Sarah Palin Poetry Slam of the Day

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Sarah Palin’s latest disjointed rant is about NAACP Spokane president Rachel Dolezal, and like every other right winger on the Internets Palin is churning out the bizarre analogies like a Bizarre Analogy Factory. Here’s her wall of gibberish as impressionistic free verse, because it really is better this way for everyone.

I SHOULDN’T LAUGH!
A Sarah Palin joint

Ok,
I’m sorry.

I shouldn’t laugh…
this hard.

I know
this isn’t
a victimless crime,
what this white chick
perpetrated.

BUT
it’s a most crystal
clear picture of
so many screwed up things
we’ve let society adopt as

the norm.

Namely,
the practice
nowadays
of judging someone

not based on character,
but on skin color.

Our original
civil rights freedom fighters
are rolling
in their graves
over the backward steps we’ve taken lately.

It’s
politically incorrect
to call out Elizabeth Warren
for
falsely claiming she’s
American Indian,
or dinging Obama
for just making up his
former multi-ethnic girlfriend,

and I guarantee I’ll be branded a racist
for laughing at this Rachel Dolezal story.

Whatever.

Dolezal is
an unsatisfied
lily white leftist
who believes
the only thing less politically correct
than being
a white girl
is to be
a white guy
today.

Can’t help but
be preemptively amused

as I post this
and invite
Dolzel’s defenders wrath
to aim and miss
at we who won’t
put up with
political correctness destroying
truth in America.

Oh, and on
a personal note,
I can finally
look forward to
the Left’s
positive comments about
a scholar’s association with
college
in Idaho!

After
all that high-falutin’ criticism for
choosing a good school that
I could afford to attend while
working my way through,
graduating college
debt-free,
I can’t wait
to hear
the former mockers of Idaho
now defend
the integrity of
that great state’s
academia!

Go Vandals!

[wild finger snapping beatnik applause ensues]

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568 comments
1 jaunte  Jun 14, 2015 6:00:44pm
Our original
civil rights freedom fighters
are rolling
in their graves
over the backward steps we’ve taken lately.

All those steps she cheers on?

2 #FergusonFireside  Jun 14, 2015 6:05:50pm

Uneducated freak full of hate.

She talks about her time at the University of Idaho. Was that her #1 stop or the #5 stop.

3 stpaulbear  Jun 14, 2015 6:06:07pm

The pump doesn’t work because of them.

4 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 14, 2015 6:08:08pm

Holy shit!! She really said that. I figured somebody was just making a stoopid poem based on what she might say.

5 dholmes32  Jun 14, 2015 6:08:10pm

What the hell was *that*? Oh yeah, she could have been one heartbeat away from the presidency.

6 geosherman  Jun 14, 2015 6:09:50pm

this is why we cannot have nice things! I looked at the Facebook post and saw more than 33K in “Likes”. we can not agree that Palin is unfit for office or that humans are causing Climate Change…

7 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 14, 2015 6:10:03pm

Just for the heck of it, I went to the Stonekettle blog and went back to 2008. Jim Wright just tore John McCain apart for a lot of things, but especially for picking her.

8 Iwouldprefernotto  Jun 14, 2015 6:13:08pm

If only we could get Tina Fey to read it.

9 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2015 6:15:17pm

re: #2 #FergusonFireside

Uneducated freak full of hate.

She talks about her time at the University of Idaho. Was that her #1 stop or the #5 stop.

Remember she went to Hawaii first but didn’t like not being in the majority.

But Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, gave a different account to Conroy and Walshe. According to him, the presence of so many Asians and Pacific Islanders made her uncomfortable: “They were a minority type thing and it wasn’t glamorous, so she came home.”

10 Shiplord Kirel  Jun 14, 2015 6:18:56pm

Good ol’ John McCain. I’m so glad he’s still with us——and not as president.

11 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2015 6:20:54pm
12 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 6:21:31pm

I tried to make some sense of that. Got a sharp pain thru mah eyeballs and decided to leave that to y’all.

And it’s time to walk the poopers. Better use of time.

13 PhillyPretzel  Jun 14, 2015 6:24:19pm

As I predicted yesterday a word salad blowout. She is a day late and of course several dollars short.

14 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 14, 2015 6:25:35pm

I know it’s been said before but it’s scary how well this works.

15 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2015 6:42:10pm

The right wing weirdo who shot up that Dallas police station had a Disqus account where he posted a ton of insane comments on right wing blogs.

The right wing sites are nurturing and encouraging and inciting these loons, with constant talk about 2nd Amendment remedies and xenophobic rants and anti-government craziness, and some of these delusional creeps are going to take it to the next level and commit violence.

16 makeitstop  Jun 14, 2015 6:52:00pm

I had to stop reading when i got to ‘high-falutin’. Who the hell talks like that?

OT:

I went to Brooklyn today to do some guitar tracks for a friend. On the way out on the Southern State Parkway, we rolled up on this:

They’ve got EVERY flavor of TP Crazy.

I knew we had hard core Tea Partiers on LI, but this is the first one I’ve seen that was so, umm, open about it.

17 PhillyPretzel  Jun 14, 2015 6:54:21pm

re: #16 makeitstop

And the back window is completely covered. I know in PA that person would get ticketed for that. Does NY have any law like that?

18 Targetpractice  Jun 14, 2015 6:54:43pm

If any gamers in the audience are curious, Bethesda’s giving their E3 presentation in just over 5 minutes.

…

19 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 6:57:46pm

Whilst walking the dogs it was clear someone was cooking something yummy. A neighbor was out with a commercial type popcorn popper and now I’m home with a big bag of perfect nomalicious popcorn that he insisted, real hard, that I accept.

I love this place. :)

20 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2015 7:04:04pm

True story.

21 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 14, 2015 7:12:44pm

Louisiana is officially The Stupidest State In America==>

22 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 14, 2015 7:13:00pm

re: #19 allegro

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when cavemen first discovered popcorn. EDIT: It was probably the same day they invented the word FUCK!

23 Varek Raith  Jun 14, 2015 7:15:23pm

re: #22 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when cavemen first discovered popcorn. EDIT: It was probably the same day they invented the word FUCK!

UG SMASH!

24 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 14, 2015 7:16:25pm

HERE COME THE GOLD BUGS==>

25 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 14, 2015 7:17:36pm

Why would any state have a gold depository?

26 Varek Raith  Jun 14, 2015 7:18:20pm

re: #25 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Why would any state have a gold depository?

To make it easier for us eeevil people to steal it?

27 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 14, 2015 7:18:23pm

So glad they’re doing the important work in TX.

28 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 7:19:08pm

re: #21 Lord Of The Pies

Louisiana is officially The Stupidest State In America==>

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So much for my popcorn mellow. Now I’m seeing red over this fucking child abuse. Kids could easier recover from being physically beaten than they can from this kind of lifetime mind poisoning. Grrrrr….

29 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 14, 2015 7:19:08pm

re: #26 Varek Raith

To make it easier for us eeevil people to steal it?

Maybe when they’re responding to Jade Helm 15, we’ll sneak in.

30 jaunte  Jun 14, 2015 7:19:38pm

re: #24 Lord Of The Pies

Look at all that shiny new patronage to preside over.

31 EPR-radar  Jun 14, 2015 7:20:30pm

re: #25 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Why would any state have a gold depository?

It gives the state’s owners something to bathe in, a la Uncle Scrooge McDuck.

32 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 14, 2015 7:21:06pm

re: #28 allegro

So much for my popcorn mellow. Now I’m seeing red over this fucking child abuse. Kids could easier recover from being physically beaten than they can from this kind of lifetime mind poisoning. Grrrrr….

Wouldn’t go that far, but if I were a college admissions rep, I’d think long and hard about requiring students from certain states to pass a basic science test. Maybe the SAT people could troll them and put in some creationist choices on the SAT’s

33 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 14, 2015 7:23:29pm

re: #25 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Why would any state have a gold depository?

They are getting ready to secede, go on the Gold Standard & make their own currency.
//

34 jaunte  Jun 14, 2015 7:24:40pm

Look for a strong lobbying effort to locate the depository in Southlake, TX.

Storage fees will be charged, perhaps generating revenue for the state. For instance, Texas pays about $1 million a year to store its gold in New York, Capriglione said.
…
Capriglione said developing rules for the depository could take six months. But it could be a whole new industry for the state, he said.

“What I’m really hoping to do is to create a central storehouse of commodities,” he said. “I’m hoping we can start working on it as soon as the governor signs off on it.”

star-telegram.com

35 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 7:26:37pm

re: #33 Lord Of The Pies

They are getting ready to secede, go on the Gold Standard & make their own currency.
//

This is actually what I’ve been thinking seriously since I first heard about this. Abbott, Patrick, et al are just bugfuck crazy enough.

36 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 14, 2015 7:27:34pm

There has already been a Gold Truck Hijacking this year.

37 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 14, 2015 7:28:16pm

It’s actually an intriguing idea. Build a really secure facility and charge people to store their valuables in it. I know that bank branches have safe deposit boxes, but for the really paranoid with bulky stuff or any other reason…

38 jaunte  Jun 14, 2015 7:28:26pm

Keeping the million dollar a year rental fees in-state is a reasonable explanation, but as usual with Abbott, the reasonable is wrapped up in a cocoon of pandering to the crazies.

39 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 14, 2015 7:29:38pm

Watch out for Leslie Chow!!

40 Lidane  Jun 14, 2015 7:33:24pm

re: #24 Lord Of The Pies

41 Lidane  Jun 14, 2015 7:34:57pm

re: #35 allegro

This is actually what I’ve been thinking seriously since I first heard about this. Abbott, Patrick, et al are just bugfuck crazy enough.

If they pull that secession crap, I’m finding a job and a house somewhere outside of Texas. I won’t be a part of that kind of Confederate bullshit.

42 b_sharp  Jun 14, 2015 7:37:06pm

re: #41 Lidane

If they pull that secession crap, I’m finding a job and a house somewhere outside of Texas. I won’t be a part of that kind of Confederate bullshit.

Come to Canuckistan.

43 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 7:37:28pm

re: #41 Lidane

If they pull that secession crap, I’m finding a job and a house somewhere outside of Texas. I won’t be a part of that kind of Confederate bullshit.

You and me both. Teleskiguy and Klys have about convinced me to head for Colorado. Legal marijuana has no influence on that potential decision. Really. I swear.

44 Tigger2  Jun 14, 2015 7:38:57pm

re: #41 Lidane

If they pull that secession crap, I’m finding a job and a house somewhere outside of Texas. I won’t be a part of that kind of Confederate bullshit.

Yep you should leave RightWingastan. and come to the real America.//////

45 Varek Raith  Jun 14, 2015 7:40:17pm

re: #42 b_sharp

Come to Canuckistan.

Indeed.
Lots of uranium.
For entirely peaceful purposes.
I assure you.

46 missliberties  Jun 14, 2015 7:40:33pm

Admit it. Even though she’s crazy and we may not always agree with her, Sarah Palin is a pretty hip beat poet for the right.

47 Unabogie  Jun 14, 2015 7:41:30pm

This woman was almost our Vice President. If anything happened to John McCain, she’d have been in charge of our country, and in some ways the world. McCain deserves a special place in hell for being so irresponsible with the responsibility he was given. All he had to do was pick someone qualified and he failed in the worst possible way.

48 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 7:42:56pm

re: #47 Unabogie

This woman was almost our Vice President. If anything happened to John McCain, she’d have been in charge of our country, and in some ways the world. McCain deserves a special place in hell for being so irresponsible with the responsibility he was given. All he had to do was pick someone qualified and he failed in the worst possible way.

Thankfully the American voters did not.

49 Lidane  Jun 14, 2015 7:45:23pm

re: #42 b_sharp

Come to Canuckistan.

I’d have no problem with that except that whole I CAN’T DRIVE ON ICE OR SNOW thing. Here in Austin, when we get a thin layer of freezing rain the whole city shuts down because otherwise it would be accident central. I wouldn’t know what to do with actual winters.

50 b_sharp  Jun 14, 2015 7:50:33pm

re: #45 Varek Raith

Indeed.
Lots of uranium.
For entirely peaceful purposes.
I assure you.

We also have coal and potash…

51 b_sharp  Jun 14, 2015 7:51:31pm

re: #49 Lidane

I’d have no problem with that except that whole I CAN’T DRIVE ON ICE OR SNOW thing. Here in Austin, when we get a thin layer of freezing rain the whole city shuts down because otherwise it would be accident central. I wouldn’t know what to do with actual winters.

Yah, you’d have to learn how to deal with cold weather and slippery roads.

52 stpaulbear  Jun 14, 2015 7:52:02pm

re: #49 Lidane

I’ve lived in MN all my life, and I can tell you without hesitation that driving on snow is a piece of cake compared to driving on ice. We very rarely have ice storms up here so we find it as horrid as you do, but if they happen anytime between Halloween and Memorial Day, there’s usually enough salt residue on the roads to help melt it.

53 BishopX  Jun 14, 2015 7:54:08pm

re: #49 Lidane

I’d have no problem with that except that whole I CAN’T DRIVE ON ICE OR SNOW thing. Here in Austin, when we get a thin layer of freezing rain the whole city shuts down because otherwise it would be accident central. I wouldn’t know what to do with actual winters.

step #1 acknowledge driving in the snow sucks
Step #2 wait long enough that all the idiots who forgot step one to crash
Step #3 go slow, give your self extra room to stop (like seriously 10 cars lengths) and don’t come to a stop unless you need to, especially on inclines.

54 calochortus  Jun 14, 2015 7:55:16pm

re: #37 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

It’s actually an intriguing idea. Build a really secure facility and charge people to store their valuables in it. I know that bank branches have safe deposit boxes, but for the really paranoid with bulky stuff or any other reason…

The “really secure facility” is the problem. About 3 decades ago someone built a “secure storage facility” in the Denver area. The supposed advantage was that your valuables would be accessible to you 24/7, not just during bank hours. Need I say that within a year, it was burgled and it closed.

55 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 14, 2015 8:00:36pm

re: #49 Lidane

I always poke fun at my brother and SIL when there’s a snowflake spotted in ATX and the whole city shuts down. I guess the chances of snow/ice/below freezing temps never came into consideration when all those raised highways were being built over an aquifer (so can’t use salt, just sand). ;)

56 Joe Bacon  Jun 14, 2015 8:00:47pm

re: #24 Lord Of The Pies

HERE COME THE GOLD BUGS==>

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The closest Abbot comes to having any gold are the foil coins he gets every Christmas!

57 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 8:01:03pm

re: #52 stpaulbear

I’ve lived in MN all my life, and I can tell you without hesitation that driving on snow is a piece of cake compared to driving on ice. We very rarely have ice storms up here so we find it as horrid as you do, but if they happen anytime between Halloween and Memorial Day, there’s usually enough salt residue on the roads to help melt it.

I learned how to drive in Chicago. My dad, wise man that he was, took me to the high school empty parking lot a couple of icy Sunday afternoons and made me put the car into spins so I learned what it felt like and how to deal with it. Those lessons saved my ass several times.

58 jaunte  Jun 14, 2015 8:03:35pm

re: #56 Joe Bacon

The closest Abbot comes to having any gold are the foil coins he gets every Christmas!

Not forgetting the millions he won in an injury lawsuit:
texastribune.org

59 retired cynic  Jun 14, 2015 8:03:48pm

re: #57 allegro

I learned how to drive in Chicago. My dad, wise man that he was, took me to the high school empty parking lot a couple of icy Sunday afternoons and made me put the car into spins so I learned what it felt like and how to deal with it. Those lessons saved my ass several times.

My dad did that with me in a stadium parking lot, way back in the 60s. Smart!

60 Joe Bacon  Jun 14, 2015 8:03:59pm

re: #33 Lord Of The Pies

They are getting ready to secede, go on the Gold Standard & make their own currency.
//

Abbot has a real kinky side!
61 teleskiguy  Jun 14, 2015 8:05:15pm
62 #FergusonFireside  Jun 14, 2015 8:07:14pm

re: #54 calochortus

The “really secure facility” is the problem. About 3 decades ago someone built a “secure storage facility” in the Denver area. The supposed advantage was that your valuables would be accessible to you 24/7, not just during bank hours. Need I say that within a year, it was burgled and it closed.

Is a really cool word for something that sucks.

63 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 8:08:22pm

re: #62 #FergusonFireside

Is a really cool word for something that sucks.

LOL It is a fun word to say innit.

64 CuriousLurker  Jun 14, 2015 8:16:20pm

I just finished reading the Jeb Bush article someone linked to earlier today:

“There’s a bias against him — that he’s another Bush, that somehow he’s a moderate — that isn’t fair and that he has to work to overcome,” said Andrew H. Card Jr., a Bush family friend who was White House chief of staff for Mr. Bush’s brother George W. Bush and transportation secretary for their father. “The key thing is he will have the financial resources, and the political maturity, to take the time to try to win people over.”

mobile.nytimes.com

Yes, HEAVEN FORFEND fate should conspire against him and lead people to perceive him as a moderate. *SHUDDER* He needs to remedy that pernicious blemish on his character posthaste.

*smh*

65 b_sharp  Jun 14, 2015 8:17:19pm

re: #57 allegro

I learned how to drive in Chicago. My dad, wise man that he was, took me to the high school empty parking lot a couple of icy Sunday afternoons and made me put the car into spins so I learned what it felt like and how to deal with it. Those lessons saved my ass several times.

That’s how I did it too, although my dad had nothing to do with it.

66 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2015 8:17:50pm

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67 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 8:20:23pm

re: #64 CuriousLurker

I just finished reading the Jeb Bush article someone linked to earlier today:

Yes, HEAVEN FORFEND fate should conspire against him and lead people to perceive him as a moderate. *SHUDDER* He needs to remedy that pernicious blemish on his character posthaste.

*smh*

I mostly find it amusing that his logo is Jeb! and that he’s knocking himself out to avoid identifying as a Bush. A bit embarrassed by that last name?

68 CuriousLurker  Jun 14, 2015 8:21:12pm

re: #66 Charles Johnson

I left you some initial thoughts on the proposed new layout.

And with that, I’m out.

G’nite, lizards.

69 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 14, 2015 8:23:32pm

re: #67 allegro

I mostly find it amusing that his logo is Jeb! and that he’s knocking himself out to avoid identifying as a Bush. A bit embarrassed by that last name?

He’s just sorry JEB! stands for “John Ellis Bush” and not “James Ewell Brown” (Stuart).

70 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2015 8:25:20pm

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71 #FergusonFireside  Jun 14, 2015 8:31:10pm

Nighty all, I’m burgled out.

72 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 8:34:54pm

She (Palin) really carries quite the grudge against Obama doesn’t she? That she felt the need to bring Obama into the Dolezal story says a lot about her. And comparing this to Senator Warren is also bullcrap too. Warren made the mistake of claiming family legend was fact. And Palin’s own husband is the one they loved pointing out was Native American even though he was only an 8th. She really is a very hateful woman. Bitter that in teh annals of history that history will remember Senator Warren and President Obama better than she will be.

73 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2015 8:38:11pm
74 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 8:44:52pm

re: #73 goddamnedfrank

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I see that as an interpretation, not as any attempt to steal or copy. Less a theft than a pianist interpreting Beethoven. It’s quite beautiful.

75 teleskiguy  Jun 14, 2015 8:45:04pm

The sooner everybody can wrap their heads around the fact that Rachel Dolezal is a genuine fraud, the better.

76 teleskiguy  Jun 14, 2015 8:45:47pm

Rachel Dolezal’s story has more holes in it than swiss cheese. Just sayin’.

