A Cautionary Tale: The Boy Who Turned Yellow

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The Boy Who Turned Yellow was created for Now Will You Listen!, an illustrated audio visual book of short horror stories and surreal poetry from musician/writer Mick Somerset Ward and Dean and Jarrod of I Monster. The collection was premiered as a live performance at the Lantern Theatre in Sheffield during the Sensoria Festival 2013.

Written and Read by Michael Somerset Ward
Directed and Animated by Gavin C Robinson
Animation Produced by Anna Odell
Music by Honer, Somerset Ward and Gosling

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303 comments
1 austin_blue  May 7, 2015 8:53:19pm

I don’t think a dollar a day is unreasonable. Just committed it for the cause.

This Jura single malt is outstanding!

(And no, one has nothing to do with the other.)

2 retired cynic  May 7, 2015 8:55:04pm

re: #1 austin_blue

Woot!

3 Charles Johnson  May 7, 2015 8:57:58pm

re: #1 austin_blue

I don’t think a dollar a day is unreasonable. Just committed it for the cause.

This Jura single malt is outstanding!

(And no, one has nothing to do with the other.)

You’re awesome! A thousand thanks.

4 CleverToad  May 7, 2015 9:14:15pm

Glad the fund is doing well! Will kick in what I can on payday — it’s worth a lot more than I can afford, alas.

Also relieved to report that my ex-Texan hubby has made it from Denver to Austin (okay, to his sister’s place outside of Georgetown) in one piece, despite rain, hail, funnel clouds, wingnuts and earthquakes. I didn’t expect the earthquake. Sheesh, what a week to pick for the trip!

Mind you, I’m listening to the thunder rumble outside my window tonight, and they’re tossing around the four-letter S-word for Sunday morning’s forecast. Won’t be the first time it’s snowed on Mother’s Day, but I’ll take that over hail any time. You want some of this, California? Please? Be glad to share — when I find mushrooms in the yard, we’ve had enough rain for awhile.

Now if I can just get the spouse — and the car — home in one piece…

5 Higgs Boson's Mate  May 7, 2015 9:19:28pm

Kipped in. I’m living high on the hog on SS so I’ll see how much I have left at month end and hopefully donate a bit more.

6 austin_blue  May 7, 2015 9:19:50pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

You’re awesome! A thousand thanks.

No thanks necessary, my man. You have provided a forum that is unique on the web. I’ve been her 8 1/2 years and it just gets more open and more inclusive.

And the nut jobs have been tossed. (Was that a contradiction? Nah. Racists and people who support ethnic cleansing need to get tossed.)

Although I still miss Occasional Reader. Clever man.

7 SteveBasedSteve  May 7, 2015 9:24:16pm

I am NOT staying up until the early morning hours tonight binge watching “The Wire”. I’m not going to do it…. I’m not.

RBS

8 austin_blue  May 7, 2015 9:29:19pm

re: #6 austin_blue

No thanks necessary, my man. You have provided a forum that is unique on the web. I’ve been her 8 1/2 years and it just gets more open and more inclusive.

And the nut jobs have been tossed. (Was that a contradiction? Nah. Racists and people who support ethnic cleansing need to get tossed.)

Although I still miss Occasional Reader. Clever man.

By the way, can you turn off the fucking pop-ups? Just asking…

9 BeachDem  May 7, 2015 9:32:59pm

Talk about some serious vetting of his “team”

Easy peasy—you’re hired, bro!

10 retired cynic  May 7, 2015 9:36:10pm

re: #9 BeachDem

Talk about some serious vetting of his “team”

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Easy peasy—you’re hired, bro!

Unbelievable!

11 Jenner7  May 7, 2015 9:38:33pm

I donated what I could…..

This place is awesome. I’m glad I came out of lurkdome. :)

12 SteveBasedSteve  May 7, 2015 9:39:08pm

re: #9 BeachDem

Talk about some serious vetting of his “team”

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Easy peasy—you’re hired, bro!

Oh… that’s almost begging for abuse.

RBS

13 BeachDem  May 7, 2015 9:42:01pm

re: #12 RealityBasedSteve

Oh… that’s almost begging for abuse.

RBS

What are you thinking? (evil laugh) Come over here and sit by me…

14 Kragar  May 7, 2015 9:44:06pm
15 austin_blue  May 7, 2015 9:47:59pm

re: #14 Kragar

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But he’s not a Conservative…

16 teleskiguy  May 7, 2015 9:54:43pm

re: #1 austin_blue

Fuck yeah, man! That’s so fucking cool!

(Charles opened up the GoFundMe on 6 May, today is 7 May, my birthday, though not along the east coast at present and another 8 or so minutes in the Central Time Zone.)

This is a song called ‘Much Obliged’ by my favorite rock n roll touring fuckers Umphrey’s McGee. It’s an audience-sourced recording, so mind the shitty audio quality (what do you want for free?!?)

MP3 Audio

17 Jenner7  May 7, 2015 9:58:13pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

Happy Birthday for another 2 minutes…. hour…

:)

18 teleskiguy  May 7, 2015 10:04:48pm

re: #17 Jenner7

Thank you!!!

Thirty-three revolutions around our local star.

I’m not old, am I?”

19 De Kolta Chair  May 7, 2015 10:10:03pm

The BBC is reporting that so far in the counting, the Monster Raving Loony Party has 1,945 votes.

Mad Mike Young is standing for Sittingbourne and Sheppey. “I am aged sixty three and a quarter of your earth years,” says Mad Mike, “formerly a mad scientist and now a retired gentleman of some considerable standing. I want to bring a more unbalanced approach to local politics by putting both left feet forward and marching to the beat of a different kettle of fish.”
20 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 7, 2015 10:21:59pm

re: #9 BeachDem

Talk about some serious vetting of his “team”

Easy peasy—you’re hired, bro!

21 BeachDem  May 7, 2015 10:37:04pm

re: #20 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

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How is it possible that he hasn’t blocked you? I thought he said you were a “stalker!”

22 The War TARDIS  May 7, 2015 10:39:39pm

Doctor WHo has always been Left-Wing:

23 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 7, 2015 10:39:57pm

re: #21 BeachDem

How is it possible that he hasn’t blocked you? I thought he said you were a “stalker!”

I wonder this, too. He likes attention, though.

24 BeachDem  May 7, 2015 10:41:21pm

re: #23 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I wonder this, too. He likes attention, though.

In his warped little mind, he probably thinks you’re a fanboi—what with the dossier and all—like you hang on his every word.

25 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 7, 2015 10:43:39pm

re: #24 BeachDem

In his warped little mind, he probably thinks you’re a fanboi—what with the dossier and all—like you hang on his every word.

He likes to retweet insulting and critical tweets from detractors. Either he has no self-awareness, or he’s got some bot that automatically retweets anything with his name in it.

26 BeachDem  May 7, 2015 10:46:44pm

re: #25 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

He likes to retweet insulting and critical tweets from detractors. Either he has no self-awareness, or he’s got some bot that automatically retweets anything with his name in it.

I think it’s the latter. He certainly does attract a strange and horrifying bunch of followers. And hey, soon he’ll have jdude988 as one of his stellar writers.

27 BeachDem  May 7, 2015 10:51:39pm

Apparently his big appearance on Cumia’s podcast didn’t drum up much (any) interest in his gofundme. Twelve days and counting since the last donation. I’m sure he’s already spent it all on his travels this week.

And, either the guy who was going to proofread his terrible copy crapped out, or upchuck was too lazy to even insert the changes somebody else made, because the copy is the same as ever.

I have now wasted entirely too much time reading his tripe and am going to bed.

28 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 7, 2015 10:52:48pm

re: #26 BeachDem

I think it’s the latter. He certainly does attract a strange and horrifying bunch of followers. And hey, soon he’ll have jdude988 as one of his stellar writers.

The comments at his blog — aside from the ones pointing out the many errors — come from people who seem a few fries short of a happy meal.

29 Pawn of the Oppressor  May 7, 2015 11:03:20pm

I had a dream the other night after the Garland shooting that Chucksie was outside of a building I and some other people were in, pointing a toy gun through the windows. We ran outside and chased him off with yelling and threats (like how you’d chase a dog off your lawn). It wasn’t a far-fetched dream because he was actually “in town” and hypothetically I could have run into him somewhere in DFW. Yuck.

I guess it just amazes me that somebody can exist in the media-sphere as, essentially, a completely shameless criminal - with no legitimate paying job, going around breaking laws and harassing people, and generally being an asshole - without having the slightest bit of… I dunno… Decency I guess? A sense of right and wrong? He really does seem to be some kind of low-grade sadist. It’s strange how the immediacy of social media can make a “star” out of that asshole kid everyone hated in high school.

30 Nyet  May 8, 2015 12:26:24am

re: #29 Pawn of the Oppressor

I think he’s just a little boy in an adult’s body. The way he behaves, reacts to things shows that his mental age is around 13.

31 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  May 8, 2015 1:22:38am

When I first saw the title, about the boy who turned yellow, I thought it was about CCJ’s run in with the Angry Black Man

32 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 1:42:38am

re: #29 Pawn of the Oppressor

Well, there’s “fame” and there’s “infamy” and some people just don’t know the difference.

People don’t know the difference in a lot of things these days. I blame that whole “don’t judge” meme carried to an extreme.

You might not judge a book by its cover, but you certainly can critique the contents.

For those following Britain’s election…

At least Britain’s election wasn’t an oversweeping success for the Tories, even though I’m disappointed that the Scots fell for the SNP line and Sturgeon previously said her win wouldn’t mean independence. Many of the votes won by the SNP more than likely were votes that would have gone to Labour.

At least Cameron doesn’t have a mandate, it’s a narrow majority. The huge individual loss was for Ed Balls of Labour, who was called the “shadow chancellor”, to a female Tory by 422 votes. The biggest losers by far were the Liberal Democrats. UKIP won a seat, by a former Tory turned UKIP, but it appears Nigel Farage may have lost, and promised he would resign as party leader before the election if he lost. Expect a few party resignations today.

This neatly sums up the situation for Scots now:

33 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 2:17:08am

Douglas Alexander, who directed the opposition Labour’s campaign and would have been Britain’s foreign secretary if they had won, was defeated by a 20-year-old student from the Scottish National Party.

usnews.com

And, of course, the “markets” are happy with this Tory win.

34 freetoken  May 8, 2015 2:29:12am

MP3 Audio

35 Nyet  May 8, 2015 2:31:03am

re: #32 Justanotherhuman

From the American standpoint they are all leftists, from the Russian one - angels. ;) (UKIP excluded.)

What I mean by this exaggeration is that everything is relative.

36 freetoken  May 8, 2015 2:34:18am

re: #35 Nyet

To me, as an outsider, it just looks like the SNPers have cut off their noses to spite their face.

Now, not only do they not get “independence” (which was never a real independence according to their own plans) but now they made sure that the party they exactly don’t want is in power.

37 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 2:39:50am

re: #36 freetoken

My thought exactly. Nationalism prevailed over everything, Sturgeon’s remarks notwithstanding.

Meawhile, Farage is gone, baby, gone.

38 freetoken  May 8, 2015 2:40:49am

Oh heck, why not a double header of Verdi this fine Friday morning.

