mar 23, 2015 9:34:21am

re: #323 A Cranky One

Watch out where the huskies go and don’t you eat that yellow snow…

I miss Frank Z. :(

Me too. I think of him every time after my liaisons with the taco stand lady.

345 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 9:35:24am

re: #343 The Mother Of All Pies

HURR HURR YOUR ALL TEH RACIST!!!!!!

[Embedded content]

Not one that talks like a Jim Crow era concoction.

347 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 9:36:36am

re: #335 HappyWarrior

Can you imagine a university forcing students to attend a Democratic candidate’s announcement speech in this manner and what the right’s response would be? But I guess indoctrination is great if it’s the conservative kind.

If they’re attending Liberty University then the only thing they like better than having the boot come down on their necks is putting their boot down on the neck of someone else. There have never been better slaves - or worse masters - than today’s conservatives.

348 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 9:38:39am

re: #346 freetoken

Teddy doubles down:

Ted Cruz: ‘Alarmists’ Like Gov. Jerry Brown ‘Don’t Want To Confront The Data’ On Climate Change

Better an “alarmist” than someone who has his head up the energy executives assholes, Teddy.

349 A Cranky One  Mar 23, 2015 9:38:43am

re: #344 Eventual Carrion

Me too. I think of him every time after my liaisons with the taco stand lady.

Is she wearing a real poncho or a Sear’s poncho? ;)

350 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Mar 23, 2015 9:39:36am

re: #16 Charles Johnson

1950’s …1850’s

351 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 9:43:09am

Wingnuts are very angry that no liberals have mentioned that Ted Cruz is Latino.
HURR HURR THERE TEH RACIST!!!!!1!!1!!

352 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Mar 23, 2015 9:43:14am

re: #346 freetoken

because these loons only accept data from the circle-jerk web ring operated by American Conservatives, heavily funded by Koch Corporate machine.

99% of the outside world means nothing to these neanderthals.

353 Eventual Carrion  Mar 23, 2015 9:45:46am

re: #340 Targetpractice

And how many times have we heard wingnuts go nuts over the President using children as “props”?

Or being offended by a back to school recorded speech. The wingnuts went berserk about that.

354 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 9:45:59am

Has anyone endorsed this lunatic yet?

355 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 9:46:55am

re: #353 Eventual Carrion

Or being offended by a back to school recorded speech. The wingnuts went berserk about that.

Oh man I forgot about that. My kid brother ended up being one of the few kids that actually saw the speech since my parents thankfully aren’t narrow minded fools.

356 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 9:47:15am

re: #352 Rocky-in-Connecticut

They’re creationists. That’s why I linked the Heartland post earlier.

Cruz et. al. do not, most definitely do not, want to accept what modern science has shown.

They are wedded to their (now outdated) worldview. Additionally, for the politician grifters the ability to manipulate ignorant people proves quite useful.

357 Eventual Carrion  Mar 23, 2015 9:49:06am

re: #349 A Cranky One

Is she wearing a real poncho or a Sear’s poncho? ;)

Not sure, but she had stinkfoot.

358 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 9:54:36am

re: #356 freetoken

They’re creationists. That’s why I linked the Heartland post earlier.

Cruz et. al. do not, most definitely do not, want to accept what modern science has shown.

They are wedded to their (now outdated) worldview. Additionally, for the politician grifters the ability to manipulate ignorant people proves quite useful.

Cruz probably knows very well what the effects of GCC will be. I’d bet that, like the libertarians, he believes that guys like him will still do just fine. Besides, he’s a high stakes grifter and admitting our contribution to GCC would significantly diminish his cred among those to be shorn.

359 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 9:57:02am

re: #358 Higgs Boson’s Mate

In the case of Cruz I’d be willing to believe that he, like his father, is so hyper-religious that he is blind to real science.

The likes of Walker and Scott - now they know better, but they also know who butters their bread.

360 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 9:59:17am

SCOTUS is hearing oral arguments today for Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, the challenge to Texas’s specialty license-plate scheme.

361 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 9:59:41am

re: #359 freetoken

In the case of Cruz I’d be willing to believe that he, like his father, is so hyper-religious that he is blind to real science.

The likes of Walker and Scott - now they know better, but they also know who butters their bread.

Deep down, I think that both them are about as religious as Elmer Gantry and for the same reasons.

362 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 10:00:38am
363 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:02:09am

re: #362 Lidane

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There’s that conservative academic freedom. Seriously though can you imagine an institution doing this for a liberal speaker and what the response would be? Stay classy Liberty U admin.

364 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 10:02:21am

re: #362 Lidane

Liberty University students faced $10 fines if they skipped Cruz’s speech

The fine will be waived if they write a 500 word essay blaming it on Obama.

365 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 10:02:58am
366 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 10:04:38am

Heh.

367 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:06:52am

re: #365 Lidane

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Yet he also wants a 20% sales tax. Hey Ted, how do you expect to account for that revenue if you abolish the IRS moron?

368 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 10:07:10am

re: #365 Lidane

It’s not weird.

It’s straight out of the JBS.

369 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:07:40am

Cruz’s idea of putting IRS agents on the Southern border is absurd too. Maybe we should take TSA agents and make them into secret service agents. //

370 sagehen  Mar 23, 2015 10:09:36am

re: #369 HappyWarrior

Cruz’s idea of putting IRS agents on the Southern border is absurd too. Maybe we should take TSA agents and make them into secret service agents. //

They’d hardly be worse…

371 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 10:10:42am

re: #368 freetoken

It’s not weird.

It’s straight out of the JBS.

The whole idea of “flat tax” or “fair tax” (which is a huge sales tax) is just regressive tax burden on the poor and enforced austerity (more suffering for poors)

372 Kragar  Mar 23, 2015 10:11:40am
373 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 10:11:57am

ROFL:

374 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 10:12:18am

re: #371 The Mother Of All Pies

Straight out of a Dickens novel.

375 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:13:14am

re: #372 Kragar

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It’s really fucked up.

376 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:14:04am

re: #373 Lidane

ROFL:

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I actually agree with that but at the same time, Rep. West knows even less tan Ted Cruz about leadership.

377 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:15:17am

re: #371 The Mother Of All Pies

The whole idea of “flat tax” or “fair tax” (which is a huge sales tax) is just regressive tax burden on the poor and enforced austerity (more suffering for poors)

Precisely. It’s designed to hit the poor and punish the poor. All the taxes the right wants to decrease or get rid of are ones on people who don’t need the tax breaks. They’re not anti-tax at all, they’re anti-taxes on the very wealthy.

378 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 10:16:08am

re: #371 The Mother Of All Pies

The whole idea of “flat tax” or “fair tax” (which is a huge sales tax) is just regressive tax burden on the poor and enforced austerity (more suffering for poors)

Adding a 20% (To start with) Federal sales tax onto existing state and county sales taxes here in California would mean a 30% tax on purchases. Not only would that create a robust underground economy it would apply the coup de grâce to our national economy, two-thirds of which is based on consumer spending. That the conservatives are trying their best to kill the goose that laid the golden egg is obvious, that they want to fuck it to death is just evil.

379 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 10:17:02am

re: #378 Higgs Boson’s Mate

It’s just stupid.

Supported by the tools of the very rich.

381 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:17:57am

re: #378 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Adding a 20% (To start with) Federal sales tax onto existing state and county sales taxes here in California would mean a 30% tax on purchases. Not only would that create a robust underground economy it would apply the coup de grâce to our national economy, two-thirds of which is based on consumer spending. That the conservatives are trying their best to kill the goose that laid the golden egg is obvious, that they want to fuck it to death is just evil.

It is what it is. A tax designed to screw the average American while the wealthy don’t have so much as a hiccup.

