Breaking: McKinney Cop Eric Casebolt Resigns

With a barrel roll
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Officer Eric Casebolt, the cop seen manhandling a bikini-clad black teenager and pulling his gun on some other teens, has now resigned, according to Fox 4 in Dallas: McKinney Officer Resigns Due to Actions in Pool Party Video.

McKinney Police Corporal Eric Casebolt has resigned after video showed him pushing a 15-year-old girl in a swimsuit to the ground and pointing his firearm at other teens.

Casebolt’s lawyer informed FOX4 of Casebolt’s decision.

[…]

Casebolt’s now-deleted LinkedIn account stated Casebolt joined the McKinney police force in 2005.

Casebolt was also listed as an instructor at the McKinney-based Executive Self-Defense & Fitness Training. Its listing said Casebolt had trained in “several different disciplines of martial arts, but now exclusively trains in Krav Maga combat arts, Arnis, and ground fighting.”

The company has since deleted any reference to Casebolt from its website.

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367 comments
1 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 3:46:59pm

Wants to spend more time working on his tumbling routine.

2 Kragar  Jun 9, 2015 3:47:10pm

What? No mention of his barrel rolling skill on the resume?

3 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 3:47:22pm

He’ll find a job as a rent-a-cop somewhere. That, and he’ll keep “training” wanna-be soldiers.

4 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 3:48:04pm

“Officer’s resignation effectively ends internal investigation by McKinney police”
nbcdfw.com

5 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 3:48:58pm

There’s good money to be made as a rodeo clown.

6 Kragar  Jun 9, 2015 3:50:39pm
7 Jenner7  Jun 9, 2015 3:50:50pm

Not good enough. He should be charged with assault.

8 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank  Jun 9, 2015 3:51:18pm

But he barrel-rolled…into our hearts.

: (

9 thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2015 3:51:53pm

re: #8 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank

But he barrel-rolled…into our hearts.

: (

Or at the very least, barrel-rolled into a cushy book deal.

10 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2015 3:52:59pm

Wingnuts haz teh butthurt

11 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 3:53:33pm

re: #5 Decatur Deb

There’s good money to be made as a rodeo clown.

On Fox.

12 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank  Jun 9, 2015 3:54:09pm

Putting the Ass back in Assault.

13 Jenner7  Jun 9, 2015 3:54:30pm
14 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 3:55:22pm

re: #6 Kragar

I thought that died quietly in the last legislative session?

15 darthstar  Jun 9, 2015 3:55:39pm

So I guess he doesn’t need a GoFundMe drive then.

16 Kragar  Jun 9, 2015 3:55:43pm

re: #8 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank

But he barrel-rolled…into our hearts.

: (

I can’t stand it I know you planned it
I’m gonna set it straight, this watergate…

17 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 3:55:47pm
18 ObserverArt  Jun 9, 2015 3:56:21pm

Imma goin’ with a modified version of Ann Coulter’s new book title…

Adios Asshole!

…he makes America a hellhole for people of color.

19 thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2015 3:56:47pm

re: #18 ObserverArt

Imma goin’ with a modified version of Ann Coulter’s new book title…

Adios Asshole!

…he makes America a hellhole for people of color.

FTFY

20 S'latch  Jun 9, 2015 3:57:13pm

Could technology make being a racist bully impossible one day? I hope so.

21 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 3:57:46pm

re: #17 jaunte

See, this gets me back to my old theme of the contemporary reactionary movement in America, and the worldview collapse.

When what one believes is up-ended then by nature we reach out for something to fill the whole. Anger also accompanies this overturning of cherished beliefs.

22 ObserverArt  Jun 9, 2015 3:58:07pm

re: #19 thedopefishlives

FTFY

Okay…but remember Anne was all concerned about minorities!

23 thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2015 3:58:43pm

re: #22 ObserverArt

Okay…but remember Anne was all concerned about minorities!

Ann is always concerned about minorities, because she’s a racist bitch.

24 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 3:59:13pm

The throwbacks really resent the changes the modern world brings. They are angry, which is why they are acting out their anger.

25 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 3:59:33pm

re: #20 S’latch

Could technology make being a racist bully impossible one day? I hope so.

Don’t know about technology, but a few hundred years of random screwing will make it difficult.

26 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 3:59:49pm

re: #21 freetoken

They’ve been “ammo-ing up” since 2008. Ammunition makers as far away as Serbia are making bank off the paranoia.

27 Mattand  Jun 9, 2015 4:01:40pm

Was there any indication of what Casebolt was like as a cop in general? I’m guessing a guy that attacks 15 year old black girls while waving a gun is probably not Officer Community Outreach.

The fact that the other cops were freaking out about his behavior on the video makes me think they’ve been covering for this asswipe for a while.

28 Great White Snark  Jun 9, 2015 4:02:03pm
29 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 4:02:25pm

re: #26 jaunte

They’ve been “ammo-ing up” since 2008. Ammunition makers as far away as Serbia are making bank off the paranoia.

Going to be funny when a new generation of shoulder-fired directed energy weapons makes it all obsolete.

30 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 4:02:37pm

re: #26 jaunte

I realize this will mark me as some hyper-radical commie, but I believe that racism (in a general sense) has been more central to Americanism than many people want to accept.

“Manifest destiny” was about, among other things, how the Native Americans were obviously inferior to the superior Anglo culture. The continent was intended (by God) for European exploitation, implying those here the previous 10,000 years were just squatters.

31 thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2015 4:03:02pm

re: #29 Decatur Deb

Going to be funny when a new generation of shoulder-fired directed energy weapons makes it all obsolete.

Right alongside the hydrogen fuel cell-powered cars. You have no idea how much I’m hoping this happens.

32 blueraven  Jun 9, 2015 4:05:03pm

Trouble in Paradise?

33 Kragar  Jun 9, 2015 4:05:14pm
34 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank  Jun 9, 2015 4:07:16pm

14 year old girls at a pool party.

The most wretched hive of villainy this side of Mos Eisley spaceport.

35 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 4:07:51pm

re: #33 Kragar

Police Chief: Officer came into pool party out of control; actions are indefensible.

Hee, hee, hee.

36 thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2015 4:08:19pm

re: #33 Kragar

Sounds like the chief is really tweaked about all this. That is a good thing.

37 darthstar  Jun 9, 2015 4:08:22pm

re: #33 Kragar

Some punctuation would help that tweet.

38 Kragar  Jun 9, 2015 4:08:22pm

re: #35 Decatur Deb

Hee, hee, hee.

RWNJs are going to be pissed about that.

39 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 4:08:57pm

Think about what the McKinney defenders are defending - a cop waving his gun around unarmed children.

I’m pretty sure that if you sat most people down and asked them out of context of the McKinney incident whether some adult should be pointing a loaded gun at children that most people would be aghast.

But here, under the color of authority, as it is called, all of a sudden some people crawl out from the closet and try to make McKinney a hero.

What his defenders are really doing is expressing their will to control children who they consider the “other” - in this case darker skin.

To me that just screams that these people are feeling afraid, very insecure, and full of hatred (for who knows what reason.)

40 darthstar  Jun 9, 2015 4:09:04pm

re: #35 Decatur Deb

Hee, hee, hee.

All those bikinis…it just went off.

41 Fiasco  Jun 9, 2015 4:12:21pm

Has the Internet Bleg started yet? Gofundme, et. al?

42 Kid A  Jun 9, 2015 4:13:00pm
43 Patricia Kayden  Jun 9, 2015 4:14:24pm

re: #30 freetoken

I realize this will mark me as some hyper-radical commie, but I believe that racism (in a general sense) has been more central to Americanism than many people want to accept.

“Manifest destiny” was about, among other things, how the Native Americans were obviously inferior to the superior Anglo culture. The continent was intended (by God) for European exploitation, implying those here the previous 10,000 years were just squatters.

I would add that racism has been more central to Europe than many people want to accept (colonialism, apartheid, “the White man’s burden”, Nazism, etc.).

44 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 4:14:38pm

“Of course I’m dangerous, I’m police. I can do terrible things to people with impunity”

…

45 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 4:15:02pm

re: #27 Mattand

Was there any indication of what Casebolt was like as a cop in general? I’m guessing a guy that attacks 15 year old black girls while waving a gun is probably not Officer Community Outreach.

The fact that the other cops were freaking out about his behavior on the video makes me think they’ve been covering for this asswipe for a while.

Apparently, he was Officer of the Year in 2008.
rawstory.com

46 Targetpractice  Jun 9, 2015 4:15:18pm

re: #39 freetoken

Think about what the McKinney defenders are defending - a cop waving his gun around unarmed children.

I’m pretty sure that if you sat most people down and asked them out of context of the McKinney incident whether some adult should be pointing a loaded gun at children that most people would be aghast.

But here, under the color of authority, as it is called, all of a sudden some people crawl out from the closet and try to make McKinney a hero.

What his defenders are really doing is expressing their will to control children who they consider the “other” - in this case darker skin.

To me that just screams that these people are feeling afraid, very insecure, and full of hatred (for who knows what reason.)

That’s the thing, in the minds of Casebolt’s defenders, one of the teens was “reaching for a weapon” in his back pocket and so Casebolt was totally right to pull his gun in “self-defense.” Of course, most of the morons still defending him referred to these teens as “ferals,” so I think we can guess what their views on race are…

47 Patricia Kayden  Jun 9, 2015 4:15:51pm

re: #39 freetoken

“Think about what the McKinney defenders are defending - a cop waving his gun around unarmed children.”

Rightwingers are not talking about unarmed children — they’re talking about Black brutes/savages. Black children are never just children in Rightwingistan. They’re animals to be kept under foot.

48 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 4:17:56pm
49 Kid A  Jun 9, 2015 4:17:58pm
50 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 4:18:38pm

re: #43 Patricia Kayden

I would add that racism has been more central to Europe than many people want to accept (colonialism, apartheid, “the White man’s burden”, Nazism, etc.).

Yes, it’s a global problem. But I wanted to highlight it in the case of Texas.

51 Kid A  Jun 9, 2015 4:18:41pm
52 thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2015 4:19:48pm

re: #49 Kid A

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Well, there’s your problem right there. Dumbass.

53 Targetpractice  Jun 9, 2015 4:20:06pm

So Casebolt resigns and gets to keep his pension, plus in a year or so, after the heat dies down, he can go to another police department and tell them that he was never officially fired. If they bring up this case, he just tells them that nothing was ever proven.

54 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 4:20:43pm

re: #53 Targetpractice

Maybe he’ll go to Idaho?

55 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank  Jun 9, 2015 4:21:05pm

All I’m saying is, if one of those girls had a concealed weapon in her swimsuit, we should be giving her some kind of secret agent job, not arresting her.

56 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 4:21:42pm

McKinney officer seen on teen party video resigns
chron.com

Houston Chronicle: surprisingly, only one comment so far favorable to Casebolt.

57 Great White Snark  Jun 9, 2015 4:22:45pm

Well this is kinda fun. My tweet above with my meme is at 550 impressions and half a dozen retweets already. I think that’s a personal best. Thank you guys, er and the ladies of course.

58 Kid A  Jun 9, 2015 4:24:21pm

re: #56 jaunte

Give it time.

59 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 4:24:37pm

re: #54 freetoken

Maybe he’ll go to Idaho?

Missouri

60 ObserverArt  Jun 9, 2015 4:25:07pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

Missouri

And Cleveland.

Ugh.

61 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 4:28:48pm
62 unproven innocence  Jun 9, 2015 4:29:11pm

re: #6 Kragar

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Fearmongerer! /

63 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 4:29:32pm

IT BEGINS.

