Lately I’ve been reconnecting to some great music I haven’t listened to for a while, like this classic Talking Heads track from the ground-breaking album Remain in Light, produced by Brian Eno. This record defined a new style of music, in a way few albums ever have, and it still sounds fresh today. (And the video is awesome!)
re: #1 freetoken
“That was a Hillary supporter” … or a plant.
Didn’t bother watching. What did they do?
re: #2 GlutenFreeJesus
Didn’t bother watching. What did they do?
Some old guy in the backing group started to protest… was ordered out by Trump… and the officers dutifully took the guy out.
re: #4 freetoken
Ah. White so he wasn’t beaten?
Donald Trump is asked about Syrians sneaking into the country. He answers: “We’re going to build a wall.”
— Jenna Johnson (@wpjenna) December 12, 2015
Meanwhile, Chuck C. has been curiously silent now for more than two days, after a crazed all-night rampage of glossolalia. Massive hangover, or under a psychiatric hold?
I saw the Talking Heads Stop Making Sense movie at the theater when it first came out. Many years later my kids bought me the DVD. We all watch it together every now and then. Still fresh and fantastic!
True Stories with Byrne and John Goodman. Pretty funny.
Raves about Gen. MacArthur… he seems unaware of what Truman had to do to him.
re: #13 freetoken
Raves about Gen. MacArthur… he seems unaware of what Truman had to do to him.
Of course Trump loves MacArthur. Birds of a feather.
re: #13 freetoken
Raves about Gen. MacArthur… he seems unaware of what Truman had to do to him.
One of Truman’s best momemnts IMO. My grandfather hated Mac but loved Truman.
re: #13 freetoken
Raves about Gen. MacArthur… he seems unaware of what Truman had to do to him.
Trump probably thinks Truman should have sat down and shut up like the little nobody he was and let the Great Man win the war.
re: #15 Blind Frog Belly White
Of course Trump loves MacArthur. Birds of a feather.
Yes, both probably did fap to photos of themselves. MacArthur to his credit at elast had some talent as a general and leader. Trump OTOH is a spoiled brat who would be nothing without Daddy’s name and money.
The Dukes of Sofa….. pic.twitter.com/GSajOZ42A9
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) December 12, 2015
I get that Donald Trump is an ongoing train wreck and it’s hard to look away, but good grief. Why is this still happening?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 12, 2015
Of the San Bernardino victims….”more are going to be dying.”
I bet their families love hearing that…asshole.
re: #21 Charles Johnson
We love our train wrecks.
re: #18 HappyWarrior
Yes, both probably did fap to photos of themselves. MacArthur to his credit at elast had some talent as a general and leader. Trump OTOH is a spoiled brat who would be nothing without Daddy’s name and money.
Hey, give Trump credit! He’s managed to bluff and con his way through life very successfully! Exactly why he shouldn’t be allowed into the White House except maybe on a tour.
Were going to say Merry Christmas again in this country!
apparently the thing that excites trump’s supporters the most is that NOBODY WILL EVER NEGLECT TO SAY “MERRY CHRISTMAS” EVER AGAIN!!!
YUGE standing ovation in Iowa as Donald Trump declares: “And, by the way, we’re going to be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again.”
— Jenna Johnson (@wpjenna) December 12, 2015
What if I don’t want to? https://t.co/Md4r1HyIrm
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 12, 2015
re: #16 HappyWarrior
One of Truman’s best momemnts IMO. My grandfather hated Mac but loved Truman.
If I say it, I’ll just get downdinged.
re: #30 Dark_Falcon
If I say it, I’ll just get downdinged.
Oh comeo n dude, you’ve gotten updinged when you’ve been right before.
re: #30 Dark_Falcon
If I say it, I’ll just get downdinged.
Don’t leave us hanging here. If you really think Truman shouldn’t have sacked MacArthur, I’m all ears, and won’t down-ding.
So this is how Trump has decided to pander to evangelicals. Embracing the war on Christmas narrative in the shallowest possible way.
re: #33 EPR-radar
Don’t leave us hanging here. If you really think Truman shouldn’t have sacked MacArthur, I’m all ears, and won’t down-ding.
I guess we read that differently. Really DF, if you have a differing opinion to the decision to fire MacArthur, I’m genuinely eager to hear it, I was repeating the opinion of a man who was there unlike you or me and you should know me by now that I seldom ever downdinged unless I find something really fucked up.
@Green_Footballs He’ll be forcing us to. You know, for religious liberty!
— Unabogie (@Unabogie) December 12, 2015
@Green_Footballs Chicken or Egg?
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) December 12, 2015
“You have unleashed America from the bondage of political correctness” - says a woman who claims to be on the Iowa GOP central committee.
“you have unleashed america from the bondage of political correctness”
bondage is it now?
“why isn’t the gop establishment thrilled with you, mr trump?”
can’t imagine
No he was not. He said they were getting Social Security. This is one on active numbers. https://t.co/RSQbznUfth
— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) December 12, 2015
Trump was right about the Social Security thing https://t.co/oJs172steq pic.twitter.com/GCvKWBZ5V0
— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) December 12, 2015
Good fucking grief!
re: #38 Great White Snark
Trump is succeeding because the GOP is the stupid and evil party. He’s tapping into the rich deposits of stupidity and malice that have been banked by Fox News et al. for decades.
re: #39 freetoken
“You have unleashed America from the bondage of political correctness” - says a woman who claims to be on the Iowa GOP central committee.
Whatever you’re into, toots. If that’s what trips ya, have at ‘er.
re: #39 freetoken
“You have unleashed America from the bondage of political correctness”
“I can be as rude as I like to other people, but they can’t be rude to me.”
Wait, are some of you guys actually watching Trump???
I saw some stupid meme earlier today about Trump’s plan to ban Muslims is exactly the same as Jimmy Carter banning Iranian immigration after hostage crisis.
re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg
I saw some stupid meme earlier today about Trump’s plan to ban Muslims is exactly the same as Jimmy Carter banning Iranian immigration after hostage crisis.
I love how quick they are. And repeating earlier if Carter had done that, ti would be wrong.Note, that when we criticize FDR interning the Japanese, we are criticizing a Democratic icon!
“An update to Adobe® Flash® Player is available.” Please, somebody. Make this nightmare stop.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 12, 2015
The closest thing I have to an anecdote about MacArthur is that my husband was in the Korean War, and he spent some time in college with some GI Bill scholars from WWII, one of which he really especially admired. That scholar served under MacArthur, and he really considered him a very poor excuse for a leader and a human being. I’m not going to get into specific stories, because as you can see, I’m several degrees from knowing this myself.
re: #51 HappyWarrior
Another difference being that, during the hostage crisis, there was a SPECIFIC NATION that was a threat. It’s one thing to ban people from one country. It’s another to ban people from dozens of countries simply because of who they are.
Also, I don’t think Carter or any of his supporters proposed kicking out Iranians who were already legal residents or citizens.
Replace “Rome” with “Islam” and presto GOP 2015
re: #52 Charles Johnson
Hey, I made my living for a dozen years programming in Flash and it was awesome.
“you’ll know in a month or two if the establishment is treating me fairly”
sooner than i had hoped!
re: #35 EPR-radar
So this is how Trump has decided to pander to evangelicals. Embracing the war on Christmas narrative in the shallowest possible way.
The same way Hillary embraces the war on women when her husband cheats (fact) and rapes (pretty sure).
re: #33 EPR-radar
Don’t leave us hanging here. If you really think Truman shouldn’t have sacked MacArthur, I’m all ears, and won’t down-ding.
Call me a psychic, but I think I can predict who DF would favor 999 out of 1000 times in a conflict between a military man and a Democrat.
How ‘bout something nice instead of Trump Rally idiocy?
The Obeid family arrived from Lebanon yesterday & are excited to be at the Raptors game tonight. Welcome to Canada! pic.twitter.com/3jcLD9CXgP
— Toronto Raptors (@Raptors) December 11, 2015
re: #61 compound_Idaho
The same way Hillary embraces the war on women when her husband cheats (fact) and rapes (pretty sure).
I am (pretty) sure you are a fuckwit.
Having said that, I am not entirely without empathy for the plight of conservatives…almost certainly faced with having to support Trump or Cruz, maybe I would be lashing out impotently as well.
re: #62 bratwurst
Call me a psychic, but I think I can predict who DF would favor 999 out of 1000 times in a conflict between a military man and a Democrat.
on to peking!
re: #58 Unabogie
Hey, I made my living for a dozen years programming in Flash and it was awesome.
Flash had its day, but now it’s an albatross around the neck of the Internet.
re: #33 EPR-radar
Don’t leave us hanging here. If you really think Truman shouldn’t have sacked MacArthur, I’m all ears, and won’t down-ding.
What I think is that a effort to attack China from the air had real promise and could have crippled Mao’s government. It would have been a massive risk, but I think it would have been one worth taking.
re: #52 Charles Johnson
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My goal for 2016 is to be half as persistent as the Adobe Update is.
re: #61 compound_Idaho
The same way Hillary embraces the war on women when her husband cheats (fact) and rapes (pretty sure).
Have you ever considered not being an asshole and see if you get different results?
re: #66 Charles Johnson
Flash had its day, but now it’s an albatross around the neck of the Internet.
True, but when I programmed with Flash there was no such thing as “this doesn’t work in IE/Safari/iOS/Android”. It was amazingly consistent across all browsers and OS’s.
Hello.
kickstarter.com
re: #66 Charles Johnson
Flash had its day, but now it’s an albatross around the neck of the Internet.
By the way, I still know some people who work exclusively in Flash/AIR. It’s amazing, but they find work.
re: #61 compound_Idaho
The same way Hillary embraces the war on women when her husband cheats (fact) and rapes (pretty sure).
How are Bill Clinton’s real and imaginary acts in any way relevant to the War on Women that the GOP is enthusiastically prosecuting?
re: #62 bratwurst
Call me a psychic, but I think I can predict who DF would favor 999 out of 1000 times in a conflict between a military man and a Democrat.
I honestly want to know. I mean if he sincerely believes that Truman was wrong to fire MacArthur, I’m willing to hear it. And I’ll outline why IMO I think it was right to fire Mac before the war got into the PRC. It would have caused heavy causalities in a war that already had heavy. Remember we lost 50,000 men in just three years of the Korean War compared to slightly more in Vietnam in a longer period of time. Plus the PRC was a client of the Soviet Union. Plus and China really was never “ours” to take back from the Communists. I’d argue it was our own over-support of Chiang and the Nationalists who were notoriously corrupt and also autocratic that gave the Communist Party of China credibility with the average Chinese person credibility in the first place. All I know is I really feel had Mac gone into China and started a massive war, I probably wouldn’t be here today since my grandfather was part of the U.S Army during the Korean conflict. Selfish, sure I concede but no more than the so called China Lobby thinking China was theirs in the first place.
re: #61 compound_Idaho
The same way Hillary embraces the war on women when her husband cheats (fact) and rapes (pretty sure).
What married couples do when one strays is up to them and has NOTHING to do with the very real War on Women. And I don’t believe Bill is a rapist.
Fuck you both.
re: #67 Dark_Falcon
What I think is that a effort to attack China from the air had real promise and could have crippled Mao’s government. It would have been a massive risk, but I think it would have been one worth taking.
Damn me. That takes war mongering to entirely new levels. Paging Dr. Strangelove.
Steve Jobs was exactly right about Flash - it’s a kludgy outdated technology and it wants to die.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 12, 2015
the solution to all economic problems is to “bring the jobs back” from china and mexico
nothing wrong with that except that he’ll have to fight all the multinational corporations in the world
re: #78 EPR-radar
Damn me. That takes war mongering to entirely new levels. Paging Dr. Strangelove.
“…MacArthur requested that the Pentagon grant him a field commander’s discretion to employ nuclear weapons as necessary. He wanted them stockpiled in Okinawa. He explained he would drop between 30 and 50 atomic bombs- strung across the neck of Manchuria, and spread behind us, from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea-a belt of radioactive cobalt-for at least 60 years there would be no land invasion of Korea from the North. The Russians, he claimed, would be intimidated by this and do nothing. He continued to seek authority to deploy the bomb.
b-29s-over-korea.com
re: #79 Charles Johnson
Trump just promised that he’s going to make Apple make computers here in the US instead of CHYNA.
Trump said nothing about Flash, though.
re: #83 freetoken
Trump just promised that he’s going to make Apple make computers here in the US instead of CHYNA.
Trump said nothing about Flash, though.
I can’t watch. I’m done with Trump for this week at least.
Fuck Trump.
re: #67 Dark_Falcon
What I think is that a effort to attack China from the air had real promise and could have crippled Mao’s government. It would have been a massive risk, but I think it would have been one worth taking.
Okay thanks for that answer and note no downding from me. I think that would have been a mistake and here’s why. China was a major Soviet ally and it would have damaged any possibility at a decent relationship in that part of the world for generations. Hell, I’d argue if we had done that we would be hated by the Chinese people to this day.
promise much, explain little, and insult and blame all the right people
re: #67 Dark_Falcon
What I think is that a effort to attack China from the air had real promise and could have crippled Mao’s government. It would have been a massive risk, but I think it would have been one worth taking.
Instead of downdinging you, I’ll just point out that our country and our planet are VERY lucky that we had men like Truman (and then Eisenhower) making important decisions during this era…not men like you.
@Green_Footballs Once Trump makes Apple build computers in the US and not China, maybe all these problems will go away?
— free token (@freetoken) December 12, 2015
Trump will make the Flash problem go away.
re: #82 jaunte
That was rather more extreme that what I had in mind.
re: #86 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
And then repeat that over and over and over…
re: #89 Dark_Falcon
Truman apparently couldn’t trust MacArthur to follow his orders, and the risk was too big.
re: #91 jaunte
Truman apparently couldn’t trust MacArthur to follow his orders, and the risk was too big.
