Breitbart Hack Milo Yiannopoulos: “Feminized Culture” Causes Mass Murder

The sickest thing written about the Oregon shootings so far
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There have been a lot of awful right wing articles and blog posts about the massacre at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College, trying to deflect the discussion away from America’s sick love affair with guns and the terrible toll of pain and grief it continues to wreak on innocent people.

But out of all the crazy rationalizations and excuse-making I’ve seen, one article stands out as the worst, by far: this one by strange self-hating gay Breitbart hack Milo Yiannopoulos: How to Stop Mass Shootings.

Because Yiannopoulos is actually arguing that mass killers are being created by “today’s man-punishing, feminised culture” that suppresses young men’s natural urges to crush and dominate and “shoot things.” If men aren’t allowed to indulge their impulse to conquer, he argues, they really have no other choice but to grab as many guns as they can and slaughter a whole lot of people, preferably while they’re sitting in a classroom.

I might be a raging homo, but I still innately understand the male need to conquer, crush and win. Men need to express that dark, powerful part of themselves, or it can abruptly overflow. If it is suppressed, derided and ridiculed, it can show up without warning and with horrible consequences.

That’s why I’m so distressed that heterosexual men are being told, constantly, by the media and even in schools, that what they are is bad. This, I submit, is at least in part what’s driving the recent spate of shootings.

The media trash-talks everything men love: guns, booze, boisterousness, drugs, sex and video games. Economic pressures are relentlessly stripping away male spaces like the traditional pub, where blokes can drink and bond. Social pressures are opening up male-only golf and social clubs to women, destroying what made them precious and essential.

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Progressives don’t see the irony in going after “straight white men.” But they are hypocritical bigots, hounding people for gender, skin colour and sexuality and saying that essential male characteristics are wrong. Men must be allowed to compete. To fight. To shoot things. Today’s man-punishing, feminised culture is creating killers by suppressing these urges. We have to stop it.

He goes in in this deranged vein for another 12 paragraphs. Yiannopoulos has made a career of pandering to the “men’s rights” crowd and the adolescent “GamerGate” loons who are locked in a perpetual state of rage because women won’t give them sex whenever they want it — damaged males who blame their failings and inadequacies on imaginary suppression by “feminists.”

I’d end by saying this grotesque Breitbart clown disgusts me, but I think that’s obvious. This horrible post amounts to justifying mass murder with misogynistic persecution fantasies; there’s something seriously wrong with this guy, and with the delusional people who follow him.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:27:15pm

As a heterosexual white man, I can’t begin to express my annoyance with the culture of crying victim. So no Milo, you’re wrong again. Feminists din’t cause this or any other shooting.

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KGxvi  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:27:45pm
I still innately understand the male need to conquer, crush and win. Men need to express that dark, powerful part of themselves, or it can abruptly overflow

So: join a sports team, play video games until all hours of the morning, play paint ball, join an MMA gym (or any martial arts dojo or boxing gym), get a job in demolition, play poker or fantasy sports.

There’s a billion ways, in our society, that one can quench the need to “conquer, crush and win” without a firearm - hell, even with a firearm, join a shooting range/club.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:29:23pm

Milo is a virgin that spends too much time playing Call of Duty.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:30:20pm

re: #2 KGxvi

So: join a sports team, play video games until all hours of the morning, play paint ball, join an MMA gym (or any martial arts dojo or boxing gym), get a job in demolition, play poker or fantasy sports.

There’s a billion ways, in our society, that one can quench the need to “conquer, crush and win” without a firearm - hell, even with a firearm, join a shooting range/club.

Right, I am a competitive guy. I do football pick em, I play video games still, etc. I don’t need a firearm to feel comfortable in my manhood. This is just pathetic bullshit. And frankly it’s sexist to imply that men are so weak that we can’t handle change so we lash out and kill innocent people.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:32:09pm

That’s probably one of the most sinister pictures of him before he started to dye his hair. Too bad he’s too cheap to get a proper dye job done. And let’s not forget the real reason why he was in LA:

All Hail Breitbart!
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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:32:11pm

Shot down by science.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:34:27pm

Is that a picture of Milo? If it is, I guess it is the first time I have seen a pic of him up close. He kinda has a Halloween mask like face, and that grin. I get a distinct evil Adams family feel from that photo.

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Lidane  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:35:04pm
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Belafon  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:36:12pm

“If you don’t give into bullies, they’ll just keep being bullies.”

Strange, none of my sons act like he’s describing.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:36:49pm

So basically, a scaled-up version of how husbands who hit their wives justify it: if you hadn’t made me feel bad, I wouldn’t have to hurt you.

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Csarneson  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:37:37pm

He’s way wrong in his analysis but I do partially agree that with these killers are trying to claim some sort of power. Most of these mass murderers see themselves as having been picked on, demeaned, or somehow treated poorly. Because they have no real people skills they become frustrated at not being able to cope. Semi-auto guns are so readily available and that’s the “low hanging fruit” option to taking back power.

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CuriousLurker  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:37:39pm

Someone needs to ask Milo why there’s so much mass murder in the form of terrorism in the Middle East. The various cultures there can hardly be considered “feminized,” can they? By his logic places like Afghanistan should be Utopian models of peace & contentment.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:38:13pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:39:23pm

re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth

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You know a lot about sin don’t ya Mr. I continue to stand up for a pedophile. Huckabee is such an asshole. He’s no different from the Taliban in how he sees the world- through very narrow and theocratic fields but it’s okay because he’s a Christian.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:39:39pm

re: #12 CuriousLurker

Someone needs to ask Milo why there’s so much mass murder in the form of terrorism in the Middle East. The various cultures there can hardly be considered “feminized,” can they? By his logic places like Afghanistan should be Utopian models of peace & contentment.

Nailed it.

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Black Skeleton d20  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:41:01pm

re: #11 Csarneson

Perhaps part of the problem is the belief that one *needs* whatever ‘power’ means here? If it’s a hollow thing, this ‘power’, then maybe we should be looking at what cultural/social structure demands it be a thing a man should have or else.

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:41:43pm

re: #12 CuriousLurker

Someone needs to ask Milo why there’s so much mass murder in the form of terrorism in the Middle East. The various cultures there can hardly be considered “feminized,” can they? By his logic places like Afghanistan should be Utopian models of peace & contentment.

How about we send this ass clown there so he can report all about it.

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CriticalDragon1177  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:43:53pm

Charles Johnson,

The so called “Men’s Rights Activists” hasn’t been good to men either.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:43:55pm

BTW, is anyone else’s gaydar triggered when you see a pic of Milo?

edit: For clarity, I don’t care if he’s gay. But, a gay man that hates other gays is quite odd.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:44:49pm

re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yep. The country elected a black man to office, and now white males feel the need to retaliate by grabbing the gun they worship and killing others. I see at least two Commandments that have been broken: Worshipping idols and killing.

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:44:51pm

re: #19 Dr. Matt

BTW, is anyone else’s gaydar triggered when you see a pic of Milo?

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No need for gaydar. He is open about being gay.

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Archangelus  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:44:53pm

Seeing Yiannopoulos followed by Huckabee i’m reminded of a popular Israeli expression - “זו נבלה וזו טרפה” - in essence, one’s a villainous piece of s**t and the other is a different yet equal scumbag..

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Jayleia  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:44:55pm

re: #19 Dr. Matt

He says he’s a raging homo himself, no gaydar required. :-D

EDIT:

I might be a raging homo, but I still innately understand the male need to conquer, crush and win.

I’m sure I can go to a few local bars and find quite a few gay guys with that “male need to conquer, crush, and win”…THEY AREN’T ALL SISSIES JUST BECAUSE THEY’RE GAY (and even if they are, there’s nothing wrong with that either).

He might be openly gay, but he don’t know shit about gays.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:45:08pm

re: #19 Dr. Matt

BTW, is anyone else’s gaydar triggered when you see a pic of Milo?

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He is gay.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:45:10pm

re: #19 Dr. Matt

BTW, is anyone else’s gaydar triggered when you see a pic of Milo?

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He’s openly gay.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:45:36pm

re: #22 Archangelus

Seeing Yiannopoulos followed by Huckabee i’m reminded of a popular Israeli expression - “זו נבלה וזו טרפה” - in essence, one’s a villainous piece of s**t and the other is a different yet equal scumbag..

Assholes by different name.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:45:38pm

I think for most of history, most men have had very little control over their lives. But for most of history, women have had even less control over their lives. So I have difficulty feeling sorry for men who feel bad that they can’t control women like they used to.

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Csarneson  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:45:48pm

re: #19 Dr. Matt

He is VERY gay and he’s happy to acknowledge that. It’s one of the things that is so strange at having him on Breitbart. Most of the readers there don’t often realize it and when they do they instantly want to kick him out.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:46:29pm

WHAT? He’s gay and he’s a pro-heterosexual guy who hates gays?!?

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:46:34pm

re: #27 Blind Frog Belly White

I think for most of history, most men have had very little control over their lives. But for most of history, women have had even less control over their lives. So I have difficulty feeling sorry for men who feel bad that they can’t control women like they used to.

Indeed.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:47:08pm

re: #29 Dr. Matt

WHAT? He’s gay and he’s a pro-heterosexual guy who hates gays?!?