64 Varek Raith  Jun 9, 2015 4:31:40pm

Do a barrel roll!

65 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 4:32:02pm

Health update from the Backwoods:
It’s been 10 hours since the steroid shot and 7 hours since starting on the allergy meds.
I am hive-free for the first time in 8 days.

It. Is. Wonderful.

66 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 4:32:36pm

re: #43 Patricia Kayden

I would add that racism has been more central to Europe than many people want to accept (colonialism, apartheid, “the White man’s burden”, Nazism, etc.).

Globally, racism, in the form of ethno-racial tribalism, is more of a rule than an exception.

67 prairiefire  Jun 9, 2015 4:33:02pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

Missouri

Ouch.

68 Varek Raith  Jun 9, 2015 4:33:42pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

Health update from the Backwoods:
It’s been 10 hours since the steroid shot and 7 hours since starting on the allergy meds.
I am hive-free for the first time in 8 days.

It. Is. Wonderful.

BEES!
/

69 Zamb  Jun 9, 2015 4:34:07pm

re: #53 Targetpractice

So Casebolt resigns and gets to keep his pension, plus in a year or so, after the heat dies down, he can go to another police department and tell them that he was never officially fired. If they bring up this case, he just tells them that nothing was ever proven.

Or apply for a job and one of those private security firms started up by wingnut ex-military who would welcome his brand of enthusiasm.

70 darthstar  Jun 9, 2015 4:35:15pm
71 Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 9, 2015 4:36:34pm

re: #69 Zamb

“Call me.” —Erik Prince, Frontier Services Group Ltd

72 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 4:38:15pm

re: #71 Eric The Fruit Bat

“Call me.” —Erik Prince, Frontier Services Group Ltd

What? Another new name for Blackwater/Xe/Academi?

73 Eventual Carrion  Jun 9, 2015 4:38:51pm

re: #6 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Then can sex ed use the Kama Sutra?

74 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 4:39:35pm

re: #72 Decatur Deb

What? Another new name for Blackwater/Xe/Academi?

Let’s make up a new name for the new venture.
I propose “Nasti”.

75 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 4:39:54pm

re: #73 Eventual Carrion

Then can sex ed use the Kama Sutra?

Probably never. “You’ll put your eye out, kid.”

77 TedStriker  Jun 9, 2015 4:40:02pm

re: #39 freetoken

Think about what the McKinney defenders are defending - a cop waving his gun around unarmed children.

I’m pretty sure that if you sat most people down and asked them out of context of the McKinney incident whether some adult should be pointing a loaded gun at children that most people would be aghast.

But here, under the color of authority, as it is called, all of a sudden some people crawl out from the closet and try to make McKinney a hero.

What his defenders are really doing is expressing their will to control children who they consider the “other” - in this case darker skin.

To me that just screams that these people are feeling afraid, very insecure, and full of hatred (for who knows what reason.)

If it had been Casebolt vs. a group of white kids (or, worse, a black cop doing this to a crowd of white kids), I think we all know what the RWNJ reaction would be.

78 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 4:40:49pm

re: #74 Nyet

Let’s make up a new name for the new venture.
I propose “Nasti”.

What does that mean in Russian?

79 TedStriker  Jun 9, 2015 4:41:02pm

re: #53 Targetpractice

So Casebolt resigns and gets to keep his pension, plus in a year or so, after the heat dies down, he can go to another police department and tell them that he was never officially fired. If they bring up this case, he just tells them that nothing was ever proven.

Funny how that all works itself out for his benefit.

The power-drunk sonofabitch should have been canned with no pension.

80 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 4:41:56pm

re: #78 Decatur Deb

Something to do with møøse.

81 Great White Snark  Jun 9, 2015 4:42:40pm

re: #64 Varek Raith

Do a barrel roll!

For everyone that blogged, tweeted, talked and generally had a heart on this one.

Video

82 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 4:44:28pm

re: #80 Nyet

Something to do with møøse.

Ah. What’s squirrel?

83 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 4:46:00pm

re: #82 Decatur Deb

Ah. What’s squirrel?

“Pretti”.

84 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2015 4:47:18pm

MOST RACIST MEME OF THE DAY==>

85 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 4:47:19pm

re: #83 Nyet

“Pretti”.

Natasha and Badenov are gimmies.

86 thedopefishlives  Jun 9, 2015 4:48:06pm

re: #84 Lord Of The Pies

The fact that they think that picture looks dangerous says much about them.

87 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 4:48:42pm

BBL. Dodging storm cells with the dog.

88 Varek Raith  Jun 9, 2015 4:50:25pm

re: #87 Decatur Deb

BBL. Dodging storm cells with the dog.

Do a barrel roll!

89 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 4:50:50pm

Religious right publisher Marvin Olasky interviews Mullah Mohler, who goes on reveling in his absolute power:

Albert Mohler: Saving a seminary

[…]

You told them you would change the faculty? I said you cannot bring reformation and leave everything in place. You need a clear understanding of the confessional identity of the school and you have to make it stick. Institutions drift left. That is the Genesis 3 reality. If truth is the principle, then you can’t accept 45 percent heresy as a way to get to 35 percent heresy. If a confession states the truth of what we expect, every professor signs to teach in accordance with it.

So you purged the theological liberals. Do you accept that verb? That isn’t the word I would choose, but it is accurate. Nearly the entire faculty of one of the largest theological institutions on the planet was replaced within a four- to five-year period.

That’s a rare (by you) use of the passive. You replaced them. Yes. I replaced them. I own that as my responsibility. That’s why I was hired. That’s what I did.

Did they have tenure? They did. It is a horrible misconception that tenure itself is the problem. Will is the problem. The tenure policy at Southern said that persons could be removed for teaching what was not in accordance with the confession of faith. That required a heresy trial, due process, all kinds of documentation, and an adversarial hearing, like a court proceeding. It turned out that not one of the faculty members was willing to endure that.

Zero? We came right up to the threshold more than once, but those faculty members recognized, because trustees were the majority of the jury, that they didn’t have a chance. With the truth on your side, you’ve got a lot of confidence. If you are teaching in accordance with and not contrary to the confession of faith, then you’re fine. But if you’re teaching contrary to the confession of faith, that is all that is necessary to eliminate tenure, so they resigned.

[…]

Even the current Catholic office of defending the faith doesn’t exercise its power that bluntly.

90 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 4:51:06pm

re: #88 Varek Raith

Do a barrel roll!

What’s a barrel roll?

91 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 4:51:54pm

Imagine, not wanting to endure a heresy trial. What cowards!

92 Varek Raith  Jun 9, 2015 4:55:26pm

re: #90 Nyet

What’s a barrel roll?

It’s a meme from a game called Star Fox 64. A barrel roll with your spacecraft in that game makes you deflect lasers.
So, it’s used as a sure fire way to avoid trouble.

93 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 4:56:05pm

re: #92 Varek Raith

Thx.

94 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 4:57:29pm

One of the biggest heresies to be confronted is of course modern science:

Mohler on evolution

[…]

I don’t think there is a more fundamental question, because when you look at the worldview of Darwinism, the modern Darwinian synthesis, no worldview is at greater odds with that of Christianity. They are two incompatible worldviews. A lot of evangelicals are looking for some middle ground, theistic evolution or whatever, but you don’t have a gospel without a historical Adam, because Christ Himself is the second Adam and Paul grounds his argument in that. You don’t have common humanity without a common ancestry in Adam. [ed. Um, yes you can, and indeed we do have a common ancestry as well established by genetics.]

When materialists attack evangelicals regarding abortion, they look upon us as wrong but not necessarily stupid. On evolution, they see us as both wrong and stupid. Some evangelicals are looking for a way out, but in doing so don’t they leave logic behind? You can’t have the modern Darwinian synthesis and anything like biblical Christianity. The current consensus says there can be no outside influence, no design: It has to be entirely a naturalistic accident. There can’t be a statement at greater odds with it than “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” That is a head-on collision.

[…]

95 Targetpractice  Jun 9, 2015 4:58:21pm

I think that, in the end, what ultimately led to Casebolt’s resignation was the video evidence. With it, there’s just no way to argue that we saw on display wasn’t an excessive use of force. And once the department acknowledged that, it was only a matter of time before an inevitable lawsuit.

96 ObserverArt  Jun 9, 2015 4:58:44pm

re: #90 Nyet

What’s a barrel roll?

…

: )

97 PhillyPretzel  Jun 9, 2015 5:10:58pm

OT: I took advantage of a Lightning Deal on Amazon and bought a colander. I was told the item would arrive on June 7th. It did not. I waited until today for said item and it still has not come. I have started the refund process but they are insisting that I send back the item that I do not have. I left seller feedback that unfortunately is not good stating that I never got the item. Any suggestions?

98 EPR-radar  Jun 9, 2015 5:11:06pm

re: #89 freetoken

A devout Stalinist could have given a very similar description of the legal process of the infamous show trials of the USSR.

Mohler is no doubt deeply troubled by the lack of a ‘secular arm’ to provide more appropriate punishment for heresy than dismissals of tenured faculty from teaching positions.

99 psddluva4evah  Jun 9, 2015 5:11:30pm

re: #16 Kragar

Oh, I’m sure one is coming. I’m hearing the officer has gotten “death threat”.

Ya know what I’m tired of. I’m tired of these folks claiming they are getting death threats. I honestly think it’s just a way to get sympathy and maybe a Go FundMe account going for idiots who support ‘em.

My question is always, First of all, how did they get them? who mails letters anymore. You can’t just get people’s cell numbers anymore. It’s so easy to say you are getting death threats nowadays just so you can get some go fund me. Shit I get calls on my cell from numbers I dont’ know..guess what I don’t answer them. If they really want to say something they leave voice mails. Well if u making threats how many would be stupid enough to leave their voices on recording.

I guess what I’m saying is..they need to prove it

100 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2015 5:12:08pm

re: #97 PhillyPretzel

OT: I took advantage of a Lightning Deal on Amazon and bought a colander. I was told the item would arrive on June 7th. It did not. I waited until today for said item and it still has not come. I have started the refund process but they are insisting that I send back the item that I do not have. I left seller feedback that unfortunately is not good stating that I never got the item. Any suggestions?

You are going to sue them for religious discrimination because they are denying your right to worship Flying Spaghetti Monster according to tradition.

101 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2015 5:12:59pm

re: #99 psddluva4evah

Oh, I’m sure one is coming. I’m hearing the officer has gotten “death threat”.

Ya know what I’m tired of. I’m tired of these folks claiming they are getting death threats. I honestly think it’s just a way to get sympathy and maybe a Go FundMe account going for idiots who support ‘em.

My question is always, First of all, how did they get them? who mails letters anymore.

I guess what I’m saying is..they need to prove it

People are saying mean things to them on The Internet.

102 PhillyPretzel  Jun 9, 2015 5:13:04pm

re: #100 Lord Of The Pies

lol. Thank you for the laugh. I needed it.

103 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 5:13:22pm

re: #97 PhillyPretzel

OT: I took advantage of a Lightning Deal on Amazon and bought a colander. I was told the item would arrive on June 7th. It did not. I waited until today for said item and it still has not come. I have started the refund process but they are insisting that I send back the item that I do not have. I left seller feedback that unfortunately is not good stating that I never got the item. Any suggestions?

I would try calling Amazon directly and seeing where that gets you.

104 DodgerFan1988  Jun 9, 2015 5:13:27pm

Bill O’Reilly on right now attacking the black teenage girl, saying she was resisting arrest and assaulting the officer.
*Facepalm*

105 EPR-radar  Jun 9, 2015 5:13:59pm

re: #94 freetoken

This part of the interview is instructive:

Q: If you were a Republican candidate for president and a reporter demanded to know your position on evolution, how would you respond?