And he was right. I am glad that Truman had a combat veteran’s wisdom. Interestingly like my grandpa, he too was an artilleryman.
re: #91 jaunte
Anyway, I just thought it a bit strange that Trump would bring MacArthur in for the cheap pop. But, nothing really will surprise me any more about what Trump will say.
re: #67 Dark_Falcon
What I think is that a effort to attack China from the air had real promise and could have crippled Mao’s government. It would have been a massive risk, but I think it would have been one worth taking.
there’s just the little problem that it would have started wwiii
re: #89 Dark_Falcon
That was rather more extreme that what I had in mind.
Although I’m no expert on military history, I’m pretty sure air power alone has never been decisive in a battle between major powers. So even setting aside the insanity of MacArthur’s apparent plan to nuke everything in sight, what reason would there be to believe that air power alone could force China to back down?
re: #95 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
there’s just the little problem that it would have started wwiii
Details.
re: #63 lockjawcanbefun
How ‘bout something nice instead of Trump Rally idiocy?
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I am so groovin on those gold lame high tops.
“Trump’s religious bigotry is an unprecedented anomaly!” — The American Press
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Punch, 1882Shorter @realDonaldTrump in DSM: He’s going to send Gen. MacArthur into China to capture Apple Computer and bring it back to the US.
— free token (@freetoken) December 12, 2015
re: #95 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
there’s just the little problem that it would have started wwiii
Yeah I can’t imagine. Honestly as I got at talking about the so called China Lobby, I think there was a lot of arrogance in our Sino policy in that era. I’ll actually give Nixon and Kissinger credit for not showing that when dealing with the Rapprochement two decades later. Not that I have any great love for the Mao regime of course, they were terrible but we can’t always go to war with bad actors. If we did, we’d always be at war.
re: #97 EPR-radar
Details.
direct conflict between the united states and a communist country? china and the soviet union were still allies at this time. where does it all end?
it’s easy to start things and say, oh, we’ll just do that and it will fix things and then that will be the end of it
that’s what they always say
re: #82 jaunte
“…MacArthur requested that the Pentagon grant him a field commander’s discretion to employ nuclear weapons as necessary. He wanted them stockpiled in Okinawa. He explained he would drop between 30 and 50 atomic bombs- strung across the neck of Manchuria, and spread behind us, from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea-a belt of radioactive cobalt-for at least 60 years there would be no land invasion of Korea from the North. The Russians, he claimed, would be intimidated by this and do nothing. He continued to seek authority to deploy the bomb.
The outstanding Eisenhower bio I just read states that Dulles, Nixon and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended using nuclear weapons at Dien Bien Phu in 1953 to “rescue” the French there. Ike’s reply was “you boys must be crazy”.
Thank goodness for Ike.
re: #96 EPR-radar
Although I’m no expert on military history, I’m pretty sure air power alone has never been decisive in a battle between major powers. So even setting aside the insanity of MacArthur’s apparent plan to nuke everything in sight, what reason would there be to believe that air power alone could force China to back down?
Lets leave it for tonight. I’m not well, and my mother may ill as well.
re: #99 De Kolta Chair
“Trump is an unprecedented anomaly.” — The press
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Surprised that kind of stuff was still going as late as 1882. My GG Grandfather was already married with two kids by then.
re: #103 bratwurst
The outstanding Eisenhower bio I just read states that Dulles, Nixon and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended using nuclear weapons at Dien Bien Phu in 1953 to “rescue” the French there. Ike’s reply was “you boys must be crazy”.
Thank goodness for Ike.
IIRC, the plan was to use four nuclear weapons.
It really is a good thing we didn’t remain the sole possessor of nukes for very long.
re: #103 bratwurst
The outstanding Eisenhower bio I just read states that Dulles, Nixon and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended using nuclear weapons at Dien Bien Phu in 1953 to “rescue” the French there. Ike’s reply was “you boys must be crazy”.
Thank goodness for Ike.
Nukes would not have worked. Gen. Giap had already brought forward most of the supplies he needed and few of the rest were in places we could have gotten at. Nukes against the Viet Minh forces assaulting the French would have ended up destroying the French garrison as well.
On this matter Ike was correct.
re: #105 HappyWarrior
Sadly, bigotry never seems to go out of style.
re: #106 Not a Sparkly Vampire
IIRC, the plan was to use four nuclear weapons.
It really is a good thing we didn’t remain the sole possessor of nukes for very long.
Mutual assured destruction worked. I’m 100% convinced that is why we didn’t end up having World War III between the US and the USSR.
re: #106 Not a Sparkly Vampire
IIRC, the plan was to use four nuclear weapons.
It really is a good thing we didn’t remain the sole possessor of nukes for very long.
trump’s gonna bring all nukes back to america where they belong
and north korea and russia are gonna love us for it, love us i tellya
re: #104 Dark_Falcon
Feel better DK, your mama too.
re: #106 Not a Sparkly Vampire
IIRC, the plan was to use four nuclear weapons.
It really is a good thing we didn’t remain the sole possessor of nukes for very long.
These days I often feel like I just woke up in an alternate America where religious fanatics control the government.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 12, 2015
re: #104 Dark_Falcon
Lets leave it for tonight. I’m not well, and my mother may ill as well.
All my best to you and your mom, Messr. Falcon. Give her tons of hugs. You only get one, as I’m sure you’ve noticed. ;-)
re: #106 Not a Sparkly Vampire
IIRC, the plan was to use four nuclear weapons.
It really is a good thing we didn’t remain the sole possessor of nukes for very long.
If you’re praising the Soviet Union for getting nukes (and I hop you’re not), then we’re going have a problem, you and I.
re: #108 freetoken
Sadly, bigotry never seems to go out of style.
Nope and that’s why even though my birth is well over 60 years after my last direct ancestor left Europe for America why I will stand up against bigotry. Bigotry is timeless. It doesn’t die. It just changes targets.
re: #115 Dark_Falcon
If you’re praising the Soviet Union for getting nukes (and I hop you’re not), then we’re going have a problem, you and I.
I think he’s more glad that we weren’t the only ones to have nukes which prevented our policymakers from getting too Nuke happy. Anyhow best to you and your mother. Sucks being ill. I may disagree like hell with you but I don’t have any ill will.
re: #115 Dark_Falcon
If you’re praising the Soviet Union for getting nukes (and I hop you’re not), then we’re going have a problem, you and I.
I wouldn’t say ‘praise’.
More like they kept us from using the damn things willy-nilly.
Just look at all the proposals for using nukes like any other bomb.
It was mad.
And yet I’m drawn to MacArthur over Eisenhower. Eisenhower was too modest, and he never actually endured heavy combat, and his desire to do thing in small ways does not satisfy my desire for Great Deeds and Smashed Enemies.
I can resist it with Trump, for I know he lacks the judgement to be a good president, but with MacArthur I still want to root for him. “People of the Philippines: I Have Returned.” still strikes me, maybe just over its appeal to ego.
Wire stories picking up on the Cruz-owned-by-oil message from Trump:
Donald Trump launches first attacks against Ted Cruz
I do wonder how Cruz’ anti-ethanol stance will hurt him in Iowa. In next week’s debate could we see Cruz flip-flop on this?
re: #117 HappyWarrior
Truman and Ike realized this and put a stop to it.
We were damn lucky to have them.
re: #121 Not a Sparkly Vampire
“The weapon did not have an abort function; if fired, the warhead would explode.”
Be absolutely sure!
re: #118 Not a Sparkly Vampire
I wouldn’t say ‘praise’.
More like they kept us from using the damn things willy-nilly.
Just look at all the proposals for using nukes like any other bomb.
It was mad.
It was also completely inevitable that the USSR would get nuclear weapons. Their spying etc. only affected the exact timing of this. So US delusions of grandeur predicated on being the only nuclear power were intrinsically very dangerous.
re: #124 Not a Sparkly Vampire
Truman and Ike realized this and put a stop to it.
We were damn lucky to have them.
Misread as Trump. I think I’ve had a bit too much of him lately.
re: #119 jaunte
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Pity they never came up with conventional rounds for those. HEAT rounds that size would have been superlative anti-tank weapons.
re: #128 Eclectic Cyborg
Misread as Trump. I think I’ve had a bit too much of him lately.
Oh dear.
Trump with the football.
Wheee!
re: #130 Not a Sparkly Vampire
Oh dear.
Trump with the football.
Wheee!
lol yeah I was like: “Wait…WHAT????”. Then I re-read it.
re: #129 Dark_Falcon
Pity they never came up with conventional rounds for those. HEAT rounds that size would have been superlative anti-tank weapons.
Tank?
What tank?
re: #130 Not a Sparkly Vampire
Oh dear.
Trump with the football.
Wheee!
Trump would get the US into WWIII by getting into a twitter fight with Putin about dick size.
I won’t lie.
I detest nuclear weapons.
Absolutely detest.
re: #122 Dark_Falcon
Well, my dad served under Ike, and you just uttered some fighting words! He went in on Utah beach, and participated in the drive to go straight at Germany, and the deeds were about as big as you could want. That compared to the stories I heard about MacArthur: no way, José!
re: #133 De Kolta Chair
Ted Cruz Puts His Foot Down.
Speaking of old military leaders…RIP Colonel Potter.
Goodbye. Farewell. Amen.
(BTW: notice how the linked Australian news site loads quickly because it isn’t bloated with garbage?)
re: #137 jaunte
Ted Cruz Puts His Foot Down.
“In Texas, slime trails you.” — Yakov Tito’s Vodka, or somebody, whatever. Forget the Alamo. Hic!
I was watching Dr. Phil on Jimmy Kimmel awhile back. Kimmel asked him about Trump and he said Trump worries because of what could potentially happen if President Trump was dealing with a volatile foreign situation and started “making shit up”. Yes, those were Dr. Phil’s exact words. The example he gave was if Trump said there bunch of submarines and Navy destroyers on that countries doorstep when there actually wasn’t.
re: #136 retired cynic
Well, my dad served under Ike, and you just uttered some fighting words! He went in on Utah beach, and participated in the drive to go straight at Germany, and the deeds were about as big as you could want. That compared to the stories I heard about MacArthur: no way, José!
Chalk it up to the irrational in me. I like grandeur more than I should. And i also know on some levels I’m wrong but I still think as I do.
re: #122 Dark_Falcon
And yet I’m drawn to MacArthur over Eisenhower. Eisenhower was too modest, and he never actually endured heavy combat, and his desire to do thing in small ways does not satisfy my desire for Great Deeds and Smashed Enemies.
I can resist it with Trump, for I know he lacks the judgement to be a good president, but with MacArthur I still want to root for him. “People of the Philippines: I Have Returned.” still strikes me, maybe just over its appeal to ego.
macarthur did many great things and deserves a great place in american history
he wasn’t always right, though
i mean, i love fdr, but he did some fucked up things too
re: #142 Dark_Falcon
Yep, but grandeur doesn’t win battles!
re: #132 Not a Sparkly Vampire
Tank?
What tank?
That’s its turret going up on that pillar of fire over there.
re: #133 De Kolta Chair
Feel free to tweet away
Ted Cruz: Because Rafael Cross Didn’t Test As Well With The Focus Group.
re: #133 De Kolta Chair
Feel free to tweet away
i encourage donald trump in his attempt to squish ted cruz before he gets big enough to be dangerous
re: #142 Dark_Falcon
Chalk it up to the irrational in me. I like grandeur more than I should. And i also know on some levels I’m wrong but I still think as I do.
I think in a way you’re a romantic weird as that sounds coming form an old idealist.
re: #149 HappyWarrior
I think in a way you’re a romantic weird as that sounds coming form an old idealist.
Pretty sure we’re all weird here.
;)
You know how when your printer gives you a “Toner Getting Low, Make Sure You Have One On Hand” message. And then a week later it gives you the “Toner Low, Be Prepared To Replace” message. And then when you’re right in the middle of a big print job with all the review questions for a class you’re taking, and it runs out of toner?
Yea…. Luckly I all but a few pages printed out, I’ll get a refill in the morning. (And I can’t use the printer at the shop, it won’t print black / white because it’s out of Cyan)
That’s Life.
RBS
re: #133 De Kolta Chair
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Feel free to tweet away
“Oh I am the Texas Slug,
A cousin to the snail.
The difference is I have no shell,
in which to tuck my tail.”
/Modification of the ‘Banana Slug Song’
re: #138 bratwurst
Speaking of old military leaders…RIP Colonel Potter.
Goodbye. Farewell. Amen.
(BTW: notice how the linked Australian news site loads quickly because it isn’t bloated with garbage?)
Ok…just noticed that link is 4 years old. Sorry for being the kind of guy who posts whatever someone puts on Twitter…sheesh.
For those who follow the sportsball, the Warriors are about to go to overtime against the Celtics.
Napoleon? There’s a guy who understood that there is a place for grandeur in battle, but not that invading Russia is a place where grandeur does not belong.
re: #135 Not a Sparkly Vampire
I won’t lie.
I detest nuclear weapons.
Absolutely detest.
Me too. I think we really got lucky in terms of when nuclear weapons got developed.
Limited use at the tail end of a war is much better than large scale use at the start of a war.
re: #149 HappyWarrior
I think in a way you’re a romantic weird as that sounds coming form an old idealist.
I can be at times. Though I know it can be destructive if not held in check.
I’m waiting for the Bilderbergs and The Illuminati to appoint a leader to put Trump in a darkened room and go all Ned Beatty on him.
So, Faux News and Trump and the like keep going on about how this administration is doing nothing about ISIS/ISIL… but then I read things like this:
Three of Isil’s highest-ranking leaders killed in US bombing
And I have to wonder what goes through the minds of Trump/Cruz/Rubio et. al. supporters when they read a story like that.
Do they really believe any other President would do something drastically different?
re: #146 Brian J.
Ted Cruz: Because Rafael Cross Didn’t Test As Well With The Focus Group.
Brilliant!
re: #158 Eric The Fruit Bat
I’m waiting for the Bilderbergs and The Illuminati to appoint a leader to put Trump in a darkened room and go all Ned Beatty on him.
