The city at night, a couple alone. A scream from the woman, the smoke of the gun. Directed by Taylor Engel. Selected for the Sploid Short Film Festival, a celebration of the coolest short films and the filmmakers that make them. Learn more details and submit your short here: sploid.gizmodo.com
Uh oh, it looks like Old Nick’s got me by the short hairs. Pray to Yeezy for me people, for I am in need.
@goddamnedfrank if you knew what meant. I pray for your salvation. I would explain 2 U but the deceiver has blinded you. You are in need
— rob (@dadz1949z) September 12, 2015
Remember the whole “Iran will self inspect” craziness
Well…
Exclusive: Iran to take Parchin military site samples with IAEA present - diplomats
United Nations inspectors will be present with Iranian technicians as they take samples from a key military site, two Western diplomats said, undercutting an objection by U.S. Republicans to the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.
The diplomats were familiar with details of a confidential arrangement between Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog for inspections at the Parchin site, where some countries suspect nuclear weapons-related tests may have taken place.
re: #1 goddamnedfrank
I’m confused. Do I pray to RWNJ blond blue-eyed Jesus, or to his machine gun, or to the Golden Bull he’s riding?
re: #1 goddamnedfrank
THE DECEIVER HATH BLINDED THEE
re: #1 goddamnedfrank
Uh oh, it looks like Old Nick’s got me by the short hairs. Pray to Yeezy for me people, for I am in need.
he of the noodly appendages will drain your troubles in the transcendental colander
“I shall pray for your salvation” is a religious right winger’s way of saying “fuck you asshole.”
re: #6 Charles Johnson
“I shall pray for your salvation” is a religious right winger’s way of saying “fuck you asshole.”
Would have been funny if “I shall pray for your salvation” was one of the Terminator’s choices in the ‘Fuck you, asshole” scene.
If, as James Joyce said, mistakes are the portals of discovery, then John Boehner is the Stargate.
Slainte y’all!
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Yeah, that must be it. It couldn’t be that we see things differently, or maybe even that you’re mistaken. It must be that the deceiver hath blinded me.
Breitbart freakazoid explains his sexual preference for black guys w/ 9-in cocks, homophobic commenters freak out. http://t.co/vAgBlvdD7M
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 12, 2015
“may the shaper have mercery on him!”
- j joyce
I’m not worried, ever since Games Workshop retconned the C’tan into a bunch of broken shards The Deceiver’s powers have been severely nerfed. There’s no way my Orks don’t get stuck in.
re: #11 HappyWarrior
Has to be the weirdest moment I’ve seen on that zoo.
Agreed. RWNJs will put up with gay Quislings only if they don’t actually talk about it.
Theocratic whack jobs don’t need anyone’s help to be blinded.
re: #10 Charles Johnson
A blast from the past
re: #14 EPR-radar
Agreed. RWNJs will put up with gay Quislings only if they don’t actually talk about it.
What amuses me is Milo thinks he was going to get the left to call him racist. What he does consensually is his own business even if he is one weird twerp.
I don’t want to make too much of this, but notice which one of the three requires gloves to hold a fish pic.twitter.com/CPPzuvANiQ
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) September 11, 2015
I don’t want to make too much of this, but don’t you have an appointment with your parole officer? @DineshDSouza https://t.co/vaDVvcrIyH
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 12, 2015
re: #19 HappyWarrior
What amuses me is Milo thinks he was going to get the left to call him racist. What he does consensually is his own business even if he is one weird twerp.
I read that thing he wrote, and it is absolutely typical MRA bullshit. He finds some whack job somewhere that thinks people’s personal sexual references are racist, imputes that view to all ‘social justice warriors’ and vigorously flogs the dead straw horse thus constructed.
re: #21 Charles Johnson
I don’t want to make too much of this, but notice which one of the three requires gloves to hold a fish pic.twitter.com/CPPzuvANiQ
â Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) September 11, 2015
BLACK FIN TUNA OP!!!1! OBAMA NEEDS TO RESIGN AND LEAVE THE WHITE HOUSE TO SALMON ELSE!!111!
I wonder how Christians know they’re not the ones being deceived. I mean, it’s the DECEIVER man, right there in the name, deception is his fucking kit and kaboodle. It would be just like that guy to make people think they’ve got all their shit squared away and then *BAM* you’ve been DECEIVED!
This is why I argue that agnosticism is a superior religious identity, because whatever happens you’re all loosey-goosey and ready to roll with it.
Wicked smart short film up top from Charles. I love a good film noir.
Coming to a boil, and I’m wondering when Trump will exploit this:
Hungary PM slams migrant ‘rebellion’, U.N. warns of millions more refugees
Hungary’s prime minister angrily accused illegal migrants on Friday of “rebelling” against the rule of law in his country as security forces across Europe struggled to control record flows of hungry, scared refugees.
[…]
Citing security concerns, Austria partially shut a highway linking Vienna and Hungary on Friday. Some 8,000 people had crossed the border on Thursday and a further 4,500 arrived overnight, Austrian police said. The rail link to Hungary also remains shut due to “massive overburdening” by the migrants.
Hungary is racing to construct a fence along its border with Serbia by early October to help stem the tide. It also plans to implement much tougher immigration rules from next week.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a fiery populist who has framed the crisis as a battle to preserve Europe’s prosperity and “Christian identity”, angrily criticized the behavior of the mostly Muslim migrants who have been filling up central Budapest and disrupting traffic along roads running westward to Austria.
“They seized railway stations, rejected giving fingerprints, failed to cooperate and are unwilling to go to places where they would get food, water, accommodation and medical care … They rebelled against Hungarian legal order,” Orban told reporters.
“From the 15th, Hungarian authorities will not forgive illegal border crossings,” he said.
More than 170,000 migrants have crossed into Hungary from non-EU Serbia so far this year. Many try to avoid being registered in Hungary for fear of being stranded there or returned to the country later in their journey across Europe.
[…]
The short linked article should be interesting, if not tearjerking, to old skoolers
A 1980s Commodore PC has controlled this school district’s A/C for 30 years http://t.co/4upKOkKgPD
ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàJohn Romero (@romero) September 7, 2015
I guess it should go without saying that outlets like the Gates of Vienna are screaming about an all out invasion of Muslim rapists.
re: #27 De Kolta Chair
I had a couple of Amigas, including a 2000 I believe. Neat chip designers who were bought out by Commodore when the latter turned into a front for a Caribbean corp of some questionable legitimacy.
There’s so much smoke on the livestreams covering the Butte fire that I think I can see sunspots on the sun when they zoom in on it.
re: #23 De Kolta Chair
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Dinesh is so pathetic. He really needs to get over the fact his documentary was a joke.
For the record, it was at almost 32,000 acres this morning. Around 14,700 acres last night.
Just in - The #ButteFire in Amador & Calaveras counties is now 64,728 acres & 5% contained. Over 2,400 firefighters battling the blaze.
— CAL FIRE PIO Berlant (@CALFIRE_PIO) September 12, 2015
re: #22 EPR-radar
I read that thing he wrote, and it is absolutely typical MRA bullshit. He finds some whack job somewhere that thinks people’s personal sexual references are racist, imputes that view to all ‘social justice warriors’ and vigorously flogs the dead straw horse thus constructed.
He needs to get laid more often and not post on Crybart.
We’re still more than a year from the election, so Donald Trump is still getting a pass from the religious right. That’s going to change.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 12, 2015
At some point, the media will notice that many of the conservative orgs feeding stories to them are outright hate groups.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 12, 2015
Bobby Jindal’s campaign logo is sure to win the hearts of fans of granny’s bowl of 20 year-old Christmas candy.
BREAKING: @BobbyJindal tries to woo Rick Perry’s voter. @GOP #gopdebate
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) September 12, 2015
re: #40 De Kolta Chair
Bobby Jindal’s campaign logo is sure to win the hearts of fans of granny’s bowl of 20 year-old Christmas candy.
Jindal basically stole part of Obama’s logo.
re: #35 Charles Johnson
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I thought maybe this election would be the one where the Religious Right nutjobs would either completely take over or bolt from the Republican party. I didn’t foresee Trump coming along as a “Third Way” (pardon the expression) candidate. We could see a three-way fragmentation this time: 1) Those who like corporate shills like Bush and Walker; 2) Those who want a Bible-thumping nutcase like Cruz or Carson; and 3) Those who want a strongman, racist, chickenhawk , bomb-‘em-all YEE-HAW!! maroon like Trump.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving party.
re: #39 Charles Johnson
At some point, the media will notice that many of the conservative orgs feeding stories to them are outright hate groups.
And then what?
re: #42 darthstar
Jindal basically stole part of Obama’s logo.
Makes me think of a right whale beaching.
re: #40 De Kolta Chair
Bobby Jindal’s campaign logo is sure to win the hearts of fans of granny’s bowl of 20 year-old Christmas candy.
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They still make that stuff? The last bag I found had fused together into a solid lump.
re: #32 klys (maker of Silmarils)
For the record, it was at almost 32,000 acres this morning. Around 14,700 acres last night.
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Smoke is filling the sky here in Diablo Valley. Sunlight is orange right now.
John Cleese taking a break on the set of Monty Python and The Holy Grail, 1974. pic.twitter.com/mJxtQvMucl
— History In Pictures (@HistoryInPics) September 2, 2015
re: #29 freetoken
I had a couple of Amigas, including a 2000 I believe. Neat chip designers who were bought out by Commodore when the latter turned into a front for a Caribbean corp of some questionable legitimacy.
Same here. My dad gave me his Amiga 1000 when he upgraded to a 2000. At the time, I was using Apple IIe’s and PCs at school, and a PC at home. The A1000 quickly replaced the PC as my workhorse — WordPerfect, baby! They were good computers, but Commodore was such a failure of a company, the Amiga was doomed from the start.
Maybe Huckabee and Cruz will take a trip to Canada, to protect religious freedom, and get mauled by some bears
Calgary Transit driver who refused to drive rainbow bus allegedly relieved of duties
Speaking through his church, bus driver Jesse Rau says he has been fired from his position with Calgary Transit two weeks after expressing his unwillingness to operate the ‘Ride with Pride’ rainbow bus due to his Christian beliefs.
On August 27, the day of the Pride Bus unveiling, Rau told CTV Calgary that he feared for the future of his promising career over his refusal to drive a bus that ‘clearly promoted the homosexual movement’.
Crane falls into Grand Mosque in Mecca. dailymail.co.uk
re: #51 FormerDirtDart
Maybe Huckabee and Cruz will take a trip to Canada, to protect religious freedom, and get mauled by some bears
Calgary Transit driver who refused to drive rainbow bus allegedly relieved of duties
You had one job.
Must be nice to be part of a religion that allows you to refuse to do your job whenever. If these guys want to refuse to do their jobs, I’m happy to do it. Not moving to Calgary though, too cold.
re: #51 FormerDirtDart
Maybe Huckabee and Cruz will take a trip to Canada, to protect religious freedom, and get mauled by some bears
Calgary Transit driver who refused to drive rainbow bus allegedly relieved of duties
Thereby ruining his “promising career” as a bus driver. Srsly?
I can’t speak for Calgary (Calgarian? — Isn’t that one of those houses in Game of Thrones?) or Canadian law, but he may have just been suspended, and not outright fired for refusing to follow his boss’ orders.
Huckabee says we need to vet refugees: “Are they just coming because they’ve got cable TV? I’m not trying to be trite, I just don’t know.”
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) September 11, 2015
re: #56 jaunte
Gee, Huck. maybe they’re coming because we’re the “land of the free” and all that. Also, we’re not in the middle of a civil war.
re: #56 jaunte
Maybe we need to vet candidates too. Are they just running because the grift is good? I just don’t know.
re: #59 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Good of him to confirm that for his audience, its all about not sharing their stuff.
re: #29 freetoken
I had a couple of Amigas, including a 2000 I believe. Neat chip designers who were bought out by Commodore when the latter turned into a front for a Caribbean corp of some questionable legitimacy.
I bought an Amiga 500 in 1987 because the publishers I worked temp for generally didn’t know what a computer was besides a tax write-off and that’s what they used, and within a year I switched to a pc because my clients switched to Pagemaker. Helluva program, that old Pagemaker. Easy to use and paid the rent for a decade.
But I have fond memories of playing Sierra games on that Amiga. If I had half a brain, I’d have kept it.
re: #10 Charles Johnson
Not surprising; Milo likes being banged by bulls. Must turn his partner on.
re: #61 jaunte
Good of him to confirm that for his audience, its all about not sharing their stuff.
Pretty much. We got ours, now kindly fuck off, war-weary and impoverished immigrant peoples.
re: #64 Eric The Fruit Bat
Not surprising; Milo likes being banged by bulls. Must turn his partner on.
