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The sheriff of Franklin County, Virginia, is about to release new information on the shootings of two WDBJ reporters and an interview subject today. In other news, the shooter was pronounced dead at the hospital of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
the shooter was pronounced dead at the hospital of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Fucking coward
White guy who references multiple sources of racist screed kills black people, he is a lone wolf.
Black guy mentions racism as reason he killed white people, “RACE WAR!”
I am getting so fucking sick and tired of this pathetic horseshit
re: #2 Kragar
There’s a lot of people who will gladly ignore anything that doesn’t fit their desired narrative.
And in the 5 hours since the shooting occurred, there have likely been:
~12 firearm suicides (showing my work via CDC stats: 21,175 firearm suicides, 365 days, 24 hours = 2.4 per hour)
~3.6 firearms homicides (showing work via CDC stats: 11,208 firearms homicides, 365 days, 24 hours = ~.73 per hour).
This is the background noise we have all become accustomed to.
And while the homicide rates have gone down in recent years, especially since the end of the crack epidemic, the violence is still there, the suicides are still happening, and these unjustifiable horrors keep happening.
Racists doing what racists do; use any misdeed by a black perpetrator against white victims as justification for racism in policy & practice
— Stereo Williams (@stereowilliams) August 26, 2015The only thing that matters to me is whether the shooter was a Democrat or not.
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It is not a sign of sanity when two people are killed on live TV and the first thought is to make it political.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) August 26, 2015Or about the race of the shooter. Certainly no conservative has done that. https://t.co/mzbR09CFLk
— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) August 26, 2015
Here we go. Now the right wingers are really going to lose their shit.
After Shooting, Alleged Gunman Details Grievances in ‘Suicide Notes’
In the 23-page document faxed to ABC News, the writer says “MY NAME IS BRYCE WILLIAMS” and his legal name is Vester Lee Flanagan II” He writes what triggered today’s carnage was his reaction to the racism of the Charleston church shooting:
“Why did I do it? I put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. The Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15…”
“What sent me over the top was the church shooting. And my hollow point bullets have the victims’ initials on them.”
It is unclear whose initials he is referring to. He continues, “As for Dylann Roof? You (deleted)! You want a race war (deleted)? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(deleted)!!!” He said Jehovah spoke to him, telling him to act.
Later in the manifesto, the writer quotes the Virginia Tech mass killer, Seung Hui Cho, and calls him “his boy,” and expresses admiration for the Columbine High School killers. “Also, I was influenced by Seung-Hui Cho. That’s my boy right there. He got NEARLY double the amount that Eric Harris and Dylann Klebold got…just sayin’.
In an often rambling letter to the authorities, and family and friends, he writes of a long list of grievances. In one part of the document, Williams calls it a “Suicide Note for Friends and Family”.
—He says has suffered racial discrimination, sexual harassment and bullying at work. —He says he has been attacked by black men and white females. —He talks about how he was attacked for being a gay, black man
“Yes, it will sound like I am angry…I am. And I have every right to be. But when I leave this Earth, the only emotion I want to feel is peace….”
“The church shooting was the tipping point…but my anger has been building steadily…I’ve been a human powder keg for a while…just waiting to go BOOM!!!!”.
.@EWErickson Sorry it offends your delicate sensibilities that we're not operating on NRA schedule. W/all shootings, it's never right time.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 26, 2015
re: #8 Charles Johnson
“Also, I was influenced by Seung-Hui Cho. That’s my boy right there. He got NEARLY double the amount that Eric Harris and Dylann Klebold got…just sayin’.
So it was the Charleston shooting AND he really admired other mass murderers, like the 16-year old Columbine killings.
re: #8 Charles Johnson
But yeah, the RWNJ is going to lose whatever is left of its sht.
re: #8 Charles Johnson
—He says has suffered racial discrimination, sexual harassment and bullying at work. —He says he has been attacked by black men and white females. —He talks about how he was attacked for being a gay, black man
Icing on the cake for RWNJ.
Bryan Fischer will tweet about this forever.
I’m still looking for an update on the shooting at the Bell County Justice Center in Kentucky.
So far the only new thing since it happened more than two hours ago is that one person is dead.
Bell County is a fundy place.
Right now, the school system is being sued for re-instituting school-sanctioned prayer before football games, despite being ordered to stop it four years ago.
It’s also the location of the snake-handling church where it’s not wise to be preacher.
Fun place, it is.
My heart hurts from all of the hate over the past few days. This. Trump. Being reminded how much some corners of the Internet fucking hate women.
And a lot of people are perfectly happy to marinate themselves in that hate. They think there’s nothing wrong with it. How toxic a society is this? How do you wake people up to what they’re wallowing in, and bring about change?
I don’t know the answers, and today I’m feeling like there aren’t any.
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
Was anyone injured in the West Virginia school hostage standoff? I heard the kid had been arrested and sent for a medical evaluation, but WTOP (my main source of news while I am working) has been following the WDBJ shooting more.
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bell County is a fundy place.
Right now, the school system is being sued for re-instituting school-sanctioned prayer before football games, despite being ordered to stop it four years ago.
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We played against them 5 years ago. After the football game, their coach at the time asked all of us to join hands and pray with them. A very baptist prayer. Our team, being good Catholics, obliged. This is not the only Public school in Eastern KY we have prayed with after a football game, at their request.
I’ll no doubt be hearing from right wingers now that Breitbart “News” was “right” to call it a “race murder.”
No. That’s not how it works. You don’t get to jump to a conclusion based on little or no evidence and then claim you were “right” if subsequent events support your unwarranted conclusion. That’s not “right,” it’s coincidence.
.@NRA Was that on-air double homicide by handgun sponsored content?
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) August 26, 2015
I feel horrible, and I’m truly worried the right wing as lead by Donald Trump will latch onto this tragedy like its the Reichstag fire. Too much hatred there already and they’re itching for an excuse.
re: #16 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
I was asked to lead a prayer in boot camp once.
I was stopped after “Crom, I do not pray to you often…”
I went home early from work today. This violence sickens me. What sickens me more is the finger pointing.
Stop.
My nephew is a cameraman for News Channel Six here in Albany NY. Four months ago they found his brother ‘dead’ from a heroin overdose in a Stewart’s bathroom. Unfortunately they brought him back with Narcan, only to linger brain dead for four more days. Seeing that cameraman just brought a dread inside of me I cannot describe.
I’m going to split firewood today and get lost in hard labor and the roar of my chainsaw, I urge all of you to turn off your computers and spend time with your love ones.
re: #20 Kragar
I was asked to lead a prayer in boot camp once.
I was stopped after “Crom, I do not pray to you often…”
Good on you!
re: #19 ramex
I feel horrible, and I’m truly worried the right wing as lead by Donald Trump will latch onto this tragedy like its the Reichstag fire. Too much hatred there already and they’re itching for an excuse.
They certainly latched onto the SF shooting fast enough.
re: #15 Timothy Watson
Was anyone injured in the West Virginia school hostage standoff? I heard the kid had been arrested and sent for a medical evaluation, but WTOP (my main source of news while I am working) has been following the WDBJ shooting more.
There were no injuries.
A teacher talked him down and got him to surrender.
wsaz.com
re: #19 ramex
I feel horrible, and I’m truly worried the right wing as lead by Donald Trump will latch onto this tragedy like its the Reichstag fire. Too much hatred there already and they’re itching for an excuse.