382 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 10:19:32am

re: #378 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Adding a 20% (To start with) Federal sales tax onto existing state and county sales taxes here in California would mean a 30% tax on purchases. Not only would that create a robust underground economy it would apply the coup de grâce to our national economy, two-thirds of which is based on consumer spending. That the conservatives are trying their best to kill the goose that laid the golden egg is obvious, that they want to fuck it to death is just evil.

A wingnut tried to teasplain like this:
HURR HURR YOU HAS TEH CHOICE HOW MUCH MONEYS YOU SPEND!!!! UR PRO-CHOICE ARNT U!!! HA HA LIBTARD!!!!!

My response was that food, rent, utilities are not optional purchases, and our economy depends on people buying large ticket items like TV’s, appliances, electronics and cars. Once people stop buying those things there is a cascading effect of job loss.

The wingnut said HURR HURR YOUR A COMMUNIST!!!!!!

383 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 10:20:31am
384 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:21:37am

We are a consumer based economy. High sales taxes will remove incentive for people to buy products. It would actually decrease profits by businesses which would totally negate the “benefit” of the lowered corporate and income taxes. So yeah Ted’s idea would not only fuck teh average American but it would also effect the so called producers too. This is a tax policy written by someone who reads Ayn Rand as if it’s Penthouse forum.

385 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 10:21:43am

DA FUQ==>

386 #FergusonFireside  Mar 23, 2015 10:22:16am
387 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 10:22:28am
388 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:22:43am

re: #385 The Mother Of All Pies

DA FUQ==>

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Teleprompter obsessed still. God like Gallagher and the watermelons. Find new material guys. It was never clever.

389 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 10:23:40am

re: #351 The Mother Of All Pies

Wingnuts are very angry that no liberals have mentioned that Ted Cruz is Latino.
HURR HURR THERE TEH RACIST!!!!!1!!1!!

Cruz is about as Latino as Velveeta.

390 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:24:09am

re: #387 jaunte

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10 is Cruz
9 is Huckabee
8 is Carson
7 is Walker
6 is Paul
5 is Santorum
4 is Christie
3 is Rubio
2 is Jindal
1 is Bush

391 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 10:24:35am

re: #384 HappyWarrior

We are a consumer based economy. High sales taxes will remove incentive for people to buy products. It would actually decrease profits by businesses which would totally negate the “benefit” of the lowered corporate and income taxes. So yeah Ted’s idea would not only fuck teh average American but it would also effect the so called producers too. This is a tax policy written by someone who reads Ayn Rand as if it’s Penthouse forum.

They’re all little John Galts who live in a cabin in the woods which they built by themselves, clearing the brush and hauling the building materials for miles around on the dirt trail they hacked out with their own machetes, dug their own well using shovels they made in their own smithy, and powered by whale oil from a whale they harpooned on the beach because fuck libtards.

392 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 10:25:59am

re: #389 jaunte

Cruz is about as Latino as Velveeta.

But his daddy sounds like Ricky Ricardo.

393 thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2015 10:26:04am

re: #385 The Mother Of All Pies

Who gives a shit, really. So he can speak extemporaneously. Big whoop.

394 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 10:26:29am

I got an email from the Ben Carson Superpac today:

395 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 10:26:42am

re: #393 thedopefishlives

Who gives a shit, really. So he can speak extemporaneously. Big whoop.

Are you kidding. He spent WEEKS memorizing and rehearsing that shit.

396 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 10:26:46am

re: #381 HappyWarrior

It is what it is. A tax designed to screw the average American while the wealthy don’t have so much as a hiccup.

It conveniently tiptoes past the fact that the further down the ladder you are the more of your income is spent on purchasing. A person making a million dollars a year does not purchase 50 times more stuff than someone making twenty thousand a year.

397 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:26:51am

re: #391 The Mother Of All Pies

They’re all little John Galts who live in a cabin in the woods which they built by themselves, clearing the brush and hauling the building materials for miles around on the dirt trail they hacked out with their own machetes, dug their own well using shovels they made in their own smithy, and powered by whale oil from a whale they harpooned on the beach because fuck libtards.

Yep and they learned all it themselves without any government education. Seriously, such deluded souls they are.

398 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 10:27:23am

35% of the black vote for Carson, it’s just that simple!

399 thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2015 10:27:46am

re: #394 jaunte

And, if the GOP doesn’t expand its base, it is destined for the ashbin of history.

And not a goddamn moment too soon, either.

400 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 10:27:51am

re: #385 The Mother Of All Pies

401 Single-handed sailor  Mar 23, 2015 10:28:24am

re: #362 Lidane

Liberty University students faced $10 fines if they skipped Cruz’s speech buff.ly

Well worth the money.

402 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:28:45am

re: #398 jaunte

35% of the black vote for Carson, it’s just that simple!

Carson would if he got that would be receiving the most high percentage of the African American vote since Nixon in ‘60. That ain’t happening and the reason is simple. African-American voters aren’t the morons that right wingers think they are. They know exactly the complete contempt the GOP has for them.

403 #FergusonFireside  Mar 23, 2015 10:29:27am
404 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 10:29:28am
405 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:29:38am

re: #399 thedopefishlives

And not a goddamn moment too soon, either.

Indeed, it will be a good day when the Republican Party falls to the dustbin of history. It hasn’t offered any really constructive policies in years.

406 #FergusonFireside  Mar 23, 2015 10:30:01am

re: #404 Lidane

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lol.

407 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 10:30:16am

re: #404 Lidane

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Let the GOP civil war commence.

408 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 10:30:23am

re: #395 The Mother Of All Pies

Are you kidding. He spent WEEKS memorizing and rehearsing that shit.

And how hard can it be to spew a litany of “Imagine (insert something to hate about Obama)”?

409 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 10:30:25am

re: #402 HappyWarrior

Carson would if he got that would be receiving the most high percentage of the African American vote since Nixon in ‘60. That ain’t happening and the reason is simple. African-American voters aren’t the morons that right wingers think they are. They know exactly the complete contempt the GOP has for them.

Is that anything like “Women will vote for Hillary because…”

410 Kragar  Mar 23, 2015 10:30:31am

re: #389 jaunte

Cruz is about as Latino as Velveeta.

A buddy of mine in the USMC from Michigan whose name was Martinez used to say he was as Mexican as Taco Bell.

411 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 10:30:37am

re: #401 Single-handed sailor

Well worth the money.

Seriously. If I was a student there, I would’ve pooled money together with friends and ditched that speech. It’s worth skipping a single fast food meal to not have to listen to Ted Cruz.

412 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:30:37am

re: #404 Lidane

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Your party is full of them Petey hate to break it ya.

413 thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2015 10:30:45am

re: #404 Lidane

Okay, I’m not going to lie, this is going to be amusing as hell. Who wants some popcorn?

414 thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2015 10:32:09am

re: #411 Lidane

Seriously. If I was a student there, I would’ve pooled money together with friends and ditched that speech. It’s worth skipping a single fast food meal to not have to listen to Ted Cruz.

Yeah, but you’d never have been a student there. You don’t fit the mold: Completely brainwashed in the fundamentalist way.

415 lawhawk  Mar 23, 2015 10:33:18am

re: #367 HappyWarrior

Feature, not a bug.

And in any event, you’d need at least 30% sales tax to get anywhere near to what the current income tax generates as revenue.

Of course, it also means those least able to pay for the taxes will see the burdens shifted to them, while the rich get to hold on to even more wealth.

Don’t get me started on the tax basis from which the rate gets calculated. What items are taxable, what is excluded (exempt). In order to get anywhere near the 30% rate, you’d have to include all manner of services that are currently exempt, and also tax stuff like church services and all other items that we currently provide tax exempt status too.

Once you start factoring in the exemptions (to say nothing of the states that don’t impose a sales tax at all, and therefore don’t have a collection system in place for those taxes), you’d have a fine mess.

Oh, and all the states that piggyback on the federal income tax for their tax treatment? They’d have to all amend their tax codes to either create their own tax code, or rely on the tax code as in effect on a given year to keep their tax systems intact.