Wrong moment to use the “jump to bottom” feature, no? LOL.
re: #63 De Kolta Chair
I bought an Amiga 500 in 1987 because the publishers I worked temp for generally didn’t know what a computer was besides a tax write-off, and within a year I switched to a pc because my clients switched to Pagemaker. Helluva program, that old Pagemaker.
My parents bought me an Amiga 500 in 87. I wrote a program in Amiga Basic to multiply two numbers of any length by performing human multiplication. Then I would just let it run, squaring numbers over and over.
And then, because I didn’t know there was such a things as computer science or software engineering, I went off and attempted to become a physics major. The perils of growing up in a place not connected to the rest of the world.
re: #67 Great White Snark
Well, when you’re playing into the “cuckservative” crowd, these things happen.
And remember that he’s best buds with the Rage Furby too. That must be awkward.
From the ISS: 9 at dinner……
We’re fewer at dinner tonight as three of our friends await to return to #Earth https://t.co/pAXzZ4RU9w #YearInSpace https://t.co/bMjwmqLJ7l
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) September 11, 2015
re: #56 jaunte
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â daveweigel (@daveweigel) September 11, 2015
And that’s the closest you’ll ever hear Huck talk about the needs of Vets.
re: #10 Charles Johnson
Forgot to say massive self-hater (or did I? I forgot)….
re: #69 Eric The Fruit Bat
Well, when you’re playing into the “cuckservative” crowd, these things happen.
And remember that he’s best buds with the Rage Furby too. That must be awkward.
Are they really best buddies? In his interview of Rage Furby, MIlo seemed merely tolerant of him.
re: #10 Charles Johnson
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You couldn’t tell us it was MRA Milo Yiannopoulos first? So we could avoid even with Do Not Link?
@DineshDSouza Or Militant Evangelicals. Seems they forgot the big separation of church and state you so desperately want to tear down.
— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericdafruitbat) September 12, 2015
re: #74 Great White Snark
It’s amazing how Zeiss has moved from camera manufacturer over the years. Back in the 1970s they tied up with Yasica/Kyocera, then when Sony and now they got custom lenses for all major mounts.
Which makes me wonder since my local eye care provider uses Zeiss for eyeglasses should I bite the bullet and have them make my next set of eyegleasses or just use the massive Luxottica operation.
re: #59 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Gee, Huck. maybe they’re coming because we’re the “land of the free” and all that. Also, we’re not in the middle of a civil war.
Not yet, anyway.
re: #74 Great White Snark
Zeiss glass.
As I’m sure you know, that was Kubrick’s favorite glass.
This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.re: #76 Eric The Fruit Bat
..@DineshDSouza Congratulations. You just made too much of it.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) September 12, 2015
And Donald Trump is unquestionably authentic - his vain,bloated,arrogant,attention-seeking, rude,power-mad persona requires no acting AT ALL
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) September 12, 2015
re: #79 makeitstop
With tax about $2000. More than the camera body, or any other lens I ever bought.
re: #80 De Kolta Chair
Holy fuck: 1:0.7!
re: #83 Great White Snark
With tax about $2000. More than the camera body, or any other lens I ever bought.
Yow. Must be nice, though.
re: #84 Eric The Fruit Bat
Holy fuck: 1:0.7!
I’ve got a rescued Canon 1:0.9 X-Ray lens, used in the Pleistocene to capture dim flouroscopy images to film. Weighs about 5 lbs.
Canon vs Nikon is a legit argument. Zeiss vs anything else is just not.
re: #80 De Kolta Chair
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LOL, the insane lens Kubrick used in Barry Lindon. Only ever utilized by him and NASA.
re: #89 goddamnedfrank
LOL, the insane lens Kubrick used in Barry Lindon. Only ever utilized by him and NASA.
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times: I miss that perfectionist Bronx boy.
I miss maestro Fellini as well. His best work imho was photographed by the late and truly great Tonino Delli Colli, who also performed wonders with Sergio Leone. Magicians they were, and it was mostly in camera! I don’t believe Fellini or Leone ever had a matte shot. Not that it would be a bad thing, I love mattes, particularly the painted glass matte shots perfected by old Hollywood.
This is cool, chatting about lenses whilst I polish my own, charge batteries etc. The ritual, ya know? Comforting. Settles pre shoot jitters.
Oh. My. God. It’s a baby, Appaloosa, mini horse pic.twitter.com/V7z7HKRx6a
— Animal Planet (@MeetAnimals) September 12, 2015
re: #91 Great White Snark
This is cool, chatting about lenses whilst I polish my own, charge batteries etc. The ritual, ya know? Comforting. Settles pre shoot jitters.
Has anyone here tried out the mirrorless cameras, like the Sony A-series? I was toying with buying one last year, but ended up sticking with Nikon so I can still use the Tamron zoom lens I bought in 2011.
But when I was in Target last month, I checked out a Sony A500 (I think that was the model no.) and was impressed by its compact size and minimal weight. I love my Nikon D3300, but sometimes I wish it wasn’t so big (and obvious).
re: #90 De Kolta Chair
If I’ve said it one, I’ve said it a million times: I miss that perfectionist Bronx boy.
Sergey posted a very interesting site this morning that included this Kubrick shot from 1946. Didn’t realize he was that much older.
re: #60 Whack-A-Mole
Maybe we need to vet candidates too. Are they just running because the grift is good? I just don’t know.
Hey! I was hoping to see you. How’s the pup?
re: #93 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Compact and sharp has its place. No shutter noise, far less intimidation or attention on the street. Lot to be said for those. I had joked with friends years ago one day a camera the size of a pack of cigarettes would just snap onto the back of our old school SLR / DSLR lenses and outperform them. looks like this is IT.
There’s an invisible man standing in the middle of these photos. Look closer @CNN http://t.co/4jxvYjY5Ft
— Michael Allen Martin (@michaelallenmar) September 12, 2015
re: #97 Great White Snark
Compact and sharp has its place. No shutter noise, far less intimidation or attention on the street. Lot to be said for those. I had joked with friends years ago one day a camera the size of a pack of cigarettes would just snap onto the back of our old school SLR / DSLR lenses and outperform them. looks like this is IT.
Of course I have my place. It’s walking 5ft behind my wife.
re: #93 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Has anyone here tried out the mirrorless cameras, like the Sony A-series? I was toying with buying one last year, but ended up sticking with Nikon so I can still use the Tamron zoom lens I bought in 2011.
But when I was in Target last month, I checked out a Sony A500 (I think that was the model no.) and was impressed by its compact size and minimal weight. I love my Nikon D3300, but sometimes I wish it wasn’t so big (and obvious).
If I buy another camera, it might be a mirrorless wed into some kind of micro-viewcamera rig w/ swings and tilts. got to rethink photography completely before going digital, though.
Shannon Ragland’s Jury Verdict Reporter has just obtained and published the full transcript of the Kim Davis contempt hearing. She’s just what you’d expect (including so quiet they kept having to ask her to speak up).
Paged here:
re: #97 Great White Snark
Compact and sharp has its place. No shutter noise, far less intimidation or attention on the street. Lot to be said for those. I had joked with friends years ago one day a camera the size of a pack of cigarettes would just snap onto the back of our old school SLR / DSLR lenses and outperform them. looks like this is IT.
Nikon’s entry into the mirrorless field is rather disappointing so far: 14.2 Mpx, while Sony’s is above 20. Sony also includes more bells and whistles, like WiFi builtin and an app to send a photo directly to your smartphone. Neither, of course, allows me to use my existing collection of F-mount lenses, so I’d end up investing in yet more glass.
re: #93 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Has anyone here tried out the mirrorless cameras, like the Sony A-series? I was toying with buying one last year, but ended up sticking with Nikon so I can still use the Tamron zoom lens I bought in 2011.
But when I was in Target last month, I checked out a Sony A500 (I think that was the model no.) and was impressed by its compact size and minimal weight. I love my Nikon D3300, but sometimes I wish it wasn’t so big (and obvious).
I really like the idea behind the Sony Alpha series but there are a few issues I can’t get over. First, shutter lag. Because the shutter has to close, open and close again none of the mirrorless systems have the immediacy of response that a quality DSLR will attain. Second, because the sensor, display and most of the imaging circuitry are all continually powered on while you’re composing, the number of shots per fully charged battery is massively reduced. Also the lens availability isn’t really there yet, but that will sort out over time. The other issues are intrinsic to the platform.
Basically they’re just as good for many uses such as landscape, editorial and portraiture, and they excel for casual photography, but the limitations become a noticeable hindrance for sports action and nature.
A very American way to start the weekend
#BREAKING 3 people shot, injured at NC Music Factory, officials say — Latest on Eyewitness News http://t.co/BTIII21Oqu
â WSOCTV (@wsoctv) September 12, 2015
Edit:
Medic: 3 confirmed shot in 3 different locations near NC Music Factory. @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/idgRqnHIei
— Trish Williford (@TrishWSOC9) September 12, 2015
re: #102 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Well, I’m out of date. The Nikon J4 also has res around 20 MPx.
Hrm…
BREAKING: Search ends for missing in China chemical warehouse explosions, final death toll set at 173.
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 12, 2015
re: #103 goddamnedfrank
I really like the idea behind the Sony Alpha series but there are a few issues I can’t get over. First, shutter lag. Because the shutter has to close, open and close again none of the mirrorless systems have the immediacy of response that a quality DSLR will attain. Second, because the sensor, display and most of the imaging circuitry are all continually charged while you’re composing, the number of shots per fully charged battery is massively reduced. Also the lens availability isn’t really there yet, but that will sort out over time. The other issues are intrinsic to the platform.
Basically they’re just as good for many uses such as landscape, editorial and portraiture, and they excel for casual photography, but the limitations become a noticeable hindrance for sports action and nature.
After two Mavicas (3.5 disc and CD) I’ve sworn never to buy anything Sony again—even a TV. Curse of the Early Adaptor.
re: #103 goddamnedfrank
I really like the idea behind the Sony Alpha series but there are a few issues I can’t get over. First, shutter lag. Because the shutter has to close, open and close again none of the mirrorless systems have the immediacy of response that a quality DSLR will attain. Second, because the sensor, display and most of the imaging circuitry are all continually charged while you’re composing, the number of shots per fully charged battery is massively reduced. Also the lens availability isn’t really there yet, but that will sort out over time. The other issues are intrinsic to the platform.
Basically they’re just as good for many uses such as landscape, editorial and portraiture, and they excel for casual photography, but the limitations become a noticeable hindrance for sports action and nature.
I haven’t explored all those issues yet. DSLR cameras are a mature technology now, since the lenses and bodies were basically adapted from film models. The mirrorless systems are the new kids on the block, and there are kinks to be worked out still.
One professional photog, whose name eludes me now, was so impressed by the higher-end Sony alphas that he ditched his Nikon gear entirely for field work. But I can’t afford the high end alphas, and the A5000 still has lower res than my D3300.
re: #98 darthstar
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The Toni Collette sketch, ladies and gentlemen.
I’m thinking of getting my old Pentax 67 out of the box and see if it still works.
0 Megapixels.
No Video.
No USB.
No SD slot.
re: #107 Decatur Deb
After two Mavicas (3.5 disc and CD) I’ve sworn never to buy anything Sony again—even a TV. Curse of the Early Adaptor.
Sony is absolutely dominating the shit out of the mirrorless market right now. They supplied the sensor that Nikon put in my 36MP d810, and it’s so good that DxOmark give it a far higher image quality score than the new 50MP Canon 5DS.
re: #110 freetoken
I’m thinking of getting my old Pentax 67 out of the box and see if it still works.
0 Megapixels.
No Video.
No USB.
No SD slot.
But, but … how does it work? Can you use it with Instagram??
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re: #111 goddamnedfrank
But what are they doing on Mars?
re: #112 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
But, but … how does it work? Can you use it with Instagram??
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No Wireless.
No battery (unless one adds a metering prism.)
No support software.
Not compatible with either Windows or Mac.
re: #111 goddamnedfrank
Sony is absolutely dominating the shit out of the mirrorless market right now. They supplied the sensor that Nikon put in my 36MP d810, and it’s so good that DxOmark give it a far higher image quality score than the new 50MP Canon 5DS.
Would go straight to an advanced Canon DSLR, but they are unfriendly to my old Canon R, FD, and FL glass. People here have suggested a 4/3 system.
re: #114 freetoken
Just expose the film to develop!
re: #114 freetoken
No Wireless.
No battery (unless one adds a metering prism.)
No support software.
Not compatible with either Windows or Mac.
I still have my Nikon FM packed away in a ziploc with a desiccant bag. It’s my second; the first had a violent ending. I used #2 when I first came to China, but the inconvenience and cost of processing film here persuaded me to go digital.
