The Trumpenstein is taking out its competitors one by one; the latest Republican victim of its wrath is Scott Walker.
And here’s why Walker’s bailing out:
In the most recent CNN survey, Mr. Walker drew support nationally from less than one-half of one percent of Republican primary voters.
Ouch.
#ScottWalker: Don’t let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha! #tcot #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/TNqa9tqpTP
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) September 21, 2015
Scott Walker is returning to his job as, from the looks of him, overwhelmed mid-major college basketball coach.
— Josh Patten (@thejoshpatten) September 21, 2015
Robert F. List, the former Nevada governor who chaired Mr. Walker’s campaign in that state, said Mr. Walker had suffered in a primary season dominated by charismatic outsider candidates, including Mr. Trump, Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson.Those three, Mr. List said, “have been surging and it dilutes the strength of the balance of the rest of the field.”
I’m having a little difficulty….charismatic, Carson, Fiorina. I confess Trump has a certain appeal to a particular type. But…OK, please proceed, GOP
WELL…. good for America, bad for Wisconsin, but then again, they elected him, so that’s kind of their lookout.
it’s like trying to determine what’s the least bad grape in a bunch of bruised and fuzzy fruit.
. @LizMair so sad to see a college dropout keep dropping out while screwing over public employees and comparing them to ISIL. #fuckyouliz
— Annemarie Dickey (@Scottishlizard1) September 21, 2015
Yeah, I thought with the Koch Brothers’ $$$, Walker would be nearly invincible. But he turned out to be invincibly stupid.
This Tweet is dedicated to all the private citizens dedicated to making Scott Walker a private citizen.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) September 21, 2015
re: #6 dholmes32
Yeah, I thought with the Koch Brothers’ $$$, Walker would be nearly invincible. But he turned out to be invincibly stupid.
Unable to even pull off the role of ‘lovable doofus’.
Breaking: Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice N. Patrick Crooks dies at the court http://t.co/62evNiSx6E
— Journal Sentinel (@journalsentinel) September 21, 2015
When asked about his departure Scott said; “Huh?”
No Blanket Immunity From Discovery for Abortion Foes http://t.co/mZQKRZdYjC @lawhawk @FurlingtonJeff @SpeakerBoehner
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 21, 2015
Unlike Bush, he must have had only one backer. Bush has pretty much acted the same, but he’ll stick around because he’s the establishment candidate.
Figures that @LizMair is proud of ‘professionally escorting’ a corporate owned sleaze who sold out education for a sport stadium #fuckyouliz
— Annemarie Dickey (@Scottishlizard1) September 21, 2015
Was only a matter of time before Dawkins, the reactionary, would start linking to Breitbart conspiracy theories. pic.twitter.com/12H6zDoyZX
— Izzy Galvez (@iglvzx) September 21, 2015
When they crunched the numbers on support for Scott Walkers campaign, they found none. Except Crazy Ed down at the Dairy Queen and Two Toe Tommy at Walts Diner said they would vote for him.
re: #14 Kragar
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If Dawkins weren’t mentally ill:
‘Simply ask, “Is it true?”, then link to Breitbart and say, “NO!”’
Walker flamed out barely rating an asterisk in polling. That takes effort. Think about it this way, he couldn’t even sustain a margin of error in polling (above 3 points on average).
It was a combination of being an awful candidate, poor polling, and an unsustainable burn rate.
Yet, if you had Walker dropping out before George Pataki, go claim your billion dollar jackpot ticket.
Walker now gets to go back to screwing over Wisconsin residents solely.
With all the Koch money behind him I honestly thought this guy would be tough to beat but I am so happy I was completely wrong.
re: #17 lawhawk
Walker flamed out barely rating an asterisk in polling. That takes effort. Think about it this way, he couldn’t even sustain a margin of error in polling (above 3 points on average).
It was a combination of being an awful candidate, poor polling, and an unsustainable burn rate.
Yet, if you had Walker dropping out before George Pataki, go claim your billion dollar jackpot ticket.
Walker now gets to go back to screwing over Wisconsin residents solely.
They wanted him. Now they really do have him. How long will it take to undo what he has done in Wisconsin?
I think I have annoyed Liz Mair.
. @LizMair always a 1st time when you need to get your resume to the Rubio Campaign? Those teachers still need to be screwed some more!
— Annemarie Dickey (@Scottishlizard1) September 21, 2015
re: #14 Kragar
I stopped following that bigoted creep a while ago. Makes us non-believers look like assholes.
A poem:
So, farewell, then, Scott Walker
Although for Wisconsin it’s more of an “au revoir”
And for workers it’s more of a “when does this clown fuck off for good?”
re: #18 Nature’sMasterpiece
With all the Koch money behind him I honestly thought this guy would be tough to beat but I am so happy I was completely wrong.
Welcome, hatchling.
I would also add that many on Team Walker did a good job, despite horrendous odds and circumstances esp towards the end.
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) September 21, 2015
Many on Team Walker did a good job? Doing what? Helping their candidate do nothing but drop in polls since before the summer? Provide no gameplan on how to reverse that?
I would disagree. Walker’s team was awful, and should be congratulated on wasting so much for so little in return.
Your reward? An asterisk.
Richard Dawkins didn’t just link to Breitbart - he actually linked an article by raving paranoid Birther loon Frank Gaffney.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 21, 2015
As a Wisconsinite, I have to say I’m really torn by this news. I’m glad he’s not heading to the Oval Office but, shit, now we have to take him back.
Well, Walker won something: pic.twitter.com/jcC4RXJ5AE
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 21, 2015
I am not going to pat myself on the back for calling this more than 3 weeks ago. Doing so would be akin to taking credit for picking rotten fruit that had merely fallen off a tree.
Here is what we can say for sure: Walker was a horrible and not even close to qualified candidate who will never trouble the national stage again. My only regret is that he didn’t soldier on longer to flush more Koch money down the toilet.
Speaking of Sad Sacks who will never be President:
So did Rand ever pay up the quarter-mil for his caucus so he could run for both offices simultaneously? Last I heard, the TN SoS said he hadn’t, but Rand said the check was in the mail….
re: #24 lawhawk
well it does kind of lend a bit of scrutiny that you take a guy who has the backing of the Koch Brothers machine, all of that PAC money, the media bathing him in glorious ways indicating his brave anti-union stands, and turning a blind eye to his history and you take all of the “momentum” and turn him loose on the unsuspecting masses and they leave him like the cold casserole of shame at the GOP PTA meeting.
It takes some talent to not be able to sell him to the masses that are looking for a bland white guy who is anti-union, anti-immigrant who has actually held office and make him unpalatable.
Those folks should absolutely keep working for GOP candidates where they could possibly do less harm in the marketplace.
re: #24 lawhawk
I would also add that many on Team Walker did a good job
I’m pretty pleased with them, too, for throwing a chunk of the Kochs’ money down the toilet! I just wish it had been even more, but for the good job they’ve done, Kudos to Team Walker!
. @brennanSV @LizMair she worked for a man who keeps comparing teacher unions to ISIL…she deserves every bit of opprobrium coming her way.
— Annemarie Dickey (@Scottishlizard1) September 21, 2015
re: #35 Aunty Entity Dragon
I feel kinda sorry for her. She’s one of the few conservatives I can still stand and I think she’s smart, but when your job career has been a political consultant for a political party that has gone batshit crazy, what do you do?
re: #35 Aunty Entity Dragon
Exactly so. These professional enablers of lunacy need to be reminded of the shit they’re forcing on others.
re: #31 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Speaking of Sad Sacks who will never be President:
So did Rand ever pay up the quarter-mil for his caucus so he could run for both offices simultaneously? Last I heard, the
TNKentucky SoS said he hadn’t, but Rand said the check was in the mail….
Apparently, he did.
FRANKFORT, Ky -
Rand Paul transferred money Sunday to pay for a caucus to the Kentucky Republican party. Reid Wilson of the Morning Consult sent out a tweet earlier this afternoon that Sunday was the deadline to do so.
On Friday, we reported that Paul had secured the $250,000 for the caucus. This means the first ever republican Kentucky presidential caucus will be held on March 5th of next year. Allowing people to able to vote at county caucus locations for Republican presidential nominees.
Paul wanted a caucus because state law does not allow candidates to appear on a ballot twice in one election. If he didn’t get the money the party would’ve automatically reverted to a primary. Paul is trying to hold onto his U.S. Senate seat while seeking the presidency.
re: #36 Timothy Watson
I feel kinda sorry for her. She’s one of the few conservatives I can still stand and I think she’s smart, but when your job career has been a political consultant for a political party that has gone batshit crazy, what do you do?
Ridicule. Repeat as necessary.
One last thought: Walker’s timing is good. Word is he just avoided getting tied to a very bad story that could well have been coming.
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) September 21, 2015
Perhaps someone found the hard evidence that Scott Walker is actually a spawn of a puffer fish, or whatever goddamnedfrank was positing.
Latest from the RW email cloud: “Jihad by immigration,” is how they’re characterizing Obama’s initiative to admit Syrian refugees.
re: #36 Timothy Watson
I feel kinda sorry for her. She’s one of the few conservatives I can still stand and I think she’s smart, but when your job career has been a political consultant for a political party that has gone batshit crazy, what do you do?
I know she’s smart…and that is why I hold her accountable.
She fucking knows better, or at least she ought to, but she sold whatever principles she had because the Koch gravy train was soooooooo sweet.
Well, I guess its back to fucking up the University of Wisconsin, shitting on teachers, and shoveling more tax money to wealthy donors to build arenas for pro teams.
Ted Cruz Blames Obama For The Way Carson Talked About Muslims
While Cruz is loathsome and fundamentally dishonest, it says much about the GOP field of candidates that he is not the worst human being running to represent that party.
re: #44 bratwurst
he is not the worst human being running to represent that party
The competition is stiff.
re: #44 bratwurst
Ted Cruz Blames Obama For The Way Carson Talked About Muslims
While Cruz is loathsome and fundamentally dishonest, it says much about the GOP field of candidates that he is not the worst human being running to represent that party.
Ted also blames Obama for why he’s an insufferable dick.
re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth
Apparently, he did.
Sorry about the “TN”. I know better than that, too. I think another pot of coffee is in order.
re: #19 nines09
A loooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg time.
re: #45 wrenchwench
The competition is
stiffpainfully and chemically induced turgid.
re: #41 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Latest from the RW email cloud: “Jihad by immigration,” is how they’re characterizing Obama’s initiative to admit Syrian refugees.
That damn Obama. This is why he didn’t go to war with Syria and ISIS, he knew they would drive people out and Obama could move them to America and sneak whoever he wants in with him. Dastardly Obama.
re: #47 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Sorry about the “TN”. I know better than that, too. I think another pot of coffee is in order.
no problem.
These days it’s hard to tell the difference between the two states.