It’s a clusterfuck, which is precisely the point. These folks want to blow up the income tax, and their alternative is no such thing at all.

416 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:34:07am

re: #414 thedopefishlives

Yeah, but you’d never have been a student there. You don’t fit the mold: Completely brainwashed in the fundamentalist way.

I feel bad for those kids. College really should be a time where you get exposed to new ideas. Liberty U is basically just a home away from home where the student body hears what they’ve been hearing the previous 18 years. There’s no attempt to actually promote critical thinking.

417 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 10:34:49am

re: #414 thedopefishlives

Yeah, but you’d never have been a student there. You don’t fit the mold: Completely brainwashed in the fundamentalist way.

True. I wasn’t raised from birth to think that way.

418 lawhawk  Mar 23, 2015 10:34:55am

re: #378 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Adding a 20% (To start with) Federal sales tax onto existing state and county sales taxes here in California would mean a 30% tax on purchases. Not only would that create a robust underground economy it would apply the coup de grâce to our national economy, two-thirds of which is based on consumer spending. That the conservatives are trying their best to kill the goose that laid the golden egg is obvious, that they want to fuck it to death is just evil.

There’s no way you’d have a 20% federal sales tax covering all the revenue brought in under the federal income tax. The rate is far close to 40% for a breakeven than 20%. Tack on the state sales tax, and you’re looking at close to 50% in some jurisdictions - and car rental taxes would be even higher than that.

419 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 10:34:59am

re: #416 HappyWarrior

I feel bad for those kids. College really should be a time where you get exposed to new ideas. Liberty U is basically just a home away from home where the student body hears what they’ve been hearing the previous 18 years. There’s no attempt to actually promote critical thinking.

“Home colleging.”

420 thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2015 10:35:26am

re: #416 HappyWarrior

I feel bad for those kids. College really should be a time where you get exposed to new ideas. Liberty U is basically just a home away from home where the student body hears what they’ve been hearing the previous 18 years. There’s no attempt to actually promote critical thinking.

Yep. You read my page from last month. The whole reason there are these “Christian” universities is to maintain the echo chamber through their most formative years. I was lucky to find a place that wasn’t a complete echo chamber.

421 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 10:35:39am
422 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:35:51am

re: #419 Higgs Boson’s Mate

“Home colleging.”

I actually live near such a place. Google Michael Farris and Patrick Henry U.

423 lawhawk  Mar 23, 2015 10:36:21am

re: #400 Lidane

Is that a teleprompter I see before me? Reagan both oversaw one of the more substantial tax hikes while in office, all while also engaging the biggest overhaul of the tax code since 1954. The Code needs revision, but the GOP still seeks to shift the tax burden to those least able to afford it.

424 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 10:36:59am

re: #415 lawhawk

Feature, not a bug.

And in any event, you’d need at least 30% sales tax to get anywhere near to what the current income tax generates as revenue.

Of course, it also means those least able to pay for the taxes will see the burdens shifted to them, while the rich get to hold on to even more wealth.

Don’t get me started on the tax basis from which the rate gets calculated. What items are taxable, what is excluded (exempt). In order to get anywhere near the 30% rate, you’d have to include all manner of services that are currently exempt, and also tax stuff like church services and all other items that we currently provide tax exempt status too.

Once you start factoring in the exemptions (to say nothing of the states that don’t impose a sales tax at all, and therefore don’t have a collection system in place for those taxes), you’d have a fine mess.

Oh, and all the states that piggyback on the federal income tax for their tax treatment? They’d have to all amend their tax codes to either create their own tax code, or rely on the tax code as in effect on a given year to keep their tax systems intact.

It’s a clusterfuck, which is precisely the point. These folks want to blow up the income tax, and their alternative is no such thing at all.

You can go to the fairtax.org site to see the huge pile of horrific Derp that their fucked-up ideas have in store for this country.

425 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:37:05am

re: #420 thedopefishlives

Yep. You read my page from last month. The whole reason there are these “Christian” universities is to maintain the echo chamber through their most formative years. I was lucky to find a place that wasn’t a complete echo chamber.

Yeah you were very fortunate and it seems to me (outsider’s perspective) that the sole purpose of these universities is to be an echo chamber. And I really think that does the kids a disservice since once they leave school, they’re going to be in a world that isn’t all Evangelical Christian and conservative.

426 Romantic Heretic  Mar 23, 2015 10:37:30am

re: #359 freetoken

In the case of Cruz I’d be willing to believe that he, like his father, is so hyper-religious that he is blind to real science.

The likes of Walker and Scott - now they know better, but they also know who butters their bread.

That’s a very polite term for it.

427 thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2015 10:38:30am

re: #425 HappyWarrior

Yeah you were very fortunate and it seems to me (outsider’s perspective) that the sole purpose of these universities is to be an echo chamber. And I really think that does the kids a disservice since once they leave school, they’re going to be in a world that isn’t all Evangelical Christian and conservative.

Think of it like putting a layer of shellac over the bubble. It basically solidifies the kids in everything they’ve been raised to believe so that when they go out into the “heathen” world, they will never be able to let anything penetrate their sphere of ignorance.

428 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 10:39:19am

re: #423 lawhawk

Is that a teleprompter I see before me?

Ayep. It’s my go-to image when some RWNJ dipshit starts babbling about Obama using teleprompters.

429 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 10:39:43am

re: #418 lawhawk

There’s no way you’d have a 20% federal sales tax covering all the revenue brought in under the federal income tax. The rate is far close to 40% for a breakeven than 20%. Tack on the state sales tax, and you’re looking at close to 50% in some jurisdictions - and car rental taxes would be even higher than that.

That’s why I wrote “to start with,” in quoting their 20% sales tax figure. I’d guess that they know 20% will not be sufficient and they also know that quoting anything closer to reality would drive a stake through the heart of their master plan. For some reason, this scheme reminds me of the old “We’ll make it up in volume” joke.

430 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 10:40:11am

Republican on Republican action… on pr0n sites wouldn’t this be put under “fetishes”?

431 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 23, 2015 10:40:25am

atheism will always be destructive of liberalism because it cannot abide the moral

“conservatism” will always be destructive of traditional american values because it cannot abide the moral imperatives of church and community. instead, it strives, despite experience and the sum of human practical and moral history, to declare every individual totally independent of every other in a universe of autonomous consumer units, and, indeed, to inculcate selfishness as a supreme value that, they declare, is the engine that will lead to the greater good

why a “conservative” would care anything about the greater good is not clear. conservatism is too incoherent to address, or even care about, this insoluble paradox

432 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:40:57am

re: #427 thedopefishlives

Think of it like putting a layer of shellac over the bubble. It basically solidifies the kids in everything they’ve been raised to believe so that when they go out into the “heathen” world, they will never be able to let anything penetrate their sphere of ignorance.

And then the cycle goes on. I can’t express how fortunate I was to grow up in an environment that encouraged thinking outside the box. My father constantly plays devil’s advocate.

433 Kragar  Mar 23, 2015 10:40:58am

re: #430 freetoken

Republican on Republican action… on pr0n sites wouldn’t this be put under “fetishes”?

It would tagged as “Scat”

434 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:41:07am

re: #430 freetoken

Republican on Republican action… on pr0n sites wouldn’t this be put under “fetishes”?

hardcore.

435 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:41:47am

re: #431 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

atheism will always be destructive of liberalism because it cannot abide the moral

“conservatism” will always be destructive of traditional american values because it cannot abide the moral imperatives of church and community. instead, it strives, despite experience and the sum of human practical and moral history, to declare every individual totally independent of every other in a universe of autonomous consumer units, and, indeed, to inculcate selfishness as a supreme value that, they declare, is the engine that will lead to the greater good

why a “conservative” would care anything about the greater good is not clear. conservatism is too incoherent to address, or even care about, this insoluble paradox

Well said.

