Video: Life Hacks From a Dystopian Future
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The future isn’t looking too good, folks. But Carole Ann is sharing tips for dealing with it. For now, at least.
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After I get done watching a video, about half of the recommended videos are Rick & Morty.
Edit: I meant to say “I”. I don’t know if youtube targets videos.
Okay, Charles…one of your advertisers is on my company’s blocked list as I keep getting content-blocked messages by my computer’s company installed security controls.
@ScottWalker That’s it…definitely no third term for @POTUS now. You got ‘im, Scotty! #CivicsLessonsOnAisleFive @BarackObama
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) September 8, 2015
re: #6 darthstar
That’s a good point. Why in the fuck would Barack Obama be worried about Scott Walker and his governing method that has about ruined everything good in Wisconsin?
@JasonRapert Apparently, one of Sen. Rapert’s constituents was just asking questions in a Lowe’s parking lot…. pic.twitter.com/EpsBGHOhiB
— Dirk McQuickly (@MrDirkMcQuickly) September 6, 2015
re: #3 darthstar
If you can get them to tell you which URL is being blocked I’ll report it right away.
re: #11 darthstar
Leaders who want to take a stand for God and country join us http://t.co/dNPUua9CQK #KimDavis @delvisdutton pic.twitter.com/aa00NZDBNR
— Sen. Jason Rapert (@jasonrapert) September 4, 2015
He’s not too bright.
joe.my.God has a brand new blog post up about the protest at Judge Bunning’s home today. I recognized one of the obnoxious losers at first sight—“Coach” Dave Daubenmire. Scrolling down, I also recognized the abortion truck as it had been at Kent Hovind’s second trial in March of this year.
I don’t have a good feeling about this.
re: #12 Charles Johnson
If you can get them to tell you which URL is being blocked I’ll report it right away.
I’ll talk to the IT guys.
re: #10 teleskiguy
That’s a good point. Why in the fuck would Barack Obama be worried about Scott Walker and his governing method that has about ruined everything good in Wisconsin?
That hasn’t been my experience visiting Wisconsin lately, nor that of my friends and co-workers.
re: #16 Dark_Falcon
Okay, and anyone outside of your blood-red inner circle?
re: #16 Dark_Falcon
That hasn’t been my experience visiting Wisconsin lately, nor that of my friends and co-workers.
Plural of anecdote is not data.
Beware of over-generalizing from personal experience.
Five schools are closing tomorrow for @MikeHuckabeeGOP’s visit to meet with court clerk #KimDavis. Over a thousand students affected.
— sgallman (@sgallman) September 8, 2015
But just think about how much those kids will learn from witnessing a real live snake oil salesman pulling a political stunt!
re: #18 gwangung
Plural of anecdote is not data.
Beware of over-generalizing from personal experience.
I’ll just cancel out his anecdotes with those of my own, from co-workers and friends, that say the opposite.
That’s how this works, right?
re: #17 Chan Kobun
Okay, and anyone outside of your blood-red inner circle?
Not all of them are conservative and one is quite liberal.
re: #16 Dark_Falcon
Really? Who are you taliking too?
There is a teacher shortage, economic growth is one of the worst in the union, they are not recovering.
Talking to you and my friend are the same. How can you not tell that the Republicans are evil?
re: #16 Dark_Falcon
That hasn’t been my experience visiting Wisconsin lately, nor that of my friends and co-workers.
I’ll bet. Not so for my people, and the higher education budget cuts, and the loosening of environmental regulations, and the gutting of public sector unions (fuck those teachers and fire personnel!), and the endless religiosity by one political party in the state. Yeah, Wisco’s doing great.
Super Stonehenge found
Ritual monument found near Stonehenge: Scientists http://t.co/ElBdLMidxz pic.twitter.com/O3WHeU25ur
— NBC Los Angeles (@NBCLA) September 8, 2015
Old problems are new problems:
re: #16 Dark_Falcon
That hasn’t been my experience visiting Wisconsin lately, nor that of my friends and co-workers.
I take it that none of your friends and co-workers are in the field of higher education.
Or just regular union workers.
The creationists are no doubt going even nuttier than they already are while deciphering this…
There’s no greater incentive to lie than the threat of punishment for telling the truth.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) September 7, 2015
You know the artist Norman Rockwell? The guy who painted all those iconic illustrations of 20th Century Americana? Wingnuts don’t know it, but he was a LIBRUL.
Normal Rockwell, who painted America, was a Liberal #tcot #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/25k2UElY3m
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) September 8, 2015
re: #16 Dark_Falcon
That hasn’t been my experience visiting Wisconsin lately, nor that of my friends and co-workers.
Well, you enjoy the idea of unions dying on this day in which we honor them…so of course you don’t see any issues with Walker’s governance. But he’s fucking that state sideways with a rusty steel dick, and it’s going to take the next administration five or six years (with help from the Feds) in recovering from his damage.
In parallel with other events:
re: #31 darthstar
Well, you enjoy the idea of unions dying on this day in which we honor them…so of course you don’t see any issues with Walker’s governance. But he’s fucking that state sideways with a rusty steel dick, and it’s going to take the next administration five or six years (with help from the Feds) in recovering from his damage.
Also, DF seems to be OK with cutting $250 million from higher education and giving it to the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks.
(Sorry, but that’s just a stupid thing to do no matter what party you’re with).
re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth
I take it that none of your friends and co-workers are in the field of higher education.
Or just regular union workers.
Wisconsin wants to be the next Kansas…it’ll be a welfare child until they stop electing stupid fuckers like Walker.
re: #30 The Vicious Babushka
You know the artist Norman Rockwell? The guy who painted all those iconic illustrations of 20th Century Americana? Wingnuts don’t know it, but he was a LIBRUL.
And Norman never hid the fact. For more on that and much else about this interesting and talented man, I highly recommend Deborah Solomon’s biography “American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell.”
Al Kooper, Norman Rockwell, and Michael BloomfieldNow all we need is a President who wants to bomb, bomb, bomb everyone… and we’ll be all set for another war.
re: #34 gwangung
Also, DF seems to be OK with cutting $250 million from higher education and giving it to the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks.
(Sorry, but that’s just a stupid thing to do no matter what party you’re with).
REVENUE NEUTRAL! Whatever the fuck that means. But the bottom line is Wisconsin is quickly becoming a state you send your kids to college to when they pissed you off too much to pay the tuition at Northwestern.
re: #30 The Vicious Babushka
You know the artist Norman Rockwell? The guy who painted all those iconic illustrations of 20th Century Americana? Wingnuts don’t know it, but he was a LIBRUL.
He drew all the pictures in my Boy Scout Manual.
re: #36 De Kolta Chair
Uh, that’s Mike Bloomfield, right? Not the former mayor of New York City.
re: #34 gwangung
Also, DF seems to be OK with cutting $250 million from higher education and giving it to the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks.
Even more ironic is that the Brothers Koch don’t like that kind of behavior. They went apeshit when the Illitch’s went for this for the new Red Wings stadium and they wern’t too happy about this for the Buck’s arena.
re: #32 freetoken
In parallel with other events:
There’s this as well, as the BBC takes down a fake hater meme:
This viral photo falsely claims to show an IS fighter posing as a refugee
The picture, shared more than 70,000 times on just one Facebook account in recent days, was also spreading on Twitter, and attracted several thousand comments. The prospect of Islamic State (IS) fighters or other militants using the chaos of the current migrant crisis to sneak into European countries has been raised by EU officials and others. And IS operatives have bragged that they are sending militants across the Mediterranean via routes commonly used by people smugglers - although such claims are extremely difficult to verify.
But if there are IS fighters posing as asylum seekers, this man is not one of them. In fact, for an asylum seeker, his identity is unusually well documented. His name is Laith Al Saleh, and last month he was the subject of a profile by the Associated Press news agency. He says that he was a Free Syrian Army commander, and that before the civil war he worked as a plasterer in his home city of Aleppo.
“About 70 percent of the city is destroyed … In Syria, Al Qaeda want me, Daesh (Islamic State), the government - I fought them all. I don’t care. Some people are afraid. I’m not,” he told the news agency.
And please retweet the story, too:
False fighter - the problem with the viral photo claiming to show a ‘migrant’ IS militant. http://t.co/aphWyIJivB pic.twitter.com/V0r0CENeH2
— BBC Trending (@BBCtrending) September 7, 2015
re: #42 Dark_Falcon
There’s this as well, as the BBC takes down a fake hater meme:
This viral photo falsely claims to show an IS fighter posing as a refugee
And please retweet the story, too:
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I don’t worry about ISIS because I hear they’re all moving to the Chicago suburbs.
re: #40 teleskiguy
Uh, that’s Mike Bloomfield, right? Not the former mayor of New York City.
Typos, where art they thy sting? ;-[)
re: #38 darthstar
REVENUE NEUTRAL! Whatever the fuck that means. But the bottom line is Wisconsin is quickly becoming a state you send your kids to college to when they pissed you off too much to pay the tuition at Northwestern.
The UW system is looking less and less like a viable choice for my kids, when the time comes. I wonder what it will look like in eight years, when the elder child goes off to school.
re: #12 Charles Johnson
If you can get them to tell you which URL is being blocked I’ll report it right away.
I think I found it.
pixel.vilpoint.com
adobur.com is another.
Gotta love inspect element
re: #46 It’s on his hat!
Republicans do nor want kids to learn, they are trying to indoctrinate kids.
re: #34 gwangung
Also, DF seems to be OK with cutting $250 million from higher education and giving it to the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks.
(Sorry, but that’s just a stupid thing to do no matter what party you’re with).
Um, no, I’m not OK with that. I get why Gov. Walker doesn’t want to lose his state’s NBA team, especially after they made the playoffs last year for the first time in a good while, but blindly paying a team owner like that is just foolish.
re: #50 Dark_Falcon
And gutting the school system?
re: #44 darthstar
I don’t worry about ISIS because I hear they’re all moving to the Chicago suburbs.
Ha ha, very funny. Hee hee, it is to laugh.
In the 2015 Index, the rate of new entrepreneurs varied from 0.17 percent - or 170 entrepreneurs per month for every 100,000 adults - in Wisconsin to 0.54 percent in Montana. Western states, including California, Nevada and New Mexico, fared particularly well on the rate of new entrepreneurs in the 2015 Index.
Yep, Scott Walker has really created an economic dynamo.
re: #50 Dark_Falcon
Um, no, I’m not OK with that. I get why Gov. Walker doesn’t want to lose his state’s NBA team, especially after they made the playoffs last year for the first time in a good while, but blindly paying a team owner like that is just foolish.
Though its not just basketball, since if the NHL Central Division is expanded Walker wants Milwaukee to get the get the new team. That part I’m cool with, since that Wisconsin team will promptly get beaten by the Chicago Blackhawks and having games up there will be a cheap away game for Hawks fans.
Charles Johnson,
OMG! These are hilarious! Thanks for posting this!
re: #39 teleskiguy
He drew all the pictures in my Boy Scout Manual.
Him or Joseph Csatari, who studied at the feet of Rockwell and took his place as the BSA’s official artist shortly before Rockwell died in 1977.
re: #48 darthstar
Made a note of those, but abusive advertisers often hide their origins in ways that aren’t obvious, even with the ‘Inspect Element’ tool - so it would be best if your IT folks would tell you specifically which URLs they’re blocking.
Overall, taxes in Wisconsin are regressive. This means that low and middle income people pay a higher percentage of their income in state and local taxes than higher income people do, as shown in the chart below. For example, families in Wisconsin making less than $22,000 a year pay 9.3% of their income in combined sales and excise, income, and property taxes, while families in the top 1%, making $390,000 or more, pay only 6.6% of their income in those taxes, as shown in the chart below.
There is great news for Walker fans in Wisconsin (and neighboring states) AND people everywhere else:
Walker will soon be returning to Wisconsin AND people everywhere else will never have to worry about this Koch puppet ever again.
re: #50 Dark_Falcon
Um, no, I’m not OK with that. I get why Gov. Walker doesn’t want to lose his state’s NBA team, especially after they made the playoffs last year for the first time in a good while, but blindly paying a team owner like that is just foolish.
So, what’s with cutting big hunks from higher education—in economic powerhouse states, it’s higher education that leads the way in generating economic growth in high tech, internet, medical devices and biotech.
re: #63 bratwurst
There is great news for Walker fans in Wisconsin (and neighboring states) AND people everywhere else:
Walker will soon be returning to Wisconsin AND people everywhere else will never have to worry about this Koch puppet ever again.
You’re quite confident in this assertion bratwurst. You’ve said as such many times here. I’ll take your word for it.
In a bid to attract young hipster voters, the Republican National Committee has released the first in a series of cassettes outlining their position on important social issues
re: #62 goddamnedfrank
im not sure why gop voters show little enthusiasm for this tea-acceptable candidate, but i tend to think it doesnt have anything to do with his abominable economic record
these kind of voters have shown little interest in boring facts like this in the past
re: #60 Charles Johnson
Made a note of those, but abusive advertisers often hide their origins in ways that aren’t obvious, even with the ‘Inspect Element’ tool - so it would be best if your IT folks would tell you specifically which URLs they’re blocking.
I’ll see if I can find out…but honestly my solution is easier…just install linux in the background and not use work-installed Windows for personal browsing.
re: #69 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
im not sure why gop voters show little enthusiasm for this tea-acceptable candidate
They’re just bigoted against him because his grandmother fucked a flounder.
re: #68 De Kolta Chair
In a bid to attract young hipster voters, the Republican National Committee has released the first in a series of cassettes outlining their position on important social issues
How Backmasking Can Effect Us
or, how people who believe in stupid conspiracy theories often have a less than firm grasp of english vocabulary
re: #69 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
im not sure why gop voters show little enthusiasm for this tea-acceptable candidate, but i tend to think it doesnt have anything to do with his abominable economic record
these kind of voters have shown little interest in boring facts like this in the past
A big part of Walker’s appeal is that the Left took a very big and public swing at him by triggering a recall election and that big haymaker missed. That and the dislike by conservatives for public sector unions.
re: #68 De Kolta Chair
I’m tweeting this!
Republicans are finally reaching out to young skeptics. pic.twitter.com/Rma1p7mkmb
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) September 8, 2015
re: #74 Dark_Falcon
A big part of Walker’s appeal is that the Left took a very big and public swing at him by triggering a recall election and that big haymaker missed. That and the dislike by conservatives for public sector unions.
but why did they lose their early enthusiasm for him?
re: #72 goddamnedfrank
They’re just bigoted against him because his grandmother fucked a flounder.
there is no plaice for such antiflatfishism
re: #76 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
Because, without his talking point, this dumb, Fetal-Alcohol-Syndrome addled idiot can’t come off as more than a mumbling, heartless fool.
For Republicans, being Heartless is okay. But you have to get their attention, and he can only do that scripted.
Sunset at Lake Tahoe tonight.
Smokey Sunsets👌 Three more days of summer and then off to Chile for some spring skiing! 🎿 https://t.co/3enbdLz9Hx
— Travis Ganong (@TravisGanong) September 8, 2015
re: #72 goddamnedfrank
They’re just bigoted against him because his grandmother fucked a flounder.