And here is Scott…right off the bat with Reagan. Uh ohh…too negative for him.
Price gouging like this in the specialty drug market is outrageous. Tomorrow I’ll lay out a plan to take it on. -H https://t.co/9Z0Aw7aI6h
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 21, 2015
Overnight, the price of a 62-year-old drug jumped to $750 a tablet from $13.50 http://t.co/Gjs6hz2rSv
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 20, 2015
re: #40 teleskiguy
…a flounder.
I think he’ll do less damage to Wisconsin now that he’s dropped out. He’s no longer flexing on a national stage.
I also think this is what happens to Walker when the media isn’t in his back pocket. It sure the hell is(or has been) here in Wisconsin.
heh, I was thinking the same thing.
:D
Scott Walker takin his pizza n goin home pic.twitter.com/e7lskChNk9
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) September 21, 2015
re: #40 teleskiguy
OK, that’s curious. How does one avoid being tied to a very bad story by dropping ones bid for POTUS? Is she referring to the hideous clown carnival that is the gang of GOP contenders? I guess I wouldn’t want to be associated with them either, but honestly, what is she talking about?
This is a weird message: basically, I’m taking one for the team so we don’t nominate Trump.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 21, 2015
Another Bill Kristol blast from the past insightful prediction:
Scott Walker’s plan to repeal and replace Obamacare offers the prospect of a huge conservative domestic policy win. http://t.co/JovGXJ8gKt
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 18, 2015
What the hell did I just watch? I’ve never heard such a political excuse in my life.
Hey everyone drop out like me!!! We’ll get the group down to a couple and then we’ll see the real numbers.
Uh, those very well may be the real numbers there Scot. Your party’s base loves them some negative personality driven candidates.
LOL
#ScottWalker thanks his god for letting him lead by losing. Did I mention he’s not a Trump fan?
— GottaLaff (@GottaLaff) September 21, 2015
Heh…dude on MSNBC just said Walker was all sour grapes.
Now that’s what I call power:
Clinton tweeted about this http://t.co/omo7UJ5wZG then this happened to the Nasdaq Biotech Index, via @ArmstrongDrew pic.twitter.com/MoxowbIuRV
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) September 21, 2015
losing is winning…I’m pretty sure Sarah Palin used that explanation a lot…
re: #60 ObserverArt
What the hell did I just watch? I’ve never heard such a political excuse in my life.
Hey everyone drop out like me!!! We’ll get the group down to a couple and then we’ll see the real numbers.
Uh, those very well may be the real numbers there Scot. Your party’s base loves them some negative personality driven candidates.
And his supporters are chanting “We’re Number 12, We’re Number 12!”
RBS
Oh my god. the accidental clap there when Walker announced he was suspending his campaign
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) September 21, 2015
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
losing is winning…I’m pretty sure Sarah Palin used that explanation a lot…
Ahhh. Straight from the great political philosopher Carlos Irwin Estévez*
*Charlie Sheen
To Scott Walker and all GOP candidates: You have no one to blame for Trump but yourselves. Got it?
You all helped to foment this mean spirited, ugly, xenophobic crap he is now beating you up with.
Does this mean that Donald Trump > 100,000 protestors?
re: #36 Timothy Watson
I feel kinda sorry for her. She’s one of the few conservatives I can still stand and I think she’s smart, but when your job career has been a political consultant for a political party that has gone batshit crazy, what do you do?
Think, reconsider. Or is that a bridge too far in politics?
re: #61 blueraven
Yep. And he called on others to drop out as well.
He kind of has to for his argument to work. Someone with support >0% will have to drop out and have their support go to a non-Trump clown candidate in order to shift any support from Trump.
Stab Pizza Rat. Peel. Share
— Streetcrow (@streetcrow) September 21, 2015
Scott Walker to quit race to spend more time with family, less time disappointing GOP donors http://t.co/CNDHCvqZg2 pic.twitter.com/RHy2P9LOOu
— The National Memo (@NationalMemo) September 21, 2015
Aug 10: Shkreli’s Turing Pharma banks $90M in a murky funding round - FierceBiotech: http://t.co/vHDwgwIgfF
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 21, 2015
Since founding Turing last year, Shkreli has taken a page from what made Retrophin a high-profile—and controversial—player among small biotech companies. Retrophin’s stated goal was ferreting out value in biopharma by acquiring assets with potential in rare and neglected diseases, a process that can mean acquiring an underused drug and jacking up its cost to take advantage of rare disease pricing.
Shkreli’s tenure at Retrophin came to an end in October when his board ousted him amid accusations of stock impropriety and concerns about his occasionally brash Twitter persona. But he managed to take three Retrophin assets with him on the way to founding Turing, picking up a hypertension drug his new company believes could treat autism, an intranasal formulation of oxytocin and a ketamine spray in development for depression. Moving forward, Turing will operate much like Retrophin, looking “to buy dollar bills for 50 cents,” as Shkreli told Forbes in February.
bwahahahaaaa
.@ScottWalker is a good man who entered the presidential race after winning three grueling campaigns in four years.
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) September 21, 2015
I know many people are disappointed with Scott’s announcement and I respect what a difficult decision it must have been.
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) September 21, 2015
He remains one of the best governors in the country and I have no doubt that he’ll continue the fight for conservative principles.
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) September 21, 2015
Republicans are lucky to have Scott on our team, and I wish the best to him and his family.
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) September 21, 2015
re: #69 blueraven
To Scott Walker and all GOP candidates: You have no one to blame for Trump but yourselves. Got it?
You all helped to foment this mean spirited, ugly, xenophobic crap he is now beating you up with.
This goes double for voters who consistently vote GOP while supposedly deploring the excesses of the Republican party.
The GOP is in a power struggle between ultra-rich sociopaths and the deranged, hateful base the sociopaths have deliberately created.
How can the Democrats reasonably be worse than this GOP?
Right now, Lindsey Graham and George Pataki are fighting over who gets to pick up the seven people who were going to vote for Scott Walker.
— Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich) September 21, 2015
Biotech Drug Stocks Tank After Clinton Tweet on Price Controls http://t.co/n9vH1dEnl2 via @TheStreet
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 21, 2015
July 10, 2015:
Twitter says it’s investigating a premature presidential announcement that popped up on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s account Friday evening. The message, which was quickly deleted, said, “Scott Walker is running for president.”
news.yahoo.com
Guitar solo faces make so much more sense when the guitars are replaced with slugs… pic.twitter.com/WWTFZ9AMFC
— Matt Bloom (@MattBloomFilms) September 13, 2015
I actually thought Walker would do well. Shows what I know.
oh, dear…
Gov. Scott Walker said he is “being called to lead by helping to clear the field” in GOP race for presidency. http://t.co/MLPVhPFNP7.
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) September 21, 2015
Ouch
.
Ouch indeed.
It’s sort of like me watching the rain on radar staying south of the border all day, just teasing us. It’s almost as if Trump built his wall already but made it 10000 feet high and it’s keeping all the rain on that side of the border.
re: #57 Charles Johnson
PIZZA RAT
You know damned well that Pizza Rat don’t eat pizza with a fork. Unlike a bunch of politicians we know and loathe.
Pizza rat eats pizza properly. We New Yorkers appreciate that (though not the walking down the stairs on the wrong side).
I guess we could take from this that national Republicans are smarter than Wisconsin Republicans…but that still isn’t saying a whole lot.
Walkerthink:
“The Bible is full of stories about people who are called to be leaders in unusual ways. Today, I believe that I am being called to lead by helping to clear the field in this race so that a positive conservative message will rise to the top of the field. With this in mind, I will suspend my campaign immediately.”
A burning bush (Jeb!) told him to take his pizza and go home?
Is it too much to hope that he gets a similar leadership calling regarding his governorship in Wisconsin?
re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah. He’s still full of shit.
re: #87 BongCrodny
I guess we could take from this that national Republicans are smarter than Wisconsin Republicans…but that still isn’t saying a whole lot.
But none of them are smarter than a 5th grader.
re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth
To paraphrase the old joke, God’s only purpose for Scott Walker in this race (and perhaps more generally) was to serve as a warning to others.
re: #86 lawhawk
You know damned well that Pizza Rat don’t eat pizza with a fork. Unlike a bunch of politicians we know and loathe.
Pizza rat eats pizza properly. We New Yorkers appreciate that (though not the walking down the stairs on the wrong side).
It occurred to me that the Pizza Rat could have been taking a selfie, so the image would be reversed, so it’s all good.
Walker is now making a calculated move to now be the next Faux analyst, he gets out before anything really damaging gets dug up. Fewer possibilities of staffer screwing preachers and the like and the Koch’s will simply write off his debt. he gets to pontificate on Faux, or CNN and look semi-reasonable in a race that is escalating from rabid to downright unhinged and in his spare time, he can still screw over the serfs of Wisconsin.
win-win for him…. and now he even gets to try and appear noble, malicious fuck that he is.
re: #85 freetoken
We’ve been keeping all the rain here in the border counties just to tease the rest of you.
re: #88 Emoprog Refugee
I don’t know what he may be getting ahead of as far as that tweet about a story coming out, but I really don’t think he’ll win again in Wisconsin. That’s if the Wisconsin Dems get their shit together.
Now Robin Vos, another Republican douchebag who’s worse than Walker(if you can believe that) is probably chomping at the bit. Which would be just as bad.
The GOP’s attack on Obama as an inexperienced “celebrity” looks pretty silly now with Trump, Carson and Fiorina. https://t.co/MHMSg4Xg2s
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) September 21, 2015
re: #94 piratedan
Walker is now making a calculated move to now be the next Faux analyst, he gets out before anything really damaging gets dug up. Fewer possibilities of staffer screwing preachers and the like and the Koch’s will simply write off his debt. he gets to pontificate on Faux, or CNN and look semi-reasonable in a race that is escalating from rabid to downright unhinged and in his spare time, he can still screw over the serfs of Wisconsin.
win-win for him…. and now he even gets to try and appear noble, malicious fuck that he is.
This.
re: #96 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Patent Trolling comes to Pharma.
As I understand it, this particular business model for price gouging in Pharma doesn’t rely on patents. Doesn’t change the fact that karma really should catch up with this worthless profiteer sooner rather than later.
re: #98 wrenchwench
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Obama had at least been elected to high office. Heck outside of Fiorina, this is Trump and Carson’s first run for any office.
Hey, I get to use this photoshop setup from earlier!
You all is gunna miss me when I’um gone!re: #101 HappyWarrior
Obama had at least been elected to high office. Heck outside of Fiorina, this is Trump and Carson’s first run for any office.
And came up through the ranks, too. Quickly, to be sure, but that used to be considered a positive.
less than one-half of one percent of Republican primary voters
how many brains does that amount to?
its almost like having private industry do all of our healthcare research was a fucking terrible idea or some shit
— Logically Anna (@FakeRobotGamer) September 21, 2015
re: #104 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
less than one-half of one percent of Republican primary voters
how many brains does that amount to?
