The new album from The Winery Dogs is titled Hot Streak, and it’s a virtuoso tour de force, highly recommended if you like your metal with a hefty portion of melody. Richie Kotzen continues to amaze me by playing this intense high-speed style without a pick.
Oh great. Once again, my wife and her sister, and my sis-in-law’s neighborhood, have their annual community yard sale, which means early tomorrow morning I’ve gotta lug a ton of stuff from the shed to the front yard. Geez, don’t they know I’m getting on in years and have a touch of arthritis?
Oh wait, they just showed up with a case of Guinness?
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@AdamWeinstein They’re got a heavy testosterone buzz going right now because of the McCarthy story.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 10, 2015
Beautiful Telecaster. Now off to add the album to my amazon cart…
Excited to announce that this Monday, Oct 12 we will be unveiling our plan to end the #IRS as we know it! #2020ClearVisionForAmerica
— Rick Santorum (@RickSantorum) October 7, 2015
re: #6 teleskiguy
It seems to me that for all the bitching by your average wingnut about the IRS, the ones who would really benefit from abolishing it are - wait for it - the rich.
These Photoshops of Jeb Bush Pointing Are The Most Important Meme On The Internet Right Now http://t.co/0vMeQo7Eoe pic.twitter.com/cRln7bMKfp
— Funny Or Die (@funnyordie) October 10, 2015
I haven’t posted anything about Ben Carson’s “Nazi gun control” BS because the stupidity of it makes my head hurt.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 10, 2015
I’m in a Durutti Column mood tonight.
ETA: and I’d add a video, but I can’t remember how. :)
Ben Carson really has been in Stupid Overdrive this week. He’s making a big play for the right wing base.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 10, 2015
I’d love to be a fly on the wall in Ben Carson’s strategy meetings. “We have to go stupider. Dumber than Trump. That’s how we win.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 10, 2015
Yes, @realDonaldTrump has framed his run as a nasty blogpost. But who knew @RealBenCarson would frame his run as a comment on a blogpost?
— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) October 10, 2015
Every other Republican candidate should just adopt the slogan: “DUMBER THAN TRUMP 2016!”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 10, 2015
re: #6 teleskiguy
Oddly enough, it was wacky wondrous Wyoming, now chock full of anti-gummint nutters and just plain whiners, which in 1913 ratified the 16th Amendment, which gave Congress the authority to enact an income tax.
Wikipedia: “That same year, the first Form 1040 appeared after Congress levied a 1 percent tax on net personal incomes above $3,000 with a 6 percent surtax on incomes of more than $500,000.”
$3,000 was 10%er money back then.
Now the Rage Furby states that both McCarthy and Ellmers are going to resign.
The boy has some brass balls:
“Sources within DC tell gotnews.com that Ellmers and McCarthy have been stopped dining together, going to the movies, and even holding hands.
Congressman Tim Huelskamp (R-NE) told NewsmaxTV that the McCarthy affair rumors were “circulating for a long time.”
gotnews.com will keep you updated, as we have, from the start.
We’re in control now whether you like it or not.”
I’m still relishing the thought of House R’s crying in the cloak room.
re: #16 Eric The Fruit Bat
We’re in control now whether you like it or not.
The man can’t even control his own bowels.
re: #18 Higgs Boson’s Mate
The man can’t even control his own bowels.
Oh, come on, now. It’s not like he pooped on the floor or anything.
…Oh wait.
I’m not a metal fan, but I REALLY liked that one. For some reason as soon as it started, I was reminded of Wishbone Ash. Not quite sure where I’m making the connection in my brain, but that’s what it reminded me of in some ways. Maybe it was that the music was “complex”?
RBS
re: #20 Reality Based Steve
I owned all the Wishbone Ash albums in my ill-begotten youth.
re: #4 William Lewis
Beautiful Telecaster. Now off to add the album to my amazon cart…
Seconded. That binding…
re: #16 Eric The Fruit Bat
Trending now on NewsMax: “Congressman Tim Huelskamp talks to Newsmax about this one trick to remortgage your home, cure your hemorrhoids, and sexually harass your interns.”
re: #10 Barefoot Grin
I’m in a Durutti Column mood tonight.
ETA: and I’d add a video, but I can’t remember how. :)
Copy the URL of the YouTube video and paste it into your post.
re: #21 Charles Johnson
I owned all the Wishbone Ash albums in my ill-begotten youth.
You are the SME on music here…. can you tell me why my brain clicked to W.A. on that track? (or am I just beyond help here?)
RBS
Police found no shooter at the community college in Louisville. May have been a false alarm.
re: #24 makeitstop
Copy the URL of the YouTube video and paste it into your post.
Oh. That’s easy. I was using the “embed” thing and getting nothing. I’ll read the user manual this weekend.
re: #25 Reality Based Steve
You are the SME on music here…. can you tell me why my brain clicked to W.A. on that track? (or am I just beyond help here?)
RBS
You’re beyond help, sorry.
re: #10 Barefoot Grin
I’m in a Durutti Column mood tonight.
ETA: and I’d add a video, but I can’t remember how. :)
I think I rode a Durutti Column for a while back in the Seventies. It was a twin.
re: #29 Charles Johnson
Any news on CCJ’s response to Gawker? The courts in St Louis would be closed by now.
re: #30 Higgs Boson’s Mate
The sidevalve version?
re: #27 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Police found no shooter at the community college in Louisville. May have been a false alarm.
It’s sad that we have this happening so often that a false alarm is even a possibility.
re: #31 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Any news on CCJ’s response to Gawker? The courts in St Louis would be closed by now.
No news yet. I strongly suspect he’ll request another extension, based on his insane exchanges with Adam Weinstein. He’s flailing desperately.
re: #32 Jebediah, RBG
Desmodromic valves, Baby. You could rev that thing ‘til the cows come home.
re: #36 Charles Johnson
No news yet. I strongly suspect he’ll request another extension, based on his insane exchanges with Adam Weinstein. He’s flailing desperately.
Aren’t you supposed to request an extension before the deadline? I’d imagine there’s some kind of penalty for missing a deadline set by the judge.
re: #38 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Aren’t you supposed to request an extension before the deadline? I’d imagine there’s some kind of penalty for missing a deadline set by the judge.
The penalty is set by the judge and depends on whether he thinks you’re being an asshat or just in over your head. If he filed the extension request today, though, it might not be posted until later. We’d basically need boots on the ground in order to know if the hearing actually took place.
Heard an interesting discussion on NPR this morning on my way to the shop. Basically it was that the Freedom Caucus, along with the rest of the extreme right wing of the party (because in my heart I do believe that there can be moderate republicans) are making the entire party so dysfunctional that it’s very possible that it will end up splitting into two separate parties soon.
I’ll make this prediction, safe that nobody will dredge it up in the future, that if the GOP loses the presidential election this time around, the party will split. The Tea Party will run off and what will come out of it as the GOP will be a center-right party.
Of course if it does happen, I’ll dredge this post up and wave it around.
RBS
re: #39 thedopefishlives
The penalty is set by the judge and depends on whether he thinks you’re being an asshat or just in over your head.
Isn’t it both in Chuckie’s case?
re: #39 thedopefishlives
The penalty is set by the judge and depends on whether he thinks you’re being an asshat or just in over your head. If he filed the extension request today, though, it might not be posted until later. We’d basically need boots on the ground in order to know if the hearing actually took place.
What if you’re an asshat who is also in over his head. I think that would be the functional definition of upChuck.
re: #41 gwangung
Isn’t it both in Chuckie’s case?
AH…. you beat me while I went back and fixed a typo.
mutter… mutter… mutter.
RBS
He must be using the extension to work up a case that Gawker trampled on his religious rights.
re: #45 Higgs Boson’s Mate
He must be using the extension to work up a case that Gawker trampled on his religious rights.
Or he’s using it to flail about uselessly with his hands above his head, like a big ginger Muppet.
re: #37 Higgs Boson’s Mate
I know desmo valves exist, but I have a hard time believing they work. They seem rather complicated and unforgiving of sloppy tolerances.
re: #21 Charles Johnson
I owned all the Wishbone Ash albums in my ill-begotten youth.
Me too. Saw ‘em three times in concert too.
re: #40 Reality Based Steve
It’s hard to see the R’s as a party any more, since they have no party discipline and no leader.
So, I’m sitting here thinking how interesting (in a really boring way) it is (not really) that after the flop of the 2012 model of the Romney4000 there aren’t any Mormons among the current GOP field, and found this via the Google:
Rubio was born into a Catholic family and baptised into the church, attended a Mormon church for few years as a child (and was baptised again into the Mormon faith), but returned to the Catholic Church and took First Communion in 1984…
re: #47 Jebediah, RBG
I know desmo valves exist, but I have a hard time believing they work. They seem rather complicated and unforgiving of sloppy tolerances.
Desmo valves were an attempt to deal with the metallurgy of the time, particularly the problem of valve springs failing due to metal fatigue. They were designed to enable higher revs with some reliability in racing engines and, AFAIK, they were not used in a production car.
I hope everyone realizes the smear campaign against Kevin McCarthy is intended to make sure a batshit far right loon becomes Speaker.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 10, 2015
re: #52 Charles Johnson
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$20 says the new Speaker’s first order of business is to call another vote on repealing Obamacare. Because we haven’t wasted enough money on that futility. Either that, or defunding Planned Parenthood.
re: #51 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Has any bike other than Ducati used them?
I didn’t know that about their origin. I love when clever folks design and engineer clever solutions to challenges.
re: #52 Charles Johnson
You are very likely correct. The TP, or whatever they call themselves, seems to be branding every non-TP candidate as a sellout who’s part of the problem. It would be unsurprising if they dig their heels in until the rest of R’s give them the Speakership.
The only cap I’m interested in. We’ve got two, alas unsigned as of yet. Next year in Queens?
re: #57 Higgs Boson’s Mate
You are very likely correct. The TP, or whatever they call themselves, seems to be branding every non-TP candidate as a sellout who’s part of the problem. It would be unsurprising if they dig their heels in until the rest of R’s give them the Speakership.
I’m hoping that the rest of the GOP Caucus decides they’ve had the shits of these guys and tells them to pound sand, and then goes to the Dems.
What I’d love is for Cruz, Jordan, and the other assholes to be bashed by their own party on the strongest possible terms. I have no love for the GOP establishment at all but these guys are even worse.
re: #57 Higgs Boson’s Mate
You are very likely correct. The TP, or whatever they call themselves, seems to be branding every non-TP candidate as a sellout who’s part of the problem. It would be unsurprising if they dig their heels in until the rest of R’s give them the Speakership.
Right now I’ve stuff showing up on FB about how NEWT should be the next Speaker. All I can say is that they are going “Full Newtard”, and you know you never go full newtard.
RBS
re: #55 Jebediah, RBG
Ducati is the only one that I know of. They’re an elegant solution, technically. They do away with the friction and energy losses of the cam/spring setup because the mechanism only has to overcome the weight and inertia of the valve itself rather than the weight of the valve and it’s accompanying springs. Although the earlier implementations were very high maintenance modern day systems approach more conventional ones in their requirements.
re: #61 HappyWarrior
What I’d love is for Cruz, Jordan, and the other assholes to be bashed by their own party on the strongest possible terms. I have no love for the GOP establishment at all but these guys are even worse.
Why would their party bash them? Cruz, Jordan, “and the other assholes” (well said btw) are considered to be the future of their party.
Jim Jordon counting to threeBenjy Sarlin breaks down Dr. Ben Carson’s asinine gun control/Holocaust verbal spew quite nicely.
Ben Carson’s Holocaust theory prompts outcry from Jewish groups: http://t.co/rdaiWwEI9Z (Getty) pic.twitter.com/hsxLhp7NaQ
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 10, 2015
Time’s running out for Chuck Johnson to either respond to Gawker’s anti-SLAPP motion or ask for a fourth extension.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 10, 2015
re: #61 HappyWarrior
Then the question bceomes Who in the current GOP will be their William F Buckley to kick the Birchers’ (Tea Party) out?
re: #44 thedopefishlives
Cute, guys. But, it may not even be late. If the extension request was posted to the court late today, it may not show up in the filing list right away, potentially even until Monday (next business day). We’ll find out soon enough.
So that makes him an asshat in over his head that can manage to turn stuff in on time.
