Ben Carson Blames the Media for the Outrage Over His Holocaust Statements

Of course he does
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If you’ve paid attention to right wing politics at all, you know that Republican politicians never, ever back down from a batshit crazy statement. This would make them look weak to the nuts they’re trying to appeal to, so they stick to their delusional guns no matter how many people express outrage and no matter how many times their craziness is debunked.

Ben Carson is staying true to this Republican axiom today, refusing to budge an inch from his ahistorical, counter-factual, highly offensive statements about the Holocaust.

And of course, blaming the media. For people who constantly tout the vital importance of self-responsibility, Republicans are remarkably unwilling to take responsibility for the consequences of their own actions.

Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, Carson defended his assertion that if more people had been armed leading up to and during World War II, Adolf Hitler may not have been able to carry out the mass murder of Jews in Europe on such a large scale.

“It’s not hyperbole at all,” Carson said, appearing Sunday on CBS’s Face The Nation. “Whether it’s on our doorstep or whether it’s 50 years away, it’s still a concern and it’s something that we must guard against. That’s one of the real purposes of having a constitution. I think the founders were really quite insightful into looking at possibilities and understanding what has happened in other places and trying to put together something that would prevent that from happening here.”

“I’m telling you there is a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first.”

[…]

“There are a lot of people in the media who would take anything you say and try and make it into hyperbole and try to make it into controversy,” Carson said. “But the fact of the matter is when you talk to average American citizens, they know exactly what I’m talking about.”

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:07:34pm
But the fact of the matter is when you talk to average American citizens, they know exactly what I’m talking about.”

Ben Carson assesses the average American as just as ignorant as he is.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:13:27pm

Don’t bring a gun to a tank, heavy artillery & aircraft fight.

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:13:41pm

Ben Carson SHUTS DOWN hostile interviewer!

Running that through the wingnut-to-normal translator:
“Grown interviewer flabbergasted as Ben Carson insists on childish fantasy.”

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Skip Intro  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:16:15pm

re: #1 jaunte

Ben Carson assesses the average American as just as ignorant as he is.

He’s right.

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CriticalDragon1177  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:16:24pm

Hey Ben, could the Dinosaurs have shot down that asteroid if they had guns? Bet it would have thought twice about crashing into the Earth.*

Image via Jade Helm Commander

*Not entirely joking. I almost wouldn’t be surprised if some NRA gun nut suggested this.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:17:26pm

If I were a dictator I’d let them keep their guns…

I’d just take their food, clean water, homea, jobs, etc.

How good an aim could a sick homeless person possibly have?

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Skip Intro  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:17:38pm

re: #5 CriticalDragon1177

If dinosaurs had guns the asteroids would have attacked a gun free planet instead.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:18:32pm

They don’t want a Commander-in-chief, they want a Bully-in-chief.

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CriticalDragon1177  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:18:48pm

re: #7 Skip Intro

LOL!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:19:15pm
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palomino  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:21:16pm

What an obvious load of bullshit.

Germany had only 500,000 Jews in 1933. That’s less than 1% of the total German population at the time. Not nearly enough people to prevent the coming horror, or take on the unprecedented Nazi war machine, even if they’d all been equipped with light arms.

His mind reading of the dead founders leaves a lot to be desired. The founding fathers, as brilliant as some of them were, really weren’t focused on the arming of ethnic minorities to avoid persecution.

“But the fact of the matter is when you talk to average American citizens, they know exactly what I’m talking about.”

This anecdotal crap is pretty weak for an alleged scientist. The people HE talks to at far right wing gatherings agree with him? Quelle surprise! And since for him those are the only people who count, they are “average” American citizens. Except that the Dr. forgets that public opinion polls tend to give a slightly more accurate picture of the landscape than, “I talked to some guys at the Iowa State Fair.” And of course the polls show that most Americans don’t really know “exactly” what he’s talking about. Very few Americans see gun ownership as necessary to prevent a totalitarian dictatorship. And clear majorities want expanded background checks, closing of gun show loopholes, etc.

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:22:00pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

“Deja Grift”

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:22:21pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

If there’s a rabid market, sell them something.

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:22:57pm

OK, tell me, is Carson actually that dumb, or is he playing for the crowd?

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Charles Johnson  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:24:35pm

re: #14 Nyet

OK, tell me, is Carson actually that dumb, or is he playing for the crowd?

I think he really is that dumb. He’s been pretty consistent with the idiocy for a lot of years.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:24:52pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:25:23pm

re: #1 jaunte

Ben Carson assesses the average American as just as ignorant as he is.