The Republicans are beyond hope at this point. They’ll probably nominate Trump, and civilized people will defeat him in the general election. We’re not going to let the ignorant Conservatives install a cave-man as President.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Also, it’s not a fucking race war if each incident only involves one shooter.
This is one of the news anchors at WLEX in Lexington, KY:
Sick to my stomach. Worked with Flanagan at WTWC. Bad actor then, always the victim who once sued the station. What an awful day.
— Kevin Christopher (@KChristopher18) August 26, 2015
America: An easy way to ensure your safety is don't work at a place where anyone's ever been fired. Or go to a movie. Or be a first grader.
— Adam Sternbergh (@sternbergh) August 26, 2015
re: #8 Charles Johnson
Here we go. Now the right wingers are really going to lose their shit.
After Shooting, Alleged Gunman Details Grievances in ‘Suicide Notes’
Any idea of its authenticity yet? Seems a little to perfect in terms of pushing buttons for Breitbart-type mouthbreathers.
re: #28 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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Or go to Church, or piss off a cop, or appear at a courthouse…
re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg
Or get stopped by a cop.
Or be black.
Or jaywalk.
Or go to work.
Or stay at home.
Or live with a domestic relation (spouse, significant other, child, or parent).
re: #26 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Only least one shooter…so far. Just wait for Dead Breitbart’s Stormfont Annex to drub up some more on the other side.
We might need a countdown clock for this:
Trump pledges: No more "bimbo" tweets http://t.co/fI0fCNDlq2 pic.twitter.com/ZLAwah0jhp
— The Hill (@thehill) August 26, 2015
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People are shocked about violence when MSM doesn't bat an eye about cutting open a kid's face at a clinic to harvest and sell their brain?
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 26, 2015
OK, who is the pimp here?
re: #29 Mike Lamb
Any idea of its authenticity yet? Seems a little to perfect in terms of pushing buttons for Breitbart-type mouthbreathers.
It looks like it’s genuine.
The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
— Bill Hicks (@Bill_Hicks_RIP) August 26, 2015
re: #38 Nyet
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OK, who is the pimp here?
Ms. Muhgunz Twitter feed is more fucked up than usual.
I think she could use a hug today.
Our country has a gun violence problem. Shootings like these are far too common here. My prayers are with the #WDBJ family.
— Gabrielle Giffords (@GabbyGiffords) August 26, 2015
OT: Hillary to take questions from press
Let’s hope she does better this time.
re: #16 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
We played against them 5 years ago. After the football game, their coach at the time asked all of us to join hands and pray with them. A very baptist prayer. Our team, being good Catholics, obliged. This is not the only Public school in Eastern KY we have prayed with after a football game, at their request.
I’m an Episcopalian Christian, and I’ve been known to watch a little football from time to time, but I wish someone would explain to me how football is in any way related to, or should be sanctioned by, Christianity. The two are in fact, as I understand them, nearly complete opposites.
re: #43 The Vicious Babushka
“Fun Day” was lame.
Most company picnics are. Did they at least cook the burgers all the way though?
re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is one of the news anchors at WLEX in Lexington, KY:
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Here’s the incident that he mentions in the tweet:
Virginia shooter Bryce Williams sued Tallahassee station for discrimination
This manifesto is quite a bit more deranged and incoherent than Dylann Roof's. @Karoli @JM_Ashby
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 26, 2015
re: #38 Nyet
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OK, who is the pimp here?
@DLoesch It's terrible how #wingnut activists try to gain politically from gun violence. They're scum.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 26, 2015
re: #47 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
I’m an Episcopalian Christian, and I’ve been known to watch a little football from time to time, but I wish someone would explain to me how football is in any way related to, or should be sanctioned by, Christianity. The two are in fact, as I understand them, nearly complete opposites.
Unless your Christianity is the sort that has to be imposed on everyone, everywhere and at every activity.
WTF!!
This is how badly white people want to be able to say nigga ?? pic.twitter.com/LDIgyqGJ8H
— thottin and boppin (@ash93braith1) August 26, 2015
If President Obama doesn’t make a comment about the murders, conservatives will squeal: Obama doesn’t care about White deaths!
If President Obama does make a comment about the murders, conservatives will squeal: Obama is trying to insert himself into the story!!
re: #44 wrenchwench
it’s simply fucking amazing that she’s still walks among us and I still am boggled that people would rather ensure that they can maintain the thrill of shooting the crap out of something rather than make this a safer place for us all. I guess the best categorization is mass-selfishness.
Saw a post over at BJ that what we need to end this shit is to actually force people that own firearms to actually be part of a well-regulated militia, that ensures that you show up for arms and safety training, that you actually work as a group to defend the common good, like a local national guard chapter based on a county level. If people actually have to do something to keep and maintain the privilege, then perhaps we can find out who really wants to have and secure firearms and who is just too fucking lazy to care.
imho, that’s a damn sight better than nothing, flawed as it may be….
re: #47 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
I’m an Episcopalian Christian, and I’ve been known to watch a little football from time to time, but I wish someone would explain to me how football is in any way related to, or should be sanctioned by, Christianity. The two are in fact, as I understand them, nearly complete opposites.
Very similar to how war/military service is connected to Christianity by some.
Plus, if you look-especially in the American South- a football coach is analogous to a Baptist Preacher. A fiery speech you hear from a coach before the game may sound eerily similar to what you hear from the pulpit on Sunday.
re: #55 Dr. Matt
If President Obama doesn’t make a comment about the murder, conservatives will squeal: Obama doesn’t care about White deaths!
If President Obama does make a comment about the murder, conservatives will squeal: Obama is trying to insert himself into the story!!
If Obama breathes, conservatives will squeal.
Seems like certain activists made asses of themselves while they thought the shooter was white.
re: #55 Dr. Matt
If President Obama doesn’t make a comment about the murder, conservatives will squeal: Obama doesn’t care about White deaths!
If President Obama does make a comment about the murder, conservatives will squeal: Obama is trying to insert himself into the story!!
hurr hurr Obama said Trayvon Martin was a like a son to him, what about this race murderer??
re: #19 ramex
I feel horrible, and I’m truly worried the right wing as lead by Donald Trump will latch onto this tragedy like its the Reichstag fire. Too much hatred there already and they’re itching for an excuse.
Don’t be worried they’ll latch onto this — be certain of it. They’re going to. I haven’t looked at the usual places, but I’m pretty sure they’re already doing it.
re: #61 Charles Johnson
Don’t be worried they’ll latch onto this — be certain of it. They’re going to. I haven’t looked at the usual places, but I’m pretty sure they’re already doing it.
Considering the manifesto, I imagine now they’re going to turn him into the antidote to Dylan Roof. I’m wondering who will be the first of the usual wingnut crowd to try to claim that this shooting proves that bringing down the Confederate flag in Charleston did nothing to stop racism, thus “proving” them right.
re: #56 piratedan
it’s simply fucking amazing that she’s still walks among us and I still am boggled that people would rather ensure that they can maintain the thrill of shooting the crap out of something rather than make this a safer place for us all. I guess the best categorization is mass-selfishness.
Saw a post over at BJ that what we need to end this shit is to actually force people that own firearms to actually be part of a well-regulated militia, that ensures that you show up for arms and safety training, that you actually work as a group to defend the common good, like a local national guard chapter based on a county level. If people actually have to do something to keep and maintain the privilege, then perhaps we can find out who really wants to have and secure firearms and who is just too fucking lazy to care.
imho, that’s a damn sight better than nothing, flawed as it may be….