Hm. That exceeds my expectations for him, honestly…
re: #65 teleskiguy
Benjy Sarlin breaks down Dr. Ben Carson’s asinine gun control/Holocaust verbal spew quite nicely.
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Carson is pathetic.
re: #55 Jebediah, RBG
Has any bike other than Ducati used them?
I didn’t know that about their origin. I love when clever folks design and engineer clever solutions to challenges.
They can be made to work.
re: #67 Eric The Fruit Bat
Then the question bceomes Who in the current GOP will be their William F Buckley to kick the Birchers’ (Tea Party) out?
That’s a good question. Thing is there’s not a strong enough actual moderate movement I.e Nelson Rockefeller to counter then.
re: #64 De Kolta Chair
Why would their party bash them? Cruz, Jordan, “and the other assholes” (well said btw) are considered to be the future of their party.
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True I guess I meant the establishment types who have had enough. They all suck though.
re: #73 HappyWarrior
That’s a good question. Thing is there’s not a strong enough actual moderate movement I.e Nelson Rockefeller to counter then.
Most of the Republican moderates have already become Democrats. See, e.g., our illustrious host and many of us present on this site today.
re: #68 Higgs Boson’s Mate
I’ve a premonition that looking more disorganized with each passing day will result in them doing something spectacularly bad in order to staunch the bleeding.
Let’s be honest - they’ve really run out of things to do that AREN’T spectacularly bad.
re: #76 thedopefishlives
Most of the Republican moderates have already become Democrats. See, e.g., our illustrious host and many of us present on this site today.
Precisely. There really isn’t an ideological battle here but more a war of styles.
re: #65 teleskiguy
Benjy Sarlin breaks down Dr. Ben Carson’s asinine gun control/Holocaust verbal spew quite nicely.
Never discount the GOP voters who think that the Home Shopping Network is too risque and should be banned. Seriously, have you seen the Jane Seymour lingerie collection?
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Someone btw needs to give Ben Carson a book about the Nazis that wasn’t written by a right wing dimwit by the way.
re: #79 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Oh, yes. I was looking at Ducatis the other day. Looking. I’m afraid that at age 67 it may be time to put bikes in a beautiful and disappearing vase.
“We don’t quit riding because we get old, we get old because we quit riding.”
—some thumper guru’s tagline
re: #68 Higgs Boson’s Mate
I’ve a premonition that looking more disorganized with each passing day will result in them doing something spectacularly bad in order to staunch the bleeding.
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re: #81 HappyWarrior
Someone btw needs to give Ben Carson a book about the Nazis that wasn’t written by a right wing dimwit by the way.
Why just think, if the French and Polish Armies had guns, Hitler never would have walked over them.
RBS
re: #82 Decatur Deb
“We don’t quit riding because we get old, we get old because we quit riding.”
—some thumper guru’s tagline
True. Though I ride with the knowledge that I may have to lay the bike down at any time because, “Oh, I didn’t see you.” It made for good stories when I was younger. It might take a while to get over now.
I need to listen to their mixtape pic.twitter.com/B6Ri5uqwjW
— Emergency Kittens (@EmrgencyKittens) October 9, 2015
re: #84 Reality Based Steve
Why just think, if the French and Polish Armies had guns, Hitler never would have walked over them.
RBS
I know why didn’t they think? In a related note I’m watching Nazi collaborators and will take a mental note of what types collaborated.
re: #63 Higgs Boson’s Mate
I always thought the standard spring-return setup seemed a little primitive (and there’s always the potential problem of valve float, but not for me since I don’t ever push engines that far rpm-wise)
re: #85 Higgs Boson’s Mate
True. Though I ride with the knowledge that I may have to lay the bike down at any time because, “Oh, I didn’t see you.” It made for good stories when I was younger. It might take a while to get over now.
Having a hard time throwing a leg over the seat. If I have to, I’ll get a new hip.
(In passing to all—going to buy a bike tire tomorrow from Amazon. Is it correct that all we have to do is hit the button next under the ‘Donate’ button?)
re: #84 Reality Based Steve
Why just think, if the French and Polish Armies had guns, Hitler never would have walked over them.
RBS
But I’m confused. Guns don’t kill people, right?
re: #84 Reality Based Steve
Why just think, if the French and Polish Armies had guns, Hitler never would have walked over them.
RBS
Really, it’s another form of victim blaming. “If Teh Jooz had only stood up to Hitler, he wouldn’t have exterminated them!”
I bet if HE’D been a Jew then, by golly, HE wouldn’t have got killed! Nosirree! He’d have said to that nice SS man, “I believe you want that guy hiding upstairs.”
re: #86 teleskiguy
“Did I ever tell you the story about the time me and Pete Best went to the Liverpool Zoo? Needless to say, Pete was never seen again.”re: #91 Blind Frog Belly White
Really, it’s another form of victim blaming. “If Teh Jooz had only stood up to Hitler, he wouldn’t have exterminated them!”
I bet if HE’D been a Jew then, by golly, HE wouldn’t have got killed! Nosirree! He’d have said to that nice SS man, “I believe you want that guy hiding upstairs.”
That’s exactly what it is.
re: #88 Jebediah, RBG
I always thought the standard spring-return setup seemed a little primitive (and there’s always the potential problem of valve float, but not for me since I don’t ever push engines that far rpm-wise)
Primitive, perhaps, but simple, cheap, and reliable enough for low-RPM operation.
So yeah as you all already know Poland was overwhelmed quickly. There was no way that Jewish civilians were going to stop what happened.
re: #89 Decatur Deb
Having a hard time throwing a leg over the seat. If I have to, I’ll get a new hip.
(In passing to all—going to buy a bike tire tomorrow from Amazon. Is it correct that all we have to do is hit the button next under the ‘Donate’ button?)
Last month, after a particularly exhausting ride on my bicycle, I gave a few second’s thought to calling my wife and asking her to come out front and swing my leg back over the saddle.
Pride stopped me. But it DID pass through my mind.
re: #97 Blind Frog Belly White
Last month, after a particularly exhausting ride on my bicycle, I gave a few second’s thought to calling my wife and asking her to come out front and swing my leg back over the saddle.
Pride stopped me. But it DID pass through my mind.
Have you tried higher heels?
re: #72 Decatur Deb
They can be made to work.
Nice!
I wish Ducati hadn’t moved away from the dry clutch, though. I like hearing that rattle coming from blocks away.
re: #95 thedopefishlives
Primitive, perhaps, but simple, cheap, and reliable enough for low-RPM operation.
A short history of valve control and why Ducati sticks with desmodromics.
Every week Tea Pain busts out a new #FridayRap. Today’s is a Donald Trump original: “America the Very Beautiful.” pic.twitter.com/VShKKx0kcM
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) October 9, 2015
re: #82 Decatur Deb
Friend of the family rode his V-Max into his eighties.
re: #103 Jebediah, RBG
Friend of the family rode his V-Max into his eighties.
My FIL rode till 86. When he dropped his Harley and couldn’t pick it up he sold it. And shot himself.
Carson double’s down says ADL’s statement that gun control didn’t cause Holocaust is ‘foolishness’ http://t.co/Bo1X6eIxNl
— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) October 10, 2015
“That’s total foolishness,” Carson said when ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos asked for his reaction. “It is well known that in many places where tyranny has taken over, they first disarm the people.”
Truly a fool.
re: #88 Jebediah, RBG
I always thought the standard spring-return setup seemed a little primitive (and there’s always the potential problem of valve float, but not for me since I don’t ever push engines that far rpm-wise)
It’s been many years since my drag racing days and trying to make chevy V8’s spin a lot faster than the engineers planned for, but here’s what I remember. It seemed that valve float wasn’t really caused by the springs not being able to keep up, but more by the fact that they could actually start to oscillate above a certain speed, sort of like a slinky, and the end of the spring would actually come off the keeper, letting the valve float. The fixes were things like progressively wound springs, which also allowed for a lighter spring load on the cam system for most of the rotation and/or using a smaller spring wound the opposite direction inside the main spring. The inner spring didn’t really contribute to closing the valve, it was fairly light, but it’s main purpose was to provide a counterforce inside the main spring to keep it from collapsing inward when it wanted to oscillate.
And a lot of it was black magic, and ‘this worked for this guy, so I’ll do it too’.
RBS
There’s a Ducati dealership in our neighborhood. They look sensibly designed, unlike the yuppie/preppies I’ve seen in their showroom.
re: #104 Decatur Deb
My FIL rode till 86. When he dropped his Harley and couldn’t pick it up he sold it. And shot himself.
Whoa. That’s hardcore. My dad married my mom in ‘55. He had a (I think I have this right) 74 cubic inch Indian as his mode of transport. I don’t think my mom made him do it explicitly but the first thing he did upon getting engaged was to sell the Indian.
re: #106 Reality Based Steve
Yep, The inner springs were also there to damp the oscillations that contributed to valve float. I’ve seen setups with three springs.
re: #40 Reality Based Steve
Doubtful. It was the Tea Party that hijacked the GOP becuase the GOP had money-they could have just as easily thrown in with the Liberterians, but they have the resources of flea farts. Without some massive cash from billionaire cranks there is no way they can split-the best they’ve been able to do so far is primary center-right GOP critters and they have had some success in that arena.
(That reminds me to dig up an old quote from “Seeker After Truth”….)
re: #108 Barefoot Grin
Whoa. That’s hardcore. My dad married my mom in ‘55. He had a (I think I have this right) 74 cubic inch Indian as his mode of transport. I don’t think my mom made him do it explicitly but the first thing he did upon getting engaged was to sell the Indian.
Heh. FIL and MIL had only a bike for transport until my wife came along in 47.
re: #40 Reality Based Steve
Heard an interesting discussion on NPR this morning on my way to the shop. Basically it was that the Freedom Caucus, along with the rest of the extreme right wing of the party (because in my heart I do believe that there can be moderate republicans) are making the entire party so dysfunctional that it’s very possible that it will end up splitting into two separate parties soon.
I’ll make this prediction, safe that nobody will dredge it up in the future, that if the GOP loses the presidential election this time around, the party will split. The Tea Party will run off and what will come out of it as the GOP will be a center-right party.
Of course if it does happen, I’ll dredge this post up and wave it around.
I happen to disagree. The tea Party needs the GOP moderate. Without them, they are out on the fringe. Conversely, without the Teabaggers, the Moderate wing is also out on the fringe. It’s a marriage of convenience.
RBS
re: #74 HappyWarrior
True I guess I meant the establishment types who have had enough. They all suck though.
That’s what I thought you meant, but does the fabled GOP establishment even exist anymore?
I’m guessing they’ve gone the way of the Democrat’s Old Wise Men, and thank the gawd’s for that.
re: #112 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
It will keep going until the electorate decides that periodic holding of the government for ransom in order to promote a radical legislative agenda is unacceptable to the point of costing members reelection.
Which appears to mean forever right now.
re: #113 De Kolta Chair
That’s what I thought you meant, but does the fabled GOP establishment even exist anymore?
It exists, it’s just that it doesn’t have complete control over the money as it used to. All of their unstinting work to make certain that individuals and corporations could dump as much dough as they want to into an election took the purse strings out of their hands. A GOPer without a stick is a sorry creature because GOPers don’t know how to motivate people otherwise.
After a rough week at work and the police banging on the neighbors door earlier, I think I need some stress relief. kitteh cam
re: #106 Reality Based Steve
That’s really interesting - I thought it had something to do with resonant frequencies - just wouldn’t have guessed the spring physically coming off…
re: #119 Jebediah, RBG
That’s really interesting - I thought it had something to do with resonant frequencies - just wouldn’t have guessed the spring physically coming off…
I ran clipped keepers on my early small displacement, high rev engines. The valve spring just stops being a spring at some frequencies and if it stops at exactly the wrong time, conventional valve keepers could just fall off. And then you dropped a valve, knocked a hole in the piston, became addicted to drugs and alcohol and wound up doing hard time in Soledad for taking a shot at a county sheriff.
or something
re: #104 Decatur Deb
My FIL rode till 86. When he dropped his Harley and couldn’t pick it up he sold it. And shot himself.
As my Indian riding dad used to say, there’s two kind of bikers - the one who’s gone down and the other who’s about to go down. And dad had a mofo of a spinout that sent him to the hospital for a couple of weeks and turned him off the bikes, which he loved, for the rest of his life.
