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GotNwes translates Chuck, chapter XII
ANALYSISIS: All about ‘mass shootings’ and
mein kam— me[Chuck Johnson’s latest screed, in plain English. Some differences from the original may exist.]
I was right. It was Muslims that did the shootings in California. I was right. I was right. I was right. Nyah nyah nyah. You’re just jealous of me!
It really bothers people I have a really good network of … people. I’ve also learned how the Narrative leads the media astray, but not me I’m not the media, and also too I tend to be really, really good at busting bogus stories, except when I am reporting them.
Johnson’s law number 12: nothing the media reports about guns is true. (Remember I am not the media!)
[ED: Johnson’s law number 1: a good bottle or two of whiskey always improves your writing.]
Let me explain all about these so-called “mass shotings,” because I’ve thought about them a lot. Especially recently. It takes my mind off my losing legal battles.
I’ll repost it here, since it got distracted from downstairs by some spectacular derp.
…not going to be done by Christmas. Sadly. pic.twitter.com/nB9agavUE0
— sylk (@sylk) December 5, 2015
It’s been a while since my last Page, but the Department of Veteran’s Affairs had such an EPIC FAIL that I had to post about it:
VA botches demotions of execs who misused authority for personal gain, bonuses
The Page contains nothing about the president, guns or war. It’s just about governmental corruption and little about a bill that might fix part of the problem.
This band is really good, by the way. Polyrhythms for days.
Derp recovery unit
Pretty and chock full of flavor and caloriesre: #5 Feline Fearless Leader
There are two boxes of chocolate covered Oreos in my emergency candy stash right now.
You have no idea how tempted I am.
re: #6 klys (maker of Silmarils)
There are two boxes of chocolate covered Oreos in my emergency candy stash right now.
You have no idea how tempted I am.
Work got a box of these and the administrative assistant put them out for general consumption. I got the key lime one - center of the picture.
re: #7 Feline Fearless Leader
Work got a box of these and the administrative assistant put them out for general consumption. I got the key lime one - center of the picture.
Nom nom nom.
For our wedding, we did cupcakes from the grocery store down the road and then ordered looooooooooooooooooooooooots of chocolates from the chocolate store in town.
Oh man that was such a fantastic wedding dessert. Screw cake.
re: #9 jaunte
This afternoon near Round Top, TX.
Lake Travis tomorrow. Red oaks are flaming right now.
re: #5 Feline Fearless Leader
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Gin to tonic ratio almost right…just need more gin.
And the Fever tree stuff is good, I agree.
Just to repost what I stated previously, times like this I wish I was never born in Pakistan. Being a fucking Pakistani in this world is loaded with so much baggage these days.
Criminal mastermind openly discusses his plan on Facebook, part 22:
re: #13 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Criminal mastermind openly discusses his plan on Facebook, part 22:
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re: #12 electrotek
Just to repost what I stated previously, times like this I wish I was never born in Pakistan. Being a fucking Pakistani in this world is loaded with so much baggage these days.
Someone is working to make that less true. Find them and join up.
Oh, fuck off. You need psychiatric help. @blojigar
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 5, 2015
Chuck C. Johnson is good and drunk now. pic.twitter.com/wCqlQEOU2Y
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 5, 2015
re: #16 Charles Johnson
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@blojigar So Obama knows about individual marriage visa applications, though there are thousands of them per year? Yeah, right. #blocked
— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) December 5, 2015
re: #17 Charles Johnson
It’s like watching Pinky & the Brain, but in real life, and with only one character playing both parts.
@GlennF He seems to think he can somehow use an IP address that belongs to someone else if it’s “open.” LOL.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 5, 2015
Nobody who understands how Internet protocols work would ever have posted something as stupid as that.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
Nobody who understands how Internet protocols work would ever have posted something as stupid as that.
It’s like linking a Twitter address to 192.168.1.100. Totally unique!
I do think we need to make Daesh pay for this latest attacks its run in on us, but here’s a story to help explain why scapegoating Muslims as a whole is a fool’s action:
Revealed: Brother of San Bernardino gunman is a decorated Navy veteran honored for his role in the war on terror
One family can have both a brave sailor and a rotten terrorist and I won’t damn the good man for his asshole brother. if that sounds like it contradicts what I said on the previous thread, it may well be such a contradiction.
re: #25 Dark_Falcon
I do think we need to make Daesh pay for this latest attacks its run in on us, but here’s a story to help explain why scapegoating Muslims as a whole is a fool’s action:
Revealed: Brother of San Bernardino gunman is a decorated Navy veteran honored for his role in the war on terrorOne family can have both a brave sailor and a rotten terrorist and I won’t damn the good man for his asshole brother. if that sounds like it contradicts what I said on the previous thread, it may well be such a contradiction.
I still can’t understand why he didn’t say anything about his brother’s decision to marry some niqabi from Saudi Arabia. If the shooter wanted a religious woman to marry, he could have gone to the ISNA yearly gatherings and found a hijabi Muslim woman instead of trying to find someone overseas. This has got to end.
We learned so much from poking around the murderer’s apartment. Thanks MSNBC!
Hi Lizards, what else have we learned today?
re: #28 Jenner7
We learned so much from poking around the murderer’s apartment. Thanks MSNBC!
Hi Lizards, what else have we learned today?
I lost so much respect for Kelly O’Donnell now after that.
re: #28 Jenner7
We learned so much from poking around the murderer’s apartment. Thanks MSNBC!
Hi Lizards, what else have we learned today?
The latest alert from the Los Angeles Police Department…
re: #27 electrotek
My thoughts here too.
I have realized I am not ready yet too. I am getting counseling for anger issues, and help otherwise with jobs.
re: #25 Dark_Falcon
The Islamophobes will conveniently forget/ignore all the Muslims who are not menaces to society. They want to paint a picture of 1 billion Muslims all acting as a unified force against white Christian people.
It’s the old Us vs. Them strategy.
Yup, he’s totally in the bag. pic.twitter.com/vJRKaxh7rd
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 5, 2015
re: #32 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
The Islamophobes will conveniently forget/ignore all the Muslims who are not menaces to society. They want to paint a picture of 1 billion Muslims all acting as a unified force against white Christian people.
It’s the old Us vs. Them strategy.
And then they’ll advocate for bombing the shit out of places because nobody who lives there could possibly be innocent.
re: #30 Joe Bacon
The latest alert from the Los Angeles Police Department…
Outstanding.
Meanwhile, in Congress, Senate Republicans—flush with NRA cash—voted yesterday against closing a loophole that allows people on terror watch lists to buy guns and explosives.
re: #34 klys (maker of Silmarils)
And then they’ll advocate for bombing the shit out of places because nobody who lives there could possibly be innocent.
It’s the same old mindset that most in the country had after 9/11 and where did that get us? Nowhere.
re: #28 Jenner7
We learned so much from poking around the murderer’s apartment. Thanks MSNBC!
Hi Lizards, what else have we learned today?
I need to go and buy more gin.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
It blows my mind when I ponder the depth of UpChuck’s depravity. Dude’s rotten to the core.
Boss nails it.
@liguy743 @GlennF @Skawtnyc He’s basically an angry little ginger-colored ball of hatred and malice.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 5, 2015
re: #36 WhatEVs
Outstanding.
And Rubio is wondering about why we are not talking about bomb control.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
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He’s handing MoFo the rope that they will hang him with. Is he so deluded that he wants to be a martyr to the “cause”? Does he want to go out like Cagney in White Heat? Good Lord, is he going to flip out and emulate Dear? His posts are truly scaring the CENSORED out of me!
Like this one?
Kentucky had to amend its constitution to make duelling illegal.
re: #43 Joe Bacon
He’s handing MoFo the rope that they will hang him with. Is he so deluded that he wants to be a martyr to the “cause”? Does he want to go out like Cagney in White Heat? Good Lord, is he going to flip out and emulate Dear? His posts are truly scaring the CENSORED out of me!
I don’t think he comprehends that MoFo could be building a criminal case against him and Daleiden. Every Facebook remark and blog post just gives them more circumstantial evidence for his disregard for decency and the law.
Chuck C. Johnson is good and drunk now. pic.twitter.com/wCqlQEOU2Y
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 5, 2015
@Green_Footballs @GlennF I have an open IP address he can use: 127,0,0,1
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) December 5, 2015
re: #47 darthstar
BREAKING: CCJ just banned from localhost.
UPDATE: Chuck Johnson sues localhost for $66M over service termination
Claims first amendment rights violated
This map shows the location and scale of the mass shootings that have happened in Australia since 1996’s gun laws. pic.twitter.com/ROaISJTMFA
— NonStampCollector (@nonstampNSC) December 5, 2015
A reminder that conservative humor isn’t really intended to be funny so much as a literal reflection of orthodox thought.
A South Carolina lawmaker has sent out a Christmas card featuring a photo of the Confederate flag that refers to “memories of a happier time” and suggests those who voted to remove the flag from in front of the Statehouse ask God for forgiveness for their “betrayal.”
Rep. Chris Corley said Thursday that he sent the cards to his Republican colleagues as a joke.
re: #50 goddamnedfrank
A real knee slapper.
There is absolutely no legitimate reason for a private citizen to be walking a city street with any sort of rifle. Anyone doing so is a menace to society and should be detained and their weapon confiscated.
You don’t get to yell fire in a public theater.
You don’t get to walk around yelling obscenities as passers-by.
There is no reason to allow thugs to carry weapons on the streets to intimidate and terrify their fellow citizens.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
“Neurodiverse”? What the fuck?
re: #53 Kragar
You don’t get to yell fire in a public theater.
You don’t get to walk around yelling obscenities as passers-by.
There is no reason to allow thugs to carry weapons on the streets to intimidate and terrify their fellow citizens.
Also, you don’t tug on Supermans cape, you don’t spit into the wind and you don’t pull the mask off the ol’ Lone Ranger.
re: #49 darthstar
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I lived in Australia when the mass murder occurred in Tasmania. It horrified the country. Toy shop owners removed all gun toys and smashed them in the streets. People lamented loudly that Oz risked becoming like the US. A strict law was passed with almost universal support. And no more massacres.
Hunters didn’t feel threatened. No one yelled about protecting themselves. I was still often encouraged to get a rifle and learn how to use it safely. Not because I was scared of my neighbors, but because I was often in the outback where car collisions with large animals occur. The decent thing to do is to end the animal’s suffering quickly.
Times like these, I miss Oz….
re: #56 Lani
I lived in Australia when the mass murder occurred in Tasmania. It horrified the country.
I was 16 when Columbine happened a hundred miles away from me. And on and on it goes, Aurora movie theater, the latest Planned Parenthood shooting. On and on.
Colorado is some kind of state.
re: #54 Eclectic Cyborg
“Neurodiverse”? What the fuck?
