Overnight Jam: Oddisee, NPR Tiny Desk Concert

Music comes before hip-hop
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June 26, 2015 by SURAYA MOHAMED

Amir Elkhalifa, a.k.a. Oddisee, is an emergent standout in hip-hop. The Prince Georges County, Md., native says he made his new album, The Good Fight, as a reminder that music comes before hip-hop; that music can trigger indescribable feelings; that music is a meditation on our capacity to love; and, finally, that our ambition and greed are in constant conflict with our sense of propriety.

Simply put, Oddisee’s music is genius. He creates just the right amount of space, allowing it to breathe with perfectly timed cadences and vamps. His deceptively intricate rhythm tracks interlock with complementary harmonies and brilliantly constructed bars in ways that appeal to both diehard hip-hop heads — those who decipher and analyze lyrics as a hobby — and those who just want a clutch beat. He’s got it all.

Set List
“That’s Love” 00:00
“Contradiction’s Maze” 03:50
“Belong To The World” 07:40

Credits
Producers: Suraya Mohamed, Maggie Starbard; Audio Engineer: Brian Jarboe; Videographers: Bob Boilen, Colin Marshall, Maggie Starbard; Assistant Producer: Michaela Gugliotta; photo by Colin Marshall/NPR

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375 comments
1 Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 1, 2015 8:38:35pm

I love that the Tiny Desk concerts showcase a variety of Genres.

2 Kragar  Jul 1, 2015 9:03:37pm
3 HappyWarrior  Jul 1, 2015 9:07:59pm

re: #2 Kragar

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Delusion is never a healthy drug.

4 teleskiguy  Jul 1, 2015 9:15:24pm

His breakthrough role in Hollywood was a character who literally talked out of his ass. So…

5 HappyWarrior  Jul 1, 2015 9:16:50pm

re: #4 teleskiguy

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His breakthrough role in Hollywood was a character who literally talked out of his ass. So…

It actually makes me a little sad. I really liked his movies when I was a kid and I still do love Dumb and Dumber after all these years. I’ve known he was an anti-vaccine nutjob for some time and I don’t refuse to see people’s products over their views but Jim is be-clowning himself.

6 teleskiguy  Jul 1, 2015 9:19:18pm

re: #5 HappyWarrior

I’ll never watch another Jim Carrey movie again. He’s a narcissistic psychopath whose rhetoric will lead to pestilence and death. He is scum. Fuck Jim Carrey.

7 HappyWarrior  Jul 1, 2015 9:20:49pm

re: #6 teleskiguy

I’ll never watch another Jim Carrey movie again. He’s a narcissistic psychopath whose rhetoric will lead to pestilence and death. He is scum. Fuck Jim Carrey.

I don’t blame you. What a fucking asshole seriously. I saw his tweet. I think the anti-vaccine movement in this country is the most dangerous along with the religious right.

8 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 1, 2015 9:21:59pm

I was just watching the clips from the Attenborough interview with potus and was struck by how much he’s aged. Obama, that is, not Attenborough :)

Damn, that office ages a person.

9 #FergusonFireside  Jul 1, 2015 9:22:00pm

Like this. Had to promote @musicnegrito the winner of the NPR tiny desk thing in my tweet. If you missed him, listen. listen to all of it.

10 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 1, 2015 9:23:24pm

re: #6 teleskiguy

I’ll never watch another Jim Carrey movie again. He’s a narcissistic psychopath whose rhetoric will lead to pestilence and death. He is scum. Fuck Jim Carrey.

If you’re taking medical advice from the guy who came up with Dumb and Dumber, you’re doing it wrong.

(and yes, I know D&D is a fave for happywarrior (iirc))

11 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 1, 2015 9:24:17pm

BTW, this was the page
littlegreenfootballs.com

12 #FergusonFireside  Jul 1, 2015 9:24:36pm

Good night y’all. Take care till tomorrow.

13 teleskiguy  Jul 1, 2015 9:25:06pm

I’m pretty sure the Founding Fathers - if they were able to observe the United States today - would be absolutely aghast at the anti-science and atavism that’s going on. They founded this country on Enlightenment principles; unfettered free inquiry, science, discovery, philosophy, music, freedom from the shackles of organized religion, etc. etc. The United States today doesn’t stand for that shit. We’re all about HAULIN ASS AND GETTIN PAID now.

14 HappyWarrior  Jul 1, 2015 9:25:22pm

re: #10 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

If you’re taking medical advice from the guy who came up with Dumb and Dumber, you’re doing it wrong.

(and yes, I know D&D is a fave for happywarrior (iirc))

It is but you’re not offending me at all here. I enjoy the guy’s movies but this pisses me off.

15 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jul 1, 2015 9:26:16pm

You know, the thing about that goal, it was a shitty pass, the defender did what she had to do, and the ball had eyes.

16 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 1, 2015 9:27:02pm

re: #14 HappyWarrior

It is but you’re not offending me at all here. I enjoy the guy’s movies but this pisses me off.

Inorite? What ever happened to “I’ll defer to your scientific opinion”?

17 HappyWarrior  Jul 1, 2015 9:27:15pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

I’m pretty sure the Founding Fathers - if they were able to observe the United States today - would be absolutely aghast at the anti-science and atavism that’s going on. They founded this country on Enlightenment principles; unfettered free inquiry, freedom from the shackles of religion, science, discovery, philosophy, music. etc. etc. The United States today doesn’t stand for that shit. We’re all about HAULIN ASS AND GETTIN PAID now.

It seems to me that there are many in this country who refuse to believe the Age of Reason was a good thing for this world. Pisses me off even more when they try to claim that they are actually the pro-science ones and liken their opponents to the people who persecuted Gaileo.

18 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jul 1, 2015 9:28:31pm

The thing about the anti-vaxxers that gets me is that I could understand being misinformed for a while until somebody sets you straight. But guys like this work at remaining uninformed.

19 HappyWarrior  Jul 1, 2015 9:29:00pm

re: #16 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Inorite? What ever happened to “I’ll defer to your scientific opinion”?

That’s what pisses me off the most. I don’t have much of a science background at all. One semester of biology and one of environmental science, just needed two semesters of science for my history degree but the difference is I look at scientists as people who have spent their lives researching this stuff first as their majors as undergraduates and then graduates and now for their careers. And as a man on the spectrum, I can’t tell you how much I resent vaccines being used to make up crap about Autism .

20 teleskiguy  Jul 1, 2015 9:29:10pm

re: #18 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

The thing about the anti-vaxxers that gets me is that I could understand being misinformed for a while until somebody sets you straight. But guys like this work at remaining uninformed.

21 HappyWarrior  Jul 1, 2015 9:29:53pm

re: #18 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

The thing about the anti-vaxxers that gets me is that I could understand being misinformed for a while until somebody sets you straight. But guys like this work at remaining uninformed.

Oh yeah I mean you hear something wrong once and it’s like okay I was misinformed by Carrey and the other anti-vaxxers continue put their hands over their eyes and ears and go I am not listening to you blah blah blah.

22 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 1, 2015 9:37:01pm

I vaxxed each of my kids, because it’s what SCIENCE recommended, and I can’t imagine putting them at risk for some stupid crusade like this. I’m angry, and I’m not going to put up with their bullshit. You risk my kids for your little anti-science crusade, and I’m gonna rise up and kick your ass. :(

23 HappyWarrior  Jul 1, 2015 9:40:25pm

You know my brother was an anti-vaccine person for a time. His daughter is 15 months old now. He gets her vaccinated for everything she needs. When he went to climb Mount Kilamajaro over the winter. He got the vaccines. There is no reason why these people cannot educate themselves and reconsider.

24 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 1, 2015 9:44:13pm

re: #23 HappyWarrior

You know my brother was an anti-vaccine person for a time. His daughter is 15 months old now. He gets her vaccinated for everything she needs. When he went to climb Mount Kilamajaro over the winter. He got the vaccines. There is no reason why these people cannot educate themselves and reconsider.

Other than that they’re apparently morons.

25 HappyWarrior  Jul 1, 2015 9:49:16pm

re: #24 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Other than that they’re apparently morons.

Ha goes without saying,

26 HappyWarrior  Jul 1, 2015 9:53:54pm

buzzfeed.com
But i was told that gay marriage was an attack on religious liberty.

27 teleskiguy  Jul 1, 2015 9:56:39pm
28 teleskiguy  Jul 1, 2015 10:06:48pm

I’m taking lawhawk’s rigid stance on vaccinations. You either vaccinate your kids or get relentlessly shunned, ridiculed and brought down to size until your kids get vaccinated or they die.

Same almost goes for global warming for me. I say almost because there’s a number of close friends of mine who seriously question global warming. I can only say so much to them about it, fact of the matter is some of my friends (yes, folks my age, I was born in ‘82) get most of their information from Fox News and cruddy conservative memes on Facebook, despite the very decent education they got at public school (we went to the same schools, how come I never watch Fox News [unless at MediaMatters or something] and they do?). I’m going to give it another decade or more before I renounce those folks. They’re dear friends, folks I’ve known since I was a small child. So, we’ll see.

29 bratwurst  Jul 1, 2015 10:11:04pm

I didn’t imagine Ted Cruz could say something dumber this week than suggesting having elections for SCOTUS judges, but…

Cruz: Cuba embassy a ‘slap in the face’ to Israel

Quit using Israel as a political cudgel, you fucking pandering asshole.

30 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 1, 2015 10:17:25pm

re: #29 bratwurst

I didn’t imagine Ted Cruz could say something dumber this week than suggesting having elections for SCOTUS judges, but…

Cruz: Cuba embassy a ‘slap in the face’ to Israel

Quit using Israel as a political cudgel, you fucking pandering asshole.

How the fuck does Cuba have anything to do with Israel?

31 freetoken  Jul 1, 2015 10:24:34pm

re: #30 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

How the fuck does Cuba have anything to do with Israel?

Because Je$u$.

32 freetoken  Jul 1, 2015 10:25:23pm

Oops…

This Mom Is Mad At Jim Carrey For Tweeting A Photo Of Her Son With Autism

Carrey used the boy’s photo without his family’s permission in a tweet insinuating that vaccines cause autism. But the boy has a genetic autism syndrome that has nothing to do with vaccines, his mom told BuzzFeed News.

33 teleskiguy  Jul 1, 2015 10:26:51pm

I had an excellent public education experience. In the county in Colorado I grew up in (think Vail Ski Area and everything 40 miles to the west), schools are paid for with property taxes and voter-approved bonds. I opened my first email account (at excite dot com, remember that site?!?) at my public school in 1995. We had (have) the funds to have all kinds of cool shit at our schools.

This has been a check on teleskiguy’s privilege.

34 freetoken  Jul 1, 2015 10:30:57pm

I had an ok public education. Unfortunately my high school didn’t have a calculus class, but few did way back then. So I started college a bit deficient for jumping right into physics.

Went back to the home town last year, and see that my grade school is now home to some kind of employment co-op, and my junior high school is now something other than a school. The place I was born has been gutted by the rust-belt syndrome, though its industries were not classic rust belt type of companies.

Anyway, education is by and large indoctrination, it always has been. The truly clever will make it through this and find out ways to survive in the harsh world. Personally I’ve found the brightest people to be artists, not necessarily those who hold degrees from fancy universities.

35 freetoken  Jul 1, 2015 10:32:44pm

I see that the Bratfrats and the Daily Caller are the big cheerleaders for Trump.

Figures.

36 teleskiguy  Jul 1, 2015 10:33:47pm

Happy Canada Day!

37 teleskiguy  Jul 1, 2015 10:36:15pm

re: #34 freetoken

Personally I’ve found the brightest people to be artists, not necessarily those who hold degrees from fancy universities.

This, coming from you, I find very comforting.

I consider myself an artist, more than anything else (besides athlete). I graduated college with a degree in English. So…

38 teleskiguy  Jul 1, 2015 10:49:28pm
39 Nyet  Jul 1, 2015 11:06:30pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

I’m pretty sure the Founding Fathers - if they were able to observe the United States today - would be absolutely aghast at the anti-science and atavism that’s going on.

It’s a double-edged sword. They would have also (if not more so) been aghast at a black president and same-sex marriage.

40 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 1, 2015 11:17:15pm

re: #36 teleskiguy

Happy Canada Day!

Not to be confused with Bret Harte. en.wikipedia.org

41 teleskiguy  Jul 1, 2015 11:20:00pm

re: #39 Nyet

It’s a double-edged sword. They would have also (or moreso) been aghast at a black president and same-sex marriage.

Too true.

42 teleskiguy  Jul 1, 2015 11:24:36pm

re: #40 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Not to be confused with Bret Harte. en.wikipedia.org

Believe it or Nuts!

43 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 1, 2015 11:57:14pm

re: #37 teleskiguy

This, coming from you, I find very comforting.

I consider myself an artist, more than anything else (besides athlete). I graduated college with a degree in English. So…

I hear you have really nice legs :D

44 goddamnedfrank  Jul 2, 2015 12:03:59am

re: #39 Nyet

It’s a double-edged sword. They would have also (or moreso) been aghast at a black president and same-sex marriage.

