A Music Video From Tommy Emmanuel: “Blood Brother”

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This is the first Tommy Emmanuel music video I’ve posted at LGF that’s actually a real production with actors and a powerful, moving story. A great new direction for Tommy, and it really works.

The music video for Blood Brother is based on a true story first told on Reddit by Justin Horner. The message is simple: everyone deserves a random act of kindness, no matter who they are.

Director Clara Emmanuel
Producers Clara Emmanuel, Libby Ahlstrom
Executive Producer Tommy Emmanuel, Gina Mendello
Director of Photography Julian Chojnacki
Editor Reuben Field
Steadicam Tony Reyes
Focus Puller Armanda Costanza
Grip/Electric Chuck Byrd
Swing Grip Timothy O’Laughlin
Line Photographer Price Harrison
Continuity/Slate Ed Lawless
Catering/Runner Mikaela Dewar
Wardrobe Libby Ahlstrom
Make-up Katje Kuhn
Child Care/RV Batsheva Capek

Starring:
Justin Anthony Snape
Father Charlie Santiago
Mother Anaura Santiago
Hitchhiker Libby Ahlstrom
Soldier Jesse Snyder
Boy Roberto Santiago
Girl Mia Santiago

Thanks Michael Sexton (prop gun lender), Rick Price (studio location)

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212 comments
1 Dark_Falcon  Jul 2, 2015 8:32:09pm

According to Google, he’s going to be in your neck of the woods in September, Charles.

2 Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 2, 2015 8:37:13pm

Reposting from downstairs:

I had a rather disconcerting dream last night:

I was swinging something around as I was walking down an urban street (a stick or some other solid object). I have no idea why I was swinging it but I accidentally hit a man who was walking a few feet ahead of me.

The guy freaked out, threw me to the sidewalk, beat me up for a few minutes and then pinned me to the ground in a headlock. He then drew a pistol and shot me in the head…twice.

I can’t even describe what I felt after I got shot except to say it was some sort of bizarre dream world paralysis. I literally could not move, could not speak. I didn’t know if I was dead or alive.

I finally snapped awake and had a minor panic attack. It took me a few moments to get my bearings and realize that:

a) I HAD been dreaming
b) I was actually in my bedroom
c) My head was perfectly intact

I’ve had bad/unusual dreams before, even a couple in which I’ve been shot, but never shot in the head and never one that I’d reacted to like this one.

I literally stayed wide awake for an hour watching youtube videos on my phone at 4 a.m. because I was scared to go back to sleep.

It sounds so stupid and irrational but I’ve never been so jarred by a dream before. Hopefully I find a more peaceful sleep tonight.

I’ve had near death experiences in dreams before: Once I drove off a cliff and remember simultaneously praying and crying while I waited to hit bottom (woke up before that happened). I’ve also had several dreams where I’ve lost control of a vehicle and gotten into terrible accidents. I’ve been stabbed and shot, jumped off a building, been thrown off a ship.

Most of my dreams are unusual but not particularly frightening or disturbing. I very rarely have night terrorish dreams but last night was definitely first (and hopefully a last!).

3 Snarknado!  Jul 2, 2015 8:48:32pm

I’ve had one or two night-terrorish dreams when I was younger. They do fade away with time.

4 Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 2, 2015 8:48:54pm

re: #3 Snarknado!

I’ve had one or two night-terrorish dreams when I was younger. They do fade away with time.

I tend to agree. The last time I got shot in a dream was I believe nearly 10 years ago.

5 dell*nix  Jul 2, 2015 8:55:37pm

re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg

The ones that bother me the most are the one’s where I have to fight to the point of killing someone or being killed. I tend to wake up from those pissed off for a couple of hours. Fortunately I do not have those very often. Those tend to show up after reading military sci-fi or watching too much anime.

6 Kragar  Jul 2, 2015 9:01:17pm

re: #3 Snarknado!

I’ve had one or two night-terrorish dreams when I was younger. They do fade away with time.

I still remember a dream I had when I was 5 or 6.

Imagine tortoises but the heads extended into cobras and they could run and spit poison.

7 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 9:31:35pm

The only truly horrible dream I can remember clearly comes from childhood. I dreamt the house was on fire, and the fire kept me and my parents from reaching each other.

I’m not prone to having nightmares or dreams where I die (or almost die), it seems.

8 #FergusonFireside  Jul 2, 2015 9:34:57pm

Nighty! I’ll report tomorrow.

9 KiTA  Jul 2, 2015 9:35:19pm

Reddit is burning. Holy crap. Most of reddit is set private (turned off) after they fired the only admin anyone liked. (Or more specifically, its because the admins feel that transparency and discussion is something that happens to other people.)

Rumor is its the result of Jesse Jackson making an ass of himself during an interview. Said fired admin was the person who handled celebrity interviews.

10 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jul 2, 2015 9:38:13pm

I think a dream saved my life. I’ve been in nursing school, and I just might graduate next month. I was always worried about oversleeping for clinical so I was in the habit of getting up on Monday morning and going to bed Friday night. Anyway, at one point I had given up and was sort of hanging by a strap. I was on my way, but somewhere my mind played yet another cruel trick on me and somebody shouted “You’re late for clinical!” I flinched, the strap broke and that was that.
A few days later I found I had passed (by .04 points) and was still alive in the program.

11 William Lewis  Jul 2, 2015 9:41:26pm

re: #9 KiTA

Hopefully the end of reddit. No great loss.

12 Kragar  Jul 2, 2015 9:41:48pm
13 teleskiguy  Jul 2, 2015 9:42:11pm

Since we’re talking about dragonfire1981’s horrible nightmare (hope that doesn’t happen again, bud!) I’ll repost my two cents from downstairs. I encourage others who are still around to do the same, it’s fascinating stuff.

Every now and again (probably four or five times a year) I have horrible dreams where I’m falling off a really high place (a skyscraper, the Grand Canyon, etc.), and when I impact, I get jolted awake immediately and I’m covered in sweat.

I wish you a better nights sleep, what you described sounds fucking terrifying.

14 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 9:45:55pm

re: #12 Kragar

They’re not just child abusers, but menaces to society in general.Their unvaccinated kids are potential disease vectors.

15 teleskiguy  Jul 2, 2015 9:47:48pm

re: #12 Kragar

Anti-vaxers are child abusers and will be blocked without question

They’re cold-blooded misanthropes, a detriment to our collective evolution.

16 Jenner7  Jul 2, 2015 9:55:22pm

twitter.com

re: George Takei’s comments about Thomas. Most of it I’d agree with, except this tweet:

I’ve not heard any liberal call him dumb or a puppet. And if they did, I wouldn’t find it racist.

17 teleskiguy  Jul 2, 2015 10:03:00pm
18 teleskiguy  Jul 2, 2015 10:10:26pm

re: #16 Jenner7

Clarence Thomas, in my estimation, is very smart. He knows it, and he’s taken advantage quite nicely.

I’m of the opinion that Clarence Thomas has absolved himself of his blackness so thoroughly that he’s completely lost sight of other Americans with his skin color’s plight in day-to-day living. He’s too far removed from the true American black experience to give a shit. So he says the United States government didn’t take away the dignity of black people in the early 19th century as an argument to discriminate against gay people in the 21st century.

The man is an embarrassment to U.S. constitutional jurisprudence.

19 WhatEVs  Jul 2, 2015 10:15:23pm

re: #16 Jenner7

re: #18 teleskiguy

I’d say more astute than smart. Palin is astute, but not at all smart. I’ll assume Thomas can at least string a coherent sentence together…not that I can recall his doing so, but he is an attorney.

20 Jenner7  Jul 2, 2015 10:27:32pm

G’night all. I hope everyone has a great July 4th holiday! Be safe.

21 No Country For Old Haters  Jul 2, 2015 10:52:54pm

re: #9 KiTA

Reddit is burning.

They’re deleting comments discussing the dismissal now. Reddit’s owners seem to have made a huge mistake.

22 Varek Raith  Jul 2, 2015 11:00:18pm

And explanation for the shitstorm on reddit.
reddit.com

23 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 2, 2015 11:29:03pm

Reddit is one of those examples of a company that depends almost solely on the labor of a cadre of underpaid or unpaid volunteers, who work more hours than any sane person would at a regular job.

See also, Uber.

24 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 2, 2015 11:38:47pm

re: #23 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Wasn’t HuffPo pretty much the same way before Ariana monetized all that free labor for herself?

25 goddamnedfrank  Jul 2, 2015 11:47:00pm

re: #22 Varek Raith

And explanation for the shitstorm on reddit.
reddit.com

So a corporation with a half billion dollar valuation effectively operated with a single point of failure, and they abruptly terminated a linchpin employee with absolutely no backup plan in place. Smart.