A: A candidate would be well served as a politician to say, “I am serving in a political office. I am not seeking tenure in a university science department. So I will not engage that issue in the way you might expect, other than to say that I am fully supportive of modern science and the modern scientific method, but I also have great respect for the millions of Americans who clearly believe in the divine creation of the world.”

Lying for Jesus.

106 PhillyPretzel  Jun 9, 2015 5:14:10pm

re: #103 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Where is their phone number listed?

107 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 5:14:22pm

re: #98 EPR-radar

Mohler is no doubt deeply troubled by the lack of a ‘secular arm’ to provide more appropriate punishment for heresy than dismissals of tenured faculty from teaching positions.

Mohler goes on Sean Hannity’s show to involve himself in politics. He also interviews the likes of Instapundit’s wife (I forget her name) and so forth.

Mohler is well interwoven among the “secular” conservative movement.

That’s why I keep bringing him up here. The heads of the Southern Baptist Convention (to whom Huckabee is also accountable, btw) are no less involved in politics than any other “conservatives”.

108 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 5:15:11pm

re: #106 PhillyPretzel

Where is their phone number listed?

I got a result googling “Amazon customer service number”; I’d post it here but the software would just strip it out.

109 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 5:15:46pm

re: #105 EPR-radar

This part of the interview is instructive:

Lying for Jesus.

It was a softball pitch by Olasky. A real question would be framed in the context of a real legal battle, such as the one in Dover, or the current one in Louisiana.

110 psddluva4evah  Jun 9, 2015 5:15:54pm

So I wasn’t sure if the pic circulating of the white woman who allegedly was the woman who assaulted that teenage girl in the other video folks were talking about, was well evidenced or not, but…apparently is was enough to get BOA to respond..

111 PhillyPretzel  Jun 9, 2015 5:16:30pm

re: #108 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Thanks. I will call them this evening.

112 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 5:16:58pm

re: #111 PhillyPretzel

Thanks. I will call them this evening.

Good luck.

113 Eventual Carrion  Jun 9, 2015 5:18:42pm

re: #75 Decatur Deb

Probably never. “You’ll put your eye out, kid.”

Only if you do the position correctly.

114 EPR-radar  Jun 9, 2015 5:19:23pm

re: #107 freetoken

Mohler goes on Sean Hannity’s show to involve himself in politics. He also interviews the likes of Instapundit’s wife (I forget her name) and so forth.

Mohler is well interwoven among the “secular” conservative movement.

That’s why I keep bringing him up here. The heads of the Southern Baptist Convention (to whom Huckabee is also accountable, btw) are no less involved in politics than any other “conservatives”.

Mohler is a grade-A scumbag. A sample from Wikipedia

In 2008, Al Mohler declined to sign An Evangelical Manifesto, publishing a lengthy explanation for his decision.[12] Mohler is an evangelical and an exclusivist, which means that he believes Jesus is the only way through which an individual can attain salvation or have a relationship with God the Father. As a Calvinist, Mohler believes that human salvation is a free gift from God which cannot be earned by human action or will and is only given to the elect. He has publicly advanced this position with respect to Judaism, Islam,[13] and Catholicism.[14] He recently stated that “any belief system, any world view, whether it’s Zen Buddhism or Hinduism or dialectical materialism for that matter, Marxism, that keeps persons captive and keeps them from coming to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, yes, is a demonstration of Satanic power.”[13] He believes Muslims are motivated by demonic power[13] and in the months after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Mohler characterized Islamic views of Jesus as false and destructive:

115 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 5:19:48pm

Just got a call from the FOP in Allen TX, (next door to McKinney) soliciting donations.

116 Eventual Carrion  Jun 9, 2015 5:20:05pm

re: #76 freetoken

Speaking of reactionaries:

Catholic League president: Pope wrong on climate change because God never said ‘air pollution is intrinsically evil’

So there.

He never said getting hit by a car could be detrimental to your health either, but I wouldn’t advise sleeping on the freeway.

117 Kilroy01  Jun 9, 2015 5:22:17pm

re: #116 Eventual Carrion

He never said getting hit by a car could be detrimental to your health either, but I wouldn’t advise anyone else sleeping on the freeway.

Fixed it…

118 Eventual Carrion  Jun 9, 2015 5:23:07pm

re: #86 thedopefishlives

The fact that they think that picture looks dangerous says much about them.

Yeah, RWNJ’s are real Wizard of Oz traveling partners. No heart, no brain, no courage all rolled into one.

119 Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2015 5:23:18pm

Seriously considering a redesign of the LGF front page to look something like this: littlegreenfootballs.com

120 Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2015 5:23:38pm

Time for a new look.

121 sagehen  Jun 9, 2015 5:24:19pm

re: #107 freetoken

That’s why I keep bringing him up here. The heads of the Southern Baptist Convention (to whom Huckabee is also accountable, btw) are no less involved in politics than any other “conservatives”.

It took until *1995* for the Southern Baptist Convention to declare that scripture did not, in fact, demand segregation. “It turns out, the Bible doesn’t say what we thought it said on that topic. So sorry, our bad.”

122 ObserverArt  Jun 9, 2015 5:24:22pm

re: #104 DodgerFan1988

Bill O’Reilly on right now attacking the black teenage girl, saying she was resisting arrest and assaulting the officer.
*Facepalm*

Lying asshole says what?

123 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2015 5:24:46pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

Seriously considering a redesign of the LGF front page to look something like this: littlegreenfootballs.com

NO!

124 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 5:25:26pm

re: #104 DodgerFan1988

Bill O’Reilly on right now attacking the black teenage girl, saying she was resisting arrest and assaulting the officer.
*Facepalm*

She was so fast she assaulted him between video frames.

125 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2015 5:26:22pm
126 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 5:27:10pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

As a reader I tend not to be fond of those because it’s hard to follow chronological order. Do I go sideways first? Down? Which order gets precedence?

Also I really hate tiny boxes that cut off mid-sentence and make you click for more. Read more is fine, because those are typically manually inserted and follow sentence markers.

On the other hand, I spend approximately 30 seconds a month on the front page, and it’s your website.

127 BishopX  Jun 9, 2015 5:28:52pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

I don’t know about anyone else, but I stick around for the comments. Get me to the active thread in a quick, clean manner and I’m happy.

128 b.d.  Jun 9, 2015 5:29:38pm

re: #120 Charles Johnson

Time for a new look.

Imho, that tablety design is overused, cookie-cutterish, unappealing and annoying. But hey, I come here for the content.

129 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 5:30:48pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

Seriously considering a redesign of the LGF front page to look something like this: littlegreenfootballs.com

TMI.

130 sagehen  Jun 9, 2015 5:30:51pm

This is a movie I’m going to want to see. In fact, the trailer makes me want to buy the book first (and then I’m still going to want to see it)

…

131 Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2015 5:31:28pm

See, here’s the thing, folks — I’ve discovered that Google’s search algorithm really prefers sites that have a “news” style layout, where the front page is not a blog-style list of full articles that just runs down the page, but a series of items that link to full articles on their own pages. This is a factor in deciding how to proceed with the design — a big factor, because getting highly placed in Google’s search results has a big effect on traffic.

I know change is always difficult. But I’d try really hard to keep enough of the good features everybody’s gotten accustomed to if I do this.

132 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 5:31:29pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

I like it!

BTW, I celebrated my new no-itchy-skin situation by doing a shopping spree at Amazon as an LGF associate. Also, DiscoverCard has a special 5% rewards for Amazon purchases this month.

Winning!!!

133 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 5:31:47pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

A multi-column layout has a sort of newspaper feel and some websites have chosen to go in that direction.

But others, like Vox, go with the single column of bottomless articles.

I’m not sure which is best.

134 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 5:33:06pm

re: #131 Charles Johnson

Both NYT and WaPo have multicolumn front pages. Very newspapery.

135 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 5:34:26pm

re: #125 Lord Of The Pies

As much as I despise Coulter, this is a disjointed, poorly written rant with weird capitalization, worthy max. of the youtube comment section.

136 b.d.  Jun 9, 2015 5:35:50pm

re: #131 Charles Johnson

If it means you being able to live in the luxury in which you’ve grown accustomed to then, by all means, I’m all for it.

//

If that is how the game is played now then I’d say to get to changin’. If you don’t keep up with the times, before you know it, you’ll end up with a freerepublic.com era look. I guess.

137 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 5:36:34pm

Another benefit I just noticed with the new allergy meds:
I can actually taste food again! I had no idea that most of my sense of taste was gone.
And my sinuses have never been this clear.

138 De Kolta Chair  Jun 9, 2015 5:36:37pm

Headline: Bachelor Lindsey Graham promises a “rotating first lady”

139 Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2015 5:37:01pm

re: #136 b.d.

If it means you being able to live in the luxury in which you’ve grown accustomed to then, by all means, I’m all for it.

//

If that is how the game is played now then I’d say to get to changin’. If you don’t keep up with the times, before you know it, you’ll end up with a freerepublic.com era look. I guess.

Google is actually penalizing sites that look like “blogs” these days. I can’t just ignore this, unfortunately, even though I honestly think it sucks.

140 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 5:37:09pm

re: #131 Charles Johnson

It’s OK as long as the structure is clear. Right now it isn’t.

141 b.d.  Jun 9, 2015 5:37:26pm

re: #138 De Kolta Chair

Headline: Bachelor Lindsey Graham promises a “rotating first lady”

Embedded Image

I bet Romney feels like a real chump now for being chased off by Jeb freakin’ Bush

142 unproven innocence  Jun 9, 2015 5:37:51pm

re: #104 DodgerFan1988

Bill O’Reilly on right now attacking the black teenage girl, saying she was resisting arrest and assaulting the officer.
*Facepalm*

Two pics dedicated to Bill O’Reilly:

Not trying to break her fall but accelerating it; note his left leg
Still resisting, right Bill?
143 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 5:39:36pm

Also, I suppose calling Coulter “the throat” is a ref. to the tired transphobic joke.

144 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 5:40:22pm

re: #139 Charles Johnson

Google is actually penalizing sites that look like “blogs” these days. I can’t just ignore this, unfortunately, even though I honestly think it sucks.

Maybe you can consult with the lizards who are involved in web design for front page redesign ideas?
And maybe other lizards can let you know what website front pages they find easy to navigate and what isn’t so friendly?

145 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 5:41:25pm

If a multicolumn format is coming, do the Pages get their own column, or will they be scattered among the keyposts?

146 De Kolta Chair  Jun 9, 2015 5:42:16pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

Seriously considering a redesign of the LGF front page to look something like this: littlegreenfootballs.com

It’s hard to tell in which order the stories were posted, time-wise.

147 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2015 5:43:01pm

re: #146 De Kolta Chair

It’s hard to tell in which order the stories were posted, time-wise.

You can’t tell which are front page articles, and which are user pages.

148 Decider  Jun 9, 2015 5:43:53pm

No doubt he will have a bright future as a Fox News contributor. Dat barrel roll doe.

149 psddluva4evah  Jun 9, 2015 5:46:08pm

Lord…really Lindsey, really…that’s it, I’m beginning to think Graham is trolling us all. Or he REALLY doesn’t know about the rumours about his bachelorhood.

“Bachelor Graham hints at ‘rotating first lady’
thehill.com

150 PhillyPretzel  Jun 9, 2015 5:46:15pm

Just got off the phone with Amazon. The item will be sent to me tomorrow so that I can return it to them and get my refund. According to the person on the phone he said that the driver encountered some sort of problem on the street and the package was delivered to the local post office. How they did that on a Sunday is beyond me but it is supposed to be coming tomorrow. I would like to thank all of my fellow lizards for their help and humor. :)

151 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 5:46:47pm
152 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 5:47:51pm

re: #150 PhillyPretzel

Glad you were able to connect with them and get an answer. :)

153 Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2015 5:49:07pm

re: #145 freetoken

If a multicolumn format is coming, do the Pages get their own column, or will they be scattered among the keyposts?