I’ve heard neurodiverse used by people on the autism spectrum to ask for greater acceptance of differences. OTOH, I’ve also heard it used to demand acquiescence to inappropriate behavior. Chuck is likely in the latter group.
re: #57 teleskiguy
I was 16 when Columbine happened a hundred miles away from me. And on and on it goes, Aurora movie theater, the latest Planned Parenthood shooting. On and on.
Colorado is some kind of state.
I love Colorado and have considered retiring there in 5 years or so. But that gun shit is too much for me after living in Oz and Hawaii for my adult life. I just haven’t lived places where a gun is a fashion accessory and where gun deaths are a regular occurrence. No need to start doing so when I’m old!
re: #33 Charles Johnson
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He has to be drinking the cheap shit.
He hasn’t even asked for money yet. He must be wasted.
re: #60 Pawn of the Oppressor
He has to be drinking the cheap shit.
“What’s the word? / Thunderbird / How’s it sold? / Good and cold / What’s the jive? / Bird’s alive / What’s the price? / Thirty twice”
re: #54 Eclectic Cyborg
“Neurodiverse”? What the fuck?
He means “different” people, i.e. those of us on the autism spectrum. To use an electrical metaphor, we have non-typical brain wiring.
…Some of us are dicks about it!
re: #60 Pawn of the Oppressor
He has to be drinking the cheap shit.
He hasn’t even asked for money yet. He must be wasted.
I can’t imagine he can afford the good stuff.
re: #64 KingKenrod
Someone needs to reset the libel clock.
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If he sued, he’d still lose. At this point, he’s a public figure.
re: #64 KingKenrod
I am having a good long laugh at the thought of his “lawyer”, with his mail order law degree from Jesus College, trying to successfully file a libel suit.
No, I mean, literally trying to file it… ECF is probably against the Bible or something.
…It’s also not libel if it’s true.
re: #66 Pawn of the Oppressor
I am having a good long laugh at the thought of his “lawyer”, with his mail order law degree from Jesus College, trying to successfully file a libel suit.
No, I mean, literally trying to file it… ECF is probably against the Bible or something.
…It’s also not libel if it’s true.
The mail-order lawyer is the one defending Chuck against the National Abortion Foundation, who retained Morrison & Foerster in SF. Like using a BB gun to take down a destroyer.
The Gawker libel suit lawyer has a personal injury practice, and about Chuck’s age. He has a history of RW causes. But essentially another BB gun against a PT boat — Gawker’s counsel is a big firm in St. Louis that seems to know its way around federal courts.
Chuck’s pockets are not deep enough to hire a really good lawyer, and all his so-called billionaire friends seem to be avoiding his crowdfunding for a legal defense fund of only $10,000. MoFo’s lawyers could burn through that amount in one frackin’ day.
You can actually watch Chucky Cheese Johnson get drunk through an evening. I wouldn’t stay up to watch it, but if you are up anyway it remains slightly amusing, especially as his posts become more and more entertaining. And then you are waiting, thinking, “come on Charlie, one more post.”
re: #68 John Vreeland
You can actually watch Chucky Cheese Johnson get drunk through an evening. I wouldn’t stay up to watch it, but if you are up anyway it remains slightly amusing, especially as his posts become more and more entertaining. And then you are waiting, thinking, “come on Charlie, one more post.”
Honestly, he spends way too much time on the Internet, shitting out his barely literate blogs and FB status reports. Guy needs to get another hobby, one that does not involve firearms or alcohol.
re: #69 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Honestly, he spends way too much time on the Internet, shitting out his barely literate blogs and FB status reports. Guy needs to get another hobby, one that does not involve firearms or alcohol.
If I thought it would help, I’d give him a guitar and amp. More bad racist metal is less dangerous than booze and guns.
re: #70 William Lewis
If I thought it would help, I’d give him a guitar and amp. More bad racist metal is less dangerous than booze and guns.
He’d be less harmless being in a band than being a PITA on the Internet.
I’m wondering if the CMP has complied with the court order to disclose. It’s past midnight PST - anyone out there heard anything yet?
And if they don’t comply, then what? Contempt of court? And who goes to the slammer?
re: #72 Dr Lizardo
I’m wondering if the CMP has complied with the court order to disclose. It’s past midnight PST - anyone out there heard anything yet?
And if they don’t comply, then what? Contempt of court? And who goes to the slammer?
Would they be able to plead the 5th to avoid discovery?
re: #72 Dr Lizardo
re: #73 Teukka
CMP is to provide the subpoenaed material for attorney’s eyes only, so I’m not sure if and when it will show up on PACER. But you are correct in saying the deadline has passed.
As for the 5th, they already tried that, and the courts noted that you can’t plead self-incrimination during discovery in a civil suit. So they tried a 1st amendment appeal, which got shot down. If they don’t comply, then the judge could charge them with contempt. The NAF has already moved for that and provided the judge an order to sign off on, if he were so disposed.
Probably we’ll hear all about it on Monday.
re: #74 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
CMP is to provide the subpoenaed material for attorney’s eyes only, so I’m not sure if and when it will show up on PACER. But you are correct in saying the deadline has passed.
As for the 5th, they already tried that, and the courts noted that you can’t plead self-incrimination during discovery in a civil suit. So they tried a 1st amendment appeal, which got shot down. If they don’t comply, then the judge could charge them with contempt. The NAF has already moved for that and provided the judge an order to sign off on, if he were so disposed.
Probably we’ll hear all about it on Monday.
So beginning the week with sweet wingnut tears may be in the stars? o.O
re: #74 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
CMP is to provide the subpoenaed material for attorney’s eyes only, so I’m not sure if and when it will show up on PACER. But you are correct in saying the deadline has passed.
As for the 5th, they already tried that, and the courts noted that you can’t plead self-incrimination during discovery in a civil suit. So they tried a 1st amendment appeal, which got shot down. If they don’t comply, then the judge could charge them with contempt. The NAF has already moved for that and provided the judge an order to sign off on, if he were so disposed.
Probably we’ll hear all about it on Monday.
Interesting. Thanks for answering my question.
Next week could prove to be highly interesting. I wonder if the Rage Furby is getting a little nervous right about now?
On the other hand, he’d probably sing like a canary if sufficient pressure were brought to bear.
So, France was serious about shutting down the radical mosques.
Cazaneuve said Wednesday that a “large police contingent” closed one mosque in Lagny-sur- Marne, a suburb in eastern Paris, placing nine “radicalized individuals” under house arrest and barring 22 from leaving the country.
In the raid, police confiscated a 9mm handgun, a computer hard drive hidden behind a wall and jihadist propaganda. Cazaneuve said police discovered documents about an unregistered Quranic school.
Two other mosques, one in Gennevilliers in the northwest suburbs and one in Lyon, were closed within the past week. The interior minister referred to the three mosques as “pseudo-religious associations.”
Very good, even if a little bit late.
re: #77 Nyet
So, France was serious about shutting down the radical mosques.
Very good, even if a little bit late.
Better late then never, as the old adage goes.
re: #76 Dr Lizardo
Interesting. Thanks for answering my question.
Next week could prove to be highly interesting. I wonder if the Rage Furby is getting a little nervous right about now?
On the other hand, he’d probably sing like a canary if sufficient pressure were brought to bear.
He should be nervous, being involved in two legal cases at the same time, either of which could land him in hot water.
Reset that national embarrassment counter for Texas back to zero.
Texas secession resolution passes GOP committee, headed for Party vote Saturday
It was introduced by State Republican Executive Committee member Tanya Robertson, who represents parts of Harris, Galveston and Brazoria counties. In November, she told the Chronicle that many of her constituents had voiced support for a reborn Republic of Texas, the short-lived nation of the mid-1800s.
The resolution reads, “If the federal government continues to disregard the constitution and the sovereignty of the State of Texas, the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.”
The SREC is the governing body of the Republican Party of Texas, and it decides what will appear on the March 1 Republican primary ballot. The Party is currently assembled in Austin to author the ballot. On Friday, the independence resolution passed the Resolutions Committee, which selects items to go before the full 40-member assembly on Saturday. Of 12 resolutions presented at the committee Friday, five were approved, including independence, members said.
re: #79 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
He should be nervous, being involved in two legal cases at the same time, either of which could land him in hot water.
Heh. The CMP thing is pretty bad, and the Gawker case could certainly spell massive financial pain for him, from what I understand. Any possibility of him going to jail or anything like that? Such a possibility would certainly up the ante.
He’s in up to his eyeballs, no doubt about it.
All I can see is a slew of exhibits filed under seal by CMP’s lawyers. So, it could be they have complied with the order, but they are tagged as in response to the Plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction (PI), so I am not very sure of that.
“No one wants to say it, no one’s proud of it, but this is a capitalist society, capitalist system and capitalist rules, and my investors expect to me to maximize profits, not to minimize them, or go half, or go 70%, but to go to 100% of the profit curve that we’re all taught in MBA class.”
And people wonder why revolutions happen.
re: #81 Dr Lizardo
Heh. The CMP thing is pretty bad, and the Gawker case could certainly spell massive financial pain for him, from what I understand. Any possibility of him going to jail or anything like that? Such a possibility would certainly up the ante.
He’s in up to his eyeballs, no doubt about it.
Not at the moment. Charles and others have conjectured that the NAF could be preparing a criminal case against CMP, Daleiden and possibly Chuck, too.
But if Chuck refuses to comply with the subpoena, he could end up in the pokey for contempt and be fined. It’s federal court, so refusing to comply would be unwise, given his lack of a convincing argument or reason.
re: #84 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Not at the moment. Charles and others have conjectured that the NAF could be preparing a criminal case against CMP, Daleiden and possibly Chuck, too.
But if Chuck refuses to comply with the subpoena, he could end up in the pokey for contempt and be fined. It’s federal court, so refusing to comply would be unwise, given his lack of a convincing argument or reason.
Personally, I can’t imagine anyone being so foolish as to defy a federal court subpoena. But then again, we’re talking about Chuckles here, so who knows?
re: #82 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
All I can see is a slew of exhibits filed under seal by CMP’s lawyers. So, it could be they have complied with the order, but they are tagged as in response to the Plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction (PI), so I am not very sure of that.
And I tried to access the response and the court has sealed it, so it may contain what the subpoena has demanded. There are dozens of exhibits, as well.
And now for something completely different:
Death By Coconut: A Story Of Food Obsession Gone Too Far
PACER is not showing a reply from Chuck’s lawyer in the Gawker complaint. It was due Friday at midnight Central Time. Maybe just slow filing if he didn’t reply electronically?
So I discovered that some significant figures in evangelical apologetics - such as William Lane Craig and Michael Licona - actually doubt the historicity of the “resurrection of saints” narrative in Matthew 27:
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
But that’s not the most curious part. It’s the fact that they think this doubt is compatible with biblical inerrantism.
re: #89 Nyet
So I discovered that some significant figures in evangelical apologetics - such as William Lane Craig and Michael Licona - actually doubt the historicity of the “resurrection of saints” narrative in Matthew 27:
But that’s not the most curious part. It’s the fact that they think this doubt is compatible with biblical inerrantism.