I kind of feel that that hardest thing for them to adjust to would be women’s equality. One can make a strong argument I think that much of the old time racism and homophobia was wrapped up in misogyny. White male society saw the safeguarding of white female virtue as a reason to fear black men, while the slaveowners of the era raped black women with impunity. Even after slavery stories of blacks raping white women were common lynch language. Emmett Till was murdered for simply whistling at one, while white men continued to rape black women and get away with it. Similarly one can place misogyny at the root of homophobia, because it was seen as subverting the traditional male role as the head of the family from both ends. Gay males were seen as womanish and therefore not worthy of respect or dignity, while lesbian couples were seen as a direct threat to the male role of head of household.

45 teleskiguy  Jul 2, 2015 12:23:20am

I’ve been listening to more Yes than usual. :’(

That bass.

46 teleskiguy  Jul 2, 2015 12:41:54am
47 KiTA  Jul 2, 2015 12:49:46am

I’m sitting here daydreaming that maybe someone will call from work. “Hey, it was all a misunderstanding, can you come back?”

How pathetic is that?

Getting stuff packed up. Trash is taken out, laundry is done, outdoor pot of tomatoes is watered (took over 5 gallons of water, apparently I’m letting them get too dry). Indoor plants… getting some reverse osmosis water made to water them, hope to leave with them full of water and 2 gallons to spare… which honestly probably won’t be enough.

Still haven’t gotten a spare copy of my key to my buddy to come water them… I have idea what I’m gonna do if I lose my collection of carnivorous plants on top of everything else?

No direct deposit yet, but it’s still early — although I’ve heard that they make you come down and pick up your final check in person. I’ll probably have to get a ride down to Nevada to get my final check after I get back in town.

48 Ace-o-aces  Jul 2, 2015 12:59:45am

re: #29 bratwurst

I didn’t imagine Ted Cruz could say something dumber this week than suggesting having elections for SCOTUS judges, but…

Cruz: Cuba embassy a ‘slap in the face’ to Israel

Quit using Israel as a political cudgel, you fucking pandering asshole.

49 goddamnedfrank  Jul 2, 2015 1:39:23am

Donald Trump’s comments on immigration complicate GOP’s ‘Latino problem’

You don’t say.

But as Latinos reel in anger and celebrities and corporate sponsors drop their associations with Trump, the Republican Party’s other presidential hopefuls face an increasingly uncomfortable choice: engage with Trump and elevate his already high visibility, or stay silent and risk appearing to condone his statements. So far, most have said little, hoping the controversy will fade.

It’s the latest Latino problem for the GOP, which will have great difficulty winning the White House if it fails to expand its overwhelmingly white base to include minorities. The problem will only worsen if Trump continues to do well enough in polls to qualify for the party’s televised debates.

The real problem is that the GOP base is eating it up. Just by being his terrible self Trump has managed to re-expose to both the racist core of the Republican electorate and the absolutely craven nature of the party’s leadership.

50 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 2, 2015 3:06:14am

re: #49 goddamnedfrank

Donald Trump’s comments on immigration complicate GOP’s ‘Latino problem’

You don’t say.

The real problem is that the GOP base is eating it up. Just by being his terrible self Trump has managed to re-expose to both the racist core of the Republican electorate and the absolutely craven nature of the party’s leadership.

The GOP leadership had their chance to challenge or at least distance themselves from such rhetoric. They chose to play it safe and kept their mouth shut to avoid being shouted down at town hall meetings by some goombah in a tricorne hat carrying a Gadsen flag. Now it is coming back to bite them in the ass.

51 Decatur Deb  Jul 2, 2015 3:24:48am

re: #28 teleskiguy

I’m taking lawhawk’s rigid stance on vaccinations. You either vaccinate your kids or get relentlessly shunned, ridiculed and brought down to size until your kids get vaccinated or they die.

…snip

Think I see your problem, there. Bringing an anti-vax cultist around is an ideological conversion, and shunning and ridicule are not the way you convert the natives.

It took us several years to recover our biology teacher daughter after she realized her child was going to be something like 8-9 on an autism scale. She’s mostly back, and everybody has their shots, though she still insists on ‘spacing’ them.

52 KiTA  Jul 2, 2015 3:36:38am

Woot, Direct Deposit went through. That’s… ~2 months of rent. Some breathing room.

53 Bubblehead II  Jul 2, 2015 3:50:18am

re: #52 KiTA

You left a pair of glasses down there. I’m taking the 0530 down to get my check. You want me to bring them back up?

54 Frenchy  Jul 2, 2015 3:53:13am

Yeah bottom line is Trump is seen as a sideshow, but he is actually the ideal candidate as far as a large number of the hardcore Republican constituents are concerned.

55 Bird in the Paw  Jul 2, 2015 4:17:42am

re: #30 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

How the fuck does Cuba have anything to do with Israel?

Cuba fought against Israel a long time ago and Israel still maintains embargo against Israel. And Jebus.

56 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 2, 2015 4:19:21am

re: #54 Frenchy

Yeah bottom line is Trump is seen as a sideshow, but he is actually the ideal candidate as far as a large number of the hardcore Republican constituents are concerned.

Before it was just an unlikely fantasy of mine, but now, with all of this validation he’s getting from the troglodyte base, I think there’s a real chance that Trump will pull a PEA-row after he flunks out of the GOP primaries.

57 Frenchy  Jul 2, 2015 4:26:30am

Trump’s entire public persona is essentially that of a professional wrestler (in character). He can’t actually be this way in real life can he?

58 Dark_Falcon  Jul 2, 2015 4:29:30am

re: #51 Decatur Deb

Think I see your problem, there. Bringing an anti-vax cultist around is an ideological conversion, and shunning and ridicule are not the way you convert the natives.

It took us several years to recover our biology teacher daughter after she realized her child was going to be something like 8-9 on an autism scale. She’s mostly back, and everybody has their shots, though she still insists on ‘spacing’ them.

Drive-by post:

Which makes an important point: The connection in that teacher’s mind between autism and the vaccines her child received was not evidence based, but a visceral one. Getting her mostly past it required time, well-crafted explanations, and a great deal of empathy. Shunning would not have worked as well. Oh it likely would have gotten the kids the vaccines, but using that kind of ‘iron fist approach’ tends to make the person subjected to it hate those who employed it.

59 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 4:46:38am

Such Presidential. Very Leadership.

60 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 4:47:21am

Has the “New Comments” counter thing stopped working?

61 Decatur Deb  Jul 2, 2015 4:48:53am

re: #60 The Vicious Babushka

Has the “New Comments” counter thing stopped working?

Mine did last night. Not sure the pick box didn’t get un-picked in the changeover.

62 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 2, 2015 4:50:11am

re: #59 The Vicious Babushka

Such Presidential. Very Leadership.

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Damn! I may just have to go to Macy’s and buy something. I guess I’ve been “boycotting” them since they took over and destroyed The Bon Marché. I don’t think I even went there during the intermediate period when it still said “The Bon-Macy’s”. Politics makes strange bedfellows, etc…..

63 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 2, 2015 4:51:46am

re: #60 The Vicious Babushka

Has the “New Comments” counter thing stopped working?

Mine has, but it continued working on the last thread I had in another tab. I tried restarting Firefox and then rebooting altogether. Still nothing.

64 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 4:55:35am

re: #62 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Damn! I may just have to go to Macy’s and buy something. I guess I’ve been “boycotting” them since they took over and destroyed The Bon Marché. I don’t think I even went there during the intermediate period when it still said “The Bon-Macy’s”. Politics makes strange bedfellows, etc…..

We used to have a department store called J. L. Hudson that was in business for like 100 years. They had a main store downtown and anchor stores at all the major malls.

They closed the downtown store in 1984 (Thanks Ronnie!), which was a fucking LANDMARK.

Then they were taken over by Marshall Field, and then Marshall Field was eated by Macy’s.

I used to spend a shit ton of money at Hudson’s, Macy’s not so much but I still have a card. I should buy some stuff.

65 Decatur Deb  Jul 2, 2015 4:58:05am

Going to be scarce for a week or so. Starting Phase II of the Great 2015 Grandparent Trek. This segment includes a stop at a little historic amusement park near Chattanooga. Wooden coasters for the win!

66 Timothy Watson  Jul 2, 2015 5:01:10am

George Felix Allen has joined Big Gay:

To say former Virginia governor and U.S. senator George Allen has evolved on gay rights is an understatement. His shift is more revolution than evolution.

Allen, once a vocal gay-rights foe, was among those applauding Friday as the Supreme Court affirmed the right of same-sex couples to marry.

“Similar to many other people, my views have evolved through friends and associates,” Allen said in an interview with The Washington Post.

washingtonpost.com

67 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 2, 2015 5:10:32am

re: #64 The Vicious Babushka

We used to have a department store called J. L. Hudson that was in business for like 100 years. They had a main store downtown and anchor stores at all the major malls.

They closed the downtown store in 1984 (Thanks Ronnie!), which was a fucking LANDMARK.

Then they were taken over by Marshall Field, and then Marshall Field was eated by Macy’s.

I used to spend a shit ton of money at Hudson’s, Macy’s not so much but I still have a card. I should buy some stuff.

Yeah, Marshall Field owned The Bon for many years before Macy’s bought them out. We also used to have Frederick & Nelson, which was Seattle’s version of Neimann-Marcus—their downtown store really was a landmark. They gradually became just a Bon Marché clone, only with higher prices. This is not a valid business model.

The real loss was Frangos (chocolates). You can still buy them, first at the Bon and now Macy’s, but they’re Chicago Frangos, which are different from Seattle Frangos. Plus, they’re in a standard candy box. What good are they without the hexagonal-prism box that’s impossible to giftwrap so you can’t tell what it is?

68 Romantic Heretic  Jul 2, 2015 5:11:27am

re: #17 HappyWarrior

It seems to me that there are many in this country who refuse to believe the Age of Reason was a good thing for this world. Pisses me off even more when they try to claim that they are actually the pro-science ones and liken their opponents to the people who persecuted Gaileo.

I would recommend the book What is America? by Ronald Wright.

The basic thesis is that the author divides America into Enlightenment America and Backwoods America. The latter has always lived at the edge of the nation, moving steadily westward as civilization encroached on their farms, and as they exhausted the resources of the area they lived in. Backwoods America has always disliked and distrusted Enlightenment America, and now that there is no frontier that dislike has often festered into hatred and denial.

When I say they want the Good Old Days™ back this is what I’m talking about. They want those days where they lived on hardscrabble farms and no one except God told them what to do.

69 Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Jul 2, 2015 5:16:06am

Morning from the beach yall’

Another attack at the beaches of North Carolina yesterday. I read that there have been more attacks in the last 3 weeks than in any one recorded year. All the attacks are happening about 80-100 miles south of where my family is staying, but some beach goers are concerned.

70 Dr. Matt  Jul 2, 2015 5:16:22am
71 Decatur Deb  Jul 2, 2015 5:18:12am

re: #69 nearly-headless smith25

Morning from the beach yall’

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72 Romantic Heretic  Jul 2, 2015 5:18:27am

re: #27 teleskiguy

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And once again that scene from Watchmen is flashing in my head.

…

73 Dr. Matt  Jul 2, 2015 5:19:10am

For fucking Christ’s sake…..not this shit again

74 Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Jul 2, 2015 5:20:43am

re: #71 Decatur Deb

Dum-dum
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Might have to watch Jaws tonight

75 Romantic Heretic  Jul 2, 2015 5:21:23am

re: #34 freetoken

I had an ok public education. Unfortunately my high school didn’t have a calculus class, but few did way back then. So I started college a bit deficient for jumping right into physics.

Went back to the home town last year, and see that my grade school is now home to some kind of employment co-op, and my junior high school is now something other than a school. The place I was born has been gutted by the rust-belt syndrome, though its industries were not classic rust belt type of companies.

Anyway, education is by and large indoctrination, it always has been. The truly clever will make it through this and find out ways to survive in the harsh world. Personally I’ve found the brightest people to be artists, not necessarily those who hold degrees from fancy universities.

My own observation of the educational system is that it is an assembly line. Not to turn people into human beings capable of citizenship but rather human resources suitable for employment.

76 Dr. Matt  Jul 2, 2015 5:22:37am

wusa9.com is reporting there are two active shooters

77 Decatur Deb  Jul 2, 2015 5:26:29am

re: #67 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Yeah, Marshall Field owned The Bon for many years before Macy’s bought them out. We also used to have Frederick & Nelson, which was Seattle’s version of Neimann-Marcus—their downtown store really was a landmark. They gradually became just a Bon Marché clone, only with higher prices. This is not a valid business model.

The real loss was Frangos (chocolates). You can still buy them, first at the Bon and now Macy’s, but they’re Chicago Frangos, which are different from Seattle Frangos. Plus, they’re in a standard candy box. What good are they without the hexagonal-prism box that’s impossible to giftwrap so you can’t tell what it is?