Not only that, but the employee was basically their public face to the legions of unpaid mods that run their community, and seems to have been universally beloved by them. Then, when Reddit canned her they didn’t even attempt to figure out what the fuck she actually did for them or communicate with the people she interacted with until it all blew up in their face. On top of that this one event has essentially triggered a volcanic explosion of long simmering unanswered grievances.

Basically a clinic in how not to run a company.

26 Amory Blaine  Jul 3, 2015 12:01:17am

Tomah man faces federal charge of threatening to kill President Obama

A Tomah man was charged in federal court on Thursday with threatening to kill President Barack Obama in La Crosse.

Brian Dennis Dutcher, 55, posted the following statement to Facebook on Tuesday: “Thursday I will be in La Crosse. Hopefully I will get a clear shot at the pretend president. Killing him is our CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY,” according to the charges.

The next day, he approached a security guard at the La Crosse Public Library and said, “The usurper is here, and if I get the chance I’ll take him out and I’ll take the shot,” court documents say.

27 goddamnedfrank  Jul 3, 2015 12:04:51am

Finally, since the mods have the ability to take their subreddits private, the entire business model was built with a very small but dedicated portion of their unpaid user base having the ability to effectively shut much of the site down. Now Reddit has to negotiate with and try to placate people that do not depend on it for a paycheck and therefore have nothing financially to lose.

I’d ask how a scenario like this manages to escape basic risk analysis, except I’ve interacted with enough egotistical corporate management idiots to be surprised. They thought they had the golden goose, and it didn’t even occur to them that they had to take care of its needs. They thought they could just let it forage for itself, that they could ignore, for years, its increasing honks of complaint, and just keep taking and cashing in the eggs it laid. Then they thought they could summarily shit-can the one person on their household staff that the goose actually loved.

28 teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2015 12:10:56am

I’m glad I’m well outside the Reddit universe. I dabble here and there (which has yielded weird/surprising results) but am a 100% lurker at Reddit.

Reading about Reddit here tonight, shit man, WHAT THE FUCK?!

29 goddamnedfrank  Jul 3, 2015 12:14:44am

Reddit has never interested me, can’t say why exactly.

30 Dr Lizardo  Jul 3, 2015 12:30:55am

re: #25 goddamnedfrank

So a corporation with a half billion dollar valuation effectively operated with a single point of failure, and they abruptly terminated a linchpin employee with absolutely no backup plan in place. Smart.

Not only that, but the employee was basically their public face to the legions of unpaid mods that run their community, and seems to have been universally beloved by them. Then, when Reddit canned her they didn’t even attempt to figure out what the fuck she actually did for them or communicate with the people she interacted with until it all blew up in their face. On top of that this one event has essentially triggered a volcanic explosion of long simmering unanswered grievances.

Basically a clinic in how not to run a company.

They must be taking lessons from other luminaries of business acumen like Carly Fiorina or Donald Trump.

31 teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2015 1:04:06am

A wingnut on Twitter - who has over 58,000 followers - who follows me for some weird fucking reason, tweeted this earlier.

Bernie Sanders’ message resonates with folks. Those folks are ENEMY OF THE STATE AND MUST BE PURGED!

32 Frenchy  Jul 3, 2015 2:19:39am

I don’t think you land a seat on the SCOTUS by being stupid by any means. So I wouldn’t call Thomas stupid. But I WOULD call him completely worthless as a justice.

33 KiTA  Jul 3, 2015 2:23:20am

In the car with my stepdad. 1 hour until I can sleep.

Two theories on what happened with reddit.

Theory one is that Victoria refused to cater to Chairman Pao’s plans to commercialize reddit before they sell it off. To wit, part of Victoria’s job was to ensure that AMAs — community interviews — were honest. For example, if William Shafner wanted to do an AMA, Victoria would help him but also would ensure it was Mr. Shatner doing the answering and not an agent or PR person. As part of the commercialization of Reddit they are trying to push for this to be made… Let’s say less transparent. So get an AMA with some big name actor or what have you and going forward it might be their agent or someone from the film studio. Needless to say, no one is happy about this except Pao.

Theory two is the Jesse Jackson mess. This week Jackson had an AMA which let’s say “didn’t go well”. Lots of extremely hard questions which he gave really weird answers to. There is a chance Victoria was censoring these questions and Jackson was giving answers to the censored questions. Either way the scandal starts brewing, Jackson looks really bad, Jackson or his Agent figure out what happened, and Jackson complains to reddit’s admins, possibly via a lawyer. They sack Victoria to placate him (and have removed the interview and all of Mr. jackson’s posts, as well as flagging the people asking him hard questions as being spammers via their ” shadowban” system.)
dailycaller.com

Either way the volunteer mods, who basically do the day to day running of reddit and whose free work is the “product” reddit is trying to sell, snap. This is the last straw in years of the admins being completely obtuse and basically running reddit however they want, with no stated policies, double standsarda, etc. The second RedditRevolt occurs.

Meanwhile, voat.co remains up. It is an open reddit alternative created by people tired of all this crap. Unfortunately, Pao’s supporters are currently DDOSing it as well as running a smear campaign trying to cut its hosting and donations systems offline, so its flakey.

34 Dr Lizardo  Jul 3, 2015 2:59:34am

re: #33 KiTA

I had no idea about the issues going on Reddit; mostly because, to be honest, I’ve never been there, nor did I have any idea of its general popularity.

I always assumed it was one of the internet’s open sewage canals, yet another of the digital world’s toxic waste dumps, so I never checked it out.

Interesting.

35 KiTA  Jul 3, 2015 3:18:19am

Latest update from the Reddit disaster. Apparently the admins are seizing control of the most popular subreddits and forcing them back open, as well as blocking the moderator’s access to the control panel — basically forcing them out and steaming the subs.

This is huge, as some of those subs have over 10 million subscribers. Its always kiubda interesting to watch a company self destruct like this.

If the current admins remain after this then reddit’s shareholders are completely asleep at the wheel.

36 KiTA  Jul 3, 2015 3:22:34am

BTW, most of LGF doesn’t work on mobile. Click on jump to bottom on a page to get to the new comment field? Launches you back to the main page. Hit edit on your post? Same. Someone might want to test it out using Droid4x or Bluestacks or something…

37 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 3, 2015 3:39:01am

re: #30 Dr Lizardo

They must be taking lessons from other luminaries of business acumen like Carly Fiorina or Donald Trump.

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Reddit, Uber, Lyft are all predicated on having a large workforce wiling to work their asses off for comparatively low financial reward, or none at all. The trouble begins when this complacent workforce gets fed up with being used, and either quits (no financial loss there for them) or subverts the original business plan (organizes as a group or files suit).

It’s what happens when Silicon Valley übergeeks meet the nasty reality of the world, with all those organics who don’t act like computer code.

Bitcoin is another example of this phenomenon. Despite all its supposed security, Bitcoins’ clever crooks have still swindled people out of a lot of money, either deliberately or by being total fuck-ups as managers.

38 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 3, 2015 3:48:23am

re: #31 teleskiguy

How far has Socialism come in US? CNN: Bernie Sanders draws nearly 10,000 supporters in Wisconsin

That’s great news, but HIllary has at least that many bankers supporting her.

I wonder if Bernie and his faction are even going to get a nod and a wink out of her.

39 William Lewis  Jul 3, 2015 3:49:23am

re: #34 Dr Lizardo

Your instinct was right so far as I’m concerned. Lots of extremely toxic sub- reddits that make stormfront and the darknet pedos look good that Reddit refused to clean up out of 1st amendment absolutism.

40 Jayleia  Jul 3, 2015 3:53:09am

re: #34 Dr Lizardo

It has its good parts…but I don’t use them…because the bad parts are so incredibly, disgustingly bad.

I mean, imagine a website where you had the Charles Johnson the Greater, and Charles Johnson the Much Lesser each running like half the forums…you’d still avoid the site because the bad is so incredibly bad.

41 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 4:01:58am

re: #36 KiTA

BTW, most of LGF doesn’t work on mobile. Click on jump to bottom on a page to get to the new comment field? Launches you back to the main page. Hit edit on your post? Same. Someone might want to test it out using Droid4x or Bluestacks or something…

The button only works after the javascript file gets downloaded or some JS flag is enabled or something, and that seemingly happens only at the end of the loading process, which means you have to wait an unknown amount of time before the whole page loads (and you don’t really know when it finishes loading, you don’t see it) before the button even becomes functional.

42 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 4:08:08am

re: #41 Nyet

Since there doesn’t seem to be any anchor for the end of the page (which would have been an easier solution), one can try and “hack around” by manually adding #comctrl to the URL:

littlegreenfootballs.com

43 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 4:28:30am

Here is the Reddit Jackson AMA cache, while it lasts.

webcache.googleusercontent.com

44 PhillyPretzel  Jul 3, 2015 4:39:27am

I am going to be stuck at home today; I am getting a new roof.