They know better. Some Alinskyites tried that in Chicago and Donald Trump used their skeletons as part of the foundation of the Chicago Trump Tower.
//
re: #157 Dark_Falcon
I can be at times. Though I know it can be destructive if not held in check.
As long as you know your limits.
re: #159 freetoken
So, Faux News and Trump and the like keep going on about how this administration is doing nothing about ISIS/ISIL… but then I read things like this:
Three of Isil’s highest-ranking leaders killed in US bombing
And I have to wonder what goes through the minds of Trump/Cruz/Rubio et. al. supporters when they read a story like that.
Do they really believe any other President would do something drastically different?
A story like that has no effect on GOPers. The fact that POTUS is not a Republican trumps all, and means that everything the US is doing in both foreign and domestic policy is the worst of all possible options.
The actual details of policies etc. are completely irrelevant.
re: #158 Eric The Fruit Bat
I’m waiting for the Bilderbergs and The Illuminati to appoint a leader to put Trump in a darkened room and go all Ned Beatty on him.
Good point.
Where exactly are the Bildebergers and Illuminati during this Trump fiasco?
Not a Rothschild in sight.
Pretty damn weak world puppet masters.
//
re: #159 freetoken
So, Faux News and Trump and the like keep going on about how this administration is doing nothing about ISIS/ISIL… but then I read things like this:
Three of Isil’s highest-ranking leaders killed in US bombing
And I have to wonder what goes through the minds of Trump/Cruz/Rubio et. al. supporters when they read a story like that.
Do they really believe any other President would do something drastically different?
they don’t read the stories. they hear the lies and believe them. every once in a great while some reality breaks through and they are confounded
then they adjust the lies
re: #161 Dark_Falcon
They know better. Some Alinskyites tried that in Chicago and Donald Trump used their skeletons as part of the foundation of the Chicago Trump Tower.
//
He could use that as a campaign slogan…. TRUMP… His skeletons are well buried.
RBS
The fact that thee Illuminati, Rothschilds, Bohemian Grove folks, Free Masons and Bildebergers are letting Trump get the nomination should tell us all we need to know.
Be afraid…
//
re: #159 freetoken
So, Faux News and Trump and the like keep going on about how this administration is doing nothing about ISIS/ISIL… but then I read things like this:
Three of Isil’s highest-ranking leaders killed in US bombing
And I have to wonder what goes through the minds of Trump/Cruz/Rubio et. al. supporters when they read a story like that.
Do they really believe any other President would do something drastically different?
Daesh has had a bad week. They took an even heavier blow in Iraq yesterday when they blew a combination bridge and lock on the Euphrates River to try to stop the advance of the Iraqi Army in Ramadi. The problem for Daesh was that the IA pressed its attack so sharply that the bridge was blown while 300 Daesh scum were still on the wrong bank of the river.
re: #160 De Kolta Chair
Brilliant!
For some reason, that half-Anglicization bothers me as much as anything else about the guy. On the other hand, I’ve never been impressed by the guy’s supposed strategic acumen and intelligence. This is a guy who did worse than Romney in Texas in 2012, despite facing an opponent he outspent more than 20 to 1, and a guy who’s literally never had a plan for Republicans that left them better off.
I REALLY should be studying. I REALLY should be laying out gear and packing it. Instead, I’m going to spend the evening watching LUCK on Amazon Video and hanging out with the rest of the lizards.
And I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’ve got a whole weekend off to get stuff done.
RBS
Paul the lesser whining about wanting equal treatment:
Rand Paul, faced with debate snub, demands ‘the same treatment that Carly Fiorina was given’
He fails to appreciate that the GOP needed a token female. They have enough white-male wingnuts on the stage already.
re: #122 Dark_Falcon
And yet I’m drawn to MacArthur over Eisenhower. Eisenhower was too modest, and he never actually endured heavy combat, and his desire to do thing in small ways does not satisfy my desire for Great Deeds and Smashed Enemies.
I can resist it with Trump, for I know he lacks the judgement to be a good president, but with MacArthur I still want to root for him. “People of the Philippines: I Have Returned.” still strikes me, maybe just over its appeal to ego.
MacArthur was an incompetent and left the PI vulnerable to the Japanese because of it. His misuse of US airpower should have, after allowing most of it be destroyed on the ground, in itself had him sacked. We lost a good Admiral in Kimmel who had tried to ready Pearl for the coming war and lionized an idiot who did nothing but throw away the Philippines and his men.
A lot of men and material was wasted on the unnecessary PI campaign that would have been better used in the real undoing of the Japanese via the island campaigns.
The fact that he was give a MOH instead of a firing squad is one of the saddest in American history.
re: #153 Dark_Falcon
“Oh I am the Texas Slug,
A cousin to the snail.
The difference is I have no shell,
in which to tuck my tail.”/Modification of the ‘Banana Slug Song’
Day-o!
If I may name drop, as is my wont, I met Harry Belafonte a couple of years ago at an SEIU function, and what a true gent he was.
re: #171 freetoken
Paul the lesser whining about wanting equal treatment:
Rand Paul, faced with debate snub, demands ‘the same treatment that Carly Fiorina was given’
He fails to appreciate that the GOP needed a token female. They have enough white-male wingnuts on the stage already.
I thought he was surging.
re: #174 Brian J.
Second overtime in Boston.
It’s the 1976 NBA Finals all over again. I can’t take the tension!
re: #171 freetoken
Paul the lesser whining about wanting equal treatment:
Rand Paul, faced with debate snub, demands ‘the same treatment that Carly Fiorina was given’
He fails to appreciate that the GOP needed a token female. They have enough white-male wingnuts on the stage already.
I am no fan of Chris Christie, but I salute the way he took his medicine last time around. He went down to the kids table debate and did well enough to improve his standing overall…ok, admittedly he only had one direction to go, but still.
I am not exactly surprised to learn that Rand might be lacking in humility.
re: #135 Not a Sparkly Vampire
I won’t lie.
I detest nuclear weapons.
Absolutely detest.
White phosphorous fan?
re: #172 William Lewis
MacArthur was an incompetent and left the PI vulnerable to the Japanese because of it. His misuse of US airpower should have, after allowing most of it be destroyed on the ground, in itself had him sacked. We lost a good Admiral in Kimmel who had tried to ready Pearl for the coming war and lionized an idiot who did nothing but throw away the Philippines and his men.
A lot of men and material was wasted on the unnecessary PI campaign that would have been better used in the real undoing of the Japanese via the island campaigns.
The fact that he was give a MOH instead of a firing squad is one of the saddest in American history.
I don’t agree about the 44-45 Philippines campaign. It saved the lives of many who had been faithful to the US and it led the IJN into a counter-attack that finished it as a cohesive navy. And finally it cut Japan off from the oil of Sumatra and Borneo and that cut off was of crucial importance.
re: #159 freetoken
So, Faux News and Trump and the like keep going on about how this administration is doing nothing about ISIS/ISIL… but then I read things like this:
Three of Isil’s highest-ranking leaders killed in US bombing
And I have to wonder what goes through the minds of Trump/Cruz/Rubio et. al. supporters when they read a story like that.
Do they really believe any other President would do something drastically different?
They don’t believe the stories. They think the Ibama admin is lying about what they’re doing. If they ever hear about it because there’s a news blackout in their bubble.
re: #177 bratwurst
I am no fan of Chris Christie, but I salute the way he took his medicine last time around. He went down to the kids table debate and did well enough to improve his standing overall…ok, admittedly he only had one direction to go, but still.
I am not exactly surprised to learn that Rand might be lacking in humility.
Governors have to deal with reality in a way that senators don’t. I’m not surprised either.
re: #168 Dark_Falcon
Daesh has had a bad week. They took an even heavier blow in Iraq yesterday when they blew a combination bridge and lock on the Euphrates River to try to stop the advance of the Iraqi Army in Ramadi. The problem for Daesh was that the IA pressed its attack so sharply that the bridge was blown while 300 Daesh scum were still on the wrong bank of the river.
If you haven’t read it already, you might find this article by Jonathan Steele, The Syrian Kurds Are Winning!, in the December 3rd issue of the NY Review of Books to be as interesting as I did.
re: #180 WhatEVs
And just as the believe Obama is lying, they believe what Donald Trump says.
Crazy.
re: #176 De Kolta Chair
It’s the 1976 NBA Finals all over again. I can’t take the tension!
Actually, the Warriors team that won it all was 1975…and it was against the Washington Bullets. Take a look at the team they had: Rick Barry, Jamaal Wilkes and pretty much nobody else.
re: #182 De Kolta Chair
If you haven’t read it already, you might find this article by Jonathan Steele, The Syrian Kurds Are Winning!, in the December NY Review of Books to be as interesting as I did.
Thank you for that link.
re: #181 Dark_Falcon
Governors have to deal with reality in a way that senators don’t. I’m not surprised either.
Which is why it’s not a coincidence that governors and former governors have done really, really badly in the GOP primaries this year. Of course, some of that is that Perry, Walker and Jindal were bad at their jobs, unless you interpret their jobs to be blind adherence to right-wing ideology.
re: #138 bratwurst
Speaking of old military leaders…RIP Colonel Potter.
Goodbye. Farewell. Amen.
(BTW: notice how the linked Australian news site loads quickly because it isn’t bloated with garbage?)
abc in Oz is still government funded - with no help from RW politicians who keep reducing those funds
re: #179 Dark_Falcon
I don’t agree about the 44-45 Philippines campaign. It saved the lives of many who had been faithful to the US and it led the IJN into a counter-attack that finished it as a cohesive navy. And finally it cut Japan off from the oil of Sumatra and Borneo and that cut off was of crucial importance.
The USN submarine force had already cut off the oil and could have cut off the PI as well.
The IJN would have sortied to whatever island had the majority of the fleet at that time. The results would have been the same - a larger repeat of Surigao Straight without the near disaster of the Battle off Samar. Possibly the Iowa class ships might have had the chance to be the ones sinking the Yamato.
Billionaire Saudi Prince @Alwaleed_Talal calls @realDonaldTrump a “disgrace” to America https://t.co/suA4YECRGS pic.twitter.com/j27RAbul0r
— CNN (@CNN) December 12, 2015
Really not sure how I feel about this one. https://t.co/wsyxzJq24L
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 12, 2015
re: #167 b.d.
The fact that thee Illuminati, Rothschilds, Bohemian Grove folks, Free Masons and Bildebergers are letting Trump get the nomination should tell us all we need to know.
Be afraid…
//
Hey, don’t forget The Trilateral Commission!
re: #177 bratwurst
I am not exactly surprised to learn that Rand might be lacking in humility.
David Lynch’s Eraserhead 2: Revenge of the Aqua Buddha, coming soon to an art house near you!
Who am I kidding, there are no more art houses. Damn you Obama!
re: #192 De Kolta Chair
David Lynch’s <Eraserhead 2: Revenge of the Aquabuddha, coming soon to an art house near you! Who am I kidding, there are no more art houses. Damn you Obama!
Wow! I can’t wait to see Rand Paul in Eraserass!
Larry Kudlow has changed. Snort.
I’ve Changed. This Is War. Seal the Borders. Stop the Visas. https://t.co/j33KvPfO4T pic.twitter.com/t2HHuLN8ZU
— National Review (@NRO) December 12, 2015
re: #177 bratwurst
I am no fan of Chris Christie, but I salute the way he took his medicine last time around. He went down to the kids table debate and did well enough to improve his standing overall…ok, admittedly he only had one direction to go, but still.
I am not exactly surprised to learn that Rand might be lacking in humility.
Rand should be more worried about keeping his Senate seat.
re: #21 Charles Johnson
I get that Donald Trump is an ongoing train wreck and it’s hard to look away, but good grief. Why is this still happening?
Because there are enough racists to power a major political party.
re: #194 Charles Johnson
More hysteria from the right wing “intellectuals.”
re: #195 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Rand should be more worried about keeping his Senate seat.
That’ll be nice.
Such a scary graphic! Booga booga. https://t.co/OpaJ90DhCW
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 12, 2015
re: #195 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Rand should be more worried about keeping his Senate seat.
Sadly, the results of last month’s election indicate that Paul has more to worry about in a primary than in the general (barring the Republicans splitting in half).
Warriors escape in double OT, 124-119.
re: #194 Charles Johnson
@NRO Does change mean you added “I’ve Changed” to your list?
— Lonnie Mask (@LonnieMask) December 12, 2015
re: #201 Brian J.
Sadly, the results of last month’s election indicate that Paul has more to worry about in a primary than in the general (barring the Republicans splitting in half).
Warriors escape in double OT, 124-119.
Presidential election year though but I do agree.
re: #198 HappyWarrior
That’ll be nice.
Yeah, but the chances of his district electing a Democrat are slim, even though KY Democrats are often indistinguishable from Republicans.
re: #202 Belafon
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This guy thinks he’s gonna get elected to the Senate from Connecticut by screaming “Wolverines!” That’s cute.
Okay. let’s see if this works…
The Guilford Courthouse National Military Park FB website put up the video of me playing the Coventry Carol on harp during last nights’ candle light tour of the Hoskins farm house.
re: #189 Charles Johnson
Isn’t that one of the guys who palled around with the Bushes?
Man, the Warriors…I haven’t seen a team this dominant since the Jordan-Bulls glory days. I’m sure even Lebron James is like: “Daaamn…” Coincidentally the Warriors play the Cavs on Christmas Day.
re: #206 Aunty Entity Dragon
Okay. let’s see if this works…
The Guilford Courthouse National Military park FB website put up the video of me laying the Coventry Carol on harp during last nights’ candle light tour of the Hoskins farm house.
Very nice.
RBS
GAH! I want take all these “Seal the border!” numpties down to the ACTUAL BORDER and say: “Okay….now would you mind demonstrating to me just how the FUCK YOU PLAN TO SEAL THIS THING?!”
Spoiler: We can’t.
I’ve been poking Chuck’s Facebook, and notice that he’s been off of it for three days so far. He had reported that FB was suspending him for three days. Could it be the suspension was delayed until Dec. 9 for some reason?