Yes, I’m thinking Pages will be separate from front-page articles, in a right column sidebar.

154 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 5:49:50pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

Seriously considering a redesign of the LGF front page to look something like this: littlegreenfootballs.com

Is that why Wonkette made itself unreadable?

155 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 5:53:40pm
156 Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2015 5:54:18pm

re: #154 Decatur Deb

Is that why Wonkette made itself unreadable?

I don’t know what they were thinking, but it looks like Wonkette was also trying to create a design that wasn’t blog-like. I’ll do my best not to make LGF unreadable, I promise.

157 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 5:54:39pm

re: #154 Decatur Deb

Is that why Wonkette made itself unreadable?

What is really unreadable is the “Google Plus” format. Ugh.

158 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 5:55:39pm

re: #156 Charles Johnson

I don’t know what they were thinking, but it looks like Wonkette was also trying to create a design that wasn’t blog-like. I’ll do my best not to make LGF unreadable, I promise.

I promise I will do my best to offer constructive criticism of whatever designs you post.

I would appreciate time to preview before a SHOCKING CHANGE but that is just me.

159 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 5:56:33pm

Online presences as a revenue source are something I am still unclear about, regarding the transitions from blogs to rss to electronic “newspapers”.

The real challenge is the format of a computer screen which is fundamentally different than a piece of broadsheet paper. Both are two dimensional but the differences are far greater.

If the idea is to drive more hits than I wonder if more video or sound might be required?

How about those Google Hangouts On Air? They can be what others have tried and failed (e.g., bloggingheads.tv).

How about LGF’s own podcasts?

160 Belafon  Jun 9, 2015 5:57:09pm

re: #76 freetoken

Speaking of reactionaries:

Catholic League president: Pope wrong on climate change because God never said ‘air pollution is intrinsically evil’

So there.

Lions aren’t intrinsically evil either, but they’d kill us all if they had the chance.

161 Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 9, 2015 5:58:02pm

re: #4 jaunte

“Officer’s resignation effectively ends internal investigation by McKinney police”
nbcdfw.com

The cops at officer.com are busy mocking angbody who thinks the guy did anything wrong to begin with…

“So yeah, thanks for that technical expertise in telling us how to do our jobs!”

They really have no frakking idea how they look and sound to the rest of the public.

162 Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2015 5:58:12pm

re: #158 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I promise I will do my best to offer constructive criticism of whatever designs you post.

I would appreciate time to preview before a SHOCKING CHANGE but that is just me.

Good suggestion. I’ll create an optional page and get feedback before perpetrating a SHOCKING CHANGE.

163 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 5:59:03pm

“new design”
I just remembered now how freaky it was for some when our avatars changed to ovals or rounds.

:D

164 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 5:59:07pm

re: #162 Charles Johnson

Good suggestion. I’ll create an optional page and get feedback before perpetrating a SHOCKING CHANGE.

Thank you. :) I mean, like I said, I spend maybe 30 seconds on the front page a month, tops. Because I live in the comments.

But I’m still resistant to change. Go figure.

165 prairiefire  Jun 9, 2015 5:59:16pm

Geeze, I hate shocking change.

166 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 5:59:40pm

re: #165 prairiefire

Geeze, I hate shocking change.

I’m more fond of the buzzing kind, myself.

167 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 5:59:47pm

No one expects the SHOCKING CHANGE.

168 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 6:00:00pm

Louisiana lawyer and blogger Stephen Sabludowsky is incorporating more Hangouts in his work:

plus.google.com

169 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 6:00:12pm

re: #167 Decatur Deb

No one expects the SHOCKING CHANGE.

But with sufficient AWE it might be ok…

170 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 6:00:37pm

re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth

But with sufficient AWE it might be ok…

Nope, I’m pretty sure we established that whole concept was bullshit.

171 BishopX  Jun 9, 2015 6:00:48pm

Can we get an idea of thread size/last comment date on those links?

Some folks stay away from the 500+ comments threads since they kill their browsers.

172 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 9, 2015 6:01:05pm

re: #29 Decatur Deb

Going to be funny when a new generation of shoulder-fired directed energy weapons makes it all obsolete.

They’ll appear about the same time as Tokamak fusion reactors. I don’t know where I’ll be then, but I won”t smell too good, that’s for sure.

173 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 6:01:07pm

re: #171 BishopX

Can we get an idea of thread size/last comment date on those links?

Some folks stay away from the 500+ comments threads since they kill their browsers.

Good point. :)

174 aagcobb  Jun 9, 2015 6:02:48pm

re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth

Another benefit I just noticed with the new allergy meds:
I can actually taste food again! I had no idea that most of my sense of taste was gone.
And my sinuses have never been this clear.

Glad to hear that. My allergies peaked yesterday: nose running like a faucet, watering eyes, hacking cough and massive sinus pressure. I threw every drug I could get a hold off at it, and today my nose is finally dry. Yay!

175 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 6:02:52pm

“Tous les changements, même les plus souhaités, ont leur mélancolie.”

176 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 6:03:07pm

So the Twitter-hive is totally doing that thing that happens when people decide that group x is not speaking out enough about topic y and there is a reason I just don’t talk about politics on there or on Facebook.

177 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 6:03:28pm

The Wonkette splash page still strikes me as being “bloggy”.

178 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 6:03:47pm

re: #174 aagcobb

Glad to hear that. My allergies peaked yesterday: nose running like a faucet, watering eyes, hacking cough and massive sinus pressure. I threw every drug I could get a hold off at it, and today my nose is finally dry. Yay!

I’m just relieved that the hives are gone. The other symptoms disappearing are a bonus.

179 prairiefire  Jun 9, 2015 6:03:49pm

re: #172 Higgs Boson’s Mate

You are hilarious. I’m stealing that line.

180 goddamnedfrank  Jun 9, 2015 6:04:14pm

re: #156 Charles Johnson

Looking at sites like Google News and New York Times, which I think would be the standard for newsey layout, I don’t see the kind of tablety design. There’s actually a lot of similarity with the current LGF, but with much more extensive use of the side bars and header space for interest sections (which you could use for commonly tagged subjects) and submenu tabs.

Every time I see a procedurally generated tiled layout I just think I’m looking at clickbait, and that’s an instant turnoff.

181 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank  Jun 9, 2015 6:04:55pm

re: #174 aagcobb

Glad to hear that. My allergies peaked yesterday: nose running like a faucet, watering eyes, hacking cough and massive sinus pressure. I threw every drug I could get a hold off at it, and today my nose is finally dry. Yay!

I am have my best year with allergies in basically a decade. It’s weird.

Which is nice, but probably also a sign that everybody else is going to die.

182 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 6:05:05pm

re: #172 Higgs Boson’s Mate

They’ll appear about the same time as Tokamak fusion reactors. I don’t know where I’ll be then, but I won”t smell too good, that’s for sure.

There are some very talented people here:
pica.army.mil

One weekend in the early ’50s they developed an up-sized upgraded bazooka in time for the Monday flight to Pusan.

183 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 6:05:34pm

re: #176 klys (maker of Silmarils)

184 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 9, 2015 6:05:36pm

re: #179 prairiefire

You are hilarious. I’m stealing that line.

I stole it from “Airplane.”

185 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 6:05:48pm

re: #180 goddamnedfrank

looking at clickbait

That’s what Wonkette’s FP looks like right now.

186 Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 9, 2015 6:05:52pm

re: #84 Lord Of The Pies

187 b_sharp  Jun 9, 2015 6:07:09pm

re: #156 Charles Johnson

I don’t know what they were thinking, but it looks like Wonkette was also trying to create a design that wasn’t blog-like. I’ll do my best not to make LGF unreadable, I promise.

How is Google identifying sites as ‘blog like’? Analysis of the front page html? Meta info?

188 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 6:07:13pm

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

Today I tracked down an old computer game for a friend, and am contributing unhelpfully to her app development because dammit, it is after 5pm and I was productive today.

I think there is going to be some guacamole this weekend.

And I am spiking it with tequila and nobody can stop me.

189 Belafon  Jun 9, 2015 6:07:28pm

re: #150 PhillyPretzel

Just got off the phone with Amazon. The item will be sent to me tomorrow so that I can return it to them and get my refund. According to the person on the phone he said that the driver encountered some sort of problem on the street and the package was delivered to the local post office. How they did that on a Sunday is beyond me but it is supposed to be coming tomorrow. I would like to thank all of my fellow lizards for their help and humor. :)

The post office delivers packages on Sundays, so someone is there.

190 Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 9, 2015 6:07:53pm

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Pert,firm boobies…
Image: Galapagos-1024_137002o.jpg

191 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 6:08:00pm

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

Recent highlights on Twitter:

192 Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2015 6:08:20pm
193 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 6:09:39pm
194 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 6:09:46pm
People who are calling for Twitter to restore Chuck Johnson’s account are either: 1) idiots, or 2) racists, or 3) libertarians

A Rash of Chuck Johnson fans.

195 Lidane  Jun 9, 2015 6:09:58pm

re: #76 freetoken

Speaking of reactionaries:

Catholic League president: Pope wrong on climate change because God never said ‘air pollution is intrinsically evil’

So there.

LOGIC!

*facepalm*

196 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 6:10:51pm

re: #190 Aunty Entity Dragon

That’s a great pair of etheric beam locators…

197 Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2015 6:13:13pm

re: #187 b_sharp

How is Google identifying sites as ‘blog like’? Analysis of the front page html? Meta info?

I don’t know, exactly. It’s very difficult to find info on how Google classifies sites. But they’re definitely prioritizing news-style sites ahead of blogs these days, and it also determines if the site shows up in Google News results. Blogs get the cold shoulder.

198 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 6:13:21pm
199 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 6:13:37pm

WSJ and the Guardian have multi-columns and multi-sections.

However, I never go to the splash pages of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ…. or any of them.

I look for stories via news aggregators which have already sorted RSS feeds by topic, etc. Thus I click and go straight to an article at those big news sites, not to their splash page.

200 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 6:14:17pm

re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth

Stuntman.

…that’s pretty much what I’ve got.

201 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 6:15:01pm

re: #200 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Stuntman.

…that’s pretty much what I’ve got.

Parachute test dummy.

202 Belafon  Jun 9, 2015 6:17:03pm

If he’s been teaching martial arts, I could see him ending up in a school somewhere. Now, most of those don’t make the kind of money where a person can live on just that income, so I don’t know what else he’ll do.

203 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 6:17:20pm

re: #201 Decatur Deb

Roller coaster test load.

204 Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 9, 2015 6:18:20pm

Cop at officer.com breaking the dog whistle:

And that there it the problem. To many people popping out babies and not teaching them how to act in a civilized society. So these brats run wild and act like animals. People should need a license to breed

Classic authoritarian:

Children that have never learned the meaning of “no.” And the police are the embodiment of “no.”

205 psddluva4evah  Jun 9, 2015 6:19:02pm
206 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 6:19:13pm

re: #204 Aunty Entity Dragon

Cop at officer.com breaking the dog whistle:

Classic authoritarian:

Why does that cop hate the Duggars?

207 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 6:20:27pm

re: #204 Aunty Entity Dragon

So these brats run wild and act like animals.

Wasn’t she looking for her glasses? How animalistic.

208 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 9, 2015 6:21:13pm

re: #36 thedopefishlives

Yup. But I doubt for any of the right reasons. Unwanted attention towards his town. And protests.