The following is from Otello, where the main character realizes, after killing his wife, that he might as well do himself in too. Given that, this goes out to the SNPers:

MP3 Audio

39 freetoken  May 8, 2015 2:52:30am

Looks like yesterday was an exciting day for some in Denton, TX.

First vid shows the large tornado from a distance, at stages in its life:

…

Second one is of some stupid amateurs who get too close:

…

40 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 2:53:39am

If they were behind it and this isn’t just a bullshit claim, that is. Awful, 6 people killed and 5 injured, but reports are varyiing. Crashed into a school, according to another report.

41 Thanos  May 8, 2015 3:11:23am

Hillary’s fundraising:

hollywoodreporter.com

42 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 3:15:10am

The ubiquitous British “stiff upper lip” as it were prevails. A commenter even said Labour was more gracious in defeat than the Tories were in victory.

Independence Party leader Nigel Farage says that compared to last election day, when he was in a hospital following his plane crash, ‘this feels pretty damned good’ and an ‘enormous weight’ has been lifted from his shoulders following the result - @BBCBreaking
end of alert

UKIP is just the British version of the Tea Party anyway, pushing the Tories the same way the TP does in the US but making far fewer gains, it appears. Even though a Brit might be against immigration, they wouldn’t dare air that view for fear of being ostracized, and only very privately, not publicly.

43 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 3:19:01am

re: #41 Thanos

Hillary’s fundraising:

hollywoodreporter.com

$3M from 3 stops in money-soaked H’wood? Cheapskates. : )

44 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 3:24:59am

Nike says it would accelerate investment in US manufacturing, create up to 10,000 jobs if TPP trade pact finalized - @Reuters
end of alert

Pikers. They’ve invested 100,000 jobs just in Indonesia, perhaps more since an accurate figure did appear to be available in this report.

philstar.com

45 Pip's Squeak  May 8, 2015 3:27:41am

re: #34 freetoken

It’s a folly, almost.

46 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 3:29:03am

As of 2013 (from Nike’s interactive map) Nike has 777 factories in 43 Countries employing 1,009,496 workers. Just in Vietnam alone Nike has 71 factories with 311,548 workers, mostly female, with an average age of 30.

For a complete list of Nike’s factories and employees, down the PDF from Nike’s website or the Excel version.

As with many other major corporations, the Vanguard Group is the largest institutional investor of Nike —- followed by many other banks and private equity firms.

dailykos.comNike Factories

47 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 3:35:53am

This is how huge one hedge fund co is (hint: has more assets than all other hedge funds combined). As mentioned above, Vanguard is Nike’s largest institutional investor.

Vanguard Reaches $3 Trillion In Assets, Matching Entire Hedge-Fund Industry

blogs.wsj.com

48 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 3:51:50am

Like a bad penny…

Nigel Farage says he may bid for UK Independence Party leadership again at election in September - @BBCBreaking
read more on bbc.co.uk

49 Nyet  May 8, 2015 4:26:46am

re: #48 Justanotherhuman

Like a bad penny…

Nigel Farage says he may bid for UK Independence Party leadership again at election in September - @BBCBreaking
read more on bbc.co.uk

I hope he wins. He’s already shown himself as failure.

50 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 8, 2015 4:38:05am

You aviation buffs will like this photo-feature: a cross-country flight in an AirCam, an open-cockpit small plane. The photos are superb.
bbc.com

51 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 4:53:47am

Well so I posted this meme and a wingnut entered my timeline screaming THEY DO THIS EVERY DAY!!!!! then used racial slurs to describe POTUS & FLOTUS.
Not sharing it here because I already blocked that dumbshit.

52 Lidane  May 8, 2015 5:04:59am
53 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 5:32:49am

Ever wonder why Jeb Bush hasn’t announced yet? Ever wonder why campaigns cost so much yet raise so much?

It’s because, as a non-candidate, he can raise unlimited amts of money. The rules change when he announces.

17 Months Before Election Day, One Campaign Aims For $100 Million

npr.org

Our election system is so fucked up it will never recover without a massive reform. Money rules it, and you and I don’t have it. It’s no wonder that so many turn their backs on the election booth, for whatever reason—that one vote is becoming ever more meaningless, thanks to Citizens United and a weak FEC.

54 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 5:43:40am
55 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 5:45:14am
56 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 5:49:59am
57 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 5:53:28am
58 CuriousLurker  May 8, 2015 5:58:10am

ROFLAMO—looks like the guys from Charlie Hebdo don’t want to be in any way compared to Geller. She’s gonna be livid.

59 lawhawk  May 8, 2015 5:58:47am

re: #9 BeachDem

Chuckles wants legit news? Since when has he posted anything resembling news on his site? Doxxing and smears aren’t news. Claiming something is breaking, and it was hours old revealed by actual news sites isn’t news.

Might be new or news to him, but not to anyone else who actually you know follows the news.

60 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 8, 2015 6:02:16am

re: #55 Lord Of The Pies

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Portland is a bigger blob than Seattle-Tacoma-Everett and San Francisco put together?

61 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 6:07:47am

re: #60 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Portland is a bigger blob than Seattle-Tacoma-Everett and San Francisco put together?

It’s actually a population map.

Economic activity tends to be stronger in areas where people live!

Also: Areas where people live vote Democratic!

62 Feline Fearless Leader  May 8, 2015 6:11:22am

re: #53 Justanotherhuman

Ever wonder why Jeb Bush hasn’t announced yet? Ever wonder why campaigns cost so much yet raise so much?

It’s because, as a non-candidate, he can raise unlimited amts of money. The rules change when he announces.

17 Months Before Election Day, One Campaign Aims For $100 Million

npr.org

Our election system is so fucked up it will never recover without a massive reform. Money rules it, and you and I don’t have it. It’s no wonder that so many turn their backs on the election booth, for whatever reason—that one vote is becoming ever more meaningless, thanks to Citizens United and a weak FEC.

The vote is just as valuable in the election itself. The questions are:
1. Is the investment of time necessary to research the candidates properly worth it?

2. Does the current system where campaigns appear to need a billion dollars to pay their media and advertisement bills essentially carry with it a quid pro quo where the big contributors get access and influence to directly affect policy and votes of the winning politician?

3. And if a candidate cheats and wins what difference does it make if the FEC fines them (or the party) a few million after the fact?

And for #1 I would actually say that has gotten harder since candidates seem to rarely actually talk policy anymore. They mouth platitudes and their speeches adjust to pander to the different audiences. And the internet is going to tell you different things since the various sites are generally partisan one way or the other.* So you then have to start digging out voting records or rely on party platforms. And the latter can be very nutty and start pushing you towards “team” straight ticket voting. And we know where that leads.

* - The media/information outlets being partisan is not a new thing. In the “old” days it seemed traditional that a city/region had two newspapers and one oriented towards one party and the other towards the other party.

63 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 6:14:25am

:D

64 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 8, 2015 6:15:47am

re: #61 Lord Of The Pies

It’s actually a population map.

Economic activity tends to be stronger in areas where people live!

Also: Areas where people live vote Democratic!

That was my point—Portland Metro is a much smaller population center than the Puget Sound or SF Bay areas. I guess there’s a long (sparse) corridor down through Corvallis that spreads out the area.

65 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 8, 2015 6:20:24am

re: #62 Feline Fearless Leader

I’m beginning to think the plutocrats might be fooling themselves with their Citizens United advantage. After a certain point, where you’ve saturated the market with your commercials, does ten times as much money do you ten times as much good? I’m not sure it does you 1 1/2 times as much good.

66 ObserverArt  May 8, 2015 6:20:31am

Morning all.

Damn it is going to be humid here in central Ohio today. It feels like a July morning. I just cleaned up my main bathroom and broke out in a sweat.

I want May weather. Which according to reports is coming back next week. Woot!

This morning I have some roofers climbing around my house replacing some damaged slates. The last two winters with the huge snows managed to crack and drag a couple out of place. A couple also came down completely. Maybe we’ll get a break this winter since the last two were pretty snow covered.

How is that El Nino coming out in the Pacific? If I have it right, I think El Nino’s out west mean milder and dryer winters back east. Plus rain for the Californians.

67 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 6:23:04am

re: #66 ObserverArt

Did you find out what the big ruckus was yesterday in your neighborhood?

68 ObserverArt  May 8, 2015 6:26:07am

re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth

Did you find out what the big ruckus was yesterday in your neighborhood?

Thanks for reminding me. It didn’t appear to make the major news stories. I need to check the police reports and see what might have happened.

It was all over pretty quick, so I am thinking someone might have been shooting to scare someone, then ran off. The cop cars and the copter came fast and then seemed to move on fairly quickly like they were chasing someone.

69 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 6:29:12am

“Intellectual heavyweight”
I can’t stop laughing now.

70 WhatEVs  May 8, 2015 6:29:24am

re: #54 Justanotherhuman

Anyone know what “Scotland devolution” is?

71 WhatEVs  May 8, 2015 6:31:29am

re: #59 lawhawk

Chuckles wants legit news? Since when has he posted anything resembling news on his site? Doxxing and smears aren’t news. Claiming something is breaking, and it was hours old revealed by actual news sites isn’t news.

Might be new or news to him, but not to anyone else who actually you know follows the news.

The possibility of someone doing what that guy did vis a vis starting a rumor, having it spread across all of right wing world and then calling bullshit is ripe. Hats off to someone who pulls it off.

72 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  May 8, 2015 6:31:58am

re: #69 Lord Of The Pies

“Intellectual heavyweight”
I can’t stop laughing now.

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Compared to Dim Jim, anyway.

73 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 8, 2015 6:32:03am

re: #70 WhatEVs

Anyone know what “Scotland devolution” is?

States’ Rights.

74 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 6:32:51am

can’t. stop. laughing.

75 Higgs Boson's Mate  May 8, 2015 6:33:50am

re: #70 WhatEVs

Anyone know what “Scotland devolution” is?

76 Eventual Carrion  May 8, 2015 6:35:53am

re: #69 Lord Of The Pies

“Intellectual heavyweight”
I can’t stop laughing now.

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In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

77 Sionainn  May 8, 2015 6:36:23am

Woke up and just saw the GoFundMe and donated. Thanks for providing such a wonderful place that helps me keep my sanity, Charles.

78 WhatEVs  May 8, 2015 6:37:37am

re: #73 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

States’ Rights.

So this means that the UK is going to give Scotland what they promised then reneged on?

79 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 6:37:39am
80 ObserverArt  May 8, 2015 6:38:10am

re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth

Did you find out what the big ruckus was yesterday in your neighborhood?

I see an Aggravated Menacing report filed from around the right time. Sounds like some guy was pissed off at his wife/girlfriend.

Maybe he did something to cause a small explosion like sound and then started shooting to scare her.

Outside of that, I see no other things listed.

81 iceweasel  May 8, 2015 6:43:09am

Reporting in from Scotland with a (mild) hangover :-)

Totally delighted at the SNP sweep, and tho it’s revolting that the Tories have No. 10, Labour (and England) have no one but themselves to blame!

…

82 ObserverArt  May 8, 2015 6:45:37am

For the new born fans. Looks like Columbus has a new Metro Parks young ‘un.

Baby Bison Born At Battelle Darby Creek Park

New arrival in Far West Side Columbus Park - Picture courtesy Columbus Metro Parks

We’ve had the bison roaming in a couple of our remote parks for several years now. Pretty cool.