Access to mental health help would also help people like Loughner and this, now dead shooter guy. It’s covered by Obamacare, and it should be free everywhere, for the benefit of all of us.
re: #60 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
hurr hurr Obama said Trayvon Martin was a like a son to him, what about this race murderer??
The racist Conservatives are never going to get over that one. Treating black lives as important is unacceptable to the white-wingers.
re: #55 Dr. Matt
If President Obama doesn’t make a comment about the murder, conservatives will squeal: Obama doesn’t care about White deaths!
If President Obama does make a comment about the murder, conservatives will squeal: Obama is trying to insert himself into the story!!
Nah, they will go with the steal our guns routine
re: #63 wrenchwench
Access to mental health help would also help people like Loughner and this, now dead shooter guy. It’s covered by Obamacare, and it should be free everywhere, for the benefit of all of us.
If people get mentally-well, how are they supposed to turn them into crazed Republican voters?
re: #2 Kragar
White guy who references multiple sources of racist screed kills black people, he is a lone wolf.
Black guy mentions racism as reason he killed white people, “RACE WAR!”
I am getting so fucking sick and tired of this pathetic horseshit
Right wing twitter has gone into full race war mode. They are busy pinning this on #blacklivesmatter, and that will be their narrative from now on.
re: #66 No Country For Old Haters
If people get mentally-well, how are they supposed to turn them into crazed Republican voters?
The Party will have to change.
If today doesn't clearly demonstrate that this gun obsession/culture is a serious threat to society, nothing will.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) August 26, 2015
re: #56 piratedan
it’s simply fucking amazing that she’s still walks among us and I still am boggled that people would rather ensure that they can maintain the thrill of shooting the crap out of something rather than make this a safer place for us all. I guess the best categorization is mass-selfishness.
Saw a post over at BJ that what we need to end this shit is to actually force people that own firearms to actually be part of a well-regulated militia, that ensures that you show up for arms and safety training, that you actually work as a group to defend the common good, like a local national guard chapter based on a county level. If people actually have to do something to keep and maintain the privilege, then perhaps we can find out who really wants to have and secure firearms and who is just too fucking lazy to care.
imho, that’s a damn sight better than nothing, flawed as it may be….
That was my proposal over at BJ.
If the 2nd Amendment is going to mean anything at all…put the fucking ‘well regulated militia’ part back into use.
re: #69 Dr. Matt
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hmmm. “Something went wrong” when I tried to respond to your tweet. I don’t appear to be banned for taunting wingnuts, so maybe Twitter is flakey this afternoon.
re: #73 No Country For Old Haters
hmmm. “Something went wrong” when I tried to respond to your tweet. I don’t appear to be banned for taunting wingnuts, so maybe Twitter is flakey this afternoon.
Sorry. PC problems. Fixed.
re: #47 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
God does not care who wins some football game.
re: #71 Aunty Entity Dragon
my apologies for the lack of a specific h/t… but not everyone keeps the same name between sites :-)
Hurting right now, so I gotta lay down. BBL.
re: #77 piratedan
my apologies for the lack of a specific h/t… but not everyone keeps the same name between sites :-)
Oh, I wasn’t worried about that. I was just elaborating on your comment. No worries :)
re: #78 Aunty Entity Dragon
Hurting right now, so I gotta lay down. BBL.
I hope the pain goes away soon.
re: #2 Kragar
White guy who references multiple sources of racist screed kills black people, he is a lone wolf.
Black guy mentions racism as reason he killed white people, “RACE WAR!”
I am getting so fucking sick and tired of this pathetic horseshit
You and me both. So much double speak I feel like Orwell was a visionary.
re: #67 Aunty Entity Dragon
Right wing twitter has gone into full race war mode. They are busy pinning this on #blacklivesmatter, and that will be their narrative from now on.
Yes, #blacklivesmatter has been a thorn in their side for over a year.
re: #81 nines09
You and me both. So much double speak I feel like Orwell was a visionary.
He was, so was Mike Judge with Idiocracy, unfortunately.
re: #83 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Yes, #blacklivesmatter has been a thorn in their side for over a year.
Racist dead-enders will try to preserve their privilege until we marginalize them all.
This will probably piss off the gun fuckers.
Wal-Mart says it will stop selling semi-automatic weapons at stores because fewer people are buying them: http://t.co/nojBtDYyAa
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 26, 2015
re: #86 teleskiguy
This will probably piss off the gun fuckers.
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re: #86 teleskiguy
This will probably piss off the gun fuckers.
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— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 26, 2015
:(
It had serious health issues.
A National Zoo panda cub born Saturday has died http://t.co/D58BlJU80w
— Post Local (@postlocal) August 26, 2015
re: #61 Charles Johnson
Don’t be worried they’ll latch onto this — be certain of it. They’re going to. I haven’t looked at the usual places, but I’m pretty sure they’re already doing it.
Of course they will….look at how they latched onto the immigrant/San Fran story.
They’re masters at this….forget about Sandy Hook or Dylan Roof or unarmed black Americans being shot to death by authority figures….but find one instance of violence that fits into their “brown people are scary” narrative and you’ll hear about it for years
re: #37 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Do the math, pick a side, and work to avoid it.
re: #84 No Country For Old Haters
He was, so was Mike Judge with Idiocracy, unfortunately.
When comedians deliver insight and truth and so called journalists display fealty to idiots like Trump, something is messed up. Big. Comedians always had grains of truth in the barbs. Now the whole of the airwaves is complete bullshit. Fox, for one, is like a salt lick for rabid hyenas.
This manifesto seems to be being accepted as genuine, but…this guy was obviously very social-media-savvy, live-tweeted his crimes, had facebook pages galore, and he faxes his manifesto to ABC news? This just doesn’t ring true to me. Why not smoke signals?
re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is one of the news anchors at WLEX in Lexington, KY:
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I always wonder how horrible people get new jobs so easily when so many really decent folks stay unemployed. There are lots of unemployed journalists out there who wouldn’t shoot colleagues but your HR department decided to go with this guy?
Sorry—rant of the previously unemployed.
re: #76 Ojoe
if their god is anything like them, he is petty a cruel and probably does care about who won a high school football game… maybe even interfered in the form of a “turf monster”.
re: #84 No Country For Old Haters
He was, so was Mike Judge with Idiocracy, unfortunately.
A Trump presidency would significantly expedite our society towards an Idiocracy.
re: #94 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
This manifesto seems to be being accepted as genuine, but…this guy was obviously very social-media-savvy, live-tweeted his crimes, had facebook pages galore, and he faxes his manifesto to ABC news? This just doesn’t ring true to me. Why not smoke signals?
Better yet, why to ABC, when your network is a CBS affiliate? Hell, why not just send it to the station you worked at?
re: #98 Dr. Matt
A Trump presidency would significantly expedite our society towards an Idiocracy.
I compared him to President Camacho, then had to apologize when it was pointed out to me that President Camacho was a far better person than Trump.
re: #98 Dr. Matt
A Trump presidency would significantly expedite our society towards an Idiocracy.
And my lack of a degree, which hasn’t limited my career much, will limit my ability to bug out to Canada or France. Trump better not win.
re: #99 Targetpractice
Better yet, why to ABC, when your network is a CBS affiliate? Hell, why not just send it to the station you worked at?