That would be the case if you’re talking about the residents of Dubfuckistan:

Ben Carson’s Demographic in red

His Dunning-Kreuger score on this issue is off-the-charts here.

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:26:30pm

re: #14 Nyet

I think he really believes the idea that gun ownership will protect Americans from government overreach AND he’s playing for the crowd.

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Skip Intro  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:27:21pm

Gun ownership certainly protects the police from unarmed black kids.

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:28:49pm
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A Mom Anon  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:29:27pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Yeah, she’s still, STILL PEOPLE, got secrets under lock and key. Because she’s so full of, um virtue, she held onto all these secrets until now because? Let’s guess kids, shall we?

God this is pathetic shit. I cringe to this day when I hear stupid blow job in the Oval Office jokes. Let. It. Go. For Fuck’s Sake. You’d think this crack team of journalists (oh how I laugh) would remember that Bill Clinton left office with some of the highest approval ratings ever, in spite of their constant bullshit 30 yrs ago. And it’s interesting they’re on about this today, it’s the Clinton’s 40th wedding anniversary. Delightful.

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blueraven  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:30:59pm

re: #14 Nyet

OK, tell me, is Carson actually that dumb, or is he playing for the crowd?

I think he being advised by Glen Beck.
He seems to be very easily influenced by the craziest of the crazy.

Seriously. I don’t believe these are his original thoughts, but he has adopted them as fact. I don’t believe he is a deep thinker at all. Not much originality, but plenty of conspiracy minded talking points.

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Skip Intro  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:32:39pm

Pretty soon now Ben is going to have to ask Rick Perry if he can borrow his “smart” glasses.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:33:59pm

This is how crazy Ben Carson really is: Ben Carson’s Love Affair With a “Nutjob” Conspiracy Theorist.

He’s a huge fan of extreme right wing crackpot Cleon Skousen.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:34:05pm

re: #14 Nyet

OK, tell me, is Carson actually that dumb, or is he playing for the crowd?

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:34:17pm

re: #18 jaunte

I think he really believes the idea that gun ownership will protect Americans from government overreach AND he’s playing for the crowd.

I say that because of his craven tactical retreat to “well, it COULD happen in fifty years.”

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:36:04pm

The idea that the 2nd amdt. is there to protect you from the govt. is idiotic.

Not because the govt. will easily overwhelm you, but because the idea of a law permitting a group of civilians deciding for themselves that the govt. is no longer legitimate and taking arms against it is internally incoherent. This hypothesis does not specify on what grounds these people so decide, who decides that they’re actually correct and not mistaken, and what happens when there are several such groups with contradictory opinions.

Now, I’m not saying here that a situation of a people rising up against a truly tyrannical govt may never happen, only that the 2nd amdt. doesn’t have anything to do with it.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:38:12pm

re: #22 blueraven

I think he being advised by Glen Beck.

I believe his campaign manager is Armstrong Williams. Williams had a little issue back in the day when he was paid just a but under $250,000 to promote “NO Child Left Behind” on his syndicated shows.

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ObserverArt  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:39:05pm

re: #14 Nyet

OK, tell me, is Carson actually that dumb, or is he playing for the crowd?

It’s pure synergy.

Carson is dumb and he plays to a dumb crowd.

It’s why he is doing so well. And a bit of that same synergy works for Trump and Fiorina too. They just play dumb.

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:39:37pm

It’s like saying that the reason soldiers have guns is to help them resist possible criminal orders from their superiors.

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:39:41pm

re: #27 Nyet

This hypothesis does not specify on what grounds these people so decide, who decides that they’re actually correct and not mistaken, and what happens when there are several such groups with contradictory opinions.

And up pops an example from Twitter. The “wrong” people in office will be overthrown by the “right” people.

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:41:13pm

re: #31 jaunte

And Ben Carson gets to decide who the wrong people are.

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ObserverArt  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:42:42pm

re: #30 Nyet

It’s like saying that the reason soldiers have guns is to help them resist possible criminal orders from their superiors.

You’re starting to get this American gun mindset down pretty good.

You just need to change your hypothetical to fact. Take out the word “like” and you’d be real close to that fact.

/

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blueraven  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:43:14pm

re: #28 Eric The Fruit Bat

I believe his campaign manager is Armstrong Williams. Williams had a little issue back in the day when he was paid just a but under $250,000 to promote “NO Child Left Behind” on his syndicated shows.

I was being (half) sarcastic about Beck as adviser.

He does follow the Beck School of Crazy though. Beck is a huge promoter of Skousen as well. I bet he has all of Glenn Beck’s books memorized.