436 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 10:43:29am

Just remember this for primary election season:

Je$u$ is the reason for the season.

437 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 10:44:05am
438 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2015 10:44:06am

re: #431 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

atheism will always be destructive of liberalism because it cannot abide the moral

“conservatism” will always be destructive of traditional american values because it cannot abide the moral imperatives of church and community.

It has no problems with corporations acting as collectives in which investors pool their resources to maximize profit.

But when employees seek to collectively pool their bargaining power to maximize wages and benefits, it is the Work of the Devil.

439 Romantic Heretic  Mar 23, 2015 10:45:35am

re: #380 CuriousLurker

I enjoyed that.

Interesting to see something that made me think of American square dancing in a Middle East video.

440 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 23, 2015 10:46:20am

re: #435 HappyWarrior

thank you!

441 darthstar  Mar 23, 2015 10:46:32am
442 Mattand  Mar 23, 2015 10:47:13am

re: #394 jaunte

I forget, what’s the deal again with the GOP meme of saying “Democrat Party” instead of “Democratic Party”? Is it supposed to be some kind of insult?

443 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2015 10:48:23am

re: #442 Mattand

I forget, what’s the deal again with the GOP meme of saying “Democrat Party” instead of “Democratic Party”? Is it supposed to be some kind of insult?

Yes, I believe it is a slight on them not being truly “democratic”. Shall we just start calling them the “Republic Party”?

444 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 10:48:30am

re: #442 Mattand

Yes, it’s to say that the party is not truly ‘democratic’.

445 Mattand  Mar 23, 2015 10:48:48am

re: #431 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

atheism will always be destructive of liberalism because it cannot abide the moral

Do I even wanna know what the context/source of the comment is?

446 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 10:49:51am

I like the Rude Pundit’s take on Ted’s little speech today. It starts with:

Imagine an American Muslim man stands in front of an audience of 10,000 Muslims at a college in Virginia to announce that he’s running for president. Imagine that audience applauds and cheers for much of what he says.

And goes from there.

447 Mattand  Mar 23, 2015 10:50:04am

re: #443 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

re: #444 jaunte

Yes, it’s to say that the party is not truly ‘democratic’.

Thanks. I was worried that their logic behind it would be something stupid and infantile, LOL.

448 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 10:50:05am

WE DUN LIEK TEHM POINTY HEADED INTELEKSHUALS!

449 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 23, 2015 10:50:15am

Wonkete on Ted’s domain name screwup:

Getting a national political Republican campaign up and running is hard, guys. Just ask Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who’s declaring his candidacy today. There are just tons of little details you need to anticipate, like filing all the paperwork for an exploratory committee, setting up a PAC, asking Sheldon Adelson’s handlers if he prefers that you spit or swallow, and of course buying the website URL that consists of your own name plus dot com.”

450 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 23, 2015 10:51:58am

re: #445 Mattand

Do I even wanna know what the context/source of the comment is?

a friend of mine at another blog posted this quote:

My conclusion, reached in the past 12 years, is that atheism will
always be destructive of liberalism because it cannot abide the moral
and metaphysical truths of liberalism. Atheism will always attack the
real, true and absolute existence of free thought, consciousness,
equality, rights, and, most of all a binding and effective moral
obligation to respect those in even those you really don’t like or when
it disadvantages you and, on a basis of ideological interest, even when
it’s just a question of abstract consideration. That is the history of
atheists addressing the human mind, morality and life.

some pundit. might be bobo

451 lawhawk  Mar 23, 2015 10:53:12am

re: #429 Higgs Boson’s Mate

That’s why I wrote “to start with,” in quoting their 20% sales tax figure. I’d guess that they know 20% will not be sufficient and they also know that quoting anything closer to reality would drive a stake through the heart of their master plan. For some reason, this scheme reminds me of the old “We’ll make it up in volume” joke.

The Fair Tax idiots start with a 23% rate, using a methodology that is simply not used in determining the tax. They achieve this chicanery by saying that on a total purchase w/tax of $100, $23 is tax. In other words, the tax revenue generated ($23) is on a purchase $77. Last time I checked, the tax rate for $77 to achieve $23 in revenue is not 23% but 29.87%.

452 BeenHereAwhile  Mar 23, 2015 10:53:15am

re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They were one of the first “supergroups”, Still & Young coming from The Buffalo Springfield, Nash from the Hollies and Crosby from the Byrds.

And their first public performance was a Woodstock.

It was a good concert.

“Sweet Judy Blue Eyes,”

I know, I know, it’s “suite “but the performance was sweet.

We were waiting for Jimi.

453 Mattand  Mar 23, 2015 10:53:19am

re: #449 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Wonkete on Ted’s domain name screwup:

…asking Sheldon Adelson’s handlers if he prefers that you spit or swallow,…

Glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read that! Classic comedy spit take!

454 CuriousLurker  Mar 23, 2015 10:53:27am

re: #439 Romantic Heretic

I enjoyed that.

Interesting to see something that made me think of American square dancing in a Middle East video.

Same here. Bigots’ heads would explode from the pressure of cognitive dissonance if they were shown that video without any background info, then—after it was over and they started spewing their hatred—informed that the young ladies were Yemeni Jews from Israel, not Muslim Arabs from Yemen.

455 #FergusonFireside  Mar 23, 2015 10:54:18am
456 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 10:54:45am

LOLWHUT==>

457 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:55:03am

re: #455 #FergusonFireside

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The center girl’s eyes. Aww you can tell that’s a moment she’ll never forget.

458 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:55:46am

re: #456 The Mother Of All Pies

LOLWHUT==>

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Frankly as much as I hate the Uncle Tom term, he is one if he’s going to be sounding like Bill the Butcher when ti comes to immigrants.

459 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 10:56:29am

Well Dana, you hate other women who aren’t you.

460 Mattand  Mar 23, 2015 10:56:49am

re: #450 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Heh, that’s rich. Especially when you consider this person is defending a political outlook that relies in great part on “I’ve got mine, fuck you.”

I’m guessing an atheist kicked this person’s puppy at some point. And then ate it.

461 Romantic Heretic  Mar 23, 2015 10:57:47am

re: #442 Mattand

I forget, what’s the deal again with the GOP meme of saying “Democrat Party” instead of “Democratic Party”? Is it supposed to be some kind of insult?

From what I’ve encountered a lot of ‘conservatives’ regard democracy as chaos. We live in a republic!

So calling it the ‘Democrat Party’ is blowing a dogwhistle. They support chaos! Chaos I tell you!

I find that odd as many of those same ‘conservatives’ are also ‘libertarians’, which as I have pointed out before, is simply anarchy with a new marketing campaign.

462 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:57:52am

re: #448 Lidane

WE DUN LIEK TEHM POINTY HEADED INTELEKSHUALS!

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Pretty amusing since three of the last four Republican presidents had some form of Ivy League education and it would have been four of five if Nixon lived in modern times and would have been eligible for Pell Grants and able to go to an Ivy League.

463 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 10:58:02am

re: #459 The Mother Of All Pies

Cruz voted NO on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.

464 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 10:58:16am

re: #459 The Mother Of All Pies

Well Dana, you hate other women who aren’t you.

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Coming from the woman who defended Legitimate Rape Akin, you don’t have much credibility Dana.

465 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 23, 2015 10:58:23am

re: #442 Mattand

I forget, what’s the deal again with the GOP meme of saying “Democrat Party” instead of “Democratic Party”? Is it supposed to be some kind of insult?

yes

this has been another episode of short answers to clear questions

466 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 10:59:52am
“Instead of a federal government that works to undermine our values, imagine a federal government that works to defend the sanctity of human life* and uphold the sacrament of marriage,” Cruz said.

*We’ll protect you ladies from your own worst impulses by taking control of your reproductive organs.