Baby Bison Born At Battelle Darby Creek Park

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Staff at Columbus Metro Parks welcomed a new baby bison to the herd Thursday.

The bison was born Thursday morning at the Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park, and joins six adult bison and three yearlings.

The herd has been moved to the summer pasture for easier viewing.

No name has been chosen for the baby bison yet.

83 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 6:46:27am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY (MORNING EDITION)==>

84 b.d.  May 8, 2015 6:47:42am

re: #69 Lord Of The Pies

“Intellectual heavyweight”
I can’t stop laughing now.

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lol @ Juan Williams. Williams makes Alan Colmes look like some sort of Ramboesque defender of liberalism God.

85 CuriousLurker  May 8, 2015 6:48:59am

Oh man, sorry, but I am soooo enjoying this. Looks like Spencer is busy playing defense and is particularly incensed that Michael Coren has “betrayed” him & Geller. Here’s his Disqus page.

The set of comments that are currently third from the top are the ones about Coren from his National Post article.

Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo…

I’m singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin’
I’m happy again
I’m laughing at clouds
So dark up above…

86 iceweasel  May 8, 2015 6:51:35am

re: #78 WhatEVs

So this means that the UK is going to give Scotland what they promised then reneged on?

HA! Yeah, of course that will happen. /

Independence for Scotland within the next five years- that’s my prediction.

87 Higgs Boson's Mate  May 8, 2015 6:53:44am

re: #53 Justanotherhuman

Ever wonder why Jeb Bush hasn’t announced yet? Ever wonder why campaigns cost so much yet raise so much?

It’s because, as a non-candidate, he can raise unlimited amts of money. The rules change when he announces.

17 Months Before Election Day, One Campaign Aims For $100 Million

npr.org

Our election system is so fucked up it will never recover without a massive reform. Money rules it, and you and I don’t have it. It’s no wonder that so many turn their backs on the election booth, for whatever reason—that one vote is becoming ever more meaningless, thanks to Citizens United and a weak FEC.

Gun control is a case in point. The polling that I’ve read suggests that 70% of Americans want some sort of federal gun control. Instead of voting that in, pols from both parties failed to even renew the modest gun controls that had been in effect. The electoral system will never be reformed because the current one is so easy to game. It’s team vs team and money vs money, sound bites vs policy. Pols pretend to pay attention to the wishes of the electorate for the duration of the election and then they listen to their big donors. No wonder that voter turnout is abysmal.

88 CuriousLurker  May 8, 2015 6:53:59am

re: #83 Lord Of The Pies

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY (MORNING EDITION)==>

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What are you saying, that there are no people in shackles being frog-marched up & down the streets of Michigan?? Liberal lies!

89 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 6:55:03am

Galloway blames “Jews & Israel” for his loss to a Muslim woman

90 Lidane  May 8, 2015 6:55:57am

re: #88 CuriousLurker

What are you saying, that there are no people in shackles being frog-marched up & down the streets of Michigan?? Liberal lies!

“SHARIA LAW IS IN MICHIGAN! LIBRULS R HIDING TEH TROOF!”

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91 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 7:01:27am

re: #52 Lidane

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Ya know, that might have been true a decade or so ago.

As usual, the GOP is way, way behind.

92 BeachDem  May 8, 2015 7:03:36am

re: #65 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I’m beginning to think the plutocrats might be fooling themselves with their Citizens United advantage. After a certain point, where you’ve saturated the market with your commercials, does ten times as much money do you ten times as much good? I’m not sure it does you 1 1/2 times as much good.

See Whitman, Meg.

93 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 7:04:15am

re: #62 Feline Fearless Leader

We’ve had less than 60% o the voting age population actually voting since 1968 (and that wasn’t even 61%). These figures do include convicted felons, because not all of them are eligible to vote in every state. The lowest % of voting occured in 1996, 1924 and 1928; the highest in 1860 and 1876.

presidency.ucsb.edu

The fact is, more people appear to be less interested in politics generally and depend on their own biases, rather than educating themselves. Voting can be hard work when you do your research and most people just depend on the kind of superficial knowledge they have about candidates. In today’s electioneering, though, there is a definite distinction between the 2 main parties, even though many don’t think there is. That’s always been very evident since the 1980s and even more so as the Tea Party mentality has taken over the Republican Party.

How can anyone call this country “progressive” when it’s taken the entirety of our history for a major Black or female candidate to even run, and win? And we’ve already seen what happens when one or the other does win—the division not only is still there between the parties, but efforts to erase any gains are doubled down on and attempts to actually govern are severely restricted.

94 Lidane  May 8, 2015 7:04:46am

Add another one to the 2016 clown car:

95 Feline Fearless Leader  May 8, 2015 7:07:42am

re: #65 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I’m beginning to think the plutocrats might be fooling themselves with their Citizens United advantage. After a certain point, where you’ve saturated the market with your commercials, does ten times as much money do you ten times as much good? I’m not sure it does you 1 1/2 times as much good.

And I wonder if the standard education included some critical thinking training; e.g. “bullshit detectors” whether that would make it even more ineffective.

96 Feline Fearless Leader  May 8, 2015 7:08:50am

re: #70 WhatEVs

Anyone know what “Scotland devolution” is?

Aliens turning people into Scotsmen. Part of a plot to win Wimbledon.
:D

97 Lidane  May 8, 2015 7:10:43am

Warm up the Drudge Sirens, patriots! We have some major derp incoming at Bradlee Dean’s Clearinghouse For Stupid Shit That Not Even WND Would Publish, in the form of a major exposé of Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s family in The Kenya, which did you know is just crawling with Muslims? The piece, by wingnuts’ favorite ex-Muslim Walid “No Really, I was Totally a Terrorist” Shoebat, informs us that Barack Obama’s grandmother, Sarah Omar Obama (AKA “grandma Obama,” AKA “Grandma Sarah,” AKA “Mama Sarah,” which you’d think someone else would have trademarked) is a devout Muslim who recently visited Mecca, where she said nice things about Islam, if you can believe that!

98 b.d.  May 8, 2015 7:11:29am

re: #94 Lidane

Add another one to the 2016 clown car:

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Graham running will bring an underrepresented, flavor of whinging to this already too crowded of a field.

Diversity.

99 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 7:17:47am

I think Dim Jim’s BFF Kristinn is really a closet anti-Semite who wants a chance to let his Jew-hate fly free

100 iceweasel  May 8, 2015 7:18:31am

re: #70 WhatEVs

Anyone know what “Scotland devolution” is?

It’s the devolution of certain powers from Westminster to Holyrood (the Scottish Parliament). In smaller words it means Scotland would gain more powers over its destiny. For example, because of devolution people in Scotland get free prescriptions on the NHS, because Scotland has control over that spending.

Honestly I wanted to downding the person who said it was States’ Rights, but for an American like me I think that is the easiest way to understand it.

101 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 7:18:56am
102 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 7:18:56am
103 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 7:20:30am
104 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 8, 2015 7:20:32am

re: #100 iceweasel

Honestly I wanted to downding the person who said it was States’ Rights, but for an American like me I think that is the easiest way to understand it.

I left off the /// because I thought it would be obvious…. So: ///

105 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 7:22:24am

re: #70 WhatEVs

Anyone know what “Scotland devolution” is?

“You’re on your own, Jack.”

The Smith Agreement:

Conclusions
The Scottish Government is calling for full fiscal autonomy, but the Committee concludes:

Fiscal autonomy would deliver additional powers but would expose Scotland to greater risks.
Under full fiscal autonomy Scotland would not only lose £8 billion in additional funds that are delivered via the Barnett formula and block grant but would replace the security of Barnett with volatile oil revenues which are not within the Scottish Government’s control. The recent collapse in the oil price would have been disastrous for a Scotland with full fiscal autonomy.
The majority of the people of Scotland voted to retain the safety net of the UK’s broad tax base, and the Smith Agreement respects that decision.
Full fiscal autonomy would expose Scotland to increased financial risk and an immediate hole in its budget of £6.5 billion - equivalent to over half of Scotland’s spend on healthcare.
For the first time “the majority of the money spent by the Scottish Parliament will come directly from revenues raised in Scotland”, making it more fiscally accountable.
Significant powers over welfare will be devolved including the hugely important power to increase every each and every benefit by as much as desired.
Scotland will continue to benefit from pooling risk and resources across the wider tax base of the whole of the United Kingdom, protecting it from shocks in Scottish revenues or expenditure.

parliament.uk

106 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 7:25:29am

An independent inquiry is to be carried out into the accuracy of election polls, the British Polling Council says - @pressassoc
see original on twitter.com

107 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 7:26:03am

I’m feeling the humidity in my part of the world.

you?

108 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 7:26:49am

re: #105 Justanotherhuman

Oil and gas revenues are not as significant a percentage of Scotland’s economy, as it is in other oil producing countries.

109 No Country For Old Haters  May 8, 2015 7:30:41am

re: #99 Lord Of The Pies

I think Dim Jim’s BFF Kristinn is really a closet anti-Semite who wants a chance to let his Jew-hate fly free

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110 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 7:31:56am

UpChuck haz a sad that UKIP got routed.

111 WhatEVs  May 8, 2015 7:33:02am

re: #100 iceweasel

It’s the devolution of certain powers from Westminster to Holyrood (the Scottish Parliament). In smaller words it means Scotland would gain more powers over its destiny. For example, because of devolution people in Scotland get free prescriptions on the NHS, because Scotland has control over that spending.

Honestly I wanted to downding the person who said it was States’ Rights, but for an American like me I think that is the easiest way to understand it.

Thank you. I sorta understood the States’ Rights thing assuming it was from the Scottish referendum but I didn’t (still probably don’t) understand what Cameron would be bringing to the floor.

112 ObserverArt  May 8, 2015 7:33:09am

re: #107 FemNaziBitch

I’m feeling the humidity in my part of the world.

you?

Same. See my comments in #66.

113 #FergusonFireside  May 8, 2015 7:33:59am

Hey Ice Baby!

114 Feline Fearless Leader  May 8, 2015 7:34:53am

re: #100 iceweasel

It’s the devolution of certain powers from Westminster to Holyrood (the Scottish Parliament). In smaller words it means Scotland would gain more powers over its destiny. For example, because of devolution people in Scotland get free prescriptions on the NHS, because Scotland has control over that spending.

Honestly I wanted to downding the person who said it was States’ Rights, but for an American like me I think that is the easiest way to understand it.

In a way it is States’ Rights since it is the UK moving towards a more federalized system with certain powers controlled by a regional legislature rather than the central government’s.

115 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 7:35:50am

Ben Shapiro is spewing a firehose of Derp this morning. His Twitter feed is as bad as Chuck’s. Worse even, since Ben is sober.

116 WhatEVs  May 8, 2015 7:36:05am

re: #105 Justanotherhuman

So basically they’re bringing devolution and quashing any kind of Scottish independence on its own governance?

117 Lidane  May 8, 2015 7:36:17am

Worst. Socialist. EVAR.

118 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 7:36:27am

re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oil and gas revenues are not as significant a percentage of Scotland’s economy, as it is in other oil producing countries.