Just for the halibut? Poor soul!
Confession: for the longest time, I thought Lucinda Williams’ song “Carwheels on a Gravel Road” was “Koreans On A Gravel Road.” I thought it was about a delivery service.
re: #76 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
but why did they lose their early enthusiasm for him?
1. Walker has not done that well in speech and debate. Too much what he says comes off as flat and canned and its a voter turn-off.
2. Donald Trump. Not only is Trump a celebrity in a way Walker never has been, Trump also never comes across a flat or canned when he speaks. Please understand I don’t not support Trump and won’t praise him when it can be avoided, but in this case it must be said that Donald Trump speaks with an emotion and energy that Scott Walker has not really shown. And by doing so Trump resonates with Republican primary voters, for reasons I outlined on the previous thread.
re: #66 teleskiguy
You’re quite confident in this assertion bratwurst. You’ve said as such many times here. I’ll take your word for it.
There is a small chance I could end up looking like Dick Morris here (except for the part about licking the feet of prostitutes), after all Santorum came from nowhere to WIN Iowa 4 years ago.
However there is a big difference: Santorum was really the only legitimate anti-Mitt for the evangelicals. Walker is far too busy trying to be like Trump to be the anti-Trump.
If it turns out that Trump is greatly diminished or gone by caucus time, I STILL don’t see where Walker’s support comes from. Not from the establishment or “moderate” wings, they have Jeb! and Kasich. Not from the Tea Party, they have Cruz. Not from the evangelicals, they have Huckabee AND Ben Carson.
Walker will be relying on a massive turnout from the corporatists and union haters. I don’t think that is enough of a constituency to win in Iowa, and he needs minimum second place there as New Hampshire and South Carolina are going to be even tougher.
I think he has a maximum of 5 months left on the national stage. As I said the other day, soon but not nearly soon enough.
re: #77 CriticalDragon1177
Five Stupid things for this week from Steve Shives, and I agree with everything his says here.
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ironically, kitzler, while also a common german name, is slang for clitoris in german and yiddish, since it has the literal meaning of tickler
re: #74 Dark_Falcon
A big part of Walker’s appeal is that the Left took a very big and public swing at him by triggering a recall election and that big haymaker missed. That and the dislike by conservatives for public sector unions.
There’s a certain sickness filled with condescension among the most rabid anti-union conservatives.
It’s as if they enjoy taking a shit on working class people…almost as if they enjoy seeing them suffer working for low wages in shitty conditions. And it virtually negates all their “positive” rhetoric about work ethic and the opportunity society.
re: #86 bratwurst
I disagree with you often on policy, Bratwurst, but I think you’re spot on when it comes to Scott Walker.
Talk about a paranoid racist loser!
A Redditor shares his darkest fear: “Will I be paying a White Tax in 20 years?” http://t.co/F7vGEvIpay pic.twitter.com/pznEHUUcWs
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) September 7, 2015
re: #85 Dark_Falcon
And by doing so Trump resonates with Republican primary voters, for reasons I outlined on the previous thread.
LOL.
A secondary cause, for which Republican Party institutions must take full blame, has been party leaders saying one thing and then doing another while tolerating serious governmental failure. Immigration policy is the most obvious example of this, and on that issue especially the party is paying the price for decades of taking the path of least resistance. Of course, turning course on the matter will not be easy, since people are unlikely to be enthusiastic about a policy that basically tells them “Solving the problem will mean you have to pay more for the fruit and produce you buy.”
Your argument basically boils down to the GOP hasn’t hitherto been racist enough. That if GOP leadership had earlier been willing to uproot millions of residents, deny the cultural Americanness of DREAMers raised here, and attack 14th Amendment birthright citizenship Trump wouldn’t stand out.
It’s pretty disgusting that the only problem you identify in all this is in the cost of agriculture, and not in the grotesque police state tactics necessary to achieve it. To say nothing of losing all the other contributions, revenues and culture that undocumented immigrants and their offspring bring to our society.
I am seeing the Trump poll from SurveyUSA everywhere now.
It seems so far off from the other polls, that there must be something wrong.
re: #92 The War TARDIS
I am seeing the Trump poll from SurveyUSA everywhere now.
It seems so far off from the other polls, that there must be something wrong.
Any poll that has 25% of the black vote going Republican should immediately be suspect.
re: #91 goddamnedfrank
That’s not what I was saying. Leadership on immigration for a Republican candidate would mean telling both the base and business donars things they don’t want to hear, which is why party leaders have tended to follow paths of least resistance.
re: #93 gwangung
True. I could believe 33% of Hispanics though.
I have to imagine Cubans will turn out for the Republicans, as always.
re: #77 CriticalDragon1177
Five Stupid things for this week from Steve Shives, and I agree with everything his says here.
Until you posted that video, I wasn’t acquainted with Steve Shives. I’m a big fan now. Thanks very much!
re: #91 goddamnedfrank
LOL.
Your argument basically boils down to the GOP hasn’t hitherto been racist enough. That if GOP leadership had earlier been willing to uproot millions of residents, deny the cultural Americanness of DREAMers raised here, and attack 14th Amendment birthright citizenship Trump wouldn’t stand out.
It’s pretty disgusting that the only problem you identify in all this is in the cost of agriculture, and not in the grotesque police state tactics necessary to achieve it. To say nothing of the other contributions, revenues and culture that undocumented immigrants and their offspring bring to our society.
I had a similar reaction when I read his post, but I thought “he couldn’t really be making such a dickish argument about immigration, so maybe I misunderstood his point.”
Now that I’ve reread it, I think you pegged it the first time. It’s not as if DF has been known for much sensitivity or insight when it comes to blacks. I guess I shouldn’t expect much different from him with Hispanics (especially the “illegals”…run for your lives!!!)
Fact is, Reagan’s “amnesty” didn’t destroy America. And the comprehensive immigration plan of a couple years ago (which actually passed the Senate with about 15 GOP votes) wouldn’t have destroyed us either. What we’re seeing is a cultural backlash of whites who don’t like the browning of America. It’s another impotent rebel yell from right wing rubes.
re: #90 CriticalDragon1177
Talk about a paranoid racist loser!
Heh
@DavidFutrelle No, he’s slated for the rendering vats.
— Twisted Spinster (@SpinsterAndCat) September 7, 2015
re: #89 Dark_Falcon
I disagree with you often on policy, Bratwurst, but I think you’re spot on when it comes to Scott Walker.
I really see his situation as being very similar to that of Rick Perry in 2011 (except for not being hopped up on pain meds and/or maple syrup). Having attained near legendary status in his home state, the party and the money men pumped up his ego to the point where he felt it was only natural for him to transition to the national stage…only to fall on his face.
re: #94 Dark_Falcon
That’s not what I was saying. Leadership on immigration for a Republican candidate would mean telling both the base and business donars things they don’t want to hear, which is why party leaders have tended to follow paths of least resistance.
But your solution would involve kicking out large numbers of undocumented immigrants, no? Because otherwise why would the cost of our produce suddenly rise?
If you’re interested in the history of the Cold War, or video game. Soviet era video arcades,
RD @io9 The Alternative Universe Of Soviet Arcade Games http://t.co/pLa7dy7Zv3 #VideoGames #History #USSR
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) September 7, 2015
re: #94 Dark_Falcon
That’s not what I was saying. Leadership on immigration for a Republican candidate would mean telling both the base and business doners things they don’t want to hear, which is why party leaders have tended to follow paths of least resistance.
And that would have rendered Trump’s open appeal to white racism ineffective how exactly? This smacks of wishful thinking, and not thought through really at all. Like we’re supposed to believe that if the GOP leadership had just found the right combination of magic words their coalition of cynical business interests and hateful, culturally revanchist klukkers would have seen the light and embraced common sense solutions like the DREAM Act and a path to citizenship for people here now who are contributing to our economy.
Something that needs to be said!
Democracy in the US! Why we need campaign finance reform and better protection of our voting rights! RT @starfirst pic.twitter.com/RLaSuRi6RF
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) September 8, 2015
Don’t like Trump. I think he’s going to be a horrible president, but do you think they may have gone a bit too far with this one?
@realDonaldTrump @SenTedCruz can’t wait!! pic.twitter.com/IxDqZTcB1i
— Caleb Rapoport (@CalebRapoport) September 7, 2015
re: #99 bratwurst
What the Democrats need to do now go all out to bury the Republicans.
Yes, I know my friend in DC wants compromise between Democrats and Republicans, but I don’t. I freely admit that I want to see Republican as badly treated as Democrats have been.
re: #106 CriticalDragon1177
Nope, not at all.
re: #106 CriticalDragon1177
I think he’s going to be a horrible president
Trumpenstein won’t ever be president. You say it like we’re headed for a Trump administration.
re: #108 The War TARDIS
He’s not Hitler. Trump hasn’t called for genocide, and I see no sign that he’s going to seize absolute power if actually does manage to get elected.
re: #102 CriticalDragon1177
If you’re interested in the history of the Cold War, or video game. Soviet era video arcades,
In Soviet Union version of The Great Giana Sisters, dream bubbles shoot at you.
Cool stuff.
re: #109 teleskiguy
Slip of the tongue. I meant to say he would make a horrible president if he wins.
re: #110 CriticalDragon1177
He has come very close to calling for genocide against Hispanic Americans.
And I genuinely believe the Republicans wish to turn the US into at least Hungary, if not Russia.
re: #106 CriticalDragon1177
Don’t like Trump. I think he’s going to be a horrible president, but do you think they may have gone a bit too far with this one?
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Nope, Trump is a literal fascist.
re: #106 CriticalDragon1177
Don’t like Trump. I think he’s going to be a horrible president, but do you think they may have gone a bit too far with this one?
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More interestingly, why is this a question when they give twitter accounts to every dimwitted 10th-grader?
re: #103 goddamnedfrank
And that would have rendered Trump’s open appeal to white racism ineffective how exactly? This smacks of wishful thinking, and not thought through really at all. Like we’re supposed to believe that if the GOP leadership had just found the right combination of magic words their coalition of cynical business interests and hateful, culturally revanchist klukkers would have seen the light and embraced common sense solutions like the DREAM Act and a path to citizenship for people here now who are contributing to our economy.
The wishful thinking extends to the notion that Trump’s views don’t really represent the “real” GOP. But as his views and bombast become better known, Republicans simply like him more. Latest Gallup poll has him at +32 net favorability rating, his highest yet among Republicans. Furthermore, it’s the highest of all GOP candidates, except for the relative unknowns Carson and Fiorina.
Trump is a freak showman who will probably flame out or be crushed somehow. But he has excited the heart and soul of the GOP like no one else in a long time.
re: #94 Dark_Falcon
That’s not what I was saying. Leadership on immigration for a Republican candidate would mean telling both the base and business donars things they don’t want to hear, which is why party leaders have tended to follow paths of least resistance.
So you’re saying that the leadership in your party is cowardly and lazy.
Leadership.
re: #110 CriticalDragon1177
He’s not Hitler. Trump hasn’t called for genocide, and I see no sign that he’s going to seize absolute power if actually does manage to get elected.
He is a classic Ur Fascist though, exploiting racist sentiment, scapegoating the immigrant other, labeling them broadly as rapists and undesirable, promising to expel them. His plan necessarily involves police state measures the likes of which this country hasn’t witnessed since the Japanese internment. He is promising to conquer foreign lands and take their resources. He is backed by a cult of personality that cares not at all that he has no real plan beyond spewing hatred and resentment.
Finally, Hitler never called openly for genocide either. He seized power as the result of a democratic election that swept the Nazi party to power.
Anyone who could create an army of mutant human / tardigrade soldiers could easily take over the world. Trouble would be for any would be mad scientist / dictator, what would you do if your indestructible army decided to turn on you?
The Tardigrade: Practically invisible and indestructible http://t.co/MXO4jSR7ZV pic.twitter.com/bCJqHA87Tp
— NYT Science (@NYTScience) September 8, 2015
re: #68 De Kolta Chair
Cassettes?
I’m sixty years old a bit of a Luddite and I don’t use cassettes. Man, these people are so behind the times their best idea of modern is thirty years old.
re: #110 CriticalDragon1177
Caligula would be a better comparison
re: #121 Romantic Heretic
It’s snark. Trust me.
re: #118 stpaulbear
So you’re saying that the leadership in your party is cowardly and lazy.
Leadership.
What I took away was that the base is riddled with a cancerous rot that would somehow magically heal itself if the leadership would simply step up and tell the truth. Fully one third of the GOP now hears Trump’s racist rhetoric as a clarion call, compelling them to purge this country of undesirable minorities.
Wow!! Awesome #auroraborealis right now in SD #BADLANDS!! High res pics to come! @BasehuntersColt Conrad Meyer pic.twitter.com/gddP7X9nGs
— Basehunters Chasing (@Basehunters) September 8, 2015
US Open update — third set: Roger Federer leads 7-6, 7-6, 5-4. John Isner trying his best to stay in the match, but
re: #122 Kragar
Was Caligula a Germanic rabble-rouser with a funny haircut who scapegoated minority groups?
The #NRORevolt racist crowd is now attacking and harassing area centrists all over Twitter. Right wing chickens, home to roost.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 8, 2015
re: #121 Romantic Heretic
Cassettes?
I’m sixty years old a bit of a Luddite and I don’t use cassettes. Man, these people are so behind the times their best idea of modern is thirty years old.
At the (arguably) best record store in the Twin Cities, The Electric Fetus, cassettes are starting to make a comeback. Their hipness quotient may be higher than CDs right now.
However, that cassette is not hip.
Hey all, watch the videos in this post. They’re fuckin’ weird!
re: #75 teleskiguy
I’m tweeting this!
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I’m so glad Backward Masking is back…I’ve always wondered what Creed was really singing about. https://t.co/hFljzHek6k
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) September 8, 2015
re: #129 Charles Johnson
I’ve noticed this as well. Circling the wagons. Fuck, even @/PolitiBunny is persona non grata with these freaks.
re: #120 CriticalDragon1177
Anyone who could create an army of mutant human / tardigrade soldiers could easily take over the world. Trouble would be for any would be mad scientist / dictator, what would you do if your indestructible army decided to turn on you?
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@NYTScience I had a pet Tardigrade…it died.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) September 8, 2015
re: #133 teleskiguy
I’ve noticed this as well. Circling the wagons. Fuck, even @/PolitiBunny is persona non grata with these freaks.
@Green_Footballs It’s easy to spot centrists on Twitter…just follow the Centrails. #MyFoilHatIsTitaniumMotherfuckers
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) September 8, 2015
re: #136 darthstar
This is my level of snark after three drinks and a lovely evening. I only go downhill from here. But I’m done with the beverages for the night.
re: #136 darthstar
@darthstar99 @Green_Footballs pic.twitter.com/FDZn2hrjwh
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) September 8, 2015
And Roger Federer heads into his 46th career grand slam quarter-final.
Tennis obsessed? Guilty as charged!
re: #16 Dark_Falcon
That hasn’t been my experience visiting Wisconsin lately, nor that of my friends and co-workers.
