Here’s a very unusual band for our overnight jam thread. With monkeys.
Music video by !!! (Chk, Chk, Chk) performing Bam City
Bleep - http://smarturl.it/asif-bleep
Spotify - http://smarturl.it/chkchkchk-spotify
Google Play - http://smarturl.it/asif-play
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/asif-ituneshttp://vevo.ly/xRHw8v
Haven’t listened to the music content——-I’m just still up cuz I’m jazzed about Hillary’s performance———and I wanted to monitor an Ebay auction…… (Hey, it’s late on the East coast!)
re: #1 KerFuFFler
Haven’t watched the music content——-I’m just still up cuz I’m jazzed about Hillary’s performance. (Hey, it’s late on the East coast!)
It’s T-3525 minutes before Chuck’s time is up on the revised filing. Anyone think he’ll make it without completely screwing the pooch?
re: #2 TedStriker
It’s T-35 minutes before Chuck’s time is up on the revised filing. Anyone think he’ll make it without completely screwing the pooch?
Isn’t screwing the pooch his thaaaang? Oh wait, maybe that was a goat or something….
re: #3 KerFuFFler
Isn’t screwing the pooch his thaaaang? Oh wait, maybe that was a goat or something….
Sheep.
re: #2 TedStriker
It’s T-
3525 minutes before Chuck’s time is up on the revised filing. Anyone think he’ll make it without completely screwing the pooch?
Gah, I’m stoopid…
Coming down to 💩-15.
And you can feel the excitement building in the air from Coast to Coast!
This should make the Judge happy. A 54 page amended complaint that doesn’t address the MTD or the anti-SLAPP motions at all, lowers the amount asked for to either 2 or 20 million dollars (didn’t proofread again?) and throws in a bunch of bullshit (ie the scandal surrounding the outing of Tim Geithner’s brother) that is irrelevant beyond Chuck trying to sell the Judge on “Gawker is full of bad people please punish them.”
Chuck Johnson wants to file an amended complaint vs. Gawker. Good footnote. https://t.co/hyoq5snePE pic.twitter.com/OBXtugXidT
— Adam SteinBOO! (@adamsteinbaugh) October 23, 2015
221. Howard, Trotter, Gawker, and independent content creators Cmcalumna, ChekhovsGum(ItsGonnaPop!) conspired together through Gawkers’ “Securedrop” and “burner accounts” systems to deny Plaintiffs’ their property right to lawsuits for defamation against the anonymous content creators under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
I’m now all out of WTF, this sentence used it all up.
Ah I see that the sheep episode is still in the mix!
re: #8 goddamnedfrank
Scribd sucks on mobile. Anyone reading, please share. I read the first few pages but couldn’t move forward.
Hey, where are all you West Coast lizards? It’s early over there!
Hooray, the emphasis bolding and random capitalization on One million continues!
Well, since 💩’s crack legal team didn’t address Gawker’s motions.
The crack(smoking) legal team merely restated the original lawsuit and reduced the damages requested to a mere $2 million compensatory and $20 million punitive.
I can’t wait to see what the Judge is going to do!
Also, only just in, but facts 13 and 16 appear to say the same thing.
You’ll all be pleased to know that the grammar remains just as good as well.
Oh man, the “See generally, Bill Cosby” footnote survived! It is now number 46.
Yikes.
#BREAKING: Air Force recon measured 894mb pressure in eye of #Patricia, lower than any Pacific hurricane in history. pic.twitter.com/45vAAhLifR
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) October 23, 2015
Plaintiff Johnson repeatedly requested that Defendant Howard publically retract his defamatory statements, but Defendant Johnson refused.
Who needs proofreading? (Page 31 for those playing along.)
re: #20 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Public-Cally!
re: #21 teleskiguy
Public-Cally!
Apparently Upchuck can’t keep straight if he is the plaintiff or the defendant at this point.
NHC says Patricia now has 185 MPH winds and a minimum central pressure of 892 millibars. Lowest pressure ever recorded in eastern Pacific.
— Dennis Mersereau (@wxdam) October 23, 2015
This is a big deal, folks. A million people on the west coast of Mexico are about to get shit slammed. And this kind of weather has never been observed in modern times in the northern hemisphere.
People in and around Puerto Vallarta, batten down the hatches! I send my good karma your way. We’ll see you on the other side.
Oy.
@adamsteinbaugh Is this it? Does Burns think the MTD and anti-SLAPP motions become moot the second he attempts to file an amended complaint?
— g’damnedfrankenstein (@goddamnedfrank) October 23, 2015
Now think it’s more than likely that Burns comes out of all this with an official rebuke and legal sanctions. Then Chuck will sue him pro se in Under-the-Sea district court for professional incompetence but the only lawyer who will represent him will be an adorable but equally out of their depth (HA! Get it? Fuck you that’s funny!) crustacean.
Everything will be totes adorbs until Burns and Johnson decided to settle things with a lethal LARP duel on a stormy mountain top, with James O’Keefe and David Daleiden acting as seconds. That’s when things start to get sexually awkward …
So…anyone else look at how shoddily-argued and retaliatory Chuck’s case is (and how badly Burns is doing) and see the symbol for how the variegated reactionaries he favors view law and justice, yet also encapsulate the varying forms of stupid and malicious embodied in the Benghazi hearings?
What I’m saying is…this is their normal. This is how the world works for them, and how they’d “interpret” law given power.
Question for the lawyerly types: Is this an attempt to reset the proceedings back to day one? SInce the original complaint is amended would Gawker et al. need to resubmit their previous motions?
And, is this all some weird attempt to just get all his claims into the public record, since the judge struck his previous motions?
Sadly, duty calls, and I must go teach young minds. Have fun picking apart the last Burns & Johnson legal document.
Whatever town or village on Mexico’s west coast that is going to bear the brunt of Patricia’s eyewall is going to be completely destroyed tomorrow.
:(
Wow. It looks as if—aside from the ridiculous violation of length restrictions in the first submission—this one is even more amateurish. I keep hoping they’ll reach the limits of the judge’s patience.
re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg
Now that is one nasty bitch of a storm.
Wherever the eyewall makes landfall is going to look just like Waveland and Pass Christian during Katrina this weekend. I worry…
I’ve openly wondered for awhile if “John C. Burns” is little more than an alias for Chuck C. Johnson because it seems like Johnson himself is doing these legal filings with no oversight from an actual lawyer whatsoever. I know we don’t consider Burns an actual lawyer in the first place but he IS licensed to practice law.
I really hope the Judge comes back at Chuck hard this time for the ongoing shenanigans. This shit needs to stop now.
re: #31 teleskiguy
Wherever the eyewall makes landfall is going to look just like Waveland and Pass Christian during Katrina this weekend. I worry…
Yeah, as someone who lives in that area and has seen the fallout from a storm like that…I don’t blame you.
re: #26 FormerDirtDart
Question for the lawyerly types: Is this an attempt to reset the proceedings back to day one? SInce the original complaint is amended would Gawker et al. need to resubmit their previous motions?
And, is this all some weird attempt to just get all his claims into the public record, since the judge struck his previous motions?
Apparently not. Adam says there are separate responses addressing the MTD and anti-SLAPP motions.
Here’s Burns’ oppo to the MTD:
re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeah, as someone who lives in that area and has seen the fallout from a storm like that…I don’t blame you.
You wrote that excellent post about Katrina’s aftermath. It is good stuff, that’s why I mention towns along Highway 90.
Read dragonfire1981’s piece about Hurricane Katrina if you haven’t already.
re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg
I’ve openly wondered for awhile if “John C. Burns” is little more than an alias for Chuck C. Johnson because it seems like Johnson himself is doing these legal filings with no oversight from an actual lawyer whatsoever. I know we don’t consider Burns an actual lawyer in the first place but he IS licensed to practice law.
I really hope the Judge comes back at Chuck hard this time for the ongoing shenanigans. This shit needs to stop now.
Maybe Burns just lets Chuckles use his license—that’s typical of the way these wingnuts operate. I’m reminded of that movie—what was it called—where Jeff Daniels got beaten up in a bar fight and had to let Michael Richards go into court pretending to be him.
re: #23 teleskiguy
I wonder how much of that is going to reach CA
re: #36 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Trial and Error. First time I saw Charlize Theron. (I had no idea she was a Boer until she hosted SNL and started her monologue in Afrikaans.)
Also, remember when the Judge in Chucks case told Burns his motions were shit and to redo them? Well this was part of that order:
As a threshold procedural matter, when leave to file a document is required, the document for which leave is sought must be submitted as an attachment to the motion for leave, and not filed as a separate document.
And guess what? Burns didn’t comply with that. He filed his request for leave to file an amended complaint and the amended complaint itself as two different documents. That should impress the Judge.
And here is the new Opposition to Gawker’s anti-SLAPP motion:
This is one of the most hysterical series of words to ever be set to pleading paper. https://t.co/NepLzxwTS6
— Adam SteinBOO! (@adamsteinbaugh) October 23, 2015
re: #36 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Maybe Burns just lets Chuckles use his license—that’s typical of the way these wingnuts operate. I’m reminded of that movie—what was it called—where Jeff Daniels got beaten up in a bar fight and had to let Michael Richards go into court pretending to be him.
Trial and Error.
re: #43 teleskiguy
Two pages over the limit.
I’m not sure the cover and signature page count towards the limit.
re: #44 goddamnedfrank
I’m not sure the cover and signature page count towards the limit.
If I’m looking at it correctly, the motion is included with the cover and signature. Cutting the motherfucker right down to the bone.
Oppo to motion to dismiss: https://t.co/dmmT2GpCMF To anti-SLAPP: https://t.co/yb4b0F2Rn4 Proposed amend complaint: https://t.co/hyoq5snePE
— Adam SteinBOO! (@adamsteinbaugh) October 23, 2015
Apparently Brian Kilmeade thinks Hillary is responsible for the Benghazi Committee having to spend all this time and money fruitlessly. “Look what you made me do!”, the cry of the wifebeater.
The problem, at its heart, comes from the way the Right approaches things. First, they have their BELIEFS, which are not subject to modification on the basis of empirical evidence. This means that any evidence that contradicts their beliefs must be wrong, or even fraudulent. Second, every person or movement is either WHOLLY Good, or WHOLLY Evil. Look at how they deal with apostates, anyone who breaks with Wingnut Dogma. Put these together, and you have a group of people who BELIEVE Hillary Clinton is evil, and Barack Obama is evil, so Benghazi MUST have something EVIL in it that they did, and all the GOP has to do is keep digging.
It’s really true that all their questions have been answered, but they haven’t gotten the answers that they want, so they BELIEVE that if they keep asking, the RIGHT answers will come out.
It’s not about trying to find out what happened. They already “KNOW” what happened. This is about proving it. And they think that 1) everyone else hates Hillary as much as they do, and 2) if they can just get that ‘gotcha’ moment on tape, they’ll be vindicated. Hence the 11 hours of repetitious testimony, the frustration, the yelling, the incredibly stupid questions - they’re CERTAIN she’s hiding The Secret!
Loved this from Driftglass:
Hillary Clinton: As I recall Sid and I watched secret Planned Parenthood videos, cackled about all the money we we’re gonna make from babies parts and quoted Saul Alinsky back and forth to each to other until we passed out drunk from Commie vodka. Also Hail Hydra!
re: #37 Kragar
I wonder how much of that is going to reach CA
Yeah, I kinda wonder that too. I’ve been thinking for some time that all the wingnut freakazoids that crouch in their hideouts in the mountains east of San Diego, fouling the air with their anti-everything screeching … kinda deserve a lesson in why we band together as societies.
