Kneel Before the “Climate Moron of the Day,” Earth Beings

Clown show
Wingnuts • Views: 32,220

Yes, dear readers, I have arrived at long last. Climate change denying right wing performing clown “Steve Goddard” (real name: Tony Heller) has named me his “Climate Moron of the Day,” after a rather hilarious Twitter fight.

Jump to bottom

473 comments
1 Iwouldprefernotto  Mar 24, 2015 1:17:25pm

These people are beginning to wear me out. Thanks for keeping up the fight.

2 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 1:18:38pm

Goddard attacks non-climate scientists because what he has, including a rudimentary understanding of statistics, doesn’t hold up against someone well versed in climate and math.

3 No Country For Old Haters  Mar 24, 2015 1:19:08pm

I remember when “conservative” wasn’t a subset of “completely delusional people.” That was a long time ago.

4 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 1:22:53pm

Here is a paper that takes into consideration all the statistical ‘noise’ regarding the apparent stall of temperature increase.

Foster and Rahmstorf conclude there has not been a stall in trend, but that the noise has overpowered the signal.

5 wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2015 1:23:49pm

Have a frog, who has a little bit of a brown shirt himself:

6 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 1:25:00pm
7 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 1:25:16pm

This afternoon I’ve been more interested in the Miss Universe Japan blowup and the idiot-sphere’s attachment to it to pay much attention to Goddard.

I was glad Twitter banned him but like all the Phthiraptera of the digital kind you just can’t really get rid of them.

8 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 1:25:17pm
9 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 1:25:20pm

re: #5 wrenchwench

Have a frog, who has a little bit of a brown shirt himself:

[Embedded content]

A frog shaped Jujube.

10 No Country For Old Haters  Mar 24, 2015 1:27:14pm
11 wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2015 1:29:27pm

re: #9 b_sharp

A frog shaped Jujube.

Does look like it would taste good. You first.

12 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 1:29:27pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

13 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 1:31:02pm

re: #11 wrenchwench

Does look like it would taste good. You first.

Can’t. I just ate a bucket of chocolate covered raisins.

14 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 1:32:17pm
15 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 1:33:33pm
16 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 1:33:37pm

awww…poor thang:

17 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 1:36:01pm
18 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 24, 2015 1:36:41pm
Climate change denying right wing performing clown “Steve Goddard” (real name: Tony Heller)

He’s gone downhill since he invented all those great nonlethal weapons in Mystery Men.

19 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 1:38:03pm
20 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 1:39:27pm

Here is one scientist’s answer to Cruz’s comments on climate.

tamino.wordpress.com

Tamino is a statistician (Grant Foster) who works peripherally in climate science and frequently brings the math to debunk the WUWT (What’s Up With That) crap put out by Anthony Watts and Goddard.

21 lawhawk  Mar 24, 2015 1:40:23pm

I laugh at his (Steve Goddard’s aka Tony Heller’s) superior intellect.

These folks are so full of themselves that they don’t realize how much of a joke they are to serious minded folks who are intimately involved in climatology and scientific research.

And Chuckles takes that to a whole new level of derp.

22 lawhawk  Mar 24, 2015 1:41:43pm

How quickly before the right wing claims that Orly’s really a left winger?

And why would she wait until Cruz is elected President? Either he’s qualified or he isn’t as per Constitutional law. The time to determine his eligibility is before being elected president, not after.

But this way, she gets to avoid another run-in with the CA Bar and courts because there’s little chance that Cruz gets the nomination for the GOP, let alone win in 2016.

24 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 1:43:09pm

Were’s what Spencer (a known creationist and warming denier who runs the other common satellite temperature source) has to say about the RSS feed used by Goddard.

Anyway, my UAH cohort and boss John Christy, who does the detailed matching between satellites, is pretty convinced that the RSS data is undergoing spurious cooling because RSS is still using the old NOAA-15 satellite which has a decaying orbit, to which they are then applying a diurnal cycle drift correction based upon a climate model, which does not quite match reality.

From here.
drroyspencer.com

25 No Country For Old Haters  Mar 24, 2015 1:44:15pm
26 plansbandc  Mar 24, 2015 1:45:17pm

Congratulations on your latest title, Charles!

27 Jack Burton  Mar 24, 2015 1:45:44pm

re: #19 Kragar

I guess you could superficially confuse him with Triumph the Insult Dog.

Except one of them is actually kind of funny.

28 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 1:47:22pm

Earlier in the last thread VB was wondering about 50s illustrations used in RWNJ Tweets. I suggested they could be found by doing a Google search for “illustrations of people of the 1950s.” I had done that search and found this women in love with her Tide Soap box. Perfect for a little Photoshop fun.

Teddy does fit a 50s theme very well.

29 lawhawk  Mar 24, 2015 1:47:32pm

re: #25 No Country For Old Haters

I thought he was going to replace existing journalism. So why is he again seeking out adulation and confirmation of his journalism from an outlet he despises?

Oh wait, it hurts his ego that he is ignored by all involved and that he’s not the journalist he thinks he is.

He’s a legend in his own mind. A “journalist” without peer. Mostly because his idea of being a “journalist” means he’s a doxxing/smearing louse who hasn’t broken actual news and considers that accuracy is for suckers.

30 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 1:48:09pm

I’ll just drop this in here as a palate cleanser

31 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 1:53:08pm

Ted Cruz is going on Obamacare. The newly announced Republican presidential candidate told CNN’s Dana Bash on Tuesday that he will sign up for health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act — a law he has been on a crusade to kill

um lissen moron you ain’t eligible

32 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 1:54:13pm

re: #30 The Mother Of All Pies

I’ll just drop this in here as a palate cleanser

[Embedded content]

With the picture of President Obama with the cute and excited little girl scouts yesterday, added to this one and all the other great shots of him playing around with little kids it is too bad little kids can’t vote.

If they could he would have crushed McCain and Romney by huge landslides.

33 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Mar 24, 2015 1:54:50pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Now if only they had a “most likely to influence your lunch to vacate your stomach” …

34 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 1:57:47pm

re: #32 ObserverArt

With the picture of President Obama with the cute and excited little girl scouts yesterday, added to this one and all the other great shots of him playing around with little kids it is too bad little kids can’t vote.

If they could he would have crushed McCain and Romney by huge landslides.

The one of the girl scouts was priceless. You could tell by looking at their faces that it’s going to be a moment that those girls will remember forever. I think Obama has a genuine empathy that so many of his opponents lack for people. Some of them can fake it and others like Cruz can’t even do that.

35 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 1:58:05pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

36 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Mar 24, 2015 1:59:19pm

re: #35 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Spiders are your friends. Except some of them.

37 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 2:00:11pm
38 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 2:00:58pm
39 William of Orange  Mar 24, 2015 2:01:26pm

Climate Moron of the Day….

Could be worse…

40 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 2:02:45pm

re: #36 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Spiders are your friends. Except some of them.

Yeah, if you think all spiders are your friend, never travel to Australia…wait, what am I saying? Just never go to Australia, no matter what your feelings on spiders.

41 De Kolta Chair  Mar 24, 2015 2:03:03pm

re: #25 No Country For Old Haters

Charles C. Johnson @ChuckCJohnson

Kind of hilarious that I didn’t make Time’s most influential on Internet list.

But he is worthy of Internet’s under the influence all of the time list.

42 William of Orange  Mar 24, 2015 2:03:30pm

re: #30 The Mother Of All Pies

I’ll just drop this in here as a palate cleanser

[Embedded content]

Doesn’t she realize HER WORLD IS ON FIRE!!!!111ONE

43 William of Orange  Mar 24, 2015 2:05:14pm
44 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 2:06:16pm

re: #43 William of Orange

[Embedded content]

I think the almighty’s referring to all those Republican candidates.

45 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 2:07:54pm

re: #40 Targetpractice

Yeah, if you think all spiders are your friend, never travel to Australia…wait, what am I saying? Just never go to Australia, no matter what your feelings on spiders.

HIGH FIVE!

46 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 2:08:38pm

re: #2 b_sharp

Goddard attacks non-climate scientists because what he has, including a rudimentary understanding of statistics, doesn’t hold up against someone well versed in climate and math.

Or, you know, eyesight and a working brain.

47 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 2:09:31pm

re: #45 Kragar

HIGH FIVE!

[Embedded content]

…

48 allegro  Mar 24, 2015 2:09:32pm

re: #38 Kragar

[Embedded content]

My takeaway is that he’s trying to convince himself that his god really really wants him to do it. He clearly thinks about it a lot.

49 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 2:10:48pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

“Khan? I’m laughing at the superior intellect”

/Capt. Kirk

50 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Mar 24, 2015 2:11:30pm

re: #38 Kragar

[Embedded content]

I’m constantly amazed that one of the main arguments against atheism is “look how badly I’d behave if I didn’t have God threatening me with eternal punishment.”

51 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 2:11:49pm

You haven’t really lived until you’ve seen a fully geared up Marine in tears, screaming and tearing off his combat gear in the middle of the jungle because he walked into a banana spider web and felt it crawl across his face up into his helmet.

Good times.

52 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 2:11:50pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

When someone tells you this, right there you know he’s full of shit.

53 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 2:12:56pm

re: #51 Kragar

You haven’t really lived until you’ve seen a fully geared up Marine in tears, screaming and tearing off his combat gear in the middle of the jungle because he walked into a banana spider web and felt it crawl across his face up into his helmet.

Good times.

Everyone becomes a ninja expert right after they walk into a spiderweb.

54 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 2:13:24pm

re: #39 William of Orange

Climate Moron of the Day….

Could be worse…

Pretty good rip job on CCJ.

55 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 2:15:28pm

re: #50 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

I’m constantly amazed that one of the main arguments against atheism is “look how badly I’d behave if I didn’t have God threatening me with eternal punishment.”

They seem to think fear of God is the only reason why a person would be good.

If there is no God and no afterlife, wouldn’t killing someone, and wiping out their existence utterly, be one of the greatest crimes you could think of?

If this is our only existence, don’t you owe it to yourself and to others to make it as happy and as pain free as possible because this is all we get?

56 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 24, 2015 2:16:18pm

re: #55 Kragar

They seem to think fear of God is the only reason why a person would be good.

If there is no God and no afterlife, wouldn’t killing someone, and wiping out their existence utterly, be one of the greatest crimes you could think of?

If this is our only existence, don’t you owe it to yourself and to others to make it as happy and as pain free as possible because this is all we get?

No, because the other tenet of their belief is that we are all miserable sinners, and only Jesus can save us from the fate we deserve.

57 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 2:16:43pm

re: #51 Kragar

You haven’t really lived until you’ve seen a fully geared up Marine in tears, screaming and tearing off his combat gear in the middle of the jungle because he walked into a banana spider web and felt it crawl across his face up into his helmet.

Good times.

Close second. Full Platoon combat patrol, when you hear a log crash and the platoon Sgt scream “WASPS! RUN!”

58 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 2:17:48pm

re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

No, because the other tenet of their belief is that we are all miserable sinners, and only Jesus can save us from the fate we deserve.

I can tell them what they can do with that there idea, but they’ll tell me I’d go to hell for that.

59 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 2:18:12pm

re: #55 Kragar

They seem to think fear of God is the only reason why a person would be good.

If there is no God and no afterlife, wouldn’t killing someone, and wiping out their existence utterly, be one of the greatest crimes you could think of?

If this is our only existence, don’t you owe it to yourself and to others to make it as happy and as pain free as possible because this is all we get?

My counter to that is to point out that behaving well only because you fear punishment or expect a reward is the moral level of a toddler, or a dog.

60 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 2:18:14pm

I feel like crap, my sinuses are all clogged and my throat is scratchy, and in 5 days I’m leaving on vacation. Great timing!

61 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Mar 24, 2015 2:18:55pm

re: #38 Kragar

Three funny things about Phil’s “argument”:

1. Damning oneself with faint praise: “My religion makes me more moral than a completely hypothetical person who has NO MORALS.” As forceful a statement as “I have better hygiene that than man over there who never wipes his ass.” Have a gold star, Phil.

2. The straw atheist is passive, inactive victim in the story…which begs the question of who’s dropped by his house to rape, murder, and mutilate his family while specifically taunting him about his non-belief. And why are both the rapist/murderers and Phil Robertson mocking the atheist for his inability to make a moral judgement?

3. Is this a very-well rehearsed and scripted fantasy about a rape/murder/torture scenario, or a wholly improvised but well-fleshed fantasy about a rape/murder/torture scenario? Which is less skeevy?

62 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 2:19:39pm

re: #45 Kragar

NOPE

63 wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2015 2:20:09pm
64 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 2:20:14pm

re: #54 ObserverArt

Pretty good rip job on CCJ.

I’m just hoping people wise up, stop giving him money and attention, and he falls flat on his face.

65 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 2:20:30pm
Beware the toilet paper guardian!
66 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 2:22:08pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

67 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 2:22:14pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

NOPE

I no longer get a shiver running down my back when I see a picture of a spider.

68 EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2015 2:22:33pm

Sufficiently small spiders are not a problem for me. However, monsters like in #45 and #65 are definitely way too large.

It also makes a big difference if I’m seeing the spider from a reasonable distance, or if it is on me.

69 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 2:22:50pm

re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

No, because the other tenet of their belief is that we are all miserable sinners, and only Jesus can save us from the fate we deserve.

That has to be one of the most demoralizing workdviews one can possibly imagine - that God created you to be so awful that you automatically deserve to be punished for eternity.

70 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 2:22:52pm

re: #68 EPR-radar

Sufficiently small spiders are not a problem for me. However, monsters like in #45 and #65 are definitely way too large.

It also makes a big difference if I’m seeing the spider from a reasonable distance, or if it is on me.

Exactly.