Destroying the economy, ruining public education at the local & state levels - primary, secondary and post-secondary, letting our infrastructure fall apart, selling our resources cheaply & letting them piss on our ecological standards. And that’s just for starters by this professional theocratic con man masquerading as a politician.
Scott Walker is the single biggest disaster to ever happen to this state and we will be repairing the damage he has caused for generations.
@Kragar_LGF Well, we finally know what it will take to take Trump down for the GOP…
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) September 8, 2015
Slow news day, at least in the US. Holiday it is, of course.
Also, #KimDavis is sucking all the wingnut energy towards herself, so there’s that too.
re: #50 Dark_Falcon
Um, no, I’m not OK with that. I get why Gov. Walker doesn’t want to lose his state’s NBA team, especially after they made the playoffs last year for the first time in a good while, but blindly paying a team owner like that is just foolish.
ANY PRIVATELY OWNED team that panhandles for taxpayer money needs to be told to go to hell and not let the door hit them on the ass on their way there. Only publicly owned teams deserve any public money. Period.
As for the Bucks? Let them rot. Anyone who voted for giving them tax money should be impeached.
re: #19 bratwurst
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But just think about how much those kids will learn from witnessing a real live snake oil salesman pulling a political stunt!
Courtesy of Mike Huckabee. More fucking insane grifting.
Good Lord. https://t.co/fQBNIEDHBA
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 7, 2015
re: #146 darthstar
Jeb! has really fallen off the news front desk.
re: #74 Dark_Falcon
It’s easy to win when your pet county clerk can “Find” boxes of votes that have just enough votes in them.
re: #148 freetoken
Jeb! has really fallen off the news front desk.
I just want him to stay in the news enough to be a constant reminder to the Bush family what a colossal fuck up they have been as a group.
re: #110 CriticalDragon1177
Not Hitler by any means but he’s eerily like Mussolini.
re: #145 William Lewis
ANY PRIVATELY OWNED team that panhandles for taxpayer money needs to be told to go to hell and not let the door hit them on the ass on their way there. Only publicly owned teams deserve any public money. Period.
As for the Bucks? Let them rot. Anyone who voted for giving them tax money should be impeached.
I wish Minnesota and my city of St. Paul would learn this lesson. The Vikings stadium has been a lesson on how to do it wrong, and the Saints stadium in downtown StP has screwed over the residents that have put decades into making the Lowertown neighborhood a good place to live. Now they want to build a soccer stadium two blocks from the busiest intersection in the city.
Then there’s this:
It appears the doctor was part of a baby-smuggling operation. I guess light-skinned babies fetch more money.
Don’t worry @POTUS. Wait 60 years, then Republicans will be saying you were one of them all along. Just like Rosa Parks and MLK.
— Will McAvoy (@WillMcAvoyACN) September 8, 2015
re: #147 blueraven
Courtesy of Mike Huckabee. More fucking insane grifting.
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Did he start that BS back up? I remember it got shutdown before because of copyright infringement
Well gang, I’m off to bed. Starting a new 30 day challenge, it promises to be a tough one, but I think I can make it. Who here want’s to join in?
Let’s get Napping!!!!re: #159 Reality Based Steve
Well gang, I’m off to bed. Starting a new 30 day challenge, it promises to be a tough one, but I think I can make it. Who here want’s to join in?
My sleep number is 35,000,000. Do I qualify?
re: #153 Reality Based Steve
Well, he IS Canadian you know….
RBS
Well, that swats down the myth about Toronto’s streets being spotless.
re: #158 Kragar
Did he start that BS back up? I remember it got shutdown before because of copyright infringement
They have a preview, and i watched about 60% before I couldn’t take it anymore. God + Reagan worship
re: #159 Reality Based Steve
Well gang, I’m off to bed. Starting a new 30 day challenge, it promises to be a tough one, but I think I can make it. Who here want’s to join in?
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I’m just starting my second month of no Diet Coke. I had a six can a day habit (the stuff is incredibly addicting), but now I have a mocha frappuccino in the morning for a bit of a caffeinated treat (a reward in advance) and then drink water for the rest of the day. I’ve been waiting to feel incredibly better, but it hasn’t happened yet. An ex-Diet Pop coworker told me that good things didn’t happen to her until six months after quitting.
re: #162 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
They have a preview, and i watched about 60% before I couldn’t take it anymore. God + Reagan worship
From 2011
re: #106 CriticalDragon1177
I wouldn’t compare him to Hitler, but his fan base are very racist and there is a lot of violent rhetoric going around. And some of that is coming to fruition (the Boston brothers who beat a homeless Latino man).
I do think the “Make American White Again” banner appropriate.
re: #162 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
They have a preview, and i watched about 60% before I couldn’t take it anymore. God + Reagan worship
MSNBC’s Morning Joe Edits Out David Ignatius’ Debunking Of Clinton Email “Scandal”
But during the rebroadcast of the segment, Morning Joe cut away from Ignatius’ explanation mid-sentence. During the initial broadcast, Ignatius said (emphasis added), “As I talked to a half dozen of lawyers who do nothing but this kind of work, they said they couldn’t remember a case like this, where people informally and inadvertently draw classified information into their phone conversations or their unclassified server conversations, where there had been a prosecution.”
Librul media!111ty
re: #164 Kragar
From 2011
Very young kids might fall for this kind of heavy-handed preachifying, but any kid above the age of 10 will just give the adolescent eye-roll to most of it. Judging from the preview, this kind of “history” is just myth-making and not based in any sort of objective reality.
I mean, like, disco lasted, what, five years — tops?
re: #158 Kragar
Did he start that BS back up? I remember it got shutdown before because of copyright infringement
Well, you can order new episodes for the super low price of 14.95 each. plus 4.95 S&H. A total of 18 videos!
re: #169 blueraven
Well, you can order new episodes for the super low price of 14.95 each. plus 4.95 S&H. A total of 18 videos!
Haven’t people heard of digital downloads?
In other news I am completely stoked for the Late Show debut tomorrow!!
Danish man spitting on #SyrianRefugees as they cross under a bridge.Syrian children have struggled&seen more than him pic.twitter.com/EpHQQznphl
— Bassem Masri (@bassem_masri) September 7, 2015
Ugh.
re: #172 Jenner7
Imagine how much worse the wingnuts would react if some of the refugees were brought here.
re: #172 Jenner7
Ugh.
Fuck that guy. Bit o’ trivia — the first Danish hot dog stand opened in Copenhagen in 1921.
I wonder if Scandinavians are any less xenophobic than the rest of the continent. On the whole they tend to be a bit richer and have more open societies than many places on this planet, but people all over are basically the same, I think. Differences in culture are obvious around the world, but when it comes to actually doing anything, we all use the same basic approaches to life.
I also wonder how the average Syrian can adapt to living in, say, Denmark. Different language, different cultures, different climate. We humans are pretty adaptable, but there will be refugees who will find it to be too much, I propose. The “Syrian problem” will thus not go away, just morph.
Europe is a land of migrants (even if every local xenophobe may think otherwise, DNA is pretty clear about this.) Certainly some Syrians will integrate, inter-marry and mix up the DNA and so forth. Yet I fully expect that whatever migrants do fail in integrating will be held up by the racist-nationalist parties as proof of the validity of their own bigotry.
Maybe I’m just a cultural marxist (heh), but I propose that ethno-nationalism has to go away if our species is to live peaceably and happily on this planet.
‘Night all. And now, Things Gringos Know Nothing About #3549:
Amigoman, The Latin Avenger, created by Anthony “AO” Oropeza and Lorenzo Lizana
re: #163 stpaulbear
I’m just starting my second month of no Diet Coke. I had a six can a day habit (the stuff is incredibly addicting), but now I have a mocha frappuccino in the morning for a bit of a bit of a caffeinated treat (a reward in advance) and then drink water for the rest of the day. I’ve been waiting to feel incredibly better, but it hasn’t happened yet. An ex-Diet Pop coworker told me that good things didn’t happen to her until six months after quitting.
Keep us posted. I’m a Coke Zero addict, but trying to hold it down.
re: #163 stpaulbear
I’m just starting my second month of no Diet Coke. I had a six can a day habit (the stuff is incredibly addicting), but now I have a mocha frappuccino in the morning for a bit of a caffeinated treat (a reward in advance) and then drink water for the rest of the day. I’ve been waiting to feel incredibly better, but it hasn’t happened yet. An ex-Diet Pop coworker told me that good things didn’t happen to her until six months after quitting.
Bad news:
UPDATE 2-Polio resurfaces in Mali from Ebola-hit Guinea - WHO
Cases of a crippling vaccine-derived polio virus could spread in Ebola-ravaged Guinea and in Mali after a Guinean toddler travelled to Mali and became the country’s first polio case in more than four years, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
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re: #179 retired cynic
Keep us posted. I’m a Coke Zero addict, but trying to hold it down.
I’m quitting more because I want to quit aspartame and phosphoric acid. I still want a little caffeine in the morning. I’ve been drinking Dasani and Schwepps soda water, but I’m trying to keep that to one or two cans a day. Tap water is free.
Great picture! Only Frank is missing. RT @SasquatchFever: Family goals pic.twitter.com/jo9S1EMUbQ
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) September 8, 2015
Monica Foy, the Victim of a Terrifying Right-Wing Internet-Shaming, Speaks Out
Disastrously for Foy, the tweet quickly got screen-grabbed and began spreading among right-wing Twitter users, who immediately sought to amplify it. It found its way to Brandon Darby, managing director of Breitbart Texas, part of the far-right Breitbart website. Darby, as he would soon explain, quickly decided that it was on him to step in and defend the murdered deputy’s legacy against the threat apparently posed to it by a college student’s tweet. And as a journalist with a good-size megaphone, there was one obvious way to do that.
Actually, I think those are real, just reverbed a lot.
re: #16 Dark_Falcon
Yeah. And those professors at UW Madison who are losing grant money as they try to find a cure for diabetes… But it doesn’t effect you personally, so everything is unicorn farts and rainbows in WI!
re: #172 Jenner7
And yet the small and not very welcoming Denmark with only 5 million people still has accepted more of these refugees than the US has.
Oh, look, an asshole:
Israel won’t accept refugees from Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday as the government began building a security fence along the Jordanian border.
“Israel is not indifferent to the human tragedy of the refugees from Syria and Africa,” Netanyahu said at the beginning of his Sunday Cabinet meeting, the prime minister’s office said.
But “Israel is a small country, a very small country, that lacks demographic and geographic depth,” he said. “Therefore, we must control our borders, against both illegal migrants and terrorism.”
re: #194 Nyet
For comparison: Lebanon is twice as small as Israel both population- and area-wise.
Lebanon has accepted more than 1 million of the refugees.
re: #50 Dark_Falcon
Um, no, I’m not OK with that. I get why Gov. Walker doesn’t want to lose his state’s NBA team, especially after they made the playoffs last year for the first time in a good while, but blindly paying a team owner like that is just foolish.
The NBA is just a business. Government should not subsidize, regulate or otherwise interfere in business. That is what conservative ideology teaches us.
Professional victim on the line.
The real takeaway is that Brown and Harris’s refusal to appeal proved prescient, and saved California millions of dollars. @Marywyatt19
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) September 8, 2015
@goddamnedfrank Christians have sat back & allowed our rights to be taken away for decades. Im sure u would be happy if we continue to
— Mary wyatt (@Marywyatt19) September 8, 2015
I loves me some crazy ladies holding guns in their avis. It really helps sell the entire package.
@bassem_masri @neeratanden Fuck Europe. I hope that something horrific happens to Europe that forces them to leave in mass and I hope the
— Nabil Abu-Amirah (@NabilAbuAmirah) September 8, 2015
@bassem_masri I’ve mentioned multiple times - racism in Europe is worse than US by a ton.
— sfgiantsfan55 (@sfgiantsfan55) September 8, 2015
So Europe has basically opened its doors and this is the “thanks”. From two Americans, no less.
re: #199 Nyet
Self righteousness is a drug.
re: #198 goddamnedfrank
I loves me some crazy ladies holding guns in their avis. It really helps sell the entire package.
What about the ladies with guns in their hertz?
(Sorry, just a little free association there.)
*after reading something*
How does being anyone’s niece - not even a daughter - add any credibility?
Family name is not some brand that guarantees quality.
re: #202 Nyet
Is this some conservative writer attempting to appeal to authority?
re: #204 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
It’s Alveda King’s twitter tl with every second retweet mentioning her being MLK’s niece. As if it had any meaning. Gah.
re: #88 palomino
There’s a certain sickness filled with condescension among the most rabid anti-union conservatives.
It’s as if they enjoy taking a shit on working class people…almost as if they enjoy seeing them suffer working for low wages in shitty conditions. And it virtually negates all their “positive” rhetoric about work ethic and the opportunity society.
From Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich:
As he makes clear in Mein Kampf, he had the petty bourgeoisie’s gnawing fear of sliding back into the ranks of the proletariat, of the manual laborers - a fear he was later to exploit in building up the National Socialist Party on the broad foundation of the hitherto leaderless, ill-paid, neglected white-collar class, whose millions nourished the illusion that they were at least socially better off than the “workers.”
re: #205 Nyet
It’s Alveda King’s twitter tl with every second retweet mentioning her being MLK’s niece. As if it had any meaning. Gah.
Yeah, she’s tried to cash in on her relationship to MLK, hoping people will believe Rev King would have believed the same s**t she does.
re: #205 Nyet
It’s Alveda King’s twitter tl with every second retweet mentioning her being MLK’s niece. As if it had any meaning. Gah.
Niece Ruckus.
re: #202 Nyet
*after reading something*
How does being anyone’s niece - not even a daughter - add any credibility?
Chase back through Alveda King’s public statements and you’ll hit the moment she claimed that her blood ties to MLK trump Coretta-Scott King’s statements about how her husband would have felt about gay marriage.
Quite possibly the only social conservative hucksterism that’s more fucked-up than the fake Muslim terrorists.
re: #210 The Ghost of a Flea
Bernice King agrees with Alveda, but at the very least she’s his daughter (not that meaningful too, though).
re: #210 The Ghost of a Flea
Chase back through Alveda King’s public statements and you’ll hit the moment she claimed that her blood ties to MLK trump Coretta-Scott King’s statements about how her husband would have felt about gay marriage.
MLK knew Bayard Rustin was gay, didn’t phase him at all.
A few weeks before the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963, Senator Strom Thurmond railed against Rustin as a “Communist, draft-dodger, and homosexual,” and had the entire Pasadena arrest file entered in the record.[24] Thurmond also produced a Federal Bureau of Investigation photograph of Rustin talking to King while King was bathing, to imply that there was a same-sex relationship between the two. Both men denied the allegation of an affair.
Rustin was instrumental in organizing the march. He drilled off-duty police officers as marshals, bus captains to direct traffic, and scheduled the podium speakers. Eleanor Holmes Norton and Rachelle Horowitz were aides.[24]
Despite King’s support, NAACP chairman Roy Wilkins did not want Rustin to receive any public credit for his role in planning the march. Nevertheless, he did become well known. On September 6, 1963, Rustin and Randolph appeared on the cover of Life magazine as “the leaders” of the March.[25]
re: #211 Nyet
Bernice King agrees with Alveda, but at the very lest she’s his daughter (not that meaningful too, though).