Buttered toast.
what was the scandal about walker that never surfaced?
re: #103 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
And came up through the ranks, too. Quickly, to be sure, but that used to be considered a positive.
Right.
Right, because teaching kids about forms of birth control and how to have safe sex means they’ll get pregnant
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 21, 2015
re: #107 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
Which one? The John Doe?
— King of Lizards (@Riilu_) September 21, 2015
re: #56 Emoprog Refugee
OK, that’s curious. How does one avoid being tied to a very bad story by dropping ones bid for POTUS? Is she referring to the hideous clown carnival that is the gang of GOP contenders? I guess I wouldn’t want to be associated with them either, but honestly, what is she talking about?
Yeah, what the hell is a “bad story” in GOPher land? Being videotaped committing actual rape and murder?
A moment of cute.
While not all of us can say that we’ve seen a wolf, most of us have heard its howl. And though a wolf’s howl often has ominous connotations, the behaviour is actually a form of social bonding.
It also helps specific groups keep track of one another across long distances, since wolves often hunt over many miles and can end up scattered. According to scientists at the Wolf Science Center and the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, wolves howl out of affection for a missing pack mate. So when a pack lets loose, it’s actually a joyous occasion.
Because the howl is such a critical social skill, it’s very important for wolf pups to learn the behaviour early. This tiny pack of pups waste no time developing their social skills, treating a driver in the James Bay region of Northern Quebec to a once-in-a-lifetime show—and an adorable one at that.
It is fortunate that the driver is safely inside the car, as we can assume the pups mother is nearby. While wolves are not naturally aggressive toward people, they are wary of them, and a mother would naturally be very protective of her little ones.
My dogs were very very interested whilst listening.
re: #96 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
That’s where the EU (and some of our own pharmaceutical benefits providers) do better at policing Big Pharma. There’s been a shitton of re-purposed off-patent drugs granted new life by the FDA just by a tweak of dosages; the pharmacy plans basically blacklist those drugs. In the EU, when Lunesta (eszopiclone) was going before approval it was just a slight molecular tweak to the already approved zopiclone, they told the makers of Lunesta to go pound sand. In the anti-depressant arena, especially the SSRI arena, its amazing just how many of the newer drugs are just the active metabolites of already approved drugs. Bah.
re: #107 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
what was the scandal about walker that never surfaced?
Hair follicles.
re: #110 The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin
Which one? The John Doe?
not sure - just kept on hearing about how walker was lucky to get out before ‘the scandal(s)’ hit
Martin Shkreli increases the cost of life-saving drug by 5,000%, throws a Twitter tantrum when people criticize him: http://t.co/1jDNp1XYFJ
— Samantha Allen (@SLAwrites) September 21, 2015
By my count Rand Paul has sent out 4 emails about winning something called the “Mackinac Island Republican Leadership Conference straw poll”
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) September 21, 2015
And Rand really truly believes this is MOMENTUM!!!
re: #113 Pawn of the Oppressor
Yeah, what the hell is a “bad story” in GOPher land?
Being caught with a dead girl, a live boy, or doing something that doesn’t fuck over the poor.
re: #6 dholmes32
Yeah, I thought with the Koch Brothers’ $$$, Walker would be nearly invincible. But he turned out to be invincibly stupid.
turns out he was eminently vincible.
re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And Rand really truly believes this is MOMENTUM!!!
He just edged out Scott Walker.
RBS
re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth
Paul does have MOMENTUM!! that actually deserves the all-caps. After all, if you went skydiving and your chutes didn’t open, you’d be pretty loud, too.
His ego won’t let him drop out (yet), which means he’s about to lose his Senate seat and thus fade out of politics, having accomplished nothing. A couple of years from now, no one will remember that Ron Paul had a son, and he’ll be in no hurry to remind them.
Wow.
Resolution endorsing zero youth detention approved (9-0), City to develop action plan. Statement from CM O’Brien: http://t.co/LCGVKCgMje
— Seattle City Council (@SeattleCouncil) September 21, 2015
I hope they make it work.
re: #11 Kragar
Reading that article about the CMP trying to assert the 5th Amendment, I have to admit, I’d love to be a fly on the wall for the legal strategy meetings. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a defendant say “well, you are alleging alter ego, so that’s how we’re going to answer discovery.” You never, ever admit alter ego liability - you never, ever say anything that could be perceived as suggesting alter ego liability may apply as a defendant - if there’s a ruling of alter ego liability, you appeal, because it is pretty much the worst thing that can happen as a defendant. If that’s the best argument their lawyers have, they are - to use a bit of legal jargon - royally and properly fucked.
re: #113 Pawn of the Oppressor
Yeah, what the hell is a “bad story” in GOPher land? Being videotaped committing actual rape and murder?
being caught expressing sympathy for non-approved groups
re: #115 Eric The Fruit Bat
That’s where the EU (and some of our own pharmaceutical benefits providers) do better at policing Big Pharma. There’s been a shitton of re-purposed off-patent drugs granted new life by the FDA just by a tweak of dosages; the pharmacy plans basically blacklist those drugs. In the EU, when Lunesta (eszopiclone) was going before approval it was just a slight molecular tweak to the already approved zopiclone, they told the makers of Lunesta to go pound sand. In the anti-depressant arena, especially the SSRI arena, its amazing just how many of the newer drugs are just the active metabolites of already approved drugs. Bah.
That’s what Big Pharma does—figure out how to attach a hydrogen here rather than there and patent it as a different drug. The real discoveries are made in academia, anyway, or should be.
They should be forced to come up with a pretty solid reason why the new drug is better than the old one, and a believable story as to why they didn’t make it that way in the first place, before they’re given a new patent.
If you believe that a magic man in the sky is going to destroy America because gay people, that’s NOT oppression That’s mental illness
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 21, 2015
Pres Obama phones Sultan Qaboos of Oman to offer thanks for his government’s help in securing release of 2 Americans held in Yemen.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) September 21, 2015
LEMURS
For your Monday morning delight…silky sifaka and baby. #makira15 #mammalwatching pic.twitter.com/SHIKJcyvNU
— Asia Murphy (@am_anatiala) September 21, 2015
re: #45 wrenchwench
The competition is stiff.
I doubt any part of that competition has been stiff in a good many years. Not at least without some serious help.
re: #126 KGxvi
Reading that article about the CMP trying to assert the 5th Amendment, I have to admit, I’d love to be a fly on the wall for the legal strategy meetings. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a defendant say “well, you are alleging alter ego, so that’s how we’re going to answer discovery.” You never, ever admit alter ego liability - you never, ever say anything that could be perceived as suggesting alter ego liability may apply as a defendant - if there’s a ruling of alter ego liability, you appeal, because it is pretty much the worst thing that can happen as a defendant. If that’s the best argument their lawyers have, they are - to use a bit of legal jargon - royally and properly fucked.
From your mouth, etc….
re: #117 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
There were a bunch of ‘em. The original John Doe when he was Milwaukee County Executive(setting up a secret router to campaign for Governor). Then there was Operation Freedom where his longtime cronies ripped off families of Iraqi vets to pad their campaign, then those cronies were busted for cruising kids in their van. There was the parking ramp collapse that killed a kid.
Then there was the whole Waukesha County vote irregularities during the WI Supreme court election that brought Prosser in.
Then there was the Rwanda situation where he basically ruled to destroy all evidence gathered during the J. Doe investigation.
The whole time the WI media (MJS *cough*) was pretty much covering for their guy… the Guv. I’m sure I’m missing a few.
*barf*
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis to @paulafaris: “What people say about me does not define who I am.” http://t.co/dG8AXqiONa pic.twitter.com/CSvdUdoK9p
— ABC News (@ABC) September 21, 2015
re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And Rand really truly believes this is MOMENTUM!!!
Move over Trump!
re: #104 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
one times ten to the minus eleventy
Scott Walker Press Sec- Scott, great news, we’re in a 5 way tie for 12th behind, ‘None of the above’ & ‘Who gives a shit’, what do we do?
— Jason Jones (@jonesinforjason) September 21, 2015
I wish @ScottWalker all the best in his future endeavors. I believe Governor Walker will remain a vital voice in the Republican Party.
— Dr. Rand Paul (@RandPaul) September 21, 2015
So who if anyone on the clown car does Wanker endorse?
https://t.co/L7xSJUJmVJ Thank you to everyone, including @feliciaday, @scalzi, @PatrickRothfuss, @TheAuthorGuy
— TheBloggess (@TheBloggess) September 17, 2015
SLOW MOVING BANDS OF ELEVATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN BAJA AND IMPERIAL COUNTY ASSOCIATED WITH A DEFORMATION AXIS HAVE MOSTLY STAYED TO THE SOUTH OF THE US/MEXICO BORDER...WITH JUST SOME SPRINKLES MAKING THEIR WAY INTO SAN DIEGO COUNTY. LATEST RADAR AND MODEL TRENDS INDICATE THAT THE HEAVIER SHOWERS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS BAND MAY NOT MAKE IT INTO SAN DIEGO COUNTY AFTERALL...AND SO SPRINKLES MAY BE ALL THAT MOST OF THE COUNTY WILL SEE THIS AFTERNOON...
I blame Donald Trump.
re: #133 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I’m honestly trying to think of a situation, where as a defense attorney, I would be ok with telling my client “look, our best option is to do something that will open you up to personal liability rather than trying to limit liability to the corporate entity.” I can’t think of a single one.
re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth
she’s absolutely correct. Her actions define who she is and her actions are, based on the laws practiced in this country and their current interpretation by the highest court in the land, illegal. She’s a publicly elected official refusing to do her job based on a personal belief.
She should resign or allow the compromise that the court has provided to go through. Everything else appears to be setting herself up for a tour on the wingnut gravy train, or so says this cynic.
re: #142 freetoken
I blame Donald Trump.
Arizona and NM are getting plenty.
//Mexico likes us better!
re: #146 wrenchwench
Arizona and NM are getting plenty.
//Mexico likes us better!
You need a better wall.
re: #146 wrenchwench
aye, flash flood warnings up for the east side of Tucson,
for those unfamiliar, this is what a desert flash flood looks like:
oh lordie…
Our bumper sticker contest is down to the top two designs. Vote now to determine the winner! https://t.co/UCjrAx8ur3
— Dr. Rand Paul (@RandPaul) September 21, 2015
voting is on FB and you have to give an email addy to vote.
hahahaaa
re: #140 HappyWarrior
So who if anyone on the clown car does Wanker endorse?