Also, I noticed you have to be signed into FB to access his page, such as it is.
And the last post to GotNooooz was his love poem* to George Zimmerman.
* OK, I exaggerate. It was more of a stream-of-consciousness prose narrative.
re: #206 Aunty Entity Dragon
Got it! Very nice! Thanks!
re: #209 Reality Based Steve
Very nice.
RBS
Thanks. Deirdre (the harp) was beginning to react to the night air and dropping temperature as the evening went on and she starting sounding a bit sharp by the end. Large wood instruments don’t like temperature changes… :)
re: #206 Aunty Entity Dragon
Okay. let’s see if this works…
The Guilford Courthouse National Military Park FB website put up the video of me playing the Coventry Carol on harp during last nights’ candle light tour of the Hoskins farm house.
“Video Unavailable” again. Bummer.
re: #184 bratwurst
Actually, the Warriors team that won it all was 1975…and it was against the Washington Bullets. Take a look at the team they had: Rick Barry, Jamaal Wilkes and pretty much nobody else.
Granted a great team, and the Bullets weren’t so bad themselves — my Baltimorean wife remembers that squad with great affection to this day — but I’d much rather look back with fond reflection at the Celts of my youth. ;-)
re: #206 Aunty Entity Dragon
Okay. let’s see if this works…
The Guilford Courthouse National Military Park FB website put up the video of me playing the Coventry Carol on harp during last nights’ candle light tour of the Hoskins farm house.
Verrah fine!
re: #142 Dark_Falcon
And i also know on some levels I’m wrong but I still think as I do.
Heh. Didn’t I tell you that you were honest?
re: #206 Aunty Entity Dragon
Okay. let’s see if this works…
The Guilford Courthouse National Military park FB website put up the video of me laying the Coventry Carol on harp during last nights’ candle light tour of the Hoskins farm house.
Works for me! Awesome job!
re: #206 Aunty Entity Dragon
Okay. let’s see if this works…
The Guilford Courthouse National Military park FB website put up the video of me laying the Coventry Carol on harp during last nights’ candle light tour of the Hoskins farm house.
Link worked and the performance is lovely. Thanks!
re: #218 Eclectic Cyborg
White guys? Playing basketball??
/
They had the rim lower in those days. ///
RBS
re: #217 Aunty Entity Dragon
Hmm. Try again?
No Joy—first three notes, then freeze. I’m on a throwaway traveling machine with a weird Linux Mint OS. It’s telling Charles I have adblock.
re: #210 Eclectic Cyborg
GAH! I want take all these “Seal the border!” numpties down to the ACTUAL BORDER and say: “Okay….now would you mind demonstrating to me just how the FUCK YOU PLAN TO SEAL THIS THING?!”
Spoiler: We can’t.
WE’RE GONNA BUILD A BIG BEAUTIFUL WALL WITH CLASSY TRIM AND MAGNIFICENT GUARD TOWERS AND THOSE DUMMY LOSERS IN MEXICO ARE GOING TO PAY FOR IT.
Thanks everybody. :) I only had 3 Colonial period carols ready for last night( Coventry Carol, Greensleeves, Un Flambeau Jeannette Isabelle), so I will try to have a few more for next year. It was a lot of fun.
re: #223 Decatur Deb
No Joy—first three notes, then freeze. I’m on a throwaway traveling machine with a weird Linux Mint OS. It’s telling Charles I have adblock.
Gah. :(
Go directly to facebook and then go to Guilford Courthouse National Military Park and look there. The video is the second post down.
re: #218 Eclectic Cyborg
White guys? Playing basketball??
/
With all the tattoos I can’t tell what’s what or who’s who or when’s when anymore. ////
Anyways, I wanted to share that from last night, and I will see you all later this weekend. :)
re: #206 Aunty Entity Dragon
Nice job! Thanks for sharing…
re: #223 Decatur Deb
No Joy—first three notes, then freeze. I’m on a throwaway traveling machine with a weird Linux Mint OS. It’s telling Charles I have adblock.
Oh, you getting that fun banner too? I do use an ad blocker but I made an exception for this place day one. Still get the banner.
Dopey Prince @Alwaleed_Talal wants to control our U.S. politicians with daddy’s money. Can’t do it when I get elected. #Trump2016
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2015
i’ve spent far too much time in ted cruz supporter groups this cycle and not nearly enough in trump ones pic.twitter.com/djxDg0Eqlw
— christopher hooks (@cd_hooks) December 12, 2015
lmao pic.twitter.com/6geWkIDl3E
— christopher hooks (@cd_hooks) December 12, 2015
Well, I’m off to study for a while. (The guilt is eating me up). Luckily the material is stuff that I’m not unfamiliar with, just a matter of getting their personal take on it.
Have a good evening, and don’t forget that last one to leave has to take the left-over green bean casserole home too.
RBS
re: #234 Decatur Deb
Gilbert Godfrey is going to be Trump’s Secy of State.
He’s my strongest single argument against human cloning….
And Now Ladies and Gentlemen, we are proud to present….. The Gilbert Godfries!!!!!
re: #232 bratwurst
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Donald getting us in a pissing match with Saudi Arabia….just perfect.
re: #236 Reality Based Steve
He’s my strongest single argument against human cloning….
And Now Ladies and Gentlemen, we are proud to present….. The Gilbert Godfries!!!!!
In The Aristocrats,
re: #232 bratwurst
Yes, folks—he went there.
re: #240 Eric The Fruit Bat
Yes, folks—he went there.
Foreign policy insprired by Beavis and Butthead.
Interesting character study, MacArthur. Always a massive ego, but a genius. He wanted to break up the Bonus Marchers, and did it ruthlessly. Then he went on an Imperial Vacation to Manilla, running the Phillipine Army, with FDR keeping him out of his hair. Loved the Oriental Potentate role. But his planes were caught on the ground, even though Washington had given him ample warning. His campaigns in the island-hopping war in the Pacific are textbook. Lowest casualties for the biggest gains. Yet sometimes, ego would overwhelm him. Then he was the Emperor of Japan, or the American who could most closely resemble an emperor, all the while introducing massive land reforms, and getting the Japanese to accept unions and social democracy. Second emperor job.
Landing at Inchon, taking Pyongyang, getting all the north to the Chinese border with no idea of what was waiting for him. Then one of the worst defeats for any American commander. Then he started his campaign to nuke China. Unleash Chiang-Kai-Shek. The right and the McCarthyites loved the idea. So Truman ordered him home. He was asked to make a speech in Congress, and the fervor was so strong that it seemed there might be a coup of some kind. But somewhere between San Francisco and Washington, he came back to reality. His speech to congress made it very clear he wouldn’t be running for president, and he “just faded away.”
re: #238 Decatur Deb
In The Aristocrats,
‘I have to leave early tonight, I have to fly out to L.A. I couldn’t get a direct flight, I have to make a stop at the Empire State Building,”
‘Too soon!’
I admit that I was never a Gottfried fan until I saw him in The Aristocrats, that was one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
re: #211 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I’ve been poking Chuck’s Facebook, and notice that he’s been off of it for three days so far. He had reported that FB was suspending him for three days. Could it be the suspension was delayed until Dec. 9 for some reason?
Also, I noticed you have to be signed into FB to access his page, such as it is.
And the last post to GotNooooz was his love poem* to George Zimmerman.
* OK, I exaggerate. It was more of a stream-of-consciousness prose narrative.
You never know with Chuck. He seems to go through classic bi-polar episodes, and he may just be holed up somewhere screaming into a pillow and weeping.
re: #237 b.d.
Donald getting us in a pissing match with Saudi Arabia….just perfect.
The Saudis could buy him out. He’s a pauper by comparison to the royal family.
re: #245 Charles Johnson
You never know with Chuck. He seems to go through classic bi-polar episodes, and he may just be holed up somewhere screaming into a pillow and weeping.
Only his HAW knows for sure, I reckon.
re: #242 teleskiguy
I’ve been re-watching B&B lately. Man it’s still funny shit. I wish the Amazon Prime episodes would include the music videos though.
re: #21 Charles Johnson
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Because the GOP has spent the last 40 years priming the pump for him.
True story: I’m at my monthly meeting of the NYC De Blasio Commie Liberal Club, Tribeca Chapter, and just for shits and giggles I mentioned that I was yuuuuge fan of Donald Trump. Picking myself off of the curb a few seconds later, I stumbled my way to my bank and noticed right away that $1000 had been deposited into my account by “The Trump Fund.”
Finding this more than a bit odd, I mentioned the name Trump to the person at the ATM to the left of me, and another $1000 suddenly appeared in my account. I turned my head to the person at the ATM to my right and uttered the word Trump, and whattya know another $1000 appeared on the screen.
It only took a couple of more tries before I realized that I merely had to think the words “Trump 2015” and automatically $1000 was deposited into my account, and my friends tonight I’m as rich as Croesus’ richer uncle. It’s a real estate developer miracle!
Btw, this story is as true as anything Donald Trump has ever said, and the next three million rounds are on me.
re: #173 De Kolta Chair
Day-o!
If I may name drop, as is my wont, I met Harry Belafonte a couple of years ago at an SEIU function, and what a true gent he was.
Jealous!
Belafonte was my true love’s very favorite. For his 50th birthday, I got front row tickets for a Belafonte concert. He said it was the best night of his life.
re: #177 bratwurst
I am no fan of Chris Christie, but I salute the way he took his medicine last time around. He went down to the kids table debate and did well enough to improve his standing overall…ok, admittedly he only had one direction to go, but still.
I am not exactly surprised to learn that Rand might be lacking in humility.
I know. I am not a Christie fan either, but at the last kiddie event, he had to be thinking, “How the fuck did I end up at the same place as Huckabee, Santorum and Bobby Fucking Jindal!”
re: #183 Jenner7
And just as the believe Obama is lying, they believe what Donald Trump says.
Crazy.
It’s on his hat!
re: #248 HappyWarrior
I’ve been re-watching B&B lately. Man it’s still funny shit. I wish the Amazon Prime episodes would include the music videos though.
I got the FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! episodes on beta.
re: #252 BeachDem
Ever since the pic of him in the camel toe pic in the baseball iniform, I cant look at the man.
re: #246 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Alwaleed bin Talal has done a fine job bottom-feeding after Trump’s mistakes. He bought Trump’s yacht for $19 million, now its replacement cost (even with depreciation) is $100 million.
The stupid thing is that the banks should have learned from the first go-round with The Donald.
I’m convinced Trump bullies his bankers and financial people to get what he wants.
re: #215 De Kolta Chair
Granted a great team, and the Bullets weren’t so bad themselves — my Baltimorean wife remembers that squad with great affection to this day — but I’d much rather look back with fond reflection at the Celts of my youth. ;-)
Ah memories. That was the team of my very young youth. Add the Jones Boys and Satch and you’ve got me!
re: #257 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m convinced Trump bullies his bankers and financial people to get what he wants.
Does he have to bully or are they just in cahoots?
re: #257 Eclectic Cyborg
During Trump’s first corporate bankruptcy, he stopped paying the insurance on his yacht, basically telling the banks-‘Nice yacht I got here with your money-pity if something were to happen to it.’
The banks paid the insurance on the yacht.
That’s how he rolls.
Speaking of cahoots, this is an underrated album imho
Well, I hate to say it but I gotta scoot. Later gators.
Wally Wood, Fireball X15 sketchReminder Always be alert to your surroundings. Solo driver SB280 escaped with only a scratch #sjfd #sanjose #bmw pic.twitter.com/q4wyygWkcf
— SanJose Firefighters (@SJFirefighters) December 11, 2015
re: #263 De Kolta Chair
Ooo! I think I had that toy when I was a kid!
re: #182 De Kolta Chair
If you haven’t read it already, you might find this article by Jonathan Steele, The Syrian Kurds Are Winning!, in the December 3rd issue of the NY Review of Books to be as interesting as I did.
Please somebody send that article to Joke Scarborough so he doesn’t have to keep repeating over and over about Obama having no plan and sitting in his office petrified because he doesn’t want to give up on not being a war president.
Since Obama speech in the Philippines and then his address on Sunday Joke and many others have been crying because he isn’t demonstrative enough and at the same time hold America’s hand and pat each and every one of us on the head.
I feel so much better now, knowing Ron Johnson’s on the case:
The Republican chairman of a key U.S. Senate panel demanded the Justice Department on Friday turn over much of the evidence collected so far in the case.
In a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, asked her agency to furnish the evidence requested, along with answers to more than a dozen questions he posed about the investigation.
Why Wisconsin? WHY???
re: #83 freetoken
Trump just promised that he’s going to make Apple make computers here in the US instead of CHYNA.
Trump said nothing about Flash, though.
What about HP? Lenovo? Good luck with the latter, obviously.
re: #266 ObserverArt
Please somebody send that article to Joke Scarborough so he doesn’t have to keep repeating over and over about Obama having no plan and sitting in his office petrified because he doesn’t want to give up on not being a war president.
Since Obama speech in the Philippines and then his address on Sunday Joke and many others have been crying because he isn’t demonstrative enough and at the same time hold America’s hand and pat each and every one of us on the head.
Scarborough knows. He’s lying. And MSNBC allows it. Fuck Joe and MSNBC. I don’t watch any of that shit now. CNN is Fox light and MSNBC is following slowly. I’m done with cable news. There is no truth any more. It’s all truthiness.
Can they do it? Need a bit more than 215K in less than an hour to reach final goal of 5.9 million for 13 episodes of MST3K
I’m looking over the latest filing by National Abortion Federation in re: their motion for preliminary injunction against Center for Medical Progress. Chuck is mentioned twice in the reply to CMP’s response to the PI motion. It seems Chuck provided them with some information that neither Daleiden nor CMP had previously.
In a footnote to a redacted section, page 15:
10 This report was produced to NAF not by CMP or Daleiden, but rather by his friend Charles C. Johnson. Daleiden’s attorneys quickly designated it Confidential under the Protective Order.