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b.d.  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:43:24pm

re: #31 jaunte

And up pops an example from Twitter. The “wrong” people in office will be overthrown by the “right” people.

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THE WRONG PEOPLE, LIKE JANET RENO

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b.d.  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:44:13pm

I have recently learned that you can be a dumbass and still be a brain surgeon.

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:44:21pm

re: #35 b.d.

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:45:58pm
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CriticalDragon1177  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:47:12pm

re: #11 palomino

The numbers alone wouldn’t even be on their side, and that’s even if you ignore the highly trained German military with its aircraft and tanks. Ben Carson is definitely living in a fantasy world.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:47:45pm

re: #38 jaunte

For that last statement I hope twitter gives her a TOS violation.

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Ace-o-aces  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:48:06pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

I think he really is that dumb. He’s been pretty consistent with the idiocy for a lot of years.

Old saying in med school. “If you want to hide $100 from a surgeon, put it in a textbook”.

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:48:45pm

re: #40 PhillyPretzel

Twitter needs a wingnut font.

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CriticalDragon1177  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:51:15pm

re: #16 The Vicious Babushka

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:52:20pm

re: #40 PhillyPretzel

For that last statement I hope twitter gives her a TOS violation.

It’s in quotes. Meaning she is sarcastically paraphrasing the gunfucker POV.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:52:49pm
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nines09  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:53:50pm

Ben Carson. History Teacher for the University Of Total Made Up Shit, Dumbfuck Campus. People like Ben Carson have always been there. The scary part is now they are considered a viable candidate to be POTUS.

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:55:29pm

re: #45 goddamnedfrank

The price is in pounds, ergo:

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CriticalDragon1177  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:55:29pm

re: #45 goddamnedfrank

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stpaulbear  Oct 11, 2015 • 12:58:07pm

re: #46 nines09

Ben Carson. History Teacher for the University Of Total Made Up Shit, Dumbfuck Campus. People like Ben Carson have always been there. The scary part is now they are considered a viable candidate to be POTUS.

Viable only with the republican party. It’s an important distinction.

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ObserverArt  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:00:35pm

You know, it just hit me. I’ve had this thought about Doctor Ben Carson and how a lot of people kept saying he was crazy. It kept reminding me of something, but what? I remember now. Big Chuck & Little John had a late night movie TV show on Cleveland TV back in the 70s. I just checked YouTube, sure enough…Cleveland represents!

It addresses Doctor Ben.
It has a favorite subject matter loved by many LGFers.
It’s Cleveland…where Doctor Ben and the Gang will be going next year…maybe.
It’s based on 60s TV…The Real Ben Carson may have watched it.

big chuck and little john .ben crazy ..cat scan

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Shiplord Kirel  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:01:35pm

It was even LEGAL to kill civilians who resisted with guns.

Franc Tireurs

After World War II, during the Hostages Trial (United States v. Wilhelm List, et al., 11 Tr. of War Crim. Bef. Nuremberg Mil. Trib. 1248 (1948)), the seventh of the Nuremberg Trials, the tribunal found that, on the question of partisans, according to the then-current laws of war (the Hague Convention No. IV from 1907), the partisan fighters in southeast Europe could not be considered lawful belligerents under Article 1 of said convention. In relation to Wilhelm List, the tribunal stated:

We are obliged to hold that such guerrillas were francs tireurs who, upon capture, could be subjected to the death penalty. Consequently, no criminal responsibility attaches to the defendant List because of the execution of captured partisans

The post-war Geneva Convention established new protocols; according to Article 4 of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949, francs-tireurs are entitled to prisoner-of-war status provided that they are commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates, have a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance, carry arms openly, and conduct their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.

Btw, it seems very unlikely that ammosexual “resistance fighters” would meet the last set of standards.

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:03:26pm

re: #51 Shiplord Kirel

“Btw, it seems very unlikely that ammosexual “resistance fighters” would meet the last set of standards.”

… which, I suppose, describes what the 2nd amdt. calls a militia.

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:03:57pm

re: #45 goddamnedfrank

The Chinese and Indian makeup sets are here, but I don’t see one for the African:
karneval-megastore.de

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EmmaAnne  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:06:33pm

I just checked out Kelsey Grammar on wikipedia. He is on his fourth wife, who is a pretty blond who is 25 years younger than he is.

So values!
Such Christian!
WoW!!

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nines09  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:07:03pm

re: #49 stpaulbear

Viable only with the republican party. It’s an important distinction.

And that is a large chunk.