Neither her nor Alveda knew MLK as adults, whereas both Coretta Scott King and Bayard Rustin did.
re: #213 goddamnedfrank
Well, there’s a big distance between tolerating someone’s homosexuality and being pro-SSM. WWMLKD is of necessity nothing but speculation.
re: #205 Nyet
It’s Alveda King’s twitter tl with every second retweet mentioning her being MLK’s niece. As if it had any meaning. Gah.
Her other uncle is a fish
re: #214 goddamnedfrank
Neither her nor Alveda knew MLK as adults, whereas both Coretta Scott King and Bayard Rustin did.
And? We know MLK’s views on homosexuality. CSK and BR don’t change that.
Just to refresh everyone’s memory:
Question: My problem is different from the ones most people have. I am a boy, but I feel about boys the way I ought to feel about girls. I don’t want my parents to know about me. What can I do? Is there any place where I can go for help?
Answer: Your problem is not at all an uncommon one. However, it does require careful attention. The type of feeling that you have toward boys is probably not an innate tendency, but something that has been culturally acquired. Your reasons for adopting this habit have now been consciously suppressed or unconsciously repressed. Therefore, it is necessary to deal with this problem by getting back to some of the experiences and circumstances that lead to the habit. In order to do this I would suggest that you see a good psychiatrist who can assist you in bringing to the forefront of conscience all of those experiences and circumstances that lead to the habit. You are already on the right road toward a solution, since you honestly recognize the problem and have a desire to solve it.
re: #215 Nyet
Well, there’s a big distance between tolerating someone’s homosexuality and being pro-SSM. WWMLKD is of necessity nothing but speculation.
True, but MLK didn’t exactly just tolerate it. He put himself in positions where assholes like Thurmond would predictably attempt to use it against him. He showed no personal fear of it in an era when others around him absolutely did view it as a liability.
So yeah, it absolutely is speculation to say how he’d feel, but he seems like the kind of person would would have at least attempted to earnestly listen to the arguments on the merits.
re: #219 goddamnedfrank
Speculating on what MLK would have done had he lived to the time of greater openness on this issue is pretty fruitless. The chances are good he would change his mind and be accepting. But nobody - not his wife, not his relatives - can claim knowledge of this.
re: #218 Nyet
Just to refresh everyone’s memory:
Beyond neutrally echoing the child’s description of the situation as “a problem” I don’t get the slightest whiff of moral condemnation from that. While we would today view the advice to seek a psychiatrists help as problematic, the entire tone and tenor of his response is amazingly progressive for the time.
re: #221 goddamnedfrank
Since the thesis we’re discussing is not “whether MLK morally condemned homosexuality”, it’s neither here, nor there.
One can see homosexuality as a psychological (or psychiatric) problem to be solved without morally condemning it. But if you see it as such, you’re not a step closer to accepting SSM.
re: #197 goddamnedfrank
What rights do I have that she doesn’t? ( I belong to no religion, btdt and nope. I disparage no one’s faith, but please, don’t use it as an excuse to be a jerk, in any form) I really wish they’d tell us what rights they’ve lost, besides the right to be a bully and and asshole. It’s not like there’s some limited quantity of rights (unlike, say, natural resources) to go around and if someone else gets some hers are diminished somehow. They whine and fearmonger about this all the time, but they never can be specific about what they can’t do now that they could before all the evil liberals ruined everything. They cue the scary music and talk about the bad things coming, but never can tell us what exactly they’ve lost.
re: #224 A Mom Anon
What rights do I have that she doesn’t? ( I belong to no religion, btdt and nope. I disparage no one’s faith, but please, don’t use it as an excuse to be a jerk, in any form) I really wish they’d tell us what rights they’ve lost, besides the right to be a bully and and asshole. It’s not like there’s some limited quantity of rights (unlike, say, natural resources) to go around and if someone else gets some hers are diminished somehow. They whine and fearmonger about this all the time, but they never can be specific about what they can’t do now that they could before all the evil liberals ruined everything. They cue the scary music and talk about the bad things coming, but never can tell us what exactly they’ve lost.
They’ve lost their special place in the scheme of things, and that’s what scares them shitless. They’re a minority, a very small and noisy one for sure, but their numbers are dwindling in comparison to everyone else.
re: #175 De Kolta Chair
Fuck that guy. Bit o’ trivia — the first Danish hot dog stand opened in Copenhagen in 1921.
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A couple of years ago I was in Paris at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, and there were two accidentally hilarious things going on. First, the street vendors were hastily assembling two piece souvenir towers by snapping the top onto the base while pressing the assembly against their crotch. Second, there was a hot dog stand across the street, and the middle age lady was very seriously putting the franks into the buns, (which were then actually a tube). Just as I turned away chuckling I made eye contact with some guy wearing who knows what exotic clothing and he was laughing too. Some things need no words.
re: #225 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I think their biggest fear is that they will be treated as they treat others. It reminds me a lot of the MRA guys. Whining and bitching about women taking things from them (like kids, oftentimes for good reason if their ranting online is any indication of how they behave in real life), scared to death that it’s not 1750 anymore, mean as hell, and can’t figure out why women don’t like them. And very, very afraid that people will figure out what phony, little and sad people they are. What they don’t get is that they’ve been exposed and they did it to themselves.
A great story for you shutterbugs in lizardland.
Mario Macilau: The street child who became a top photographer
And even for non-photobugs, it shows how art (photography, in this case) can turn someone’s life around.
ICYMI
This viral photo falsely claims to show an IS fighter posing as a refugee
bbc.com
The picture, shared more than 70,000 times on just one Facebook account in recent days, was also spreading on Twitter, and attracted several thousand comments. The prospect of Islamic State (IS) fighters or other militants using the chaos of the current migrant crisis to sneak into European countries has been raised by EU officials and others. And IS operatives have bragged that they are sending militants across the Mediterranean via routes commonly used by people smugglers - although such claims are extremely difficult to verify.
But if there are IS fighters posing as asylum seekers, this man is not one of them. In fact, for an asylum seeker, his identity is unusually well documented. His name is Laith Al Saleh, and last month he was the subject of a profile by the Associated Press news agency. He says that he was a Free Syrian Army commander, and that before the civil war he worked as a plasterer in his home city of Aleppo.
re: #227 A Mom Anon
I think their biggest fear is that they will be treated as they treat others. It reminds me a lot of the MRA guys. Whining and bitching about women taking things from them (like kids, oftentimes for good reason if their ranting online is any indication of how they behave in real life), scared to death that it’s not 1750 anymore, mean as hell, and can’t figure out why women don’t like them. And very, very afraid that people will figure out what phony, little and sad people they are. What they don’t get is that they’ve been exposed and they did it to themselves.
MRA guys. Pffpt! What a bunch of whining losers.
re: #194 Nyet
Oh, look, an asshole:
To be fair, Sergey, Syrians would pose an even greater difficulty for Israel than for the US. Desperate as such refugees are, all of the adults were subjected to decades of anti-Israel propaganda, complete with blood libels. And enough of them believe those lies to make any Arab refugee population a severe security risk.
Someone here was talking about how mixed European ancestry is. It turns out the Basques are descended from the incoming farmers who mixed with indigenous hunter-gatherers long before subsequent waves of migrations from the Near East reduced the percentage of “original” European genes in other populations.
I guess a loose way of saying it would be the Basques can lay claim to being the First People of Europe.
Scratch that. They couldn’t be the First People, but they could claim close relationship to the First Peoples of Europe.
The article closes with this paragraph:
The proportion of hunter-gatherer ancestry varies across Europe, peaking at about 30% in Estonians and Lithuanians, but no “pure” indigenous Europeans remain. They appear to have been assimilated by the Neolithic migrants, who probably had greater numbers.
SoCal Lizards stay cool it’s gonna be a corker.
The sharp edged green area is a flash flood watch areare: #235 Great White Snark
SoCal Lizards stay cool it’s gonna be a corker.
Image: The sharp edged green area is a flash flood watch area
Supposed to hit 91 in San Francisco today.
re: #106 CriticalDragon1177
Don’t like Trump. I think he’s going to be a horrible president, but do you think they may have gone a bit too far with this one?
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No need to use the Nazi flag or symbols but would have kept the Confederate flag. The keep American white part is on point.
re: #233 Dark_Falcon
I don’t know. It might be that people who are fleeing for their survival might be willing to put shit aside and maybe just worry about their next meal and clean water for awhile. And here’s a crazy ass thought: What if their ideas of a “sworn enemy” changed as a result of being treated as an actual, um, human being? Stranger stuff has happened.
I just heard an interview on the radio of a man fleeing Afghanistan, trying to get to Austria. You know what he wants? ALL he wants? “To live like a human being. I don’t need a car or even an apartment or house, I just want to live like a human.” His English was broken and halting and he was nearly in tears, but that is all he wanted the world to know. I can’t even.
re: #233 Dark_Falcon
I know all these excuses before anyone writes them, so don’t bother.
UpChuck seems peeved that a Democrat millennial is working for CNN covering the Cruz campaign.
He’s written a piece on Ted Cruz that is frankly speaking nonsense. He’s claiming that Cruz is back in Texas because he’s trying to shore up his base ahead of a Walker insurgency in Texas. How does he know that? Well, he doesn’t. There’s no polling to support that claim. [GotNews. com doesn’t link to CNN after Carol Costello libelously claimed that GotNews. com’s editor in chief wanted to assassinate a civil rights leader. You can find Teddy easily enough on the Twitters.]
Schleifer may be familiar to you from the Mississippi senate race. He manufactured a nontroversy between Senator Chris McDaniel and a pro-Cochran veteran. He also tweeted nasty things about me when I was giving a speech in Mississippi and I went right up to him and called him on it. He published a correction but reluctantly after I began following him around telling people not to talk to him because he was dishonest. I also pointed out his conflicts of interests on Twitter that he was working for Barack Obama at the same time he went around covering McDaniel.
Self-referential gibberish, as usual.
re: #238 A Mom Anon
True, someone totally brainwashed about Israel simply won’t go there. Those who do have some hope in it.
re: #242 Nyet
There’s that too. But honestly, in times of deep trouble and when your actual survival is at stake, it’s really entirely possible that your prejudices may be challenged and even cast aside. Not everyone of course, but I think it’s possible, especially when your kids are sick or hungry.
re: #243 A Mom Anon
This might be a moment to mend some fences too.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. While the summer got off to a slow start with few 90 degree days, the end of the summer definitely seems to be making up for lost time.
Not only that, but we’re in a drought situation here - though heavy rain over the next couple of days should put a dent in that. It’s been hard on farmers (and those who dabble in gardening) too - the tomato and cuke season has suffered from the lack of rain, and then the high heat had kept the plants from producing their usual amounts.
But all that is trivial compared to what’s still going on out west. Preserving natural resources should be at the top of any prospective candidate’s list of things to do - protecting water and air quality, but it looks like the GOP wants to dismantle those programs any way it can, to say nothing of subverting programs that would create alt-energy that would lessen the reliance on power sources that are heavily polluting and cause significant damage to the environment.
Netanyahu’s remarks come just a day after opposition leader Isaac Herzog called on the government to allow Syrian refugees into Israel. During a panel discussion in Tel Aviv, Herzog said that on Friday night he spoke with Kamal Al-Labwani, a senior leader in the exiled Syrian opposition government in Europe.
“The Syrian opposition has grave complaints against the nations of the world,” Herzog said.
“I call on the government of Israel to act toward receiving refugees from the war in Syria, in addition to the humanitarian efforts it is already making,” Herzog said. “Jews cannot be indifferent while hundreds of thousands of refugees are looking for safe haven.”
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Herzog responded to Netanyahu’s criticism in a Facebook post on Sunday. “You’ve forgotten what it means to be Jews. Refugees. Persecuted. The prime minister of the Jewish people does not close his heart and the gate when people are fleeing for their lives from persecution, with their babies in their hands. Menachem Begin, who immediately absorbed within his first government refugees from Vietnam, is turning over in his grave. I suggest looking responsibly on reality, and to bring in - in coordination with international efforts - a controlled and limited number of refugees, for humanitarian reasons, and through that, also save our Druze brothers who are being slaughtered in Syria and are in terrible distress.”
Herzog cannot be accused of not caring about Israel’s security or being naive.
Oh, and looking at the calendar, it appears that the yartzheit for 9/11 just passed. I will have my annual roundup posted in due time. I can’t believe that it’s been 14 years, and there’s an entire generation of people who never saw the original Twin Towers, or remember that awful day (they’ve only seen it on video replay) and have no idea just how the world changed with those events.
Okay…this line made me laugh: Bush doesn’t name who exactly the “self-promoters” are, but it appears to be an obvious shot at GOP frontrunner Jim Gilmore.
Jeb Bush’s First TV Ad Touts Experience, Slams ‘Self-Promoters’ http://t.co/WC63kF1Z39 pic.twitter.com/qwZ59QJZ4t
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) September 8, 2015
Kim Davis’ lawyers appealed because she was not informed that being held in contempt could result in jail time. pic.twitter.com/tzqhq95304
— Will McAvoy (@WillMcAvoyACN) September 8, 2015
re: #240 Nyet
Sounds that way to some native speakers, too.
re: #68 De Kolta Chair
In a bid to attract young hipster voters, the Republican National Committee has released the first in a series of cassettes outlining their position on important social issues
I’ll never forget when my aunt made me go to her Foursquare Church to hear her preacher denounce backward masking. He played some examples to the gullible crowd of marks. I had to suppress breaking out in hysterical laughter at that pulpit pimp.
The “highlight” of his sermon was when he played the Mister Ed theme backwards and he said that “a word of knowledge” came to him from the Big G itself saying that we heard “Satan Is Served by this song” over and over…
I’m reporting from Kentucky today; Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee will hold events outside the jail that’s holding Kim Davis.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) September 8, 2015
It’s going to be 92F today.
Should be lots of fun for the protesters.
re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s going to be 92F today.
Should be lots of fun for the protesters.
Have the religious loonies managed to find Judge Bunning in Grayson yet? //
re: #235 Great White Snark
SoCal Lizards stay cool it’s gonna be a corker.
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re: #246 Nyet
The world continues to treat refugees and those fleeing conflict zones with scorn, derision, and vitriol that should be directed instead at the regimes that bomb their own citizenry and who have enabled the conflict.
The people fleeing are not responsible for what happened in Syria or Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya; they’re fleeing in the hopes of finding a better life.
Instead, we’re seeing the world react in the same way that they did with Jews before WWII - with hate, venom, indifference, and lack of empathy or support.
Countries that could easily absorb refugees are not bothering to take any in, while the few countries on the conflict zones’ periphery are shouldering a heavy burden - Jordan and Lebanon in particular (Turkey to a lesser extent). Saudi Arabia so far has refused to accept any refugees, which is nuts (but entirely predictable at that).
Israel can and should accept refugees, and do what it can; showing themselves to be on the right side of history. That it could help undermine the many anti-Israel narratives that flow from how Israel treats non-Jews in Israel and the territories is a bonus.
re: #251 Joe Bacon
I’ll never forget when my aunt made me go to her Foursquare Church to hear her preacher denounce backward masking. He played some examples to the gullible crowd of marks. I had to suppress breaking out in hysterical laughter at that pulpit pimp.