45 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 4:46:01am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
It’s early, there will be MOAR STUPIDS
Change ONE WORD of this meme and you get another popular bigot meme, mix and match to create your own!

46 PhillyPretzel  Jul 3, 2015 4:47:48am

re: #45 The Vicious Babushka

I agree. Very ignorant.

47 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 4:51:18am

#tcot is going to be insufferable today. I don’t know what they will post more of, lame graphics with a bunch of flags, eagles, guns & colonial dudes all crammed together, or OBAMA IS TEH DICTATOR COMMUNIST EMPEROR TYRANT WHO IS TAKIN AWAY ALL ARE FREEDUMBS!!!!!!

48 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 5:15:21am

re: #45 The Vicious Babushka

Oh, “kosher tax”.

49 Dr Lizardo  Jul 3, 2015 5:17:11am

re: #48 Nyet

Oh, “kosher tax”.

Precisely.

50 Varek Raith  Jul 3, 2015 5:20:42am

Never really paid attention to reddit.
Interesting to see it go down in flames though.

51 Timothy Watson  Jul 3, 2015 5:28:38am

re: #50 Varek Raith

Never really paid attention to reddit.
Interesting to see it go down in flames though.

reddit is the Galt’s Gulch of the Internet and it looks like there was a strike.

In other news, libertarianism poisons everything.

52 aagcobb  Jul 3, 2015 5:36:03am

Remember how the Right was railing that the states would rise up and defy SCOTUS on ssm? Now even Jindal has surrendered as the office in New Orleans under his control has started issuing licenses to same sex couples. There are only a few die-hard clerks and judges left in the South resisting, and one of them in Kentucky just got sued by the ACLU. As usual, the Right has a lot more bark than bite.

53 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 5:44:02am

re: #48 Nyet

Oh, “kosher tax”.

inorite!

54 Dr Lizardo  Jul 3, 2015 5:44:34am

So, as if things weren’t already zany enough in Greece, well…..there’s this.

As the referendum clock ticks down towards Sunday’s vote, there is still an outside chance it will not even go ahead.

The Council of State, Greece’s top administrative court, is due to rule on whether it breaches the country’s constitution. Human rights group the Council of Europe has alaready expressed unhappiness with the vote, partly due to the speed of the process and also the question being asked.

Meanwhile the latest poll shows a slight lead for the Yes side - those in favour of accepting the creditors’ proposals. The ALCO polling institute poll, published in the Ethnos newspaper, showed 44.8% for Yes, 43.4% for No and 11.8% undecided.

Apparently, Greece’s constitution forbids a referendum on fiscal matters. So that’s what the Council of State is gonna have to decide on.

Oy vey.

theguardian.com

55 Charles Johnson  Jul 3, 2015 5:49:56am

re: #36 KiTA

I’ve posted this before but I guess I need to repeat it - for commenting on mobile devices, Spy mode is a much better experience. It’s a stripped down page, so it loads much more quickly.

Maybe I should make Spy mode the default comments page for mobile devices.

56 Charles Johnson  Jul 3, 2015 5:52:43am

Chuck Johnson has finally posted something new at his crappy blog, by the way, and he hasn’t gotten any saner. It’s a completely bizarre racist rant about Dylann Roof.

57 PhillyPretzel  Jul 3, 2015 5:57:55am

re: #56 Charles Johnson

You actually expected something that made sense? Once they start down the slippery slope they do not have the brakes to stop so their comments become crazier and crazier until …

Hopefully he will slip into silence but I do not see that happening.

58 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 3, 2015 6:21:49am

re: #56 Charles Johnson

Chuck Johnson has finally posted something new at his crappy blog, by the way, and he hasn’t gotten any saner. It’s a completely bizarre racist rant about Dylann Roof.

Holy shit! It’s like a stream-of-consciousness rant from one of those CT sites.

59 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 6:30:01am

LOL I’m having a meme battle with a dumbass==>

60 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 6:30:55am
61 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 3, 2015 6:41:17am

I believe the downfall of Reddit is a black op by the dreaded New Zealand Secret Service:

Red Pill Redditors prepared to take New Zealand by force — using skills gained from Call of Duty.

62 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 6:48:40am

Chuck’s rant is a hoot.

This isn’t 1960 or 1960. It’s 2015.

63 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 3, 2015 6:50:21am

re: #62 Nyet

Chuck’s rant is a hoot.

I think he had a few drinks before writing it.

64 PhillyPretzel  Jul 3, 2015 6:53:53am

re: #63 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

A few drinks and a poop on the floor and then he “writes.” //

65 Bird in the Paw  Jul 3, 2015 7:07:27am

re: #27 goddamnedfrank

They thought they had the golden goose, and it didn’t even occur to them that they had to take care of its needs. They thought they could just let it forage for itself, that they could ignore, for years, its increasing honks of complaint, and just keep taking and cashing in the eggs it laid. Then they thought they could summarily shit-can the one person on their household staff that the goose actually loved.

Brilliant metaphor

66 Bird in the Paw  Jul 3, 2015 7:12:15am

re: #36 KiTA

BTW, most of LGF doesn’t work on mobile. Click on jump to bottom on a page to get to the new comment field? Launches you back to the main page. Hit edit on your post? Same. Someone might want to test it out using Droid4x or Bluestacks or something…

Seems to be working fine on my iPad and iPhone 6+

67 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 7:16:26am

re: #66 Bird in the Paw

Also in threads with 400 comments?

68 Bird in the Paw  Jul 3, 2015 7:17:57am

re: #59 The Vicious Babushka

LOL I’m having a meme battle with a dumbass==>

[Embedded content]

Please to explain why he is using a military cemetery to talk about murder people.

69 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 7:22:11am

re: #68 Bird in the Paw

Please to explain why he is using a military cemetery to talk about murder people.

Dumbass gotta be dumb

70 Bird in the Paw  Jul 3, 2015 7:22:59am

re: #67 Nyet

Also in threads with 400 comments?

True, then it’s a tad slow and wonky. And by tad, I mean painfully.

71 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 7:24:19am
72 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 7:25:50am

G-D is telling you something Erick

73 KiTA  Jul 3, 2015 7:28:56am

re: #55 Charles Johnson

Definitely. Except you can’t edit posts in spy mode.

74 TedStriker  Jul 3, 2015 7:38:19am

re: #73 KiTA

Definitely. Except you can’t edit posts in spy mode.

And you can’t ding or create posts in Spy mode either, which is why I don’t tend to use Spy while mobile.

75 Belafon  Jul 3, 2015 7:44:25am

re: #31 teleskiguy

A wingnut on Twitter - who has over 58,000 followers - who follows me for some weird fucking reason, tweeted this earlier.

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Bernie Sanders’ message resonates with folks. Those folks are ENEMY OF THE STATE AND MUST BE PURGED!

And that’s really the one big issue that Sanders has to deal with. Socialism is a bad word in this country. Most voters don’t think through stuff, instead they pick the one person they like and vote for him or her. And were I a Republican strategist, every commercial in the general election would start with Sanders saying “Socialist” and a red flag appearing behind him.

He is going to have to deal with that.

76 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 7:45:46am

re: #75 Belafon

And that’s really the one big issue that Sanders has to deal with. Socialism is a bad word in this country. Most voters don’t think through stuff, instead they pick the one person they like and vote for him or her. And were I a Republican strategist, every commercial in the general election would start with Sanders saying “Socialist” and a red flag appearing behind him.

He is going to have to deal with that.

Obama had to deal with that and more, twice.

77 WhatEVs  Jul 3, 2015 7:46:03am

re: #66 Bird in the Paw

Seems to be working fine on my iPad and iPhone 6+

My iPhone 5 works perfectly. I’m on it (on LGF) 90% of the time.

Charles, please don’t force Spy mode without a way to go to normal mobile. Spy once a thread hits 400 comments is a great idea.

I, personally, hate most mobile sites yet what you’ve built is really great.

My two cents.

78 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 7:53:32am

re: #73 KiTA

Definitely. Except you can’t edit posts in spy mode.

Or read more than 100 messages in the thread. I don’t use spy even on PC, much less on the phone.

79 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 7:55:53am

re: #77 WhatEVs

My iPhone 5 works perfectly. I’m on it (on LGF) 90% of the time.

Charles, please don’t force Spy mode without a way to go to normal mobile. Spy once a thread hits 400 comments is a great idea.

Make that 200. (And no, spy by default is not a good idea at all. There are easier solutions.)

80 Belafon  Jul 3, 2015 7:59:32am

re: #76 The Vicious Babushka

Obama had to deal with that and more, twice.