71 Iwouldprefernotto  Mar 24, 2015 2:23:05pm

re: #64 b_sharp

I’m just hoping people wise up, stop giving him money and attention, and he falls flat on his face.

He will be sued or end up in jail like his pal O’keefe*. They are angry and can’t help themselves.

O’keefe should be in jail, I don’t think he’ll be as lucky next time.

72 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 2:23:07pm

re: #64 b_sharp

I’m just hoping people wise up, stop giving him money and attention, and he falls flat on his face.

In another time that probably would have happened. In this crazy era of total sleaze ‘journalism’ and the idiots that want to believe it…it won’t happen. If anything, he will gain some folks out of sympathy.

I hope I am wrong.

73 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 2:24:04pm

Image: Theraphosa_blondi_1.jpg

74 wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2015 2:24:09pm

For CL:

75 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 2:24:55pm

Crickets freak me out more than spiders.

Crickets mock you with their chirping “I’m here, but you can’t find me!”

and if you do find them, they jump and you’re stuck looking for them again.

Fucking bastard bugs.

76 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 2:25:12pm

re: #74 wrenchwench

For CL:

[Embedded content]

…

77 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 2:25:20pm

…

78 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 24, 2015 2:25:45pm

re: #75 Kragar

Crickets freak me out more than spiders.

Crickets mock you with their chirping “I’m here, but you can’t find me!”

and if you do find them, they jump and you’re stuck looking for them again.

Fucking bastard bugs.

There are no poisonous spiders in Germany. Just the occasional big hairy one. Got no problem, I just pick them up and escort them outside.

79 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 2:27:17pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

I guess I don’t have that gene. Spiders don’t scare me. I am cautious of woodpiles, since we have Black Widows and Brown Recluses, but walking into a spiderweb doesn’t fill me with unspeakable terror.

Put me in a small closed space, though, and I will totally lose my shit.

80 GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2015 2:27:31pm

re: #68 EPR-radar

81 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 2:28:05pm

re: #66 Targetpractice

You Came To The Wrong Neighborhood

new toilet sale opportunity coming right up

82 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 2:30:18pm

Well, we picked out a dog for my wife to fill the hole the loss of jack left. He’s a six months old cross between a pug and I think a Shepard. He’s only about 13” tall, but fairly hefty and his nose is a normal dog nose with just a hint of a pug upturn at the end.

In other words he’s kind of ugly, but V thinks he’s cute and he loves people.

We just need to pick a name for him.

I suggested Max after the dog in the ‘Grinch Who Stole Christmas’ cartoon, but she wouldn’t go with it. She wants to call him Loki or Peanut.

0_o

83 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 2:30:20pm

re: #80 GlutenFreeJesus

[Embedded content]

…

84 wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2015 2:30:38pm

re: #81 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

new toilet sale opportunity coming right up

85 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 2:30:55pm
86 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 2:31:08pm

re: #79 Blind Frog Belly White

I guess I don’t have that gene. Spiders don’t scare me. I am cautious of woodpiles, since we have Black Widows and Brown Recluses, but walking into a spiderweb doesn’t fill me with unspeakable terror.

Put me in a small closed space, though, and I will totally lose my shit.

A small closed space doesn’t bother me, but a spiderweb causes me to lose my shit.

87 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 2:31:13pm

re: #80 GlutenFreeJesus

[Embedded content]

88 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 2:31:52pm

re: #82 b_sharp

Well, we picked out a dog for my wife to fill the hole the loss of jack left. He’s a six months old cross between a pug and I think a Shepard. He’s only about 13” tall, but fairly hefty and his nose is a normal dog nose with just a hint of a pug upturn at the end.

In other words he’s kind of ugly, but V thinks he’s cute and he loves people.

We just need to pick a name for him.

I suggested Max after the dog in the ‘Grinch Who Stole Christmas’ cartoon, but she wouldn’t go with it. She wants to call him Loki or Peanut.

0_o

Pug and a Shepherd? A Pepherd? Call him George.
//

89 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 2:31:59pm
90 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 2:32:15pm

re: #77 Lidane

[Embedded content]

[Embedded content]

91 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 2:32:40pm

re: #82 b_sharp

Well, we picked out a dog for my wife to fill the hole the loss of jack left. He’s a six months old cross between a pug and I think a Shepard. He’s only about 13” tall, but fairly hefty and his nose is a normal dog nose with just a hint of a pug upturn at the end.

In other words he’s kind of ugly, but V thinks he’s cute and he loves people.

We just need to pick a name for him.

I suggested Max after the dog in the ‘Grinch Who Stole Christmas’ cartoon, but she wouldn’t go with it. She wants to call him Loki or Peanut.

0_o

i’d pick loki

peanut does not cut much of a figure in norse mythology

92 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 2:33:13pm

re: #88 Blind Frog Belly White

Pug and a Shepherd? A Pepherd? Call him George.
//

I like it.

93 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 24, 2015 2:33:50pm

re: #92 b_sharp

I like it.

Or Saltan

94 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 2:33:53pm

re: #92 b_sharp

I like it.

You could take him to Breakfast at Tiffany’s

95 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 2:35:03pm

re: #91 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

i’d pick loki

peanut does not cut much of a figure in norse mythology

I originally suggested Pugnacious, shortened to Nate. She didn’t like it.

96 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 2:35:19pm

re: #88 Blind Frog Belly White

Pug and a Shepherd? A Pepherd? Call him George.
//

What if it is a Sheppug?

Ringo?

: )

97 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 2:36:14pm

re: #91 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

i’d pick loki

peanut does not cut much of a figure in norse mythology

HULK THINK LOKI NOT CUT MUCH FIGURE, EITHER!

Puny God!
98 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 2:37:14pm
99 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 2:37:56pm

How Robots & Algorithms Are Taking Over

In fact, this is already happening, in part because programmers increasingly rely on “self-correcting” code—that is, code that debugs and rewrites itself*

this silly remark is decorated with an asterisk, which leads to this:

Carr discusses integrated development environments (IDEs) which programmers use to check their code, and quotes Vivek Haldar, a veteran Google developer: “‘The behavior all these tools encourage is not ‘think deeply about your code and write it carefully,’ but ‘just write a crappy first draft of your code, and then the tools will tell you not just what’s wrong with it, but also how to make it better.’” ↩

yah im sure there are a lot of people here besides me that will tell you that IDEs do not make code debug and rewrite itself

100 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 2:38:41pm
… right wing performing clown “Steve Goddard” ….

MP3 Audio

101 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 2:39:34pm

re: #99 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

How Robots & Algorithms Are Taking Over

In fact, this is already happening, in part because programmers increasingly rely on “self-correcting” code—that is, code that debugs and rewrites itself*

this silly remark is decorated with an asterisk, which leads to this:

Carr discusses integrated development environments (IDEs) which programmers use to check their code, and quotes Vivek Haldar, a veteran Google developer: “‘The behavior all these tools encourage is not ‘think deeply about your code and write it carefully,’ but ‘just write a crappy first draft of your code, and then the tools will tell you not just what’s wrong with it, but also how to make it better.’” ↩

yah im sure there are a lot of people here besides me that will tell you that IDEs do not make code debug and rewrite itself

So, that’s what my problem is.

Damn you Netbeans!!!

102 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 2:39:50pm

re: #99 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

… is not ‘think deeply about your code and write it carefully,’ …

Which may explain why the current version of Chrome takes up 1.5GB of RAM just to open 3 tabs.

103 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 2:40:58pm

re: #99 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

How Robots & Algorithms Are Taking Over

In fact, this is already happening, in part because programmers increasingly rely on “self-correcting” code—that is, code that debugs and rewrites itself*

this silly remark is decorated with an asterisk, which leads to this:

Carr discusses integrated development environments (IDEs) which programmers use to check their code, and quotes Vivek Haldar, a veteran Google developer: “‘The behavior all these tools encourage is not ‘think deeply about your code and write it carefully,’ but ‘just write a crappy first draft of your code, and then the tools will tell you not just what’s wrong with it, but also how to make it better.’” ↩

yah im sure there are a lot of people here besides me that will tell you that IDEs do not make code debug and rewrite itself

It reminds me of a friend of mine who worked as an Editor for a scientific journal. She told me about a job candidate who admitted she couldn’t spell, but said it wasn’t a problem since she knew how to use spell check.

Of course, spell check only tells you if it’s A word, not if it’s THE word.

104 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 2:41:33pm

re: #63 wrenchwench

[Embedded content]

LOL, this guy is an idiot. He’s stuttering, hemming, and hawing over every question he gets asked. And he admits he can’t come up with a single example. Since these asshats claim our Constitution’s (and presumably Texas’) is based on Christianity that would make it Biblical law and therefore foreign, wouldn’t it?

Oh shit, now he’s talking about small town judges getting bamboozled by slick big city lawyers. One guy is reading him the riot act right now, snarking about “country judges” and basically saying we have real problems to deal with, why should we be wasting time solving problems that don’t actually exist.

He’s talking about preventative law now and just got loud applause, at which point the guy talking basically told everyone to STFU because this is serious and not some polarizing, emotional circus (to paraphrase).

Painful to watch. Time to shut it off. *smh*

105 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 2:43:03pm
106 wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2015 2:43:41pm

re: #104 CuriousLurker

LOL, this guy is an idiot. He’s stuttering, hemming, and hawing over every question he gets asked. And he admits he can’t come up with a single example. Since these asshats claim our Constitution’s (and presumably Texas’) is based on Christianity that would make Biblical law foreign, wouldn’t it?

Oh shit, now he’s talking about small town judges getting bamboozled by slick big city lawyers. One guy is reading him the riot act right now, snarking about “country judges” and basically saying we have real problems to deal with, why should we be wasting time solving problems that don’t actually exist.

He’s talking about preventative law now and just got loud applause, at which point the guy talking basically told everyone to STFU because this is serious and not some polarizing, emotional circus (to paraphrase).

Painful to watch. Time to shut it off. *smh*

I just shut it off myself. Time to deal with the sales taxes from last Sept….more fun than listening to them!

107 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 2:44:52pm

re: #103 Blind Frog Belly White

It reminds me of a friend of mine who worked as an Editor for a scinetific journal. She told me about a job candidate who admitted she couldn’t spell, but said it wasn’t a problem since she knew how to use spell check.

Of course, spell check only tells you if it’s A word, not if it’s THE word.

on a different level, that reminds me of somebody i met who was studying computer science in college. he told me he wanted to only program in java since “then you don’t have to worry about memory”

uh huh i see

108 Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2015 2:45:35pm

re: #36 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Spiders are your friends. Except some of them.

This one is no one’s friend. Note: Arachnophobes should not click on the link.

But, hey, it’s Australia.

109 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 2:48:11pm

re: #105 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

What I want to know is just why this is such a deeply rooted thing with some people. It would require such a large conspiracy to pull it off, and nobody decides to go legit and spill the beans? And they get the satellite guys, who are deniers, to provide data that supports the theory they deny.

And for what? The only reason I’ve ever heard is ‘to destroy Capitalism’, which is just stupid.

110 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 2:50:26pm
111 Jenner7  Mar 24, 2015 2:51:49pm

::shudder::

Stop with spider pics…blech!

112 allegro  Mar 24, 2015 2:52:56pm

re: #111 Jenner7

::shudder::

Stop with spider pics…blech!

Anyone got motherfucking snakes?

113 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 2:55:35pm

re: #112 allegro

114 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 2:56:42pm
115 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 2:56:49pm
116 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 2:57:12pm

re: #112 allegro

Anyone got motherfucking snakes?

Will a cobra do?

117 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 2:57:30pm

re: #109 Blind Frog Belly White

I now know for certain that “Steve Goddard” is nothing but a con man bilking right wing idiots.

118 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 2:57:48pm

Bwahahahaha!

Obamacare critic and presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to sign up for government health care - @DMRegister
desmoinesregister.com

It appears his wife is going on leave from Goldman Sachs and he won’t have any coverage.

119 Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2015 3:00:40pm

re: #99 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

How Robots & Algorithms Are Taking Over

In fact, this is already happening, in part because programmers increasingly rely on “self-correcting” code—that is, code that debugs and rewrites itself*

this silly remark is decorated with an asterisk, which leads to this:

Carr discusses integrated development environments (IDEs) which programmers use to check their code, and quotes Vivek Haldar, a veteran Google developer: “‘The behavior all these tools encourage is not ‘think deeply about your code and write it carefully,’ but ‘just write a crappy first draft of your code, and then the tools will tell you not just what’s wrong with it, but also how to make it better.’” ↩

yah im sure there are a lot of people here besides me that will tell you that IDEs do not make code debug and rewrite itself

It was over thirty years ago I first heard a fellow programmer claim we’d be out of work within a decade because of self coding programs.

Still waiting.

120 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 3:02:09pm
121 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 3:07:10pm

So, pissed off lizards (you know who you are), are you still pissed at me or have I been forgiven?

122 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 3:08:06pm

re: #121 b_sharp

So, pissed off lizards (you know who you are), are you still pissed at me or have I been forgiven?

Did you tell a really bad joke?
/

123 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 3:10:07pm

re: #119 Romantic Heretic

It was over thirty years ago I first heard a fellow programmer claim we’d be out of work within a decade because of self coding programs.

Still waiting.

i think if computers could program themselves they’d implement the instructions found in How To Serve Man

124 A Cranky One  Mar 24, 2015 3:10:42pm

All kneel!

Long live the CMoD!
125 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 3:11:22pm

This will not turn out well with the badgers…

England’s first population of wild beavers are released into the River Otter in Devon - @Telegraph
read more on telegraph.co.uk

Thought to be hunted to extinction during the 16th century, it’s not known how they made their way to the River Otter but might have been pets released into the wild.

English badgers w/their youngsters. …

126 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 3:12:54pm

re: #121 b_sharp

I wasn’t pissed at you, so it’s all good here in the backwoods.