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:08:31pm
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ObserverArt  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:08:45pm

Since I never thought to take Dr. Ben as a legit candidate, I admit I don’t know all that much about him. So, I’m learning. Just saw this at his Wiki entry. This I did not know.

Republican (1981-99; 2014-present)
Democratic Before 1981
Independent (1999-2014)[1]

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CuriousLurker  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:09:27pm

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Skip Intro  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:10:07pm

Basic Gun Violence Research Is Seriously Underfunded

Amid the bloodbaths of 21st-century America, you might think that there would be a lot of research into the causes of gun violence, and which policies work best against it.

You would be wrong.

Gun interests, wary of any possible limits on weaponry, have successfully lobbied for limitations on government research and funding, and private sources have not filled the breach. So funding for basic gun violence research and data collection remains minuscule — the annual sum total for all gun violence research projects appears to be well under $5 million. A grant for a single study in areas like autism, cancer or HIV can be more than twice that much.

There are public health students who want to better understand rising gun-related suicide rates, recent explosions in firearm murders in many U.S. cities, and mass murders like the one this month at an Oregon community college, where a lone gunman killed nine people.

But many young researchers are staying away from the field. Some believe there’s little hope Congress will do anything substantive to reduce gun violence, regardless of what scientists find. And the work is stressful — many who study gun violence report receiving angry emails and death threats from believers in unrestricted gun ownership.

Anybody want to make a guess why? Here’s a hint.

The NRA and insane gun humpers.

huffingtonpost.com

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ObserverArt  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:10:35pm

re: #58 CuriousLurker

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He has the mouth.

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:10:40pm

re: #58 CuriousLurker

And the Beatles wrote “Taxman.”

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CuriousLurker  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:14:35pm

re: #60 ObserverArt

re: #61 jaunte

I can’t quite wrap my head around him and D_F being on the same team…

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thecommodore  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:15:49pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

I think he really is that dumb. He’s been pretty consistent with the idiocy for a lot of years.

He knows who butters his bread, however.

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:16:14pm

re: #62 CuriousLurker

I would bet that for Tyler, the issue is purely money.

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EmmaAnne  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:16:49pm

re: #17 Eric The Fruit Bat

That would be the case if you’re talking about the residents of Dubfuckistan:

[Embedded content]

His Dunning-Kreuger score on this issue is off-the-charts here.

Colorado would like to raise a point of order.

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:19:06pm

Alice Cooper is a devout Christian. After that, anything.

;)

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ObserverArt  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:19:45pm

re: #66 Nyet

Alice Cooper is a devout Christian. After that, anything.

;)

It’s all an act.

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CuriousLurker  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:22:03pm

re: #66 Nyet

Alice Cooper is a devout Christian. After that, anything.

;)

Okay, now my head is in danger of exploding. //

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:22:07pm
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thecommodore  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:22:43pm

re: #50 ObserverArt

You know, it just hit me. I’ve had this thought about Doctor Ben Carson and how a lot of people kept saying he was crazy. It kept reminding me of something, but what? I remember now. Big Chuck & Little John had a late night movie TV show on Cleveland TV back in the 70s. I just checked YouTube, sure enough…Cleveland represents!

It addresses Doctor Ben.
It has a favorite subject matter loved by many LGFers.
It’s Cleveland…where Doctor Ben and the Gang will be going next year…maybe.
It’s based on 60s TV…The Real Ben Carson may have watched it.

[Embedded content]

Native Clevelander here, and I remember this show, and this sketch very well!

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b.d.  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:23:31pm
Why Was Steven Tyler at the GOP Debate Last Night? PEOPLE Found Out

people.com

Now it looks like Tyler is dipping his toe back into politics by attending Thursday’s debate in Cleveland, reportedly as a guest of – you guessed it – Donald Trump, according to the Washington Post.

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ObserverArt  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:26:39pm

re: #70 thecommodore

Native Clevelander here, and I remember this show, and this sketch very well!

Cool. I grew up on Cleveland TV.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:26:51pm
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CuriousLurker  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:28:21pm

re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Most of them seemed to fall in #FAILboat category. Does my heart good. ;-)

It’s my sincerest wish that that asshole Ritzheimer feels like this right about now:

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Charles Johnson  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:29:46pm

It’s pretty clear that Chuck has a Twitter account he’s using to see what people are saying about him.

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ObserverArt  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:30:08pm

re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth

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How have you been feeling Sleuth. Has the pain in the arm subsided a bit?

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:30:33pm

Bonus points for Twitter bio that says “a mom first.”