WAT.
re: #62 Pawn of the Oppressor
He means “different” people, i.e. those of us on the autism spectrum. To use an electrical metaphor, we have non-typical brain wiring.
…Some of us are dicks about it!
Yeah. It’s just different. Chuck doesn’t have that excuse.
re: #90 Teukka
Apparently if you throw enough memes around, like “poetic device”, “socio-literary context of the era” and “apocalyptic language”, it makes the factual claim go away.
Some of the classical “naive” apologists, like Norman Geisler, got very upset about this.
Oh no. One of the lawyers for the Farook family is apparently a false flag Sandy Hook truther. Rachel Maddow showed a clip last night. I think this link only shows part of what Rachel showed.
I had seen a presser earlier with this lawyer, David Chesley, where he seemed more reasonable. He did go off on 2nd amendment rights, and how it’s “normal” to have 4,000 rounds. But in this 2nd clip apparently taken last night, he brings up Sandy Hook and implies that the pipe bombs in Farook’s garage may have been planted.
Chelsey added there is “a lot of motivation at this time to emphasize or create incidents that will cause gun control or prejudice or hatred toward the Muslim community.”
Just OMG. Yeah, this was a fake incident created by those of us that want more gun regulations. Just OMG.
Rachel went ballistic. Me too. This guy needs to be fired by the family asap.
re: #93 Weet
a lot of motivation at this time to emphasize or create incidents that will cause gun control or prejudice or hatred toward the Muslim community
OK, so is he accusing the left or the right?
re: #89 Nyet
So I discovered that some significant figures in evangelical apologetics - such as William Lane Craig and Michael Licona - actually doubt the historicity of the “resurrection of saints” narrative in Matthew 27:
But that’s not the most curious part. It’s the fact that they think this doubt is compatible with biblical inerrantism.
It is only inerrant it the parts where it says what they want it to say.
re: #95 Danack
It is only inerrant it the parts where it says what they want it to say.
No, they think it is wholly inerrant, but inerrancy evolved to accept “non-Western modes of thought”, so to say. This new crop of inerrantists is not bothered by formal-logical contradictions as such as long as they convince themselves that such were acceptable in ancient Near East as a part of rhetoric or way of thinking.
re: #94 Nyet
OK, so is he accusing the left or the right?
Both?
I guess when you live in conspiracy crazy village, everyone is suspect.
re: #87 Teukka
And now for something completely different:
Death By Coconut: A Story Of Food Obsession Gone Too Far
Eating only coconuts. Sounds very boring and also stupid. But the story proves that crazy ideas are not limited to the 20th and 21st centuries. For every “paleodiet” there existed a previous invented diet with the same ill effects.
re: #92 Nyet
Apparently if you throw enough memes around, like “poetic device”, “socio-literary context of the era” and “apocalyptic language”, it makes the factual claim go away.
Some of the classical “naive” apologists, like Norman Geisler, got very upset about this.
Next thing you know, you’re a Big Bang Creationist, NTTAWWT.
So, I stayed off the internets the last couple of days. Because of the PP Clinic shooting, I figured I was so angry it would be best.
Now, I find there was another mass shooting/Terrorism incident.
My first thought was, SSDD.
It’s really good I’ve stayed off the internets.
re: #99 Decatur Deb
That’s what Norman Geisler et al. point out.
Craig is a Big Bang creationist btw.
re: #97 Weet
Both?
I guess when you live in conspiracy crazy village, everyone is suspect.
That might be crazy, but not very crazy. Evidence gets planted, and the FBI lost its virginity under Hoover.
(Just sittin’ here in Lower Alabama wondering how many White supremacists are in my police force.)
re: #89 Nyet
So I discovered that some significant figures in evangelical apologetics - such as William Lane Craig and Michael Licona - actually doubt the historicity of the “resurrection of saints” narrative in Matthew 27:
But that’s not the most curious part. It’s the fact that they think this doubt is compatible with biblical inerrantism.
Really, it’s a Zombie Apocalypse.
Labeling gets complicated at the edges. Some creationists accept common descent.
re: #101 Nyet
That’s what Norman Geisler et al. point out.
Craig is a Big Bang creationist btw.
You may say I’m a dreamer, but someday these arguments will be less important than “Han shot first”. A long, long, time from now.
re: #103 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Really, it’s a
Zombie ApocalypseGhost Dance.
re: #105 Decatur Deb
You may say I’m a dreamer, but someday these arguments will be less important than “Han shot first”. A long, long, time from now.
You are optimistic about the humanity’s survival, I see.
Craig:
This is a possibility, I think. But it might seem more plausible to say that the genetic similarity of all living things is due to their being related to one another. For example, in a recent article by the population geneticist Dennis Venema of Trinity Western University[1], he specifies three genetic phenomena which are difficult for the special creationist to account for. Let me share with you these three phenomena that he pinpoints.
First, he says, the deep genetic similarity between organisms is far in excess of what is required in order for DNA to produce similar amino acids and proteins which would govern the types of organisms that are produced.[2] The genetic code permits 64 different combinations of its elements. You can combine the different elements of the genetic code into 64 different combinations. But these different combinations produce only 20 amino acids. So there is a kind of redundancy here - the same amino acid can be produced by several different combinations of the genetic code. You’ve got 64 different combinations but only 20 amino acids that result. So the same amino acid can be produced by different combinations of the elements of the code. So in order for two organisms to share similar amino acid segments, and so to be genetically similar, they don’t have to have that deep structural similarity on the level of the genetic code. And yet, time and again we find that organisms which are thought to be related share not only similar amino acid sequences but deeper similarity of genetic code combinations. This deeper unnecessary similarity would be explicable if the organisms share a common descent and hence a common genetic code. But it would seem to be unmotivated if each one were a special creation.
The second phenomenon that Venema points to is the organization of the genes of related organisms[3] suggests a common ancestry. The organization of their genes, he thinks, supports common ancestry. Two species which are thought to have recently diverged from a common ancestor have not only many of the same genes but they also have the same ordering, or sequence, of those genes. This similarity of ordering is not necessary in order for the organisms to have similar body plans and functions. They can have the same genes and hence similar body plans and functions but they don’t need to have the same ordering. And yet, they do! Special creation seems to leave this similarity unmotivated whereas common ancestry would make it intelligible. They share their ordering of their genes because they are descended from one another.
Finally, the third phenomenon is the presence of shared so-called pseudogenes in related organisms suggests common descent. A pseudogene is a defunct gene sequence that has been inactivated through mutation. It was once a functioning gene sequence but a mutation occurred which inactivated it so it is now defunct. Organisms which are thought to be closely related are found to have the same non-functioning pseudogenes even in the same order even though these defunct genes do nothing in either organism. Such similarity would make sense given common ancestry but it is hard to explain why God would reproduce in one organism the broken parts of another organism. To borrow the automotive analogy once more, it is hard to see why the designer would reproduce in one automotive model a non-functioning handle found in another model.
These arguments are far from compelling and they fall far short of demonstrating anything so sweeping as the thesis of common ancestry - that all living organisms are descended from a single primordial ancestor. Still, I think they do make special creation look rather ad hoc, or contrived, in light of the evidence. So the genetic evidence is, I think, one of the best evidences in support of the thesis of common ancestry.[4]
Illinois House bill releases some funds
Unlike a similar bill that passed the House but was not sent to the Senate, the new version adds spending requested by Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner as well as some projects sought by Democratic legislators.
Senate Democrats indicated the Senate will convene Monday to take up the legislation.
The vote came a day after a rare conference among Rauner and the legislative leaders over the lack of a state spending plan despite the budget year nearing its halfway point. It adds money Rauner sought for road salt to battle snow drifts and training for police and includes Democrats’ demands for funding domestic-violence ?shelters and energy-bill assistance for the poor.Rauner acknowledged it boosts the deficit he rails against but told reporters that he wanted to address “essential government services so that the people of Illinois can be safe.”
re: #87 Teukka
And now for something completely different:
Death By Coconut: A Story Of Food Obsession Gone Too Far
Then how did Gilligan and the rest survive so long on the Island?
We have another little scandal brewing here in the Czech Republic. Heh.
Czech MEP Miloslav Ransdorf (Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, KSČM), 62, who was detained in Switzerland on Thursday over an alleged attempt at financial fraud, was released by the Swiss police today, Czech Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Michaela Lagronova told CTK.
The Slovak Interior Ministry´s spokesman Ivan Netik told the Reuters agency that Ransdorf and three Slovak nationals, who were arrested together with him, attempted to draw 350 million euros from a bank in Zurich using false identity documents.
The Slovak dennikn.sk server wrote that three Slovaks attempted to draw the above sum from a bank in which an account in Ransdorf´s name is kept on Thursday. The server wrote that the Slovaks were stooges.
dennikn.sk wrote that three Slovaks together with Ransdorf entered the Swiss bank, which, however, refused to carry out the huge transaction because the birth date on a document submitted was not correct. The men allegedly started to be aggressive and the police had to intervene. An investigation into the origin of the money started, the server wrote.
re: #104 Nyet
Labeling gets complicated at the edges. Some creationists accept common descent.
I gave-up labels a long time ago. There are the Whackos® and there is everyone else. That is about as complicated as I can get.
re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Then how did Gilligan and the rest survive so long on the Island?
fish
re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Then how did Gilligan and the rest survive so long on the Island?
One of the burning questions of the 1960s and ’70s.
re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Then how did Gilligan and the rest survive so long on the Island?
Ever wonder why there’s no indigenous inhabitants?
There you go.
Shouldn’t Congress repeal THEIR healthcare first? pic.twitter.com/jWaeNrbmUK
— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) December 5, 2015
Once again, @SenWarren drops the mic! #StandWithPP https://t.co/sGvpza0OtV
— Planned Parenthood (@PPIAction) December 5, 2015
RT @bedsider Remember the pill before Netflix and chill. pic.twitter.com/9Cd5C0ro6t
— NARAL (@NARAL) December 5, 2015
re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Then how did Gilligan and the rest survive so long on the Island?
Fish and the professor must have known how to make poi from Taro. ////
re: #111 Dr Lizardo
We have another little scandal brewing here in the Czech Republic. Heh.
I’ve seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
Twitter finally suspends George Zimmerman, but not for tweeting Trayvon’s dead body - https://t.co/ysKHgLbcLs
— Rick Cooley (@rcooley123) December 5, 2015
Hey, teleskiguy, here’s your Plutonian mountains!
If it wasn’t for the Professor and MaryAnn, no one would have survived that Island.
Workers Unionize at Target for the First Time in the Chain’s History https://t.co/EvJz1Unjji via @twitter.com #1u
— Amy Tidd (@AmyTidd) December 5, 2015
Via @tyla54 pic.twitter.com/vy1OjSAaFH
— Bramble & Wild (@Botrublu) November 30, 2015
Are debtors’ prisons returning?