Nevertheless, if Scotland wants full control of their economy and the Scottish Parliament voted for it, they would ultimately be responsible for every expenditure as well as foregoing revenue from the UK. As it is, Scotland wants to have its cake and eat it, too.

See the Smith report, above, which is recommendations that would provide Scotland with a soft landing, at least for the time being.

Those 56 SNP votes won’t prevent the British Parliament from making as many changes as they wish.

119 WhatEVs  May 8, 2015 7:36:42am

re: #115 Lord Of The Pies

Ben Shapiro is spewing a firehose of Derp this morning.

Is it ever anything but derp?

120 De Kolta Chair  May 8, 2015 7:36:49am

re: #107 FemNaziBitch

I’m feeling the humidity in my part of the world.

you?

Humidity here in New York City is 59%, though it doesn’t feel like it, and last night we got our first mosquito bites of the year. Better than bees, I suppose.

121 Feline Fearless Leader  May 8, 2015 7:37:06am

How soon until the old parliamentary order is completely swept away and the regional governors have direct control over their territories?

;P

122 Great White Snark  May 8, 2015 7:38:29am

re: #100 iceweasel

Hello Ice, sorry to see the bad news this morning, quite the upset.

123 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 7:38:39am

re: #119 WhatEVs

Is it ever anything but derp?

It’s more insane than usual.

124 Feline Fearless Leader  May 8, 2015 7:38:50am

re: #120 De Kolta Chair

Humidity here in New York City is 59%, though it doesn’t feel like it, and last night we got our first mosquito bites of the year. Better than bees, I suppose.

And better than mites or other stuff where the bites take a month or so to heal up.

125 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 7:39:36am

re: #118 Justanotherhuman

My point is that Scotland’s economy will not be made or broken over oil and gas revenues.

126 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 7:40:18am

Objection: “I don’t have a condom with me.”
Response: “I don’t have my vagina with me.”

shameless Pages Promotion

127 De Kolta Chair  May 8, 2015 7:41:45am

re: #94 Lidane

Add another one to the 2016 clown car:

Anne Boleyn was crowned Queen of England on June 1, 1533. Coincidence?

128 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 7:41:56am
On the Senate floor Wednesday, Inhofe was right to point out that plants really do consume CO2—in fact, it’s one of the reasons there are lower levels of gas in the green, summer months. “People do not realize that you cannot grow things without CO2,” he said. “CO2 is a fertilizer. It is something you cannot do without. No one ever talks about the benefits that people are inducing that as a fertilizer on a daily basis.”

we need more carbon

129 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 7:42:22am

re: #117 Lidane

Worst. Socialist. EVAR.

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Could get below 5% by the end of his term I think. Yeah Obama and Democrats have no clue on how to run the economy.//

130 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 7:45:02am

re: #116 WhatEVs

So basically they’re bringing devolution and quashing any kind of Scottish independence on its own governance?

This seems to be a reoccurring meme in history: Scottish Independence.

131 Aye Pod  May 8, 2015 7:45:09am

Alex Salmond ‘The Scottish lion has roared this morning’

…

What an awesome night of results. The political gulf between Scotland and the rest of the UK (rUK) has never been clearer. Interesting times ahead…

132 Lidane  May 8, 2015 7:45:26am

ROFL:

The bigger blow came when Deace compared Huckabee’s announcement speech — rife with references to social safety nets — to Hillary Clinton, saying the two political opposites now seem interchangeable. If Clinton delivered the speech, Deace said, it would have “gotten the same amount of applause.”

He also said the Huckabee speech sounded a lot like “the last man who ran for president from Hope, Arkansas,” i.e., Bill Clinton.

133 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 7:45:34am

re: #120 De Kolta Chair

Humidity here in New York City is 59%, though it doesn’t feel like it, and last night we got our first mosquito bites of the year. Better than bees, I suppose.

I don’t know. I’ve never heard of bees carrying disease.

134 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 7:45:36am

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

My point is that Scotland’s economy will not be made or broken over oil and gas revenues.

They should get good venue from tourism I assume too. And I will point out that a lot of people thought Ireland couldn’t function as an economy without London and I think the Irish have done quite well independent. Ultimately as an American, I don’t know what the best course for Scotland is but I see nothing wrong with independence in theory for them.

135 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 7:45:54am

Wales wasn’t buying Scotland’s plan, however.

Plaid Cymru, which advocated for an independent Wales, did worse than UKIP, which saw a bit of gain; Labor did best of all parties.

walesonline.co.uk

136 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 7:46:19am

re: #130 FemNaziBitch

This seems to be a reoccurring meme in history: Scottish Independence.

Well the English have been in and out of Scotland for centuries heh. That was the one thing Braveheart actually got right lol.

137 Great White Snark  May 8, 2015 7:46:34am

re: #131 Aye Pod

Good news for Scotland, yet the conservatives moved up in England?

138 makeitstop  May 8, 2015 7:46:57am

re: #129 HappyWarrior

Could get below 5% by the end of his term I think. Yeah Obama and Democrats have no clue on how to run the economy.//

But teh reel unployment rate is 23 39 46 73%!!!1!! FACT!!1

139 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 7:47:48am

re: #135 Justanotherhuman

Wales wasn’t buying Scotland’s plan, however.

Plaid Cymru, which advocated for an independent Wales, did worse than UKIP, which saw a bit of gain; Labor did best of all parties.

walesonline.co.uk

Well Wales has been tied with England a lot longer than the Scots have. Scotland only became formally part of what we call Great Britain in the reign of James I I believe while Wales has been with England for centuries longer.

140 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 7:48:14am

re: #138 makeitstop

But teh reel unployment rate is 23 39 46 73%!!!1!! FACT!!1

PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR A LIVING ARE OUTNUMBERED BY PEOPLE WHO VOTE FOR A LIVING!!!!! CONFIRMED. FRACT!!!!!!!!

141 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 7:48:25am

re: #138 makeitstop

But teh reel unployment rate is 23 39 46 73%!!!1!! FACT!!1

THEY’VE GIVEN UP LOOKING FOR WORK. Yet another wingnut misunderstanding of basic economics 101.

142 Feline Fearless Leader  May 8, 2015 7:49:06am

re: #140 Lord Of The Pies

PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR A LIVING ARE OUTNUMBERED BY PEOPLE WHO VOTE FOR A LIVING!!!!! CONFIRMED. FRACT!!!!!!!!

I guess we should throw all those retired people under the shuttle bus.
:p
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143 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 8, 2015 7:49:46am

re: #134 HappyWarrior

They should get good venue from tourism I assume too. And I will point out that a lot of people thought Ireland couldn’t function as an economy without London and I think the Irish have done quite well independent. Ultimately as an American, I don’t know what the best course for Scotland is but I see nothing wrong with independence in theory for them.

Of course, the last time Scotland had complete financial independence, it led to the Darien Scheme, bankruptcy, and English conquest….

144 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 7:50:02am

re: #132 Lidane

ROFL:

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Yeah the RWNJs hate Huckabee because he’s not a total dick on economic issues. If Huck had his bigoted social views combined with Ayn Rand like Teddy does, they’d love him.

145 ObserverArt  May 8, 2015 7:50:02am

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

My point is that Scotland’s economy will not be made or broken over oil and gas revenues.

Are those similar to the “revenues” Chucky C Johnson was performing yesterday with his GoFundMe crowd funding text???

/

146 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 7:50:44am

dancing puppy!
…

147 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 7:50:51am

re: #145 ObserverArt

Are those similar to the “revenues” Chucky C Johnson was performing yesterday with his GoFundMe crowd funding text???

/

Better Scotch and people.

148 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 7:52:12am
149 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 7:52:16am

re: #144 HappyWarrior

Yeah the RWNJs hate Huckabee because he’s not a total dick on economic issues. If Huck had his bigoted social views combined with Ayn Rand like Teddy does, they’d love him.

Huckabee is in favor of the “Fair Tax” (30% sales tax replacing the IRS) How is that not being a total dick on economics?

150 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 7:53:29am

re: #149 Lord Of The Pies

Huckabee is in favor of the “Fair Tax” (30% sales tax replacing the IRS) How is that not being a total dick on economics?

I should have said his rhetoric but fair point. I guess what I mean is Huckabee actually pretends to give a shit about poor people and they hate that. Not that he actually does mind you.

151 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 7:54:21am

re: #134 HappyWarrior

Different island, different distance and result, of course. Still, the UK holds on to Northern Ireland and we’ve seen the results of “The Troubles”.

I wish Scotland well, but even independence is sometimes fraught with traps, although Scotland is not completely independent—yet.

No one can predict the future, esp politicians.

152 De Kolta Chair  May 8, 2015 7:54:28am

Meanwhile in the UK:

Monster Raving Loony Party — 3,898 total votes
Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol Party — 8,419 total votes

153 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 7:54:42am

re: #143 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Of course, the last time Scotland had complete financial independence, it led to the Darien Scheme, bankruptcy, and English conquest….

Interesting. Never had heard of the Darien Scheme before. Seems it had a big effect on the Act of Union which actually formally came in 1707,

154 Aye Pod  May 8, 2015 7:55:08am

re: #42 Justanotherhuman

Even though a Brit might be against immigration, they wouldn’t dare air that view for fear of being ostracized, and only very privately, not publicly.

Sorry, but that is utter nonsense, to put it mildly. The Labour Party themselves have been pandering to the anti-immigration lobby. The subject was constantly being tyalked about as UKIP, the Tories and Labour competed to show who was the most concerned on the matter! The only party who didn’t pander to the right wing claptrap about immigration was the SNP.

Here’s the Labour Party’s immigration mug, which you can buy here, from the Labour Party:

shop.labour.org.uk

In contrast, here’s Nicola Sturgeon on immigration:

…

155 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 7:55:48am

re: #150 HappyWarrior

I should have said his rhetoric but fair point. I guess what I mean is Huckabee actually pretends to give a shit about poor people and they hate that. Not that he actually does mind you.

All the GOP candidates pretend to give a shit about the Poors. They want to “liberate” them from the “slavery of welfare” with “Right to Work”

156 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 7:56:47am

re: #151 Justanotherhuman

Different island, different distance and result, of course. Still, the UK holds on to Northern Ireland and we’ve seen the results of “The Troubles”.

I wish Scotland well, but even independence is sometimes fraught with traps, although Scotland is not completely independent—yet.

No one can predict the future, esp politicians.

From what I understand, London would be okay with letting Northern Ireland join the Republic at this point but the Unionists raise holy hell. I don’t know what the best course of action is for the Scots but I do think they deserve some greater autonomy in their own affairs since Union with England wasn’t exactly done to them democratically in the first place. Now it has been re-affirmed by the polls.

157 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 7:58:13am

re: #155 Lord Of The Pies

All the GOP candidates pretend to give a shit about the Poors. They want to “liberate” them from the “slavery of welfare” with “Right to Work”

True, true. I guess I misspoke but from what I’ve seen RWNJs say, their problem with Huckabee is they see him as being like a Democrat on economics. I know it’s laughable since as you point out he supports the bullshit “fair” tax which isn’t fair at all.

158 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 7:59:33am

re: #154 Aye Pod

Nicola is great!
Much, much better than Alex, IMHO.