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CuriousLurker  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:32:24pm

Just in case anyone ever needs it:

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:32:46pm

re: #77 goddamnedfrank

Edited: wrong tweet.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:37:00pm

re: #76 ObserverArt

How have you been feeling Sleuth. Has the pain in the arm subsided a bit?

pain is still there, but I’m managing it with Aleeve now instead of the horrible hydrocodone..
We buried my stepson’s ashes this afternoon. The short hike up to the family cemetery kinda sapped any energy I may have had. I wore the sling for that and now my shoulder aches (first time I’ve worn the sling since Tuesday).
Baby steps…

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:37:50pm

re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth

I hope you feel better soon.

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ObserverArt  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:38:04pm

re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth

pain is still there, but I’m managing it with Aleeve now instead of the horrible hydrocodone..
We buried my stepson’s ashes this afternoon. The short hike up to the family cemetery kinda sapped any energy I may have had. I wore the sling for that and now my shoulder aches (first time I’ve worn the sling since Tuesday).
Baby steps…

Hang in there!

; )

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CuriousLurker  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:39:27pm

re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth

re: #81 PhillyPretzel

I hope you feel better soon.

Ditto.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:41:15pm

The “Guns & Ammo” cover girl is accusing the gun control advocate of promoting “gun porn”

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Ace-o-aces  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:42:44pm

re: #77 goddamnedfrank

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:43:40pm

heh

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:47:55pm

re: #78 CuriousLurker

I was 0_o for a few secs upon seeing “Hijra” there…

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:48:19pm

OT: I bought one of those weather watching gadgets. Right now it says there is a storm coming into Philly. If you look outside it is bright and sunny. I re-read the instructions and it says that the unit has to go through its learning mode before any forecast is accurate.

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Varek Raith  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:49:04pm

re: #88 PhillyPretzel

OT: I bought one of those weather watching gadgets. Right now it says there is a storm coming into Philly. If you look outside it is bright and sunny. I re-read the instructions and it says that the unit has to go through its learning mode before any forecast is accurate.

Skynet.

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Shiplord Kirel  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:49:18pm

Both the NOAA Commissioned Corps and the Civil Air Patrol owe their status as uniformed services to franc tireur policy:

To avoid the dangers that Coast Survey personnel had faced during the Civil War of being executed as spies if captured by the enemy, the Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps was established on May 22, 1917, giving Coast and Geodetic Survey officers a commissioned status so that under the laws of war, they could not be executed as spies if they were captured while serving as surveyors on a battlefield.

The Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps became NOAA in 1970.

As for the Civil Air Patrol, this was originally made up of civilians who volunteered to fly their own planes on anti-submarine patrol early in World War II. Reconnaissance on behalf of a military force in wartime is in fact spying if conducted by a civilian and such spies are subject to summary execution. The chance of capture was very remote, but uniforms and insignia were issued just in case.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:51:25pm

re: #89 Varek Raith

Acu-Rite is the brand. It says it has to go through its 14 day “learning mode.”

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Varek Raith  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:57:31pm

re: #91 PhillyPretzel

Acu-Rite is the brand. It says it has to go through its 14 day “learning mode.”

Gadgets + Learning Mode = Concern.
/

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ObserverArt  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:57:55pm

Heh. I’ve admitted I am a Cleveland Browns fan. Today was a good day. They beat the Baltimore Ex-Browns, those nasty Ravens 33-30 in overtime. In Baltimore. Rare indeed.
And the real hero of the game was their tight end who made this catch…

Browns TE Gary Barnidge Incredibly Catches Ball Between the Legs for TD

: ) Big Smile.

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Jenner7  Oct 11, 2015 • 1:58:54pm

re: #93 ObserverArt

Ugh, the Ravens. The Steelers just can’t seem to beat them.

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CuriousLurker  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:06:47pm

re: #87 Nyet

I was 0_o for a few secs upon seeing “Hijra” there…

Heh, me too.

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WhatEVs  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:10:54pm

re: #64 jaunte

I would bet that for Tyler, the issue is purely money.

Same for Caitlyn Jenner. Supports GOP, I’m sure, solely for the money. She supports people who’d just as soon put her in prison or want her dead.

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Joe Bacon  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:11:59pm

re: #50 ObserverArt

You know, it just hit me. I’ve had this thought about Doctor Ben Carson and how a lot of people kept saying he was crazy. It kept reminding me of something, but what? I remember now. Big Chuck & Little John had a late night movie TV show on Cleveland TV back in the 70s. I just checked YouTube, sure enough…Cleveland represents!