So he could stick it to them one last time by giving their competition an exclusive story, I’d guess.
re: #99 Targetpractice
Better yet, why to ABC, when your network is a CBS affiliate? Hell, why not just send it to the station you worked at?
Maybe because a fax can’t be edited or changed as easily as a digital manifesto. His own station might not have released it since he apparently included negative things about it.
re: #101 No Country For Old Haters
And my lack of a degree, which hasn’t limited my career much, will limit my ability to bug out to Canada or France. Trump better not win.
Trump is at -51% with Hispanic voters. He won’t win.
re: #93 nines09
Let Trump into office and we will get this.
Cristal de la noche
How else deport / exile 30 million people?
White guy shoots black victims: “Let’s wait for all the facts to come out before we make a judgement.”
Black guy shoots white victims: “THIS WAS RACIALLY MOTIVATED! THE GUY WAS CRAZY! WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED TO MAKE A JUDGEMENT!”
re: #106 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Can we cancel
this weektoday?
I’m good for the whole week being gone.
re: #103 allegro
Maybe because a fax can’t be edited or changed as easily as a digital manifesto. His own station might not have released it since he apparently included negative things about it.
Also, with Adobe Acrobat now, it’s just as easy to fax a document as it is to email one.
re: #105 Great White Snark
Let Trump into office and we will get this.
Cristal de la noche
How else deport / exile 30 million people?
You know what? Trump exhibits the same mannerisms of a certain Italian Douche. From the 30’s.
re: #94 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Don’t try to understand anything this guy did or said. He was obviously completely unhinged.
re: #110 nines09
You know what? Trump exhibits the same mannerisms of a certain Italian Douche. From the 30’s.
Our technology and medicine have improved, but many people are still as bad as they were in the 1930s. Some families refuse to improve.
It’s National Dog Day.
Imma gonna find tweets of happy dogs, starting with this one:
#Dogs make the best friends. Woof! #NationalDogDay pic.twitter.com/oFrMV5z3UT
— The Green Goat (@TheGreenGoat_SF) August 26, 2015
re: #104 aagcobb
Trump is at -51% with Hispanic voters. He won’t win.
I think I heard an update on that this morning and it is now at -63%.
I think Trump can get that to -90% or more the way he is going.
re: #113 No Country For Old Haters
Our technology and medicine have improved, but many people are still as bad as they were in the 1930s. Some families refuse to improve.
? Think of a certain Ben…..
re: #107 Targetpractice
White guy shoots black victims: “Let’s wait for all the facts to come out before we make a judgement.”
Black guy shoots white victims: “THIS WAS RACIALLY MOTIVATED! THE GUY WAS CRAZY! WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED TO MAKE A JUDGEMENT!”
The manifesto helps. That asshole who slaughtered women in So Cal left one too. It was weird watching people trying to parse that one to try to prove he didn’t hate women, he was just crazy. Sorry, but I believe it was both. If the guy wrote he shot people because of race, well, that’s why he shot them.
This is so true:
The best thing about dogs! #NationalDogDay pic.twitter.com/W6IDw3ZFrX
— Michael Clarke (@Mr_Mike_Clarke) August 26, 2015
re: #116 Backwoods_Sleuth
TMA! TMA!
I was describing one of my symptoms in detail to Mr. w and I paused and asked, ‘TMI?’ And he said, ‘No, TBI!’
re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is so true:
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They’re great animals. We have two for the first time and it’s been a neat new experience.
BTW……
Josh Duggar checks into rehab, family says
Another bombshell in the Duggar family saga has landed: Josh Duggar has checked into rehab.
But for what? His family doesn’t say in their website announcement Wednesday. But since he confessed last week to hypocrisy, infidelity and being a porn addict, people will draw their own conclusions.
The news came in another gob-smacking note on the website of the ex-reality-TV stars, now stripped of their show, 19 Kids and Counting. They’re still reeling from the effects of two major sex scandals involving Josh, threatening their status as icons of Christian family values [sic], not to mention Josh’s marriage to wife Anna and their four children.
Sorry for this unhappy news:
Smoke billowing from the top floor of the building that houses Adobo Grill, right next to The Second City @WGNNews pic.twitter.com/ARyjSoaEgj
— Gaynor Hall (@gaynor_hall) August 26, 2015
re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is one of the news anchors at WLEX in Lexington, KY:
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Oh! That’s why his name sounded familiar.
This is my parents’ dog, Leo.
Here is a picture of a dog who likes the window fan in summer. Leo the Rumpus sitting dog. pic.twitter.com/zw1cEzld4Q
— Charles Vogel Sr. (@gypguy) July 28, 2014
re: #123 Dr. Matt
I smell fraud. See? It was DRUGS! Demon RUM!!!!
re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth
So he’s gonna get cured again by rehabbing houses like the last time?
I feel like a horrible person, but I LOLed at this.
re: #123 Dr. Matt
BTW……
I am sure he’ll ask for people to respect his privacy. The way he you know totally didn’t those who don’t share his theological beliefs that he never practiced. Fuck him and his wacky family.
re: #123 Dr. Matt
Will he be allowed access to adult film stars while in rehab?
Roof is still going. Some collapse of roof in progress no injury. Second city still good pic.twitter.com/TKm3dCIb7W
— Chicago Fire Media (@CFDMedia) August 26, 2015
re: #131 Kragar
Will he be allowed access to adult film stars while in rehab?
Only for therapeutic reasons…..
re: #126 teleskiguy
This is my parents’ dog, Leo.
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i love the look in his eyes, it’s almost like he’s saying “Oops I didn’t see you come in there.” Never have had a German Shepherd before, I hear they’re great dogs though. We’ve mostly had poodles due to my mom having a shedding allergy. New guy is 75% poodle and 25% lab.
re: #123 Dr. Matt
BTW……
At this point, the icing on the cake would be his wife filing for divorce. I normally don’t wish such things on other people, but when you’re someone as noxious as Josh Duggar, you sort of have to wonder why she’s sticking with him. I mean besides being brainwashed.
re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth
Aversion therapy, no doubt…
Show him skin and then hit him with a belt…..Screaming “NO NO NO NO!!!!!”
re: #136 Targetpractice
At this point, the icing on the cake would be his wife filing for divorce. I normally don’t wish such things on other people, but when you’re someone as noxious as Josh Duggar, you sort of have to wonder why she’s sticking with him. I mean besides being brainwashed.
Jesus gave the green light to divorce due to adultery, so she is good to go biblically.
re: #123 Dr. Matt
BTW……
Ben Shapiro says this is more liberal attacks because Duggar Christian, blah blah
/
re: #136 Targetpractice
At this point, the icing on the cake would be his wife filing for divorce. I normally don’t wish such things on other people, but when you’re someone as noxious as Josh Duggar, you sort of have to wonder why she’s sticking with him. I mean besides being brainwashed.
Four kids and a 19th Cent education.
So sad that you're much more likely to see journalists shot dead on TV than journalists reporting gun control reform on TV.
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) August 26, 2015
re: #136 Targetpractice
At this point, the icing on the cake would be his wife filing for divorce.
They usually do cakes for weddings, but that’s a great idea; divorce cakes!
re: #110 nines09
You know what? Trump exhibits the same mannerisms of a certain Italian Douche. From the 30’s.
Il Douche (pronounced just like Il Duce in Italian)?