Pittsburgh had the great Kaufmann’s, including these murals and Frank Lloyd Wright interiors. The owner built Falling Water.

departmentstoremuseum.blogspot.com

triblive.com

78 Decatur Deb  Jul 2, 2015 5:31:49am

re: #74 nearly-headless smith25

Might have to watch Jaws tonight

Discovery Channel Shark Week starts Monday.

79 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 5:34:55am

re: #78 Decatur Deb

Discovery Channel Shark Week starts Monday.

That’s it. Those damn sharks are just trying to get on TV, and they will eat anybody to accomplish it. Kinda like the Palin clan.

80 Decatur Deb  Jul 2, 2015 5:36:45am

re: #79 Eventual Carrion

That’s it. Those damn sharks are just trying to get on TV, and they will eat anybody to accomplish it. Kinda like the Palin clan.

Gotta work at it to stay relevant for 300 million years.

81 lawhawk  Jul 2, 2015 5:39:50am

re: #22 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I vaxxed each of my kids, because it’s what SCIENCE recommended, and I can’t imagine putting them at risk for some stupid crusade like this. I’m angry, and I’m not going to put up with their bullshit. You risk my kids for your little anti-science crusade, and I’m gonna rise up and kick your ass. :(

I got vaccinated, my brother got vaccinated, and his kids all get vaccinated. But mom couldn’t get vaccinated due to her ongoing health condition, which meant that everyone else around her was a potential threat if they weren’t vaccinated - like for pneumonia or influenza or measles or mumps. It pisses me off to no end when people ignore the science, and the threat they pose to everyone else when they don’t get vaccinated (or don’t vaccinate their kids) - putting everyone at needless risk of entirely preventable illnesses and the costs to everyone for medical care to address illnesses that should otherwise be preventable.

82 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)  Jul 2, 2015 5:42:01am

I’m late to the party.

A friend in DC near the naval yard says they’ve gotten messages on the emergency text thingy that says “Shelter in place, do not go out”

83 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 5:45:19am

HURR HURR GUN FREE ZONES!!!!!!

Oh wait…

84 lawhawk  Jul 2, 2015 5:54:50am

Shelter in place, and workers who had not yet arrived at the Navy Yard were told to stay home. Officers responding to active shooter situation at the Washington Navy Yard.

85 Dr. Matt  Jul 2, 2015 5:55:03am

People are reported hearing shots, but nothing is confirmed at this point.

86 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 5:55:04am

re: #65 Decatur Deb

Going to be scarce for a week or so. Starting Phase II of the Great 2015 Grandparent Trek. This segment includes a stop at a little historic amusement park near Chattanooga. Wooden coasters for the win!

Morning all!

What park is that DD? I used to have a link to a site of all the great coasters in America. I don’t know if the site is still going, haven’t been there for a few years. I’d like to check it out.

One of the guys all time favorites was the original Blue Streak at Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio. I haven’t been there in some time, but the guy said they slowed it down so it isn’t as vicious in the turns.

By the way, have you ever rode that beautiful coaster at Dollywood? The pictures alone made that look like fun just the way it was built into the hills.

87 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 2, 2015 5:55:57am

Google has apologized after its new photo app labelled two black people as “gorillas”.

88 lawhawk  Jul 2, 2015 5:57:28am
89 Dr. Matt  Jul 2, 2015 5:58:25am

Starting to sound like a possible false alarm.

90 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 2, 2015 5:59:52am

Canals!!

91 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 6:03:34am

Li’l butthurt Confederate in my timeline==>

92 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 6:08:17am

Note how the goalposts shift

93 lawhawk  Jul 2, 2015 6:11:45am

And yet the GOP thinks that running against Obama’s third term will be a winning strategy? Seriously?

Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues cherry picking tweets from supporters who ignore Trump’s history and origin (he became rich because he inherited his dad’s real estate fortune, not because he was a self made billionaire like say Jobs, Gates, or Buffett). It’s easy to be a billionaire when you’re fed it with a silver spoon.

94 lawhawk  Jul 2, 2015 6:12:29am

re: #89 Dr. Matt

Starting to sound like a possible false alarm.

Or Swatting. Either is plausible.

95 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 6:14:36am

This is my hometown, and this shit sucks.
theatlantic.com

ETA: It’s a long read, and depressing. I couldn’t read it in one sitting.

96 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 6:15:53am
97 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 6:17:31am

re: #92 The Vicious Babushka

98 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 6:18:55am

Is the site acting wonky for anyone else?

99 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 6:20:53am

Well, that was strange. Two Win 7 computers connected together on the same Uvers network (hardwire) and I go to access my ATT/Yahoo email on the one I always use for the account and I get what appears to be a server page saying no connection with some text.

So, 10 seconds later I go to the other and it logs straight in? Go back to the original one to see if it was just a temp connection problem…still shows the server page. Strange?

100 wrenchwench  Jul 2, 2015 6:22:12am

It’s a newt, not a lizard.

101 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 6:22:54am

re: #98 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Is the site acting wonky for anyone else?

I have the same New Comments button not updating like others mention above.

Hmm. Maybe The Donald™ has sued the internet and had it shut down.

Ohnoes!!!

102 Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Jul 2, 2015 6:24:43am

re: #98 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Is the site acting wonky for anyone else?

Yep. No auto loading of comments for me.

103 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 6:24:56am

I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I!!

104 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 6:25:08am

re: #92 The Vicious Babushka

Note how the goalposts shift

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I don’t know if you saw this image I did from last night in answer to that back’n’forth you had going last night.

105 Decatur Deb  Jul 2, 2015 6:26:58am

re: #86 ObserverArt

Morning all!

What park is that DD? I used to have a link to a site of all the great coasters in America. I don’t know if the site is still going, haven’t been there for a few years. I’d like to check it out.

One of the guys all time favorites was the original Blue Streak at Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio. I haven’t been there in some time, but the guy said they slowed it down so it isn’t as vicious in the turns.

By the way, have you ever rode that beautiful coaster at Dollywood? The pictures alone made that look like fun just the way it was built into the hills.

It’s Lake Winnie-Something. Daughter knows it.

106 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 6:26:59am

re: #86 ObserverArt

Morning all!

What park is that DD? I used to have a link to a site of all the great coasters in America. I don’t know if the site is still going, haven’t been there for a few years. I’d like to check it out.

One of the guys all time favorites was the original Blue Streak at Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio. I haven’t been there in some time, but the guy said they slowed it down so it isn’t as vicious in the turns.

By the way, have you ever rode that beautiful coaster at Dollywood? The pictures alone made that look like fun just the way it was built into the hills.

This is the Blue Streak I grew up riding. The last 10 years they have been having financial problems that have kept the park closed alot. But a few years back my youngest and I went to the Halloween at the Park haunted houses in the park and a night ride of the Blue Streak was part of the ticket price. An old wooden coaster in the dark is quite exhilarating.

107 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 6:28:22am

re: #102 nearly-headless smith25

re: #101 ObserverArt

I don’t get the new comment count, and the favicon keeps twitching. It’s just weird. Also, the thread is flush left, which is very unusual as well. :/

108 Decatur Deb  Jul 2, 2015 6:29:43am

By the way, have you ever rode that beautiful coaster at Dollywood? The pictures alone made that look like fun just the way it was built into the hills.
Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

Nope—Regionally more given to Kennywood and Palisades Park. (RIP)

109 De Kolta Chair  Jul 2, 2015 6:30:05am

All Tomorrow’s Peanuts

The Velvet Underground as Peanuts characters, from the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles, 1990
110 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 6:31:32am

re: #107 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I don’t get the new comment count, and the favicon keeps twitching. It’s just weird. Also, the thread is flush left, which is very unusual as well. :/

That happens to me when Chrome tuckers out. And it does seem to happen when multiple tabs are open and there is a lot of video or ad loading in all of them. Same exact issues. Chrome goes to the left and there is dancing of icons, etc.

111 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 6:31:49am

So far he’s thrown out every lame talking point except HURR HURR DEMOCRATS!!!!

112 wrenchwench  Jul 2, 2015 6:32:02am

The oceans are full of eyes. Giant squid scan the depths with the world’s largest ones, which are oddly similar to those of the sperm whales that hunt them. Mantis shrimps watch for prey using eyes that work like satellites. Starfish stare through the tips of their arms, chitons look up through lenses made of rock, and scallops peer at the water through dozens of eyes with mirrors inside them. But to see the strangest eyes of all—eyes so weird that we can’t even be sure that they are eyes—you have to squint.

[…]

113 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 6:35:32am

re: #108 Decatur Deb

By the way, have you ever rode that beautiful coaster at Dollywood? The pictures alone made that look like fun just the way it was built into the hills.
Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

Nope—Regionally more given to Kennywood and Palisades Park. (RIP)

Daughter and her boyfriend were out to Kennywood a couple weekends ago. They had a great time. They both go to Slippery Rock U. and had some time between their work schedules and ran down for the day. I haven’t been in forever.

114 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 2, 2015 6:36:15am

Morning, Lizards.

Took off today because Freedom, stopped in at DD for some grub and saw the news reporting about the shooting at the Navy Yard, thought at first it was replaying the shooting from a year or so ago (or was it two?).

115 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 6:38:14am

re: #110 ObserverArt

That happens to me when Chrome tuckers out. And it does seem to happen when multiple tabs are open and there is a lot of video or ad loading in all of them. Same exact issues. Chrome goes to the left and there is dancing of icons, etc.

Ah, maybe it’s the Lincoln video I have in the other tab.
…

116 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 6:38:29am
117 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 6:38:35am

re: #114 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Morning, Lizards.

Took off today because Freedom, stopped in at DD for some grub and saw the news reporting about the shooting at the Navy Yard, thought at first it was replaying the shooting from a year or so ago (or was it two?).

DD?

118 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 6:39:31am

re: #106 Eventual Carrion

This is the Blue Streak I grew up riding. The last 10 years they have been having financial problems that have kept the park closed alot. But a few years back my youngest and I went to the Halloween at the Park haunted houses in the park and a night ride of the Blue Streak was part of the ticket price. An old wooden coaster in the dark is quite exhilarating.

That looks like a classic old coaster like several small parks in Ohio used to have. My fathers Westinghouse Family Picnics used to be at Meyers Lake in Massillon Ohio. There were smallish amusement parks like that at Buckeye Lake, Indian Lake, Chippewa Lake and others.

Here is a YouTube of Meyers Lake. Sure brings back memories seeing this. A great memory for a holiday weekend.

…

119 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 2, 2015 6:40:58am

re: #117 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

DD?

Dunkin Donuts

120 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 2, 2015 6:42:15am

re: #116 The Vicious Babushka

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I was never satisfied with just the gay part. We have to be gay polygamists and a cult if we’re going to have any fun.

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121 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 6:44:26am

re: #119 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Dunkin Donuts

Ah, you live in DD territory. I left KK territory in Kentucky and found it in Hong Kong, too. We have neither here in Hunan (AFAIK) but there is a Daylight Donuts joint in Changsha. I walked past it with two Chinese friends by chance and went nuts. A real donut shop in the middle of China! OMG!

They thought I was nuts, I’m sure.

122 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 6:44:52am

re: #120 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I was never satisfied with just the gay part. We have to be gay polygamists and a cult if we’re going to have any fun.

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Our friend has a rich fantasy life because real life sucks.

123 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 6:45:08am

re: #119 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Dunkin Donuts

haha, cool. Out here in the sticks we don’t have a Dunkin’ Donuts, so i’m a little slow on my abbreviations. :)

124 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 6:46:13am

re: #123 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

haha, cool. Out here in the sticks we don’t have a Dunkin’ Donuts, so i’m a little slow on my abbreviations. :)

I live in TimHortonLand

125 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 6:46:32am

re: #120 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I was never satisfied with just the gay part. We have to be gay polygamists and a cult if we’re going to have any fun.

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You forgot the requisite animal sacrifices immediately preceding the orgy.
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126 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 6:49:18am

re: #118 ObserverArt

Here’s a weird flashback. I remember going to Lil’ Abner land (Dogpatch USA) in Arkansas with my grandparents. The park had a “Wall of Death.” (basically a big whirling barrel that you’d get stuck on the sides when the centrifugal (?) force started. It’s now a ghosttown

google.com

127 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 6:50:20am

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

I live in TimHortonLand

I’ve never actually had TH ( ;) ) - People around here act like it’s an act of a deity when Krispy Kreme arrives once a week.

128 De Kolta Chair  Jul 2, 2015 6:51:33am

Nope, haven’t heard a peep about this in the media. And remember kids, look it up individually, not collectively. Don’t be a commie!

129 Dr Lizardo  Jul 2, 2015 6:53:39am

re: #120 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I was never satisfied with just the gay part. We have to be gay polygamists and a cult if we’re going to have any fun.

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re: #125 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

You forgot the requisite animal sacrifices immediately preceding the orgy.
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OK, now you guys are describing a little too much for the hoi polloi out there who might be reading LGF what we all get up to at the Trilateral Commission every Thursday night.