But seriously, really seriously, my best friend’s smart and talented son shot and killed himself earlier this year, and another friend’s smart and talented teenage daughter came this close to killing herself.
re: #104 Decatur Deb
My FIL rode till 86. When he dropped his Harley and couldn’t pick it up he sold it. And shot himself.
Known a couple like that. One from Alabama got drafted in about 1942 and later was laid up in a ditch in Belgium 1944 wearing a summer weight uniform and watching the hobnail boots marching by within touching distance. This after spending months on the Anzio beach head… No, he didn’t have any nice words for the Army. After that all he cared for was his ride.
re: #123 De Kolta Chair
As my Indian riding dad used to say, there’s two kind of bikers - the one who;s gone down and the other who’s about to go down.
But seriously, really seriously, my best friend’s smart and talented son shot and killed himself earlier this year, and another friend’s smart and talented teenage daughter came this lose to killing herself.
Yeah. Kids are a different thing all together.
re: #119 Jebediah, RBG
That’s really interesting - I thought it had something to do with resonant frequencies - just wouldn’t have guessed the spring physically coming off…
I’m neither an engineer or a physicist. I seem to recall an article in Chevy High Performance Mag about it, how using super high speed cameras they could actually see the valve spring start to act like a slinky. Figure at 9000 RPM that valve is getting moved up and down over a bit more than a 1/2 inch 4500 times a minute, or 75 times a second. Pretty freaking amazing when you think about it.
Of course, I was also amazed when I had the realization down in Florida this month while I was using a big sieve scoop in the surf to look for sharks teeth. I’d pull up a perfect scallop shell and think “I am almost certainly the first person on earth to see this particular shell”.
I guess I’m easily amazed. :)
RBS
re: #124 William Lewis
Known a couple like that. One from Alabama got drafted in about 1942 and later was laid up in a ditch in Belgium 1944 wearing a summer weight uniform and watching the hobnail boots marching by within touching distance. This after spending months on the Anzio beach head… No, he didn’t have any nice words for the Army. After that all he cared for was his ride.
FIL lied his way into the Army in time to take an M3 Lee to Torch, then Sicily, then Anzio.
Next war he was in the first armored company out of Pusan, M48s IIRC.
So after seeing CL’s Page earlier I was watching the FB Pages on the Oathkeepers *cough* Global Rally thing scattered across the US scheduled for tomorrow. Suddenly I get this on all the events out west. Temecula, Kingman, Phoenix, Texas. Poof. No access anymore. Hmm. Felt some backlash maybe?
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I mean srsly screw these guys. Earlier the FB page for the Phoenix event showed over 100 saying they would be there, and the page was dogwhistle calling for armed protest.
re: #127 Decatur Deb
Youch.
Pusan would have probably been M26 Pershings unless he got one of the first of the vastly improved M46 Pattons. Still, there’s a tanker’s life for you.
re: #125 Decatur Deb
Yeah. Kids are a different thing all together.
As my best friend says, in so many words, “The resignation about the event is one of the worst things. Life shouldn’t be about resignation.”
I can’t even imagine the pain.
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— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 10, 2015
re: #129 William Lewis
Youch.
Pusan would have probably been M26 Pershings unless he got one of the first of the vastly improved M46 Pattons. Still, there’s a tanker’s life for you.
It was a 46, then, a new one in a detached tank battalion. He described the breakout as more or less an accident.
re: #129 William Lewis
Buddy of mine skippered an M48 in the National Guard. As everybody knew he was gay (even though he thought he was safely in the closet at the time), he wound up with the tank that must have been assembled out of spare parts. His favorite weapon was the .50 caliber gun. He called it his personal artillery piece.
re: #127 Decatur Deb
FIL lied his way into the Army in time to take an M3 Lee to Torch, then Sicily, then Anzio.
Next war he was in the first armored company out of Pusan, M48s IIRC.
The M3 was a tough ride. It had riveted armor which meant that the crew could be taken out by their own popped rivets if the thing took a hit from a non-AP round. One did serve well with Humphrey Bogart in “Sahara,” (!943).
re: #133 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
I was on M-60A3’s in Germany. Beautiful tank for the Bavarian hills. Stone reliable, excellent M68A1 105mm rifled gun and modern thermal sight, laser rangefinder & ballistic computer that was the best in the Army till the M1A2 finally got something better. It was a good time and place to be a cold warrior. In that respect I was far luckier than many who came before and after.
One of my classmates is in the National Guard, and the boys let her play with anything she wants. She loves the Palladin and the M1A1 but didn’t like the Bradley. Her faovrite weapons are a toss-up between 155 gun and a shotgun type weapon (I forget what she called it) that shoots little grenades.
re: #129 William Lewis
Youch.
Pusan would have probably been M26 Pershings unless he got one of the first of the vastly improved M46 Pattons. Still, there’s a tanker’s life for you.
Bill Mauldin put it perfectly for me in one of his Up Front cartoons; “No thanks. A movin’ foxhole attracts the eye.”
re: #134 Higgs Boson’s Mate
The M3 was a tough ride. It had riveted armor which meant that the crew could be taken out by their own popped rivets if the thing took a hit from a non-AP round. One did serve well with Humphrey Bogart in “Sahara,” (!943).
I had to work up an accident report on one at Knox in 1977. They took one out of the museum for a parade and squashed a mailbox.
re: #137 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Bill Mauldin put it perfectly for me in one of his Up Front cartoons; “No thanks. A movin’ foxhole attracts the eye.”
I did Infantry in the Guard later. There is truth to what he said but there is a comfort in being able to place a 105mm Willy Pete round between you and the bad guys before making holes in them with everything else.
I was surprised to read that the German infantry of WW2 learned to hate their own Tigers. Whenever they came to help, the Russians would throw everything they had at them. On the other hand, they LOVED the Stug 111s.
re: #138 Decatur Deb
I had to work up an accident report on one at Knox in 1977. They took one out of the museum for a parade and squashed a mailbox.
You may have the distinction of having written the last accident report ever on an M3.
re: #136 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
One of my classmates is in the National Guard, and the boys let her play with anything she wants. She loves the Palladin and the M1A1 but didn’t like the Bradley. Her faovrite weapons are a toss-up between 155 gun and a shotgun type weapon (I forget what she called it) that shoots little grenades.
Smart gal.
The M79, M203 & Mk 19 all shoot the 40mm grenades. The 79 is like a break action shotgun but hasn’t been in the system for decades. The 203 hangs under an M16. They are a nice form of direct support much like the small mortars the Japanese were fond of during the Pacific war. It’s nice we learned a lesson there.
Ah, time to go to the hotel. I’ll check in later.
re: #141 Higgs Boson’s Mate
You may have the distinction of having written the last accident report ever on an M3.
They’re still lurking in the museums at Knox and Aberdeen.
re: #134 Higgs Boson’s Mate
The M3 was a tough ride. It had riveted armor which meant that the crew could be taken out by their own popped rivets if the thing took a hit from a non-AP round. One did serve well with Humphrey Bogart in “Sahara,” (!943).
Dan Akroyd skippered one in the movie “1941” It got sunk, along with the ferris wheel. Ooh forgot the spoiler.
re: #142 William Lewis
The 40mm grenades we used armed themselves 3 meters from the end of the tube. That would have been groovy if the kill radius on the round wasn’t 5 meters. It was a concern for us because the point detonator rounds were so sensitive that they could be detonated by heavy rain.
re: #138 Decatur Deb
I had to work up an accident report on one at Knox in 1977. They took one out of the museum for a parade and squashed a mailbox.
Remember, Tanks don’t kill mailboxes, tanks without a ground guide front and back kill mailboxes.
and why do people keep putting things I want (but don’t need) up on Ebay. Don’t they know I’m weak?
RBS
re: #115 Higgs Boson’s Mate
It exists, it’s just that it doesn’t have complete control over the money as it used to. All of their unstinting work to make certain that individuals and corporations could dump as much dough as they want to into an election took the purse strings out of their hands. A GOPer without a stick is a sorry creature because GOPers don’t know how to motivate people otherwise.
Great point. Now, if you’ll excuse me, the Koch brothers and the DeVos family and I are flying on Art Pope’s personal 747 to pick up a six pack of what I believe the proles call “Pepsi Cola” on a small island off of Madagascar, and then flying off to a death match bandy game between Vladimir Putin and Steven Seagal. “One goes in, one comes out.” My rubles are on the Putinator, but if I’m wrong please tell Dmitry Medvedev I loved him.
Are we talking about gambling around here?
Which Republican presidential candidate will be the first to brandish a firearm at a speaking engagement? My money’s on Huckabee.
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 10, 2015
Hot day here today. It’s 8:30 and it’s still 90F. I think we peaked around 100F.
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re: #146 Higgs Boson’s Mate
The 40mm grenades we used armed themselves 3 meters from the end of the tube. That would have been groovy if the kill radius on the round wasn’t 5 meters. It was a concern for us because the point detonator rounds were so sensitive that they could be detonated by heavy rain.
That’s only the 90% that weren’t duds. Large range areas at Knox were totally redlined, ‘mined’ by the Cobra gunships of the day.
re: #149 teleskiguy
Are we talking about gambling around here?
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Perry already did.
re: #152 Decatur Deb
Perry already did.
He’s out though. Let’s take some bets! Everybody is all like “Trump!” I’m willing to bet on a dark horse. Wouldn’t it be funny if Lindsey Graham took his press pool to some skeet shooting?
My own contribution to the tank talk, from the other side of the Cold War divide:
It’s a photo of some tanks and other armored fighting vehicles Putin’s proxies in Ukraine showed off in Donetsk last month. Unlike most of the photos taken of the display, this one is unofficial. The group features at least 2 each of T-72 MBTs and BMP-2 IFVs, as well as a BTR-80 APC.
re: #154 Dark_Falcon
My own contribution to the tank talk, from the other side of the Cold War divide:
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It’s a photo of some tanks and other armored fighting vehicles Putin’s proxies in Ukraine showed off in Donetsk last month. Unlike most of the photos taken of the display, this one is unofficial. The group features at least 2 each of T-72 MBTs and BMP-2 IFVs, as well as a BTR-80 APC.
Is only patriotic parade, comrade.
re: #153 teleskiguy
He’s out though. Let’s take some bets! Everybody is all like “Trump!” I’m willing to bet on a dark horse. Wouldn’t it be funny if Lindsey Graham took his press pool to some skeet shooting?
Fiorina could do that, with little paper sillhouettes of HP employees.
re: #155 Decatur Deb
Because nothing says “Out on the town,” like reactive armor.
re: #149 teleskiguy
Are we talking about gambling around here?
My money’s on Huckabee barging into the Democratic debate and performing a mock commedia dell’arte style abortion on stage, only to be upstaged by Donald Trump arriving to deport the entire audience out of the country, and topping it all off Jesus will sing selected tunes from “Bye Bye Birdie.”
What’s the matter with kids today????
re: #158 De Kolta Chair
My money’s on Huckabee barging into the Democratic debate and performing a mock abortion on stage,…snip.
Carson can play the Plague Doctor.
re: #154 Dark_Falcon
Especially of note is the T-72 with the tactical number ‘439’. Unlike the great majority of T-72s seen in pro-Russia forces in Ukraine, its not a T-72B. From the looks of its turret in this and other photos of this tank I’ve seen, it seems to be a very rare final production run example of the original T-72, with armor panels those had installed on the turret.
This one’s armor panels now also hold EDZ first-generation explosive reactive armor, and it has the later-added High Hardness Steel applique armor. Other improvements such as an improved turret-traverse motor, and an improved gun barrel should be assumed.
An interesting example of an old tank (if I’m right about what it is, its as old as I am) given a overhaul and put back into service with new equipment.
Also it seems we were all wrong about who was going to do a major pro-gun speech. The mayor of Jerusalem just scooped the GOP on the theme:
Jerusalem’s mayor has urged every Israeli citizen with a gun license to carry a weapon at all times following a rise in security tensions.
Nir Barkat, a former military officer and licensed gun owner, defended his decision to carry a weapon during a visit this week to an Arab neighborhood and encouraged other licensed gun owners to also carry their weapons.
‘One of the advantages Israel has is that there are many veterans of military units with operational combat experience,’ he said. ‘Having a weapon increases the resident’s confidence.’
His calls for Israelis to arm themselves follow the same suggestion by Israel’s deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben Dahan.
The announcement comes after two Israeli soldiers were stabbed in Afula. The Palestinian attacker was shot dead, marking the fourth stabbing against an Israeli soldier today.