Hoo boy!
re: #267 BeachDem
I feel so much better now, knowing Ron Johnson’s on the case:
The Republican chairman of a key U.S. Senate panel demanded the Justice Department on Friday turn over much of the evidence collected so far in the case.
In a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, asked her agency to furnish the evidence requested, along with answers to more than a dozen questions he posed about the investigation.
Why Wisconsin? WHY???
Better that Lynch just hand the information over so as not to be seen as stonewalling.
re: #267 BeachDem
I feel so much better now, knowing Ron Johnson’s on the case:
The Republican chairman of a key U.S. Senate panel demanded the Justice Department on Friday turn over much of the evidence collected so far in the case.
In a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, asked her agency to furnish the evidence requested, along with answers to more than a dozen questions he posed about the investigation.
Why Wisconsin? WHY???
From Russ Feingold to Ron Johnson. SMH.
re: #192 De Kolta Chair
David Lynch’s Eraserhead 2: Revenge of the Aqua Buddha, coming soon to an art house near you!
Who am I kidding, there are no more art houses. Damn you Obama!
We still have a small theater here in Columbus that can be considered to be an art house. The Drexel in Bexely a smallish former Jewish community land locked by Columbus proper. They show some mainstream stuff, but you can also see the independent art films too.
re: #271 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I’m looking over the latest filing by National Abortion Federation in re: their motion for preliminary injunction against Center for Medical Progress. Chuck is mentioned twice in the reply to CMP’s response to the PI motion. It seems Chuck provided them with some information that neither Daleiden nor CMP had previously.
In a footnote to a redacted section, page 15:
Hoo boy!
UpChuck as Stool Pigeon, with ‘stool’ = ‘poop’.
re: #103 bratwurst
The outstanding Eisenhower bio I just read states that Dulles, Nixon and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended using nuclear weapons at Dien Bien Phu in 1953 to “rescue” the French there. Ike’s reply was “you boys must be crazy”.
Thank goodness for Ike.
Interstate highways are pretty good too! I didn’t know about his unfortunate response to Mexican immigrants until Trump brought it up, so I can’t be an unabashed admirer, but otherwise he was a pretty good president?
re: #275 Dark_Falcon
UpChuck as Stool Pigeon, with ‘stool’ = ‘poop’.
He and Daleiden are going to regret he ever got involved with this particular bete noir.
re: #272 Dark_Falcon
Better that Lynch just hand the information over so as not to be seen as stonewalling.
Ah yes, I will feel so much safer with Ron Johnson, perhaps the dumbest person in the Senate, applying his great intellect to the situation.
Sigh.
re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg
Man, the Warriors…I haven’t seen a team this dominant since the Jordan-Bulls glory days. I’m sure even Lebron James is like: “Daaamn…” Coincidentally the Warriors play the Cavs on Christmas Day.
The Cavs are getting healthy. They just got Iman Shumpert back tonight. Waiting for Kyrie Irving to hit the court any day and then it’s on!
So, by Christmas day we will see the full squad. They may not be hitting on all cylinders by then, but by the end of the season, baring any more funky injuries, they should be good for the playoffs.
And I am not bagging on Golden State. They are a great team and Curry is sick!
William, I think you’ll want to read this. It’s also for anyone else who wants to know more about where the Army wants to go with its combat vehicles. This is a official document, not wingnut fantasy, so please don’t be hating:
re: #279 BeachDem
Ah yes, I will feel so much safer with Ron Johnson, perhaps the dumbest person in the Senate, applying his great intellect to the situation.
Sigh.
Not to mention all the twists and turns an investigation takes. This is another Benghazi witch hunt. Look at what they said in early stages and say YOU LIE! as the investigation progresses. SSDD.
re: #224 teleskiguy
WE’RE GONNA BUILD A BIG BEAUTIFUL WALL WITH CLASSY TRIM AND MAGNIFICENT GUARD TOWERS AND THOSE DUMMY LOSERS IN MEXICO ARE GOING TO PAY FOR IT.
Last night Rachel Maddow (I think?) had an interview with some people at Trump’s police award/endorsement. One woman prattled on about wanting a wall on the south and north borders to keep America nice and peaceful. I wish the interviewer had asked her if she would also like both the coasts fully mined and with full fleets of Coast Guard and Navy ships lined up end to end too? And of course, fill the skies with round-the-clock fighter jets with tankers to keep them fueled.
Might as well go full tilt!
Americans have no business making fun of “funny foreign names” when we have Dicks, Fannys, and Chads running around.
re: #285 teleskiguy
And of course all these names.
Be alert! pic.twitter.com/DQzm65lWaW
— Rocky Mountain Mike (@RockyMntnMike) December 11, 2015
New video released in controversial Texas police shooting https://t.co/p7jMDAUiBF pic.twitter.com/Y1VPxYRFhr
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 12, 2015
Authorities in Texas have released another video showing a controversial police killing in San Antonio in August that appears to have occurred right after the suspect put his hands up.
A grand jury declined to indict the deputies involved on Wednesday.
re: #281 Dark_Falcon</e>
Interesting. Mostly a sales document (we need new toys because X, Y and Z) with little discussion of what they want to buy. Not a bad argument but we need to know what they want and cost estimates first.
I did have to snicker at the backhanded acknowledgement that the Stryker Brigades were an expensive mistake. We’ve almost deployed two excellent light armor vehicles since 1980 (LAV-75 & M-8 AGS) and bought that POS instead. Sigh…
re: #271 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I’m looking over the latest filing by National Abortion Federation in re: their motion for preliminary injunction against Center for Medical Progress. Chuck is mentioned twice in the reply to CMP’s response to the PI motion. It seems Chuck provided them with some information that neither Daleiden nor CMP had previously.
In a footnote to a redacted section, page 15:
Hoo boy!
I think we can guess why Ginger Snapped has been so silent…
re: #287 FormerDirtDart
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“You have the right not to be killed.
Murder is a crime!
Unless it is done by a policeman… “
The Clash
re: #289 Eclectic Cyborg
Didn’t make it. Final pledges total 5.76 M
So now what? They get handed 5.8mil for nothing?
re: #293 WhatEVs
So now what? They get handed 5.8mil for nothing?
There will be 14 episodes.
They made over the 6.3M
re: #294 blueraven
There will be 14 episodes.
They made over the 6.3M
Did they say what they’re going to skewer?
re: #271 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I’m looking over the latest filing by National Abortion Federation in re: their motion for preliminary injunction against Center for Medical Progress. Chuck is mentioned twice in the reply to CMP’s response to the PI motion. It seems Chuck provided them with some information that neither Daleiden nor CMP had previously.
In a footnote to a redacted section, page 15:
Hoo boy!
I’m a little disappointed, I’ve found two typos/mistakes in docket 289. They said Weev was in Siberia, and that materials were leaked a “weak” later. They must have been in a hurry to post this one.
Still interesting though. This really is war.
14!!!! RT @MST3K FOURTEEN EPISODES FUNDED!!! Thank you MSTies! #BringBackMST3K pic.twitter.com/0hqNtXMzWu
— Δ & S (@delta_s) December 12, 2015
re: #296 Pawn of the Oppressor
I’m a little disappointed, I’ve found two typos/mistakes in docket 289. They said Weev was in Siberia, and that materials were leaked a “weak” later. They must have been in a hurry to post this one.
Still interesting though. This really is war.
Here’s the section which contains that footnote reference, on pages 14-15.
Third, Daleiden has no credibility when he accuses lawful providers of abortion care of being criminals. Not only [REDACTED] but he has openly boasted about committing fraud on NAF and its members, and has admitted to illegally taping 504 hours of NAF’s meetings. (See Supp. App’x Ex. 134 at 7 (disregarding Daleiden’s testimony because of “admission” that he “surreptitiously taped” individuals).) Daleiden also has stated under penalty of perjury to the United States government and the State of California that CMP was a “nonpartisan” organization and that “no substantial part of the activities of the Corporation … consist of carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation.” (App’x Exs. 9 at NAF0000535; 10 at NAF0001789.)
We now know these claims are false. [REDACTED, contains notation for footnote 10 below] In even more vivid terms, CMP’s agent, Catherine Short, issued a press release on July 14 calling abortion doctors “contract killers” and expressly asking “why a penny of taxpayer money is going to fund any part of Planned Parenthood.” (App’x Exs. 24; 25 at NAF0002011.) And Troy Newman recently stated that Defendants’ goal all along was to “completely destroy the entity called Planned Parenthood.” (Supp. App’x Ex. 136.) Far from seeking evidence of actual crimes, Defendants’ motives are plain as day.
10 This report was produced to NAF not by CMP or Daleiden, but rather by his friend Charles C. Johnson. Daleiden’s attorneys quickly designated it Confidential under the Protective Order.NAF’S REPLY ISO MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
CASE NO. 3:15-cv-3522-WHO sf-3603657, page 15
Without being able to read the redacted portions, we can only assume CCJ said something that undermined Daleiden’s testimony that CMP was non-partisan and not involved in anti-abortion propaganda. Whether they learned this from his deposition, or from the material he posted at GotNoooooz, I can’t say, but he apparently gave the other side ammunition against his good friend Daleiden.
REPORT: Christian terrorists still receiving regular messages through non-encrypted channels https://t.co/sR0Cw0NRlu pic.twitter.com/3YbbXwd5Jy
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) December 12, 2015
Choke on a falafel loofah, Bill.
re: #61 compound_Idaho
The same way Hillary embraces the war on women when her husband cheats (fact) and rapes (pretty sure).
Ahh, the rage of the insignificant aging white male in red state America. It’s really not pretty. Comparing a raving loon racist xenophobe reality TV “star” who knows nothing about policy to Hillary Clinton is absurd. It’s the kind of garbage equivalency that makes your shitty little old party the laughingstock of the entire West. Seriously, are you a fucking retard? Or just a robot mindlessly repeating what other old fuckers tell you?
Each time you post (fortunately, not too often) you reveal yourself to be not just a partisan hack, but a revanchist piece of shit.
You’re everything that’s wrong with tea baggers and other semi-literates. Stay in shithole Idaho, leave the US alone. Your great grandpappy’s America is gone…you can get used to it, or just pretend it’s 1949 in Idaho.
re: #298 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
The Colorado Springs shooting is also cited as support to NAF’s argument that the CMP videos and Chuck’s publication of them have endangered people in a very real way.
The hearing about the preliminary injunction is on Friday. I am predicting it will not go well for CMP, et alia.
re: #301 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
The Colorado Springs shooting is also cited as support to NAF’s argument that the CMP videos and Chuck’s publication of them have endangered people in a very real way.
The hearing about the preliminary injunction is on Friday. I am predicting it will not go well for CMP, et alia.
Sounds like Daleiden and maybe some of his co-conspirators perjured themselves in setting up that sham corporation. I wonder if CA will prosecute? And it would be beyond awesome if Chuck rolled over on his buddy.
re: #302 KingKenrod
Sounds like Daleiden and maybe some of his co-conspirators perjured themselves in setting up that sham corporation. I wonder if CA will prosecute? And it would be beyond awesome if Chuck rolled over on his buddy.
I gather from the court documents that DD and his pals allegedly violated all sorts of contractual agreements and state wiretap laws, knowingly, to obtain the videos and other materials. Their arguments that they were “journalists” investigating “criminal activity” will probably not stand in court, since there was no criminal activity, and the non-disclosure agreements they signed to gain access to NAF meetings means they waived their First Amendment rights to free press protections. This is probably why DD and CCJ were trying so hard to quash subpoenas, because they’ve left a trail of evidence as long as the Nile.
Whether CA pursues a criminal case depends on NAF filing charges. I’m guessing NAF will wait until the civil case is finished before pursuing criminal complaints. By then, they’ll have plenty of incriminating evidence.
My building has been without running water since early this morning. Repairs are supposed to be completed by tonight, but in the meantime, I’d really like to take a shower.
First world problems.
re: #259 De Kolta Chair
Does he have to bully or are they just in cahoots?
“If you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, the bank has a problem.”
So, this was the popularity poll in Georgia from today, about which Trump bragged earlier:
New GOP poll shows Trump on top, Carson collapsing in Georgia
The new results show that 43 percent of GOP voters support Trump with Ted Cruz in a distant second place with 16 percent. Marco Rubio comes in third with 11 percent.
Carson, who was at 18 percent in September, now is at 7 percent. Jeb Bush stands at 5 percent support.The poll included 800 likely Republican primary voters.
“Donald Trump continues to defy all laws of political gravity,” Channel 2 political analyst Bill Crane said. “Given the media blow up it’s just shocking, surprising. It’s stupifying, but I’m not again sure all of those people will vote.”
[…]
I didn’t know there were “laws of political gravity” but I guess I can learn something new every day.
The poll also showed 72% of Republicans supported Trump’s ban-the-Muslims plan.
It’s hard to argue with success.
re: #277 funky chicken
Interstate highways are pretty good too! I didn’t know about his unfortunate response to Mexican immigrants until Trump brought it up, so I can’t be an unabashed admirer, but otherwise he was a pretty good president?
He also took the space program away from the military and made sure NASA would be a civilian agency. He appointed Earl Warren. He sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock (because how goddamned dare a State defy a Supreme Court decision, even a decision he himself wasn’t entirely thrilled with.) The Marshall Plan was started in his predecessor’s administration, but his continued follow-through was key to making it work.
His very best speeches were the Cross of Iron speech (1953), and his Farewell Address (that’s the one that warned about the military-industrial complex).
What’s so odd about that Georgia poll is that it found, among self-identifying Republicans, that Trump’s highest numbers were with young people, and with African Americans (who were 16% of the 800 people polled.)
Cross tabs on new Landmark/Rosetta Stone Georgia #poll that has @realDonaldTrump surging, @RealBenCarson collapsing pic.twitter.com/znz9Bm7KVE
— Lori Geary (@LoriGearyWSB) December 11, 2015
re: #271 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I’m looking over the latest filing by National Abortion Federation in re: their motion for preliminary injunction against Center for Medical Progress. Chuck is mentioned twice in the reply to CMP’s response to the PI motion. It seems Chuck provided them with some information that neither Daleiden nor CMP had previously.
