Chuck C. Johnson Reveals He Was Detained at Boehner Fundraiser Because Cops Saw Him as a Threat

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Our stalker pal Chuck C. Johnson got into a Twitter altercation with Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall last night, and in the course of the exchanges revealed some interesting new information about that John Boehner fundraiser he tried to crash in March.

As we reported, Johnson was recognized by Capitol Police at the event, and detained, frisked and questioned for several hours. But last night he confirmed for the first time that it happened because the Capitol cops saw him as a potential stalking threat.

In the following embedded timeline, notice how Chuck also tries to dodge the question of whether he was given a polygraph test at the event, before he flatly denies it; and even his denial is equivocal.

(Twitter timelines are in reverse chronological order, so you may want to start at the bottom and read up.)

So Chuck has basically admitted here that he’s on the Capitol Police radar as a potential threat. That’s why he was recognized and detained at the fundraiser, obviously — and they’re quite right to be concerned about Chuck’s erratic behavior.

This means that whenever he goes to any similar event for a high profile politician from now on, he can expect similar treatment — because once you’re on this list you never get off it. Nice work, Chuck.

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286 comments
1 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 12:37:08pm

Chuck was still butthurt about when he started tweeting today.

2 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Apr 17, 2015 12:38:28pm

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

3 wrenchwench  Apr 17, 2015 12:38:56pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

Chuck was still butthurt about when he started tweeting today.

He’s a fact-ashamer.

4 No Country For Old Haters  Apr 17, 2015 12:43:36pm

It’s weird how he believes being crazy even for a wingnut makes him superior to our host. If he ever has a moment of clarity, it’s going to be a very difficult time for him.

5 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 12:43:43pm

Good luck in getting a Press Pass from now on too Chuck

6 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 17, 2015 12:43:52pm

Fun fact: AdBlockerPlus blocks the embedded Twitter timelines too.

(Shhh, I’m a subscriber, it was just on by default because it is always on.)

7 Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2015 12:44:02pm
8 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 17, 2015 12:44:46pm

re: #3 wrenchwench

He’s a fact-ashamer.

He’s a fact-atheist. He doesn’t believe in them.

9 No Country For Old Haters  Apr 17, 2015 12:46:40pm

re: #6 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Fun fact: AdBlockerPlus blocks the embedded Twitter timelines too.

(Shhh, I’m a subscriber, it was just on by default because it is always on.)

Regular AdBlock for Chrome doesn’t block the tweets. (I’m also a subscriber)

10 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 17, 2015 12:47:30pm

re: #9 No Country For Old Haters

Regular AdBlock for Chrome doesn’t block the tweets. (I’m also a subscriber)

Yeah, I was just having fun trying to figure out why there was nothing there where from the article text there clearly should be.

I figured I would share in case anyone else was running into the same issue.

11 A Cranky One  Apr 17, 2015 12:50:38pm

Yoda appears in Medieval images:

blog.seattlepi.com

12 CuriousLurker  Apr 17, 2015 12:52:31pm

re: #6 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Fun fact: AdBlockerPlus blocks the embedded Twitter timelines too.

(Shhh, I’m a subscriber, it was just on by default because it is always on.)

Huh—you’re right, it sure does. I’m a subscriber too, but had ABP turned off because it was blocking the Twitter/share buttons.

13 Ace-o-aces  Apr 17, 2015 12:58:36pm

You missed the best part of that exchange:

14 Iwouldprefernotto  Apr 17, 2015 1:00:53pm

CCJ asn intelligence should not be in the same sentence or zip code for that matter.

15 Teukka  Apr 17, 2015 1:01:53pm

re: #14 Iwouldprefernotto

CCJ asn intelligence should not be in the same sentence or zip code for that matter.

Strike that. Not in the same hemisphere.

16 makeitstop  Apr 17, 2015 1:04:04pm

Josh really knows how to handle Chuckie.

He wrangled some info out of him that I’m sure Chuckie regrets disclosing now.

17 Iwouldprefernotto  Apr 17, 2015 1:05:37pm

re: #16 makeitstop

Josh really knows how to handle Chuckie.

He wrangled some info out of him that I’m sure Chuckie regrets disclosing now.

It’s what real journalists do. Without asking for money up front.

18 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 1:06:36pm

Posing with a weapon spouting the kind of bullshit Upchuck does means he has caught the attention of authorities.

Good. Make his life fucking miserable, as he does the lives of others who don’t deserve it.

19 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 1:07:58pm

re: #3 wrenchwench

He’s a fact-ashamer.

For some reason I readthat as “fart-shaper.” Now that I think of it, CCJ is a fartshaper who thinks he’s an Airbender.

20 Zamb  Apr 17, 2015 1:08:14pm

Must have learned all those awesome journalism skills during his time as a secret agent

21 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 1:09:26pm

Suspicious car deemed ‘explosive threat’ at Picatinny, driver detained

nj.com

A possible explosive threat at the entrance of Picatinny Arsenal prompted the evacuation of employees from the base Friday.

At about 11:30 a.m., a driver tried to gain access to Picatinny Arsenal through the post’s truck gate when security personnel noticed something suspicious within the vehicle, Picatinny Arsenal spokesman Ed Lopez said.

The driver is currently being detained and questioned at this time, he said.

Authorities are treating the situation as if it was an explosive threat, and the installation has been coordinating with local, state and federal agencies, Lopez said. More

22 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 1:09:37pm

re: #20 Zamb

Must have learned all those awesome journalism skills during his time as a secret agent

Codename: Sphincter.

23 ObserverArt  Apr 17, 2015 1:09:42pm

Hey all. I was just reading through the last super thread and saw that stupid tweet from Donald Trump about Hillary Clinton not pleasing her husband.

If ever there was a better example of the phrase “money can’t buy you class” I don’t know what it is. The Donald is a rude and crude poor excuse for a human. I guess there is no ‘too low’ for The Donald.

24 Jenner7  Apr 17, 2015 1:12:24pm

re: #23 ObserverArt

And which one has been divorced twice??

25 #FergusonFireside  Apr 17, 2015 1:14:00pm

re: #23 ObserverArt

Hey all. I was just reading through the last super thread and saw that stupid tweet from Donald Trump about Hillary Clinton not pleasing her husband.

If ever there was a better example of the phrase “money can’t buy you class” I don’t know what it is. The Donald is a rude and crude poor excuse for a human. I guess there is no ‘too low’ for The Donald.

Yep. He deleted the tweet.

He’s a pig. I hope to hell he gets what’s coming. ahhhh fuck.

26 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 1:14:17pm

re: #24 Jenner7

And which one has been divorced twice??

Be fair, he did give his last wife an antique organ.

27 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 1:15:37pm

re: #26 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Be fair, he did give his last wife an antique organ.

Some things you can’t fix with viagra.

28 ObserverArt  Apr 17, 2015 1:20:29pm

Looks like the intelligence community was intelligent enough not to hire the award winning journalist. I bet the testing results were a fun read.

29 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 1:20:32pm

re: #27 Kragar

Some things you can’t fix with viagra.

He does get taller when he takes it though.

30 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 1:22:41pm
31 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 1:23:03pm

re: #29 Higgs Boson’s Mate

He does get taller when her takes it though.

He also can’t sit down or bend over for at least 4 hours.

32 Great White Snark  Apr 17, 2015 1:25:39pm

re: #30 Kragar

In other law enforcement news..
Michael Slager, Cop In Walter Scott Shooting, Reportedly Heard Laughing Afterward

In the recording, a man the paper identified as Slager can be heard asking an unnamed senior officer what would happen next.

“They’re gonna tell you you’re gonna be out for a couple of days and we’ll come back and interview you then,” the senior officer is heard saying in the clip. “They’re not going to ask you any kind of questions right now. They’ll take your weapon and we’ll go from there. That’s pretty much it.”

The senior officer also urged Slager to write down his recollections of the incident.

“The last one we had, they waited a couple of days to interview officially, like, sit down and tell what happened. By the time you get home, it would probably be a good idea to kind of jot down your thoughts on what happened,” he advised. “You know, once the adrenaline quits pumping.”

“It’s pumping,” Slager said, laughing as he spoke.

Heartless bastard

33 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 1:29:44pm

re: #30 Kragar

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That’s because Missouri sees Black people as an “enemy”. They’ve pretty well proved that.

34 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 1:30:43pm
35 Targetpractice  Apr 17, 2015 1:31:16pm

re: #30 Kragar

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As Charlie Pierce has noted time and again, we have a situation in this nation where the police have come to think of American citizens as “the enemy,” and so operate not as protectors of the peace but as an occupying army whose authority allows it to deal out harsh punishment outside the framework of our judicial system.

36 wrenchwench  Apr 17, 2015 1:31:16pm

‘Get vaccinated or turn into a Muppet!’

37 Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2015 1:31:23pm
38 Lidane  Apr 17, 2015 1:34:00pm

The office next door just turned off an HP server that’s been running since the 80’s. This was an occasion that required alcohol. Yay free beer! :D

39 goddamnedfrank  Apr 17, 2015 1:34:30pm
This means that whenever he goes to any similar event for a high profile politician from now on, he can expect similar treatment — because once you’re on this list you never get off it. Nice work, Chuck.

Maybe not. He claims later to have met Dana Rohrabacher.

The timing suggests they met at Dana’s St. Patricks Day fundraiser.

The reception Chuck received at the Boehner event was apparently initiated by Rep David Valadao’s people, who were clearly on the lookout for him. Chuck has said some unequivocally vicious things about Boehner in the past so this makes sense. He could obviously have expected similar treatment at a Kevin McCarthy event. Rohrabacher on the other hand is an Orange County wingnut who has talked openly of impeaching Obama.