The attack occurred after an Arab attacker stabbed four Israelis with a screwdriver before a soldier shot and killed him.
Even if you don’t like the ‘Daily FAIL’, read this story. Because this is going to be huge on Twitter.
re: #161 Dark_Falcon
I freed Kuwait and all I got was this lousy $4.3 million M1 Abrams tank. //
re: #166 De Kolta Chair
I freed Kuwait and all I got was this lousy $4.3 million M1 Abrams tank.
The M1A1 is a much better tank than any version of the T-72, but that old one and its younger T-72B brother have a good number of upgrades that Saddam’s Republican Guard didn’t have. They also almost certainly have better crews than 90% of the crews Iraq had then or has now.
re: #167 Dark_Falcon
…snip They also almost certainly have better crews than 90% of the crews Iraq had then or has now.
If I may speak freely, the Russkie talks big, but frankly, we think he’s short of know how. I mean, you just can’t expect a bunch of ignorant peons to understand a machine like some of our boys. And that’s not meant as an insult,..
re: #167 Dark_Falcon
The M1A1 is a much better tank than any version of the T-72, but that old one and its younger T-72B brother have a good number of upgrades that Saddam’s Republican Guard didn’t have. They also almost certainly have better crews than 90% of the crews Iraq had then or has now.
But how are the shocks?
But semi-seriously, I’m going to have to go along with you, Dark Falcon, because I’ve only driven twice in my 59 years, both times in Econoline vans. ;-)
Chuck’s response to the Gawker anti-SLAPP filing and motion to dismiss is due in the next forty minutes. He’s already had two extensions to the deadline.
re: #168 Decatur Deb
If I may speak freely, the Russkie talks big, but frankly, we think he’s short of know how. I mean, you just can’t expect a bunch of ignorant peons to understand a machine like some of our boys. And that’s not meant as an insult,..
Is beauty of upgrades, Decatur Debranovich. Laser rangefinder does not need elaborate adjustment, just line up and push button. And type of shell is programmed into autoloader, so again gunner only needs to push button. Gun is automatically loaded and then elevates according to rangefinder data. No way for dropping of shell, as your human loaders do on American tanks, comrade.
Note: That really is a simplified version of how those two systems work together. The full version is here.
re: #170 goddamnedfrank
Chuck’s response to the Gawker anti-SLAPP filing and motion to dismiss is due in the next forty minutes. He’s already had two extensions to the deadline.
Prediction: He’ll miss this one two, since he’s got nothing. That way the suit will be dismissed and he’ll be free to whine about how unfair the judge was.
re: #172 Dark_Falcon
If the suit is dismissed can Gawker still hit him for legal costs?
re: #173 Higgs Boson’s Mate
If the suit is dismissed can Gawker still hit him for legal costs?
In theory, but what could they collect? What does Chuckles produce other than incoherent screeds and poop?
re: #174 Dark_Falcon
He hasn’t got much I’d guess. OTOH if they won a judgement they could wipe him out and then cloud his credit until hell froze over.
re: #175 Higgs Boson’s Mate
He hasn’t got much I’d guess. OTOH if they won a judgement they could wipe him out and then cloud his credit until hell froze over.
I wouldn’t do that to him, he’s wound far too tight. I’d be worried that he’d take that pistol of his and shoot someplace up.
/not kidding.
Well gang, I’m off to bed. Tomorrow I WILL remember to pick up that 1x12 to build some storage space with. :)
RBS
re: #170 goddamnedfrank
Chuck’s response to the Gawker anti-SLAPP filing and motion to dismiss is due in the next forty minutes. He’s already had two extensions to the deadline.
I look forward to Chucky’s next tome, “White Boy & White Bread: From SLAPP To SNAP,” published by Regnery of course.
re: #172 Dark_Falcon
Prediction: He’ll miss this one two, since he’s got nothing. That way the suit will be dismissed and he’ll be free to whine about how unfair the judge was.
This is a terrible idea. No response to the anti-SLAPP motion would give the Judge every reason to issue a default judgment on its merits. Meaning Chuck would be on the hook for ALL of Gawker’s legal fees and costs.
re: #174 Dark_Falcon
In theory, but what could they collect? What does Chuckles produce other than incoherent screeds and poop?
They could put a lien on any community property he shares with his wife. He talked about them buying a home together just before he was kicked off Twitter. It also looks like his mother-in-law put the wife’s name down as co-owner on some real estate.
re: #179 goddamnedfrank
This is a terrible idea. No response to the anti-SLAPP motion would give the Judge every reason to issue a default judgment on its merits. Meaning Chuck would be on the hook for ALL of Gawker’s legal fees and costs.
Of course its a terrible idea, Frank. This is CCJ we’re talking about: He doesn’t have any good ideas.
re: #126 Reality Based Steve
I guess I’m easily amazed. :)
Yeah, me too. I’m easily amused, too, especially by puns, the highest and most noble form of comedy.
re: #179 goddamnedfrank
This is a terrible idea. No response to the anti-SLAPP motion would give the Judge every reason to issue a default judgment on its merits. Meaning Chuck would be on the hook for ALL of Gawker’s legal fees and costs.
They could put a lien on any community property he shares with his wife. He talked about them buying a home together just before he was kicked off Twitter. It also looks like his mother-in-law put the wife’s name down as co-owner on some real estate.
I was hoping he’d be working on a Mississippi chain gang by now.
Not surprisingly, when one Google images “Mississippi chain gang,” it’s almost all black folk.
Except for the guy with the gun, of course.re: #164 Dark_Falcon
Even if you don’t like the ‘Daily FAIL’, read this story.
You might as well say “Even if you don’t like smelly garbage, spread some around in your house anyway”.
And I pretty much make it a point not to follow anyone on Twitter who might discuss something published there.
It *could* have been filed on paper and just not be listed yet. That’s unlikely. Failure to respond can mean consent to dismissal.
— Adam SteinBOO! (@adamsteinbaugh) October 10, 2015
‘night all.
Then again, it might just be your doofy hat.
@adamsteinbaugh pic.twitter.com/Ce2jC9Je74
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) October 10, 2015
And in other news, Russian Mi-24 Hind helicopters and fixed wing aircraft are making low level, daylight, dumb bomb strikes against anti-Assad forces. That will work well for them until the rebels’ backers provide them with MANPADs. That won’t be difficult for them because many of the thousands that Qaddafi kept stockpiled have found their way onto the black market.
@adamsteinbaugh So he missed it? Oh brother.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 10, 2015
From an hour ago:
@adamsteinbaugh Does Burns need Gawker’s lawyers to support a third extension? Those convos must be awkward. @2dAmMuslim @PineyMcknuckle
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) October 10, 2015
@2dAmMuslim Burns is probably outside the Judge’s bedroom window right now like … @adamsteinbaugh @PineyMcknuckle pic.twitter.com/UvOtrGbnZ3
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) October 10, 2015
I’m always a little fuzzy on the various and somewhat complex filing deadlines in the Rules of Civil Procedure (I suppose I could go look them up?) but IIRC here in Tejas, for example, the filing deadline is something like 5 PM on a weekday. I vaguely recall an extra hour given on days at the end of the week…
Either way, any attorney living on Planet Earth in 2015 should be filing with ECF unless it’s one of those documents that must be delivered to the court personally (Petition and a couple of others in special circumstances).
The mechanics don’t matter, though, dude’s lawyer should have responded to this well before the deadline.
I would hope Gawker is ready to go with a Motion for Default Judgement, filed by ECF at 8:00:01 A.M. Monday morning, with printouts of the latest bit of Twitter trolling as supporting the notion that Chucksie is fucking around online agitating-slash-trying to do his lawyer’s work, while his legal world burns. I for one wish them Godspeed and Ka’Plah.
Chuck posted on Facebook 20 minutes ago - a link to a Daily Mail article. Not a word about his lawsuit.
re: #193 Charles Johnson
Chuck posted on Facebook 20 minutes ago - a link to a Daily Mail article. Not a word about his lawsuit.
Maybe he’s fleeing to Turlock for sanctuary.
THE LATEST: GERMAN COUNTY DECLARES REFUGEE EMERGENCY
8:45 p.m.
A German county has declared an emergency ahead of the arrival of some 1,000 refugees on Monday.
[…]
The Czech Republic is putting 650 soldiers on alert to be ready to help police deal with a possible influx of migrants.
Defense Ministry spokesman Petr Medek says the soldiers are ready to join police forces on the border with Austria in two hours. The announcement came after police said they were sharply increasing policing on the Austrian border, with the number of officers rising from 220 to 720.
[…]
Sweden’s prime minister says preliminary estimates indicate more than 150,000 asylum seekers will arrive in the country this year.
Stefan Lofven said Friday nearly 9,000 people have sought asylum in Sweden in the past seven days alone and the country is preparing for a crisis situation.
[…]
The southern state of Bavaria is calling on the German government to turn refugees back at the country’s border if it can’t get other European Union countries to abide by rules that mean newcomers are supposed to be processed in the first EU country where they arrive.
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Germany’s interior minister says his office has recorded more than 490 attacks - ranging from arson to racist graffiti - on refugee shelters this year.
Thomas de Maiziere said in an interview published Friday that the number represents “a massive increase of xenophobic attacks against asylum-seekers.”
[…]
The International Organization for Migration says it has seen a sharp increase in the number of people landing on Greece’s eastern islands over the past week, with around 7,000 people arriving every day.
[…]
Greece’s coast guard says it has rescued 542 people in 12 search and rescue incidents from Thursday morning to Friday morning.
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Tides of humanity can’t be stopped.
No matter what Trump says.
ISIS/ISIL (I can’t keep up with all the names) is winning:
Islamic State closes in on Syrian city of Aleppo; U.S. abandons rebel training effort
Islamic State fighters have seized villages close to the northern city of Aleppo from rival insurgents, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite an intensifying Russian air-and-sea campaign that Moscow says has targeted the militant group.
News of the advance came as the United States announced it was largely abandoning its failed program to train moderate rebels fighting Islamic State and would instead provide arms and equipment directly to rebel leaders and their units on the battlefield.
The Obama administration is grappling with a dramatic change in the four-year-old Syrian civil war brought about by Moscow’s intervention in support of President Bashar al-Assad.
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This all seems to be heading towards Syria being yet another “failed state”, with even the dictatorial government falling to chaotic rebels.
We need moar gunz on campus!
Two students die in shootings at separate college campuses
Two unrelated shootings at universities in Arizona and Texas on Friday left two students dead and four injured, continuing a skein of campus violence following last week’s rampage at an Oregon community college that killed nine.
The shooter in the Texas Southern University slaying remains at large. In the Northern Arizona University attack, an 18-year-old freshman has been charged with first-degree murder. Authorities say he opened fire on a group of students after a late-night conflict in a parking lot of the Flagstaff campus, leaving one student dead and three other people injured early Friday.
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Displaced Persons had already fled from Iraq into neighboring countries and other DPs subsequently fled from Libya. Europe is the only place to which they can go now. It’s not just a problem for Europe, it’s a problem for these folks’ home countries because they are losing people with the whatever it takes to make a dangerous and uncertain voyage.
I guess we’ll find out next week. Bummed, I was looking forward to more of Burns’ dumpster fire legalese. @adamsteinbaugh @Green_Footballs
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) October 10, 2015
Wonderful article by Bill Cosby in NYPost today on personal responsibility. Cosby a great iconic figure for decades.
— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) June 9, 2013
What. The. Fuck?!?#NowPlaying Frank Zappa > Sleep Dirt > The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution http://t.co/tTWNVFL3pP
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 10, 2015
Oh, no.
Two explosions shook a road junction in the center of the Turkish capital Ankara on Oct. 10, causing many casualties including fatalities, ahead of a “peace” meeting, Doğan News Agency reported.
At least 20 were killed, the agency said.
Broadcaster NTV also reported from the field that at least 10 people were killed.
The blasts were at the two sides of the exit of the main train station in the city, where the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) supporters were gathering, they said.
re: #4 William Lewis
Beautiful Telecaster. Now off to add the album to my amazon cart…
I’m waiting for reviews of the new Line6 Helix floor pedal that finally hit retail. That thing looks like the cat’s meow.
re: #186 De Kolta Chair
‘night all.
Then again, it might just be your doofy hat.
I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write.*
Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; that’s all I do.