Yeah, yeah, I know. Bad karma and all that. But seriously. Those assholes are Klan, neo-Nazi, militia and all kinds of violent cray-cray. Some mudslides burying their bunkers would not be the worst thing.
Fox News is such a horrible organization. Look what Huey Lewis had to endure.
.@umphreysmcgee @goldlikejoel @ryanstasik @Soundcaresser Next time you see Huey Lewis give him shit for this. https://t.co/Dh8MSOrl3d
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 23, 2015
A gal I’ve known since we were in middle school is currently in Nepal, on vacation, on her own volition. She has a strong idea of the meaning of being a human. :)
So, been catching up on the latest legal antics of the floor-shitter and the GOP’s failed pseudo-inquisition of Hillary Clinton.
It is to laugh.
Here in Europe, a collision between a bus and truck has left 40+ dead. It happened in France.
Some 42 people died in a collision between a bus and truck near Bordeaux in Southern France, an official from the local prefect’s office said on Oct. 23.
Another 5 people were lighly injured, the official said, after the two vehicules clashed and caught fire.
That’s bad.
ETA: more here: uk.news.yahoo.com
re: #53 Dr Lizardo
So, been catching up on the latest legal antics of the floor-shitter and the GOP’s failed pseudo-inquisition of Hillary Clinton.
It is to laugh.
Here in Europe, a collision between a bus and truck has left 40+ dead. It happened in France.
That’s bad.
ETA: more here: uk.news.yahoo.com
When is CCJ going to call for a Congressional investigation on Hillary’s role in this tragedy?
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
When is CCJ going to call for a Congressional investigation on Hillary’s role in this tragedy?
With any luck, the floor-shitting sheep-fucker will soon be enjoying the hospitality of the American prison system; I say that because I’m pretty sure (though not a lawyer) that violating a cease-and-desist order has some fairly serious legal consequences.
So if he’s gonna do that, he’d better do that soon.
re: #55 Dr Lizardo
With any luck, the floor-shitting sheep-fucker will soon be enjoying the hospitality of the American prison system; I say that because I’m pretty sure (though not a lawyer) that violating a cease-and-desist order has some fairly serious legal consequences.
So if he’s gonna do that, he’d better do that soon.
In any case, I suspect that he will soon stop enjoying the hospitality of his mother-in-laws’s house and be enjoying the menu of the local dumpster…
re: #55 Dr Lizardo
With any luck, the floor-shitting sheep-fucker will soon be enjoying the hospitality of the American prison system; I say that because I’m pretty sure (though not a lawyer) that violating a cease-and-desist order has some fairly serious legal consequences.
So if he’s gonna do that, he’d better do that soon.
You better be careful Dr Lizardo! Any and all of your mean-spirited comments about UpChuck may be actionable for liable, you mean motherfucker you!
re: #57 teleskiguy
You better be careful Dr Lizardo! Any and all of your mean-spirited comments about UpChuck may be actionable for liable, you mean motherfucker you!
Heh.
Currently on the road in Oregon heading to a small beach town north of Puerto Vallarta to spend the next month or so celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. I’ve been reading Jeff Masters blog (and the comments) at Wunderground and holy shit. I don’t much understand mb and CDOs and whatever, but they do and they are freaking out over Patty.
PV will be in a world of hurt up against sustained 200mph winds and massive flooding of a direct hit. I just hope everyone down there is taking it seriously, there was a lot of cavalier “stock up on tequila, let’s have a party and watch the show!” on my FB earlier today.
Fingers crossed that she hits smack dab between PV and Manzanillo where the population density is low.
re: #59 ElaineBenis
Yes.
All the karma I have is directed to the craziness that is going on at the central west coast of Mexico. Humans in those places are under a lot of pressure, and I hope for their safety and survival.
re: #61 ElaineBenis
Yep. Snowbirds heading south.
Aha, just wondering if there was not some town in Mexico called “Ore-HON”
re: #59 ElaineBenis
WTPZ45 KNHC 230834
TCDEP5
HURRICANE PATRICIA DISCUSSION NUMBER 14
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL EP202015
400 AM CDT FRI OCT 23 2015
Data from three center fixes by the Hurricane Hunters indicate that the intensity, based on a blend of 700 mb-flight level and SFMR-observed surface winds, is near 175 kt. This makes Patricia the strongest hurricane on record in the National Hurricane Center's area of responsibility (AOR) which includes the Atlantic and the eastern North Pacific basins. The minimum central pressure estimated from the aircraft data, 880 mb, is the lowest ever for our AOR.
It seems incredible that even more strengthening could occur before landfall later today, but recent microwave imagery shows hints of a concentric eyewall developing. If the trend toward an eyewall replacement continues, it would cause the intensity to at least level off later today. The official forecast shows only a little more strengthening before landfall. Given the very mountainous terrain that Patricia should encounter after landfall, the cyclone should weaken even faster over land than predicted by the normal inland decay rate.
re: #65 freetoken
OFFS
I can’t recall this prominent of a purple splotch on these wind charts:
Very dramatic storm, and the central annulus is very pronounced:
Patricia is tracking along the path of the highest oceanic heat content in this part of the world:
re: #70 teleskiguy
That 880mb pressure at sea level is equivalent to the air pressure up at the top of those peaks you like in Colorado.
re: #71 freetoken
Patricia is tracking along the path of the highest oceanic heat content in this part of the world:
Tell us again how global warming is a hoax and lies from the pit of hell…
re: #72 freetoken
That kind of air pressure at sea level is fucked.
#HurricanePatricia is still gaining strength! Sustained winds are now at an incredible 200 MPH. pic.twitter.com/tZxjagaZGB
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) October 23, 2015
The newly refurbished US News & World Report declares in their feed: “Hillary Clinton and Democrats Want to Take Your Guns”.
SEE!! SEE!! SEE!!
However, the actual headline now sez:
It’s True, The Democrats Want To Take Your Guns
Turns out it’s an opinion piece by Mary Cary. As near as I can tell, she thinks guns are a “plague” but is concerned that the current language by the Democrats will give fodder to the NRA to declare that Democrats Want To Take Your Guns.
No, it doesn’t really make sense.
Add Mary Cary to the list of those who make my ass tired.
In Nashville:
Authorities: 1 killed, 3 wounded in Tennessee State shooting https://t.co/IBLyDazFvt pic.twitter.com/tLZiwTOrAH
— WLBT 3 On Your Side (@WLBT) October 23, 2015
One Dead In Shooting At Tennessee State University https://t.co/BEHE4Rt3o0 pic.twitter.com/XWbkCe84Hj
— WTVC NewsChannel 9 (@newschannelnine) October 23, 2015
This will likely feed the fear over migrants:
THE LATEST: POLICE: SWEDISH SCHOOL ATTACK HAD BEEN PLANNED
The latest about the stabbing attack at a school in southern Sweden that police say was motivated by racism. […]
re: #80 freetoken
This will likely feed the fear over migrants:
He was a lone wolf and used an edged weapon…now lets get back to how the Democrats wanna take our guns…
The Guardian has more details:
Sweden school attack: horror as sword attacker kills teacher and pupil
I can imagine what some readers will jump to when seeing “sword”.
But read on:
Sweden has reacted with shock and horror after a teacher and pupil were stabbed to death in a school with a high number of immigrants by a masked man who was reported to have far-right sympathies. The man, who posed with students before starting his killing spree, was shot dead by police.
He was named in Swedish media as 21-year-old Anton Lundin Pettersson.
[…]
The killings took place in a school with a high proportion of immigrants, raising fears the killer’s motives may have been racist. The anti-racist organisation Expo, citing reliable sources, said it knew the identity of the attacker, who “during the past month showed clear sympathies with the extreme right and anti-immigration movements”.
[…]
There has been a spate of apparent arson attacks on refugee accommodation in the past week. Two hours before the attack in Trollhättan, officials announced Sweden was expecting to receive as many as 190,000 refugees this year - twice previous estimates.
Because you really wanted to know this, didn’t you?
Howler Monkeys with Deeper Calls Have Smaller Balls
[…]
The smaller the size of the testes in a howler monkey species, the larger the size of the animal’s hyoid bone, a structure that enables the monkeys to make deep, booming calls — noises on a par with those of a tiger, though howler monkeys are only about the size of cocker spaniels.
[…]
re: #80 freetoken
This will likely feed the fear over migrants:
A conservative, who I used to be friends with and who I thought was smarter than this really said this on Facebook:
WELL, I DON’T SEE ANYONE SAYING WE NEED SWORD CONTROL!!1!
To add to his coolness factor, NdGT used to hang out with babes in slinky costumes:
Dancing With the Stars: Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks Ballroom, Comedy and Football
re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
fucked in the annulus
I see what you did there, and now deserve death.
re: #86 Bird in the Paw
I see what you did there, and now deserve death.
you don’t deserve to die, it just hurts a little bit at first
Will not be invited to give a speech at the Republican National Convention:
Bad Religion’s Frontman Has a New Theory About Evolution and Coexistence
re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth
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200 mph winds for the span of 5-10 minutes, I can handle that. 200 mph winds for hours as a hurricane passes overhead… NOPE.
Morning Lizardim.
WaPo is running with this AFP photo of the alleged assailant in Sweden:
The gun-f*ckers are going even more crazy over this story.
So this is actually a thing==>
So this is real pic.twitter.com/4HHmkM6p5t
— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) October 23, 2015
re: #92 The Vicious Babushka
One year, when 9/11 was on a Sunday, one of my church friends dressed his entire family in “Remember Benghazi” gear. I had to physically restrain myself from punching him.
re: #89 thedopefishlives
200 mph winds for the span of 5-10 minutes, I can handle that. 200 mph winds for hours as a hurricane passes overhead… NOPE.
Morning Lizardim.
I have a friend who lives directly in the path of the hurricane. He’s an expat who retired there and just finished building a new house.
Now that my classes are finished for the day, I’ve spent some time reading the Burns & Johnson briefs.
Are they arguing now that the Gawker is violating the 14th amendment by shielding anonymous commenters from legal action? It’s added almost as an afterthought to the 54-page amended petition.
Also, am I reading this correctly? $20 million in punitive damages and $2 million in compensatory damages for each of three infractions, for a total of $26 million.
Quite a step down from the original $66 million, but still pie in the sky, AFAIK.
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
I have a friend who lives directly in the path of the hurricane. He’s an expat who retired there and just finished building a new house.
Just plain not cool. Prayers and best wishes for those that are about to get plowed under.
I thought they were not to exceed 20 pages?
@DRUDGE Dude, you run that marathon that she did. You’ll be vomiting blood and shitting out your intestines by hour 4.
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) October 23, 2015
re: #98 The Vicious Babushka
MATT DRUDGE :
Hillary health was biggest revelation at hearing. Coughing fit. Slow-speaking, obviously induced by meds. Choose not to believe if you must
So the millions spent and the thousands of hours of testimony and paperwork were worth it all to highlight HIllary’s failing health and incompetence for office…
re: #97 The Vicious Babushka
I thought they were not to exceed 20 pages?
The responses to Gawker’s motions were limited to 20 pp each. There was no limit for the amended petition (but there should have been).
re: #89 thedopefishlives
200 mph winds for the span of 5-10 minutes, I can handle that. 200 mph winds for hours as a hurricane passes overhead… NOPE.