My email tells me Green Lantern is 75 years old this year. (Alan Scott, not Hal Jordan).
re: #95 Decatur Deb
Sergey posted a very interesting site this morning that included this Kubrick shot from 1946. Didn’t realize he was that much older.
That’s gorgeous.
re: #21 Charles Johnson
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the Presidential safety protocols for photo ops extend to protective clothing too. He’s probably wearing gloves for the same reason that neither of the girls has a fillet knife on hand.
I still have my Beseler 23C enlarger and a 35mm SLR camera, trouble is finding film, photographic paper and chemicals.
re: #120 Pawn of the Oppressor
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the Presidential safety protocols for photo ops extend to protective clothing too. He’s probably wearing gloves for the same reason that neither of the girls has a fillet knife on hand.
Or he doesn’t want fishy smell on his hands, because he’s the goddamn POTUS.
re: #120 Pawn of the Oppressor
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the Presidential safety protocols for photo ops extend to protective clothing too. He’s probably wearing gloves for the same reason that neither of the girls has a fillet knife on hand.
Fish smells are also difficult to remove from the skin. Useful to remember if you’re going to spend the day shaking hands.
re: #117 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I still have my Nikon FM packed away in a ziploc with a desiccant bag. It’s my second; the first had a violent ending. I used #2 when I first came to China, but the inconvenience and cost of processing film here persuaded me to go digital.
I’ve got 2 4x5 rigs rotting away, and am playing with the idea that a mirrorless isn’t a camera. Thinking of it as an electronic film plate.
re: #121 Single-handed sailor
I still have my Beseler 23C enlarger and a 35mm SLR camera, trouble is finding film, photographic paper and chemicals.
Still available, for a price. Fuji still manufactures 35mm film. Maybe Agfa, too. Same with paper + chemicals.
re: #95 Decatur Deb
Sergey posted a very interesting site this morning that included this Kubrick shot from 1946. Didn’t realize he was that much older.
In high school, Stanley was hustling photos to Life magazine while hustling chess in Washington Square Park. Nowadays, everyone in NYC is hustling to afford the exorbitant rent, and if he were young today Stanley would probably live in Philly or Buffalo.
re: #119 prairiefire
That’s gorgeous.
I never went back to Sergey’s link after the early AM. Will find and discuss it in the next day or so—it was a very powerful look at the midcentury aesthetic, photographic and literary. (It should be in the top thread of last overnight.)
This is my favorite Bad 9/11 Art, because Santa AND Jesus AND 9/11 and WTF? http://t.co/IpcHez8d1d pic.twitter.com/nJcunYHef9
— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) September 12, 2015
re: #122 It’s on his hat!
Good thoughts. *slaps forehead* hadn’t even thought of that.
Although if they’re fresh fish, they shouldn’t smell! Unless they’re Anthony Bourdain-style Stunt Fish.
re: #127 Decatur Deb
I’m always on the side of the straw hat. The mirroring in the glass is accurate and incredible!
So I stub-hubbed my tickets for tonight’s game so I could relax at home, watch the game, and make a nice manly meat meal…what did I end up eating? Corn on the cob and a squash gratin. Heh…I guess the brats will have to wait for another day.
re: #122 It’s on his hat!
I don’t think he was taught how to gut a fish. His Kansas grandma could run a bank, but drew the line at a few things after that.
re: #117 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I still have my Nikon FM packed away in a ziploc with a desiccant bag. It’s my second; the first had a violent ending. I used #2 when I first came to China, but the inconvenience and cost of processing film here persuaded me to go digital.
I have a Nikon FE2 I bought for a photography class in college - 12 years ago now!! :O. I grew up with Nikon F-series cameras and lenses in the house and I think I’ll always own one. I haven’t shot with it since school but I can’t NOT have one. It’s in the drawer along with two rolls of black and white film which may still be good, but I don’t know where I’d get them processed.
A fun moment for me was visiting Carlsbad Caverns two years ago, walking out onto the first section of trail in absolute awe with my little Panasonic digital in hand, and up ahead I hear the distinctive PING-Scritch! of a Nikon F being worked… An older man and his wife in front of me were doing it the old-fashioned way. I was really happy to see - er… hear it.
Old cameras are like family.
re: #130 prairiefire
I’m always on the side of the straw hat. The mirroring in the glass is accurate and incredible!
He got me at Horn and Hardardt. At 20 I would have starved without the Grand Central automat.
re: #136 Decatur Deb
My dear, they fed a nation!
Did you know that there’s a McDonald’s-themed Black Sabbath cover band? Neither did I.
Mac Sabbath WUT https://t.co/7D7j865iXY
— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) September 12, 2015
UK tabloid Daily Star doing its part in stirring the pot as the debate about Syrian refugees heats hots up:
WATCH: Screaming Muslim man tells mum she ‘should be in prison’ for resting feet on chair
Ruby Butler had her feet up on the train chair when the outraged man threatened her.
He even told her she “should be in prison”.
The horrified 27-year-old started to film the furious man after he told her she should be killed.
[…]
“He told me that I deserve to be killed and then as soon as I heard that I started recording.”
The mum-of-two posted the video on her Facebook page.
It has been viewed over 500,000 times.
The man is shown standing over Ms Butler before he says: “I cannot sit there and I cannot pray with my clothes okay? And I travel every day.”
He eventually says to her: “You should be in prison.”
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Ms Butler can be heard saying: “This is all because I have my feet on the seat.
“Please get the police. If they can arrest me for putting my feet on the chair then I will gladly be arrested.
“But I don’t have the same religion as you, Sir. I pray with my shoes on.
“Every day I with my shoes on. I am Christian.”
The man shouted: “I am a Muslim and I cannot.”
She replied: “This is not a Muslim country.”
So, there’s the punchline, at the end.
re: #140 teleskiguy
Did you know that there’s a McDonald’s-themed Black Sabbath cover band? Neither did I.
My Ozzy story: around 15 years ago, I heard him on Howard Stern talking about how he’d become a strict vegan. By chance, my wife and I had lunch that day in a NYC sushi restaurant and Ozzy was at the next table eating steak teriyaki.
Apropos of nothing, what the world needs now is love sweet love and an Imelda Staunton tribute bandre: #135 Pawn of the Oppressor
You can send B&W by mail to some labs, or you can see if there’s a photo club in town. Someone is bound to have a home darkroom.
Many seem to be concerned:
Bill Maher Concerned About Muslim Refugees Making Europe ‘Less Moderate and Tolerant’
re: #66 goddamnedfrank
Remember the 1980’s when ninjas were hot all of a sudden and TV executives inexplicably thought an aging Lee Van Cleef could make a convincing ninja?
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Holy shit fight choreography sure has come long way.
Two “movies” (by which I mean four episodes) of that show were on MST3K
When I was a teenager I had tickets to see Black Sabbath (all original members) with Pantera as the opening act. Ozzy got sick with the flu before the show, and the show was cancelled. I’m still kind of mad at Ozzy for that.
Donald Trump disagrees, no doubt:
Record number of migrants cross Mediterranean, agency says
More than 430,000 refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe so far in 2015, a record number that is more than double the total for the whole of last year, the International Organization for Migration said on Friday.
The United Nations refugee agency called for decent mass reception centres to be set up immediately in Greece, Italy and Hungary, on the front lines of a huge influx of refugees being received in “appalling conditions”.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) welcomed a European Union proposal to share out 160,000 refugees and an offer by Washington to take 10,000 Syrians over the next year, but said “the United States could and should do much more”.
[…]
About half of those crossing the Mediterranean are Syrians fleeing civil war, a figure “expected to continue rising rapidly over the coming weeks and months”, the UNHCR said.
Afghans, Eritreans, Nigerians and Somalis compose the other four largest groups of nationalities in the human tide seeking European shores, Spindler said.
“They will not be deterred by barbed wire or even taking dangerous sea voyages. The answer is to provide adequate legal avenues for people to come to Europe in safety,” Spindler said.
If only Europe had Donald Trump in charge - he’d build a wall across the middle of the Mediterranean Sea and make Syria and Somalia pay for it.
re: #144 freetoken
Many seem to be concerned:
Bill Maher Concerned About Muslim Refugees Making Europe ‘Less Moderate and Tolerant’
I think the populations would be like any other religious population, like ours. Most of the people coming over would practice their faith when they’re supposed to, and go about their lives. A few of them would be vocal radicals. Maybe then the Christian Right here would begin to understand the concept of separating church and state.
re: #144 freetoken
Why does anyone listen to that simpering anti-vax, Pro-PETA whackjob.
He is about as rational as the Tea Party.
He really needs to see what these people have been through. They are escaping from both Assad and DAESH.
Will there be some issues? Yes, but then again at least in US history, Germans took over half a century to assimilate, and many Irish-Americans supported the IRA during the Troubles. Many of these same Irish-Americans (I do have some Irish, for disclosures sake) will now scream that Muslim Immigrants are terrorists.
I really hope that this happens around be once, so I can lay into them with their hypocrisy.
re: #66 goddamnedfrank
Remember the 1980’s when ninjas were hot all of a sudden and TV executives inexplicably thought an aging Lee Van Cleef could make a convincing ninja?
Holy shit fight choreography sure has come long way.
I watched that MST3K episode on my iPod Classic last night. As much as I love Lee Van Cleef, I can’t imagine watching it straight no MST3K chaser.
re: #151 De Kolta Chair
I watched that MST3K episode on my iPod Classic last night. As much as I love Lee Van Cleef, I can’t imagine watching it straight.
“I’m Max Keller…”
re: #152 Kragar
“I’m Max Keller…”
“Quick! Take a turn here on Steven J. Cannell Boulevard!” — Tom Servo, if memory serves; I was a bit groggy and had an eyelash in my cornea at the time. The little bugger stung!
It looks like it’s going to be pro-Trump vs. anti-Trump civil war in the wingnuttia-lands of America.
Townhall runs an article attacking…. Bobby Jindal, by a Trump supporter no less:
Bobby Jindal The Desperate Bomb Thrower
Only one comment so far, from an anti-Trump and ODS-suffering true conservative.
I for one hope Trump can keep stirring things up. While in the end I think his xenophobia is bad for America, that he has the wingnuts fighting among themselves is brilliant.
Because you want to know, don’t you?
re: #157 De Kolta Chair
Probably should flip that… unless of course that is the view through your rear-view mirror.
re: #150 The War TARDIS
I do like the thrill of an overly-heated argument.
Local Dover politicians, still lying:
Dover intelligent design 10 years later: Defendant says ‘nobody did anything for religious reasons’
For Jim Cashman, what’s still “tragic” about the lawsuit filed against the Dover Area School District over its policy mentioning intelligent design is how the ACLU made the case about religion.
“This was a freedom in education situation,” said Cashman, a former school board member who supported the idea but did not vote for the policy, as he was appointed to fill a vacancy on the board in March 2005. “It was surprising to me; I never saw it as a religious issue.”
[…]
The case thrust Dover into an international spotlight.
Nowadays, Cashman, a businessman from Dover Township, said the case rarely comes up anymore. Looking back, he said it was the board’s intention to allow students to debate different ideas — not to force a particular religion on them.
The concept of the separation of church and state, he said, was introduced by the Founding Fathers to prevent a state-run religion from being forced on people, but attorneys seemingly want to change that interpretation. The board was not trying to replace evolution, but wanted to introduce another idea, he said.
[…]
Yeah, right.
These people never change.
Be sure to read the whole story. The newspaper ran a couple of articles on this, the 10th anniversary of the Dover case. Interesting to see how many people just weren’t available to be answer questions.
I ain’t drunk, I’m just drinking thinking: If I had a pound for every time Michael Caine said “You lot” I could buy Michael Caine.
NCSE summarizes the news outlet’s articles:
re: #167 teleskiguy
Albert Collins is the man! Love me some Albert Collins!
Stop with your bad self! ;-)
Trump and Carson continue to surge:
Institutional candidates are flat-lining.
Are we finally at a point where we can say that this campaigning stuff really is reality-TV?
re: #135 Pawn of the Oppressor
And to think that when I grew up my film/developer of choice for 120 was Panatomic-X and Rodinal.
re: #155 freetoken
It looks like it’s going to be pro-Trump vs. anti-Trump civil war in the wingnuttia-lands of America.
Townhall runs an article attacking…. Bobby Jindal, by a Trump supporter no less:
Bobby Jindal The Desperate Bomb Thrower
Only one comment so far, from an anti-Trump and ODS-suffering true conservative.
I for one hope Trump can keep stirring things up. While in the end I think his xenophobia is bad for America, that he has the wingnuts fighting among themselves is brilliant.
Trump has, I believe, demolished the fairy tale of a post-racial America. There were other ways that could have been done, but done it is.