You may wonder why I should write a genealogy. Well, to begin with, my story is interesting. And, next, I am a mystery—more so than a tree or a sunset or even a flash of lightning. But, sadly, I am taken for granted by those who use me, as if I were a mere incident and without background. This supercilious attitude relegates me to the level of the commonplace. This is a species of the grievous error in which mankind cannot too long persist without peril. For, the wise G. K. Chesterton observed, “We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.” …
The thing I probably love most about pro-slavery swamp goblin Justine Tunney is how her pseudo intellectual poncey bullshit so quickly reveals itself to be rooted in raw, distilled ignorance.
3/ Here’s what frightens the cultural communists: the proletariat adores Trump. They love him for being a rich powerful man who doesn’t lie.
— Justine Tunney (@JustineTunney) October 4, 2015
@CR_Morgan I don’t think he’s ugly. Unless people think being blond haired and blue eyed makes a person ugly.
— Justine Tunney (@JustineTunney) October 4, 2015
By all means, do toss around a word like proletariat while having no earthly idea what the term Ugly American means.
We are calling for an #IndependentInvestigation into the horrific attack on our #Kunduz hospital. pic.twitter.com/64C4WWAfjl
— MSF International (@MSF) October 9, 2015
Yep, only an independent investigation. If a US investigation (of which there are several) absolves the US from guilt in this apparent war crime, this won’t be taken seriously by most.
re: #214 Nyet
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Yep, only an independent investigation. If a US investigation (of which there are several) absolves the US from guilt in this apparent war crime, this won’t be taken seriously by most.
We’re not going to do that and we shouldn’t. Let the world think what it wants, but IMO the strike was needed to clear out the Taliban from a strongpoint and to make clear to the Afghan Army’s men on the ground that they would be supported.
Frankly also, trying our people for this would have a chilling effect I’m not willing to incur. It also makes it likely Iraq would opt for Russian help due to our inability to provide the air support they need. And the US isn’t going to let anyone else hold a trial of its military personnel over this.
No, the greater needs dictate America’s actions here. Doctors Without Borders should told: “Sorry your people got killed and we’ll pay for reconstruction, but as far as our people go the pooch is unscrewable.”
re: #216 Dark_Falcon
We’re not going to do that and we shouldn’t. Let the world think what it wants, but IMO the strike was needed to clear out the Taliban from a strongpoint and to make clear to the Afghan Army’s men on the ground that they would be supported.
Frankly also, trying our people for this would have a chilling effect I’m not willing to incur. It also makes it likely Iraq would opt for Russian help due to our inability to provide the air support they need. And the US isn’t going to let anyone else hold a trial of its military personnel over this.
No, the greater needs dictate America’s actions here. Doctors Without Borders should told: “Sorry your people got killed and we’ll pay for reconstruction, but as far as our people go the pooch is unscrewable.”
So America is just immune to international law/oversight?
Dark how would you feel if it was a Russian air strike that did this and then the Russians refused to let anyone but other Russians judge the valadity of it?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Morning…I think.
My love of watching Grand Prix racing live on TV is catching up with me. 3 & 5 AM sessions from Mother Russia (Sochi) the last two days and I get disoriented.
Anyways…saw a repeat of Rachel Maddow from last night. Damn, it really appears that the Republicants are going to kill off any “moderate” GOPer, like Paul Ryan. She hinted that means anyone that has any record of anything seen as working with Democrats or for favoring any kind of legislature the Freedom Caucus doesn’t like will not get their votes.
They may even refuse Boehner coming back to the job and hold a vote to boot him, which they were prepared to do before he stepped down.
It is looking more and more like some kind of a coalition deal with Republicans and Democrats will be needed. But what kind of a tantrum will the Freedoms throw should that happen.
We may very well be seeing the Republican party falling apart. What a freaking mess.
re: #218 jamesfirecat
Dark how would you feel if it was a Russian air strike that did this and then the Russians refused to let anyone but other Russians judge the validity of it?
That’s sure to happen in Syria, and if it were me I’d vote to quash an international investigation, at least for the duration of the conflict.
Too much time is wasted on these sorts of investigations and they do great damage to our causes. We should do the best we can to avoid killing civilians, but we shouldn’t virtually close down close air support in order to do so.
re: #216 Dark_Falcon
We’re not going to do that and we shouldn’t. Let the world think what it wants, but IMO the strike was needed to clear out the Taliban from a strongpoint and to make clear to the Afghan Army’s men on the ground that they would be supported.
Frankly also, trying our people for this would have a chilling effect I’m not willing to incur. It also makes it likely Iraq would opt for Russian help due to our inability to provide the air support they need. And the US isn’t going to let anyone else hold a trial of its military personnel over this.
No, the greater needs dictate America’s actions here. Doctors Without Borders should told: “Sorry your people got killed and we’ll pay for reconstruction, but as far as our people go the pooch is unscrewable.”
Damn Dark. Even America can fuck up. And we are not above international law. We may need a chilling effect. After all, the Bushies heated the whole Middle East up to the point it busted up and WE created more of a mess.
That is on us…like it or not.
re: #220 Dark_Falcon
That’s sure to happen in Syria, and if it were me I’d vote to quash an international investigation, at least for the duration of the conflict.
Too much time is wasted on these sorts of investigations and they do great damage to our causes. We should do the best we can to avoid killing civilians, but we shouldn’t virtually close down close air support in order to do so.
That just raises another awkward question, defined”duration of the conflict” in this is situation…
I personally think sunlight is the best disinfectant and if we want others nations to respect us at all, we need to be open with them about how this f$@& up happened.
OK, I really hope that Cracked piece about how Ace of Base was a Nazi band was an extended joke about how you can prove anything if you stretch facts far enough. The alternative, that the author is serious, is too demented to contemplate.
re: #216 Dark_Falcon
We’re not going to do that and we shouldn’t. Let the world think what it wants, but IMO the strike was needed to clear out the Taliban from a strongpoint and to make clear to the Afghan Army’s men on the ground that they would be supported.
Dude, just no. It may come out down the line that the hospital was occupied, there’s certainly conflicting accounts about that. It’s even conceivable, though unlikely, that MSF local staff could have become compromised by militants like Red Crescent staff have been in the past, thought that is in no way proven. None of that however would make such an overwhelming strike on a designated safe zone the right thing to do. There may well be context that helps us understand how this happened and how to prevent such a strike from recurring in the future, but nothing will absolve it. At best it would point to the need for better tactics in such a scenario, ones that deal with the complexities of the modern insurgent battlefield without saying fuck you to the legal conventions of war.
re: #220 Dark_Falcon
That’s sure to happen in Syria, and if it were me I’d vote to quash an international investigation, at least for the duration of the conflict.
Too much time is wasted on these sorts of investigations and they do great damage to our causes. We should do the best we can to avoid killing civilians, but we shouldn’t virtually close down close air support in order to do so.
It really seems like you want to have it both ways, to be able to condemn Assad’s use of barrel bombs over rebel held civilian areas like Aleppo for instance, while tacitly condoning the targeting of a designated hospital safety zones when it suits you. It’s a messed up and obviously indefensible position.
re: #225 goddamnedfrank
It really seems like you want to have it both ways, to be able to condemn Assad’s use of barrel bombs over rebel held civilian areas like Aleppo for instance, while tacitly condoning the targeting of a designated hospital safety zones when it suits you. It’s a messed up and obviously indefensible position.
Clarification: Bombarding a hospital was a mistake and we should look into how that mistake happened. But I don’t think non-administrative punishment is appropriate or wise, given the circumstances, and I don’t favor an international investigation.
re: #216 Dark_Falcon
I don’t like to downding, but no. Just no.
Drink a cup of coffee, or whatever eye-opener you favor. Look at what you wrote and think about it. Really think, not just react with an emotional knee-jerk. This was a hospital, for the love of all that makes us human. I don’t care if there were Taliban firing from there or near to it, this was a hospital.
Even if a basic sense of decency doesn’t penetrate the ingrained tribalism, a sense of consequences should. There is no way this should not be investigated fully by an international group that can be seen to be non-partisan. We as a country need to acknowledge and accept responsibility where it is due, when it’s known what is do.
Dark, you show so often that you have the heart of a decent man. Think about the human beings who were killed and injured in the strike, in a place that had tried to offer them healing and safety. They aren’t points scored or lost in a game. You’re not responsible to me or anyone else to justify your reactions, but please just think about them.
re: #226 Dark_Falcon
Clarification: Bombarding a hospital was a mistake and we should look into how that mistake happened. But I don’t think non-administrative punishment is appropriate or wise, given the circumstances, and I don’t favor an international investigation.
A non-international investigation will invariably be seen as a coverup however. Which is something you’re remarkably blasé about considering the long term negative impact on US security and future coalition building ability.
re: #229 goddamnedfrank
A non-international investigation will invariably be seen as a coverup however. Which is something you’re remarkably blasé about considering the long term negative impact on US security and future coalition building ability.
Very much agreed.
I’m just saying, if the national integrity argument doesn’t sway you, how about some old fashioned far sighted self interest?
I see that Frank and CleverToad said what needed to said much better than I could this morning. DF, your way of thinking is exactly why we have things like the Iran hostage crisis. Too much short term thinking and not enough in the long term. We need to do the right thing here and cooperate. How would you feel if some of your loved ones were killed?
re: #231 goddamnedfrank
I’m just saying, if the national integrity argument doesn’t sway you how about old fashioned far sighted self interest?
IMO, the near term is more important in this case. And if its going to be that kind issue for another nation, I’d rather we didn’t ally with them.
re: #229 goddamnedfrank
Your point about coalition building is well made, Frank, but its something I’m prepared to forfeit in order to get the current crisis resolved.
Can I ask how the hell we’re supposed to tell the world we’re in the right here? I’m trying to get your angle DF, I really am but it just comes off as you wanting our country to be held to a different standard because well it’s our country.
re: #233 Dark_Falcon
IMO, the near term is more important in this case. And if its going to be that kind issue for another nation, I’d rather we didn’t ally with them.
I’d rather we didn’t ally with nations that don’t have a problem with us blowing up a hospital personally.
The best part of the MSF hospital strike story is what we’re not talking about because of it.
U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies
So while the US military desperately scrambles to figure out exactly why they schwacked a fucking hospital, as a nation we can all collectively gloss over the fact that we did it on behalf of an Allied force with a gigantic child rape problem.
What a magical time to be alive.
re: #238 goddamnedfrank
The best part of the MSF hospital strike story is what we’re not talking about because of it.
So while the US military desperately scrambles to figure out exactly why they schwacked a fucking hospital, the nation can collectively gloss over the fact that we did it on behalf of an Allied force with a gigantic child rape problem.
What a magical time to be alive.
I’ve seen that as well. I have to say. We really need to I think find a new way of doing FP. I realize that not everyone we team up with is going to be a boy scout and I know we had ot team up with frigging Stalin to beat the Nazis but man we need to draw lines.
What I’m hoping is as more and more policymakers are people who weren’t shaped by the Cold War way of thinking, we might have a more reasonable FP but I don’t know how the generation (my generation) shaped by 9/11 is going to do FP.
re: #234 Dark_Falcon
Your point about coalition building is well made, Frank, but its something I’m prepared to forfeit in order to get the current crisis resolved.
DF there’s is no “current crisis” in Afghanistan, we’ve been there over a decade now, what is going on there is not going to be an isolated incident, it is the state of the territory and we can expect it to remain that way. There is going to be no quick and easy solution to the nation’s problems, we can either try to muddle through in the long run or thrown up our hands and leave, but short term thinking only gets us the worst of both worlds.
re: #226 Dark_Falcon
Clarification: Bombarding a hospital was a mistake and we should look into how that mistake happened. But I don’t think non-administrative punishment is appropriate or wise, given the circumstances, and I don’t favor an international investigation.
I’m pleased you clarified at least that part.
And as to the rest, I can’t find a single positive thing to say about your attitude.
re: #164 Dark_Falcon
Also it seems we were all wrong about who was going to do a major pro-gun speech. The mayor of Jerusalem just scooped the GOP on the theme:
Even if you don’t like the ‘Daily FAIL’, read this story. Because this is going to be huge on Twitter.