Who cares? No one would benefit - given that he had no actual support, his GOTV was in asterisk territory, and his financial backers have already fled to others. He has no value to anyone in the race.
re: #128 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
That’s what Big Pharma does—figure out how to attach a hydrogen here rather than there and patent it as a different drug. The real discoveries are made in academia, anyway, or should be.
They should be forced to come up with a pretty solid reason why the new drug is better than the old one, and a believable story as to why they didn’t make it that way in the first place, before they’re given a new patent.
That’s not my experience. Academia makes discoveries, true, but they don’t know how to turn those discoveries into drugs. That’s a very different set of skills from academic research. We need both, because neither one alone can do the job.
IMO the biggest problem is that the market leads to poor prioritization. Vaccines and antibiotics are the best kind of medicine - preventive and curative - but they also have low profit margins.OTOH, there’s money to be made in a different formulation of an ED drug, or a slightly different SSRI.
re: #141 wrenchwench
Do you read her blog or follow her on Facebook? She’s seriously hilarious, candid and just pours her heart out. I love her.
re: #153 A Mom Anon
Do you read her blog or follow her on Facebook? She’s seriously hilarious, candid and just pours her heart out. I love her.
I’m gonna start. I only watched the video.
The straw poll that Rand Paul won and he keeps sending emails about… he got 174 votes in it.
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) September 21, 2015
heh
Did you hear about this? No way. Using the sea! pic.twitter.com/jgmOVIlX8Q
— jamie (@gnuman1979) September 21, 2015
re: #156 Backwoods_Sleuth
next thing you know, the sneaky bastards will be using space to hide their satellites…..
re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) September 21, 2015
He learned from Lenin. His faction of of the Socialist Worker’s Party won one procedural vote at a poorly attended Party Congress, and from that day forward, they were the Bol’sheviki—Men of the Majority.
Crazy Talk at the Republican Debate
“It felt at times as if the speakers were no longer living in a fact-based world where actions have consequences, programs take money and money has to come from somewhere. Where basic laws — like physics and the Constitution — constrain wishes. Where Congress and the public, allies and enemies, markets and militaries don’t just do what you want them to, just because you say they will.”
re: #126 KGxvi
Reading that article about the CMP trying to assert the 5th Amendment, I have to admit, I’d love to be a fly on the wall for the legal strategy meetings. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a defendant say “well, you are alleging alter ego, so that’s how we’re going to answer discovery.” You never, ever admit alter ego liability - you never, ever say anything that could be perceived as suggesting alter ego liability may apply as a defendant - if there’s a ruling of alter ego liability, you appeal, because it is pretty much the worst thing that can happen as a defendant. If that’s the best argument their lawyers have, they are - to use a bit of legal jargon - royally and properly fucked.
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CMP also claims that because its individual members - who may be liable for criminal acts - would be the ones to produce the records in question, an exception applies that should allow CMP to claim Fifth Amendment rights.
Thirdly, CMP argues the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn its 1988 Braswell v. United States decision, which concluded that corporate record-holders cannot refuse to produce records based on Fifth Amendment rights even if the records would incriminate them.
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I’m just a lowly skool-sertificated Paralegal, but I think their legal team is cribbing strategy from Law and Order episodes they overheard on the way to the fridge to get more beer. How could you base a current defense on something you WISH would happen in a higher court? I don’t think that’s how this law thing works.
/off to read the memos… And look up the legal sense of “alter ego” (learned something new today!)
Another reminder that I’ve been traveling through time for quite a while: there’s a show on the TV where a historian chases down the history of artifacts for their owners. They had one about the first commercially produced transistor radio (1954). Cool. Then the historian asks someone who knows what the little red marks between the numbers on the dial are for. “They’re for tuning in CONELRAD, you dummy: 640 and 1240 on the AM dial,” I thought. Yep. I blame too many duck-and-cover drills during the heat of Cold War disputation.
re: #162 Pawn of the Oppressor
Better known as piercing the corporate veil. Eliminating the protection that a corporate structure has for individual owners, members, shareholders, or partners.
And watch for this term to come up elsewhere - like in the upcoming massive investigation into VW’s actions re: diesel engine emissions rigging.
re: #164 lawhawk
Oh, yeah-this one will be a doozy. Especially since the DOJ went on record and said that live bodies are now fair game-both for VW and CMP.
re: #154 wrenchwench
She’s heading out on a book tour, I think this is her second book. I’ve followed her off and on for a few years now. She’s pretty awesome.
pathetic
Supported @ScottWalker ? No one left supports more the right to work/free markets than @RandPaul. Join us! pic.twitter.com/LPu6N9Xuaa
— Vincent Harris (@VincentHarris) September 21, 2015
re: #164 lawhawk
Better known as piercing the corporate veil. Eliminating the protection that a corporate structure has for individual owners, members, shareholders, or partners.
And watch for this term to come up elsewhere - like in the upcoming massive investigation into VW’s actions re: diesel engine emissions rigging.
VW CEO Martin Winterkorn was seen standing outside the bunker with a gas can.
Breaking. #KimDavis plaintiffs moved to hold Rowan Cty Clerk in contempt for altering marriage licenses At the blog http://t.co/H7FjTM4P7v
— Shannon Ragland (@JuryReporter) September 21, 2015
re: #172 Varek Raith
Rand will be raising the prices on his campaign crap because it will be memorabilia.
re: #144 KGxvi
I’m honestly trying to think of a situation, where as a defense attorney, I would be ok with telling my client “look, our best option is to do something that will open you up to personal liability rather than trying to limit liability to the corporate entity.” I can’t think of a single one.
Perhaps if the corporate records are cesspits of Satan, and allowing personal liability would keep the corporate mess out of discovery.
But you probably can’t hide from discovery this way…
re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
Humm…. the argument is that since she changed the county name on the form, removed her name, had the addendum about them being issued under federal order, and having the deputy clerks simply mark them as notary public rather than as clerks, the licenses may not be valid.
Sounds like she did a WHOLE lot more than just “Take her name off the form”.
Predictable cries of faux-rage in 3… 2… 1…
RBS
Plaintiffs seek to hold #KimDavis in contempt and have a receivership installed in her office. Read the motion. http://t.co/H7FjTM4P7v
— Shannon Ragland (@JuryReporter) September 21, 2015
re: #175 Reality Based Steve
I feel an incipient trampling upon of rights.
re: #176 blueraven
The scavengers move in to devour the crumbs.
Rand, a buzzard circling for some political road kill.
I think it is so ironic that Jeb Bush is bashing Hillary over an ad supposedly by a PAC devoted to her.
The Citizens United case, of course, began over that dumb Hillary movie in 2008.
Suck it Republicans!
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
She deserves to return to jail, to not pass go, and not to collect anything other than an orange jumpsuit.
re: #164 lawhawk
Ah OK. I may have heard the alter ego term once or twice and forgotten it. I didn’t study much corporate law in my courses, and I’m new to The Law in general. :) Reading the memos now… This sounds extraordinarily petty, basing a you-can’t-make-me defense off of a statement in the complaint. I’m eager to read the response.
Edit: I’m enjoying the “This is ridiculous” tone of the response memo… 28-year-old footnote? LOL
My first thought is, if the Baby-Parts Liars affirm they’re not a corporation in order to plead the F-I-F (see Carter, Tron. Statement to the Senate, Sub-Commitee on Narcotics), doesn’t that remove liability protections?
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
I like the idea of a receivership in the Rowan county clerk office.
Furthermore, Kim Davis should lose her pay for the entire time the receivership needs to be in place. No need to have her in jail where she will rack up bigot martyrdom points.
re: #43 sizzzzlerz
Well, I guess its back to fucking up the University of Wisconsin, shitting on teachers, and shoveling more tax money to wealthy donors to build arenas for pro teams.
If he really wanted to mess things up he’d push to privatize the Green Bay Packers to sole ownership in order to match the rest of the NFL.
re: #181 Reality Based Steve
That’d be a reasonable price if they were paying me.
re: #104 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
less than one-half of one percent of Republican primary voters
how many brains does that amount to?
Less than one-half of 1%.
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
losing is winning…I’m pretty sure Sarah Palin used that explanation a lot…
That’s Carly’s line.
re: #184 Pawn of the Oppressor
Ah OK. I may have heard the alter ego term once or twice and forgotten it. I didn’t study much corporate law in my courses, and I’m new to The Law in general. :) Reading the memos now… This sounds extraordinarily petty, basing a you-can’t-make-me defense off of a statement in the complaint. I’m eager to read the response.
My first thought is, if the Baby-Parts Liars affirm they’re not a corporation in order to plead the F-I-F (see Carter, Tron. Statement to the Senate, Sub-Commitee on Narcotics), doesn’t that remove liability protections?
One, two, three, four…
I need moar tiny violins:
#KimDavis tells me “I’ve been called Hitler, a homophobe, a hypocrite.” @ABC @GMA @TheView http://t.co/J7wOxmjjXu
— Paula Faris (@paulafaris) September 21, 2015
even with all that Koch Bros $$$ cash you can’t turn a complete turd into a diamond.
You can spray paint a sheen over it, but that smell just ends up permeating all over the place in the end. Good riddance, Gov Walker, you Utopia-LIbertarian hack.
I find it kind of … interesting… that Walker bows out the day after the Cameron book creates such a stir about what politicians did while they were in college…
re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth
I need moar tiny violins:
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“Hitler” may be a bit much, but I’ll agree with “homophobe” and “hypocrite”, Kim.
re: #196 TedStriker
.@paulafaris @ABC @GMA @TheView oh, and she’s totally a hypocrite. The Hitler stuff is beyond the pale.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 21, 2015
re: #60 ObserverArt
What the hell did I just watch? I’ve never heard such a political excuse in my life.
Hey everyone drop out like me!!! We’ll get the group down to a couple and then we’ll see the real numbers.
Uh, those very well may be the real numbers there Scot. Your party’s base loves them some negative personality driven candidates.
It’s from the Sarah Palin playbook: quitting is for winners.
We Have Been Orange Too Long!!!
make america grape again
re: #199 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
We Have Been Orange Too Long!!!
make america grape again
It was a grape country when I was Nehi to a grasshopper.
re: #186 Feline Fearless Leader
He’d be done in a month.
re: #197 lawhawk
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Kinda like Mat Staver’s “claim that LGBT rights is leading to the persecution of Christians, claiming that obeying gay marriage law is tantamount to handing over a Jewish person to Nazi enforcers and comparing Davis to victims of the Holocaust.”
See more at: rightwingwatch.org
re: #199 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
We Have Been Orange Too Long!!!
make america grape again
Orange you the least bit ashamed of that?
re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth
*barf*
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But who you are defines what people say about you.
re: #200 Blind Frog Belly White
It was a grape country when I was Nehi to a grasshopper.
Don’t make me Crush you…
RBS
Poor Walker. God told him to run and what happened? He ends up humiliated and rationalizes it as leadership.