127 TedStriker  Mar 24, 2015 3:16:15pm

re: #117 Charles Johnson

I now know for certain that “Steve Goddard” is nothing but a con man bilking right wing idiots.

As always, grifters gotta grift.

128 wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2015 3:16:27pm

re: #121 b_sharp

So, pissed off lizards (you know who you are), are you still pissed at me or have I been forgiven?

I don’t know who I am. You’re forgiven.

129 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 3:17:04pm

re: #121 b_sharp

So, pissed off lizards (you know who you are), are you still pissed at me or have I been forgiven?

Damn, what’d you do this time? //

130 #FergusonFireside  Mar 24, 2015 3:17:09pm

re: #121 b_sharp

So, pissed off lizards (you know who you are), are you still pissed at me or have I been forgiven?

It wasn’t me. I’d never be pissed @ you.

131 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 3:17:52pm

re: #120 Charles Johnson

Oh yeah, I forgot - @SteveSGoddard is also… wait for it… a birther.

Satellite images of Kenya?

132 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 3:18:33pm

don’t be grouchy

133 A Cranky One  Mar 24, 2015 3:19:20pm

re: #132 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

don’t be grouchy

Is cranky acceptable?

134 De Kolta Chair  Mar 24, 2015 3:19:37pm
COME AND GET ME, COPPER!!!
135 Kid A  Mar 24, 2015 3:19:56pm

LOL Liberty University.
liberty.edu

136 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 3:21:16pm

Found in my fortune cookie:

“Now is a good time for you to explore. Take a vacation.”

I wish.

137 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 3:22:21pm

re: #136 Justanotherhuman

Found in my fortune cookie:

“Now is a good time for you to explore. Take a vacation.”

I wish.

You had better do what the cookie says.
/

138 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 3:23:17pm

re: #135 Kid A

LOL Liberty University.
liberty.edu

Can you imagine getting a “PhD” in “Creation Studies” and then writing scholarly, peer-reviewed articles reviewed by other “Creation Scientists”

139 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 3:23:42pm

Weren’t some of you talking about this guy the other day?

Jeremy Clarkson is to be sacked as Top Gear presenter after a BBC probe concluded he did attack a producer - @Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk

140 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 3:24:01pm

re: #138 The Mother Of All Pies

There is, um, a group who do just that.

141 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 3:24:30pm

re: #139 Justanotherhuman

Weren’t some of you talking about this guy the other day?

Jeremy Clarkson is to be sacked as Top Gear presenter after a BBC probe concluded he did attack a producer - @Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk

I think that’s the dude Tardis hates. Not sure though.

142 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 3:26:19pm

re: #139 Justanotherhuman

Weren’t some of you talking about this guy the other day?

Jeremy Clarkson is to be sacked as Top Gear presenter after a BBC probe concluded he did attack a producer - @Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk

That guy is a prick of the highest order.

143 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 3:26:35pm

re: #139 Justanotherhuman

Weren’t some of you talking about this guy the other day?

Jeremy Clarkson is to be sacked as Top Gear presenter after a BBC probe concluded he did attack a producer - @Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk

re: #141 HappyWarrior

I think that’s the dude Tardis hates. Not sure though.

That is him. Host of the BBC Top Gear show

144 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 3:27:38pm

re: #122 Varek Raith

I looked in the mirror, saw an asshole and projected it on to some lizards.

145 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 3:28:23pm

re: #123 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

i think if computers could program themselves they’d implement the instructions found in How To Serve Man

You mean serve man roasted over a coal fire with an apple in the mouth?

146 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 3:28:38pm

re: #144 b_sharp

Ah.
Well, we all have our bad days.
Except for me.
I’m perfect.

147 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 3:28:41pm

re: #124 A Cranky One

All kneel!

[Embedded content]

He has a flat head.

148 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 3:29:10pm

re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth

I wasn’t pissed at you, so it’s all good here in the backwoods.

I’ve always valued your backwoods.

149 Kid A  Mar 24, 2015 3:29:19pm

I never knew there was a controversy between evolution and creationism until LOL Liberty. I always thought evolution made sense and creationism was bullshit. Oops, my bad.

150 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 3:29:27pm

re: #128 wrenchwench

I don’t know who I am. You’re forgiven.

Thank you.

151 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 3:29:52pm

re: #129 CuriousLurker

Damn, what’d you do this time? //

Just being a hot head.

152 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 3:30:16pm

re: #134 De Kolta Chair

[Embedded content]

I love this movie.

Hate the spiders.

153 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 3:30:59pm

re: #135 Kid A

LOL Liberty University.
liberty.edu

In other words, they’re teaching ‘not-science’.

154 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 3:31:15pm

re: #142 Varek Raith

That guy is a prick of the highest order.

If Prick was an order, he’d be an MBE.

155 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 3:31:43pm

re: #146 Varek Raith

Ah.
Well, we all have our bad days.
Except for me.
I’m perfect.

I’ve noticed that.

156 A Cranky One  Mar 24, 2015 3:31:59pm

re: #135 Kid A

I love the picture. Put a guy in a lab coat in front of what looks like a middle school science project and a fossil; that makes it look like real science!

After the class you’d be qualified to understand how it feels to be ripped off. //

157 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 3:32:26pm

re: #155 b_sharp

I’ve noticed that.

Does it make my head look big???

158 wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2015 3:32:53pm

Later, lizards.

159 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 3:33:27pm

re: #139 Justanotherhuman

Weren’t some of you talking about this guy the other day?

Jeremy Clarkson is to be sacked as Top Gear presenter after a BBC probe concluded he did attack a producer - @Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk

Well, that’s the end of that. So long to Top Gear.

160 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 3:33:45pm

re: #153 b_sharp

In other words, they’re teaching ‘not-science’.

You can also get a degree in “not history” from Liberty.

161 Jenner7  Mar 24, 2015 3:34:45pm

Well, CNN has more plane news to cover in some ridiculous way. Sigh.

162 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 3:35:08pm

re: #161 Jenner7

Well, CNN has more plane news to cover in some ridiculous way. Sigh.

It was aliens.

163 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 3:35:56pm

re: #160 HappyWarrior

You can also get a degree in “not history” from Liberty.

Does all this qualify you for a Not Educated BS Degree?

164 A Cranky One  Mar 24, 2015 3:36:02pm

re: #147 b_sharp

He has a flat head.

I’d go for this look, if only I had the hair.

165 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 3:36:20pm

re: #157 Varek Raith

Does it make my head look big???

No but it enlarges your ass.

166 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 3:36:39pm

For grins and giggles, there is the beloved-by-fundamentalists “Journal of Creation”.

However, there is another group that tries for a more serious tone, more highbrow, “Journal of Creation Theology and Science”

167 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 3:36:53pm

re: #165 Justanotherhuman

No but it enlarges your ass.

Well, damn.

168 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 3:37:00pm

re: #163 ObserverArt

Does all this qualify you for a Not Educated BS Degree?

It gets you into their law school, on your way to employment in a GOP Justice Dept.

169 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 3:37:09pm

re: #148 b_sharp

I’ve always valued your backwoods.

I’ve always valued your sharps.

170 Frenchy  Mar 24, 2015 3:37:19pm

re: #138 The Mother Of All Pies

No…no I cannot.

171 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 3:37:39pm

re: #157 Varek Raith

Does it make my head look big???

Frikken huge. Deathstar huge.

172 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 3:37:41pm

re: #163 ObserverArt

Does all this qualify you for a Not Educated BS Degree?

The history would be a not educated BA.

173 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 3:37:51pm

re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ve always valued your sharps.

Whoa, this is a family friendly forum!
Or not.

174 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 3:38:19pm

re: #164 A Cranky One

I’d go for this look, if only I had the hair.

Embedded Image

Same here.

175 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 3:39:58pm

re: #168 Decatur Deb

It gets you into their law school, on your way to employment in a GOP Justice Dept.

Ahhh. With a Liberty University conservative GOP-tinged education I am thinking BS takes on the real popular definition and not a bachelor of science degree.

176 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 3:40:11pm

re: #159 Targetpractice

Well, that’s the end of that. So long to Top Gear.

I always liked Richard Hammond and James May. Clarkson was always a prick.

I particularly adore James May, especially his model train things. (His brother is also amazing.)

177 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 3:40:28pm

Oh, how did I forget, there is the good ol’ “Creation Research Quarterly”.

There is of course also the ASA, but they don’t exclude evolution or old earth studies, so they are not complete creationists. They sort of bridge the middle ground of religiousness:

network.asa3.org

178 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 3:41:10pm

Bob McDonnell rode a law degree from Regent right into the VA governor’s mansion.

179 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 3:41:43pm

re: #172 HappyWarrior

The history would be a not educated BA.

I always get the two mixed up. But in this case BS works best!

180 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 3:42:00pm

How exactly do you “research” creation outside of just saying God did it. Creation science is a cop out for “I don’t want to think.”

181 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 3:42:44pm

re: #179 ObserverArt

I always get the two mixed up. But in this case BS works best!

Heh I know you were going for the pun. But yeah history being a liberal arts program is a BA.

182 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 3:42:58pm

re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth

I always liked Richard Hammond and James May. Clarkson was always a prick.

I particularly adore James May, especially his model train things. (His brother is also amazing.)

Well, considering all three of their contracts were up for renewal, there might be no show. They’re not just co-presenters, they’re close friends, and one going means the other two may very well follow.

Honestly, even if they stay, far as I’m concerned, the show’s over.

183 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 3:43:42pm

re: #180 HappyWarrior

Well, then you have these people:

colossianforum.org

But they are pretty much written off heretics by the true believers.

184 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 3:44:11pm

re: #181 HappyWarrior

Heh I know you were going for the pun. But yeah history being a liberal arts program is a BA.

Think wingnut. It’s a BA if you study History, a BS or BSE if you make it up.

185 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 3:46:09pm

re: #178 HappyWarrior

Obviously, they didn’t teach any ethics courses.

Why would they, with all the other bullshit they teach?

186 Frenchy  Mar 24, 2015 3:46:34pm

re: #180 HappyWarrior

Without actually reading any of the tripe I’ll take an educated guess and say that they find new ways to misinterpret and/or distort scientific data/findings to fit their own preconceived notion of how the earth came to be. Then they publish said misinterpretations and distortions in “academic” journals.

187 TedStriker  Mar 24, 2015 3:46:52pm

re: #182 Targetpractice

Well, considering all three of their contracts were up for renewal, there might be no show. They’re not just co-presenters, they’re close friends, and one going means the other two may very well follow.

Honestly, even if they stay, far as I’m concerned, the show’s over.

All because Clarkson couldn’t stop being a massive prick, even after the Beeb dropped their ultimatum on him last year.

Good show, chap…nice way to fuck over Top Gear fans across the globe.

188 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 3:47:12pm

re: #185 Justanotherhuman

Obviously, they didn’t teach any ethics courses.

Why would they, with all the other bullshit they teach?

Ethics was replaced with Throwing Wife Under the Bus 101. I imagine that one was taught by Pat Robertson himself.

189 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 3:48:01pm

re: #186 Frenchy

Without actually reading any of the tripe I’ll take an educated guess and say that they find new ways to misinterpret and/or distort scientific data/findings to fit their own preconceived notion of how the earth came to be. Then they publish said misinterpretations and distortions in “academic” journals.

You’re probably right. The really messed up ones to me are the young earth creationists because let’s totally ignore millions of artifacts.

190 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 3:48:50pm

re: #187 TedStriker

All because Clarkson couldn’t stop being a massive prick.

Good show, chap…nice way to fuck over Top Gear fans across the globe.

Clarkson believed himself to be bullet-proof and he could just get away with whatever bad behavior he wanted.

191 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 3:51:36pm

re: #187 TedStriker

All because Clarkson couldn’t stop being a massive prick.

Good show, chap…nice way to fuck over Top Gear fans across the globe.

I imagine there’s going to be numerous offers now for all three as part of a package deal. Sky might be eager to get ahold of that massive built-in audience, or possibly Netflix. I seriously doubt that this is the end for Clarkson.

192 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 3:55:58pm

re: #182 Targetpractice

Well, considering all three of their contracts were up for renewal, there might be no show. They’re not just co-presenters, they’re close friends, and one going means the other two may very well follow.

Honestly, even if they stay, far as I’m concerned, the show’s over.

Yeah. Say what you will about Clarkson, but the show was really about the three different sides each brought to the program, and I don’t think May and Hammond by themselves could carry it off. For one thing, they’re too nice. Clarkson being a big, oafish, obnoxious buffoon was part of why it worked.

193 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 3:58:42pm

I should have read more closely, the news of the sacking apparently is based upon “unconfirmed reports,” with the official announcement in 24 hours. Perhaps the Beeb is sending up a trial balloon, seeing just how much of a backlash there’s going to be.

194 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 4:00:08pm

The JBS informs us today that:

Obama’s FEMA to Halt Funding for States Led by Climate Realists

Yes, those denying reality are now the “realists”.

I’m sure Tony Heller agrees.

195 TedStriker  Mar 24, 2015 4:00:26pm

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

Clarkson believed himself to be bullet-proof and he could just get away with whatever bad behavior he wanted.

He was almost right, in that the Beeb apparently turned a blind eye to his conduct, on- and off-screen, for over twelve years (for this incarnation of Top Gear anyway). Eventually, the Beeb couldn’t ignore Clarkson’s antics anymore, precisely because of the high profile the show’s worldwide success gave him.

Frankly, Clarkson’s behavior is like drinking and driving: sooner or later, there’s going to be a hell of a wreck.

196 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 4:01:53pm

re: #191 Targetpractice

I imagine there’s going to be numerous offers now for all three as part of a package deal. Sky might be eager to get ahold of that massive built-in audience, or possibly Netflix. I seriously doubt that this is the end for Clarkson.