Big difference: every single one of those Israelis authorized to carry a gun (less than 12% of the total population - a figure that INCLUDES IDF FORCES) has:
A) Undergone mandatory military service of at least two and a half years
B) Undergone professional military/civilian weapons training and testing
C) Been permitted to have a license and weapon based on closely-inspected criteria;
D) Undergoes regular certification processes on an annual basis (which includes revocation of certification if circumstances change - including something as basic as moving from one city to another)
One of my pet hobbies when it comes to dealing with ammosexuals is encouraging them to ‘embrace the Israeli model’ (“hey, Israel deals with terrorists much more and far better than us, and they have almost zero gun violence in comparison, even with terror statistics taken into account!”), then casually dropping the details of the Israeli model on their unsuspecting heads. At which point, you can almost hear the poor craniums imploding…
re: #234 Dark_Falcon
Your point about coalition building is well made, Frank, but its something I’m prepared to forfeit in order to get the current crisis resolved.
We get in these jams because we don’t coalition build.
We also get in these jams by our arrogance. An arrogance you are repeating in your own comments.
Also, the really super awesome thing about the Afghan boy rape thing (wow this sentence is NOT starting off well) is that news of this shit first broke back in 2009.
In December 2009, DynCorp, a government contractor which is funded by U.S. tax dollars, officially sponsored a Bacha bazi for entertainment in Afghanistan.”>In December 2009, DynCorp, a government contractor which is funded by U.S. tax dollars, officially sponsored a Bacha bazi for entertainment in Afghanistan.
And yet here we are coming up on six fucking years later all pretending we just dropped our monocles in surprise.
Goats do whatever they want 🐐 https://t.co/UiBGmw1wHN
— Sassy Goats (@TheSassyGoats) October 9, 2015
UR ARGUMENT IS INKURREKT
tiny baby goat wearing a tiny hat pic.twitter.com/XganxBOgP6
— Sassy Goats (@TheSassyGoats) October 9, 2015
re: #244 Archangelus
Forgot to include that I, for one, am actually quite fine with the Israeli model implemented at least in part in the US - possession of a tool of potential mass death should require at least a few mandatory lessons and a test, just like with a car (another tool of potential mass death).
BTW, for those interested in knowing what IDF weapons training is like:
Israelis in the IDF, both combatants and non-combatants alike, learn how and when to use weapons (mostly assault rifles - M-16s with grenade launchers, Uzis, Galil, and Tavor - as well as handguns, and sniper rifles for special units) over a mandatory period. This period is at least two intensive weeks for non-combatants, with combatants having a month or more depending on which unit they serve in. Classroom lectures, gun ranges, field days - there are zero excuses, and a person either passes it or has to repeat boot camp all over again.
As part of the instruction process, they are required to have the weapon with them at all times: in the morning, each day, they undergo a mandatory ‘inspection, dis-assembly, and safety’ process in front of the commanders, then again in the evening; At night they even go to sleep with it (the person on the mattress, the rifle underneath it - though this stems mostly due to tradition, as many years ago, the risk of weaponry theft was far higher).
Lastly, and perhaps most important of all: during this time, they are also required to watch numerous fiction and non-fiction videos about the consequences of inappropriate gun handling (two of which - based on actual events - still stick with me to this very day, and illustrate just how unexpected and horrible it can be when a weapon is treated improperly).
The bottom line is that not a single Israeli would consider a handgun or a rifle as a ‘toy’, something to be played with or used for hunting, pride or giggles. The most of an entire country is trained professionally to view guns as what they are, weapons of war and death, which goes a long way to explain why gun violence in Israel is so very low despite everything…
re: #244 Archangelus
I’m aware of that, that’s why I said it was something that would be big but gave no agreement. Because I knew it was the sort of piece that wingnuts will typically try to use to bolster their own case only to beclown themselves. So I spoke carefully, knowing the facts and thus the need to abjure temptation and to avoid getting into that clown car.
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re: #254 Dark_Falcon
I get it but the details play a big deal into the difference, and not just because of the whole gun issue in general - what started with rock-throwing has escalated considerably, and there have been 11 stabbing attacks with fatalities carried out by Palestinians over the past week, many in Jerusalem (which is what promoted the mayor’s statement).
Tensions in Israel in general and in Jerusalem in particular are near a boiling point right now - the police is on high alert across the country and the streets are almost empty. This is especially the case in Jerusalem, where one of the attacks happened just a couple of hours ago - a youth stabbed two people and when ordered to stand down by policemen, he tried to stab them and was shot dead.
re: #247 goddamnedfrank
I swear I remember reading about this before 2009 somewhere. I used to read a lot more than I do now, having abandoned some of my earlier bookmarks (like counterpunch, firedoglake, and others that lost their damned minds as their ventures led to more publicity and money) and I cannot remember where I read about it, but I think it was a soldier’s account of this kind of shit happening more often than we care to ever think about. I don’t think it was just DynCorp either, Blackwater, KBR and Halliburton were mentioned as well.
But no, the people in the middle east have no reason at all to see America as anything but good and perfect and something to be jealous of. Damn it.
re: #233 Dark_Falcon
IMO, the near term is more important in this case. And if its going to be that kind issue for another nation, I’d rather we didn’t ally with them.
Everybody always thinks the near term is more important about all the things, all the time.
That’s why global warming isn’t getting fixed and the banks blew up the economy and our infrastructure is crumbling and our schools are going to shit and our Congress is dysfunctional.
Poor people and weak people have desperate reasons to focus on the immediate. The richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world needs to take a longer view.
re: #213 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Here’s What Happened When Ben Carson Was Actually Confronted by a Dangerous Gunman
Here’s what gets me about this whole story. Carson is a 7th Day Adventist. They’re vegans. So WTF was he doing in a Popeye’s?
One other interesting point of difference is the place of shotguns. Israel has very few, as I understand it, and they are almost exclusively used for hunting. Israeli police use carbine and Personal Defense Weapon (PDW) configurations of assault rifle as well as submachineguns, but I never see them with shotguns.
By contrast, in the US shotguns are ubiquitous in private hands, in the hand of law enforcement at all levels, and in the military. But some of that is culture: The United States has a hunting culture than predates the Founding and shotguns are so much a part of it and so common that their presence often goes unremarked upon.
re: #260 Dark_Falcon
And your point? That there’s not a lot of hunting to be had in Israel? I’m not sure you actually get it.
re: #261 PeterWolf
And your point? That there’s not a lot of hunting to be had in Israel? I’m not sure you actually get it.
No point, I was just saying it to say it.
And now I have to go. My dad needs my help as his back is still in a good deal of pain.
re: #262 Dark_Falcon
No point, I was just saying it to say it.
Israelis don’t own guns for pleasure, they are armed as a matter of necessity and national policy. The weapons they carry have specific purpose, and they are trained to use them. There is literally no valid comparison between the US and Israel in these terms.
Oh wait, Israel is a classic case of the need and practice of the second amendment. So unlike the US where the intention of the second amendment has been warped and twisted.
re: #259 Joe Bacon
I think it’s bullshit. Somehow he thought that story was clever and decided to run with it, because, courage and reasons, or something. Instead he looks like a bigger jerk than he did before. Congratulations Assclown.
re: #220 Dark_Falcon
Once again I have to ponder the question, “Why is it that those who are so supportive of ‘Law and Order’ at home are so opposed to it on an international level?’
Hey everyone. So not that I’ve been talking about it, but two months ago I took a corp-to-corp contracting gig (went 1099, not LLC as it was only a 4 month con-to-hire thing). I had a couple of other jobs in the pipeline and needed some money to make the mortgage so I figured what the hell, I can step down to a more IC role and write a bit of code when necessary. Well, two months into my 4 month contract, they made it official, are bringing me on as a perm employee, and those other gigs? There will be others. I kind of like the security of this place - they’re making a shit-ton of money and have 40% projected growth in the next few years. My salary is still about 30k less than I had at my last job, but it’s still plenty. Won’t be a difficult life-style change (5 months of unemployment made that transition easier).
Anyhoo. Good news on the job front. Only three more days of contracting work left and I get health benefits back…Yay!
Too funny. The one comment to this Republican wish list reads:
“Beautiful, yet you dream.
Sadly this describes Nancy Pelosi”
@TheRickWilson: My new piece at @ijreview: “Why We Need A Disruptor of the House” t.co
(Rick Wilson describes himself as a national Republican media consultant and campaign adviser.)
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Morning from Austin City Limits! Friday was an epic day and night of music! Billy Idol really stepped up and put on a great hour long set. Steve Stevens still has massive chops. Foo Fighters absolutely killed it; two hours of non-stop rock and roll. Dave was able to get on crutches and walk out to the end of stage at the end of night. So exhausted. So worth it.
re: #269 darthstar
Congrats!! So glad you landed well (enough). That’s fantastic!
Death toll from two explosions at a peace rally in Ankara rises to 86, Turkish health ministry says http://t.co/s46hbJo8cT
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) October 10, 2015
re: #259 Joe Bacon
.@ShaunKing forget it, he’s on a roll. To be precise, biscuits and cole slaw. Oh, and the wings.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 9, 2015
Courts don’t take kindly to being late on filings. That Chucky’s crackpot legal team is on the verge of missing a deadline, you can be sure that the court isn’t going to abide by an extension made after the deadline. They could dismiss with prejudice, in which case they wouldn’t be able to file again. Or, much less likely, impose sanctions for wasting the court’s time.
In either case, if the case falls apart, guess who’s left holding the bag for paying for all this BS. That’s right. Chucky.
Heh.
re: #218 jamesfirecat
The US is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court, and combine that with our permanent seat at the UN Security council, there are few options to wield against the US should they be found culpable.
re: #278 lawhawk
Courts don’t take kindly to being late on filings. That Chucky’s crackpot legal team is on the verge of missing a deadline, you can be sure that the court isn’t going to abide by an extension made after the deadline. They could dismiss with prejudice, in which case they wouldn’t be able to file again. Or, much less likely, impose sanctions for wasting the court’s time.
In either case, if the case falls apart, guess who’s left holding the bag for paying for all this BS. That’s right. Chucky.
Heh.
I almost feel sorry that this is happening to this schmuck. He’s a product if all the RWNJ bullshit starting with Limbaugh, Fox, Brieitbart and all the rest.
There will always be Chucks (those who think they’re larger than life, but in reality are nothing but flies in the ointment) but all his (and America’s) current predicaments originate from the right wing propaganda machine. Until those are called to pay for the bullshit, there will be Chucks and Michelles and Seans and Glens. Until there’s a cost for lying, nothing will change. And a cost from someone or some organization that matters. And a cost that hurts. Not from some broke ass uber asshole who thinks he’s far more important than he ever will be.
re: #218 jamesfirecat
Sounds more like “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges” from ST:DS9.
re: #278 lawhawk
Courts don’t take kindly to being late on filings. That Chucky’s crackpot legal team is on the verge of missing a deadline, you can be sure that the court isn’t going to abide by an extension made after the deadline. They could dismiss with prejudice, in which case they wouldn’t be able to file again. Or, much less likely, impose sanctions for wasting the court’s time.
In either case, if the case falls apart, guess who’s left holding the bag for paying for all this BS. That’s right. Chucky.
Heh.
The way I understand it is that Gawker’s motion to dismiss gets ruled on first because it’s based on improper jurisdiction. If no jurisdiction then the anti-SLAPP is irrelevant and doesn’t get ruled upon either way. So I’m wondering, if that’s what happens will Chuck still be on the hook for Gawkers legal costs or no?
Despite the massacre and bombings in #Ankara, #PKK announces a unilateral ceasefire (ANF) #PeaceWillPrevail #TwitterKurds
— Cahida Dêrsim (@dilkocer) October 10, 2015
re: #105 jaunte
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Truly a fool.
I watched a more “in depth” intervew of Carson on Charlie Rose (PBS) last night.
Whoo boy! Surgical skills aside, there is something deeply wrong inside of his head. Spouting off vague Glen Beck style conspiracies being perpetrated on Americans by some unnamed “secular progressives”.
Rose asked him many times to give an example of who he was speaking of. He just kept answering, with a wink and a smile…I think we all know who they are.
It was just creepy as hell.
Don’t even get me started on what he said about foreign policy. No. Hell No.
Ok haters. Go crazy. pic.twitter.com/4nc24rmZiE
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) October 10, 2015
Looks like Dark woke everybody up this morning. I wouldn’t expect an international investigation to be any better than our own. Not offered as an excuse for a major F-up, I just don’t think we’ll see justice. BTW somebody upstairs challenged whether we would be as indignant if the Russians stonewalled an investigation, and I think the precedent there is the shootdown of that Malaysian Air plane.