I really am surprised to see Carson doing so well. Apparently there’s at least one black guy the RWNJs AREN’T against.
Could we possibly see Trump/Carson 2016?
re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg
I really am surprised to see Carson doing so well. Apparently there’s at least one black guy the RWNJs AREN’T against.
Could we possibly see Trump/Carson 2016?
He’s a well behaved black man who tells them what they want to hear.
re: #175 allegro
He’s a well behaved black man who tells them what they want to hear.
On that note, Carly is a well behaved woman telling them what they want to hear but she doesn’t make their cocks tingle like Sarah so she’s not getting anywhere.
As most of you know I’m a poet and although it’s technically 9/12 now I just put the finishing touches on this one and although it is kind of raw, I wanted to share:
88th floor
I didn’t see a damned thing, I just heard the bang.
Then the black cloud came.
Rushing to the nearest phone, I tried to call my lover,
but she didn’t answer.My final words would be spoken
to a heartless machine.“I’m sorry honey. I don’t know what happened.
I’m scared. I don’t think I’ll make it out of here.
Know that I love you until the end of time
and be sure to look after the kids. Tell them
Daddy will be with them always. Goodbye.”Around me there is shouting, blood,
broken bones, shattered lives.
I see a few of my colleagues trying desperately
to carve a path through the blocked stairwell.The smoke fills the room.
I am coughing, straining.
Trying to keep myself sane in the madness.
But it seems chaos is the order of the day.I am practically flailing about
but soon I realize.
There’s no point.
Help is not coming.
There is no way out.I crawl over to what is left of my desk.
Nearby my family smiles from the picture frame.
I smile back, tears running down my cheek.
Someday we’ll be together again.Suddenly a loud creaking.
A quake like rumble.
This is it.
My soul collapses into me.Then there is nothing.
But the deep recesses of eternity.
Hell of a way to spend a Tuesday morning.
re: #171 BongCrodny
“Because fuck this shit.” Obviously, the person who created that sticker has been in Vermont.
Now get thee hence to a mattress, goddammit!
re: #172 Eric The Fruit Bat
And to think that when I grew up my film/developer of choice for 120 was Panatomic-X and Rodinal.
Plus-X and Diafine at EI400.
Somebody can’t hold their Romulan Ale. @jonathansfrakes @serenawilliams
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) September 12, 2015
This may be the most offensive rwnj meme yet.
Oh my Gawd can you imagine how fucking insane next year’s 15th anniversary of 9/11 is going to be … at the hight of goddamned general election season. I should probably start stockpiling Xanax now.
Serena Williams upset by Roberta Vinci in U.S. Open semifinal
Nothing about Serena’s response seems like it was in the least bit classless. On the contrary, while expressing disappointment she praised her opponent.
re: #185 goddamnedfrank
Serena Williams upset by Roberta Vinci in U.S. Open semifinal
Nothing about Serena’s response seems like it was in the least bit classless. On the contrary, while expressing disappointment she praised her opponent.
That’s what saw too. Then I looked at his tweets but saw nothing that would remotely explain this weird tweet.
Amateur footage of the crane collapse in Mecca. bbc.com
It fell so quickly there was no time for people to react.
Some of my shots for Reuters today at the #ButteFire: http://t.co/xji8hjPiUV pic.twitter.com/3IjKcxuP8k
— Noah Berger (@noahberger3884) September 12, 2015
Kim Davis Ask Appeals Court To Halt Marriages In Her County @TPM http://t.co/h8TwMxnOuo
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 12, 2015
Seriously, this bitch needs to take off and live in a cave. She has no place in the modern world.
re: #190 Kragar
Seriously, this bitch needs to take off and live in a cave. She has no place in the modern world.
You can’t tell people they can’t get married at all, just because you’re all butthurt about SSM. WTF does she think she is, the Dowager Empress of the Qing?
re: #190 Kragar
She’s interfering. So back to jail she goes. Hopefully this time the judge keeps her locked up. She will never change. So, she gets locked up forever. The world would be a better place for it.
re: #190 Kragar
The court system being what it is - often slow - surely we will see this resurface many months downstream.
Contemplating on finally starting a monograph of some of my paternal ancestry… but it’ll be a lot of work so I keep putting it off. As interesting as it can be, does anyone really care about the long dead?
History - what good is it?
re: #193 GlutenFreeJesus
She’s interfering. So back to jail she goes. Hopefully this time the judge keeps her locked up. She will never change. So, she gets locked up forever. The world would be a better place for it.
Nope, she can’t be jailed simply for asking the appeals court to intervene, no matter how stupid or baseless her request is. That would be a 1st Amendment violation, namely the right “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” As long as she limits herself to court filings and doesn’t physically attempt to stop the issuance of licenses again she’s scribbling within the lines
re: #197 goddamnedfrank
As long as she does it through lawful means, I think one could live with that.
re: #198 Nyet
As long as she does it through lawful means, I think one could live with that.
The rubber meets the road next week when she finally returns to work. If she attempts to disrupt the issuing of licenses absent an explicit, written stay of the lower court order issued by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals then she’s fucked and will almost certainly be sent back to jail. Then we get to see if the Oathkeepers really do plan to throw down against the US Marshals.
re: #199 goddamnedfrank
The Marshals should then use all lawful means, and not give up Bundy-style.
re: #201 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Davis turned down the help of the Oaf Keepers, so they’ve canceled their roadtrip.
Well, that’s the first common-sense decision she’s made that I agree with.
If the Oathkeepers actually back up their bullshit rhetoric with a show of force the DOJ’s response should and probably will be sweeping RICO indictments of the entire regional arm of the organization. BLM / Department of the Interior blundered enormously letting the Bundy Ranchers get away with that shit, but DOJ will not make that same mistake. Obstruction of justice is a predicate crime under RICO, and while those clowns are busy pulling armed guard around the clerks office the US district attorney will identify every member, preemptively size their assets, homes, cars, pretty much everything.
So that guy, Joshua Goldberg, they arrested in Floriduh for impersonating an Islamist on twitter and then helping an undercover FBI agent posing as another Islamist with assembling a bomb to blow up people at a 9/11 memorial?
He also used the handle MoonMetropolis for twitter and for writing articles for Blazingcatfur, a Kahanist site associated with JDL-Canada.
Heh, Chris Kluwe supports a self-described pedophile who posted half-naked pics of her 8 y.o. cousin online:
This is well written, and #Gamergate‘rs, in case it wasn’t blatantly obvious, I support @srhbutts. Go drink bleach. http://t.co/Nq1Dpp2SNi
âÃÂàChris Kluwe (@ChrisWarcraft) September 11, 2015
The article he links to is a confused mess that gets basic tech details wrong. The 2005 logs come straight from Nyberg’s site (unlike the later logs which come from an IRC chat participant), were saved by WebCite back in May and were admitted as genuine by Nyberg herself, and in addition to the logs there are also her forum and livejournal postings where she names herself a pedophile and defends sex with children.
Gamergate and anti-gamergate are basically two sides of the same coin and both are chock-full of horrible people.
re: #197 goddamnedfrank
Nope, she can’t be jailed simply for asking the appeals court to intervene, no matter how stupid or baseless her request is. That would be a 1st Amendment violation, namely the right “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
That is a major right, and one that is totally ignored when it comes to government surveillance. How can you petition for redress of grievances when you are unaware of what they are actually doing to you, or cannot trace the grievances perpetrated against you due to “security concerns”?
I’m finding this song strangely compelling this morning. Don’t know why, but it’s something in the lyrics I think:
So to figure out what’s needling me about the lyrics, here is the Dylan song:
Come gather ‘round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’
It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin’
Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’
Boldfaced are the parts that I think are relevant to me today. Time is indeed quickly slipping away. Well, that is a personal thing. But also, as a society though I think we are seeing the old societal structures really showing their age now. Perhaps that’s why we seem a bit thin on leaders, though we have politicians and pundits coming out of our ears. Too many in a position of leadership are trying to fit the 21st century into middle-of-the-20th century framework.
I watched parts of The Decent One tonight. My take away from this documentary is that the people closest to Himmler seemed so willfully self-blinded to the reality of what he was doing.
The capacity of us humans to lie to ourselves is amazing.
Maybe because it was earlier last night that I was pulling up those headlines about the refugees wanting into Europe. Are they the “waters” that are growing?
It’s been fashionable of late, at least in some circles, to point out how civilized we humans have become as the world has gotten more populated, about how serious crime per capita is decreasing globally, etc. I don’t know about all that - I wonder what is being counted and what is not being counted. If things are so wonderful around the world why are there millions of people displaced due to this or that conflict?
I don’t know how old I’ll live to be. If I live as long as some of my ancestors I will be around for a while yet. Should I live to a 100 I don’t know what America will be like - it will be like today of course but I don’t know what aspects of our society will grow more dominant and what will whither. Maybe the changing demographics will bring about a bit less war-mongering (I hope). My feeling is that sitting here in North America we’ll be better off than most places in the world. Well, good for us. But what about other people. Should we care about them?
re: #214 freetoken
So to figure out what’s needling me about the lyrics, here is the Dylan song:
…snip m My feeling is that sitting here in North America we’ll be better off than most places in the world. Well, good for us. But what about other people. Should we care about them?
If it turns out anywhere near the worst-case descriptions, we will rapidly revert to an ethic that makes our treatment of the Iroquois and Cherokee seem benign.
Funny. There is a review of the latest Iron Maiden release on NPR of all things.
Troll Baits Trump:
“@HamishP95: @realDonaldTrump My Dad is thinking of voting for the first time ever for you. pic.twitter.com/1u9qi8qUPc” Great.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 12, 2015
The picture shows Jeremy Corbyn, who has been campaigning in the Labour Party leadership contest (that is the left-leaning party of Tony Blair), after the party got a drubbing under the fratricidal Ed Milliband (who looks and sounds like a Wallace & Gromit character and was deemed utterly unelectable). Corbyn was considered an outsider and in fact only got nominated by way of some very well-orchestrated trickery (in full public view, getting enough MPs to put him on the ballot ostensibly for the sake of variety), whereupon the Labour membership mysteriously skyrocketed ahead of the vote. Some of these new members were inevitably weeded out, exposed as meddlers from the Conservative party who figure such a radical Unionist Labour leader will scare the voters. So in having a slickly produced outsider strategy bring results that were not forecast, he has something in common with Trump, but only that.
Trump has extensive investments in the UK and really should know more about this man, but really I only post it so as to break the news that Corbyn just won the nomination by a landslide.
NB A little screed from me. Personally, the resurgence of a hard-left in Labour isn’t my thing, but then I don’t like the left-right system, guessing which bag of shit is supposed to be good for me if we send it to London with another few hundred such shitbags that it turns out are all full of shit from the same place, at their best representing a coalescence of either hobnailed recruiters or economic scaremongers who bicker and vote on how to spend our money in what passes for debate. I don’t presume that any given individual is corrupt, but in this case a) I am beyond suspicious that Corbyn won on a platform of integrity amid so much unionist politicking. b) There is at least a clear label on this bag.
btw I think America would be crazy to put this particular bullying mogul in the White House, it seems like he has a very aggressive business and would likely serve himself. But I don’t know about the business interests of the other Republican candidates.
.@ProgsToday quoting a troofer to a Jew who was in NYC on 9/11. Fuck you and the idiocy you rode in on.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 12, 2015
re: #221 Dom
Funny as hell if he wins. There’s this thing about the way chaos operates….
re: #221 Dom
Interesting details, thanks. From what I’ve read so far Corbyn seems to be a mixed bag.
Seems weak on Russia’s war against Ukraine.
re: #224 Nyet
Yep! But there are a lot of disgruntled Blairites who will resign, not to mention the new Deputy is no pushover, so before a General Election comes around it might not be Corbyn’s bag anymore. There’s an interesting analysis in the Telegraph: telegraph.co.uk
I’m not against far left as long as they don’t coddle dictators.
re: #226 Nyet
I’m not against far left as long as they don’t coddle dictators.
Cracks me up to hear the term ‘far left’. I couldn’t buy a bottle of wine last Sunday.
I find that the false dichotomy isn’t helping us to plan intelligently for the future.
re: #222 lawhawk
Ah, the progs today idiot then proceeded to call me a kapo. Lovely.
Now blocked. And reported.
re: #228 Dom
Planning intelligently for the future includes taking into account that Putin’s regime has finally degenerated into fascism and presents danger both to the Russian citizens and neighbors. Many on the far left and far right refuse to understand this (or do, and support this, claiming that Putin struggles against the US, NATO, Rotschilds, global oligarchs, Jews and so on).