In Ferguson, Missouri, the equivalent of 75% of the city’s population had outstanding arrest warrants. These warrants were not for committing a crime but for failing to appear in court or not paying traffic and parking violations. According to a U.S. Department of Justice report, in a city of 21,000 residents, the Ferguson Police Department issued 33,000 arrests warrants for unpaid tickets in 2013 alone.
In Illinois, the Department of Corrections charged a man $20,000 to cover the cost of his incarceration, according to the Chicago Tribune. Homeless and practically destitute after recently serving a 15-month prison sentence for a nonviolent drug offense, he had no ability to pay his fine. If he had not died in June, it is likely he would have been locked up for his inability to pay.
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Pluto’s al-Idrisi mountains and Sputnik Planum, full resolution at link
re: #126 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Are debtors’ prisons returning?
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We just had success, through the SPLC and local activists, in driving off this particular bunch of judicial predators:
Rolling Stone: Ted Cruz Isn’t Crazy - He’s Much Worse
re: #129 Decatur Deb
We just had success, through the SPLC and local activists, in driving off this particular bunch of judicial predators:
Excellent!
re: #102 Decatur Deb
That might be crazy, but not very crazy. Evidence gets planted, and the FBI lost its virginity under Hoover.
(Just sittin’ here in Lower Alabama wondering how many White supremacists are in my police force.)
That Alabama story is horrific. Saved that story the other day:
But this situation is a wee bit different. Not comparable.
Ski tours are a few years away — travel timeFigured I should upload a low-res version.
re: #132 Weet
That Alabama story is horrific. Saved that story the other day:
But this situation is a wee bit different. Not comparable.
RETRACTION: We’ve removed tweets to a “Henry County Report” story about the Dothan, Ala. police department.
— SPLC (@splcenter) December 3, 2015
re: #132 Weet
That Alabama story is horrific. Saved that story the other day:
But this situation is a wee bit different. Not comparable.
Yeah—this guy is more likely to be a tactician than a nutcase, but past and present government misconduct turns paranoia into plausibility if you’re an ‘other’.
re: #135 Decatur Deb
Yeah—this guy is more likely to be a tactician than a nutcase, but past and present government misconduct turns paranoia into plausibility if you’re an ‘other’.
There is no excuse for CTs, whatever the background.
re: #134 Nyet
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They got sucked in by a ‘citizen journalist’ who overstated an unresolved case. The official response, “I’m just a history buff”, does not explain away police SCV leadership.
re: #136 Nyet
There is no excuse for CTs, whatever the background.
He’s warping Sandy Hook to advance his client’s interest. He’s a lawyer.
re: #139 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
*shiver*
The picture is somewhat better and yet a bit worse than the county newsblog states. The blogger is giving voice to a number of people who have axes to grind, but the officials who are accused have not responded adequately. A lizard (The Mess) has put up a page. It’s small-town shit, but the kind that gets people killed and lives destroyed.
re: #138 Decatur Deb
He’s warping Sandy Hook to advance his client’s interest. He’s a lawyer.
I wonder what average jury he thinks that appeals to.
I think he’s a nut case.
re: #143 Weet
I wonder what average jury he thinks that appeals to.
I think he’s a nut case.
The InfoWars/PrisonPlanet/Alex Jones crowd.
You know…….the GOP.
re: #143 Weet
I wonder what average jury he thinks that appeals to.
I think he’s a nut case.
Don’t think it’s about a jury right now. Those obviously chargeable are dead. This seems more about deflecting public opinion from the family and group, perhaps in anticipation of further legal grief. (Didn’t say he was a good lawyer.)
re: #144 Dr Lizardo
The InfoWars/PrisonPlanet/Alex Jones crowd.
You know…….the GOP.
Yes, Rachel did a short segment on Mr. Jones. It was great.
I’m going to repost a thing from reddit in it’s entirety as it is thing of beauty.
“They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour.” - Hosea 8:7 (NIV)
Mr. Trump’s candidacy is the culmination of a process that began nearly thirty years ago, when the RNC allowed the despicable Lee Atwater to implement his “Southern Strategy”. It consisted of freezing out any Republican who dared to contemplate political compromise and realpolitik, and whipping up Southern evangelicals, libertarian kooks and states-rights radicals into an unthinking frenzy of blind ideological and theological mania, calculated to overwhelm any and all balanced views and reasonable analyses of what the party’s - or the nation’s - longterm and practical political objectives might actually be.
Since first being infected by the Atwater brain-disease, the Republic Party has acted like a horse breeder gone mad; instead of trying to improve the vigor of their political stable, they have actively and enthusiastically crossbred to increase its genetic susceptibility to political diseases: demagoguery, parochialism, falseness, paranoia, maliciousness, dogmatism, jingoism, racism, sexism, anti-intellectualism, close-mindedness and arrogance. These are all, of course, highly contagious conditions even under normal circumstances, but the GOP long ago decided to make their breeding stock doubly susceptible to such chronic infections.
Now, a wealthy outsider has appeared out of nowhere to enter the race - and from the way he struts around the parade ring, he appears quite capable of taking home the cup. While the GOP is still slowly training awkward colts to be political starters, he is already a fully finished product that has suddenly shown up, and is standing at the post.
The GOP’s problem is that Trump The Donald (by Fred, out of Mary Anne) is not of the purebred Republican line, and has no GOP pedigree. Rather, he is a random, one-in-three-hundred-million genetic fluke, a human Seabiscuit, created and trained entirely outside the soundproof bubble of the GOP paddock. So it is no wonder these self-absorbed stable owners, who have not bothered to look at the competition beyond their own fence rail in three decades, sneeringly discount his potential to win.
In their arrogance, they fail to see that Trump’s unique and privileged rich-boy upbringing has instilled within him not just some, but virtually all of the political deformities they have so long tried to breed into their own stock. And they stupidly remain unaware that he in fact carries them all in much higher concentrations than they could ever achieve with a candidate who meekly toes the party line for a decade or two, and passively allows himself to be groomed for The Big Race by those cautious billionaire owners and chart-gazing strategist-trainers that make up the very innermost of the GOP’s inner circles.This is the reason for Trump’s remarkable popularity among the hoi polloi punters that populate the Republican grandstand: his appeal to the crude, the lowbrow and the unthinking is so strong because he is the concentrated sum total of exactly those racing qualities which the GOP has been promising to deliver to their base for the last three decades. And now, if the Republican establishment wants to win this race, they must take the desperate gamble of saturating the field with the rest of its stable, and sacrificing every single yearling it has left in its unfinished breeding program - however temperamentally unready to race, malformed, misshapen, and uncoordinated they may be.
And that is why Trump will remain the betting favourite on the GOP totalizer board, until the very moment the convention gates are flung open, and Mr. Priebus hollers, “Annnd they’rrre OFF!”
re: #144 Dr Lizardo
The InfoWars/PrisonPlanet/Alex Jones crowd.
You know…….the GOP.
The common clay of the new West…
Charles Pierce: If Prayer-Shaming helps break stranglehold of religious right … worth it https://t.co/UWMnhQpUqX pic.twitter.com/01K8wjiYcF
That’s some sweet wordsmithing right there…
re: #149 lawhawk
And that last sentence isn’t even an exaggeration. It’s an understatement.
11 Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse! Its rider is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. 12 His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems; and he has a name inscribed that no one knows but himself. 13 He is clothed in a robe dipped in[h] blood, and his name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies of heaven, wearing fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. 15 From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron; he will tread the wine press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has a name inscribed, “King of kings and Lord of lords.”
17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly in midheaven, “Come, gather for the great supper of God, 18 to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of the mighty, the flesh of horses and their riders—flesh of all, both free and slave, both small and great.” 19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against the rider on the horse and against his army. 20 And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed in its presence the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. 21 And the rest were killed by the sword of the rider on the horse, the sword that came from his mouth; and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.
33re: #147 Danack
That’s pretty good, especially for the horse race metaphor. But Seabiscuit won a lot of races. Trump The Donald (out of Fred by Mary Anne) has yet to face a primary race, so he is as yet untested.
If he manages to take any primary, then I might worry. For now, I’m just hopeful his bluster and bombast will wear thin.
@RichardDawkins because they believe in something. When you believe in something you stand up for it. Id die for my faith. Its too important
— Ian Arbuckle (@radioman60) December 5, 2015
re: #41 Feline Fearless Leader
And Rubio is wondering about why we are not talking about bomb control.
High explosives are already highly regulated, but there are just too many ways homemade explosives can be made to prevent terrorists from making bombs from time to time. The best we can do is keep up on the variants of terrorist IEDs and make sure police bomb squads and SWAT teams have that information.
re: #152 Nyet
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Richard Dawkins is an excellent scientist but when it comes to religion he Just Doesn’t Get It.
re: #155 Dark_Falcon
I suppose you agree with the potential terrorist guy whose tweet I posted then.
re: #157 Nyet
I suppose you agree with the potential terrorist guy whose tweet I posted then.
Thanks, I’m not DF but I happen to think both are idiots. Dawkins, especially, in his islamophobia.
The bible experiment doesn’t surprise me. Very few people know their scripture - whatever one it is - very well. Few can spend the time that actual scholars of the subject do on it. I imagine you could take material from the Vedas and pull the same stunt on both Christians and Moslems.
re: #154 Nyet
These Pranksters Read Bible Passages to People, Telling Them It Was the Qur’an; They Were Shocked
The vid makes its point, but I don’t think the Dutch are good test subjects (WTF girl). A redo in Colorado Springs would be more telling.
re: #158 William Lewis
I can’t stand the recent Dawkins who’s devolving by the second, but the comment was not about Dawkins.
re: #152 Nyet
I wonder how true that is. If Mr Arbuckle was faced with life or death because of his faith would he really go the martyr route? Just like the bluster about being a “good guy with a gun” in an active shooter situation. I don’t buy it. Most of the time anyway.
I get why religion exists. The world is scary, people need something larger than themselves to hold on to, otherwise, sometimes it would seem like WTF is the point of it all. It also allows for community and common ground so that good things can flourish. But far too often none of that happens, more like the opposite.
I was raised by Amway right wing evangelicals. I got sent to Bible study groups that used Hal Lindsey books as study guides. And yet, at no time was I asked not to think for myself, scoff at science, or to rely solely on prayer to solve problems. My parents, thank goodness, were smart enough to know I would need to have some critical thinking skills and smarts to get me through life. I had more books than toys. By age 10 I had a collection of shells and various items from nature, all labeled with their latin names. So it’s possible for both religion and reason to exist together, even if they don’t always get along. As I got older, most of the shitty things that happened to me, and later my son, were at the hands of “good Christian people” and I gave up on the traditional idea of church and religious community.
My dad’s mom didn’t like organized religion at all. She said God was all over the place, not in a fancy building on Sundays. God isn’t this thing humans made up, it’s where we are, who we love, how we live. I agree with her, I wish she was still around, except I think she’d be heartbroken at the way things have gone since she died 20 yrs ago. Today in fact. Shit.