Yep, Obama dealt with it, over and over his public life, and it helps that people couldn’t call him in public what they used to in the 50s and 60s. But he still had Kenyan to deal with and Wright to talk about.

Hopefully Sanders has been thinking about it. Vermont is a small state, and not exactly representative of the country as a whole. Socialism is a word that scares people, which is why I still hear it being used in reference to the ACA.

I’m not saying it can’t be done, but it’s his hill to climb as much as Clinton will have to deal with being “the first woman who will obviously want to prove she’s as tough as a man.”

81 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 8:00:34am

re: #80 Belafon

Yep, Obama dealt with it, over and over his public life, and it helps that people couldn’t call him in public what they used to in the 50s and 60s. But he still had Kenyan to deal with and Wright to talk about.

Hopefully Sanders has been thinking about it. Vermont is a small state, and not exactly representative of the country as a whole. Socialism is a word that scares people, which is why I still hear it being used in reference to the ACA.

I’m not saying it can’t be done, but it’s his hill to climb as much as Clinton will have to deal with being “the first woman who will obviously want to prove she’s as tough as a man.”

Hillary has that “impossible to like her” thing to overcome.

82 Belafon  Jul 3, 2015 8:01:23am

re: #36 KiTA

BTW, most of LGF doesn’t work on mobile. Click on jump to bottom on a page to get to the new comment field? Launches you back to the main page. Hit edit on your post? Same. Someone might want to test it out using Droid4x or Bluestacks or something…

That sounds like the issues I have at work, where we use IE9. You may need an updated browser.

83 Belafon  Jul 3, 2015 8:04:37am

re: #81 The Vicious Babushka

Hillary has that “impossible to like her” thing to overcome.

Republicans might be helping with that, inadvertently: nationalmemo.com

84 Dark_Falcon  Jul 3, 2015 8:18:25am

Drunken idiot pulls BB gun on Texas cops after they’ve taken him out of the local Applebees and gets shot dead for doing so.

James Bushey, 47, died in a hail of bullets outside Palestine, Texas, eatery
Was being arrested by two officers when he pulled out a replica handgun
Police yelled ‘Gun! Gun!’ and opened fire, killing him inside eight seconds
He had previously been apprehended in Applebee’s bathroom
Had reportedly stolen a case of beer from Walmart and fled there
Blood test showed he has 19 times legal limit of alcohol in his blood
No charges were brought against officers after grand jury cleared them

The police acted appropriately, to be sure, but its noteworthy for showing how far a white guy has to go with a replica gun to get himself shot.

85 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 8:23:45am

What a shitty article at Salon.

Yes, the MSM is making sure that socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders is taken seriously in his uphill run against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Really? He should not be taken seriously why?

salon. com/2015/07/02/the_mainstream_medias_bernie_sanders_trap_deranged_clinton_hate_turns_them_into_americas_socialist_vanguard/

86 Bird in the Paw  Jul 3, 2015 8:25:16am
Blood test showed he has 19 times legal limiT of alcohol in his blood

So, he was a zombie? 19x legal limit, even at lowest limit in U.S., is dead. That’s a BAC of 1.52-1.90. Typo somewhere. I am assuming somewhere it is still 0.10.

87 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 3, 2015 8:26:04am

re: #84 Dark_Falcon

Drunken idiot pulls BB gun on Texas cops after they’ve taken him out of the local Applebees and gets shot dead for doing so.

The police acted appropriately, to be sure, but its noteworthy for showing how far a white guy has to go with a replica gun to get himself shot.

Assuming their legal limit is .08% like it is here (used to be .1), that’s 1.52% blood alcohol. I’m betting that’s impossible. It’s certainly impossible he’d be conscious!

88 Dark_Falcon  Jul 3, 2015 8:26:07am

re: #85 Nyet

What a shitty article at Salon.

Really? He should not be taken seriously why?

salon. com/2015/07/02/the_mainstream_medias_bernie_sanders_trap_deranged_clinton_hate_turns_them_into_americas_socialist_vanguard/

He’s unlikely to win, but the media would rather that a presidential primaries at least appear to be contested so that they can make money covering them.

89 Jayleia  Jul 3, 2015 8:26:38am

re: #84 Dark_Falcon

19 times the legal limit of alcohol?

Umm…somebody better run that test again, because that would be a 1.52-1.9…DEAD is 0.5

EDIT: We should form a posting choir…

90 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 3, 2015 8:27:13am

re: #86 Bird in the Paw

Slow fingers again….

91 calochortus  Jul 3, 2015 8:27:30am

re: #84 Dark_Falcon

Nineteen times the legal limit???? That has to be a typo. How do you do anything other than lay on the floor and die at that level?

92 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 8:28:32am

re: #88 Dark_Falcon

Well, it’s not the media that should decide these things.

93 Dark_Falcon  Jul 3, 2015 8:30:09am

re: #87 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Assuming their legal limit is .08% like it is here (used to be .1), that’s 1.52% blood alcohol. I’m betting that’s impossible. It’s certainly impossible he’d be conscious!

From the article:

A police toxicology report, released Thursday, showed that Bushey had 191 mg/dL of alcohol in his system - far beyond the 10mg/dL limit.

That limit might be a UK limit, being as its given in metric.

‘Rite ‘Murican, yeh damn Limeys!

94 sagehen  Jul 3, 2015 8:31:49am

re: #88 Dark_Falcon

He’s unlikely to win, but the media would rather that a presidential primaries at least appear to be contested so that they can make money covering them.

He’s pulling crowds of over 10,000. This early in the game, how does that not merit he be taken seriously?

95 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 8:32:14am

re: #91 calochortus

Nineteen times the legal limit???? That has to be a typo. How do you do anything other than lay on the floor and die at that level?

Well, he did die…//

96 calochortus  Jul 3, 2015 8:33:40am

re: #95 Nyet

Well, he did die…//

True.

97 Bird in the Paw  Jul 3, 2015 8:33:56am

re: #93 Dark_Falcon

From the article:

That limit might be a UK limit, being as its given in metric.

‘Rite ‘Murican, yeh damn Limeys!

All medical info-type level are done in metric. All science is done in metric. Nobody, except Americans and British, use anything BUT metric for anything. And we only use it for commerical weights and measure. We’re stupid.

98 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 8:35:09am
08-15-2012, 02:38 PM
Re: Need to convert blood alcohol levels

If a 200 lb.man had a 191 mg/dl alcohol on his lab report, how would that convert in a BAC result?
——

0.191%, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08%.

In the US, 1 gram (or 1000 mg) per deciliter is called 1%. The legal limit is 80 mg/dL, except for special cases like pilots, bus drivers, commercial drivers, where it is lower.

onlineconversion.vbulletin.net

99 calochortus  Jul 3, 2015 8:35:25am

re: #93 Dark_Falcon

From the article:

That limit might be a UK limit, being as its given in metric.

‘Rite ‘Murican, yeh damn Limeys!

It was in TX so the UK limit wouldn’t apply. However, there could have been a miscalculation translating between TX measurement and the UK measurement, giving the weird result.

Edit: As Sergey just pointed out. With the actual numbers and everything.

100 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 3, 2015 8:36:15am

re: #93 Dark_Falcon

From the article:

That limit might be a UK limit, being as its given in metric.

‘Rite ‘Murican, yeh damn Limeys!

“10 mg/dL” is just a misprint for 100. 0.1% is one part per thousand, a deciliter is 100 grams. (Well, of water at 4° C.)

101 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jul 3, 2015 8:36:59am

good morning fellow lizards. Happy Friday.

I just want to go on the record and say Squats SUCK!

102 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 3, 2015 8:37:43am

re: #94 sagehen

He’s pulling crowds of over 10,000. This early in the game, how does that not merit he be taken seriously?

The media seems to be taking every pissant-polling-under-1% Republican seriously enough.

103 Skip Intro  Jul 3, 2015 8:37:45am

So I see today that the new GOP talking point is that Donald Trump doesn’t represent the GOP’s views on immigrants.

So how is it then that he’s in second place in some polls and tied for first in others?

Donald Trump perfectly represents the GOP’s view on immigration. The only problem is that he’s saying it out loud.

104 Jayleia  Jul 3, 2015 8:38:28am

re: #101 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Lunges suck harder

105 calochortus  Jul 3, 2015 8:39:17am

re: #101 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

good morning fellow lizards. Happy Friday.

I just want to go on the record and say Squats SUCK!

Good morning, yourself. And I had just remembered that it was Friday and not Saturday. Being a quasi-holiday, the neighbors (specifically, their 2 very loud and active boys) are away and it is blessedly quiet as I finish my coffee.

106 Dark_Falcon  Jul 3, 2015 8:40:06am

re: #97 Bird in the Paw

All medical info-type level are done in metric. All science is done in metric. Nobody, except Americans and British, use anything BUT metric for anything. And we only use it for commerical weights and measure. We’re stupid.