I was about to post the story about Corbyn but I see that Trump beat me to it… :-/
Anyway, in brief:
The political party of Tony Blair just took a hard left turn
He is in favor of:
Renationalizing the railways and energy companies
A “maximum wage” to limit the salaries of top executives
A minimum wage of £10 per hour
Financing large scale housing, energy and transport projects through quantitative easing
Crackdown on tax avoidance and tax evasion
Increased top rate of income tax
Scrapping university tuition fees at a cost of £10bn
Nuclear disarmament in the UK
Cutting defense spending
If anything, at least the Overton Window in the UK will be pulled back from it’s increasingly laissez-faire direction.
re: #231 freetoken
I was about to post the story about Corbyn but I see that Trump beat me to it… :-/
Anyway, in brief:
The political party of Tony Blair just took a hard left turn
If anything, at least the Overton Window in the UK will be pulled back from it’s increasingly laissez-faire direction.
Is that what the Democratic Party platform would look like under the Sanders candidacy?
It’s also telling that writers think of this as a “hard left” turn. When I look at that list only two strike me as inherently socialist:
Renationalizing the railways and energy companies;
A minimum wage of £10 per hour.
Some of the other stuff is proposed, for example, by various “libertarians”. Such as decreasing defense spending.
Financing large projects through “quantitative easing” is more mainstream than lefist.
And even the salary cap isn’t that radical of an idea, if places like Switzerland have toyed with the idea.
re: #233 freetoken
It’s also telling that writers think of this as a “hard left” turn. When I look at that list only two strike me as inherently socialist:
Renationalizing the railways and energy companies;
A minimum wage of £10 per hour.Some of the other stuff is proposed, for example, by various “libertarians”. Such as decreasing defense spending.
Financing large projects through “quantitative easing” is more mainstream than lefist.
And even the salary cap isn’t that radical of an idea, if places like Switzerland have toyed with the idea.
Minimum wage, at whatever rate, is as leftist as FDR.
It rained hard all night, so I blew off the Habitat preparation. Stopped raining here just at starting time. Shit.
re: #230 Nyet
Oh, we are definitely in agreement that Putin is an enemy. :)
re: #96 WhatEVs
Sorry for the late reply, was a busy evening last night. The puppy is doing great! Very playful and well behaved. Every person he’s met he’s warmed to right away. A few potty accidents so far but that’s par for the course. We’re also working on a few basic tricks, sit and fetch. Not 100% on them yet but he’s getting there.
Oh, and he’s made a new BFF, my sister’s English Bulldog Princess. Every time they get together, they both have a blast running around and chasing each other. It’s really quite amazing how gentle Princess is with the little guy given how big and clumsy she is. She’s really protective of him too. A neighbor down the block walked their dog by while Princess and Schnitzel were playing. The neighbor’s dog started to bark and growl at Schnitzel and Princess moved in and interposed herself between the two. Whenever Schnitzel would try to get around her, Princess would move and step between the two again.
Overall though, the Schnitzel is doing great!
WaPo declares:
Divisive far-left lawmaker wins UK’s Labour leadership race
Funny how pushing a few old-fashioned socialist ideas makes one a “divisive far-left” in these days.
I think the aforementioned Overton Window has swung so far into the hyper-individualistic mercantilist direction that pundits and headline writers don’t know how to describe someone like Corbyn.
re: #112 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
But, but … how does it work? Can you use it with Instagram??
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Telegram.
re: #236 Dom
Oh, we are definitely in agreement that Putin is an enemy. :)
an enemy of anyone who does not belong to his ruling clique…
re: #23 De Kolta Chair
@DineshDSouza overbite stroke-eyed felon says what?
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) September 12, 2015
re: #241 aagcobb
Rick Perry dropped out because he doesn’t have any voters.
I really though he was just going to stroll in and walk away with it in 2012, but he made such an ass of himself that he cannot recover from it.
re: #240 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Putin’s regime supports and is supported by Jobbik and Front National. Need more be said?
re: #244 Nyet
Putin’s regime supports and is supported by Jobbik and Front Nacional. Need more be said?
and even those people are only his friends as long as they are useful to promoting his aims, he would not hesitate to screw them over if that was in his interest…
Google: Putin & UKIP, Putin & Jobbik, Putin & FN, Putin & FPÖ…
re: #70 Eric The Fruit Bat
From the ISS: 9 at dinner……
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Man, its crowded up there.
re: #245 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
and even those people are only his friends as long as they are useful to promoting his aims, he would not hesitate to screw them over if that was in his interest…
But there’s the rub: they are natural conservative allies, not random ones.
re: #204 Nyet
So that guy, Joshua Goldberg, they arrested in Floriduh for impersonating an Islamist on twitter and then helping an undercover FBI agent posing as another Islamist with assembling a bomb to blow up people at a 9/11 memorial?
He also used the handle MoonMetropolis for twitter and for writing articles for Blazingcatfur, a Kahanist site associated with JDL-Canada.
Heard about all this the other day, didn’t realize he was from my current neck of the woods
local news article
Bomb plot indictment via Scribd
re: #249 FormerDirtDart
What a fuel for conspiracy-mongers :D
re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I really though he was just going to stroll in and walk away with it in 2012, but he made such an ass of himself that he cannot recover from it.
Ego is an amazing thing.
re: #251 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
She needs coffee.
re: #248 Nyet
But there’s the rub: they are natural conservative allies, not random ones.
when we play RIsk, I always warn the other players that I enter into alliances only as long as it serves my interests, and I do not feel compelled to warn the other players when that is no longer the case…
Duggars Have Strong Ties to Program Founded by Accused Sex Abuser Bill Gothard http://t.co/JYgOF2sjHj
— Comella Donaldson (@starfirst) September 12, 2015
re: #256 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I am not surprised. Fundies like to stick together.
re: #256 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Duggars Have Strong Ties to Program Founded by Accused Sex Abuser Bill Gothard
God will forgive them for their past transgressions, but God can never forgive gays for being gay.
re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
God will forgive them for their past transgressions, but God can never forgive gays for being gay.
Josh will learn a lot, about covering his tracks.
re: #261 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Darn. PA has 2 of them. :(
re: #261 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
No. My representative is Martha Roby, who will gladly go along with them.
re: #261 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
The only question I have is why more Sen-R’s are not at it.
re: #264 Nyet
Some are hoping to get re-elected so they are not on the list.
re: #263 Decatur Deb
No. My representative is Martha Roby, who will gladly go along with them.
It’s going to be fun watching my Congressman, Wittman (VA), try to balance the social conservatives versus all the federal government workers in his district.
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
This may be the most offensive rwnj meme yet.
We’ve been arming them all along because the 9/11 terrorists were mostly Saudis; they definitely weren’t shi’ite Persians.
re: #267 aagcobb
Nonono, you have always been at war with Eastasia.
re: #190 Kragar
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Seriously, this bitch needs to take off and live in a cave. She has no place in the modern world.
If she gets herself jailed again, I’m afraid its going to catapult Tea Party idiot Matt Bevin into the Governor’s Mansion in Ky this November. Mike Huckabee isn’t the only candidate who has tied his election wagon to her.
Sisterhood:
“Moments earlier, Roby removed herself as a co-sponsor of a bill to create a commemorative coin to increase funding for breast cancer research that was eliminated from the vote schedule Tuesday. GOP leaders decided to hold off on a vote due to concerns from Republicans that proceeds from the coin sales would go to the Susan G. Komen foundation, which has had ties to Planned Parenthood.”
re: #201 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Davis turned down the help of the Oaf Keepers, so they’ve canceled their roadtrip.
That is one piece of good news, at least.
re: #264 Nyet
The only question I have is why more Sen-R’s are not at it.
I’d like to think it is because they have received pressure from their female constituency.
re: #202 Dr Lizardo
Well, that’s the first common-sense decision she’s made that I agree with.
Kim Davis is an anti-gay and very blinkered wingnut, but I don’t think she wants to be the cause of an actual firefight. She’s a malefactor, but not a violent-minded one.
re: #273 Dark_Falcon
Kim Davis is an anti-gay and very blinkered wingnut, but I don’t think she wants to be the cause of an actual firefight. She’s a malefactor, but not a violent-minded one.
Yeah, I think she’d stand on the sidelines remains silent if upright xtians were burning homosexuals at the stake.
But, she is not violent minded.
re: #272 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I’d like to think it is because they have received pressure from their female constituency.
And, I would also hope, male one too.
re: #273 Dark_Falcon
Kim Davis is an anti-gay and very blinkered wingnut, but I don’t think she wants to be the cause of an actual firefight. She’s a malefactor, but not a violent-minded one.
Whether she triggers a return trip to jail or not is a tactical decision that will be made by her handlers. Davis is cannon fodder in this particular bayonet charge.
re: #270 Decatur Deb
Sisterhood:
“Moments earlier, Roby removed herself as a co-sponsor of a bill to create a commemorative coin to increase funding for breast cancer research that was eliminated from the vote schedule Tuesday. GOP leaders decided to hold off on a vote due to concerns from Republicans that proceeds from the coin sales would go to the Susan G. Komen foundation, which has had ties to Planned Parenthood.”
special place indeedre: #277 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
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Roby is a music major. She can lead the demon choir.
re: #275 Nyet
And, I would also hope, male one too.
yes.
I am constantly dismayed by women who vote against their own interests.
In UK news, the British Labor Party has beclowned itself by choosing as its leader a man so far to the left he makes Bernie Sanders look like John Cornyn by comparison. The same day as the Putin-fan Jeremy Corbyn won the top spot in Britain’s main left-of-center party, Putin sent sent over a couple of Tu-160 Blackjacks to pay the RAF a social call.
Because nothing gives folks the warm fuzzies like a nuclear-capable supersonic bomber.
Prosecution of White Collar Crime Hits 20-Year Low @alternet http://t.co/86xCZERvzb
— Brett (@papicek) September 12, 2015
#Texas GOP To Consider Anti-Gay Resolution Directly Defying SCOTUS Marriage Decision: http://t.co/Qp9TFYLH6Y #p2 pic.twitter.com/g7d4T5zhyj
— R.Saddler (@Politics_PR) September 12, 2015
re: #281 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
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Could that also be taken that white collared crimes are down?
Not sure what other measuring sticks there are. If the number of murder prosecutions were down there would be a certain number of corpses to account for?
re: #281 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Prosecution of White Collar Crime Hits 20-Year Low
Shocking.
re: #284 b.d.
Could that also be taken that white collared crimes are down?
Not sure what other measuring sticks there are. If the number of murder prosecutions were down there would be a certain number of corpses to account for?
If Willie Sutton got to write the laws, he wouldn’t be a criminal.
re: #179 William Lewis
Plus-X at EI400-that’s a bit of a push.
Sadly, both of those are now relegated to the dustbin of history. At least the 120 format survives, thankfully.
re: #257 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
California is close to legalizing physician-assisted suicide. Here’s how the law would work.
So that’s why my doctor keeps calling to get me to schedule an appointment.
re: #287 Eric The Fruit Bat
Plus-X at EI400-that’s a bit of a push.
Sadly, both of those are now relegated to the dustbin of history. At least the 120 format survives, thankfully.
Real photographers shoot ASA 100, none of your commie DIN or ISO.
re: #210 Nyet
Doing my small amount of research, I never found a quote that would confirm the allegations. All I saw were people saying she was. And we’ve seen over and over that all it takes is one person saying something others want to believe for it to spread.
re: #286 Decatur Deb
If Willie Sutton got to write the laws, he wouldn’t be a criminal.
LOL, I said a similar thing to a nephew from Colorado saying how crime and arrests have been way down since they legalized pot.
Well, duh.
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re: #280 Dark_Falcon
Hey, don’t laugh-the Soviets used several small-yield nukes to seal up runaway well explosions successfully.
re: #279 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
yes.
I am constantly dismayed by women who vote against their own interests.
Well, if you are a conservative female and buy into all the RWNJ/Tea Party/Fundie thinking you really have no choice.
It’s either go against women’s interest or vote for the devil which will cast you and your loved ones into a pit of eternal fire and end all mankind forever!!!
So…
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re: #292 Eric The Fruit Bat
Hey, don’t laugh-the Soviets used several small-yield nukes to seal up runaway well explosions successfully.
I’m laughing at Labor, not at Russia.
re: #290 Belafon
Doing my small amount of research, I never found a quote that would confirm the allegations. All I saw were people saying she was. And we’ve seen over and over that all it takes is one person saying something others want to believe for it to spread.
Then you simply didn’t do the proper research.
1. Until the last week the 2005 logs were available at Webcite:
Those were saved straight from her site back in May. They were in a directory Sarah apparently forgot about.
Then either Sarah or one of her fans complained to webcite and they were taken down. (I saved the webcited copies tho.)
The bulk of the damning quotes comes from these logs on Sarah’s own site.