40 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 17, 2015 1:37:37pm

wingnuts will usually say “if i had all the money i paid into social security i’d be rich now”

of course if you ask them how much they’ve actually paid into ss they usually say - indignantly at that! - “i don’t know!!!!”

after all, why should a person be expected to have any facts to back up their assertions???

i mean to come up with an actual calculation of what you could reasonably expect to have earned from your lifetime social security contributions if you had them and had invested them in the course of a 50 year working life, vs. expected ss benefits at the top rate * 20 years of about 840k

here is some raw material:

social security tax rates, historical

actual rates of return on s&p 500 since 1926

41 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 1:39:15pm

re: #39 goddamnedfrank

He paid $250? So he could get stinking drunk?

42 Jenner7  Apr 17, 2015 1:39:24pm
43 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 1:40:56pm

re: #40 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

I know exactly how much I’ve paid and how much my employers have paid over the years because I pay attention to the annual notice I get every year from SS that shows every year since I started working in the mid-1960s.

44 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 1:44:28pm

Yawn.

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45 wrenchwench  Apr 17, 2015 1:44:56pm
46 Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2015 1:45:22pm

re: #39 goddamnedfrank

Interesting - but Capitol Police only provide protection outside Washington DC for House and Senate leadership, so there would not have been any Capitol cops at this event.

thehill.com

47 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 1:46:27pm

re: #44 Justanotherhuman

They should just give up…Rand haz a tee-shirt.

48 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 1:48:21pm

Look at the bullshit GG is tweeting — well, it is The Hill, after all and is pure speculation. Award winning journalism again. ///

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald * 3h 3 hours ago
Billionaire neocon big Dem Party funder ——> RT @thehill Haim Saban hints: Hillary Clinton opposes the Iran deal hill.cm

Have a clue: You can support both the Iran deal and Israel. It’s not a matter of simply taking a side and sealing it in concrete.

49 ObserverArt  Apr 17, 2015 1:48:49pm

re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth

They should just give up…Rand haz a tee-shirt.

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He always looks smug and a bit tight at the same time.

50 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 1:50:15pm

re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth

They should just give up…Rand haz a tee-shirt.

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Very presidential

51 Frenchy  Apr 17, 2015 1:50:36pm

re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth

ORLY Rand?

52 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 1:50:48pm

re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth

They should just give up…Rand haz a tee-shirt.

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Don’t people who run typically, ya know, sweat?

53 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 1:52:56pm

re: #48 Justanotherhuman

Look at the bullshit GG is tweeting — well, it is The Hill, after all and is pure speculation. Award winning journalism again. ///

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald * 3h 3 hours ago
Billionaire neocon big Dem Party funder ——> RT @thehill Haim Saban hints: Hillary Clinton opposes the Iran deal hill.cm

Have a clue: You can support both the Iran deal and Israel. It’s not a matter of simply taking a side and sealing it in concrete.

Greenwald is going to wear out the H key on his keyboard in short order.

54 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 1:53:15pm

re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth

They should just give up…Rand haz a tee-shirt.

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He looks pretty fucking ridiculous for a 52 yr old Senator.

55 allegro  Apr 17, 2015 1:53:36pm

re: #49 ObserverArt

He always looks smug and a bit tight at the same time.

That hair thing he has going on makes him look like a Teletubby.

56 stpaulbear  Apr 17, 2015 1:54:12pm

re: #50 b.d.

Very presidential

Let’s see him nail a three-pointer.

57 goddamnedfrank  Apr 17, 2015 1:54:53pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

Interesting - but Capitol Police only provide protection outside Washington DC for House and Senate leadership, so there would not have been any Capitol cops at this event.

thehill.com

That makes more sense. Still it was apparently Valadao’s people that first objected to Chucks presence. From Rothstein’s article:

“Three different people showed up — one who said he was the field representative for Congressman [David] Valadao and two females, one blonde and one brunette,” Johnson explained. “They talked to me while I was talking to them. I showed them the invitation and told them how I came to have a ticket.”

Johnson informed the blonde that he’d be happy to leave if there was some confusion. At which point he says a plain-clothed security guard escorted him outside where he was met by two uniform Bakersfield police officers and two Capitol Hill police officers.

He explained, “One of the Capitol Hill officers said that one of the staffers said I was belligerent and I said that they should check that because it’s a lie. They turned back and interviewed [the staffer] and the staffer recanted.”

Johnson admitted he didn’t know for sure if that is what happened with the aide, but that was his impression. “I don’t know if this actually happened-only that the Capitol Hill police asked about it,” he wrote.

It seems like Valadao’s field rep was told to be on the lookout for Chuck, but it’s possible Chuck was just being a dick because he’s intrinsically dickish. With Boehner as a guest we’ve been leaning towards Chuck’s previous tweets about him, but it’s possible he just said something there that brought down the hammer.

Still, once they had him the Capitol Police made it clear they were very aware of Chuck’s visit to Senator Cochran’s home in DC. So yeah, he’d be wise to avoid any event where they’re present.

58 wrenchwench  Apr 17, 2015 1:55:32pm
59 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 1:57:15pm
60 piratedan  Apr 17, 2015 1:57:32pm

supposedly Huckabee just called Bush’s and Christie’s plans to gut SS and Medicare stupid and irresponsible.

61 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 1:57:44pm
62 Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2015 1:59:46pm

Chuck’s busily telling a Ph.D. geneticist that he’s full of shit, and racists like Nicholas Wade and Charles Murray are the only ones telling the truth about white genetic superiority.

Disgusting racist is disgusting.

63 Targetpractice  Apr 17, 2015 2:00:57pm

re: #60 piratedan

supposedly Huckabee just called Bush’s and Christie’s plans to gut SS and Medicare stupid and irresponsible.

Why, because they don’t go far enough in screwing over the elderly for his tastes?

64 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 2:02:40pm

Oh shit. This is also the way they kill animals, such as chickens. It may be more “humane” but why don’t we just stop allowing the State to kill people? It’s not now, never has been, or ever will be, a deterrent. And with a more “humane” method, juries and judges won’t be so hesitant to recommend the death penalty.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signs bill allowing executions through nitrogen hypoxia - @koconews
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65 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 2:03:07pm

re: #63 Targetpractice

Why, because they don’t go far enough in screwing over the elderly for his tastes?

Gutting SS would cut into Huckabee’s grifting of the gray hairs.

66 piratedan  Apr 17, 2015 2:05:13pm

re: #63 Targetpractice

supposedly alluded to over at Ed Kilgore’s blog but I can’t find a linky

67 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 2:05:22pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

Chuck’s busily telling a Ph.D. geneticist that he’s full of shit, and racists like Nicholas Wade and Charles Murray are the only ones telling the truth about white genetic superiority.

Disgusting racist is disgusting.

heh…

68 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 2:06:17pm

re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh…

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69 Shiplord Kirel  Apr 17, 2015 2:08:20pm

Last month, New Republic suggested renaming those military posts that are currently named for Confederate officers. This led to no end of whining and caterwauling from the usual secesh and neo-Confederate mob, a result I count as a positive benefit and endorsement of the idea.

To follow up I would like to humbly suggest renaming all the cities and towns that are currently named for enemy military leaders. One such is Lubbock, named for Confederate bushwhacker Captain Thomas S. Lubbock. The latter was the brother of Confederate governor Francis R. Lubbock, who succeeded the great Sam Houston when the latter was deposed for opposing secession. Tom Lubbock was noted for being “a strong secessionist, characterized as a ‘very worthy and zealous’ Knight of the Golden Circle.” He went to Virginia at the start of the Civil war and organized a band of guerrillas but died of typhoid early in 1862.

My ideas for a new name?
Dunning-Krugerville, to honor the noted behavioral phenomenon that is such a prominent sub-cultural trait of Lubbock’s dominant conservative white population.

Orange-Koenigsberg, to honor the Dutch and German heritage there and, (by way of pun) the city’s most prominent landmarks, the many orange traffic barrels and cones that mark and obstruct many intersections, (sometimes for decades on end).

70 Targetpractice  Apr 17, 2015 2:08:39pm

Well, here it is over at TPM:

“I don’t know why Republicans want to insult Americans by pretending they don’t understand what their Social Security program and Medicare program is,” Huckabee said Friday, according to The Weekly Standard. He was responding to a question about Christie’s proposed cuts to Social Security. Christie also called on gradually raising the national retirement age.

Besides Christie, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) have both signaled support (albeit vaguely) for some kinds of cuts to entitlement programs. But not Huckabee.

He said his answer is “not just no, it’s you-know-what no.”

Huckabee added that he wasn’t “being specifically critical of Christie but that’s not a reform. That’s some kind of proposal that Republicans need to embrace because what we are really embracing at that point is we are embracing a government that lied to its people —that took money from its people under one pretense and then took it away at the time they started wanting to actually get what they have paid for all these years.”

Huckabee called Republican proposals to reform entitlement programs “disastrous, not only politically but I think they [will] be disastrous in terms of further breaking the trust between the government and its people.”

Of course, no question was asked about what Huck would do instead. Because the press isn’t actually interested in constructive questions, just in stirring the pot.

71 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 2:11:05pm

re: #60 piratedan

supposedly Huckabee just called Bush’s and Christie’s plans to gut SS and Medicare stupid and irresponsible.

I’m surprised that the Social Security Trust Fund isn’t already in the hands of Wall Street. It’s the last big pile of cash left. I heard that several WS types have already masturbated themselves into comas at the thought of it.

72 Lord Of The Pies  Apr 17, 2015 2:11:24pm

I just blocked a Walton shill in my timeline.

Srsly who the fuck love shopping for “bargains” at Walmart. Those stores reek of desperation 3rd world poverty.

73 Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2015 2:14:37pm

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

74 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 2:15:19pm

re: #57 goddamnedfrank

He explained, “One of the Capitol Hill officers said that one of the staffers said I was belligerent and I said that they should check that because it’s a lie. They turned back and interviewed [the staffer] and the staffer recanted.”

Johnson admitted he didn’t know for sure if that is what happened with the aide, but that was his impression. “I don’t know if this actually happened-only that the Capitol Hill police asked about it,” he wrote.