Hey Bobby Jindal shits on birthright citizenship as does Ted Cruz.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:47:14pm

re: #19 Dr. Matt

BTW, is anyone else’s gaydar triggered when you see a pic of Milo?

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One of the first things that came to mind…. Secondly, is there really a woman out there that would think that’s hot?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:47:31pm

re: #28 Csarneson

He is VERY gay and he’s happy to acknowledge that. It’s one of the things that is so strange at having him on Breitbart. Most of the readers there don’t often realize it and when they do they instantly want to kick him out.

I think his self-loathing is why his being gay is okay with them. And you can easily understand that self-loathing, given what a loathsome person he is.

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Csarneson  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:47:58pm

re: #27 Blind Frog Belly White

The difference now is that semi-auto assault style rifles are available in every gun shop in america. Whenever a psycho needs to overcompensate for their inadequacies these guns are right there for them.

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stpaulbear  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:48:02pm

re: #29 Dr. Matt

WHAT? He’s gay and he’s a pro-heterosexual guy who hates gays?!?

He’s a men’s rights activist and an asshole.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:48:09pm

re: #32 Dave In Austin

Never mind…..

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Archangelus  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:48:35pm

re: #26 HappyWarrior

Assholes by different name.

True, yet bad for different reasons (literal translation, which I mistakenly failed to include in the post, is “this one a villain, that one unholy”).

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:48:46pm

re: #33 Blind Frog Belly White

I think his self-loathing is why his being gay is okay with them. And you can easily understand that self-loathing, given what a loathsome person he is.

Didn’t they freak out when he went on and out about how he loved black dudes in an attempt to “prove” liberals racist. Frankly I don’t care who Milo wants to or is fucking as long as it’s a consenting adult.

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Shiplord Kirel  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:48:54pm

Sure ‘nuff, there were no mass shootings by individuals in the 18th century, when women were enslaved and could not even own property.
It could also have to do with the lack of auto-loading firearms in those days, but we mustn’t blame guns for our moral failures.

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:49:09pm

re: #29 Dr. Matt

WHAT? He’s gay and he’s a pro-heterosexual guy who hates gays?!?

Could be a little self loathing involved. Add in the fact he is just fucked up.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:49:09pm

Ha, of course we’re all responding as though this claim has some kind of coherent interior structure.

It’s the naturalistic fallacy plus a No True Scotsman. Men have these “dark, powerful” impulses or they’re Not-Really-Men. It’s a claim that’s able to survive bombardment by being insubstantial rather than impenetrable.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:49:30pm

re: #33 Blind Frog Belly White

I think his self-loathing is why his being gay is okay with them. And you can easily understand that self-loathing, given what a loathsome person he is.

Some people deserve to be self-hated.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:49:37pm

re: #37 Archangelus

True, yet bad for different loathsome reasons (literal translation, which I mistakenly failed to include in the post, is “this one a villain, that one unholy”).

Yep. Brilliant idiom in any case. It dsceibes the right’s going ons well.

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Black Skeleton d20  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:49:59pm

Milo is also the kind of slime that tried to smear Shaun King (and forced him to air dirty family laundry to shut that down) then follows up with a piece that amounts to ‘I bottom for big black dongers so I can’t be a racist’.

Just… ugh.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:50:23pm

re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth

Huckabee: We Don’t Have Gun Problem, ‘We Have a Problem with Sin and Evil’

same argument as the psychological one: by this token, socialist western europe is replete with christian virtue

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Amory Blaine  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:50:40pm

We have boxing rings and shooting ranges. Milo should get a real job. Wingnut welfare doesn’t buy quality like it used to, I guess.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:51:22pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:53:02pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

Like Churchill’s quote about Clement Atlee - “A modest man with much to be modest about”, but in this case a self-loathing gay man with a lot to loathe.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:53:45pm

man-punishing, feminised

this species of crap was outdated no later than wwi

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Archangelus  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:53:48pm
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Jayleia  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:54:35pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:54:56pm

The crying about the “feminization” of culture is just so stupid. This is the kind of mindset that gives you gems like Bryan Fischer claiming that getting the CMOH for saving lives “feminizes it.”

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:55:13pm

re: #52 Jayleia

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Archangelus  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:57:06pm

re: #44 HappyWarrior

Yep. Brilliant idiom in any case. It dsceibes the right’s going ons well.

Unfortunately, while it’s very much applicable, there are way more GOP presidential candidates than there are appropriate synonyms with which to describe them all…

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:57:06pm

re: #43 Eric The Fruit Bat

And while proudly proclaiming his queerness, he chooses to fight against the LGBT community having the same rights as straight couples.

“Only for me, and not for thee” is his motto. This is one poofter who should get the Lorena Bobbit treatment.

free market economics require rights on a cash basis only

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Jayleia  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:57:13pm

re: #54 HappyWarrior

Yeah, can’t brain today…work nights…neighbor is having work done on house when I WOULD be sleeping.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:57:30pm

re: #55 Archangelus

Unfortunately, while it’s very much applicable, there are way more GOP presidential candidates than there are appropriate synonyms with which to describe them all…

Nothing’s perfect.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:58:21pm

re: #57 Jayleia

Yeah, can’t brain today…work nights…neighbor is having work done on house when I WOULD be sleeping.

Nah I was just perfecting it. Quick work day for me today. Happy. Thought of a great Christmas gift for my niee already.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2015 • 1:58:58pm
I might be a raging homo, but I still innately understand the male need to conquer, crush and win. Men need to express that dark, powerful part of themselves, or it can abruptly overflow. If it is suppressed, derided and ridiculed, it can show up without warning and with horrible consequences.

Let’s look up what Milo said when black men hurled frozen water bottles at police in Ferguson, MO over the summer. Because I don’t think he was as indulging of the violence there as he is with the Oregon slimeballl.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:00:40pm

re: #60 Dark_Falcon

Let’s look up what Milo said when black men hurled frozen water bottles at police in Ferguson, MO over the summer. Because I don’t think he was as indulging of the violence there as he is with the Oregon slimeballl.

I think we lready know. I’ll take animals for 1000 Trebek.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:03:11pm

As I think about it, much of his argument about ‘feminization’ and the loss of exclusively male places, things, sports, etc. reminds me of one of the primary motivators behind Jim Crow - that for a poor white sharecropper, at least he wasn’t the bottom of the heap. There was someone still lower to look down on.

Same here. He’s basically arguing that men need to be able to look down on women.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:05:41pm

re: #62 Blind Frog Belly White

As I think about it, much of his argument about ‘feminization’ and the loss of exclusively male places, things, sports, etc. reminds me of one of the primary motivators behind Jim Crow - that for a poor white sharecropper, at least he wasn’t the bottom of the heap. There was someone still lower to look down on.

Same here. He’s basically arguing that men need to be able to look down on women.

Which is why they oppose equal pay. . “Sure the CEO makes 100 times as much but at least you make more than a bitch does.”

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:06:02pm
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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:12:51pm

this weekend i received a c-melody sax left to me by a music buddy who passed away suddenly this spring olav ha shalom from a heart ailment

it turned out to be a buescher tru-tone whose serial number indicates that it was made in 1923! this is all the coolness i could hope for in saxophones! it is in good, playable condition, and the pads have resonators

oooo, resonators!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:15:54pm
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Lidane  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:15:59pm

*facepalm*

Since when do whistleblowers require a plea deal?

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Timothy Watson  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:16:19pm

Milo is as obsess with heterosexual sex as Bryan Fischer is with gay sex.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:18:24pm

re: #67 Lidane

*facepalm*

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Since when do whistleblowers require a plea deal?

I thought yo uwere innocent of any crime Ed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:19:44pm
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Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:20:00pm

Yiannopoulos only stopped off at the Slut Walk. He was on his way to Culver City to inhale the stench wafting from Breitbart’s grave.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:20:41pm

re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth

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b.d.  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:20:42pm

re: #67 Lidane

*facepalm*

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Since when do whistleblowers require a plea deal?

Somehow I envision Snowie’s demanding a ticker tape parade, no prison time and a giant sash as part of any plea deal

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Timothy Watson  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:23:49pm

re: #72 Dark_Falcon

I do hope that bear was tranqed and relocated well away from human houses. Bears that aren’t afraid of people can be dangerous.

Hey, it’s a nice Canadian bear, he was just helping the owner get his trash to the curb for pickup.

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calochortus  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:23:56pm

re: #53 HappyWarrior

The crying about the “feminization” of culture is just so stupid. This is the kind of mindset that gives you gems like Bryan Fischer claiming that getting the CMOH for saving lives “feminizes it.”

Steven Pinker makes a pretty good case for the feminization of society (among other things) reducing violence. See: The Better Angels of Our Nature.

For a quick check of the logic behind it think about the rates of violence in suburban and urban areas with decent policing and courts. You let the government take care of your disputes in most cases. Now contrast that with inner cities and rural areas where institutions are hit and miss, corrupt, or almost entirely absent-you have to convince people you are too dangerous to make a victim, because you don’t have anything but your reputation to protect you and your family. What could possibly go wrong?

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:23:59pm

re: #67 Lidane

*facepalm*

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Since when do whistleblowers require a plea deal?

How about; when you go to the electric chair you can have Greenwald sitting on your lap?

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:24:36pm
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Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:25:48pm

Just read a headline: “Many in SC lack running water.”
Yes, but what did the storm do?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:26:22pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:27:33pm

re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Temporary  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:28:25pm

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calochortus  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:31:23pm

re: #81 Temporary

I hope you are getting some help. No one should have to go through life with that kind of pain.