Knock it off, dammit!

:p

130 PhillyPretzel  Jul 2, 2015 6:53:45am

Those folks at CNN are reporting “all clear” at the DC Navy Yard. And of course CNN is making a huge fuss over it.

131 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 6:54:54am

re: #129 Dr Lizardo

OK, now you guys are describing a little too much for the hoi polloi out there who might be reading LGF what we all get up to at the Trilateral Commission every Thursday night.

Knock it off, dammit!

:p

That’s what we’ve got the FEMA camps for ;)

132 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 6:55:45am

re: #126 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Here’s a weird flashback. I remember going to Lil’ Abner land (Dogpatch USA) in Arkansas with my grandparents. The park had a “Wall of Death.” (basically a big whirling barrel that you’d get stuck on the sides when the centrifugal (?) force started. It’s now a ghosttown

google.com

I remember those damn rides. We called them Puke A Swirls!

Check this out for some history. I had Google open and typed in Chippewa Lake Park which was east of Akron Ohio. And as I scrolled down in the images there were pictures of bands that used to play outdoors at the park.

Let’s see if the Lizards can pick out this soon to be huge rock star…

133 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 6:55:46am

re: #120 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I was never satisfied with just the gay part. We have to be gay polygamists and a cult if we’re going to have any fun.

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The more the merrier. We will need a clubhouse tho’.

134 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 6:56:32am

re: #129 Dr Lizardo

OK, now you guys are describing a little too much for the hoi polloi out there who might be reading LGF what we all get up to at the Trilateral Commission every Thursday night.

Knock it off, dammit!

:p

Never talk about Fight Club. Got it.

135 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 6:57:22am

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

I live in TimHortonLand

I just grabbed a BELT sandwich from them this morning on way to work.

136 dharmamark  Jul 2, 2015 6:58:17am

re: #132 ObserverArt

Looks like Joe Walsh.

137 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 6:59:39am

re: #136 dharmamark

Looks like Joe Walsh.

Yep!

Edit to add: Found a picture explanation. It was actually at Kent State…which is in that same area as Chippewa Lake Park.

Joe Walsh and The Measles at Kent State fall 1966
The Measles facing the old University Commons behind the
Engleman Hall dormitory in the fall of 1966. From left to right
Bobby Sepulveda, Buddy Bennett, Joe Walsh, and Larry Lewis.

Photo by Richard Underwood.

Funny too in light of the vaccine talk going on and the band was called The Measles.

138 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 7:01:24am

re: #132 ObserverArt

I remember those damn rides. We called them Puke A Swirls!

Cedar Point has one, too. I forget its name, but the ride is the same thing. The trick to not getting sick is — don’t move your head side to side. It’s better to keep your head still and just move your eyes. Sideways motion sloshes the fluid in your semicircular canals around, and some people get violently nauseous.

Like my friend, who got so sick we had to carry him out and let him lie on the grass for a while.

139 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 7:01:25am

re: #132 ObserverArt

[snip]

Let’s see if the Lizards can pick out this soon to be huge rock star…

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Joe Walsh. I saw Maynard Ferguson about 6 times playing at the Idora Park Ballroom in the 70’s. Was a nice park.

140 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 7:04:36am

re: #139 Eventual Carrion

Joe Walsh. I saw Maynard Ferguson about 6 times playing at the Idora Park Ballroom in the 70’s. Was a nice park.

See my update in #137.

141 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 7:05:25am

re: #127 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I’ve never actually had TH ( ;) ) - People around here act like it’s an act of a deity when Krispy Kreme arrives once a week.

I have visited Tim Horton Land (aka Canada) to sample their wares. Quite good. Now that BK has bought TH, I wonder if we’ll see more Tim Hortons in the US.

Fresh made KKs are like ambrosia. Sadly, they do not give you immortality or eternal youth.

142 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 7:06:38am

re: #137 ObserverArt

Wow!

143 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 2, 2015 7:06:41am

re: #129 Dr Lizardo

OK, now you guys are describing a little too much for the hoi polloi out there who might be reading LGF what we all get up to at the Trilateral Commission every Thursday night.

Knock it off, dammit!

:p

If Teh Juice are all up in that, shouldn’t it be the Triliteral Commission? </nerd joke>

144 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 7:07:07am

re: #139 Eventual Carrion

Joe Walsh. I saw Maynard Ferguson about 6 times playing at the Idora Park Ballroom in the 70’s. Was a nice park.

I’m an old MF fan. I was lucky to catch him play Phoenix Hill Tavern in Louisville back in the ’80s with a small band.

145 Bird in the Paw  Jul 2, 2015 7:08:11am

re: #130 PhillyPretzel

Those folks at CNN are reporting “all clear” at the DC Navy Yard. And of course CNN is making a huge fuss over it.

Heh. I just a note from the deputy COO telling us not to freak out ‘cause it it an isolated incident.

146 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 7:08:27am

re: #138 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

re: #132 ObserverArt

Another excuse to post this amazing video:
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Look at the Lion!

147 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 7:08:33am

re: #141 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I have visited Tim Horton Land (aka Canada) to sample their wares. Quite good. Now that BK has bought TH, I wonder if we’ll see more Tim Hortons in the US.

Fresh made KKs are like ambrosia. Sadly, they do not give you immortality or eternal youth.

Tim Horton was once owned by Wendy’s here in Columbus. They spun them off about 10 years ago or so. So, now Burger King owns them??? There are a ton of Hortons in Ohio and some surrounding states because Wendy’s spread them around many times having both in the same split building.

148 lawhawk  Jul 2, 2015 7:09:05am

Trumpians (Trump supporters) keep ignoring that but for the inheritance, he’s not a billionaire. Doesn’t matter that his kids are seemingly doing okay or hard workers. No one is doubting the work ethic, but without the inheritances, he’s not a billionaire and he’s not in the race because he’d be a nobody.

149 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 7:10:03am

OFFS

150 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 7:11:27am

re: #149 The Vicious Babushka

da fuq? They’re seriously defending NB Forrest?!

151 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 7:11:46am

I just put that fucker on mute.

152 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 7:12:13am

re: #141 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I have visited Tim Horton Land (aka Canada) to sample their wares. Quite good. Now that BK has bought TH, I wonder if we’ll see more Tim Hortons in the US.

Fresh made KKs are like ambrosia. Sadly, they do not give you immortality or eternal youth.

The one I stopped at this morning on way to work was just built last summer. So there is expansion, but I am only about 2 hours away from Canadian border.

153 Snarknado!  Jul 2, 2015 7:14:03am

re: #102 nearly-headless smith25

Yep. No auto loading of comments for me.

Doesn’t happen for me either.

(Good morning, lizards.)

154 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 7:14:19am

re: #146 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Another excuse to post this amazing video:
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Look at the Lion!

I’ve seen that video posted at a few auto racing sites. Pretty cool.

I also remember there were guys that rode motorcycles in a round ball steel cage too. I remember them at Ohio county fairs. My parents used to go to about 10 Ohio county fairs every year all over northern Ohio. I loved it. I used to sit on all the farm equipment and there were all those great smokey grilled hamburgers, hot chicken sandwiches and of course thin cut french fries.

My mother was German-Ohio farm girl through and through. We went to all the animal barns and all the local displays of 4H, local cooks, baked and canned goods.

It’s a damn wonder we didn’t all die from botulism when you think about it!!!

Damn. The memories of all that.

155 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 7:14:41am

re: #144 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’m an old MF fan. I was lucky to catch him play Phoenix Hill Tavern in Louisville back in the ’80s with a small band.

I played trumpet and flugelhorn in HS bands (also french horn, but that was concert band). Our jazz band director would take us to his concerts at least once a year.

156 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 7:15:09am

re: #75 Romantic Heretic

My own observation of the educational system is that it is an assembly line. Not to turn people into human beings capable of citizenship but rather human resources suitable for employment.

Various factors over the years have, I think, shifted much more of the job of enculturation to the schools. That takes time that could be spent on education. Combine that with the need to teach to the test so that the students pass NCLB testing and here we are.

157 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 7:17:18am

Damn. They still do this!

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158 Lancelot Link  Jul 2, 2015 7:17:36am

re: #154 ObserverArt

Went to the county fair just last week & they still have motorcycle stunts.
No globe-o-death at that one, though.

159 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 7:18:25am

re: #151 The Vicious Babushka

I just put that fucker on mute.

You’re a brave Tweeter VB!

I don’t know how you can engage them.

160 Decatur Deb  Jul 2, 2015 7:18:32am

re: #138 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Cedar Point has one, too. I forget its name, but the ride is the same thing. The trick to not getting sick is — don’t move your head side to side. It’s better to keep your head still and just move your eyes. Sideways motion sloshes the fluid in your semicircular canals around, and some people get violently nauseous.

Like my friend, who got so sick we had to carry him out and let him lie on the grass for a while.

The second generation of the centrifugal machines was the ‘Tilt-a-Whirl’ in our parks. It had a hydraulic arm that lifted it 90 degrees after spinup. The first gen was spinning in only one plane, but the floor would drop out, leaving you stuck to the upholstery. Forget the name, but it was a big deal when Kennywood got one around 1957.

161 Decatur Deb  Jul 2, 2015 7:19:19am

Outta here. BBMuchL.

162 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 7:20:58am

re: #147 ObserverArt

Tim Horton was once owned by Wendy’s here in Columbus. They spun them off about 10 years ago or so. So, now Burger King owns them??? There are a ton of Hortons in Ohio and some surrounding states because Wendy’s spread them around many times having both in the same split building.

re: #152 Eventual Carrion

The one I stopped at this morning on way to work was just built last summer. So there is expansion, but I am only about 2 hours away from Canadian border.

Wendy’s and TH split up, because Wendy’s realized TH was pulling customers away from the Wendy’s outlets in the same market. BK’s holding company acquired TH last year. I’m not sure what their thinking is on that move, given Wendy’s experience.

163 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 7:21:51am

re: #157 ObserverArt

Damn!

164 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 7:22:19am

re: #157 ObserverArt

Damn. They still do this!

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Didn’t Homer Simpson do a stunt like that?

165 PhillyPretzel  Jul 2, 2015 7:22:55am

Is anyone else not seeing a number in new comments when a new comment is posted?

166 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 7:23:27am

re: #160 Decatur Deb

The second generation of the centrifugal machines was the ‘Tilt-a-Whirl’ in our parks. It had a hydraulic arm that lifted it 90 degrees after spinup. The first gen was spinning in only one plane, but the floor would drop out, leaving you stuck to the upholstery. Forget the name, but it was a big deal when Kennywood got one around 1957.

Yeah, the Dogpatch ride had that floor that dropped out.

167 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 7:23:38am

New Comments counter is busted

168 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 7:23:54am

re: #165 PhillyPretzel

Is anyone else not seeing a number in new comments when a new comment is posted?

It’s been an issue since at least last night. :)

169 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 7:23:54am

re: #165 PhillyPretzel

Is anyone else not seeing a number in new comments when a new comment is posted?

Several of us are reporting the same issue.

170 Lidane  Jul 2, 2015 7:25:19am

This should be fun:

171 Snarknado!  Jul 2, 2015 7:26:05am

re: #39 Nyet

It’s a double-edged sword. They would have also (if not more so) been aghast at a black president and same-sex marriage.

Same sex marriage, maybe — the vast majority, anyway. I’m getting into this late, but it’s important to remember that the founding fathers were not a monolith, especially with so many of our Esteemed Leaders arguing that their reactionary attitudes are Right and Good because it’s what the founders thought.

172 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 7:26:30am

re: #170 Lidane

FSM doesn’t love me that much.

On another topic, Obama at 18? Really?!
washingtonpost.com

173 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 7:27:03am

Later all. A good morning of reminiscing. See you later…

174 makeitstop  Jul 2, 2015 7:28:06am

re: #132 ObserverArt

I remember those damn rides. We called them Puke A Swirls!

Check this out for some history. I had Google open and typed in Chippewa Lake Park which was east of Akron Ohio. And as I scrolled down in the images there were pictures of bands that used to play outdoors at the park.

Let’s see if the Lizards can pick out this soon to be huge rock star…

Embedded Image

Too easy. He even had that dopey face way back when. :)

Strange to see him playing a 335, though.

175 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 7:28:57am

re: #174 makeitstop

Too easy. He even had that dopey face way back when. :)

Strange to see him playing a 335, though.

The Rick and the Hohner make it even more weird.

176 GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 2, 2015 7:28:58am

So, Donald Dump found a cable network for Miss USA. REELZ who has informative programming such as Hollywood Hillbillies and Access Hollywood Live reruns.

177 Lidane  Jul 2, 2015 7:31:10am

re: #172 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

FSM doesn’t love me that much.

Heh. Me neither.

However, I’m comforted by the fact that this is taking place in both Dallas and Collin counties. That’s deep, deep red territory, so Paxton won’t be able to use the IITS A VENDETTA FROM TEH COMMIES IN AUSTIN! as an excuse, since Travis County passed on indicting him.