In a footnote to a redacted section, page 15:
Hoo boy!
As I figured; he’s singing like a canary.
I tried watching MST3K but never understood the appeal. Unwatchable movies didn’t suddenly become watchable for me after being sprinkled with a few annoying comments.
re: #311 Nyet
Way, way back, when they first started, it was more novel, and I think more enjoyable.
OK, that’s curious.
I am Orthodox. I pray in Slavonic. But I think freedom matters. This is why Kremlin Trolls never give up. Fuck them all, enjoy life, we know
— John Schindler (@20committee) December 12, 2015
Putin’s tool Julian Assange speaking at the anniversary conference of Moscow’s propaganda channel RT. pic.twitter.com/ORZJS1ksUW
— Anton Shekhovtsov (@A_SHEKH0VTS0V) December 10, 2015
88. Of course. (Russian politician Rykov asks whether his followers would like to see Le Pen as President of France) pic.twitter.com/VBBuYi7O7v
— Anton Shekhovtsov (@A_SHEKH0VTS0V) December 8, 2015
please re-read @A_SHEKH0VTS0V on the deep links between the Le Pen family, the National Front and Putin https://t.co/2BGMjjVpag
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) December 6, 2015
I like Shekhovtsov. He’s a former neofascist (Duginite) so he knows this stuff from inside.
Front page of the @TorontoStar today, as Canada welcomes first tranche of refugees. pic.twitter.com/X5EwdiL5gL
— Reid Standish (@ReidStan) December 10, 2015
Where is the Greatest Friend of the Syrian people, V.V.Putin?
re: #318 Nyet
Of course, we shall see, but in regards to France, tactical voting may prevent FN from capitalizing on their gains last Sunday.
France votes on Sunday in the final round of regional elections, after the far-right Front National’s historic breakthrough in the first round. The anti-immigration, anti-European party topped the poll with 27.7% overall and came top in six out of 13 regions.
But the FN is facing a difficult battle to convert its first-round success into solid wins after the ruling Socialist party withdrew its candidates from two regions and urged its leftwing supporters there to back Nicolas Sarkozy’s Les Républicains to stop the far right.
In Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, polls show Marine Le Pen losing to Sarkozy’s party after the left pulled out, likewise for her niece Marion Maréchal-Le Pen in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur.
The second round remains hard to predict. The Front National, which has never taken power in a region in France, had hoped to win up to three regions.
In Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine in the east, where the Front National topped the poll, the Socialist candidate refused his party’s call to step down, making the outcome of the three-way vote uncertain. One poll showed Sarkozy’s party would narrowly beat the FN candidate, Florian Philippot, but the difference between the two was within the margin of error.
re: #308 freetoken
What’s so odd about that Georgia poll is that it found, among self-identifying Republicans, that Trump’s highest numbers were with young people, and with African Americans (who were 16% of the 800 people polled.)
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That’s not 16 percent African-American. That’s 16 respondents, or 2%.
re: #320 Dr Lizardo
So I have read. It may boil down to “vote for the crook, it’s important”.
re: #309 Dr Lizardo
As I figured; he’s singing like a canary.
He can’t help himself. There’s no processing relay between his brain and his mouth or typing fingers, so Chuck inevitably will say something detrimental to his own welfare — or his friends’ welfare.
re: #322 Nyet
So I have read. It may boil down to “vote for the crook, it’s important”.
Yep. IIRC, it was similar tactical voting that kept Jean-Marie Le Pen out of the presidency a few election cycles back.
re: #323 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
He can’t help himself. There’s no processing relay between his brain and his mouth or typing fingers, so Chuck inevitably will say something detrimental to his own welfare — or his friends’ welfare.
Combined with the fact that he’s a weaselly little shit who’d gleefully throw his Hot Asian Wife (TM) under the bus to save his own worthless hide.
I pretty much predicted the FN gains here earlier, not that it was much of a feat because that’s how it always works. The (reasonable) anti-extremist measures France has been taking since the Paris attacks should have been taken long before them - who knows, the attacks might have even been prevented. So first one lets the nests of extremism fester, then one feigns surprise when the ultra-nationalists win.
The Swiss vote was the first domino piece, the French the second. Let’s see what happens next.
The Russian regime got entangled in its own web of lies, must be another day ending in -y.
One day Putin says that Russia helps the govt army as well as the Free Syrian Army, very clearly differentiating between them.
The next day his press-secy issues an official denial, saying Putin meant only the govt army (which he clearly hadn’t). He also recommended not to “cling to the words”.
For you comics fans, J’onn J’onzz the Martian Manhunter made his first appearance on Supergirl this week. They haven’t provided a backstory yet, but he describes himself as the “last son of Mars,” who is also a refugee, like Superman and his cousin.
As JJ, he’s his usual green. In his adopted identity of Hank Henshaw, he’s African-American.
Meanwhile, the Hawkgirl introduced in The Flash is also African-American.
:D
Bibi criticizes Donald, Donald cancels the trip. Let’s survey freepsplosions.
Enjoy!
Really shocked by Bibi’s reaction, but then again, he’s always tried to err on the side of caution and be level-headed with everything.
In his mind, he knows Trump is right IMHO.
7 posted on 10.12.2015, 16:46:12 by Roman_War_Criminal
I don’t think Bibi needs any more lectures - he faces terrorism every day with the help of our dear leader.
14 posted on 10.12.2015, 16:50:03 by libbylu
He was probably asked, so it’s not like he could avoid giving his opinion.
That said, I believe he gave the wrong answer.
20 posted on 10.12.2015, 16:53:43 by FreeReign
Oh boy,he has more important things to deal with,like Israel’s survival.
Trump wanted to steal the media coverage back. No matter anything else.
23 posted on 10.12.2015, 16:56:50 by libbylu
Interesting. I was surprised at Netanyahu’s response but to cancel a visit because of a disagreement? Sounds like Trump is calling for the Wwwwaaaaaaambulance to me. He wants to support Israel only on his own terms? Am I reading this right?
31 posted on 10.12.2015, 17:37:55 by huldah1776
Trump should fly Bibi to Florida & host him for a couple of days in his home there.
I see both of these men as the only real leaders in the world.
33 posted on 10.12.2015, 17:48:08 by ridesthemiles
Bibi sought and received Trump’s endorsement in his election and Trump made a video supporting Bibi.
BiBi blew it. He has a choice Hillary who is a Jew hater with Huma the Muslim Brotherhood babe as her adviser or Trump who went so far as to campaign for Bibi when Bibi was down in the polls.
Trumps son in law is a religious Jew and Ivanka is a Jewish convert, Israel finally after 7 years might have a friend in the White House.
I have liked Bibi since he was UN ambassador but now my view is you don’t do this to a friend like Trump. It was stupid and avoidable. Bibi had dozens of ways of staying out of this. Trump is doing what that wall in Israel tries to do, keep terrorists out.
Do we want daily stabbings, bombings and vehicular homicides inside the USA. Bibi is a hypocrite Mossad profiles Muslims all the time, they have to.
36 posted on 10.12.2015, 18:16:32 by Zenjitsuman (A)
They will truly enjoy meeting each other.
I think they are a lot alike in many ways.
4 posted on 4.12.2015, 01:06:13 by Sacajaweau
Trump and Bibi could be brothers. They are cut of the same cloth. Interestingly Bibi went to high school in Philadelphia and Trump went to college in Philadelphia.
Would not be surprised if Bibi endorsed Trump.
6 posted on 4.12.2015, 01:09:02 by GilGil
It would be fun to listen to them and even better, seeing Netanyahu smile because he has an ally again.
8 posted on 4.12.2015, 01:11:15 by huldah1776
He’s engaging in Israeli tacqiya!
3 posted on 9.12.2015, 19:18:57 by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
Et tu, Bibi?
7 posted on 9.12.2015, 19:24:43 by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
Et Tu, Bibi? Since more and more reports are coming out that you are a big ISIS oil customer you can go f*&% yourself. The world is crazy. I grew up in the cold war and was always a supporter of Israel. Now I find myself supporting Putin and turning my back on Israel.
11 posted on 9.12.2015, 19:27:09 by Wilderness Conservative
Says the same loser who lets Muslims terrorize Jews on the Temple Mount, and who gave away Hebron to the savages to please Bill Clinton…who sent Begala and Carville to Israel to defeat him anyway
13 posted on 9.12.2015, 19:27:53 by montag813
Hmm. So far, I’d say he’s doing it just right. His poll numbers only go up. Bibi has no choice. He can play with Trump, or he can be a doormat for Obama. I personally think Bibi made a terrible blunder here, but it’s his country. Israel just did some big aid package that for the first time was endorsed by the UN—-so maybe he didn’t want to torpedo that.
15 posted on 10.12.2015, 15:48:16 by LS (“Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea … Eventually” (Hendrix))
I guess he doesn’t want us to be safe— and SCREW YOU!! No more money and weapons— Good damned luck!!
2 posted on 10.12.2015, 03:31:20 by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
And there was a thread here yesterday where Trump supporters were criticizing Netanyahu for criticizing Trump.
WTF, Bibi is the only ally we have in the Middle-East, calling him a muslim lover?
Sheesh!
1 posted on 10.12.2015, 15:16:32 by PROCON
Putin’s stooge cites PressTV:
Russia: US has deployed 200 nukes to Turkey, Germany, Italy, Belgium & Netherlands https://t.co/GuSgVnM5Og See: https://t.co/USrwTrkXOm
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) December 12, 2015
And of course Putin’s stooge is against Anon acting against ISIS:
Jeremy Hammond: Reject #OpIsis and the Co-Opting of #Anonymous https://t.co/NDMjimXdeK @YourAnonNews @AnonyOps
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) December 11, 2015
Remember the picture of the Syrian refugees on top? The family made it to Canada! #WelcomeToCanada pic.twitter.com/DWWHSNwrSU
— Persian Rose (@PersianRose1) December 12, 2015
Ugly is the keyword here. I wouldn’t support condell, UKIP, EDL if they were last people on earth. https://t.co/ZW1SrymGlX
— Maryam Namazie (@MaryamNamazie) December 12, 2015
And then we have people asking why I think Tommy is a fascist… https://t.co/irkP2Orn0J
— Maryam Namazie (@MaryamNamazie) December 12, 2015
Pat Condell implies believing Muslims are threat. It’s absurd to conflate far-Right politics with ordinary believers https://t.co/gcvTt47noV
— Maryam Namazie (@MaryamNamazie) December 11, 2015
Muslims are not killing. Islamists are so blaming masses of people inhuman and part of problem. https://t.co/JGBUYqZl4r
— Maryam Namazie (@MaryamNamazie) December 10, 2015
Seems to be alright so far.
re: #338 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
That’s pretty misleading, the Nazi act of tattooing the inmates of concentration camps was not an act of “registering non-Christians”.
Yeah, yeah, I get the larger point. Could have been made better.
Morning Lizardos…..
Happy BDay to me, I’m off to the lake.
Today I dropped again. 38.28$ (-1.23) #Oil #Brent
— Цена на Нефть (@World_Oil_Price) December 12, 2015
Putin wept.
re: #340 Nyet
That’s pretty misleading, the Nazi act of tattooing the inmates of concentration camps was not an act of “registering non-Christians”.
Yeah, yeah, I get the larger point. Could have been made better.
The tattoos were only part of the registration the Jews went through. The individual tattoo is a symbol of the whole process.
WTF
Officials: Enrique Marquez says he built pipe bombs as a hobby with San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. https://t.co/m15rPt8XyX
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) December 12, 2015
Does Hobby Lobby have a pipe bomb aisle? https://t.co/Aj2cYJk6BD
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) December 12, 2015
re: #340 Nyet
That’s pretty misleading, the Nazi act of tattooing the inmates of concentration camps was not an act of “registering non-Christians”.
Yeah, yeah, I get the larger point. Could have been made better.
There’s something to be said for a little timely over-reaction.
re: #194 Charles Johnson
Larry Kudlow has changed. Snort.
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The GOP, conservatives, right wingers are full in the thrall of the xenophobics/nativists.
Own it. Trump’s simply stating what the so-called elites/establishment are saying. Cruz, Bush, and Paul were among those calling for anti-Muslim policies.
Trump isn’t the first, just the most brash among the GOPers to stake out these positions.
re: #348 lawhawk
The GOP, conservatives, right wingers are full in the thrall of the xenophobics/nativists.
Own it. Trump’s simply stating what the so-called elites/establishment are saying. Cruz, Bush, and Paul were among those calling for anti-Muslim policies.
Trump isn’t the first, just the most brash among the GOPers to stake out these positions.
So well that a small part of me still thinks he’s on our side.
re: #345 Belafon
The tattoos were only part of the registration the Jews went through. The individual tattoo is a symbol of the whole process.
I’m not sure how this interacts with what I wrote.
1. The Nazi state was not a Christian state, many Nazis were officially non-Christian, not to mention average citizens, hence there was no “registration of non-Christians”. There was, of course, a registration of ethnic Jews, irrespective of their religion.
2. In the camps where tattoos were made, they were made irrespective of religion or ethnicity. If you were a Polish Catholic, you got a tattoo. If you were an ethnic Jewish Christian, you got a tattoo, if you were a Russian Orthodox, you got a tattoo, if you were a Gypsy Christian, you got a tattoo. Hence, once more, that was not an act of “registration of non-Christians”.
To reiterate, the point the author tried to make is clear. They made it in a historically ignorant way though.
re: #331 Nyet
Putin’s stooge cites PressTV:
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Water is “wet”, say top state scientists
See our coverage of the Congressional debate on the color of the sky - Controversy erupts over Democratic senator’s “blue” claims - Click here for live streaming video
Separated at birth? Trump cultist and a Michigan ammosexual. pic.twitter.com/HVodkOYfZr
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) December 12, 2015
re: #350 Nyet
I’m not sure how this interacts with what I wrote.