As if we didn’t already need proof, but right there Chuck admits he conflates what he imagines with actual reality.

75 Decatur Deb  Apr 17, 2015 2:16:16pm

re: #21 Justanotherhuman

Suspicious car deemed ‘explosive threat’ at Picatinny, driver detained

nj.com

A possible explosive threat at the entrance of Picatinny Arsenal prompted the evacuation of employees from the base Friday.

At about 11:30 a.m., a driver tried to gain access to Picatinny Arsenal through the post’s truck gate when security personnel noticed something suspicious within the vehicle, Picatinny Arsenal spokesman Ed Lopez said.

The driver is currently being detained and questioned at this time, he said.

Authorities are treating the situation as if it was an explosive threat, and the installation has been coordinating with local, state and federal agencies, Lopez said. More

My old installation. In the day it had million pounds of explosives of its own, but it’s mostly R&D quantities now.

76 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 2:16:26pm

re: #73 Charles Johnson

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Chuck found his genetics version of his catlady pixels expert and you can’t make him change his mind.

77 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 2:20:25pm

re: #73 Charles Johnson

78 wrenchwench  Apr 17, 2015 2:20:36pm
79 Decatur Deb  Apr 17, 2015 2:21:59pm

re: #78 wrenchwench

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Lot of double-spaces in there, made it easier.

80 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 2:23:09pm

AMC is apparently going ahead with a “Preacher” TV series.

The butthurt whining level on this will be LEGENDARY!

81 wrenchwench  Apr 17, 2015 2:23:12pm

re: #79 Decatur Deb

Lot of double-spaces in there.

I’d send the humans who made me type that to the moon, too!

82 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 2:23:51pm

Turning to REAL science:

And I checked for my location here in eastern Kentucky and I’ll have great views through Wednesday evening:

WOOT!

83 Decatur Deb  Apr 17, 2015 2:27:11pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

Turning to REAL science:

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And I checked for my location here in eastern Kentucky and I’ll have great views through Wednesday evening:

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Astronomers in my area have the night (week) off.

wunderground.com

84 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 17, 2015 2:36:14pm

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

I know exactly how much I’ve paid and how much my employers have paid over the years because I pay attention to the annual notice I get every year from SS that shows every year since I started working in the mid-1960s.

what do you think - is the net amount, or the amount you might have had if you had had a chance to invest it with the average 7% return of the S&P, more than you expect to get from ss?

[edited for politeness of question and gramma’s grammar]

85 goddamnedfrank  Apr 17, 2015 2:41:10pm

re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth

As if we didn’t already need proof, but right there Chuck admits he conflates what he imagines with actual reality.

Yeah I noted that at the time because it’s kind of glaring. He just straight up asserts some shit then turns around and admits he has no earthly idea if it’s true or not.

86 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 2:44:43pm

re: #84 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

what do you think - is the net amount, or the amount you might have had if you had had a chance to invest it with the average 7% return of the S&P, more than you expect to get from ss?

[edited for politeness of question and gramma’s grammar]

Who amongst the common folk get to invest with an average of 7%?

87 Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2015 2:45:33pm

re: #85 goddamnedfrank

Yeah I noted that at the time because it’s kind of glaring. He just straight up asserts some shit then turns around and admits he has no earthly idea if it’s true or not.

In Chuckworld, saying something loud enough and often enough makes it come true. It’s why he keeps crowing about “victories” that are actually huge failures.

And unfortunately a lot of wingnuts fall for it hook, line and sinker.

88 wrenchwench  Apr 17, 2015 2:47:47pm
89 No Country For Old Haters  Apr 17, 2015 2:47:49pm

re: #87 Charles Johnson

In Chuckworld, saying something loud enough and often enough makes it come true. It’s why he keeps crowing about “victories” that are actually huge failures.

And unfortunately a lot of wingnuts fall for it hook, line and sinker.

If they had critical thinking skills, they’d grow out of their wingnut phase.

90 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 2:47:58pm

re: #87 Charles Johnson

In Chuckworld, saying something loud enough and often enough makes it come true. It’s why he keeps crowing about “victories” that are actually huge failures.

And unfortunately a lot of wingnuts fall for it hook, line and sinker.

“After my huge victories on the Menendez and Ferguson stories…

“Wait, didn’t those stories collapse completely?”

“HUGE VICTORIES!”

91 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 17, 2015 2:48:12pm

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

Who amongst the common folk get to invest with an average of 7%?

ah, therein lies the difference between wingnuts’ - or as i like to call them, “suckers” - reality and real reality in the physical universe

i often hear them repeat the common bankster lie that stock market investments should return an average of 11% annually “over the long term”

92 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 2:48:16pm

Chuck and his friends try to debunk electricity science:

93 Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2015 2:48:48pm

I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict Chuck isn’t going to raise anywhere near $40,000 for his Hillary nothingburger, though. The grift is just a little TOO obvious this time, even for the mindless wingnut crowd.

94 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 2:49:23pm

re: #90 Kragar

“After my huge victories on the Menendez and Ferguson stories…

“Wait, didn’t those stories collapse completely?”

“HUGE VICTORIES!”

Oh you silly person, he’s claiming vindication:

95 Nyet  Apr 17, 2015 2:51:02pm

re: #93 Charles Johnson

$310 of $40k
Raised by 13 people in 1 day

128 more days to go…

96 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 2:51:30pm

re: #91 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

ah, therein lies the difference between wingnuts’ - or as i like to call them, “suckers” - reality and real reality in the physical universe

i often hear them repeat the common bankster lie that stock market investments should return an average of 11% annually “over the long term”

My bank has an interest calculator that uses 5% as the default.
Savings interest there is .2% (yes, I have the decimal point in the correct place).

97 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 2:51:33pm

If you just want to save money at the bank, they offering 0.05% APY.

Yippee!

I can remember when even Christmas accts paid 5% interest.

98 Shiplord Kirel  Apr 17, 2015 2:51:48pm

The King of Clubs is dead: Former Saddam henchman on US most-wanted list who became ISIS commander is killed in fighting near former tyrant’s home city

A fugitive Iraqi militant leader and the former right-hand man of Saddam Hussein has reportedly been killed in a skirmish.
Iraqi officials said Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri had died in fighting with government troops in Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad.
Al-Douri, 72, headed the Naqshbandi Order insurgent group, an important faction behind the recent rise of ISIS.

Izzat was a major wheel in the Baathist party throughout Saddam’s long reign and was named leader of the party when Saddam was captured. There was a $10M price on his head.

99 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 2:52:01pm

re: #93 Charles Johnson

I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict Chuck isn’t going to raise anywhere near $40,000 for his Hillary nothingburger, though. The grift is just a little TOO obvious this time, even for the mindless wingnut crowd.

“I’ve been working on this for the last 3 years! This is guaranteed to take Hillary down!”

“Awesome!”

“All I need is $40k!”

“YE- wait, why?”

“I need to send out a team to gather evidence, document stories, pay some bribes.”

“But you said you had a guaranteed story you’ve spent the last 3 years on. Why do you need $40k now?”

“ARE YOU A LIBTARD COMMIE? BLOCKED!”

100 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 2:52:20pm

re: #93 Charles Johnson

I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict Chuck isn’t going to raise anywhere near $40,000 for his Hillary nothingburger, though. The grift is just a little TOO obvious this time, even for the mindless wingnut crowd.

Right now he’s at $310 in 24 hours.

101 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 2:53:21pm

re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth

Right now he’s at $310 in 24 hours.

That would probably pay his bar bill for one night?

102 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 2:56:29pm

NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar set for full recovery after heart surgery at UCLA - @CBSLA
read more on cbslocal.com

Get well soon!

103 A Cranky One  Apr 17, 2015 2:57:20pm

Gotta go do some meatworld chores on the way home. Later lizards.

Where do they keep the hot sauce?
104 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 2:57:46pm

More fat shaming the employee he does not know and has never met:

105 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 3:01:26pm

Um, no, asswipe pay-to-play wannabe cop, it wouldn’t “happen to anyone”:

106 BeachDem  Apr 17, 2015 3:01:43pm

re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth

As if we didn’t already need proof, but right there Chuck admits he conflates what he imagines with actual reality.

And this:

I showed them the invitation and told them how I came to have a ticket.

Since he also admitted that he was at the WRONG event on the WRONG date in the WRONG city, how could he have shown them an invitation that would have granted him admission at all?

107 goddamnedfrank  Apr 17, 2015 3:02:01pm

re: #93 Charles Johnson

I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict Chuck isn’t going to raise anywhere near $40,000 for his Hillary nothingburger, though. The grift is just a little TOO obvious this time, even for the mindless wingnut crowd.

Also, the whole preemptive “what I’m planning is totes legal, I checked with five lawyers” thing isn’t a good advertising pitch.

These flags are red.
108 Shiplord Kirel  Apr 17, 2015 3:03:33pm

re: #98 Shiplord Kirel

The King of Clubs is dead: Former Saddam henchman on US most-wanted list who became ISIS commander is killed in fighting near former tyrant’s home city

Izzat was a major wheel in the Baathist party throughout Saddam’s long reign and was named leader of the party when Saddam was captured. There was a $10M price on his head.

Freeper madness responds:

Don’t let Obama know, he’ll send a medical team there to revive him and if that doesn’t work then burial with full honors.

Not to worry—-Obama will find a suitable replacement for him. Eric Holder is looking for a job.

Sheesh! You know, Obama could go to the war zone and personally shoot the chief ISIS head-chopper, and the RWNJs would still claim he was somehow in cahoots with them.

109 jaunte  Apr 17, 2015 3:03:38pm

re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth

More fat shaming the employee he does not know and has never met:

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Little Napoleon sez: “Prove yourself innocent!”

110 No Country For Old Haters  Apr 17, 2015 3:03:51pm

re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth

More fat shaming the employee he does not know and has never met:

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Yes, I lowered myself to his level.