I hope he enjoys his return to Wisconsin. He should spend some time reflecting on what God is trying to teach him. While enjoying the dairy air.
//sorry
Trump draws interesting questions, criticisms, insults during Twitter Q&A
[…]
It wasn’t long before some of the remarks began rolling in.
“When u stare into the abyss do u see the broken shards of all your attempts at human connection twinkling in the dark bro?” read one post.
[…]
Twitter as the new form of poetry.
Just in case you forgot what a fucked up, incredibly horrible person Chuck C. Johnson is. pic.twitter.com/fi1ca8VLHz
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
I just want to say how much i LOVE the “Trumpenstein” moniker. A perfect fit for what’s happening right now in the GOP
I really don’t know if there’s ever been a better example of the theme from that story
This will not end well….. pic.twitter.com/L3WHe6FSgl
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) September 22, 2015
re: #212 Dave In Austin
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re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
pathetic
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So the Rand graphic says “Former Walker supporter for Rand”, but has Rand in a dark background with a thick red line through him. The common signage for NO.
Interesting design.
MoJo informs us:
[…]
The most interesting question amid the wreckage of Walker’s campaign may now be about where his wealthy backers will go with their money. In July, the super-PAC supporting Walker, Unintimidated PAC, reported having locked up more than $20 million, placing him in the top of echelon of GOP candidates in terms of financial backing. The bulk of the money, $13.4 million, came from just four people, including Wisconsin-based roofing supply magnate Diane Hendricks, a longtime supporter who gave $5 million.
Most of Walker’s war chest came from outside traditional sources, in part because he never achieved much traction in strongholds for GOP campaign money such as Texas. Instead, his campaign and super PAC seemed to rely on big donors that Walker had cultivated for his state political runs and who were based in the Midwest. Hendricks, for example, had never laid out such large sums of cash for political causes as she did for Walker; the next largest check she had written to a national group was $1 million (donated last fall to the Koch-affiliated Freedom Partners Action Fund). With so many candidates remaining, Walker’s biggest impact on 2016 may have to do with where his deep-pocketed former backers turn next.
So, there was a press conference about the cop that was killed in Fox Lake, IL. No new info whatsoever. Makes me wonder wtf they are thinking with these stupid BREAKING!!!! news conferences. No new info. Nothing. “We don’t have the results yet” or “I cannot say anything about that” blah blah.
And this is making many others around here come around to my theory early on, that this was a suicide.
Why would a veteran cop pursue 3 male subjects without first waiting for backup? Why the “2 white 1 black” description without anything mentioned about clothing? Even rookies know better. We don’t even know why he approached these 3 men (if they even existed in the first place), and there’s no dash cam footage at any time during this call. Even of him rolling up to the scene. The whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Michael Steele just indicated on Chris Hayes’ show that he understands the next GOP debate stage will only have room for 8. Now that one horrible candidate is gone, we still need to lose two more. Could it be anyone but Rand and Christie?
re: #215 freetoken
Christ, writing a check to these clowns for a million flucking dollars??? There are soooo many better things to do with that money… These people aren’t just rich a-holes, they’re also stupid.
re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
pathetic
@VincentHarris @ScottWalker @RandPaul Rand will have a 75% jump in the polls if he can get the 3 guys that were going to vote for Walker.
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) September 22, 2015
So which GOP candidate does Martin Shkreli support?
re: #220 GlutenFreeJesus
Naw, he’ll still run with an asterisk.
Today’s nauseating example of how utterly disgusting the religious right can be: #ShoutYourAbortion
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
Kudos to the brave women sharing their stories despite a tidal wave of right wing hatred. #ShoutYourAbortion
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
Stupid article from Dead Breitbart’s Sinecure For The Unemployable that my wingnut cousin liked on FB:
Donald Trump is forgoing a presidential salary.
Why hasn’t Obama done the same? After all, shouldn’t Obama lead by example to reduce so-called “income inequality”?
re: #218 bratwurst
It’s supposed to be on Oct 28th in Colorado. In fact, and the UC Boulder. That will mean more than usual Paul supporters in the crowd.
re: #210 Charles Johnson
This man is no hero. If the US wasn’t so full of ‘government is too-big’ assholes, the FDA would be manufacturing this drug and this scum wouldn’t exist.
re: #224 Blind Frog Belly White
Stupid article from Dead Breitbart’s Sinecure For The Unemployable that my wingnut cousin liked on FB:
Not paying any attention to their charitable giving, are they?
re: #226 Eric The Fruit Bat
This man is no hero. If the US wasn’t so full of ‘government is too-big’ assholes, the FDA would be manufacturing this drug and this scum wouldn’t exist.
I predict that within 10 years Martin Shkreli will be in prison, probably for murdering someone.
re: #213 Blind Frog Belly White
Whack!
re: #228 The Vicious Babushka
He’s not that stupid. OTOH, he’s small enough the someone might make him an offer he can’t refuse and then it’ll be a different story.
The kicker is obtaining enough of the actual drug to be able to pass FDA approval-the prior firm already went down that road to lock distribution down to prevent that from happening.
re: #228 The Vicious Babushka
I predict that within 10 years Martin Shkreli will be in prison, probably for murdering someone.
Perhaps. Not all psychopaths are killers. In any case, this kind of profiteering should have long since been made illegal.
Wait. Wut?
Aside from his bigotry, Carson spox says there’s no churches in the Middle East. This is the talent available for a Republican frontrunner?
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) September 22, 2015
No churches in ME? Seriously?
Israel’s part of the ME. Plenty of churches there.
There’s churches in Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, and Syria. Even in Iraq and Iran. Not so many in the Gulf States, but Carson’s idiocy indicated no churches in ME.
That’s weapons grade stupid.
I predict Carson’s polling will rise 3 points.
Fuck you. @Hellerbringer
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
Fuck off, you fanatical asshole. @justin_klosen
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
Trump will like Hungary:
Hungary empowers military to act against refugees
Hungary’s parliament on Monday granted sweeping new powers to the army and police in an effort to keep migrants and refugees out of the country.
The new legislation was passed with overwhelming support and allows the army to take part in border controls, restrict civil liberties and use “coercive weapons designed to cause bodily harm, although in a non-lethal way, unless it cannot be avoided.”
Non-lethal firearms, rubber bullets, pyrotechnics, tear gas, and net guns are permitted under the legislation. Police will also be able to enter private homes to search for suspected illegal migrants under the new laws.
[…]
.@Timodc, you owe me $10.
— Huma Abedin (@HumaAbedin) September 22, 2015
STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
#ShoutYourAbortion pic.twitter.com/3PpqszMCMu
— Cora McKinney (@tullyframe) September 22, 2015
re: #232 lawhawk
Wait. Wut?
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No churches in ME? Seriously?
Israel’s part of the ME. Plenty of churches there.
There’s churches in Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, and Syria. Even in Iraq and Iran. Not so many in the Gulf States, but Carson’s idiocy indicated no churches in ME.
That’s weapons grade stupid.
I predict Carson’s polling will rise 3 points.
Um, pretty sure there are even CHRISTIAN churches in the Middle East…
re: #237 gwangung
Um, pretty sure there are even CHRISTIAN churches in the Middle East…
Shitbags opposing refugee settlement in the United States don’t seem to realize that some of the refugees are Druze or Christians.
re: #223 Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson @Green_Footballs
Today’s nauseating example of how utterly disgusting the religious right can be: #ShoutYourAbortion
8:20 PM - 21 Sep 2015
The religious right is giving everyone a damn good lesson on why there was the Jeffersonian thinking about a wall between church and state and how that has come to be accepted.
The thinking is being tested these days, but maybe their continued demonstration of how there should be more “biblical” influence in our laws and governing will get people to fight it back. One can only hope. I am not currently hopeful.
re: #234 freetoken
Trump will like Hungary:
WTF, do they want to start WWIII? I was just over in the Pages talking about how staggering the scope of the situation is. That’s all the Mideast needs to see—European soldiers attacking helpless, desperate Syrian refugees.
re: #240 CuriousLurker
Given how unwelcoming many nations in the ME have been to Syrian refugees, I don’t believe there will be much concern about what happens to them anywhere.
It’s a cold world out there.
BBC has a 2 minute video on the current happenins in Croatia and Hungary:
Day 178. Going out on a blue horizon. #GoodNight from @space_station! #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/NRENA6b8pJ
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) September 21, 2015
been a long day here.
niterz, lizardz!
Sorry, @CharlesSayWhat @LizMair I didn’t know that being an unprincipled hack for a Koch Bros sell out was connected to truth. #fuckyouliz
— Annemarie Dickey (@Scottishlizard1) September 22, 2015
.@FoxNews @WilliamJBennett is yet another pompous pundit who thinks they know more about Catholicism than @Pontifex
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 22, 2015
re: #245 lawhawk
Fascinating to see so many people claiming to be more Catholic than the Pope.
re: #241 freetoken
Given how unwelcoming many nations in the ME have been to Syrian refugees, I don’t believe there will be much concern about what happens to them anywhere.
It’s a cold world out there.
Yes, the Gulf states don’t seem to give a shit, but all the Arab states around Syria (and Turkey) have been taking in the bulk of the refugees. With the exception of Iraq, they’re the only really stable countries left in the area. If they react badly and fall, Israel gets sucked into the vortex and so do we.
The numbers are even higher now that we’re in September, according to Amnesty International.
Trump on the Pope:
If Donald Trump found himself in a private meeting with the Pope next week, the Republican businessman would want to talk climate change.
“He seems to be getting extremely political,” Trump said of Pope Francis, who will visit the United States for a historic trip this week and has made addressing global warming one of his pet issues. “I would actually talk to him about it to see if he’s serious.”
Trump, who is skeptical of the idea that humans are causing climate change, told Fox News’ Greta van Susteren that he disagreed with the Pope and would look to gauge why he might be speaking out about it.
[…]
I wonder if Trump has ever read any history.
This government agency I am trying to apply to a job with uses something called “PeopleAdmin” for job applications.
Pretty sure it’s a tool of the devil.
re: #248 freetoken
Trump on the Pope:
I wonder if Trump has ever read any history.
If he isn’t in it, he doesn’t read it.
Aw, John Schindler blocked me. Doesn’t like to be reminded of his propensity for sending women unsolicited pictures of his penis, I guess.
re: #246 freetoken
Fascinating to see so many people claiming to be more Catholic than the Pope.
Right-wing extremism (i.e. climate change and evolution denial, Ayn Rand worship, social darwinism, misogyny, bigotry, etc) has become a religion unto itself.
re: #248 freetoken
Trump on the Pope:
I wonder if Trump has ever read any history.
But a pope interfering with internal political processes in Poland and the Soviet Union was ah-okay.