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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:32:25pm

Funnily enough, Milo exposes himself as a misandrist, who describes men as a “feminist” of conservative fantasies would.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:33:04pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

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You WILL get fooled again!

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wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:33:28pm

re: #77 Charles Johnson

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Where’s that ‘do not like’ button…?

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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:33:43pm

BTW, can anyone post that blank Milo pic? I have an idea for that placard.

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:38:32pm

re: #67 Lidane

*facepalm*

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Since when do whistleblowers require a plea deal?

Hopefully they never will offer one.

I get the sense that Eddie knows his time is over. The outrage he was hoping for and would carry him as a new American hero is over. He probably realizes he is running out of sympathy time and reality is taking over. He fucked up and it may be dawning on him now.

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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:40:12pm

re: #67 Lidane

*facepalm*

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Since when do whistleblowers require a plea deal?

Well, for fairness’ sake, whistleblowing can easily include potential lawbreaking. See Ellsberg.

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Archangelus  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:40:26pm

re: #86 Nyet

BTW, can anyone post that blank Milo pic? I have an idea for that placard.

Here ya go…

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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:41:18pm

re: #89 Archangelus

Here ya go…

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Thankee-sai.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:44:28pm

And here’s another guy who talks tougher than he really is but this one might end up causing a bigger disaster than any wingnut:

F-16 jets are scrambled to intercept Russian warplane in Turkish airspace… and Moscow is warned they will be held ‘responsible for any undesired incident that may occur’ if it happens again

A Russian warplane violated Turkish airspace near the Syrian border on Saturday, prompting the Foreign Ministry to send a stern warning to Moscow to stay away from its territory or face the consequences.

Turkey scrambled two F-16 jets to intercept the plane, after which Russia was told to avoid repeating such a violation, or it would be held ‘responsible for any undesired incident that may occur’, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Monday.

The news of the violation of Turkish airspace comes just one day after President Tayyip Erdogan called Russia’s air strikes in Syria a ‘grave mistake’.

As if Syria wasn’t a bad enough crisis, now we may end up with a shooting incident between Russia and NATO.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:45:12pm

There are three different images of Yiannopoulos here at the moment. I notice that he’s posing in all three of them. Betcha’ he poses in his sleep. He’s the Zoolander of journalism.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:47:07pm
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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:47:28pm

re: #91 Dark_Falcon

held ‘responsible for any undesired incident that may occur’

the whole thing is getting much too ‘origins of the third world war’ for my taste

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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:50:25pm

I apologize in advance if someone already had the idea.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:54:11pm

re: #94 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

the whole thing is getting much too ‘origins of the third world war’ for my taste

A slight bit of good news is that the Secretary of State agrees with you:

The Russian incursion into Turkish air space has set alarm bells ringing in Nato with Alliance ambassadors describing it as “irresponsible behaviour”.

The US Secretary of State John Kerry has also expressed his concern, noting that this is “precisely the kind of thing” Washington warned about in pressing Russia for talks to avoid mid-air incidents.

Turkish jets shot down a Syrian Mig-fighter in March of last year. Another Syrian aircraft, possibly a helicopter, was shot down last May.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:54:52pm

re: #95 Nyet

Nope.

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:55:46pm

re: #92 Higgs Boson’s Mate

There are three different images of Yiannopoulos here at the moment. I notice that he’s posing in all three of them. Betcha’ he poses in his sleep. He’s the Zoolander of journalism.

He surely works more on his image than he does on his journalism output.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:56:25pm
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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:56:43pm

re: #95 Nyet

JFYI, this poster is basically his concentrated twitter TL.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:57:13pm

re: #83 Nyet

Funnily enough, Milo exposes himself as a misandrist, who describes men as a “feminist” of conservative fantasies would.

Something, something “Real Men,” something, something, No True Scotsman.

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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 2:58:13pm

re: #101 The Ghost of a Flea

Basically he’s saying men are walking bombs waiting to explode.

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Jayleia  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:02:06pm

re: #95 Nyet

I wouldn’t fuck him with my worst enemy’s dick.

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:02:10pm

re: #102 Nyet

Basically he’s saying men are walking bombs waiting to explode.

I think many teenage boys try that line.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:05:24pm

A few months ago Milo said he was bored of being gay and was going to choose to be straight instead:

Today, thanks to society’s endless mollycoddling and celebration of “alternative” lifestyles, the joy of rebellion is drying up for me. You see, I only plumped for homosexuality to irritate my parents. But now even they are fine with it. A few years ago, my mum said, perhaps cannily, “All I want is for you to be happy.”

That came as devastating news. Because my sexuality was never about maternal acceptance, but rather the mischievous and incorrigible pursuit of social censure and the threat of being cut out of the will. Now my gayness was not only roundly applauded by wider society but even my own parents, what was the point?

…

It pains me to admit that, in today’s permissive culture, it is easier to be an outrageously gay man than it is to present with the symptoms of so-called toxic masculinity. By pure accident of birth, your skin colour, sexuality and sex can today be used with impunity against you, to dismiss your opinions and even pay you less at work: under the age of 30, women now earn more than men for the same jobs in both Britain and America.

Since gay people have been so endlessly praised, flattered and catered to by the media and politicians, I’ve lost interest in sleeping with men. I want to feel oppressed again! That’s why, from today, I’m going to make a go of being straight. Wish me luck!

Then a couple of weeks ago he apparently forgot all about that and decided to argue that he wasn’t racist because of how much he’s hardwired to want the black penis:

I don’t use Grindr, the gay hook-up app, because if I want to shag a stranger in a pay toilet all I need to do is walk down the road. But I did once, and I stated my preference: no whites. If I returned to the app one day I might even tell the real truth and put “blacks only.” Does that, according to the Daily Beast, make me a racist too? Or is it, as so many progressives these days argue, impossible to be racist toward white people?

…

The fact is, lots of men have sexual preferences. It’s a pretty basic, primal thing that none of us has much control over. Men are more likely to express their preferences, so when you get a lot men together in a digital meat market these things are going to be stated very plainly.

The guy is just an exploding manure truck, flinging flaming bullshit in every random conceivable direction.

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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:05:36pm

re: #103 Jayleia

I wouldn’t fuck him with my worst enemy’s dick.

It’s a rhetorical question. ;)

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:06:28pm

So basically, this is Milo:

Right Said Fred - I’m Too Sexy

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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:07:09pm

re: #102 Nyet

Basically he’s saying men are walking bombs waiting to explode.

Just in case there’s a misunderstanding, my response was a mockery of his statements, not yours. You’re totally right.

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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:08:37pm

re: #108 The Ghost of a Flea

No no, I got the message :)

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:11:24pm

re: #107 Dark_Falcon

I always appreciate a song that makes me get up and dance around the room.

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Varek Raith  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:12:18pm

I’m usually not one to judge on appearances but, by Zod, that tie and that suit!
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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:13:28pm

re: #102 Nyet

Basically he’s saying men are walking bombs waiting to explode.

Whereas to the GOP, men are walking bums, ready to exploit.

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:15:00pm

re: #105 goddamnedfrank

A few months ago Milo said he was bored of being gay and was going to choose to be straight instead:

Then a couple of weeks ago he apparently forgot all about that and decided to argue that he wasn’t racist because of how much he’s hardwired to want the black penis:

The guy is just an exploding manure truck, flinging flaming bullshit in every random conceivable direction.

Damn. He’s a total mess. But I get the feeling it comes from being a bored rich kid with zero direction. So he goofs off knowing he can be whatever and his family will be there to clean up.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:17:44pm

re: #113 ObserverArt

Damn. He’s a total mess. But I get the feeling it comes from being a bored rich kid with zero direction. So he goofs off knowing he can be whatever and his family will be there to clean up.

Where do I sign up for that? Is there a waiting list?

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Varek Raith  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:19:19pm

re: #114 Blind Frog Belly White

Where do I sign up for that? Is there a waiting list?

I wished!

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:19:46pm

re: #114 Blind Frog Belly White

Where do I sign up for that? Is there a waiting list?

You could try adoption into a rich family and see where it goes!

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:21:32pm

re: #113 ObserverArt

Damn. He’s a total mess. But I get the feeling it comes from being a bored rich kid with zero direction. So he goofs off knowing he can be whatever and his family will be there to clean up.

Sergey nailed it recently. Milo is a hedonistic nihilist.

Which to my thinking means he basically has the mindset of a Harkonnen.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:22:51pm

re: #117 goddamnedfrank

Sergey nailed it recently. Milo is a hedonistic nihilist.

Which to my thinking means he basically has the mindset of a Harkonnen.

Anyone ever noticed whether he drums his fingers in a peculiar way?

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Varek Raith  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:24:07pm

re: #117 goddamnedfrank

Sergey nailed it recently. Milo is a hedonistic nihilist.

Which to my thinking means he basically has the mindset of a Harkonnen.

House Hog.

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KGxvi  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:24:20pm

re: #114 Blind Frog Belly White

I’m pretty sure the waiting list is about 7 billion people long, and growing by the minute.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:25:38pm

re: #120 KGxvi

I’m pretty sure the waiting list is about 7 billion people long, and growing by the minute.