77 teleskiguy  Jun 14, 2015 8:48:03pm

Oh, if you missed it, Gus just had a pleasantly hilarious “I Know What’s Best For Everyone” moment on Twitter. Reminded me of this Onion classic in a pretty strong way.

78 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 14, 2015 8:49:33pm

re: #72 HappyWarrior

She (Palin) really carries quite the grudge against Obama doesn’t she? That she felt the need to bring Obama into the Dolezal story says a lot about her. And comparing this to Senator Warren is also bullcrap too. Warren made the mistake of claiming family legend was fact. And Palin’s own husband is the one they loved pointing out was Native American even though he was only an 8th. She really is a very hateful woman. Bitter that in teh annals of history that history will remember Senator Warren and President Obama better than she will be.

Elizabeth Warren never expected any special treatment for her (as it turns out, imaginary) Native American blood. The only reason right-wingers can imagine for admitting any non-Northern European ancestry is to get some kind of Affirmative Action grift—as they do every day just for being what they are.

I’m 1/8 Choctaw, and I can prove it. My great-grandmother was straight from the reservation—I gather she never really learned to speak English very well. Have I ever even marked that on a form? No.

79 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 14, 2015 8:50:25pm

re: #73 goddamnedfrank

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Now that makes me think less of her—not any of this other crap.

80 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2015 8:50:57pm

re: #74 allegro

I see that as an interpretation, not as any attempt to steal or copy. Less a theft than a pianist interpreting Beethoven. It’s quite beautiful.

Here’s her writeup of the piece on her blog.

Triptych with collaborative poetry by published writer, Dr. Josh Dolezal. First Panel: Absence. Second (middle) Panel: The Shape of our Kind. Third (final) Panel: The Return
40” x 90”
Acrylic on Panel, Beautifully Framed as one unified piece
Accompanied by 3 poems that interact in a call-and-response dialogue with the paintings

If it’s intended to be an homage to Turner she’s definitely leaving that for the art history majors in the audience to infer.

81 Romantic Heretic  Jun 14, 2015 8:51:43pm

re: #16 makeitstop

I had to stop reading when i got to ‘high-falutin’. Who the hell talks like that?

OT:

I went to Brooklyn today to do some guitar tracks for a friend. On the way out on the Southern State Parkway, we rolled up on this:

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I knew we had hard core Tea Partiers on LI, but this is the first one I’ve seen that was so, umm, open about it.

We’ve got them here in Canada as well; New Constitution Party. The link goes through donotlink so no worries about giving them clicks.

Rather I thought they were the Canadian equivalent of Tea Partiers. I’ve been getting their newsletter in my mailbox. Not reading it, although it’s hard not to see the multiple MARXIST on the front page. This week the newsletter openly announced their Nazi beliefs.

They’ve an office just around the corner from where I live. I’m thinking of taking a daily walk there to spit on it.

82 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 8:53:12pm

re: #78 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Elizabeth Warren never expected any special treatment for her (as it turns out, imaginary) Native American blood. The only reason right-wingers can imagine for admitting any non-Northern European ancestry is to get some kind of Affirmative Action grift—as they do every day just for being what they are.

I’m 1/8 Choctaw, and I can prove it. My great-grandmother was straight from the reservation—I gather she never really learned to speak English very well. Have I ever even marked that on a form? No.

Precisely. She never marked herself as Native-American. She just made the mistake of believing family lore which I can assure you having recently done a family tree myself is easy to do.

83 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 8:53:22pm

re: #80 goddamnedfrank

Here’s her writeup of the piece on her blog.

If it’s intended to be an homage to Turner she’s definitely leaving that for the art history majors in the audience to infer.

That is problematic then. Her painting does appear clearly to be inspired by Turner’s who should be credited.

84 Romantic Heretic  Jun 14, 2015 8:53:25pm

re: #25 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Why would any state have a gold depository?

Because they believe they won’t be a state for much longer.

85 Romantic Heretic  Jun 14, 2015 8:55:01pm

re: #42 b_sharp

Come to Canuckistan.

Please do.

86 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2015 8:56:47pm

re: #79 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Now that makes me think less of her—not any of this other crap.

I take issue with calling the rest of what has come to light “other crap.” She hijacked a story that wasn’t hers, reported fake hate crimes to the police, and lied about her background repeatedly to get multiple positions that otherwise would have gone to people who didn’t lie about who they were. I especially find the civilian oversight board ombudsman position she took under false pretenses is deeply troubling considering how entrenched structural racism still frequently allows police across the US to needlessly kill black people with impunity.

87 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 14, 2015 8:58:12pm

re: #85 Romantic Heretic

Please do.

As someone who has looked into immigration to Canada, they are not very interested in making it easy to come and stay. :(

88 calochortus  Jun 14, 2015 8:58:27pm

re: #42 b_sharp

Come to Canuckistan.

Of course, the author of the book I’m reading now (for my book club) thinks Alberta will secede from Canada and become a US state, causing the collapse of Canada as a country, so that may not help.

He has a lot of other, umm, interesting ideas, too.

89 Romantic Heretic  Jun 14, 2015 9:00:59pm

re: #87 klys (maker of Silmarils)

As someone who has looked into immigration to Canada, they are not very interested in making it easy to come and stay. :(

It helps if you’re a Chinese millionaire. semi/

90 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 14, 2015 9:01:45pm

re: #86 goddamnedfrank

I take issue with calling the rest of what has come to light “other crap.” She hijacked a story that wasn’t hers, reported fake hate crimes to the police, and lied about her background repeatedly to get multiple positions that otherwise would have gone to people who didn’t lie about who they were. I especially find the civilian oversight board ombudsman position she took under false pretenses is deeply troubling considering how entrenched structural racism still frequently allows police across the US to needlessly kill black people with impunity.

If she did the ombudsman job well, I wouldn’t have any objections—it’s up to her NAACP superiors to decide how they feel about it. I’ll defer to them. The fake hate crime reports would be bad—if true. Kind of smells like disinformation to me, but if it’s substantiated, then yeah, that would be damning.

Her mental stability certainly seems to be in question, but that can be said of a lot of us….

91 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2015 9:01:48pm

Not to mention the way Rachel Dolezal has provided cover for legions of transphobic gibbering shit-weasels.

92 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 9:03:34pm

re: #87 klys (maker of Silmarils)

As someone who has looked into immigration to Canada, they are not very interested in making it easy to come and stay. :(

My grandfather was Canadian, from a small fishing village in Novia Scotia. I did’t know until I was an adult that he was an ill eagle in the US, having snuck across the border about 1910. I’ve wondered if that could open a Canadian door for me. Probly not, but I’ve been tempted to check it out.

93 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 14, 2015 9:03:35pm

re: #88 calochortus

Of course, the author of the book I’m reading now (for my book club) thinks Alberta will secede from Canada and become a US state, causing the collapse of Canada as a country, so that may not help.

He has a lot of other, umm, interesting ideas, too.

Hell, Québec didn’t secede when they had the chance. Alberta? Pffft!

94 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 14, 2015 9:04:26pm

re: #89 Romantic Heretic

It helps if you’re a Chinese millionaire. semi/

Now they want more like $10 million.

No lie.

I looked.

95 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 14, 2015 9:04:39pm

Yeah, like Canada would just disappear without Alberta.

Stupid fuckers.

96 freetoken  Jun 14, 2015 9:04:49pm

re: #72 HappyWarrior

She (Palin) really carries quite the grudge against Obama doesn’t she?

Obama trounced her in the election, winning the popular vote by a huge margin.

97 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 9:04:54pm

re: #92 allegro

My grandfather was Canadian, from a small fishing village in Novia Scotia. I did’t know until I was an adult that he was an ill eagle in the US, having snuck across the border about 1910. I’ve wondered if that could open a Canadian door for me. Probly not, but I’ve been tempted to check it out.

I don’t know about Canada but I know Ireland gives citizenship to foreigners who can prove they had an Irish grandparent.

98 teleskiguy  Jun 14, 2015 9:05:46pm

Am I reading this correctly? The new Jurassic Park movie made a half billion dollars in one day? That’s insane.

99 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 9:05:56pm

re: #96 freetoken

Obama trounced her in the election, winning the popular vote by a huge margin.

True that but you didn’t see Goldwater, McGovern, and Mondale carry on that sort of grudge against LBJ, Nixon, and Reagan and they got beat by much more.

100 retired cynic  Jun 14, 2015 9:06:07pm

re: #96 freetoken

Obama trounced her in the election, winning the popular vote by a huge margin.

She seems to think it was between Obama and herself. She lost McCain and Biden in there someplace!

101 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 9:07:10pm

re: #98 teleskiguy

Am I reading this correctly? The new Jurassic Park movie made a half billion in one day? That’s insane.

Really is considering that fewer people are going to theaters these days. I imagine this film will spark a new generation’s interest in dinosaurs and even if the movie isn’t itself good, that will be a good thing.

102 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 9:07:51pm

re: #100 retired cynic

She seems to think it was between Obama and herself. She lost McCain and Biden in there someplace!

Exactly and Biden beat her easily at the lone VP debate.

103 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 14, 2015 9:07:57pm

re: #100 retired cynic

She seems to think it was between Obama and herself. She lost McCain and Biden in there someplace!

She knew damn well McCain would have been president about as long as William Henry Harrison was.

104 teleskiguy  Jun 14, 2015 9:08:30pm

re: #101 HappyWarrior

Really is considering that fewer people are going to theaters these days. I imagine this film will spark a new generation’s interest in dinosaurs and even if the movie isn’t itself good, that will be a good thing.

I haven’t seen a film in the cinema since “Inception.”

105 freetoken  Jun 14, 2015 9:08:57pm

re: #101 HappyWarrior

The best thing about the movie, I’ve heard, is the elevation of the art of product placement, where the concept has a light hung on it in the actual story line.

E.g., “Pepsisaur”.

106 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 9:09:07pm

re: #104 teleskiguy

I haven’t seen a film in the cinema since “Inception.”

Trying to think of the last one for me. I think it may have been the Planet of the Apes prequel.

107 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 9:09:15pm

re: #97 HappyWarrior

I don’t know about Canada but I know Ireland gives citizenship to foreigners who can prove they had an Irish grandparent.

Generation removed unfortunately. Family stories have my grandfather’s parents moving to Canada from Scotland.

108 calochortus  Jun 14, 2015 9:10:22pm

re: #93 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Hell, Québec didn’t secede when they had the chance. Alberta? Pffft!

But, but, oil and stuff! He does make the point that Quebec’s economy is a net drain on the country and Alberta is a net contributor at the moment, but yeah. You can check it out here if you like.

109 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2015 9:11:58pm

re: #90 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

If she did the ombudsman job well, I wouldn’t have any objections

Yeah well I do. I don’t believe it’s right to just glibly dismiss the value of having someone who grew up black in America on every police oversight commission. This isn’t some academic “in prinicple” argument regarding the merits of affirmative action hiring. This is an issue that affects the lives and safety of real people in an already marginalized community.

110 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 14, 2015 9:12:26pm

re: #38 jaunte

Keeping the million dollar a year rental fees in-state is a reasonable explanation, but as usual with Abbott, the reasonable is wrapped up in a cocoon of pandering to the crazies.

Question is how much will their depository cost, and how much per year in maintenance fees after that. Yes, it might be keeping fees in-state, but what’s the approximate ROI if you spend $20 million to build it and then $1.5 million per year in maintenance? Starts into pennywise and pound foolish territory. (Though I’m sure there will be sweetheart deals involved, so there will be benefit for the politico’s buddies.)

111 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 9:12:27pm

re: #107 allegro

Generation removed unfortunately. Family stories have my grandfather’s parents moving to Canada from Scotland.

Ahh is that so. It is interesting to me seeing how other countries differ in their approaches to citizenship. I wouldn’t qualify for the Irish one. My latest Irish ones came over sometime in the 1850’s.

112 calochortus  Jun 14, 2015 9:13:39pm

re: #92 allegro

My grandfather was Canadian, from a small fishing village in Novia Scotia. I did’t know until I was an adult that he was an ill eagle in the US, having snuck across the border about 1910. I’ve wondered if that could open a Canadian door for me. Probly not, but I’ve been tempted to check it out.

I’m not sure that he had to sneak across. One of my grandfathers emigrated to the US in the late 1890s, and then moved up to Winnipeg, and eventually back to the US. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of paperwork associated with this. I get the feeling the border was pretty open. I could be wrong.

113 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 9:18:21pm

re: #112 calochortus

I’m not sure that he had to sneak across. One of my grandfathers emigrated to the US in the late 1890s, and then moved up to Winnipeg, and eventually back to the US. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of paperwork associated with this. I get the feeling the border was pretty open. I could be wrong.

I think I heard the concept of a quote on quote illegal immigrant is fairly new. The debate if you can call it in that those wasn’t whether about legal or illegal immigration it was about where those immigrants were coming from.

114 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 9:19:36pm

re: #112 calochortus

I’m not sure that he had to sneak across. One of my grandfathers emigrated to the US in the late 1890s, and then moved up to Winnipeg, and eventually back to the US. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of paperwork associated with this. I get the feeling the border was pretty open. I could be wrong.

You may be entirely correct. I just learned from family stories that my grandfather - who passed away about 4 hours before my birth - was always terrified about being found out and deported.

115 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 9:20:56pm

re: #114 allegro

You may be entirely correct. I just learned from family stories that my grandfather - who passed away about 4 hours before my birth - was always terrified about being found out and deported.

Damn he died the day you were born. What are the odds. Sucks that he had to live life scared about that. That’s yet another reason why we need to do immigration reform.

116 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 9:27:22pm

re: #115 HappyWarrior

Damn he died the day you were born. What are the odds. Sucks that he had to live life scared about that. That’s yet another reason why we need to do immigration reform.

Apparently I share some… identifiable traits with him that family lore has playfully suggested that at least part of his spirit crossed into his emerging grandchild. My mom, his adored daughter-in-law, cared for him, in spite of her very pregnant state, in his final months and days. It seems the stress of that put her into premature labor… on Friday the 13th.

117 calochortus  Jun 14, 2015 9:27:51pm

Time to wind down for the evening. Good night all. Hasta mañana.

118 teleskiguy  Jun 14, 2015 9:28:41pm

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119 freetoken  Jun 14, 2015 9:32:03pm

Speaking of identities, LotP put up a page on an touching NPR piece: littlegreenfootballs.com

120 Pip's Squeak  Jun 14, 2015 9:38:10pm

re: #83 allegro

That is problematic then. Her painting does appear clearly to be inspired by Turner’s who should be credited.

Inspired? Please. It’s obviously a copy and a close one at that.

121 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 14, 2015 9:42:45pm

re: #120 Pip’s Squeak

Inspired? Please. It’s obviously a copy and a close one at that.

If she’d copy A First Rate Taking in Stores I’d buy it….

122 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 9:42:55pm

re: #120 Pip’s Squeak

Inspired? Please. It’s obviously a copy and a close one at that.

Hardly a forgery and very clearly no attempt at one. Regardless, not a hill I’ll fight to die on.

123 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 14, 2015 9:44:15pm

re: #98 teleskiguy

Am I reading this correctly? The new Jurassic Park movie made a half billion dollars in one day? That’s insane.

One weekend.

124 teleskiguy  Jun 14, 2015 9:47:27pm

re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg

One weekend.

Yes. One weekend. Not one day. On Friday the movie grossed $83 million. $83 million in a few hours.

125 Pip's Squeak  Jun 14, 2015 9:47:52pm

re: #104 teleskiguy

I haven’t seen a film in the cinema since “Inception.”

“Trading Places”, sometime in the early eighties.

126 teleskiguy  Jun 14, 2015 9:50:09pm

I remember the breathless coverage of “Titanic” and its stratospheric rise in the box office. Week after week after week. Money money money.

127 CleverToad  Jun 14, 2015 9:55:13pm

re: #97 HappyWarrior

Irish citizenship if you had an Irish grandparent? Hmm, that would be my husband. Now I’m wondering if there’s a statute of limitations — does it still count if the grandparent left Ireland about 1883…?

128 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 9:55:22pm

re: #125 Pip’s Squeak

“Trading Places”, sometime in the early eighties.

My last indoor theatre experience was Hannibal in 2001. Today’s theatres are sensory overload for me. Waaaaay too loud and I’m just not into looking up 10 foot nostrils.

129 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 14, 2015 9:57:26pm

re: #104 teleskiguy

I haven’t seen a film in the cinema since “Inception.”

The X-Files Movie. No, not that one—the first one.

130 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 9:57:34pm

re: #127 CleverToad

Irish citizenship if you had an Irish grandparent? Hmm, that would be my husband. Now I’m wondering if there’s a statute of limitations — does it still count if the grandparent left Ireland about 1883…?

citizensinformation.ie
Sounds like he’d be eligible. I also wonder if they allow those with a grandparent born in present day Northern Ireland. Not that I would be eligible since it was so long ago but my great x3 grandfather was born in Down.

131 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 9:58:13pm

re: #124 teleskiguy

Yes. One weekend. Not one day. On Friday the movie grossed $83 million. $83 million in a few hours.

83 mill is good overall let alone a few hours.

132 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 14, 2015 9:59:11pm

re: #120 Pip’s Squeak

Inspired? Please. It’s obviously a copy and a close one at that.

re: #121 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Somewhat related to this topic: The Chinese art masterpiece copy shop
bbc.com

133 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2015 10:00:03pm

Friend of Christian couple who vowed divorce over gay marriage brutally uninvites them from her wedding

“I don’t want you anywhere near my wedding. You and your views are not welcome, because you’re right — the institution we’re marrying into isn’t the same one you think you’re in.”

134 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 14, 2015 10:03:15pm

re: #132 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Somewhat related to this topic: The Chinese art masterpiece copy shop
bbc.com

You know what? I consider artwork to be information, not artifact. If it looks just like the “original”, it is just like the original. Now if copies deprive living artists of income, that’s a problem—but the market in Old Masters is just fetishism, plain and simple.

135 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 10:03:30pm

re: #133 goddamnedfrank

Friend of Christian couple who vowed divorce over gay marriage brutally uninvites them from her wedding

That couple deserves the mockery they’ve gotten. I’d heard of straight couples refusing ot marry on principle until SSM was legalized in their country but this is the first I ever heard of one threatening to divorce over it.

136 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 10:05:40pm

re: #135 HappyWarrior

That couple deserves the mockery they’ve gotten. I’d heard of straight couples refusing ot marry on principle until SSM was legalized in their country but this is the first I ever heard of one threatening to divorce over it.

The latter are morons who prove how badly they miss the point.

137 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 10:06:32pm

re: #136 allegro

The latter are morons who prove how badly they miss the point.

No kidding.

138 Pip's Squeak  Jun 14, 2015 10:07:12pm

re: #132 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Somewhat related to this topic: The Chinese art masterpiece copy shop
bbc.com

It’s not that it’s a copy: it’s that it’s without attribution.

139 CleverToad  Jun 14, 2015 10:09:37pm

re: #130 HappyWarrior

Yep. sounds like he’d be eligible, for the modest fee of 270 euros and whatever it costs to dig up the needed docs for his grandfather. Interesting to know!

Would love to go over there and see the country one of these days.

140 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 14, 2015 10:13:03pm

re: #138 Pip’s Squeak

It’s not that it’s a copy: it’s that it’s without attribution.

I get that. Artists, writers, musicians can all be inspired by some previous work, and their adaptation of a previous work can add to its message. Think of Kurasawa’s adaptation of Shakespeare, for example. But outright imitation is a different ball of wax.