….snipTo reiterate, the point the author tried to make is clear. They made it in a historically ignorant way though.
We’re working with the Twitter generation, here.
re: #344 Nyet
Iran too. And Syria. And Daesh. Pretty much any and all oil producers are facing a conundrum - increase production to keep revenues going at these levels and forcing a further glut (driving prices down further still) or cut production and see even more losses in revenues.
The collapse in oil prices is also having an effect here in the US. Alaska is contemplating instituting income taxes, because revenue from the petroleum taxes has collapsed and the state faces a huge deficit. States that enjoyed an oil/shale boom are also facing trouble as new wells are being delayed and revenues also drying up. This affects Gulf States like Louisiana and those in the Upper Midwest up through the Dakotas, Wyoming and Idaho.
And it’ll be another 2-3 months before those prices actually affect gas prices because of the way oil is produced/refined and market lag. Even still, the prices are still higher than they should be given the last time the price of a barrel of oil was at this level.
re: #350 Nyet
I’m not sure how this interacts with what I wrote.
To reiterate, the point the author tried to make is clear. They made it in a historically ignorant way though.
Yellow stars of David would have done the trick, too.
And here it is: Trump names Cruz when asked about VP spot https://t.co/mu4hAYiYxG
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) December 12, 2015
Donald Trump on Tuesday named Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) when asked about his possible running mate in 2016.
“Ted Cruz is now agreeing with me 100 percent,” he said when asked about his vice presidential pick, according to Lifezette.
A Trump-Cruz ticket would represent a new low-point for the GOP.
LETS MAKE THIS HAPPEN pic.twitter.com/wpJd5Ditym
/no pressure to retweet
//DO IT
re: #356 Dr. Matt
A Trump-Cruz ticket would represent a new low-point for the GOP.
It would show that you can get whatever you want if you either
a) shout loud enough
or
b) put on a big, sincere puppy face while praying on your knees (on a mat so as not to wreck your suit trousers)
Sick kid is awake. Yesterday we curled up and played 3 two-hour sessions of Civ4. BBL.
Putin et al. had 15 years to get Russia off the oil needle.
Of course when all you do is rob more and more, you don’t think about the consequences. Which are now evident.
re: #250 De Kolta Chair
Btw, this story is as true as anything Donald Trump has ever said, and the next three million rounds are on me.
I see what you did there…
I laugh at some lefties sympathetic to Putin merely because they perceive him as “standing against the US imperialism” (as if Russian imperialism is any better). This neo-liberal kleptooligarchy is the exact opposite of what an economic lefty should strive for.
re: #311 Nyet
I tried watching MST3K but never understood the appeal. Unwatchable movies didn’t suddenly become watchable for me after being sprinkled with a few annoying comments.
That’s because Svengoolie does it better. *ducks*
GO NAVY, BEAT army:
Army flyover needs more Flight of the Valkyries. #ArmyNavy https://t.co/DVRjdmjC6F
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) December 12, 2015
re: #363 Nyet
I laugh at some lefties sympathetic to Putin merely because they perceive him as “standing against the US imperialism” (as if Russian imperialism is any better). This neo-liberal cleptooligarchy is the exact opposite of what an economic lefty should strive for.
And nothing like blaming foreign intervention and interference for all the failings of a regime that held nearly absolute power for decades…
Oil price needed to balance budget Iran: $138 Venezuela: $120 Iraq: $114 Russia: $100 Saudi: $92 Current: $35.4 pic.twitter.com/ecdm91RxRz
— The Int’l Spectator (@intlspectator) December 12, 2015
re: #367 lawhawk
Not quite accurate. The new Russian budget was calculated with $50 in mind.
re: #368 Nyet
Gotcha. So, bad, but not nearly as bad.
And if they got the Russian figure wrong, wonder if the others are wrong too.
re: #369 lawhawk
Gotcha. So, bad, but not nearly as bad.
And if they got the Russian figure wrong, wonder if the others are wrong too.
I remember seeing these figures a year or so ago.
BTW, it’s still very bad because with $50 it’s a shitty budget on its own…
Thanks OBAMA!!
S. Dakota man blames Obama after nephew busted for illegally-modified guns & bomb materials https://t.co/PXtdlS1t3O pic.twitter.com/FpM3KjVRmb
— Raw Story (@RawStory) December 12, 2015
The suspects also had around 10,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as grenades, and $20,000 in cash inside their home at the time of their arrest….between 15 and 20 of the guns found inside the home had been modified illegally
Zafft was served with two protection orders in 2006, and served a one-year jail sentence four years later after being convicted on two counts of reckless use of weapons.
re: #371 FormerDirtDart
We need that graphic from Lidane.
re: #371 FormerDirtDart
Thanks OBAMA!!
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re: #365 Dr. Matt
GO NAVY, BEAT army:
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who are Air Force fans supposed to cheer for?
re: #373 Dr. Matt
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Yeah, and Raw Story did a poor job of explaining why the Police executed the search.
Raw Story:
Authorities executed a search warrant on their home after a neighbor reported finding a .22-caliber bullet casing inside their mattress.
Argus Leader:
The investigation began Sunday with a call from a resident of the apartment building who noticed a hole in his wall and later found a slug in a mattress. The property manager told detectives they had been in the adjoining unit recently and noticed several guns, Clemens said. A search warrant was issued Thursday.
re: #374 sagehen
who are Air Force fans supposed to cheer for?
Anybody? They get the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy either way, right?
Never mind, I think they need Army to win the Army-Navy game to get the trophy.
I just want to say right here that Microsoft Edge is a piece of shit. My Chinese bank here requires me to use a USB dongle for security (good), but the only browser that seems to recognize the SSL certificate is IE11 or lower.
So I ask to no one in particular, WTF is Edge for?
re: #371 FormerDirtDart
I’d love someone to explain to me why a “law-abiding citizen” needs 114 guns. Even if none of them had been illegally modified.
re: #377 Timothy Watson
Anybody? They get the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy either way, right?
Navy beat Air Force this year, 33-11. So, Navy gets it if the win today.
If Army wins? I don’t know how they work out a tie-breaker
Edit: In the event of a shared award, the previous year’s winner retains custody of the trophy.
So, if Army wins today, Air Force takes the trophy
Canadian children welcoming Syrian refugees with a song sang when Muhammed first went to Medina. I don’t understand the words, but you don’t have to. Lyrics are about welcoming (as per my Turkish friend who sent me this link)
re: #381 sagehen
You’re the kind of Marines who make jokes about “The Chair Force”, aren’t you?
I was never in the military. I was just being sarcastic about why to root for anybody. :)
re: #382 GlutenFreeJesus
How did Harper ever get elected?
My wife’s company had their senior staff holiday party last night. There were about 40 people at the table, and I was solo at the start as she was en route from one of her clients’ events.
The evening started with everyone taking turns introducing themselves, what they do, and their spouses. I was last in the loop.
About two thirds of the way through the introductions, a woman spoke passionately about how much she loves living in America and raising her family here and her job, but then said, “I promised my son I would not get political, but if Trump wins the Presidency i’m moving back [to Ireland in this case].” There were a few chuckles and people saying they’d want to go as well if that happened.
Five minutes later it was my turn. Only two or three people knew me, so I said, “I’m the Western Regional Manager of the Trump 2016 campaign.” Yeah, that pretty much broke the ice. Good times.
re: #387 GlutenFreeJesus
Probably for the same reason W was elected twice.
This choir is hard to imagine in the US.
re: #381 sagehen
You’re the kind of Marines who make jokes about “The Chair Force”, aren’t you?
I’m a sailor….we make fun of everyone.
re: #390 Dr. Matt
I’m a sailor….we make fun of everyone.
Someone told me I’m supposed to call you a squid… or was it a duck?
Who said this?
“We know that there is a small group, and we don’t know how big that is — it can be anywhere between 5 and 20%, from the people that I speak to — that Islam is their religion and who have a desire for a caliphate and to institute that in any way possible, and in particular go after what they consider Western norms — our way of life,” Sanchez said during the interview. “They are willing to use, and they do use, terrorism, and it is in the name of a very wrong way of looking at Islam.”
Donald Trump? Ben Carson? No, that would be Loretta Sanchez, who intends to get Californias soon to be vacant Senate seat. Remember her? Beat Bob Dornan (B1 Bob) in an election so tight and contentious fraud was investigated. Illegal aliens voted for her but not in enough quantity to change the very close result.
re: #394 Great White Snark
Who said this?
Donald Trump? Ben Carson? No, that would be Loretta Sanchez, who intends to get Californians soon to be vacant Senate seat. Remember her? Beat Bob Dornan (B1 Bob) in an election so tight and contentious fraud was investigated. Illegal aliens voted for her but not in enough quantity to change the very close result.
She’s running against Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination if I remember correctly. I’m not in CA or I know who I’d be voting against.
Reminder Always be alert to your surroundings. Solo driver SB280 escaped with only a scratch #sjfd #sanjose #bmw pic.twitter.com/q4wyygWkcf
— SanJose Firefighters (@SJFirefighters) December 11, 2015
re: #388 Nyet
Would never happen here. :(
So, this is weird. Kim Jong-Un’s handpicked all-female pop group Moranbong came to Beijing a few days ago to begin a good-will concert tour. Then, before their first concert, they turned around and went back to Pyongyang.
No explanations from anyone as to why the tour was abruptly canceled.
re: #398 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Moranbong. Moran bong. Kind of a cool name in English too.
re: #394 Great White Snark
There’s Islamophobes on both sides of the aisle. The big difference - the GOPers running for President are pushing Islamophobic agendas while this is is an isolated Democrat in Congress whose out of touch with the rest of the Party.
re: #371 FormerDirtDart
Thanks OBAMA!!
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Guns were part of growing up for Zafft, his mother Lesa Zafft said following court Friday afternoon. Going through a gun-safety course at age 13 and getting a concealed carry permit at 18 were rites of passage for members of his family.
Zafft has a history of weapons-related arrests. He was arrested in 2010 in Minnehaha County on two counts of reckless use of weapons. He was convicted and sentenced to one year in jail. In 2005, he was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, discharging a weapon in city limits and disorderly conduct, but the charges were dismissed. He was also arrested in McCook County in 2003 for hunting from a motor vehicle. That charge was also dismissed.
In 2006, protection orders were filed against Zafft by two individuals, a man and a woman, but court documents offered no further details.
Lesa said many of the guns seized from Zafft’s home were registered to other family members but stored at his and Cash’s home after Lesa faced a felony conviction last year. Many of the guns also belonged to Zafft’s grandfather, Nancy said.
“This has been years of collecting … he collects,” Lesa said. “That’s our family. We collect guns … They think ISIS is going on, and I’m sure we look like some little anti-terrorist cell.”
“He doesn’t have a mean bone in his body,” Nancy said.
Part of his stash was guns that he was storing for his mom because she was facing felony charges. What a poster-family for the NRA and responsible gun ownership.
re: #400 lawhawk
There’s Islamophobes on both sides of the aisle. The big difference - the GOPers running for President are pushing Islamophobic agendas while this is is an isolated Democrat in Congress whose out of touch with the rest of the Party.
Point being not a suitable Senator for my state afaik. I have zero patience for that sentiment.
Edit-Also points out the Latino community has racial issues to learn to deal with same as our white community does. It’s less apparent as us white guys have the power and the privilege. People forget the long standing latino/black community tensions Los Angeles has endured over the years. Mostly expressed via gang violence.
re: #232 bratwurst
OMG, absolutely no self-awareness at all!
OTOH, no one who seriously wanted to be POTUS, would insult other countries in such a juvenile way. I cannot understand this man. At all.
re: #396 darthstar
@SJFirefighters thank goodness person is ok! (headline writes itself!) “Driver ok after a beam beams his beemer.”
— Nikki Medoro (@NikkiMedoro) December 12, 2015
Two Muslim women attacked in #Tampa https://t.co/GG6ljqxzco
— 10 News (@WTSP10News) December 11, 2015
re: #379 sagehen
I’d love someone to explain to me why a “law-abiding citizen” needs 114 guns. Even if none of them had been illegally modified.
Answer—The guy has a really tiny penis!
Any good psychologist will tell you it’s compensation in action….Jeb on Fox: Obama Doesn’t Believe ISIS is an Existential Threat to Our Country https://t.co/NZzfCd2htx worthwhile debate: is it?
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) December 12, 2015
I feel like people mistake “existential threat” for “threat that exists” a lot.
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) December 12, 2015
re: #395 Belafon
She’s running against Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination if I remember correctly. I’m not in CA or I know who I’d be voting against.
I am in California and I will be voting for Kamala Harris for Senator. Since we now have a top two runoff for every office and the GOP has self destructed here, it’s conceivable that the November Senate election could be between two Democrats…
re: #343 Dave In Austin
Morning Lizardos…..
Happy BDay to me, I’m off to the lake.
You and Frank Sinatra. He was born 100 years ago today.
re: #280 ObserverArt
The Cavs are getting healthy. They just got Iman Shumpert back tonight. Waiting for Kyrie Irving to hit the court any day and then it’s on!
I wouldn’t depend on Shump too much (not like the Cavs need to). After his rookie year when I thought he was going to be a solid player, he got hurt. Then he got hurt again. And again.
Loved him as a player, but I was happy to see him and Smith leave the Knicks.
re: #409 FormerDirtDart
I had to respond to one of the replies:
@ou75cpa @samsteinhp So you’re telling me you want to do something about guns.
— Lonnie Mask (@LonnieMask) December 12, 2015
CVG (65F) & DAY (63F) have already broken their respective record highs for the date! CMH record (65F) in jeopardy! pic.twitter.com/9bx97Lhp9G
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) December 12, 2015
Columbus (CMH) has broken the old daily record max temp of 65F (1949). Temp has already reached 66F today, with a whole afternoon left!