Morning Lizardim.
This is an F3, nearly F4 tornado that has decided to come over to your house and stick around for a few hours.
re: #98 The Vicious Babushka
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Drudge would have had a panic attack before he got out of the car.
Has the dude been seen in public in ten years?
re: #98 The Vicious Babushka
She had to talk slow, look at who she was dealing with FFS. Matt Drudge, blech.
Drama Queen #BenCarson claims he’s ‘in great danger’ because a ‘secular progressive movement’ opposes him https://t.co/sWOvo4QvRZ
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) October 23, 2015
“I’d prefer not to talk about security issues, but I have recognized — and people have been telling me for many, many months — that I’m in great danger because I challenge the secular progressive movement to the very core,” Carson said on WABC radio’s “Rita Cosby Show” on Thursday, BuzzFeed reported. “You know, they see me as an existential threat, but I also believe in the good Lord and we take reasonable precautions.”
Carson said the threats against him are serious, which is why the Secret Service is considering protecting him. He denied Monday that his campaign had requested protection, and that the FBI and Secret Service had approached him about possible protection
re: #92 The Vicious Babushka
So this is actually a thing==>
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OMG, That’s right up there with the Rick Santorum for President Thong!
You think I’m kidding? cafepress.comre: #106 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
OK, Carson is beginning to sound paranoid delusional now.
A paranoid delusional nutbag that gets to pretend to be a victim = Winning combination as GOP “presidential material”.
Statement from @NMDEMS on #NM SOS below. @KOB4 still working to independently confirm resignation. #nmpol pic.twitter.com/PZFvxxpJEs
— Erica Zucco (@ericazucco) October 23, 2015
Duran, 60, is facing 65 criminal charges including embezzlement, fraud, money laundering, identity theft stemming from allegations that she illegally transferred an estimate $13,000 from her campaign account to her personal account. The state attorney says Duran altered her campaign finance reports to cover up the transfers.
The resigning SOS is a Republican.
Stay classy, NYT
On Friday’s @NYTsports page: Mets vs. Cubs, #1908TimesStyle https://t.co/QTnRF6rasE pic.twitter.com/cHbkN1S6JD
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 23, 2015
Oh, I see that the Chuck C. Johnson affidavit of truthiness is still among the 42 exhibits filed last night.
Hillary vs the #BenghaziCommittee #tcot #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/C59krXDKHW
— Witches Ba-BOO!-shka (@viciousbabushka) October 23, 2015
re: #115 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Oh, I see that the Chuck C. Johnson affidavit of truthiness is still among the 42 exhibits filed last night.
Is his attorney working pro bono? Between the frivolous gawker lawsuit and the very really real TRO, floor pooper really is in some serious shit.
Chafee quits race, IMMEDIATELY pivots to Greek drama about wives withholding sex. (Not kidding.) https://t.co/1pDyqKuXfR
— Michael Grunwald (@MikeGrunwald) October 23, 2015
And then another pivot:
Let me share a story from DaNang, Viet Nam. DaNang…
Also not kidding.
re: #110 The Vicious Babushka
Stay classy, NYT
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1. A local sports team headed to a championship series or game are one of the few times a newspaper shouldn’t be classy. It’s much more important to get that sport’s local fanbase fired up and ready for the Big Game(s). If that means dissing a long-suffering other team, so be it. It’s the New York Times, after all, and its good that they remember that.
2. Mocking the Cubs in that fashion is done on a regular basis in Chicago. So the NYT isn’t doing anything that hasn’t been done before.
Floor pooper embedded a URL which links to his login at facebook with his email address already populated:
He really is a fucking idiot
re: #119 wrenchwench
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And then another pivot:
Also not kidding.
I’d prefer a modern remake where Greek wives refuse sex till their husbands blance the national budget.
/Says the Republican.
re: #105 Dr. Matt
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Oh please Ben. Just shut up already about how your bigoted ass is persecuted when you’re the one who wants to persecute people.
Chaffee ran for president? Wait what? Seriously though, he seems like a nice enough guy but not presidential material.
Morning all.
What the hell is up with this Dr. Ben Carson phenomena? I saw a bit on TV today about how he is really hitting it off with a lot of women. The two ladies they talked to said they like his gentleness and soft speaking, etc.
What the hell about what he says with that soft gentle voice?
It’s bad enough people consider Trump…but Carson. We have problems.
re: #119 wrenchwench
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And then another pivot:
Also not kidding.
That’s what a degree in the Classics will get you.
re: #125 ObserverArt
Morning all.
What the hell is up with this Dr. Ben Carson phenomena? I saw a bit on TV today about how he is really hitting it off with a lot of women. The two ladies they talked too said they like his gentleness and soft speaking, etc.
What the hell about what he says with that soft gentle voice?
It’s bad enough people consider Trump…but Carson. We have problems.
Flashback to the 2008 election cycle. Every single candidate in the GOP clown car was at the top of the polls at one time or another. In GOP world, everyone gets a first place trophy. Carson is getting his limelight now, but next month someone else will be a “rising star”.
re: #116 The Vicious Babushka
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INIGO: Because I know something you do not know.
WESLEY: And what is that?
INIGO: I am not left-handed. *switches sword hands*
re: #128 Dr. Matt
Flashback to the 2008 election cycle. Every single candidate in the GOP clown car was at the top of the polls at one time or another. In GOP world, everyone gets a first place trophy. Carson is getting his limelight now, but next month someone else will be a “rising star”.
I think that is the case with Carson, less so with Trump. Carson will fade before Trump will largely because of money and charisma IMO. The one advantage though he has over Trump is being able to speak Evangelical language but as we saw last time, that’s not quite enough and Trump is popular in the South.
re: #128 Dr. Matt
Flashback to the 2008 election cycle. Every single candidate in the GOP clown car was at the top of the polls at one time or another. In GOP world, everyone gets a first place trophy. Carson is getting his limelight now, but next month someone else will be a “rising star”.
Agreed. I just am amazed though that some of the early leaders get as far as they do. It’s almost like voters first consideration is to go as far out with their picks as they can and then they dial back the crazy to arrive at their real choice, or who the media drives them to.
re: #23 teleskiguy
This morning, the hurricane hunters found a low pressure reading of 880mbs.
That’s huge, as is the fact that they’re predicting it to come ashore not only as a Cat 5, but as a Cat 5 with 200 mph winds. That’d be the strongest storm to ever make landfall in the Western Hemisphere as long as folks have been keeping records. The storm went from tropical depression to Category 5 in 24 hours.
It would make Patricia the strongest storm ever to hit North America. Did I say ever. Yeah, I did. By any measure, it’s stronger than Andrew, Camille, Katrina, Rita, Sandy, Floyd, and any other notable storms that come to mind. Higher winds than any of the other storms either. Only a handful of storms, usually in the Western Pacific have had the combination of low pressure and high winds that Patricia does. That tells you how rare this storm is.
And it has the potential to be devastating as its path would take it across Mexico, dumping tremendous amounts of rain causing widespread flooding, landslides, and power outages. Millions of people are in the threatened area, and there’s a potential for significant loss of life as a result of the storm even with reasonable precautions.
Well, looks like Chucky’s crackerjack legal team got the motions in under the deadline. Did I say motions, because there’s multiple ones. And a few dozen exhibits.
Oppo to motion to dismiss: https://t.co/dmmT2GpCMF To anti-SLAPP: https://t.co/yb4b0F2Rn4 Proposed amend complaint: https://t.co/hyoq5snePE
— Adam SteinBOO! (@adamsteinbaugh) October 23, 2015
I’ve yet to wade into this mess of filings, but it’s likely that there’s just as many issues with the form, filings, and legal arguments as all of his other filings. And I’m being charitable.
ol floorpooper has a new filing. It’s… um. ambitious (h/t @adamsteinbaugh) pic.twitter.com/9jk6X0fsKp
— Anthony B, (@swearyanthony) October 23, 2015
By ambitious, you should read that as completely BS and reaching for an interpretation so far removed from the original intent of the law that you probably had to be sniffing glue when you made it (which makes sense given the copypasta nature of Burns’ previous attempts at filing motions in this case).
The judge’s clerks are going to have a field day with this one (and years down the road will tell war stories of how they had to wade through a floor pooer’s claims and exhibits where he had affidavits indicating that he never had sex with animals or defecated on the floor (in public or private). This is no ordinary set of filings.
re: #132 lawhawk
This morning, the hurricane hunters found a low pressure reading of 880mbs.
That’s huge, as is the fact that they’re predicting it to come ashore not only as a Cat 5, but as a Cat 5 with 200 mph winds. That’d be the strongest storm to ever make landfall in the Western Hemisphere as long as folks have been keeping records. The storm went from tropical depression to Category 5 in 24 hours.
It would make Patricia the strongest storm ever to hit North America. Did I say ever. Yeah, I did. By any measure, it’s stronger than Andrew, Camille, Katrina, Rita, Sandy, Floyd, and any other notable storms that come to mind. Higher winds than any of the other storms either. Only a handful of storms, usually in the Western Pacific have had the combination of low pressure and high winds that Patricia does. That tells you how rare this storm is.
And it has the potential to be devastating as its path would take it across Mexico, dumping tremendous amounts of rain causing widespread flooding, landslides, and power outages. Millions of people are in the threatened area, and there’s a potential for significant loss of life as a result of the storm even with reasonable precautions.
Yeah, sounds like this one is the biggest ever recorded.
I’ve mentioned I like Formula One racing and the U.S. Grand Prix is this weekend at Circuit of the Americas in Austin Texas. Forecasts are for rain, heavy rain and deluge all weekend. Not good for the event, but that is not a big thing compared to the danger this storm presents for Mexico and even the flooding expected in Texas, etc.
I hope the folks in this storm’s path can get through this.
re: #133 lawhawk
I waded through them after classes this evening. My brain was a bit tired, but the only new things I saw were the amended damages in the amended petition, and the claim his 14th amendment protection was being violated by a constitutional law.
By my count (and you can check me), the amended petition asks for $26M, down from $66M — a real bargain!
Also, I figure the page count is still around 100 pages or so, NOT the 40 pages I assume the judge was expecting.
re: #135 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I waded through them after classes this evening. My brain was a bit tired, but the only new things I saw were the amended damages in the amended petition, and the claim his 14th amendment protection was being violated by a constitutional law.
By my count (and you can check me), the amended petition asks for $26M, down from $66M — a real bargain!
That really oughta have Gawker quaking in their boots.
My friend the firefighter’s medic spent the summer fighting fires in California and Washington, then spent time with his 94 yr. old father in Tennessee, then went to Mexico to fight fires with the Tarahumara.
He brought his own saddle to use on the loaner mule.
re: #136 thedopefishlives
That really oughta have Gawker quaking in their boots.
Laughing over their beers, more like it.
re: #137 wrenchwench
My friend the firefighter’s medic spent the summer fighting fires in California and Washington, then spent time with his 94 yr. old father in Tennessee, then went to Mexico to fight fires with the Tarahumara.
He brought his own saddle to use on the loaner mule.
Do you rent them at Alamo Rent-a-Burro?
re: #134 ObserverArt
Yeah, sounds like this one is the biggest ever recorded.