@GottaLaff God made sure adultery was in his Top Ten List, but SOMEWHERE BURIED IN LEVITICUS IT SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT MAN LAYING WITH MAN
— Tom Wellborn (@TLW3) August 26, 2015
Although his manifesto seems pretty deranged, I don’t think it’s impossible that he really was harassed at work for being black and gay. Of course that’s no excuse for murder, but it’s not difficult to believe.
USA! USA! USA!
We're now averaging more than one mass shooting per day in 2015 http://t.co/68AXaYmL4Q
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 26, 2015
re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s National Dog Day.
Imma gonna find tweets of happy dogs, starting with this one:[Embedded content]
Happy #NationalDogDay from the boys pic.twitter.com/yNKzbwv9ZF
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) August 26, 2015
Let's not forget the baby. #NationalDogDay pic.twitter.com/SoJZkNrFNJ
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) August 26, 2015
Baby says happy #NationalDogDay too! pic.twitter.com/IVdzJjEgLk
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) August 26, 2015
#NationalDogDay is today pic.twitter.com/YqD3Bya1a8
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) August 26, 2015
Shootings such as this are never as simple as “He was black and didn’t like white people.” If it were that simple then we’d have shootings every minute from racists. Public shootings are not a one-dimensional crime, no matter what kind of statement the gunman leaves behind.
But complexity has never been a strength of True Believers. Neither has logic.
Three human beings are dead in yet another shooting. We will not be discussing gun control as a result. We will not discuss mental illness. We will just fight over the color of people’s skin until the next shooting. Which will probably be tomorrow.
I’m not a cynic, I’m a realist. This is how we operate in this country when it comes to gun violence. Any excuse not to address the real issues. I don’t care about the race of the shooter or the victims, I care about the shooter’s mental state and how they got access to a gun. The rest is pretty damn irrelevant.
re: #138 aagcobb
Jesus gave the green light to divorce due to adultery, so she is good to go biblically.
She’s not good to go in the modern wife/slave quiverfull doctrine tho.
re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth
USA! USA! USA!
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For years, we’ve snarked that if libertarians wanted to find paradise, all they had to do was go to Somalia. It seems they decided instead to just turn America into Somalia.
re: #143 wrenchwench
They usually do cakes for weddings, but that’s a great idea; divorce cakes!
A portrait of Moose, Earl of Laurel Canyon #NationalDogDay pic.twitter.com/xK1QxNAPNK
— Aimee Carrero (@aimeecarrero) August 26, 2015
Trump doing tweet-finger exercises and stocking fridge with Four Loko https://t.co/G6hfqjIaAj
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) August 26, 2015
FUSION's @JorgeRamosNews will talk Trump with @MegynKelly tonight at 9pm on @FoxNews http://t.co/oXE444TPnw pic.twitter.com/uTAUPjZZuK
— David Ford (@ItsDavidFord) August 26, 2015
re: #136 Targetpractice
At this point, the icing on the cake would be his wife filing for divorce. I normally don’t wish such things on other people, but when you’re someone as noxious as Josh Duggar, you sort of have to wonder why she’s sticking with him. I mean besides being brainwashed.
I wish all this Duggar shit would have come to light before Fayetteville, Ark. voted to overturn their non-discrimination law. The Duggers were up to their armpits in getting that law repealed (because it was so unfair to prevent christians from discriminating).
re: #140 Decatur Deb
Four kids and a 19th Cent education.
I read that as…
Four kids and a 19 Cent education.
Distinction without a difference I suppose.
re: #147 Charles Johnson
There’s also no good way of telling genuine grievances from petty complaints, though it’s pretty obvious that the right wing will fall in line with the whole “imaginary victimhood” thing.
I thought the other anchor tweeting that the guy had a persecution complex was pretty tasteless. Another example of Twitter throwing a spotlight on people’s messy emotional reactions I suppose.
Of course the truly bonkers thing is that people in the US can just go out on a whim and buy highly effective equipment for killing other people.
People imposing "race narratives" on this tragedy should know that shooter expressed admiration for Columbine shooters & Va Tech shooter.
— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) August 26, 2015
White Trump supporter at Ramos: GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY Native Americans to white Trump supporter: Oh?
— Gabe! Ortz (@TUSK81) August 26, 2015
re: #150 BlueGrl21
Shootings such as this are never as simple as “He was black and didn’t like white people.” If it were that simple then we’d have shootings every minute from racists. Public shootings are not a one-dimensional crime, no matter what kind of statement the gunman leaves behind.
But complexity has never been a strength of True Believers. Neither has logic.
Three human beings are dead in yet another shooting. We will not be discussing gun control as a result. We will not discuss mental illness. We will just fight over the color of people’s skin until the next shooting. Which will probably be tomorrow.
I’m not a cynic, I’m a realist. This is how we operate in this country when it comes to gun violence. Any excuse not to address the real issues. I don’t care about the race of the shooter or the victims, I care about the shooter’s mental state and how they got access to a gun. The rest is pretty damn irrelevant.
Exactly right. Easy access to guns is absolutely one of the main factors in violence like this, much more than even mental illness. Having a gun makes it much more likely that rage will erupt into deadly violence.
If you're more mad about people bringing up gun control in the wake of a shooting than you are about the shooting itself, something's wrong.
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) August 26, 2015
re: #147 Charles Johnson
Although his manifesto seems pretty deranged, I don’t think it’s impossible that he really was harassed at work for being black and gay. Of course that’s no excuse for murder, but it’s not difficult to believe.
At some point “warning signs” will be discussed. Workplace violence, and the management of the threat, is actually an OSHA concern.
re: #161 wrenchwench
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It’s worse than that WW- he wasn’t a Trump supporter- he was a Trump aide.
re: #167 HappyWarrior
It’s worse than that WW- he wasn’t a Trump supporter- he was a Trump aide.
Not surprising…
Comes with 2 Sub-woofers #NationalDogDay pic.twitter.com/ZcEcWNO3vS
— Captain Kidd (@kidd_kong78) August 26, 2015
re: #163 Charles Johnson
Exactly right. Easy access to guns is absolutely one of the main factors in violence like this, much more than even mental illness. Having a gun makes it much more likely that rage will erupt into deadly violence.
The gun nuts like to say “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Yeah but the gun makes it easier. The gun nuts were I think trying to claim “Well what about knives” after a massive knife attack happened at a Chinese school I think not long after Newtown. None of those children were killed thankfully IIRC. A gun makes it easier to kill people. That’s why they were invented. The willing cognitive dissonance on this issue is infuriating.
re: #168 wrenchwench
Not surprising…
Nope. On a personal note, I see that my sister in law’s oldest sister and her husband have started posting a lot of stuff that pushes back against the crap Donald Trump and the xenophobic dicks say. I just offered my support and thanks to them for pushing back against the bullshit.
Families of victims of #VirginiaShooting will be moved to find Dana Loesch @DLoesch comparin' it to a fender-bender. pic.twitter.com/skG9xSNQHa
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) August 26, 2015
Logic fail. Par for the course…
re: #171 HappyWarrior
Nope. On a personal note, I see that my sister in law’s oldest sister and her husband have started posting a lot of stuff that pushes back against the crap Donald Trump and the xenophobic dicks say. I just offered my support and thanks to them for pushing back against the bullshit.
Yay. Support the nice family members!
re: #172 aagcobb
“Warning: attendance at work may result in you being shot by a disgruntled former employee.”
Legal worries dispelled by simple signage! Let’s repair to the local speakeasy for celebratory cocktails!
Happy dog day from my boys (in their football jerseys) and their bestest dog park buds.