Off to prepare for the funeral of a hardcore Habitat builder. He was 81, and worked on a raising as recently as last year.
So, Gov. Christie tries to congratulate himself on the incredible insight that “women can be terrorists”.
Ummm, anyone who’s followed international terrorism and trends would know that women have been terrorists for what? 30+ years? Longer?
SLA? Japanese Red Army? Bader Meinhof? Tamil Tigers? Or maybe the Black Widows, some of whom were involved in the 2002 Moscow theater terror attack that killed 140+ and wounded 100s more.
re: #157 Nyet
I suppose you agree with the potential terrorist guy whose tweet I posted then.
In terms of what he said in that tweet? Yes.
re: #164 lawhawk
So, Gov. Christie tries to congratulate himself on the incredible insight that “women can be terrorists”.
Ummm, anyone who’s followed international terrorism and trends would know that women have been terrorists for what? 30+ years? Longer?
SLA? Japanese Red Army? Bader Meinhof? Tamil Tigers? Or maybe the Black Widows, some of whom were involved in the 2002 Moscow theater terror attack that killed 140+ and wounded 100s more.
Christie’s not really trying to claim original insight. His real objective is to point to the San Bernadino terror attack and say to the media regarding Syrian refugees “Checkmate, Libtards!”. He’s attacking the news media and liberals in order to bolster his presidential campaign.
re: #164 lawhawk
Or maybe the Black Widows, some of whom were involved in the 2002 Moscow theater terror attack that killed 140+ and wounded 100s more.
Just to be sure, the immediate cause of death of the hostages were the actions of the Russian Spetsnaz.
re: #163 Decatur Deb
Off to prepare for the funeral of a hardcore Habitat builder. He was 81, and worked on a raising as recently as last year.
Light him a candle for me. We need more like him.
Have a good day all, I have an appointment with a pillow due to needing to be back to work in 7.5 hours.
re: #162 A Mom Anon
I wonder how true that is. If Mr Arbuckle was faced with life or death because of his faith would he really go the martyr route? Just like the bluster about being a “good guy with a gun” in an active shooter situation. I don’t buy it. Most of the time anyway.
I get why religion exists. The world is scary, people need something larger than themselves to hold on to, otherwise, sometimes it would seem like WTF is the point of it all. It also allows for community and common ground so that good things can flourish. But far too often none of that happens, more like the opposite.
I was raised by Amway right wing evangelicals. I got sent to Bible study groups that used Hal Lindsey books as study guides. And yet, at no time was I asked not to think for myself, scoff at science, or to rely solely on prayer to solve problems. My parents, thank goodness, were smart enough to know I would need to have some critical thinking skills and smarts to get me through life. I had more books than toys. By age 10 I had a collection of shells and various items from nature, all labeled with their latin names. So it’s possible for both religion and reason to exist together, even if they don’t always get along. As I got older, most of the shitty things that happened to me, and later my son, were at the hands of “good Christian people” and I gave up on the traditional idea of church and religious community.
My dad’s mom didn’t like organized religion at all. She said God was all over the place, not in a fancy building on Sundays. God isn’t this thing humans made up, it’s where we are, who we love, how we live. I agree with her, I wish she was still around, except I think she’d be heartbroken at the way things have gone since she died 20 yrs ago. Today in fact. Shit.
Very well said.
And with that Dear Lizards, I have to run errands, do chores, take The Kid to work and get things ready for his oral surgery on Monday. OTC pain meds, a couple new ice packs and comfort foods need to be stocked up. He has to work on Tuesday, I hope he’s feeling well enough. Anyway, BBL. Have a good Saturday.
Turkey steps on Putin’s toes.
Russia accuses Turkey of buying ISIS’ oil.
Erdogan denies, says will resign if claims are proven.
Russian Ministry of Defense releases satellite images of alleged oil tanker trucks with ISIS oil.
Erdogan says there’s proof Russia buys ISIS’ oil.
Kurds say they’re Kurdish tankers and have nothing to do with ISIS.
Russian blogger shows that the structures on the photos are not a “logistical center” for oil smuggling but a customs office.
US says ISIS oil is being smuggled into Turkey, albeit not in significant amounts.
Circus.
re: #80 Bill and Opus for 2016!
Reset that national embarrassment counter for Texas back to zero.
Texas secession resolution passes GOP committee, headed for Party vote Saturday
Had to be updated because TexASS has become the nation’s insane asylum…
Grandma Bacon said that the tilt shifted in 1980 and now all the loose nuts and bolts roll into TexASS!Good morning Lizards.
I trust and hope that all have a better weekend than Jeb!:
Unskew!!
Jeb Bush is convincing donors the polls are wrong
Read more: politico.com
South Carolina, the campaign says, has been good to the Bush family and the candidate’s internal polling numbers there and in New Hampshire show he’s doing better, and he’s converting more undecided voters into campaign volunteers.
The campaign, though, would not share its data.
re: #121 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Is his other account still active?
re: #46 darthstar
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re: #176 Joe Bacon
Had to be updated because TexASS has become the nation’s insane asylum…
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Why do I have a knee-jerk reaction to such blatant Texas shaming? I dunno. Maybe it’s because we have over 3.3 million voting Democrats in this large state. Maybe it’s because in our fairly recent history (20 years ago) Democrats were in control (Ann Richards?) Yes, the Rethugs got into control here faster than they did other states, but they now control 33 statehouses — the methods being a combination of many things, but gerrymandering and voter disenfranchisement are 2 large parts.
Wonder what Wisconsin would look like after 20 years.
In the 2012 election, we were only the 16th reddest state, BTW. That’s out of 24 reds.
Yes, our leaders are particularly nutty. Agreed. But I live in bonnie blue Dallas, where our mayor recently stated that he’s more concerned about white male terrorists than Syrian refugees.
re: #177 b.d.
Good morning Lizards.
I trust and hope that all have a better weekend than Jeb!:
Unskew!!
I seem to recall Mitt Romney dealing with the same delusion that people didn’t like him that much.
re: #180 Weet
Why do I have a knee-jerk reaction to such blatant Texas shaming? I dunno. Maybe it’s because we have over 3.3 million voting Democrats in this large state. Maybe it’s because in our fairly recent history (20 years ago) Democrats were in control (Ann Richards?) Yes, the Rethugs got into control here faster than they did other states, but they now control 33 statehouses — the methods being a combination of many things, but gerrymandering and voter disenfranchisement are 2 large parts.
Wonder what Wisconsin would look like after 20 years.
In the 2012 election, we were only the 16th reddest state, BTW. That’s out of 24 reds.
Yes, our leaders are particularly nutty. Agreed. But I live in bonnie blue Dallas, where our mayor recently stated that he’s more concerned about white male terrorists than Syrian refugees.
I think it’s because Texas has a lot of prominent nuts out there- Abbott, Cruz, Gohmert, and others. I do hope for a day where Texas is a state that can be won by the Democrats on a presidential level and I wouldn’t be shocked if it’s sooner rather than later.
re: #35 KiTA
My own Friday Night Jam o’ the Week:
Gregorian Chants of hit songs. They apparently have a ton of albums out. It’s like Acapella only not quite. Very nice.
Interesting! Has to be the most unexpected cover of Stairway that I’ve ever heard, but the voices are lovely.
Have you heard Sandra Boynton’s album Grunt (Pigorian Chant)? Not as romantic as this, but highly amusing.
re: #158 William Lewis
Thanks, I’m not DF but I happen to think both are idiots. Dawkins, especially, in his islamophobia.
The bible experiment doesn’t surprise me. Very few people know their scripture - whatever one it is - very well. Few can spend the time that actual scholars of the subject do on it. I imagine you could take material from the Vedas and pull the same stunt on both Christians and Moslems.
My thought on this is because IMO the writings are all descendants from earlier writings and are interwoven from earlier tales.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
Even weev has to be doing SMH
George Zimmerman’s ex-gf breaks her silence; filed a restraining order https://t.co/kB4T9z6SMh via dailydot
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) December 5, 2015
re: #152 Nyet
because they believe in something. When you believe in something you stand up for it. Id die for my faith. Its too important]
and if your faith calls for stepping on the rights of gays, women, transexuals. minorities or people who disagree with you about which Holy Book is True and Immutable, then you must be ready to die for it!
re: #185 Eventual Carrion
My thought on this is because IMO the writings are all descendants from earlier writings and are interwoven from earlier tales.
Koran contains far fewer objectionable passages than the Bible…
re: #187 Dr. Matt
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That happened quick. I hope she succeeds. He’s a sleazy racist dickhead.
re: #187 Dr. Matt
“He’s a very charismatic person when you first meet him. He tells you what you want to hear,” Heather says. “And you just think, well the media portrays him as this monster. You’re looking at him, and you’re listening to him, and it’s like, ‘They were so wrong.’ But did I think he would ever do this to me? No.”
Please, lady. You knew very well whom you were dating.
re: #191 Nyet
Please, lady. You knew very well whom you were dating.
I do have to admit while what I think what happened to her wrong and criminal even, I do wonder what she was thinking dating him in the first place and it appears her folks felt the same way.
MIL is off to see a psychic to talk to dead people, but she didn’t take her hearing aids. That would make a great sitcom episode. Seinfeld, maybe, Curb Your Enthusiasm?
re: #193 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
MIL is off to see a psychic to talk to dead people, but she didn’t take her hearing aids. That would make a great sitcom episode. Seinfeld, maybe, Curb Your Enthusiasm?
CYE yeah. Either way it’s something out of a good sitcom.
So, looking at UpChuck’s overnight FB rants, I see he expects to be arrested because “they will make up something about him”.
bless his heart…
re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
So, looking at UpChuck’s overnight FB rants, I see he expects to be arrested because “they will make up something about him”.
bless his heart…
Funny because he’s fine with that for Muslims.
I’m gonna leave this here as a reminder before the daily tsunami of derp & bad crazy hits. There’s lots of hate out there right now, but there are also things like these:
The Latest: Texas Church Holds Rally in Support of Mosque
5:10 p.m.
Amid a legal battle that has delayed the arrival of Syrian refugees in Texas, a suburban Houston church held a rally in support of its neighbor — a mosque — as well as local Muslims.
More than 50 members from the Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Church and others lined the road leading up to the Clear Lake Islamic Center as people went to Friday prayers.
The church and mosque are neighbors.
Church members held up signs that read “Love Thy Neighbor No Exceptions” and “We Support Our Muslim Neighbors.”
Ibrahim Ezghair, associate imam at the Islamic center, called the rally a “really nice gesture.”
The Rev. Peter Morales, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association, said “it’s important to stand on the side of respect and love and tolerance.” […]
Local leaders show solidarity with Falls Church mosque
WASHINGTON — The Falls Church, Virginia mosque recently attacked with Molotov cocktails and a hoax bomb played host to a dozen elected leaders Friday, all of whom expressed messages of tolerance, love and respect.