The “highlight” of his sermon was when he played the Mister Ed theme backwards and he said that “a word of knowledge” came to him from the Big G itself saying that we heard “Satan Is Served by this song” over and over…
I first heard about “backward masking” when some DJ started the “Paul McCartney is really dead” hoax.
I could never figure out how to play a vinyl disc “backwards” on the turntable.
re: #253 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Have the religious loonies managed to find Judge Bunning in Grayson yet? //
yeah, they did:
KENTUCKY: Federal Marshals Guard Home Of Judge David Bunning While Lunatics Protest [VIDEO] - http://t.co/liA5M6TlHw pic.twitter.com/L1o3XtpwIy
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) September 8, 2015
re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth
yeah, they did:
I’m sure he never counted on this kind of shit when he accepted the post.
re: #255 lawhawk
There is a sort of a historical irony in that Germany and Austria are welcoming the refugees while Israel literally builds a wall to keep them out.
re: #259 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I’m sure he never counted on this kind of shit when he accepted the post.
I think he never dreamed that he would have been the target of the right. Man I am tired of these people. Whether they like it or not, same sex marriage is now legal in this country. Now they don’t have to like that but public servants like Kim Davis are obligated as such to follow that law. If you’re uncomfortable with gay marriage, don’t hold a taxpayer paid position that has you involved in handing out marriage certificates. I am not comfortable with warfare but you don’t see me down at Fort Belvoir either.
re: #262 HappyWarrior
I think he never dreamed that he would have been the target of the right. Man I am tired of these people. Whether they like it or not, same sex marriage is now legal in this country. Now they don’t have to like that but public servants like Kim Davis are obligated as such to follow that law. If you’re uncomfortable with gay marriage, don’t hold a taxpayer paid position that has you involved in handing out marriage certificates. I am not comfortable with warfare but you don’t see me down at Fort Belvoir either.
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
re: #261 Nyet
Xenophobia knows no boundaries. Frankly, I get why Israel wouldn’t want to shoulder a burden with refugees given that its economy is kinda shaky, but if Jordan can do it, so too can Israel.
There’s a security situation that Israel has to address that Jordan may not, but the long term benefit of showing these refugees that Israel isn’t as bad as Arab/ME media makes them out to be is incalculable - it’s one of the reasons that Israel frequently sends out disaster assistance teams to far reaches of the globe - to show that Israel is more than what the media makes them out to be.
I think Bibi’s decision is a poor one - but entirely predictable.
A colleague of mine is in Israel right now, and gets to experience one of the region’s worst dust storms in years:
Major dust storm causes damage to health of chronically ill http://t.co/28MX4U1F44 #Business#Innovation pic.twitter.com/hD4xNCFFt9
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) September 8, 2015
That’s the entry area to the Western Wall and Temple Mount.
re: #264 lawhawk
The economic side could be taken care of by the US.
re: #266 Nyet
Agreed; the money shouldn’t be an issue.
re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth</em
Bwaaa ha ha ha
@spongeworthy2 @daveweigel why shld she want any Republican there, Huckabee or Cruz? She’s a Hillary Clinton/Bernie Sanders DEMOCRAT.
— Eric Dondero R. (@DonderolibtR) September 8, 2015
re: #263 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Good old HST. But yeah Davis seems to want to keep her job which pays 2.5 more than the median income of her county and also be able to get out of doing things she has a problem with. That’s not how a job works. She’s free to believe all the primitive shit she wants to about gay people but she has a job. She should just do the Kentucky taxpayers a giant favor and resign if SSM truly makes her that uncomfortable.
Last day to send your name to Mars on @NASAInSight sign up: http://t.co/tch8I2LEUS #JourneyToMars pic.twitter.com/pDlKtuvj5m
— NASAInSight (@NASAInSight) September 8, 2015
re: #268 Bird in the Paw
why shld she want any Republican there, Huckabee or Cruz? She’s a Hillary Clinton/Bernie Sanders DEMOCRAT.
they are in a big hurry to demolish anyone who does not meet their ideological litmus test.
anybody.
nose, face, spite
re: #268 Bird in the Paw
Bwaaa ha ha ha
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I guess Eric ignores a little thing called nuance. Being part of a party doesn’t necessarily mean you support that party nationally. West Virginia has more registered Dems than Republicans and I think Kentucky may be the same way but guess what neither state has gone Democratic since Clinton. Man it’s funny seeing conservatives deny Kim Davis is one of their own while at the same time trying to make her into a martyr. It must suck bending yourself that much.
KENTUCKY: Red-Caped Catholic Loons Stage Roadside Rally For Kim Davis [VIDEO] - http://t.co/IEpmO20AEc pic.twitter.com/5n1KHMkd6k
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) September 8, 2015
re: #264 lawhawk
Xenophobia knows no boundaries. Frankly, I get why Israel wouldn’t want to shoulder a burden with refugees given that its economy is kinda shaky, but if Jordan can do it, so too can Israel.
There’s a security situation that Israel has to address that Jordan may not, but the long term benefit of showing these refugees that Israel isn’t as bad as Arab/ME media makes them out to be is incalculable - it’s one of the reasons that Israel frequently sends out disaster assistance teams to far reaches of the globe - to show that Israel is more than what the media makes them out to be.
I think Bibi’s decision is a poor one - but entirely predictable.
Bibi is playing to a certain audience, which consists of Shelly Adelson.
NOM Launches Kim Davis Bigotry Reward Fund - http://t.co/xy6Uy37vKV pic.twitter.com/uB0cWSlwjY
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) September 8, 2015
Ben is puking out a firehose of Derp. It must be a day ending in “Y”
Where did Trump come from? The perversion of conservatism to help McCain and Romney. http://t.co/pdDjYjYH1j pic.twitter.com/PyMRLlFvHK
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 8, 2015
re: #275 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Of course. Sigh man was I naive for thinking a lot o this was over when SCOTUS ruled on SSM.
re: #276 The Vicious Babushka
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Who does the little twerp want nominated, Cruz? And it’s funny seeing a Harvard trained lawyer crying about intellectual elitism. And all these guys are fake conservatives. All of them pander to make little children like Ben think they’re going to finally get their white conservative knight.
Ben Carson ad on top of LGF. Click and get a free bumper sticker. If it came with a free car I would consider.
Sort of OT but does anyone have any links of Pamela Geller saying shit about Bernie Sanders? Got a weird problem. My cousin the Islamaphobe yet also staunch Bernie supporter is posting links from Pam. Really should just ignore his ramblings I guess.
re: #279 Iwouldprefernotto
Ben Carson ad on top of LGF. Click and get a free bumper sticker. If it came with a free car I would consider.
It still amuses me that a signed Rand Paul baseball can go for more than many signed baseballs by someone who actually knows how to hit a baseball and throw a pitch rather than someone whose experience in baseball consists of ruining the annual softball game by being a blabbermouth about FREEDOM and LIBERTY.
re: #280 HappyWarrior
Sort of OT but does anyone have any links of Pamela Geller saying shit about Bernie Sanders? Got a weird problem. My cousin the Islamaphobe yet also staunch Bernie supporter is posting links from Pam. Really should just ignore his ramblings I guess.
YES. (Stay away)
re: #282 Iwouldprefernotto
YES. (Stay away)
Yeah I am going to. Not worth it. It just amazes me that he can support the most dovish candidate running in the two major parties yet also talk about how he wants all this terrible stuff to happen to the refugees.
re: #265 lawhawk
A colleague of mine is in Israel right now, and gets to experience one of the region’s worst dust storms in years:
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That’s the entry area to the Western Wall and Temple Mount.
Same thing from Tel Aviv and its surroundings, if not yellower…. /SomebodyShootMe
re: #284 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Back away slowly, and don’t make any sudden movements.
Good idea guys. I am just going to avoid it and honestly look for the feature on facebook that allows me to ignore his posts. He posted on something on Thursday that Facebook should have taken down and I am still bewildered that they did not.
re: #266 Nyet
The economic side could be taken care of by the US.
Not going to happen. Aid to UN programs and outright foreign aid has few defenders left here. Too many programs have become wasteful cesspools of corruption for idealism about them to survive, and frankly America has serious budget problems that make any aid increases severely problematic.
Iran gave up its ability to make plutonium in the nuclear deal, “But nobody seems to care” http://t.co/2YohivYHDP pic.twitter.com/5WcQc75rVY
— NYT Science (@NYTScience) September 8, 2015
HURR HURR TEH IRAN DEAL MEANS OBAMA GAVE UP EVERYTHING & IRAN GET ALL TEH NUKES!!!!11!! INPEECH FOR TREEZIN!!!!
re: #288 Dark_Falcon
Wingnuts are unable to say no to Bibi.
re: #193 Nyet
And yet the small and not very welcoming Denmark with only 5 million people still has accepted more of these refugees than the US has.
I have been putting off commenting because I am not knowledgeable enough to do it justice, but since no one else has piped up … “Accepted” isn’t really the right word. The U.S. and european countries both allow two kinds of refugees - the ones who are allowed in legally, by quota, and the ones who make it in on their own and are allowed to stay. Obviously, way more of the second kind are in european countries, since they can walk and hitch rides there. But the quotas for these countries are tiny, just like the U.S., so “accepted” is misleading, I think.
Note that the U.S. has way more of the second kind of refugees from Central America, since, again, they can walk or hitch rides. We aren’t uniquely mean or anything - it is the realities of geography.
I am all in favor of raising quotas by the way. I am just trying to keep things accurate here.
Morning idiocy - thinking that progressives care only about animal rights and not Islamic extremists.
We stand with #WalterPalmer against the progressive lynch mob which cares more about lions than gays. #CecilTheLion pic.twitter.com/VSJTXL16d5
— Progressives Today (@ProgsToday) September 8, 2015
re: #294 lawhawk
Morning idiocy - thinking that progressives care only about animal rights and not Islamic extremists.
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re: #294 lawhawk
Morning idiocy - thinking that progressives care only about animal rights and not Islamic extremists.
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Yeah this is stupid. “Oh you’re upset about A, clearly you’re not upset about B.” I forget the exact name of this fallacy. I can have a problem with Walter Palmer illegally hunting and I can have a problem with Islamic terrorism. And as I’ve pointed out, the human rights activist groups were slamming the Taliban back when guys like Dana Robaracher, who is high up on the House Foreign Relations committee were praising them.
It’s like “Oh you American gays should shut up, ISIS is killing gay people.” And it’s like okay……domestic discrimination bothers American gays for one more because it directly impacts them and gay rights groups actually are disgusted and trying to stop what happens abroad and that’s not even touching on the fact that many of these right wingers who employ this tactic had no or little condemnation for the Ugandan anti-gay crap brought to the Ugandan people courtesy of the American Christian right.
The crowd is growing outside of the Carter County Detention Center for the #KimDavis rally. pic.twitter.com/NPs0IgIByN
— Victor Puente (@thevictorpuente) September 8, 2015
Probably expecting a few thousand people based on the port-a-potty situation. pic.twitter.com/WBkIV2v0kb
— Victor Puente (@thevictorpuente) September 8, 2015
The Rowan Co. Deputy Circuit Court Clerk, whose name is also Kim, has a fun response to this whole situation pic.twitter.com/zCDsY7YkU8
— LEX 18 News (@LEX18News) September 8, 2015
re: #293 EmmaAnne
While I will gladly acknowledge the distinction, the point remains that even Denmark has done more for these refugees, so some Americans (e.g. in responses to that tweet) focusing on some spitting idiot and wagging finger at racist Europe seems like bad taste.
re: #299 Backwoods_Sleuth
.@thevictorpuente why when I see that line do I think of this scene from Airplane! - https://t.co/RYmTh0CPD2
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 8, 2015
Carter Co Jail transformed into relative media paradise advance of Huckabee and Cruz. Port-a-johns installed too… pic.twitter.com/aBgIFnncIk
— Ryland Barton (@RylandKY) September 8, 2015
Rowan Co couples file their new marriage licenses in court at judge’s request. Kim Davis’ name removed from form; signed by deputies. ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) September 8, 2015
Welp, it’s official, worse weather in Israel today in more than 70 years.
Thanks Obama!///
Why oh WHY did I wash my car yesterday?!“Liberal media” doing all it can to make Kim Davis a martyr.
Now NBC joins ABC and CNN in seeking to interview #KimDavis Read the motion http://t.co/gVTGGkSKVc
— Shannon Ragland (@JuryReporter) September 8, 2015
re: #303 Backwoods_Sleuth
Carter Co Jail transformed into relative media paradise advance of Huckabee and Cruz.
What a sad sight; two pols who should know better dragging their asses into town anyway to support someone who’s standing against the Constitution. The rhetoric from both of them will be very presidential.
re: #249 FormerDirtDart
Pray tell, just how much is Kimmy paying for her counsel? Are they doing this on spec?
Just think how much lower the rate would have been had #GOP not blocked Medicare expansion in GOP controlled states. https://t.co/56xaIncw7E
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 8, 2015
Kim Davis supporters totally don’t look crazy at all. (wink wink) pic.twitter.com/ntlpJEwEDu
— Jade Helm Commander (@Anomaly100) September 8, 2015
re: #256 The Vicious Babushka
It was easy on belt-drive turntables-you just disconnected the belt from the platter.
Direct-drive turntables? Never figured out how you could do them short of reversing the polarity of the motor.
re: #311 Eric The Fruit Bat
Pray tell, just how much is Kimmy paying for her counsel? Are they doing this on spec?
I don’t believe she’s paying a dime for her counsel, and she appears to be getting commensurate service provided
re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth
Don’t all these protesters have jobs?
Oh wait. They’re professional protesters/agitators. Or bused in church groups?
Isn’t that what the right wing always says when some left-ish group is protesting on some issue of importance - like say BLM?
re: #317 lawhawk
Don’t all these protesters have jobs?
Oh wait. They’re professional protesters/agitators. Or bused in church groups?
Isn’t that what the right wing always says when some left-ish group is protesting on some issue of importance - like say BLM?
Yeah, I remember when the anti-war protests were happening when Bush was President and Limbaugh said, “HURR HURR CONSERVATIVES DON’T PROTEST BECAUSE THEY HAVE JOBS THEY HAVE TO BE AT!!1!”
re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth
Kim Davis supporters gather outside judge’s home to hold him ‘in contempt of God’s court’ http://t.co/ED31vCuSLW pic.twitter.com/vCth8DyfaB
— Raw Story (@RawStory) September 8, 2015
re: #321 Timothy Watson
Who gets to be the bailiff in “God’s court”?
ooh! ooh! ooh! Can I? Meeeee! I wanna do it!
200 fewer police died on the job under Barack Obama than under Ronald Reagan… http://t.co/XiLaVKhNbD pic.twitter.com/bmfK40kS88
— maryteatowel (@maryteatowel) September 8, 2015
re: #324 Nyet
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Yeah I saw that the other day. Even if the numbers were higher under Obama, Walker still would be full of shit.