It addresses Doctor Ben.
It has a favorite subject matter loved by many LGFers.
It’s Cleveland…where Doctor Ben and the Gang will be going next year…maybe.
It’s based on 60s TV…The Real Ben Carson may have watched it.

[Embedded content]

That brings back memories of SuperHost on WUAB 43. Dad would be glued to the set on Saturday Afternoons watching him. Mom and I just looked at each other as Dad would laugh himself sick over that show!

Video

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meteor  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:13:41pm

re: #7 Skip Intro

If dinosaurs had guns the asteroids would have attacked a gun free planet instead.

That was on Doctor Who a couple years ago.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:16:03pm

re: #84 The Vicious Babushka

The “Guns & Ammo” cover girl is accusing the gun control advocate of promoting “gun porn”

[Embedded content]

During a bout of insomnia I flicked past Fox News at about 3AM. They showed an infomercial for a beet-based miracle cure featuring…..none other than DL.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:18:10pm

Found it.

ispot.tv

Times must be hard on the RWNJ Ranch.

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:21:09pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:21:32pm

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
And yet wingnuts keep complaining Obama “does nothing” against ISIS
Make up ur fucking minds.

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CuriousLurker  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:28:11pm

re: #101 Varek Raith

Watching the video. It’s really sad actually how fearful people are, how their minds have been poisoned. Depressing.

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Belafon  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:28:30pm

re: #104 The Vicious Babushka

We’re also not bombing Iran.

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Varek Raith  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:31:16pm

re: #105 CuriousLurker

Watching the video. It’s really sad actually how fearful people are, how their minds have been poisoned. Depressing.

For some odd reason, I have confidence it will slowly change for the better.

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:42:26pm
Leader of Christian group adjusts incorrect doomsday prediction: ‘Soon’
Chris McCann of the eBible fellowship admits it was ‘surprising’ the world did not end on 7 October but says they will ‘keep studying the Bible’ for clues

theguardian.com

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:43:24pm

re: #108 Nyet
He needs a clue, alright:

McCann originally told the Guardian that by Thursday the world would be “gone forever: annihilated”. McCann based his claim on an earlier prediction by Christian radio host Harold Camping, who said the world would end on 21 May 2011. Camping’s forecast also turned out to be incorrect.

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CuriousLurker  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:43:50pm

re: #107 Varek Raith

For some odd reason, I have confidence it will slowly change for the better.

Muslims REALLY need to get out more and interact with people. When we do, when people have a chance to talk to us & get to know us, the hostility & fear begins to dissipate and they start to understand that we’re really no different than them.

To be perfectly honest, that’s part if why I’m here—why I’ve been here pretty much every day for the past 5½ years—everyone gets to know me because no one can consistently fake their personality for years on end without tripping up.

Once they get to know me (or Dr Lizardo, or any other Muslim), even if they don’t like me on a personal level they at least understand that I’m not some huge threat they need to fear & hate, so next time they hear “Muslim” on TV or wherever they have some terms of reference, some context apart from the poisonous shit sandwich they get fed by people like Geller & Spencer et al.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:46:25pm

So, MrBWS lost his Kindle on Thursday.
He looked all through his work truck and his pickup truck, drove back to his apartment to see if it was there.
No Kindle.
So, Thursday night I call Amazon, explain what happened, they deactivated the thing and I bought a replacement (via the LGF associate button). It was delivered Saturday.
He’s back at his apartment now and, you guessed it, there was the “lost” Kindle sitting there, smirking at him.
Fortunately, it can be reactivated.

sigh….

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:49:04pm

re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth

That reminds me of my dad. He misplaced his sunglass flip-up so I ordered him a new set and half an hour later he called me back saying he found them. He had two one in the house and one in the car. :)

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KGxvi  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:52:04pm

re: #5 CriticalDragon1177

The dinosaurs needed a dinosaur Ben Afflak and a dinosaur Bruce Willis to stop the asteroid. Dinosaur Steve Bushimi optional

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ObserverArt  Oct 11, 2015 • 2:54:44pm

re: #101 Varek Raith

Lonely anti-Muslim protester greeted lovingly with hugs and invitation to learn about Islam — and she does

Holy crap. That’s in Dublin…a northern suburb of Columbus. And that does appear to be one of our typical local bigots.

Good job by the “greeters.”

By the way, I had heard nothing about any organized protest in this area. So glad there really wasn’t. But, like everywhere, we have our nuts. We also have a pretty large Muslim population here in Columbus too. Always have.

Take that protest crap elsewhere.