2. There are still her postings at various forums/blogs. E.g. this one, where she posted as opiumprincess:
Aside from the outrageous content of the post itself she also wrote in a comment:
I suppose I would’ve had more credibility if I came out in the first post as both trans as a self-identified childlover, but I avoided doing that because I figured it’d mostly just turn into flames about me being a pedophile.
There is more, but that’s the gist of it.
His tongue flicked in and out, in and out, faster and faster until she was completely helpless. She just loved his Jar Jar Binks impression.
— 50 Nerds of Grey (@50NerdsofGrey) September 12, 2015
I done forgot and logged into LGF with Chrome today. I’ve been Firefoxing it the last few days because Chrome and LGF were not playing well together. I notice other users have had issues as well.
Just had a real strange one…I was typing and when I hit the space bar, one of the videos above started to play…and my speakers were up quite loud. So, I hit backspace and the video stopped. Hit space again…video started…backspace stop. WTF!
So, reload page and can type again. How does that even happen?
Google…you could have held up on the new type font logo…and fixed your damn browser. Or, did you with the announcement of no more Flash. and we await the ‘net going that way to the betterment of all?
Whatever. Just let me type. It is my First Amendment right.
re: #293 ObserverArt
Well, if you are a conservative female and buy into all the RWNJ/Tea Party/Fundie thinking you really have no choice.
It’s either go against women’s interest or vote for the devil which will cast you and your loved ones into a pit of eternal fire and end all mankind forever!!!
So…
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WITH THAT LOGIC, it would seem the Devil does not have women’s interests in mind.
I’d rethink my whole world view.
But that is just me.
re: #298 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I think I like Office Depot
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“ALL LIVES MATTER” RALLIES IN CHICAGO AREA COUNTER ANTI-POLICE PROTESTS
Joe Walsh is a lying deadbeat. He’s a carbunkle on the ass of Illinois politics.
‘Tiffany Setting’ Not Generic, Court Finds
On Sept. 8, a New York federal court handed Tiffany & Co. an unequivocal victory in its two-year-old trademark battle with Costco, ruling that Tiffany setting is not a generic term, and the warehouse club was guilty of counterfeiting by selling unauthorized engagement rings with Tiffany marks.
Tiffany first filed suit against Costco on Feb. 14, 2013, after a customer alerted Tiffany that a Costco store in Huntington Beach, Calif., was selling rings marked as Tiffany that were not produced by the company. Costco said the wording referred to the rings’ Tiffany settings and asked the court to declare Tiffany setting a generic term.
But Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote that for a term to be ruled generic, it must primarily serve as a generic descriptor. Tiffany, however, also refers to the retailer, she said, citing a Tiffany-funded study (disputed by Costco) that found that 9 out of 10 consumers think of the retailer when presented with the name Tiffany.
re: #289 Decatur Deb
Real photographers shoot ASA 100, none of your commie DIN or ISO.
Open up one stop, take one step forward, and then dodge & burn.
re: #299 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
WITH THAT LOGIC, it would seem the Devil does not have women’s interests in mind.
I’d rethink my whole world view.
But that is just me.
Ah. There is the problem. Logic and politics often times do not mix. We are in those times.
re: #303 ObserverArt
Ah. There is the problem. Logic and politics often times do not mix. We are in those times.
It’s the American Way.
re: #267 aagcobb
Dear Rightwing ‘Friends’:
(1) Anyone who wears a Turban is not automatically an Arab. Please read up on Persians and Sikhs.
(2) Not all Arabs are Islamic. Iraq has one of the largest population of Chaldean Catholics, many who migrated to the United States (especially to Michigan) long before the first US-Iraq war. Now their population is in serious danger of being wiped out due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
(3) If we are at War with Islam, why aren’t Dearborn and the Twin Cities war zones? I’ll tell you why-they migreated to get AWAY from the conflict in their home lands-which has the United States finger prints all over it.
In closing, let me say this: those of you who think you know what’s going on in the midddle annoy those of us who actually do know what’s going on. Unfortunately, the only way those who can be called to account will require a change in government unafraid of facing its past or perhaps a World War III where the United States will be the belligerent nation forced to surrender and submit to the World Court. If The GOP gets control in 2016, we’ll be down that road by 2018.
Rethinking one’s world view would shatter many people.
I don’t get it.
But it seems to be the way it is.
re: #305 Eric The Fruit Bat
Dear Rightwing ‘Friends’:
(1) Anyone who wears a Turban is not automatically an Arab. Please read up on Persians and Sikhs.
(2) Not all Arabs are Islamic. Iraq has one of the largest population of Chaldean Catholics, many who migrated to the United States (especially to Michigan) long before the first US-Iraq war. Now their population is in serious danger of being wiped out due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
(3) If we are at War with Islam, why aren’t Dearborn and the Twin Cities war zones? I’ll tell you why-they migreated to get AWAY from the conflict in their home lands-which has the United States finger prints all over it.
In closing, let me say this: those of you who think you know what’s going on in the midddle annoy those of us who actually do know what’s going on. Unfortunately, the only way those who can be called to account will require a change in government unafraid of facing its past or perhaps a World War III where the United States will be the belligerent nation forced to surrender and submit to the World Court. If The GOP gets control in 2016, we’ll be down that road by 2018.
Eastern Fait’s do not have the monopoly on funny head gear.
re: #306 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Rethinking one’s world view would shatter many people.
I don’t get it.
But it seems to be the way it is.
It’s very painful GGT, and it would involve losing friends, which hurts even more. In some cases, the needed concessions can’t even be made publicly: An adult with a full-time job cannot publicly admit to having in the past been a racist or a misogynist without risking being fired if the company heard about it.
re: #300 Dark_Falcon
I’m glad that deadbeat dad is relegated to local wingnut AM and that he lost to a real American Hero.
re: #308 Dark_Falcon
It’s very painful GGT, and it would involve losing friends, which hurts even more. In some cases, the needed concessions can’t even be made publicly: An adult with a full-time job cannot publicly admit to having in the past been a racist or a misogynist without risking being fired if the company heard about it.
Maybe being an only child makes that part different for me.
I think it’s not so much about admitting the past but showing how you’ve grown and survived. It gives other people the strength and let’s them know they are not alone.
re: #306 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Rethinking one’s world view would shatter many people.
I don’t get it.
But it seems to be the way it is.
People who are incapable of individual growth - they lack the means to do it. There’s lots of people like that in this world, sad to say.
re: #309 Eric The Fruit Bat
I’m glad that deadbeat dad is relegated to local wingnut AM and that he lost to a real American Hero.
So am I. Walsh had to go, simply as a matter of political hygiene.
Unfortunately, in Illinois both parties have a serious political cleanliness problem.
re: #311 Dr Lizardo
People who are incapable of individual growth - they lack the means to do it. There’s lots of people like that in this world, sad to say.
I have a hard time accepting that. The body/brain is very plastic. With help, I believe we can do just about anything.
Asking for help, it seems is the hard part.
re: #309 Eric The Fruit Bat
I’m glad that deadbeat dad is relegated to local wingnut AM and that he lost to a real American Hero.
Indeed, glad to see Duckworth is running for the Senate now too. She’s great.
Later. More wood staining today. Inside of front entrance prepped and ready to go.
re: #307 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Eastern Faits’ do not have the monopoly on funny head gear.
True. The Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholic headgear get pretty wild. But I was pretty clear that I was mentioning turbans, not yarmukles, cornettes, hijabs, birettas, mitres, shtreimel, etc….
re: #316 Eric The Fruit Bat
True. The Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholic headgear get pretty wild. But I was pretty clear that I was mentioning turbans, not yarmukles, cornettes, hijabs, birettas, mitres, shtreimel, etc….
I know, just had to put that in.
People do get weird about headgear that is not a baseball cap.
I even have issues with cowboy hats worn East of the Mississippi.
:)
re: #313 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I have a hard time accepting that. The body/brain is very plastic. With help, I believe we can do just about anything.
Asking for help, it seems is the hard part.
I’ve met people, unfortunately, who are quite incapable of it - they simply lack the equipment to do it. They’re stuck in their particular worldview, and they simply cannot break out from it.
re: #318 Dr Lizardo
I’ve met people, unfortunately, who are quite incapable of it - they simply lack the equipment to do it. They’re stuck in their particular worldview, and they simply cannot break out from it.
Lack of brain development?
I’ve seen quite a few about which I wonder if their front lobes get much electrical current.
re: #305 Eric The Fruit Bat
In closing, let me say this: those of you who think you know what’s going on in the midddle annoy those of us who actually do know what’s going on. Unfortunately, the only way those who can be called to account will require a change in government unafraid of facing its past or perhaps a World War III where the United States will be the belligerent nation forced to surrender and submit to the World Court. If The GOP gets control in 2016, we’ll be down that road by 2018.
I’m sorry but I have to downding that. If you honestly think the USa would start a world war you have truly taken the counsel of your fears.
re: #312 Dark_Falcon
Unfortunately, in Illinois both parties have a serious political cleanliness problem.
I know-I used to live there. Patronage just spewed out everywhere. It wasn’t too bad out where I was (Kane County) but the property taxes were just obscene.
re: #306 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Rethinking one’s world view would shatter many people.
I don’t get it.
But it seems to be the way it is.
And then there are chameleons, like Brother Antoninus.
re: #314 HappyWarrior
Indeed, glad to see Duckworth is running for the Senate now too. She’s great.
Well, I won’t support her in that effort, but I not due to animosity. I simply agree with Mark Kirk more politically. Moreover, he isn’t a rotter like Walsh.
re: #322 Eric The Fruit Bat
I know-I used to live there. Patronage just spewed out everywhere. It wasn’t too bad out where I was (Kane County) but the property taxes were just obscene.
You think Kane County is bad — It’s one of the least expensive.
re: #325 Dark_Falcon
Well, I won’t support her in that effort, but I not due to animosity. I simply agree with Mark Kirk more politically. Moreover, he isn’t a rotter like Walsh.
Kirk isn’t nearly what Duckworth is.
re: #325 Dark_Falcon
Well, I won’t support her in that effort, but I not due to animosity. I simply agree with Mark Kirk more politically. Moreover, he isn’t a rotter like Walsh.
I know that you like Kirk dude and I am also aware that Kirk isn’t an assole like Walsh but he does have his moments where he lowers himself to your party’s rotten bullshit.
re: #328 HappyWarrior
I know that you like Kirk dude and I am also aware that Kirk isn’t an assole like Walsh but he does have his moments where he lowers himself to your party’s rotten bullshit.
Duckworth has been thru hell and thrived. She has no fears regarding losing her political career. I think it is all Kirk has.
re: #324 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Orwellian Nightmare: Congress May Block States from Requiring GMO Labeling
Alternet is being loopy. Commerce is GMO foods is interstate commerce and, given the potential for state laws to have national implications on this issue, the Constitution empowers Congress to act to preempt state laws if needed.
On this matter, Congress can stand solidly upon the Commerce Clause, IMO.
re: #330 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Duckworth has been thru hell and thrived. She has no fears regarding losing her political career. I think it is all Kirk has.
She is simply one tough lady. The way that cowardly asshole Walsh mocked her says a lot about him and his party.
re: #327 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Kirk isn’t nearly what Duckworth is.
He’s closer than you think he is. He overcame a stroke that would have forced many people into retirement (with help from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, whom I always give a big shout-out to.)
re: #333 Dark_Falcon
He’s closer than you think he is. He overcame a stroke that would have forced many people into retirement (with help from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, whom I always give a big shout-out to.)
And Mark Kirk does not have to be all Tammy Duckworth is for me to vote for him, since he’s on my team and he’s much more than good enough to pass muster.
Not “party over all”, but I’ll take the very good candidate I agree with over the excellent candidate I do not agree with.
BBL
re: #334 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Terrifying Video Shows Cops Shock a Cuffed, Shackled Natasha McKenna to Death…Cops Walk Free
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And that in a crux is why the BLM movement exists. People like to cry out “Blue Lives Matter.” Well cop killers aren’t being acquitted or not even indicted. In fact, you’re far more likely to receive the death penalty if you kill a cop than anyone else.
re: #321 Dark_Falcon
I’m sorry but I have to downding that. If you honestly think the USa would start a world war you have truly taken the counsel of your fears.
Please do. But the US’s history in meddling in other country’s affairs is no longer debatable, and since the Korean Conflict the US’s foreign military engagement has left more death and destruction than the sum of all natural disasters since the Korean conflict. And what did we get in return?
A whole lot of dead and wounded Americans and many allies now no longer trusting us.
And we deserve that.
re: #326 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
You think Kane County is bad — It’s one of the least expensive.
I had a 1400 sq. ft townhome in Carpentersville. Property taxes were $4,000.
I now live in a suburb of St. Paul in Ramsey County, MN in a 1200 sq ft townhome. Property taxes are $728.