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Anyway, I’ve had enough of politics & bad news for one day. Here are some happy, cute little baby goats to wash it all away:
what heaven looks like ☺️☺️☺️ pic.twitter.com/vUnosMlFos
— Sassy Goats (@TheSassyGoats) September 21, 2015
Later, lizards
re: #246 freetoken
Fascinating to see so many people claiming to be more Catholic than the Pope.
They seem to be saying the “Pope isn’t Catholic.”
/
re: #255 ObserverArt
But does he defecate in the woods?
As an atheist, I don’t really have a dog in the ‘Is the Pope Catholic” fight, but it seems to me that Jesus talked a hell of a lot more about feeding the poor, welcoming the foreigner, healing the sick, being a good steward of the Earth, and generally making the world a better place for everyone and everything than he did about making the world a better place for the rich. Maybe it’s just me, but I think the man who leads the biggest Christian sect following in those footsteps seems pretty obvious. So, when I hear self-styled Christians say he shouldn’t be talking about economic inequality or global climate change, it seems really nonsensical.
re: #247 CuriousLurker
Yes, Syrians have fled to the bordering countries. And from there is where some will try to move to Europe. I suppose others will stay in the bordering countries in hopes of returning to their homeland. I had noticed various stories about the Gulf states with their deep pockets not wanting refugees. Perhaps they send money instead. How Turkey will eventually try to return the refugees I do not know. Lebanon is a strange modern nation-state with an old name and I guess for practical purposes we can think of it as “little Syria” for now.
I have no idea how all this ends.
I do know this: public opinion is swayed by outsiders seeming to “invade”. This happens all over the world.
re: #254 CuriousLurker
Anyway, I’ve had enough of politics & bad news for one day. Here are some happy, cute little baby goats to wash it all away:
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Later, lizards
Not with those freaky satanic pupils!!!
//
re: #251 Charles Johnson
Aw, John Schindler blocked me. Doesn’t like to be reminded of his propensity for sending women unsolicited pictures of his penis, I guess.
He blocked me too! How funny. @Green_Footballs @20committee
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) September 22, 2015
Do me a favor and shove your “prayers” up your ass. @ONeillLaura
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
So I’m blocked by John Schindler, LOLGOP, Bryan Fischer, and I was blocked by UpChuck when he had an account. I wonder who else.
re: #262 teleskiguy
So I’m blocked by John Schindler, LOLGOP, Bryan Fischer, and I was blocked by UpChuck when he had an account. I wonder who else.
Why did LOLGOP block you?
Let me get this right. Trump and many of the Republicans want more religious influence in American law and governance (politics!) but the Pope should not enter the Church into political discussion and “get political.”
And about The Donald reading history…obviously not or he has a very thin understanding of it. The Catholic Church has been a very political body for a damn long time. Trump must have to play dumb for the base. He can’t be this dense…or can he?
Edit: forgot the most important word…”not” after should. Doh.
re: #256 Brian J.
But does he defecate in the woods?
We might have to get Bryan Fischer in on that question.
re: #265 ObserverArt
Pope speaks out against abortion: Moral Leadership!
Pope speaks out against death penalty: He’s an idealist, not connected to the Real World.
Pope speaks out against economic inequality and AGW: COMMUNIST!!!!
Roger Ailes to the white courtesy phone! Roger Ailes!
.@oreillyfactor was very negative to me in refusing to to post the great polls that came out today including NBC. @FoxNews not good for me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
.@oreillyfactor, why don’t you have some knowledgeable talking heads on your show for a change instead of the same old Trump haters. Boring!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
When @20committee thought no one was watching, he told the truth. pic.twitter.com/R1bBMVT7ME
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
A question. Anyone here changed over from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10?
I notice that there is a “free” download being advertised. Any problems you may have had with Windows 10?
re: #270 bratwurst
Roger Ailes to the white courtesy phone! Roger Ailes!
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God damn, what a whiny-ass baby. Such a fragile flower!
re: #272 Bear
A question. Anyone here changed over from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10?
I notice that there is a “free” download being advertised. Any problems you may have had with Windows 10?
I’ve done it on my laptop, went from 8.1 to 10, and am very very pleased with it. Seems faster, stable, all in all, not a problem.
RBS
re: #208 A Cranky One
Poor Walker. God told him to run and what happened? He ends up humiliated and rationalizes it as leadership.
I hope he enjoys his return to Wisconsin. He should spend some time reflecting on what God is trying to teach him. While enjoying the dairy air.
//sorry
I used to spend summers on a dairy farm, and my job was to clean the ‘drops’. Yes, that is just it it sounds like. The ‘dairy air’ is not peppermint-scented!
re: #274 Reality Based Steve
Thanks for the information. I would be replacing 8.1.
That’s right - tweet a photo of an aborted fetus at me and I will block and report you, and also tell you to fuck yourself. Assholes.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
#RIP pic.twitter.com/Y2CNGjNIUh
— Wu-Tang Financial (@Wu_Tang_Finance) September 22, 2015
Current mood. pic.twitter.com/Qbncdv9LZh
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
re: #278 teleskiguy
Makes him look better.
If only he would embrace his eventual bald head and go with it now, and grow a goatee/beard. He’d look better and be more stylish.
Instead, he dyes his rapidly thinning hair to be too black.
re: #278 teleskiguy
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That really helps illustrate the asymmetry of Walker’s face. It’s rather unsettling.
re: #282 It’s on his hat!
His left side is the granny-starver, his right side disavows any knowledge.
re: #282 It’s on his hat!
Yes, he’s not classically “pretty”.
Well, neither am I.
But he can control his style, his presentation. And in his current instantiation it reeks of no-personality-toy-of-others.
re: #282 It’s on his hat!
That really helps illustrate the asymmetry of Walker’s face. It’s rather unsettling.
Walker is an early failure of the Republicans’ program to breed politicians with two mouths. They’ll be able to lie twice as fast as pols of today.
re: #282 It’s on his hat!
That really helps illustrate the asymmetry of Walker’s face. It’s rather unsettling.
Some people just have one eye noticeably higher than the other. Our social brains usually filter stuff like that out, but once it’s seen, it can’t be unseen.
Ordinarily I’d feel bad for the guy, but since he’s a destructive little corporate shitweasel that represents almost everything that’s gone wrong in American culture… Well, fuck his stupid crooked head.
Look at this image:
Image: scott-walker-talking-with-supporters.jpg
Walker is well on his way to a chrome top. He ought to own it. Cut off that hair! Go like Patrick Stewart did for a while. Just add a well kept-beard.
But I suspect that Walker is well inhibited from true self-discovery.
re: #288 freetoken
Look at this image:
Image: scott-walker-talking-with-supporters.jpg
Walker is well on his way to a chrome top. He ought to own it. Cut off that hair! Go like Patrick Stewart did for a while. Just add a well kept-beard.
But I suspect that Walker is well inhibited from true self-discovery.
I shaved my head about 8+ years ago to pay off a wager I had made. I’ve had at least a goatee, and usually a full beard for the last 15 years. It’s a look that works for me.
RBS
EDIT: It’s actually a different drug company that rescinded a price gouge on a different drug than Daraprim, not Shkreli’s. Nonetheless, it’s good that some companies are getting the memo that the price gouging of drugs is unacceptable.
Looks like that little Shkreli prick rescinded his price increase for Daraprim:
Big Price Increase for Tuberculosis Drug Is Rescinded
A huge overnight price increase for an important tuberculosis drug has been rescinded after the company that acquired the drug gave it back to its previous owner under pressure, it was announced on Monday.
Too late, asshole!
re: #288 freetoken
Look at this image:
Image: scott-walker-talking-with-supporters.jpg
Walker is well on his way to a chrome top. He ought to own it. Cut off that hair! Go like Patrick Stewart did for a while. Just add a well kept-beard.
But I suspect that Walker is well inhibited from true self-discovery.
Or he can do a Trumpian overcomb.
re: #290 Reality Based Steve
It works for a lot of guys and for a good reason.
It’s a natural look.
Males of our species grow facial hair. Some more than others. I don’t grow so much, or rather, it’s too spotty (and was a bit multicolored for a while.) So beards don’t work for me.
I guess my main point is that it is better to embrace who and what you are, than to be a shell created by others to be what they think you ought to be.
Walker’s youth pictures show him with a full mane of hair. It’s mostly gone now. Don’t pretend, don’t dye it black. Let it go gray, and short. Maybe he’d rather have a rat-tail. Whatever. Just stop being an advertisement for being the dork because your wife/sugar daddies want you that way.
re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh, dear…
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Gov. Scott Walker said he is “being called to lead by helping to clear the field” in GOP race for presidency.
How generous. Offers self serving of self sacrifice as people outside Wisconsin came, saw, and left.
re: #292 No Depression
Looks like that little Shkreli prick rescinded his price increase for Daraprim:
Big Price Increase for Tuberculosis Drug Is Rescinded
Too late, asshole!
Shkreli has not backed down on Daraprim. Another pharma company reversed its price hike. It looks like Shkreli is doubling down.
re: #296 The Vicious Babushka
Shkreli has not backed down on Daraprim. Another pharma company reversed its price hike. It looks like Shkreli is doubling down.
Shkreli wants to be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
re: #292 No Depression
Looks like that little Shkreli prick rescinded his price increase for Daraprim:
Big Price Increase for Tuberculosis Drug Is Rescinded
Too late, asshole!
Somebody probably informed his greedy ass that AIDS patients are still allowed to purchase guns, and for far less than the per pill price he was demanding.
STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
Somebody whose Bible is marked up like this is probably planning a mass murder
If you do not value AMERICA ” we do our family ” we love AMERICA #TCOT #PJNET #CCOT America is not for sale period. pic.twitter.com/iaCXNvSM9U
— Tweet Tweet (@tweet4upatriots) September 22, 2015
re: #292 No Depression
Nope. Different group, the returned the rights back to Perdue.
Shkreli wants to be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
Situations in which I’m in favor of mob violence against an individual:
- Animal abuse and cruelty.
- Robbing and exploiting the sick and infirm.
He may change his mind when the father of a sick child finds him on the street and tenderizes him like a cheap steak.
First Republican who calls the Pope a “PINO” wins a copy of Ann Coulter’s new book “Shut Up, Foreigner.”
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) September 22, 2015
re: #240 CuriousLurker
WTF, do they want to start WWIII? I was just over in the Pages talking about how staggering the scope of the situation is. That’s all the Mideast needs to see—European soldiers attacking helpless, desperate Syrian refugees.
Russia literally hid combat jets flying to Syria. Flying so close to transport/cargo planes they were invisible to radar. ISIS does not have advanced radars. Who were they hiding the fighter jets from except perhaps us?! They say they want to attack ISIS. But some groups against Assad have our promise of air cover. So what happens when some young America fighter jet jockey shoots down a Russian combat jet flown by a young Russian officer or he shoots down our guy? Cold war? It;s effing freezing in Syria!