178 darthstar  Jul 2, 2015 7:31:57am
179 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 2, 2015 7:33:33am

re: #176 GlutenFreeJesus

So, Donald Dump found a cable network for Miss USA. REELZ who has informative programming such as Hollywood Hillbillies and Access Hollywood Live reruns.

Never heard of REELZ. Just checked xfinity’s whole lineup—nope.

180 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 7:35:53am

re: #178 darthstar

Oh, snap!

181 GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 2, 2015 7:36:45am
182 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 7:36:48am

re: #174 makeitstop

Too easy. He even had that dopey face way back when. :)

Strange to see him playing a 335, though.

Saw your comment as I was getting ready to log out.

Yeah a 335. And check out those great old Fender Bassman amps. I bet some of those would be worth having today.

And look how far everyone has come with PAs.

One of the reasons I was looking at Chippewa Lake images was they used to have great battle of the bands events. I ran sound and roadied for an Ohio hard rock biker type band out of Ashland Ohio back in the day. Good times.

183 darthstar  Jul 2, 2015 7:38:20am

re: #181 GlutenFreeJesus

Loved the Gravitron when I was a kid.

184 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 7:39:46am

re: #181 GlutenFreeJesus

Embedded Image

Gravitron — is that the one in Cedar Point?

185 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 7:39:49am

re: #175 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

The Rick and the Hohner make it even more weird.

All those guitars and amps were real popular in Ohio bands back then. Not sure why. It might have been because of Difiore’s Music House up in Cleveland selling to a lot of northern Ohio bands.

Okay…getting out while I can…this is too much fun.

186 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 7:39:59am

re: #179 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Never heard of REELZ. Just checked xfinity’s whole lineup—nope.

We have TWC and they gave us REELZ fer free for six months or so. I cancelled it after three days because I did not in any way want to eventually pay for it. Just because you can rebroadcast some old content doesn’t mean that you should.

187 GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 2, 2015 7:41:14am

re: #184 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

No idea. But my local city carnival always has it. I love that thing. Just don’t lift up your head. lol

188 GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 2, 2015 7:42:22am

re: #186 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Unless that old content is Knight Rider.

189 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 7:48:18am

re: #185 ObserverArt

All those guitars and amps were real popular in Ohio bands back then. Not sure why. It might have been because of Difiore’s Music House up in Cleveland selling to a lot of northern Ohio bands.

Okay…getting out while I can…this is too much fun.

Which is the weird thing, because the Fender Jazz and the Strat, not least the Les Paul, were so popular at the time.

(personally had a crush on the Ricks.)

190 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 7:49:39am

The Girl Scout council that returned the bigot’s $100K after he/she said it couldn’t go to help trans girls now has almost three times that much money from a IndieGogo campaign. In just three days.
indiegogo.com

Eat them cookies, close-minded tightwad!

191 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 7:52:52am

re: #187 GlutenFreeJesus

No idea. But my local city carnival always has it. I love that thing. Just don’t lift up your head. lol

Oh, yeah. Like I said.

192 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 7:58:05am

re: #160 Decatur Deb

The second generation of the centrifugal machines was the ‘Tilt-a-Whirl’ in our parks. It had a hydraulic arm that lifted it 90 degrees after spinup. The first gen was spinning in only one plane, but the floor would drop out, leaving you stuck to the upholstery. Forget the name, but it was a big deal when Kennywood got one around 1957.

Conneaut Lake called theirs the Hell Hole.

193 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 7:59:18am

re: #162 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Wendy’s and TH split up, because Wendy’s realized TH was pulling customers away from the Wendy’s outlets in the same market. BK’s holding company acquired TH last year. I’m not sure what their thinking is on that move, given Wendy’s experience.

The Horton’s I stopped at is right across the street from the Wendy’s. :-)

194 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 7:59:48am

re: #165 PhillyPretzel

Is anyone else not seeing a number in new comments when a new comment is posted?

Mine has been doing/not doing that all morning.

195 freetoken  Jul 2, 2015 7:59:58am

The Atlantic trying to cover disreality:

Common Ground on Climate Change

I believe it is folly to try and find “common ground” with David Koch.

196 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 8:00:09am

re: #189 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Which is the weird thing, because the Fender Jazz and the Strat, not least the Les Paul, were so popular at the time.

(personally had a crush on the Ricks.)

Back because I found an old image on line.

Rev…remember that photo of Walsh was from 1966. If you remember bands of that era, those guitars were right in line with the times. About 2 to 4 years later and you are right about what was popular.

And those guitars you mention were exactly the guitars in the band I used to roadie/sound for.

Here is an image of the dudes in Canyon. This I think was from 1973. They had a semi-regional hit titled Top of the World which was produced by Super K Productions the kings of mid-to late 60s bubblegum bands…many also form Ohio. See Picture below. Super K were your typical music sharks of the time. I don’t think Canyon really ever did the actual recording!!!

Canyon really was a damn fine band. They had some great tunes…but like many never really made it even as hard as they tried.

A sure sign of the times…1973

Here is wiki on Super K:

Super K Productions was a 1960s American recording production company under Buddah Records, headed by producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeffrey Katz, whose groups specialized in bubblegum pop. Their biggest successes were The Ohio Express, The 1910 Fruitgum Company, Crazy Elephant and The Music Explosion. Super K also had their own label of the same name in 1969 operated under Buddah Records, but it did not last as the bubblegum genre had already started to decline in popularity.

Not a company to depend on double-sided hits, many (but not all) Super K-produced singles were pressed with B-sides of either tracks recorded backwards or studio group instrumentals. This method was also employed earlier by producers Phil Spector and Joe Meek as a way of pointing a radio DJ to the “right” side of the singles.

And that is my tour of music back in the day. It all got me into playing and writing and all that. And I still suffer from it all today.

Ahhhh.

197 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 2, 2015 8:00:24am

Trump defends inflammatory comments, asks ‘Who is doing the raping?’

198 De Kolta Chair  Jul 2, 2015 8:04:17am

re: #126 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Here’s a weird flashback. I remember going to Lil’ Abner land (Dogpatch USA) in Arkansas with my grandparents. The park had a “Wall of Death.” (basically a big whirling barrel that you’d get stuck on the sides when the centrifugal (?) force started. It’s now a ghosttown

My friend, Irish actor Pat Nolan (who plays Barry O’Hanlon, the ultimate mama’s boy, on the soap opera Fair City), had a small role in Eat The Peach (1986), a funny and poignant indy movie about two Irish guys who build a wall of death. Well worth searching for.

Stephen Brennan as Vinnie
199 Bird in the Paw  Jul 2, 2015 8:05:22am

re: #172 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

FSM doesn’t love me that much.

On another topic, Obama at 18? Really?!
washingtonpost.com

Hurr hurr, teh Reagan is teh number one, not the fascist Lincoln

200 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 8:05:54am

re: #188 GlutenFreeJesus

Unless that old content is Knight Rider.

The other day I saw Wings for the first time on Netflix. I thought that some of the gags were pretty funny. Missed it the first time around because of working long hours.

201 lawhawk  Jul 2, 2015 8:09:03am

Trump defenders can’t understand how and why Trump got rich (inheritance) or that he stayed rich because he was able to get others to pay for his mistakes.

He declared bankruptcy 4x. On casinos. Each time it was the creditors who lost their shirts, while Trump avoided losing his fortune. That’s how bankruptcy works, but it wasn’t his money that was at stake with the casinos - it was always other people’s money.

So, when nitwits say the following, they don’t understand economics, business, or government (kind of like Trump’s simplistic rhetoric, even as he games the system to his advantage):

Governments lose money - and some even declare bankruptcy too. And taxpayers have to make up the difference in one way or another - higher taxes, lower services, or both.

Why is this so hard for some to understand?

202 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 8:15:52am

re: #196 ObserverArt

I’m looking square at Jimi Hendrix for the popularity of the Strat.

And if you have any of that music available, please provide. :) (meaning those Ohio bands, not Jimi, obv. :) )

203 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 8:16:45am

re: #198 De Kolta Chair

I will definitely search for that. Thanks!

204 Dr. Matt  Jul 2, 2015 8:19:13am

The media and GOP voters really are dense and so easily fooled. When will they recall that in last presidential election nearly EVERY GOP candidate at one time or another polled at the very top. Trump is up there now. In a few weeks it will be someone else and then the entire fawning routine will begin again. Idiots.

205 Great White Snark  Jul 2, 2015 8:20:02am

Bug, upcoming changes or my system somehow? Can’t see registered users in the Pages. Main topics but not the Pages. ?

Wait a sec I only show myself, Charles and Freetoken in here now. No way.

206 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 8:20:04am

Long day for me, so I’m turning in for the night.

But today was the last day of classes!! Exams are next week. Summer vacation is just around the corner. :D

207 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 8:20:21am

re: #201 lawhawk

Trump defenders can’t understand how and why Trump got rich (inheritance) or that he stayed rich because he was able to get others to pay for his mistakes.

He declared bankruptcy 4x. On casinos. Each time it was the creditors who lost their shirts, while Trump avoided losing his fortune. That’s how bankruptcy works, but it wasn’t his money that was at stake with the casinos - it was always other people’s money.

So, when nitwits say the following, they don’t understand economics, business, or government (kind of like Trump’s simplistic rhetoric, even as he games the system to his advantage):

[Embedded content]

Governments lose money - and some even declare bankruptcy too. And taxpayers have to make up the difference in one way or another - higher taxes, lower services, or both.

Why is this so hard for some to understand?

HURR HURR PRIVATE BUSINESS GOOD!!! GUBMIT BAD!!!!!

That’s all libertarians are capable of.

208 Bubblehead II  Jul 2, 2015 8:24:41am

New comment button not working and only showing Charles, Freetoken and Bulworth in the online user box.

/That leap second sure has screwed the board up.

209 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 8:27:48am

re: #208 Bubblehead II

New comment button not working and only showing Charles, Freetoken and Bulworth in the online user box.

/That leap second sure has screwed the board up.

Of course! Slaps head! The leap second!

210 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 8:29:24am

Wingnuts found Obama’s high school yearbook photo and they are having ragegasms because this is a day ending in “day”

211 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 8:30:24am

Polygamy is Biblical, that’s why Christ-hating gays don’t like it, Bryan

212 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 8:31:55am

It still pisses me off when these asshats call him “Barry.” He’s your damned president. Why don’t you have some respect?

(I don’t really need an answer to that question)

213 Dr. Matt  Jul 2, 2015 8:34:49am

re: #210 The Vicious Babushka

What’s wrong with being an “elitist”? I don’t want my POTUS to be some average, every day schmuck. I want the best-of-the-best leading this great country.

214 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 8:35:58am

re: #202 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I’m looking square at Jimi Hendrix for the popularity of the Strat.

And if you have any of that music available, please provide. :) (meaning those Ohio bands, not Jimi, obv. :) )

As for PA bands, and this is going back to the comments of the bargain bin comments from yesterday. Wife wanted me to pick a couple things after work yesterday and since I had to get charcoal lighter fluid I stopped at WallyWorld. While walking from the far side of the store (where fluid was) to the other side (where food is) I passed a discount bin of CD’s. I noticed a Halestorm CD on the top of the pile (PA band that is starting to get some recognition). I grabbed it and looked through the bin. Ended up with 3 $5.00 CD’s. Along with the Halestorm I grabbed a Huey Lewis and the News compilation and Pyromania by Def Leopard. Guilty pleasures.

215 gwangung  Jul 2, 2015 8:36:39am

re: #210 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts found Obama’s high school yearbook photo and they are having ragegasms because this is a day ending in “day”

[Embedded content]

Hard NOT to feel elitist with people as stupid as these.

216 Dr. Matt  Jul 2, 2015 8:40:19am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

Polygamy is Biblical, that’s why Christ-hating gays don’t like it, Bryan

217 calochortus  Jul 2, 2015 8:40:28am

re: #201 lawhawk

Trump defenders can’t understand how and why Trump got rich (inheritance) or that he stayed rich because he was able to get others to pay for his mistakes.

He declared bankruptcy 4x. On casinos. Each time it was the creditors who lost their shirts, while Trump avoided losing his fortune. That’s how bankruptcy works, but it wasn’t his money that was at stake with the casinos - it was always other people’s money.

So, when nitwits say the following, they don’t understand economics, business, or government (kind of like Trump’s simplistic rhetoric, even as he games the system to his advantage):

[Embedded content]

Governments lose money - and some even declare bankruptcy too. And taxpayers have to make up the difference in one way or another - higher taxes, lower services, or both.

Why is this so hard for some to understand?

Of course, adjusted for inflation, Trump has actually lost money since receiving his inheritance, so there’s that.

218 Timothy Watson  Jul 2, 2015 8:41:00am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

Polygamy is Biblical, that’s why Christ-hating gays don’t like it, Bryan

[Embedded content]

There was a lot of polygamy in the 1900s?

219 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 8:43:04am

re: #217 calochortus

Of course, adjusted for inflation, Trump has actually lost money since receiving his inheritance, so there’s that.