(Of course, I do get hit when it comes to renewing my plates. MN taxes the vehicle value unlike IL, where it was always a flat rate. Since I bought a new RAV4, I expect my sticker renewal to be close to $400.)
re: #317 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I know, just had to put that in.
People do get weird about headgear that is not a baseball cap.
I even have issues with cowboy hats worn East of the Mississippi.
:)
Just don’t do it in Central Florida.
re: #339 BeenHereAwhile
What-don’t wear a Cowboy Hat or don’t wear the other headgear?
Meanwhile, we’re looking at a government shutdown over defunding Planned Parenthood. The House Freedom Caucus, with more than 40 members, will oppose any funding for PP. The leadership attempted to appease them with the offer of a bill to halt all PP funding for a year while “investigations take place” and they refused the deal.
Boehner has stated that he does not want to negotiate with the Democrats to get enough votes to pass the budget bills. McConnell says that he’ doesn’t want the House wasting time on bills that will either die in the Senate or be vetoed by Obama.
While some of the GOP’s putative nominees pour gasoline on the anti-PP flames, other GOPers remain convinced that this time, this time, Obama will be blamed for the shutdown - even though polling still shows strong support for PP.
I lay 3-1 on a government shutdown. Should that sorry thing come to pass the GOP will have shut down the federal government over some doctored video tapes produced by a known fraud. The media will portray the shutdown as an act of conscience by deeply religious people.
re: #341 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Meanwhile, we’re looking at a government shutdown over defunding Planned Parenthood. The House Freedom Caucus, with more than 40 members, will oppose any funding for PP. The leadership attempted to appease them with the offer of a bill to halt all PP funding for a year while “investigations take place” and they refused the deal.
Boehner has stated that he does not want to negotiate with the Democrats to get enough votes to pass the budget bills. McConnell says that he’ doesn’t want the House wasting time on bills that will either die in the Senate or be vetoed by Obama.
While some of the GOP’s putative nominees pour gasoline on the anti-PP flames, other GOPers remain convinced that this time, this time, Obama will be blamed for the shutdown - even though polling still shows strong support for PP.
I lay 3-1 on a government shutdown. Should that sorry thing come to pass the GOP will have shut down the federal government over some doctored video tapes produced by a known fraud. The media will portray the shutdown as an act of conscience by deeply religious people.
Sheesh. Not this shit again. Glad I am not working for the feds this time but the whole thing is still shitty. The Republicans pathetic vendetta against PP needs to end.
re: #341 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Any shutdown can and must be laid down at the hands of the extremist GOP within Congress. It’s all on them. Democrats must make this absolutely clear.
The videos by CMP were BS. Every last one of them. Completely and unequivocably so. Just because CMP produced a bunch of them makes them no more accurate than the Hobbit relays events of an earlier age of man in world history.
The videos are agitprop. And they’ve worked by giving the anti-choice extremists a lynchpin to try and defund PP, even though abortion is legal, fetal tissue donations are legal, and nothing that PP has done - on or off that video falls afoul of the law.
The law is quite besides the point to the anti-choice extremists. They want to see the law undone, and they are more than willing to harm the health care of millions to do it. We know that they’re more than capable - witness the 50+ votes to defund the ACA, which has brought health care coverage to millions that otherwise would not have it and the ongoing efforts to thwart access to millions more.
They must be stopped.
20 yo living at home w/ parents arrested on terrorism charges, likely same person who started Shaun King attacks. https://t.co/SXTjD9u5xf
— Goldie Taylor (@goldietaylor) September 12, 2015
So it turns out Milo’s source for his smear piece on Shaun King was just arrested for domestic terrorism. Needless to say, old Milo is denying he ever knew the guy.
re: #319 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Depending on the individuals medical issues and job functions, I’m actually surprised we’re not seeing more of this here. Between CPAPs, getting paged in the middle of the night when something shits the bed at work, etc, you would think it would be a no-brainer for some home builders to create ‘splittable’ master bedrooms with matching beds. Sleep disturbances isn’t trivial-your body does a significant amount of damage control/repair, and having that get messed up isn’t a good thing.
re: #344 Ace-o-aces
Oh, goody. Looks like Milo’s career is getting fucked.
re: #342 HappyWarrior
Sheesh. Not this shit again. Glad I am not working for the feds this time but the whole thing is still shitty. The Republicans pathetic vendetta against PP needs to end.
The vendetta against PP will not end anytime soon. It is only of the only reasons they have to get out of bed in the morning.
re: #288 darthstar
So that’s why my doctor keeps calling to get me to schedule an appointment.
Yoru doctor has a panel to answer to, A DEATH PANEL!
re: #344 Ace-o-aces
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So it turns out Milo’s source for his smear piece on Shaun King was just arrested for domestic terrorism. Needless to say, old Milo is denying he ever knew the guy.
Just like Hannity and his neo-nazi pal Hal.
re: #347 Iwouldprefernotto
The vendetta against PP will not end anytime soon. It is only of the only reasons they have to get out of bed in the morning.
No doubt sigh.
re: #346 Eric The Fruit Bat
Oh, goody. Looks like Milo’s career is getting fucked.
Just like his pal CCJ. Maybe they can drown their sorrows together over cheap scotch.
re: #351 HappyWarrior
Just like his pal CCJ. Maybe they can drown their sorrows together over cheap scotch.
At the rate their careers are flailing about, Mad Dog 20/20 is appropriate beverage.
re: #352 lawhawk
At the rate their careers are flailing about, Mad Dog 20/20 is appropriate beverage.
Too urban. Wild Irish Rose, perhaps.
re: #233 freetoken
It’s also telling that writers think of this as a “hard left” turn. When I look at that list only two strike me as inherently socialist:
Renationalizing the railways and energy companies;
A minimum wage of £10 per hour.Some of the other stuff is proposed, for example, by various “libertarians”. Such as decreasing defense spending.
Financing large projects through “quantitative easing” is more mainstream than lefist.
And even the salary cap isn’t that radical of an idea, if places like Switzerland have toyed with the idea.
The US basically had a salary cap when we had a 90% top marginal rate.
re: #344 Ace-o-aces
That’s the same Kahanist discussed above.
And for the sake of accuracy: Milo is scum, but his source is listed in his article - it’s that crazy white supremacist Pate woman. He does not deny that Goldberg sent him several links.
re: #292 Eric The Fruit Bat
Hey, don’t laugh-the Soviets used several small-yield nukes to seal up runaway well explosions successfully.
I find that kind of doubtful. High-yield FAEs perhaps, but not nukes.
Shaun White is white. It’s his last name! LOL Stupid Libturds!
As if it matters what % he is white.
re: #357 Camacho DeezNuts 2016
Shaun White is white. It’s his last name! LOL Stupid Libturds!
As if it matters what % he is white.
Didn’t CCJ call him an ocatroon or some really pathetic term that comes from the days of slavery?
re: #357 Camacho DeezNuts 2016
Shaun White is white. It’s his last name! LOL Stupid Libturds!
As if it matters what % he is white.
The last name is King ;)
Joshua Goldberg posed as ISIS, feminist, Jewish lawyer, white supremacist; also #GamerGater http://t.co/WAbnCDGVIS pic.twitter.com/FyiOKcravM
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) September 12, 2015
A thoroughly twisted individual who dabbled in a little of everything - and none of it any good.
Of course, that will likely be the spin his lawyers use - that he was mentally ill and therefore not fully aware his actions were wrong.
It’s either that or he really is just as sick and twisted, and that he knew what he was doing - and did it anyways.
re: #359 Nyet
The last name is King ;)
Heh I think Camacho may have been thinking of the snowboarder who spells his first name the same way and who is indeed quite white.
re: #360 lawhawk
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A thoroughly twisted individual who dabbled in a little of everything - and none of it any good.
Of course, that will likely be the spin his lawyers use - that he was mentally ill and therefore not fully aware his actions were wrong.
It’s either that or he really is just as sick and twisted, and that he knew what he was doing - and did it anyways.
Some people just have too much time on theiir hands.
re: #359 Nyet
Oh, I thought it was the skateboarder. My bad.
Watch Oregonâs Lost Lake disappear down a bizarre hole
http://t.co/nlcDv4O4xk pic.twitter.com/e0tut9LjhMâ Larry Cooper (@coopah) September 12, 2015
Boring to watch, but fascinating to think about.
Snowboarder, anti-police brutality and BLM activist. Easy to confuse the two.
re: #356 Romantic Heretic
I find that kind of doubtful. High-yield FAEs perhaps, but not nukes.
re: #343 lawhawk
If we had a media that was at all invested in informing the people those who produced the anti-PP videos would have have been mocked to oblivion as soon as they raised their misshapen heads. It isn’t that way because too many fortunes are dependent on maintaining the desperate charade that the GOP hasn’t descended into madness.
re: #363 Camacho DeezNuts 2016
Oh, I thought it was the skateboarder. My bad.
Here’s a skateboarder. Not white, though.
#DouglasMilesJr #DougMiles pic.twitter.com/9N9WrqaxrK
— APACHE Skateboards (@apachesk8boards) September 4, 2015
I’m playing me ‘No Coffee Yet’ card.
re: #336 HappyWarrior
And that in a crux is why the BLM movement exists. People like to cry out “Blue Lives Matter.” Well cop killers aren’t being acquitted or not even indicted. In fact, you’re far more likely to receive the death penalty if you kill a cop than anyone else.
It is quite a disturbing video. I know nothing of how this is handled by law enforcement routinely. Dealing with a mentally ill person who is obviously agitated, I gather, is handled differently in a medical setting.
why medical personnel couldn’t be doing the transport is not something I understand.
It’s probably a jurisdictional/procedural/bureaucratic/budget/personnel vipers nest as to how this is handled by police departments.
All I see is a person of an ethnic group that is at risk for high blood pressure. This mentally ill person who may have high blood pressure is agitated from the start possibly raising already high blood pressure—then is man-handled (by what seems like standard uncooperative prisoner procedure), falls, and is subsequently tasered 4 times.
Yeah, this could be recipe for a heart attack or stroke.
From the video, I can’t see that any of the officers were openly hostile to the prisoner.
It doesn’t help to hear her say “you guys said you weren’t going to kill me” as she is removed from the cell.
I have to get on with my day.
bbl
re: #347 Iwouldprefernotto
The vendetta against PP will not end anytime soon. It is only of the only reasons they have to get out of bed in the morning.
If they ever stopped bleating about PP and Benghazi for two seconds someone might ask them for the details of one of their master plans.
re: #369 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Lakes down holes are scary.
See what happened in Louisiana in the 80s.
They tried to make the one in Washington sound scary, and failed. The one at Lake Peigneur is scary.
re: #372 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
It is quite a disturbing video. I know nothing of how this is handled by law enforcement routinely. Dealing with a mentally ill person who is obviously agitated, I gather, is handled differently in a medical setting.
why medical personnel couldn’t be doing the transport is not something I understand.
It’s probably a jurisdictional/procedural/bureaucratic/budget/personnel vipers nest as to how this is handled by police departments.
All I see is a person of an ethnic group that is at risk for high blood pressure. This mentally ill person who may have high blood pressure is agitated from the start possibly raising already high blood pressure—then is man handled (by what seems like standard prisoner procedure), falls, and is subsequently tasered 4 times.
Yeah, this could be recipe for a heart attack or stroke.
From the video, I can’t see that any of the officers were openly hostile to the prisoner.
It doesn’t help to hear her say “you guys said you weren’t going to kill me” as she is removed from the cell.
I have to get on with my day.
bbl
What I am sick of is this notion that wanting police officers who are trained professionals to be held to a high standard is somehow anti cop. I am not anti cop. I am anti police brutality. Just like being opposed to war crimes doesn’t make me anti military. We need to be better equipped as a society to deal with and understand mental illness. Blaming mental illness as we often do following tragedies like Sandy Hook and Charleston isn’t the way to do that. It just stigmatizes those with mental illness and puts an image in the public’s mind that mentally ill= violent and out of control.
Government’s job is to help the rich get richer, so that they will have more money to share with the middle class and poor. #Jeb!
— Jeb W. Bush (@TheNotoriousJEB) September 12, 2015
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re: #376 Dave In Austin
It’s been more than 35 years since Reagan convinced America that the best way to end hunger among the sparrows is to feed the horse more oats. Though the Tweet is parody, much of America still seems to be so convinced.
I put a notification request last year for these plates from Cost Plus. They finally are back in stock! Can’t wait.
Plates!!re: #378 #CampaignZero
I put a notification request last year for these plates from Cost Plus. They finally are back in stock! Can’t wait.
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I make mine from real skulls.
re: #378 #CampaignZero
I put a notification request last year for these plates from Cost Plus. They finally are back in stock! Can’t wait.