Lies, fabrication, socialist plot from the pit of hell…
And for those who want a weapon for a stormtrooper or Panem Peacekeeper costume this year, Steyr Arms has you covered:
Steyr Arms has announced another run of their AUG A3 M1 rifles with white furniture. Apparently the initial run was far more popular than expected, so they’re following the public’s demand by moving forward with a second shipment. According to the company’s CEO, Scott O’Brien, “We grossly underestimated the demand for the White AUGs. “Our phone lines and social media accounts lit up as soon as word got out about the initial shipments to dealers and distributors, so we turned to our parent company in Austria to produce another batch of furniture. We are now working feverishly to build complete guns.”
There are three options for this particular AUG A3 M1 including an optics version with a 1.5X or 3X integrated scope, a Short-Rail version, and a High-Rail version. Perhaps best of all, the three versions have interchangeable rails and optics. All the shooter needs to do is remove a trio of base screws from the receiver and the changes can be made.
re: #141 Dark_Falcon
And for those who want a weapon for a stormtrooper or Panem Peacekeeper costume this year, Steyr Arms has you covered:
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nice day for a white weapon…
re: #141 Dark_Falcon
I hope they aren’t using forced labor any more.
re: #84 Timothy Watson
A conservative, who I used to be friends with and who I thought was smarter than this really said this on Facebook:
WELL, I DON’T SEE ANYONE SAYING WE NEED SWORD CONTROL!!1!
Because we already have it. Switchblades are illegal (here in PA at least). But I can conceal carry a fucking .357 mag anywhere. Yeah, makes lots of sense. Police say cane swords are against the rules, but I can walk down the street with a Remington .300 mag strapped to my back.
re: #143 wrenchwench
I hope they aren’t using forced labor any more.
Not since WWII.
These are made in the US, except for the furniture (stock and foregrip), which is Austrian.
re: #142 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
nice day for a white weapon…
You don’t carry white after Labor Day.
re: #144 Eventual Carrion
Last year (there’s been so many officer-involved homicides that I lost track, and thought it happened this year), a black man in Utah who was cosplaying, was killed by cops because he had what appeared to be a sword.
Anyone else watching Fargo?
Season 2 looks really good so far. Mike Mulligan reminds me a lot of Malvo from season 1. I loved the line “Well they’re either 11’s or those are both 1’s and they’re toddlers. Great acting by Ted Danson in that scene too. You could tell he was intimidated. And we see how young Molly is a natural cop finding the balloon that leads to the murder weapon. And man that scene with the butcher. And the humor is there too, Kirsten Duntz’s character Peggy stealing toilet paper from work and definitely being hit on by her boss.
re: #128 Dr. Matt
Flashback to the 2008 election cycle. Every single candidate in the GOP clown car was at the top of the polls at one time or another. In GOP world, everyone gets a first place trophy. Carson is getting his limelight now, but next month someone else will be a “rising star”.
2012 was a bit like that, too. Newt had a momentary flash. Herman Cain. I forget who else. But in contrast to them it seems like Trump and Carson have enjoyed an extended stay at or near the top of the polls. Still, as the new year approaches and with it the caucuses and primaries it will be interesting to see if the polling starts to shift.
re: #105 Dr. Matt
I’m in great danger because I challenge the secular progressive movement to the very core
Yes but we’re generally unarmed, being unmanly 2nd Amendment haters and all that.
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re: #105 Dr. Matt
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See what happens when you huff too much laughing gas in the operating room?
“Anonymous sources” tell Politico that Mitch McConnell getting fed up with Rand Paul’s presidential campaign. https://t.co/EOW4Ksakaj ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) October 23, 2015
Politico’s sources may be anonymous, but I’m hearing from a lot of Republicans here in Kentucky who are most definitely fed up with him.
So Paul Ryan is officially in the House race for Speaker, and now that he has the apparent blessing of the Freedom Caucus, it seems likely the way is paved for his election to the third highest post in the country.
But he seems somewhat of an odd choice to me. He’s certainly had enough experience in the House and his public profile is pretty high given his place on the 2012 ticket, but my image of the Speaker role is that of someone more given to the nuts and bolts of crafting alliances, setting the legislative agenda, responding to the administration and current issues, handling the media, being the public relations man if you will for the Republican Party. That doesn’t really seem his deal. If you want to craft a budget and talk about entitlements, he’s probably your guy. But to be able to react to things, and to be out front every day, I don’t think he’ll be happy for long in that role.
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
Considering that Rand’s WH bid is sucking wind (and money away from Rand’s Senate campaign at that), and he’s more interested in his own brand than the state GOP, yeah, there’d be reason for complaints.
Not that I’m complaining. Wingnut on wingnut is political porn on steroids.
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
Politico’s sources may be anonymous, but I’m hearing from a lot of Republicans here in Kentucky who are most definitely fed up with him.
Rand: Not ready for prime time.
re: #154 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
So Paul Ryan is officially in the House race for Speaker, and now that he has the apparent blessing of the Freedom Caucus, it seems likely the way is paved for his election to the third highest post in the country.
But he seems somewhat of an odd choice to me. He’s certainly had enough experience in the House and his public profile is pretty high given his place on the 2012 ticket, but my image of the Speaker role is that of someone more given to the nuts and bolts of crafting alliances, setting the legislative agenda, responding to the administration and current issues, handling the media, being the public relations man if you will for the Republican Party. That doesn’t really seem his deal. If you want to craft a budget and talk about entitlements, he’s probably your guy. But to be able to react to things, and to be out front every day, I don’t think he’ll be happy for long in that role.
No, but he’s the only Rep of stature acceptable to all the major Republican House factions, so he’s the one who gets the job.
A picture is worth a 1000 words. #Benghazi #BenghaziCommittee pic.twitter.com/ugvBVBOzp5
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) October 23, 2015
re: #157 Dark_Falcon
No, but he’s the only Rep of stature acceptable to all the major Republican House factions, so he’s the one who gets the job.
He’ll be a RINO to the Teahadi true believers the instant he takes office, and unless Boehner starts moving faster, he’ll betray them (rather than let the US government collapse) within his first few days in office, and then again when the continuing resolution expires in December. He’s throwing his career away, and he probably knows it.
How do you think Donald Trump would have handled 11 hours of questioning? #tcot #UniteBlue #BenghaziCommittee pic.twitter.com/cI57Y626JU
— Witches Ba-BOO!-shka (@viciousbabushka) October 23, 2015
re: #144 Eventual Carrion
Because we already have it. Switchblades are illegal (here in PA at least). But I can conceal carry a fucking .357 mag anywhere. Yeah, makes lots of sense. Police say cane swords are against the rules, but I can walk down the street with a Remington .300 mag strapped to my back.
Here in Texas, all forms of martial arts weapons are illegal to carry around. If you need them, such as being in a martial arts sport, they must be stored separate from the passengers in the car. Kind of like alcohol. You cannot carry around even a bo staff, much less a sword.
re: #141 Dark_Falcon
And for those who want a weapon for a stormtrooper or Panem Peacekeeper costume this year, Steyr Arms has you covered:
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How else are those black people going to get shot by police if a cop is able to distinguish a toy from a real gun by color? When there’s no difference, a cop has no choice but to shoot.
re: #144 Eventual Carrion
Because we already have it. Switchblades are illegal (here in PA at least). But I can conceal carry a fucking .357 mag anywhere. Yeah, makes lots of sense. Police say cane swords are against the rules, but I can walk down the street with a Remington .300 mag strapped to my back.
BECUZ CONSTITUITON!
PRO: Chuck Johnson’s lawyer knows §1983 is the statute to use when the government violates civil rights. CON: Gawker isn’t the government.
— Adam SteinBOO! (@adamsteinbaugh) October 23, 2015
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Politico’s sources may be anonymous, but I’m hearing from a lot of Republicans here in Kentucky who are most definitely fed up with him.
How many are fed up with both of those fools? I know it won’t happen, but it sure would be nice to see both of them turned away.
Here is Ohio, chances are looking better for the state to end up with two Democrats. Ted Strickland (ex-governor who lost to Kasich) is inching ahead of Rob Portman 46-43 in a 10/5 Quinnipiac poll.
I hope Ohio can help out getting the Democrats control of the Senate and the Presidency next year.
Now, what to do about that block head Jim Jordan? His district was drawn up by the Republicans and it runs through a lot of small town and farm country Ohio. It will be hard to get him out of there.
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
I can certainly understand Mitch McConnell (or anyone else, for that matter) getting fed up with Rand Paul - but SRSLY: does he think Paul’s seat is going to be seriously in jeopardy by next year? And if so, from whom? A Democrat? (and if so, who?) An even nuttier Teabagger? No matter how much time Rand wastes on his Presidential campaign, he’ll still have plenty to spend - after the RNC - on a Senate run back home: McConnell’s concern here seems a bit overblown.
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re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Motions can make claims that are at odds with each other (alternative legal arguments that are inconsistent with each other) because they’re addressing different legal theories or means to an end.
However, Chucky’s all over the map in claiming that he’s a public figure in one case and a private individual elsewhere. It’s enough to make your head swim. Which is why if your motion is making the following headers (claims), you’ve already lost:
Johnson Is A Private Figure As To Statements Made Regarding Bestiality And Defecation
Of course, Chucky ignores that the origination of these claims comes from his own blog while a college student.
re: #157 Dark_Falcon
No, but he’s the only Rep of stature acceptable to all the major Republican House factions, so he’s the one who gets the job.
He is not in yet. I expect the Freedom Fighters to fight him all the way. If they mess with him enough, maybe he will pull out and it’s all back to step 1. They (Freedom Caucus) know they have the monkey wrench power and they will use it.
re: #170 lawhawk
Motions can make claims that are at odds with each other (alternative legal arguments that are inconsistent with each other) because they’re addressing different legal theories or means to an end.
However, Chucky’s all over the map in claiming that he’s a public figure in one case and a private individual elsewhere. It’s enough to make your head swim. Which is why if your motion is making the following headers (claims), you’ve already lost:
Of course, Chucky ignores that the origination of these claims comes from his own blog while a college student.
I’d describe their whole argument is flinging shit at a wall, hoping something sticks.
re: #162 The Vicious Babushka
Gowdy looks like a freaking alien.
I wonder where he keeps his banjo.
He was so good in that one movie…
re: #170 lawhawk
Of course, Chucky ignores that the origination of these claims comes from his own blog while a college student.
That caught my eye as well. They are arguing that such rumors did not exist until Gawker reported them, which is factually wrong. It would be easy for Gawker to pull them up, as they are still online.
US Rep Ed Whitfield, R-Ky, tells WKMS he’s quitting Congress because nothing gets accomplished there anymore. https://t.co/0QklZXms83 ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) October 23, 2015
re: #170 lawhawkOf course, Chucky ignores that the origination of these claims comes from his own blog while a college student.
re: #174 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
That caught my eye as well. They are arguing that such rumors did not exist until Gawker reported them, which is factually wrong. It would be easy for Gawker to pull them up, as they are still online.
And he did tweet about these allegations as well. I’m sure those tweets are preserved somewhere.
The Benghazi hearings were an 11-hour workshop in RWNJ cognitive dissonance.
“Why didn’t Chris Stevens have your personal email address?”
“Why did you ignore 600 emails from Chris Stevens?”
All morning I’ve seen the 600 email talking point all over teh intertubez. RWNJs latch on quick.
re: #176 Dr. Matt
And he did tweet about these allegations as well. I’m sure those tweets are preserved somewhere.