Not stupid so much as not wanting to change what’s worked well, and also wanting to keep governmental authority in its place.

The government shouldn’t try to institute a different measure for how the pork chops folks buy are weighed if the public does not want that new measure. The government should confine itself to make sure the pork in question meets health and safety standards.

107 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jul 3, 2015 8:41:06am

re: #104 Jayleia

Lunges suck harder

Yeah. I tried doing a few sets of barbell lunges after 3 sets of squats this morning. On the 3rd rep I went to my knee and couldn’t get back up. No lunges until I get the squats down and rebuild some leg strength.

The upside of what I did to lose weight worked (lots of cardio) but the downside is I lost quite a bit of strength which I am now trying to rebuild.

I also made the mistake of thinking “well my legs must be strong enough, they carry me around every day.

108 calochortus  Jul 3, 2015 8:44:00am

re: #106 Dark_Falcon

It’s working less well than you think. Mistakes are made when some calculations are done in metric and others in English measurements. Remember the NASA orbiter that didn’t work because of 2 different measurement systems?
Most industry has converted to metric so we’re really running 2 parallel systems of measurement in this country.

109 Belafon  Jul 3, 2015 8:45:20am

re: #85 Nyet

I’m on my phone and can’t look at your link, but if they wrote that, what idiots.

110 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 8:45:45am

The imperial system just makes no sense as a whole (it may have some good points locally, but those are a few exceptions).

111 Bird in the Paw  Jul 3, 2015 8:46:24am

re: #106 Dark_Falcon

The government shouldn’t try to institute a different measure for how the pork chops folks buy are weighed if the public does not want that new measure. The government should confine itself to make sure the pork in question meets health and safety standards.

Actually, the government is integrally involved in weights and measures. It’s codified in the constitution. And, metric is actually defined in physical constants and the British system is not. In keeping with that constitutional authority, we have a National Institute that deal with that and that alone. So, to be blunt, your argument of ‘it works, why change?’ Is specious.

112 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 8:46:37am

WIN==>

113 blueraven  Jul 3, 2015 8:46:56am

re: #88 Dark_Falcon

He’s unlikely to win, but the media would rather that a presidential primaries at least appear to be contested so that they can make money covering them.

Yes, maybe he is unlikely to win, but he has a lot to say in the debate and he matters as a candidate. Even the republicans are talking about inequality, albeit through insane rhetoric about how we got here.

114 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 8:49:14am

re: #109 Belafon

To be fair, I overreacted a bit. Walsh’s larger point is that the coverage of Sanders by the “MSM” is self-serving.

That said, I still don’t like the way it is written. It’s as if she accepts the rules of the game, without realizing that the “MSM” are one of the main reasons why Sanders probably doesn’t have a chance. If they do cover him, even if to make it a contest, this should still be welcomed.

115 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 8:52:08am

And BTW, calling Sanders a socialist, while formally true, is lazy.

He’s a democratic socialist. There’s a difference.

116 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 8:52:52am

Ben being an asshole, as usual

117 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 8:53:10am
118 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 3, 2015 8:55:10am

re: #110 Nyet

The imperial system just makes no sense as a whole (it may have some good points locally, but those are a few exceptions).

I used to be really gung-ho on switching to metric when I was younger. Now, all scientific measurement is SI, the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter woke everybody up to the problems in engineering… I think we’re OK as we are.

I don’t really want to see “Kilometers/hour” on speed limit signs—not because it’s metric, but because it’s not metric. It should be meters/second. If you’re going to allow one weird-ass unit (1 hour = 3600 seconds), why not another (1 mile = 1609.344 meters)?

For cooking, I think English measures are actually better—except for that strange transition where 1 Tablespoon = 3 teaspoons. Everything else is binary—much easier to subdivide.

119 Belafon  Jul 3, 2015 8:56:47am

re: #114 Nyet

To be fair, I overreacted a bit. Walsh’s larger point is that the coverage of Sanders by the “MSM” is self-serving.

That said, I still don’t like the way it is written. It’s as if she accepts the rules of the game, without realizing that the “MSM” are one of the main reasons why Sanders probably doesn’t have a chance. If they do cover him, even if to make it a contest, this should still be welcomed.

In his favor, that happened eight years ago to a certain candidate who everyone knew couldn’t beat Clinton.

120 danarchy  Jul 3, 2015 8:59:14am

re: #84 Dark_Falcon

Drunken idiot pulls BB gun on Texas cops after they’ve taken him out of the local Applebees and gets shot dead for doing so.

The police acted appropriately, to be sure, but its noteworthy for showing how far a white guy has to go with a replica gun to get himself shot.

Must be something contagious:

Brockton Man Killed by police after pulling BB gun

121 goddamnedfrank  Jul 3, 2015 8:59:44am

re: #106 Dark_Falcon

Not stupid so much as not wanting to change what’s worked well, and also wanting to keep governmental authority in its place.

The government shouldn’t try to institute a different measure for how the pork chops folks buy are weighed if the public does not want that new measure. The government should confine itself to make sure the pork in question meets health and safety standards.

Keeping an outdated, counterintuitive and retarded system in place because “people want it” is a terrible argument.

122 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 3, 2015 9:02:45am

My hope is that they’ve abused the word “Socialist” so much and for so long that it’s lost its sting. They called Obama a Socialist 24/7, and it didn’t keep him from getting elected twice. (Or Bill Clinton, for that matter). The scare should be over by now. Yes, Eugene Debs got 8% of the vote (from a prison cell) and that frightened the Democratic party and the Roosevelt wing of the Republican party into co-opting the Socialist party’s platform in its entirety—but that was 107 years ago. It’s time to move on.

123 aagcobb  Jul 3, 2015 9:04:16am

re: #75 Belafon

And that’s really the one big issue that Sanders has to deal with. Socialism is a bad word in this country. Most voters don’t think through stuff, instead they pick the one person they like and vote for him or her. And were I a Republican strategist, every commercial in the general election would start with Sanders saying “Socialist” and a red flag appearing behind him.

He is going to have to deal with that.

He won’t be the nominee (just being realistic) so it won’t be a problem. If Clinton hits an iceberg and sinks, then someone like Biden or Warren will jump in the race is my guess.

124 Dark_Falcon  Jul 3, 2015 9:05:33am

At this point if you can’t stand servicing a same-sex wedding and you’re not a minister or maybe a performer (singer, DJ, or band member), I’d have to advise you to get out of the wedding business. Because exceptions are not going to be made for you unless you’d actually be an active part of the ceremony or reception. if you’re a baker, you have to be willing to bake cakes for those who will buy them.

125 WhatEVs  Jul 3, 2015 9:08:06am

re: #108 calochortus

It’s working less well than you think. Mistakes are made when some calculations are done in metric and others in English measurements. Remember the NASA orbiter that didn’t work because of 2 different measurement systems?
Most industry has converted to metric so we’re really running 2 parallel systems of measurement in this country.

The rest of the world (barring one small country which the name escapes me now) is on metric.

The U.S. could dictate using our measuring system as a leading global purchasing economy. I’d bet that won’t be the case in 20 years.

I hate the thought of converting because I’m old and used to inches, feet, etc. but it’s limiting us. We should have made the change 35 years ago (the last real conversation concerning switching that I remember).

Now we’re in the USA! FUCK YEAH! era. No one would even bring it up (politically). It would wreck a career.

126 aagcobb  Jul 3, 2015 9:10:23am

re: #124 Dark_Falcon

At this point if you can’t stand servicing a same-sex wedding and you’re not a minister or maybe a performer (singer, DJ, or band member), I’d have to advise you to get out of the wedding business. Because exceptions are not going to be made for you unless you’d actually be an active part of the ceremony or reception. if you’re a baker, you have to be willing to bake cakes for those who will buy them.

Or they could move to one of the many red states where its still perfectly legal to discriminate against homosexuals.

127 Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 3, 2015 9:10:23am

I was brought up on Metric in Canada. Now that I’m living in the U.S., I’m on imperial. I am competent in both systems but I still find I can do calculations faster with Metric than with Imperial. The whole “base 10” just makes metric easy to grasp.

Also, I think I still prefer the Celsius/Centigrade scale over Fahrenheit.

128 danarchy  Jul 3, 2015 9:11:25am

re: #125 WhatEVs

The rest of the world (barring one small country which the name escapes me now) is on metric.

The U.S. could dictate using our measuring system as a leading global purchasing economy. I’d bet that won’t be the case in 20 years.

I hate the thought of converting because I’m old and used to inches, feet, etc. but it’s limiting us. We should have made the change 35 years ago (the last real conversation concerning switching that I remember).

Now we’re in the USA! FUCK YEAH! era. No one would even bring it up (politically). It would wreck a career.