Appalled @ our govt’s willingness to accommodate religious beliefs of all religions, but Christianity —> http://t.co/fvIY0XrjQf #ImWithKim
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) September 8, 2015
re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So you’d say the same about a Muslim clerk refusing to allow a BBQ restaurant to open eh Mike?
re: #19 bratwurst
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But just think about how much those kids will learn from witnessing a real live snake oil salesman pulling a political stunt!
more like snake charmer —like one of those whacked out Appalachian churches that use snakes to prove something.
Fact: you have no religious liberty in your official capacity; no more than a cop has a right to “free speech” in his official capacity.
re: #130 stpaulbear
I thought it was the record/LP that was on the exponential growth curve?
Still, I’d be willing to bet that the vinyl being pressed today here in the states isn’t up to snuff compared to whatever the Czech and Japanese plants are banging out.
re: #330 Nyet
Fact: you have no religious liberty in your official capacity; no more than a cop has a right to “free speech” in his official capacity.
Only the Pope as he is head dude in his own theocracy. He even has a voice at the UN.
re: #280 HappyWarrior
Sort of OT but does anyone have any links of Pamela Geller saying shit about Bernie Sanders? Got a weird problem. My cousin the Islamaphobe yet also staunch Bernie supporter is posting links from Pam. Really should just ignore his ramblings I guess.
You sure he’s really a Bernie supporter and not just a Hillary hater?
The Constitution has been torched.
TORCHED!!11!!
I refuse to sit silently as our Constitution is torched & the courts violate our fundamental rights —> http://t.co/fvIY0XrjQf #ImWithKim
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) September 8, 2015
re: #330 Nyet
Fact: you have no religious liberty in your official capacity; no more than a cop has a right to “free speech” in his official capacity.
Right, it’s like how military members can’t take part in political events in uniform. She can continue to attend her church of choice but using her religious beliefs in a official capacity, her “religious liberty” is pushed aside for secular law. And Huckabee and the others are of course ignoring that she is violating other people’s liberties too.
re: #333 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
You sure he’s really a Bernie supporter and not just a Hillary hater?
Yeah he’s legitimately a Sanders guy but also extremely Islamaphobic. Weird, no?
re: #334 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Someone has clearly never heard of the 14th amendment of Loving v Virginia. You had your chance to convince the USSC that SSM shouldn’t be legal, Mike, you did not, you lost. Deal with it.
I am strangely fascinated by a slapfight going on in my Twitter feed between a Bernie supporter and a Hillary supporter.
re: #334 Backwoods_Sleuth
Shorter Huckabee: “PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO MY FAILING CAMPAIGN!”
Religious accommodation happens only when it doesn’t contradict the core basics of your official capacity.
re: #320 Lidane
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re: #336 HappyWarrior
Yeah he’s legitimately a Sanders guy but also extremely Islamaphobic. Weird, no?
There’s a strange continuum of moon/wing nuttery. The intersection of which confuses the hell out of me.
If you’re a surgeon whose religion forbids to cut bodies open, you don’t get to sit there all day doing nothing and still getting paid.
Oh, hey. Westboro Baptist Church is here, because WE DON’T HAVE ENOUGH ASSHOLES HERE YET
— Sitnexto Kim Davis (@nexttokimdavis) September 8, 2015
my congresscritter.
sigh
.@RepThomasMassie is on scene. First national politician I’ve seen. Says #KimDavis is example of judicial overreach. pic.twitter.com/yxyupWWmUF
— Lawrence Smith (@LASmithReports) September 8, 2015
re: #342 WhatEVs
There’s a strange continuum of moon/wing nuttery. The intersection of which confuses the hell out of me.
Tell me about it and what’s more is his mother (my dad’s older sister) is one of the sweetest ladies you’ll ever meet as his younger sister.
If your religion forbids any kind of violence, you don’t get to be a cop or a soldier.
re: #345 Backwoods_Sleuth
my congresscritter.
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re: #336 HappyWarrior
Yeah he’s legitimately a Sanders guy but also extremely Islamaphobic. Weird, no?
Not quite.
re: #347 Nyet
If your religion forbids any kind of violence, you don’t get to be a cop or a soldier.
or at least be in a combat role since pacifists can and do serve as medics but exactly. I don’t get to be opposed to violence and sign up for the infantry and then get to complain that combat goes against my beliefs.
re: #349 Nyet
Not quite.
Guess so. I just think it’s odd since Bernie is such a dove and yet my cousin talks about wanting to nuke the Muslim world but being Russian, you’re far more familiar with apparent contradictions uniting together i.e. the Russian Communist Party espousing rhetoric about family and such that the American RR would use.
re: #350 HappyWarrior
or at least be in a combat role since pacifists can and do serve as medics but exactly. I don’t get to be opposed to violence and sign up for the infantry and then get to complain that combat goes against my beliefs.
I think there actually was a guy who signed up about 10 years ago for the benefits offered by the military who balked at actually going to Iraq.
re: #352 The Vicious Babushka
I think there actually was a guy who signed up about 10 years ago for the benefits offered by the military who balked at actually going to Iraq.
Wouldn’t surprise me.
re: #351 HappyWarrior
Guess so. I just think it’s odd since Bernie is such a dove and yet my cousin talks about wanting to nuke the Muslim world.
People can hold some very liberal and very fascist views at once…
re: #315 Eric The Fruit Bat
It was easy on belt-drive turntables-you just disconnected the belt from the platter.
Direct-drive turntables? Never figured out how you could do them short of reversing the polarity of the motor.
You just unplugged the thing.
the ongoing jobs program known as the Never Ending Election Cycle is wearing thin on me.
re: #354 Nyet
People can hold some very liberal and very fascist views at once…
You’re right. It’s frustrating as hell in any case.
re: #352 The Vicious Babushka
I think there actually was a guy who signed up about 10 years ago for the benefits offered by the military who balked at actually going to Iraq.
teehee —Daily Kos?
re: #334 Backwoods_Sleuth
@GovMikeHuckabee Kin Davis is not exercising her religious beliefs-she’s Violating others 1st and 14th Amendment RIGHTS. Wake up, you moron.
— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericdafruitbat) September 8, 2015
I just cancelled my Angie’s List subscription. I joined before we started doing the redo on the first floor. A couple of friends really use it.
I didn’t. I think it’s a crock. and they had to online chat with me to try to get me to not cancel before they would cancel my subscription.
I do not recommend.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats rally 41 Senate votes for Iran nuclear deal.
— Julie Pace (@jpaceDC) September 8, 2015
re: #361 Nyet
Free Kim Davis! Only today! Limited offer!
Today only, you get bonus church group ramblings and a free Westboro rally. Three times the derp for free! WOOO!!
re: #362 Backwoods_Sleuth
No worries: in a few years all of the Republican Senators will have voted for it and triumphantly ratified the treaty despite the obstructionist Democrats. And it was high time, too, because George W. Bush had laid the groundwork for the treaty years earlier.
Ky motions by @ABC @NBCNews & @CNN to interview #kimdavis were deficient per the court clerk. Didn’t comply with FRCP 7.1 Whoops.
— Shannon Ragland (@JuryReporter) September 8, 2015
Your GOP frontrunner:
In a book Trump says prep school gave him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military” http://t.co/DujLdzR63U
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) September 8, 2015
re: #320 Lidane
If ‘God’s Court” exist, let him have one of his Angel’s being down the summons.
And I was the KY Govenor, I’d have notified the KY State Police and the KY National Guard to be on Hot Standby-especially since you are dealing with a Federal Judge’s life.
Now all of the Second Amendment worshipers/Truthers will find out in short order where the real power lies-and it won’t be in their hands.
re: #68 De Kolta Chair
In a bid to attract young hipster voters, the Republican National Committee has released the first in a series of cassettes outlining their position on important social issues
Why do I have such an urge for popcorn and a soda after reading that comment?
re: #364 Nyet
Filibuster it is, then?
Maybe
But here another complication arises. Two Senators who support the deal — Chris Coons and Heidi Heitkamp — have not said whether they will support the filibuster (though they can be counted on to support the deal in the final vote). If they don’t filibuster, then supporters can’t get 41. Thus, the question of whether a veto-override fight can be avoided turns heavily on whether there is a small block of Dems who support the deal but decline to filibuster the disapproval resolution.
re: #364 Nyet
Filibuster it is, then?
I wonder….
I think it’s going to depend on how much publicity the GOP thinks it can milk the issue for. Yes, on an objective level, it would be better (IMO) to have the Disapproval resolution die in the Senate rather than have to go through the whole veto/override rigmarole, but I also think too many politicos have had to publicly take a position on the Iran deal to be able to sidestep it, as I’m sure a lot of them would like to.
I also think that a few of the “anti” votes might not be there for a second round.
I’d bet anything Huckabees comments seriously border on incitement today.
Also, it makes me sick to my stomach to think of how much money Kim Davis is going to make when she gets out.
re: #288 Dark_Falcon
Not going to happen. Aid to UN programs and outright foreign aid has few defenders left here. Too many programs have become wasteful cesspools of corruption for idealism about them to survive, and frankly America has serious budget problems that make any aid increases severely problematic.
Let’s be honest about this, Dark - the real problem is that most of the people in your party are so disinformed by their chosen information sources that they think Foreign Aid is a substantial part of the Federal budget. These are the people who email each other rants written by hardocre wingnuts but always ascribed to more liberal media figures, saying we’ve decided to solve our deficit problems by no longer spending on foreign aid.
It’s your party. You can cry, if you want to.
Being 12: The Year Everything Changes
As much as being an adult can suck —I’m really glad to be over 25.
re: #379 Eclectic Cyborg
The money that Kim Davis extracts from the gullible is money that they won’t be donating to the GOP so I hope that she raises a fortune.
re: #369 bratwurst
Your GOP frontrunner:
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I heard the same thing about how Bush was in more danger in the TANG than Gore ever was, as a soldier in Vietnam, where people were actually trying to kill American soldiers.
But when I said, “You mean because Bush had to fly with an alcoholic pilot?”, wingnuts got mad.
re: #383 Blind Frog Belly White
I heard the same thing about how Bush was in more danger in the TANG than Gore ever was, as a soldier in Vietnam, where people were actually trying to kill American soldiers.
But when I said, “You mean because Bush had to fly with an alcoholic pilot?”, wingnuts got mad.
And then you have a guy like Kerry who actually saw combat and was wounded in combat and they mock the purple heart he received. The right despite their claims doesn’t have any respect for our troops at all. If they did, the Kerry purple hearts would have never been mocked at the RNC and they wouldn’t oppose veteran benefits being increased.
re: #288 Dark_Falcon
Not going to happen. Aid to UN programs and outright foreign aid has few defenders left here. Too many programs have become wasteful cesspools of corruption for idealism about them to survive, and frankly America has serious budget problems that make any aid increases severely problematic.
Like it or not, the rest of the world depends on the US. We are going to help, that’s who we are. Most of this money is not a hand-out. It is USAID —good stuff the military does. It’s education and medical care.
There are very well educated and serious people working at the UN. The US would be in a worse position without them. They are the only stability much of the world knows.
I think we take this for granted. We are used to a stable government on which we can rely for justice. This is foreign to many in this world. They need the heirarchy the UN provides.
re: #379 Eclectic Cyborg
I’d bet anything Huckabees comments seriously border on incitement today.
Also, it makes me sick to my stomach to think of how much money Kim Davis is going to make when she gets out.
I don’t think Kim Davis will see much of that money.
Organizations like Liberty Counsel, Family Foundation, NOM, etc. are using her to mostly raise funds for themselves.
re: #383 Blind Frog Belly White
The plane that Bush was slated to fly in the TANG was notorious for being crash-prone, which is why it was being phased out. It wasn’t exactly a risk-free endeavor.
But it was still safer than flying over Vietnam where you could be shot out of the sky.
I don’t diminish Bush’s term of service, as limited as it was. But he did serve.
Trump did no such thing. And trying to make his boarding school seem like an equivalent to military service disrespects all those who have served in the US military. Especially those who have served in active duty units that have been deployed around the world.
re: #369 bratwurst
Your GOP frontrunner:
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So the lacrosse games that his school played against other military schools were just like being in combat!
re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth
I don’t think Kim Davis will see much of that money.
Organizations like Liberty Counsel, Family Foundation, NOM, etc. are using her to mostly raise funds for themselves.
Right but I wouldn’t be surprised if she tries to get a book deal or a TV show out of this.
re: #388 The Vicious Babushka
So the lacrosse games that his school played against other military schools were just like being in combat!
Getting winded after a long run was just like having to flee a Charlie attack. //
Kim Davis was engaging in religious tyranny, trying to restrict rights of others. She deserves everything she gets.
re: #383 Blind Frog Belly White
I heard the same thing about how Bush was in more danger in the TANG than Gore ever was, as a soldier in Vietnam, where people were actually trying to kill American soldiers.
But when I said, “You mean because Bush had to fly with an alcoholic pilot?”, wingnuts got mad.
The wingers do have some elaborate fantasies. During the Iraq war, Hugh Hewitt wrote that keyboard commandos like him were in as much danger as the people on the front lines. Having heard my share of lead bees go by I could in no way see how that experience was the same as pounding your, um, keyboard in CONUS.
re: #389 HappyWarrior
Right but I wouldn’t be surprised if she tries to get a book deal or a TV show out of this.
Exactly. Or speaking gigs or radio appearances, etc.
re: #387 lawhawk
The plane that Bush was slated to fly in the TANG was notorious for being crash-prone, which is why it was being phased out. It wasn’t exactly a risk-free endeavor.
But it was still safer than flying over Vietnam where you could be shot out of the sky.
I don’t diminish Bush’s term of service, as limited as it was. But he did serve.
Trump did no such thing. And trying to make his boarding school seem like an equivalent to military service disrespects all those who have served in the US military. Especially those who have served in active duty units that have been deployed around the world.
Yes, I’ve heard how Thuds were not the safest plane. Still safer than being in a country where lots of people are actively trying to kill you.
I don’t disparage Bush’s service. What I disparage is the disparagement of Gore’s.
re: #390 HappyWarrior
Getting winded after a long run was just like having to flee a Charlie attack. //
Lacrosse players charge when wounded.
re: #387 lawhawk
He really only served while it was convenient. Once he didn’t need to be a member of the TANG anymore, he let his medical cert lapse guaranteeing he would fly no more.
re: #392 Higgs Boson’s Mate
The wingers do have some elaborate fantasies. During the Iraq war, Hugh Hewitt wrote that keyboard commandos like him were in as much danger as the people on the front lines. Having heard my share of lead bees go by I could in no way see how that experience was the same as pounding your, um, keyboard in CONUS.
There are some journalists who do put themselves in real danger but being a war cheerleader like all these guys were is not even close to being the danger that service members go through.
re: #392 Higgs Boson’s Mate
The wingers do have some elaborate fantasies. During the Iraq war, Hugh Hewitt wrote that keyboard commandos like him were in as much danger as the people on the front lines. Having heard my share of lead bees go by I could in no way see how that experience was the same as pounding your, um, keyboard in CONUS.