At his own vanity site, in fact.
re: #177 Lidane
The Benghazi hearings were an 11-hour workshop in RWNJ cognitive dissonance.
“Why didn’t Chris Stevens have your personal email address?”
“Why did you ignore 600 emails from Chris Stevens?”
All morning I’ve seen the 600 email talking point all over teh intertubez. RWNJs latch on quick.
All I’ve been seeing on #tcot is:
HILLARY LIED!!!!!
SHELIEDSHELIEDSHELIEDSHELIEDSHELIEDSHELIEDSHELIEDSHELIEDSHELIED
SHELIEDAGAINSHELIEDAGAINSHELIEDAGAINSHELIEDAGAINSHELIEDAGAIN
re: #162 The Vicious Babushka
Gowdy looks like a freaking alien.
Or a mummy with its wrappings taken off.
Heard from my friend in Mexico.
He says it’s just drizzle so far, but they are all hunkering down and expecting the worst.
Anything Hillary says that contradict’s the wingnut fantasy version of WHAT REALLY HAPPENED!!!1!!!1!!!11 is a “lie”
Has there been any incoming Speaker less legislatively accomplished than Paul Ryan? Two laws passed to his name, one a post office named for his predecessor and that other a bows tax. Never been impressed by Ryan and the attempts to make him out to be a serious policy guy.
Ukrainian city of Odessa turns Lenin statue into Darth Vader https://t.co/fGL4TqPwD8 pic.twitter.com/ZOlHXfdKpK
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) October 23, 2015
re: #179 The Vicious Babushka
All I’ve been seeing on #tcot is:
HILLARY LIED!!!!!
SHELIEDSHELIEDSHELIEDSHELIEDSHELIEDSHELIEDSHELIEDSHELIEDSHELIED
SHELIEDAGAINSHELIEDAGAINSHELIEDAGAINSHELIEDAGAINSHELIEDAGAIN
Yeah. The gibbering morons on Twitter are convinced they’ve got an airtight case for perjury because reasons.
They also thought they had airtight proof that there was a grand conspiracy related to Benghazi. Oops.
re: #183 HappyWarrior
Has there been any incoming Speaker less legislatively accomplished than Paul Ryan? Two laws passed to his name, one a post office named for his predecessor and that other a bows tax. Never been impressed by Ryan and the attempts to make him out to be a serious policy guy.
No. And his “budget wonk” creds are total bullshit, too. His math only works in wingnut wish land. Watching the 2012 election and seeing the press give him this Very Serious Person label was frustrating beyond belief.
re: #186 Lidane
The disconnect is most egregious when the Chief Inquisitor, Head of the Committee Trey Gowdy, admits that they learned nothing new yesterday and didn’t find anything that might indicate criminality despite their lame-ass attempts to catch Clinton in a perjury trap.
Rather, they did more to burnish her credentials among Democrats and that she’s got the makeup/character to be President.
Too bad. So sad. Bitter tears.
re: #189 Dr. Matt
And that doesn’t include the Marine Barracks bombing that killed 241 servicemembers in Beirut under Reagan’s watch…
re: #191 lawhawk
And that doesn’t include the Marine Barracks bombing that killed 241 servicemembers in Beirut under Reagan’s watch…
Or 9/11 under Bush’s.
Things Ben Carson supporters find attractive: that he equates Obamacare with slavery. 57%.
Think about that.
@philipaklein And calling comparison of Obamacare to slavery “very attractive” ISN’T?
— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) October 23, 2015
re: #190 lawhawk
The disconnect is most egregious when the
Chief Inquisitor, Head of the Committee Trey Gowdy, admits that they learned nothing new yesterday and didn’t find anything that might indicate criminality despite their lame-ass attempts to catch Clinton in a perjury trap.Rather, they did more to burnish her credentials among Democrats and that she’s got the makeup/character to be President.
Too bad. So sad. Bitter tears.
I wouldn’t worry, Trey will find some way to keep this fishing expedition going. Right now, it seems to rest almost solely on the hope that somewhere in Hillary’s email server lies an email so devastating to her that just the release of it will spend the end of her political career.
re: #187 WhatEVs
No. And his “budget wonk” creds are total bullshit, too. His math only works in wingnut wish land. Watching the 2012 election and seeing the press give him this Very Serious Person label was frustrating beyond belief.
My favorite part of that was was the Romney campaign when it was obvious that the Ryan plan was not popular with anyone outside of the base claiming that Ryan wasn’t selected for that reason anyhow though it’s obvious he was and then Ryan himself claiming that the plan was just a “suggestion.” The one saving grace Ryan has is he’s not a total dick about immigration that may change now since he’s got more people that he has to make happy.
re: #194 lawhawk
Things Ben Carson supporters find attractive: that he equates Obamacare with slavery. 57%.
Think about that.
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That comment was frankly worse than the guns one. Because you know affordable health care is totes like forced labor and separating families from each other but I suppose that’s better than those who claim slavery wasn’t that bad and that it kept black families together like Bachmann. I obviously jest but really Carson’s an asshole.
re: #189 Dr. Matt
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re: #188 Varek Raith
I was just looking at that storm on weather underground, it is a beast, hope they manage to evacuate enough people or at least get them sheltered. Hopefully it won’t screw up flight paths too much come sunday, My wife is coming back from a week in El Salvador and I want her home lol.
re: #182 The Vicious Babushka
Anything Hillary says that contradict’s the wingnut fantasy version of WHAT REALLY HAPPENED!!!1!!!1!!!11 is a “lie”
I’d argue that it’s really the reverse - that anything Hillary says is a lie, so the TRUTH!! is always the opposite of whatever she says. Yesterday, there were Wingnuts talking about her lying for hour after hour on the stand. They had no proof or evidence, or even a coherent alternative narrative, but because it was Hillary, it MUST HAVE BEEN all lies.
The newsweek article about Benghazi poitned something else out but when Richard Reid was arrested, none of the R’s made a fuss but when the so called underwear bomber was arrested and tried, there was a flip out. The Republicans have no ideology except oppose Obama.
Imagine your boss told you that you had to take a 40% pay cut, but don’t worry the company’s in no danger. https://t.co/OEOarpib0v
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) October 23, 2015
re: #202 Jenner7
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In the whole hearing with Hillary yesterday, the one time I was most worried about the GOPers scoring a hit was when Brooks was riding Hillary hard about when and if she ever talked to Chris Stevens in the months before the attack.
That did not come off well at all.
The panel was intent in showing she did not care about Bengahzi and that got about as close to it in all the back and forth.
I know she needed to keep track of all the embassies under her watch and May to September is 4-5 months, so it can be understood she wasn’t on the phone with him all the time and maybe her communications with the Bengahzi office was through a major staffer keeping her updated. I wish she could have handled that better, as I have a belief that will used against her. I guess we’ll see.
This is why Jeb Bush has zero business ever holding political office again. This is an embarrassing and delusional exchange between Jeb and Megyn Kelly
Megyn Kelly: If it is fair to question Mrs. Clinton for failures leading up to September 11, 2012, why is Governor Bush arguing it is not fair to question his brother for failures leading up to September 11, 2001? Is it a double standard?
Jeb: Not at all because if someone had evidence that there was a pending attack, there was — a lot of investigations after 9/11, if there was evidence that there was an attack that was pending and no one acted, of course there would have been criticism, but that’s not the case.
Megyn Kelly: You know they’re arguing that there was. Trump argues George Tenet, offered a warning that the attack.
Jeb: Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Trump doesn’t know what he is talking about! He doesn’t know anything about this. And he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Hillary testified for 11 hours yesterday, or as Paul Ryan calls it “a full work week”
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) October 23, 2015
re: #204 ObserverArt
In the whole hearing with Hillary yesterday, the one time is was most worried about the GOPers scoring a hit was when Brooks was riding Hillary hard about when and if she ever talked to Chris Stevens in the months before the attack.
The fact that Hillary’s photo doesn’t appear on Drudge’s headline is proof enough that she won and the GOP lost.
re: #205 Dr. Matt
This is why Jeb Bush has zero business ever holding political office again. This is an embarrassing and delusional exchange between Jeb and Megyn Kelly
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— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 23, 2015
re: #202 Jenner7
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Jeb Bush, now cutting staff salaries, spent over $900k on private jets last quarter, more than every other candidate in both parties.
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) October 23, 2015
re: #207 Dr. Matt
The fact that Hillary’s photo doesn’t appear on Drudge’s headline is proof enough that she won and the GOP lost.
Well, that is good, Hopefully the totality of their failure turns the whole BENGAHZI! into just Beghazi and it becomes a subject they’d just as soon stay away from here on out.
But this is the GOP and elephants are said to never forget.
re: #211 ObserverArt
Well, that is good, Hopefully the totality of their failure turns the whole BENGAHZI! into just Beghazi and it becomes a subject they’d just as soon stay away from here on out.
But this is the GOP and elephants are said to never forget.
There is literally NOTHING that would make them stop believing this was the worst thing that ever happened (Cheney said that - CHENEY!), and the Hillary was a the heart of it.
re: #205 Dr. Matt
Jeb: Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Trump doesn’t know what he is talking about! He doesn’t know anything about this. And he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
BOOM!!!! OWNED!!!!!!
Pretty informative answer there by Jeb!
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re: #207 Dr. Matt
The fact that Hillary’s photo doesn’t appear on Drudge’s headline is proof enough that she won and the GOP lost.
Hillary who? What hearing?
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re: #204 ObserverArt
I don’t think it will hurt her at all. Their argument came off as petty. “You didn’t care about your friend enough to call him and ask him if he’s okay??” They are pretty much saying Steven’s had no awareness of what was going on there and didn’t know the risks.
It wasn’t her job to call Ambassador’s and see how their day was.
Speaker Boehner names members to the newly-created House Select Cmte investigating Planned Parenthood: pic.twitter.com/XA9mxkexds
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorpNBC) October 23, 2015
re: #216 Jenner7
I don’t think it will hurt her at all. Their argument came off as petty. “You didn’t care about your friend enough to call him and ask him if he’s okay??” They are pretty much saying Steven’s had no awareness of what was going on there and didn’t know the risks.
It wasn’t her job to call Ambassador’s and see how their day was.
That was my read of their entire little snitfit yesterday when it came to Stevens, that this experienced and accomplished ambassador was too much of a child to be trusted to know when it was too dangerous to be in Benghazi. That Hillary had to watch out for him, had to tell him when to leave, and her failure to do so was like leaving a child to die.
re: #220 Targetpractice
And juxtapose that with Pompeo implying Steven’s colluded with terrorists.
Yeah, they’re horrible.
re: #196 HappyWarrior
My favorite part of that was was the Romney campaign when it was obvious that the Ryan plan was not popular with anyone outside of the base claiming that Ryan wasn’t selected for that reason anyhow though it’s obvious he was and then Ryan himself claiming that the plan was just a “suggestion.” The one saving grace Ryan has is he’s not a total dick about immigration that may change now since he’s got more people that he has to make happy.
Honestly, I am still shocked that Ryan is taking on the GOP shitshow that is the House. He has already been labeled a RINO. This will effectively end any chance of higher office for him as he will never make it past a primary.
He is pretty safe in Janesville, WI, so perhaps he can keep getting his government paycheck as SOTH, then move on to lobbying like DeMint. But that still won’t give him the golden ring of POTUS Ryan.
re: #194 lawhawk
Things Ben Carson supporters find attractive: that he equates Obamacare with slavery. 57%.