467 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 23, 2015 11:00:34am

re: #461 Romantic Heretic

From what I’ve encountered a lot of ‘conservatives’ regard democracy as chaos. We live in a republic!

So calling it the ‘Democrat Party’ is blowing a dogwhistle. They support chaos! Chaos I tell you!

I find that odd as many of those same ‘conservatives’ are also ‘libertarians’, which as I have pointed out before, is simply anarchy with a new marketing campaign.

they declare that the united states is *not* a democracy

the defense of this position consists of ignoring the fact that the definition of ‘democracy’ can be something other than ancient greek style direct democracy

but beyond this, they profess to abhor the idea that the united states could ever *be* a democracy

i wish them lotsa luck with that one!

468 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:01:11am

re: #466 jaunte

*We’ll protect you ladies from your own worst impulses by taking control of your reproductive organs.

Defend the sancity of human life? Why don’t you ask your governor Perry about that Ted, he’s the one who executed an innocent man.

469 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 11:01:16am

re: #398 jaunte

35% of the black vote for Carson, it’s just that simple!

And if Carson could wrestle lucha libre, he could be El Cabron.

470 Romantic Heretic  Mar 23, 2015 11:01:34am

re: #459 The Mother Of All Pies

Well Dana, you hate other women who aren’t you.

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She hates most people for that reason.

471 Lancelot Link  Mar 23, 2015 11:04:45am

re: #456 The Mother Of All Pies

I would never insult the noble character of Uncle Tom by likening him to Ted Cruz.

472 Mattand  Mar 23, 2015 11:05:47am

re: #461 Romantic Heretic

I find that odd as many of those same ‘conservatives’ are also ‘libertarians’, which as I have pointed out before, is simply anarchy with a new marketing campaign.

I am so stealing that!

Reminds me of Penn, of Penn & Teller. He often describes their political view as anarcho-capitalism, rather than libertarianism. My interpretation is that it’s a variation of the Golden Rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules; topped with the religious belief that the Invisible Hand will fix the inevitable inequality that springs up.

One of the many reasons I stopped listening to Penn a long time ago. Another brilliant bon mot is that when he calls a woman a c-CLANG!, he’s doing it to defend his own daughter’s freedom of speech.

If anything, libertarianism is great for entrainment at the adherent’s expense.

473 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 11:05:54am

What is this I can’t even…

474 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:06:16am
475 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 11:06:56am

re: #456 The Mother Of All Pies

They have so many pejoratives that they’ve lost track. It’s “Uncle Taco,” dumbasses, and the only people smearing Cruz are his fellow Republicans.

476 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 11:06:56am

re: #468 HappyWarrior

Defend the sancity of human life? Why don’t you ask your governor Perry about that Ted, he’s the one who executed an innocent man.

Or Gov. Jindal, whose state had to let a guy go after 30 years on death row for a wrongful conviction pursued by a prosecutor interested simply in getting a “win.”

477 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 11:07:37am

re: #475 Higgs Boson’s Mate

They have so many pejoratives that they’ve lost track. It’s “Uncle Taco,” dumbasses, and the only people smearing Cruz are his fellow Republicans.

They’re all OUTRAGED because “Libtards” are being RACIST!!!!! by not mentioning Ted’s pasty white race.

478 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:07:49am

re: #471 Lancelot Link

I would never insult the noble character of Uncle Tom by likening him to Ted Cruz.

One is the hero of the novel that played a big role in stirring up opposition to slavery. The other is an idiot who sees his mission in politics to repeal a legislation that has gotten millions of American insured.

479 Mattand  Mar 23, 2015 11:08:12am

re: #473 The Mother Of All Pies

What is this I can’t even…

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I think Ted Cruz announcing his run has spewed a chemical across the internet, which is amplifying conservative stupidity a hundred fold.

480 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 11:08:44am
481 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:08:46am

re: #476 Targetpractice

Or Gov. Jindal, whose state had to let a guy go after 30 years on death row for a wrongful conviction pursued by a prosecutor interested simply in getting a “win.”

There’s so many cases like that but yet you never hear conservatives like Ted bring that up at all.

482 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 11:09:08am

re: #474 jaunte

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“Were you born a fat, slimy, scumbag puke piece o’ shit, Private Pyle, or did you have to work on it?”.

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483 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:09:31am

re: #480 The Mother Of All Pies

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As opposed to your conservatives Dana who sound like the anti-New Deal right of the 1930’s when it comes to basis economics.

484 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 11:10:39am

Is this before or after he sells people that One Weird Trick to cure diabetes?

485 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:11:02am

Houston Chronicle:

Don’t forget Ted Cruz’s anti-business ideology

“…Cruz, though, doesn’t care that shutting down the [Export-Import Bank] will cost thousands of Texas jobs. He’s more interested in winning the support of major donors like the Koch Brothers, who have made opposition to the bank a litmus test. The bank’s charter expires in June if Congress does not renew it.”

The Hill:

“I explained once more how not having the bank would drastically reduce the expansion plans and hiring of new employees,” Patel said. “[They] just said we should find other solutions. [They] had no alternative solution for us.”
thehill.com

486 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:11:33am
“Ex-Im financing has supported $26 billion worth of Texas exports since 2007, with 1,629 businesses having used the bank in that same time period — 890 of which were small businesses, according to data from the bank.”
thehill.com
487 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 11:11:51am

re: #484 Lidane

Is this before or after he sells people that One Weird Trick to cure diabetes?

Mike Huckabee sends a video message from Israel declaring that he is ready to ‘call fire down from Heaven’:

There are easier ways to start a BBQ now.

488 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 11:12:01am

re: #484 Lidane

Is this before or after he sells people that One Weird Trick to cure diabetes?

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That “fire” is the extra cinnamon he’s consuming to cure his diabetes.

489 Jenner7  Mar 23, 2015 11:12:28am

House writes its own Iran letter, but to Obama

thehill.com

Ugh. Shame on the Democrats who signed this.

490 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:12:41am

Meanwhile in Austin:

491 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 23, 2015 11:13:18am

re: #480 The Mother Of All Pies

As I understand it, Democrats’s main tactic from here forward is regurgitating slogans from 60s feminists.

YES DANA THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT BAN THE BRA BAN THE BRA

492 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 11:13:25am

re: #485 jaunte

Houston Chronicle:

Don’t forget Ted Cruz’s anti-business ideology

The Hill:

The Kochs are very eager to shut down the Ex-Im.

493 Dr Lizardo  Mar 23, 2015 11:13:47am

re: #484 Lidane

Is this before or after he sells people that One Weird Trick to cure diabetes?

Mike Huckabee sends a video message from Israel declaring that he is ready to ‘call fire down from Heaven’

LOLOLOL

So the Huckster is putting himself in the same category as Abrahamic prophets?

Good grief, what a delusional fool.

494 lawhawk  Mar 23, 2015 11:13:54am

re: #474 jaunte

Questions for Ted Cruz:

1) Why were you unable to set up a proper website for your campaign launch?

Followup questions:
1a) When will you have a working site?
1b) Is your campaign sunk before it starts because you can’t even defend your own name; how can you defend the nation if you can’t think ahead and buy your domain name?
1c) Are you going to WIPO or ICANN to try and get those governmental groups to give you access to the tedcruz dot com domain?
1d) How can you go to those groups, when they are quasi governmental bodies responsible for keeping the Internet flowing, and you and your followers don’t want the government involved in the Internet (IOW - reconcile your position with your net neutrality baffling BS).

Next Question:
2) Is Ben Carson feeding you quips to include at Liberty U?
3) Is this just an elaborate April Fools hoax, and that you are merely lining up for the big grift payoff once you realize you wont poll better than 6%. Heck, you might not even get a bounce sufficient to top Chris Christie.
4) You bring up god quite a bit. Are you hearing voices? What’s your position on mental health treatment?