141 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 10:14:05pm

re: #139 CleverToad

Yep. sounds like he’d be eligible, for the modest fee of 270 euros and whatever it costs to dig up the needed docs for his grandfather. Interesting to know!

Would love to go over there and see the country one of these days.

I’ve actually been twice myself- first to study abroad in Galway where I also have familial ties and then as part of a trip I did last year so I could see the Cliffs of Moher and tour Dublin. Beautiful place and honestly some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. But yeah I imagine it would be tough to find the documents. I didn’t realize how long my Irish ancestors had been in country before I started my research. I had assumed they came over around the Civil War or maybe just after but nope turns out that G3 Grandfather from Down came over in the late 1810’s and had raised a family by the time the Civil War broke out. It’s also how I found out that side wasn’t exclusively Irish as he had married a woman whose parents emigrated from Alsace during the Washington years.

142 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 10:14:06pm

re: #138 Pip’s Squeak

It’s not that it’s a copy: it’s that it’s without attribution.

This may, or may not really, apply but I’m a crocheter. Many of my creations are inspired by others’ patterns, just as those were, that I have changed and adapted to create something new. I don’t sell my “original” patterns but if I wanted to, I would’t feel as though I was ripping anyone off. If my new pattern was still pretty close to one that inspired it, I would credit it. Can’t tell you where that line is though.

143 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 14, 2015 10:15:12pm

re: #135 HappyWarrior

That couple deserves the mockery they’ve gotten. I’d heard of straight couples refusing ot marry on principle until SSM was legalized in their country but this is the first I ever heard of one threatening to divorce over it.

It’s like a kid threatening to hold his breath until he gets what he wants. It was a childish protest.

My first thought hearing about it was, go ahead, what do I care?

144 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2015 10:17:20pm

re: #135 HappyWarrior

That couple deserves the mockery they’ve gotten. I’d heard of straight couples refusing ot marry on principle until SSM was legalized in their country but this is the first I ever heard of one threatening to divorce over it.

They don’t really want to divorce, they just want to talk some shit.

145 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 10:18:25pm

re: #143 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It’s like a kid threatening to hold his breath until he gets what he wants. It was a childish protest.

My first thought hearing about it was, go ahead, what do I care?

Right and then you got the people who are threatening to go on food strikes too. I think one of them is even an elected official down south somewhere. These people really have this silly idea that marriage equality is somehow denying them rights but when in reality, it’s more weddings to be attended and I do enjoy weddings. My aunt who is in her mid 70’s attended a SSM ceremony for a cousin and she said it was a great ceremony.

146 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 10:18:57pm

re: #144 goddamnedfrank

They don’t really want to divorce, they just want to talk some shit.

Seriously. No way they’re giving up those benefits.

147 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 10:18:59pm

re: #144 goddamnedfrank

They don’t really want to divorce, they just want to talk some shit.

Yeah it’s a desperate cry for publicity and probably a GoFundMe.

148 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 10:20:39pm

re: #145 HappyWarrior

Right and then you got the people who are threatening to go on food strikes too. I think one of them is even an elected official down south somewhere. These people really have this silly idea that marriage equality is somehow denying them rights but when in reality, it’s more weddings to be attended and I do enjoy weddings. My aunt who is in her mid 70’s attended a SSM ceremony for a cousin and she said it was a great ceremony.

I’ve been to several SS commitment ceremonies. I so look forward to attending a SS legal marriage in Texas.

149 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 10:21:04pm

re: #146 allegro

Seriously. No way they’re giving up those benefits.

Taking my paralegal class believe it or not strengthened my support for SSM which was already quite strong but knowing about the legal benefits that married couples enjoy. I also disagree with the ‘libertarian’ or cop out as I call it which is to say leave the government out of marriage. There are certain legal things that require married couples.

150 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 10:22:17pm

re: #148 allegro

I’ve been to several SS commitment ceremonies. I so look forward to attending a SS legal marriage in Texas.

I didn’t attend for my cousin- I barely know him since he’s a second cousin but I remember meeting him and his then partner as a kid and it played a big part in how I grew to support SSM. He’s also bloody brilliant. Went to Harvard IIRC.

151 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 10:24:31pm

re: #149 HappyWarrior

Taking my paralegal class believe it or not strengthened my support for SSM which was already quite strong but knowing about the legal benefits that married couples enjoy. I also disagree with the ‘libertarian’ or cop out as I call it which is to say leave the government out of marriage. There are certain legal things that require married couples.

Those benefits and rights are the only reasons my late husband and I married really. We did not intend to have children and were both well established adults with careers. The benefits were significant so we did it legally.

152 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 10:27:53pm

re: #151 allegro

Those benefits and rights are the only reasons my late husband and I married really. We did not intend to have children and were both well established adults with careers. The benefits were significant so we did it legally.

Yeah there’s a lot of benefits that come with marriage. By denying same sex couples marriage equality, you are denying them the same rights that married straight couples get legally. It’s why it’s an outright lie for opponents of SSM to claim that gay couples are not being discriminated against. Without marriage rights, there is no hospital visitation rights which is huge, no legal protection in regards to testimony, etc. I remember some homophobe telling a gay classmate of mine that he just wanted marriage equality for the “benefits” marriage brings and I just remember it pissing me off for the absolute heartlessness of the statement. Of course, he would want the benefits, the same as any man and woman would.

153 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 10:30:18pm

I have to say as a millenial- older one at that our generation while it deserves credit for shifting views, I think more credit needs to go to younger kids today. I got a fourteen year old brother. His friends and this is a much more conservative area than where I was at that same age are much more tolerant when it comes to gay people than I and many of my friends were at that age. I always laugh when the wingnuts go “Well how do you explain a gay couple to the children?” Children seem to be the most tolerant of gay couples I’ve seen because I think the simple way kids approach thing. They see two people in love and think they should be happy and I am inclined to strongly agree.

154 Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 14, 2015 10:30:53pm

re: #24 Lord Of The Pies

155 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 10:37:38pm

re: #152 HappyWarrior

Yeah there’s a lot of benefits that come with marriage. By denying same sex couples marriage equality, you are denying them the same rights that married straight couples get legally. It’s why it’s an outright lie for opponents of SSM to claim that gay couples are not being discriminated against. Without marriage rights, there is no hospital visitation rights which is huge, no legal protection in regards to testimony, etc. I remember some homophobe telling a gay classmate of mine that he just wanted marriage equality for the “benefits” marriage brings and I just remember it pissing me off for the absolute heartlessness of the statement. Of course, he would want the benefits, the same as any man and woman would.

I don’t know if you were a Boston Legal fan or not, but the last episodes really brought this home. Danny Crane had Alzheimers and proposed marriage to the James Spader character, his best friend. Neither were gay, but marriage afforded his spouse to make legal decisions for him when he was no longer able to. End of life decisions are where rubber meets the road.

156 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 10:39:04pm

re: #155 allegro

I don’t know if you were a Boston Legal fan or not, but the last episodes really brought this home. Danny Crane had Alzheimers and proposed marriage to the James Spader character, his best friend. Neither were gay, but marriage afforded his spouse to make legal decisions for him when he was no longer able to. End of life decisions are where rubber meets the road.

Never really saw the show but that is a good point the show runners they did about legal benefits. I’ve only actually recently gotten into law. I was a history major as an undergrad.

157 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 14, 2015 10:41:14pm

re: #152 HappyWarrior

I remember some homophobe telling a gay classmate of mine that he just wanted marriage equality for the “benefits” marriage brings and I just remember it pissing me off for the absolute heartlessness of the statement.

You only deserve those if you endure a loveless, sexless marriage with a person of the opposite sex.

/

158 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 10:42:24pm

re: #156 HappyWarrior

Never really saw the show but that is a good point the show runners they did about legal benefits. I’ve only actually recently gotten into law. I was a history major as an undergrad.

I’m hoping the series will be available on Netflix one day. If so, watch it. It’s one of the best to ever appear on teevee.

159 Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 14, 2015 10:43:24pm

re: #84 Romantic Heretic

Let them secede. Then they get to figure out how to establish their own currency (none of this using the US dollar, guys), establish new treaties, secure their own border with Mexico AND the US, pay for their own defense, and then figure out how citizens will handle their new citizenship as they will no longer be considered US citizens. And so corporations who are headquartered in Texas will have to figure out whether it will be in their best interest to stay in Texas or rehome back to the United States. Will American Airlines or Southwest Airlines be the New Republic of Texas’s flag carrier-of course, there will have to be new air space agreements negotiated as well.

This won’t be no Czech and Slovak separation.

160 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 10:43:58pm

re: #158 allegro

I’m hoping the series will be available on Netflix one day. If so, watch it. It’s one of the best to ever appear on teevee.

I did hear it was good. I remember someone bringing up that I think maybe the Crane character or maybe it’s someone else has Asperger’s or Asperger’s characteristics. I’ll have to check it out. Netflix streaming shows is a really good thing since it means that I don’t have to go out and spend tons on DVDs for a show that I just want to check out.

161 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 10:48:41pm

re: #160 HappyWarrior

I did hear it was good. I remember someone bringing up that I think maybe the Crane character or maybe it’s someone else has Asperger’s or Asperger’s characteristics. I’ll have to check it out. Netflix streaming shows is a really good thing since it means that I don’t have to go out and spend tons on DVDs for a show that I just want to check out.

The Asperger’s guy was “Hands”. He starts out as weird but brilliant and ultimately becomes entirely lovable as his character is revealed.

162 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 10:51:01pm

re: #161 allegro

The Asperger’s guy was “Hands”. He starts out as weird but brilliant and ultimately becomes entirely lovable as his character is revealed.

Ahhh okay. I will have to check it out. As someone the spectrum, I’m always interested in seeing how they portray it on screen. It’s tough to do so.

163 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2015 10:51:29pm
164 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2015 10:58:54pm
165 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 11:01:15pm

re: #162 HappyWarrior

Ahhh okay. I will have to check it out. As someone the spectrum, I’m always interested in seeing how they portray it on screen. It’s tough to do so.

Nothing in this series is designed to make you feel comfortable and this character certainly won’t. It is simultaneously funny as hell but I never felt as though it was really disrespectful.

166 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 11:01:53pm

re: #164 goddamnedfrank

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And yet you can go to jail for a good while in some states for smoking a plant. What a country.

167 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 11:02:43pm

re: #165 allegro

Nothing in this series is designed to make you feel comfortable and this character certainly won’t. It is simultaneously funny as hell but I never felt as though it was really disrespectful.

I got a thick sin and a self-depreciating sense of humor. I just wondered about the portryal since it’s as I said a challenge to get it right.

168 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 14, 2015 11:03:34pm

An interesting sidelight to the Texas gold story is that the gold belongs to The University of Texas Investment Management Company. This company was formed to manage investments for UoT and Texas A&M. It was purchased in 2011 as part of an investment strategy. It doesn’t belong to the State of Texas. I will bet even money that the State of Texas will figure out a way to get its hands on part or all of the trove though.

169 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 14, 2015 11:04:17pm

re: #163 goddamnedfrank

You upset that New York correctly guessed your real name is Rumplestiltskin? Because otherwise this makes no sense.

Maybe “Neeew Yooork City?” gets Pace Picante Sauce in return? I think Texas got screwed on that deal….

170 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 11:04:56pm

re: #168 Higgs Boson’s Mate

An interesting sidelight to the Texas gold story is that the gold belongs to The University of Texas Investment Management Company. This company was formed to manage investments for UoT and Texas A&M. It was purchased in 2011 as part of an investment strategy. It doesn’t belong to the State of Texas. I will bet even money that the State of Texas will figure out a way to get its hands on part or all of the trove though.

Hey, that’s my pension!

171 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 11:04:59pm

Abbott seems eager to outdo Perry in terms of sheer blatant pandering to nutjobs.

172 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 14, 2015 11:10:17pm

re: #170 allegro

Hey, that’s my pension!

I seem to remember that the company manages funds for the teachers’ union in Texas. Would that be you?

173 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 11:11:03pm

re: #171 HappyWarrior

Abbott seems eager to outdo Perry in terms of sheer blatant pandering to nutjobs.

Perry is a stupid ideologue. Abbott is a cunning manipulator and thief.

174 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 11:11:43pm

re: #172 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I seem to remember that the company manages funds for the teachers’ union in Texas. Would that be you?

Why yes, it would be.

175 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2015 11:12:05pm

re: #168 Higgs Boson’s Mate

An interesting sidelight to the Texas gold story is that the gold belongs to The University of Texas Investment Management Company. This company was formed to manage investments for UoT and Texas A&M. It was purchased in 2011 as part of an investment strategy. It doesn’t belong to the State of Texas. I will bet even money that the State of Texas will figure out a way to get its hands on part or all of the trove though.

If they bought the gold in 2011 they’ve lost significantly on that investment, both in value and then in storage fees.

176 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 11:12:37pm

re: #173 allegro

Perry is a stupid ideologue. Abbott is a cunning manipulator and thief.

YEah seems that way. I was just shocked that the Texas GOP found someone worse than him to replace him. I mean I wasn’t expecting a great replacement mind you but Abbott seems worse.

177 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2015 11:13:17pm

re: #170 allegro

Hey, that’s my pension!

Sorry. Whoever’s running that fund is an asshole.

178 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 14, 2015 11:16:28pm

re: #159 Eric The Fruit Bat

This won’t be no Czech and Slovak separation.

And Fort Hood will be the next Fort Sumter, right

179 allegro  Jun 14, 2015 11:16:44pm

re: #176 HappyWarrior

YEah seems that way. I was just shocked that the Texas GOP found someone worse than him to replace him. I mean I wasn’t expecting a great replacement mind you but Abbott seems worse.

And consider that Abbott has less power than an even worse opportunist and asshole, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. I’ve lived through quite a few here in the past 42 years but these guys scare the crap out of me.

180 HappyWarrior  Jun 14, 2015 11:18:24pm

re: #179 allegro

And consider that Abbott has less power than an even worse opportunist and asshole, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. I’ve lived through quite a few here in the past 42 years but these guys scare the crap out of me.

I did hear about that too. Scary to think about.

181 freetoken  Jun 14, 2015 11:50:47pm

MP3 Audio

182 Jenner7  Jun 15, 2015 12:17:00am

Oh my…GOT. Wow.

183 Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2015 12:26:36am

Ah great, another Fallout game, another old song stuck in my head:

…

184 Nyet  Jun 15, 2015 1:25:48am

re: #82 HappyWarrior

Precisely. She never marked herself as Native-American. She just made the mistake of believing family lore which I can assure you having recently done a family tree myself is easy to do.

Let’s be accurate though: the whole thing blew up exactly because she marked herself as Native American on forms.

185 nkdee  Jun 15, 2015 2:30:56am

re: #24 Lord Of The Pies

So each State actually send gold to NY? I didn’t know that. So how will they know which gold (among all that gold) is THEIRS? Because I don’t want them taking any gold that came from my state.

186 goddamnedfrank  Jun 15, 2015 2:41:50am
The next day, Uber told its drivers to keep away from such protests. The Financial Times reports that Uber drivers in Hangzhou received a message imploring them: “Please don’t wreck the good urban environment you have all worked so hard to help build… If you are at the scene, leave immediately.”

More damningly, the message added that there would be consequences for those who didn’t follow instructions, and that Uber would track drivers’ GPS devices to make sure they comply. These measures, reports the WSJ, are intended to “maintain social order.” Not something you want to hear from an employer.

I like how even when they’re trying to comply with regulatory authorities Uber’s management can’t help but come off like creepy bullying psychopathic cockbags. It’s like they only have one gear setting, abuse of power. The best part is that Uber’s biggest champions, libertarians, constantly warn us about the government’s spying and tracking abilities while gleefully wearing a programmable transponder that informs this absolute monstrosity of a corporation everything about their daily movements.

187 Romantic Heretic  Jun 15, 2015 2:45:26am

re: #125 Pip’s Squeak

Pacific Rim for me.

188 goddamnedfrank  Jun 15, 2015 2:50:29am

re: #185 nkdee

So each State actually send gold to NY? I didn’t know that. So how will they know which gold (among all that gold) is THEIRS? Because I don’t want them taking any gold that came from my state.

The Federal Reserve is very careful.

All bars brought into the vault for deposit are carefully weighed, and the refiner and fineness (purity) markings on the bars are inspected to ensure they agree with the depositor instructions and recorded in the New York Fed’s records. This step is vital because the New York Fed returns the exact bars deposited by the account holder upon withdrawal—gold deposits are not considered fungible.

Following the verification process, the gold is moved to one of the vault’s 122 compartments, where each compartment contains gold held by a single account holder (meaning that gold is not commingled between account holders). In rare cases, small deposits are placed on separately numbered spaces on shelves in a “library” compartment shared by several account holders. Each compartment is secured by a padlock, two combination locks and an auditor’s seal. Compartments are numbered rather than named to maintain confidentiality of the account holders.

I guarantee you there’s no way that Texas is going to store their gold any more securely than this or at less cost. They’ll have to create their own vault storage facility, staff it, insure it, all that shit. Basically Abbot wants to reinvent something that already exists, does it’s job exceedingly well and for which the world has absolutely no additional demand. No government on earth will send Texas their gold for storage over the solid track record and iron clad reputation of the NY Fed. His plan is monumentally stupid.

189 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 15, 2015 3:07:45am

re: #188 goddamnedfrank

The Federal Reserve is very careful.

I guarantee you there’s no way that Texas is going to store their gold any more securely than this or at less cost. They’ll have to create their own vault storage facility, staff it, insure it, all that shit. Basically Abbot wants to reinvent something that already exists, does it’s job exceedingly well and for which the world has absolutely no additional demand. No government on earth will send Texas their gold for storage over the solid track record and iron clad reputation of the NY Fed. His plan is monumentally stupid.

Gee, maybe Texas can store the gold in a specially fortified vault in the middle of a military reservation. I’m sure the Texas Guard, or whatever it’s called, is up to the task.
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190 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 3:15:23am

Don’t know if anyone noticed this yesterday. The local NAACP may have acted hastily.

Spokane NAACP leader cancels meeting amid furor

komonews.com

(snip)

Meanwhile, an inquiry was opened at Spokane City Hall, where Dolezal identified herself in her application to the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission as having several ethnic origins, including white, black and American Indian. (my emphasis)

Dolezal was appointed to the oversight board by Condon. She has filed numerous reports of racial harassment since 2009 with authorities in Spokane and nearby Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where she worked for the Human Rights Education Institute.

The region, which is overwhelmingly white, has a troubled history with race relations. Northern Idaho once served as a home base for the Aryan Nations. More

More damage may have been done to race relations in the area than realized.

191 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 4:07:23am

ALAMEDA — A giant purple blob from the sea — a slug — is invading East Bay beaches and waterways this summer to the wonder and curiosity of beach combers and naturalists.

It’s no danger to people — unlike the tar-like “Blob” in the classic 1958 science-fiction movie about an alien goo that devours everything in its path.

These California sea hares are harmless plant eaters, but their big size and unusual abundance this year is turning heads at the shorelines at Crab Cove in Alameda and Miller Knox Regional Park in Richmond, and also Lake Merritt in Oakland and Tomales Bay in Marin County.

One Alameda beach visitor called police to report he had spotted a human heart sprawled in the sand.

Giant sea slugs have been washing up in some East Bay beaches in unusual numbers this summer. (Morgan Dill)
192 Frenchy  Jun 15, 2015 4:07:55am

Sarah Palin is such a fucking idiot.

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193 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 4:09:56am
194 Dr Lizardo  Jun 15, 2015 4:16:04am

Morning, Lizards.