Think about that.
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What is most remarkable to me is he is a freaking DOCTOR. A medical “professional”. Someone who might see a benefit in people having insurance.
Smart that man is not.
re: #197 HappyWarrior
That comment was frankly worse than the guns one. Because you know affordable health care is totes like forced labor and separating families from each other but I suppose that’s better than those who claim slavery wasn’t that bad and that it kept black families together like Bachmann. I obviously jest but really Carson’s an asshole.
I am starting to really believe that his assholeness truly comes from his being an idiot savant with mental deficiencies. He’s simply not right in the head.
I wonder if Bernie Sanders will ask the Benghazi Commission for equal time?
re: #194 lawhawk
Things Ben Carson supporters find attractive: that he equates Obamacare with slavery. 57%.
Think about that.
That’s his main qualification for the job.
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re: #203 HappyWarrior
I’d quit. and that’s what I’d encourage Jeb’s staffers to do too. Jeb’s got plenty of money himself. The staffers sholdn’t have to have to take that since Jeb obviously isn’t presidential material. Either pay your employees honestly or get the hell out of the race.
Bodes poorly for the country if you extrapolate his position on workers and think of him being POTUS.
Texas subpoenas records of Planned Parenthood patients who donated fetal tissue https://t.co/lO8izIwd7d pic.twitter.com/3KQylDcZbh
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) October 23, 2015
re: #145 Dark_Falcon
Not since WWII.
These are made in the US, except for the furniture (stock and foregrip), which is Austrian.
Steyr, Austria was known for nice bicycles, from post WWII to the 80’s. Made it to the US via Sears. I still see ‘em, but nobody knows what they are.
House Select Committee to Out Embarrass the Benghazi Committee https://t.co/NuSsjTvyjH
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 23, 2015
re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth
But remember, it’s Obama who want’s to get between you and your doctor. @MotherJones
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) October 23, 2015
re: #219 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Surprise: Paul Ryan already capitulating to the crazy caucus before even becoming speaker.
Good. Let the republicans Vacate his ass, as they basically did Boehner. Then see who will go for SOTH. More GOP disarray for the world to see. (Embarrassingly so.)
BREAKING: Indiana State University police searching for person armed with handgun north of campus: campus alert
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 23, 2015
re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth
Um, WHAT???
How is that legal? Abortion IS legal and so is donating tissue.
Wow. Just disgusting.
re: #231 Targetpractice
Because there’s absolutely no way that information will be abused or magically find its way to anti-abortion groups. No sir.
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I think PP should publicly (er, publically) remind the personnel who are perusing these records that they are now responsible for their confidentiality. HIPAA laws have very stiff penalties against people (not just the organizations) who violate the laws about confidentiality.
re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— snipy (@snipy) October 23, 2015
That’s right, #BenghaziCommittee went great for the GOP…Just keep telling yourself that. @PolitiBunny
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) October 23, 2015
re: #235 Jenner7
Um, WHAT???
How is that legal? Abortion IS legal and so is donating tissue.
Wow. Just disgusting.
Not to mention HIPPA violations.
Can you imagine what these nuts are going to do with these women’s names? Probably put them in the paper. Disgusting doesn’t begin to cover it.
re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Oh man….sun’s up, and visible satellite pics coming in of #patricia A monster storm. pic.twitter.com/X0UkSl1MFZ
— NBC12 Weather (@NBC12Weather) October 23, 2015
BBL. Hubby’s got a minor medical procedure. So, as usual, he’ll be whiny all day. ;)
Yeha, sorry I have a life and a job outside of Twitter. @PolitiBunny
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) October 23, 2015
If you judge your self worth by your Twitter following, you have bigger problems than the Benghazi hearings.
This is not the first time the Trump campaign has compared their own candidate to a gangster==>
LET’S MAKE IRAN AN OFFER THEY CAN’T REFUSE… #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #Trump2016 #tcot #uniteblue pic.twitter.com/q7HV1cQJ6c
— NEW YORK 4 TRUMP (@NYC4TRUMP2016) October 23, 2015
re: #243 Ace-o-aces
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If you judge your self worth by your Twitter following, you have bigger problems than the Benghazi hearings.
What a twit.
re: #245 HappyWarrior
What a twit.
David Cameron had it right. “Too many tweets might make a twat.”
Shame he didn’t follow his own advice.
On the ground in Puerto Vallarta, vacation now news thanks to #Patricia, trying to get to Guadalajara, but limited transpo options
— Nathan Wilson KOMO (@WilsoNews) October 23, 2015
Being told roads are already closing in the area, so getting to Guadalajara might be tricky #Patricia
— Nathan Wilson KOMO (@WilsoNews) October 23, 2015
I just read the amended complaint and I’m starting to think that Chuck Johnson and Attorney Burns are the same person.
Legal concepts that he doesn’t understand:
1. Relevance
2. Hearsay
3. Defamation law
4. USC 1983/14th amendment/ what a “State Actor” is - Gawker is not part of the government you nimrod so they can’t violate your due process or equal protection or whatever the fuck you’re claiming. Did you even go to law school.
re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth
The eyewall looks to be going through a cycle and Patricia is starting to interact with the mountains:
You can also see the other storm, Oluf I think, has started to move north too, which means some of its moisture may become entrained in the flow into California.
#HurricanePatricia’s estimated winds are 200 mph with gusts to 250 mph: Roughly the same that are estimated to have hit Joplin, MO
— NWS Kansas City (@NWSKansasCity) October 23, 2015
re: #244 The Vicious Babushka
This is not the first time the Trump campaign has compared their own candidate to a gangster==>
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Don Corleone was wise though. Trump’s more like Tattaliga. Sorry but if the sci-fi and weapons nerds can be that in their fields, I am going to be that in regards to my favorite trilogy ever.
re: #243 Ace-o-aces
A larrge Twitter following and 5 cents gets you a cup of coffee at Wal-Drug. @MissingReagan @PolitiBunny
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) October 23, 2015
And frankly, it’s pretty awful coffee.
re: #252 HappyWarrior
Don Corleone was wise though. Trump’s more like Tattaliga. Sorry but if the sci-fi and weapons nerds can be that in their fields, I am going to be that in regards to my favorite trilogy ever.
Feel free. Cannoli for lunch?
re: #254 Brian J.
Feel free. Cannoli for lunch?
That sounds good. I’d love some homemade cannoli. Never have had that.
The other thing though is the Godfather in Coppolla’s intention and presumably with Puzo’s blessing since he cowrote it was meant to be an indictment on American capitalism. Besides we all know now Trump is Biff Tannen.
re: #249 gocart mozart
I just read the amended complaint and I’m starting to think that Chuck Johnson and Attorney Burns are the same person.
Legal concepts that he doesn’t understand:
1. Relevance
2. Hearsay
3. Defamation law
4. USC 1983/14th amendment/ what a “State Actor” is - Gawker is not part of the government you nimrod so they can’t violate your due process or equal protection or whatever the fuck you’re claiming. Did you even go to law school.
CCJ is an award-winning journalist lawyer.
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re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So doctor/patient privilege is out the window now too? Guess in their minds if you get an abortion you relinquish your rights.
re: #258 Eventual Carrion
So doctor/patient privilege is out the window now too? Guess in their minds if you get an abortion you relinquish your rights.
I think they honestly do believe that yes. And this is the party and ideology that claims to be small government and for individual rights.
Hurricane Patricia has now peaked at 8.3 on an 8.0 intensity scale, bound for Mexico: https://t.co/7d1SQGsXWS pic.twitter.com/Nm5Ao2bvNL
— Slate (@Slate) October 23, 2015
I can’t wait until we get a couple of additional front page posts so the pics of CCJ and DimJim get pushed lower on the page. What a bummer it is to wake up and see those two mugs looking back at me.
re: #243 Ace-o-aces
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Their parents must be so proud.
re: #253 Ace-o-aces
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And frankly, it’s pretty awful coffee.
Wall Drug does have good donuts tho.
Ok this made me laugh! #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/xwzZ2UXDUn
— Allan B (@albhere) October 23, 2015
re: #262 Eventual Carrion
Their parents must be so proud.
Given what I know about most conservatives under 30, I’m sure their parents are responsible for their worldview.
Anyhow, my dad’s take after seeing some of the hearings yesterday. He’s what you’d call an average voter granted one with a pro liberal/democratic bias but he thinks Jordan stood out to him as being a jerk and that the whole thing was the House R’s trying to goad Hillary into losing her cool to get a soundbite. I’m pretty sure it was Jordan since he mentioned a blonde guy from Ohio and I don’t know of any other Ohio R’s on the committee. He also thinks a lot of the hatred of Hillary is subtle sexism by men who can’t accept a strong woman. And my dad knows a lot about strong women since he’s been married to one for 32 years now.
re: #260 Backwoods_Sleuth
We weren’t supposed to test the book Mother of Storms. It’s science fiction, not a hypothesis.
The thing though is the R’s have had it out for the Clintons for years now. I remember it even as a kid in the 90’s. Even though I was only 11, I thought it was the stupidest thing to impeach a president over lying about an adulterous affair. Sure, what Bill did to his wife and daughter was fucked up but it wasn’t Congress’s business in my opinion at the time and still is. Could Bill have handled it better? Perhaps but it really should have never been brought to that point in the first place. And then all the crazy anti-Clinton crap I heard my childhood playmates echo their parents- Bill Clinton was a rapist (hey at least in those days Republicans thought rape was a bad thing), Bill Clinton gave our nuclear secrets to the CHINESE, etc. I admit that originally I was a liberal and Democrat by happenstance, both parents and both sets of grandparents being staunchly liberal and Democratic no doubt shaped me and still oes but I can say in good faith at the age of 28, I am a liberal by conviction.
re: #249 gocart mozart
I just read the amended complaint and I’m starting to think that Chuck Johnson and Attorney Burns are the same person.
Legal concepts that he doesn’t understand:
1. Relevance
2. Hearsay
3. Defamation law
4. USC 1983/14th amendment/ what a “State Actor” is - Gawker is not part of the government you nimrod so they can’t violate your due process or equal protection or whatever the fuck you’re claiming. Did you even go to law school.
They went to the Holiday Inn Express school of law. Stay at HI Express, and they’re automagically able to entertain legal theories no one in their right mind would ever produce.
NM SOS moved campaign cash to personal accounts, gambled thousands at casinos. Now she pleaded guilty. https://t.co/yxUfFMEdGu #nmpol
— Matthew Reichbach (@fbihop) October 23, 2015
re: #258 Eventual Carrion
HURR HUR STUPID LIBTARDS!! ITS A PRIVILEGE NOT A RITE! AND ITS NOT A MEDICAL PROCEDURE ITS MUUUUUUUURDER!!!
Doctor/patient, attorney/client, priest/penadant privileges are only for the right kind of people.
“Now let’s get out there and not use the word Holocaust!” - Pep-talk before every Ben Carson appearance
— Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) October 23, 2015
He seems nice==>
#IAmChristian BUT… I have no problem watching Killary BURN IN HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY for what she’s done! #TCOT pic.twitter.com/CY9NPDQ4I9
— Sam (@AZPatriot01) October 22, 2015
re: #273 The Vicious Babushka
A 3-per-center moron label Patriot!
re: #274 jaunte
A 3-per-center moron label Patriot!
TEH MOAST PATRIOTIC PATRIOT!!! WHO LOVES AMERICA WITH FLAG DECALS, GUNS, EAGLES & COLONIAL DUDES!!!!!!
— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) October 23, 2015
New @DMRegister poll shows Iowa evangelical voters agree — overwhelmingly — with Ben Carson’s most extreme statements. And he’s now ahead.
— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) October 23, 2015
re: #244 The Vicious Babushka
This is not the first time the Trump campaign has compared their own candidate to a gangster==>
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It is not a stretch. In that documentary that was going around earlier this year, there was a guy that said something to the effect the interviewer would not want to know where some of the money Trump digs up for his projects (back in the 80s) came from. I took that to mean Donald would work with anyone to get the funding he needed. He did have a casino in Atlantic City, so it wouldn’t be surprised me if some of the ‘boys’ were involved.
re: #278 jaunte
I’m …where’d the shocked face go. I thought I had it last week.
re: #280 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Apparently Obamacare has holocausted Iowa Evangelicals.
Here are some highlights:
“Simply as a matter of political theater, over the course of many hours of testimony, Clinton performed brilliantly”
~John Podhortez“If this committee had handled the Watergate hearing, Richard Nixon would have finished his term.”
~Mike Barnicle“Mrs. Clinton too is far too bright to be trapped in this or any questions”
~Erick son of Erick
re: #282 Dr. Matt
That’s why they’re now gunning for Planned Parenthood. They think going after Cecile Richards will be more successful (hint: they wont).
re: #282 Dr. Matt
Here are some highlights:
It’s hilarious that, after demanding this committee and making all sorts of noise about how Boehner needed to create it, they’re now blaming it for the failure to bring down Hillary. Once again, the clue-resistant nature of the wingnut mind on display.
re: #273 The Vicious Babushka
@FranCifelli No, it’s stupid and crazy. Why does stupid and crazy appeal to you? Too much time in the RWNJ echo-chamber?
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 23, 2015
re: #282 Dr. Matt
Here are some highlights:
The last two are definitely of the “I could have done it better” variety.
No, the reason you couldn’t get Clinton is there’s nothing there. Democrats wouldn’t have started a committee like this. Both sides knew that Nixon had done wrong.
@AZPatriot01 @GrouchoMarxist This fantasy of an imaginary being torturing the people you’ve been brainwashed into hating is sick and sad.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 23, 2015
re: #287 No Country For Old Haters
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He seems nice. Damnimg soneone to hell because they don’t hate Hillary.
re: #289 HappyWarrior
He seems nice. Damnimg soneone to hell because they don’t hate Hillary.
The right-wing lunatics who claim to be Christians are all horrible people.
A second poll finds Carson leading Trump in Iowa. One poll is an outlier. Two is the beginning of a trend (or at least confirmation the first wasn’t an outlier).
Gov. Christie, who’s been panhandling in the state again, was 12th at 1%.
re: #287 No Country For Old Haters
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Very Christian!
Plus, he drives a big black truck and is from AiryZoner…so beware libtard.
@barbinmd @dailykos pic.twitter.com/VbUS7BhxN2
— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) October 23, 2015
re: #292 ObserverArt
Very Christian!
Plus, he drives a big black truck and is from AiryZoner…so beware libtard.
The user name alone was enough of a clue that I’m dealing with someone very self-confident, and extremely fantasy-prone.
re: #293 The Vicious Babushka
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I’m beginning to suspect that Jeb? won’t make it to Iowa. Or, if he does, the loss there will be the final nail in his political coffin.
I don’t see Jebthro winning any of the first four (Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or Nevada) and he’ll withdraw before Florida.
re: #295 Targetpractice
I’m beginning to suspect that Jeb? won’t make it to Iowa. Or, if he does, the loss there will be the final nail in his political coffin.
Only 100 days left. I wonder how many more we’ll lose by then.
re: #203 HappyWarrior
Well, in Jeb!’s class and ideology there’s no such a thing as employees. Instead there are servants.
Servants take what you give them and like it.
re: #293 The Vicious Babushka
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Sorry I can’t do good graphics: given his polling performance Jeb* is more like it…
Shocking I know; investigators find right wing links and xenophobia played role in sword-attack in Sweden that left two dead.
Investigators in the southwestern Swedish town of Trollhattan confirmed that Thursday’s school attack was a “racially motivated” hate crime, based on the 21-year-old assailant’s “attire, his behaviour at the scene of the crimes”.
Police investigator Thord Haraldsson said the assailant targeted “those with dark complexions”, with the investigation so far “pointing to Nazism”.
Police also found documents at the killer’s home indicating the attack “was planned, and a hate crime,” he said, adding that the killer left a “kind of suicide note”.
The assailant, identified in the media as Anton Lundin-Pettersson, went from classroom to classroom at the Kronan school for six to 15-year-olds, wearing black clothes and a Darth Vader-like mask and German WWII helmet.
re: #300 lawhawk
Shocking I know; investigators find right wing links and xenophobia played role in sword-attack in Sweden that left two dead.
BUT RIGHT-WINGERS USE GUNZZZ TO KILL PEOPLE SO HE CAN’T BE A RIGHT-WINGER … oh wait… shit…
re: #300 lawhawk
Shocking I know; investigators find right wing links and xenophobia played role in sword-attack in Sweden that left two dead.
HURR HURR SWEDEN IS A SOCIALIST COUNTRY SO HE IS TEH DEMOCRATIC SOSHULIST JUST LIKE BERNIE SANDERS!!!!!11!!!!HA GOTCHA LIBTARD
re: #287 No Country For Old Haters
Since this was blocked, I went ahead and RT’d it. ;-)
DON’T GET RIPPED OFF BY BOGUS TRUMP SWAG!!!!
Remember, official campaign merchandise (hats, apparel etc.) can only be bought at https://t.co/SXUUL7l8vp. Be careful, don’t get ripped-off
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 23, 2015
re: #304 The Vicious Babushka
I’m not hipster enough to wear Trump swag ironically. Nor am I crazy enough to wear it unironically.
re: #258 Eventual Carrion
So doctor/patient privilege is out the window now too? Guess in their minds if you get an abortion you relinquish your
rightshumanity.
FTFY.
re: #304 The Vicious Babushka
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I would hate for my official, made in China, Make America Great Again be some unofficial made in China Trump crap.
re: #299 Jay C
Sorry I can’t do good graphics: given his polling performance Jeb* is more like it…
How about this: Jeb?
re: #258 Eventual Carrion
So doctor/patient privilege is out the window now too? Guess in their minds if you get an abortion you relinquish your rights.
Nothing must stand in the way of revealing the TRUTH we are absolutely certain of even though there’s no evidence for it!!!
re: #313 Blind Frog Belly White
Name is too short.
re: #291 lawhawk
Gov. Christie, who’s been panhandling in the state [Iowa] again, was 12th at 1%.
Iowa’s more square, Oklahoma now, that would work.
re: #310 b.d.
I would hate for my official, made in China, Make America Great Again be some unofficial made in China Trump crap.
It would explain why my neighbor is wearing a t-shirt which says “Make America Grate Again!”
I thought it was a cheese thing
re: #304 The Vicious Babushka
If you buy his shitty hat on his campaign site for $30 when you can get an equally shitty hat on Canal St for $5, then you are getting ripped off.
re: #308 Romantic Heretic
FTFY.
I figure what they’re trying to do is find non-existing evidence that women were coerced or paid for the fetal tissue to show PP wrong doing. As an added bonus they can bully and terrorize every woman who has had the procedure as she waits for the next shoe, or nutcase bullet, to drop. Especially fun for women whose partners don’t know they had abortions when investigators come knocking on their doors for their fake fishing expeditions. This is so fucking wrong on so many evil levels.
re: #315 Bird in the Paw
Maybe something more along the lines of fitting a round jackass into a square state…
re: #315 Bird in the Paw
Iowa’s more square, Oklahoma now, that would work.
The Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll gave Carson 28 percent and Trump 19 percent. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, with 10 percent, was the only other Republican presidential candidate in double figures.
Jeb!?
Rubio?
Rand?
Huck?
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re: #314 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Name is too short.
Someone with more graphics skills than I have needs to combine that with the toilet emoji.
re: #291 lawhawk
A second poll finds Carson leading Trump in Iowa. One poll is an outlier. Two is the beginning of a trend (or at least confirmation the first wasn’t an outlier).
Gov. Christie, who’s been panhandling in the state again, was 12th at 1%.
[Trump]Shut Up Dummy!!!![/Trump]
re: #318 allegro
Anyone heard of ‘Probable Cause’? Or is that an outmoded concept these days?
re: #323 Blind Frog Belly White
Anyone heard of ‘Probable Cause’? Or is that an outmoded concept these days?
“Cause I said so” seems to be enough nowadays.
re: #283 lawhawk
That’s why they’re now gunning for Planned Parenthood. They think going after Cecile Richards will be more successful (hint: they wont).
Ummm, much as I loathe having to disagree with you, I think that the Texas actions against PP are unfortunately only too likely to be have their desired effect: i.e. disrupt the organization’s operations, blacken its reputation as much as possible, and - ideally - put it out of business so that the anti-abortion obsessives can claim some sort of “victory” over their Designated Boogeyman (all the while congratulating themselves on their righteousness) .
These aren’t open hearings, where PP can defend itself. This is official harassment, by agencies of a State government: a government, btw, headed by the likes of Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton: how likely are assclowns like them to care how they appear, or whether or not they are acting within the law?
re: #323 Blind Frog Belly White
Anyone heard of ‘Probable Cause’? Or is that an outmoded concept these days?
It is when the governor, lt gov, and state attn’y general are lunatics with no respect for the law or citizens.
Why have I got this image in my head of a newspaper detailing how Trump, after getting his ass handed to him at the polls next year, found some way to cheat the swiss-cheesed campaign finance laws to keep all of the campaign donations for himself?
re: #326 allegro
It is when the governor, lt gov, and state attn’y general are lunatics with no respect for the law or citizens.
HURR HURR BUT WE NEEDS ARE GUNZ TO STOP TYRANNY!!!!11!!!!!
Enough for now.
Off to play Borderlands 2. I’ll imagine that every Psycho or Goliath I blow away is a GOP member of the Benghazi committee or a member of the Texas Inspector General’s office.
So, the deadline has passed for PPFA to turn over 5 years worth of medical records. Any updates?
re: #330 Dr. Matt
They hired Chuck and Burns to handle the submission.
I would pay money to watch Kamala kick his ass.
Female superheroes, as a general rule, really suck. Your thoughts, #SJW #Feminists?
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) October 23, 2015
re: #329 Romantic Heretic
Enough for now.
Off to play Borderlands 2. I’ll imagine that every Psycho or Goliath I blow away is a GOP member of the Benghazi committee or a member of the Texas Inspector General’s office.
That is an unkind comparison. The psychos can recite Hamlet.
re: #331 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
They hired Chuck and Burns to handle the submission.
So they are going to get dick pics and files from Ashley Madison. Bravo.
re: #317 Franklin
If you buy his shitty hat on his campaign site for $30 when you can get an equally shitty hat on Canal St for $5, then you are getting ripped off.
I asked him if the second sentence negated the first sentence of that tweet.
re: #332 The Vicious Babushka
I would pay money to watch Kamala kick his ass.
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re: #333 Kragar
That is an unkind comparison. The psychos can recite Hamlet.
“Apes don’t read Philosophy!”
“Yes, they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it.”
re: #336 Kragar
My thoughts? Steven Crowder started a fight, lost, lied about it on TV, then got busted for it.