209 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 9, 2015 6:28:42pm

re: #61 jaunte

[Embedded content]

They save their raisins for Sunday though.

210 b_sharp  Jun 9, 2015 6:29:08pm

re: #197 Charles Johnson

I don’t know, exactly. It’s very difficult to find info on how Google classifies sites. But they’re definitely prioritizing news-style sites ahead of blogs these days, and it also determines if the site shows up in Google News results. Blogs get the cold shoulder.

Knowing would simplify your choices.

Without that knowledge, you’re playing a trial and error game.

Any idea why they’re doing it? Is it the push for more accurate ‘truthy’ search results?

211 goddamnedfrank  Jun 9, 2015 6:29:09pm

re: #197 Charles Johnson

I don’t know, exactly. It’s very difficult to find info on how Google classifies sites. But they’re definitely prioritizing news-style sites ahead of blogs these days, and it also determines if the site shows up in Google News results. Blogs get the cold shoulder.

Maybe you just have to put something newsy sounding in the in the header title. Seems to work for NewsMax, WorldNetDaily, Breitbart News, Fox News and a host of sites that have no business being listed as legit sources but show up in Google News results anyway. Call it Little Green Footballs Stuffed with Very Serious Daily News Reports, Foreign Policy Analysis and Currency Market Information Digest. Google’s algorithm is so broke they’d probably straight up purchase the website if you did that.

212 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 6:30:26pm

re: #211 goddamnedfrank

This title deserves more updings.

213 Targetpractice  Jun 9, 2015 6:32:10pm

LGF News: Fairly Unbalanced.

//

214 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 6:32:17pm

re: #211 goddamnedfrank

Google’s algorithm could be a bunch of human “deciders”, like those that hand out the blue twitter checkmarks. Changing layout seems like an unlikely way to get indexed by Google News.

215 Jenner7  Jun 9, 2015 6:32:37pm

Good for them!

Side note: Hubby is huge Cavs fan, he’s from NE Ohio. Me, not so much. I was super pissed the way Lebron left for Miami.

216 Belafon  Jun 9, 2015 6:33:13pm

re: #213 Targetpractice

LGF News: Fairly Unbalanced.

//

Little Green Newsballs.

217 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2015 6:33:47pm

re: #186 Aunty Entity Dragon

I don’t think “Sir_Max” is an actual person. It’s just a auto bot that retweets based on hashtags and keywords.

218 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 6:34:01pm

Big Green Footballs.

That’s serious!

219 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 9, 2015 6:35:02pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

Seriously considering a redesign of the LGF front page to look something like this: littlegreenfootballs.com

Ugg. That’s really busy and tabloid looking.

220 bratwurst  Jun 9, 2015 6:35:03pm

Disappointing to see a legitimate news organization breathe life into a lazy narrative:

If the proliferation of presidential candidates is an indicator of weakness, there is an American political party that has a BIG problem…and it is not the Democrats.

221 Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2015 6:36:02pm

The RSS Feeds page now shows a relative timestamp for each post, like this:

2 hours, 47 minutes ago

222 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 6:36:07pm
223 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 6:37:31pm

re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth

And now the grift.

224 Targetpractice  Jun 9, 2015 6:38:07pm

re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I’m beginning to wonder if his lawyer looked at the video and just decided then and there that it was better to thrown in the towel than drag this out.

225 Belafon  Jun 9, 2015 6:39:15pm

re: #220 bratwurst

Disappointing to see a legitimate news organization breathe life into a lazy narrative:

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If the proliferation of presidential candidates is an indicator of weakness, there is an American political party that has a BIG problem…and it is not the Democrats.

The fact that they used Democrat Party rather than Democratic party means they’re far from legitimate.

226 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank  Jun 9, 2015 6:39:34pm

re: #218 Nyet

Big Green Footballs.

That’s serious!

Take the further step of making it Big Green Balls and you’re sure to get some extra clicks.

227 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 6:39:47pm

re: #224 Targetpractice

I’m beginning to wonder if his lawyer looked at the video and just decided then and there that it was better to thrown in the towel than drag this out.

Skipping the blood test was probably a consideration.

228 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 6:39:59pm

re: #211 goddamnedfrank

Maybe you just have to put something newsy sounding in the in the header title. Seems to work for NewsMax, WorldNetDaily, Breitbart News, Fox News and a host of sites that have no business being listed as legit sources but show up in Google News results anyway. Call it Little Green Footballs Stuffed with Very Serious Daily News Reports, Foreign Policy Analysis and Currency Market Information Digest. Google’s algorithm is so broke they’d probably straight up purchase the website if you did that.

“Got News” might be available soon.

229 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 6:40:03pm

re: #226 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank

I am replying to register approval of the new name.

Carry on.

230 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Jun 9, 2015 6:40:12pm

looks like the #1 item on his martial arts resume should be the:

“Hating Black People Technique”

231 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 6:40:47pm

re: #226 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank

Take the further step of making it Big Green Balls and you’re sure to get some extra clicks.

Big Balls.

Simple and to the point. And true. ///

232 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 6:41:12pm

Might get some unexpected clicks tho. /

233 Shiplord Kirel  Jun 9, 2015 6:41:41pm

re: #182 Decatur Deb

There are some very talented people here:
pica.army.mil

One weekend in the early ’50s they developed an up-sized upgraded bazooka in time for the Monday flight to Pusan.

It is the most astonishing negligence that MacArthur had failed to equip his Japan occupation army with a single effective anti-tank weapon before the outbreak of the Korean War, or with a single tank that was capable of dealing with the North Koreans’ T-34-85. One of the occupation army’s jobs, after all, was to stop a Soviet invasion of Japan.
The threat was hardly a surprise. The T-34 had been in service since 1941. The Soviets had provided several to the US for evaluation during World War II and many German-captured examples had fallen into US hands at the surrender. The American high velocity 76.2 mm gun was quite capable of penetrating the T-34’s armor at useful ranges. These guns were available on the late model M-4A3E8 Sherman, and in self propelled tank destroyers. Many years later, the same gun installed in more modern M-41 tanks proved capable of destroying T-54s and 55s in Vietnam. There were hundreds of these up-gunned Shermans parked in depots in the US but not a single one in Japan. Beyond that the much more powerful 90mm gun was available in the M-26 Pershing tank and the M-36 tank destroyer. There were none of these in the Far East either and it took weeks to get them there.
The wartime 2.36 inch bazooka, which MacArthur’s army did have, was useless against the T-34. Picatinny’s 3.5 inch is the one that was flown to Korea in a desperate rush when the war started there. It had been developed but not deployed earlier. Still, though, getting these into combat in a matter of days was a remarkable feat.

234 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank  Jun 9, 2015 6:41:44pm

…

235 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 9, 2015 6:42:22pm

re: #220 bratwurst

Disappointing to see a legitimate news organization breathe life into a lazy narrative:

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If the proliferation of presidential candidates is an indicator of weakness, there is an American political party that has a BIG problem…and it is not the Democrats.

Isn’t having *more* candidates democratic according to some wag the other day?

236 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 6:42:26pm

re: #228 Decatur Deb

“Got News” might be available soon.

Got Green Footballs (and variations thereof).

237 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 6:42:59pm
238 Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 9, 2015 6:43:37pm

Just saw that more lawsuits are being filed against Caitlyn Jenner for that car crash at The Daly Beast

A Hollywood talent manager is suing Caitlyn Jenner for allegedly starting a chain-reaction crash in February on California’s Pacific Coast Highway. Jessica Steindorff drove the Prius that Jenner’s car collided with and is claiming lost wages and $25,000 in damages. A 69-year-old woman named Kim Howe died in the crash; Howe’s stepchildren have also filed a lawsuit against Jenner. Authorities said at the time of the crash that Howe’s Lexus had rear-ended the Prius when it abruptly stopped; Jenner’s Escalade then rear-ended the Lexus, sending it into oncoming traffic. But an attorney for Steindorff says that Jenner slammed into the Prius after the Lexus was hit, injuring Steindorff. Jenner has called the accident a “devastating tragedy.”

Good God what a mess…but I don’t see how she started the chain of events…

239 Belafon  Jun 9, 2015 6:44:17pm

re: #220 bratwurst

Also:
1. What does that make the Republican party?
2. What does that make the Superbowl winner, after all those playoffs?

240 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank  Jun 9, 2015 6:44:20pm

Ballsbart

BallsRevolt

Ballspundit

Atlas’ Balls

241 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 6:44:39pm

re: #233 Shiplord Kirel

It is the most astonishing negligence that MacArthur had failed to equip his Japan occupation army with a single effective anti-tank weapon before the outbreak of the Korean War, or with a single tank that was capable of dealing with the North Koreans’ T-34-85. One of the occupation army’s jobs, after all, was to stop a Soviet invasion of Japan.
The threat was hardly a surprise. The T-34 had been in service since 1941. The Soviets had provided several to the US for evaluation during World War II and many German-captured examples had fallen into US hands at the surrender. The American high velocity 76.2 mm gun was quite capable of penetrating the T-34’s armor at useful ranges. These guns were available on the late model M-4A3E8 Sherman, and in self propelled tank destroyers. Many years later, the same gun installed in more modern M-41 tanks proved capable of destroying T-54s and 55s in Vietnam. There were hundreds of these up-gunned Shermans parked in depots in the US but not a single one in Japan. Beyond that the much more powerful 90mm gun was available in the M-26 Pershing tank and the M-36 tank destroyer. There were none of these in the Far East either and it took weeks to get them there.
The wartime 2.36 inch bazooka, which MacArthur’s army did have, was useless against the T-34. Picatinny’s 3.5 inch is the one that was flown to Korea in a desperate rush when the war started there. It had been developed but not deployed earlier. Still, though, getting these into combat in a matter of days was a remarkable feat.

The first loads were flown directly from the Morristown airport to ROK as completed. No real assembly line for the rockets existed.

242 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 6:45:41pm

re: #238 Aunty Entity Dragon

Just saw that more lawsuits are being filed against Caitlyn Jenner for that car crash at The Daly Beast

Good God what a mess…but I don’t see how she started the chain of events…

She was following too closely while towing something. You don’t leave enough space between you and the car in front of you to react to events, you are liable for it.

Pretty sure the cops ruled the accident was her fault but the ultimate decision was not to seek charges because she wasn’t texting or talking on a cell phone, etc. There is photography of the events leading up to the impact and the impact itself, apparently.

243 b_sharp  Jun 9, 2015 6:46:20pm

LGF tends to link to a number of poor quality sites, like Chucky & Breitbart. Is that bringing down the SEO?

It’s also possible web browser plugins like WOT are being used by haters to tarnish the web reputation of LGF.

244 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2015 6:46:38pm

I got some fairtaxers in my timeline after I said they are too stupid to chew their own food.

How stupid are fairtaxers? So stupid they make George W. Bush look like Stephen Fucking Hawking.

245 EPR-radar  Jun 9, 2015 6:46:50pm

re: #236 Nyet

Got Green Footballs (and variations thereof).

Got News itself (and its variants) will be toxic for several years. The Got XXX meme is tiresome enough to be worth avoiding.

246 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2015 6:47:02pm

re: #214 Nyet

Google’s algorithm could be a bunch of human “deciders”, like those that hand out the blue twitter checkmarks. Changing layout seems like an unlikely way to get indexed by Google News.

Google’s “algorithm” is to list “search” results in reverse order of how much they’ve been paid to place them near the top. I don’t use Google, because all I get is irrelevant, random crap that has nothing to do with what I asked.

247 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 6:48:05pm
248 stpaulbear  Jun 9, 2015 6:48:19pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

Seriously considering a redesign of the LGF front page to look something like this: littlegreenfootballs.com

re: #123 Lord Of The Pies

NO!