So, I was poking around the web, and found this most profusely-illustrated article from the Daily Mail - all about men’s fashions (heh) from The Decade That Taste Forgot, the oh-so-glorious 1970s.

Brace yourselves.

dailymail.co.uk

195 Nyet  Jun 15, 2015 4:21:10am

re: #194 Dr Lizardo

The 1980s don’t seem to have been better. What were people thinking? /

196 Dr Lizardo  Jun 15, 2015 4:23:18am

re: #195 Nyet

The 1980s don’t seem to have been better. What were people thinking? /

I blame cocaine.

:D

197 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 4:30:00am

Story of a fact checking rabbit hole:

198 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 4:30:24am

Ugh. “Real feel” temp today will be 103 (95) (; tomorrow 105 (96). High humidity is the reason.

This Week in the South
199 Dr Lizardo  Jun 15, 2015 4:32:18am

Back later.

200 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 4:37:49am

re: #197 Backwoods_Sleuth

Doesn’t matter if what he wrote is the general trend; he lied about his research.

It appears perhaps Brooks has become the thing he hates. Society should stop nurturing liars and cheaters, no matter where they come from.

201 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 15, 2015 4:40:31am

re: #196 Dr Lizardo

I blame cocaine.

:D

And MTV, which is also closely related to the former…

202 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 4:43:46am

More insanity at the Bundy compound:

203 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 4:47:44am
204 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 4:52:03am

re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth

More insanity at the Bundy compound:

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Let me tell you about the Bundy’s. A very stupid, well armed group. People of the land, cattle fuckers who don’t want to pay for things they benefit from. Moochers, scoff laws, thugs …

205 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 4:54:58am

re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth

Another goddamned liar. He has his “volunteers” in place all the time, you can bet.

206 b.d.  Jun 15, 2015 4:56:03am

re: #197 Backwoods_Sleuth

Story of a fact checking rabbit hole:

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That is how a story doubting a media report should be written, not written with a condescending snarl like Greenwald does.

207 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 4:59:06am

re: #188 goddamnedfrank

The Federal Reserve is very careful.

I guarantee you there’s no way that Texas is going to store their gold any more securely than this or at less cost. They’ll have to create their own vault storage facility, staff it, insure it, all that shit. Basically Abbot wants to reinvent something that already exists, does it’s job exceedingly well and for which the world has absolutely no additional demand. No government on earth will send Texas their gold for storage over the solid track record and iron clad reputation of the NY Fed. His plan is monumentally stupid.

So the real logic is something else. My bet is twofold:
1) Meat for the wingnut right, Ron Paul fans, etc. — “Texas has its own gold!”
2) Sweetheart contract for “friends” to build and maintain the facility at a considerable profit. Well spent Texas tax dollars. (With “well spent” being defined as cash going to your buddies and political contributors.)

208 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 5:02:03am

re: #207 Feline Fearless Leader

So the real logic is something else. My bet is twofold:
1) Meat for the wingnut right, Ron Paul fans, etc. — “Texas has its own gold!”
2) Sweetheart contract for “friends” to build and maintain the facility at a considerable profit. Well spent Texas tax dollars. (With “well spent” being defined as cash going to your buddies and political contributors.)

That’s just like Florida’s mandatory drug-testing of welfare applicants where Rick Scott’s wife owns a bunch of testing labs. Actually Rick Scott owns the labs but put them in his wife’s name to avoid the “conflict of interest” charges.

209 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 5:09:43am

Good morning Lizards from Philadelphia (sunny, but it’s hiding behind the clouds). 75F and very humid with some rain about as well.

Cats like the warmth of an AC-less apartment. Not sure they like the humidity as much. However, side benefit for Tuxedo Cat is that these conditions cause me to sleep with my feet uncovered — which provides opportunity to get me up quickly in the morning for Feline Overlord feeding duties. She starts nipping hairs off my ankles.

210 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 5:14:20am

Is this what we’re being reduced to in some places?

Woman charged in Indiana Walmart brawl

11alive.com

The other woman should be charged with impersonating a disabled person, also.

211 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 5:15:25am

I have never watched Game of Thrones. I tried reading the books but couldn’t get past the first 50 pages.

Now I understand there is some butthurt on Teh Internets because some beloved character was killed off?

212 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 5:19:15am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

I have never watched Game of Thrones. I tried reading the books but couldn’t get past the first 50 pages.

Now I understand there is some butthurt on Teh Internets because some beloved character was killed off?

I stopped watching this season, but according to plot synopsis on Wikipedia, he wasn’t exactly a beloved character, but he’s the best available option still kicking in the books (and much more likable in the books too).

213 Romantic Heretic  Jun 15, 2015 5:26:11am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

Yeah, it looks like one of the last few decent people has bought the farm. There’s only one, maybe two, left.

Stopped watching myself at the end of Season 1. If I want to see a bunch of noble families fucking one another over for power, shits and giggles I’ll go read about the War of The Roses.

I did tune in to watch King Justin Bieber, I mean Joffrey, get murdered at his own wedding. As one person noted back then, “I swear, if he doesn’t die this season I’m going to fucking kill him myself!”

214 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 5:27:44am

re: #213 Romantic Heretic

Yeah, it looks like one of the last few decent people has bought the farm. There’s only one, maybe two, left.

Stopped watching myself at the end of Season 1. If I want to see a bunch of noble families fucking one another over for power, shits and giggles I’ll go read about the War of The Roses.

I did tune in to watch King Justin Bieber, I mean Joffrey, get murdered at his own wedding. As one person noted back then, “I swear, if he doesn’t die this season I’m going to fucking kill him myself!”

If you want to watch that interaction within just one family then watch “The Lion In Winter”. You just don’t get the sex, blood, and dragons.

215 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 5:40:28am

This is almost like a lesson in how not to jeopardize your life by having sex with psychopaths at your prison work place.

New York Prison Worker Joyce Mitchell Was Investigated for Sexual Incident With Escapee

nbcnews.com

216 Frenchy  Jun 15, 2015 5:46:08am

In the books Snow isn’t for sure dead at this point. He has shown to have the ability to live through his wolf, and it seems clear that he will live on at least in that form.

Not sure about the show…I am still catching up, in Season 3 as of now.

I wouldn’t call Snow beloved (I certainly don’t love him, I find him way too dour) but he is definitely one of the two most important characters.

217 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 5:47:39am

I have a crazy person in my timeline who wants to bring back the Good Old Days of Child Labor

218 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 5:49:07am

re: #217 The Vicious Babushka

I have a crazy person in my timeline who wants to bring back the Good Old Days of Child Labor

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Coming from the same idiots who say that having a minimum wage causes a surplus of labor supplied.

219 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 5:50:49am

He’s still at it==>

220 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 5:52:06am

re: #219 The Vicious Babushka

He’s still at it==>

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GET THOSE N-*CLANG* OFF THE CORNER!1!!

221 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 5:54:04am

re: #217 The Vicious Babushka

I have a crazy person in my timeline who wants to bring back the Good Old Days of Child Labor

I do wonder if their real underlying goal is to get back to the world where you hired servants to do everything and said class knew their place. Social status based on what you did, whether you had an leisure time, and only those who should be educated were educated. Defacto reestablishment of a sort of lesser nobility.

Or settle at a minimum for cooks, maids, and housekeepers being around, affordable, and *happy* to be given a job and being available to be bossed around.

(One thing to notice in movies from the 50s and 60s is how many middle-class couples have a cook or housekeeper, especially if the wife is acting in a semi-professional role; e.g. doing non-home work.)

222 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 5:59:10am
223 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 6:02:03am

re: #217 The Vicious Babushka

This was a pretty famous case, brought by the Dept of Labor, against the Shiloh True Light Church in the Charlotte NC area. They were found not to have a claim for child labor just because their religion allowed it.

“In short, the interest of the United States in the even-handed application and enforcement of its labor laws must prevail over the interest of church members who attempt to transport a vocational training program into industrial and commercial environments where children, save for their ages, are indistinguishable from other employees.”

“The district court properly concluded in this case, that enforcement of these labor laws may not be defeated by a claim by church members of free exercise rights under the First Amendment.”

leagle.com.

The Amish have also been cited for using underaged kids in their milling and woodworking operations.

abcnews.go.com

And this from the fundie Mormon sect: huffingtonpost.com

224 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 6:04:35am

re: #223 Justanotherhuman

This was a pretty famous case, brought by the Dept of Labor, against the Shiloh True Light Church in the Charlotte NC area. They were found not to have a claim for child labor just because their religion allowed it.

“In short, the interest of the United States in the even-handed application and enforcement of its labor laws must prevail over the interest of church members who attempt to transport a vocational training program into industrial and commercial environments where children, save for their ages, are indistinguishable from other employees.”

“The district court properly concluded in this case, that enforcement of these labor laws may not be defeated by a claim by church members of free exercise rights under the First Amendment.”

leagle.com.

The Amish have also been cited for using underaged kids in their milling and woodworking operations.

abcnews.go.com

And this from the fundie Mormon sect: huffingtonpost.com

Overseas, doing the manufacturing jobs that TEH YOONYUNZ wanted too much money to do in the U.S.!!!!

225 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 6:05:40am

Holy fuck.

226 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 6:06:57am

re: #225 Justanotherhuman

Holy fuck.

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That’s what, two and a half months?

227 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 6:07:48am

re: #224 The Vicious Babushka

Well, people should just remember that if they buy a piece of Amish furniture, an underaged, unpaid kid just might have built that, too.

228 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 6:11:58am
229 SteelPH  Jun 15, 2015 6:15:18am

re: #228 The Vicious Babushka

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Tone deaf as fuck.

230 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 15, 2015 6:17:02am

re: #228 The Vicious Babushka

A governor for all the people, not partisan or ideological.

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231 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 15, 2015 6:20:18am

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oh goody.

232 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 15, 2015 6:21:09am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

I have never watched Game of Thrones. I tried reading the books but couldn’t get past the first 50 pages.

Now I understand there is some butthurt on Teh Internets because some beloved character was killed off?

Everyone’s dead. Except the terrible characters. Just like every season.

233 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 6:21:43am

re: #231 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Oh goody.

SCOTUSblog live blog starting now:
live.scotusblog.com

234 sagehen  Jun 15, 2015 6:21:52am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

I have never watched Game of Thrones. I tried reading the books but couldn’t get past the first 50 pages.

Now I understand there is some butthurt on Teh Internets because some beloved character was killed off?

Stabbed a bunch of times, last seen lying on his back in the snow not moving, much blood running from underneath his body….

But I’m not convinced he’s dead. At least, not really permanently dead-dead.

235 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 6:23:05am

re: #234 sagehen

Stabbed a bunch of times, last seen lying on his back in the snow not moving, much blood running from underneath his body….

But I’m not convinced he’s dead. At least, not really permanently dead-dead.

Yeah, I don’t think they’re going to kill off that particular character…of course, I’m not sure how he’s going to survive either.

236 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 6:25:42am

Are there any characters who make it alive to the last chapter of the last book that’s been published? Or is this a multi-generational series where people die naturally?

237 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 6:28:14am

re: #236 The Vicious Babushka

Are there any characters who make it alive to the last chapter of the last book that’s been published? Or is this a multi-generational series where people die naturally?

The books only take place over a year or two, the series’ timeframe is a little longer (3 or 4 years IIRC), but that’s only to adjust for the aging of some of the teenage characters.

Several of the characters killed this season are still kicking in the books (up to the end of A Dance with Dragons).

238 sagehen  Jun 15, 2015 6:29:04am

re: #236 The Vicious Babushka

Are there any characters who make it alive to the last chapter of the last book that’s been published? Or is this a multi-generational series where people die naturally?

I think in-show time runs similar to real-world time (so 5 years since it started?) — but so far nobody, not even the very old people, has died a natural death. Old men keep getting in sword fights until they’re too slow to be good at it anymore…

239 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 6:29:13am

re: #233 Timothy Watson

SCOTUSblog live blog starting now:
live.scotusblog.com

Opinions won’t be until 10:00 am according to the live blog.

240 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 6:30:26am

Expect more of this shit.

Evacuations but no injuries after pipeline ruptures in Texas

statesman.com

241 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 6:31:43am

re: #223 Justanotherhuman

[snip]

“The district court properly concluded in this case, that enforcement of these labor laws may not be defeated by a claim by church members of free exercise rights under the First Amendment.”

leagle.com.

The Amish have also been cited for using underaged kids in their milling and woodworking operations.

abcnews.go.com

And this from the fundie Mormon sect: huffingtonpost.com

When we had some Amish helping with renovation where I work I saw a few young kids (looked 14 - 16 years old) working and this was during the school year. So they were being homeschooled according to their religion.

I live about 30 miles from the Amish guy ABC interviewed from Harrisville that was fined. But there are many more local to me. Our local Walmart even built a pole barn so they could park their buggy and horse out of the weather while shopping. A friend of mine worked at the Walmart and they wouldn’t let him park his Harley out of the weather in the barn :-)

242 b.d.  Jun 15, 2015 6:31:56am

re: #228 The Vicious Babushka

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I miss Rick Perry.

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243 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 15, 2015 6:32:12am

re: #240 Justanotherhuman

Expect more of this shit.

Evacuations but no injuries after pipeline ruptures in Texas

statesman.com

Yeah but they have open-carry now don’t they?

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244 b.d.  Jun 15, 2015 6:32:39am

re: #243 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Yeah but they have open-carry now don’t they?

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They could shoot the pipeline now

245 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 6:34:11am

re: #244 b.d.

They could shoot the pipeline now

Or open a gun range nearby, wait, someone already did that.

246 lawhawk  Jun 15, 2015 6:36:07am

re: #237 Timothy Watson

GoT: Where winter is coming (and coming), all men (and more than a few women) die (but not before showing booooobs), and GRRM is running out of characters to kill, which means that readers/viewers are next.

247 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 6:37:53am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY (GODWIN CATEGORY)==>

248 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 15, 2015 6:39:56am

re: #247 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY (GODWIN CATEGORY)==>

Can’t see Twitter because at work but I’m gonna guess that’s supposed to be the number of abortions since Obama made Grennel surgeon general or something?

249 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 6:40:33am

re: #248 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Can’t see Twitter because at work but I’m gonna guess that’s supposed to be the number of abortions since Obama made Grennel surgeon general or something?

Yep.

250 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 6:40:55am

re: #248 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Can’t see Twitter because at work but I’m gonna guess that’s supposed to be the number of abortions since Obama made Grennel surgeon general or something?

Probably since Roe, it’s gives a statistic of 57 million.

251 urbanmeemaw  Jun 15, 2015 6:43:23am

re: #104 teleskiguy

I haven’t seen a film in the cinema since “Inception.”

I just saw Woman In Gold yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it.

252 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 6:43:29am

FYI: Supreme Court denied a petition from North Carolina wanting a review of an appeals court ruling throwing out their ultrasound requirements before an abortion.

This case (but hasn’t been updated yet): scotusblog.com

253 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 6:43:51am

SCOTUS denied North Carolina in Walker-McGill v. Stuart.
North Carolina was asking the Supreme Court to review a ruling by the Fourth Circuit that blocked a state law requiring a woman to have a narrated ultrasound before she could have an abortion from going into effect. - See more at: live.scotusblog.com

254 urbanmeemaw  Jun 15, 2015 6:44:45am

re: #107 allegro

Generation removed unfortunately. Family stories have my grandfather’s parents moving to Canada from Scotland.

My grandfather was born in Ireland and my grandmother was born in Canada (though she did not discover that until after her mother, who had never told her, passed away).

255 urbanmeemaw  Jun 15, 2015 6:49:19am

re: #164 goddamnedfrank

I’m assuming shooter is white. The only people who don’t get charged are white people who shoot at other people, such as law enforcement.

256 urbanmeemaw  Jun 15, 2015 6:52:14am

re: #197 Backwoods_Sleuth

I am shocked, shocked that Bobo The Lazy Hack is less than diligent in his research methodology.

257 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 6:55:25am

re: #256 urbanmeemaw

I am shocked, shocked that Bobo The Lazy Hack is less than diligent in his research methodology.

He was too busy visiting those Applebee’s salad bars.

258 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 6:56:55am

Two boxes of opinions today. Up to 4 opinions, likely. - See more at: live.scotusblog.com

259 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 6:57:46am
260 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 7:02:29am

re: #254 urbanmeemaw

My grandfather was born in Ireland and my grandmother was born in Canada (though she did not discover that until after her mother, who had never told her, passed away).

Was a popular route. My grandparents (mother side) came from Ireland to Canada and then to the US. My oldest uncle was born Canadian, but all the rest (my mom and 10 other aunts and uncles) were born in US.

261 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 7:03:08am

Opinion by Justice Kagan. Fifth Circuit is reversed.
by Amy Howe 10:02 AM
Comment
Mata v. Lynch
by Amy Howe 10:02 AM
Comment
- See more at: live.scotusblog.com

262 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 7:03:44am

First decision involves immigration, Mata v. Lynch. 8-1, Thomas dissenting.

263 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 7:04:09am

The holding is: The Fifth Circuit erred in declining to take jurisdiction over Mata’s appeal. A court of appeals has jurisdiction to review the Board of Immigration Appeals’ rejection fo an alien’s motion to reopen. - See more at: live.scotusblog.com

264 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 15, 2015 7:04:42am

re: #238 sagehen

I think in-show time runs similar to real-world time (so 5 years since it started?) — but so far nobody, not even the very old people, has died a natural death. Old men keep getting in sword fights until they’re too slow to be good at it anymore…

Mormont is still kicking, but he’s got the disease that turns its victims into raving maniacs — except for that one princess who was burned alive as a sacrifice to the God of Light.

And her father, who agreed to the sacrifice, is dead now, to, as is that half of his army that didn’t desert him.

There’s plenty of unresolved story lines in this episode to ensure a Season 6 will happen.

265 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 7:05:23am

re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth

First decision involves immigration, Mata v. Lynch. 8-1, Thomas dissenting.

Hasn’t he been the stand alone judge in a couple recent decisions? What’s up with that?

266 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 7:06:19am

Just when you thought Kansas couldn’t possibly beat up any more on the poors==>

267 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 7:06:50am

Baker Botts v. ASARCO. 6-3. Thomas writes for the court. Justice Sotomayor concurs in part and in the judgment; Breyer dissents, joined by RBG and Kagan.
The holding is that the provision of the Bankruptcy Code at issue does not permit bankruptcy courts to award fees to professionals for defending fee applications. - See more at: live.scotusblog.com

268 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 7:07:01am

re: #265 Eventual Carrion

Hasn’t he been the stand alone judge in a couple recent decisions? What’s up with that?

He’s a complete waste of space on the bench. That’s what. :-P

269 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 7:08:08am

The Court issues decisions in order of reverse seniority. So we won’t hear from Breyer, Sotomayor, Alito, or Ginsburg today.
by Amy Howe 10:07 AM
- See more at: live.scotusblog.com

270 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 7:08:55am

Only 3 decisions today?

271 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 7:08:58am
272 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 7:09:33am

Last decision: Kerry v. Din. The Court’s judgment is by Scalia; joined by the Chief and Thomas.
Vote is 5-4. Breyer dissents, joined by Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan.
The Court concludes that the government did not deprive Din of any constitutional right entitling her to due process of law. - See more at: live.scotusblog.com

273 ObserverArt  Jun 15, 2015 7:09:49am

Justanotherhuman…

What’s up with the shark attacks in the water off the coast of North Carolina???