I guess Lincoln Chafee didn’t get the memo.

motherjones.com

129 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 9:13:05am

re: #118 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I don’t really want to see “Kilometers/hour” on speed limit signs—not because it’s metric, but because it’s not metric. It should be meters/second. If you’re going to allow one weird-ass unit (1 hour = 3600 seconds), why not another (1 mile = 1609.344 meters)?

Because if there already is one weird-ass unit, why would we want to increase the chaos?

For cooking, I think English measures are actually better—except for that strange transition where 1 Tablespoon = 3 teaspoons. Everything else is binary—much easier to subdivide.

As long as one doesn’t see those as some exact measures, the metric/imperial system debate is irrelevant here. Three teaspoons of sugar are three teaspoons of sugar everywhere…

130 WhatEVs  Jul 3, 2015 9:14:50am

re: #128 danarchy

I guess Lincoln Chafee didn’t get the memo.

motherjones.com

Like I said, politically dead in the water. :-)

131 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 3, 2015 9:18:11am

GotNwes has done its job. Just in time for the 4th of July!

ANALYSISIS: The truth about the Charleston shooting and the Confederate Flag: It’s all progressives’ fault. Oh, yeah, and Obama’s, too

[GotNwes has run the latest Chuck C. Johnson screed through our universal translator and after repairing it twice can offer this plain English version for those of you wise to avoid the original. All typos are entirely deliberate and part of our plan. So shut up.]
———

Author’s Note: Forgive me, dear readers, for my absence. I know one or two of you may have missed me. I have very few promising things — I mean a few very promising things — I’ve been working on and they’ve been distracting me with their opportunity. Like I’ve been on three podcasts, and been to DC, and kicked out of Grover Norquist’s office, and lost a lawsuit — just no time to run a nwes site.

If you are a UX developer please email me at editor@gotnwes.com and we’ll talk.

I agonized about writing this tome analysis because it’s very dangerous in our day in age — uh, this day and age — to write the truth as we see it, but after a few stiff drinks I’ve decided it’s a far far better thing I do to suffer for the slings and arrows of Truth than to hide it from my Countrymen — for the moment.

And then when the shit hits the fan, I’ll retreat into my sullen silence again.

You know they’ll send someone to get me to shut me up! But I’ll fool them. I’ll shut up first.

gotnews.com has been researching manufacturing the truth about what really happened in Charleston, South Carolina, and we has a few — many — observations crackpot ideas and more than a few questions.

Like, for starters, who cares what we think?

We do!

132 FormerDirtDart  Jul 3, 2015 9:23:37am

re: #127 Eclectic Cyborg

I was brought up on Metric in Canada. Now that I’m living in the U.S., I’m on imperial. I am competent in both systems but I still find I can do calculations faster with Metric than with Imperial. The whole “base 10” just makes metric easy to grasp.

Also, I think I still prefer the Celsius/Centigrade scale over Fahrenheit.

Where would you be using Imperial units of measurement in the US?
The standard units of measurement are the United States customary units.
While similar to the Imperial system, they are not the same.

133 b_sharp  Jul 3, 2015 9:25:55am

re: #132 FormerDirtDart

Where would you be using Imperial units of measurement in the US?
The standard units of measurement are the United States customary units.
While similar to the Imperial system, they are not the same.

You’re just being pedantic.

134 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 3, 2015 9:27:39am

Well, the important change was that now liquor is sold in 750 ml bottles. This was just a scam to cheat us out of that extra 7+ ml in a fifth! //

135 Eventual Carrion  Jul 3, 2015 9:27:51am

re: #112 The Vicious Babushka

WIN==>

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That looks great. With strawberries being in season, I have had some great strawberry pies lately.

136 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 9:30:40am

It’s easy to convert 68455 cm3 to m3 in your head. How would one do it with cubic feet and inches?

137 wrenchwench  Jul 3, 2015 9:31:13am
138 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 9:31:18am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>

139 Dark_Falcon  Jul 3, 2015 9:31:35am

re: #120 danarchy

One thing to note is that both cops in the Palestine, TX shooting were wearing body cameras. Their department has released the footage of the incident on YouTube, which I’m putting behind a spoiler barrier because its NSFW and NSFK:

Hat tip to The Firearms Blog, for posting the vids and analyzing them.

140 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 3, 2015 9:35:04am

re: #136 Nyet

It’s easy to convert 68455 cm3 to m3 in your head. How would one do it with cubic feet and inches?

Oh yeah, I completely agree. Funnily enough, a gallon is exactly 231 cubic inches. How that happened, I have no idea, and it doesn’t help with mental arithmetic, but it’s a weird historical coincidence.

141 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 9:37:13am
142 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 9:37:21am

re: #139 Dark_Falcon

Great quality.

Every cop should be made to wear those.

143 FormerDirtDart  Jul 3, 2015 9:42:01am

re: #135 Eventual Carrion

That looks great. With strawberries being in season, I have had some great strawberry pies lately.

No, I’m being factual.
Both systems were derived, separately, from the English units of measurement, post American Revolution.

144 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 9:42:37am

Dana’s firing up the Homophobe Grift Machine again

145 Lidane  Jul 3, 2015 9:44:55am

Hey, look at that. Conservatives CAN create jobs:

146 Bear  Jul 3, 2015 9:46:21am

re: #141 The Vicious Babushka

Rankine?

147 Lidane  Jul 3, 2015 9:47:08am

LOLWUT:

148 Dark_Falcon  Jul 3, 2015 9:48:01am

re: #142 Nyet

Great quality.

Every cop should be made to wear those.

It may surprise you to know that the state government of Texas agrees with you:

Texas Lawmakers: Police body camera bill could be national model
6/24/15 | by Jared Morgan

Texas passed what lawmakers are calling the most comprehensive police body camera program in the country, saying it could become a national model.

Senate Bill 158 was signed by Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday after clearing both chambers of the state legislature with little resistance. The bill establishes statewide policy on the use of body-worn cameras by law enforcement agencies and also provides a more than $10 million grant program to help cash-strapped agencies purchase the equipment, said Kelvin Bass, legislative aide at the Texas Senate and key researcher for the bill.

Law enforcement agencies can also sign agreements with the state’s Department of Information Resources, which has has cloud space to store recorded video. That partnership coupled with the state’s existing data storage structure should drive down the cost of implementing a body-worn camera program, Bass Told guns.com

The state’s body camera program, taking effect Sept. 1, includes provisions that address privacy concerns raised as law enforcement agencies across the country are outfitting their officers with the wearable technology. Interactions between law enforcement and individuals on private property, where a reasonable expectation of privacy exists, could be exempt from open records requests unless a criminal offense has taken place there. Officers are also given a certain amount of flexibility in being able to turn their cameras off, but must verbally offer a good reason for doing so while the camera is still recording.

The bill also protects officers’ rights in that it allows them to review their video recordings before making a required statement, Bass said.

It seems like a surprisingly good law. Thoughts?

149 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 9:48:38am

re: #146 Bear

Rankine?

Réaumur.

150 Dark_Falcon  Jul 3, 2015 9:48:44am

re: #147 Lidane

LOLWUT:

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Now THERE is a dumb blonde.

151 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 3, 2015 9:48:53am

re: #141 The Vicious Babushka

50°C is about enough to do most people some serious damage. (122°F)

50K is cold enough to make nitrogen solid. Also not too good for people.

152 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 9:49:52am
153 Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 3, 2015 9:50:16am

re: #145 Lidane

Over and over again, people praised the decision of the three workers who have decided to step down from their positions rather than hand out same-sex marriage licenses.

Clerk Gwen Pope and employees Sharon Bell and Mickey Butler all said they were resigning because the Supreme Court’s decision to allow same-sex marriages clashed with their religious beliefs. Their last day will be July 14.

Currently, Decatur County’s clerk office will not issue a same-sex license, the employees said.

According to Drew Baker, area representative for the Tennessee Equality Project, Decatur County is the only county in the state that has said it won’t issue same-sex licenses. As of Thursday there have been no requests for a same-sex license in the county.

Pope said the decision to step down wasn’t made to make news.

“It’s kind of sort of like you don’t want to draw attention to yourself for any reason,” Pope said. “That’s not why we’re doing this. Not doing it in any way to draw attention to us. It’s for the glory of God. He’s going to get all the glory.”

All three will be looking for new jobs. There was no backup plan, they said.

Pope has worked on and off in the office since 1994 and has been the clerk since 2008. Butler has worked in the office since 2002 and Bell has been there since 2009.

Pope said God will provide. “I honestly believe God will take care of us,” she said.

Scott King is a resident of Decatur County, and he came by the office to thank the women for their faith.

“These three ladies stood upon their beliefs and they stood upon their morals and no one can fault them,” King said. “Too often we as Christians don’t do that. It’s time we followed the lead of what they showed us.”