I never really watched the show. I am though a huge car nut, and have been a life long race fan and worked in and around racing for 20 years. All the mechanics and race team members watched Top Gear religiously. If they couldn’t get it on TV they’d have videos. Heard people talking about it for years.

So, hearing about the show through them, I never really heard much about Clarkson’s behavior. I guess that was all due to everyone loving all the car talk, the Stig bits, etc. and looking over Clarkson’s rough points.

I think you are right. It is a hugely popular show and like a Saturday Night Live for name recognition, it can bestill be used for an all new cast and format. It could still be at BBC. But Sky is a good bet.

197 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 4:02:53pm

re: #195 TedStriker

He was almost right, in that the Beeb apparently turned a blind eye to his conduct, on- and off-screen, for over twelve years (for this incarnation of Top Gear anyway). Eventually, the Beeb couldn’t ignore Clarkson’s antics anymore, precisely because of the high profile the show’s worldwide success gave him.

Frankly, Clarkson’s behavior is like drinking and driving: sooner or later, there’s going to be a hell of a wreck.

Punching out a BBC producer was apparently the last straw.

198 Dark_Falcon  Mar 24, 2015 4:03:46pm

re: #21 lawhawk

I laugh at his (Steve Goddard’s aka Tony Heller’s) superior intellect.

These folks are so full of themselves that they don’t realize how much of a joke they are to serious minded folks who are intimately involved in climatology and scientific research.

And Chuckles takes that to a whole new level of derp.

LAWHAAAWWK!!

(Sorry, I had to do it.)

199 Dark_Falcon  Mar 24, 2015 4:06:04pm

re: #197 Backwoods_Sleuth

Punching out a BBC producer was apparently the last straw.

Clarkson seems to be a British version of Keith Olbermann: Lots of on-screen talent, but with a major attitude problem off-screen.

200 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 4:06:49pm

re: #199 Dark_Falcon

Clarkson seems to be a British version of Keith Olbermann: Lots of on-screen talent, but with a major attitude problem off-screen.

No where near the same when it comes to bad behavior.

201 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 4:07:21pm

I missed much of today’s early commentary here at LGF. Was there much talk about the Jet crash in France? I’m just hearing bits on Tweety Matthews show (wanted to hear him rip on Cruz…a favorite target). Seems all a mystery.

202 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 4:08:16pm

re: #4 b_sharp

Here is a paper that takes into consideration all the statistical ‘noise’ regarding the apparent stall of temperature increase.

[Embedded content]

Foster and Rahmstorf conclude there has not been a stall in trend, but that the noise has overpowered the signal.

I have no idea what happened to the link to the paper.
I have a pdf of it if anyone is interested.

203 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 4:08:28pm

re: #201 ObserverArt

I missed much of today’s early commentary here at LGF. Was there much talk about the Jet crash in France? I’m just hearing bits on Tweety Matthews show (wanted to hear him rip on Cruz…a favorite target). Seems all a mystery.

They’ve retrieved the black box, so we’ll have to wait a while.

204 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 4:08:34pm

re: #201 ObserverArt

I missed much of today’s early commentary here at LGF. Was there much talk about the Jet crash in France? I’m just hearing bits on Tweety Matthews show (wanted to hear him rip on Cruz…a favorite target). Seems all a mystery.

Last I heard, they recovered one of the data recorders. The plane was completely obliterated. Very little in terms of large debris.

205 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 4:08:39pm

re: #194 freetoken

The JBS informs us today that:

Obama’s FEMA to Halt Funding for States Led by Climate Realists

Yes, those denying reality are now the “realists”.

I’m sure Tony Heller agrees.

Race realists
Rape realists
Tax realists
Sodomy realists
Labor realists
Poverty realists
Voting realists
School realists

206 Dark_Falcon  Mar 24, 2015 4:11:12pm

re: #205 Decatur Deb

Race realists
Rape realists
Tax realists
Sodomy realists
Labor realists
Poverty realists
Voting realists
School realists

I hate this. I like the term ‘realist’ and right now there seems to be a determined campaign to to have it become a synonym for “Asshole”.

207 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 4:12:18pm

re: #204 Varek Raith

Last I heard, they recovered one of the data recorders. The plane was completely obliterated. Very little in terms of large debris.

They just showed some video. It looks like litter on a mountain side.

They are saying the plane seemed to make a controlled decent and it is all very strange.

So sad. Those poor people.

208 Ace-o-aces  Mar 24, 2015 4:12:39pm

re: #199 Dark_Falcon

Clarkson seems to be a British version of Keith Olbermann: Lots of on-screen talent, but with a major attitude problem off-screen.

I don’t think Olbermann has ever actually assaulted anyone. He’s just a bit of a prima donna.

209 goddamnedfrank  Mar 24, 2015 4:14:12pm

re: #199 Dark_Falcon

Clarkson seems to be a British version of Keith Olbermann: Lots of on-screen talent, but with a major attitude problem off-screen.

Olbermann isn’t a violent racist. You can’t shoehorn a false liberal / conservative equivalence into everything.

210 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 4:14:35pm

re: #206 Dark_Falcon

I hate this. I like the term ‘realist’ and right now there seems to be a determined campaign to to have it become a synonym for “Asshole”.

Not unlike “truther” is it?

And with the nutty back and forth today, especially in politics, realist does not mean real. Most realists aren’t.

Yeah, it is sad.

211 goddamnedfrank  Mar 24, 2015 4:15:51pm

I’ve never actually been interested in or watched Top Gear. Therefore I assume it’s exactly like Glee. No?

212 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 4:16:03pm

re: #206 Dark_Falcon

I hate this. I like the term ‘realist’ and right now there seems to be a determined campaign to to have it become a synonym for “Asshole”.

The trouble is is that it’s being used as double speak. Racists use the term when they claim science has validated their bias, primarily through the data/conclusions used by ‘The Bell Curve’.

Other liars have latched on to the strategy to make it look like they have the science behind their views.

BTW, The Bell Curve uses a number of assumptions that they simply don’t back up to come to the conclusions in the book. It really is a ‘how to lie with data’ handbook.

213 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 4:16:22pm

re: #211 goddamnedfrank

I’ve never actually been interested in or watched Top Gear. Therefore I assume it’s exactly like Glee. No?

Uh..
I suggest you take cover.
/

214 Dark_Falcon  Mar 24, 2015 4:16:33pm

re: #209 goddamnedfrank

Olbermann isn’t a violent racist. You can’t shoehorn a false liberal / conservative equivalence into everything.

Why do you assume I’m trying? I was just talking about what the situation reminded me of, not trying to say the two are entirely the same. And I didn’t know about the violent part, either, since I just joined the discussion. Cool down.

215 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 4:16:45pm

re: #207 ObserverArt

They just showed some video. It looks like litter on a mountain side.

They are saying the plane seemed to make a controlled decent and it is all very strange.

So sad. Those poor people.

I really feel for their families, especially the parents and siblings of the kids.

216 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 4:19:23pm

after announcing his presidential campaign at Liberty University

how appropriate for a wingnut to launch his political campaign in front of a captive audience

IT SMELLS LIKE - FREEDOM!!!

217 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 4:22:48pm

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

218 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 24, 2015 4:22:56pm

It’s too bad about the AirBus—and this whole rash of accidents lately.

For many years it seemed like there was a serious airliner crash somewhere in the world roughly every year. Then abruptly—maybe because of the DC-10 getting phased out—it changed to more like every five years. It looked like a real increase in safety, but now it seems like it was just a statistical fluctuation. Like I said, too bad.

219 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 4:23:08pm

re: #180 HappyWarrior

How exactly do you “research” creation outside of just saying God did it. Creation science is a cop out for “I don’t want to think.”

I was thinking the same thing, more or less. I mean, if you’re going to accept the Bible as a history or science book, then it requires that you believe whatever is in it. I don’t even know where that idea comes from… it weirds me out when people try to understand history or science via scripture (and vice versa). Ditto for medicine, math, etc.

This is doubly true in that scripture typically has to be interpreted, not taken literally, and there are a bazillion ways to interpret things.

The only thing I’m sure of is that no single book—no history book, no science book, no religious book—has all the answers for everything & everyone at all times. We have to figure out some things for ourselves and we have to decide when looking to a particular book (or field of knowledge) might be useful to solve whatever problem/question is at hand.

It’s not that complicated, but the notion of doing so seems to scare the crap out of some people. Who knows, maybe they just don’t want to be held responsible for their choices—it’s always easier to blame external influences beyond one’s control than to accept personal responsibility for one’s screw-ups. *shrugs*

220 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 4:23:39pm

re: #217 The Mother Of All Pies

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

[Embedded content]

Facepalm.

221 Jack Burton  Mar 24, 2015 4:24:29pm

re: #217 The Mother Of All Pies

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

“The Constitution was created to be unchangeable—not to be subjected to the edits made by government innovators.”

That’s why it totally doesn’t have a section about amending it… oh… wait

222 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 4:24:48pm

re: #217 The Mother Of All Pies

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

[Embedded content]

What were those infallible Founding Fathers thinking of when they put the mechanism right there in the original document??!!??

223 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 4:25:00pm

If “The Constitution was created to be unchangeable” we would still have slavery & women would not be allowed to vote.

224 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 4:25:34pm

re: #217 The Mother Of All Pies

Does that mean we can get rid of the Second Amendment?

225 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 4:25:36pm

re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth

What were those infallible Founding Fathers thinking of when they put the mechanism right there in the original document??!!??

A TRICK OF THE STATAN TO FOOL THE NON BELIEVERS!!!!1!!!!

226 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 4:25:52pm

re: #223 The Mother Of All Pies

If “The Constitution was created to be unchangeable” we would still have slavery & women would not be allowed to vote.

And there would be no Second Amendment!!!

227 Great White Snark  Mar 24, 2015 4:25:53pm

re: #219 CuriousLurker

Who knows, maybe they just don’t want to be held responsible for their choices—it’s always easier to blame external influences beyond one’s control than to accept personal responsibility for one’s screw-ups. *shrugs*

Remember Flip Wilson?!
Video

228 Dark_Falcon  Mar 24, 2015 4:25:56pm

re: #217 The Mother Of All Pies

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

[Embedded content]

229 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 4:26:07pm

re: #223 The Mother Of All Pies

If “The Constitution was created to be unchangeable” we would still have slavery & women would not be allowed to vote.

A number of Americans (way too many for my tastes) wish things still worked that way.

230 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 4:27:40pm

re: #227 Great White Snark

Remember Flip Wilson?!
[Embedded content]

Video

LOL, I knew it had to be Geraldine. The devil made me do it!

231 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 24, 2015 4:28:30pm

re: #223 The Mother Of All Pies

If “The Constitution was created to be unchangeable” we would still have slavery & women would not be allowed to vote.

Look on the bright side—Obama could run for a third term.

Not really—I wouldn’t wish that on anybody.

232 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 4:29:04pm

re: #38 Kragar

And if his imaginary friend orders him to murder, that will be an objectively right thing for him. Respected highbrow apologists like Craig and Copan have whole articles about how the Biblical genocides were great and justified, even the babies.

233 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 4:29:09pm

re: #217 The Mother Of All Pies

Our #Constitution wasn’t made to evolve

automobiles are unconstitutional because our founding fathers did not account for them

234 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 4:31:24pm

clearly, liberals believe the constitution was descended from monkeys

235 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 24, 2015 4:31:50pm

A set of warbird pictures: B-25J strafer at the Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, AL.

236 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 4:32:16pm

re: #235 Feline Fearless Leader

A set of warbird pictures: B-25J strafer at the Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, AL.

[Embedded content]

UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

237 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 4:33:24pm

TEH DIFFERENS BETWEEN LIBRUL & CONSERVATIVE WOMENS!!!!!!
A liberal woman would wear body armor.

238 Dark_Falcon  Mar 24, 2015 4:33:47pm

Cue the Putin-praising on Twitter:

UN thwarts Russia over gay staff rights

The United Nations has voted to extend staff benefits to same-sex couples working for the UN, defeating Russian-led opposition to the measure.

The UN Budget Committee recognised gay spouses, regardless of whether or not gay marriage is legal in their country of origin.

Previously, the UN followed national legislation on the issue.

The vote went 80 to 43 against Russia’s resolution, which had backing from China, India and Muslim countries.

EU member states and the US lobbied hard against the resolution and for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s plan to include gay couples in the staff benefits scheme.

239 Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2015 4:35:10pm

re: #237 The Mother Of All Pies

TEH DIFFERENS BETWEEN LIBRUL & CONSERVATIVE WOMENS!!!!!!
A liberal woman would wear body armor.

[Embedded content]

Video game logic: When dealing with female character, the level of protection is inversely proportional to the amount of flesh covered.

240 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 4:36:08pm

re: #237 The Mother Of All Pies

“his kind of woman”…she’d probably just shoot his fat ass and never look back.

241 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 4:36:17pm

re: #217 The Mother Of All Pies

One of the clearest examples of turning the US Constitution into a religious text.

Infallible. Inerrant. Ineffable.

242 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 4:36:21pm

re: #237 The Mother Of All Pies

It’s the same mindset that prevails when women wear a helmet on a motorcycle but also sport a bikini and flip flops.

243 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 4:36:21pm

re: #237 The Mother Of All Pies

TEH DIFFERENS BETWEEN LIBRUL & CONSERVATIVE WOMENS!!!!!!
A liberal woman would wear body armor.

[Embedded content]

Trigger discipline.

244 Dark_Falcon  Mar 24, 2015 4:36:47pm

re: #237 The Mother Of All Pies

TEH DIFFERENS BETWEEN LIBRUL & CONSERVATIVE WOMENS!!!!!!
A liberal woman would wear body armor.

[Embedded content]

As would a conservative woman who has actually been in a firefight. Those sorts of “Warrior Woman” costumes are just that, costumes. And they’re sexist to boot.