159 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 8:00:58am

re: #154 Aye Pod

Sorry, but that is utter nonsense, to put it mildly. The Labour Party themselves have been pandering to the anti-immigration lobby. The subject was constantly being tyalked about as UKIP, the Tories and Labour competed to show who was the most concerned on the matter! The only party who didn’t pander to the right wing claptrap about immigration was the SNP.

Here’s the Labour Party’s immigration mug, which you can buy here, from the Labour Party:

shop.labour.org.uk

In contrast, here’s Nicola Sturgeon on immigration:

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Video

That alone gives me a better impression of the SNP and SNP leadership. I agreed with everything she said though I don’t know the logistics of how Westminster is acting on immigration, it is something I have witnessed here though.

160 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 8:02:05am
161 WhatEVs  May 8, 2015 8:14:02am

re: #155 Lord Of The Pies

All the GOP candidates pretend to give a shit about the Poors. They want to “liberate” them from the “slavery of welfare” with “Right to Work Starve.”

FIFY.

162 Aye Pod  May 8, 2015 8:15:06am

rUK has voted for paranoia about immigration, the continuing demonisation of the poor while pandering to the rich, £12 bn of welfare cuts, and most likely an exit from Europe. And they did it knowing exactly what they were doing.

Scotland has voted for the removal of Trident, improved social services, help for the poor and decency towards immigrants. Scotland is saying that we stand for progress - we are going our own way and we won’t be denied. I think most people are beginning to realise now that independence isn’t just going to happen, it HAS to happen.

Anyway the real celebrations will be tonight, that’s where we’re off to shortly. Slainte folks - have a good weekend.

163 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 8:20:09am

re: #162 Aye Pod

Enjoy!

164 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 8:33:21am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY PART II==>
All the Republican accomplishments took place before they became Conservative

165 CuriousLurker  May 8, 2015 8:33:23am

Stepping away from YouTube.

Have you ever been in the ocean where the water is shallow enough for you to keep your head above it, then suddenly—WHOOSH!—the bottom drops out and you realize you’d been walking along an underwater sandbar?

I was entertaining myself by surfing around YouTube when I suddenly stepped off the sandbar and found myself in the deep chilly waters of conspiracy theories: NWO, Illuminati, CERN, portals, blood moons, spells, fallen angels, demon possession, Mickey Mouse and the Saturn connection (I have no idea, I didn’t click), it just goes on and on and on… O_O

Damn, there’s a lot of crazy out there…

166 Eventual Carrion  May 8, 2015 8:34:12am

re: #128 FemNaziBitch

we need more carbon

Yes InhoDoosh, and we cannot live without oxygen. But we get too much of it in the atmosphere and we turn the earth into a fucking fireball.

167 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 8:35:51am

re: #165 CuriousLurker

Stepping away from YouTube.

Have you ever been in the ocean where the water is shallow enough for you to keep your head above it, then suddenly—WHOOSH!—the bottom drops out and you realize you’d been walking along an underwater sandbar?

I was entertaining myself by surfing around YouTube when I suddenly stepped off the sandbar and found myself in the deep chilly waters of conspiracy theories: NWO, Illuminati, CERN, portals, blood moons, spells, fallen angels, demon possession, Mickey Mouse and the Saturn connection (I have no idea, I didn’t click), it just goes on and on and on… O_O

Damn, there’s a lot of crazy out there…

I only go to YouTube for the kitteh videos.

168 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 8:38:12am

re: #164 Lord Of The Pies

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY PART II==>
All the Republican accomplishments took place before they became Conservative

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So stupid it hurts. And the 15th amendment while laudable it is did NOT get suffrage to all. Really, I think it’s hilarious that they push out these fucking moronic memes out based on what the parties were like before the nation’s centennial even and yet they flip if you bring up what their party has actually been doing while we’ve been alive. I appreciate what the Republicans of the 1860’s did but at the same time, it’s downright laughable that the present Republican Party which bears no resemblance to that party at all deserves credit for that and it’s certainly not a hooray for conservatism either. The 13th through 15th amendments were radical and yes liberal. So yeah cons we’re going to continue to point out that your party is racist because it is fucking racist and what you were 150 years ago has no standing on the bigoted party you are now.

169 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 8:38:19am

re: #154 Aye Pod

Every party is going to eventually talk about immigration and use it like a cudgel to win. Sturgeon is talking about UKIP, a radical anti-immigrant group, not immigration generally, and also about discrimination against immigrants, which, AFAIK, many emigrate from former British colonies, don’t they? And aren’t some Britons also against Eastern Europeans? I don’t know how many immigrants are permitted into the UK every year and if those numbers are a real problem or if it’s simple bigotry (in the case of UKIP, yes, we know it is). It appears that some ordinary white Europeans are as frightened of any kind of immigration as some of those in the US are, esp when they approve of Americans or Canadians doing the same thing.

The world itself is already having to deal with a lot of migration. It’s very tragic that countries (esp former colonies) where mass emigration is happening because of poverty and/or war are not doing, or cannot do, their very best, even with aid, to make life better for their populations so that the tragedies we’re seeing today could be eliminated and people wouldn’t be driven from their homelands. And it doesn’t help when those same countries have brain drains, either, because opportunities are better in countries other than one’s own.

Nationalism is going to be (if it already isn’t) the major roadblock to people being able to move freely from one country to the next. This is why trade and treaties are going to be even more important in this century, to give other countries the means to develop their own resources and industries.

170 Eventual Carrion  May 8, 2015 8:38:50am

re: #146 FemNaziBitch

dancing puppy!
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Video

Heading home from work yesterday I was passing a pasture. There were some newborn calves just prancing and frolicking in the new grass among the grazing adults. The exuberance of youth.

171 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 8:39:23am

Childless-By-Choice Women Are A Big Part Of Society’s Deterioration

I don’t get this kind of logic.

172 Lidane  May 8, 2015 8:39:30am

Raving Freakazoid Nut Sandwich is off his meds again:

“This is the biggest show ever,” he warned. “That’s all that’s happening right now. This is a show. We’re watching a script and a play play out in front of us. None of this stuff is real. Those riots in Baltimore. That wasn’t real … At some point, there will be a straw that breaks the camel’s back, and it will set the whole country on fire. And what happens? We will cry out for police help. The police will be overwhelmed. The DOJ will say, ‘We’re going to take over policing, we’ll coordinate it from here.’ And you’re done. It’s lights out, republic.”

173 WhatEVs  May 8, 2015 8:40:07am

re: #168 HappyWarrior

So stupid it hurts. And the 15th amendment while laudable it is did NOT get suffrage to all. Really, I think it’s hilarious that they push out these fucking moronic memes out based on what the parties were like before the nation’s centennial even and yet they flip if you bring up what their party has actually been doing while we’ve been alive. I appreciate what the Republicans of the 1860’s did but at the same time, it’s downright laughable that the present Republican Party which bears no resemblance to that party at all deserves credit for that and it’s certainly not a hooray for conservatism either. The 13th through 15th amendments were radical and yes liberal. So yeah cons we’re going to continue to point out that your party is racist because it is fucking racist and what you were 150 years ago has no standing on the bigoted party you are now.

What I find most laughable is that they think anyone (other than their choir) buys into that bullshit, that anyone with a couple of brain cells to rub together doesn’t realize that the GOP of yore is just that; no longer.

174 Blind Frog Belly White  May 8, 2015 8:40:51am

re: #164 Lord Of The Pies

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY PART II==>
All the Republican accomplishments took place before they became Conservative

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When you have to go back 145 years to be able to say something good about your party, you have a problem.

175 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 8:41:01am
176 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 8:41:25am

re: #171 FemNaziBitch

Childless-By-Choice Women Are A Big Part Of Society’s Deterioration

I don’t get this kind of logic.

i don’t either. It’s not society’s job to force women to have children. IF a woman wants to have children, she should and frankly that means people who want to be parents will be parents and good parents at that rather than people who are forced into by societal pressures. There have always been childless women. I have great aunts on both sides of my family who either never had children and or chose not to marry. There’s nothing wrong with that.

177 CuriousLurker  May 8, 2015 8:42:15am

re: #167 Lord Of The Pies

I only go to YouTube for the kitteh videos.

I’m not even sure how I ended up in the CT department. I guess Fox news, Alex Jones, et al. will never run out of idiots who believe them.

178 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 8:42:56am

re: #172 Lidane

Raving Freakazoid Nut Sandwich is off his meds again:

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How is this anything different for you Glenn than what you were saying years ago? Really Glenn, find a new song to sing but your torch songs suck. You’re not a victim, you’re not going to get murdered, and you know as well as I do that the Obama administration has been very good for your pockets. Really, Beck fans, he’s taken you all for suckers and made millions off of your fears. That should anger more you more than anything Obama has done.

179 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 8:43:10am

re: #176 HappyWarrior

i don’t either. It’s not society’s job to force women to have children. IF a woman wants to have children, she should and frankly that means people who want to be parents will be parents and good parents at that rather than people who are forced into by societal pressures. There have always been childless women. I have great aunts on both sides of my family who either never had children and or chose not to marry. There’s nothing wrong with that.

If motherhood is not a choice, society will destroy itself.

180 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 8:43:19am

re: #177 CuriousLurker

I’m not even sure how I ended up in the CT department. I guess Fox news, Alex Jones, et al. will never run out of idiots who believe them.

There will always be conspiracy nuts.

181 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 8:43:53am

re: #174 Blind Frog Belly White

When you have to go back 145 years to be able to say something good about your party, you have a problem.

GOP really went off the cliff after William F. Buckley died.

182 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 8:44:08am

UpChuck just retweeted vdare whining about election fraud of UKIP being left off ballots.

183 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 8:44:21am

re: #179 FemNaziBitch

If motherhood is not a choice, society will destroy itself.

Agreed. You can’t force motherhood on women. You just can’t. If a woman wants to be a mother, good for her, motherhood is a wonderful thing but by the same token, I have no qualms about a woman who chooses not to have children.

184 makeitstop  May 8, 2015 8:45:57am

re: #165 CuriousLurker

NWO, Illuminati, CERN, portals, blood moons, spells, fallen angels, demon possession, Mickey Mouse and the Saturn connection

Sounds like a party I went to once.

185 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 8:47:10am

re: #174 Blind Frog Belly White

When you have to go back 145 years to be able to say something good about your party, you have a problem.

Yeah when you’re resting your laurels on something that happened 150 years ago, your party kind of stinks. I mean I am glad that the Republican Party of the 1860’s championed these measures. I truly am and Lincoln is one of my favorite presidents but at the same time, it has zlitch to do what the Republican Party stands for today and even more given that the Republican Party has become the party of Confederate lovers. Really you can’t take credit for the 13th through 15th amendments and then defend the CSA flag and also bitch about the bad federal government.

186 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 8:47:54am

Nepal quake survivors face threat from human traffickers supplying sex trade

Traffickers are like looters. Looking for easy profit in disaster and despair.

187 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 8:49:07am

re: #181 FemNaziBitch

GOP really went off the cliff after William F. Buckley died.

Nah they were off the cliff before Buckley died. Buckley was just as shitty as the rest of them. Don’t buy the whtiewashing of his legacy. He was an as big part of the problem. And I’ll continue to assert Buckley’s real beef with the Birchers wasn’t ideology (remember he too loved McCarthy and was an opponent of Civil Rights and believed it a communist plot) but rather I think he saw the Birchers as “ruining” conservatism’s “good name:.