Kathy Parrish agreed, and she applauded the women’s bravery. She lives in Perry County, but works in Decaturville.

You should page that.

154 Dark_Falcon  Jul 3, 2015 9:51:36am

re: #145 Lidane

Hey, look at that. Conservatives CAN create jobs:

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At least they were honest about things and had some of the courage of their convictions. One can think those three wrong, but at least they didn’t whine and try to bullshit out of their duty.

Edited.

155 Kid A  Jul 3, 2015 9:52:00am

Asshole spotted in Texas.

156 wrenchwench  Jul 3, 2015 9:52:37am

re: #148 Dark_Falcon

It may surprise you to know that the state government of Texas agrees with you:

Texas Lawmakers: Police body camera bill could be national model
6/24/15 | by Jared Morgan

It seems like a surprisingly good law. Thoughts?

The workable alternative would be to disarm cops. Abbott etc. see this as the preferable choice. But yeah, surprising that they recognize reality here.

157 #FergusonFireside  Jul 3, 2015 9:53:02am

re: #105 calochortus

Good morning, yourself. And I had just remembered that it was Friday and not Saturday. Being a quasi-holiday, the neighbors (specifically, their 2 very loud and active boys) are away and it is blessedly quiet as I finish my coffee.

I made a point to sleep in today. My screaming 2 year old neighbor woke me. My head on my bed is as far away from the front door as possible. I think the kid may have a problem with language. All he does is scream. :(

158 Dark_Falcon  Jul 3, 2015 9:53:31am

re: #154 Dark_Falcon

At least they were honest about things and had some of the courage of their convictions. One can think those three wrong, but at least they didn’t whine and try to bullshit out of their duty.

Edited.

Post edited, since they do seem to be whining.

159 Ace-o-aces  Jul 3, 2015 9:54:42am

re: #144 The Vicious Babushka

160 Skip Intro  Jul 3, 2015 9:55:13am

re: #155 Kid A

Asshole spotted in Texas.

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Wouldn’t it be harder to not spot one?

161 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 9:56:00am

re: #159 Ace-o-aces

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Wait for Dana to complain that you’re “harassing” and “stalking” her while replying to your every Tweet.

162 b_sharp  Jul 3, 2015 9:59:31am

re: #157 #FergusonFireside

I made a point to sleep in today. My screaming 2 year old neighbor woke me. My head on my bed is as far away from the front door as possible. I think the kid may have a problem with language. All he does is scream. :(

Potentially autism.

That’s just a wild guess of course, but it may allow you to understand what is happening with the little guy.

163 wrenchwench  Jul 3, 2015 10:01:35am
164 Eventual Carrion  Jul 3, 2015 10:02:09am

re: #143 FormerDirtDart

No, I’m being factual.
Both systems were derived, separately, from the English units of measurement, post American Revolution.

But I like pie.

165 Dark_Falcon  Jul 3, 2015 10:03:28am

re: #156 wrenchwench

The workable alternative would be to disarm cops. Abbott etc. see this as the preferable choice. But yeah, surprising that they recognize reality here.

Texans want their guns, so the police need to be armed. One might decry that choice, but it is one the state has clearly made. The body cameras are a needed part of framework implementing that choice.

166 Stephen T.  Jul 3, 2015 10:03:34am

re: #33 KiTA

Meanwhile, voat.co remains up. It is an open reddit alternative created by people tired of all this crap.

I wouldn’t count too much on voat. It was created by people who were disgruntled by the limitation on their ability to harass people in a very dickish way and the deletion of “controversial” (their word) subreddits. The fact that those “controversial” subreddits contained neo-Nazi propaganda and child porn should tell you a lot about the users of voat. Voat’s hosting is in Europe, and the hosting company didn’t want either child porn or Nazi sympathizers using their equipment.

Voat was shut down (and then moved) because it deserved it.

167 #FergusonFireside  Jul 3, 2015 10:03:41am

re: #162 b_sharp

Potentially autism.

That’s just a wild guess of course, but it may allow you to understand what is happening with the little guy.

Yeah, definitely something. He really does scream all the time. His mom’s an RN, hopefully getting the help he needs. Sad.

168 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 10:04:40am

No Bryan it was actually scofflaw super-rich tax dodgers.

169 William Lewis  Jul 3, 2015 10:09:32am

re: #55 Charles Johnson

I’ve posted this before but I guess I need to repeat it - for commenting on mobile devices, Spy mode is a much better experience. It’s a stripped down page, so it loads much more quickly.

Maybe I should make Spy mode the default comments page for mobile devices.

If you do, please make sure that a user can chose to default back the other way. It’s not perfect but I find spy far more difficult to use on my phone.

170 Jayleia  Jul 3, 2015 10:13:06am

re: #166 Stephen T.

OK…yeah, when the Mos Eisley cantina of the internet asks you to leave , forming a site where you can be more Mos Eisleyer then…

171 Timothy Watson  Jul 3, 2015 10:14:08am

re: #147 Lidane

LOLWUT:

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Hey, Trump might be a toolbag, but I wouldn’t call him a fascist.

Wait, that’s not what she meant? It’s not fascism when a company skips out on paying its creditors?

172 CuriousLurker  Jul 3, 2015 10:15:08am
Over and over again, people praised the decision of the three workers who have decided to step down from their positions rather than hand out same-sex marriage licenses.

Trying to envision what the reaction would’ve been had the clerks been Muslim… Prolly something along the lines of Muslims being unwilling/unable to respect our laws/constitution (so they should GTFO) and, from some quarters, blood-curdling screams about Sharia being applied in Georgia. Dhimmitude!!

173 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 10:16:29am
174 Varek Raith  Jul 3, 2015 10:16:59am

re: #147 Lidane

LOLWUT:

[Embedded content]

I thought it was called the ‘free market’
Silly me.
/

175 Stephen T.  Jul 3, 2015 10:18:24am

re: #127 Eclectic Cyborg

I was brought up on Metric in Canada. Now that I’m living in the U.S., I’m on imperial. I am competent in both systems but I still find I can do calculations faster with Metric than with Imperial. The whole “base 10” just makes metric easy to grasp.

Also, I think I still prefer the Celsius/Centigrade scale over Fahrenheit.

I prefer metric for everything except temperature. Celsius isn’t granular enough for describing ambient temperature, especially in homes. No house thermostat shows decimals, 22 C could either be 71 F or 72 F. Most humans can feel the difference between a single degree F, so any thermostat that uses C will be inefficient to keeping a home comfortable.

176 Dark_Falcon  Jul 3, 2015 10:19:29am

re: #168 The Vicious Babushka

No Bryan it was actually scofflaw super-rich tax dodgers.

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It was also a very bloated public sector that allowed its employees to retire at 55 with 80% of their final rate of pay, coupled with a poor legal and regulatory regime for starting and running a business.

To be clear, I’ve not heard any notable politicians in America ever say such an arrangement is a good idea. So the failings of Greece should not reflect on US Democrats. But just as the Confederate battle flag was, is and always will be a “thing of the right”, so the failings of Greece are “things of the left”. US liberals don’t have to own them, but they need to be honest enough to admit that those failings came from their side of the aisle.

177 wrenchwench  Jul 3, 2015 10:20:23am
178 wrenchwench  Jul 3, 2015 10:22:04am

re: #176 Dark_Falcon

US liberals don’t have to own them, but they need to be honest enough to admit that those failings came from their side of the aisle.

Nope.

179 Dark_Falcon  Jul 3, 2015 10:22:04am

re: #177 wrenchwench

I don’t see that way at all, but I understand why a Lakota would see it that way.

180 wrenchwench  Jul 3, 2015 10:22:56am

re: #179 Dark_Falcon

I don’t see that way at all, but I understand why a Lakota would see it that way.

That’s a start.

181 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 10:22:59am

Wingnuts sure have very weird ideas about what “Patriotism” is==>

182 William Lewis  Jul 3, 2015 10:27:07am

re: #176 Dark_Falcon

It was also a very bloated public sector that allowed its employees to retire at 55 with 80% of their final rate of pay, coupled with a poor legal and regulatory regime for starting and running a business.

To be clear, I’ve not heard any notable politicians in America ever say such an arrangement is a good idea. So the failings of Greece should not reflect on US Democrats. But just as the Confederate battle flag was, is and always will be a “thing of the right”, so the failings of Greece are “things of the left”. US liberals don’t have to own them, but they need to be honest enough to admit that those failings came from their side of the aisle.

Rich tax dodgers - aka the usual behavior of the 1% - come from our side DF? You can do better than that. Also, I seem to recall that the at least some of the retirement/pension programs were put into place under the authoritarian Right Wing Junta that needed to keep the urban people from revolting against them during the despotism of 67 - 73 after the colonel’s coup d’état. Hardly “our side” either.