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We got no Cost Plus, but we got a lot of second-hand stores! I’ll keep my eyes peeled.
re: #378 #CampaignZero
The 2 on the left have pies for eyes.
re: #381 wrenchwench
We got no Cost Plus, but we got a lot of second-hand stores! I’ll keep my eyes peeled.
Online, via their really slow website!
re: #385 #CampaignZero
Very expensive. It’s become one of the symbols of Putin’s regime’s corruption.
re: #387 Nyet
Very expensive. It’s become one of the symbols of Putin’s regime’s corruption.
Ya, I know.
re: #357 Camacho DeezNuts 2016
Shaun White is white. It’s his last name! LOL Stupid Libturds!
As if it matters what % he is white.
Isn’t Shaun White a ginger snowboarder, Doesn’t get much whiter than that? Did you mean Shaun King?
re: #389 danarchy
Isn’t Shaun White a ginger snowboarder, Doesn’t get much whiter than that? Did you mean Shaun King?
Yes I meant Shaun King.
Gah. One of my High School friends on FB is going all 911 Truther. I frakkin HATE CTs. They think they’re being skeptical, but they’re really being just as credulous as Creationist or any other brand of Denialist.
This photographer lived in Syria for years. Now he lives in Turkey.
Some Turkish cities seem to be looking very much like Syrian cities these days.
— John Wreford (@JohnWreford) September 12, 2015
re: #392 Nyet
LIHOP or MIHOP?
MIHOP. (Had to look it up.) “Controlled demolition”
She started out with the standard ‘Jet fuel burns at 1700 degrees, but steel melts at 2500 degrees’, and when that was debunked, she went to ‘why did it fall symmetrically?”
So I told her she had to answer these questions:
Why?
By whom?
For what purpose?
And how do you account for the Pentagon and Flight 93?
Why did Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda take credit, and later when hounded by the US, why did they not go public with that knowledge?
How has this effort, which must have involved hundreds of people, managed to be kept secret?
For 14 years, not ONE PERSON involved has had an attack of conscience that made them go public?
Her response? “Look into them for yourself!”
The worst thing is, like a lot of truthers and denialists, she’s rational about pretty much everything else. I’ve known a number of folks who have just one CT they fall for, where they go completely off the rails, while arguing rationally against all other CTs.
Chuck Johnson on his Gawker lawsuit: “We’re currently winning… based on my understanding of what’s going on.” He’s only filed a complaint.
— Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh) September 8, 2015
re: #394 Blind Frog Belly White
Sort of mirrors the Holocaust deniers with their crematoria capacity arguments.
re: #364 wrenchwench
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Boring to watch, but fascinating to think about.
If there were fish there it would freak them out. But from the explanation of how it fills and drains I doubt there are any fish that make it there in that short of time and location.
Fascinating to watch Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos frantically trying to deny his links to a RW troll arrested for terrorism by the FBI.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 12, 2015
Even more interesting - Milo Yiannopoulos has deleted his tweets to Joshua Goldberg.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 12, 2015
re: #364 wrenchwench
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Boring to watch, but fascinating to think about.
MN has The Devil’s Kettle on the Brule River in the northeast tip of the state along the north shore. It’s a great hike back in the woods and it’s pretty fascinating to watch. The river splits in two at a rock outcropping. Half of the falls drops to the river below, and the other half disappears into a hole and no one can figure out where it ends up.
re: #401 Charles Johnson
Interesting. Feministing has also deleted the articles that the terrorist wrote for them.
re: #404 stpaulbear
I’ve been there as a kid. We stayed at this fancy lodge on the lake and looked for agates on the beach.
We come in the ship they call the Mayflower We come in the ship that sailed the moon https://t.co/tt9ubcUONH
— Sean Quinn (@nachofiesta) September 12, 2015
re: #225 Dom
Jeremy Corbyn is 66 now, he’ll be 71 when the next election comes around in 2020 and he doesn’t look in the best of health anyway. I don’t see him still being the Labour Party leader in five years time but he’ll act as ablative armour while he lasts. His election may push the currently right-wing Labour party to the left such that a sliver of daylight can be seen between them and the Conservatives. Oh, and fuck the UKIP.
re: #406 Dave In Austin
I’ve been there as a kid. We stayed at this fancy lodge on the lake and looked for agates on the beach.
Was it the Naniboujou lodge? I’ve never stayed there but that dining room is amazing. The colors are just as bright as in this photo. An amazing place. The north shore of Lake Superior is my favorite getaway.
BTW, screenshots are not the best evidence when it comes to tweets. Arguably they are not evidence at all since they can be easily faked.
This however is evidence, while it lasts:
re: #409 stpaulbear
Was it the Naniboujou lodge? I’ve never stayed there but that dining room is amazing. The colors are just as bright as in this photo. An amazing place. The north shore of Lake Superior is my favorite getaway.
I think that was it….. I would do that again.
re: #410 Nyet
BTW, screenshots are not the best evidence when it comes to tweets. Arguably they are not evidence at all since they can be easily faked.
This however is evidence, while it lasts:
re: #332 HappyWarrior
Did you see where she tore apart some asshole who claimed disability from a high school football injury?
re: #404 stpaulbear
MN has The Devil’s Kettle on the Brule River in the northeast tip of the state along the north shore. It’s a great hike back in the woods and it’s pretty fascinating to watch. The river splits in two at a rock outcropping. Half of the falls drops to the river below, and the other half disappears into a hole and no one can figure out where it ends up.
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It’s how the devil irrigates his pitchfork crop.
Emails/tweets between @BreitbartNews & @Nero about their planned attack on me with the man just arrested by the FBI pic.twitter.com/5WGK1NrtdD
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 12, 2015
re: #416 Charles Johnson
From the new emails he appears to have been a source, but not “the” source. The woman behind the attack was white supremacist Pate.
re: #417 Nyet
From the new emails he appears to have been a source, but not “the” source. The woman behind the attack was white supremacist Pate.
Yes, but it was Goldberg who tipped Milo off to her shady post.
re: #418 Charles Johnson
Yes, but it was Goldberg who tipped Milo off to her shady post.
We don’t know that, do we?
re: #204 Nyet
So that guy, Joshua Goldberg, they arrested in Floriduh for impersonating an Islamist on twitter and then helping an undercover FBI agent posing as another Islamist with assembling a bomb to blow up people at a 9/11 memorial?
He also used the handle MoonMetropolis for twitter and for writing articles for Blazingcatfur, a Kahanist site associated with JDL-Canada.
re: #360 lawhawk
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A thoroughly twisted individual who dabbled in a little of everything - and none of it any good.
Of course, that will likely be the spin his lawyers use - that he was mentally ill and therefore not fully aware his actions were wrong.
It’s either that or he really is just as sick and twisted, and that he knew what he was doing - and did it anyways.
re: #402 Charles Johnson
Milo deleted this:
In searching Twitter for Moon Metropolis and BCF, I quickly discovered that Richard Dawkins also unapologetically links to the BCF scum. Several people called him out on it—his response? “So what?”
“To place an LGBT parade” [in a Muslim area of Sweden] “is an expression of pure racism.” Sums up the pathetic Left. http://t.co/kfFQXjzVtR
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) July 23, 2015
@ademotivator I’m aware of that. So what? It is still pathetic and illogical to call an LGBT march “racist”.
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) July 23, 2015
@McPoyle I’m well aware the parade is organised by people whom I would disagree with on other topics. But topic at hand is Gay support.
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) July 28, 2015
@Nidskrivare So what? I don’t care who organises it. It is still pathetic and illogical to call an LGBT march “racist”.
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) July 23, 2015
re: #420 CuriousLurker
Dawkins has been lost a long time ago…
re: #421 Charles Johnson
He says so in this post: archive.is
That’s not what Milo said though. That’s what Goldberg wanted to be true. Was it true? I have no idea.
re: #422 Nyet
Dawkins has been lost a long time ago…
Yeah, but there are still people (on the left) who seem to revere him despite his bigotry. It’s a curious thing to see.
re: #423 Nyet
That’s not what Milo said though. That’s what Goldberg wanted to be true. Was it true? I have no idea.
I’m more inclined to believe what the troll wrote before being arrested by the FBI, than Milo’s frantic attempts to obfuscate the situation. This email backs up his story:
re: #424 CuriousLurker
One of the sadder things I’ve seen on the Internet has been Richard Dawkins’ descent into virulent anti-Muslim bigotry. He’s always been an argumentative atheist, but now he’s as bad as Pamela Geller when it comes to Islam in particular.
re: #425 Charles Johnson
I’m more inclined to believe what the troll wrote before being arrested by the FBI, than Milo’s frantic attempts to obfuscate the situation. This email backs up his story:
I’m not inclined to believe anything a terrorist who posed as a free speech advocate, a female feminist and an ISIS Islamist at once has to say, esp. before the arrest, while he was still managing these multiple sockpuppets
Maybe he was the first to tip Milo off to that website, or maybe, as Milo claims, he already knew about it. Speculation either way.
re: #426 Charles Johnson
One of the sadder things I’ve seen on the Internet has been Richard Dawkins’ descent into virulent anti-Muslim bigotry. He’s always been an argumentative atheist, but now he’s as bad as Pamela Geller when it comes to Islam in particular.
His comment to that one woman was really fucked up. Took him years to apologize. He may be a brilliant scientist but he’s an ass.
re: #424 CuriousLurker
Yeah, but there are still people (on the left) who seem to revere him despite his bigotry. It’s a curious thing to see.
Sam Harris is another lefty that is very anti-Muslim too. I sadly know all too well that the left isn’t immune from anti-Muslim hate. I really understand why people have a problem with religion but I also have a problem with blaming Muslims like you, Dr. Lizardo, Tardis, and I apologize if I missed any other Muslim lizards and my friends, neighbors,coworkers, and classmates who have been Muslim for Al Queda. Plus I hate how it is ignored that Al Queda, ISIS, etc has killed more Muslims than non-Muslims.
re: #426 Charles Johnson
It’s really weird. It would be like me linking to some racist, antisemitic, or jihadist site, then when people call me out on it respond with, “So what? I may disagree with them on other topics, but they’re totally right about this subject.” O_O
re: #430 wrenchwench
Brains are overrated.
WE BEG TO DIFFER!!! … OK, except with RWNJs - we can still starve to death after all..re: #436 Archangelus
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re: #386 Whack-A-Mole
My late reply now. I am so thrilled to hear that! He is so adorable!
We have a black and tan doxie and I really (really, really) want an English Cream. Our little bean is so cute and he never ceases to amaze me. He can jump onto almost anything (couch, bed!) and with his little stubby legs I have a hard time wrapping my head around the physics. He jumps onto things my Cav wants to but never can.
Keep us posted on Schnitzel’s progress. Pictures welcome!! :-)
re: #427 Nyet
I’m not inclined to believe anything a terrorist who posed as a free speech advocate, a female feminist and an ISIS Islamist at once has to say, esp. before the arrest, while he was still managing these multiple sockpuppets
Maybe he was the first to tip Milo off to that website, or maybe, as Milo claims, he already knew about it. Speculation either way.
Well, “inclined to believe” doesn’t mean I do believe. But that post was written at the time, and it’s backed up by an email. We don’t know if he was telling the truth, but I don’t see why he would lie about that, and Milo’s reply back to him seems to indicate that he was hearing about it for the first time: “This is right up my alley.” If he had already heard about the Shaun King accusations I think he would have said so.
And Milo is behaving in a very guilty way right now, deleting tweets and lashing out.
I don’t know for sure who’s lying, of course. But Milo has a very strong motive to lie at this point.
@Green_Footballs he’s trying to attack @Spacekatgal now. She got trolled by Goldberg, he collaborated with him. pic.twitter.com/bAb3hhsoEX
— help me understand (@Deckard_B26354) September 12, 2015
That last tweet shows that the Feministing article was removed before Goldberg was arrested. Brianna Wu explains in later tweets that it was because it didn’t meet their standards of sourcing.
So basically, everyone on the intertubes is a 14 year old FBI agent writing for Stormfront.
re: #440 Charles Johnson
Note that I don’t doubt the emails, because Milo did confirm them (he already has a whole article about this). So the question of trust is indeed irrelevant: Goldberg couldn’t know whether he was the first, he could only speculate on the basis of this correspondence, exactly what we are doing now.
So it boils down to whether Milo would or would not have indicated that he had read the renewsit article to Goldberg. Seeing how Milo is hardly a straightforward fellow (going by his twitter behavior) this is a shaky basis for a firm conclusion.
re: #444 Nyet
And that’s why I’m specifically not making a firm conclusion.
re: #408 Nojay UK
It would be nice if it induced the Tories to be a little more progressive, more reasonable on areas of concern like protecting the UK’s environment and wildlife, bit less about fossil fuels etc. :)
(Well it would.)
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