188 Blind Frog Belly White  May 8, 2015 8:49:19am

OT. and I’m sure somebody already said this, but regarding the CT nutjobs and their response to ‘Jade Helm 15’ - why would the Army even WANT to take over Texas? It’s full of stupid people.

189 lawhawk  May 8, 2015 8:50:17am

re: #175 FemNaziBitch

It’s a plain English reading that makes sense. IL and some other states enacted constitutional provisions that protect pensions from being reduced. For instance, the state constitution provides that membership in any pension or retirement system of the State is “… an enforceable contractual relationship, the benefits of which shall not be diminished or impaired.” On that basis alone, any attempt to enact a legislative reduction in benefits to those pensions is unconstitutional pursuant to the state constitution.

The only way you can go around this restriction and reduce those pensions is to amend the state constitution and eliminate this provision. In the process, you’d be indicating your preference to ignore the contractual relationship between the state and its employees, and that further ignores that the state politicians have repeatedly plundered the pension fund by shortchanging funding so that they could fund other priorities rather than address structural funding either by reducing services or increasing taxes (or a combination of the two).

190 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 8:50:22am

The 14 Habits of Highly Miserable People

8. Always be alert and in a state of anxiety. Optimism about the future leads only to disappointment. Therefore, you have to do your best to believe that your marriage will flounder, your children won’t love you, your business will fail, and nothing good will ever work out for you.

191 Feline Fearless Leader  May 8, 2015 8:51:56am

re: #171 FemNaziBitch

Childless-By-Choice Women Are A Big Part Of Society’s Deterioration

I don’t get this kind of logic.

“Society” under their worldview is a stable patriarchy where (white) men control all important aspects and women and minorities are happy in their place as property or 2nd class citizens at best.

192 A Cranky One  May 8, 2015 8:53:25am

re: #190 FemNaziBitch

The 14 Habits of Highly Miserable People

9. Write country music songs ????

193 No Country For Old Haters  May 8, 2015 8:54:46am

re: #164 Lord Of The Pies

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY PART II==>
All the Republican accomplishments took place before they became Conservative

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194 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 8:55:02am

re: #191 Feline Fearless Leader

“Society” under their worldview is a stable patriarchy where (white) men control all important aspects and women and minorities are happy in their place as property or 2nd class citizens at best.

And no one should complain. Well unless they’re white people upset about better health care or stupid bigots who think they have the right to discriminate against people. But if they’re black and tired of police brutality, workers wanting better wages, or women wanting equal pay, etc then SHUT UP, AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALSISM.

195 Alyosha  May 8, 2015 8:56:50am

re: #183 HappyWarrior

Agreed. You can’t force motherhood on women. You just can’t. If a woman wants to be a mother, good for her, motherhood is a wonderful thing but by the same token, I have no qualms about a woman who chooses not to have children.

A friend at work is being pressured not to study because her bf’s five year plan involves child-bearing. I’ve told her that her plan must come first and can involve some compromise on the kids front but I’m increasingly getting the impression that her significant other is a controlling arsehole.
Her words: ‘his worldview is that procreation is the most important thing and without that possibility, being a couple is counter to nature’.
I’m just trying, and I feel, failing, to offer up an alternative in which her own plans are equally important.
It’s why I’m skeptical about claims Western culture is more woman-friendly. Domination is still there and in this case burns me out.

What does one say?

196 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 8:56:57am

I started reading Outlander series 20 years ago, got bored halfway through the second book and just stopped reading.

Really they were hella lame.

197 lawhawk  May 8, 2015 8:58:14am

re: #193 No Country For Old Haters

What part of the GOP from 1865 being nothing like the GOP of 2015 do these nitwits not understand? The 2015 version is far more attuned and aligned with the secessionist/insurrectionists of 1865 who want to turn back the clock, gut civil and human rights, roll back womens’ rights, and otherwise gut the safety net.

That’s hardly anything the GOP of 1865 would go by, not when the GOP of 1865 (or even as late as 1950s with Ike pushing the desegregation and civil rights when opposition was largely based on region - the South opposing while everyone else was largely supportive of desegregation and eliminating Jim Crow).

198 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 9:01:20am

re: #195 Alyosha

If she had any sense, she’d dump him. : )

199 Charles Johnson  May 8, 2015 9:01:44am
200 Charles Johnson  May 8, 2015 9:02:17am
201 retired cynic  May 8, 2015 9:02:46am

re: #175 FemNaziBitch

That is a BIG one!

202 WhatEVs  May 8, 2015 9:03:23am

re: #171 FemNaziBitch

Childless-By-Choice Women Are A Big Part Of Society’s Deterioration

I don’t get this kind of logic.

What a total and complete line of bullshit. And, sheesh, what an asshole to present it that way.

203 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 9:03:29am

Heads up DC lizards!

204 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 9:04:09am

re: #197 lawhawk

What part of the GOP from 1865 being nothing like the GOP of 2015 do these nitwits not understand? The 2015 version is far more attuned and aligned with the secessionist/insurrectionists of 1865 who want to turn back the clock, gut civil and human rights, roll back womens’ rights, and otherwise gut the safety net.

That’s hardly anything the GOP of 1865 would go by, not when the GOP of 1865 (or even as late as 1950s with Ike pushing the desegregation and civil rights when opposition was largely based on region - the South opposing while everyone else was largely supportive of desegregation and eliminating Jim Crow).

I also think it’s interesting to look at what the two parties have done in the past 50 years. I mean I believe Goldwater wasn’t a bigot but he still voted against the CRA 1964 and his party still nominated him. That doesn’t show a party committed to civil rights. That shows a party that felt it could gain the votes and they did given how Goldwater did in the South of angry Southern whites who were pissed that their ancestral party embraced Civil Rights. And it was all downhill from there with Nixon fully adapting a formal Southern Strategy, Reagan opening his campaign talking about states rights where the three Civil Rights Workers were murdered and I doubt even a mention of them, H.W Bush’s Horton ad, the whisper campaigns by W Bush’s allies about McCain’s adopted daughter in 2000, and of course now the crap said about Obama and also the repeated accusations by Republicans that black people vote Democratic because they want “free stuff,” The Republican party has regressed on civil rights. Gerald Ford who would be 102 this July was more progressive on the subject than any of the candidates running this year.

205 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 9:05:05am

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

Heads up DC lizards!

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I just saw them.

206 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 9:05:08am

US concerned about reports of new China cyber-capability targeting internet content outside of China, State Department says - @Reuters
end of alert

207 WhatEVs  May 8, 2015 9:06:48am

re: #179 FemNaziBitch

If motherhood is not a choice, society will destroy itself.

When you start talking about forcing childbirth, you’re solidly in Boco Haram territory.

208 b_sharp  May 8, 2015 9:07:47am

re: #205 HappyWarrior

I just saw them.

Damn, I missed them.

Oh right, the Earth is a sphere & DC is around the bend from here.

209 allegro  May 8, 2015 9:08:03am

re: #171 FemNaziBitch

Childless-By-Choice Women Are A Big Part Of Society’s Deterioration

I don’t get this kind of logic.

She actually sounds like she hates her life and hates being a mother. All she talks about is SACRIFICE! About giving up one’s desires to SERVE! And that’s what makes women “happy”. She’s lecturing herself, it seems, to convince herself that she’s not really miserable.

I chose not to be a parent because I didn’t want that job. A lot. As such I would not have been very good at it and I thus spared any children who may have been born to me had I listened to this crap. The only people who should be parents are those who want to be parents and can raise their children with love and joy.

210 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 9:08:24am

Really Republicans if your party is such a champion of Civil Rights. Show me what they’ve done in my lifetime on the subject. I see a lot of weakening of civil rights by Republicans like opposing not only same sex marriage but civil unions as well. I see that the judges on the Supreme Court who Republican presidential candidates consistently cite as model judges weakening the VRA. It’s nice that they seem to appreciate what MLK and Rosa Parks did but at the same time, I’m deeply skeptical if this batch of Republicans would have actually supported their cause had it happened now. I’d like just one example of what the Republican Party has postively done on Civil Rights since the latter half of the Reagan years. If you’re citing what your party did in the 1860;s, then you’re failing big time.

211 De Kolta Chair  May 8, 2015 9:09:10am

re: #160 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Netflix has signed Rob Schneider to star in the remake.

212 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 9:09:22am

re: #204 HappyWarrior

I mean I believe Goldwater wasn’t a bigot but he still voted against the CRA 1964 and his party still nominated him

Goldwater was smart enough not to be a blatant bigot; voting against the CRA shows that he really was.

It’s not always what someone says, it’s what they do, that makes them a bigot.

A person can yell all day about not being a racist, but will cross the street to avoid a young Black man.

213 allegro  May 8, 2015 9:11:10am

re: #195 Alyosha

A friend at work is being pressured not to study because her bf’s five year plan involves child-bearing. I’ve told her that her plan must come first and can involve some compromise on the kids front but I’m increasingly getting the impression that her significant other is a controlling arsehole.
Her words: ‘his worldview is that procreation is the most important thing and without that possibility, being a couple is counter to nature’.
I’m just trying, and I feel, failing, to offer up an alternative in which her own plans are equally important.
It’s why I’m skeptical about claims Western culture is more woman-friendly. Domination is still there and in this case burns me out.

What does one say?

One might say what my mother told me so many times growing up and that is that the best thing a woman can do for her children, or future children, is to be educated and able to support them. No one knows what the future holds and no woman should ever have to depend on a man for survival.

214 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 9:12:11am

re: #212 Justanotherhuman

Goldwater was smart enough not to be a blatant bigot; voting against the CRA shows that he really was.

It’s not always what someone says, it’s what they do, that makes them a bigot.

A person can yell all day about not being a racist, but will cross the street to avoid a young Black man.

I don’t disagree. I guess my point is even if Goldwater wasn’t a bigot, the party showed how little it valued Civil Rights by nominating an opponent of the signature civil rights legislation of its day for president that year. Goldwater being a bigot or not really isn’t my point here. My point here is that by nominating him the GOP basically said good bye to nearly a century of embracing Civil Rights and hello to the people who opposed it tooth and nail. I think we agree more than we don’t though. I don’t think Goldwater was actually a bigot since he had and did support civil rights legislation before and after the CRA-64 but he still did vote against it and he still deserved to lose because of that and other things.

215 No Country For Old Haters  May 8, 2015 9:12:20am

re: #200 Charles Johnson

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Nice.

216 De Kolta Chair  May 8, 2015 9:15:04am

re: #190 FemNaziBitch

8. Always be alert and in a state of anxiety. Optimism about the future leads only to disappointment.

217 Higgs Boson's Mate  May 8, 2015 9:15:59am

re: #171 FemNaziBitch

Childless-By-Choice Women Are A Big Part Of Society’s Deterioration

I don’t get this kind of logic.

What a load of tripe. If two earner households weren’t nearly mandatory, if taking time off to raise and nurture a child beyond infancy wasn’t a job killer, then maybe she’d have a point. As things stand, a big concern of motherhood these days is finding someone to take care of your child while you’re at work.