111 No Country For Old Haters  Apr 17, 2015 3:05:19pm

re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth

Um, no, asswipe pay-to-play wannabe cop, it wouldn’t “happen to anyone”:

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Correct, and it’s not an apology when you claim anyone could do the terrible thing you did.

112 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 3:06:05pm

re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth

Um, no, asswipe pay-to-play wannabe cop, it wouldn’t “happen to anyone”:

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Also, the taser was STRAPPED TO HIS CHEST.
No way in hell he didn’t know the gun holstered at his hip wasn’t the taser.

113 ObserverArt  Apr 17, 2015 3:06:17pm

Idiot boy journalist turns the whole idea of American “presumption of innocence” dead and everyone is guilty until he proves you ARE guilty. And if he doesn’t, well, you’re still guilty. Send me 20.

Like a Charlie Brown comic.

The Journalist is in. $20

114 No Country For Old Haters  Apr 17, 2015 3:08:36pm

re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth

Um, no, asswipe pay-to-play wannabe cop, it wouldn’t “happen to anyone”:

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He says this is the second worst thing to happen to him. Fuck this guy. He’s not a victim, he’s a perpetrator.

115 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 3:15:16pm

Watched “Good Night, and Good Luck” yestereve. It reminded me of just how awful the Fifties were. “Happy Days,” my ass. I was there and the paranoia, the weekly duck-and-cover drills, and the suspicion made for anything but happy days. It also reminded me that there are few, if any, journalists these days.

116 goddamnedfrank  Apr 17, 2015 3:20:02pm

Something something stones and glass houses.

Fat, glass houses.

117 Ace-o-aces  Apr 17, 2015 3:23:22pm
118 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 3:23:25pm

re: #115 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Watched “Good Night, and Good Luck” yestereve. It reminded me of just how awful the Fifties were. “Happy Days,” my ass. I was there and the paranoia, the weekly duck-and-cover drills, and the suspicion made for anything but happy days. It also reminded me that there are few, if any, journalists these days.

I well remember the duck and cover drills.
When I was in second grade, I remember a timed drill when the air raid sirens went off in town and we were timed to see how long it took us, on foot, to get from school to home.
A classmate and I took our sweet time, checking out all sorts of interesting things along the way.
When asked, after the drill, why did it take us so long, why didn’t we literally run all the way home?…I said, we’re all going to die anyway, right? We took the time to pack up as many memories as we could. (That was back in the day when I was attending Catholic school and believed there was an actual heaven and hell afterlife.)

119 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 3:24:20pm

Anyone think they’ll question Upchuck about this? : )

120 KingKenrod  Apr 17, 2015 3:24:59pm

There’s no way that bag of orange rat fur got an apology from the FBI.

121 BeachDem  Apr 17, 2015 3:25:27pm

re: #113 ObserverArt

Idiot boy journalist turns the whole idea of American “presumption of innocence” is dead and everyone is guilty until he proves you ARE guilty. And if he doesn’t, well, you’re still guilty. Send me 20.

Like a Charlie Brown comic.

The Journalist is in. $20 $40,000

Just keeping up with inflation!

122 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 3:25:44pm

Update: At least 8 injured in Fresno, Calif., gas line fire near Highway 99 and the San Joaquin River, local media reports - @beebenjamin
see original on twitter.com

123 KingKenrod  Apr 17, 2015 3:26:00pm

re: #120 KingKenrod

There’s no way that bag of orange rat fur got an apology from the FBI.

Capitol police, actually. No way.

124 wrenchwench  Apr 17, 2015 3:26:00pm

Translation of the first one: ‘Dir. of Hidalgo and Anzalduas bridge says bridges never closed and remain open with access to Reynosa. Caution.’
The second one has not been continued from the dot dot dot…

125 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 3:26:36pm

Is it too soon to talk about gun control?

Multiple victims reported after a gas line was struck near a Fresno, Calif., gun range, police say - @corinhoggard
see original on twitter.com

126 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 17, 2015 3:27:39pm

re: #115 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Watched “Good Night, and Good Luck” yestereve. It reminded me of just how awful the Fifties were. “Happy Days,” my ass. I was there and the paranoia, the weekly duck-and-cover drills, and the suspicion made for anything but happy days. It also reminded me that there are few, if any, journalists these days.

i wasnt very old at the time but i think a lot of americans experienced the actual 50s as a time of increasing danger from communists, atom bombs, and juvenile delinquents with their frightening rock n roll music, as well as increasing alienation and depression as success and good times didnt turn out to be as great as they expected, especially in sterile brand new suburbs where miles of ticky tacky homes were surrounded by nothingness

127 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 17, 2015 3:28:38pm

re: #125 Justanotherhuman

It appears work was being done and the crew struck the gas line.

Probably not related to the gun range at all.

I hope all the work crew recovers.

128 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 3:29:13pm

Who in the Planning Dept allowed a gun range to be located at a gas line?

129 gwangung  Apr 17, 2015 3:29:48pm

re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth

Um, no, asswipe pay-to-play wannabe cop, it wouldn’t “happen to anyone”:

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“Anyone” would have had some professional training and practice that you thought you were too good for, you wanna be.

130 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 3:31:24pm

re: #127 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Ah so.

131 TedStriker  Apr 17, 2015 3:31:59pm
So Chuck has basically admitted here that he’s on the Capitol Police radar as a potential threat. That’s why he was recognized and detained at the fundraiser, obviously — and they’re quite right to be concerned about Chuck’s erratic behavior.

This means that whenever he goes to any similar event for a high profile politician from now on, he can expect similar treatment — because once you’re on this list you never get off it. Nice work, Chuck.

132 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 3:32:58pm

Now they say it. A gun range where cops train.

Evacuations underway in area near Fresno, Calif., gas line explosion, police say; explosion and fire reportedly occurred at peace officers gun range when crews doing line work struck gas line - @ABC30
read more on abc30.com

133 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 3:34:42pm

re: #116 goddamnedfrank

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Something something stones and glass houses.

Fat, glass houses.

Only in America can we combine a gunny sack of diseased Orangutan fur with 230 lbs. of lard and come up with an Award Winning Journalist.

134 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 3:35:47pm

The USS Independence has been found:

NOAA, working with private industry partners and the U.S. Navy, has confirmed the location and condition of the USS Independence, the lead ship of its class of light aircraft carriers that were critical during the American naval offensive in the Pacific during World War II.

Resting in 2,600 feet of water off California’s Farallon Islands, the carrier is “amazingly intact,” said NOAA scientists, with its hull and flight deck clearly visible, and what appears to be a plane in the carrier’s hangar bay.

Independence (CVL 22) operated in the central and western Pacific from November 1943 through August 1945 and later was one of more than 90 vessels assembled as a target fleet for the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests in 1946. Damaged by shock waves, heat and radiation, Independence survived the Bikini Atoll tests and, like dozens of other Operation Crossroads ships, returned to the United States.

While moored at San Francisco’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, Independence was the primary focus of the Navy’s studies on decontamination until age and the possibility of its sinking led the Navy to tow the blast-damaged carrier to sea for scuttling on Jan. 26, 1951.

135 goddamnedfrank  Apr 17, 2015 3:36:14pm

re: #127 klys (maker of Silmarils)

It appears work was being done and the crew struck the gas line.

Probably not related to the gun range at all.

I hope all the work crew recovers.

That’s a big fire, gonna burn people at a considerable distance.

136 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 3:38:53pm

Damnit, fanatics just won’t quit.

Hobby Lobby Part II Is Barreling Towards The Supreme Court

thinkprogress.org

Wheaton College, where Billy Graham, whom some are attempting to canonize before he’s even dead, matriculated.

137 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 3:39:16pm
138 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 3:40:21pm

Update: Fresno, Calif., gas line fire extinguished; 14-15 injuries reported, emergency service says - @beebenjamin
see original on twitter.com

139 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 3:42:11pm

re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That would be nice if we weren’t going to have more rain for the next 3 days.

They really are going to need a bush hog to clear out the overgrown lawns around here when it finally does dry out.

140 #FergusonFireside  Apr 17, 2015 3:43:37pm
141 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 3:45:48pm
142 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 3:47:48pm

re: #140 #FergusonFireside

143 dholmes32  Apr 17, 2015 3:51:25pm

re: #69 Shiplord Kirel

Yeah, when one of my alma maters calls up (that’d be the University of Texas at Austin), I tell them politely I’ll consider giving them money once they get rid of the statues of Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee. Neither of these men were residents of Texas, former presidents of the United States or distinguished Texans. However, they were, as a northern roomie put it, “Confederate war criminals.”

Given how much people love to cling to the Lost Cause, I don’t think I’ll ever have to give one red cent to UT-Austin. Which is rather too bad. I’d like to see UT make a fool out of me, just on this one issue.

144 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 3:52:10pm
145 EPR-radar  Apr 17, 2015 3:52:51pm

re: #142 Justanotherhuman

Someone needs to be more careful with the definition of treason. Rednecks wearing the Confederate flag certainly don’t qualify.

However, the Confederacy itself was treasonous, and the Union would have been well within the letter of the law to execute every significant Confederate leader for treason after the war was over.

A certain level of ingratitude (both past and present) for this act of mercy is noted.

146 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 3:57:24pm

re: #145 EPR-radar

Someone needs to be more careful with the definition of treason. Rednecks wearing the Confederate flag certainly don’t qualify.

However, the Confederacy itself was treasonous, and the Union would have been well within the letter of the law to execute every significant Confederate leader for treason after the war was over.

A certain level of ingratitude (both past and present) for this act of mercy is noted.

I’ve known a lot of “rednecks” and just plain old reactionaries. If any real leadership emerged in a fight for secession these days, they’d join up. As it is, the Republicans keep stoking the kind of resentment these people enjoy showing, and they don’t mind waving that flag to prove it, if it meant getting the Yankee Federal govt out of their lives. And they seriously mean it.