495 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:13:59am

re: #490 jaunte

Meanwhile in Austin:

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Yeah just like those who stood between people of different races marrying weren’t bigots huh Dan. Why don’t you actually work on your state’s pathetic education system instead of telling gay couples that they don’t deserve equality you pathetic bigoted piece of right wing shit.

496 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 11:14:16am

re: #491 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

YES DANA THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT BAN THE BRA BAN THE BRA

Zipless Derp.

497 BeenHereAwhile  Mar 23, 2015 11:14:29am

re: #218 HappyWarrior

I think like Bobby Jindal, he’s someone who is probably intellectually capable but someone who sees the path to career advancement by playing the know-nothing dummy. Betcha you won’t hear him talk about his Harvard education at all on the campaign trail since attending Harvard to GOP voters is almost as bad as attending a madressa.

Cruz’s undergrad and law school classmates remember him as a very smart asshole, who was disliked except by a small coterie of followers.

498 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 11:14:43am
499 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:15:37am

re: #497 BeenHereAwhile

Cruz’s undergrad and law school classmates remember him as a very smart asshole, who was disliked except by a small coterie of followers.

That sounds about right.

500 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 11:15:59am

re: #477 The Mother Of All Pies

They’re all OUTRAGED because “Libtards” are being RACIST!!!!! by not mentioning Ted’s pasty white race.

Too funny! So Cruz is going to succeed by being every Hispanic’s Hispanic and every white bigot’s white man. That should work well. Moreover, Republicans make their usual mistake of assuming that not-white people are monolithic groups. Here in SoCal the word “cubano” is a pejorative among many Hispanics.
In the end, these things are meaningless. Cruz is simply out for the grift and when he inevitably drops out he’ll say that his real mission was to move the dialog.

501 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 11:16:27am

re: #499 HappyWarrior

That sounds about right like CCJ.

502 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:17:06am

re: #501 Decatur Deb

I actually have doubts to CCJ’s intelligence. No idea where he did his undergrad work though.

503 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 11:17:45am

re: #491 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

YES DANA THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT BAN THE BRA BAN THE BRA

If I can find one of my old draft cards I’ll even burn it. That’ll show ‘em.

504 A Cranky One  Mar 23, 2015 11:17:55am

re: #479 Mattand

I think Ted Cruz announcing his run has spewed a chemical across the internet, which is amplifying conservative stupidity a hundred fold.

Chememails?

505 Nyet  Mar 23, 2015 11:18:26am

Have just finished Revival. It’s a good, solid Lovecraftian story. I love when King “does Lovecraft” (e.g. “Crouch End”), and this one is a worthy addition to the genre.

506 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 11:18:35am

re: #502 HappyWarrior

I actually have doubts to CCJ’s intelligence. No idea where he did his undergrad work though.

CCJ?

claremontmckenna.edu

507 Dr Lizardo  Mar 23, 2015 11:19:03am

re: #504 A Cranky One

Chememails?

Derptrails.

508 sagehen  Mar 23, 2015 11:19:05am

re: #502 HappyWarrior

I actually have doubts to CCJ’s intelligence. No idea where he did his undergrad work though.

Claremont McKenna College. As he’s told us repeatedly.

(I attended a different one of Claremont Colleges. The smarter, less right-wing ideologue one.)

509 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:19:37am

re: #506 Decatur Deb

CCJ?

google.com

Never heard of it.

510 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 11:19:46am

Et tu, John?

Fellow Texan John Cornyn won’t back Ted Cruz in presidential primary

512 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 11:21:29am

re: #509 HappyWarrior

Never heard of it.

Small, selective, expensive. He was not typical, a fav of a few RW profs.

513 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:21:39am

re: #508 sagehen

Claremont McKenna College. As he’s told us repeatedly.

(I attended a different one of Claremont Colleges. The smarter, less right-wing ideologue one.)

Ah gotcha. I guess my point is I don’t see him as smart. I think Cruz and also Bobby Jindal are both smart enough guys who pander to the dummies because they know it’s more easier for their political careers than actually showing intelligence. You won’t see Cruz talking about time at Harvard in this campaign that’s for sure nor will Bobby talk much about his time as a Rhodes Scholar. Sanotrum had it right. They’re not winning the smart people.

514 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 23, 2015 11:21:51am

re: #361 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Deep down, I think that both them are about as religious as Elmer Gantry and for the same reasons.

While I understand you thinking that, with Walker it’s worse. He is a True Believer in his viciously Anti-Christian Christianity. He’s the kind who would argue that it’s better for someone to starve to death than get government help if his church couldn’t help.

He is a classic case of the utter banality of evil and to top it off he’s dumb enough to make Tommy Thompson look like an Einstein. Quite possibly he’s the sleaziest person I’ve ever had the misfortune of meeting.

515 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:21:55am

re: #512 Decatur Deb

Small, eselective, expensive. He was not typical, a fav of a few RW profs.

Ahhhh gotcha.

516 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:22:31am

Theocrat Rally!

517 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:23:03am

re: #510 freetoken

Et tu, John?

Fellow Texan John Cornyn won’t back Ted Cruz in presidential primary

That’s never a good sign if you can’t get your colleague backing you from the same state.

518 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 23, 2015 11:23:30am

re: #395 The Mother Of All Pies

Are you kidding. He spent WEEKS memorizing and rehearsing that shit.

More like his whole adult life. There is nothing off the cuff there.

519 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:23:35am

re: #516 jaunte

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Theocrat Rally!

Oh yay.

520 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 11:23:58am

re: #510 freetoken

Et tu, John?

Fellow Texan John Cornyn won’t back Ted Cruz in presidential primary

It’s about Cornyn staying above it all. Cruz being a self-centered, egotistical, backstabbing asshole is irrelevant.

521 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:24:45am

re: #519 HappyWarrior

Offically the “Defending Marriage and State Sovereignty” Rally.

522 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:24:58am

Gohmert will probably be a Cruz backer.

523 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:25:32am

re: #521 jaunte

Offically the “Defending Marriage and State Sovereignty” Rally.

Where’s the ghost of George Wallace to say segregation now, segregation tomorrah, and segregation forevah.

524 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:26:09am

re: #523 HappyWarrior

It’s the “agenda that dares not speak its name.”

525 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 11:26:33am

Pssst…. here’s a sekrit for all you Texans - Texas is not a sovereign state.

526 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 11:27:08am

re: #521 jaunte

Offically the “Defending Marriage and State Sovereignty” Rally.

They couldn’t work “Anti-terrorism no Sharia law Christian family values,” in there too? Slackers.

527 BeenHereAwhile  Mar 23, 2015 11:27:15am

re: #476 Targetpractice

Or Gov. Jindal, whose state had to let a guy go after 30 years on death row for a wrongful conviction pursued by a prosecutor interested simply in getting a “win.”

Harry Connack Sr?

528 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 11:27:24am

re: #522 HappyWarrior

Gohmert will probably be a Cruz backer.

Won’t be many GOP martyrs hungry for Cruzifiction.

529 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:27:25am

re: #525 freetoken

And all these jerks speaking know it.

530 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:27:39am

You know if these pastors spent their time fighting poverty and hunger instead of telling gay people tehy were going to hell because of who they love the world might be a better place.

531 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 11:27:43am

re: #523 HappyWarrior

Where’s the ghost of George Wallace to say segregation now, segregation tomorrah, and segregation forevah.

HURR HURR HE WAS A DEMOCRAT U LIBTARD!!!!!1!!!!

532 sagehen  Mar 23, 2015 11:28:04am

re: #509 HappyWarrior

Never heard of it.

It’s an excellent school, whose reputation has been sullied by CCJ’s association therewith.

The Claremonts are modeled on the Oxbridge system — there’s 5 undergrads, a grad school and a school of theology… but students from any of them can take classes at any of them, your meal card is good at all the dining halls, most of the social events are 5-college.