I was wondering about that, but didn’t feel like doing any conversions and additions/subtractions :-)

220 lawhawk  Jul 2, 2015 8:50:27am

re: #217 calochortus

Of course, adjusted for inflation, Trump has actually lost money since receiving his inheritance, so there’s that.

They said math wouldn’t be part of the test! /

221 calochortus  Jul 2, 2015 8:55:24am

re: #219 Eventual Carrion

I was wondering about that, but didn’t feel like doing any conversions and additions/subtractions :-)

I didn’t do the math either, but I’ve heard it from pretty reliable sources, at least one of whom did do the math.

222 De Kolta Chair  Jul 2, 2015 8:55:48am

re: #210 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts found Obama’s high school yearbook photo and they are having ragegasms because this is a day ending in “day”

Holy moly, it’s Luna Lovegood!

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Class of 1979
223 lawhawk  Jul 2, 2015 8:56:41am

re: #222 De Kolta Chair

So, Barack had a Time Turner after all! /

224 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 8:56:51am

Ben Shapiro is retweeting a bunch of wingnut shit calling George Takei a racist because he said something rude about Clarence Thomas.

225 lawhawk  Jul 2, 2015 8:56:59am

We’ve now approached fake but accurate from the Trumpians:

226 Dr. Matt  Jul 2, 2015 8:57:19am
227 calochortus  Jul 2, 2015 9:00:05am

re: #221 calochortus

I didn’t do the math either, but I’ve heard it from pretty reliable sources, at least one of whom did do the math.

Apparently he did make money in real estate, but it was while he was working for his father, and he didn’t do as well on his own, or some such.

228 jaunte  Jul 2, 2015 9:11:57am

Read about some of the scary refugees Trump is using for his campaign.

229 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 9:13:03am

re: #210 The Vicious Babushka

How does an outfit that would stand in line to tongue bathe any jackleg CEO get away with labeling anyone else an elitist?

230 Skip Intro  Jul 2, 2015 9:13:34am

And the hits just keep coming.

Serta Will Stop Selling Donald Trump Mattress Line in Latest Defection

bloomberg.com

231 De Kolta Chair  Jul 2, 2015 9:13:34am

After 44 years, Sonia “Maria” Manzano is retiring from Sesame Street

232 ChuckJager95  Jul 2, 2015 9:16:09am

re: #210 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts found Obama’s high school yearbook photo and they are having ragegasms because this is a day ending in “day”

[Embedded content]

I’m a little rusty on my Wingnuttian, but what exactly is elitist about that photo?

I mean other than him being a minority daring to act like he belongs in the same room with mostly white people.

233 calochortus  Jul 2, 2015 9:16:47am

re: #230 Skip Intro

And the hits just keep coming.

Serta Will Stop Selling Donald Trump Mattress Line in Latest Defection

bloomberg.com

Trump mattresses???? Eww.

234 jaunte  Jul 2, 2015 9:17:21am

re: #230 Skip Intro

And the hits just keep coming.

Serta Will Stop Selling Donald Trump Mattress Line in Latest Defection

bloomberg.com

Trump the brand expert proves expert at destroying his own brand.

235 calochortus  Jul 2, 2015 9:17:44am

Hi ho-off to do stuff. BBL

236 Charles Johnson  Jul 2, 2015 9:21:25am

OK, figured out why the New Comments and Show Users features weren’t working. Reload the page and everything will be back to normal. (It will take a few minutes for the Show Users feature to catch up.)

237 Bubblehead II  Jul 2, 2015 9:22:04am

re: #230 Skip Intro

And the hits just keep coming.

Serta Will Stop Selling Donald Trump Mattress Line in Latest Defection

bloomberg.com

How long will it take the dumb ass to claim that he is ending the deal and not Serta?

238 Dr. Matt  Jul 2, 2015 9:22:12am

re: #233 calochortus

Trump mattresses???? Eww.

Trump is like the Gene Simmons of casinos. He’ll slap his name on any shitty product to make a buck.

239 PhillyPretzel  Jul 2, 2015 9:23:45am

re: #238 Dr. Matt

Said person is on CNN talking about partners. ::: eye roll :::

240 Teukka  Jul 2, 2015 9:26:29am

re: #87 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Google has apologized after its new photo app labelled two black people as “gorillas”.

Yeah, had an argument with a couple of RWNJs last night about that. Two other programmers and me tried our best to explain how the algorithm works… The guy was willing to grasp at any straw in order not to have to realize that the root cause of Google’s PR most likely have to do with racist sites and other pond scum sites gaming the search engine.

And when one puts an undeniable example (basically image google the n-bomb and “gorilla”) forth, it’s easy for the rest of us to see how google’s app might have been mistaken (more than likely, they’ve used data from Google image search to build a filter), but these people then began with the argument “that’s all leftist sites!” despite a number of known GOP meme cards turning up in the search…

I was like O.O…

Okay, done venting…

241 Skip Intro  Jul 2, 2015 9:27:15am

re: #233 calochortus

You have to wonder why marketing geniuses thought licensing the Trump name was a good business decision.

242 jaunte  Jul 2, 2015 9:27:17am

re: #238 Dr. Matt

Trump Vodka

“Drinking this vodka straight is not recommended, nor would I recommend the branded cocktails like the T&T (Trump & Tonic) or Trumptini.”

cocktails.about.com

243 Charles Johnson  Jul 2, 2015 9:27:55am

Mmf. Reload one more time and NOW it will work.

244 jaunte  Jul 2, 2015 9:28:09am

Trumptini: douchebag barcall

245 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 9:28:32am

re: #230 Skip Intro

And the hits just keep coming.

Serta Will Stop Selling Donald Trump Mattress Line in Latest Defection

bloomberg.com

Pleased as I am in seeing these defections I can’t help but think that the Trump name had already become much less bankable before his bigotry eruption. Some of these companies are probably pleased to have a legitimate excuse to get out of their arrangements with him.

246 PhillyPretzel  Jul 2, 2015 9:29:29am

re: #245 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Well at least Serta came to their senses.

247 Charles Johnson  Jul 2, 2015 9:29:35am
248 De Kolta Chair  Jul 2, 2015 9:30:59am

re: #238 Dr. Matt

Trump is like the Gene Simmons of casinos. He’ll slap his name on any shitty product to make a buck.

Ouch. That comparison almost makes me feel sorry for the The Donald. //

249 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 9:31:24am

Back for some actual political stuff.

Did you all hear about Bernie Sanders getting almost 10,000 out for his campaign stop in Madison Wisconsin last night?

I am wondering who it got to thinking more about his surprising turnout in the state. Hillary Clinton or Scott Sanders?

Hillary is most likely paying attention to his popularism and how she can blend that into her talks and campaign.

Scott Walker is probably too dense to sense it but I think he should be concerned. Right now I wonder if 2,000 would turn out to see him in Madison considering what he has done to the state and the education system, especially The University of Wisconsin.

But the real thing that Walker shouldn’t overlook is what Sanders is campaigning on. And that would be unions, jobs and wages, returning the focus on the middle class and campaign financing and killing Citizens United. All basically anti-Walker stuff.

With Walker’s polling numbers going down down down and people paying attention to Sanders it is obvious Walker isn’t as popular (if he ever really was) in Wisconsin.

I also wonder what the Koch brothers are thinking. Their boy is not headed in the right direction at the wrong time.

I never expected Sanders to add this much fun to the whole thing.

250 Snarknado!  Jul 2, 2015 9:32:23am

re: #243 Charles Johnson

Mmf. Reload one more time and NOW it will work.

Second reload and yes, now it does work. Thanks!

251 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 9:33:09am

re: #246 PhillyPretzel

Well at least Serta came to their senses.

This is one of those times that I’ll take what I can get. I don’t care whether he’s being dumped because of moral scruples or crass commercialism.

252 jaunte  Jul 2, 2015 9:33:46am

re: #246 PhillyPretzel

Well at least Serta came to their senses.

253 Charles Johnson  Jul 2, 2015 9:36:27am

I changed some of the HTML to use the HTML 5 <section> tag instead of <div>, and forgot to change the Javascript code that was looking for divs.

254 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 9:37:44am

re: #238 Dr. Matt

Trump is like the Gene Simmons of casinos. He’ll slap his name on any shitty product to make a buck.

Heh. Gene Simmons was hired by Indianapolis Motor Speedway to try to promote their race series back in the late 2000s. All he did was take their money, talk shit and create a brand song that sucked.

The campaign was called “I am Indy” and so was the song and the song’s main hook.

Problem was it sounded like they (some crappy Kiss-like metal band) were actually singing: “I am Mindy” and all the pissed off fans of the former CART series that was killed off by the Hulman-George family of IMS used it all to mock the hell out of the series.

Gene Simmons marketing company’s contract was never renewed!

255 Bubblehead II  Jul 2, 2015 9:38:02am

re: #253 Charles Johnson

I changed some of the HTML to use the HTML 5 <section> tag instead of <div>, and forgot to change the Javascript code that was looking for divs.

Drat. I was pinning the blame on the leap second.

256 Timothy Watson  Jul 2, 2015 9:38:10am

re: #253 Charles Johnson

I changed some of the HTML to use the HTML 5 <section> tag instead of <div>, and forgot to change the Javascript code that was looking for divs.

I knew HTML 5 would be the death of the Internet!

///

257 Charles Johnson  Jul 2, 2015 9:41:27am

I see the wingnut mob is having a huge fake outrage attack at George Takei today, for this: George Takei: Justice Thomas ‘A Clown in Blackface’.

These fucking hypocrites.

258 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 9:41:28am

re: #240 Teukka

Yeah, had an argument with a couple of RWNJs last night about that. Two other programmers and me tried our best to explain how the algorithm works… The guy was willing to grasp at any straw in order not to have to realize that the root cause of Google’s PR most likely have to do with racist sites and other pond scum sites gaming the search engine.

And when one puts an undeniable example (basically image google the n-bomb and “gorilla”) forth, it’s easy for the rest of us to see how google’s app might have been mistaken (more than likely, they’ve used data from Google image search to build a filter), but these people then began with the argument “that’s all leftist sites!” despite a number of known GOP meme cards turning up in the search…

I was like O.O…

Okay, done venting…

You cannot argue or debate with a wingnut. I always use the George Carlin quote: “Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”

Smile and walk away.

259 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 9:41:48am

WHUT
Get ready for incoming

260 Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 2, 2015 9:42:34am

re: #238 Dr. Matt

Trump is like the Gene Simmons of casinos. He’ll slap his name on any shitty product to make a buck.

Don’t you mean the Krusty the Clown?

/

261 PhillyPretzel  Jul 2, 2015 9:42:36am

re: #258 ObserverArt

Sage advice.

262 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 9:43:18am

re: #249 ObserverArt

Back for some actual political stuff.

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I never expected Sanders to add this much fun to the whole thing.

It is times like this I think I should register with the Dems rather than non-affiliated. Then I could throw a primary vote his way. I do like him, but I really don’t know if he is electable nationwide.

263 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 9:43:34am

re: #243 Charles Johnson

Mmf. Reload one more time and NOW it will work.

Charles, do you keep a mirror site running somewhere so you can check your updating or when you have to try out fixes? I was wondering about that the other day when you said you were busy dealing with an external drive. I was thinking maybe the drive was your test site or something.

264 Charles Johnson  Jul 2, 2015 9:45:14am
265 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 9:45:43am

re: #236 Charles Johnson

“Reload the page and everything will be back to normal.”
And you’ll respect us in the morning ;) I’ve heard that one before.

266 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 9:46:00am

MariaB is fluent in Frontier Gibberish.

267 Charles Johnson  Jul 2, 2015 9:46:02am

re: #263 ObserverArt

Yes, I do have a staging server set up on my office system.

268 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 9:46:13am

re: #259 The Vicious Babushka

BATTLE flg.NEVER CSAflg.,So.Dem=SLAVRY,NtGOP!

I’m particularly glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. ..

269 lawhawk  Jul 2, 2015 9:47:31am
270 PhillyPretzel  Jul 2, 2015 9:47:48am

I am giving myself a well deserved day off today and take a wild guess who just called me. Yes my supervisor.

271 Charles Johnson  Jul 2, 2015 9:50:09am
272 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 9:50:51am

re: #257 Charles Johnson

I see the wingnut mob is having a huge fake outrage attack at George Takei today, for this: George Takei: Justice Thomas ‘A Clown in Blackface’.

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These fucking hypocrites.

Has he ever read what the comments section on his own page? Hypocritical asshole and I honestly wish Takei had used better words but Thomas wasn’t mocking my civil rights either. Thomas deserves most of the hate he gets.

273 PhillyPretzel  Jul 2, 2015 9:50:55am

re: #271 Charles Johnson

I have a solution. The straight pin. :)

274 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 9:51:13am

re: #271 Charles Johnson

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Back to the stress balls and foam bricks.