I would like to more courteous to whoever posted that but this site is running so slow on this browser that it takes forever to scroll up and down. It seems like it took five minutes just to type this much.
I’m posting a drive-by comment (it’s too nice to stay in), but I just wanted to say that Andrew Sullivan is a privileged white asshole. Screw him.
re: #272 A Cranky One
Sorry, my computer sucks, it was accidental. I didn’t even realize I did it. I’m having all kinds of issues with my laptop all I have to do is set the cursor on top of a button and it clicks it without me doing anything. I love Black Sabbath. SpongeBob? eh. LOL.
I would wear this EVERY DAY. pic.twitter.com/pwqDVDcLLQ
— Sarah Troop (@wunderkamercast) October 10, 2015
Me too, without the heels.
Putting odds that Fox Holocaust op-ed is taken down at 100% so screenshots are the order of he day
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) October 10, 2015
Keith Ablow doubles down on Ben Carson. It was the Jew’s “mindset” that killed them in the Holocaust.
foxnews.com
I’m old enough to remember when the Holocaust was a dreadful genocide & not a glib gun nut talking point
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) October 10, 2015
Defenders of Carson’s Holocaust remarks apparently live in book-free zones
— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 10, 2015
The Jews should have fought harder, like me. Obama is just like Hitler, and I’m going to debate that topic. ON. A. STAGE. M-FER.
— David Waldman (@KagroX) October 10, 2015
Now it can be told. Dying in the Holocaust? Bad idea. https://t.co/pxbBZb2Rnq
— David Waldman (@KagroX) October 10, 2015
re: #274 WhatEVs
Congrats!! So glad you landed well (enough). That’s fantastic!
Thanks…that’s how I see it…well enough. The salary will get back to where I like it in a few years…and bonuses should actually cut half that distance.
re: #290 jaunte
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Keith Ablow doubles down on Ben Carson. It was the Jew’s “mindset” that killed them in the Holocaust.
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Mindset. What the fuck is wrong with these people. But yeah the left are the antisemitic ones not the fundamentalist Christian bigots who believe jews are too stupid and helpless and tehy’re hellbound anyhow.
Now we sit and wait to see if blaming Jewish people for the Holocaust is enough to get someone fired from Foxnews.
— Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) October 10, 2015
No, not enough.
Okay…time to pay attention to the world around me.
Have fun everyone.
re: #297 HappyWarrior
Well Dave, these are your fellow conservatives deal with it.
Frum, too. That was my first thought, as well.
Well now let me show you something. Something that is heartening.
Alright everybody! Today and tomorrow are big days. Make sure you go to your local mosque and ask Muslims to explain what Islam is really all about. Make sure to maintain your cool. As Americans we are law abiding citizens and should act in that manner. This is not a “hate” rally as some would like to think. This is a call to action. This is a call to exercise the right to find out first hand the truth about Islam.
Nothing beats first hand experience and this should be a good lesson to all of us so that we may take proper action to protect ourselves and our families from anyone who wishes to mislead us or harm us.
Please report back with photos and quote about what you learn over these next two days.
Oookay some good some bad there. People full of the wrong ideas, but still just maybe honestly reaching out. But in difficulty comes opportunity and the nice people at the Mosque reply first comment
Muhammad Rizvi-Taqi We welcome you to come and ask about Islam. Instead of protesting outside, please come inside for cold drinks, snacks and discussion.
Thank you for coming
Props and best regards for the peacemakers out there. Interesting this site is still up when so many about the event disappeared.
re: #301 WhatEVs
Frum, too. That was my first thought, as well.
Right, he’s part of the political machine that has made the ridiculous arguments about gun control. I have no sympathy for him and other “GOP moderates” at all. Carson is what happens when you refuse to call out the base’s bullshit.
re: #286 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Looks like Dark woke everybody up this morning. I wouldn’t expect an international investigation to be any better than our own. Not offered as an excuse for a major F-up, I just don’t think we’ll see justice. BTW somebody upstairs challenged whether we would be as indignant if the Russians stonewalled an investigation, and I think the precedent there is the shootdown of that Malaysian Air plane.
I would like to more courteous to whoever posted that but this site is running so slow on this browser that it takes forever to scroll up and down. It seems like it took five minutes just to type this much.
Steve, if you are using Chrome, have you disabled FlashPlayer? That helps this site a whole hell of a lot.
Not sure about Firefox or Internet Explorer, as I haven’t tried it since Chrome works with it disabled.
re: #290 jaunte
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*blinking…*
re: #303 HappyWarrior
Right, he’s part of the political machine that has made the ridiculous arguments about gun control. I have no sympathy for him and other “GOP moderates” at all. Carson is what happens when you refuse to call out the base’s bullshit.
The GOPers and their mouthpieces who are shocked, shocked, at the state of the party have yet to come up with a solution or to admit any culpability in the rise of the RWNJs. They all act as if their party was hit by an asteroid that left many of them insane. And, they won’t offer anything other than clutching their pearls because the nutcases are a direct result of GOP policies that date back to the late Sixties. They don’t have alternatives because they’ve shouted down or purged anyone on their side who offers them.
They’ve made their bed so well that they can’t get out of it.
re: #289 wrenchwench
I want one in black. I’d wear pearls with it too.
re: #284 blueraven
I watched a more “in depth” intervew of Carson on Charlie Rose (PBS) last night.
Whoo boy! Surgical skills aside, there is something deeply wrong inside of his head. Spouting off vague Glen Beck style conspiracies being perpetrated on Americans by some unnamed “secular progressives”.
Rose asked him many times to give an example of who he was speaking of. He just kept answering, with a wink and a smile…I think we all know who they are.
It was just creepy as hell.
Don’t even get me started on what he said about foreign policy. No. Hell No.
Saw your comment and decided to see if there are any YouTubes. Found this.
This dude is dangerous.
re: #306 Higgs Boson’s Mate
The GOPers and their mouthpieces who are shocked, shocked, at the state of the party have yet to come up with a solution or to admit any culpability in the rise of the RWNJs. They all act as if their party was hit by an asteroid that left many of them insane. And, they won’t offer anything other than clutching their pearls because the nutcases are a direct result of GOP policies that date back to the late Sixties. They don’t have alternatives because they’ve shouted down or purged anyone on their side who offers them.
They’ve made their bed so well that they can’t get out of it.
As I said, I have no sympathy at all for them especially someone like Frum who was part of a re-election campaign that used fear of gay marriage to do that and the insidious lies about John Kerry’s military record.
re: #308 ObserverArt
Saw your comment and decided to see if there are any YouTube. Found this.
This dude is dangerous.
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He’s a fanatic.
re: #287 stpaulbear
I’m posting a drive-by comment (it’s too nice to stay in), but I just wanted to say that Andrew Sullivan is a privileged white asshole. Screw him.
Good counterpart to that privileged black asshole Carson.
re: #302 Great White Snark
Well now let me show you something. Something that is heartening.
Oookay some good some bad there. People full of the wrong ideas, but still just maybe honestly reaching out. But in difficulty comes opportunity and the nice people at the Mosque reply first comment
Props and best regards for the peacemakers out there. Interesting this site is still up when so many about the event disappeared.
Huh? I see nothing good in that FB post.
This is not a “hate” rally as some would like to think. This is a call to action. This is a call to exercise the right to find out first hand the truth about Islam.
Nothing beats first hand experience and this should be a good lesson to all of us so that we may take proper action to protect ourselves and our families from anyone who wishes to mislead us or harm us.
An anti-Islam rally is planned for Saturday in Dearborn, organized by open-carry gun advocates who say they are patriots trying to protect America, one of about 20 such rallies planned nationwide.
Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad said authorities are monitoring the rally, working with the FBI, U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit and State Police. The rally is part of what organizers call the Global Rally for Humanity, an attempt to bring attention to what they call “radical Islam.”
re: #305 CuriousLurker
*blinking…*
They will stoop to any depth to defend their guns.
It’s like we are live watching a mass psychosis.
re: #303 HappyWarrior
Right, he’s part of the political machine that has made the ridiculous arguments about gun control. I have no sympathy for him and other “GOP moderates” at all. Carson is what happens when you refuse to call out the base’s bullshit.
Exactly my point in 280 above. Exactly right. You fight it or you own it.
re: #312 blueraven
…organized by open-carry gun advocates who say they are patriots trying to protect America…
I’m impressed; they are protecting America. I’m impressed because there were times when I was nearly unable to protect my own personal self from a bunch of guys who were wearing BF Goodrich sandals and black pajamas.
Things certainly must have changed since then.
re: #290 jaunte
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Keith Ablow doubles down on Ben Carson. It was the Jew’s “mindset” that killed them in the Holocaust.
foxnews.com
I guess conservatives are just fine without any Jewish voters.
As they are with women, poorer people, Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, LGBT folks, pro choice backers, union members…on and on.
I seriously wonder who they actually want voting for them?
Now I know why it is rare to see one GOP party chairman Reince Priebus in the media these days.
Keith Ablow has been playing evil clown on Fox for years, why would they dump him now?
re: #312 blueraven
I read that as less threatening. You could be right. I would just suggest that mindset has to be brought along a bit at a time. Exposure to some kind people and some explanation about why ISIS and our other collective real nightmares come to life like them are not representative of Islam, and certainly not of those people that go to the Mosque instead of a church.
ISIS keeps poisoning minds about Islam. Damnable tactic that works all too well.
re: #317 ObserverArt
I guess conservatives are just fine without any Jewish voters.
As they are with women, poorer people, Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, LGBT folks, pro choice backers, union members…on and on.
I seriously wonder who they actually want voting for them?
Now I know why it is rare to see one GOP party chairman Reince Priebus in the media these days.
It’s like they go out of their way to alienate groups and then act like those groups don’t vote for them because they just want “free stuff.”
re: #318 Nyet
Keith Ablow has been playing evil clown on Fox for years, why would they dump him now?
Precisely why I think it would be surprising if he were even suspended. He says fucked up shit like this all the time and ole Rube and Rog don’t care.
re: #313 Stanley Sea Toujours
They will stoop to any depth to defend their guns.
It’s like we are live watching a mass psychosis.
Looks like the last remnants of the mask have finally been ripped away and the full weight of the moral bankruptcy of their hateful racism & bigotry is finally on display. It’s an ugly, depressing sight to behold. *SIGH, smh*
To be perfectly honest though, I think the problem is with conservatism in the first place. It’s inherently an exclusionary versus exclusionary ideology.
re: #323 Nyet
I mean, just scroll down: mediamatters.org
“Gender equality means men can now hit women.” Don’t think I saw this one. This guy really is pathetic.
re: #322 CuriousLurker
Loos like the last remnants of the mask have finally been ripped away and the full weight of the moral bankruptcy of their hateful racism & bigotry is finally on display. It’s an ugly, depressing sight to behold. *SIGH, smh*
Wasn’t much of a mask, if you’re from working-class Pittsburgh.
re: #324 HappyWarrior
To be perfectly honest though, I think the problem is with conservatism in the first place. It’s inherently an exclusionary versus exclusionary ideology.
They had to be dragged kicking and screaming out of being slavemasters, KKK members, lynchers, segregationists - and now they’re taking credit for it and blame the very people who dragged them out of the swamp for the swamp being there in the first place.
re: #318 Nyet
Keith Ablow has been playing evil clown on Fox for years, why would they dump him now?
Fox has done much to make civil discourse obsolete. I doubt at this point that the fringe even reacts to anything that isn’t hyperbole.
re: #328 Nyet
They had to be dragged kicking and screaming out of being slavemasters, KKK members, lynchers, segregationists - and now they’re taking credit for it and blame the very people who dragged them out of the swamp for the swamp being there in the first place.
Precisely. It takes a lot of nerve to be the adherent to that ideology that defended those very things and practiced them to now accusing liberals of being the ones who practiced those things.
re: #327 blueraven
Here he is talking about the secular progressive conspiracy.
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What the fathers of this country wanted was compliant field hands and indoor plumbing.
re: #317 ObserverArt
In spite of what the current culture tries to sell us, eventually being an asshole isn’t a very popular thing. That’s what the GOP and RWNJs in general are failing to grasp. Pretty soon all they’ll have left are the reactionaries, the ones who hate the government but still vote (which is the weirdest fucking thing I’ve ever come across, and here in GA there’s a LOT of this shit), which I don’t think is going to be enough to keep them in power beyond small local races or in places like my district, where there is never a democrat to vote for.