OTOH maybe we attack ISIS together and deconflict other flights.
re: #292 No Depression
Looks like that little Shkreli prick rescinded his price increase for Daraprim:
Big Price Increase for Tuberculosis Drug Is Rescinded
Too late, asshole!
re: #296 The Vicious Babushka
Shkreli has not backed down on Daraprim. Another pharma company reversed its price hike. It looks like Shkreli is doubling down.
Just realized that. My bad.
re: #299 The Vicious Babushka
The thing is… There’s really no need for all those notes. I’ve never understood what all the “study” is for. It’s a pretty straightforward read and most of the “deep questions” and context can be sussed out with a quick internet search.
The hardest part is the historical geography, and what’s usually missing is cultural context. Judaism has Jesusology soundly whipped in this department, IMO, but that may just be my residual pre-atheist enjoyment of Judaism talking. ;)
/stands on one foot - “Treat others as you wish to be treated. All the rest is commentary.”
Hey freetoken, what do you think?
Why the Anthropocene era of man’s dominance began in 1610: http://t.co/PxjDM9asVA pic.twitter.com/RcCCoh353a
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) September 22, 2015
A new geological epoch when humans dominated the history of the earth started in 1610 rather than the industrial or nuclear ages, scientists have said.
The beginning of the so-called “anthropocene” or human epoch is a hotly debated topic in geology, with suggestions varying widely from the start of farming about 10,000 years ago to the explosion of the first atomic bomb in 1945.
However, two scientists have made a case for 1610 because this is the year when a “golden spike” can be seen in the global geological record indicating that humans had made an irreversible change to the earth’s biology and chemistry.
It also coincided with a massive and irreversible change in life on Earth because of the sudden increase in the trade and transport of animals and plants across the Atlantic Ocean which had separated the New and Old Worlds for millions of years, they said.
re: #272 Bear
A question. Anyone here changed over from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10?
I notice that there is a “free” download being advertised. Any problems you may have had with Windows 10?
Went from 7 to 10 with only minor issues. Printer drivers didn’t completely port over, and had to download new “apps” for HP to do scanning/printing (it’s a multifunction printer/scanner). However, that process asked me to use my msft password, and that changed my login to my computer, which is a bitch since I use 1password to remember all my accounts. After using another computer to play password roulette, I got in and changed the password on the computer to something a bit more memorable.
re: #302 teleskiguy
goddamnedfrank, what say you?
Somebody caught his great grandfather a few months ago. DNA testing was going to prove it.
/fact.
Bloomberg did this little puff piece on Shkreli last year.
Even though it’s a puff piece he still sounds like a psychopath.
re: #307 teleskiguy
The advent of the global sailing civilization is as good as any. With the European colonization of the Americas came large deforestation in the Atlantic forests of North and South America.
However, on a line of causality, I still think our choice to transform from hunter-gatherer to agriculturalist is the big change that started it all.
The Republicans who bail out of the campaign will all say their campaigns are “suspended” so they can use FEC regs …
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
… that let them collect “matching” federal funds to offset their campaign expenses. It’s all about the Benjamins.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
So taxpayers are footing the bill for these failed campaigns, folks.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
re: #311 freetoken
The advent of the global sailing civilization is as good as any. With the European colonization of the Americas came large deforestation in the Atlantic forests of North and South America.
However, on a line of causality, I still think our choice to transform from hunter-gatherer to agriculturalist is the big change that started it all.
so you’ll join my movement to repeal the neolithic revolution??
re: #313 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
so you’ll join my movement to repeal the neolithic revolution??
Back to the trees is our only answer.
re: #311 freetoken
The advent of the global sailing civilization is as good as any. With the European colonization of the Americas came large deforestation in the Atlantic forests of North and South America.
However, on a line of causality, I still think our choice to transform from hunter-gatherer to agriculturalist is the big change that started it all.
I agree. That started the deforestation of the Middle East and the Mediterranean, with all the evils that flowed from that.
re: #299 The Vicious Babushka
STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
Somebody whose Bible is marked up like this is probably planning a mass murder
looks to me like the result of all those ‘bible study’ groups where you learn to interpret uncomfortable passages in the bible to conform to your own prejuduces
re: #308 lawhawk
I think I will give it a try on the computer running 8.1. So no big loss if I do not get to work. Thanks
re: #319 Decatur Deb
We gotta get off this rock.
We need to find another suitable rock to fuck up first!
I am having a really hard time watching @FoxNews.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
lolwut? https://t.co/oi236FAnf9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
I can’t stop staring at this picture. It’s a commanding gaze.
Silent Film actress Miriam Cooper pic.twitter.com/KrLS7SCI6r
— OnThisDay & Facts (@NotableHistory) September 22, 2015
.@Green_Footballs fiscal responsibility! YEARGH!!!!
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 22, 2015
Looks like the Donald Trump vs. Fox News cat fight is heating up again.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
re: #311 freetoken
However, on a line of causality, I still think our choice to transform from hunter-gatherer to agriculturalist is the big change that started it all.
…could there be a primitive tribe that survives without cooking? In fact, no such people have ever been found. Nor will they be, according to a provocative theory by Harvard biologist Richard Wrangham, who believes that fire is needed to fuel the organ that makes possible all the other products of culture, language included: the human brain.
…
In essence, cooking—including not only heat but also mechanical processes such as chopping and grinding—outsources some of the body’s work of digestion so that more energy is extracted from food and less expended in processing it. Cooking breaks down collagen, the connective tissue in meat, and softens the cell walls of plants to release their stores of starch and fat. The calories to fuel the bigger brains of successive species of hominids came at the expense of the energy-intensive tissue in the gut, which was shrinking at the same time
re: #324 teleskiguy
I can’t stop staring at this picture. It’s a commanding gaze.
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She had no need to talk.
re: #326 Charles Johnson
Looks like the Donald Trump vs. Fox News cat fight is heating up again.
they were giving carly giant wet kisses this morning
re: #299 The Vicious Babushka
STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
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America is not for sale period
Then why are you voting for people who want to privatize it?
re: #280 Charles Johnson
Looks like Hugo Weaving in The Matrix : “It appears that you have been living two lives, Mr Anderson”.
I just can’t even.
Soldier punished for interfering in child assault by Afghan, by @lbaldor http://t.co/3xGcDDagRU
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) September 21, 2015
On Hannity, Ben Carson says he is fine with a Muslim president who denounces the life of Mohammed
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 22, 2015
Wait, so can a Christian who denounced the life of Christ be a Christian? This Carson answer doesn’t make sense.
— Goldie Taylor (@goldietaylor) September 22, 2015
Geez, Castle has gotten to the point where it’s unwatchable.
re: #335 The Vicious Babushka
I just can’t even.
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That’s the RW meme du jour. Story and storyteller need a good look.
HURR HURR WHO NEED REGULASHUNS!!!! FREE MARKET WILL GUARANTEE PRODUCT INTEGRITY!!!!!!
Peanut exec in salmonella case gets 28 years http://t.co/mQ8LtshXD7
— Detroit Free Press (@freep) September 22, 2015
re: #335 The Vicious Babushka
We need to be out of that place. For good.
re: #330 Feline Fearless Leader
I saw this a long time ago with one of my friends and his mother.. His mother was in Russia at the time of the story. She said that many of the things shown were real and she saw them. She pointed out some of the uniforms and who wore them.
re: #337 Timothy Watson
Did the two sidekicks interrupt Castle and Beckett with a break in the case after just 30 seconds of investigating?
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Maybe all of Trump’s ugly campaigning is having a reverse effect?
‘An aberration’: Number of children entering US illegally doubles in August
About double the number of Central American children - some 4000 - entered the United States illegally in August compared to a year ago, surprising the Obama administration.
Overall, for the first 11 months of the fiscal year that began in October, the arrivals of children travelling without adults to the south-west border from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala dropped 46 per cent from the year-ago period.
But the number rose to more than 4000 in August from about 2200 12 months earlier and 3700 in July 2015, government figures show.
[…]
Maybe the immigrants are trying to make it here before Trump’s ascension?
re: #342 Bear
I saw this a long time ago with one of my friends and his mother.. His mother was in Russia at the time of the story. She said that many of the things shown were real and she saw them. She pointed out some of the uniforms and who wore them.
It’s one of my favorite David Lean movies due to the mix of cinematography, characters, and everything else that makes it a classic.
Ever so slightly - ahem - undermining story for David Cameron in the news today - you may have heard already but here’s an additional twist:
Charlie Brooker’s ‘Dark Mirror’ episode “foresaw” Cameron Pig Situation:
To fill you in: four years ago, Charlie Brooker’s dystopian TV series Black Mirror began with an episode called the National Anthem, in which the prime minister of Britain - to hoots of derision on social media - is required to have sex with a pig on television in order to ransom a kidnapped princess. On Monday, the Daily Mail printed extracts from Lord Ashcroft’s biography of David Cameron, in which Ashcroft claims to have been told by a current MP that Britain’s real prime minister allegedly “inserted a private part of his anatomy” into the mouth of a dead pig during an initiation ceremony while he was studying at Oxford. The MP knows someone with photographic evidence, according to Ashcroft, but he does not supply any.
For Cameron, whether or not the allegation is true (Downing Street have refused to comment), it must be unspeakably embarrassing. For Brooker, it is just deeply, deeply weird. Indeed, when the story broke, and his phone went crazy, he was just sitting down to work on another dystopian script idea. “I did genuinely for a moment wonder if reality was a simulation, whether it exists only to trick me. Which isn’t meant to sound narcissistic,” he says. “It’s just a bit of a worry.”
They promised me rain, and all I got were high clouds and hot air.
re: #344 No Depression
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re: #348 freetoken
They promised me rain, and all I got were high clouds and hot air.
That’s what you get for listening to a Republican.
Ben Carson campaign manager tells me they have no problems with “Islam-lite” http://t.co/Alib1NTHzP
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) September 22, 2015
“I know there are a lot of other people who practice, I’ll call it Islam-lite. And that’s fine,” he said. “But you have to separate yourself from the tenants of the harsher sect in order for him to consider voting for you. That what this is all about.”
re: #347 Aye Pod
I was thinking of you two yesterday! Bam!! Hope all’s well!!
re: #348 freetoken
They promised me rain, and all I got were high clouds and hot air.
Those damned transverse mountain ranges keeping the moisture in the Sonoran Desert!
What a little shit, this guy.
Charming. pic.twitter.com/TSc81dtTdM
— Samantha Allen (@SLAwrites) September 22, 2015
re: #353 teleskiguy
We still have a chance for rain, as the humid air off to our west will be hit by a trough of low pressure creeping eastward.
But overall, this was a bust.
re: #354 blueraven
What a little shit, this guy.
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re: #354 blueraven
What a little shit, this guy.
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“Are there no prisons?! Are there no workhouses?!”