“This is a trying time we’re all living through,” Sen. Barbara Favola told members of the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center. “Now is the time to stand up, to show the world who we are.” […]
Interfaith crowd gathers at Denver Mosque to foil fear, bind ties
More than 200 people gathered at a Denver mosque Thursday evening, praying, lighting candles, making greetings cards and hanging ribbons in the name of peace and unity for all.
The diverse crowd assembled at Colorado Muslim Society, on South Parker Road, at the event organized by Meet the Middle East, a group fostering positive relationships between the United States and the Middle East, and the Interfaith Alliance of Colorado. […]
At the start of the event, people took simple, colorful ribbons and tied them to the wrought iron fence at the mosque facing Parker Road.
Some motorist passing by blew their horns and waved in a show of support.
People at the assembly also wrote cards expressing encouragement, support, peace and understanding.
Roger Teel, of the Mile High Church, started his card saying: To my Muslim Brothers and Sisters.
He ended it with: Peace and Love. […]
Bizarre: Obama, in radio address, still isn’t calling SB attacks terrorism — contra the FBI. Very unusual. pic.twitter.com/gT7Y53dJFg
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) December 5, 2015
So eager to extend the argument that the president is soft on terrorism that he fails to read the very article he’s quoting.
Clutching the ‘Did He or Didn’t He’ Terror Pearls a little tighter.
He called it an “act of terror.” @HotlineJosh says he should have called it “terrorism.” Ergo, he’s not wrong https://t.co/lh26EExFpC
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) December 5, 2015
LOLWUT:
Catholic university declares First Amendment right to be not Catholic
Brad DeLong:
What can one say? That there exists a religious liberty for a religious organization to disregard government regulations to ask it to do what its own religious doctrines require is a genuinely new mode of right-wing argument in America today. I thought we had seen everything. Turns out we had not.
re: #198 jaunte
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So eager to extend the argument that the president is soft on terrorism that he fails to read the very article he’s quoting.
Of course, they omit the preceding paragraph of his radio address, and the rest of the paragraph they quoted from when he speaks specifically about ISIL:
We’re also learning more about the killers. And we’re working to get a full picture of their motives—why they committed these revolting acts. It’s important to let the investigators do their job. We need to know all the facts. And at my direction, federal law enforcement is helping in every way that they can. We’re going to get to the bottom of this.
It is entirely possible that these two attackers were radicalized to commit this act of terror. And if so, it would underscore a threat we’ve been focused on for years—the danger of people succumbing to violent extremist ideologies. We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people—around the world and in our country—to commit terrible acts of violence, often times as lone wolf actors. And even as we work to prevent attacks, all of us—government, law enforcement, communities, faith leaders—need to work together to prevent people from falling victim to these hateful ideologies.
More in the same line:
“Whether or not the current administration realizes it…our enemies are at war with us,” Ted Cruz said.@nytimes // Evil f*cker. #amreading
— Charles Bivona (@CharlesBivona) December 5, 2015
We are at war with Islam. We must bomb the capital. All of them!
re: #193 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
MIL is off to see a psychic to talk to dead people, but she didn’t take her hearing aids. That would make a great sitcom episode. Seinfeld, maybe, Curb Your Enthusiasm?
She’ll hear what she wants to hear!
Merry Christmas from Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore! p.s. We’re doomed. pic.twitter.com/N6lQn1lDWJ
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) December 5, 2015
re: #208 Ace-o-aces
This is my rifle, this is my gun, this one’s for fighting, this one’s for fun
Time to reset the Chuck C. Johnson lawsuit threat clock again. https://t.co/F4axVhixfz pic.twitter.com/xf0shvcnUq
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 5, 2015
happening in the UK:
Cumbria latest: 133mm/24hrs reported at Shap already, it’s thought that some of the hills have already had 250mm! #Desmond Chris F
— BBC Weather (@bbcweather) December 5, 2015
#StormDesmond. Top of Pennines recorded a gusts of 93mph in the last hour at Great Dun Fell. AC
— BBC Weather (@bbcweather) December 5, 2015
RED WARNING now in force for SW Scotland & #Cumbria. Potential to cause sig disruption and danger to life. pic.twitter.com/kq7kI7kxgs
— BBC Weather (@bbcweather) December 5, 2015
and it’s still raining.
re: #210 Charles Johnson
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But wait, I thought Islamophobes always tout our respect of women compared to the medieval Muslim hordes
Special Ops Survey Showed 85% Opposed Serving With Women https://t.co/ysa5ynKZFm pic.twitter.com/TDWtIWH688
— Defense One (@DefenseOne) December 5, 2015
Obama calls San Bernardino attack an “act of terror”; WATCH: https://t.co/4qERLR2hkR pic.twitter.com/MbboGUice7
— The Hill (@thehill) December 5, 2015
But it’s not Islamic terrorism, and why did he have the FBI talk, not him about terrorism.
Does the right even care about how the FBI answers to the President as an executive branch agency under the DOJ? No, the screech monkeys just prattle on and on.
River Greta in #Keswick has today exceeded the highest levels ever recorded: https://t.co/7t2m5ilemy #cumbria #flood pic.twitter.com/QbxP0Fsj7r
— Trustheat (@TrustheatUK) December 5, 2015
Severe floods in Cumbria as river gushes streets of Keswick: https://t.co/h8aCRj3naZ via @YouTube
— Update News Video (@_BreakingNewsss) December 5, 2015
re: #212 I Would Prefer Not To
If L’affaire Gawker and NAF go against him badly, he may wind up bankrupt and/or in jail-at which point it probably won’t matter.
Speaking of trolls, it looks like the last of Team Prenda (remember them?) is about to get Chapter 7 liquidated-and even with this, it’s still not over.
re: #208 Ace-o-aces
And they’ll swear on a stack of bibles that they’re on the right side of the ‘War on Christmas’. That picture is so sick, so telling, so shameless. ugh
re: #216 lawhawk
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Does the right even care about how the FBI answers to the President as an executive branch agency under the DOJ? No, the screech monkeys just prattle on and on.
The FBI has to defy Obama’s fiats just to call things what they are! Those men are heroes for rejecting King Hussein The Tyranni-weak!
re: #208 Ace-o-aces
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re: #219 stpaulbear
And they’ll swear on a stack of bibles that they’re on the right side of the ‘War on Christmas’. That picture is so sick, so telling, so shameless. ugh
The sheer amount of gun fetishism simply oozes off the picture. I’m a big fan of and collector of video games, I’m not going to plaster Christmas greetings with game pictures and references to demonstrate my adoration of them, and if I did, the only danger I’d have from them is eye strain, rather than someone forgetting their fucking safety because they brought the wrong gun for the picture.
re: #208 Ace-o-aces
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I mentioned it last night, but I hope to God that the gun the kid is holding has a decent drop safety given how poorly he’s holding it.
re: #189 Nyet
Koran contains far fewer objectionable passages than the Bible…
re: #208 Ace-o-aces
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10 Red Shirts, 6 of them adults! Ain’t no way I’m going into a firefight with Daesh behind 6 Red Shirts! They’ll have GPMGs and mortars ranged on ‘em*, so I’ll stick back here and wait for the tanks to show up.
*: The Bad guys need heavy weapons in order to kill the Red Shirts off in novel and bloody ways.
re: #208 Ace-o-aces
Nice to see that they are keeping Christ in Christmas.
re: #190 HappyWarrior
re: #191 Nyet
“I think he used the Muslim word as his platform for his racism, because it is such a hot topic right now,” she says, adding that Zimmerman frequently made overtly racist comments while they were together, though she’s not interested in going into detail.
Remember all the GZ apologists were calling the Left race-baiting because there was no way Z-man was a racist….not at all.
re: #227 Dr. Matt
I honestly don’t think George Z was as bad before the Trayvon incident as he is now. Like I said earlier, after Trayvon, the RWNJs gave Zimmerman this badass persona and he ran with it.
re: #228 Eclectic Cyborg
I honestly don’t think George Z was as bad before the Trayvon incident as he is now. Like I said earlier, after Trayvon, the RWNJs gave Zimmerman this badass persona and he ran with it.
He was already bad enough that he killed a kid because he didn’t like the looks of him. He’s notorious now, but he was just as bad before.
(edit) He went from being a loser to being a famous loser.
re: #191 Nyet
Please, lady. You knew very well whom you were dating.
People—both men & women—tend to think they’re special, that this time it’ll be different because of how smart, loyal, patient, etc. they are, or because they have good intentions (even if they aren’t useful/correct intentions).
It doesn’t help that people also often tend to fall in love with who they imagine someone to be, who they want them to be, not who they actually are.
We all have cognitive biases, no matter how rational believe ourselves to be. We are our own worst enemies.
re: #229 stpaulbear
He was already bad enough that he killed a kid because he didn’t like the looks of him. He’s notorious now, but he was just as bad before.
Agreed, but I still think he’s a bit more conceited and vindictive now.
re: #230 CuriousLurker
People—both men & women—tend to think they’re special, that this time it’ll be different because of how smart, loyal, patient, etc. they are, or because they have good intentions (even if they aren’t useful/correct intentions).
It doesn’t help that people also often tend to fall in love with who they imagine someone is, to who they want them to be, not who they actually are.
We all have cognitive biases, no matter how rational believe ourselves to be. We are our own worst enemies.
Serial killers on death row have fans/girlfriends.
re: #228 Eclectic Cyborg
I honestly don’t think George Z was as bad before the Trayvon incident as he is now. Like I said earlier, after Trayvon, the RWNJs gave Zimmerman this badass persona and he ran with it.
GZ has a long history of being an animal: child molester, domestic abuse, racist (see below), and a murderer. He’s not a good person.
Zimmerman’s 2005 MySpace account reveals racist tirade and legal troubles
re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth
Row, row your boat gently down the street….
re: #233 Dr. Matt
GZ has a long history of being an animal: child molester, domestic abuse, racist (see below), and a murderer. He’s not a good person.
Zimmerman’s 2005 MySpace account reveals racist tirade and legal troubles
Shit, the fucking asshole wanted to buy Darren Wilson a car and a house with this now failed lawsuit against NBC.
Dense fog combined with subfreezing temps resulted in some spectacular winter scenes outside our office this AM! pic.twitter.com/Gr2NOzYJHC
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) December 5, 2015
yep, hoarfrost this morning was very pretty.
re: #222 Timothy Watson
I mentioned it last night, but I hope to God that the gun the kid is holding has a decent drop safety given how poorly he’s holding it.
It actually has a firing pin safety, so as long as that safety is engaged the pistol won’t fire if dropped.
A review of the pistol in question the Walther P22 may be be found here.
Note: This is not a defense of that sick photo or of the kid’s parents not making sure he is properly handling a firearm. Neither of those things is defensible.
If you reside within 1/4 mile radius from Main St./Doty.Shots have been fired. Shelter in place away from windows,in a basement if possible.