Two kids attacked and lost arms. I think I heard there are some questions on how authorities are handling the warnings, etc.

NBC News - Two Kids Lose Arms in Separate North Carolina Shark Attacks

A 16-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl lost their left arms and suffered other serious injuries in separate shark attacks in Oak Island, North Carolina, authorities said Sunday night.

The kids, who weren’t identified, were upgraded from critical to fair condition after surgery and were stable at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, said Martha Harlan, a spokeswoman for the hospital. The girl’s left arm was amputated below the elbow, and she suffered lower leg tissue damage, Harlan said, while the boy’s left arm was amputated below the shoulder.

…more at link…

274 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 7:11:00am

Kerry v Din

Issue: (1) Whether a consular officer’s refusal of a visa to a U.S. citizen’s alien spouse impinges upon a constitutionally protected interest of the citizen; and (2) whether respondent is entitled to challenge in court the refusal of a visa to her husband and to require the government, in order to sustain the refusal, to identify a specific statutory provision rendering him inadmissible and to allege what it believes he did that would render him ineligible for a visa.

275 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 15, 2015 7:11:38am

re: #272 Backwoods_Sleuth

Last decision: Kerry v. Din. The Court’s judgment is by Scalia; joined by the Chief and Thomas.
Vote is 5-4. Breyer dissents, joined by Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan.
The Court concludes that the government did not deprive Din of any constitutional right entitling her to due process of law. - See more at: live.scotusblog.com

So no decision on ACA subsidies?

Cliffhangers….

276 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 7:12:20am

re: #275 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

So no decision on ACA subsidies?

Cliffhangers….

gonna be the last day, methinks

277 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 7:12:24am
278 urbanmeemaw  Jun 15, 2015 7:13:32am

re: #260 Eventual Carrion

Was a popular route. My grandparents (mother side) came from Ireland to Canada and then to the US. My oldest uncle was born Canadian, but all the rest (my mom and 10 other aunts and uncles) were born in US.

They ended up meeting in Wyoming (they both worked for the railroad), where my dad was born. We found out that my grandmother’s parents fled to Canada for reasons that remain somewhat mysterious and my grandmother always thought she was born in Othello, WA until that time. Evidently my grandfather was suspected of a crime or hounded because of his union activities or both. It is a family mystery that most in my family want to keep that way.

279 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 7:14:17am

Just reading on Crooks and Liars that some doosh tweeted out Pam Geller’s address and apt number. Jeez, I hate what that women does but something like that is not right no matter which side is doing it. Headline reads that a jihadist did it, but who know. Whomever did it, it is still not right.

280 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 15, 2015 7:15:45am

re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth

gonna be the last day, methinks

Is that next week?

281 urbanmeemaw  Jun 15, 2015 7:15:57am

re: #271 Lidane

I’m sure the McKinney PD Public Relations person can leverage this into some favorable publicity.

282 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 7:16:14am

re: #280 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Is that next week?

maybe, but could go to end of the month.

283 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 7:16:31am

re: #271 Lidane

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He’ll roll the kegs in for the builders I presume.

284 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 7:17:57am

Come on down and lose a leg. ///

285 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 7:19:31am

Amy Howe: We are now down to 17 opinions remaining. That’s a lot of opinions.
- See more at: live.scotusblog.com

286 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 15, 2015 7:20:01am

re: #271 Lidane

A white enclave in a 99.5%* white state?

*possible exaggeration

287 ObserverArt  Jun 15, 2015 7:20:28am

re: #284 Justanotherhuman

Come on down and lose a leg. ///

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Heh. I guess you didn’t see my #273.

288 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 7:23:18am

re: #287 ObserverArt

Woops. No, concentrating on SCOTUS too much. ; /

289 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 7:23:19am

re: #286 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

A white enclave in a 99.5%* white state?

*possible exaggeration

Yeah, them injuns don’t count.

290 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 15, 2015 7:23:39am

re: #271 Lidane

White nationalists invite McKinney cop to help them build a whites-only enclave in N. Dakota

I assume they need a lifeguard for the swimming pool.

291 Bird in the Paw  Jun 15, 2015 7:24:18am

re: #246 lawhawk

GoT: Where winter is coming (and coming), all men (and more than a few women) die (but not before showing booooobs), and GRRM is running out of characters to kill, which means that readers/viewers are next.

Click to Reveal

Engh, he’s got a stash of not-as-dead-as-thought people out there.

After reading all 8-bazillion pages (drag-drag-drag dieing of boredom here,) I’ve come to the conclusion that there is no way that he can tie this up without massive deux ex machina. And, unlike Robert Jordan, I hope he dies with it unfinished.

And, maybe like RJ, he’ll start resurecting people, oh, wait, he already does that.

292 Nyet  Jun 15, 2015 7:24:27am

re: #271 Lidane

Nazis are voluntarily gathering together in one compact area? Makes it easier to [self-censored].

293 Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2015 7:27:28am

re: #292 Nyet

Nazis are voluntarily gathering together in one compact area? Makes it easier to [self-censored].

Hold auditions?

…

294 ObserverArt  Jun 15, 2015 7:32:01am

re: #288 Justanotherhuman

Woops. No, concentrating on SCOTUS too much. ; /

No problem, I was sort of wondering if you had heard the complaints that no warning went out and the kid attacked a bit later just down from the first attack might have been out of the water if there were warnings.

On an NBC News report earlier a guy (I think he was local sheriff) said something like “Hey, it’s the ocean. It does happen. Stay out of the water after 4 PM.” Seemed a little unconcerned by it all.

295 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 7:32:34am

After defense request for no visuals of hearing.

Judge allows defense request to move Joyce Mitchell hearing to Clinton County court; rejects request to ban cameras from proceedings - @pmdemola
see original on twitter.com

296 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 7:33:49am

re: #294 ObserverArt

And the fact that the beaches are not closed, at least the one where the attacks occurred. It’s not as though they don’t have 64 more public beaches.

en.wikipedia.org

297 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 7:41:20am
298 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 15, 2015 7:41:20am

re: #273 ObserverArt

Sharks have also been active around the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. NPR reported the island now has a shark patrol to warn people out of the water.

Maybe the world’s sharks are hungry.

299 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 7:41:52am

Reason 2078 not to spend money on cat toys:
There is an empty catfood bag moving around in the kitchen right now and it is being stalked by another cat…

300 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 15, 2015 7:46:54am

re: #291 Bird in the Paw

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I’ve just started reading book 1 again, after giving up on it a couple of years ago. I might make reading GoT my summer vacation project.

I sure as hell hope GRRM has some overall plan for the series written down somewhere, but I fear he’s one of those writers who lets the story get away from him as he writes. That might explain why he spends thousands of pages to move his plotlines along at a snail’s pace.

301 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 7:48:14am

re: #300 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’ve just started reading book 1 again, after giving up on it a couple of years ago. I might make reading GoT my summer vacation project.

I sure as hell hope GRRM has some overall plan for the series written down somewhere, but I fear he’s one of those writers who lets the story get away from him as he writes. That might explain why he spends thousands of pages to move his plotlines along at a snail’s pace.

That’s the same reason I gave up on Outlander.

302 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 7:48:46am

re: #300 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’ve just started reading book 1 again, after giving up on it a couple of years ago. I might make reading GoT my summer vacation project.

I sure as hell hope GRRM has some overall plan for the series written down somewhere, but I fear he’s one of those writers who lets the story get away from him as he writes. That might explain why he spends thousands of pages to move his plotlines along at a snail’s pace.

It already got away from him. Was originally only going to be three books. The secondary stories got out of hand and things went off the rails with the main plot lines advancing glacially after that point.

303 darthstar  Jun 15, 2015 7:50:13am

re: #298 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Sharks have also been active around the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. NPR reported the island now has a shark patrol to warn people out of the water.

Maybe the world’s sharks are hungry.

Well, there is an excess of human feed, so i don’t think sharks should have to suffer. We’re all part of the same food chain.

304 Dr Lizardo  Jun 15, 2015 7:50:38am

re: #298 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Sharks have also been active around the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. NPR reported the island now has a shark patrol to warn people out of the water.

Maybe the world’s sharks are hungry.

Sure, you laugh now - but just wait till they get hungry enough that those fins turn into arms and legs.

305 darthstar  Jun 15, 2015 7:51:19am

Mosquitos feed on people, and people still go camping.

306 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 7:52:25am

Sharks and Global Warming

Global warming has made it difficult for sharks to continue living their peaceful existence. It has also increased the tensions among them and humans. As the temperatures of the water increase, the sharks may move into new locations where they will be more comfortable. This means they can be in areas where people are fishing, boating, and swimming. Sharks have been able to evolve for millions of years. Yet they never had to deal with humans on such a large scale before in order to do so either.

Sharks also have to move in order to find plenty of food. Due to global warming many of their food sources may be in short supply. As a result they have to travel further and further to find what they are looking for. You will find more sharks in the swimming areas of California and Florida than ever before due to these changes. The sharks aren’t out to get humans as many fear though. Instead they are merely doing what they instinctively know in order to survive.

Along with global warming more people are enjoying the warmer temperatures. They definitely want to spend time outdoors and in the water when it is very warm outside. This means more people continue to invade the space that was once home to only the sharks. People take over these areas in large numbers, but then want to complain that sharks are attacking. The entire picture here doesn’t reflect what is really going on.

307 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 15, 2015 7:58:13am

re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sadly, it makes sense.

308 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 15, 2015 7:58:56am
Prison worker allegedly plotted for escaped inmates to kill her husband

Well this story just keeps getting better and better, doesn’t it?

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news.yahoo.com

309 Bird in the Paw  Jun 15, 2015 7:59:31am

re: #302 Feline Fearless Leader

It already got away from him. Was originally only going to be three books. The secondary stories got out of hand and things went off the rails with the main plot lines advancing glacially after that point.

Seriously, how much time can he spend describing feasts of unborn puppies? I am guessing that he can expand that ‘plot device’ some more. The Daenerys Targaryen plot line is moribund in the books.

310 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 8:02:18am

SEAL THE BORDERS! TEH GHEY IZ INVADING!

311 darthstar  Jun 15, 2015 8:02:22am
312 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 8:05:17am

re: #300 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’ve just started reading book 1 again, after giving up on it a couple of years ago. I might make reading GoT my summer vacation project.

I sure as hell hope GRRM has some overall plan for the series written down somewhere, but I fear he’s one of those writers who lets the story get away from him as he writes. That might explain why he spends thousands of pages to move his plotlines along at a snail’s pace.

GRRM has supposedly revealed the ending to the GoT showrunners in case he dies before he finishes the books.

I’m on A Feast For Crows which effectively catches me up with the first four seasons of the show. Once I finish this book and A Dance With Dragons, I’ll get HBO Go and binge my way through the whole series.

313 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 15, 2015 8:05:44am

re: #309 Bird in the Paw

Seriously, how much time can he spend describing feasts of unborn puppies? I am guessing that he can expand that ‘plot device’ some more. The Daenerys Targaryen plot line is moribund in the books.

It’s not that great in the series, either. Just when you think something is going right for her, something bad happens. Now she’s surrounded by an army of warriors on horseback, her alpha dragon is hurting, and what ever happened to the two chained up in the dungeons? Is anyone feeding them, now that the city is all FUBAR?

314 Varek Raith  Jun 15, 2015 8:08:30am

re: #308 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Well this story just keeps getting better and better, doesn’t it?

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news.yahoo.com

Good grief.

315 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 8:08:34am

re: #309 Bird in the Paw

Seriously, how much time can he spend describing feasts of unborn puppies? I am guessing that he can expand that ‘plot device’ some more. The Daenerys Targaryen plot line is moribund in the books.

What annoys me is that I’ve got to read TWO books now to get all of Season 5, and even then, the writers on the show have taken their own liberties with characters and events for the sake of plot flow.

316 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 15, 2015 8:08:46am

I’m noshing on fresh lychee right now. One of my students gave me about a kilo’s worth, plus a huge muskmelon besides.

317 Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2015 8:09:58am

re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sharks and Global Warming

Also need to factor in more beach housing/recreational development, improved economy. We’re putting more protein in shallow water.

318 darthstar  Jun 15, 2015 8:11:33am

Why can’t they customize their plan BEFORE the SCOTUS decides?

319 lawhawk  Jun 15, 2015 8:12:59am

re: #318 darthstar

320 darthstar  Jun 15, 2015 8:13:49am

re: #317 Decatur Deb

Also need to factor in more beach housing/recreational development, improved economy. We’re putting more protein in shallow water.

We just need to accept that there will be a certain degree of risk involved in summer recreation. Some kids will get eaten, some won’t. Sharks will gain a nose for which kids have the best nutritional value.

321 Mike Lamb  Jun 15, 2015 8:14:29am

I highly doubt that Stannis is dead. It would be the first death of that magnitude where the directors/writers left it to the viewers’ imagination.

322 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 8:14:46am

re: #309 Bird in the Paw

Seriously, how much time can he spend describing feasts of unborn puppies? I am guessing that he can expand that ‘plot device’ some more. The Daenerys Targaryen plot line is moribund in the books.

That’s why I am Team Stannis.

323 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 15, 2015 8:15:25am

re: #318 darthstar

re: #319 lawhawk

They’ve been too busy dealing with all the other pressing matters, like SSM, immigration by brown people, and Benghazi to worry about trifling issues like national health care systems,

324 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 8:15:53am

SNL’s Land Shark sketch, always a classic.

325 darthstar  Jun 15, 2015 8:15:57am

re: #322 Timothy Watson

That’s why I am Team Stannis.

Dear god, they’re merging Twilight and Game of Thrones?

326 Bird in the Paw  Jun 15, 2015 8:16:56am

re: #320 darthstar

We just need to accept that there will be a certain degree of risk involved in summer recreation. Some kids will get eaten, some won’t. Sharks will gain a nose for which kids have the best nutritional value.

When I say things like this, SWMBO gets upset. It’s all quite Darwinian. Selective culling, improved shark, soon they will grow laser to help in selecting their targets.

327 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 15, 2015 8:17:04am

re: #322 Timothy Watson

That’s why I am Team Stannis.

Rooting for the underdog? He’s in a bad way now.

328 Bird in the Paw  Jun 15, 2015 8:19:19am

re: #327 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Rooting for the underdog? He’s in a bad way now.

Throwing your lot in with the she-devil didn’t really go quite as he planned, did it?

329 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 8:19:31am

re: #327 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Rooting for the underdog? He’s in a bad way now.

Only on the TV show, in the books, he has Winterfell enveloped with the defenders fighting amongst themselves.

He’s also less of an jerkass in the books.

330 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 8:20:40am

re: #317 Decatur Deb

Also need to factor in more beach housing/recreational development, improved economy. We’re putting more protein in shallow water.

And also probably affecting the shark’s current food supply by our actions as well. If we’re competing with them for fish, then maybe they substitute long pig. And with the warmer waters the squid are moving north as well.

Though, if I recall, the tiger and great white shark attacks in Hawaii and California are from humans essentially emulating wounded seals to a certain degree.

331 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 15, 2015 8:20:45am

re: #321 Mike Lamb

I highly doubt that Stannis is dead. It would be the first death of that magnitude where the directors/writers left it to the viewers’ imagination.

Interesting point. But, if GRRM intended Stannis’ sacrifice of his daughter to mirror Agamemnon’s fate, Stannis sooner or later is going to die ignominiously.

332 Bird in the Paw  Jun 15, 2015 8:21:00am

re: #329 Timothy Watson

He’s also less of an jerkass in the books.

Engh, he’s pretty much an ass there, too.

333 Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2015 8:21:27am

re: #320 darthstar

We just need to accept that there will be a certain degree of risk involved in summer recreation. Some kids will get eaten, some won’t. Sharks will gain a nose for which kids have the best nutritional value.

Bees and dogs are far more deadly, but have better PR staff.

334 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 8:21:37am
335 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 8:22:01am

re: #332 Bird in the Paw

Engh, he pretty much an ass there, too.

I don’t think Book!Stannis would consider sacrificing his own daughter.

336 ObserverArt  Jun 15, 2015 8:22:06am

re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth

SNL’s Land Shark sketch, always a classic.

“Candygram!”

337 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 15, 2015 8:22:19am

re: #334 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s trolling the Religious Right now.

338 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 8:23:07am

re: #321 Mike Lamb

Two things:

1) R + L = J. I absolutely believe this. It makes total sense.

2) The three heads of the dragon, IMO, will be Dany, Jon, and Tyrion. That’s my hope anyway. And yes, I know what happened on the finale last night. Point #1 pretty much invalidates it because of a number of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey reasons that I want to believe. Heh.

339 Bird in the Paw  Jun 15, 2015 8:23:59am

re: #335 Timothy Watson

I don’t think Book!Stannis would consider sacrificing his own daughter.

No, he is actually quiet fond of her in an cold, distant, manner.

340 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 15, 2015 8:24:12am

re: #331 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Interesting point. But, if GRRM intended Stannis’ sacrifice of his daughter to mirror Agamemnon’s fate, Stannis sooner or later is going to die ignominiously.

Of course, Agamemnon won his war, and his wife killed him. Stannis’ wife killed herself, and he lost the war before it even began.

So, nevermind.

341 darthstar  Jun 15, 2015 8:24:29am

re: #333 Decatur Deb

Bees and dogs are far more deadly, but have better PR staff.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m sorry for the kid losing a leg. But we don’t own this planet, we share it. We don’t get to set all of the rules.

342 Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2015 8:26:37am

re: #334 Backwoods_Sleuth

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343 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jun 15, 2015 8:27:31am

re: #339 Bird in the Paw

No, he is actually quiet fond of her in an cold, distant, manner.

That shows in the series, too, up to the point where he agrees to burn her at the stake.

Talk about poor career choices. As a result, half his army deserts and then Melisandre bugs out, too.

344 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 15, 2015 8:27:55am

re: #318 darthstar

Why can’t they customize their plan BEFORE the SCOTUS decides?

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A plan has to exist in order to be customized. The Republicans have ostracized or marginalized anyone in their party who could actually craft a non-risible alternative to ACA.

345 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 8:30:49am
346 lawhawk  Jun 15, 2015 8:31:01am

re: #322 Timothy Watson

I’m Team White Walker. If all men must die, then go with the side that proves to be extraordinarily hard to kill (and the guy who showed it can be done was himself pretty much killed).

Unless GoT is going to go all LOTR on us and give us Gandalf the Grey becoming Gandalf the White after fighting the Balrog. Through death you jump to the next level in power/capabilities.

In which case, I sure hope Tyrion dies, if only to become some next level Maester.

347 Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2015 8:34:22am

re: #344 Higgs Boson’s Mate

A plan has to exist in order to be customized. The Republicans have ostracized or marginalized anyone in their party who could actually craft a non-risible alternative to ACA.

They got nuthin’.

348 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 8:35:27am

re: #343 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

That shows in the series, too, up to the point where he agrees to burn her at the stake.

Talk about poor career choices. As a result, half his army deserts and then Melisandre bugs out, too.

In the books, his wife, child, and Melisandre are hanging out at Castle Black, while Theon is about to get a close encounter with the flames (both as a sacrifice and to punish him for the “killing” of Rickon and Bran).

349 Nyet  Jun 15, 2015 8:35:29am

re: #255 urbanmeemaw

The only people who don’t get charged are white people who shoot at other people, such as law enforcement.

The cop privilege beats the white privilege at any time.

Which is why a black cop can shoot an unarmed white 18 y.o. in freaking Alabama and still go unindicted by a grand jury.