@goldietaylor Carson has no problem with a Muslim president who isn’t a Muslim. Makes perfect sense. #facepalm
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
@goldietaylor Note that Carson is echoing the propaganda of the “counter-jihad” blogs here: “the only good Muslim is an ex-Muslim.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
@goldietaylor This has been a Pamela Geller talking point for years. It’s now part of a presidential campaign.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 22, 2015
re: #347 Aye Pod
Well hey Hello from California.
Christie not falling on his sword:
Christie disagrees with Walker’s call for candidates to drop out of race
re: #272 Bear
A question. Anyone here changed over from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10?
I notice that there is a “free” download being advertised. Any problems you may have had with Windows 10?
I bought a new laptop over the summer that came with 8.1 and the offer of a free upgrade to 10. I took the offer and have been using 10 for about 2 months. No complaints, but I’ve been getting “out of memory” warnings, so I’m going to bump my RAM from 4GB to 8GB to see if that works out OK.
re: #352 #CampaignZero
Yeah - busy as hell with the business, as it’s been for the last year or so. But loads of fun kind of busy. Also learning to play the guitar! (got a Strat HSS+amp starter pack as a gift couple of months back). I can already play a stumbling, fragmentary version of ‘smells like teen spirit’ woo hoo!
@agent_it @JohnFromCranber So a Catholic prez would outlaw divorce? A Jewish prez demand all food be kosher? Or only Islam has no “lite”
— Aaron Merchen (@Merchen605) September 21, 2015
re: #359 Great White Snark
Hi back :) Hope all is well over there.
I think we can all agree Martin Shkreli is in need of a swift kick to the nuts.
Former Walker aide tweets laundry list of his mistakes
One last thought: Walker’s timing is good. Word is he just avoided getting tied to a very bad story that could well have been coming.
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) September 21, 2015
re: #351 jaunte
So does that mean there’s a “Christian-lite” too? What about “Buddhist-lite” or “Jewish-lite”?
re: #351 jaunte
What a coinkidink. That’s exactly how I feel about Xtians.
re: #360 freetoken
Christie not falling on his sword:
Christie disagrees with Walker’s call for candidates to drop out of race
Yeah, even a casual Christie watcher could see this coming. He’s too stubborn/delusional.
I was mentally running down some of the remaining Klown Kar passenger reactions to Walker’s plea.
-Cruz was the first in, will probably be the last out, and is kissing up to Trump as a CYA.
-Carson thinks God is on his side, so he’s staying put.
-Fiorina just found that her golden ticket is lying about Planned Parenthood, so look for her to flog that.
-Jindal is just too fucking stupid to know he’s beat
-Jeb! is probably still the establishment choice, so if he can hang tough, he might have a chance.
That’s the off of the top of my head.
re: #365 Eclectic Cyborg
Kirk and Bones are gonna get some good usage now that I found that gif. See above.
re: #367 Eclectic Cyborg
According to “anti-jihad experts”, Muslims are the only segment of humanity without a full spectrum of opinion and behavior.
re: #367 Eclectic Cyborg
Pagan-lite: when you’re satisfied with garden gnomes rather than 12 foot high monoliths.
re: #352 #CampaignZero
Ice is gonna email you soon. Hope everythings kushty over there!
Catch you later
re: #373 freetoken
Pagan-lite: when you’re satisfied with garden gnomes rather than 12 foot high monoliths.
re: #369 Mattand
And Jeb; will stay in unless campaign contributors start moving to Trump.
Minority Report:
I never saw the movie, so I can’t compare it. I will say the writing and acting compares unfavorably with “Person of Interest.” Also, the special effects are AWESOME.
Cute futurism moments: a character is flipping through channels, passes by the Simpsons 75th anniversary special. And somebody’s wearing a Washington RedClouds shirt with the same logo as the Redskins.
re: #369 Mattand
Christie thinks he’s going to somehow benefit as the clown bus slowly empties out as others around him get flushed.
Thing is, they’re all thinking the same thing - no one wants to be the first to go, but they’re all headed that way. There’s 7 more of them that have no chance at all. Everyone south of Fiorina (even though she too deserves to go b/c her bounce is entirely due to lying her ass off about PP).
Huckabee, Paul, Kasich, Christie, Santorum, Jindal, and Graham. All have next to no support or are within the MOE. But none will admit that they have no chance, thinking that if only the other guy drops, they’ve got a shot.
re: #373 freetoken
Three-and-a-half Day Adventists.
Zen-lite: The only gravel you rake is when you rearrange the color pea-gravel in the bottom of your fish tank.
re: #381 freetoken
Zen-lite: The only gravel you rake is when you rearrange the color pea-gravel in the bottom of your fish tank.
re: #376 Decatur Deb
What is this? A megalithic structure…FOR ANTS!?
re: #379 lawhawk
Christie thinks he’s going to somehow benefit as the clown bus slowly empties out as others around him get flushed.
Thing is, they’re all thinking the same thing - no one wants to be the first to go, but they’re all headed that way. There’s 7 more of them that have no chance at all. Everyone south of Fiorina (even though she too deserves to go b/c her bounce is entirely due to lying her ass off about PP).
Huckabee, Paul, Kasich, Christie, Santorum, Jindal, and Graham. All have next to no support or are within the MOE. But none will admit that they have no chance, thinking that if only the other guy drops, they’ve got a shot.
Sooner or later, Bridgegate is going to drop on Christie like a ton of bricks. It’s hard to believe David Wildstein doesn’t have some massive bombshell up his sleeve. Whether it wrecks both his POTUS campaign and his governership at the same time is up to him.
Baha’i-lite: Bill Nye is yet another Divine Messenger.
re: #385 Mattand
Actually think his bigger problem is related to the SEC and PANY filings about using ARC money for bridge repairs beyond the scope of the SEC filings. And that his guy David Samson is in hot water over the quid pro quo with United Airlines over extending PATH to EWR airport and Samson getting direct flights between Newark and the airport closest to his vacation home. Flights that ended days after Samson exited the PANY.
re: #362 Aye Pod
Yeah - busy as hell with the business, as it’s been for the last year or so. But loads of fun kind of busy. Also learning to play the guitar! (got a Strat HSS+amp starter pack as a gift couple of months back). I can already play a stumbling, fragmentary version of ‘smells like teen spirit’ woo hoo!
I won my high school’s talent show my junior year with my band playing that song. T’was my first taste of rock stardom.
re: #369 Mattand
I’m still thinking Jeb/Walker ticket. One’s cash-and-influence connected by family, and the other is small potatoes, but he’s already paid for. Running for VP doesn’t cost anything extra on the scale of the big show.
These debate cycles are just a marketing test, except Trump went and fucked up the curve.
They’re running into a real problem, though, because you can’t narrow your field when your barrel has no bottom, and your base cheers harder, the deeper you dig.
Speaking of questionable religions: It appears that an archaeologist has found the mass grave of the victims of the Mountain Meadows massacre.
This article reads kind of funny, though, because it implies that the Mormon Church has acknowledged the massacre, and that’s certainly not true. To mention it anywhere is to be inundated with outraged denials.
re: #391 freetoken
I used to be an agnostic but now I’m not so sure.
re: #351 jaunte
“But you have to separate yourself from the tenants of the harsher sect in order for him to consider voting for you. That what this is all about.”
Tenets. Tenets, goddamn it.
Journalism is fucking dead. These people hardly even know the English language.
Quaker-lite: you text your friends during Meeting For Worship
re: #395 makeitstop
Maybe he was advising landlords not to rent to rent to harsh Muslims.
i was amused by Walker saying he was proud of his campaign and positive message. Uh right Scott. Your scapegoating unions for everything from here to you know where wasn’t exactly positive. I said it earlier but I overestimated Walker as a candidate.
Have these idiots even read the Old Testament? http://t.co/nAZ7NdDetL pic.twitter.com/FZGxJcwyIH
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) September 22, 2015
re: #362 Aye Pod
Yeah - busy as hell with the business, as it’s been for the last year or so. But loads of fun kind of busy. Also learning to play the guitar! (got a Strat HSS+amp starter pack as a gift couple of months back). I can already play a stumbling, fragmentary version of ‘smells like teen spirit’ woo hoo!
That’s awesome! I remember when I finally mastered the Chorus riff. I think that was my proudest moment as a guitar player even though it’s relatively easy to learn. Keep at it!
re: #315 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I agree. That started the deforestation of the Middle East and the Mediterranean, with all the evils that flowed from that.
Charcoal burning, shipbuilding and providing timber to rebuild after the frequent structure fires had left England’s forests bereft of old growth trees tall enough for masts by Shakespeare’s time. They were forced to the expedient of buying timber from Sweden and then floating it all the way back to Blighty. Of course whomever they were at war with made a practice of ambushing the timber en route. At the same time, France had usable timber, it’s just that it was so far inland that bringing it to the sea could be a nightmare.
1610 is as good a year as any I suppose. Hinging that solely on the results of transoceanic commerce overlooks other crucial factors, some of which were gathering in importance for at least two centuries.
re: #393 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Speaking of questionable religions: It appears that an archaeologist has found the mass grave of the victims of the Mountain Meadows massacre.
This article reads kind of funny, though, because it implies that the Mormon Church has acknowledged the massacre, and that’s certainly not true. To mention it anywhere is to be inundated with outraged denials.
I read through the first couple of the Sherlock Holmes books and some short stories. Doyle was not kind at all to Mormonism.
Netanyahu to receive award from conservative think tank on day he meets Obama http://t.co/PfvZ3wi4B4 pic.twitter.com/fPgiNGK7kZ
I am sure nobody would have any problem if Obama went to Israel to receive an award from opposition group there on the same day he met Netanyahu, right?
re: #403 bratwurst
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re: #403 bratwurst
He’s really not very good at politics.
Further Russian Air Force reinforcements arrive in Syria, Su-25 ‘Frogfoots’ join the fray http://t.co/iyyzgn5WbO pic.twitter.com/5dTSCc3LEX
— Oryx (@oryxspioenkop) September 21, 2015
re: #210 Charles Johnson
He probably saw “AIDS” in the headline and got a stiffy at the thought of gay people dying.
Never mind the fact that it’s pregnant woman who are at risk for toxoplasmosis. WHAT ABOUT THE BABEES, CCJ!?
re: #407 jaunte
That will make command and control very interesting. It will also make life much worse for people on the ground there because Russian pilots are considerably less inhibited than American ones about where they deliver ordnance.
re: #393 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Speaking of questionable religions: It appears that an archaeologist has found the mass grave of the victims of the Mountain Meadows massacre.
This article reads kind of funny, though, because it implies that the Mormon Church has acknowledged the massacre, and that’s certainly not true. To mention it anywhere is to be inundated with outraged denials.
You have no idea what you’re talking about, do you?
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