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CuriousLurker  Oct 11, 2015 • 3:04:36pm
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Bubblehead II  Oct 11, 2015 • 3:05:07pm

re: #114 ObserverArt

Holy crap. That’s in Dublin…a northern suburb of Columbus. And that does appear to be one of our typical local bigots.

Good job by the “greeters.”

By the way, I had heard nothing about any organized protest in this area. So glad there really wasn’t. But, like everywhere, we have our nuts. We also have a pretty large Muslim population here in Columbus too. Always have.

Take that protest crap elsewhere.

Yeah, it’s starting up here in Twin Falls. Hopefully we can nip this shit it in the bud.

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gocart mozart  Oct 11, 2015 • 3:17:35pm
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stpaulbear  Oct 11, 2015 • 3:18:08pm

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh

I had the same experience. I wish I would have done it years earlier. It took a while to come to grips with it myself. I wish someone would have told me back then that it’s OK.

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team_fukit  Oct 11, 2015 • 3:24:47pm

I’m late to the thread but my theory about Dr. Ben Carson’s Holocaust comments and response to the ADL is that all-around he is Jew-baiting.

He said on The View, “I purposely said that because I knew the left wing would go crazy.” It’s one of those -let’s make liberals heads explode- things. And everyone knows American Jews have been an integral part of the American Left. Now he’s blaming the Media, seems dog-whistly.

I predict that once the new conflict in Israel is fully flared up, he’ll be talking about how Democrats are anti-semitic because they don’t unilaterally support Israel or how Jewish Democrats are self-hating.

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allegro  Oct 11, 2015 • 3:37:37pm

re: #120 team_fukit

I’m late to the thread but my theory about Dr. Ben Carson’s Holocaust comments and response to the ADL is that all-around he is Jew-baiting.

He said on The View, “I purposely said that because I knew the left wing would go crazy.” It’s one of those -let’s make liberals heads explode- things. And everyone knows American Jews have been an integral part of the American Left. Now he’s blaming the Media, seems dog-whistly.

I predict that once the new conflict in Israel is fully flared up, he’ll be talking about how Democrats are anti-semitic because they don’t unilaterally support Israel or how Jewish Democrats are self-hating.

Every time he opens his mouth he proves how presidential he isn’t. This is junior high level, if that, claiming he said a thing just to piss another group off - a group he runs for an office to lead. Dumb is not an adequate descriptor.

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Lidane  Oct 11, 2015 • 3:39:35pm

re: #74 CuriousLurker

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thedopefishlives  Oct 11, 2015 • 3:41:34pm

Evening, gentle Lizardim.

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CleverToad  Oct 11, 2015 • 3:50:54pm

This just showed up in my Facebook feed, from the website Laughing Squid by way of one of my many blithely crazy friends. He looks cosy:

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 11, 2015 • 3:51:56pm

re: #85 Ace-o-aces

[Embedded content]

I got a dollar says she also thinks “Zero Tolerance” is stupid, yet playing with a toy gun is grounds for summary execution.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 11, 2015 • 3:53:25pm

These people are so terminally stupid I just can’t even.
Here is an article claiming HURR HURR TEH JUICE COULD HAVE LIKE SO TOTALLY STOPPED TEH HOLOCAUST WITH SOM GUNZ!!!!! and as “Proof” they describe…

The Warsaw Ghetto.

*all the face palms*

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 11, 2015 • 3:56:12pm

Home from my ride, scrounging in the fridge for an ale, a lager, a porter, even an IPA.

No joy. Lots of everything else, though.

If you haven’t got bottles I feel bad for you, son.
I got 99 bottles and a beer ain’t one.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 11, 2015 • 3:57:24pm

re: #120 team_fukit

I’m late to the thread but my theory about Dr. Ben Carson’s Holocaust comments and response to the ADL is that all-around he is Jew-baiting.

He said on The View, “I purposely said that because I knew the left wing would go crazy.” It’s one of those -let’s make liberals heads explode- things. And everyone knows American Jews have been an integral part of the American Left. Now he’s blaming the Media, seems dog-whistly.

I predict that once the new conflict in Israel is fully flared up, he’ll be talking about how Democrats are anti-semitic because they don’t unilaterally support Israel or how Jewish Democrats are self-hating.

So, he’s not just an ahistorical moron, he’s also a dick.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 11, 2015 • 4:01:23pm

re: #126 The Vicious Babushka

As far back as I can remember, back to JBS days, conservatives were industriously making shit up and then getting angry about it. Now, they’re still industriously making shit up and they’re even more angry because the rest of us don’t get angry about it.