275 Timothy Watson  Jul 2, 2015 9:51:14am

ROFL: Daytona is offering a Confederate Flag exchange program
espn.go.com

276 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 9:51:30am

re: #269 lawhawk

People like that county clerk don’t want any consequences. They want to be Rosa Parks without the indignity or MLK without the anything. Their idea of suffering is remarkably close to that of a fat baby who throws a tantrum when he can’t have another gallon of chocolate ice cream.

277 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 9:51:56am

re: #269 lawhawk

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I’ll take his job then. Well not really but really dude issue the certificate and grow up.

278 Charles Johnson  Jul 2, 2015 9:52:13am
279 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 9:52:44am

re: #276 Higgs Boson’s Mate

People like that county clerk don’t want any consequences. They want to be Rosa Parks without the indignity or MLK without the anything. Their idea of suffering is remarkably close to that of a fat baby who throws a tantrum when he can’t have another gallon of chocolate ice cream.

At least the fat baby has the excuse of being a baby.

280 gwangung  Jul 2, 2015 9:53:03am

re: #278 Charles Johnson

Racist twits say what?

281 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 9:54:14am

re: #280 gwangung

Racist twits say what?

More libs are the real bigots crap.

282 Dr. Matt  Jul 2, 2015 9:55:38am

re: #281 HappyWarrior

More libs are the real bigots crap.

Libs are so racist that they went out and elected a Black president.

283 allegro  Jul 2, 2015 9:56:01am

re: #282 Dr. Matt

Libs are so racist that they went out and elected a Black president.

Twice.

284 Bubblehead II  Jul 2, 2015 9:57:37am

re: #270 PhillyPretzel

I am giving myself a well deserved day off today and take a wild guess who just called me. Yes my supervisor.

That’s why I turn my phones (cell AND land line) off on my days off. But I’m hourly, so I don’t have to be available 24/7.

285 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 9:58:14am

re: #278 Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson @Green_Footballs

Can’t you just feel his heartbreak? The poor guy.

Do these fools like Nolte and others ever actually think about what he meant by the statement instead of seeing what they want to see even if it is completely wrong???

It isn’t racist in the least. But then, they would also need to have the context of history and ‘actors’ filling Black roles in entertainment because they couldn’t actually have Blacks being themselves.

And I imagine this will get Benny Boy Shapiro going with the tweets.

Groan.

286 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 9:58:22am

re: #278 Charles Johnson

What’s seriously fucked up about that is Nolte implying that he, too, wishes only for a colorblind future. My ass. Nolte’s idea of colorblind is for everyone to ignore it when people of color get exclusively fucked over exclusively by whites.

287 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 9:59:14am

re: #283 allegro

Twice.

That just proves it.// I’ll have to look more at Takei’s comments but I’m tired of right wing fake outrages. When these are the sane people who excuse any bigotry with the phrase “I’m just not a PC person.”

288 PhillyPretzel  Jul 2, 2015 9:59:25am

re: #284 Bubblehead II

I only work 10am to 6pm. I will give my supervisor credit he said he was sorry.

289 Dr. Matt  Jul 2, 2015 10:00:16am

re: #283 allegro

Twice.

And they hate women…..that’s why they are going to elect a female POTUS.

290 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 10:00:59am

WTFITS

291 PhillyPretzel  Jul 2, 2015 10:01:59am

re: #290 The Vicious Babushka

What some folks will do for money. /half

292 Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 2, 2015 10:02:06am

How many times has John Nolte defended a black man?

293 Charles Johnson  Jul 2, 2015 10:02:41am

It’s so typical for people like Nolte to freak out over a word and ignore the entire context of what Takei said. They never seem to understand that it’s not words that are the problem, it’s INTENT.

Actually, I think they do understand on some level. They’re just playing an idiotic “I know you are but what am I” game. It’s idiot theater for other wingnuts - they’re the only ones who buy this mindless BS.

294 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 10:03:42am

re: #290 The Vicious Babushka

WTFITS

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I hate GoFundMe. I feel bad for her that she’s tied with a mass murderering racist but thid rubs me the wrong way. It is their choice to give to her In the end but yeesh.

295 Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 2, 2015 10:04:07am

re: #290 The Vicious Babushka

WTFITS

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Dear Family & Friends,

As many of you know Michael and I had to abruptly cancel our wedding day, due to the tragedy that occurred in Charleston. June 21st was suppose to be the happiest day of our lives. It is the day every girl dreams of, it was the day we dreamed of. We had each other, we have the perfect venue, and we had our vows ready to be read. We were ready! We had planned out every detail for months and months. It was going to be the PERFECT day!

Our wedding day was suppose to be the most important and special day of our lives. It was suppose to start our lives together with our new family. Our day was the exact opposite. Our wedding day was full of sorrow, pain, and shame, tainted by the actions of one man.

The Charleston Massacre took place and our lives were forever changed. The media abused our privacy and published all of our wedding information and destroyed our dream day. Destroying the first day of Michael and my life together.

We cancelled our wedding to protect our family and mourn the lives of those lost. Many friends and family members came into town and took time off of work to be there for us. We could not ask you to do that again.

We would like the chance to start our lives on a postive note. Therefore, we have decided to start a Go Fund Me account. We know money cannot replace the wedding we lost and our perfect day, however it will help us to create new memories and a new start with our new family.

Money raised will be used to cover lost wedding costs, to pay bills, and to send us on our dream honeymoon. 10% of all funds raised will be donated to Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. We thank you for any contrabution you can make.

Our lives have been forever changed and touched by all the love and support you have shown us through this difficult time. THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS! GOD BLESS!

I honestly don’t even know what to make of that. Damn.

296 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 10:04:14am

re: #290 The Vicious Babushka

Please. Stop. My outrage meter has already peaked.

297 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 10:07:39am

re: #295 Eclectic Cyborg

I honestly don’t even know what to make of that. Damn.

The media are you fucking kidding me? Be mad at your brother, we wouldn’t know or care who the fuck you are if he hadn’t massacred nine innocent people.

298 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 10:07:41am

re: #295 Eclectic Cyborg

I honestly don’t even know what to make of that. Damn.

Fuck her brother for ruining her PERFECT DAY.

That must suck.
//

299 #FergusonFireside  Jul 2, 2015 10:08:53am

re: #288 PhillyPretzel

I only work 10am to 6pm. I will give my supervisor credit he said he was sorry.

Couldn’t find a file, right?

300 freetoken  Jul 2, 2015 10:08:55am

re: #295 Eclectic Cyborg

I guess I’m sort of shrugging at all of this. Dylan murdered, but he also victimized others, who were traumatized in one way or another. I can see the point where his family was also destroyed by his criminal actions. Should a sister have to pay for the sins of her brother?

301 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 10:09:43am

Now she’s going to an even better wedding and honeymoon than she could have hoped for. Grift is rewarding.

302 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 10:11:02am

re: #300 freetoken

I guess I’m sort of shrugging at all of this. Dylan murdered, but he also victimized others, who were traumatized in one way or another. I can see the point where his family was also destroyed by his criminal actions. Should a sister have to pay for the sins of her brother?

No she shouldn’t but I’m really rubbed the wrong way by this. Granted not as bad as bigot entrepreneurs.

303 Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Jul 2, 2015 10:12:38am

What are the odds that this could pass the Legislative Branch right now?

304 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 10:12:52am

I’ve found several people I wish I’d met.
Abraham Lincoln,
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Elisabeth Caty Stanton and Susan B. Anthony,
Woody Guthrie
Frederick Douglass
Harvey Milk

(there are many others I’ve missed. But I’d like to give them all a huge hug and say “Thank you, and well done)

305 Bubblehead II  Jul 2, 2015 10:13:28am

re: #288 PhillyPretzel

I only work 10am to 6pm. I will my supervisor credit he said he was sorry.

Mine generally asks why I didn’t answer the phone.

306 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 10:13:29am

re: #300 freetoken

I guess I’m sort of shrugging at all of this. Dylan murdered, but he also victimized others, who were traumatized in one way or another. I can see the point where his family was also destroyed by his criminal actions. Should a sister have to pay for the sins of her brother?

Were they close? I have a sister and we haven’t talked to each other in over 40 years. My kids have tried to make friends with her and they said she is mean to them.

I’d be ashamed if she went out and killed people.

307 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jul 2, 2015 10:13:45am

re: #303 nearly-headless smith25

13th Amendment, anyone?

308 PhillyPretzel  Jul 2, 2015 10:14:01am

re: #299 #FergusonFireside

He wanted to check my work. As I said earlier he apologized.

309 Snarknado!  Jul 2, 2015 10:15:40am

re: #295 Eclectic Cyborg

I honestly don’t even know what to make of that. Damn.

Bridezilla strikes again. Curse the world and the media for spoiling HER perfect day. (It didn’t exactly make anyone else’s day, particularly someone else who’s a parishioner of the AME church, did it?)

I don’t dwell on the horrible events that have happened on MY birthday, and she should get over herself too.

310 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 10:15:49am

Well fuck a stored procedure is missing from my program and nobody has noticed for 2 years.

I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow. :

311 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 10:16:23am

re: #303 nearly-headless smith25

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What are the odds that this could pass the Legislative Branch right now?

Doubtful. Thank you Rep Lewis for pointing the anniversary out.

312 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 10:16:26am

re: #294 HappyWarrior

I hate GoFundMe. I feel bad for her that she’s tied with a mass murderering racist but thid rubs me the wrong way. It is their choice to give to her In the end but yeesh.

It looks as though she’s marrying an Enlisted man. As a military brat I say she deserves every break she can get. I’m only human, after all.

313 Ace-o-aces  Jul 2, 2015 10:17:25am
314 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 10:18:47am

re: #313 Ace-o-aces

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SPLC said the church fires were not hate crimes so I don’t even know WTF Michelle is even talking about.

315 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jul 2, 2015 10:19:26am
316 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 10:19:27am

re: #312 Higgs Boson’s Mate

It looks as though she’s marrying an Enlisted man. As a military brat I say she deserves every break she can get. I’m only human, after all.

Maybe I am being harsh. This does have to be tough for her no doubt.

317 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 10:20:16am

re: #314 The Vicious Babushka

SPLC said the church fires were not hate crimes so I don’t even know WTF Michelle is even talking about.

She pulled it out of her ass.

318 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 10:21:06am

re: #315 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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There that should alleviate all the fears about this and pea guacamole.

319 freetoken  Jul 2, 2015 10:24:40am

Headline sez:

Why BP Is Paying $18.7 Billion

My quibble: In the end, the one paying is… you.

The cost of life, not just directly in petroleum products but everything that uses petroleum products, will go up as BP and the oil industry spreads these costs around.

320 Bubblehead II  Jul 2, 2015 10:27:58am

Clallam Co. woman first to die from measles in U.S. since 2003

PORT ANGELES, Wash. — The death of a Clallam County woman who died this spring was due to an undetected measles infection, the Washington State Department of Health announced Thursday.

This is why you have your kids vaccinated.

321 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 10:28:54am

re: #290 The Vicious Babushka

WTFITS

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That’s F’d up.

322 freetoken  Jul 2, 2015 10:29:18am

Pew put out a press release summarizing survey research over the past couple of years, which is getting some wide publication.

Of note:

There are substantial differences between younger and older Americans that are independent of their political beliefs, education levels or other factors.

Seniors (31%) are less likely than those under age 30 (60%) to say the Earth is warming due to human activity, and are less inclined to favor stricter power plant emission limits in order to address climate change. Older adults also express more support for offshore oil drilling, and they are more likely to prioritize fossil fuel development over alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power.

37% of adults under age 50 say parents should be able to decide not to vaccinate their children, compared with 22% of those ages 50 and older.

When it comes to the idea of changing a baby’s genetic characteristics in order to reduce the risk of serious diseases, older adults are more likely than younger ones to say this would be taking medical advances too far (56% among those ages 65 and older compared with 42% among those ages 18 to 29).

323 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 10:29:18am

How many Authentic Frontier Gibberish speakers are there on Twitter? They should have their own hashtag.

324 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 10:31:29am

re: #323 The Vicious Babushka

How many Authentic Frontier Gibberish speakers are there on Twitter? They should have their own hashtag.

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I could actually understand Gabby Johnson. Something about being born here and no way. But that, I just got that someone is obsessed with a dead Chicago organizer.

325 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 10:32:07am

Hmm. The New Comments button updates conked out for me again.

326 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 10:32:27am

You’d think they’d have a more original retort than commie though.

327 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 10:32:59am

Authentic Frontier Gibberish is Twitterspeak for trying to cram as many hashtags and random mentions into your wingnut talking points

328 Kragar  Jul 2, 2015 10:33:04am

re: #326 HappyWarrior

You’d think they’d have a more original retort than commie though.

If they were capable of rational thought, they wouldn’t be RWNJs

329 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 10:33:07am

re: #310 The Vicious Babushka

Well fuck a stored procedure is missing from my program and nobody has noticed for 2 years.

I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow. :

Keep calling it, it will show up sometime.

330 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 10:33:38am

re: #323 The Vicious Babushka

How many Authentic Frontier Gibberish speakers are there on Twitter? They should have their own hashtag.