BBL

245 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 4:38:23pm

re: #180 HappyWarrior

How exactly do you “research” creation outside of just saying God did it. Creation science is a cop out for “I don’t want to think.”

Easy: you disprove evolution, and voila: creation. Right? RIGHT???!!!

246 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 4:39:04pm

re: #242 Justanotherhuman

It’s the same mindset that prevails when women wear a helmet on a motorcycle but also sport a bikini and flip flops.

Why “boob plate” armor would actually kill you

247 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 4:39:21pm

re: #241 freetoken

One of the clearest examples of turning the US Constitution into a religious text.

Infallible. Inerrant. Ineffable.

it’s effin’ ineffable

248 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 4:39:29pm

Hillsdale btw is a noted holdout for both fundamentalists and, ahem, race realists.

249 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 4:41:00pm

re: #183 freetoken

There’s also The Biblical Astronomer - a peer-reviewed creation-scientific geocentricity journal ;)
Not sure if the kings of literalism - the flat-earthers - still publish anything.

250 goddamnedfrank  Mar 24, 2015 4:42:52pm

re: #235 Feline Fearless Leader

Last week I saw the B-29 Fifi doing a slow lazy turn as I was driving down Madera Road between Simi and T-Oaks. It freaked me out a little because the thing was flying really low and just kind of hangs there in the sky.

251 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 4:43:51pm

re: #246 The Mother Of All Pies

Why “boob plate” armor would actually kill you

Why the hell would anyone want to wear 100+ lbs of armor?

Well, it’s the fevered fantasies of game designers, I suppose.

252 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 4:44:06pm

re: #245 Nyet

Easy: you disprove evolution, and voila: creation. Right? RIGHT???!!!

So they say.

253 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 4:45:19pm

Creation science (geocentric version):

254 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 4:46:50pm

re: #253 Nyet

Creation science (geocentric version):

[Embedded content]

Holy shit.

255 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 4:47:14pm

It’s a very very long list of possibilities, Chuck…

256 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 24, 2015 4:48:00pm

re: #253 Nyet

Creation science (geocentric version):

[Embedded content]

That’s really…special!

257 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 4:48:00pm

And this is why Cruz is sucking up to Adelson right now:

258 Mattand  Mar 24, 2015 4:48:11pm

re: #253 Nyet

Republican science.

259 Timothy Watson  Mar 24, 2015 4:48:34pm

re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s a very very long list of possibilities, Chuck…

[Embedded content]

Impossible, doesn’t he know the Democrats are the real racists? Maybe the GOPer is just a “race realist”.

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

260 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 4:49:16pm

re: #258 Mattand

“Republican science”.

Needs teh scare quotes…

261 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 4:49:24pm

re: #246 The Mother Of All Pies

Why “boob plate” armor would actually kill you

Last comment of article:
“You forget that boobs are magic.”

262 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 4:49:41pm
263 prairiefire  Mar 24, 2015 4:49:41pm

re: #248 freetoken

Hillsdale btw is a noted holdout for both fundamentalists and, ahem, race realists.

Law, my former right wing friend used to give me the Hillsdale newsletter like she was giving me a religious tract. The articles did not make a lot of sense to me.

264 Mattand  Mar 24, 2015 4:50:06pm

re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s a very very long list of possibilities, Chuck…

OH MAN! I have video of a major GOP figure saying something racist on camera while he’s drunk…

My gut reaction is that CCJ took a video selfie, but the “major” description doesn’t apply. Then again, he definitely suffers from delusions of grandeur, so maybe I am right.

265 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 4:51:59pm

re: #264 Mattand

My gut reaction is that CCJ took a video selfie, but the “major” description doesn’t apply. Then again, he definitely suffers from delusions of grandeur, so maybe I am right.

Hey now, that is just factually wrong.

CCJ suffers from delusions of basic fucking competence.

266 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 24, 2015 4:52:08pm

re: #114 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Good. Bring it back to Milwaukee so I can go again.

267 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 4:52:30pm

re: #254 Justanotherhuman

His theory is that large stones were levitating right after the Flood (because ambient electricity, duh!) and that’s how the Egyptian pyramids got built.

Here’s another author, who actually has a point compared to the non-geocentrist YECs:

268 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 4:53:20pm

Imagine serving in the thick of things in Afghanistan, only to return home to be killed by the very police officers you counseled others not to condemn unilaterally.

Another tragic and unnecessary death.

269 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 4:53:50pm

re: #249 Nyet

There’s also The Biblical Astronomer - a peer-reviewed creation-scientific geocentricity journal ;)
Not sure if the kings of literalism - the flat-earthers - still publish anything.

I ran across this book last week and thought it looked interesting, but it was kind of outdated (the symposium it takes its lectures from was in 1991 and the book was originally published in 1993). I looked up the Biblical Archaeology Society & its publication the Biblical Archaeology Review and what I read gave me pause, so I didn’t buy it. Do you (or does anyone) know anything about them?

270 Kragar  Mar 24, 2015 4:53:55pm

re: #267 Nyet

His theory is that large stones were levitating right after the Flood (because ambient electricity, duh!) and that’s how the Egyptian pyramids got built.

Here’s another author, who actually has a point compared to the non-geocentrist YECs:

[Embedded content]

Everyone knows how the Pyramids got built.

Giant fucking whips.

271 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 4:55:58pm

re: #270 Kragar

Everyone knows how the Pyramids got built.

Giant fucking whips.

And aliens.

272 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 4:56:45pm

re: #268 Justanotherhuman

Imagine serving in the thick of things in Afghanistan, only to return home to be killed by the very police officers you counseled others not to condemn unilaterally.

Another tragic and unnecessary death.

That makes me think of the many African-Americans who came back from fighting the Axis only to encounter discrimination and in some cases lynching upon returning home. Truman said it was the lynching of black soldiers that finally pushed him to favor civil rights and to desegregate the military.

273 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 4:56:59pm

re: #269 CuriousLurker

Anything with Dever you can buy (except if it’s outdated).

274 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Mar 24, 2015 4:57:16pm

re: #270 Kragar

Free beer.

I shit you not.

275 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 4:57:22pm

re: #269 CuriousLurker

I ran across this book last week and thought it looked interesting, but it was kind of outdated (the symposium it takes its lectures from was in 1991 and the book was originally published in 1993). I looked up the Biblical Archaeology Society & its publication the Biblical Archaeology Review and what I read gave me pause, so I didn’t buy it. Do you (or does anyone) know anything about them?

We subscribed during the years we were in Israel, used it as our weekly tour planner. The magazine (and society) are quite serious within the limits that they are vaguely traced to the old ‘proving things’ archaeology. The work they report is solid. It’s basically Scientific American level writing on NE digging.

276 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 4:57:34pm

Damn practically my age.

277 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 4:57:39pm

re: #270 Kragar

re: #271 Varek Raith

Both?

278 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 4:58:12pm

re: #270 Kragar

Everyone knows how the Pyramids got built.

Giant fucking whips.

Public works stimulus projects (my fave explanation).

279 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 4:59:02pm

re: #274 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss

Beer the consistency of thin gruel, more than likely.

280 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 4:59:05pm

re: #228 Dark_Falcon

[Embedded content]

More to the point, America was meant to be whatever Americans wanted it to be. That’s the whole point of self-government. It wasn’t so that a bunch of rich white landowners could rule America from beyond the grave. It was a framework to create a government that served the people, versus the other governments of the day which viewed it the other way round.

18th Century rich white landowners were totally okay with the idea that women shouldn’t vote or own property, that one race could be subjugate by another and kept in permanent servitude. We are not bound by their prejudices.

281 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 4:59:28pm

re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s a very very long list of possibilities, Chuck…

[Embedded content]

As opposed to Chuckles hero Cruz who praised the Senate’s biggest racist of the past 30 years while sober.

282 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 4:59:30pm

re: #261 Decatur Deb

Last comment of article:
“You forget that boobs are magic.”

They are.

283 Varek Raith  Mar 24, 2015 4:59:50pm

Laters.

284 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 5:00:49pm

Damn, this Goddard dude is like the Energizer Bunny.

And just as annoying.

285 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 5:01:47pm

re: #271 Varek Raith

And aliens.

the rationalization behind the ancient aliens theories is exactly the same as ‘creation science’:

i can’t believe it happened due to natural causes, therefore a magical being must have caused it

286 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 5:02:04pm

re: #273 Nyet

Anything with Dever you can buy (except if it’s outdated).

re: #275 Decatur Deb

We subscribed during the years we were in Israel, used it as our weekly tour planner. The magazine (and society) are quite serious within the limits that they are vaguely traced to the old ‘proving things’ archaeology. The work they report is solid. It’s basically Scientific American level writing on NE digging.

Thanks! I’ll go ahead and get it then, keeping in mind that there have surely been new discoveries & improved technology since 1991.

Stupid Kindle. I have soooo many books waiting to be read… *sigh*

287 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 5:02:55pm

re: #250 goddamnedfrank

Last week I saw the B-29 Fifi doing a slow lazy turn as I was driving down Madera Road between Simi and T-Oaks. It freaked me out a little because the thing was flying really low and just kind of hangs there in the sky.

[Embedded content]

In much the same way bricks don’t?

288 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 5:02:59pm

re: #272 HappyWarrior

I mentioned my g-g-g-uncle Philip Sheridan downstairs a few days ago.
He was really good at a lot of his assignments and a real asshole in others.
But one thing he did was really outstanding.
This is from Wiki, but pretty much is in line with our family oral history:

On July 30, 1866, while Sheridan was in Texas, a white mob broke up the state constitutional convention in New Orleans. Thirty-four blacks were killed. Shortly after Sheridan returned, he wired Grant, “The more information I obtain of the affair of the 30th in this city the more revolting it becomes. It was no riot; it was an absolute massacre.”
In March 1867, with Reconstruction barely started, Sheridan was appointed military governor of the Fifth Military District (Texas and Louisiana). He severely limited voter registration for former Confederates and ruled that only registered voters (including black men) were eligible to serve on juries.Furthermore, an inquiry into the deadly New Orleans riot of 1866 implicated numerous local officials; Sheridan dismissed the mayor of New Orleans, the Louisiana attorney general, and a district judge. He later removed Louisiana Governor James M. Wells, accusing him of being “a political trickster and a dishonest man.”
He also dismissed Texas Governor James W. Throckmorton, a former Confederate, for being an “impediment to the reconstruction of the State,” replacing him with the Republican who had lost to him in the previous election.
Sheridan had been feuding with President Andrew Johnson for months over interpretations of the Military Reconstruction Acts and voting rights issues, and within a month of the second firing, the president removed Sheridan, stating to an outraged Gen. Grant that, “His rule has, in fact, been one of absolute tyranny, without references to the principles of our government or the nature of our free institutions.”

289 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 5:06:04pm

re: #269 CuriousLurker

If you’re interested:

Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?

What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?: What Archeology Can Tell Us About the Reality of Ancient Israel

For a different, and slightly more “controversial” perspective, see:

The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts

The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel

Note that Dever likes to attack Finkelstein, but those seem like big differences only when one delves into minute details. They still agree on the big picture when compared to various apologists. No surprise there, as they’re both highly respected archaeologists.

290 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 5:06:56pm

re: #289 Nyet

Thanks again!

291 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Mar 24, 2015 5:07:02pm

re: #279 Justanotherhuman

Beer the consistency of thin gruel, more than likely.

Accurate…but less funny.

292 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 5:07:11pm

re: #285 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

the rationalization behind the ancient aliens theories is exactly the same as ‘creation science’:

i can’t believe it happened due to natural causes, therefore a magical being must have caused it

Argument from Personal Incredulity.

293 ObserverArt  Mar 24, 2015 5:07:36pm

re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth

I mentioned my g-g-g-uncle Philip Sheridan downstairs a few days ago.
He was really good at a lot of his assignments and a real asshole in others.
But one thing he did was really outstanding.
This is from Wiki, but pretty much is in line with our family oral history:

So, not a lot has changed in Louisiana politics. Big surprise there.

/

Later all…got some creating to do.

294 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:08:08pm

re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth

I mentioned my g-g-g-uncle Philip Sheridan downstairs a few days ago.
He was really good at at lot of his assignments and a real asshole in others.
But one thing he did was really outstanding.
This is from Wiki, but pretty much is in line with our family oral history:

That’s very admirable especially considering the history of the Irish-Americans with African-Americans at that time. Glad to see he was one of the good guys in enforcing civil rights. I know his record with native Americans isn’t the best but people are complicated. I recall reading about an Irish Catholic priest who was a supporter of the early labor movement but also downright hostile to so called Greek Catholics. For those of you who are curious. Greek Catholics are an interesting sect of Catholicism that follows much of Eastern Orthodox ritual but are in league with Rome. Their priests were allowed to marry while my grandmother was a girl. I only know about them since my grandmother was raised in a GC household.

295 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 5:08:22pm

re: #286 CuriousLurker

I suggest the more up-to-date stuff above.

296 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 5:08:57pm

re: #291 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss

Accurate…but less funny.

And with no hops. Kinda like thin porridge gone off.

297 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 24, 2015 5:09:07pm

re: #278 Decatur Deb

Public works stimulus projects (my fave explanation).

This actually is the standard interpretation as I understand it. It kept the population employed during the flood season.

298 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:09:30pm

I’m of the opinion regarding Reconstruction that the biggest mistake ever made was in the Compromise of 1876 was granting Hayes the presidency in exchange for ending Reconstruction.

299 Justanotherhuman  Mar 24, 2015 5:10:28pm

Netflix beckons.

Later, Lizards!

Keep calm…and b nice to b sharp. : )

300 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 5:11:07pm

re: #299 Justanotherhuman

Netflix beckons.

Later, Lizards!