— Neenah Police (@NeenahPolice) December 5, 2015
Police have closed off Main St in Neenah per State Patrol. Officers with rifles on scene. @PostCrescent pic.twitter.com/GGIeUDZILm
— Alison Dirr (@AlisonDirr) December 5, 2015
re: #239 jaunte
Another day in America. The new norm.
re: #234 The War TARDIS
Row, row your boat gently down the street….
That may be funny for you, but where I live floods actually happen. And we have indeed had people paddle a canoe down River Road during the worst of it.
re: #227 Dr. Matt
Remember all the GZ apologists were calling the Left race-baiting because there was no way Z-man was a racist….not at all.
I do along with the instance it was silly to call him racist since he’s half Peruvian.
re: #242 HappyWarrior
I do along with the instance it was silly to call him racist since he’s half Peruvian.
And a Democrat!!!
re: #228 Eclectic Cyborg
Maybe, but the toolkit to make this psycho was there for a LONG time…I dunno if that made him worse, or if he was already degenerating…but there’s not all that many people that I think were probably born bad…GZ is one of them
re: #228 Eclectic Cyborg
I honestly don’t think George Z was as bad before the Trayvon incident as he is now. Like I said earlier, after Trayvon, the RWNJs gave Zimmerman this badass persona and he ran with it.
They certainly didn’t help.
re: #151 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Nitpicking!!!
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That’s pretty good, especially for the horse race metaphor. But Seabiscuit won a lot of races. Trump The Donald (out of Fred by Mary Anne) has yet to face a primary race, so he is as yet untested. …
by Fred out of Mary Anne <Grin>
Here’s some #gunsense for you. Yes, that includes you, conservative. And you, liberal. And you, moderate. Pass it on pic.twitter.com/Rutj1rzui0
— Sara Benincasa (@SaraJBenincasa) December 2, 2015
re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Weirdly enough Johnstown of the flood fame is in Cambria County. Had family there for all the floods.
DEVELOPING: Police in Neenah, Wisc. Say Hostages Begin Held at Motorcycle Shop by Armed Gunman; Shots Fired pic.twitter.com/y4cm5ERDRV
— Shot In America (@ShotInAmerica) December 5, 2015
re: #251 jaunte
How many “armed gunman” days until Christmas?
One the first day of Gunman Christmas, an armed gunman gave to me, one bullet wound in the gut…………..
On the first day of Christmas Glock and Luger gave to me…
re: #259 HappyWarrior
Fiiiiiive bullet wouuuuuunds….
How many NRA members, law abiding citizens have committed mass murder? Zero. #Dumbassery https://t.co/yO3ZjiyBCr
— Michael Brown (@MichaelBrownUSA) December 5, 2015
i was waiting for the guy whose incompetence caused hundreds of deaths in new orleans to weigh in. heck of a job. https://t.co/crqf9CrtMG
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 5, 2015
Who caused those deaths? Nagin & Blanco who refused to evacuate. Screw you, I’m over that tired old narrative. https://t.co/DYk6tV60Tc
— Michael Brown (@MichaelBrownUSA) December 5, 2015
yes, you are tired of people bringing up the time you got people killed in new orleans. i get it. lol. https://t.co/xwK8wqHLkh
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 5, 2015
No, bring it up all you want. Just get your facts straight. Who didn’t evacuate and left those people to die? Nagin. https://t.co/HjwT5zCg5I
— Michael Brown (@MichaelBrownUSA) December 5, 2015
i dunno how history will remember me, but at least i know “historically incompetent cabinet member” won’t show up in my obit
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 5, 2015
re: #250 jaunte
Crap. My sister lives about three miles from there. They just had another shooting in a public park about six months ago.
re: #261 Ace-o-aces
Holy shit, Heckuvajob, Brownie is one person that shouldn’t be tweeting about Hurricane Katrina.
Five injured cops,
Four weeks of rehab,
Three shattered familes,
Two dead friends,
A not a single smart new gun law.
re: #265 Dr. Matt
Holy shit, Heckuvajob, Brownie is one person that shouldn’t be tweeting about Hurricane Katrina.
Or anything, really. He just go back to judging horse shows.
Did he mention “ending the Christian” who walked into the Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs? pic.twitter.com/Vro2T0Fldw
— Imraan Siddiqi (@imraansiddiqi) December 5, 2015
Ugh
re: #269 Ace-o-aces
Or anything, really. He just go back to judging horse shows.
Indeed wtf was Bush thinking appointing a horse show guy to head FEMA?
re: #250 jaunte
I have heard of that motorcycle shop and its owner.
Not surprising to hear this is happening today.
re: #251 jaunte
How many “armed gunman” days until Christmas?
Someone needs to make an advent calendar with stickers that you can write the number of daily dead/wounded on.
It boggles the mind when you think about it: for each person wounded are killed there are probably at least half a dozen others (most likely many, many more) who are negatively affected. It’s like it ripples out, multiplying exponentially.
We’re destroying ourselves incrementally. And Da’esh is cheering us on. *smh*
Get this looking at Brown’s wiki page, he’s actually criticized President Obama for responding too quickly to Hurricane Sandy.
re: #270 Dr. Matt
Like taking meth to stay alert for threats.
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
happening in the UK:
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Been experiencing it up here in Glasgow too. The winds have been at “almost blowing my hat off” strength since yesterday, and the rain’s been pretty constant. Loads of traffic disruption, but I’ve been staying in, and only traveling outside to local places. However I have a concert to go to tonight (To see this band. ) Luckily, it’s at a place fairly local to me, so I can walk there, although if this wind keeps up, I’ll probably be able to jump up, and fly there.
re: #208 Ace-o-aces
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What the fuck is wrong with them? Really it’s fucking creepy how some people have ot be with their love of guns. My grandfather was a firearms owner. I can’t imagine him posing with guns like that especially with children.
re: #261 Ace-o-aces
@MichaelBrownUSA They don’t, thanks to your right wing buddies cutting funding to education at all levels of government.
— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericdafruitbat) December 5, 2015
re: #279 Eclectic Cyborg
Isn’t Liberty U Jerry Falwell’s thing?
Yes, and that’s his son, Jerry Falwell Jr., saying it.
re: #267 jaunte
I hope she stays safe.
If she’s out shopping, she probably went north to Appleton. She wouldn’t be going to a motorcycle shop.
Regent is Robertson’s school in Virginia Beach. Liberty is Falwell’s in Lynchburg. Pat’s by the beach and Jerry’s in the Appalachians. Pat said we deserved 9/11. Jerry merely agreed. PAt’s father was an arch segregationist Senator while Jerry’s was a bootlegger. There’s actually a small “home scohol college” up here run by a guy named Michael Farris who John Warner once refused to support for Lt Governor because he was too extreme. Last I saw he was a Huckabee backer but that was 2008, so he could be on the Cruz wagon now along with our other local asshole, Dick Black.
re: #282 CuriousLurker
That’s his son, Jerry Falwell Jr., saying it.
Like Billy Graham and his son, the apple is actually worse. And Jerry Falwell, Sr was one rotten apple.
re: #251 jaunte
How many “armed gunman” days until Christmas?
Sounds like a robbery gone wrong to me. And”armed gunman is a tautology. Even if the gun isn’t loaded you could still strike someone with it, so no ‘gunman’ is ever unarmed.
This Proper Grammar Moment was brought to you by Poppa Falcon, who has always insisted his son understand and use the English language properly.
Man those liberal academics are just so intolerant of other points of view. Oh what’s that? A conservative university president actually calling for murdering people just because of their religion? Nah that’s not a big deal. Let’s worry about the conservative college students who get their feelings hurt when a professor calls them out on their bullshit.
re: #288 HappyWarrior
Man those liberal academics are just so intolerant of other points of view. Oh what’s that? A conservative university president actually calling for murdering people just because of their religion? Nah that’s not a big deal. Let’s worry about the conservative college students who get their feelings hurt when a professor calls them out on their bullshit.
I dunno, since most to academic follies as of late have been center-left against far-left. Conservatives haven’t had a team on the field this fall.
re: #289 jaunte
Armless man shoots rifle:
google.comEnglish is a slippery language.
What do you tell a legless man if his argument has merit?
re: #289 jaunte
Armless man shoots rifle:
google.comEnglish is a slippery language.
But he would still be armed, even if he had no arms.
Which is screwy, isn’t it?
re: #290 Dark_Falcon
I dunno, since most to academic follies as of late have been center-left against far-left. Conservatives haven’t had a team on the field this fall.
I was mocking more so how right wingers bitch about academia being intolerant and here we have an actual right wing university president wanting people to murder people because of their religion. Come on, it’s pretty obvious I was mocking that and David Horowitz whole war on liberal academia bullshit that he has because he feels guilty about having being a left wign fanatic so he remade himself as a right wing fanatic.
re: #287 Dark_Falcon
Sounds like a robbery gone wrong to me. And”armed gunman is a tautology. Even if the gun isn’t loaded you could still strike someone with it, so no ‘gunman’ is ever unarmed.
This Proper Grammar Moment was brought to you by Poppa Falcon, who has always insisted his son understand and use the English language properly.
You can be armed with weapons other than guns: bows and arrows, rocks, tasers, etc. And the gunman can be disarmed.
re: #286 HappyWarrior
Like Billy Graham and his son, the apple is actually worse. And Jerry Falwell, Sr was one rotten apple.
Pat Robertsons son is a douche too, isn’t he?
Gonna take a break from the Haterade.
Later, lizards.
re: #295 Eclectic Cyborg
Pat Robertsons son is a douche too, isn’t he?
I honestly don’t know if Pat has a son or if he’s prominent. What’s interesting though is Tammy Faye and Jim’s son is a minister but really liberal and accepting.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #269 Ace-o-aces
Or anything, really. He just go back to judging horse shows.
He was a bureaucrat. Probably didn’t know one end of a horse from the other.
re: #298 retired cynic
He was a bureaucrat. Probably didn’t know one end of a horse from the other.
He should know what the back side looks like from looking in a mirror.
re: #230 CuriousLurker
There’s a Russian saying: lyubov’ zla - polyubish i kozla - love is evil - you’ll fall in love even with a goat.
idiots are starting the crap:
Let’s hope what’s going on in #Neenah WI, isn’t Radical Islamic Terrorism, OR shit is about to hit the fan in America. #hostages #shooter
— Gene Dunn (@chillinface1885) December 5, 2015
It’s a freaking biker place that has a history of this crap.
re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth
Notice how they’re all bearded? What a perfect place for secret Moslems! /
re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s a freaking biker place that has a history of this crap.
Obama staged this so he can continue his gun grab.
re: #303 Dr. Matt
Obama staged this so he can continue his gun grab.
Obama has the biker mulfti on speed dial.
re: #304 HappyWarrior
Obama has the biker mulfti on speed dial.