350 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 8:36:02am

I’m pro-Tyrion since he seems to be the most practical without also being an absolute self-serving realpolitik dickhead as well. Daenerys as well since she appears to understand that there is a great deal of education and learning to be done in order to be a good ruler. And that ruling is for more than self-serving glory.*

* - The land and the king are one. ;)

351 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 8:38:01am
352 Ace-o-aces  Jun 15, 2015 8:43:15am

re: #247 The Vicious Babushka

353 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 8:44:54am

re: #351 Backwoods_Sleuth

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But not alcohol I guess. Hmmm. Is there anything else that is legal that a company can fire me for taking part in outside of work? Political rally attendance? Which party I am registered with? If I prefer basketball over football?

354 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 8:45:58am

re: #351 Backwoods_Sleuth

That seems to open up a pretty interesting can-of-worms. What else can an employer fire people for if they do it outside of work hours? Drinking alcohol? Voting Republican?
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355 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 8:46:22am

re: #353 Eventual Carrion

But not alcohol I guess. Hmmm. Is there anything else that is legal that a company can fire me for taking part in outside of work? Political rally attendance? Which party I am registered with? If I prefer basketball over football?

1. Having an abortion
2. Being pregnant

356 makeitstop  Jun 15, 2015 8:47:13am

re: #351 Backwoods_Sleuth

Colorado high court rules employers can fire workers for after-hours pot use

Well, that certainly screws up a perfectly good legalization.

357 Ace-o-aces  Jun 15, 2015 8:47:13am
358 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 8:47:45am

re: #354 Feline Fearless Leader

That seems to open up a pretty interesting can-of-worms. What else can an employer fire people for if they do it outside of work hours? Drinking alcohol? Voting Republican?
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Right to not work. We don’t like you anymore so fuck off, we are giving your job to Biff from church.

359 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 8:50:55am

re: #358 Eventual Carrion

Right to not work. We don’t like you anymore so fuck off, we are giving your job to Biff from church.

I am going to presume the ruling is narrow in such a way that it just relates to marijuana usage in some way.

360 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 8:52:14am

re: #359 Feline Fearless Leader

I am going to presume the ruling is narrow in such a way that it just relates to marijuana usage in some way.

Probably. Right to work laws already took care of my scenario.

361 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 8:52:22am
362 darthstar  Jun 15, 2015 8:52:31am
363 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 8:53:33am

re: #351 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Probably the correct ruling. Hey, do you want police or bus drivers, or employees in a dozen other occupations, smoking marijuana during off-hours?

364 Ace-o-aces  Jun 15, 2015 8:54:05am
365 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 8:54:10am

re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth

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OFFS AP.

366 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 8:54:35am

re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth

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They are just so used to typing that string of words without ‘bear’.

367 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 8:55:15am

re: #363 Timothy Watson

Probably the correct ruling. Hey, do you want police or bus drivers, or employees in a dozen other occupations, smoking marijuana during off-hours?

The 6-0 decision comes nine months after the state’s highest court heard oral arguments in Brandon Coats’ case against Dish Network. Coats, who had a medical marijuana card and consumed pot off-duty to control muscle spasms, was fired in 2010.

368 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 8:55:28am

re: #363 Timothy Watson

Probably the correct ruling. Hey, do you want police or bus drivers, or employees in a dozen other occupations, smoking marijuana during off-hours?

Do I want them drinking and being hungover?

369 b_sharp  Jun 15, 2015 8:55:44am

re: #346 lawhawk

I’m Team White Walker. If all men must die, then go with the side that proves to be extraordinarily hard to kill (and the guy who showed it can be done was himself pretty much killed).

Unless GoT is going to go all LOTR on us and give us Gandalf the Grey becoming Gandalf the White after fighting the Balrog. Through death you jump to the next level in power/capabilities.

In which case, I sure hope Tyrion dies, if only to become some next level Maester.

Bier Meister?

370 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 8:56:06am

re: #367 Backwoods_Sleuth

Do you want a court reviewing every termination to determine whether marijuana usage could interfere with the person’s job?

371 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 8:56:10am

re: #366 Eventual Carrion

They are just so used to typing that string of words without ‘bear’.

Probably didn’t want to freak out Bryan Fischer…

372 Varek Raith  Jun 15, 2015 8:57:35am

re: #368 Eventual Carrion

Do I want them drinking and being hungover?

REEFER MADNESS

373 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 8:58:04am

re: #368 Eventual Carrion

Do I want them drinking and being hungover?

They would (should) be fired in those cases too. Most police departments have a standing order, if you’ve even suspected of being high or drunk, they can make you do a urine test or a breathalyzer right there.

374 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 8:59:20am

re: #352 Ace-o-aces

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And if they really want to play that game, I will point out that Nazi Germany forced many women to have abortions. What a fucking load of fucking shit.

375 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 9:05:26am

re: #373 Timothy Watson

They would (should) be fired in those cases too. Most police departments have a standing order, if you’ve even suspected of being high or drunk, they can make you do a urine test or a breathalyzer right there.

Not actively drunk (nor actively high), but have drank in excess the night before (on their own time). I have drank in excess (oh have I) and know the sluggish, wavy next morning feel. I have also smoked much on a night of debauchery and woke the next day with no feeling of lethargy or sluggishness. I would much rather that the driver/conductor/pilot had smoked a little weed last night than hammering the 7&7’s.

376 b_sharp  Jun 15, 2015 9:05:31am

re: #372 Varek Raith

REEFER MADNESS

Dude.

377 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 9:08:26am

re: #375 Eventual Carrion

Not actively drunk (nor actively high), but have drank in excess the night before (on their own time). I have drank in excess (oh have I) and know the sluggish, wavy next morning feel. I have also smoked much on a night of debauchery and woke the next day with no feeling of lethargy or sluggishness. I would much rather that the driver/conductor/pilot had smoked a little weed last night than hammering the 7&7’s.

I agree. And they don’t smell as bad as people who have a horrible hangover, either.

378 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 15, 2015 9:09:39am

re: #364 Ace-o-aces

Maybe the Establishment and the Establishment Media should just give up now. It’s all over for them.

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379 danarchy  Jun 15, 2015 9:10:03am

re: #370 Timothy Watson

Do you want a court reviewing every termination to determine whether marijuana usage could interfere with the person’s job?

It has nothing to do with impairment or not. Marijuana use is still a federal crime. Until and unless that changes there isn’t even any ambiguity as suggested by the unanimous decision. Nothing else people have mentioned, alcohol, political affiliation etc is a federal crime.

This is the problem that occurs when states try to usurp federal power whether it be to legalize marijuana or impose their own immigration rules.

380 b_sharp  Jun 15, 2015 9:10:11am

re: #377 Justanotherhuman

I agree. And they don’t smell as bad as people who have a horrible hangover, either.

My daughter used to say I have a big nose but don’t smell good.

381 lawhawk  Jun 15, 2015 9:10:23am

A blogger who pleaded guilty in a conspiracy to breaking in to a nursing home and shooting unauthorized video of the ailing wife of a U.S. senator was sentenced Monday to serve more than two years in prison.

Twenty-nine-year-old Clayton Kelly of Pearl, Mississippi, shot the video of Sen. Thad Cochran’s then-wife in 2014.

On Monday, Mississippi Circuit Judge William Chapman gave Kelly the full five-year maximum sentence, but he’ll be in prison for half that time. The rest is on probation.

Images of Rose Cochran, who had dementia, appeared online briefly during a tough Republican primary. Investigators say Kelly was one of several people who conspired to produce the video suggesting Thad Cochran was having an affair.

Booyah!

382 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:13:10am

re: #381 lawhawk

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Booyah!

CCJ had a connection to this didn’t he? What a really fucking ghoulish thing to do.

383 Romantic Heretic  Jun 15, 2015 9:13:14am

re: #221 Feline Fearless Leader

I do wonder if their real underlying goal is to get back to the world where you hired servants to do everything and said class knew their place. Social status based on what you did, whether you had an leisure time, and only those who should be educated were educated. Defacto reestablishment of a sort of lesser nobility.

That is their goal.

Let me tell you a little story.

Last time I tried to get into the work force I was working as a janitor. The place I worked at I’ve mentioned before. It was a ‘cultural place’, sort of a mall filled with art galleries, fancy restaurants along with office space for theatre groups and such. It was actually a lovely area.

However the hours I was given were ridiculous. Eight until three, no break for lunch.

Since that could mean as much as ten hours between meals and I’m not much of one for petty rules I’d come in early and leave late while taking a break for lunch. I’d take lunch at this lovely coffee shop they had there. I’d buy a coffee and sit at one of the tables to enjoy my sandwich.

That didn’t last long. I was shortly told I was there to work and not to do that any more.

This didn’t make any sense. A couple of days before I had cleaned a toilet that hadn’t been cleaned in years and had been used during those years by homeless people as it was accessible to them. Biohazard is the most accurate description of that particular facility. I made sure I worked the amount of hours I was supposed to.

It made no sense.

Then I realized I was ‘the help’ and ‘the help’ are not supposed to use amenities meant for proper people.

I didn’t last long after that. The urge to choke the living shit out of the people I worked for was becoming to strong to ignore.

384 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jun 15, 2015 9:14:34am

good morning Lizards :)

385 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 9:14:53am

Statement: Rachel Dolezal steps down as president of Spokane, Wash., NAACP - @SpokaneNAACP
facebook.com

The statement continues her self-serving attitude.

386 Romantic Heretic  Jun 15, 2015 9:16:32am

re: #236 The Vicious Babushka

Are there any characters who make it alive to the last chapter of the last book that’s been published? Or is this a multi-generational series where people die naturally?

No one has died naturally yet in GOT. Unless murder is a natural cause.

387 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 9:16:53am
388 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 9:18:15am

re: #386 Romantic Heretic

No one has died naturally yet in GOT. Unless murder is a natural cause.

Didn’t Hoster Tully die naturally? I remember him being old and ill in the books.

389 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 9:20:03am

re: #383 Romantic Heretic

However the hours I was given were ridiculous. Eight until three, no break for lunch.

What if you told them you were a diabetic and had to eat every 2 hours? Or would they not hire you because of that.

390 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:20:36am

re: #387 Lidane

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Oh yes, explains the mass increase in enslaving of Christians in Canada, the UK, etc since SSM was legalized there. Man these people are lunatics. They really think SSM being legalized means they’re going to be victimized but the reality of it is the only thing negative going to happen and this is their own damn fault is that they’re going to go down in history the same way the segregationists did.

391 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 9:20:39am

re: #388 Lidane

Didn’t Hoster Tully die naturally? I remember him being old and ill in the books.

Aemon Targaryen, too?

392 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 9:21:49am

Polar bears now eat dolphins, thanks to global warming

cbsnews.com

Faced with a rapidly changing habitat, polar bears are adapting with a new entrée: For the first time, a polar bear was seen preying on a white-beaked dolphin carcass that had been trapped in the ice in Svalbard, a group of Norwegian islands in the Arctic Ocean.

In April 2014, a male polar bear with a full belly was spotted near a recently devoured white-beaked dolphin, which could have weighed 120 to 680 lbs. (54 to 308 kilograms) and measured 5 to 9 feet long (1.5 to 2.7 meters), the researchers said in an article published online June 1 in the journal Polar Research. The bear was also seen with another white-beaked dolphin’s thawing carcass, which he was likely saving for a later meal.

These dolphins rarely venture so far north in the Arctic; they prefer the sub-Arctic, which has less sea ice and more open water. “If it had been a more usual sea-ice year, I do not think the dolphins would have been that far north in the spring,” said Jon Aars, primary author of the study and a research scientist at the Norwegian Polar Institute. [See Stunning Photos of the Polar Bears Eating Dolphins on Svalbard] More

393 Romantic Heretic  Jun 15, 2015 9:22:25am

re: #271 Lidane

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My thought on that enclave?

Nice of them to bunch up like that. MUhahahahaha!

394 lawhawk  Jun 15, 2015 9:23:43am

re: #382 HappyWarrior

Yes. Yes he did. The state had subpoenaed him in relations to these very acts for which this guy is now a convicted felon to serve time in prison.

395 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:24:29am

re: #394 lawhawk

Yes. Yes he did. The state had subpoenaed him in relations to these very acts for which this guy is now a convicted felon to serve time in prison.

Which explains why he hasn’t been down that way.

396 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 9:25:20am

re: #387 Lidane

397 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 9:25:42am

OFFS
Now the wingnut talking point of the day is:
HURR HURR RACHEL DOLEZAL WAS FIRED FROM HER JERB FOR BEING WHITE!!!!!!!!

398 KingKenrod  Jun 15, 2015 9:25:57am

re: #382 HappyWarrior

CCJ had a connection to this didn’t he? What a really fucking ghoulish thing to do.

Chuck tried to publish the images. I don’t think he did though.

399 darthstar  Jun 15, 2015 9:25:58am

re: #381 lawhawk

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Booyah!

Someone want to pitch in to give Chuck C Johnson a ticket to Mississippi so he can stand trial?

400 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 9:26:17am

re: #390 HappyWarrior

Oh yes, explains the mass increase in enslaving of Christians in Canada, the UK, etc since SSM was legalized there. Man these people are lunatics. They really think SSM being legalized means they’re going to be victimized but the reality of it is the only thing negative going to happen and this is their own damn fault is that they’re going to go down in history the same way the segregationists did.

I don’t think most spouting off about it that are not the ‘little people’ believe it. They just use it as a carrot to lead the ‘little people’ where they want them to go.

401 Romantic Heretic  Jun 15, 2015 9:27:15am

re: #291 Bird in the Paw

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I’m not sure Lady Stoneheart counts as resurrected.

402 lawhawk  Jun 15, 2015 9:28:52am

Developing:

2 shot as civilian attempted access to Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas.

The base went on lockdown after the Monday morning incident. A statement from the base said two people were taken to a hospital. The Jacksonville police department said the would-be intruder was injured and taken into custody.

Jacksonville Police Sgt. Dustin Brown said a civilian had attempted to gain access to the base, which is in Jacksonville and about 15 miles northeast of Little Rock. A bomb squad was checking a green SUV parked near a visitor center at the base’s main gate.

katv.com

403 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:29:30am

re: #397 The Vicious Babushka

OFFS
Now the wingnut talking point of the day is:
HURR HURR RACHEL DOLEZAL WAS FIRED FROM HER JERB FOR BEING WHITE!!!!!!!!

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Morons.

404 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:30:03am

re: #400 Eventual Carrion

I don’t think most spouting off about it that are not the ‘little people’ believe it. They just use it as a carrot to lead the ‘little people’ where they want them to go.

I don’t either but I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would buy it.

405 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 9:30:11am

re: #363 Timothy Watson

Probably the correct ruling. Hey, do you want police or bus drivers, or employees in a dozen other occupations, smoking marijuana during off-hours?

Sure, why not? Do you have reefer-madness? Most of us don’t support the tyranny of the insane anti-marijuana laws these days.

406 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:30:31am

re: #399 darthstar

Someone want to pitch in to give Chuck C Johnson a ticket to Mississippi so he can stand trial?

Maybe someone should tell him that Ross Barnett wants to have a drink with him.

407 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:31:04am

re: #398 KingKenrod

Chuck tried to publish the images. I don’t think he did though.

That’s right, thanks.

408 darthstar  Jun 15, 2015 9:31:15am

Cool…that comet probe woke up…now getting about three hours of solar charging a day - enough to start doing experiments.

409 lawhawk  Jun 15, 2015 9:32:14am

This graph hits home what happens if the SCt rules in favor of gutting the state exchanges - millions will lose insurance coverage and the GOP will gleefully cheer this state of affairs on as though it’s the President’s fault for GOP obstructionism ever since the law was enacted.

410 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 15, 2015 9:33:44am

re: #404 HappyWarrior

I don’t either but I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would buy it.

Because they want continual reinforcement they are right on SSM and that if/when the laws do change God can still smite those who allowed it to happen by way of drought, plague, famine, etc.

Also, I think for others it reinforces their belief we are living in the End Times and Jesus is coming back soon.

411 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:35:28am

re: #409 lawhawk

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This graph hits home what happens if the SCt rules in favor of gutting the state exchanges - millions will lose insurance coverage and the GOP will gleefully cheer this state of affairs on as though it’s the President’s fault for GOP obstructionism ever since the law was enacted.

They’re a party of dicks for a bunch of dicks. The GOP and right have offered no viable replacement for ACA. They just want it gone. What to me is most telling is when you describe ACA without calling it Obamacare, most people even wingnuts think it’s a good idea and then you go “Hey that’s what we call Obamacare” and then the right immediately turns against it. The right was not against ACA on principle at all, they were against it because of who pushed it. If a Republican president had pushed ACA into law, they would be applauding it and calling it a Nixon in China moment for health care reform.

412 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 9:35:58am

re: #410 Eclectic Cyborg

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Also, I think for others it reinforces their belief we are living in the End Times and Jesus is coming back soon.

I wish he’d hurry up about it.

413 wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2015 9:36:40am
414 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:37:08am

re: #410 Eclectic Cyborg

Because they want continual reinforcement they are right on SSM and that if/when the laws do change God can still smite those who allowed it to happen by way of drought, plague, famine, etc.

Also, I think for others it reinforces their belief we are living in the End Times and Jesus is coming back soon.

True but I don’t get how someone can be convinced that SSM being legalized will mean mass imprisonment for Christians when we’ve seen in nations such as your own native Canada that just isn’t the case. I mean I can almost buy the “moral decline” crap but not ZOMG GAY MARRIAGE WILL BRING MASS JAILING AND KILLING OF CHRISTIANS ELEVENTY. But then again I do feel that this brand of Christianity that is subscribed to them is definitely a form of mental illness.

415 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 9:38:35am

re: #412 Eventual Carrion

I wish he’d hurry up about it.

Some clever grifter will soon pop up to scam the believers into thinking he is Jesus Christ.

416 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 15, 2015 9:38:47am

re: #414 HappyWarrior

True but I don’t get how someone can be convinced that SSM being legalized will mean mass imprisonment for Christians when we’ve seen in nations such as your own native Canada that just isn’t the case. I mean I can almost buy the “moral decline” crap but not ZOMG GAY MARRIAGE WILL BRING MASS JAILING AND KILLING OF CHRISTIANS ELEVENTY. But then again I do feel that this brand of Christianity that is subscribed to them is definitely a form of mental illness.

It’s just classic controlling by fear, reinforced by a flawed interpretation of scripture.

417 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 15, 2015 9:39:19am

re: #415 Justanotherhuman

Some clever grifter will soon pop up to scam the believers into thinking he is Jesus Christ.

Already been happening for years. How do you think most cults get started?

418 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:39:48am

re: #412 Eventual Carrion

I wish he’d hurry up about it.

My retort to those who say “God will stop blessing us if we allow gays to marry” is to remind them that God should he exist allowed slavery to persist for 75+ years after the ratification of the Constitution and blacks to treated as officially second class citizens in some parts of the country for nearly another century after that and didn’t seem to do anything with the genocide of the Native Americans but yes a gay couple getting the same rights under the law will be what finally sets him off. If that’s the case frankly I hope there isn’t a God. But fortunately, I think if there is a God, God has more perspective than that.

419 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:40:30am

re: #416 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s just classic controlling by fear, reinforced by a flawed interpretation of scripture.

Well are we talking about the people who buy the crap or the spreaders of it. I agree that fear is the driving message of the Schalfries of the world.

420 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 9:41:14am

re: #417 Eclectic Cyborg

Already been happening for years. How do you think most cults get started?

Has anyone actually said, and convinced, anyone that he’s JC since David Koresh, though? Most just call themselves “prophets”.