There’s no way that they can come down on their own now. It will take something tragic and/or cataclysmic to change them at all.

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KGxvi  Oct 11, 2015 • 4:02:56pm

re: #128 Blind Frog Belly White

He’s Cleek’s Law personified?

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2015 • 4:05:37pm
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CuriousLurker  Oct 11, 2015 • 4:09:26pm

I’m gonna call it a night, but before I go here’s the hatefest that POS skinhead Ritzheimer stirred up. Note from the photos that they’re also dragging Israel into it, which will provide some great “proof” for anti-Israel terrorist groups. You know what pisses me off the most though? The look of innocent confusion on the face of the little blonde-haired girl in the first photo: Fights Erupt at Phoenix Mosque as People Attack and Defend Islam

*SIGH* Some humans really suck.

G’nite, lizards.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 11, 2015 • 4:15:11pm

re: #132 CuriousLurker

I’m gonna call it a night, but before I go here’s the hatefest that POS skinhead Ritzheimer stirred up. Note from the photos that they’re also dragging Israel into it, which will provide some great “proof” for anti-Israel terrorist groups. You know what pisses me off the most though? The look of innocent confusion on the face of the little blonde-haired girl in the first photo: Fights Erupt at Phoenix Mosque as People Attack and Defend Islam

*SIGH* Some humans really suck.

G’nite, lizards.

Wow. Those are some extremely sick people.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2015 • 4:16:34pm

OT, but just remembered I have an appointment with my board-certified ophthalmologist on Wednesday (and Mary Jo Pehl is a very funny person)

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Lidane  Oct 11, 2015 • 4:18:48pm

Surprisingly, not an article about the idiots giving money to failed candidates like Paul and Cruz:

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Lancelot Link  Oct 11, 2015 • 4:19:32pm

re: #120 team_fukit

He said on The View, “I purposely said that because I knew the left wing would go crazy.”

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure - Bike Flip

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2015 • 4:21:02pm

re: #135 Lidane

Surprisingly, not an article about the idiots giving money to failed candidates like Paul and Cruz:

Politico: The GOP is throwing away millions of dollars

North American Broadcasters Association: Stop trolling, Politico.

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John Vreeland  Oct 11, 2015 • 4:47:16pm

Gosh, I read all the comments and now I can’t remember what the original post was.

Ben Carson!

I have noted that he tends to talk a lot on subjects that he has not spent much time thinking about. He appears not to have actually thought much about anything, except how some bizarre conspiracy theories carry the ring of truth. It is material that he is also a believing 7th Day Aventist, denying the deep age of the Earth and most everything that science has discovered in the last 200 years (but not the consumable fruits of that knowledge); this point of view requires an absolute aversion to thought.
But he actually gets angry when public reactions suggest that he does not know what he is talking about. I would suggest that Carson is not merely a reluctant thinker. He is actually highly averse to the exercise of thought. Much like his Republican predecessor, Ben Carson pitches from his gut, and when his gut tells him something—whether it is that Saddam Hussein hides WMDs or Jesus rode a dinosaur and wrote the Bible in English, then facts be damned if they do not conform to what he already knows to be true.
Facts…reality…are a tool of the Devil.

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Bird in the Paw  Oct 11, 2015 • 4:56:03pm

re: #92 Varek Raith

Gadgets + Learning Mode = Concern.
/

Hamantichs…

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Bird in the Paw  Oct 11, 2015 • 5:01:06pm

re: #99 Decatur Deb

During a bout of insomnia I flicked past Fox News at about 3AM. They showed an infomercial for a beet-based miracle cure featuring…..none other than DL.

Listen to those testimonials, I’m convinced. Within 30 minutes, the amphetamine-laced beet extract ….

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team_fukit  Oct 11, 2015 • 5:10:51pm

re: #138 John Vreeland

plus, all his “facts” are just 2007 tea party talking points

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 11, 2015 • 5:55:59pm

re: #132 CuriousLurker

I’m gonna call it a night, but before I go here’s the hatefest that POS skinhead Ritzheimer stirred up. Note from the photos that they’re also dragging Israel into it, which will provide some great “proof” for anti-Israel terrorist groups. You know what pisses me off the most though? The look of innocent confusion on the face of the little blonde-haired girl in the first photo: Fights Erupt at Phoenix Mosque as People Attack and Defend Islam

*SIGH* Some humans really suck.

G’nite, lizards.

This caught my eye.

Saxton spent the morning shouting into a megaphone and waving around graphic photos of atrocities committed by terrorists.

“You are promoting a religion of hatred!” he shouted.

Sounds like he’d know.


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