147 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 4:01:03pm
148 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 4:02:29pm

Close view of gas line fire in Fresno, Calif.; video contains explicit language

instagram.com

You know NBC News will edit out “Oh, shit!”

149 psddluva4evah  Apr 17, 2015 4:02:38pm

So I got off early from work today and I’m off Monday so that’s a 3 day weekend. I left work today like this:

I’m just gonna relax, stay home and catch up on some sleep the next 3 days.

Anyhoo…right now I’m checking my twitter machine. Came across this question from a blog I follow:

‏@BlackGirlNerds
Could The Next Green Lantern Be John Stewart? blackgirlnerds.com … pic.twitter.com

For my money, it’ can’t be worse than the Ryan Reynolds film. My short list to play John Stewart as Green Latern: Nate Parker, Trai Byers, and Billy Brown.
Pics at this link:

150 psddluva4evah  Apr 17, 2015 4:04:20pm

Alright, here is the official non-pirated version of the Superman vs Batman teaser trailer from the director Zack Synder. I’m betting studio’s pissed. The trailer was supposed to be released with big fan fare on Monday. But a comic book website put a pirated version with Spanish subtitles online yesterday

151 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 4:06:37pm

re: #150 psddluva4evah

152 Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2015 4:07:19pm
153 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 4:07:52pm

welp, today’s installment of BWS’s wildlife encounters involved another corpse in the goat’s water bucket.
Historically, it’s just been mice.
Today’s was (best as I can tell) a ground squirrel (bigger than a chipmunk, smaller than a squirrel).

I can’t believe that, right now, I’m trying to design a water bucket ladder suitable for small rodents so they can save themselves from drowning…

154 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 4:09:14pm

re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth

The USS Independence has been found:

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Thanks for the link! The Light Carriers and Escort Carriers were instrumental in enabling the Navy to put aircraft overhead for convoys in WWII. The big boats received most of the press at the time, but these smaller carriers provided peace of mind to many WWII sailors and soldiers.

155 Shiplord Kirel  Apr 17, 2015 4:10:07pm

re: #147 Kragar

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Not just communist weirdos but Mexican Muslim communist weirdos. And gays, Mexican Muslim communist gay weirdos. Okay, I’ll admit that is damn weird but how many of these people could there be?

156 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 4:10:13pm

re: #152 Charles Johnson

157 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 4:10:49pm

re: #154 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Thanks for the link! The Light Carriers and Escort Carriers were instrumental in enabling the Navy to put aircraft overhead for convoys in WWII. The big boats received most of the press at the time, but these smaller carriers provided peace of mind to many WWII sailors and soldiers.

You’re very welcome! I found the article fascinating, particularly this part:

NOAA’s interest in Independence is part of a mandated and ongoing two-year mission to locate, map and study historic shipwrecks in Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and nearby waters. The carrier is one of an estimated 300 wrecks in the waters off San Francisco, and the deepest known shipwreck in the sanctuary.

158 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 4:11:38pm

re: #147 Kragar

Ted Cruz is an American hero? Where did he serve?

159 wrenchwench  Apr 17, 2015 4:12:00pm

re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth

welp, today’s installment of BWS’s wildlife encounters involved another corpse in the goat’s water bucket.
Historically, it’s just been mice.
Today’s was (best as I can tell) a ground squirrel (bigger than a chipmunk, smaller than a squirrel).

I can’t believe that, right now, I’m trying to design a water bucket ladder suitable for small rodents so they can save themselves from drowning…

A branch.

160 Justanotherhuman  Apr 17, 2015 4:12:14pm

Later, Lizards!

Keep calm…

161 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 4:12:54pm

re: #159 wrenchwench

A branch.

The goat will eat that.

162 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 4:13:27pm

re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not surprised that there are 300 shipwrecks in the Gulf of the Farallones. That’s a rough, cold, stretch of water.

163 wrenchwench  Apr 17, 2015 4:13:41pm

re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth

The goat will eat that.

Got a steel one?

/

164 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 4:13:42pm

re: #158 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Ted Cruz is an American hero? Where did he serve?

IHOP

165 danarchy  Apr 17, 2015 4:14:36pm

re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth

welp, today’s installment of BWS’s wildlife encounters involved another corpse in the goat’s water bucket.
Historically, it’s just been mice.
Today’s was (best as I can tell) a ground squirrel (bigger than a chipmunk, smaller than a squirrel).

I can’t believe that, right now, I’m trying to design a water bucket ladder suitable for small rodents so they can save themselves from drowning…

I had a big plastic trash barrel outside once and there was a storm that blew the lid off and the barrel ended up collecting a few inches of rain water. Found a dead possum in it the next day. If they can jump high enough to get in you would think they would be able to get back out.

166 goddamnedfrank  Apr 17, 2015 4:14:38pm

So the Starbucks people accidentally made my black ice coffee a trenta instead of a venti and now I’m all Beavising out over here.

ARE YOU THREATENING ME!!!

167 Lord Of The Pies  Apr 17, 2015 4:16:24pm

re: #164 Kragar

IHOP

Tim Horton’s

168 stpaulbear  Apr 17, 2015 4:19:48pm

re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth

The goat will eat that.

Can you mold something out of wire mesh or chicken wire that wouldn’t be a hazard to the goat?

169 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 4:21:19pm

re: #168 stpaulbear

Can you mold something out of wire mesh or chicken wire that wouldn’t be a hazard to the goat?

That’s what I’m thinking.

170 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 4:24:38pm

re: #168 stpaulbear

Can you mold something out of wire mesh or chicken wire that wouldn’t be a hazard to the goat?

Or maybe a thick metal cable that I can bend around the rim so it runs straight down the side. I’ve got a bunch of scrap cable I can maybe use; coat it in paraffin or something non-toxic so it doesn’t rust.

171 Decatur Deb  Apr 17, 2015 4:25:02pm

re: #159 wrenchwench

A branch.

2 inch x 4 inch x 18 inch concrete garden edger.

172 stpaulbear  Apr 17, 2015 4:25:43pm

I’m trying to find the owner’s manual and the receipt for a B&O RX-2 turntable that I bought about 25 years ago. I never throw that kind of stuff out, but that also means that it’s packratted away somewhere that I can’t find. It’s not in the place where it should have been so now I have to hunt. When I find that I’ll probably find the manual for my 42 year old Dual 1229 too. This may be a weekend-long chore.

173 Shiplord Kirel  Apr 17, 2015 4:26:35pm

re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth

The USS Independence has been found:

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re: #154 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Thanks for the link! The Light Carriers and Escort Carriers were instrumental in enabling the Navy to put aircraft overhead for convoys in WWII. The big boats received most of the press at the time, but these smaller carriers provided peace of mind to many WWII sailors and soldiers.

I think oceanographers will eventually be able to “turn the seas transparent,” to see the ocean floor as clearly as we can see the land from the air, possibly more clearly since weather will not intervene. This kind of capability may even exist within my lifetime, certainly in my children’s. There are still many, many treasures to be found and many mysteries to be solved. Amelia Earhart? Flight 19? For that matter, half the US submarines lost in World War 2 have not been located to this day and many thousands of aircraft and crews remain lost at sea, assumed to be for all time, but perhaps not.

174 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 4:26:39pm
175 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 4:27:31pm

re: #171 Decatur Deb

2 inch x 4 inch x 18 inch concrete garden edger.

oooh! good idea!

176 Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2015 4:28:01pm
177 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 4:28:10pm

ETA: A couple days off…it will be 20 years on Sunday.

178 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 4:29:07pm
179 Decatur Deb  Apr 17, 2015 4:30:11pm

re: #176 Charles Johnson

If Hillary forgets to close a hinged door in a fence, will we have two weeks of GateGate?

When she takes over Michelle’s White House veggie patch—Garden Gate.

180 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 4:32:32pm

Oh boy! The New Hampshire Republican Party’s “First in the Nation” leadership summit is on CSPAN! Thank you CSPAN! I have missed seeing New Hampshirite Scott Brown talk and can’t wait for Jeb, Perry, Rubio and Christie.

I’ll just need 4 more Bombay Sapphire Martinis.

181 A Cranky One  Apr 17, 2015 4:32:35pm

re: #159 wrenchwench

A branch.

Or a short piece of rope.

182 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 17, 2015 4:33:03pm

re: #176 Charles Johnson

If Hillary forgets to close a hinged door in a fence, will we have two weeks of GateGate? I can’t wait for GateGate

since there was a scandal about billing, how come it wasnt called billingsgate?

or how about a scandal about getting some tail - tailgate!

183 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 4:33:44pm

re: #176 Charles Johnson

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If Bill gets in trouble again it will be MateGate

184 jaunte  Apr 17, 2015 4:33:48pm
185 jaunte  Apr 17, 2015 4:34:27pm

Simpsons vs. Cruz: not a fair fight.

186 Decatur Deb  Apr 17, 2015 4:34:46pm

re: #183 b.d.

If Bill gets in trouble again it will be MateGate

Viagrate.

187 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 4:35:14pm

Scott Brown is tired of people not paying attention to the little guy dammit!

And, Oh, Obama sux!

188 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 4:35:56pm

re: #186 Decatur Deb

Viagrate.

FirstMateGate.

189 Decatur Deb  Apr 17, 2015 4:36:29pm

re: #188 b.d.

FirstMateGate.

FirstMateDateGate.

190 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 17, 2015 4:37:07pm

re: #187 b.d.

Scott Brown is tired of people not paying attention to the little guy dammit!

And, Oh, Obama sux!

men will often find that the little guy doesnt always give them the best advice

191 allegro  Apr 17, 2015 4:37:11pm

re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth

welp, today’s installment of BWS’s wildlife encounters involved another corpse in the goat’s water bucket.
Historically, it’s just been mice.
Today’s was (best as I can tell) a ground squirrel (bigger than a chipmunk, smaller than a squirrel).