And they never want to adopt older children, so at 57 I’d be way down the list, even though I am cute as a bug’s ear!

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:27:51pm

re: #117 goddamnedfrank

Sergey nailed it recently. Milo is a hedonistic nihilist.

Which to my thinking means he basically has the mindset of a Harkonnen.

Well, not everyone can afford that lifestyle!

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:28:36pm

re: #121 Blind Frog Belly White

And they never want to adopt older children, so at 57 I’d be way down the list, even though I am cute as a bug’s ear!

Danged if you aren’t:

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:28:46pm

re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Huckabee said the same thing about racism.

patheos.com

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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:35:49pm

Hedonism Bot

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:37:05pm
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Jenner7  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:41:08pm

The response:

Bwahahahahahaha!

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:42:48pm

re: #127 Jenner7

I can’t wait.

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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:43:45pm

Tiny grass is dreaming

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:48:25pm

re: #127 Jenner7

The letter from Rep. Cummings and the Dems to Tres Gouty was a thing of beauty.

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Jenner7  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:49:36pm

Laundry, dinner, homework, more laundry. BBL tonight. Hope everyone had a great Monday!

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Amory Blaine  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:50:26pm

re: #95 Nyet

I apologize in advance if someone already had the idea.

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Goodbye Horses - Q Lazzarus

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:52:49pm
Straight out of the Toolbox
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Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:55:56pm

And weaponsman.com gets my award for best smackdown line of the day:

No, you’re not An Operator because you can blast Albinobambi from a moving pick-up. You’re just a sphincter muscle in vaguely humanoid form.

The story is of an albino deer yearling that got shot by three yahoos who fired from a moving pickup truck. A good use of social media nailed their boastful butts:

This is the first year the NRP have had their Facebook page up, and it’s already paying dividends. While we can’t pretend to understand the yahoos that shoot deer from trucks, the cops can catch them by activating their social networks. Somewhere, someone that’s not a fan of poaching intersects with someone who heard these trigger-happy bozos boast, and whammy! Albinobambi is avenged.

Naturally, wags have to comment: “Brown Deer Matter!” and “They only do this for big bucks and albino deer!” but the cops vehemently disagree. And a cursory look at their page shows that they put up a picture of just about every poached deer they come across, and enough details to jog a guilty conscience, or at least, to get people listening to truckborne nimrods’ boasts.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:57:34pm

re: #95 Nyet

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Amory Blaine  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:57:58pm
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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 3:59:13pm

re: #135 goddamnedfrank

Good. :)

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Nojay UK  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:02:11pm

re: #129 Nyet

I had to work on it a bit but the Japanese text on that sign is basically what you get on a “Do not Disturb” door-hanger in a good hotel, a very very polite request to refrain from knocking as the person inside the room is taking a rest. I’d guess the signmaker just searched for the Japanese for “Do Not Disturb” online and copied the first result they came across.

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:03:05pm

re: #77 Charles Johnson

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I can guess what he’s going to say: Pay gap, good. Rape culture, good. Feminization, bad.

So there’s no need for anyone to actually go and hear him speak.

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Big Beautiful Door  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:03:09pm

re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Huck, Ronald Reagan disagreed with you.

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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:03:55pm

re: #138 Nojay UK

The Russian translation is also pretty fucked up, although at least it does the job, since it can be understood.

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b_sharp  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:04:27pm

re: #95 Nyet

I apologize in advance if someone already had the idea.

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Damn, Sergey. I had no idea you had such a gritty sense of humour.

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Varek Raith  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:06:55pm

re: #142 b_sharp

Damn, Sergey. I had no idea you had such a gritty sense of humour.

Don’t encourage him.

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:07:11pm

If Big Bill Clinton encouraged The Donald™ to run to screw up the Republicans, what did he do to get Kevin McCarthy to blurt out proudly the Benghazi/Email scandal was a setup?

I tell ya, that Big Bill is something!

/

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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:08:10pm

I’d encourage me.

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:10:17pm

re: #145 Nyet

I’d encourage me.

Well!

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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:11:21pm

re: #144 ObserverArt

If Big Bill Clinton encouraged The DonaldTM to run to screw up the Republicans, what did he do to get Kevin McCarthy to blurt out proudly the Benghazi/Email scandal was a setup?

I tell ya, that Big Bill is something!

/

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stpaulbear  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:12:31pm

re: #130 Blind Frog Belly White

The letter from Rep. Cummings and the Dems to Tres Gouty was a thing of beauty.

I googled that letter and google wants me to change Tres Gouty to ‘Treat Gout’.

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MomSense  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:14:23pm

Milo, eisai malakas.

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EmmaAnne  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:15:27pm

re: #43 Eric The Fruit Bat

And while proudly proclaiming his queerness, he chooses to fight against the LGBT community having the same rights as straight couples.

“Only for me, and not for thee” is his motto. This is one poofter who should get the Lorena Bobbit treatment.

Sorry - too much for me.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:22:35pm

re: #148 stpaulbear

Yeah. About that - it helps if you spell it right.

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BENGHAZII!!!!!!
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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:22:49pm

Gorgeous wildlife photography.

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:23:33pm

I like this picture found when I was looking into the Democrat’s letter to the GOP/Benghazi Committee mentioned above by Jenner7. Plus I’ve added a bit of the MSNBC story too for those unfamiliar.

Trey. Uh, um, Mr. Elijah Cummings…hello sir.

- - - CUT - - -There was brief discussion about whether Democrats would simply quit the taxpayer-funded, anti-Clinton fishing expedition in protest, a move Dems ultimately rejected, but that doesn’t mean they plan to sit idly by. The Washington Post reported this morning:

Democrats are taking the unprecedented step of releasing excerpts from a closed-session interview the House Benghazi committee conducted last month with Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills, accusing the panel’s Republican Chairman Trey Gowdy (S.C.) of selectively leaking information to damage Clinton in the presidential race.

In a letter sent Monday morning, Democrats on the panel released statements made by Mills from the Sept. 3 interview that paint Clinton in a favorable light. The letter charges Gowdy with failing to provide a fair account of Mills’s interview, alleging that he orchestrated small press leaks designed to produce negative stories about the Democratic presidential front-runner.

In a letter signed by all five Democratic members of the panel, the lawmakers told Gowdy, “It has become obvious that the only way to adequately correct the public record is to release the complete transcript of the Committee’s interview with Ms. Mills…. [W]e plan to begin the process of correcting the public record by releasing the transcript of Ms. Mills’ interview. Since you have indicated your unwillingness to do this in a bipartisan manner, we plan to do so ourselves.”

Let’s back up for a minute to recap for those unfamiliar with the issue surrounding Mills.

About a month ago, former State Department Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills agreed to testify before the Benghazi panel, but she urged the committee’s Republican leaders to hold a transparent, public hearing, open for all the world to see, so there’d be no concerns about misleading leaks. After all, she had nothing to hide and no incentive to keep her testimony private.

As we discussed at the time, Gowdy and the committee’s Republicans refused, insisting that Mills answer questions behind closed doors. Committee Democrats asked for a full transcript to be released to the public and the media - again, so everyone could see exactly what was discussed - but Gowdy and his team refused this request, too.

And right on cue, immediately after Mills spoke to the committee, Republicans leaked misleading information to Politico about her testimony. It was not the first deceptive leak from the panel.

Gowdy once boasted, “[S]erious investigations do not leak information or make selective releases of information without full and proper context.” And yet, that’s precisely what his investigation has done.

This, coupled with McCarthy’s admission last week, appears to have pushed committee Democrats over the edge. They have the transcript - the whole thing, not excerpts edited by Republicans to advance a partisan agenda - and they want the public to have it, too. From today’s letter:

“We do not take this action lightly. We have held off on taking such action for more than a year, but we will no longer sit and watch selective, out-of-context leaks continue to mischaracterize the testimony the Select Committee has received.

“Please notify us within five days if you believe any information in the full transcript should be withheld from the American people. We are providing the State Department and Ms. Mills’ attorneys with this same opportunity.”

I’m not entirely sure what, if anything, Gowdy can do at this point to (a) keep the truth shielded from public view; and (b) punish the Democrats on his committee for going around him.

- - - CUT - - -

Dems on GOP’s Benghazi committee start to play hardball

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Amory Blaine  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:23:34pm

re: #145 Nyet

I’d encourage me.

So hard.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:25:33pm

re: #127 Jenner7

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“desire to defend Sec Clinton”

Bwahahahahahaha!

Because it will show that the things they lie about in their “desire to destroy Sec Clinton” are bullshit when the real words can be read?

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:33:36pm

re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth

To put this in a manner that Huck’s younger fans can understand…

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:35:33pm

re: #155 Eventual Carrion

Yeah, that’s pretty blatant.

What I really like is the way the letter is written to completely preempt any claims about releasing classified information, since staff with no security clearance were invited, and the transcript was sent to the Dem staff over an unsecured email connection.

BWAAAAAHAHAHA!!!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:37:15pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:40:28pm

re: #158 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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What the hell is wrong with him?

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:40:49pm

re: #158 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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I think Rubio meant that in a “Fidel Castro didn’t imprison nearly enough homos” kind of way.

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:41:26pm

re: #159 HappyWarrior

What the hell is wrong with him?

He’s a Republican.

It’s has now become a disease.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:43:30pm

re: #161 ObserverArt

He’s a Republican.

It’s has now become a disease.