You wouldn’t hire a babysitter who hates kids, it would be a disaster. You wouldn’t hire someone who hates to cook as a chef, another disaster. Why on earth so many people have decided to hire elected officials that hate government and expect anything less than a full metal disaster is beyond me. I can’t wrap my head around it. What I do know is that it could literally take a couple of generations to repair the damage being done right now. And I’m not even counting the families, friendships and neighborhoods being ruined by this level of hate and willful ignorance and fear. It’s heartbreaking.
re: #313 Stanley Sea Toujours
re: #323 Nyet
re: #305 CuriousLurker
Oh how the haters gotta hate just to get through a day. How is it they can ignore mass shootings as routine, and be so outraged about imaginary threats? Well it just stuns the rational mind. It’s a little like a child porn network. Mutually supportive, evil as hell. Our home made nightmare.
re: #325 HappyWarrior
“Gender equality means men can now hit women.” Don’t think I saw this one. This guy really is pathetic.
There are around 130 items about Ablow at MMFA.
re: #332 A Mom Anon
In spite of what the current culture tries to sell us, eventually being an asshole isn’t a very popular thing. That’s what the GOP and RWNJs in general are failing to grasp. Pretty soon all they’ll have left are the reactionaries, the ones who hate the government but still vote (which is the weirdest fucking thing I’ve ever come across, and here in GA there’s a LOT of this shit), which I don’t think is going to be enough to keep them in power beyond small local races or in places like my district, where there is never a democrat to vote for.
You wouldn’t hire a babysitter who hates kids, it would be a disaster. You wouldn’t hire someone who hates to cook as a chef, another disaster. Why on earth so many people have decided to hire elected officials that hate government and expect anything less than a full metal disaster is beyond me. I can’t wrap my head around it. What I do know is that it could literally take a couple of generations to repair the damage being done right now. And I’m not even counting the families, friendships and neighborhoods being ruined by this level of hate and willful ignorance and fear. It’s heartbreaking.
This is something i have wondered about for years. They hate the government. They in fact want absurdly lax gun laws because they really seem to believe our government would commit a Holocaust 2.0 on them. What we need are elected officials who respect the need for government. I think we had that before the right got really fucked up. I think Nixon and even Goldwater and Reagan recongized that government has a use. Conservatives want to make people that work for the government out to be some alien entity but in reality government workers range from the person who delivers your mail every day, your child’s teacher, and yes conservatives that man in military uniform you admire.
re: #330 HappyWarrior
Precisely. It takes a lot of nerve to be the adherent to that ideology that defended those very things and practiced them to now accusing liberals of being the ones who practiced those things.
With respect, I don’t think that it’s nerve. I think that part of the lure of extreme conservatism is being able to assure yourself that you know what’s right and good. Therefore, anything that you do in pursuit of those things is also right and good even if those less enlightened than you call it a crime.
re: #334 Nyet
There are around 130 items about Ablow at MMFA.
I know, I read your link. That one just really stood out to me. What kind of mindset sees gender equality and thinks “Man now I get to hit women, sweet.” He’s a truly twisted bastard.
What a story. “The white man in that photo”: http://t.co/wdSRYl5UY7 pic.twitter.com/fp3Vprz7cZ
— Sinéad Gleeson (@sineadgleeson) October 9, 2015
[…]They would receive their medals barefoot, representing the poverty facing people of color. They would wear the famous black gloves, a symbol of the Black Panthers’ cause. But before going up on the podium they realized they only had one pair of black gloves. “Take one each”, Norman suggested. Smith and Carlos took his advice.
But then Norman did something else. “I believe in what you believe. Do you have another one of those for me”? he asked, pointing to the Olympic Project for Human Rights badge on the others’ chests. “That way I can show my support for your cause.” Smith admitted to being astonished, ruminating: “Who is this white Australian guy? He won his silver medal, can’t he just take it and that be enough!”.
Smith responded that he didn’t, also because he would not be denied his badge. There happened to be a white American rower with them, Paul Hoffman, an activist with the Olympic Project for Human Rights. After hearing everything he thought “if a white Australian is going to ask me for an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge, then by God he would have one!” Hoffman didn’t hesitate: “I gave him the only one I had: mine”.
The three went out on the field and got up on the podium: the rest is history, preserved in the power of the photo. “I couldn’t see what was happening,” Norman recounts, “[but] I had known they had gone through with their plans when a voice in the crowd sang the American anthem but then faded to nothing. The stadium went quiet.”
[…]
As John Carlos said, “If we were getting beat up, Peter was facing an entire country and suffering alone.” For years Norman had only one chance to save himself: he was invited to condemn his co-athletes, John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s gesture in exchange for a pardon from the system that ostracized him.
A pardon that would have allowed him to find a stable job through the Australian Olympic Committee and be part of the organization of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Norman never gave in and never condemned the choice of the two Americans.
[…]
re: #337 HappyWarrior
I know, I read your link. That one just really stood out to me. What kind of mindset sees gender equality and thinks “Man now I get to hit women, sweet.” He’s a truly twisted bastard.
Well, he speaks what’s on his mind.
re: #336 Higgs Boson’s Mate
With respect, I don’t think that it’s nerve. I think that part of the lure of extreme conservatism is being able to assure yourself that you know what’s right and good. Therefore, anything that you do in pursuit of those things is also right and good even if those less enlightened than you call it a crime.
Sure, fair enough. Nerve wasn’t the best word. I think honestly deep down many conservatives do feel guilty about those things but instead of acknowledging that there may be flows in their ideology, they place the blame on liberalism which would be funny if it weren’t so sad since conservatives like W.F Buckley, Reagan, and yes even Goldwater were defending segregation laws.
re: #339 Nyet
Well, he speaks what’s on his mind.
True, he doesn’t try to sugarcoat what a prick he is like some of these guys.
re: #338 wrenchwench
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Norman showed a lot of courage too. It’s good to know his story hasn’t been forgotten.
re: #343 Nyet
Basically a RL Cartman. Not so funny, eh.
That’s actually how I see Rush lol. But sure that works oto.
re: #341 HappyWarrior
I mean, in the sense… like those conservatives discussing the use of various facilities by transgender individuals - it’s always framed in voyeuristic terms. I wonder why.
re: #227 CleverToad
Sorry, posted this and had to leave for a long morning of errands, so didn’t have a chance to correct the autocorrect problem at the end of the second paragraph before the edit window closed. (Edit windows are much-appreciated nice things, Fearless Leader.) Back on and trying to catch up with the conversation now.
re: #346 CleverToad
We talked about you the whole time. :)
Muslims prepare for weekend of anti-Islam protests“We’ve never had this many events at once targeting mosques in this kind of national way,” said Heidi Beirich, who tracks hate groups at the Southern Poverty Law Center. […]
“This mix of racist groups, anti-Muslim groups and anti-government groups is basically a recipe for disaster,” Beirich said. […]
Some are scheduled for Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, but many are scheduled for Saturday, when mosques are often filled with children going to religious class. […]
Paul Galloway, executive director of the American Center for Outreach in Tennessee, said law enforcement agencies in Tennessee’s urban areas have been exceedingly cooperative as Muslims prepare for a possible onslaught of anti-Muslim sentiment.
But in the past three months alone, he added, two Tennessee sheriffs have publicly made anti-Muslim comments. In more rural areas where sheriffs are elected, such bigotry “degrades our confidence in law enforcement,” he added. […]
Regarding the emphasized part, this is the emboldened scum of the scum reacting to the green light that right-wing politicians have given them.
re: #345 Nyet
I mean, in the sense… like those conservatives discussing the use of various facilities by transgender individuals - it’s always framed in voyeuristic terms. I wonder why.
I think a lot of them are sexually obsessed. But that’s a good point about trsngedered people. They’re always made out to be “men in wigs and skirts” who want to peep on people going to bathroom. Didn’t Huckabee pretty much say that he would have loved to been able to pretend to be transgendered to spy on the girls?
re: #349 HappyWarrior
I meant Huck among others, yes.
re: #351 Nyet
I meant Huck among others, yes.
Right.Hey so OT but there’s a neat article in Rolling Stone magazine about the Russian biker gang that has shown alot of support to Putin and tehir leader, the so called “Surgeon.”
rollingstone.com
If oyu have time, Sergey. YOu can always read ti later of course.
re: #348 CuriousLurker
If, heaven forbid, any blood is shed, it’s on the hands of the bigots with the biggest mouths: Trump and Carson. Sorry, Geller, your hate is big but your reach is small.
re: #352 HappyWarrior
Yeah, I know enough about these scumbags,
re: #348 CuriousLurker
Regarding the emphasized part, this is the emboldened scum of the scum reacting to the green light that right-wing politicians have given them.
Could be wrong but I think that the administration blundered when it ignored the Bundy Ranch yahoos. Not calling for an Alpha strike, but intimidation would have been fine and some arrests would have been even better. I think that it sent the wrong message to the loonies.
re: #356 Nyet
Yeah, I know enough about these scumbags,
Gotcha. Thought of you in specific when I was reading about it. Scary stuff. I really need to read and learn more. The whole Ukrainian situation is a big mess.
re: #357 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Could be wrong but I think that the administration blundered when it ignored the Bundy Ranch yahoos. Not calling for an Alpha strike, but intimidation would have been fine and some arrests would have been even better. I think that it sent the wrong message to the loonies.
Oh yeah, I agree.
re: #357 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Could be wrong but I think that the administration blundered when it ignored the Bundy Ranch yahoos. Not calling for an Alpha strike, but intimidation would have been fine and some arrests would have been even better. I think that it sent the wrong message to the loonies.
The administration says they will collect.
re: #357 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Could be wrong but I think that the administration blundered when it ignored the Bundy Ranch yahoos. Not calling for an Alpha strike, but intimidation would have been fine and some arrests would have been even better. I think that it sent the wrong message to the loonies.
It’s a tough question because arrests could have given some future McVeigh type an excuse for OKC City 2.0. but at the same time, these guys needed to know that threatening federal officials with guns should not be tolerated.
re: #329 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Fox has done much to make civil discourse obsolete. I doubt at this point that the fringe even reacts to anything that isn’t hyperbole.
They know their damn audience. Paranoids. Bullies. Assholes.
And what scares me the most…they are creating more of them by being this open. It’s an invitation.
re: #361 HappyWarrior
Ignoring them will save you trouble in the short term and lead to more in the long term. The McVeighs of this world are born provoked, anything that the gov does will outrage them anyway. Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, started in 1978 and kept on for 17 more years. The idea is to dissuade those less committed and less insane.
re: #362 ObserverArt
They know their damn audience. Paranoids. Bullies. Assholes.
And what scares me the most…they are creating more of them by being this open. It’s an invitation.
Yep, they’re essentially saying, “Don’t be shy, let your freak flag fly!”
re: #363 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Ignoring them will save you trouble in the short term and lead to more in the long term. The McVeighs of this world are born provoked, anything that the gov does will outrage them anyway. Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, started in 1978 and kept on for 17 more years. The idea is to dissuade those less committed and less insane.
I don’t disagree. Something should have been done though, I definitely agree.
re: #362 ObserverArt
They know their damn audience. Paranoids. Bullies. Assholes.
And what scares me the most…they are creating more of them by being this open. It’s an invitation.
The TANSTAAFL aspect of social media and the internet is that the RWNJs can reinforce and goad each other in large numbers. In the past your insanity was local and usually private. Now you can find loads of people who share your feelings and interests - no matter what they are.
re: #348 CuriousLurker
Regarding the emphasized part, this is the emboldened scum of the scum reacting to the green light that right-wing politicians have given them.
And sadly, the town I live in is mentioned in that report. This is a small but vocal group and they are not gaining much traction and are getting push back from the majority of the town.
Idaho Town Divided By Fears Over Refugees, ‘Sharia Law’
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re: #366 Higgs Boson’s Mate
The TANSTAAFL aspect of social media and the internet is that the RWNJs can reinforce and goad each other in large numbers. In the past your insanity was local and usually private. Now you can find loads of people who share your feelings and interests - no matter what they are.
Agreed 1000%…or more! On the ‘net there is a nut for everything.
re: #361 HappyWarrior
It’s a tough question because arrests could have given some future McVeigh type an excuse for OKC City 2.0. but at the same time, these guys needed to know that threatening federal officials with guns should not be tolerated.
Don’t leave it till the next administration. It needs care, but it needs a solution.
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