Dog park buddiesHere’s my girl at her happiest, when there is 2 feet of snow on the ground :)
my girlBryan Fischer calls for pornography and adultery to be outlawed and for Ashley Madison to be shut down: http://t.co/L5nzsEwcBJ
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) August 26, 2015
re: #178 Kragar
Well, Ashley Madison might well shut down, but not because of anything Fischer says or does. The fact that there aren’t any women on the site for the men who pay to use it to interact with, would force a shutdown.
Out of 5.5m female accounts on Ashley Madison, roughly 0% had shown any kind of activity after day they were created http://t.co/JkA2IMLoLV
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) August 26, 2015
Once in a while, she just sums it all up:
When in reality, you're the ones that started the goddamn race war the minute you brought us to this country in chains. But whatever.
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) August 26, 2015
re: #173 lawhawk
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Logic fail. Par for the course…
Except cars and knives aren’t designed for killing you inconsiderate psycho.
re: #182 HappyWarrior
Except cars and knives aren’t designed for killing you inconsiderate psycho.
That’s what cars and cell phones are for.
---> Let's Be Cautious About Jumping to the Racial Angle in the Virginia Shooting http://t.co/VIBAQ6iLJ2
— National Review (@NRO) August 26, 2015
Too late you fucking jackasses.
One of the wingnuts I follow on Twitter, “Vodkapundit”, retweeted this.
The ancestors have spoken. Good job Vester Flanagan aka Bryce Williams. Rest in power. #WDBJ #BlackLivesMatter
— Cesare Borgia (@81Eddie) August 26, 2015
Ugh.
re: #178 Kragar
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But how will Bryan coordinate meetings with his Love slave Larry?
re: #179 lawhawk
Well, Ashley Madison might well shut down, but not because of anything Fischer says or does. The fact that there aren’t any women on the site for the men who pay to use it to interact with, would force a shutdown.
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This is the amount of surprise I have that hawt babes were not using Ashley Madison to have steamy sex with middle-aged account executives:
re: #179 lawhawk
When you look at the evidence, it’s hard to deny that the overwhelming majority of men using Ashley Madison weren’t having affairs. They were paying for a fantasy.
re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s also a matter of public record that some percentage of the profiles are less than real. A few years ago, a former employee of Ashley Madison sued the company in Canada over her terrible work conditions. She claimed that she’d gotten repetitive stress injuries in her hands after the company hired her to create 1,000 fake profiles of women in three months, written in Portuguese, to attract a Brazilian audience. The case was settled out of court, and Ashley Madison claimed that the woman never made any fake profiles.
Still, there is a clause in the Ashley Madison terms of service that notes that “some” people are using the site purely “for entertainment” and that they are “not seeking in person meetings with anyone they meet on the Service, but consider their communications with users and Members to be for their amusement.” The site stops short of saying these are fake people, but does admit that many profiles are for “amusement only.”
re: #184 teleskiguy
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Ugh.
I’ll bet that “Cesare Borgia” is a racist pretending to be black.
re: #190 HappyWarrior
They’re great people and they’re family.
Mine is a mixed bag. So hang onto the good ones, especially those who marry in.
re: #189 wrenchwench
Ah, blast from the past - another one of the PJ Media types. So glad to have disassociated from the bunch of them (which includes Instapundit, Geller, etc).
We will not be blaming The Gays. Or The Blacks. Or abortion. Or Obama. Or high taxes. Or the victims. http://t.co/GlX2DoxC1J
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) August 26, 2015
Just the photo of the two of them for that article …
/sigh
And there’s lots of other tragedies just like this every day that don’t get as much attention.
re: #185 HappyWarrior
But how will Bryan coordinate meetings with his Love slave Larry?
There was a big bust of rentboy, which could’ve put a big crimp in Bryan’s lovelife.
Background checks penalize law-abiding gun owners like smoke detectors penalize not-on-fire homes.
— Deborah Roseman (@roseperson) July 27, 2015
re: #175 iossarian
Legal worries dispelled by simple signage! Let’s repair to the local speakeasy for celebratory cocktails!
A deputy installation commander was shotgunned by a warrant officer across the parade ground from my window. The after-action reports were full of “troublemaker”, “disgruntled”, “waiting to go off”.
I did not put a link to rentboy in my post; it happened automatically!
re: #195 lawhawk
Ah, blast from the past - another one of the PJ Media types. So glad to have disassociated from the bunch of them (which includes Instapundit, Geller, etc).
You know, these people used to keep all that overt racism pretty well hidden. But since the election of Obama, they’re just letting all that repressed hatred flow right out of them in public.
re: #200 aagcobb
I did not put a link to rentboy in my post; it happened automatically!
Yes - anything that looks like a website address will be automatically converted to a link. Just take the .com off the end and it won’t be converted.
Anything that threatens to pry you away from the privileges that white supremacy affords you is a race war. Just... no.
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) August 26, 2015
re: #179 lawhawk
Well, Ashley Madison might well shut down, but not because of anything Fischer says or does. The fact that there aren’t any women on the site for the men who pay to use it to interact with, would force a shutdown.
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They are going to be sued out of existence no matter. They promised to remove data that they did not. There are already multi-million dollar lawsuits. One Canadian attorney said on the news that he is getting hundreds of calls from potential clients a day.
They’re done as a business entity.
re: #202 Charles Johnson
Yes - anything that looks like a website address will be automatically converted to a link. Just take the .com off the end and it won’t be converted.
I’ll keep that in mind.
re: #200 aagcobb
I did not put a link to rentboy in my post; it happened automatically!
I like when people accidentally leave off a space between sentences and the first word of the next sentence could be a domain name like it or to, and it shows the last word of the previous sentence as blank.it or whatever. But I’m easily amused….
re: #179 lawhawk
Well, Ashley Madison might well shut down, but not because of anything Fischer says or does. The fact that there aren’t any women on the site for the men who pay to use it to interact with, would force a shutdown.
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I needed this laugh today, so thanks. So idiots like Josh Duggar paid hundreds of dollars a year to a “dating” facilitator whose women were all fake? Hahahahahaha. My husband is retired military and apparently thousands of military and other government officials used their work email addresses to sign up for this “dating” service too. Why are dudes so stupid?
re: #207 funky chicken
Why are dudes so stupid?
Well, it’s to do with this whole thing called the reproduction of the species…
Even after all these years, there's no faster way to spot a typo than to hit "send."
— Matt Reed (@deandad) August 26, 2015
re: #207 funky chicken
I needed this laugh today, so thanks. So idiots like Josh Duggar paid hundreds of dollars a year to a “dating” facilitator whose women were all fake? Hahahahahaha. My husband is retired military and apparently thousands of military and other government officials used their work email addresses to sign up for this “dating” service too. Why are dudes so stupid?
Thinking with your dick is the main occupational hazard of being a man.
re: #207 funky chicken
I needed this laugh today, so thanks. So idiots like Josh Duggar paid hundreds of dollars a year to a “dating” facilitator whose women were all fake? Hahahahahaha. My husband is retired military and apparently thousands of military and other government officials used their work email addresses to sign up for this “dating” service too. Why are dudes so stupid?
Thinking with their little head.
re: #181 wrenchwench
No, sorry but that kind of rhetoric is inappropriate. Like if women said we needed to go murder random innocent men because of the history of sexism.
re: #209 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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re: #207 funky chicken
I needed this laugh today, so thanks. So idiots like Josh Duggar paid hundreds of dollars a year to a “dating” facilitator whose women were all fake? Hahahahahaha. My husband is retired military and apparently thousands of military and other government officials used their work email addresses to sign up for this “dating” service too. Why are dudes so stupid?