Pomona College — the oldest. best. first. Sort of like Harvard, but with no snow. All their pre-meds get into med school. All of them. Their foreign language and IR programs make them a prime spot for CIA and State Dept recruiting.

CMC — mostly econ and poli-sci majors. Pre-law, pre-MBA kind of people. Right wing. Included with your tuition is a daily subscription to the WSJ. You’re expected to have read it cover to cover by the time you go to your first class — any article or editorial could come up in the lecture, and your prof will be displeased if you weren’t ready to discuss it.

Harvey Mudd — Their only majors in my day were math, physics, chemistry and engineering. They’ve since added an IT program. The breadth-of-study requirements (history, lit, etc) are met by cross-registering classes at the other CC’s. MIT with no snow.

Scripps — the women’s college. Meant to be a companion to CMC when it was all men, but Scripps has remained a women’s college even when CMC went co-ed in the 70’s. Lots of art history majors looking for their MRS degree, but they also have smart, ambitious women.

Pitzer — the hippie school.

533 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:28:12am

re: #528 Decatur Deb

Won’t be many GOP martyrs hungry for Cruzifiction.

Yeah he won’t get many endorsements but I bet Gohmert will be one of the few, the dumb, and the proud.

534 Kragar  Mar 23, 2015 11:28:33am

re: #474 jaunte

535 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:28:45am

re: #532 sagehen

It’s an excellent school, whose reputation has been sullied by CCJ’s association therewith.

The Claremonts are modeled on the Oxbridge system — there’s 5 undergrads, a grad school and a school of theology… but students from any of them can take classes at any of them, your meal card is good at all the dining halls, most of the social events are 5-college.

Pomona College — the oldest. best. first. Sort of like Harvard, but with no snow. All their pre-meds get into med school. All of them. Their foreign language and IR programs make them a prime spot for CIA and State Dept recruiting.

CMC — mostly econ and poli-sci majors. Pre-law, pre-MBA kind of people. Right wing. Included with your tuition is a daily subscription to the WSJ. You’re expected to have read it cover to cover by the time you go to your first class — any article or editorial could come up in the lecture, and your prof will be displeased if you weren’t read to discuss it.

Harvey Mudd — Their only majors in my day were math, physics, chemistry and engineering. They’ve since added an IT program. The breadth-of-study requirements (history, lit, etc) are met by cross-registering classes at the other CC’s. MIT with no snow.

Scripps — the women’s college. Meant to be a companion to CMC when it was all men, but Scripps has remained a women’s college even when CMC went co-ed in the 70’s. Lots of art history majors looking for their MRS degree, but they also have smart, ambitious women.

Pitzer — the hippie school.

I see.

536 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:29:11am

re: #534 Kragar

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Who will be drooling more, Sean, you or Ted?

537 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 11:29:29am

re: #525 freetoken

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Pssst…. here’s a sekrit for all you Texans - Texas is not a sovereign state.

I spent some years in South Texas and it was not at all unusual for a Texan to tell me that Texas could leave the Union any time it wanted to. My answer was always “Fuckin’ go for it.”

538 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:30:53am

re: #537 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Texas could leave the Union any time it wanted to

I think that was once part of the middle school/7th grade Texas history instruction, and no one ever bothered to correct it.

539 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 11:31:24am

re: #517 HappyWarrior

That’s never a good sign if you can’t get your colleague backing you from the same state.

It’s also not surprising. Cornyn’s not going to waste his endorsement on someone who didn’t even back him last year.

540 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:31:34am

They love America so much that they threaten to leave it when they don’t get their way.

541 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:31:42am

All the big ots are there.

542 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 23, 2015 11:31:44am

re: #437 darthstar

A better time for this would have been next Wednesday.

543 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2015 11:31:46am

re: #522 HappyWarrior

Gohmert will probably be a Cruz backer.

Unless he decides to run…

544 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:32:19am

re: #539 Lidane

It’s also not surprising. Cornyn’s not going to waste his endorsement on someone who didn’t even back him last year.

Did Courageous Ted stay neutral or did he actually endorse the lunatic Stockman? But yeah Cornyn may be an asshole but he has to see that Cruz is a lost cause.

545 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:32:40am

re: #543 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Unless he decides to run…

Three Texans in the clown car. Whoa boy.

546 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:32:50am
547 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 11:33:19am

re: #546 jaunte

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548 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 11:33:30am

re: #541 jaunte

Alabama judge Roy Moore speaking at defense of marriage rally.

All the big ots are there.

Keep him. We’ll send his 10 Commandments monument in a U-Haul.

549 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:33:40am

re: #546 jaunte

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Only you’ve made a career of this, Roy.

550 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 23, 2015 11:33:49am

re: #538 jaunte

I think that was once part of the middle school/7th grade Texas history instruction, and no one ever bothered to correct it.

The ones who expressed that were convinced that Texas only rejoined the Union on the condition that it could leave again voluntarily. I never bothered to look it up because if you’ve ever lived in South Texas then you’d know how little it would be missed.

551 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:35:38am
552 Nyet  Mar 23, 2015 11:37:03am

Wait, it’s the Russian Conservative Forum, Day 2, right? /

553 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 11:37:39am

We interrupt this speech by an utter idiot to bring you another utter idiot:

554 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 11:38:00am

re: #551 jaunte

Moore: No court has the authority to redefine what God said in Genesis.

YaY!! So polygamy is a ‘go’, then? Now my neighbors can marry all their cousins.

555 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:38:10am

re: #551 jaunte

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This guy is a walking argument against the election of judges.

556 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 11:38:31am

The Pie Mother apologizes for Netanyahu
*sob*

557 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:38:33am

re: #554 Decatur Deb

YaY!! So polygamy is a ‘go’, then? Now my neighbors can marry all their cousins.

You can kill your kids if they disobey you too.

558 A Cranky One  Mar 23, 2015 11:39:01am

re: #523 HappyWarrior

Where’s the ghost of George Wallace to say segregation now, segregation tomorrah, and segregation forevah.

Met George Wallace when I was a teenager. It was in interesting experience because while I absolutely detested the man (and still do), I was surprised at his charisma in person. When he entered the room all attention centered on him. Helped me to understand how some scum buckets can get into and hold office.

Had a friend who lived next door to the governor’s mansion. He took me upstairs and showed me the back yard of the mansion. They had setup a large tent and there was a lot of booze stacked in cases. Guess George had made a promise that as governor he wouldn’t have liquor in the governor’s mansion. Kept that promise by putting it outside. Helped me to become even more cynical about politicians and some of the idiots that vote.

559 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 11:39:09am

re: #544 HappyWarrior

Did Courageous Ted stay neutral or did he actually endorse the lunatic Stockman? But yeah Cornyn may be an asshole but he has to see that Cruz is a lost cause.

AFAIK he stayed neutral in the Senate race. His endorsements were all for down ticket races. That likely didn’t sit well with the Cornyn camp, though I don’t think Cornyn ever made much hay about it in public.

560 Timothy Watson  Mar 23, 2015 11:39:28am

re: #362 Lidane

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Great way of solving the problem of potentially having empty seats during an announcement/speech.

If only Mittens had figured that trick out…

Of course, Mittens just had his coal energy buddies make people show up for work and not pay them.

561 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:39:32am

re: #553 Targetpractice

We interrupt this speech by an utter idiot to bring you another utter idiot:

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“I’m sorry I used you as a means of getting my base out so I could keep my own power.” What a craven little asshole Bibi is. Fuck him. He’s no leader. He’s an Israeli Romney who will do and say anything to get and keep power.

562 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 11:39:56am

re: #557 HappyWarrior

You can kill your kids if they disobey you too.

Not quite yet:

dothaneagle.com

563 Dr. Matt  Mar 23, 2015 11:40:03am

Ted Cruz came in like a wrecking ball.