Rhetorical.

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Skip Intro  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:44:41pm

TN: 11-year-old boy charged for the death of 8-year-old neighbor

An 11-year-old Tennessee boy is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his 8-year-old neighbor.

The Jefferson County sheriff says Mckayla Dyer was in front of her home Saturday night when she was shot in the chest.

Authorities say it came from a 12-gauge shotgun from inside the home next door.

Mckayla’s mother says her daughter was outside playing, and had refused to let the boy see her puppy.

Not long after, she was shot.

In case you think this might be a gun issue, I’ll let the little girl’s uncle set you straight, you opportunistic gun grabbing libturds:

This is not a gun issue, this is a parenting issue. Our problem with our country now is that we’re not stepping in and being good parents

msnewsnow.com

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:44:59pm

re: #162 HappyWarrior

Rhetorical.

Comment.

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WhatEVs  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:45:15pm

re: #19 Dr. Matt

BTW, is anyone else’s gaydar triggered when you see a pic of Milo?

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edit: For clarity, I don’t care if he’s gay. But, a gay man that hates other gays is quite odd.

He hates women as much as he hates other gay men. I think he has some major issues surrounding his own gender and why he can’t be one of us girls. Gay men don’t hate women as much as this guy does.

That’s my psych by proxy evaluation for the day. ;-)

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:45:27pm

re: #164 ObserverArt

Comment.

I know. Man this shit just pisses me off.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:48:00pm

re: #159 HappyWarrior

What the hell is wrong with him?

Well, it all started with “Star Trek Generations.”

Oh wait, you meant Huckabee Rubio, didn’t you? //////

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:48:10pm

re: #166 HappyWarrior

I know. Man this shit just pisses me off.

In years past (Prior to Bush 2) I would have some issues with Republican policy and thinking.

Now I have major problems with their character in total.

They have none.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:48:32pm

re: #167 De Kolta Chair

Well, it all started with “Star Trek Generations.”

Oh wait, you meant Huckleberry, didn’t you? //////

I meant Little Marco actually but Huckleberry works too.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:49:06pm

re: #168 ObserverArt

In years past (Prior to Bush 2) I would have some issues with Republican policy and thinking.

Now I have major problems with their character in total.

They have none.

Right whereas in the past, I had a problem with right wing ideology. Now I have problems with the conservative character itself.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:50:50pm

re: #169 HappyWarrior

I meant Little Marco actually but Huckleberry works too.

D-OH!
;-)
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Shiplord Kirel  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:51:34pm

Marco Rubio, United States Senator: “too much focus ‘on what people are using to commit violence.’”
John “Jeb” Bush, former Governor of the third most populous state: “Stuff happens.”

These are powerful men, but the gun lobby has turned them into sniveling sycophants, preferring to make utter fools of themselves rather than offend the NRA. It has bent this society to accept the massacre of little children as though it were an accident of nature, like a tornado or a hurricane. What a monstrously powerful and perverse force for subversion it is.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:52:03pm

re: #171 De Kolta Chair

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So many RW douchebags so little time.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:53:21pm

re: #172 Shiplord Kirel

Marco Rubio, United States Senator: “too much focus ‘on what people are using to commit violence.’”
John “Jeb” Bush, former Governor of the third most populous state: “Stuff happens.”

These are powerful men, but the gun lobby has turned them into sniveling sycophants, preferring to make utter fools of themselves rather than offend the NRA. It has bent this society to accept the massacre of little children as though it were an accident of nature, like a tornado or a hurricane. What a monstrously powerful and perverse force for subversion it is.

That’s leadership apparently. You act like a mushed mouth wussy so you don’t “offend” the crazies that really run your party and then when you’re elected president, you act like a “real leader” but remember foreign leaders don’t “respect” Obama. Yeah and they will these sad clowns.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:55:08pm

re: #173 HappyWarrior

So many RW douchebags so little time.

RW d-bags transcend time, as well as space.

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CuriousLurker  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:55:18pm

Bald eagle—check. U.S. flag—check. Reference to Second Amendment—check. Blocked without replying—check.

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TedStriker  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:56:55pm

re: #172 Shiplord Kirel

Marco Rubio, United States Senator: “too much focus ‘on what people are using to commit violence.’”
John “Jeb” Bush, former Governor of the third most populous state: “Stuff happens.”

These are powerful men, but the gun lobby has turned them into sniveling sycophants, preferring to make utter fools of themselves rather than offend the NRA. It has bent this society to accept the massacre of little children as though it were an accident of nature, like a tornado or a hurricane. What a monstrously powerful and perverse force for subversion it is.

To reference the Picard pic above:

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:58:28pm

Recovering from my Rubio/Huckabee debacle, hopefully, I hope this evening finds all lizards in fine fettle.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:59:10pm

I’m sure if knives could kill people at the rate guns do, there’d be a push for sane laws regarding knives too but Marco being the NRA’s errand boy doesn’t want to acknowledge that.

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:59:14pm

Klys…if you are reading,

I just saw where ex-Blue Jacket, now San Jose Shark Raffi Torres just got a suspension of 41 games!!! One half of the entire season. Whoa!!! That is an unprecedented penalty for the National Hockey League.

By the way…season starts in a few days. Jackets are healthy…and more talented.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:59:46pm

re: #163 Skip Intro

TN: 11-year-old boy charged for the death of 8-year-old neighbor

In case you think this might be a gun issue, I’ll let the little girl’s uncle set you straight, you opportunistic gun grabbing libturds:

msnewsnow.com

They can’t even face it when their own kids are killed. The gun is the almighty talisman to these STUPID people.

Fucking a.

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2015 • 4:59:46pm

re: #176 CuriousLurker

Bald eagle—check. U.S. flag—check. Reference to Second Amendment—check. Blocked without replying—check.

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Are they asking forgiveness for worshipping football?

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:01:17pm

re: #181 Stanley Sea Toujours

They can’t even face it when their own kids are killed. The gun is the almighty talisman to these STUPID people.

Fucking a.

I am reminded of the father in law of a young woman killed in Idaho because her gun went off in her purse. Really we need to change the gun culture. And I think candidate Obama was spot on by saying these people do cling to their guns. It wasn’t popular ot say for sure but I think he was right.

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bratwurst  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:02:28pm

I am shocked…SHOCKED…that the totally unregulated betting industry going under the name “daily fantasy sports” is apparently corrupt.

This must be the first time in HISTORY that individuals involved in gambling have been found to have rather flexible morals.

And I mean who could have possibly guessed that a new industry spending hundreds of millions of dollars on TV advertising might be up to shenanigans?

You can hardly blame the good citizens running the NFL, what with their innocence to the ways of the world and all. When they and their TV partners took those hundreds of millions how could they possibly know things might not be totally kosher there?

To the many critics of federal regulators: I hope you sunk a lot of money into this nonsense. Enter promo code “DUMBSHIT” next time you log on.

The only less surprising story in the media today is this:

Bed Bath & Beyond coupons are squeezing the company’s profit margin

Now what kind of Nostradamus would have seen that coming?

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:03:09pm
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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:04:11pm

I might actually want to listen to this.

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:05:12pm

re: #184 bratwurst

I am shocked…SHOCKED…that the totally unregulated betting industry going under the name “daily fantasy sports” is apparently corrupt.

This must be the first time in HISTORY that individuals involved in gambling have been found to have rather flexible morals.

And I mean who could have possibly guessed that a new industry spending hundreds of millions of dollars on TV advertising might be up to shenanigans?

You can hardly blame the good citizens running the NFL, what with their innocence to the ways of the world and all. When they and their TV partners took those hundreds of millions how could they possibly know things might not be totally kosher there?

To the many critics of federal regulators: I hope you sunk a lot of money into this nonsense. Enter promo code “DUMBSHIT” next time you log on.

The only less surprising story in the media today is this:

Bed Bath & Beyond coupons are squeezing the company’s profit margin

Now what kind of Nostradamus would have seen that coming?

I admit to watching sports. There are Fan Duel commercials everywhere. Draft Kings too, but right now Fan Duel is all over Columbus Ohio TV.

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:05:57pm

re: #186 teleskiguy

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I might actually want to listen to this.

Got your motion sickness bag at the ready?

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:06:05pm
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CuriousLurker  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:07:44pm

I don’t know how many of you block preemptively, but assuming some of you do, here’s one to add to your list:

I don’t get these people—is this supposed to be funny? #FAIL Clever? #FAIL Just trolling I suppose. What a wretched existence one must have to want to spend time like that, even if it’s just setting up a troll bot or whatever.

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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:09:07pm
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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:09:19pm

re: #172 Shiplord Kirel

Marco Rubio, United States Senator: “too much focus ‘on what people are using to commit violence.’”
John “Jeb” Bush, former Governor of the third most populous state: “Stuff happens.”

Pardon my invoking Godwin’s Law…

The banality of evil shitheads
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bratwurst  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:09:36pm

re: #187 ObserverArt

I admit to watching sports. There are Fan Duel commercials everywhere. Draft Kings too, but right now Fan Duel is all over Columbus Ohio TV.

I am a huge sports fans. I am having a difficult life experience, and looking forward to watching the Kansas City Royals go to the post season for the second year in a row after 29 years in the wilderness is about all I have right now.

I am INCENSED that leagues and their TV lackeys were greedy enough to get into bed with unregulated gambling. How much money do they need?