When I read things like that, I thought, how can these guys hold their heads up in public, when there are actual combat veterans out there, including at that time a number who had recently had bits blown off, whose comrades had been killed - how can someone equate sitting at a desk typing shit all day with being in actual danger? And how can anyone who’s ever been in combat, or even in the military at all, ever give anyone like that the slightest respect?
In a sane world, Trump’s claims would sink him to the bottom of the GOP deck. I guess we don’t live in one.
good grief…
Combo US/Confederate flag on motorcycle in Grayson Ky. #KimDavis rally this afternoon @WHAS11 pic.twitter.com/0zVe6tBixp
— Joe Arnold (@joearnoldreport) September 8, 2015
When people you don’t know start having their own conversation in your notifications pic.twitter.com/G5gkngqOnR
— Elizabeth Hackett (@LizHackett) September 8, 2015
This happened when somebody showed up in my TL overnight.
Why do people do that?
re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Then she should go work for god, not man. But while man is paying her high salary she does what man says.
re: #389 HappyWarrior
Right but I wouldn’t be surprised if she tries to get a book deal or a TV show out of this.
I think she’ll try but will be old news very quickly. Her value to the right is, I think, very limited outside of providing short term gain to a couple of politicians for a few minutes of attention. She herself clearly has little to say and her appearance will not endear her at all to Fox news.
“If she has a religious objection, we should move her to another job inside the gov’t.” -@ChrisChristie on Kim Davis https://t.co/Joe45jQBmG
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) September 8, 2015
So Christie thinks you can just move an elected official to a different job, just like that?
re: #404 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think he forgot (or doesn’t know) she’s an elected official, not a regular civil servant.
I just arrived outside the Carter County detention center. Kim Davis attorney says Huckabee mtg w Davis at noon, Cruz at 4:30
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) September 8, 2015
Today in NOPE: Hordes of hobo spiders invade Montana homes to escape the cold http://t.co/R4b39lCvMm pic.twitter.com/kWgICWzp8i
— Raw Story (@RawStory) September 8, 2015
re: #404 Backwoods_Sleuth
So Christie thinks you can just move an elected official to a different job, just like that?
Just like a FedEx package.
Staver says Huckabee supports #KimDavis & rally isn’t political despite adv team, sound system & media
— Ronnie Ellis (@cnhifrankfort) September 8, 2015
re: #404 Backwoods_Sleuth
So Christie thinks you can just move an elected official to a different job, just like that?
Or she could do the other thing, the resign thing, and apply for another job. And it’s very easy to get another job, according to RWNJ, you take your skills and independently bargain with an employer, no union, etc.
/
re: #410 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yes it looks like a Duck and quacks like a Duck, but I swear to God it’s NOT a DUCK!
re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth
I don’t think Kim Davis will see much of that money.
Organizations like Liberty Counsel, Family Foundation, NOM, etc. are using her to mostly raise funds for themselves.
Hmmm………that sounds so familiar. I’ve heard that before.
Oh, yeah!! That’s right!
re: #373 blueraven
Maybe
I really wish Congress would just pass a budget, since the end of the fiscal year is in like three weeks.
But of course not….
WHAT GLOBAL WARMING?
from my Foreign Policy Mag email daily:
True north. Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work is in the middle of a long road trip, hitting Iceland, the U.K., and Norway where he’s slated to talk quite a bit about security in the Arctic. His visit to Norway comes at a time when the NATO ally is involved in a complicated balancing act, both honoring its commitment to the NATO alliance while trying to maintain its traditionally open commercial relationship with Moscow. Following Russia’s annexation of Crimea last year, however, Norway suspended all forms of military cooperation with Moscow, and Oslo is also considering taking part in a NATO missile defense program strongly opposed by Moscow.
re: #360 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I just cancelled my Angie’s List subscription. I joined before we started doing the redo on the first floor. A couple of friends really use it.
I didn’t. I think it’s a crock. and they had to online chat with me to try to get me to not cancel before they would cancel my subscription.
I do not recommend.
That company started in Columbus many years ago. Now they are over in Indianapolis where they have gotten several sweet tax deals from the state, one I think as recent as last year.
My understanding is they are hurting big time. They started as a free service that could be trusted and then they changed their business model and started to charge for the service and it also started to charge the businesses in the listings for more noted recommendations and favorable reviews.
They also have more competition. So add a pissed off customer base, bad business practices, over-extended on costs of business/workforce and they may not be long for this world.
So far media greatly outnumber anyone elsr
— Ronnie Ellis (@cnhifrankfort) September 8, 2015
Atmosphere outsideCarter Co jail more like campaign rally w music blaring than protest
— Ronnie Ellis (@cnhifrankfort) September 8, 2015
I blocked some ‘Native supporters’ who back Donald Trump. Trump is anti-immigrant. He IS an immigrant & Indigenous Mexicans predate borders
— Ruth Hopkins (@_RuthHopkins) September 8, 2015
Spies like us. Work’s trip also comes on the heels of a big push by all of the big U.S. spy agencies to reacquaint themselves with the far north. The Los Angeles Times reports after a 14-month effort by U.S. analysts at the various agencies, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently held a “strategy board” meeting so the analysts could compare notes about what is happening at the top of the world.
I think Santa needs to beef up his security.
re: #356 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
the ongoing jobs program known as the Never Ending Election Cycle is wearing thin on me.
Hubby and I are having a tough go right now. He is addicted to watching politics on television and I cannot stand it. There are times I want to kill him. I’d rather watch the freaking Bachelor (or whatever bullshit is on the tube) than politics these days. I find myself getting infuriated with the media horse race stuff.
I’m going to divorce him before this election cycle is over!
re: #417 ObserverArt
I didn’t. I think it’s a crock. and they had to online chat with me to try to get me to not cancel before they would cancel my subscription.
Like trying to cancel a newspaper subscription. They won’t let you just cancel online, you have to call them. What a nuisance.
Sounds like Tammy Duckworth needs to have a conversation with Trump. Remember when she mocked that guy who put on his application for a government contract that he’d had a military injury by being hurt in military school?
re: #417 ObserverArt
That company started in Columbus many years ago. Now they are over in Indianapolis where they have gotten several sweet tax deals from the state, one I think as recent as last year.
My understanding is they are hurting big time. They started as a free service that could be trusted and then they changed their business model and started to charge for the service and it also started to charge the businesses in the listings for more noted recommendations and favorable reviews.
They also have more competition. So add a pissed off customer base, bad business practices, over-extended on costs of business/workforce and they may not be long for this world.
considering that 3 of the contractors I called/emailed never replied — and the contractor we used was one referred by another source in addition to being listed on Angie’s … .
re: #359 Eric The Fruit Bat
@ericdafruitbat By our friend @GovMikeHuckabee’s logic we we’re violating the religious liberty of klansmen by not allowing segregation.
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) September 8, 2015
re: #422 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Like trying to cancel a newspaper subscription. They won’t let you just cancel online, you have to call them. What a nuisance.
Newspapers have a real scam going. We’ve been thru it once —never again.
re: #408 Lidane
Besides, she’s the one breaking the law and the core tenet of the 1A, @GovChristie. She deserves no such accommodation.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 8, 2015
re: #426 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Newspapers have a real scam going. We’ve been thru it once —never again.
Yeah, makes it really unlikely I will sign up again.
So Baltimore settles with Freddie Gray family for $6.4 million…of course with no admission of doing anything wrong.
re: #423 Belafon
Sounds like Tammy Duckworth needs to have a conversation with Trump. Remember when she mocked that guy who put on his application for a government contract that he’d had a military injury by being hurt in military school?
re: #404 Backwoods_Sleuth
@foxandfriends @ChrisChristie No she should leave her job & work in the private sector. Then they could just fire her, for not doing her job
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) September 8, 2015
re: #422 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Like trying to cancel a newspaper subscription. They won’t let you just cancel online, you have to call them. What a nuisance.
Or trying to cancel Comcast. :-)
Meanwhile, in India:
What do noodles, condoms, and the West have in common?
All are painfully absurd reasons that a number of Indian leaders have pointed to as explanations for why rape remains such a problem in their country, which became infamous in the world’s eyes after a fatal gang rape in December 2012. Indian authorities seem willing to blame just about anything — except for rapists themselves — for the rising rates of sexual violence.
Here are eight of the more offensively ridiculous reasons they’ve cited.
Love the pathetic excuses about Chinese food and how it’s an ‘accident’.
*smdh* *tableflip*
The law firm started by #KimDavis’ attorney was labeled an anti-LGBT hate group in 2014. http://t.co/CqugIHhIyT pic.twitter.com/2TiIZGzHbf
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) September 8, 2015
Mike Huckabee referred on TV to Kim Davis being jailed without bail. Does he understand what contempt is?
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) September 8, 2015
re: #436 Dr Lizardo
Meanwhile, in India:
Love the pathetic excuses about Chinese food and how it’s an ‘accident’.
*smdh* *tableflip*
please Page this.
re: #438 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Magic 8 ball says unlikely. Remember when Palin couldn’t name one Supreme Court csae other than Roe. These guys aren’t very smart. No surprise that Huckabee doesn’t understand contempt of court.
re: #435 allegro
Or T-Mobile.
Most big companies have that. They are called retention departments (you know because they are trying to retain your business). The people who work there keep their jobs by virtue of how many accounts they save by offering discounts, freebies and other goodies. They’ll try everything they can think of before agreeing to cancel your service.
It’s not quite as bad with cell carriers as you don’t need to call your current provider before you port to a new one, you can just go do it.
still trying to get thru my mail:
Foreign Policy Mag email:
United Kingdom
On Monday, British Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed that a Royal Air Force drone flying over Raqqa, Syria carried out the targeted killing of two British nationals who had joined the Islamic State. The strikes killed Junaid Hussain, an amateur hacker for the group, and Reyaad Khan. A third man, Ruhul Amin, was also killed in the attack. Cameron called the circumstances “unique” but vowed that the U.K. would strike British nationals again if the circumstances warranted.
do you think the religious whackos understand that these men were targeted, not because they were Muslim, but because of their terrorist actions?
re: #441 Eclectic Cyborg
Most big companies have that. They are called retention departments (you know because they are trying to retain your business). The people who work there keep their jobs by virtue of how many accounts they save by offering discounts, freebies and other goodies. They’ll try everything they can think of before agreeing to cancel your service.
It’s not quite as bad with cell carriers as you don’t need to call your current provider before you port to a new one, you can just go do it.
I don’t begrudge any company for trying to save the sale, but once the customer says “NO” you behave courteously and efficiently. That is your best chance to regain their business or referrals in the future.
מבט על ישראל מבעד לענן האובך כפי שתועד על ידי נאס״א. מרהיב!! Spectacular satellite image taken today by NASA pic.twitter.com/p4JooalDhk
— USEmbassyTelAviv (@usembassyta) September 8, 2015
re: #441 Eclectic Cyborg
Most big companies have that. They are called retention departments (you know because they are trying to retain your business). The people who work there keep their jobs by virtue of how many accounts they save by offering discounts, freebies and other goodies. They’ll try everything they can think of before agreeing to cancel your service.
It’s not quite as bad with cell carriers as you don’t need to call your current provider before you port to a new one, you can just go do it.
I always try to take advantage of those retention people to get the best deal. If they can’t come up with something better than the competition, I have that other company in the wings. But I always try to leverage the knowledge that they don’t want to lose my business. If they don’t want it badly enough, then Seee yaaa.
I’ve been going thru my mail unsubscribing to advertising emails. I subscribe to get the discount code or coupon and then forget to unsubscribe. oy!
Anyway, I don’t mind the screen that most return giving me the choice of reducing the number of emails or unsubscribing. This is a good way of trying “save the sale” while not interfering with the customer’s original purpose.
#OkanoganComplex #WA #WANES http://t.co/V6isTQPhMJ Okanogan Complex: new photos have been uploaded to this incident
— InciWeb (@inciweb) September 8, 2015
One of them is this:
Fire Crews Come Have Come From Over 33 StatesI’d say they are from New Mexico, but more accurately, they are from the Zuni Nation, which is located in New Mexico. They were founded as a firefighting unit in 1949.
hmmmm
Breaking. Kim Davis to be released from jail immediately.
— Shannon Ragland (@JuryReporter) September 8, 2015
re: #444 lawhawk
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“מרהיב/Spectacular” - not exactly what comes to mind from the ground, in any language…
An Israeli beach today
Jerusalem in the morning…
Haifa has it pretty rough…
But least it ain’t as bad as in Syria…Photos courtesy of Ynet
Judge Bunning has released #KimDavis from jail immediately. She must not interfere with issuing marriage licenses. http://t.co/m8yZEjzwXL
— Shannon Ragland (@JuryReporter) September 8, 2015
Breaking - - - Kim Davis released from jail immediately. More at the blog. http://t.co/CId7gD1p1D
— Shannon Ragland (@JuryReporter) September 8, 2015
Hey Backwoods…I see your state has been invaded by Mr. Salt of the Earth Davey Daubenmire.
Straight
Out Of
London*
*Ohio.
This is good to toss back at those confederate “heritage” ignoramuses.
Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Who said that? None other than the Vice President of the Confederacy himself. Alexander Stephens, in his Cornerstone speech.
re: #385 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Plus, despite the rantings of Richard Perle and similar, the UN has succeeded at its central task.
There hasn’t been a WWIII yet.
re: #456 GlutenFreeJesus
This is good to toss back at those confederate “heritage” ignoramuses.
Who said that? None other than the Vice President of the Confederacy himself. Alexander Stephens, in his Cornerstone speech.
But but Lincoln and black slaveowners.//
re: #455 ObserverArt
Because we can never have enough home-grown lunatics…
Bunning says Kim Davis must allow deputy clerks to complete marriage paperwork, or else she’s going back to the pokey. Doubt she will?
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) September 8, 2015
re: #452 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Aw damn. Now Huckabee and Cruz cant get their photo ops at the jail? Such a shame. /
re: #461 blueraven
Aw damn. Now Huckabee and Cruz cant get their photo ops at the jail? Such a shame. /
Huckabee has a huge flatbed trailer set up right in front of the detention center.
He’ll have her up there with him, I have not a single doubt.
Does this make you want to vomit?KIM DAVIS RELEASED FROM JAIL, DISAPPOINTING THE 33 REMAINING GOP CANDIDATES WHO HADN’T VISITED HER YET
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) September 8, 2015
OK, so the detention order has her released, and it basically states that she cannot interfere with her deptuty clerks in issuing SSM licenses.
What it appears to NOT say is that she HERSELF must issue SSM licenses.
Now is that justice or not?
re: #421 WhatEVs
Hubby and I are having a tough go right now. He is addicted to watching politics on television and I cannot stand it. There are times I want to kill him. I’d rather watch the freaking Bachelor (or whatever bullshit is on the tube) than politics these days. I find myself getting infuriated with the media horse race stuff.
I’m going to divorce him before this election cycle is over!
Now that kid is off to school, hubby and I are home alone. We are actually having fun. I’ve noticed he is not watching as much FOX. I think he wants to continue to have fun…
re: #467 Dr Lizardo
Pssh…..here’s a ‘golden oldie’ for you.
Not tha old either —looks like Brady Bunch era.