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She appears to be pre-packaged pissed off.

331 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 10:34:18am

re: #323 The Vicious Babushka

How many Authentic Frontier Gibberish speakers are there on Twitter? They should have their own hashtag.

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The only reply that would make sense to MariaB is

Transom! Underwear wingtip lunar jettison camionetta!

332 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 10:34:28am

re: #328 Kragar

If they were capable of rational thought, they wouldn’t be RWNJs

Touché

333 Kragar  Jul 2, 2015 10:34:51am
334 freetoken  Jul 2, 2015 10:34:56am

Interesting chart from the Pew article:

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335 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 10:35:56am

re: #329 Eventual Carrion

Keep calling it, it will show up sometime.

It will come home when it gets hungry.

336 withak  Jul 2, 2015 10:36:03am

re: #320 Bubblehead II

Clallam Co. woman first to die from measles in U.S. since 2003

PORT ANGELES, Wash. — The death of a Clallam County woman who died this spring was due to an undetected measles infection, the Washington State Department of Health announced Thursday.

This is why you have your kids vaccinated.

Herd immunity is for sheeple!!!!!1eleventy

337 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 10:36:31am

re: #310 The Vicious Babushka

Well fuck a stored procedure is missing from my program and nobody has noticed for 2 years.

I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow. :

Probably a liberal stored procedure.

338 allegro  Jul 2, 2015 10:38:42am

re: #316 HappyWarrior

Maybe I am being harsh. This does have to be tough for her no doubt.

I’m kinda with you on this. Her all about her and her ruined happy happy day letter begging for honeymoon money is… distasteful. I know she isn’t the one who murdered those people and it sucks to be her in that family right now. It sucks a whole lot more to be grieving families of those murdered like the wife and children of Rev. Pinckney. She can still get married and have a life - their’s were ended. I might feel differently if she’d at least acknowledged that the blame lays with her brother and what he did, rather than the mean media. Or not. It’s still supremely tacky.

339 jaunte  Jul 2, 2015 10:38:50am

re: #331 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Transom! Underwear wingtip lunar jettison camionetta!

COMMIE FURRINER DETECTED!

340 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 2, 2015 10:40:54am

re: #320 Bubblehead II

Clallam Co. woman first to die from measles in U.S. since 2003

PORT ANGELES, Wash. — The death of a Clallam County woman who died this spring was due to an undetected measles infection, the Washington State Department of Health announced Thursday.

This is why you have your kids vaccinated.

So I was taking part in a baby swimming class, and part of the instructions involved dipping the baby’s head under water so it could get used to the sensation. One mother in the group just could not bring herself to do that to her child, she felt as if she was hurting her baby and that was too much for her.

I have not seen her since, but I would not be surprised if she also did not get her child vaccinated…for the very same reasons.

341 Romantic Heretic  Jul 2, 2015 10:42:14am

re: #162 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Wendy’s and TH split up, because Wendy’s realized TH was pulling customers away from the Wendy’s outlets in the same market. BK’s holding company acquired TH last year. I’m not sure what their thinking is on that move, given Wendy’s experience.

What they’re thinking is the market is of infinite size and increasing the number of outlets for products will increase their profits.

Since the market isn’t infinite increasing outlets might reduce profit due to increase costs whether this can be called ‘thinking’ debatable.

342 blueraven  Jul 2, 2015 10:44:09am

Looks like go fund me has pulled the Roof wedding appeal.

I’m sorry, I cant agree that this is OK. You don’t try to make money on something like this. Plenty of people have their wedding day ruined for reasons out of their control and they move on. Just because this one is well known due to her brothers hateful murder spree, she is not right to take advantage.

If they love each other, they should go get married quietly and get over it!

343 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 10:44:34am

re: #338 allegro

I’m kinda with you on this. Her all about her and her ruined happy happy day letter begging for honeymoon money is… distasteful. I know she isn’t the one who murdered those people and it sucks to be her in that family right now. It sucks a whole lot more to be grieving families of those murdered like the wife and children of Rev. Pinckney. She can still get married and have a life - their’s were ended. I might feel differently if she’d at least acknowledged that the blame lays with her brother and what he did, rather than the mean media. Or not. It’s still supremely tacky.

Thanks. You articulated it better than I could. This exactly. Upping coming.

344 freetoken  Jul 2, 2015 10:45:37am

I’m about to stand on a soapbox again…

Again from the Pew page:

There are several science topics where wide differences among racial and ethnic groups emerge. Hispanics stand out, particularly from whites, in their views about climate change, with a clear majority of Hispanics (70%) saying the Earth is warming due to human activity, compared with 44% among non-Hispanic whites.6

Sigh… why is it so many social scientists have such a hard time giving up poor, and quite outdated, notions of “race”?

“Hispanic” is a cultural category relating to heritage from Iberian colonized portions of America, and most “Hispanics” or their grandparents spoke Spanish.

“White” would best be described as “West Eurasian”, and on the whole “Hispanics” have significant ancestry from Europe. Which is why in the last sentence quoted above the writer puts in the phrase ” non-Hispanic whites”.

345 jaunte  Jul 2, 2015 10:49:48am

LOL.

346 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 10:50:48am

re: #344 freetoken

I’m about to stand on a soapbox again…

Again from the Pew page:

Sigh… why is it so many social scientists have such a hard time giving up poor, and quite outdated, notions of “race”?

“Hispanic” is a cultural category relating to heritage from Iberian colonized portions of America, and most “Hispanics” or their grandparents spoke Spanish.

“White” would best be described as “West Eurasian”, and on the whole “Hispanics” have significant ancestry from Europe. Which is why in the last sentence quoted above the writer puts in the phrase ” non-Hispanic whites”.

My mom has been confused about this ever since my brother got married to a Peruvian. I think she gets it now. I explained to her that my brother’s father in law’s mother who has a similar ancestry to her merely emigrated to Peru and not the U.S. And how Latin/South America is quite diverse.

347 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 10:53:40am

re: #345 jaunte

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LOL.

If Rick Perry thinks you’re being a bigot but the sad truth is Trump has gone up in the polls. Really sad though if Perry thinks you’re being a bigot.

348 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 10:54:07am

re: #345 jaunte

To which Republican Party is Gov. Goodhair referring? Current polling puts Trump only seven percentage points behind JEB!.

349 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 10:54:35am

TEH STUPIDS IS STRONG IN THIS ONE==>

350 jaunte  Jul 2, 2015 10:55:42am

re: #347 HappyWarrior

I had a look at Breitbart comments on that story; one person thought Perry was not “bold” enough to be President. Trump accurately expresses the id of the R base.

351 Kragar  Jul 2, 2015 10:56:30am
352 freetoken  Jul 2, 2015 10:56:33am

re: #346 HappyWarrior

Trying to get people to dump the idea of “race” and all of its many derivative ideas is really tough.

While it is true that many of the people in the Spanish speaking parts of the Americas have significant Native American ancestry, a majority of them have even more significant European ancestry. There are remote areas which are mostly surviving Native American descendants, but those are rural regions, not the populated centers.

Most of the Americas are composed of people with blended ancestry from Europe, Africa, and Native Americans.

Someone in Donald Trump’s circle of friends will have a high probability of being mostly of European ancestry, but that cannot describe most people living in the Western Hemisphere.

353 gwangung  Jul 2, 2015 10:57:43am

re: #349 The Vicious Babushka

TEH STUPIDS IS STRONG IN THIS ONE==>

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Guess who’s electing them NOW?

354 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 10:58:30am

re: #351 Kragar

Reminds me of Vogon poetry.

355 Eventual Carrion  Jul 2, 2015 10:59:07am

re: #345 jaunte

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LOL.

After making that statement Perry said, “Here, hold my beer while I put a scope those illeagles from this helicopter”.

356 Romantic Heretic  Jul 2, 2015 10:59:35am

re: #354 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Reminds me of Vogon poetry.

But without the redeeming talent of Vogon poetry.

357 freetoken  Jul 2, 2015 10:59:35am

Here is some more interesting tidbits from Pew:

Major Gaps Between the Public, Scientists on Key Issues

Only the question about the Space Station do we find the public and the AAAS participants in agreement.

358 No Country For Old Haters  Jul 2, 2015 11:00:08am

re: #349 The Vicious Babushka

TEH STUPIDS IS STRONG IN THIS ONE==>

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359 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 11:00:11am

re: #349 The Vicious Babushka

TEH STUPIDS IS STRONG IN THIS ONE==>

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They weren’t conservatives lol. Go ahead pat yourself on the back GOP for being inclusionary 145 years ago.

360 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 11:00:51am

re: #353 gwangung

Guess who’s electing them NOW?

They were not elected by CONSERVATIVES back then either.

361 Kragar  Jul 2, 2015 11:01:10am

re: #349 The Vicious Babushka

TEH STUPIDS IS STRONG IN THIS ONE==>

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Pretty sure conservatives 150 years ago weren’t electing blacks.

362 Skip Intro  Jul 2, 2015 11:01:18am

re: #345 jaunte

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LOL.

That must be why he’s only in second place right now.

363 jaunte  Jul 2, 2015 11:01:39am

Uh oh, looks like Texas’ “business as usual” could be prosecuted.

First-degree felony charges to be sought against Texas AG Paxton

Last year during his campaign, Paxton admitted to the Texas State Securities Board that while he was in the Legislature, he solicited clients for a friend’s investment firm without being registered with the state. He paid a $1,000 fine and was reprimanded by the board.

Paxton solicited the clients in 2004, 2005 and 2012 while serving as a Republican state representative for a Collin County district. The question of criminal violations has yet to be addressed, though Paxton describes it as an administrative error.

But the watchdog group Texans for Public Justice requested an investigation into whether Paxton broke criminal laws. After two district attorneys backed away from the case, Collin County’s district attorney, Greg Willis, said that “appropriate investigative agencies, including the Texas Rangers” should handle allegations that Paxton violated state securities laws.

364 ObserverArt  Jul 2, 2015 11:01:43am

re: #346 HappyWarrior

My mom has been confused about this ever since my brother got married to a Peruvian. I think she gets it now. I explained to her that my brother’s father in law’s mother who has a similar ancestry to her merely emigrated to Peru and not the U.S. And how Latin/South America is quite diverse.

Central and South America has a lot of European mixed into it. When younger, I learned a lot about that following auto racing as many Formula 1 and World Endurance Sports Car drivers were from South America. When I came across champions with name like Fangio and Fittipaldi it made me think, damn those are Italian names.

And some of the most stunningly beautiful Mexican women are blonde haired and blue eyed from their Spanish/European backgrounds.

By the way, I hadn’t noticed you user image so I checked it out. I take it that is your niece. She has some big eyes and is a real cutie!

365 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 11:02:44am

Let’s see who believed in states rights and opposed the 13th-15th amendments. Hmmm and who supported those and wanted a strong federal government to enforce that. Conservatives today want to make it about parties but it is and always has been about ideology.

366 freetoken  Jul 2, 2015 11:03:15am

Here is the Pew report formatted:

367 jaunte  Jul 2, 2015 11:03:17am

“Cruz has pointed out that he never endorsed Paxton in [Paxton’s 2014 campaign for attorney general”]
trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com

Scuttling away…

368 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 11:03:33am

re: #361 Kragar

Pretty sure conservatives 150 years ago weren’t electing blacks.

They were supporting the enslavement and disenfranchisement however.

369 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 11:05:19am

re: #361 Kragar

Pretty sure conservatives 150 years ago weren’t electing blacks.

Look what just popped up in my Timeline==>

370 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 11:05:47am

re: #367 jaunte

“Cruz has pointed out that he never endorsed Paxton in [Paxton’s 2014 campaign for attorney general”]
trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com

Scuttling away…

Coward.

371 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 2, 2015 11:06:06am

What “slap” did Obama do to the Black church last week? As I recall he spoke beautifully and sang with enthusiasm.

372 HappyWarrior  Jul 2, 2015 11:07:31am

re: #369 The Vicious Babushka

Look what just popped up in my Timeline==>

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Then please do because citing what the parties were before realignment doesn’t have any relevance at a to today. As for slap, Pinckney was Obama’s friend.

373 jaunte  Jul 2, 2015 11:07:46am

re: #371 The Vicious Babushka

He’s worried about Big Ghey.

374 danarchy  Jul 2, 2015 11:09:07am

re: #300 freetoken

I guess I’m sort of shrugging at all of this. Dylan murdered, but he also victimized others, who were traumatized in one way or another. I can see the point where his family was also destroyed by his criminal actions. Should a sister have to pay for the sins of her brother?

Yeah, this isn’t really setting off my outrage meter. GoFundMe doesn’t really allow you to make a fundraiser completely private so this could really have just been a way to reach out to actual friends and family for help and someone found the link and publicized it. Even if it is a private campaign once the link gets out there is no way to limit who has access to it.

375 Dr Lizardo  Jul 2, 2015 1:51:08pm

re: #271 Charles Johnson

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