218 Alyosha  May 8, 2015 9:18:03am

re: #198 Justanotherhuman

If she had any sense, she’d dump him. : )

Just sent her a long text detailing my misgivings. She has sense and an inner wellspring of self-reliance and emotional strength but it’s a case of first boyfriend syndrome. Anyways, it’s bothered me for a while. My disadvantage is that as a straight male, I can make pleas to ethics and human rights all I like, but it might be interpreted as an attempt to strike a wedge for sexual gain.
People tire me so.

219 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 9:24:25am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY FLOTUS EDITION==>
“What happened” (other than Michelle BFLOTUSWB) is 3 official portraits next to a random snapshot

Brain bleach==>

220 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 9:26:22am

re: #219 Lord Of The Pies

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY FLOTUS EDITION==>
“What happened” (other than Michelle BFLOTUSWB) is 3 official portraits next to a random snapshot

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Yeah those are official shots and the Michele one is a tabloid like shot. Really RWNJs, what happened was that you can’t stand the fact a black woman is first lady, that’s what happened. Fucking bigoted fuckers.

221 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 9:28:15am

re: #218 Alyosha

Just sent her a long text detailing my misgivings. She has sense and an inner wellspring of self-reliance and emotional strength but it’s a case of first boyfriend syndrome. Anyways, it’s bothered me for a while. My disadvantage is that as a straight male, I can make pleas to ethics and human rights all I like, but it might be interpreted as an attempt to strike a wedge for sexual gain.
People tire me so.

And there’s no accounting for attraction, either. She sounds young, so hasn’t worked out the kinks of what she really wants yet and seems to be using him for a guide for what she should or shouldn’t do. If she already had really strong opinions about it, she’d not let that attraction divert her from them.

I mean, having kids isn’t quite the same as deciding where to have dinner. It’s a huge life decision, as is when to have them or whether to have them at all.

222 Dave In Austin  May 8, 2015 9:29:09am
223 No Country For Old Haters  May 8, 2015 9:30:10am

re: #219 Lord Of The Pies

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY FLOTUS EDITION==>
“What happened” (other than Michelle BFLOTUSWB) is 3 official portraits next to a random snapshot

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224 Alyosha  May 8, 2015 9:35:09am

re: #221 Justanotherhuman

And there’s no accounting for attraction, either. She sounds young, so hasn’t worked out the kinks of what she really wants yet and seems to be using him for a guide for what she should or shouldn’t do. If she already had really strong opinions about it, she’d not let that attraction divert her from them.

I mean, having kids isn’t quite the same as deciding where to have dinner. It’s a huge life decision, as is when to have them or whether to have them at all.

That’s most probable. I’ve previously filed it under the ‘too-hard’ heading but it’s threads like these that make me want to take up the cause as a frustrating hobby. To try and be of modest service where possible.

Anyway, enough of my shit :)

225 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 9:38:41am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY (WOW THERE ARE A LOT OF STUPID MEMES TODAY)
So vandalism & theft are OKIYAR?

226 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 9:39:53am

Last adult sentenced in Mississippi racial assaults
Robert Henry Rice given maximum sentence

A timeline of arrests and convictions on this site of the 10 white young adults who killed .James Craig Anderson and were involved in a racist gang who intimidated, threatened and harassed Black people.

wapt.com

227 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 9:40:09am

I drive through Detroit every day and the only bumper stickers I see are Tigers & Red Wings decals.

228 No Country For Old Haters  May 8, 2015 9:41:20am

re: #225 Lord Of The Pies

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY (WOW THERE ARE A LOT OF STUPID MEMES TODAY)
So vandalism & theft are OKIYAR?

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229 wrenchwench  May 8, 2015 9:41:50am

Last week, I was subpoenaed to appear at the trial of the woman who hit me. The sheriff who served me called that woman ‘your basic crackhead’. I had mixed feelings about that. (I have not met the woman.) This week she was arrested for making a four year old girl, her granddaughter, sleep outside locked out all night. Feelings are unmixing.

230 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 9:42:00am

re: #228 No Country For Old Haters

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Go team GOP, it’s your birthday.//

231 De Kolta Chair  May 8, 2015 9:45:29am

You can’t draw Wolverine now? Does Marvel know about this?

232 WhatEVs  May 8, 2015 9:46:10am

re: #222 Dave In Austin


233 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 9:46:12am

re: #229 wrenchwench

Last week, I was subpoenaed to appear at the trial of the woman who hit me. The sheriff who served me called that woman ‘your basic crackhead’. I had mixed feelings about that. (I have not met the woman.) This week she was arrested for making a four year old girl, her granddaughter, sleep outside locked out all night. Feelings are unmixing.

She needs to be locked up and that child placed in a good home.

Yesterday, I inadvertently stumbled across a shit ton of stories about selfish, cruel and just stupid people who abused and killed their own children (drugs were involved in some of the kids’ deaths even) and it left me feeling that there is no hope for some of them except incarceration.

234 Alyosha  May 8, 2015 9:47:38am

re: #231 De Kolta Chair

You can’t draw Wolverine now? Does Marvel know about this?

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Who illustrates the illustrator?

235 jaunte  May 8, 2015 9:47:39am

re: #231 De Kolta Chair

You can’t draw Wolverine now? Does Marvel know about this?

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“Bosch Fawstin” can’t draw hands.

236 WhatEVs  May 8, 2015 9:48:07am

re: #225 Lord Of The Pies

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY (WOW THERE ARE A LOT OF STUPID MEMES TODAY)
So vandalism & theft are OKIYAR?

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237 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 9:49:17am

re: #236 WhatEVs

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It’s conservative “humor.”

238 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 9:51:24am

LOL, UpChuck is rallying his troops to report Charles’s GoFundMe page for “stalking”.

240 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 9:52:01am

Maybe once I get bored of mocking you.

241 BeachDem  May 8, 2015 9:52:06am

re: #171 FemNaziBitch

Childless-By-Choice Women Are A Big Part Of Society’s Deterioration

I don’t get this kind of logic.

That whole article is insulting and presumptuous.

The sacrifices you make when you have children are things you need to exercise to be a person of value

Their argument seems to be similar to the one that says atheists can’t have morals because they don’t fear retribution.

To both, I say bullshit.

242 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 9:54:32am

re: #209 allegro

She actually sounds like she hates her life and hates being a mother. All she talks about is SACRIFICE! About giving up one’s desires to SERVE! And that’s what makes women “happy”. She’s lecturing herself, it seems, to convince herself that she’s not really miserable.

I chose not to be a parent because I didn’t want that job. A lot. As such I would not have been very good at it and I thus spared any children who may have been born to me had I listened to this crap. The only people who should be parents are those who want to be parents and can raise their children with love and joy.

I did what I was told, suffered and survived. Why should you be exempt?

243 wrenchwench  May 8, 2015 9:54:52am

re: #233 Justanotherhuman

She needs to be locked up and that child placed in a good home.

Yesterday, I inadvertently stumbled across a shit ton of stories about selfish, cruel and just stupid people who abused and killed their own children (drugs were involved in some of the kids’ deaths even) and it left me feeling that there is no hope for some of them except incarceration.

She had two kids in the car when she hit me. I already felt sorry for them. (Neither was the 4 year old girl.) Now I figure they were her grandchildren. I’m starting to feel like a bit part in this woman’s self-destruction.

244 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 9:55:11am

Maine man who used a phony Facebook profile to lure a teen to her death is sentenced to 60 years in prison - @WMTWTV

wmtw.com

245 Charles Johnson  May 8, 2015 9:56:17am
246 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 9:56:33am

re: #225 Lord Of The Pies

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY (WOW THERE ARE A LOT OF STUPID MEMES TODAY)
So vandalism & theft are OKIYAR?

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Sorry, that made me laugh. When I lived their someone my parents knew parked their care in the wrong spot and returned to find no engine.

247 Eventual Carrion  May 8, 2015 9:56:52am

re: #192 A Cranky One

9. Write country music songs ????

I was drunk
the day my mom
got out of prison

248 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 9:57:13am

HURR HURR BALTIMORE RUN BY DEMOCRATS!!!! DETROIT RUN BY DEMOCRATS!!!!!
Tell me again how Republicans control New York, San Francisco and Seattle.
Gotta make a Wonka meme for that.

249 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 9:57:58am

re: #243 wrenchwench

She had two kids in the car when she hit me. I already felt sorry for them. (Neither was the 4 year old girl.) Now I figure they were her grandchildren. I’m starting to feel like a bit part in this woman’s self-destruction.

She owns her own self-destruction. And you could have been killed because of it, and so could those kids. If she hasn’t learned responsibility by her age, there’s little hope she ever will. Maybe she’ll get some help in prison, if she really wants it.

250 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 9:58:44am

re: #245 Charles Johnson

I think UpChuck is sad that he wasn’t mentioned on your GoFundMe page.

edit: Oh wait, yes he is!

my bad…

251 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 9:59:47am

OH I see where crying baby avi gets his info.
So the solution is DON’T ALLOW THE UNDERCLASS TO VOTE!!!!!!

252 lawhawk  May 8, 2015 10:00:13am

There’s money to be made in the hate game.

253 WhatEVs  May 8, 2015 10:00:23am

re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth

I think UpChuck is sad that he wasn’t mentioned on your GoFundMe page.

I think he’s mad that his fund is going nowhere. Poor him.

254 wrenchwench  May 8, 2015 10:00:39am

re: #249 Justanotherhuman

She owns her own self-destruction. And you could have been killed because of it, and so could those kids. If she hasn’t learned responsibility by her age, there’s little hope she ever will. Maybe she’ll get some help in prison, if she really wants it.

That’s what I’m hoping for now. For her daughter, too, who was also arrested. The kids are in protective services.

255 retired cynic  May 8, 2015 10:03:05am

Found this on Juanita Jean’s site:

Image: sc150506.gif

Nails Geller just nicely.

256 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 10:03:50am

US MILITARY BASES RAISE SECURITY STATUS DUE TO ISIS THREAT

abc11.com

Military bases and installations in the United States have been ordered to raise their force protection condition status to Bravo (FPCON Bravo), due to general concerns about ISIS related threats, but not because of any specific threat or plot.

U.S. Northern Command’s Admiral William Gortney ordered the increase in the force protection condition from FPCON Alpha Plus, which is the standard for U.S. military bases.

The order will result in some visible increases in security, though there will also be other not-so-visible measures that will be taken. It is unclear how long the order to raise the force protection condition will remain in effect.
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257 lawhawk  May 8, 2015 10:04:08am

re: #245 Charles Johnson

258 Alyosha  May 8, 2015 10:04:35am

re: #253 WhatEVs

I think he’s mad that his fund is going nowhere. Poor him.

It got him a dismal lap dance in Vegas that helped him forget his awful life choices for the twenty seconds it took him to void his bowels in ecstasy. I’d say he still came out ahead lol

259 A Cranky One  May 8, 2015 10:04:41am

re: #245 Charles Johnson

I think Upchuck is upset that your Gofundme has already received more than his did.

LMAO

260 makeitstop  May 8, 2015 10:06:10am

re: #258 Alyosha

It got him a dismal lap dance in Vegas that helped him forget his awful life choices for the twenty seconds it took him to void his bowels in ecstasy. I’d say he still came out ahead lol

That was a little gross, but I lawled anyway.