I agree with NO! On my PC, the new look is absolute chaos. 52 pick-up…

249 Snarknado!  Jun 9, 2015 6:49:06pm

Yesterday a squirrel underwent a SHOCKING CHANGE and left about 60,000 households without power. Just saying.

250 psddluva4evah  Jun 9, 2015 6:49:11pm

I love Remember the Titans, so I found this cool

251 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 6:49:23pm

re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth

He raised his hand and over the desolate earth he traced in space the sign of the dollar.

252 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 6:49:34pm

re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth

There is much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments by the anti-SB277 people on twitter.

253 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank  Jun 9, 2015 6:49:50pm

re: #238 Aunty Entity Dragon

I’m not sure if I’ve ever stopped to compliment your screen name, but Aunty Entity was awesome and it’s cool to see someone make the reference.

(I still think Beyond Thunderdome is basically two post-apocalypse tales that shouldn’t have been spliced: children building a cargo cult and adults reconstructing a sort of bitter, twisted legalism.)

On the other hand, Tina Turner.

254 Kragar  Jun 9, 2015 6:51:05pm

The Xbox One has been purchased. Now I’m letting the kids sit around and wait for the controls to charge before doing anything else.

255 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 6:51:05pm

re: #249 Snarknado!

Yesterday a squirrel underwent a SHOCKING CHANGE and left about 60,000 households without power. Just saying.

So you’re saying it can have a big impact…

256 EPR-radar  Jun 9, 2015 6:51:21pm

re: #244 Lord Of The Pies

I got some fairtaxers in my timeline after I said they are too stupid to chew their own food.

How stupid are fairtaxers? So stupid they make George W. Bush look like Stephen Fucking Hawking.

Renaming a national sales tax a “fair tax” does not reduce the basic idiocy of the idea at all. Too stupid to chew their own food is a good description of this.

257 Nyet  Jun 9, 2015 6:51:28pm

re: #246 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

We’re talking Google News, not Google.

258 ObserverArt  Jun 9, 2015 6:51:51pm

My understanding of Google and searches is they are always changing because they do not want anyone to beat the system.

If anyone has had any kind of large site, especially of a commercial nature you have had tons of calls about SEO - Search Engine Optimization - and the big promise of how they are going to get you on the first page of a search…blah, blah, blah. And all for only $199.95 for the next 20 years.

Google doesn’t want that. They want to control search quality and not have a bunch of people promising the sky.

So, they change and tweak and change again.

259 stpaulbear  Jun 9, 2015 6:52:22pm

re: #131 Charles Johnson

See, here’s the thing, folks — I’ve discovered that Google’s search algorithm really prefers sites that have a “news” style layout, where the front page is not a blog-style list of full articles that just runs down the page, but a series of items that link to full articles on their own pages. This is a factor in deciding how to proceed with the design — a big factor, because getting highly placed in Google’s search results has a big effect on traffic.

I know change is always difficult. But I’d try really hard to keep enough of the good features everybody’s gotten accustomed to if I do this.

The new popular look is the ‘autotuning’ of blogs. Sometimes the old ways were better.

260 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2015 6:52:44pm

re: #243 b_sharp

LGF tends to link to a number of poor quality sites, like Chucky & Breitbart. Is that bringing down the SEO?

It’s also possible web browser plugins like WOT are being used by haters to tarnish the web reputation of LGF.

WOT says “excellent”.

261 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2015 6:54:07pm

re: #256 EPR-radar

Renaming a national sales tax a “fair tax” does not reduce the basic idiocy of the idea at all. Too stupid to chew their own food is a good description of this.

Here’s a good beatdown of the fairtax idiocy

262 b_sharp  Jun 9, 2015 6:54:59pm

re: #258 ObserverArt

My understanding of Google and searches is they are always changing because they do not want anyone to beat the system.

If anyone has had any kind of large site, especially of a commercial nature you have had tons of calls about SEO - Search Engine Optimization - and the big promise of how they are going to get you on the first page of a search…blah, blah, blah. And all for only $199.95 for the next 20 years.

Google doesn’t want that. They want to control search quality and not have a bunch of people promising the sky.

So, they change and tweak and change again.

I have no idea is this is valuable or not - hobo-web.co.uk

263 Belafon  Jun 9, 2015 6:58:38pm

re: #253 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank

(I still think Beyond Thunderdome is basically two post-apocalypse tales that shouldn’t have been spliced: children building a cargo cult and adults reconstructing a sort of bitter, twisted legalism.)

As I read, possibly here, think of those movies as stories being told by someone after they happened. We tend to mash up all sorts of things.

264 Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 9, 2015 6:58:56pm

re: #76 freetoken

re: #76 freetoken

Bill Donohue will never be granted an audience with Pope Francis. Pope Francis is too world wise to deal with such an asshole.

265 TedStriker  Jun 9, 2015 7:05:52pm

re: #224 Targetpractice

I’m beginning to wonder if his lawyer looked at the video and just decided then and there that it was better to thrown in the towel than drag this out.

“Fuck it, I’ve got nothing.”

266 Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2015 7:07:08pm

re: #259 stpaulbear

The new popular look is the ‘autotuning’ of blogs. Sometimes the old ways were better.

I agree; I’ve stuck with (and refined) the current old-school design for years because I believe it’s a design that’s been proven to work well for its purpose. But I have to live in the real world, and when the Big Dog (Google) barks, I can’t ignore it. Because they also bite.

267 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 7:07:54pm

Shannon woke up!

Private Comment

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268 William Lewis  Jun 9, 2015 7:08:10pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

Seriously considering a redesign of the LGF front page to look something like this: littlegreenfootballs.com

I understand needing a new look. That said, can I put in my vote for something else?

269 Romantic Heretic  Jun 9, 2015 7:08:41pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

Seriously considering a redesign of the LGF front page to look something like this: littlegreenfootballs.com

As fond as I am of the current layout I quite like your suggested change, Charles. My wife likes it too.

270 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2015 7:09:21pm

re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth

Shannon woke sobered up!

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FTFY.

271 Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2015 7:09:23pm

re: #268 William Lewis

I understand needing a new look. That said, can I put in my vote for something else?

I’ll definitely consider any suggestions.

272 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2015 7:10:24pm

re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth

Shannon woke up!

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He looks like he’s been crying.

273 Decatur Deb  Jun 9, 2015 7:10:33pm

re: #271 Charles Johnson

I’ll definitely consider any suggestions.

Big rotating police light on the masthead.

274 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2015 7:11:33pm

re: #273 Decatur Deb

Big rotating police light on the masthead.

Have every avatar blink.

275 unproven innocence  Jun 9, 2015 7:12:12pm

re: #273 Decatur Deb

Big rotating police light on the masthead.

That may scare some people away.

276 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 9, 2015 7:12:13pm

re: #273 Decatur Deb

Big rotating police light on the masthead.

Been done. Need the High Lizard sitting in the Throne Chair looking at Soros check receipts while an automated laser system zaps passing idiots.

277 Kragar  Jun 9, 2015 7:12:18pm

re: #271 Charles Johnson

I’ll definitely consider any suggestions.

Pink font on a lime green background with 16-bit graphic flames on each side of the screen and a midi file of “Kissed by a rose” on autoplay?
///

278 TedStriker  Jun 9, 2015 7:12:39pm

re: #273 Decatur Deb

Big rotating police light on the masthead.

I’m sure that Drudge would’ve trademarked that if he could.

279 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 7:12:47pm

re: #271 Charles Johnson

I’ll definitely consider any suggestions.

You had to know what this would result in.

280 Jenner7  Jun 9, 2015 7:13:09pm

Whatever you change, I’ll eventually figure it out. Just glad to be here….

281 Targetpractice  Jun 9, 2015 7:15:24pm

re: #271 Charles Johnson

I’ll definitely consider any suggestions.

A sign-in screen saying “Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here.”

//

282 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank  Jun 9, 2015 7:16:48pm

re: #277 Kragar

Pink font on a lime green background with 16-bit graphic flames on each side of the screen and a midi file of “Kissed by a rose” on autoplay?
///

No dancing baby gifs?

MEDIOCRE

283 Romantic Heretic  Jun 9, 2015 7:16:59pm

re: #39 freetoken

To me that just screams that these people are feeling afraid, very insecure, and full of hatred (for who knows what reason.)

To me the reason is pretty simple. They’re addicts.

They need the ‘fight or flight’ high triggered by their fear, anger and hatred. And like all junkies their rational faculties have been badly damaged due to the fact that their brain has been marinating in a toxic mix of chemicals for years.

It makes them irrational and dangerous.

284 Belafon  Jun 9, 2015 7:18:57pm

re: #271 Charles Johnson

I like vertical, but as long as I can tell the difference between the main articles, the featured and recent pages, and anything else - preferably in difference sections - it’ll work for me.

285 William Lewis  Jun 9, 2015 7:19:43pm

re: #233 Shiplord Kirel

MacArthur’s utter incompetence in being unprepared for war twice - in the PI & in Japan - should have gotten him a permanent position making big rocks into little rocks in Kansas.

286 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 9, 2015 7:19:53pm

YOU’RE CELL PHONE CAN KILL YOU!!!!1!!!!!

287 Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2015 7:23:28pm
288 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 7:23:53pm

re: #271 Charles Johnson

I’ll definitely consider any suggestions.

It would be good if Frank Says stayed around in some form.

289 EPR-radar  Jun 9, 2015 7:24:18pm

re: #285 William Lewis

MacArthur’s utter incompetence in being unprepared for war twice - in the PI & in Japan - should have gotten him a permanent position making big rocks into little rocks in Kansas.

The lottery winners in life get rewarded for their failures and screwups. Carly Fiorina is a good recent example of a serial and massive bungler getting rewarded for same.

290 Targetpractice  Jun 9, 2015 7:24:38pm

re: #287 Charles Johnson

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Now that’s just uncalled for. How dare they call you “football person”?!

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291 psddluva4evah  Jun 9, 2015 7:25:35pm

Ok, I’m going to get in my bed in a minute.

Alright comic book movie folks… I need your help…

So just finished watching The Wolverine, again (I can’t help it, I see Hugh Jackman w/o a shirt, I gotta watch).

So fellow comicbook/movie geeks, remind me of the timeline…

Wolverine loses the adamantanum. Next is the DOFP correct, so in DOFP, future Wolverine has the adamnantanum claws…so…

At end of DOFP, he’s rescued from drowning by Strike (Mystique) so then I’ll assume the admantanum experiments happens…

Where then does The Wolverine fall into the X-Men timeline as told in the film universe? Im iz confused.

292 Targetpractice  Jun 9, 2015 7:25:58pm

re: #289 EPR-radar

The lottery winners in life get rewarded for their failures and screwups. Carly Fiorina is a good recent example of a serial and massive bungler getting rewarded for same.

Peter principle in action.

293 Charles Johnson  Jun 9, 2015 7:26:54pm
294 Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 9, 2015 7:27:53pm

re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth

Maybe he can create a 12 step program for Twitter withdrawl.

295 Belafon  Jun 9, 2015 7:28:12pm

re: #291 psddluva4evah

Wolverine loses the adamantanum.

When do you think that happened?

296 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2015 7:31:17pm

re: #285 William Lewis

MacArthur’s utter incompetence in being unprepared for war twice - in the PI & in Japan - should have gotten him a permanent position making big rocks into little rocks in Kansas.

Has a bigger asshole ever worn an American uniform? I’m asking seriously….