Keep calm…and b nice to b sharp. : )

{{{{ Justanotherhuman }}}

301 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 5:11:29pm

re: #300 b_sharp

{{{{ Justanotherhuman }}}

We need pictures of the new puppy!!!

302 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 5:11:57pm

re: #275 Decatur Deb

I’d say that BAR is more on the apologist rather than pure research side. Which is why they got into sticky situations like that with “James’ ossuary”.

303 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 5:12:32pm

re: #295 Nyet

I suggest the more up-to-date stuff above.

Noted. Now I have to figure out which one would be the best starting point for someone with pretty much zero knowledge on the subject. Any suggestions?

304 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:12:45pm

When looking at historical figures, it can be easy to judge them by modern standards. I do try to judge them by the actions of their contempories which is why I cannot give Jefferson a pass for slavery and furthermore not freeing them upon his death like Washington did. Likewise while I do believe Lincoln could have been a better progressive on race issues, I trust Frederick Douglass’s words when he said Lincoln was one of the few white men that treated him like a man.

305 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 24, 2015 5:13:16pm

re: #279 Justanotherhuman

Beer the consistency of thin gruel, more than likely.

The Sumerians had beaker-shaped beer drinkers with a strainer in the bottom and a straw—but they were really wine drinkers. The Egyptians were the opposite and I think made much better beer, but had to import wine.

306 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 5:13:20pm

re: #299 Justanotherhuman

Keep calm…and b nice to b sharp. : )

Nope.

F sharp, however, is always welcome.

…

307 Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2015 5:15:54pm

re: #235 Feline Fearless Leader

A set of warbird pictures: B-25J strafer at the Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, AL.

Embedded Image

Embedded Image

Embedded Image

Looking forward to the day I fly that plane in War Thunder. I’ll be flying the Mosquito first though.

308 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 24, 2015 5:15:55pm
Thread needs more sea bugs
309 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 5:16:01pm

bwahahahaaa!!!

310 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 5:17:04pm

re: #302 Nyet

I’d say that BAR is more on the apologist rather than pure research side. Which is why they got into sticky situations like that with “James’ ossuary”.

Yes—they came out of the old urge to ‘prove’ the Bible. At the same time, they report honestly on what comes out of the ground. (Mostly university digs, I don’t think they fund much themselves.) Their level of explanation is modern, I remember a very good description of the fishing operations at the N. end of the Kinneret, Peter’s people, as a Roman tax dodge.

311 Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2015 5:17:19pm

re: #241 freetoken

One of the clearest examples of turning the US Constitution into a religious text.

Infallible. Inerrant. Ineffable.

And by extension the whole freakin’ country becomes a religion.

312 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 5:18:08pm

lol, he’s going after Romney (or David Corn) as the drunk racist guy:

313 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:19:23pm

re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth

bwahahahaaa!!!

[Embedded content]

I can’t wait to hear how this is just terrible terrible but Rush was okay to call Mrs. Obama the same word. It’s all about context. That said I wouldn’t use the word “uppity” for Cruz, I’d use “hypocritical.” since that’s what he is.

314 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:20:14pm

re: #312 Backwoods_Sleuth

lol, he’s going after Romney (or David Corn) as the drunk racist guy:

[Embedded content]

He probably agrees with the drunk racist guy.

315 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Mar 24, 2015 5:21:05pm

re: #296 Blind Frog Belly White

And with no hops. Kinda like thin porridge gone off.

I remember the first time I read a monograph about East African beer culture. I was super confused about the description of the beverage being consumed. Fortunately my professor, who’d done work in the region, understood the basis of my confusion.

What can I say—the moment I acquired a taste for drink I lunged toward Scotch. Eventually, I came back around and found beer I liked, but it took awhile.

I’ve even had a few gruits…unhopped beers…that were good.

316 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 5:21:15pm

re: #313 HappyWarrior

I can’t wait to hear how this is just terrible terrible but Rush was okay to call Mrs. Obama the same word. It’s all about context. That said I wouldn’t use the word “uppity” for Cruz, I’d use “hypocritical.” since that’s what he is.

“Uppity Latino” isn’t even a meme. Xenophobes fasten onto other imagined shortcomings.

317 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 5:21:23pm
318 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 5:21:25pm

re: #312 Backwoods_Sleuth

lol, he’s going after Romney (or David Corn) as the drunk racist guy:

[Embedded content]

Aren’t we still waiting on a couple major, earthshaking revelations he promised would be coming out?

319 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 5:21:27pm

re: #312 Backwoods_Sleuth

Is Chuckie McGinger a Ted Cruz guy or a Paultard?

320 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:23:03pm

re: #319 Lidane

Is Chuckie McGinger a Ted Cruz guy or a Paultard?

Cruz.

321 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 24, 2015 5:23:18pm

re: #319 Lidane

Is Chuckie McGinger a Ted Cruz guy or a Paultard?

Pretty sure he is a Luz with Cruz guy.

322 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 5:23:30pm

re: #317 Charles Johnson

I “organize gangs?” Who knew? You’re getting pretty weird and irrational here, Tony.

“Hey boss. Where do you want these bundles of faggots stacked.”

323 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:23:44pm

re: #321 Feline Fearless Leader

Pretty sure he is a Luz with Cruz guy.

Ted may need a restraining order if and when he breaks Chucky’s heart.

324 #FergusonFireside  Mar 24, 2015 5:24:13pm

I missed way too many posts during my long drive home.

Who the hell was pissed at B_Sharp?

1st world concerns here.

325 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 5:24:17pm

I noticed via commercials on my iPad while watching shows that there’s a Bible/Jesus movie due out, I’m assuming for Easter. I haven’t looked it up yet as I’m not particularly interested, but it seemed like (what I assumed were) Jews (based on their clothing) are kind of portrayed bad guys. Does anyone know about this movie?

Just curious—not curious enough to watch it, just curious to know if it’s something that’s likely to create additional outbreaks of antisemitism.

326 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 5:24:20pm
327 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 5:24:57pm

re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth

We need pictures of the new puppy!!!

We get him after his ‘operation’. Probably late this week.

But then, as soon as I get him to sit still, I’ll get pics.

328 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 5:25:12pm

re: #303 CuriousLurker

Dever presents a very moderate, center-of-the mainstream perspective, in a way trying to defend the Bible as a secular historical source (e.g. he rails against minimalists and revisionists). So if you want to be “on the safe side”, his books are a good place to start. But: I don’t like his prose; also he can get quite technical and long-winded for my taste. Finkelstein’s texts are much more “free-flowing”, but not everything he says is a consensus (esp. about David, Solomon and the United Monarchy).

329 Belafon  Mar 24, 2015 5:25:28pm

re: #48 allegro

My takeaway is that he’s trying to convince himself that his god really really wants him to do it. He clearly thinks about it a lot.

twogag.com

330 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 5:25:29pm

re: #317 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

See, that’s his problem. His belief in the nonexistence of AGW is a religious belief. He doesn’t believe it could be, so he looks for any evidence that could support his faith.

Scientists, OTOH, spend our lives looking to prove ourselves wrong, If we’re really, really good, we constantly fail to do so.

Climate scientists have been trying to prove AGW doesn’t exist for a couple decades, but they keep failing to do so.

331 Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2015 5:25:53pm

re: #308 Feline Fearless Leader

If that’s the case.

…

332 #FergusonFireside  Mar 24, 2015 5:26:44pm

re: #316 Decatur Deb

“Uppity Latino” isn’t even a meme. Xenophobes fasten onto other imagined shortcomings.

I will fasten on to fucking weirdo, Ted Cruz.

333 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 5:27:06pm

re: #306 Nyet

Nope.

F sharp, however, is always welcome.

[Embedded content]

G, that leaves me flat.

334 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 5:27:20pm

re: #328 Nyet

Dever present a very moderate, center-of-the mainstream perspective, in a way trying to defend the Bible as a secular historical source (e.g. he rails against minimalists and revisionists). So if you want to be “on the safe side”, his books are a good place to start. But: I don’t like his prose; also he can get quite technical and long-winded for my taste. Finkelstein’s texts are much more “free-flowing”, but not everything he says is a consensus (esp. about David, Solomon and the United Monarchy).

Exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks. ;-)

335 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 5:27:27pm

re: #317 Charles Johnson

I bet Tony didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition.

336 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 5:27:54pm

re: #312 Backwoods_Sleuth

We are going to make the 47 percent guy look like an amateur this election cycle

??? you thought he didnt already look like an amateur???

337 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 5:28:21pm

re: #335 Nyet

I bet Tony didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition.

“Cardinal Biggles? Fetch…THE SOFT CUSHIONS!!!!”

338 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 24, 2015 5:28:38pm

re: #331 Romantic Heretic

If that’s the case.

[Embedded content]

I iz famous on the intertubes! Take that Chuckie!
339 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 5:29:05pm

re: #324 #FergusonFireside

I missed way too many posts during my long drive home.

Who the hell was pissed at B_Sharp?

1st world concerns here.

It was the First Day of Spring and several lizards got a wee bit frisky with the a*hole word.

340 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 24, 2015 5:29:31pm

re: #336 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

??? you thought he didnt already look like an amateur???

Besides, didn’t that 47% guy already announce he’s not running?

341 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 5:30:49pm

re: #340 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Besides, didn’t that 47% guy already announce he’s not running?

I don’t read that as targeting Romney, only a determination to outshine his assholery.

342 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 5:30:54pm

re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth

It was the First Day of Spring and several lizards got a wee bit frisky with the a*hole word.

I miss all the fun.

343 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 5:31:00pm

Now we know where Chuck gets his scoops…in the street gutters when he wakes up from his daily alcoholic binges:

344 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 24, 2015 5:31:32pm
How about an old flying boat?
345 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 5:31:35pm

re: #341 Decatur Deb

I don’t read that as targeting Romney, only a determination to outshine his assholery.

I think he means David Corn, who was the one who broke the 47% story.

346 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:31:42pm

Going to be hard to beat the Romney-47%moment. I’m actually curious to see what he’s got though. It’s probably nothing since CCJ is full of shit.

347 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 24, 2015 5:31:46pm

re: #341 Decatur Deb

I don’t read that as targeting Romney, only a determination to outshine his assholery.

Ah, sorry. I don’t speak Chav wingnut.

348 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 5:32:08pm
349 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:32:54pm

re: #347 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Ah, sorry. I don’t speak Chav wingnut.

Drunk Wingnut is more hard to learn than Magyar I bet.

350 #FergusonFireside  Mar 24, 2015 5:34:37pm

PBS had a good show on last night I think. Heard about it on my drive yesterday.

Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical upper middle class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with a strong sense of her identity. But after her parents split apart, she begins to piece together the mystery of how a white girl could have such dark skin, and learns the truth about her biological father.

Her Mom had an affair with a black dude.

I’m watching this tonight.

pbs.org

PBS Independent Lens.

351 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 5:35:10pm

re: #344 Feline Fearless Leader

Not quite an old NC4.
en.wikipedia.org

352 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 5:35:14pm

re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth

I mentioned my g-g-g-uncle Philip Sheridan downstairs a few days ago.
He was really good at a lot of his assignments and a real asshole in others.
But one thing he did was really outstanding.
This is from Wiki, but pretty much is in line with our family oral history:

Sheridan is alleged to have said “If I owned Texas and I owned Hell, I’d live in Hell and rent out Texas”

I can’t verify if it is a real quote, meaning I don’t feel like looking it up right now.

353 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 5:36:27pm

re: #345 Blind Frog Belly White

I think he means David Corn, who was the one who broke the 47% story.

Makes sense. CCJ should take a crash course in bussing tables—come in handy.

354 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 5:36:29pm

re: #348 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Wait… what? You’re not a scientist?? Why does our Twitter profile claims you’re a “scientist of love”…?

355 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 5:36:32pm

35 Tattoos Every Basic Girl Wishes She Had

any major dude will tell you that

356 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 24, 2015 5:36:37pm

re: #346 HappyWarrior

Going to be hard to beat the Romney-47%moment. I’m actually curious to see what he’s got though. It’s probably nothing since CCJ is full of shit.

I think there are going to be more 47% moments than you can shake a stick at during this campaign—so many that they’ll lose any impact they once had. The whole field is off their meds and it’s going to be a florid free-for-all of raging mental illness just spilling out of dozens of mouths into the TV machine.

357 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 5:36:46pm

re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth

Now we know where Chuck gets his scoops…in the street gutters when he wakes up from his daily alcoholic binges:

[Embedded content]

He saw some graffiti that said PJMEDIA CAN EAT SHIT AND DIE just as he came to with a can of spray paint in his hand.

358 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 5:37:29pm
359 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 5:37:37pm

re: #354 CuriousLurker

Wait… what? You’re not a scientist?? Why does our Twitter profile claims you’re a “scientist of love”…?

I thought it was Gangster. Some people call him Maurice…
///

360 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 24, 2015 5:37:39pm

re: #351 Decatur Deb

Not quite an old NC4.
en.wikipedia.org

Actually it *is* the Curtiss NC-4. :)

361 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 24, 2015 5:37:48pm

re: #330 Blind Frog Belly White

Climate scientists have been trying to prove AGW doesn’t exist for a couple decades, but they keep failing to do so.

the best defense of global warming theory that i’ve heard yet

362 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 5:37:57pm

re: #352 The Mother Of All Pies

Sheridan is alleged to have said “If I owned Texas and I owned Hell, I’d live in Hell and rent out Texas”

I can’t verify if it is a real quote, meaning I don’t feel like looking it up right now.

Apparently he did say that, on numerous occasions.

363 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:38:12pm

re: #356 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I think there are going to be more 47% moments than you can shake a stick at during this campaign—so many that they’ll lose any impact they once had. The whole field is off their meds and it’s going to be a florid free-for-all of raging mental ilness just spilling out of dozens of mouths into the TV machine.