I can’t believe that, right now, I’m trying to design a water bucket ladder suitable for small rodents so they can save themselves from drowning…

Check out parrot toys. There are always ladders of various size and usually have hook thingies on the end that can hang on the edge of the bucket.

192 BeachDem  Apr 17, 2015 4:37:19pm

re: #187 b.d.

Scott Brown is tired of people not paying attention to the little guy dammit!

And, Oh, Obama sux!

Well, Scott Brown is a petty little guy, but he’s not usually so self-deprecating.
/

193 A Cranky One  Apr 17, 2015 4:38:08pm

re: #172 stpaulbear

It obviously won’t help re the receipt, but the owners manual can be downloaded:

BeoGram User Manuals

194 Decatur Deb  Apr 17, 2015 4:38:32pm

re: #189 Decatur Deb

FirstMateDateGate.

Then follows his FirstMateDateGateFate.

195 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 4:38:49pm

Scott Brown is talking and the crowd is more interested in their food. The table of morons wearing the Ben Carson T-Shirts sure look like a fine bunch of folks that I would love to pull a chair up to.

//

196 stpaulbear  Apr 17, 2015 4:39:24pm

re: #172 stpaulbear

Victory!! Both owner’s manuals were in the third place that they shouldn’t be.

Edit: A Cranky One, it was more important to me to find the documentation for the ‘new’ cartridge on the B&O. I want to sell it or trade it, and a new cartridge for the RX-2 is obscenely expensive. The cartridge is the big driving factor for the value of the turntable.

197 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 4:41:18pm

Scott Brown droning on and on to a bunch of folks who think his is a lib rino.

Rubio sitting at a table looking like he is awaiting his prom date to come down the stairs, nervous little jerk.

198 Decatur Deb  Apr 17, 2015 4:41:42pm

re: #197 b.d.

Scott Brown droning on and on to a bunch of folks who think his is a lib rino.

Rubio sitting at a table looking like he is awaiting his prom date to come down the stairs, nervous little jerk.

Is he properly hydrating?

199 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Apr 17, 2015 4:42:28pm

2015

it’s getting to be so far in the future that kids reply “popes of the catholic church?” when you ask them to identify john, paul, george, and ringo

200 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 4:44:06pm

re: #198 Decatur Deb

Is he properly hydrating?

Brown is done and Rubio is the keynote, the MC told everybody to finish eating. Rubio was sitting sideways in his chair like he was awaiting a starter’s pistol while everyone else at the table was eating. If he is such a jittery little bagger at what is a home crowd then he is going to have lots of troubles.

201 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 4:45:33pm
202 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 4:46:01pm

They are now replaying Perry’s speech from earlier where he starts out saying how the wingnuts in attendance sure are giving him a better welcome than the US Army group did here last night? That bombed bad and RIck was lost.

What a covey of losers.

203 jaunte  Apr 17, 2015 4:46:44pm

re: #201 Kragar

ryuge

I think there was someone with that nickname who posted here years ago.

204 #FergusonFireside  Apr 17, 2015 4:48:17pm

Ya’ll want to read about another bad cop? Well, here you go.

Of course he uses the term Human Vermin.

205 A Cranky One  Apr 17, 2015 4:50:18pm

re: #196 stpaulbear

Victory!! Both owner’s manuals were in the third place that they shouldn’t be.

Edit: A Cranky One, it was more important to me to find the documentation for the ‘new’ cartridge on the B&O. I want to sell it or trade it, and a new cartridge for the RX-2 is obscenely expensive. The cartridge is the big driving factor for the value of the turntable.

Ah. Yes, the unique mount for the cartridge would make replacement expensive these days. Used to do microscopic exams of styluses back in the day, best way to tell what condition they’re in. Belt ok?

206 Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2015 4:51:25pm

re: #203 jaunte

There is someone who registered with that name about 6 years ago, but he/she has never commented.

207 jaunte  Apr 17, 2015 4:51:47pm

re: #206 Charles Johnson

Now at the stalker blog.

208 Kragar  Apr 17, 2015 4:56:34pm

re: #207 jaunte

Now at the stalker blog.

Aw, glad I ended up blocking them then.

209 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 17, 2015 4:56:48pm

re: #97 Justanotherhuman

If you just want to save money at the bank, they offering 0.05% APY.

Yippee!

I can remember when even Christmas accts paid 5% interest.

I remember Certificates of Deposit getting 14%. But that was the early 80s when inflation was running 7-8% as well. Once inflation started to drop the interest rates dropped as well and then dropped past the “inflation + 5%” standard that seemed to be around for a long time.

And in roughly the same period it looks like a lot of investing went from bonds and dividend-bearing stocks towards churn for capital gains.

210 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 5:00:28pm

Oh crap that’s Rubio! I just assumed someone’s kid wandered up to the podium and just started babbling gibberish.

211 Shiplord Kirel  Apr 17, 2015 5:00:55pm

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

ETA: A couple days off…it will be 20 years on Sunday.

For me, It’s one of the historic events, like the JFK assassination or Apollo 11 or 9-11, that I will always remember very clearly. The first I saw of it was a TV news bulletin that said there had been a very large explosion in downtown Oklahoma City. At first I suspected a gas leak, then the first live video came in and it was obvious that this was no gas explosion.

I thought it was a spooky coincidence that it was the anniversary of the Waco Branch Davidian fire, but at first nobody thought it was any more than coincidence. For a long time, an hour or more, reports emphasized that no fatalities had been reported. I saw the building, the front third lying in rubble on the streets, and knew that these reports would not hold up.

The subsequent search and recovery, especially the soul-searing layer by layer search through the blasted daycare center, received a lot of coverage.

There was a rush to judgement. A British tabloid ran the famous picture of a fireman carrying an injured baby and captioned it “In the Name of Islam.”

Then a suspect was arrested and the story gradually became clear. Many Americans got their first good look at the conspiracist right sub-culture, a sub-culture whose influence and toxic ideology have since invaded the mainstream.

212 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 5:05:16pm

re: #209 Feline Fearless Leader

I’d love to know how they really calculate inflation. As far as I can tell, food prices are going up, gasoline prices are creeping back up, home prices are definitely going up, new car prices the same. Wages are the only thing that isn’t going up. At times I suspect that inflation is indexed to things that don’t really affect most wage earners.

213 CuriousLurker  Apr 17, 2015 5:06:18pm

OFFS—srsly, America? Emphasis added:

Culture Wars Rage Within Science Fiction Fandom

Staid though their reputation may be, organized science fiction fans of the Worldcon stripe are notoriously prickly and anti-authoritarian. Some refer to themselves as “trufans” as opposed to the world at large, deemed the “mundanes.” In this contrarian spirit, the Hugos have never been especially politically conservative. The awards have been given to an increasingly diverse variety of ambitious works, a trend that reached its peak in 2014, when for the first time the majority of the Hugo-winning works were not by white men, but rather by women or ethnic minorities, a diversity reflected in the nontraditional structure and content of their work. Some people had a problem with that. Enter the Puppies.

Ostensibly, the Sad Puppies and an allied splinter group, the Rabid Puppies, are a collection of readers who are concerned with the future of science fiction. They long for the days of swashbuckling adventure stories featuring manly men, rocket ships, and good old-fashioned linear narratives. Founded by author and occasional Fox News talking head Larry Correia, the Puppies have spoken of their movement in the context of a “culture war.” They believe the Hugos have been unfairly dominated—and, in fact, manipulated, if not outright stolen—by a shadowy cabal of “Social Justice Warriors” (a derogatory term the Puppies and other social conservatives use to denote social progressives). […]

Is every-fricking-thing doomed to be infected with this wingnut imagined persecution crap? It reminds me of a saying that I think is from the Balkans—I’m paraphrasing—about how some would rather burn their blanket and freeze to death than share it with another, or something to that effect.

214 Decatur Deb  Apr 17, 2015 5:06:42pm

re: #212 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’d love to know how they really calculate inflation. As far as I can tell, food prices are going up, gasoline prices are creeping back up, home prices are definitely going up, new car prices the same. Wages are the only thing that isn’t going up. At times I suspect that inflation is indexed to things that don’t really affect most wage earners.

Something of a black art.

aarp.org

215 jaunte  Apr 17, 2015 5:10:10pm

re: #213 CuriousLurker

Nasty.

“…Big winner Vox Day is an outspoken white supremacist and campaigner against women’s education and suffrage, who is on the record as supporting the Taliban’s attempt to assassinate Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousifazi, finding it “scientifically justifiable.”

Related, with details about the “ballot box stuffing”:
Connie Willis
WHY I WON’T BE A PRESENTER AT THE HUGO AWARDS THIS YEAR
azsf.net

216 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 17, 2015 5:10:38pm

re: #212 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’d love to know how they really calculate inflation. As far as I can tell, food prices are going up, gasoline prices are creeping back up, home prices are definitely going up, new car prices the same. Wages are the only thing that isn’t going up. At times I suspect that inflation is indexed to things that don’t really affect most wage earners.

If you Wiki “Consumer Price Index” you’ll see that that there are different models used and they vary the “market basket” by different groups (elderly, urban wage-earner, etc.) and by geographical regions as well.

So there are pretty complex calculations going on, and then it gets dumbed down to the simple, but inaccurate, number the media reports.

217 jaunte  Apr 17, 2015 5:11:54pm

Rational Wiki:

Theodore Beale, known by his pseudonym Vox Day,[1] is a science fiction author, game designer,[2] musician,[3] pseudo-libertarian, anti-vaxxer,[4] racist,[5] Christian apologist, pickup artist, stalker[6], and all-round fucking idiot. He is the epitome of evidence that not all artists are sensible, intelligent people, contrary to stereotype. He is a former pundit for WorldNetDaily (which says a lot about the demographic he’s pitching to).
rationalwiki.org

218 EPR-radar  Apr 17, 2015 5:12:55pm

re: #213 CuriousLurker

As far as I can tell, this nonsense with the Hugos is what happens when Gamergate types spread their poison beyond video games.