Wonder if those threats against the judge were that bad where he feared for his safety to the point of not of resorting to this
re: #466 Eric The Fruit Bat
OK, so the detention order has her released, and it basically states that she cannot interfere with her deptuty clerks in issuing SSM licenses.
What it appears to NOT say is that she HERSELF must issue SSM licenses.
Now is that justice or not?
I don’t know if it is justice, but if people can get marriage licenses, I don’t have a problem with it. She may, however, since IIRC she didn’t want licenses going out under her name whether she issued them personally or not.
re: #469 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Not tha old either —looks like Brady Bunch era.
These two are pretty damned recent, I’d say:
re: #473 calochortus
I don’t know if it is justice, but if people can get marriage licenses, I don’t have a problem with it. She may, however, since IIRC she didn’t want licenses going out under her name whether she issued them personally or not.
Her name has been taken off the forms.
re: #476 Backwoods_Sleuth
Her name has been taken off the forms.
Is anyone’s name on the forms? I know there was some concern about that.
OH SHIT SHE’S OUT https://t.co/Tbe3tLffG2
— Sitnexto Kim Davis (@nexttokimdavis) September 8, 2015
re: #476 Backwoods_Sleuth
Her name has been taken off the forms.
So, if they aren’t issued by the county clerk, are they legal? There was some debate about that. Personally, I think they need to go out under her name as clerk.
Dick Cheney is no “Arms Control” expert #IranDeal pic.twitter.com/NRtbcgE1wE
— Tyler Hansen (@tjhansen) September 8, 2015
Is it me, or did it get very warm in here. Oh wait. I’m outside, and we’re getting another weather record (breaking one that’s stood for nearly 100 years - since 1919):
Central Park NY breaks long standing record for Max temp for today. Temp reached 94 at 12:55 PM, breaks old record of 93 set in 1919.
— NWS New York NY (@NWSNewYorkNY) September 8, 2015
You know, all these fundie religious types seem to suffer from a simple problem. They listen to the same sources over and over all the damn time. They listen to the same preachers, the same shows on TV, they only seem to communicate with others just like them and they get all their arguments from the same.
They need to get out in the world more, get some real life experiences with people that are not at all like them. They need to read and listen to more than fundie religious crap designed to extract more of their money instead of really helping them deal with real life.
Maybe if they actually got a feel for the world outside of their protective cells they seem to cocoon in they might actually get to understand people different from them. They might actually begin to understand all the colors, sexual identities, thinking of people that are not just like them.
I don’t know, it just seems like it would be more Jesus Christ like to actually go out into the world away from the “church” and get with the “sinners” and see that not everything is evil as it is often sold to them.
re: #315 Eric The Fruit Bat
It was easy on belt-drive turntables-you just disconnected the belt from the platter.
Direct-drive turntables? Never figured out how you could do them short of reversing the polarity of the motor.
Play the underside of the record!
re: #479 calochortus
So, if they aren’t issued by the county clerk, are they legal? There was some debate about that. Personally, I think they need to go out under her name as clerk.
Apparently they are issued by the clerk’s office, just not using her name.
Judge Bunning ordered that a few days ago.
re: #482 lawhawk
Is it me, or did it get very warm in here. Oh wait. I’m outside, and we’re getting another weather record (breaking one that’s stood for nearly 100 years - since 1919):
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Cincinnati (CVG) did not reach 90F during the month of Aug. Six of first seven days in Sept. have hit at least 90F. pic.twitter.com/2RUqHJyhri
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) September 8, 2015
re: #483 ObserverArt
You know, all these fundie religious types seem to suffer from a simple problem. They listen to the same sources over and over all the damn time. They listen to the same preachers, the same shows on TV, they only seem to communicate with others just like them and they get all their arguments from the same.
They need to get out in the world more, get some real life experiences with people that are not at all like them. They need to read and listen to more than fundie religious crap designed to extract more of their money instead of really helping them deal with real life.
Maybe if they actually got a feel for the world outside of their protective cells they seem to cocoon in they might actually get to understand people different from them. They might actually begin to understand all the colors, sexual identities, thinking of people that are not just like them.
I don’t know, it just seems like it would be more Jesus Christ like to actually go out into the world away from the “church” and get with the “sinners” and see that not everything is evil as it is often sold to them.
That gets at a lot of their problems I think. I think they’re genuinely afraid of outsiders and different perspectives. I think that’s why you see so many fundamentalist Christians home school their kids and not even send them to private schools. They really see any view that is contrary to theirs as dangerous.
re: #486 Backwoods_Sleuth
Apparently they are issued by the clerk’s office, just not using her name.
Judge Bunning ordered that a few days ago.
I know that, but there has been some discussion of whether that made them legal. I don’t think anyone wants to open that particular can of worms, but it could come up in the future.
re: #453 Backwoods_Sleuth
Breaking - - - Kim Davis released from jail immediately. More at the blog.
Those visitors he got at his house must have shaken him up a little.
It’s storming by my house.
Spotted at #KimDavis rally: @BryanJFischer
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) September 8, 2015
re: #478 Backwoods_Sleuth
Smart of Bunning to release her just as they’re beginning the rally for “jailed” clerk Davis.
re: #495 jaunte
Smart of Bunning to release her just as they’re beginning the rally for “jailed” clerk Davis.
This Bunning dude, not bad.
Here is a look at what’s happening now at the #ImWithKim rally. Sen. Ted Cruz expected to arrive any minute @WHAS11 pic.twitter.com/HGTt988Bu1
— Michaela MacDonald (@WHAS11Michaela) September 8, 2015
re: #498 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
This Bunning dude, not bad.
Yeah knowing who his dad is this actually amazes me. I am sure his judicial philosophy is 90% in disagreement with my own but he to his credit understands that the Supreme Court ruling is law and he’s also not letting Davis and her supporters get their martyr cookies.
re: #466 Eric The Fruit Bat
OK, so the detention order has her released, and it basically states that she cannot interfere with her deptuty clerks in issuing SSM licenses.
What it appears to NOT say is that she HERSELF must issue SSM licenses.
Now is that justice or not?
No, she should rot until she either voluntarily goes away or starts doing her job.
re: #497 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
What’s worse, at least to me, is those Pedobear-approved ads that American Apparel is somewhat notorious for. Sheesh…..those are creepy. As creepy as those Brooke Shields ads from the 1970s.
re: #500 jaunte
Here is a look at what’s happening now at the #ImWithKim rally. Sen. Ted Cruz expected to arrive any minute
[Cruz]Just like Kennedy did with MLK in 1960 I got Kim out of Jail all by myself!!![/Cruz]
[Huckabee]No I got her out of Jail you stupid Canadian!!![/Huckabee]
Just talked to Tony Perkins at #KimDavis rally. Sense is that she won’t accept release if means she has to approve gay marriages
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) September 8, 2015
re: #502 Nyet
No, she should rot until she either voluntarily goes away or starts doing her job.
She has already stated she will not allow her deputies to issue the documents.
So basically she wins, as does Huckabee, Cruz, and the the rest of the fundie assholes. This is only going to embolden them because they’ll see it as god giving them a thumbs-up, mark my words. I know these people. *spit*
Ugh, I don’t wanna see their smirky self-satisfied faces and I know it’s coming, so I’m pretty much done for the day. Later, lizards.
re: #505 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Goddamn just resign already or else stop complaining about being jailed.
Patriots!
To put maximum pressure on Democrats, GOP mulling holding Iran votes on Sept. 11 http://t.co/TSAKlkWaCI
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) September 8, 2015
Different words. Same meaning. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/0buOQe0rmL
— KHARY PENEBAKER (@kharyp) September 8, 2015
re: #505 Backwoods_Sleuth
So they’re going to have to carry her out of the jail?
re: #506 Aunty Entity Dragon
She has already stated she will not allow her deputies to issue the documents.
Even if she will. She is paid to do the job. If she doesn’t, she must suffer the consequences.
re: #505 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just talked to Tony Perkins at #KimDavis rally. Sense is that she won’t accept release if means she has to approve gay marriages
Actually, Kim, while you were jail we put your name on all the marriage licenses throughout the state so you’ve been approving SSM all weekend.
/
re: #506 Aunty Entity Dragon
She has already stated she will not allow her deputies to issue the documents.
She certainly enjoys her little fiefdom, doesn’t she.
Imagine this. She’s released. Refuses to let her clerks issue SSM licenses. Then some wackjob Christian militia comes to protect her before they can arrest her. Again.
In today’s climate, that’s not far-fetched at all.
@drskyskull 1) same-sex couple comes in door 2) couple wants marriage license 3) Davis bursts from office door like Kool-Aid Man
— Mt. Zandarnali (@ZandarVTS) September 8, 2015
re: #514 jaunte
So they’re going to have to carry her out of the jail?
Evil gay libtards jailing Kim Davis although Kim Davis won’t leave jail because evil gay libtards will make her say she loves SSM!!!1
re: #518 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
She certainly enjoys her little fiefdom, doesn’t she.
Petty tyrant inquisitors are always the worst sort of people to deal with.
Judge Bunning is stopping the spectacle, & daring her to interfere with her deputies issuing marriage licenses. #KimDavis
— No Justice, No Peace (@kyduchess) September 8, 2015
Hot Toddtake:
I wonder what Obama would’ve done if Kim Davis had been an illegal immigrant? #ImWithKim #ImWithHuck
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) September 8, 2015
re: #524 jaunte
I wonder what Obama would’ve done if Kim Davis had been an illegal immigrant? #ImWithKim #ImWithHuck #ImWithStupid
— toddstarnes
re: #511 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Good that the Pope finds a way around the gospel Jesus’ teachings.
re: #441 Eclectic Cyborg
Most big companies have that. They are called retention departments (you know because they are trying to retain your business). The people who work there keep their jobs by virtue of how many accounts they save by offering discounts, freebies and other goodies. They’ll try everything they can think of before agreeing to cancel your service.
It’s not quite as bad with cell carriers as you don’t need to call your current provider before you port to a new one, you can just go do it.
Oh, it went much further than that. Funny thing was that I wasn’t even trying to cancel at first. I just wanted to reduce my plan to reflect my actual usage. They did not like that. I went thru a ridiculous runaround with multiple people before I said fuck this and cancelled. Then they told me I owed them money - I didn’t - from my last bill. I had even received a text from them upon receipt of my payment. They demanded that I go to one of their stores with my bank statement. I don’t get paper statements so I told them I would email a redacted statement even though I had already provided all necessary info. They said they couldn’t get an email attachment so I had to go to their store. Nope. Not playing their game.
re: #509 blueraven
Patriots!
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Someone should remind those assholes that even with our rocky to say the least histoy with Iran that when 9/11 happened that the Iranian government offered sympathy for those who lost their lives. Another asshole moment by the party of assholes.
re: #503 Dr Lizardo
What’s worse, at least to me, is those Pedobear-approved ads that American Apparel is somewhat notorious for. Sheesh…..those are creepy. As creepy as those Brooke Shields ads from the 1970s.
I’d like to see Brooke Shields re-do all those ads now.
re: #523 Backwoods_Sleuth
What I don’t understand: if that was possible from the start, why start the whole circus at all? Bunning is inconsistent, his decisions seem whimsical.
re: #524 jaunte
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I’d hazard a guess that she wouldn’t have been elected to that position.
re: #524 jaunte
I wonder what Obama would’ve done if Kim Davis had been an illegal immigrant? #ImWithKim #ImWithHuck
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes)
So Todd’s not WithCruz, too?
/
The culture war over gay marriage got real fucking hot in NC with the prop 1 thing and red necks filming themselves with shotguns shooting at prop glbt signs.
I wonder if we are going to see pro glbt churches start to burn or somebody get shot? Arsons and mass shootings are a near daily occurrence at this point.
re: #524 jaunte
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God Todd you’re stupid. “Obama” didn’t do anything first off. Let me ask you something fuckhead, what would you do if Kim Davis was a Muslim who refused to allow a permit for a Christian store to be built.
re: #531 b_sharp
I’d hazard a guess that she wouldn’t have been elected to that position.
Logic. But don’t expect Todd Starnes and his negative 50 IQ to get that.
re: #534 Aunty Entity Dragon
The culture war over gay marriage got real fucking hot in NC with the prop 1 thing and red necks filming themselves with shotguns shooting at prop glbt signs.
I wonder if we are going to see pro glbt churches start to burn or somebody get shot? Arsons and mass shootings are a near daily occurrence at this point.
I am definitely afraid of that happening. The Civil Rights movement reignited the KKK. What troubles me is progress always comes with increasingly loud and yes violent reactionaries who can’t accept that progress.
re: #524 jaunte
FEMA farms of course. ///
Of course, Obama would follow the law, and deport them in all likelihood given that he’s deporting record numbers. More than his predecessors in fact.
re: #541 lawhawk
FEMA farms of course. ///
Of course, Obama would follow the law, and deport them in all likelihood given that he’s deporting record numbers. More than his predecessors in fact.
Right, the Obama’s “soft” on immigration people don’t see that. Hell a lot of immigration advocates have criticized this aspect of policy.
re: #530 Nyet
What I don’t understand: if that was possible from the start, why start the whole circus at all? Bunning is inconsistent, his decisions seem whimsical.
She went to jail because she refused the judge’s compromise to allow her deputy clerks to issue licenses, because her name was still on the forms.
Judge Bunning removed her name from the forms, so she can’t use that excuse now to interfere with her deputy clerks.
#524 jaunte:
Illegal immigrants can sign marriage licenses?
re: #505 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Fischer? Perkins? Cruz? Huckabee? Daubenmire? Are there any fanatical right wing assholes who AREN’T in Kentucky?
(And where’s Rand? He could be signing autographs for the grift!)
re: #543 Backwoods_Sleuth
Or he could have simply done it without sending her to jail.
In fact, I’m all for her staying there. But jailing her and setting her free just so has achieved nothing good.
re: #545 BeachDem
Fischer? Perkins? Cruz? Huckabee? Daubenmire? Are there any fanatical right wing assholes who AREN’T in Kentucky?
(And where’s Rand? He could be signing autographs for the grift!)
Rand’s mini-me minion Rep. Thomas Massie was there this morning.
re: #547 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rand’s mini-me minion Rep. Thomas Massie was there this morning.
I saw that—had forgotten that he was one of Rand’s minions. (Remember, I tried to help out Adkins back in the day—ah, memories!)
re: #541 lawhawk
FEMA farms of course. ///
Of course, Obama would follow the law, and deport them in all likelihood given that he’s deporting record numbers. More than his predecessors in fact.
To be fair, this is a bit of a deception on the part of the administration and Homeland secretary Jeh Johnson has pretty much verified it before congress. In prior administrations people who were stopped by border patrol and returned were not considered deportations. Deportation numbers are actually trailing a little bit compared to previous administrations if counted the same way.
re: #509 blueraven
Patriots!
Burgess Everett ✔ @burgessev
To put maximum pressure on Democrats, GOP mulling holding Iran votes on Sept. 11
12:55 PM - 8 Sep 2015
Oh I see the ol’ let’s associate every country in the Middle East with 9/11 and hint they are all dirty terrorists and they are in this together. Then associate that all with Obama allowing 9/11 terrorists “to get the bomb!”
The GOP…the party of slime politics by slime politicians.
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