183 Iwouldprefernotto  Jul 3, 2015 10:27:12am

I’m stuck at work.

/rant

184 jaunte  Jul 3, 2015 10:28:56am

re: #183 Iwouldprefernotto

Me too.
/but working at home

185 #FergusonFireside  Jul 3, 2015 10:29:37am
186 Charles Johnson  Jul 3, 2015 10:30:34am

Spy Mode for individual articles now lets you see all comments in a thread.

Also, the “Jump to Bottom” button no longer relies on Javascript, so it will work as soon as the page loads.

It should noted, though, that if you click Jump to Bottom before all tweets in a thread have been rendered, the page may still jump up after they render. (This is one of the gotchas of dynamically rendered elements.)

187 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 10:31:13am

Wait, what? Is Bryan calling out Joel Osteen because he’s a scumbag grifter? No, it’s because he doesn’t hate on Teh Gheys enough.

188 Dark_Falcon  Jul 3, 2015 10:31:58am

re: #182 William Lewis

Rich tax dodgers - aka the usual behavior of the 1% - come from our side DF? You can do better than that. Also, I seem to recall that the at least some of the retirement/pension programs were put into place under the authoritarian Right Wing Junta that needed to keep the urban people from revolting against them during the despotism of 67 - 73 after the colonel’s coup d’état. Hardly “our side” either.

The tax evasion seen in Italy and Greece is done by rich and poor alike, William. It has no American analog, as to evade taxes as blatantly as happens in Greece is not possible in the United States. So neither side in the US needs to admit to it.

189 jaunte  Jul 3, 2015 10:32:35am

re: #168 The Vicious Babushka

No Bryan it was actually scofflaw super-rich tax dodgers.

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“The 15,000 names under investigation have been narrowed down from a master list of about 54,000 individuals. One might call it a Lagarde list on steroids — an up-to-date roster of lawyers, bankers, doctors, merchants and even farmers who for decades now have made up the cream of Greece’s tax-avoiding crop.”
nytimes.com

190 jaunte  Jul 3, 2015 10:35:46am
“A lot has been made of tackling Greece’s oligarch tax evaders, but there has been less discussion about cracking down on the white-collar, high-income professional classes that are really rinsing their country’s tax system. If Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis wants to be successful in cracking down on tax evasion, these are the people he needs to put the screws on.”
slate.com
191 calochortus  Jul 3, 2015 10:37:43am

re: #157 #FergusonFireside

I made a point to sleep in today. My screaming 2 year old neighbor woke me. My head on my bed is as far away from the front door as possible. I think the kid may have a problem with language. All he does is scream. :(

My condolences. At least our neighbors are on the other side of the house from the bedroom. Also, good kids, just have energy to spare.

192 wrenchwench  Jul 3, 2015 10:40:47am

re: #191 calochortus

My condolences. At least our neighbors are on the other side of the house from the bedroom. Also, good kids, just have energy to spare.

On one side, we have a single lady and her dog and cat. on the other side, we have a single lady and her 9 cats. Mr. w said, ‘Maybe it’s just one cat doing all 9 lives at once.’

193 Romantic Heretic  Jul 3, 2015 10:40:51am

re: #94 sagehen

He’s pulling crowds of over 10,000. This early in the game, how does that not merit he be taken seriously?

Because Sanders is a commie!

You hear me! Commie! Commie! CommieCommieCommieCommieCommie!

(Falls on floor foaming and twitching)

194 EmmaAnne  Jul 3, 2015 10:44:26am

re: #9 KiTA

The only reddit I visit (A Bra That Fits) is running normally. I assume it is a backwater that politics doesn’t care about. Highly recommended for anyone who hates how their bras fit, by the way.

195 wrenchwench  Jul 3, 2015 10:45:23am
196 Romantic Heretic  Jul 3, 2015 10:47:30am

re: #127 Eclectic Cyborg

I was brought up on Metric in Canada. Now that I’m living in the U.S., I’m on imperial. I am competent in both systems but I still find I can do calculations faster with Metric than with Imperial. The whole “base 10” just makes metric easy to grasp.

Also, I think I still prefer the Celsius/Centigrade scale over Fahrenheit.

Same here. I’m old enough I can remember when we used Imperial here in Canada, and how the same type of people has the same screaming fits when it was adopted.

197 Teukka  Jul 3, 2015 10:52:47am

re: #120 danarchy

Must be something contagious:

Brockton Man Killed by police after pulling BB gun

re: #139 Dark_Falcon

One thing to note is that both cops in the Palestine, TX shooting were wearing body cameras. Their department has released the footage of the incident on YouTube, which I’m putting behind a spoiler barrier because its NSFW and NSFK:

[Embedded content]

Hat tip to The Firearms Blog, for posting the vids and analyzing them.

A question, what has the reaction from that part of the religio-political spectrum been?
Like, are they facepalming, or are they claiming the guys 2nd amendment rights were violated or something?

198 calochortus  Jul 3, 2015 10:59:17am

re: #194 EmmaAnne

The only reddit I visit (A Bra That Fits) is running normally. I assume it is a backwater that politics doesn’t care about. Highly recommended for anyone who hates how their bras fit, by the way.

I’ve just about given up on buying bras. You finally find one that fits and they discontinue it. Sigh. As I age I have less tolerance for bra shopping.
Off to the sewing machine!

199 The Vicious Babushka  Jul 3, 2015 11:00:30am

re: #198 calochortus

I’ve just about given up on buying bras. You finally find one that fits and they discontinue it. Sigh. As I age I have less tolerance for bra shopping.
Off to the sewing machine!

The bra was invented to replace the corset.

200 De Kolta Chair  Jul 3, 2015 11:02:30am

Howdy lizards. Just stopped by to see what condition my conditioner was in.

201 calochortus  Jul 3, 2015 11:03:34am

re: #199 The Vicious Babushka

Sort of. They had “bust improvers” in Edwardian times that were separate from corsets, and bras didn’t really come into their own until the 20’s when they were used for compression rather than the “lift and separate” of later years.
And while corsets may have been were uncomfortable, at least they made you fit them rather than trying to fit them to you…

202 PhillyPretzel  Jul 3, 2015 11:03:37am

re: #198 calochortus

When I find something that fits, any article of clothing for that matter, I will buy more than one of the item and take very good care of it. By the way the roof is completed. yay. :)

204 calochortus  Jul 3, 2015 11:06:51am

re: #202 PhillyPretzel

When I find something that fits, any article of clothing for that matter, I will buy more than one of the item and take very good care of it. By the way the roof is completed. yay. :)

I sew most of my own clothing. A few “tried and true” patterns that fit well and I’m generally good to go. Underwear has not been in that category up until now, but I’m really tired of bra fitting. Once the pattern is perfected, I should be good to go.

205 wrenchwench  Jul 3, 2015 11:08:59am
206 calochortus  Jul 3, 2015 11:11:12am

I need to go hack back some shrubbery.
BBL

207 freetoken  Jul 3, 2015 11:13:29am

A biased if illustrating look into the Jindal machine:

Guest column by only openly gay staffer for Bobby Jindal provides inside look at anti-gay company governor keeps

[…]

From Baton Rouge, we bused in hundreds of homeschooled kids from Alabama and Mississippi to do our bidding during the 2011 re-election campaign. The campaign even hired a full-time homeschool coordinator, who sat at the desk behind me and often pontificated about Lady Gaga being the Antichrist.

We watched presentations on creationism, and I once spent hours listening to a heated discussion among grown adults regarding the exact location of Noah’s Ark and what its archeological finding could mean for Republican success at the polls.

[…]

208 CuriousLurker  Jul 3, 2015 11:14:04am

re: #203 A Cranky One

Person breaks cat by putting flower on its head

LOL, I once had two cats who needed to have a flea collars put on them. The orange one was fine, but the black one—who was always very dramatic about things he didn’t like—seriously balked. Once I managed to get it around his neck & turned him loose, he collapsed to the ground neck-first. Every time he stood back up and tried to lift his head, back down he’d go. I guess that collar was really heavy. It seemed to lighten up after about half an hour though.

209 wrenchwench  Jul 3, 2015 11:17:53am

re: #207 freetoken

A biased if illustrating look into the Jindal machine:

Guest column by only openly gay staffer for Bobby Jindal provides inside look at anti-gay company governor keeps

If one is going to discuss the antichrist, one should definitely ‘pontificate’.

210 De Kolta Chair  Jul 3, 2015 11:18:03am
211 Timothy Watson  Jul 3, 2015 11:23:40am

re: #205 wrenchwench

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The Jackdaw gets its revenge?

212 Nyet  Jul 3, 2015 1:25:14pm

re: #186 Charles Johnson

Thanks.


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