I dunno. I thought the 47% comment while I don’t believe it is why Romney lost the election played a big role in reminding the American people that Mitt Romney is exactly who we thought he was- an out of touch dick who think he’s better than everyone else because he’s wealthy.

364 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 5:38:13pm

re: #357 The Mother Of All Pies

He saw some graffiti that said PJMEDIA CAN EAT SHIT AND DIE just as he came to with a can of spray paint in his hand.

LOLOLOLOL—that was a good one.

365 #FergusonFireside  Mar 24, 2015 5:38:22pm

re: #350 #FergusonFireside

More in depth clarity to the scandalous blurb I posted. Her Mom is with her every step of the way.

366 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 5:38:53pm

re: #358 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Tony might be a duck.
We should test that.

367 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 5:39:19pm
368 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 5:39:22pm

re: #360 Feline Fearless Leader

Actually it *is* the Curtis NC-4. :)

That removable(?) boarding ladder thing threw me off.

369 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 24, 2015 5:40:08pm

re: #362 Backwoods_Sleuth

Apparently he did say that, on numerous occasions.

Of course he also said: “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.”, so you’ve got to take the bad with the good.

370 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 5:40:31pm

re: #358 Charles Johnson

If he weighs the same as Phil Robertson…

371 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 24, 2015 5:40:47pm
More biplanes. Looks like Grumman Ironworks output.
372 #FergusonFireside  Mar 24, 2015 5:41:11pm

Fuck it, it’s french fries and ranch dressing for dinner.

Envy me.

373 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 5:41:14pm

re: #359 Blind Frog Belly White

I thought it was Gangster. Some people call him Maurice…
///

LOL, that song came to mind as soon as I typed “scientist of love”.

…

374 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 5:41:15pm
375 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 5:41:27pm

re: #370 Nyet

If he weighs the same as Phil Robertson…

376 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 5:41:46pm

re: #369 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Of course he also said: “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.”, so you’ve got to take the bad with the good.

There’s some dispute amongst historians about whether he actually said that, but family oral history says he did.

377 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 5:42:11pm

re: #367 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

What is this ‘debate’ shit? Science doesn’t do debates. The data are, or are not consistent with the hypothesis.

378 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 5:42:29pm

Zing!

379 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 5:42:39pm

Not only does Chuck grift for money, he shills for retweets:

380 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 5:43:05pm
381 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 5:43:29pm

I really do love to wind up right wing loons. It’s a weakness of mine.

382 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 5:44:14pm

re: #377 Blind Frog Belly White

What is this ‘debate’ shit? Science doesn’t do debates. The data are, or are not consistent with the hypothesis.

Many think science is about people debating on the radio, tv and the web. They also seem to believe that whoever wins the debate is right.

383 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 5:44:15pm

re: #378 The Mother Of All Pies

Zing!

[Embedded content]

“Give ME liberty. Not those N*****s. Not the Indians. Not the women. Just me.”

384 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:44:16pm

re: #378 The Mother Of All Pies

Zing!

[Embedded content]

I bet he can’t tell you anything else about Henry other than that he said that. Henry actually opposed the Constitution and then he opposed the Bill of Rights but when he felt his lot was being threatened during the Whiskey Rebellion, he became an arch-federalist.

385 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 5:44:21pm

re: #371 Feline Fearless Leader

[Embedded content]

Built a Revell model of that one, the first Helldiver.

386 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 5:44:38pm

re: #382 b_sharp

Many think science is about people debating on the radio, tv and the web. They also seem to believe that whoever wins the debate is right.

That’s law. Common mistake.
//

387 #FergusonFireside  Mar 24, 2015 5:44:48pm

re: #373 CuriousLurker

CL, weird weird memory here. I was a kid after a gymnastics meet with my team eating the fried clams at Howard Johnson’s when I first heard this song. Clear as glass this memory is.

388 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 5:47:50pm

re: #384 HappyWarrior

I bet he can’t tell you anything else about Henry other than that he said that. Henry actually opposed the Constitution and then he opposed the Bill of Rights but when he felt his lot was being threatened during the Whiskey Rebellion, he became an arch-federalist.

Once I found out about the 78 slaves it was pretty clear that all his fancy speech about liberty & death was just a bunch of bullshit rhetoric.

389 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 5:48:30pm

re: #373 CuriousLurker

LOL, that song came to mind as soon as I typed “scientist of love”.

[Embedded content]

Speaking of music, do y’all remember that Decatur Deb posted this version of “Guantanamera” a couple of weeks or so ago? I liked it and bought the video from iTunes and it proceeded to worm its way into my head and I could NOT get rid of it for like 10 days. I would wake up humming it.

Drove me freaking nuts.

390 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 5:49:15pm

Hey, when did the buttons start acting all funny when you mouseover or click them? I thought my computer was going wonky.

391 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 24, 2015 5:49:25pm
F7C Seahawk

Last was a Grumman F3F. This one is a Curtiss design.

392 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 5:49:32pm

re: #389 CuriousLurker

Speaking of music, do y’all remember that Decatur Deb posted this version of “Guantanamera” a couple of weeks or so ago? I liked it and bought the video from iTunes and it proceeded to worm its way into my head and I could NOT get rid of it for like 10 days. I would wake up humming it.

Drove me freaking nuts.

Soon you’ll be in the Sierra Maestre, comrade.

393 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 5:49:35pm

re: #318 Blind Frog Belly White

Aren’t we still waiting on a couple major, earthshaking revelations he promised would be coming out?

Embedded Image

MP3 Audio

394 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 5:49:38pm
395 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:49:57pm

re: #388 The Mother Of All Pies

Once I found out about the 78 slaves it was pretty clear that all his fancy speech about liberty & death was just a bunch of bullshit rhetoric.

They get really pissy when you point out the founders owning slaves. I’ve mentioned it here before but when I worked at the history magazine firm, I had to research Jefferson and slavery. And I pretty much found from Monticello no less evidence that destroys the idea that Jefferson was a reluctant and benevolent slave owner. I admire and appreciate the founders but the deification and ignoring their faults is something that disgusts me as a historian.

396 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:50:44pm

re: #394 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Rhetorical but does every wingnut have to be a real life Mel Gibson on South Park. “Go ahead and crucify me!”

397 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 5:51:50pm

re: #386 Blind Frog Belly White

That’s law. Common mistake.
//

I keep telling them the debate is in published journals, reviews, conferences and consists of ‘back your shit up, convince me or go home’.

398 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 5:52:09pm

re: #388 The Mother Of All Pies

Once I found out about the 78 slaves it was pretty clear that all his fancy speech about liberty & death was just a bunch of bullshit rhetoric.

In their colonial worldview it was only they, the free males, who were the owners of rights.

Remember, in some colonies even free white women could not inherit or own stuff without their husband’s permission.

399 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:52:23pm

And considering that the Virginia attorney general’s office actually did go after climate change scientists during Cuccinneli’s time running that office, I don’t want to hear climate change deniers like this twit crying persecution because he can’t handle being told he’s wrong.

400 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 5:52:41pm

re: #388 The Mother Of All Pies

I’m reading in wiki that the text attributed to him might not have been his at all, more like a fake.

401 #FergusonFireside  Mar 24, 2015 5:53:10pm

re: #392 Decatur Deb

Soon you’ll be in the Sierra Maestre, comrade.

I’m listening.

402 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:54:43pm

re: #400 Nyet

I’m reading in wiki that the text attributed to him might not have been his at all, more like a fake.

My bet is he said something like that. I don’t know. Henry is a pretty obscure outside that statement so I think he did say something that resonated with people throughout the years.

403 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 24, 2015 5:55:45pm

Let’s see how many paint schemes we can have F4F Wildcats* in!

I counted five. The three above. The “sunken” one I posted a picture off a week or so ago. And there’s one in a large Henderson Field diorama that is very weather beaten. The last is probably in a paint scheme similar to the second picture.

* - Two are license built FM-2s I think, so not technically Grummans.

404 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 5:56:44pm

re: #402 HappyWarrior

He did say something that resonated, true, but did it include this phrase? This version of the speech was first published 18 years after the fact and was based on some shifty sources.

405 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 5:56:47pm

re: #398 freetoken

In their colonial worldview it was only they, the free males, who were the owners of rights.

Remember, in some colonies even free white women could not inherit or own stuff without their husband’s permission (or some other male relative’s permission/my addition).

Free white women in many parts of this country couldn’t do that even up into the 1970s.

406 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 5:57:29pm

re: #401 #FergusonFireside

I’m listening.

So am I. Love ol’ Pete Seeger, but this is the best version ever.

407 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:57:37pm

Roger Sherman is a founder that doesn’t get enough appreciation. I guess it’s because he doesn’t have a famous quote, was never president, or have neat stories about him like Franklin but he’s also responsible for the way our legislature is set up and he was one of a few who signed the Declaration, Articles, and Constitution. I still love Franklin the most though.

408 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 5:59:15pm

re: #404 Nyet

He did say something that resonated, true, but did it include this phrase? This version of the speech was first published 18 years after the fact and was based on some shifty sources.

That’s something we’ll never know but these are good points you make. That makes it sound kind of like the legend about Lincoln dreaming about his own funeral before his death. Something that was brought up after the person in question died.

409 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 24, 2015 6:00:01pm

re: #389 CuriousLurker

Speaking of music, do y’all remember that Decatur Deb posted this version of “Guantanamera” a couple of weeks or so ago? I liked it and bought the video from iTunes and it proceeded to worm its way into my head and I could NOT get rid of it for like 10 days. I would wake up humming it.

Drove me freaking nuts.

If that would get Tom Smothers’ “I Ate a One-Ton Tomato” out of my head bring it on!

410 Jenner7  Mar 24, 2015 6:00:02pm
411 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 6:00:52pm

re: #405 Backwoods_Sleuth

Free white women in many parts of this country couldn’t do that even up into the 1970s.

Spousal rape wasn’t criminalized for many states until the early 90’s. I always perk up when I hear someone pine for the “good old days.” I bet if they could our ancestors would love to switch places with us in a heartbeat. Oh you mean chances are we won’t get sick from drinking water? I’M IN!

412 Nyet  Mar 24, 2015 6:01:08pm

Aww.

…

413 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 6:01:30pm

Romantics are people who glorify a past they never had to live in.

414 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 6:03:05pm
415 jaunte  Mar 24, 2015 6:03:24pm

All this ‘save the birds’ b.s will evaporate at the merest mention of DDT.

416 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 6:04:01pm

It could be argued that this meme is actually true, just not in the way that wingnuts believe==>

417 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 6:05:27pm

re: #416 The Mother Of All Pies

It could be argued that this meme is actually true, just not in the way that wingnuts believe==>

[Embedded content]

Yeah I read that and think immediately of the GOPers in Congress who got there only because they hate Obama.

418 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 6:06:11pm

re: #414 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Are we moving into wind turbine territory now?

419 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 6:06:22pm
420 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 6:07:37pm

re: #417 HappyWarrior

Yeah I read that and think immediately of the GOPers in Congress who got there only because they hate Obama.

I was thinking more along the lines of:

“Members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed” = the class of inherited wealth

“Diminishing number of producers” = middle class workers

421 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 6:08:46pm

re: #420 The Mother Of All Pies

I was thinking more along the lines of:

“Members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed” = the class of inherited wealth

“Diminishing number of producers” = middle class workers

Good catch, I was referring to the least capable to lead part but yours work too.

422 Sionainn  Mar 24, 2015 6:09:13pm

re: #419 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Why is he Dorothy holding Toto?

423 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 6:09:49pm

re: #422 Sionainn

Why is he Dorothy holding Toto?

Lunch.

424 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 24, 2015 6:11:31pm

For those of you willing to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, this video is rather interesting - not often a B-17 is used to haul skydivers :)

chonday.com

Me? There isn’t enough money in the world.

425 retired cynic  Mar 24, 2015 6:11:45pm

re: #269 CuriousLurker

I am late to this, but we have subscribed to BAR for many years, and find it always interesting. The letters to the editor are always an absolute hoot! They were very influential in creating public pressure to get the Dead Sea Scrolls out of secrecy and out where more scholars could access them.

426 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 6:11:48pm

re: #421 HappyWarrior

Good catch, I was referring to the least capable to lead part but yours work too.

“Least capable of producing” = the mega rich who inherited all their wealth

427 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 6:13:10pm

re: #419 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

FWIW, electrocution by powerlines is the main cause of raptor (especially bald eagle) deaths. Lead poisoning is a close second. Wind turbines don’t even come close.

428 HappyWarrior  Mar 24, 2015 6:13:38pm

re: #426 The Mother Of All Pies

“Least capable of producing” = the mega rich who inherited all their wealth

Yep but they’re like what I said about Mitt Romney. Born in the dugout and doused with champagne, think they hit the game winning home run.

429 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 6:13:57pm

re: #427 Backwoods_Sleuth

FWIW, electrocution by powerlines is the main cause of raptor (especially bald eagle) deaths. Lead poisoning is a close second. Wind turbines don’t even come close.

Cats & windows are the main killers of other bird species.

430 prairiefire  Mar 24, 2015 6:16:18pm

“The Inlaws” on TCM.

431 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 24, 2015 6:18:20pm

re: #430 prairiefire

“The Inlaws” on TCM.

Oh God, that’s one of my favorites (the old one of course). When James Hong is giving them the oxygen mask speech in Chinese, I almost died laughing—mostly at Alan Arkin’s expression.

432 goddamnedfrank  Mar 24, 2015 6:19:16pm
Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) and Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) observations from a series of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellites have been extensively utilized for estimating the atmospheric temperature trend. For a given atmospheric temperature condition, the emission and scattering of clouds and precipitation modulate MSU and AMSU-A brightness temperatures. In this study, the effects of the radiation from clouds and precipitation on AMSU-A derived atmospheric temperature trend are assessed using the information from AMSU-A window channels. It is shown that the global mean temperature in the low and middle troposphere has a larger warming rate (about 20-30 % higher) when the cloud-affected radiances are removed from AMSU-A data. It is also shown that the inclusion of cloud-affected radiances in the trend analysis can significantly offset the stratospheric cooling represented by AMSU-A channel 9 over the middle and high latitudes of Northern Hemisphere.