564 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:40:54am

re: #562 Decatur Deb

Not quite yet:

dothaneagle.com

That court violated the Old Testament.//

565 RadicalModerate  Mar 23, 2015 11:41:17am

re: #442 Mattand

I forget, what’s the deal again with the GOP meme of saying “Democrat Party” instead of “Democratic Party”? Is it supposed to be some kind of insult?

Although it started in the 1800s, it didn’t come into vogue until the days of Joe McCarthy and the John Birch Society.

566 Nyet  Mar 23, 2015 11:41:28am

re: #563 Dr. Matt

Aaarrgh, me eyes!

567 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 11:41:35am

re: #564 HappyWarrior

That court violated the Old Testament.//

No sweat, Roy Moore can reverse it.

568 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:41:42am

re: #559 Lidane

AFAIK he stayed neutral in the Senate race. His endorsements were all for down ticket races. That likely didn’t sit well with the Cornyn camp, though I don’t think Cornyn ever made much hay about it in public.

I can imagine so. I imagine Cruz is someone not well liked by his R colleagues even since he’s such an obnoxious prick.

569 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:41:45am
570 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 11:42:22am

THIS IS THE STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
There was a Stupid Meme this morning, but this one is MOAR STUPIDS

571 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:42:34am
572 Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2015 11:42:51am

re: #561 HappyWarrior

“I’m sorry I used you as a means of getting my base out so I could keep my own power.” What a craven little asshole Bibi is. Fuck him. He’s no leader. He’s an Israeli Romney who will do and say anything to get and keep power.

He’s running scared is what he is. Between the announcement the other day that he was still committed to a two-state solution and this today, it’s obvious he’s realized just how badly he fucked things up. Not sure he realizes that this administration does not buy the act and is still going forward with talks in the UN.

573 makeitstop  Mar 23, 2015 11:43:08am

re: #504 A Cranky One

Chememails?

Memetrails.

574 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 11:43:08am

re: #541 jaunte

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All the big ots are there.

How nice that there is a completely blank sign all ready for photoshopping.

575 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 11:43:37am

They don’t want FEMA but they want TEH SWEET FEMA MONEYS.
All righty then.

576 Timothy Watson  Mar 23, 2015 11:44:21am

re: #551 jaunte

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My knowledge of the Bible is a little spartan, but I don’t recall anything about gays in Genesis….

577 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 11:44:48am

re: #576 Timothy Watson

My knowledge of the Bible is a little spartan, but I don’t recall anything about gays in Genesis….

They don’t get into Teh Ghey until Leviticus…

578 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:44:53am

re: #575 The Mother Of All Pies

They don’t want FEMA but they want TEH SWEET FEMA MONEYS.
All righty then.

That’s what I was thinking. Huh now they want FEMA? And I’m curious to what this actually is because pardon me if I don’t trust someone who likens environmentalists to mass murderers.

579 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 11:45:02am

re: #576 Timothy Watson

My knowledge of the Bible is a little spartan, but I don’t recall anything about gays in Genesis….

SODOM!!!!!!

580 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 23, 2015 11:45:30am

re: #486 jaunte

What do you bet that if the House does put up a bill extending the Export-Import Bank charter it also includes approval for the Keystone Pipeline?
//

581 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 11:46:10am

re: #579 freetoken

SODOM!!!!!!

*face palm*

Of course, I totally thought that Sodom was about being cruel to the poor and homeless. How silly of me.

582 Timothy Watson  Mar 23, 2015 11:46:24am

re: #579 freetoken

SODOM!!!!!!

Ah, forgot that was in Genesis.

Like I said, haven’t bothered to read a Bible in a long time.

583 Great White Snark  Mar 23, 2015 11:47:51am

Stingray Sting? Chicago Police Fighting to Keep Cell Phone Surveillance Secret

Shine the light.

584 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:47:52am
585 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:49:30am

re: #584 jaunte

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Yeah but they’re not hateful or irrational. You can’t file a lawsuit against sexual orientation ya fucking moron anymore than I can file a lawsuit against your twisted interpretation of the Bible.

586 Lidane  Mar 23, 2015 11:50:46am

re: #584 jaunte

OW. That made my brain hurt.

A class action suit against teh ghey? What ‘s Rick Scarborough going to do, sue George Takei and Ellen DeGeneres? Pfft.

587 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 11:52:12am
Scarborough: Peter, the whole issue of a class action lawsuit, you and I have talked about this a little bit. I just wonder if you’ve explored that, talked to anyone about it. Obviously, statistically now even the Centers for Disease Control verifies that homosexuality much more likely leads to AIDS than smoking leads to cancer. And yet the entire nation has rejected smoking, billions of dollars are put into a trust fund to help cancer victims and the tobacco industry was held accountable for that. Any thoughts on that kind of an approach?

rightwingwatch.org

588 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:52:39am

It greatly amuses me how hysterical and frankly downright stupid the anti-gay bgiots are. Yeah a class action lawsuit against sexual orientation. Because you can sue that. I swear we’re going to look back on this one day the way most of us look at civil rights now and just think what the fuck was wrong with these bigots. Gosh there’s still time to realize you’re wrong Rick and friends.

589 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 11:53:00am

Has the panel retired to the statehouse for sweet tea and gladiator movies?

590 RadicalModerate  Mar 23, 2015 11:53:28am

When you thought that Republicans couldn’t get crazier than the candidacies of Santorum and Bachmann in 2012, the upcoming candidates are going to make those two look like Earl Warren in comparison.

591 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 23, 2015 11:55:10am

re: #590 RadicalModerate

When you thought that Republicans couldn’t get crazier than the candidacies of Santorum and Bachmann in 2012, the upcoming candidates are going to make those two look like Earl Warren in comparison.

Don’t forget Mr. Uzbeki-beki-beki-999-stan.

592 Dark_Falcon  Mar 23, 2015 11:55:24am

re: #586 Lidane

OW. That made my brain hurt.

A class action suit against teh ghey? What ‘s Rick Scarborough going to do, sue George Takei and Ellen DeGeneres? Pfft.

That’s exactly what he’d do. He’d sue them for some version of “corrupting the youth by promoting homosexual propaganda”. If those words sound like something out of Russia lately, its not a coincidence.

593 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2015 11:55:50am
594 freetoken  Mar 23, 2015 11:56:55am

Speaking of climate change, new post at Realclimate about changes in the North Atlantic:

What’s going on in the North Atlantic?

Ted Cruz has yet to comment.

595 HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2015 11:58:46am

They continue to insist they’re not bigots and we’re the real meanies for calling them such but they continue to prove us right by having beliefs about gays that are straight out of Nazi Germany.

596 Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2015 12:03:20pm

Off to finish planting the container garden. This is the last try, after a couple lousy harvests. I moved and rebuilt the hoophouse—will post the update if I can find my old page on it. BBL

597 Nyet  Mar 23, 2015 12:03:44pm

re: #576 Timothy Watson

My knowledge of the Bible is a little spartan, but I don’t recall anything about gays in Genesis….

Ado Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

598 jaunte  Mar 23, 2015 12:04:02pm
599 Nyet  Mar 23, 2015 12:05:30pm

re: #582 Timothy Watson

Ah, forgot that was in Genesis.

Like I said, haven’t bothered to read a Bible in a long time.

Sodom wasn’t about gays, it was about rape, so it’s excusable that you don’t remember. Anyway, that guy didn’t mean Sodom.

600 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 23, 2015 2:07:04pm

re: #599 Nyet

Sodom wasn’t about gays, it was about rape, so it’s excusable that you don’t remember. Anyway, that guy didn’t mean Sodom.

I’ll take the understanding of Ezekiel 16:49 about Sodom over them anyway.

601 Eventual Carrion  Mar 23, 2015 3:41:55pm

re: #441 darthstar

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Wow, imagine having to map that trucks route out to get to its destination with that thing. I did some contract work for a foundry that made some big pieces and they had to turn in the dimensions of the piece and precise route the truck was taking so it could be checked for any problem areas for the load.


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