261 #FergusonFireside  May 8, 2015 10:06:57am

re: #209 allegro

She actually sounds like she hates her life and hates being a mother. All she talks about is SACRIFICE! About giving up one’s desires to SERVE! And that’s what makes women “happy”. She’s lecturing herself, it seems, to convince herself that she’s not really miserable.

I chose not to be a parent because I didn’t want that job. A lot. As such I would not have been very good at it and I thus spared any children who may have been born to me had I listened to this crap. The only people who should be parents are those who want to be parents and can raise their children with love and joy.

I’m exactly with you.

263 BeachDem  May 8, 2015 10:07:34am

re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL, UpChuck is rallying his troops to report Charles’s GoFundMe page for “stalking”.

Stalking—another word upchuck doesn’t understand the meaning of. Ironically, he shares that ignorance with his nemesis, Dana Loesch.

264 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 8, 2015 10:07:57am

UpChuck begging for someone to hang out with.

Again.

265 Eventual Carrion  May 8, 2015 10:09:02am

re: #206 Justanotherhuman

US concerned about reports of new China cyber-capability targeting internet content outside of China, State Department says - @Reuters
end of alert

Snowden is going to need another blanket.

266 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 10:09:05am

I see Charles’s GFM has almost doubled Upchuck’s—-in just 1 day. : )

$300 will do it.

267 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 10:10:01am

re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth

UpChuck begging for someone to hang out with.

Again.

[Embedded content]

lol he’s desperate for friends. I guess the hot Asian wife doesn’t want anything to do with him tonight.

268 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 10:10:50am

The Scientist Who Told Congress He Could (Literally) Make It Rain

269 #FergusonFireside  May 8, 2015 10:11:13am

re: #243 wrenchwench

She had two kids in the car when she hit me. I already felt sorry for them. (Neither was the 4 year old girl.) Now I figure they were her grandchildren. I’m starting to feel like a bit part in this woman’s self-destruction.

Do NOT WW. Do NOT. You are a victim of this.

270 Charles Johnson  May 8, 2015 10:11:41am
271 Alyosha  May 8, 2015 10:12:04am

re: #260 makeitstop

That was a little gross, but I lawled anyway.

I feel most sorry for the poor Asian girl he hired as a ‘hawt’ surrogate for his debased act.
Btw, if the detail seems a bit precise, it’s because it comes from my source on the Strip.

272 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 10:12:39am

SPLC Hate watch sent me an email with this headline.

273 wrenchwench  May 8, 2015 10:12:47am

re: #269 #FergusonFireside

Do NOT WW. Do NOT. You are a victim of this.

Thanks. So are the kids. The woman is now in jail. I feel better.

274 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 10:13:09am

re: #272 FemNaziBitch

SPLC Hate watch sent me an email with this headline.

from the comments:

Similar to Godwin’s Law, we need the Rosa Rule. That is, if you compare yourself to Rosa Parks, you are most likely a right wing bigot of some ilk. Geller is an excellent example.

275 De Kolta Chair  May 8, 2015 10:13:35am

FYI Chuckles: Hairspray is based on protests in the 1960’s against a suburban Baltimore amusement park (Gwynn Oak Park) that discriminated against people of color. Now, go and amuse yourself to death.

276 ObserverArt  May 8, 2015 10:14:25am

Reading through the comments about shiftless poor folks, liberal policies making everyone poor, sacrifice to raise kids, and all that type of RWNJ crap I think I have figured out what the Republicans want to really fix this country.

It’s simple really. Everyone needs to become part of the 1% of this country that are the job and wealth creators.

Oh wait…

278 A Cranky One  May 8, 2015 10:16:09am

re: #267 HappyWarrior

lol he’s desperate for friends. I guess the hot Asian wife doesn’t want anything to do with him tonight.

I think Charles called it correctly: the hot Asian wife kicked Upchuck out. He’s travelling the country on an alcoholic bender and begging people to hang with/pay attention to him.

I suspect the incident with the Capitol Police opened her eyes. Perhaps she actually looked online after that incident and had a rude awakening.

279 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 10:16:44am
Station: Chicago Area (Melrose Park), IL
Joseph G. Leija, MD FAAAAI
Station Head(s): Joseph G. Leija, MD FAAAAI
Date of Pollen and Mold Count: 05/08/2015

*********************************
Pollen & Mold Summary
*********************************
Trees: Very High Concentration
Weeds: Low Concentration
Grass: Absent
Mold: High Concentration

Yes, I have a headache.

280 ObserverArt  May 8, 2015 10:17:40am

re: #267 HappyWarrior

lol he’s desperate for friends. I guess the hot Asian wife doesn’t want anything to do with him tonight.

Maybe she read it was May, the month to celebrate masturbation, so he can just fend for himself.

By the way. Was it to celebrate or to be celibate???

281 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 10:18:27am

BABA!!!
Eugenia Cheng: How to Bake Pi

282 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 10:19:40am
sciencefriday.com
283 Higgs Boson's Mate  May 8, 2015 10:20:50am

re: #270 Charles Johnson

How does a GoFundMe stalk someone?

284 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 10:21:16am

re: #278 A Cranky One

I think Charles called it correctly: the hot Asian wife kicked Upchuck out. He’s travelling the country on an alcoholic bender and begging people to hang with/pay attention to him.

I suspect the incident with the Capitol Police opened her eyes. Perhaps she actually looked online after that incident and had a rude awakening.

Oh I missed Charles saying that. Probably right if she even did exist.

285 Lord Of The Pies  May 8, 2015 10:22:03am

re: #283 Higgs Boson’s Mate

How does a GoFundMe stalk someone?

HELP ME, THE GREATER CHUCK C JOHNSON, RAISE MONEY TO DOXX PEOPLE!!!!1!!!!!

286 HappyWarrior  May 8, 2015 10:22:10am

re: #277 FemNaziBitch

Rubio Headlines Fundraiser for Policy Group That Supports Conversion Therapy - BuzzFeed News

*spit*

But Marco’s a “reasonable” guy.//

287 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 10:22:24am

Orwell was wrong about it only being a 2 Minute Hate.

Now it’s 24/7 from the RW.

288 Alyosha  May 8, 2015 10:23:50am

re: #287 Justanotherhuman

Orwell was wrong about it only being a 2 Minute Hate.

Now it’s 24/7 from the RW.

Full-on sublimation.

289 ObserverArt  May 8, 2015 10:25:03am

re: #282 FemNaziBitch

[Embedded content]

FemNazi…did you catch the image of the new baby bison that was born in one of our local parks yesterday? See my #82.

290 A Cranky One  May 8, 2015 10:25:50am

re: #273 wrenchwench

Thanks. So are the kids. The woman is now in jail. I feel better.

I think it speaks volumes that you were hurt by this person and yet can still show compassion. If only more people were capable of doing that, the world would be a better place.

Having said that, you were a victim of her actions and need to stand up not only for yourself but for other potential victims; if she isn’t stopped, someone else is likely to be hurt (possibly one of the kids).

Oh and I didn’t get a chance to say this on an earlier thread, but your marriage story gave me a big smile when I read it. Congratulations!

291 Higgs Boson's Mate  May 8, 2015 10:26:57am

re: #267 HappyWarrior

lol he’s desperate for friends. I guess the hot Asian wife doesn’t want anything to do with him tonight.

He has a hot Asian wife to the same extent that he has a flourishing career, respect from his peers, and close personal friends.

292 Justanotherhuman  May 8, 2015 10:27:37am

re: #288 Alyosha

And shit does float.

293 wrenchwench  May 8, 2015 10:28:41am

re: #290 A Cranky One

I think it speaks volumes that you were hurt by this person and yet can still show compassion. If only more people were capable of doing that, the world would be a better place.

Having said that, you were a victim of her actions and need to stand up not only for yourself but for other potential victims; if she isn’t stopped, someone else is likely to be hurt (possibly one of the kids).

Oh and I didn’t get a chance to say this on an earlier thread, but your marriage story gave me a big smile when I read it. Congratulations!

Thanks!

My new theory is that I am now like I was before, only more so, including the bad and the good.

294 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 10:29:57am

Insanity

295 FemNaziBitch  May 8, 2015 10:31:21am

re: #289 ObserverArt

FemNazi…did you catch the image of the new baby bison that was born in one of our local parks yesterday? See my #82.

awwwww!

296 ObserverArt  May 8, 2015 10:31:51am

re: #290 A Cranky One

I think it speaks volumes that you were hurt by this person and yet can still show compassion. If only more people were capable of doing that, the world would be a better place.

Having said that, you were a victim of her actions and need to stand up not only for yourself but for other potential victims; if she isn’t stopped, someone else is likely to be hurt (possibly one of the kids).

Oh and I didn’t get a chance to say this on an earlier thread, but your marriage story gave me a big smile when I read it. Congratulations!

Yeah!

And I too want to congratulate you Wrench. Many happy years together.

I think all the Lizards are glad you are with us.

297 prairiefire  May 8, 2015 10:34:33am

re: #273 wrenchwench

Thanks. So are the kids. The woman is now in jail. I feel better.

Hopefully she will be held there until the trail. I would imagine bond would be an issue for her.

298 wrenchwench  May 8, 2015 10:41:20am

re: #296 ObserverArt

Thanks!

re: #297 prairiefire

Hopefully she will be held there until the trail. I would imagine bond would be an issue for her.

I’m sure you’re right. They found the house the kids were living in had no electricity.

299 prairiefire  May 8, 2015 10:42:41am

re: #298 wrenchwench

Sad, sad, sad, all around. Plus side, the kids are safer.

300 Feline Fearless Leader  May 8, 2015 10:46:51am

re: #221 Justanotherhuman

And there’s no accounting for attraction, either. She sounds young, so hasn’t worked out the kinks of what she really wants yet and seems to be using him for a guide for what she should or shouldn’t do. If she already had really strong opinions about it, she’d not let that attraction divert her from them.

I mean, having kids isn’t quite the same as deciding where to have dinner. It’s a huge life decision, as is when to have them or whether to have them at all.

It’s a decision that is going to be a major, if not primary controlling, factor in your life for the next twenty years. It deserves a lot of thought, discussion, and planning. Plus contingency planning as well.

(I joke that couples wanting to adopt or bear children should first be given a kitten to care for two years, and then a puppy to care for two years, and then can start handling children. And also at that point they will have a Feline Overlord properly in charge with a canine enforcer on hand.)

301 prairiefire  May 8, 2015 10:51:09am

re: #300 Feline Fearless Leader

IVF really changes the playing field, as it were. Outside of a woman’s body, independent of human need (for a time being), how many? In “Intersteller”, there was a small bank of 5,000.

302 Feline Fearless Leader  May 8, 2015 10:52:11am

re: #282 FemNaziBitch

[Embedded content]

“Mommy, there are hyenas out there!”

303 Feline Fearless Leader  May 8, 2015 10:57:12am

re: #301 prairiefire

IVF really changes the playing field, as it were. Outside of a woman’s body, independent of human need (for a time being), how many? In “Intersteller”, there was a small bank of 5,000.

If you get clear of needing a woman’s body as an incubator you then get a whole lot of changes in societal pressures. There is some SF writing that addresses this. In particular it is an undercurrent in a number of Bujold’s Vorkosigan series novels since the different societies have done different things with having uterine replicator and IVF technology available.

Including one novel focused on a planet inhabited only by men.


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