Let me translate that for you. Basically the satellite temperate data is full of GLAVEN!!!

433 Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 24, 2015 6:22:06pm

re: #419 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Lordy, but wingnuts LOVE to feel persecuted!!!

434 CuriousLurker  Mar 24, 2015 6:23:26pm

re: #425 retired cynic

I am late to this, but we have subscribed to BAR for many years, and find it always interesting. The letters to the editor are always an absolute hoot! They were very influential in creating public pressure to get the Dead Sea Scrolls out of secrecy and out where more scholars could access them.

Interesting, thanks!

435 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 6:30:24pm

re: #424 William Barnett-Lewis

For those of you willing to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, this video is rather interesting - not often a B-17 is used to haul skydivers :)

chonday.com

Me? There isn’t enough money in the world.

Damn. Nine O’ Nine is one of the B17s I’ve toured. I’ve been slowly working towards getting back on freefall for a 50th anniversary jump next year. Hmmm.

436 goddamnedfrank  Mar 24, 2015 6:30:49pm

re: #432 goddamnedfrank

Here’s another way of looking at it. If the average person lived 20 thousand feet in the air then the satellite data record would actually be relevant to planning human societies. Unfortunately we don’t so it isn’t.

437 retired cynic  Mar 24, 2015 6:36:42pm

re: #427 Backwoods_Sleuth

Several years ago, we found a juvenile red tailed hawk starving, suffering from West Nile Virus. We took him to a raptor center where he was saved and rehabilitated. We brought him home and released him. It was so cool! And several weeks later we found him electrocuted on the power lines. Then we fixed the power lines, but it was truly sad. He was such a beautiful bird.

We have several nests of red tails that stay with us year round, and two bald eagle nests that raise young every year. Wonderful creatures.

438 #FergusonFireside  Mar 24, 2015 6:37:41pm

re: #437 retired cynic

Several years ago, we found a juvenile red tailed hawk starving, suffering from West Nile Virus. We took him to a raptor center where he was saved and rehabilitated. We brought him home and released him. It was so cool! And several weeks later we found him electrocuted on the power lines. Then we fixed the power lines, but it was truly sad. He was such a beautiful bird.

We have several nests of red tails that stay with us year round, and two bald eagle nests that raise young every year. Wonderful creatures.

Oh damn. :(

439 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 6:40:13pm
440 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 24, 2015 6:42:37pm

I WANT THIS IN MY MOUTH

441 #FergusonFireside  Mar 24, 2015 6:53:35pm

re: #440 The Mother Of All Pies

I just had my version of lazy comfort food. Frozen fries (they turn out fine!) dipped in ranch dressing. And a sourdough, tomato and salami sandy.

I’m so full. And content.

442 #FergusonFireside  Mar 24, 2015 6:57:41pm

So full, now watching Little White Lie

PBS Video

443 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2015 7:04:30pm

Charles, I heard from a friend across The Pond…it’s snowing in Franceland. Hope you packed warm clothes.

444 #FergusonFireside  Mar 24, 2015 7:07:37pm

re: #442 #FergusonFireside

So full, now watching Little White Lie

[Embedded content]

VB, I totally recommend this film to you.

445 dell*nix  Mar 24, 2015 7:08:57pm

re: #435 Decatur Deb

There was one used as a slurry bomber in Arizona back in the mid to late 1970’s. No matter how much we begged, they would not let any of us ride in it, much less jump out of it.

446 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 7:19:26pm

Charles is still poking Goddard/Heller.

That’s dedication.

447 Single-handed sailor  Mar 24, 2015 7:21:15pm

I’m trying to wrap my head around string theory but I keep winding up with scrambled branes.

448 A Cranky One  Mar 24, 2015 7:23:54pm

re: #446 b_sharp

Charles is still poking Goddard/Heller.

That’s dedication.

The other night saw some tweets from Charles about Breitbart and thought: uh, oh, Charles is cranky if he’s poking that rats nest.

Nothing wrong with being cranky, of course. My best friend is cranky. ;)

449 Dark_Falcon  Mar 24, 2015 7:25:00pm

re: #302 Nyet

I’d say that BAR is more on the apologist rather than pure research side. Which is why they got into sticky situations like that with “James’ ossuary”.

That loon shouldn’t be allowed to dishonor the acronym ‘BAR’. This is a proper BAR:

Image: XJT106-S-F2-L.jpg

450 A Cranky One  Mar 24, 2015 7:25:59pm

re: #447 Single-handed sailor

I’m trying to wrap my head around string theory but I keep winding up with scrambled branes.

Keep at it. To understand it, you need to bulk up your brane.

451 A Cranky One  Mar 24, 2015 7:28:10pm

re: #440 The Mother Of All Pies

I WANT THIS IN MY MOUTH

[Embedded content]

Now you know how we feel! ;)

452 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 7:34:47pm
453 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 7:36:52pm

re: #446 b_sharp

Charles is still poking Goddard/Heller.

That’s dedication.

It’s too much fun. He’s such a clown, and isn’t even aware of how stupid he looks.

454 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 24, 2015 7:38:59pm

re: #449 Dark_Falcon

That loon shouldn’t be allowed to dishonor the acronym ‘BAR’. This is a proper BAR:

Image: XJT106-S-F2-L.jpg

Reminded me of this joke..

455 b_sharp  Mar 24, 2015 7:39:19pm

re: #453 Charles Johnson

It’s too much fun. He’s such a clown, and isn’t even aware of how stupid he looks.

His arrogance won’t allow him to see his own clownishness.

456 Dark_Falcon  Mar 24, 2015 7:44:40pm

re: #454 William Barnett-Lewis

Reminded me of this joke..

[Embedded content]

Loves it!

I think you’ll also like this:

In response Ukraine is refurbishing existing equipment with Ukrainian resources. Emphasis is on armored vehicles, which Ukraine has lots of. Most are elderly, but little used in the past but still effective. The best tanks available to Ukraine right now are 250 T-64BMs and 350 T-64BVs. Ukraine also has 1,000 older T-64B tanks in storage. Only the T-64BM and T-64BM are operational and are in use with the Ukrainian Army. The Since 2007 Ukraine has been upgrading about one of the older T-64Bs to the T-64BM each month. This costs about $600,000 per T-64B. Ukrainian arms factories are also building the T-84 Oplot-M tank and fifteen are already in service and another 40 are to be ready by the end of 2015, and 120 more in 2016 at a cost of $3.7 million each. All this is possible because Ukraine contained many Soviet era armored vehicle plants and inherited them when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.

Ukraine also renewed development of heavy infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) using the chassis of the T-64. A Ukrainian firm (Kharkov Morozov) created prototypes of this 35 ton IFV, called theBMPV64 in 2005 but was never able to get any orders and suspended the project. Now the Ukrainian government wants to buy BMPV64s and development has resumed with production to begin by the end of the year. The BMPV64 is a T-64 with the turret removed and the upper portion of the hull raised in order to increase internal space. In addition the engine is moved to the front of the vehicle to give the crew and passengers (10-12 infantry) more space, protection and doors in the back for the infantry to exit the vehicle. There is a three man crew. The crew drives the vehicle and operates (from smaller turret than the original one) a 30mm autocannon and a 7.62mm machine-gun. Two anti-tank missiles are mounted on the left side of this turret. On the front of the turret are three smoke grenade launchers. On top of the turret is a 23mm machine-gun and a 30mm automatic grenade launcher. The T-64 armor has ERA (Explosive Reactive Armor) that can protect against most tank gun shells. In all it’s a formidable weapon that provides exceptional protection for the infantry

Specialists from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (MoD) are also trying to adapt Zaslon APS (Active Protection System) for the BMPV64. Zaslon consists of a radar to detect incoming missiles and small rockets to rush out and disable the incoming threat. A complete APS weighs between 500 and 1,000 kg (depending on the type of vehicle it is installed on). If the APS is added there will also be upgrades to the BMPV64 fire control system to handle it. Zaslon is already installed on the T-64BM tanks.

I have to step away now, as I need to put my foot up.

457 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 24, 2015 7:47:04pm

re: #454 William Barnett-Lewis

Reminded me of this joke..

[Embedded content]

Is the next line “…and it is jammed”?

458 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 7:57:49pm

re: #439 The Mother Of All Pies

I just put on the hazmat suit and went over to see the Freeper reaction to Ted Cruz signing up for Obamacare. Apparently, for quite a few idiots over there, it’s all part of an intricate, five-dimensional chess game that only Cruz and his over 9000 level brain can understand:

He’ll have standing to have it tossed out.
—

This guy’s mind is working all the time…
—

They will never see it coming…
—

This should be fun…
—

Yep, the left is squealing about this. Guarantee he has something up his sleeve..
—

Cruz is light years ahead of these morons and they don’t even know it.
—

He is said to be a very good lawyer-which means there is a method to his madness…
—

POW! Indeed.

Watch and see if Cruz doesn’t release a cost analysis and breakdown of how much Obamacare is costing his family.

$2500 savings? HAH!
—

So, in the upcoming debates, Cruz can ask the other participants if they’ve signed up for 0bamacare. And if they voted for it.
Nice move.
—

He’s going to chronicle his experience with it and right around when SCOTUS rules he will have quite the tale AND he has already written a bill for the fallout when SCOTUS does find for King, which apparently he thinks they will, which is great news in itself.
—

That’s an illegal punch. A foul. Right Cross, Right Jab. Left Hook. Uppercut( for in close) Set ‘em up with a right jab followed by a right cross(or two) and then let ‘em have a Left Hook!

459 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 8:03:36pm

Wow. I just posted the latest “Cooking for Vegans” video, but then it was deleted at YouTube. Not sure what happened there - I thought it was funny.

Maybe a little TOO funny. Deleted my post because I don’t want to get Rachel Staman in any trouble. If that’s what’s happening.

Weird.

460 Belafon  Mar 24, 2015 8:03:36pm

re: #458 Lidane

The first time he comes out of a physical and gets asked how much it cost, he’ll say “Nothing, no thanks to Obamacare” and Freepers will eat it up.

461 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 8:03:46pm

Getting a 404 on ‘Halal Cupcakes”.

462 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 8:04:49pm

Never mind.

463 Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2015 8:05:14pm

Comedy is dangerous these days.

464 Lidane  Mar 24, 2015 8:10:21pm

So the events of The Breakfast Club took place 31 years ago today.

On an entirely unrelated note, it’s time to cover my grey again. Heh.

465 freetoken  Mar 24, 2015 8:15:09pm

Shoot, I opened the spy immediately, but was too late on the front page…

Well, that’ll Teach me to wait a couple of minutes.

466 #FergusonFireside  Mar 24, 2015 8:16:43pm

If you have one hour to spare, I highly recommend you watch this, a most beautiful, strong documentary.

PBS Video

Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical upper middle class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY. Despite the questions about how she as a white girl could have such dark skin, she believed her family’s explanation that her looks were inherited from her Sicilian grandfather. When she learned the truth about her biological father, she unlocked a powerful family secret.

I have not enough bravos

467 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 8:19:15pm

Lewis Black on the Daily Show discussing the new presidential contender.

468 Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2015 8:21:36pm

re: #424 William Barnett-Lewis

For those of you willing to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, this video is rather interesting - not often a B-17 is used to haul skydivers :)

chonday.com

Me? There isn’t enough money in the world.

Wouldn’t jump. But I’d love to ride in the nose.

469 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 8:22:02pm

Make that the Nightly Show in a few minutes.

470 Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2015 8:23:23pm

re: #468 Romantic Heretic

Wouldn’t jump. But I’d love to ride in the nose.

$300-400 dollars for about a half-hour flight. Collings Foundation.

471 Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2015 8:25:13pm

re: #449 Dark_Falcon

That loon shouldn’t be allowed to dishonor the acronym ‘BAR’. This is a proper BAR:

Image: XJT106-S-F2-L.jpg

Would rather have an MG42, or even a Bren.

472 RealityBasedSteve  Mar 24, 2015 9:09:34pm

I spent 10 hours working in the dive shop today, we have a big crew going down to Huntsville to dive in a quarry there, and at the Astronaut training pool at the Space Center. Add that to a couple of open water classes and the rental equipment racks are bare, bare and bare.

We’re still shy a few regulators, so I’m bringing mine in tomorrow, swap out some hoses to make them a more standard configuration so we can put those into the mix. We’re grabbing all the staff equipment we can to make this work.

It was a good day. We were supposted to close at 7, and we were there until past 9 getting people squared away with gear.

Pro Tip: If you are renting gear, get it as far in advance as is possible, make it easy on everybody.

RBS

473 taserian  Mar 25, 2015 11:10:58am

re: #389 CuriousLurker

Thanks for posting that (or re-posting, in this case). It’s a song that’s near and dear to my heart, and that music makes me dance even if I’m sitting.

There are multiple versions of it in Spanish, some with rather ribald lyrics.


This article has been archived.
Comments are closed.

Jump to top

Create a PageThis is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title, text, and any embedded video or audio files already filled in, ready to go.
Or... you can just click this button to open the Pages posting window right away.
Last updated: 2023-04-04 11:11 am PDT LGF User's Guide RSS Feeds

Help support Little Green Footballs!

Subscribe now for ad-free access!Register and sign in to a free LGF account before subscribing, and your ad-free access will be automatically enabled.

Donate with
PayPal Cash.app
Recent PagesClick to refresh
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ...
Cheechako
2 days ago
Views: 92 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ...
Cheechako
2 weeks ago
Views: 259 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1