And by the way, FanDuel is a Rush Limbaugh sponsor.

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Shiplord Kirel  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:09:39pm

re: #174 HappyWarrior

That’s leadership apparently. You act like a mushed mouth wussy so you don’t “offend” the crazies that really run your party and then when you’re elected president, you act like a “real leader” but remember foreign leaders don’t “respect” Obama. Yeah and they will these sad clowns.

I sometimes wonder what foreign leaders really think of the American gun lobby and its enormous power. Imagine how the right’s hero, Putin, would deal with conspiracist gun humpers:
NRAski: “Da, Mr. States President. We support your policies and admire your manly manliness, but we must retain our own guns to keep you and your henchmen from tyrannizing us.”
Vlad: “Are you fucking kidding me? How many tanks do you have? Off to Lubyanka with you, nutcase!”

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:10:35pm

re: #189 Charles Johnson

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:11:57pm
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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:13:27pm

re: #196 Charles Johnson

With a big old honking typo in the very first word of the first sentence. I love this lawyer. @adamsteinbaugh

pic.twitter.com
8:11 PM - 5 Oct 2015

What a crew. They all deserve each other.

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Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:14:24pm

re: #196 Charles Johnson

Reminds me of Hovind’s legaleze.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:14:46pm

re: #196 Charles Johnson

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Before reading that, I’m going to brew a cuppa Constent Comment…

I’ll see myself out.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:15:23pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:15:52pm

re: #180 ObserverArt

The hit was bad, but the reason the suspension is so long is because this is his 5th for hits with contact to the head.

To which I say good riddance. His contract is up this year and I will be so glad to see him go. He didn’t play at all last year (recovery from a knee issue) and between that and previous suspensions he’s not a player whose impact is worth the headache.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:16:17pm

re: #200 Stanley Sea Toujours

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I saw that on FB earlier. Holy revisionist history Batman.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:19:27pm
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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:20:11pm

re: #201 klys (maker of Silmarils)

The hit was bad, but the reason the suspension is so long is because this is his 5th for hits with contact to the head.

To which I say good riddance. His contract is up this year and I will be so glad to see him go. He didn’t play at all last year (recovery from a knee issue) and between that and previous suspensions he’s not a player who’s impact is worth the headache.

Yeah. He was a hot head the year plus he was a Blue Jacket. I have followed his career through reading the Blue Jackets fan forums at HFBoards.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:20:19pm

re: #191 Nyet

Zodiac ding.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:21:42pm

re: #196 Charles Johnson

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Adam Steinbaugh’s twitter feed is pretty cool. Ya never know what craziness will pop up, like fer instance…

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:21:57pm

re: #204 ObserverArt

Yeah. He was a hot head the year plus he was a Blue Jacket. I have followed his career through reading the Blue Jackets fan forums at HFBoards.

I saw him play on Tuesday, since that was my preseason game. I am not going to feel that he is missing to not have him in the lineup for the rest of the year (hopefully) and it’s a much better time for some of our youngsters to step up. There are ones who deserve the shot a hell of a lot more than he does.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:24:56pm

re: #207 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Added bonus: the suspension doesn’t kick in if the Sharks don’t put him on the roster - and expect him not to be on it, because really, why the fuck would they do that at this point, where they can name someone who would actually be able to play?

He’s done in the NHL at this point.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:25:12pm

re: #181 Stanley Sea Toujours

They can’t even face it when their own kids are killed. The gun is the almighty talisman to these STUPID people.

Fucking a.

It’s their god, and it requires constant sacrifice.

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WhatEVs  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:29:18pm

re: #186 teleskiguy

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I might actually want to listen to this.

Good deal. You keep us posted. I couldn’t even….ever.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:33:34pm

I’ve just been reminded that this guy also blamed the Charleston church shootings on “feminized culture.”

Bonus points: …and also psych drugs, which he villifies by citing Scientology front group CCHR.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:34:16pm
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Belafon  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:34:55pm

There seem to be a lot of men ashamed of coming out of their mother’s vagina, and they haven’t grown past the age when they figured it out.

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:34:56pm

re: #212 Charles Johnson

I hope all the media liars are properly consterned.

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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:39:19pm

The Mark Levin/Donald Trump interview is…something.

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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:39:43pm

“We don’t win anymore. We don’t win with anything.”

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Lancelot Link  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:39:57pm

re: #165 WhatEVs

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:40:53pm
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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:41:31pm

Donald Trump is going all argle-bargle on health care, and Mark Levin isn’t challenging him on any of it. It’s something else.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:42:49pm

LEAPING MOOSE SPOTTED

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Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:44:52pm

re: #220 Charles Johnson

LEAPING MOOSE SPOTTED

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Leaping Moose is leading Rand Paul in NH polls.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:45:27pm

re: #220 Charles Johnson

It’s a deer the size of a goddam horse! You see pictures of them, but watching it saunter down the street and nonchalantly jump over a parked car really brings the size home!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:46:47pm
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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:47:43pm

re: #212 Charles Johnson

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Samples of Chucky’s original manuscript with his annotations:

“The worm is turning against Gawker.” Mezcal is fun!!! Btw, see if gastroenterologist appointment tomorrow morning can be moved to late afternoon. Might be a late night.

“Rather hilariously…” Is ‘rather’ the same as ‘ironically’? Check Conservapedia.

“Last week a judge ruled their computer systems…” That reminds me, where did I misplace my hot Asian wife???

“The Daily Mail’s…” See if tomorrow’s gastroenterologist appointment can be moved back to the morning.

“Let it be known that all media bullies…” Hailing cab to the ER now!

“Twitter is next.” Tell Phyllis Schlafly I loved her… Ack!!!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:47:48pm

re: #223 Charles Johnson

That, and the screaming sunrise from last night’s Rick and Morty.

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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:49:58pm

“90% of regulations can go.” Yes, The Donald™ said this.

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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:52:14pm

That interview, Mark Levin was all like

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Archangelus  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:53:06pm

re: #225 Blind Frog Belly White

That, and the screaming sunrise from last night’s Rick and Morty.

I’ll take a day’s worth of the screaming sunrise over a minute of Trump’s screeches any time…

Rick and Morty - Screaming Sun Planet

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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2015 • 5:57:14pm

In one piece of advice for parents with autistic children, Harper wrote of her affinity for Donald Trump:

Fact: Before my son was even born, I was reading out loud to him from Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal. And as for the “gesture effect,” I was practically a mime. And now my son invests in the stock market along with me, turns a profit and is working on a degree in finance. His language and reading skills are phenomenal.

smfh

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:02:13pm
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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:03:40pm

re: #229 teleskiguy

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smfh

Sad

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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:06:38pm

I nominate this for best Halloween dog costume.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:06:49pm

re: #229 teleskiguy

smfh

Trump responds: “70 used hardcover copies on Amazon starting at $7.39. Match that, Jindal, you loser!”

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b_sharp  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:08:11pm

re: #222 Blind Frog Belly White

It’s a deer the size of a goddam horse! You see pictures of them, but watching it saunter down the street and nonchalantly jump over a parked car really brings the size home!

I ran into a couple last summer in my little Subaru. The male was 4 times the size of my car. The female was camera shy, but the male wasn’t.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:08:48pm

re: #232 teleskiguy

I nominate this for best Halloween dog costume.

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Rocker Spaniels?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:11:51pm
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Barefoot Grin  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:14:47pm

re: #234 b_sharp

This is my third year in NH. I still haven’t seen one. I had several near misses with deer when I lived in south-central Indiana, and I spooked a deer grazing by the Interstate once while cycling and watched it run into the highway and demolish the front of a car. I can’t imagine what a collision with a moose would be like (though apparently there was one on I-89 outside of Concord a couple of days ago).

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ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:14:52pm

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

Jon Huntsman ✔ @JonHuntsman

.@GOPLeader McCarthy just got “Chaffetzed.”Something I know a little something about. #selfpromoter #powerhungry

8:43 PM - 5 Oct 2015

No!!!! Tell me Jason Chaffetz is not a power-hungry self promoter.

It’s almost like there are a lot of them in congress or something. /

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:15:37pm

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s time for the Freedom Caucus to quit screwing around and form a third party.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:16:29pm

re: #237 Barefoot Grin

welcome hatchling!

where’s the beer?

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b_sharp  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:17:03pm

re: #237 Barefoot Grin

This is my third year in NH. I still haven’t seen one. I had several near misses with deer when I lived in south-central Indiana, and I spooked a deer grazing by the Interstate once while cycling and watched it run into the highway and demolish the front of a car. I can’t imagine what a collision with a moose would be like (though apparently there was one on I-89 outside of Concord a couple of days ago).

I live in backwoods Canada.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:18:03pm
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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:18:34pm

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

Chaffetz says he’s flipped some McCarthy backers via @POLITICO for iPad politi.co

And to think I used to laugh about David Ickes’ alien shapeshifting lizard overlords.
//??
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SteelPH  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:18:46pm

re: #240 Backwoods_Sleuth

welcome hatchling!

where’s the beer?

Hey, you know I don’t drink!
/

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bratwurst  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:19:10pm

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:22:29pm

re: #240 Backwoods_Sleuth

Great North Aleworks IPA. Sorry, I only brought a six-pack.

I’m a long-time lurker and will go back to such, but I come to NH after a couple of years in Lexington, KY. I don’t entirely understand Kentucky politics, but it’s also not foreign.