297 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 7:31:49pm
298 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 9, 2015 7:31:58pm

re: #277 Kragar

Pink font on a lime green background with 16-bit graphic flames on each side of the screen and a midi file of “Kissed by a rose” on autoplay?
///

And don’t forget that javascript, where you get a line of text that follows your cursor around when you move it. That’s always the sign of quality.

And if you have a background pattern, make sure that it stays stationary while the text scrolls. That’s always a crowd pleaser.

RBS

299 BlueSpotinAL  Jun 9, 2015 7:32:37pm

re: #296 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Has a bigger asshole ever worn an American uniform? I’m asking seriously….

Allen West.

300 prairiefire  Jun 9, 2015 7:32:55pm

re: #291 psddluva4evah

I think they insert him in whichever order fits the plot, seems to me.

301 stpaulbear  Jun 9, 2015 7:33:08pm

Ugh. At 9:20 pm, it’s 83 degrees and super muggy outside and 85 degrees in my upstairs bedroom. It’s a freak day, temp wise (the highs for the rest of the week are in the 70’s). I haven’t put the window air conditioner in my bedroom yet (it’s the only AC I have). The lower level of the house is still about 10 degrees cooler so I’ve been keeping the windows closed to keep the muggy air out. This isn’t going to be a good night for sleeping…

302 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 7:34:14pm

re: #301 stpaulbear

Nights like that are why we have AC.

Seriously.

I don’t sleep well when it’s hot. And that’s on top of my normal crankiness with warm weather.

Why, I might even give A Cranky One a run for his money.

303 Jenner7  Jun 9, 2015 7:35:32pm

The fight with the two white women? That woman is not the girl that was assaulted by the cop. I thought they were, but she has a twitter account and says she’s 19 and that these two women jumped her.

Thought you should know…

304 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 7:37:01pm

Because raising awareness is good, I’m going to highlight this project to introduce kids on a Native American reservation to cinematography and documentary filmmaking for other Lizards to look at as they choose.

305 TedStriker  Jun 9, 2015 7:37:09pm

re: #296 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Has a bigger asshole ever worn an American uniform? I’m asking seriously….

Patton, Allen West, and Petraeus are three that come to mind.

306 Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 9, 2015 7:37:27pm

re: #293 Charles Johnson

Another nanocephalic slackjawed mouthbreather.

Replied and blocked.

307 bratwurst  Jun 9, 2015 7:38:35pm
308 Bear  Jun 9, 2015 7:39:16pm

re: #296 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

That may be the case however He did a fine job with the initial occupation of Japan. In contrast with Germany there was no civil threat to the occupation forces in Japan.

309 William Lewis  Jun 9, 2015 7:40:04pm

re: #296 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Has a bigger asshole ever worn an American uniform? I’m asking seriously….

I would say no. He’s on a level with Montgomery, way past even Patton.

310 Kilroy01  Jun 9, 2015 7:40:14pm

re: #307 bratwurst

Funny… but..
snopes.com

311 psddluva4evah  Jun 9, 2015 7:40:40pm

re: #295 Belafon

ok, The Wolverine appears to be in the present century. At the end of that he lost his adamantanum claws and was left with bone claws. I’ll assume the rest of his skeleton is still adamantanum since he asked at the airport to go with the TSA pat down instead of the metal detector.

So in DOFP once he went back he had the bone claws because he was past Wolverine.

312 William Lewis  Jun 9, 2015 7:40:41pm

re: #299 BlueSpotinAL

Allen West.

Nah, he’s just another war criminal.

313 Eventual Carrion  Jun 9, 2015 7:41:35pm

re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He could have at least added, “I want to spend more time rolling around my family.”.

314 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 7:41:43pm

re: #310 Kilroy01

Funny… but..
snopes.com

That being said, I like that the company has replied to this image on their FB page saying it was awesome.

According to Snopes.

315 William Lewis  Jun 9, 2015 7:44:51pm

re: #308 Bear

That may be the case however He did a fine job with the initial occupation of Japan. In contrast with Germany there was no civil threat to the occupation forces in Japan.

No, he didn’t. He gutted the war crimes process and he prevented the Zaibatsu from being dissolved all in the name of “anti-communism”. < spit >

316 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2015 7:45:18pm

re: #305 TedStriker

Patton, Allen West, and Petraeus are three that come to mind.

Allen West, maybe…I wasn’t really thinking about small fry like him. MacArthur outassholes the other two by miles. I guess there’s always Curtis LeMay, but by all accounts Tommy Powers was 100 times worse.

317 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 7:47:01pm

re: #315 William Lewis

No, he didn’t. He gutted the war crimes process and he prevented the Zaibatsu from being dissolved all in the name of “anti-communism”. < spit >

It’s been a while since I did my research but I’m pretty sure he had some help on the whole war crimes issue, since there were factions in the US pretty interested in getting their hands on the biological warfare data the Japanese had obtained and who weren’t terribly picky about whether war crimes needed to be overlooked in order to do so.

I mean, you can hate him all you want, I don’t really care, but wow, he was really powerful if you think he did it all by himself.

318 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 9, 2015 7:47:57pm

I am so much looking forward to a good night’s sleep for a change.
laterz, lizardz!

319 William Lewis  Jun 9, 2015 7:49:14pm

re: #317 klys (maker of Silmarils)

He was in command - he did not do it all but he was responsible for it happening and could have used his power to do his job. He chose poorly.

320 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 9, 2015 7:49:26pm

Of course, to continue, LeMay’s saving grace was competence. MacArthur was such an idiot that he thought he was crippling Japan forever by giving them a government that was the exact opposite of everything he believed in—Oops!

321 Belafon  Jun 9, 2015 7:50:32pm

re: #311 psddluva4evah

Here’s the rough Wolverine sequence I see in time order, not Wolverine order:

He’s born, and lives for a (long) while.
Charles and Erik show up and he tells them to fuck off.
His future “spirit” is transported into his past self. DOFP past events happen.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Gets adamantium here
X-Men
X-Men 2
X-Men 3
The Wolverine - Loses claws, keeps rest
DOFP future events happen

During the DOFP future events, I don’t think you ever see his claws.

322 HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2015 7:51:12pm

See MacArthur’s being talked about. My Korean war veteran grandfather always said to me that he was relieved when Truman fired Dougie which surprised me since firing MacArthur upset a lot of people at the time. I think Patton was a bigger ass than Mac when it comes to shove but it’s awfully close. Just glad that we had more guys like Eisenhower, Bradley, Marshall, Puller, Gavin, etc.

323 Bear  Jun 9, 2015 7:52:25pm

re: #315 William Lewis

Sorry. Can you imagine riding in a train car where the car was so packed with Japanese that you could not turn around and you were the only GI and though armed with a 45 and having absolutely no fear? Can you imagine riding in a 6x6 way back in the rural area only a couple month after the surrender with no weapons at all? From what I was told by some GIs that were in Germany that would not have been a wise thing to do there.

324 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 7:54:29pm

re: #319 William Lewis

He was in command - he did not do it all but he was responsible for it happening and could have used his power to do his job. He chose poorly.

By that logic, isn’t the Commander in Chief responsible?

325 retired cynic  Jun 9, 2015 7:56:01pm

My husband’s stories about MacArthur that he picked up from a friend who was there at the time (sorry I can’t be more specific than that!) left me with the impression that he was a real nasty piece of work.

326 William Lewis  Jun 9, 2015 7:56:21pm

re: #323 Bear

The Japanese were and are different on a social and psychological basis than the Germans. In this case, the emperor had told them to surrender so they did so and accepted the occupation forces as a matter of course.

That would have been the case no matter who was in command of the occupation forces.

327 psddluva4evah  Jun 9, 2015 7:56:52pm

re: #321 Belafon

That seems like a good timeline listing.

you do see his claws. Remember when he saw Striker in the past, he went berserker in the future and cut up Kitty Pryde pretty bad.

Then when he was fighting the Sentinels and was going to get Magneto, e used his claws. Then Magneto filled him with metal so that he could throw him out the statdium surrounding the WH

328 William Lewis  Jun 9, 2015 7:59:47pm

re: #324 klys (maker of Silmarils)

By that logic, isn’t the Commander in Chief responsible?

Yes, the CinC is also in the chain of responsibility and Truman was a big part of the postwar problem. See his decisions to allow the French to attempt to take back their Indochina colonies for another disastrous example.

329 Belafon  Jun 9, 2015 8:01:08pm

re: #327 psddluva4evah

You’re right about Kitty, I had forgotten about that. No clue how he got his adamantium claws back then.

As for at the stadium, he had his bone claws because it was his past self, with his future self being projected into it. In the DOFP comic, Kitty’s mind was projected into her younger body. But, since Hugh is a much bigger draw then Ellen, he got to time travel (though the excuse in the movie was a decent one).

330 psddluva4evah  Jun 9, 2015 8:02:26pm

re: #329 Belafon

oh yeah, I know that backstory. I’ve seen the XMen series and The Wolverine any number of times, but I don’t know why it was just tonight that I thought about the continuity.

331 Shiplord Kirel  Jun 9, 2015 8:03:25pm

re: #296 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Has a bigger asshole ever worn an American uniform? I’m asking seriously….

Well, my brother Judas was in the Coast Guard……..

Didn’t do as much damage as MacArthur though.

332 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 8:05:21pm

Having one of those nights where I’m not sure what I’d contribute would be worth the hassle and/or commentary.

I’m done with serious topics. I may be done for the evening period.

Enjoy Lizards.

333 unproven innocence  Jun 9, 2015 8:09:32pm

re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth

Shannon woke up!

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Appears to have adopted a stealth video body cam. See spot on shirt.

334 William Lewis  Jun 9, 2015 8:09:40pm

S’ok. I’m getting ready for work so I’ll drop off here as well.

335 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 8:13:50pm

I have the last good season of Mythbusters on DVD.

Pretty sure it goes up to the point the Build Team goes. Will need to double check.

I have stitching to do.

It’s on.

336 freetoken  Jun 9, 2015 8:14:50pm

re: #243 b_sharp

LGF tends to link to a number of poor quality sites, like Chucky & Breitbart. Is that bringing down the SEO?

But, the bratfrats get a lot of links, a whole lot, and some news aggregators treat them like a legit news source.

The mysteries of Google search engine results are beyond us mere mortals.

337 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 8:26:27pm
338 The War TARDIS  Jun 9, 2015 8:26:54pm

Sad Puppies won a victory.

On Monday, 79-year-old Tor founder and president Tom Doherty gave Gallo a public dressing-down on the publisher’s blog and apologized to the Puppies for “any confusion Ms. Gallo’s comments may have caused.”

Doherty asserted that “media coverage of the two groups initially suggested that they were organized simply to promote white men, which was not correct,” and listed a handful of women and people of color on both the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies’ slates.

But the problem with the Puppies was never that they only nominated white men. It was that head puppy Brad Torgersen and his supporters bashed previous Hugo winners as beneficiaries of “tokenism and affirmative action, for the sake of the sexuality, gender, and ethnicity of the authors themselves.”

The Puppies, who claim they’ve been victimized and been transformed into “bogeymen” by media coverage, are actually fighting their own bogeyman: the notorious White Liberal. And it’s the White Liberal, they fear, who controls the Hugos’ parent conference, WorldCon.

“[M]aybe just be wholly transparent and call it White American Liberals Con — An inclusive, diverse place where everyone talks about the same things, has the same tastes, votes the same way, and looks at the world through the same pair of eyes. Whitelibbycon. With the trophy: whitelibbyrocket,” Torgersen wrote.