219 CuriousLurker  Apr 17, 2015 5:12:56pm

re: #215 jaunte

Nasty.

Related, with details about the “ballot box stuffing”:
Connie Willis
WHY I WON’T BE A PRESENTER AT THE HUGO AWARDS THIS YEAR
azsf.net

UGH! I’m not into sci-fi and only know about this because it sailed across my Twitter timeline. I was like, WTF?? *smh*

220 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 5:13:40pm

[rubio] WE HAVE TO HELP OUT THAT YOUNG PERSON WHO IS USING THE FREE WIFI AT STARBUCKS TO RUN THEIR STARTUP SMALL BUSINESS! [/rubio]

For a 43 year old guy Rubio is really old.

221 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 5:14:05pm

re: #218 EPR-radar

As far as I can tell, this nonsense with the Hugos is what happens when Gamergate types spread their poison beyond video games.

Apparently #CalgaryExpo is now a thing in that same vein.

222 jaunte  Apr 17, 2015 5:14:05pm

re: #219 CuriousLurker

“He claims to be a member of Mensa and to have an IQ “Over the so-called ‘genius’ threshhold.”

This is apparently a jerk litmus.

223 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 17, 2015 5:14:13pm

re: #218 EPR-radar

As far as I can tell, this nonsense with the Hugos is what happens when Gamergate types spread their poison beyond video games.

It’s been going on since before Gamergate, although this year they had the bright idea to reach out to that group and join forces.

224 goddamnedfrank  Apr 17, 2015 5:14:24pm

re: #213 CuriousLurker

They long for the days of swashbuckling adventure stories featuring manly men, rocket ships, and good old-fashioned linear narratives.

In other words they want unoriginal pap, they want it spoon fed, and they want to be told it’s “award winning.”

225 jaunte  Apr 17, 2015 5:15:17pm

re: #224 goddamnedfrank

In other words they want unoriginal pap, they want it spoon fed, and they want to be told it’s “award winning.”

SPACEBEES OPERA!

226 EPR-radar  Apr 17, 2015 5:15:21pm

re: #223 klys (maker of Silmarils)

It’s been going on since before Gamergate, although this year they had the bright idea to reach out to that group and join forces.

I see. Two festering streams of crap, crossing.

227 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 17, 2015 5:16:59pm

re: #226 EPR-radar

I see. Two festering streams of crap, crossing.

I admit there is part of me that is trying to just ignore the whole unholy mess because I hate knowing that there are people who don’t want me to taint their precious hobbies by being a woman and occasionally wanting to see that reflected in the media I enjoy.

228 A Cranky One  Apr 17, 2015 5:17:54pm

re: #226 EPR-radar

I see. Two festering streams of crap, crossing.

“Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.”
“Right. That’s bad.”

I think you summed it up.

229 psddluva4evah  Apr 17, 2015 5:19:17pm

Damn, some sad 80s one hit wonder news. This song is in my head darn near every pay day!

Bahamas R&B singer Johnny Kemp of ‘Just Got Paid’ fame dies

One of Teddy Riley’s best jams!

RIP Johnny Kemp.

Just Got Paid

230 Eventual Carrion  Apr 17, 2015 5:19:18pm

re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth

They should just give up…Rand haz a tee-shirt.

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Cool Rand. I walked down to the bar in a “Too drunk to fuck” tee. Was a nice afternoon in NW PA today.

231 Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2015 5:21:42pm
232 #FergusonFireside  Apr 17, 2015 5:24:01pm

I can’t stop watching that cat gif Charles posted earlier.

For those who missed it.

233 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 5:26:09pm

Yikes!

234 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 5:32:04pm

DENVER - Two tour buses for different music groups were involved in a chain reaction crash that shut down Interstate 70 at E-470 for hours Friday.

A dozen people were hurt and one of the bands cancelled their upcoming show.

snip

According to the Colorado State Patrol, 41-year-old John Crawford was driving the Twin Shadow tour bus when the bus slammed into the back of a semi-tractor trailer.

“Ultimately this is a huge crash scene,” Trooper Josh Lewis told 7NEWS at the scene. “We have so many different vehicles that were involved with it.”

Troopers said it was a chain reaction crash that also involved another semi-tractor trailer and another tour bus. That bus was carrying the band and crew of country music group Thompson Square. They were not hurt and are still set to perform at the National Western Complex Arena tonight.

235 stpaulbear  Apr 17, 2015 5:32:43pm

re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yikes!

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That’s waste water that’s burning??

236 Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2015 5:33:41pm

Chuck’s “Clinton Secret Oppo Project” gofundme page seems to have stalled at $360.

237 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 5:33:41pm

Rubio doing a classic job of fearmongering.

Questions was: There are terrorists pouring across our borders every day! What will you do!?

Answer: It’s worse than that! People in America are looking at bad terrorist training stuff on teh internets!!

238 CuriousLurker  Apr 17, 2015 5:33:50pm

re: #231 Charles Johnson

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I was thinking about it the other day—they’re being soooo stupid. Changes are coming, hell changes are here, so why not be smart and try to get out in front of it, lead the way? At least that way you’d maintain relevance.

But no, they’d rather atrophy, fossilize.

239 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 5:34:38pm

re: #235 stpaulbear

That’s waste water that’s burning??

apparently.

240 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 5:35:10pm

New Hampshire deal is done for the night but do not fear, Frank Luntz will be around tomorrow to do a focus group!

I guess they’ll keep doing the same stuff until it wins again.

241 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 5:37:03pm

re: #216 Feline Fearless Leader

If you Wiki “Consumer Price Index” you’ll see that that there are different models used and they vary the “market basket” by different groups (elderly, urban wage-earner, etc.) and by geographical regions as well.

So there are pretty complex calculations going on, and then it gets dumbed down to the simple, but inaccurate, number the media reports.

The media reports don’t move me because I figure that they’re usually bullshit anyway. The inflation numbers used to calculate COLAs do. The chained CPI for SS COLAs is beyond anathema because it enables limitless decreases in the COLA. The argument that if people can’t afford beef then they’ll buy chicken at some point gets to “If they can’t afford chicken then they’ll buy cat food.”

242 CuriousLurker  Apr 17, 2015 5:37:30pm

re: #240 b.d.

New Hampshire deal is done for the night but do not fear, Frank Luntz will be around tomorrow to do a focus group!

I guess they’ll keep doing the same stuff until it wins again.

Yeah, but the last time it worked for them in terms of the presidency was 2004, over a decade ago. Apparently they can’t see that.

243 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 5:38:52pm

re: #242 CuriousLurker

Yeah, but the last time it worked for them in terms of the presidency was 2004, over a decade ago. Apparently they can’t see that.

There is a lot of stuff that has happened since 2004 that they haven’t acknowledged yet.

244 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 5:39:16pm

re: #235 stpaulbear

That’s waste water that’s burning??

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. Just because they’re pumping tens of thousands of gallons of that shit into the ground wherever they can doesn’t mean that there will be any negative effects on people’s health. No sirree.

245 goddamnedfrank  Apr 17, 2015 5:39:40pm
Jeremiah True, the Reed College student who made headlines in March for protesting his professor’s decision to remove him from class, was arrested on Thursday by the Portland, Oregon police for alleged sex abuse, harassment, and disorderly conduct.

…

According to an employee at Rugby Oregon, a youth rugby organization based in Portland, True was arrested for disrupting a high school girls’ rugby practice. He was restrained by a coach who called the police, the employee said.

LOL, Chuck sure can pick ‘em.

246 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 5:41:39pm

re: #245 goddamnedfrank

Those can’t be authentic Tweets: he isn’t asking for money.

247 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 5:42:18pm

Damn Liizards I don’t know what got hold of me watching that New Hampshire dorkfest, I apologize for spreading the lameness.

248 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 5:45:40pm

re: #247 b.d.

Damn Liizards I don’t know what got hold of me watching that New Hampshire dorkfest, I apologize for spreading the lameness.

Somebody had to do it.
You were the designated lizard this time.

249 jaunte  Apr 17, 2015 5:46:10pm

re: #245 goddamnedfrank

Ryan Cooper:
Jeremiah True, Reed College, and the limits of free speech
“…It’s a mixture of messianic self-righteousness, melodrama, and gleeful trolling for attention that reminds me very much of Charles C. Johnson. And so it’s not so surprising that when contacted by Reason for comment, True said he would do it only under one bizarre condition: “Before I interview with you, you must agree to make ‘n****r’ be the first word in your article.” He said something similar to Inside Higher Ed.”
theweek.com

250 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 5:46:40pm

re: #245 goddamnedfrank

,,, and how he was throwing out of class.

WTF does that even mean?

251 nickzi  Apr 17, 2015 5:47:36pm

Lazy, ignorant and racist is Upchuck Sea Johnson’s only way to go through life.

252 Decatur Deb  Apr 17, 2015 5:48:34pm

re: #247 b.d.

Damn Liizards I don’t know what got hold of me watching that New Hampshire dorkfest, I apologize for spreading the lameness.

Better you than us.

253 Decatur Deb  Apr 17, 2015 5:49:24pm

re: #250 Higgs Boson’s Mate

WTF does that even mean?

Means a fan donated an ‘i’ and ‘g’ and he didn’t know where to put them.

254 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 5:49:49pm

re: #251 nickzi

Video

255 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 5:49:59pm

re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth

Somebody had to do it.
You were the designated lizard this time.

Thanks. I feel dirty, like I was watching some sort of more illegitimate than reality Herbalife convention or something.

btw. Didn’t Chuck already claim that he had the dirt to bring down Hillary but was waiting until she got the nomination before his latest effort at him started trying to milk his rubes?