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Great White Snark  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:24:53pm

Monday macro butterfly.

Did you see how the CAT was LOOKING at me?
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jaunte  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:25:56pm

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

Huntsman-Chaffetz history:

“…[Chaffetz] had left a sales job with the multilevel marketer Nu Skin in 2004 to be the press liaison for the Huntsman campaign.”
………………
It was one of those Peter Sellers’ “Being There” moments for Chaffetz. A Huntsman victory was practically guaranteed, so Chaffetz success was all but certain. His work as campaign manager earned him the lofty role as the governor’s chief of staff.

Chaffetz’s first real public action was to gather a number of veteran employees of the governor’s economic-development office into a room and fire them. He had them escorted out by armed guards.
…………………………

More than one critic complained that Chaffetz seemed to think he was the governor.

Chaffetz left the job well-before Huntsman’s first term ended amid rumors that fellow staffers wanted him and his power plays gone.”
sltrib.com

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:26:45pm
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teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:28:59pm
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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:36:20pm

re: #250 teleskiguy

Cool!

Au contraire, awful terrible dreadful ghastly shitty Wicker Man remake, au contraire.
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Belafon  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:36:50pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:37:39pm
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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:38:59pm

re: #248 jaunte

Huntsman-Chaffetz history:

MLM dude in congress. Fits.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:39:11pm

Just coming into the thread….

The picture above of Yiannapoulos reminds me of a wacked out evil shrink working at Arkham Asylum in a Batman story.

Something really unsettling about that grin and those teeth.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:39:37pm

Wisdom from Ozzy Osborne:

I keep hearing this [expletive] thing that guns don’t kill people, but people kill people. If that’s the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?

nytimes.com

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:40:22pm

re: #254 Charles Johnson

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¡Cuck! rhymes with ¡Suck! (c)

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:40:25pm

re: #252 De Kolta Chair

Cool!

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I hated the Wicker Man remake. The original kicked ass.

The one with Nicholas Cage…not so much.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:41:47pm

I got a mini shop vac! Single girl grows up. (took forever, but)

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calochortus  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:42:10pm

re: #253 Belafon

On the other hand, when I was in elementary school, lo these many decades ago, we had really great blackout curtains in every classroom. Very useful for film strip viewing and the like. Despite practicing hiding under our desks from time to time*, I was practically an adult before I realized those great blackout curtains were to protect us from nuclear attack.

*These drills were discontinued long before I got out of elementary school because occasionally a teacher got confused between the air raid and fire drill signals. Going out on the play ground for an air raid was amusing, but hiding under your desks for a fire could have gotten someone killed. The adults in the district were smart enough to want to protect us from the actual danger.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:43:26pm

re: #261 Stanley Sea Toujours

I got a mini shop vac! Single girl grows up. (took forever, but)

Video

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:44:04pm

re: #255 Stanley Sea Toujours

MLM dude in congress. Fits.

MLM seems to be a big thing in Utah.
en.wikipedia.org

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:44:06pm

re: #260 Aunty Entity Dragon

I hated the Wicker Man remake. The original kicked ass.

The one with Nicholas Cage…not so much.

The original is a classic. The only way to watch, or should I say withstand, the Cage version is with the highlarious Rifftrax commentary, which every dvd should be federally mandated to include.

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Belafon  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:45:14pm

re: #262 calochortus

The Air Force base in my home town had missile silos*, and everyone knew it. We never did any kind of practice for nuclear war, just tornadoes. I remember being in tennis class one day and us students talking about what we would do if a nuclear war occurred.

*I saw a story last year about those silos. Water has leaked into the empty silos, and people now pay to go scuba diving in them.

267
Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:45:22pm

re: #264 jaunte

MLM seems to be a big thing in Utah.
en.wikipedia.org

MLM is evil. PURE evil.

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:45:35pm

“…Utah has at least nine major multilevel marketing (MLM) companies selling nutritional and body-care products that have more than $100 million in annual sales, according to Direct Selling News, a trade publication. The annual revenue of those nine add up to at least $4.49 billion”
sltrib.com

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:46:14pm

re: #266 Belafon

The Air Force base in my home town had missile silos*, and everyone knew it. We never did any kind of practice for nuclear war, just tornadoes. I remember being in tennis class one day and us students talking about what we would do if a nuclear war occurred.

*I saw a story last year about those silos. Water has leaked into the empty silos, and people now pay to go scuba diving in them.

Interesting that they were not imploded with explosives.

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jaunte  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:46:28pm

re: #267 Eclectic Cyborg

I suppose most people in Utah are getting tired of being pitched things by everyone they know.

271
Aunty Entity Dragon  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:46:32pm

BBL…

272
De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:46:57pm

re: #237 Barefoot Grin

This is my third year in NH. I still haven’t seen one. I had several near misses with deer when I lived in south-central Indiana, and I spooked a deer grazing by the Interstate once while cycling and watched it run into the highway and demolish the front of a car. I can’t imagine what a collision with a moose would be like (though apparently there was one on I-89 outside of Concord a couple of days ago).

Welcome aboard! Ahem…

;-)
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jaunte  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:49:07pm

re: #262 calochortus

I remember those bomb drills. We didn’t have curtains in our school, and I recall looking at the wall of sheet glass windows from under the desk, thinking, “this isn’t going to help protect us at all.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:49:19pm

re: #268 jaunte

“…Utah has at least nine major multilevel marketing (MLM) companies selling nutritional and body-care products that have more than $100 million in annual sales, according to Direct Selling News, a trade publication. The annual revenue of those nine add up to at least $4.49 billion”
sltrib.com

I suspect, and I might be wrong here but MLM operations tend to thrive in large religious communities. Perhaps the proliferation in Utah is something of a “Mormon effect”?

Or maybe just the result of low corporate tax rates?

275
ObserverArt  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:49:37pm

Later…got some wood repair epoxy to mix up and apply before I crash.

276
Amory Blaine  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:50:24pm

I bought one of them little shop vacs to suck up thousands of neck biting Asian beetles that invade. Works like a charm.

277
calochortus  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:50:25pm

re: #266 Belafon

The Air Force base in my home town had missile silos*, and everyone knew it. We never did any kind of practice for nuclear war, just tornadoes. I remember being in tennis class one day and us students talking about what we would do if a nuclear war occurred.

*I saw a story last year about those silos. Water has leaked into the empty silos, and people now pay to go scuba diving in them.

By the time I was in Jr. High, those of us living in the SF Bay area knew what we would do in case of a massive nuclear attack-vaporize. Too many targets here to not be flattened if anyone were to be that stupid. Hence, I don’t recall anyone wasting time trying to figure out how to make it through.

278
jaunte  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:51:06pm

re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg

“…In 2008, Utah adopted a flat personal income tax rate of 5% across all brackets. The corporate income tax is also a flat 5%.”
money.cnn.com

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:52:38pm

re: #263 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

lol that song hit everything.

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Kafitrar  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:52:57pm

re: #273 jaunte

I remember those bomb drills. We didn’t have curtains in our school, and I recall looking at the wall of sheet glass windows from under the desk, thinking, “this isn’t going to help protect us at all.”

I’m pretty sure the curtains wouldn’t help either.
/

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calochortus  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:54:31pm

re: #280 Kafitrar

I’m pretty sure the curtains wouldn’t help either.
/

They would at least have helped control the flying glass. They probably also had magical qualities we children were unaware of. We never got nuked, after all.

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Kafitrar  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:56:48pm

re: #281 calochortus

They would at least have helped control the flying glass. They probably also had magical qualities we children were unaware of. We never got nuked, after all.

Fair enough. I bet they repelled tigers too.

283
freetoken  Oct 5, 2015 • 6:59:49pm

More than 70 human rights groups tell Facebook to change its ‘real name’ policy

Dozens of human rights organizations are calling on Facebook to once and for all fix its “real name” policy—one that’s “culturally biased” and “technically flawed.”

More than 70 groups, representing “human rights activists, indigenous, religious, and ethnic minority communities, LGBTQ people, and Internet users” signed an open letter to Facebook published on Monday asking the company to “fix its broken ‘authentic identity’ policy.”

The groups represent, among others, people who use pseudonyms to protect themselves from harassment and physical violence; and who accused Facebook of continuing a policy that “exposes its users to danger, disrespects the identities of its users, and curtails free speech.”

[…]

Good luck with that.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:01:47pm

The in-laws arrive here at casa klys tomorrow, and I am meal planning. I’m probably only cooking one meal this time, since this is likely their last trip out here (health issues are making it more and more difficult) and we want to be sure they get out to all their favorite places while they’re here.

I’m planning pulled pork, with coleslaw and rolls to make sandwiches and then tater tots on the side.

They’re from NC.

This may be a mistake.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:02:49pm

I’ll attempt assembly tomorrow.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:03:02pm

re: #269 Aunty Entity Dragon

Interesting that they were not imploded with explosives.

Cylindrical structures tend to be more difficult to demolish. A cylindrical structure buried in the ground and hardened to resist anything but a direct hit would be very difficult indeed. Cheaper and easier to fill the things with dirt, or concrete, or water.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:03:57pm

re: #281 calochortus

They would at least have helped control the flying glass. They probably also had magical qualities we children were unaware of. We never got nuked, after all.