The Sad Puppies are also closely associated with neoreactionary, Gamergater, and notorious white supremacist Vox Day (he says he’s not a white supremacist, but he also says “Racism is neither a sin nor is it a societal evil. Race-based self-segregation is not only the observably preferred human norm for all races throughout the entirety of recorded human history, it is inevitable,” so go ahead and draw your own conclusions) who both played a part in picking the Sad Puppies nominees and started his own Rabid Puppies slate. Coincidentally, a number of the Rabid Puppies nominees have been published by Day’s obscure, Finland-based publishing house, Castalia House.

“I don’t mind being linked to Vox, because I don’t hate and fear Vox like a little schoolgirl who’s been stung by a wasp,” Torgersen has written.

And that’s who the most powerful publisher in sci-fi apparently decided to appease at the expense of one of its own employees.

This is usually what makes me go to the Conservative Friend in DC, and start bashing her.

Essentially, she has become the face of conservatism to me, so I bash her for anything any conservative does anywhere. I have been trying to stop it in the past week.

339 psddluva4evah  Jun 9, 2015 8:29:36pm

I’m off to bed not. Good night…

340 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 8:31:13pm

re: #338 The War TARDIS

Sad Puppies won a victory.

This is usually what makes me go to the Conservative Friend in DC, and start bashing her.

Essentially, she has become the face of conservatism to me, so I bash her for anything any conservative does anywhere. I have been trying to stop it in the past week.

Here is my recommendation, and I say this in all seriousness. Start separating politics and your friends.

If you can’t do that, then consider if you can continue being friends with someone but leave their politics out of it. If the answer is no, you aren’t being a good friend to them.

Imagine if a good friend of yours saw you as the face of Islam, and started bashing you every time a Muslim did something stupid, anywhere in the world. Man, that would suck. You wouldn’t consider them a good friend. You probably wouldn’t consider them a friend at all.

Doing that to someone else isn’t acceptable, and isn’t who I think you want to be.

341 HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2015 8:32:15pm

re: #338 The War TARDIS

Sad Puppies won a victory.

This is usually what makes me go to the Conservative Friend in DC, and start bashing her.

Essentially, she has become the face of conservatism to me, so I bash her for anything any conservative does anywhere. I have been trying to stop it in the past week.

Listen, there’s a lot that disgusts me about conservatism but if you’re going to maintain friendships with people you know you disagree with ideologically, you have to restrain yourself from bashing them. If her being conservative bothers you that much then frankly I don’t think you value your friendship that much. See Klys point about Islam too.

342 jaunte  Jun 9, 2015 8:33:18pm

Jeff Sharlet is going Creflo tonight

343 HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2015 8:34:27pm

re: #340 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Here is my recommendation, and I say this in all seriousness. Start separating politics and your friends.

If you can’t do that, then consider if you can continue being friends with someone but leave their politics out of it. If the answer is no, you aren’t being a good friend to them.

Imagine if a good friend of yours saw you as the face of Islam, and started bashing you every time a Muslim did something stupid, anywhere in the world. Man, that would suck. You wouldn’t consider them a good friend. You probably wouldn’t consider them a friend at all.

Doing that to someone else isn’t acceptable, and isn’t who I think you want to be.

Exactly.

344 Varek Raith  Jun 9, 2015 8:34:46pm

Hullo.

345 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 8:36:01pm

re: #344 Varek Raith

Hullo.

Moo.

346 HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2015 8:36:17pm

Well in a neat OT. The coach of my kid brother’s travel baseball team who I keep score with made me a customized hoddie with my last name and a number of my choosing on the back. I got a ton of hoodies already but this one’s a keeper. Plus I’ve never have wore anything with my name on the back of it before heh since unlike him I wasn’t good enough for a travel club.

347 HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2015 8:36:31pm

re: #344 Varek Raith

Hullo.

Guten Bonjour.

348 Varek Raith  Jun 9, 2015 8:37:46pm

re: #347 HappyWarrior

Guten Bonjour.

DON’T CROSS THE STREAMS!

349 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 9, 2015 8:38:11pm

re: #347 HappyWarrior

Guten Bonjour.

Gluten Tags.

RBS

350 HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2015 8:38:30pm

re: #349 RealityBasedSteve

Gluten Tags.

RBS

Abrigado Mr. Roboto.

351 Varek Raith  Jun 9, 2015 8:40:15pm

re: #350 HappyWarrior

Abrigado Mr. Roboto.

Oh, that’s a bad one.

352 HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2015 8:40:56pm

re: #351 Varek Raith

Oh, that’s a bad one.

That’s all the Portuguese I remember.

353 The War TARDIS  Jun 9, 2015 8:41:29pm

re: #340 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I have realized I am being awful to her. And I have been making a conscious effort to not be angry at her, namely because she does not judge me for my faith, and has been very supportive. And that she doesn’t get angry or visibly.

I still feel very angry towards conservatives. Which results in the strange situation where she is the one hoping both sides will stop fighting, learn how to be nice to one another, and showing where she would be willing to compromise, while I am the one calling for my side to defeat her side, and crush them underfoot.

Politically, it is almost always the other way around. But, I admit that my anger gives me a hell of an adrenaline rush. And that I think the Republicans are getting off to easily for mis-treating others.

354 De Kolta Chair  Jun 9, 2015 8:46:48pm

From the What Didn’t You Learn in School Today? Department:

A modern reconstruction of the brilliant 1st century CE Chinese mathematician and scientist Zhang Heng’s seismograph. The eight dragons on the upper section represented eight compass points. When an earth tremor occurred, a ball in the mouth of the dragon facing the origin of the quake fell into the open mouth of the toad below. In this way, the authorities learned of the need for help in a particular region long before messengers from the stricken areas could arrive. (From Ann Paludan’s 1988 book “Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors”)
355 HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2015 8:48:54pm

Lre: #353 The War TARDIS

I have realized I am being awful to her. And I have been making a conscious effort to not be angry at her, namely because she does not judge me for my faith, and has been very supportive. And that she doesn’t get angry or visibly.

I still feel very angry towards conservatives. Which results in the strange situation where she is the one hoping both sides will stop fighting, learn how to be nice to one another, and showing where she would be willing to compromise, while I am the one calling for my side to defeat her side, and crush them underfoot.

Politically, it is almost always the other way around. But, I admit that my anger gives me a hell of an adrenaline rush. And that I think the Republicans are getting off to easily for mis-treating others.

She seems like she’s been a good friend if she has been accepting of your faith. Don’t know if you knew her before you converted but I do think you owe her the same politeness she has given you. I know it may be tough and it’s a little tough for me sometimes especially living in this area knowing that many people I get along with have worked on campaigns that are in direct conflict with my values but I’ve found that people if they truly do value your friendship will not let ideology define your friendship.

356 psddluva4evah  Jun 9, 2015 8:51:28pm

re: #341 HappyWarrior

I have worked closely with people who are on the opposite political spectrum than I am. I consider them acquaintances or “work” friends. I do not discuss politics with them (particularly if I currently work with them). I tried not socialize with them after work except in general social settings.

I’ve gotten more political the past 10 years (blame it on surviving Hurricane Katrina and the 2008 election and the candidacy of Barack Obama). I am political on ALL of my social media accounts. For that reason, I DO NOT have any of my current “work friends” on any of my media sites. I do have my blog that I use but not often enough but I direct them to my non-political posts (I password protect the more political post) and in fact try to not even tell those I know would not see eye to eye with me that I even have that blog site.

On Facebook, I limit my friend list to people I have known for years or decades or family members and if/when I discover that someone I only barely know is a RWNJ or allows racist or bigotted posts in my TL, I delete or unfriend them in an instant.

I mean I figure I’ve got enough true friends, so why keep some a social media “friend” when I don’t even want them as friends in real life.

I don’t know if that sounds cutthroat, but I find its keeps me from having the usual FB drama that can happen.

Ok, seriously, I’m going to bed now. Good night ya’ll

357 Pip's Squeak  Jun 9, 2015 8:57:37pm

re: #74 Nyet

Let’s make up a new name for the new venture.
I propose “Nasti”.

‘nasti’ ? Does not exist.

358 HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2015 8:59:10pm

re: #356 psddluva4evah

I have worked closely with people who are on the opposite political spectrum than I am. I consider them acquaintances or “work” friends. I do not discuss politics with them (particularly if I currently work with them). I tried not socialize with them after work except in general social settings.

I’ve gotten more political the past 10 years (blame it on surviving Hurrican Katrina and the 2008 election and the candidacy of Barack Obama). I am political on ALL of my social media accounts. For that reason, I DO NOT have any of my current “work friends” on any of my media sites. I do have my blog that I use but not often enough but I direct them to my non-political posts (I password protect the more political post) and in fact try to not even tell those I know would not see eye to eye with me that I even have that blog site.

On Facebook, I limit my friend list to people I have known for years or decades or family members and if/when I discover that someone I only barely know is a RWNJ or allows racist or bigotted posts in my TL, I delete or unfriend them in an instant.

I mean I figure I’ve got enough true friends, so why keep some a social media “friend” when I don’t even want them as friends in real life.

I don’t know if that sounds cutthroat, but I find its keeps me from having the usual FB drama that can happen.

I understand that. I go out of my way not to talk politics with people I know I have a lot of disagreements with. I don’t want everything turning into a debate. I do feel though if you are going to be friends with someone who you know you disagree with ideologically but has also respected you knowing that then I think you owe it to them and yourself to return the respect. It seems to me that Tardis’s friend has been supportive of his choice to become a Muslim and I think he owes it to her to not bash her for being a conservative. And who knows, maybe by returning that respect, she might understand liberalism and its appeal a bit more. Ideology isn’t set in stone.

359 HappyWarrior  Jun 9, 2015 9:01:53pm

Now if someone is nasty to you because of your politics or religion then I think it’s fair game. I absolutely did strongly go after someone who suggested to a gay friend of mine that he only wanted marriage equality because of the benefits that married couples get.

360 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 9:07:52pm
361 Varek Raith  Jun 9, 2015 9:27:08pm

re: #360 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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Hehehe.

362 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 9, 2015 9:27:35pm

re: #361 Varek Raith

Hehehe.

DID YOU SWAP THE LABELS AGAIN?!?

363 Varek Raith  Jun 9, 2015 9:36:24pm

re: #362 klys (maker of Silmarils)

DID YOU SWAP THE LABELS AGAIN?!?

Maybe.

364 prairiefire  Jun 9, 2015 10:13:36pm

re: #311 psddluva4evah

wow

365 prairiefire  Jun 9, 2015 10:17:32pm

re: #359 HappyWarrior

That’s quite a slim reed to grasp. I think the objecting party is running out of land to stand on.

366 darthstar  Jun 10, 2015 6:08:57am

re: #131 Charles Johnson

See, here’s the thing, folks — I’ve discovered that Google’s search algorithm really prefers sites that have a “news” style layout, where the front page is not a blog-style list of full articles that just runs down the page, but a series of items that link to full articles on their own pages. This is a factor in deciding how to proceed with the design — a big factor, because getting highly placed in Google’s search results has a big effect on traffic.

I know change is always difficult. But I’d try really hard to keep enough of the good features everybody’s gotten accustomed to if I do this.

Change away…we’ll adapt.

367 Khal Wimpo  Jun 10, 2015 10:21:43am

re: #131 Charles Johnson

See, here’s the thing, folks — I’ve discovered that Google’s search algorithm really prefers sites that have a “news” style layout, where the front page is not a blog-style list of full articles that just runs down the page, but a series of items that link to full articles on their own pages. This is a factor in deciding how to proceed with the design — a big factor, because getting highly placed in Google’s search results has a big effect on traffic.

I know change is always difficult. But I’d try really hard to keep enough of the good features everybody’s gotten accustomed to if I do this.

AKA: Google working to screw with Facebook & Twitter, which are married to the 3-column, “infinite feed” paradigm.


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