Biker mufti should become a new meme here :D
Truly enjoying the logic of some of the gun absolutists.
There’s already laws preventing gun running from lax states to strong law states, so writing new laws that make it illegal is redundant.
Right, and doing nothing to close those loopholes will perpetuate the existing condition.
Oh, 100 million gun owners, and we’re not all criminals.
100,000 people are shot every year. 30,000 die (20k are suicides) Considering that works out to - 1 out of 1,000 people who own guns uses them and injures someone. Not nearly as uncommon once you start running numbers.
re: #307 lawhawk
Truly enjoying the logic of some of the gun absolutists.
There’s already laws preventing gun running from lax states to strong law states, so writing new laws that make it illegal is redundant.
Right, and doing nothing to close those loopholes will perpetuate the existing condition.
Oh, 100 million gun owners, and we’re not all criminals.
100,000 people are shot every year. 30,000 die (20k are suicides) Considering that works out to - 1 out of 1,000 people who own guns uses them and injures someone. Not nearly as uncommon once you start running numbers.
That’s one out of 1,000 each year. For a man with a fifty-year adult life, which is a bit shorter than US life expectancy, that would be almost a one in 20 chance of injuring someone with a gun.
re: #308 Brian J.
That’s one out of 1,000 each year. For a man with a fifty-year adult life, which is a bit shorter than US life expectancy, that would be almost a one in 20 chance of injuring someone with a gun.
And do the odds change when someone like this model citizen has 87 rifles and 58 handguns?
Police recover 145 guns from home of Michigan man after he attempted to shoot his wife
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Who the fuck needs 87 rifles and 58 handguns?
@MichaelBrownUSA No, Mike. Your deadly incompetence was witnessed by everyone in real time. It was literally “your Katrina”. Asshole.
— Unabogie (@Unabogie) December 5, 2015
re: #310 BeachDem
Piker. Guy was caught down in the Carolinas with 5000 guns or more (which the police officially call an ass-load of guns). Oh, and the guy’s family claims all were legally purchased. And yet there’s 100s of guns that have had their serial numbers removed.
This morning on CNN I heard a reporter, rather disdainfully, say that Obama is still claiming that ISIS is not an existential threat to America.
Does he not understand what existential means?
The only way ISIS is an existential threat is if we allow irrational fear of them to turn us into a fascist state.
re: #310 BeachDem
According to authorities, Piotrowski was arguing with his wife when he told her he was going to kill her and grabbed her by the neck. The woman ran to the basement to call 911, only to have her husband follow her before pointing a small handgun at her and firing twice, missing both times.
He seems to have been highly trained with his 145 guns too.
Maybe he should have thrown it at her..
re: #313 blueraven
This morning on CNN I heard a reporter, rather disdainfully, say that Obama is still claiming that ISIS is not an existential threat to America.
Does he not understand what existential means?
The only way ISIS is an existential threat is if we allow irrational fear of them to turn us into a fascist state.
To the best of my recollection, Israel has said that ISIS isn’t an ‘existential threat’ as far they’re concerned. And that’s with ISIS actually operating, you know, in the country right fucking next door to them.
Ha!
After he speaks you can see his last political instinct deserting him, like the soul leaving the body. https://t.co/QSVUHi0NNJ
— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) December 5, 2015
re: #312 lawhawk
Piker. Guy was caught down in the Carolinas with 5000 guns or more (which the police officially call an ass-load of guns). Oh, and the guy’s family claims all were legally purchased. And yet there’s 100s of guns that have had their serial numbers removed.
Well yeah, but it’s South by dog Carolina, where thousands of guns, hundred of chainsaws, and opium and heroin trafficking draw responses from neighbors like, “He’s always been a good cat, but you know, people do things”
May be satisfying but the GOP would treat him like their dictator. pic.twitter.com/mT9plgXPnw
— Randy Prine (@randyprine) December 5, 2015
@MichaelBrownUSA NRA’s general counsel is a confessed murderer plus board member Oliver North repeatedly gave money & weapons to terrorists
— Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) December 5, 2015
Ha!
Top Jeb Bush donor would vote for Hillary over Donald
One of Florida’s biggest conservative Republican moneymen — and a billionaire backer of Jeb Bush — is so disgusted by Donald Trump’s candidacy that if he has to, he’ll do the unthinkable:
“If I have a choice — and you can put it in bold — if I have a choice between Trump and Hillary Clinton, I’m choosing Hillary,” Miami healthcare magnate Mike Fernandez told the Miami Herald on Friday. “She’s the lesser of two evils.”
re: #318 Backwoods_Sleuth
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That would be nice but the GOP would treat him like he’s a harmless old crank and not the asshole he is.
I shot holes in the NY Times editorial - This is what I think of the New York Times edito… https://t.co/XEJpuV05Kk pic.twitter.com/brh3KrODwS
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) December 5, 2015
“Ultima Ratio Stultus”
re: #320 Skip Intro
Ha!
Top Jeb Bush donor would vote for Hillary over Donald
What disgusts me is all these candidates have some billionaire that basically owns them.
re: #322 jaunte
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You’re so bad ass Erick. Maybe shove your gun up your asshole next time.
re: #324 jaunte
“If you disagree with something, shoot it.”
Eric’s going to make a fine Man of Gawd.
re: #322 jaunte
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Lessee - used your guns in a defiant act of anger. Yeah, that’ll show them how wrong they are to think we should do something about guns.
re: #328 Blind Frog Belly White
Lessee - used your guns in a defiant act of anger. Yeah, that’ll show them how wrong they are to think we should do something about guns.
Seriously it just comes off as a childish tantrum. Erick knows deep down the op-Ed makes sense but he like a lot of conservatives clings to his guns.
re: #324 jaunte
“If you disagree with something, shoot it.”
Why are you shoot shaming?
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Oh yeah…good day. Ugh.
re: #329 Whack-A-Mole
And the location of this active shooter situation in less than 2 miles from the site of the Trestle Trail shootings this spring.
Thanks to all right-wingers shooting a copy of the NYT & then posting on Twitter. Makes it much easier to see the irresponsible gun owners.
— ¡Gabe! Ortíz (@TUSK81) December 5, 2015
re: #331 ObserverArt
Why are you shoot shaming?
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Oh yeah…good day. Ugh.
Shooting shaming? You come up with that yourself? I like that.
re: #333 jaunte
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Really how about tehy actually explain why the NYT is wrong rather than a pathetic little tantrum. Fucking gun nerds.
re: #322 jaunte
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Wow, Erick son of Erick, you are such a manly man. Shooting newspapers. Swoon!
re: #336 BeachDem
Wow, Erick son of Erick, you are such a manly man. Shooting newspapers. Swoon!
I bet his wife is so proud of him.
re: #334 HappyWarrior
Shooting shaming? You come up with that yourself? I like that.
It just hit me…thinking about all the hubbub over prayer shaming earlier. If you question the need and value of prayer you are prayer shaming. If you question the need and value of guns…
Edit…and I like a little alliteration. Gun Shaming doesn’t have it.
The NYT will rue the day it picked a fight with a man who buys ammo by the barrel!!!
re: #322 jaunte
@EWErickson such a small man.
— Lonnie Mask (@LonnieMask) December 5, 2015
re: #338 ObserverArt
It just hit me…thinking about all the hubbub over prayer shaming earlier. If you question the need and value of prayer you are prayer shaming. If you question the need and value of guns…
I like it. Going to use it.
I mean is the NYT supposed to be intimidated by this little man’s tantrum? You criticized my guns so I’m going to shoot holes in your words! A mature adult would actually look at the points and actually write a rebuttal. I swear Erick, thanks for proving then candidate Obama right about you guys clinging to your guns. There’s more important things in this world than killing machines ya know.
re: #341 HappyWarrior
I like it. Going to use it.
And, I was thinking of Dark_Falcon. He can use it too.
: )
re: #342 HappyWarrior
Erickson was stupid enough to think posting that was a clever response. He’s probably immune to a reasonable argument.
re: #343 ObserverArt
And, I was thinking of Dark_Falcon. He can use it too.
: )
Man I saw that he stepped in it again last night before I left to watch a movie.
So, in a bit of much needed levity…any religious Lizardim need to pray for me…a “friend” is providing me with a copy of the book 50 Shades of OHFUCKI’MGONNAREADTHAT?! for me to critique, mock, and otherwise “enjoy”, non-religious Lizardim are urged to keep me in their thoughts.
I hate my friends sometimes.
re: #344 jaunte
Erickson was stupid enough to think posting that was a clever response. He’s probably immune to a reasonable argument.
True that. I just think it needed to be said that he proves all the stereotypes about gun nuts being well gun nuts correct when he shoots something he disagrees with rather than actually addressing it.
re: #346 Jayleia
So, in a bit of much needed levity…any religious Lizardim need to pray for me…a “friend” is providing me with a copy of the book 50 Shades of OHFUCKI’MGONNAREADTHAT?! for me to critique, mock, and otherwise “enjoy”, non-religious Lizardim are urged to keep me in their thoughts.
I hate my friends sometimes.
Oh man that’s just cruel.
re: #333 jaunte
Thanks to all right-wingers shooting a copy of the NYT & then posting on Twitter
You mean there are more idiots doing this besides Erick? Hell.
re: #261 Ace-o-aces
Jesus Christ, this Brownie asshole still blaming “Nagin and Blanco, who refused to evacuate.” WTF, it was the largest evacuation in American history up to that time. I was in it, although from Baton Rouge, not NOLA, and I’ll never forget that long, massive exodus. Who knows how many thousands of lives it saved. Pissing on these clowns with their denial of reality would be a waste of our precious bodily fluids.
re: #330 HappyWarrior
Seriously it just comes off as a childish tantrum. Erick knows deep down the op-Ed makes sense but he like a lot of conservatives clings to his guns.
They give him a false sense of security in a world he can’t control. Having a gun won’t ensure you won’t lose your job, or that you won’t get into an car accident, or that your wife won’t leave you, or that your friends won’t figure out you’re an asshole, or that you’ll have enough money to live on when you retire, or that you’ll even be able to get a job if you don’t.
Life is uncertainty. Conservatives can’t handle uncertainty. Anxious minds look for a focus, some single cause of their anxiety, which they can then do something about. The gun makes them think they can take out the source. But after they get one, they find it’s not enough. So they want a bigger one, and more ammo. But that only makes them feel better for a little, so they want even more and even bigger guns.
Really, it’s much the same as any other hoarder - they acquire things to give them a sense of control that those things can’t really give them.
re: #349 Eclectic Cyborg
Ted Cruz will probably do it with a bacon-wrapped Ma Deuce.
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Ha!
Top Jeb Bush donor would vote for Hillary over Donald
Prediction, this will not help Bush and it won’t hurt Trump. In fact, it might even help him in the Primary.
re: #322 jaunte
.@EWErickson You’re a fucking lousy shot. Your grouping is awful. Thanks for proving you have zero business owning a firearm.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) December 5, 2015
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