421 Snarknado!  Jun 15, 2015 9:41:34am

re: #409 lawhawk

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This graph hits home what happens if the SCt rules in favor of gutting the state exchanges - millions will lose insurance coverage and the GOP will gleefully cheer this state of affairs on as though it’s the President’s fault for GOP obstructionism ever since the law was enacted.

A GOP-controlled Congress can fix this by passing a one-sentence amendment to ACA. Repeat this any time they claim it’s the President’s doing.

422 urbanmeemaw  Jun 15, 2015 9:41:47am

re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hell, it’s Missouri. Would not surprise me if article referred to a human being and not a bear. Must have been a Freudian slip.

423 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:42:03am

re: #420 Justanotherhuman

Has anyone actually said, and convinced, anyone that he’s JC since David Koresh, though? Most just call themselves “prophets”.

It’s a large planet.

424 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 9:43:21am

Fucking idiot BRING BACK CHILD LABORS!!!!!! troll still infesting my mentions.

Blocked & muted now.

425 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 9:43:32am

re: #420 Justanotherhuman

Has anyone actually said, and convinced, anyone that he’s JC since David Koresh, though? Most just call themselves “prophets”.

There’s that guy in Siberia, Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop.

426 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 15, 2015 9:44:03am

re: #420 Justanotherhuman

Has anyone actually said, and convinced, anyone that he’s JC since David Koresh, though? Most just call themselves “prophets”.

I think there are at least one or two more. I seem to recall a Dateline special awhile back featuring some women who had escaped from a cult run by some nutjob who claimed he was Christ.

427 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:44:47am

re: #424 The Vicious Babushka

Fucking idiot BRING BACK CHILD LABORS!!!!!! troll still infesting my mentions.

Blocked & muted now.

This is why reactionary is a better label for them than conservative. Child labor law repeal advocacy? Sheesh.

428 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:47:52am

One thing conservatives may have had in the past is they had an argument that progress was coming too fast. Today’s conservatives tend to argue not just against progress made today or even by our parents’ generations or really grandparents. No they want to repeal progress made when our great grandparents were of age.

429 Romantic Heretic  Jun 15, 2015 9:48:07am

re: #404 HappyWarrior

I don’t either but I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would buy it.

Because they regard SSM as a threat to their power.

Until recently being white, Christian, straight and male meant you had the power. At the minimum you yourself might not have much power but the group you belonged to did. The group could define how the world worked. Everybody else could sit down and shut up or suffer for getting out of line.

That power is eroding and they really don’t like it.

430 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:50:24am

re: #429 Romantic Heretic

Because they regard SSM as a threat to their power.

Until recently being white, Christian, straight and male meant you had the power. At the minimum you yourself might not have much power but the group you belonged to did. The group could define how the world worked. Everybody else could sit down and shut up or suffer for getting out of line.

That power is eroding and they really don’t like it.

Ah good point.

431 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 9:51:43am

Guess who Jeb’s “favorite author” is!
Hint: It’s also CCJ’s favorite author!

432 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 9:53:43am

re: #431 The Vicious Babushka

Guess who Jeb’s “favorite author” is!
Hint: It’s also CCJ’s favorite author!

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Why doesn’t it shock me that an oligarch loves a writer that loves to suck oligarch tit.

433 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 15, 2015 9:58:50am

re: #431 The Vicious Babushka

I wonder if that actually IS Jeb’s favourite author or just an answer a staffer fed him.

434 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 10:00:00am

re: #417 Eclectic Cyborg

Already been happening for years. How do you think most cults get started?

Rev. Moon, here to fix what Jesus fucked up. It always amazed me how the conservatives brought him to Washington to celebrate but I didn’t hear much of anything about that part of his ministry. The fundies never dug into how he dissed their Jesus.

435 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 10:00:01am

Another bomb threat?

Delta Flight 69 from London,

436 Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2015 10:00:22am

re: #399 darthstar

Someone want to pitch in to give Chuck C Johnson a ticket to Mississippi so he can stand trial?

Explore starting a Gofundme to hire Dog the Bounty Hunter.

437 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 10:02:19am

Idiots At The Gate.

2 taken to hospital after threat at LR Air Force Base gate

thv11.com

438 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 10:02:50am

re: #411 HappyWarrior

The GOP and right have offered no viable replacement for ACA. They just want it gone.

No, what they want is to repeal it while Obama is in office so that they can reintroduce it with a Republican POTUS. That’s their “alternative plan”.

439 darthstar  Jun 15, 2015 10:03:18am

re: #410 Eclectic Cyborg

Because they want continual reinforcement they are right on SSM and that if/when the laws do change God can still smite those who allowed it to happen by way of drought, plague, famine, etc.

Also, I think for others it reinforces their belief we are living in the End Times and Jesus is coming back soon.

Jesus came back already…sadly, he arrived in Arizona, was forced to wear pink undies by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and after a few weeks was put on a bus to Nogales and hasn’t been seen since.

440 Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2015 10:04:23am

re: #437 Justanotherhuman

Idiots At The Gate.

2 taken to hospital after threat at LR Air Force Base gate

thv11.com

Wolves are getting less lonely.

441 Snarknado!  Jun 15, 2015 10:06:39am

re: #438 Lidane

No, what they want is to repeal it while Obama is in office so that they can reintroduce it with a Republican POTUS. That’s their “alternative plan”.

And without the individual mandate, any requirement for businesses to provide insurance, any minimum standard (e.g. covering physical exams), or any restrictions on banning pre-existing conditions. Just like Obama’s plan, really.

*spit*

442 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 10:10:10am

Good—this is a horrible, misogynistic practice, no matter what excuse people want to give it.

UK to fast-track legislation aimed at stopping people who take girls abroad to undergo female genital mutilation over school holidays - @TR_Foundation

trust.org

LONDON, June 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The British government will fast-track legislation intended to target people who take girls abroad to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) so it is in place before the school summer holidays, Prime Minister David Cameron said.

Under the new FGM protection orders, people suspected of trying to take a girl abroad for FGM will be asked to surrender their passport and other travel documents.

Those who breach the orders may be imprisoned for up to five years, a spokeswoman for the prime minister told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. More

443 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 10:14:42am

re: #415 Justanotherhuman

Some clever grifter will soon pop up to scam the believers into thinking he is Jesus Christ.

He appears to be working as a tow truck driver in Philly right now
444 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 15, 2015 10:20:05am

re: #415 Justanotherhuman

Some clever grifter will soon pop up to scam the believers into thinking he is Jesus Christ.

And he spake unto them, saying, “Ye shall neither smarten up a chump nor shall ye give a sucker an even break.”

445 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 10:23:39am

It’s already 90 deg here. And it’s going to be in the 90s at least until the end of June, which is supposed to be around 98.

If this is any indication for the rest of the summer. I’m not leaving this apt unless it’s an emergency.

446 #FergusonFireside  Jun 15, 2015 10:24:06am

re: #436 Decatur Deb

Explore starting a Gofundme to hire Dog the Bounty Hunter.

That would be awesome.

447 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 10:24:52am
448 Kragar  Jun 15, 2015 10:27:09am
449 Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2015 10:27:29am

re: #446 #FergusonFireside

That would be awesome.

Nothing like being stalked by a pro, or even thinking you are.

450 Snarknado!  Jun 15, 2015 10:28:17am

re: #448 Kragar

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

451 Kragar  Jun 15, 2015 10:29:15am

Xbox just announced they’ll be pushing a system upgrade which will make the Xbox One backwards compatible for all the Xbox 360 games.

452 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 10:31:08am

re: #447 The Vicious Babushka

It does make you wonder if she even knows how to tell the truth, and I’m willing to bet the majority of the following is lies—she just sprinkles her narrative with a little bit of truth and is good to go, eh?

“Even, it seems Dolezal herself. In a 2012 article written about her titled “A Radical Mongrel,” Dolezal included being Jewish in her racial mix. which caused the author to write: “Dolezal is a rainbow. African-American, Native American, German, Czech, Swedish, Jewish and Arabic, she is a poster child for diversity in all of its aspects. “I have been raped and abused, experienced domestic violence, hate crimes, abandonment and tragedy in various forms,” she says. “I am a fighter and survivor but I don’t just survive in order to exist. I strive to live life on my own creative terms, without fear, and with the greatest degree of freedom and love possible.”

453 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 10:33:13am

re: #452 Justanotherhuman

> I strive to live life on my own creative terms

Well, she’s definitely creative.

454 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 15, 2015 10:33:47am

re: #452 Justanotherhuman

She lied about being raped, therefore all white women lie about being raped. Except the ones who are raped by blacks.

/

455 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 10:34:40am

re: #451 Kragar

Xbox just announced they’ll be pushing a system upgrade which will make the Xbox One backwards compatible for all the Xbox 360 games.

That might finally motivate me to get an XBox One this Christmas.

456 Dave In Austin  Jun 15, 2015 10:36:51am

re: #447 The Vicious Babushka

Truly a woman of the world…..

457 wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2015 10:36:55am
458 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 10:37:19am

re: #455 Lidane

That might finally motivate me to get an XBox One this Christmas.

Starting later this year, the company’s newest console, the Xbox One, will support a limited number of older Xbox 360 games.

Don’t get fooled by a headline.

459 Kragar  Jun 15, 2015 10:39:13am

re: #455 Lidane

That might finally motivate me to get an XBox One this Christmas.

I might finally get the wife to stop complaining.

“Look at all the games for the other systems! There aren’t any games for this system!”

“Those are Xbox 360 and PS3 games. They’re been around for years. The Xbox One has only been around for a few months, but all the new games will be for this system.”

“Look at all the games for the other systems!”

460 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 10:39:46am

re: #448 Kragar

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Someone ought to ask them about what fabrics they wear.

461 darthstar  Jun 15, 2015 10:40:24am
462 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 10:40:55am

re: #452 Justanotherhuman

“She is a poster child for diversity in all of its aspects. “

Why do I suspect that this was her intent all along?

463 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 10:41:23am

!!!!!!

464 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 10:42:40am

re: #458 No Country For Old Haters

Don’t get fooled by a headline.

It’s okay. I sold most of my games before my last move. I’ve only got a handful that are still even played. If any of them are on the list, I’ll be happy.

465 Kragar  Jun 15, 2015 10:43:58am

re: #464 Lidane

It’s okay. I sold most of my games before my last move. I’ve only got a handful that are still even played. If any of them are on the list, I’ll be happy.

Never had a 360, but it might be nice to be able to pick up a few more games on the cheap.

466 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 10:45:31am

re: #464 Lidane

It’s okay. I sold most of my games before my last move. I’ve only got a handful that are still even played. If any of them are on the list, I’ll be happy.

I’ll get an XBox One eventually, but they don’t have any exclusive games that I consider must-play yet. I barely use my PS4, and probably won’t until they release their VR headset and some VR games. These days all my gaming is done on my PC, or with my phone using the Samsung/Oculus Rift Gear VR

467 SteelPH  Jun 15, 2015 10:45:49am

Sonic Generations better be supported.
Else I will has a sad.

468 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 10:46:11am

re: #465 Kragar

Never had a 360, but it might be nice to be able to pick up a few more games on the cheap.

There are a lot of good 360 games, not that I ever have time to play console games, but they do exist.

469 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 10:46:32am

re: #465 Kragar

Never had a 360, but it might be nice to be able to pick up a few more games on the cheap.

I finally trained the boyfriend to use Gamefly. Instead of wasting money on games that only get played once or twice, he just rents whatever sounds good and we only buy the ones he gets a ton of replay value from, or that we enjoy playing together, like some of the LEGO games.

470 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 10:46:41am

re: #454 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

She lied about being raped, therefore all white women lie about being raped. Except the ones who are raped by blacks.

/

What I said: “…I’m willing to bet the majority of the following is lies—she just sprinkles her narrative with a little bit of truth and is good to go, eh?”

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.”

471 wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2015 10:47:27am
472 Kragar  Jun 15, 2015 10:47:32am

re: #466 No Country For Old Haters

I’ll get an XBox One eventually, but they don’t have any exclusive games that I consider must-play yet. I barely use my PS4, and probably won’t until they release their VR headset and some VR games. These days all my gaming is done on my PC, or with my phone using the Samsung/Oculus Rift Gear VR

I got it more for the kids than for myself. I’m a PC gamer

473 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 10:47:57am

re: #466 No Country For Old Haters

I’ll get an XBox One eventually, but they don’t have any exclusive games that I consider must-play yet. I barely use my PS4, and probably won’t until they release their VR headset and some VR games. These days all my gaming is done on my PC, or with my phone using the Samsung/Oculus Rift Gear VR

Speaking of Occulus Rift, apparently they’re going to ship with XBox One controllers.

474 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 10:48:51am

re: #464 Lidane

There’s a sweet new controller coming out for the XBox One.
arstechnica.com

475 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 10:49:22am

re: #460 HappyWarrior

Someone ought to ask them about what fabrics they wear.

Or the all you can eat shrimp at Red Lobster.

476 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 10:50:12am

re: #472 Kragar

I got it more for the kids than for myself. I’m a PC gamer

Did you see the Bethesda presentation yesterday. Doom, Dishonored 2, and Fallout 4 all look amazing! I meant to get to bed early, but that presentation was too interesting.

477 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 10:50:48am

re: #475 Eventual Carrion

Or the all you can eat shrimp at Red Lobster.

My favorite as someone with a pair of tattoos are the people who get tattooed the anti-gay Leviticus verse.

478 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 10:51:08am

Hey, they paid, so who’s complaining?

The usual, of course.

479 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 10:51:49am

re: #476 No Country For Old Haters

Did you see the Bethesda presentation yesterday. Doom, Dishonored 2, and Fallout 4 all look amazing! I meant to get to bed early, but that presentation was too interesting.

My brother who at this point is a much bigger gamer than me was so estastic about the new Fallout. I still play games. Mostly older games that I’ve played before but I do get a new one now and then. Really looking forward to the new Metal Gear.

480 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 10:52:14am

re: #478 Justanotherhuman

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Hey, they paid, so who’s complaining?

The usual, of course.

They’re always complaining about something.

481 Kragar  Jun 15, 2015 10:52:42am

re: #476 No Country For Old Haters

Did you see the Bethesda presentation yesterday. Doom, Dishonored 2, and Fallout 4 all look amazing! I meant to get to bed early, but that presentation was too interesting.

Didn’t realize they were making another Dishonored. I’ll have to check that one out.

482 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 10:53:18am

Call me crazy but I’d like a return of WWII FPS’s.

483 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 10:53:54am

re: #473 Lidane

Speaking of Occulus Rift, apparently they’re going to ship with XBox One controllers.

Yeah, I’d rather install a 2D treadmill for movement, because I’m really into VR, but for most people a controller will be must have. Samsung sells a console/PC style controller for Gear VR. If you turn with a controller, you’re asking for motion sickness (fortunately I’m immune), but for forward/back movement it’s essential.

Even phone-based VR is good, even though it’s only phone-style games. The headsets and games for PC are going to be unbelievable.

I’ll write up a page reviewing Gear VR and the available games one of these evenings.

484 Kragar  Jun 15, 2015 10:53:57am

re: #482 HappyWarrior

Call me crazy but I’d like a return of WWII FPS’s.

YOU’RE CRAZY!

485 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 10:54:30am

re: #477 HappyWarrior

My favorite as someone with a pair of tattoos are the people who get tattooed the anti-gay Leviticus verse.

Orthodox Jews don’t eat shellfish, get tattoos or wear wool/linen mixture but they really don’t care if others do.

486 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 10:54:42am

re: #479 HappyWarrior

My brother who at this point is a much bigger gamer than me was so estastic about the new Fallout. I still play games. Mostly older games that I’ve played before but I do get a new one now and then. Really looking forward to the new Metal Gear.

I’m getting more into games as I get older, because they just keep getting better.

487 b_sharp  Jun 15, 2015 10:55:00am

re: #424 The Vicious Babushka

Fucking idiot BRING BACK CHILD LABORS!!!!!! troll still infesting my mentions.

Blocked & muted now.

Why both mute and block?

488 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 10:55:22am

re: #480 HappyWarrior

They’re always complaining about something.

Right before they have their jugged fish and a slice of strawberry tart without so much rat in it.

489 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 10:55:28am

re: #485 The Vicious Babushka

Orthodox Jews don’t eat shellfish, get tattoos or wear wool/linen mixture but they really don’t care if others do.

Right and I respect that. It’s like the non crazy PETA vegetarian types that don’t eat meat themselves but understand that those of us who do.

490 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 10:55:49am
491 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 10:55:51am

re: #485 The Vicious Babushka

Orthodox Jews don’t eat shellfish, get tattoos or wear wool/linen mixture but they really don’t care if others do.

If those were the only requirements, I could be an Orthodox Jew with no lifestyle changes.

492 b.d.  Jun 15, 2015 10:56:02am
493 Kragar  Jun 15, 2015 10:56:07am

You would think that given the technological advancements of the last few years, we could actually get a new and improved Mech-Warrior going…

494 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 10:57:01am

re: #486 No Country For Old Haters

I’m getting more into games as I get older, because they just keep getting better.

They really have. And I think it’s only going to get better. I don’t play as much as I used to because i don’t have as much time as I used to. I still do love to game though.

495 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 10:57:13am

re: #487 b_sharp

Why both mute and block?

Usually I just mute but without block they can still show up in my mentions.

496 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2015 10:57:32am

My shocked face, etc.

497 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 10:57:52am

re: #493 Kragar

You would think that given the technological advancements of the last few years, we could actually get a new and improved Mech-Warrior going…

They could definitely have my $60-$70 for that. An older Mech Warrior game was one of the early really immersive-3D games.

498 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 10:58:07am

re: #489 HappyWarrior

Right and I respect that. It’s like the non crazy PETA vegetarian types that don’t eat meat themselves but understand that those of us who do.

I sometimes think PETA really works for the meat industry.

499 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 10:58:12am

re: #496 Backwoods_Sleuth

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My shocked face, etc.

Not surprised either.

500 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 10:58:28am

re: #496 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, Greenwald is doing his utmost to push that narrative.

501 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 15, 2015 10:58:46am

re: #470 Justanotherhuman

What I said: “…I’m willing to bet the majority of the following is lies—she just sprinkles her narrative with a little bit of truth and is good to go, eh?”

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.”

Note the sarc tag. but the RWNJ’s cannot get their heads around the idea that you do not need to be black to join the NAACP. They are just annoyed that Ms D lied and fabricated her personal background.

502 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 10:59:13am

re: #498 The Vicious Babushka

I sometimes think PETA really works for the meat industry.

I don’t know about that heh but they really do paint vegetarians as a bunch of nuts which really isn’t fair since there are definitely legitimate criticisms of the meat industry and of eating too much meat.

503 b_sharp  Jun 15, 2015 10:59:24am

re: #495 The Vicious Babushka

Usually I just mute but without block they can still show up in my mentions.

Good to know.
I hadn’t noticed before.

504 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 11:01:01am

re: #501 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Well, that’s white privilege for you, too. She used hers extensively to get away with her masquerade.

505 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 11:01:05am

Speaking of going veggie. Made probably the best salad I’ve ever made yesterday. Your usual lettuce but with jalapeno hummus, cucumbers, avocado slices, pine nuts, and a nice raspberry vinagerette. Accompanied of course by Naan bread.

506 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 11:01:33am

re: #502 HappyWarrior

I don’t know about that heh but they really do paint vegetarians as a bunch of nuts which really isn’t fair since there are definitely legitimate criticisms of the meat industry and of eating too much meat.