Because too many of us think with the wrong head, often at the most inopportune or unfortunate time.
@rickygervais. See Ricky. Gun laws Dont make any difference. pic.twitter.com/5dyZKWmjKk
— Jeffrey rust (@Jeffrust954) August 26, 2015
re: #213 funky chicken
No, sorry but that kind of rhetoric is inappropriate. Like if women said we needed to go murder random innocent men because of the history of sexism.
Who is saying anything about murdering? The context of that tweet as I understand it is people stating that the shooter, and blacks in general, are trying to start a race war. Imani is saying the race war was started when the slaves were brought to America.
Another wild day on Wall Street; Dow closed up 600 points!
re: #207 funky chicken
I needed this laugh today, so thanks. So idiots like Josh Duggar paid hundreds of dollars a year to a “dating” facilitator whose women were all fake? Hahahahahaha. My husband is retired military and apparently thousands of military and other government officials used their work email addresses to sign up for this “dating” service too. Why are dudes so stupid?
And why in hell would they pay for this crap? Aren’t there enough fake women on Craigslist?
re: #207 funky chicken
I needed this laugh today, so thanks. So idiots like Josh Duggar paid hundreds of dollars a year to a “dating” facilitator whose women were all fake? Hahahahahaha. My husband is retired military and apparently thousands of military and other government officials used their work email addresses to sign up for this “dating” service too. Why are dudes so stupid?
My guess about his “adult actress girlfriend”, who just outed him, is that he found her at his fake FB page.
re: #179 lawhawk
Regarding Ashley Madison…interesting article, but it begs this question…Ashley Madison offered a “you pay $300” or some such dollar amount and they guarantee that you will have an affair within 30 (or some such) days. How many people paid for this “service” and just who was screwing them?
re: #207 funky chicken
Back when I was working at Camp Lejeune, one of my duties was monitoring the email servers. I can’t tell you how many people got busted for the stupidest shit on their official military email accounts that no one would ever have even noticed if they had simply used hotmail or yahoo mail.
re: #213 funky chicken
No, sorry but that kind of rhetoric is inappropriate. Like if women said we needed to go murder random innocent men because of the history of sexism.
She’s not calling for a race war, she’s responding to those who think there is one going on, and she’s saying it was not started by black people.
re: #210 EPR-radar
Thinking with your dick is the main occupational hazard of being a man.
LOL I guess, but you can’t imagine how many times they have to sit through lectures about what you are allowed to use your .mil address for, and ashleymadison.com certainly wouldn’t have been on that list. The layers of stupidity are truly astounding.
re: #193 Charles Johnson
I’ll bet that “Cesare Borgia” is a racist pretending to be black.
What kind of psycho uses the alias “Cesare Borgia”?
re: #219 aagcobb
Another wild day on Wall Street; Dow closed up 600 points!
mr. klys yesterday was saying he wished we had waited on a move made early last week.
But timing the market is so hard to do. Better to just stick to a plan.
re: #219 aagcobb
Another wild day on Wall Street; Dow closed up 600 points!
I blame Obama and China!!!!!11!!!
re: #217 teleskiguy
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re: #219 aagcobb
Another wild day on Wall Street; Dow closed up 600 points!
Wall Street is suffering from manic depressive disorder with a side order of bipolar disorder with disorganized thinking.
re: #45 Jenner7
OT: Hillary to take questions from press
Let’s hope she does better this time.
And is every media outlet in the country carrying her presser live? Or is that just for when Trump opens his piehole to spew nonsense?
re: #231 lawhawk
Wall Street is suffering from manic depressive disorder with a side order of bipolar disorder with disorganized thinking.
Topped with ADHD.
re: #217 teleskiguy
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The Australia example is a great example of a country actually responding to a tragedy instead of being afraid to piss off a bunch of assholes.
re: #221 Backwoods_Sleuth
My guess about his “adult actress girlfriend”, who just outed him, is that he found her at his fake FB page.
Apparently he approached her at a strip club in PA while on a “business trip”.
YAY!
"There is little or no likelihood that the clerk ... will prevail on appeal," 6th Circuit appeals panel says of Rowan Co clerk. ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) August 26, 2015
re: #222 WhatEVs
Regarding Ashley Madison…interesting article, but it begs this question…Ashley Madison offered a “you pay $300” or some such dollar amount and they guarantee that you will have an affair within 30 (or some such) days. How many people paid for this “service” and just who was screwing them?
I think the Ashley Madison management might be facing prostitution charges soon.
re: #228 klys (maker of Silmarils)
mr. klys yesterday was saying he wished we had waited on a move made early last week.
But timing the market is so hard to do. Better to just stick to a plan.
I bought some stocks yesterday, as the market was rising from the last bottom the day before. Not ideal, but at least it was going the right way!
re: #217 teleskiguy
Gun laws Dont make any difference.
Whether they do or not, that chart doesn’t show it.
re: #230 aagcobb
But what about the imposition of totalitarian government in Australia, because the people couldn’t fight back anymore?/
It’s true. Australia has had a Holocaust while we weren’t looking. Wingnuts love to claim that strict gun control laws lead to Nazi like regimes. They love to make claims “Well Hitler took the guns of the German Jews away.” Uh let’s look at that. For one, the vast majority of Holocaust victims weren’t German and were in countries that Germany had invaded ya know defeating tons of trained guys with guns to get there. Secondly let’s say a bunch of German Jews did arm themselves. They weren’t going to take out the entire SS or Gestapo.
re: #239 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I bought some stocks yesterday, as the market was rising from the last bottom the day before. Not ideal, but at least it was going the right way!
Yep.
For stocks we intend to hold for 15+ years, it matters less. :)
re: #178 Kragar
Bryan Fischer calls for pornography and adultery to be outlawed and for Ashley Madison to be shut down:
I’ve always found Bryan’s political commentary and policy recommendations to be particularly insightful and practical.
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re: #236 Kragar
Apparently he approached her at a strip club in PA while on a “business trip”.
“Going to strip clubs is my business, and business is good.”
re: #213 funky chicken
No, sorry but that kind of rhetoric is inappropriate. Like if women said we needed to go murder random innocent men because of the history of sexism.
You miss the point. This is like Warren Buffet, responding to calls of ‘Class Warfare!’ by saying there IS a Class War, and his class is winning.
re: #245 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
I’ve always found Bryan’s political commentary and policy recommendations to be particularly insightful and practical.
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You wish to subscribe to his newsletter don’t you? He’s my favorite religious right nut though by far.
re: #223 Kragar
Back when I was working at Camp Lejeune, one of my duties was monitoring the email servers. I can’t tell you how many people got busted for the stupidest shit on their official military email accounts that no one would ever have even noticed if they had simply used hotmail or yahoo mail.
Yeah, I know. My husband would come home frequently with yet another story of some idiot who got caught buying porn on his military computer, kiddie porn images in the .mil email account, dirty pictures from enlisted women sent to married officer .mil email accounts, just mind-boggling. And they are straight up told, repeatedly and frequently that they have no expectation of privacy but still do it.
re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth
“There is little or no likelihood that the clerk … will prevail on appeal,” 6th Circuit appeals panel says of Rowan Co clerk. ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics
Another victim for the Ted Cruz Christian martyr road show.
re: #249 funky chicken
Yeah, I know. My husband would come home frequently with yet another story of some idiot who got caught buying porn on his military computer, kiddie porn images in the .mil email account, dirty pictures from enlisted women sent to married officer .mil email accounts, just mind-boggling. And they are straight up told, repeatedly and frequently that they have no expectation of privacy but still do it.
mr. klys once got deposed during some patent something or other. His work e-mail was gone through.