256 goddamnedfrank  Apr 17, 2015 5:50:08pm

Jeremiah’s been off his meds for awhile now.

Protest or no, when you read True’s rants and online name-calling (he referred to one female commenter as “a bitch and a ****” and called another “fatty”), it all starts to seem a bit nuts.

“I am the God of MRA’s [men’s rights activists], Anti­feminists, Anti­Marxists, Libertarians, and White, heternormative men and women everywhere,” wrote True in a different part of the16-page essay posted on his Facebook page, “I am a misogynist and a misandrist, a racist, and a feminist. And now I’m here to call you out on your bullshit, Reed. I made my entire college run for cover because I’m an actual activist. I yelled “n**ger” in public places and nonviolently disrupted a forum on student activism when I felt my rights weren’t respected. Now that’s activism… Gender feminists. I am a biracial, bisexual, non-gender conforming Black n**ger. Suck. My. Enormous. Black. Dick.”

257 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 17, 2015 5:52:05pm

re: #256 goddamnedfrank

He seems nice.

258 goddamnedfrank  Apr 17, 2015 5:53:24pm

re: #250 Higgs Boson’s Mate

WTF does that even mean?

CCJ is a terrible writer.

259 jaunte  Apr 17, 2015 5:53:59pm

re: #256 goddamnedfrank

I made my entire college run for cover because I’m an actual activist.

He and Chuck were made for each other.

260 Targetpractice  Apr 17, 2015 5:54:39pm

re: #256 goddamnedfrank

Jeremiah’s been off his meds for awhile now.

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261 Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2015 5:55:17pm

re: #245 goddamnedfrank

Oh man. You should post a Page about that. Rub it in Chuck’s face. Another huge fail for the Ginger Avenger.

262 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 5:56:16pm

WTH is going on today?

263 Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2015 5:58:23pm

re: #245 goddamnedfrank

Jeremiah True is a total loon, and a dangerous one.

These comments are most of a Page already. Guaranteed front page promo.

264 CuriousLurker  Apr 17, 2015 5:59:26pm

re: #243 b.d.

There is a lot of stuff that has happened since 2004 that they haven’t acknowledged yet.

Using the internet as an example, from 2011:

Facebook has over 800 million active users today, while seven years ago in May 2004, there were only 757 million people using the internet worldwide in grand total. […]

businessinsider.com

Current stats compared to 2004 & 2011:

May, 2004
# of users: 757 millions
% of world population: 11.7 %

Jun, 2011
# of users: 2,110 millions
% of world population: 30.4 %

June, 2014 (est.)
# of users: 3,035 millions
% of world population: 42.3 %

internetworldstats.com

It’s mind boggling when you thing about it for a minute.

265 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 5:59:43pm

re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth

WTH is going on today?

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Now hiring CDL drivers, I bet.

Karnes City is in the middle of nowhere (backroads between Corpus & SA) so hopefully nobody got hurt.

266 goddamnedfrank  Apr 17, 2015 6:00:22pm

re: #261 Charles Johnson

ARE YOU THREATENING ME!!!

Wait, that’s not what i meant to say.

Alright. Give me a few minutes. I gotta warm up something to eat or this ginormous iced coffee refill is going to cause my brain to explode.

/Cornholio.

267 Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2015 6:01:48pm
268 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 6:03:02pm

Big lizard rodeo:

269 CuriousLurker  Apr 17, 2015 6:04:29pm

re: #265 b.d.

Now hiring CDL drivers, I bet.

Karnes City is in the middle of nowhere (backroads between Corpus & SA) so hopefully nobody got hurt.

We used to drive through there, down Highway 181, every summer on our way to Port A.

270 CuriousLurker  Apr 17, 2015 6:05:19pm

re: #267 Charles Johnson

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You’re enjoying that WAY too much. //

271 stpaulbear  Apr 17, 2015 6:08:18pm

re: #267 Charles Johnson

You should be telling us that we should send you money because of the massive breaking scoop you’re about to unleash about ChuckCJohnson!!

Edit: ..in 20 minutes!!

272 Eventual Carrion  Apr 17, 2015 6:12:55pm

re: #235 stpaulbear

That’s waste water that’s burning??

Burning like the Cuyahoga

273 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 6:17:24pm

re: #269 CuriousLurker

We used to drive through there, down Highway 181, every summer on our way to Port A.

Me too! I grew up in Austin back when it was a small town. I was 2 in 1967 when my father was one of the first 73 IBM pioneers sent there in what later became a tech Mecca. I still do a week in Port A a year now even though I live in Ft. Worth, it is a great place to take off your watch.

Mustang Island is one of the few places left in the USA where the beaches are getting larger and I love it how when you ask people where they are from they mention a city rather than a state, everyone is from Texas. (If you are going to spend a lot of $ to go to a beach then there are better ones than the Texas ones but it is what we got)

That obnoxious pizza mogul’s mansion in Karnes City is still for sale if you’re interested/

zillow.com

274 #FergusonFireside  Apr 17, 2015 6:19:22pm

re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth

WTH is going on today?

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Free market disasters.

275 #FergusonFireside  Apr 17, 2015 6:22:23pm

re: #273 b.d.

Me too! I grew up in Austin back when it was a small town. I was 2 in 1967 when my father was one of the first 73 IBM pioneers sent there in what later became a tech Mecca. I still do a week in Port A a year now even though I live in Ft. Worth, it is a great place to take off your watch.

Mustang Island is one of the few places left in the USA where the beaches are getting larger and I love it how when you ask people where they are from they mention a city rather than a state, everyone is from Texas. (If you are going to spend a lot of $ to go to a beach then there are better ones than the Texas ones but it is what we got)

That obnoxious pizza mogul’s mansion in Karnes City is still for sale if you’re interested/

zillow.com

I swear, only a obnoxious person obsessed with wealth paints angels on their ceiling.

276 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 17, 2015 6:26:21pm

Now that upChuck is firmly on the the Capitol Hill Police radar, I’m wondering if that’s going to mean that he’s more likely to get extra screening if he flies. I’m not sure I really wish that on anyone. Maybe not even upChuck.

RBS

277 jaunte  Apr 17, 2015 6:26:51pm

re: #273 b.d.

I can’t imagine having a free 7.5 million and deciding to spend it settling in Karnes City.

278 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 6:26:53pm

re: #275 #FergusonFireside

I swear, only a obnoxious person obsessed with wealth paints angels on their ceiling.

Prety much:

The Fabled White Elephant Mansion of Karnes City

In recreating an ante-bellum mansion in South Texas, no expense was spared; 29,000 square feet of living, entertaining and recreational space, verandas that surround all sides on two floors, 34 rooms, including eleven bedrooms, a disco and a ballet practice space … and a kitchen the size of the average vacation condo. Inlaid floors of wood and marble, fireplaces, 28 ornate Corinthian columns and a cupola that lights the interior stair hall … landscaped grounds, to include a fountains, gardens pool and cabanas, a tennis court, stables, a private fishing pond, staff quarters and support facilities - everything that the average multi-billionaire needs to live in simple and elegant splendor … but it was only lived in for barely four years.

The original owner, Arturo Torres, who made a fortune through Pizza Hut franchises and the Veladi Steak House chain sold it at auction in 1998; too far from San Antonio, he said in newspaper interviews at the time, and his three daughters - Veronica, Laura and Elaine - were all going to different schools. The house is a good fifty miles from San Antonio, in the middle of cattle country and far, far, from any other establishments of similar size or luxury.

satxproperty.com

279 CuriousLurker  Apr 17, 2015 6:29:48pm

re: #273 b.d.

Wow, small world! I used to love those trips, especially stopping to eat at Barth’s Restaurant in Kenedy, then stopping at the Smoke House to pick up some serious real beef jerky (and giggle at the silly stuff like jackalope milk). OMG, I’m suddenly seized with an overwhelming case of nostalgia.

280 VegasGolfer  Apr 17, 2015 6:31:40pm

re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth

Big lizard rodeo:

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I see the alligator was treated better than a black man pulled over for a broken tail light.

281 CuriousLurker  Apr 17, 2015 6:32:35pm

re: #273 b.d.

That obnoxious pizza mogul’s mansion in Karnes City is still for sale if you’re interested/

zillow.com

I have no memory of that, thankfully. I don’t know if it wasn’t there yet last time we went (decades ago), or if I just blocked it out.

282 b.d.  Apr 17, 2015 6:32:56pm

re: #279 CuriousLurker

Wow, small world! I used to love those trips, especially stopping to eat at Barth’s Restaurant in Kenedy, then stopping at the Smoke House to pick up some serious real beef jerky (and giggle at the silly stuff like jackalope milk). OMG, I’m suddenly seized with an overwhelming case of nostalgia.

Oh Man! We are going there in July I’ll take pictures for you of the Smoke House, it’s hard to miss since they start advertising it 100 miles out. I love that part of the world and it is nice that everything is in bloom there for a change.

283 CuriousLurker  Apr 17, 2015 6:36:43pm

re: #282 b.d.

Oh Man! We are going there in July I’ll take pictures for you of the Smoke House, it’s hard to miss since they start advertising it 100 miles out. I love that part of the world and it is nice that everything is in bloom there for a change.

Eeeeeek! Thank youuuuuu! I’m really happy to know it’s still there. :-))

284 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 17, 2015 6:38:13pm

ha!

285 CuriousLurker  Apr 17, 2015 6:39:08pm

re: #279 CuriousLurker

LOL—but of course, there’s a jackalope website now:

Jackalope milk is particularly sought after because it is believed to be a powerful aphrodisiac—for which reason the jackalope is also sometimes referred to as the ‘horny rabbit.’ However, it can be incredibly dangerous to milk a jackalope, and any attempt to do so is not advised. A peculiar feature of the milk is that it comes from the animal already homogenized on account of the creature’s powerful leaps. […]

jackalope.com

286 goddamnedfrank  Apr 17, 2015 6:43:25pm

Alright, it’s up.


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