Eating meat is probably immoral for both the killing and all the resources consumed by raising food animals, so I think the vegetarians are right, but it just tastes so good.

507 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 11:02:14am

re: #501 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Note the sarc tag. but the RWNJ’s cannot get their heads around the idea that you do not need to be black to join the NAACP. They are just annoyed that Ms D lied and fabricated her personal background.

Goes against their predilection for total exclusion. And derails any attempt in advance to go for the “separate but equal” defense.
:p

508 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 11:03:16am

re: #480 HappyWarrior

They’re always complaining about something.

They complain when POTUS wakes up in the morning.

509 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 11:04:11am

re: #506 No Country For Old Haters

Eating meat is probably immoral for both the killing and all the resources consumed by raising food animals, so I think the vegetarians are right, but it just tastes so good.

I don’t know about immoral but unpractical perhaps. Other animals do eat other animals but it’s definitely a legitimate point to talk about the resources consumed. But yeah I am a hypocrite I admit it, I eat a ton of meat. I have successfully tried mixing my diet up. It’s just yeah meat tastes so good.

510 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 11:04:29am

re: #508 Lidane

They complain when POTUS wakes up in the morning.

WHY DIDN’T HE WAKE UP IN JAIL!!?!?!

511 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 11:04:37am

re: #501 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Note the sarc tag. but the RWNJ’s cannot get their heads around the idea that you do not need to be black to join the NAACP. They are just annoyed that Ms D lied and fabricated her personal background.

They really want African-Americans to be just as racist as they are. The thing is, oppressed minorities actually have a legitimate motivation for racism, as unfortunate as that is. Members of a privileged majority just have arbitrary hate of the people they want to continue screwing over.

512 Kragar  Jun 15, 2015 11:05:11am

re: #497 No Country For Old Haters

They could definitely have my $60-$70 for that. An older Mech Warrior game was one of the early really immersive-3D games.

I wouldn’t mind piloting a Madcat again, or as my buddies used to call it “HOW THE HELL DID YOU FIT THAT MANY LRMS ON ONE MECH?”

513 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 11:05:51am

re: #511 No Country For Old Haters

They really want African-Americans to be just as racist as they are. The thing is, oppressed minorities actually have a legitimate motivation for racism, as unfortunate as that is. Members of a privileged majority just have arbitrary hate of the people they want to continue screwing over.

I am actually surprised that more blacks do not hate whites. Not that I advocate it but we(white people) really have fucked over black people badly and it’s not just slavery.

514 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 11:06:51am

El Oh El:

Rick Santorum assaulted irony in an interview with a demon-obsessed Colorado lawmaker by denouncing Iranian theocrats as untrustworthy agents of the apocalypse.

515 Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2015 11:07:13am

re: #452 Justanotherhuman

It does make you wonder if she even knows how to tell the truth, and I’m willing to bet the majority of the following is lies—she just sprinkles her narrative with a little bit of truth and is good to go, eh?

“Even, it seems Dolezal herself. In a 2012 article written about her titled “A Radical Mongrel,” Dolezal included being Jewish in her racial mix. which caused the author to write: “Dolezal is a rainbow. African-American, Native American, German, Czech, Swedish, Jewish and Arabic, she is a poster child for diversity in all of its aspects. “I have been raped and abused, experienced domestic violence, hate crimes, abandonment and tragedy in various forms,” she says. “I am a fighter and survivor but I don’t just survive in order to exist. I strive to live life on my own creative terms, without fear, and with the greatest degree of freedom and love possible.”

She thinks she’s Thomasina Joad.

516 Ace-o-aces  Jun 15, 2015 11:07:15am

re: #485 The Vicious Babushka

Orthodox Jews don’t eat shellfish, get tattoos or wear wool/linen mixture but they really don’t care if others do.

They don’t care if non-Jews do. They get upset if other Jews do.

517 wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2015 11:07:20am

re: #506 No Country For Old Haters

Eating meat is probably immoral for both the killing and all the resources consumed by raising food animals, so I think the vegetarians are right, but it just tastes so good.

Raising meat can be done in an ecologically sound way, but it would cost more, so it isn’t done commercially.

518 Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2015 11:08:05am

re: #506 No Country For Old Haters

Eating meat is probably immoral for both the killing and all the resources consumed by raising food animals, so I think the vegetarians are right, but it just tastes so good.

Check your dentition. You are not an herbivore.

519 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 11:08:19am

re: #509 HappyWarrior

I don’t know about immoral but unpractical perhaps. Other animals do eat other animals but it’s definitely a legitimate point to talk about the resources consumed. But yeah I am a hypocrite I admit it, I eat a ton of meat. I have successfully tried mixing my diet up. It’s just yeah meat tastes so good.

Other animals can’t reason and understand what resources they consume.
I think over-consuming resources is probably immoral, even ignoring the taking of life. I’m still not giving up meat, even if that makes me part of the problem.

Also some animals, cats for example, would die if they even tried to live without meat. We don’t require meat as long as we’re very careful to get the nutrition we need from vegetables, beans, and nuts.

520 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 11:08:26am

re: #514 Lidane

El Oh El:

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Uh Rick aren’t you the one who said you were disgusted by then Senator Kennedy’s defense and praising of separation of church and state. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black buddy.

521 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 11:09:06am

re: #511 No Country For Old Haters

They really want African-Americans to be just as racist as they are. The thing is, oppressed minorities actually have a legitimate motivation for racism, as unfortunate as that is. Members of a privileged majority just have arbitrary hate of the people they want to continue screwing over.

That also plays into all the other games. Having radicals on the other side acting as badly as you say the entire group is plays into your rhetoric.* And that also makes it easier to do the propaganda of fear to play up the race issues, need for “strong” government, law & order, etc. that make repression easier and painting political opponents as weak. Not to mention the running distraction from the class war that is really going on.

* - Similar to how the radical Christian and radial Muslims play off each other. They otherwise would have needed to invent each other in order to generate such useful tools.

522 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 11:09:24am

re: #519 No Country For Old Haters

Other animals can’t reason and understand what resources they consume.
I think over-consuming resources is probably immoral, even ignoring the taking of life. I’m still not giving up meat, even if that makes me part of the problem.

Also some animals, cats for example, would die if they even tried to live without meat. We don’t require meat as long as we’re very careful to get the nutrition we need from vegetables, beans, and nuts.

That’s a fair point. I just hesitated with immoral.

523 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 15, 2015 11:09:34am

re: #478 Justanotherhuman

Hey, they paid, so who’s complaining?

The usual, of course.

Black thugs in the WH!!!!111

524 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 11:10:12am

re: #517 wrenchwench

Raising meat can be done in an ecologically sound way, but it would cost more, so it isn’t done commercially.

Anything to save a buck.

525 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 11:10:19am

re: #518 Decatur Deb

Check your dentition. You are not an herbivore.

But people have demonstrated that we can live without meat. My body seems to do well on meat, but I’ve known some healthy vegetarians.

526 makeitstop  Jun 15, 2015 11:11:07am

This is funny:

Smash Mouth Singer Freaks Out When Food Fest Crowd Won’t Stop Throwing Bread At Him

Way to make yourself look like a completely humorless douche, there, dude.

527 jaunte  Jun 15, 2015 11:11:15am

Texas at grave risk of even more flooding due to rare ‘brown ocean’ effect

…a tiny minority of storms don’t weaken over land, or do so very slowly. Even fewer actually intensify as they move inland. …
…these storms can feed off unusually moist soil, which provide the necessary heat for tropical weather systems …

528 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 11:11:21am

It didn’t help him when he needed it

529 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 11:12:14am

re: #509 HappyWarrior

But yeah I am a hypocrite I admit it, I eat a ton of meat. I have successfully tried mixing my diet up. It’s just yeah meat tastes so good.

I have no problem eating lots of veggies and salads and vegetarian meals. Hell, I don’t even drink milk, though I cook with it.

Problem is, meat is damn tasty. I can easily cut back on how much meat I consume, but I’ll never go vegetarian. Vegan is right out of the question, too. It will be a cold day in hell before I give up cheese or ice cream.

530 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 11:12:40am

re: #512 Kragar

I wouldn’t mind piloting a Madcat again, or as my buddies used to call it “HOW THE HELL DID YOU FIT THAT MANY LRMS ON ONE MECH?”

I remember piloting those in pods at Dave&Busters playing free-for-alls a number of times. Then, when opportunity offered, I went with a MadDog for some better non-missile short range firepower since our amateur matches often turned into short-range slugfests* that did not favor Madcats. Tendency for us to use areas with lots of cover.

* - Yes, I did know to run when one of the heavy (but slow) mechs turned up.

531 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 11:12:56am

re: #528 The Vicious Babushka

It didn’t help him when he needed it

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532 Timothy Watson  Jun 15, 2015 11:12:56am

re: #526 makeitstop

This is funny:

Smash Mouth Singer Freaks Out When Food Fest Crowd Won’t Stop Throwing Bread At Him

Way to make yourself look like a completely humorless douche, there, dude.

Throwing food at Smash Mouth is probably one of the nicest thing a critic would do.

533 wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2015 11:13:11am

re: #524 HappyWarrior

Anything to save a buck.

To a point: one of my customers is a rancher who spent more on production to meet the requirements of Whole Foods, who will pay them more.

534 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 11:13:19am

re: #526 makeitstop

This is funny:

Smash Mouth Singer Freaks Out When Food Fest Crowd Won’t Stop Throwing Bread At Him

Way to make yourself look like a completely humorless douche, there, dude.

Hey now you should be glad that you had a gig on. Seriously though Smash Mouth? Way to take me back to seventh grade.

535 b_sharp  Jun 15, 2015 11:13:53am

re: #511 No Country For Old Haters

They really want African-Americans to be just as racist as they are. The thing is, oppressed minorities actually have a legitimate motivation for racism, as unfortunate as that is. Members of a privileged majority just have arbitrary hate of the people they want to continue screwing over.

It’s long been known that people will attribute to others the same beliefs and actions they are willing to take. If they are racist they are quicker to assign racism to others. If they routinely lie they believe others lie as easily. If they worship money, they believe others are completely motivated by money. etc.

536 Kragar  Jun 15, 2015 11:14:57am

re: #530 Feline Fearless Leader

I remember piloting those in pods at Dave&Busters playing free-for-alls a number of times. Then, when opportunity offered, I went with a MadDog for some better non-missile short range firepower since our amateur matches often turned into short-range slugfests* that did not favor Madcats. Tendency for us to use areas with lots of cover.

* - Yes, I did know to run when one of the heavy (but slow) mechs turned up.

That is why I always added jumpjets and enhanced sensors. I’d lock in, go airborne, fire off a salvo and run.

537 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 11:14:58am

re: #530 Feline Fearless Leader

I remember piloting those in pods at Dave&Busters playing free-for-alls a number of times. Then, when opportunity offered, I went with a MadDog for some better non-missile short range firepower since our amateur matches often turned into short-range slugfests* that did not favor Madcats. Tendency for us to use areas with lots of cover.

* - Yes, I did know to run when one of the heavy (but slow) mechs turned up.

I went to D&B about a month ago, and enjoyed some pod games, but I doubt I’ll be back, even though I have about $30 left on my D&B card. VR Gear is more impressive than absolutely anything at D&B, and PC VR coming out late this year, and early next year will be much better.

538 jaunte  Jun 15, 2015 11:15:34am

re: #526 makeitstop

539 Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2015 11:15:34am

re: #525 No Country For Old Haters

But people have demonstrated that we can live without meat. My body seems to do well on meat, but I’ve known some healthy vegetarians.

The number of things we can live without is amazing. We did without books for a few hundred thousand years. If we keep reproducing at our rate, we will eventually all be vegetarians—tree bark, mostly.

540 wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2015 11:15:38am
541 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 11:15:54am

re: #529 Lidane

I have no problem eating lots of veggies and salads and vegetarian meals. Hell, I don’t even drink milk, though I cook with it.

Problem is, meat is damn tasty. I can easily cut back on how much meat I consume, but I’ll never go vegetarian. Vegan is right out of the question, too. It will be a cold day in hell before I give up cheese or ice cream.

Yeah I could never go vegan. I sometimes and this was especially true when I first started working to lose weight had days where I’d go without meat. I have started eating more fish lately too. Not sure how most vegetarians feel about fish. I know there are pescatarians but I don’t know how much representative they are. Meat is good. It’s defintiely part of the culture most of us grow up in from burgers on summer nights to Thanksgiving turkey.

542 makeitstop  Jun 15, 2015 11:16:39am

re: #538 jaunte

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I liked this comment:

“Somebody once told me the world was gonna (throw a) roll (at) me…”

543 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 11:16:46am

re: #535 b_sharp

It’s long been known that people will attribute to others the same beliefs and actions they are willing to take. If they are racist they are quicker to assign racism to others. If they routinely lie they believe others lie as easily. If they worship money, they believe others are completely motivated by money. etc.

Yeah, I always assume that people who call others liars a lot are themselves dishonest, though a certain subculture we routinely call out here actually are compulsive liars.

544 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 11:16:52am

re: #540 wrenchwench

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I’ll have to check out Valencia if I ever go back to Spain.

545 Ace-o-aces  Jun 15, 2015 11:17:09am

re: #528 The Vicious Babushka

It didn’t help him when he needed it

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It’s an article on Breitbart quoting an article from the Daily Mail that quotes an anonymous source. How many layers of bullshit is that? Are we really to believe that if attackers got through the Secret Service, a septuagenarian diving for the .38 in his briefcase was going to be the last line of defense?

546 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 11:17:19am

re: #539 Decatur Deb

The number of things we can live without is amazing. We did without books for a few hundred thousand years. If we keep reproducing at our rate, we will eventually all be vegetarians—tree bark, mostly.

mmmm…fiber.

547 Lidane  Jun 15, 2015 11:17:33am

Er…what?

548 b_sharp  Jun 15, 2015 11:17:51am

Just had an argument with a racist dipshit. He tried to insult me by calling me a Jew, implying I’m black and taunting me into saying something he could label as anti-white.

He missed calling me gay for some reason.

I’m supposed to be insulted by this?

I’ve known for a while their reasoning power is pitiful. I didn’t know their insults were just as bad.

549 Justanotherhuman  Jun 15, 2015 11:17:55am

I just don’t eat mammals. But I’ll drink and eat what the cows give us to use.

Meanwhile, it’s so fucking hot I had to move the birdbath into a totally shaded area. The water felt like what I take a bath in. So, emptied that and put some fresh in after I moved it.

Shit, now I’ll have to move it again The sun has shifted in the last hour over the bldg and it’s in sunlight again. This does the birds no good.

550 wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2015 11:18:28am

re: #544 HappyWarrior

I’ll have to check out Valencia if I ever go back to Spain.

Another one of my customers told me Saturday that she walked across Spain. She’s in her 70’s!

551 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2015 11:18:49am

re: #539 Decatur Deb

The number of things we can live without is amazing. We did without books for a few hundred thousand years. If we keep reproducing at our rate, we will eventually all be vegetarians—tree bark, mostly.

You assume there will be trees.

552 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 11:19:57am

re: #536 Kragar

That is why I always added jumpjets and enhanced sensors. I’d lock in, go airborne, fire off a salvo and run.

When we were playing it was pretty limited stuff in the pods. Sometimes not even having the ability to twist the armament off of straightforward only. Someone good at strafing and the controls with that going would eat everyone else alive since he’d scamper by at an angle while blasting the crap out of you.

So part of it is familiarity with the controls, game, etc. in addition to the hand-eye coordination. Not to mention what options were actually turned on for that session.

553 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 11:20:07am

re: #550 wrenchwench

Another one of my customers told me Saturday that she walked across Spain. She’s in her 70’s!

It’s a beautiful country. I just wish my Spanish was better than elementary. The people there aren’t too chatty if you don’t speak Spanish and I respect that. Just made it difficult for me. Still a beautiful place though.

554 Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2015 11:20:16am

re: #551 The Vicious Babushka

You assume there will be trees.

Born optimist.

555 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 11:21:03am

re: #545 Ace-o-aces

It’s an article on Breitbart quoting an article from the Daily Mail that quotes an anonymous source. How many layers of bullshit is that? Are we really to believe that if attackers got through the Secret Service, a septuagenarian diving for the .38 in his briefcase was going to be the last line of defense?

Assuming he remembered that he had it in there.

556 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 15, 2015 11:22:23am

re: #551 The Vicious Babushka

You assume there will be trees.

Or we’ll gene mod for photosynthesis, drawing moisture from the ground, and then we will be the trees.

557 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 15, 2015 11:22:24am

re: #511 No Country For Old Haters

They really want African-Americans to be just as racist as they are. The thing is, oppressed minorities actually have a legitimate motivation for racism, as unfortunate as that is. Members of a privileged majority just have arbitrary hate of the people they want to continue screwing over.

There is a notion that the NAACP gets together just to plot revenge against Whitey.

Point is, they know that they are a minority and in order to advance themselves, they have to work with the majority. TO the extent that it is willing to cooperate.

Ms D was just ridiculously overwilling to embrace the cause.

558 HappyWarrior  Jun 15, 2015 11:24:53am

PETA and groups like it would be much more effective if they focused their attention on the real problems which are things like the meat industry. You’re not going to get people to stop eating meat by likening them to Nazis. PETA really does the animal rights movement more harm than good which is a shame since it really is a worthy cause.

559 sagehen  Jun 15, 2015 11:26:00am

Re Game of Thrones, Jon Snow…

Click to Reveal

Kit Harrington has signed for two more years. Which is the entire duration the show is expected to go.

whew!!

560 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 11:27:15am

re: #558 HappyWarrior

PETA and groups like it would be much more effective if they focused their attention on the real problems which are things like the meat industry. You’re not going to get people to stop eating meat by likening them to Nazis. PETA really does the animal rights movement more harm than good which is a shame since it really is a worthy cause.

A lot of worthy causes go off the rails when extremists get involved with a movement and alienate sane people. See the Republican party for an example. They take something somewhat reasonable, raise it to an extreme, then add a whole lot of crazy beliefs as they get caught up in their own dogma.

561 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 15, 2015 11:27:53am

re: #559 sagehen

Re Game of Thrones, Jon Snow…

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I stopped watching early in season 2, but might come back to it one day.

562 Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2015 11:30:02am

re: #556 Feline Fearless Leader

Or we’ll gene mod for photosynthesis, drawing moisture from the ground, and then we will be the trees.

MMmmm. Vatsteak.

563 b_sharp  Jun 15, 2015 11:32:58am

re: #546 No Country For Old Haters

mmmm…fiber.

I have to have milk on my tree bark.

564 b_sharp  Jun 15, 2015 11:34:30am

re: #550 wrenchwench

Another one of my customers told me Saturday that she walked across Spain. She’s in her 70’s!

I have an old atlas around here somewhere. Give me a minute to find it and I’ll walk around the world.

I bet I’ll be tired after.

565 Dave In Austin  Jun 15, 2015 11:45:13am

re: #559 sagehen

Re Game of Thrones, Jon Snow…

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Who is the new Kings Guard????

566 Eventual Carrion  Jun 15, 2015 11:51:33am

re: #556 Feline Fearless Leader

Or we’ll gene mod for photosynthesis, drawing moisture from the ground, and then we will be the trees.

Then we will have reach Nirvana.

567 darthstar  Jun 15, 2015 12:03:04pm

re: #547 Lidane

Er…what?

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He says the same thing when he burns his toast in the morning.

568 The Great Eye  Jun 15, 2015 12:07:34pm

re: #565 Dave In Austin

FrankenMountain. Qyburn’s work for the whole season has finally paid off.


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