There is a very strict no personal stuff on the work e-mail rule now. I don’t think I even know his work email.
About that shooting in Bell County, KY, a man who was going back to jail, grabbed a bailiff’s sidearm and shot himself fatally. No other casualties.
re: #242 aagcobb
Kim Davis has a decision to make, doesn’t she!
You know she’s going to pick wingnut welfare, but it will be fun to see her face dereliction of duty charges.
re: #251 klys (maker of Silmarils)
mr. klys once got deposed during some patent something or other. His work e-mail was gone through.
There is a very strict no personal stuff on the work e-mail rule now. I don’t think I even know his work email.
Yeah, but if you know his last name and first inital, as well as the company he works for, you can probably figure it out…
ETA: this is why companies have document retention policies - legal exposure. HUGE pain in the ass for doing business, of course.
re: #254 Blind Frog Belly White
Yeah, but if you know his last name and first inital, as well as the company he works for, you can probably figure it out…
He has a doppelganger. Somewhere in Ireland. Working for the same company.
I think they’ve mostly gotten it sorted out by this point, two years in.
In other news, I’ve managed to stay away from the sweets for the past week. For the most part.
I’m not dangerously overweight, but I’ve always been rather impulsive about my eating and the sugar stuff was the most sensible comfort food to cut out of my diet without feeling like I was depriving myself to any great extent. It’s pretty important that I somehow convince myself that I am not being deprived by not indulging in X or Y food.
re: #256 klys (maker of Silmarils)
He has a doppelganger. Somewhere in Ireland. Working for the same company.
I think they’ve mostly gotten it sorted out by this point, two years in.
Surprisingly enough, my last name is actually uncommon in my business.
re: #253 stpaulbear
You know she’s going to pick wingnut welfare, but it will be fun to see her face dereliction of duty charges.
Oh of course. If there isn’t a Gofundme to help her pay for her court costs, I am sure one will be. I have zero sympathy at all for this woman. She has every right to believe what she wants to believe but it got in the way of her doing the job she was elected to do. She doesn’t get to throw a fit because she doesn’t like that gays can get married now. And besides she’s a hypocrite since she’s on marriage numero four now.
re: #249 funky chicken
Yahoo groups were a big thing back when I was doing this. One of the options you could choose was to look at group memberships, which could include the person’s email address unless they chose to keep it hidden.
Whole lot of .mil addresses out there being used in hook-up groups.
re: #220 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Dear Penthouse,
I never thought this would happen to me…
re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth
Only downside to this is that Kentucky is potentially on the hook for over $2 million in legal fees.
Yeah.
re: #257 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Good luck. For me, all I have to do is THINK the word ‘diet’, and I instantly want to eat 1/2 gallon of ice cream.
re: #258 Blind Frog Belly White
Surprisingly enough, my last name is actually uncommon in my business.
It’s not just last name. It’s first and last name that are the same.
re: #260 Kragar
Yahoo groups were a big thing back when I was doing this. One of the options you could choose was to look at group memberships, which could include the person’s email address unless they chose to keep it hidden.
Whole lot of .mil addresses out there being used in hook-up groups.
Why use Ashley Madison at all when they can use Adult Friend Finder where there are actual real people?
re: #259 HappyWarrior
Oh of course. If there isn’t a Gofundme to help her pay for her court costs, I am sure one will be. I have zero sympathy at all for this woman. She has every right to believe what she wants to believe but it got in the way of her doing the job she was elected to do. She doesn’t get to throw a fit because she doesn’t like that gays can get married now. And besides she’s a hypocrite since she’s on marriage numero four now.
And she is not only refusing to issue SSM licenses, she has refused to issue ANY marriage licenses.
re: #232 BeachDem
I haven’t seen since announcing she was going to take questions. It’s just been about the shooting.
re: #258 Blind Frog Belly White
Surprisingly enough, my last name is actually uncommon in my business.
I know and have met every man who has my last name in this hemisphere.
It does make it easy to look up my info when dealing with customer service calls.
re: #265 klys (maker of Silmarils)
It’s not just last name. It’s first and last name that are the same.
I figured. It’s just that you’d think a last name like ‘Smith’ would be pretty common, but I’ve worked for a couple companies with > 100 employees where I was the only one.
Scout wants some of that puppy love!
In other news, my wife is enamored with the idea of joining a cat circus.
re: #256 klys (maker of Silmarils)
He has a doppelganger. Somewhere in Ireland. Working for the same company.
I think they’ve mostly gotten it sorted out by this point, two years in.
That’s just bizarre. I think on my mom’s side, we have a lot of people with the same first and last names since the naming custom in the part of Europe where they’re from is oldest son after his father, second after his father’s father, third after the mother’s father. For girls, it’s different: Mary, Anna, and Helen. I also discovered that I technically have the same names of my great great, great great great, and great x 4 grandfathers. Just different since they have the German variation of the name and a different middle name.
re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth
And she is not only refusing to issue SSM licenses, she has refused to issue ANY marriage licenses.
Yep a temper tantrum courtesy of the Kentucky taxpayer.
re: #253 stpaulbear
You know she’s going to pick wingnut welfare, but it will be fun to see her face dereliction of duty charges.
She could face jail time for contempt charges if she refuses to comply. I would guess her attorneys will make a last ditch appeal to SCOTUS for a stay, which they will deny.
re: #269 Kragar
I know and have met every man who has my last name in this hemisphere.
It does make it easy to look up my info when dealing with customer service calls.
That’s impressively rare. AFAIK, the three people in the US with my last name are my parents and me.
re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth
Only downside to this is that Kentucky is potentially on the hook for over $2 million in legal fees.
She should be on the hook for it herself, not Ky taxpayers.
re: #218 Franklin
Who is saying anything about murdering? The context of that tweet as I understand it is people stating that the shooter, and blacks in general, are trying to start a race war. Imani is saying the race war was started when the slaves were brought to America.
It was also started when racist Conservatives took over the Republican party and became very open about their hatred of black people.
re: #258 Blind Frog Belly White
Surprisingly enough, my last name is actually uncommon in my business.
Most of my life having a first name that’s extremely uncommon and a last name that’s probably unique (in this country) has been a pain in the ass—but sometimes it comes in handy.
re: #264 Blind Frog Belly White
Good luck. For me, all I have to do is THINK the word ‘diet’, and I instantly want to eat 1/2 gallon of ice cream.
It must help that “half-gallons” are 1 1/2 quarts nowadays….
re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth
Only downside to this is that Kentucky is potentially on the hook for over $2 million in legal fees.
Maybe Rand will pony up some cash. Ooops, he’s strapped after buying himself a caucus. (Anything more on whether it’s legal for him to use campaign funds for that?)
re: #147 Charles Johnson
Although his manifesto seems pretty deranged, I don’t think it’s impossible that he really was harassed at work for being black and gay. Of course that’s no excuse for murder, but it’s not difficult to believe.
It will certainly be held up as proof by some that blacks and gays are inherently dangerous, hateful, murderously malicious people
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