My 2-year-old granddaughter could kick his ass.
re: #318 allegro
I figure what they’re trying to do is find non-existing evidence that women were coerced or paid for the fetal tissue to show PP wrong doing. As an added bonus they can bully and terrorize every woman who has had the procedure as she waits for the next shoe, or nutcase bullet, to drop. Especially fun for women whose partners don’t know they had abortions when investigators come knocking on their doors for their fake fishing expeditions. This is so fucking wrong on so many evil levels.
And it seems that she would be well within her right if they come knocking to tell them to fuck off. She has done nothing illegal and they have no right to question her.
re: #291 lawhawk
A second poll finds Carson leading Trump in Iowa. One poll is an outlier. Two is the beginning of a trend (or at least confirmation the first wasn’t an outlier).
Gov. Christie, who’s been panhandling in the state again, was 12th at 1%.
WATch out Jersey teachers, Christie’s going to be angry and take out his anger on you.
re: #332 The Vicious Babushka
I would pay money to watch Kamala kick his ass.
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Bat HitGirl in Kick Ass was cool. And Violette Szabo (a real life superhero IMO) was even cooler and the many SOE/OSS ladies.
H/T Kragar
re: #340 HappyWarrior
I bet NJ voters can’t wait for his term to be over.
re: #338 The Vicious Babushka
My 2-year-old granddaughter could kick his ass.
Hell hath no fury like a 2 year old. (My niece is a ilttle younger than your granddaughter), that girl is her daddy’s boss and they both know it.
re: #342 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
I bet NJ voters can’t wait for his term to be over.
Yep I bet they’re counting down the days. I expect NJ will return a Dem to the mansion in Trenton.
Category “Messages Not Received”
From The Late Senator Joseph McCarthy
To GOP
Re: Benghazi Hearings
Thanks you sirs for finally lifting the burden of guilt that had come with my anti communist crusade as the most unjust hearings to have been held in Congressional session since my day. I can now lie at rest peacefully knowing the public will now think Gowdy when they used to think McCarthy
From Clinton For President et al.
To GOP
Re: Benghazi Hearings
Thank you sirs for the sudden influx of donations to the campaign following the rank embarrassment provided by you at the Benghazi hearings. You have made our job much easier.
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re: #343 HappyWarrior
Hell hath no fury like a 2 year old. (My niece is a ilttle younger than your granddaughter), that girl is her daddy’s boss and they both know it.
It’s wouldn’t be fair because she has a twin sister.
re: #348 The Vicious Babushka
It’s wouldn’t be fair because she has a twin sister.
Double trouble in that case. We don’t have too many twins in my family unfortunately. I always wondered what it would be like to have one.
ROFL:
Trump to 2016 Candidates: Return ‘Dark Money’ Donations to Super PACs https://t.co/OVCgZ3DyHy pic.twitter.com/7j1Lt2F3vZ
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) October 23, 2015
re: #332 The Vicious Babushka
Female superheroes, as a general rule, really suck. Your thoughts, #SJW #Feminists?
— Steven Crowder
Deep thoughts, from Steve Crowder.
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re: #309 jaunte
I would actually take one of those…
DEEP THOTS FROM LI’L RAGEGOBLIN==>
Unaware that Paul Ryan pays his staff with GOVERNMENT MONEY
Paul Ryan gives his staff free coffee. Does not believe the government should provide free coffee. https://t.co/zl264DYl4V
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 23, 2015
re: #354 The Vicious Babushka
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Paul Ryan: Makes career bitching about the government, outside a stint at McDonalds and the family business has spent a career getting a check from the U.S taxpayer. Shit, I have more private sector experience than Paul Ryan does.
I was thinking about the difference between Watergate and Whitewater, Benghazi, etc. In the Watergate scandal, at each step, a new clue came out that led deeper. Over time, the clues led all the way to the Oval Office. But every time the investigation went deeper, it was because something had been found that led there. That’s how you conduct an investigation - you follow the clues. Each clue leads you to the next.
In Whitewater, Benghazi, etc, the investigations found nothing. Each time that nothing was found, the Right concluded they had to dig deeper. Then the fact that nothing was found there meant they had to dig STILL DEEPER.
That’s why their conspiracy theories and the questions they posed, and the narratives they spun make no coherent sense. There aren’t clues they’re following. There’s only the belief in a DEEP DARK SECRET that they have to dig up.
That guy whose tweet says even though he’s a Christian, he wants Hillary to burn in Hell for what she did - I’d bet dollars to donuts that he can’t even articulate what that horrible crime is. It’s just that he hates her SO MUCH that she UNQUESTIONABLY had to have done SOMETHING.
Look at the responses from the Right to yesterday’s hearing, many of which boil down to ‘She’s too smart to slip up’. It couldn’t be that there’s no There there. It’s always got to be that they just are too ill equipped to find it.
Carson Doubles Down on Policing Colleges for Political Bias: ‘It’ll Take Some Defining’ https://t.co/x3T2p1o3C1 pic.twitter.com/iAedLZZjNi
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) October 23, 2015
Watch a bunch of benbots swarm my mentions now.
Paul Ryan is a government employee so essentially government is providing the coffee #tcot #UniteBlue #FeelTheBern https://t.co/Dk34QfFSb4
— Witches Ba-BOO!-shka (@viciousbabushka) October 23, 2015
re: #358 Lidane
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Political correctness is killing us, so we need to get the Government involved in defining it properly, and then enforcing that on our universities.
re: #354 The Vicious Babushka
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I think Paul’s sphincter is pinching off the blood supply to his brain.
RagePuppy is bitching about the #Republican break room bonus. Our job is now complete. #coffeewhine .@benshapiro
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) October 23, 2015
re: #358 Lidane
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Go ahead and say it Ben, you mean any professor who disagrees with your Skousen influenced view of history. To be honest, the way Carson and many American conservatives want history taught is no different from ultra Japanese nationalists who want textbooks to avoid atrocities committed by the Japanese empire in WWII and Turkish ones who deny the Armenian genocide. History is about learning from mistakes and the past, not white washing it.
re: #327 Targetpractice
Why have I got this image in my head of a newspaper detailing how Trump, after getting his ass handed to him at the polls next year, found some way to cheat the swiss-cheesed campaign finance laws to keep all of the campaign donations for himself?
You mean the guy that doesn’t need anyone’s money?
House Republicans vote to repeal Obamacare for the 61st time https://t.co/sJhcbaGBbX
— Eric W. Dolan (@EWDolan) October 23, 2015
re: #366 Lidane
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From the New Yorker a couple of weeks ago, but this will never grow old:
Ben Carson: Pompeii Victims Should Have Outrun Lava
By Andy Borowitz / October 7, 2015WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — Citizens of the Roman town of Pompeii who were victims of Mt. Vesuvius’s eruption in 79 A.D. could have survived if they had “just outrun the lava,” the neurosurgeon Ben Carson told Fox News on Wednesday.
“Most of the plaster casts we have of Pompeii victims show them basically just lying down and whatnot,” he said. “If I had been in Pompeii and I heard Mt. Vesuvius erupting, you can bet I would have made a run for it.”
He said another option open to residents of Pompeii would have been “to fight the volcano.”
“Archeologists estimate that the population of Pompeii was about eleven thousand,” he said. “You can’t tell me that if eleven thousand people put their minds to it they couldn’t beat one volcano.”
Carson said he would spend the next week on the campaign trail dispensing helpful tips about how people can defeat earthquakes, tsunamis, and giant asteroids.
re: #368 De Kolta Chair
From the New Yorker a couple of weeks ago, but this will never grow old:
“Hey, Volcano, you want this guy.”
re: #363 HappyWarrior
Go ahead and say it Ben, you mean any professor who disagrees with your Skousen influenced view of history. To be honest, the way Carson and many American conservatives want history taught is no different from ultra Japanese nationalists who want textbooks to avoid atrocities committed by the Japanese empire in WWII and Turkish ones who deny the Armenian genocide. History is about learning from mistakes and the past, not white washing it.
Tell that to Texas.
re: #369 HappyWarrior
How many women and children would Carson have stepped over to get himself on a lifeboat, had he been on the Titanic?
re: #371 ObserverArt
Tell that to Texas.
No kidding. I’ve read about what Barton’s “pseudo-history” is teaching those kids and it’s awful. Saw an excerpt and they referred to the slaves as “laborers.” Fucking revisionist bs. Really it’s hilarious to me that for all the right wing claims about left wing academics wantign to brainwash kids that the right seems actually hellbent on doing it.
re: #372 Jebediah, RBG
How many women and children would Carson have stepped over to get himself on a lifeboat, had he been on the Titanic?
“Iceberg, you want this poor Irish kid.”
re: #372 Jebediah, RBG
How many women and children would Carson have stepped over to get himself on a lifeboat, had he been on the Titanic?
Well, but, you know, he’s a Brilliant Surgeon™ so his life is more important.
I think it’s strange as hell that an African-American man is deeply influenced by Skousen who was an unbahsed racist. I wish I could understand what Dr. Carson’s deal is. I mean it takes one extremely messed up mind or an extremely big panderer to say with a straight face that ACA is as bad as slavery. As bad as I think policies like welfare reform and decreasing food stamps are, I would never say something that insensitive or ignorant because you know slavery’s horrors kind of speak for themselves. I think the reason why they go for these hyperbolic comps is because they know they can’t actually find anything really objectively wrong with ACA so they go for the Derp Hail Mary.
re: #375 Blind Frog Belly White
“My gift to you, drowning children, is that I will save someone else’s life once I get safely back to a hospital.”
re: #325 Jay C
I’m referring to the House launching yet another investigative committee, not the state AG’s abuse of power by investigating PP and demanding records that are likely to violate HIPAA and other confidentiality provisions.
re: #376 HappyWarrior
I think the hyperbole is also intellectual laziness. ACA, and lots of other public policy issues, are big, complicated things, and to discuss it or argue about it seriously requires a fair amount of homework and the ability to hold a bunch of complex ideas and facts in one’s head at once. Way easier to yell “Slavery!” or “Hitler!”
re: #368 De Kolta Chair
That’s what Time Lords are for. And why Time Lords sometimes choose the faces they do - to remind them of the need to sacrifice and save lives.
re: #379 Jebediah, RBG
I think the hyperbole is also intellectual laziness. ACA, and lots of other public policy issues, are big, complicated things, and to discuss it or argue about it seriously requires a fair amount of homework and the ability to hold a bunch of complex ideas and facts in one’s head at once. Way easier to yell “Slavery!” or “Hitler!”
I think it also comes from the fact that ACA frankly resembles the counters to Clinton’s plans in the 90’s and Romney’s thing in Massachusetts which in Mitt’s own words should have been a model for the nation. Obama outsmarted them by starting out from the center on health care reform.
re: #329 Romantic Heretic
Enough for now.
Off to play Borderlands 2.
Sounds fun
I’ll imagine that every Psycho or Goliath I blow away is a GOP member of the Benghazi committee or a member of the Texas Inspector General’s office.
That might be a tad unhealthy.
re: #372 Jebediah, RBG
How many women and children would Carson have stepped over to get himself on a lifeboat, had he been on the Titanic?
All of them, Katie.
re: #332 The Vicious Babushka
I would pay money to watch Kamala kick his ass.
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Why would civilized people waste their time sharing their thoughts with a clueless lout like @scrowder
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