They were to protect against flash burns. For small nuclear weapons like Fat Man, the radius where everything catches on fire and fatal flash burns occur is well inside the radius where frame buildings are crushed, but for large weapons like they had back in those days, the thermal effects (inverse square, not inverse cube like shockwave energy) cover huge areas.

You can destroy your town here to see what would happen with devices of different yields, but I did it for Seattle, and with the 25 megatons of the Mark 17 bomb (Our first deliverable thermonuclear weapon), you’d have to be in Mount Vernon to the north or Spanaway to the south to avoid flash burns from a detonation over downtown Seattle.

We were well inside the “everything catches fire and then gets crushed a minute later” radius, so it wouldn’t have mattered to us.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:05:01pm

re: #272 De Kolta Chair

Thanks!

I started lurking because I knew of Charles several years ago as supposedly someone Right-Leaning. But even back then with the Dan Rather thing I didn’t get that vibe considering what “Right” meant. But checking back in several months ago I found a site that was frequently consonant with my views.

But to be honest, it’s not really the politics. It’s the music It’s the guitars. It’s the world travelers. It’s the beer.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:05:56pm

re: #288 Barefoot Grin

Thanks!

I started lurking because I knew of Charles several years ago as supposedly someone Right-Leaning. But even back then with the Dan Rather thing I didn’t get that vibe considering what “Right” meant. But checking back in several months ago I found a site that was frequently consonant with my views.

But to be honest, it’s not really the politics. It’s the music It’s the guitars. It’s the world travelers. It’s the beer.

You think you’ll just lurk but we’ll pull you in.

Really.

290
calochortus  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:07:17pm

Mr. Calochortus and I went over to the coast this morning. We had been going to go last week because there were reports of lots of whales hanging out around Half Moon Bay, but something came up, so we went today instead. It was delightfully uncrowded because, of course, there was not a single whale in sight anywhere. We did see pelicans, harbor seals, dolphins, osprey, cormorants, more seals, gulls, miscellaneous other birds, more pelicans, and did I mention seals? The sun was shining, the weather was perfect for walking, and a good time was had by all.

291
Barefoot Grin  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:07:45pm

re: #289 klys (maker of Silmarils)

No. I have exams to grade. Really. I’m outta here.

Seriously. Thanks for the welcome.

292
klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:08:25pm

re: #291 Barefoot Grin

No. I have exams to grade. Really. I’m outta here.

Seriously. Thanks for the welcome.

Awww, but we’d be happy to help!

As for everyone!

293
teleskiguy  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:08:56pm

re: #288 Barefoot Grin

But to be honest, it’s not really the politics. It’s the music It’s the guitars. It’s the world travelers. It’s the beer.

What about the drugs?

ILLEGAL DRUGS

294
Romantic Heretic  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:09:04pm

re: #291 Barefoot Grin

No. I have exams to grade. Really. I’m outta here.

Seriously. Thanks for the welcome.

Welcome, hatchling.

295
Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:09:37pm

re: #290 calochortus

Did you see Darth and his dogs?

296
calochortus  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:11:13pm

re: #295 Stanley Sea Toujours

No, but then I didn’t tell him we were going to be there. I did actually keep half an eye out for someone who might have been him. ;)

297
Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:12:45pm

re: #296 calochortus

You’d never miss Banjo. :) I’m guessing.

298
De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:13:33pm

re: #241 b_sharp

I live in backwoods Canada.

//??
299
calochortus  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:14:38pm

re: #297 Stanley Sea Toujours

You’d never miss Banjo. :) I’m guessing.

Probably not!

300
Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:17:02pm

re: #287 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

My father’s military career saw me grow up in places that would all have been heavily targeted in a first strike. I started First Grade in 1954 so between Cold War paranoia and being cozy with various military bases we dependent kids agreed that we wouldn’t feel a thing if the balloon went up.
In class we were shown cautionary movies that included footage from our nuke tests and footage of the aftermath in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Seeing the devastation I couldn’t imagine, even back then, how crawling under our desks would help.

301
De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:19:18pm

re: #291 Barefoot Grin

Seriously. Thanks for the welcome.

Fasten your seat belt, hatchling, it’s going to be a bumpy night.

Which is why most, if not all, of us old timers are swigging dramamine cocktails, with a twist of lemon and thorazine.

Oh well, maybe after your exams? Btw, break a leg!

302
Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:20:12pm

re: #301 De Kolta Chair

Fasten your seat belt, hatchling, it’s going to a bumpy night.

Which is why most, if not all, of us old timers are swigging dramamine cocktails, with a twist of lemon and thorazine.

I still got some Reds, man. And some Ludes too, ‘cept I forgot where I left ‘em.

303
De Kolta Chair  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:20:39pm

re: #302 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I still got some Reds, man.

Dave’s not here, man.

304
calochortus  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:21:45pm

re: #300 Higgs Boson’s Mate

It would make everyone feel better beforehand, and if there was an after, there would be no one left to see it was a waste of time. When my husband was in the Navy (early 70s) they apparently did drills in case of a nuclear attack on the ship. Assumption #1: the enemy would miss the aircraft carrier by some rather large distance, thus enabling the ship to turn and do something or other… It gave everyone something to do, I guess.

305
retired cynic  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:26:25pm

re: #134 Dark_Falcon

And weaponsman.com gets my award for best smackdown line of the day:

The story is of an albino deer yearling that got shot by three yahoos who fired from a moving pickup truck. A good use of social media nailed their boastful butts:

This is way too late for the thread, but that happened on our farm. We had some escaped white deer (not ours, just were living in our fields), and some idiots shot them after dark, from the road, from their truck, and were caught because they hauled them in and were butchering them in their garage in town. Since the doe was white, there was no law against it, but the fawn inside her was by a wild buck and was normal color, so they got them on the fetus. Heh. We had to pay to have them prosecuted, but we did so gladly.

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retired cynic  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:28:31pm

re: #134 Dark_Falcon

And weaponsman.com gets my award for best smackdown line of the day:

The story is of an albino deer yearling that got shot by three yahoos who fired from a moving pickup truck. A good use of social media nailed their boastful butts:

This is way too late for the thread, but that happened on our farm. We had some escaped white deer (not ours, just were living in our fields), and some idiots shot them after dark, from the road, from their truck, and were caught because they hauled them in and were butchering them in their garage in town. Since the doe was white, there was no law against it, but the fawn inside her was by a wild buck and was normal color, so they got them on the fetus. Heh. We had to pay to have them prosecuted, but we did so gladly.

307
Barefoot Grin  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:29:53pm

re: #302 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Crap. I should have chosen georgie tirebiter as my name: “they’ve been shooting reds and yellows all day!” (Firesign Theater)

308
Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:32:24pm

re: #307 Barefoot Grin

Shoes for industry, comrade!

309
Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:40:09pm

re: #288 Barefoot Grin

Thanks!

I started lurking because I knew of Charles several years ago as supposedly someone Right-Leaning. But even back then with the Dan Rather thing I didn’t get that vibe considering what “Right” meant. But checking back in several months ago I found a site that was frequently consonant with my views.

But to be honest, it’s not really the politics. It’s the music It’s the guitars. It’s the world travelers. It’s the beer.

You are expected to say positive things about the cats and insects as well.

… or else!
310
retired cynic  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:50:45pm

re: #276 Amory Blaine

I bought one of them little shop vacs to suck up thousands of neck biting Asian beetles that invade. Works like a charm.

I’ve done that for years. Stinky little SOBs. We get them by the million, so that you have to have something over your face in order to breathe.

311
Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:52:37pm

re: #184 bratwurst

I am shocked…SHOCKED…that the totally unregulated betting industry going under the name “daily fantasy sports” is apparently corrupt.

This must be the first time in HISTORY that individuals involved in gambling have been found to have rather flexible morals.

And I mean who could have possibly guessed that a new industry spending hundreds of millions of dollars on TV advertising might be up to shenanigans?

You can hardly blame the good citizens running the NFL, what with their innocence to the ways of the world and all. When they and their TV partners took those hundreds of millions how could they possibly know things might not be totally kosher there?

To the many critics of federal regulators: I hope you sunk a lot of money into this nonsense. Enter promo code “DUMBSHIT” next time you log on.

The only less surprising story in the media today is this:

Bed Bath & Beyond coupons are squeezing the company’s profit margin

Now what kind of Nostradamus would have seen that coming?

Your winnings, Captain.

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:53:32pm

re: #308 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Shoes for industry, comrade!

“Doesn’t Bottles count?”

’ Only to ten Mudhead!’

313
Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2015 • 7:54:32pm

re: #305 retired cynic

This is way too late for the thread, but that happened on our farm. We had some escaped white deer (not ours, just were living in our fields), and some idiots shot them after dark, from the road, from their truck, and were caught because they hauled them in and were butchering them in their garage in town. Since the doe was white, there was no law against it, but the fawn inside her was by a wild buck and was normal color, so they got them on the fetus. Heh. We had to pay to have them prosecuted, but we did so gladly.

So they were literally caught red handed. Good on you folks.

314
Jebediah, RBG  Oct 5, 2015 • 8:01:31pm

re: #71 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Is that what that god damn smell is?

315
Nyet  Oct 5, 2015 • 10:33:13pm

re: #206 De Kolta Chair

Ah, Arthur Chu in his psycho mode again. Then again, when’s he not in the psycho mode?


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