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) December 12, 2015
Here’s how this season’s snowfall (or lack thereof) to date compares with last year and normal. pic.twitter.com/sb2QWSGLMW
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) December 9, 2015
so weird.
re: #409 FormerDirtDart
@samsteinhp Jeb! is an epistemological threat to intelligence.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) December 12, 2015
re: #412 makeitstop
Ever heard J.R. Smith’s “song”?
re: #414 Backwoods_Sleuth
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so weird.
We’re having snow. Not as much as Flagstaff, but I got a ride to work this morning instead of walking as usual.
VIDEO: #Flagstaff wakes up to a snowy Saturday! Bundle up & drive with care :) 🌲☁️❄️ pic.twitter.com/BKvofdpaGC
— Charly Edsitty (@CharlyEdsitty) December 12, 2015
re: #414 Backwoods_Sleuth
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so weird.
So the last two years of snow averaged together are roughly average, but the high temp breaking is definitely strange.
I don’t know if we have a meteorologist or climate scientist here, but I’ve been pondering something. Given the data we’ve collected over the past however many years, we can kind of establish some averages and ranges. Given normal variation, how often would we expect to break a temperature record if we didn’t have the effects of global warming?
In Louisville, Kentucky, today:
Gun control debate in Kentucky likely to ramp up ahead of @NRA gathering next year #EndGunViolence pic.twitter.com/ZKHPJprZXq
— Chris Kenning (@ckenning_cj) December 12, 2015
Three gun-rights activists shadow 150 on Moms “orange walk” anti-violence rally in Louisville, #EndGunViolence pic.twitter.com/2kSrwpyzM0
— Chris Kenning (@ckenning_cj) December 12, 2015
Armed gun-rights demonstrators watch Moms anti-gun violence rally in Louisville @courierjournal #EndGunViolence pic.twitter.com/gogkWOcrgy
— Chris Kenning (@ckenning_cj) December 12, 2015
Fucking assholes with Confederate flags were protesting outside the Islamic Center of Fredericksburg (Virginia) last night.
(The story about the raging assholes upset about them moving to a new location were posted on here a couple weeks ago.)
re: #347 Decatur Deb
There’s something to be said for a little timely over-reaction.
Yeah, it’s not like there isn’t overreaction going on with the RWNJs and their damn candidates.
I was watching a bit of the Today show today and they were interviewing some TRUMP® supporters. One elderly woman said (not a direct quote) “They say he speaks with the words of a 5th grader. That’s good, at least we understand him.”
And there you have it. Dumb it way down…get elected.
re: #413 Belafon
I had to respond to one of the replies:
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What’s remarkable is that account seems to be the only unhinged reply.
I really expected at least 50% to be of the “OBAMA is weak and dooms ‘MURICA” variety
re: #419 Belafon
So the last two years of snow averaged together are roughly average, but the high temp breaking is definitely strange.
I don’t know if we have a meteorologist or climate scientist here, but I’ve been pondering something. Given the data we’ve collected over the past however many years, we can kind of establish some averages and ranges. Given normal variation, how often would we expect to break a temperature record if we didn’t have the effects of global warming?
The number of new record cold temps & new record warm temps should roughly balance out. Right now new highs outnumber new lows 6 to 1.
re: #425 b_sharp
The number of new record cold temps & new record warm temps should roughly balance out. Right now new highs outnumber new lows 6 to 1.
Great point.
re: #420 Backwoods_Sleuth
In Louisville, Kentucky, today:
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You know, I looked at those tweets, and immediately thought of this one I saw a couple hours ago:
Florida deputy indicted for fatally shooting a man carrying an unloaded pellet gun. https://t.co/NFiErg2j2d pic.twitter.com/WTtJHLvD09
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) December 12, 2015
Got my electric bill. It shows comparisons for usage and average temperatures.
Average temp for the current billing period (month of November) is 50.6F. For the same period in 2014 it was 39.7F
re: #430 Backwoods_Sleuth
So your usage should have gone down. If so the power company is sad.
re: #425 b_sharp
The number of new record cold temps & new record warm temps should roughly balance out. Right now new highs outnumber new lows 6 to 1.
In Philadelphia, half the days of the year have new record highs posted since 1990, and there are only 7 new record lows.
re: #409 FormerDirtDart
Sam Stein ✔ @samsteinhp
Jeb on Fox: Obama Doesn’t Believe ISIS is an Existential Threat to Our Country
I guess Jeb? has been hearing a lot of people saying “we thought ‘W’ Bush was the dumb one” so he is out to fix that with some big words.
I don’t think ISIS is an existential threat either. What the hell are they going to do to wipe out the US? We are our own worst enemy.
Such leader
Very information
So objectivity
Trump lamented that “every time the Des Moines Register does a poll, I always do badly” and suggested the newspaper may be skewing its results.
“It’s my opinion that they don’t do it properly,” he said of the polls, before adding: “Now I don’t know that they do that.”
“I’ve never even heard Monmouth. What the hell is Monmouth?” he said. “I only like polls that treat me well.”
thehill.com
Guess he needs that unskewer guy on his team.
But hey—the man speaks truth—It’s on his hat!
re: #431 Bear
So your usage should have gone down. If so the power company is sad.
Winter returns at the end of the week, so power company will be happy then.
:D
re: #414 Backwoods_Sleuth
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68° right now and cloudy. If the sun breaks through we could see the 70’s.
One week from now it is predicted to be 38°. Probably a bumpy ride in between there somewhere.
re: #437 ObserverArt
68° right now and cloudy. If the sun breaks through we could see the 70’s.
One week from now it is predicted to be 38°. Probably a bumpy ride in between there somewher.
68 here too, supposed to get up to 72 today, then 74 tomorrow.
Thursday night, low is supposed to be 29.
oh well!
:D
re: #417 Kid A
Ever heard J.R. Smith’s “song”?
J.R. is a strange bird. But when he is on a streak he can throw down the threes. As long as you can keep him on the court. He does some of the stupidest fouls I’ve ever seen for a ‘pro’ B-Baller. And they can come in a rush.
re: #288 William Lewis
Interesting. Mostly a sales document (we need new toys because X, Y and Z) with little discussion of what they want to buy. Not a bad argument but we need to know what they want and cost estimates first.
I did have to snicker at the backhanded acknowledgement that the Stryker Brigades were an expensive mistake. We’ve almost deployed two excellent light armor vehicles since 1980 (LAV-75 & M-8 AGS) and bought that POS instead. Sigh…
Well, BAE is trying to get an upgraded M8 in, so while the M8 Buford never enter service, the M8A1 might.
re: #426 Joe Bacon
Fat bellies and tiny pee pees!
Two of them seemed alright in not having a gut. And either way those three wingnuts could teach a number of cops something about trigger discipline.
CVG, CMH, and/or DAY may break into their respective top-ten warmest December days on record this weekend! pic.twitter.com/8W4U5u8d2d
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) December 12, 2015
re: #421 Backwoods_Sleuth
Annual caveat-My opinions as expressed here are mine alone and have nothing to do with my employers or any professional associations I have. Like being on a corporate BOD.
Open carry like that has got to go. Got To Go. It’s designed to intimidate. Illegal right there but then my practical standard only overlaps with DA’s legal view occasionally. Even with help from famous guns rights attorney one of which I just spoke to. But anyway carrying without good cause should be something that simply does not happen. Should not need a law. Good cause may be terribly vague but gotta start somewhere.
Failing that open carry will go away just like it did here in California. The very moment unpopular gun owners exercise the right. Imagine the reaction if say a half dozen good Samaritans decided to open carry around mosques and Halal stores to protect them against recent anti Muslim vandalism and worse? Escort Muslim women around. Honestly for their protection. Can you imagine the reaction?
re: #442 Nyet
Where’s Gen. Baby Jesus?
His flag is flying from the T-72s Russia sent to stop the zombie hoard. And claim the area where the hoard was found as a proxy state, too, but how can you put a price on being free of zombies?
/kidding but truthy.
re: #446 Great White Snark
Open carry like that has got to go. Got To Go. It’s designed to intimidate.
THIS^^
It has nothing to do with “gun rights”, it’s all about being obnoxious assholes in public.
[no phone numbers allowed]re: #445 Backwoods_Sleuth
Half of those cities’ top tens were posted since 1990.
re: #441 Dark_Falcon
Well, BAE is trying to get an upgraded M8 in, so while the M8 Buford never enter service, the M8A1 might.
That would be a good thing but I’ll not hold my breath. Procurement prefers idiocies like the Stryker because the appear cheaper even though the long term cost is far higher than real armored vehicles.
They could have done their counter protest without displaying guns.
There is only one reason why they are open carrying: to scare people.
re: #444 Dark_Falcon
Two of them seemed alright in not having a gut. And either way those three wingnuts could teach a number of cops something about trigger discipline.
It’s just so natural and normal for armed civilians to be monitoring a peaceful protest.
How are people (and police) supposed to know those guys have permits? Because they’re white.
re: #417 Kid A
Ever heard J.R. Smith’s “song”?
Yeah. I belong to the RealGM Knicks forum, and it got a lot of play while he was here. :)
What a maddening player. Tons of talent and very little motivation to apply it. The straw that broke the camel’s back was when he went clubbing during the playoffs and ended up elbowing Jason Terry in the chin - after winning Sixth Man of the Year that season. Sent the Knicks into a tailspin that they couldn’t recover from.
So erratic. It looks like Bron has taken care of that, though. They sure let him twist in the wind for a while before re-signing him, though. Message effectively sent.
re: #446 Great White Snark
The reason its not considered “Intimidation” is that local and state statutes on what constitutes intimidation or menacing are drawn very narrowly to keep people from using the law to go after someone whom said something someone else didn’t like just because that first someone was going hunting or coming back from the gun range.
Those three guys have their rifles slung with safeties on and at no time do they even put their hands on the rifles’ pistol grips. Held that way, a rifle is generally not seen as threatening in the eyes of the law. And in Kentucky that’s the way its likely to stay, given the feelings of most of the public there.
re: #444 Dark_Falcon
Two of them seemed alright in not having a gut. And either way those three wingnuts could teach a number of cops something about trigger discipline.
Because beer belly assault rifle dude has to have more training and practical experience with his firearm than a police officer.
“Trigger discipline” isn’t the issue with police killings of unarmed black guys that have dominated the news the past year or so. Trigger discipline isn’t even a thing. It’s where the muzzle is pointed that matters. (and yes, they at least have their muzzles pointed at the ground)
One final thing - Moms Demand Action != ISIS. Those assholes don’t need to be there.
re: #356 Dr. Matt
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re: #453 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
How are people (and police) supposed to know those guys have permits? Because they’re white.
Don’t need a permit for open carry in Kentucky.
I do think they’re trying to intimidate these women. They have no need to be there.
re: #453 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
How are people (and police) supposed to know those guys have permits? Because they’re white.
I wouldn’t say that. There are black open carry events. I’ve posted links here of such events in Alabama and Texas.
re: #448 Backwoods_Sleuth
THIS^^
It has nothing to do with “gun rights”, it’s all about being obnoxious assholes in public.
Aw come on. They don’t need guns to do that.
//// Kinda.
As an advocate of self defense, not guns per se these guys scare the hell out of me. This is how legit guns rights get taken away, as in foolish / dangerous abuse of the right. Open carry and CCW especially.
When the King riots violent chaos resulted in some Korean shop owners defending their stores with guns open carry in clear public view they were breaking the law. Nobody got prosecuted that I ever heard of but the point is they had good cause. But when Black panthers used open carry on the state capitol steps the right to open carry went away. Not adjusted, not modified. Gone. Guns used in defense-No arrests. Guns used in protest-The law changed and not in favor of gun owners.
Texas and elsewhere open carry protests just might politically solidify Californias crypto pistol ban that is slowly taking effect. it also might result in violence. What good are these assholes again?
re: #453 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
How are people (and police) supposed to know those guys have permits? Because they’re white.
Pretty much. As GWS already said, if it was Muslims (or blacks, hispanics, etc.) I’m 150% sure the police and the public would be reacting differently.
Sometimes I wish some Muslims would do it, just to prove a point, but I (and they) know it would just escalate things.
re: #455 Dark_Falcon
I don’t give a rat’s ass about parsing out a legal definition of intimidation.
Intimidation (the common definition) is the only reason these assholes are there with their guns.
re: #460 Dark_Falcon
I wouldn’t say that. There are black open carry events. I’ve posted links here of such events in Alabama and Texas.
They’re carrying their children, not guns.
re: #464 Backwoods_Sleuth
I don’t give a rat’s ass about parsing out a legal definition of intimidation.
Intimidation (the common definition) is the only reason these assholes are there with their guns.
Thank you and fuck these guys. What’s the matter wussies, can’t handle critical discussion of guns without needing your dick substitute?
re: #462 Great White Snark
Speaking of open carry idiots & guns, which I generally don’t like to do, aren’t they supposed to be staging a mock mass shooting in Austin today?
re: #450 William Lewis
That would be a good thing but I’ll not hold my breath. Procurement prefers idiocies like the Stryker because the appear cheaper even though the long term cost is far higher than real armored vehicles.
A another forum where I’ve taken to posting had a thread on this matter. You might find it interesting, and you might want to join that forum as well:
re: #444 Dark_Falcon
Two of them seemed alright in not having a gut. And either way those three wingnuts could teach a number of cops something about trigger discipline.
Two of who? Those three images are all of the same guy
re: #467 CuriousLurker
Speaking of open carry idiots & guns, which I generally don’t like to do, aren’t they supposed to be staging a mock mass shooting in Austin today?
I think the campus put an itchnay on that thankfully.
re: #460 Dark_Falcon
I wouldn’t say that. There are black open carry events. I’ve posted links here of such events in Alabama and Texas.
Were they open carrying at protest events of people they disagreed with?
re: #455 Dark_Falcon
But it IS meant to be intimidation (without scare quotes). There is no reason on earth that that ‘tool’ is necessary or appropriate in that setting. Give me a reason that these assholes have guns at their disposal other than ‘they can’. What is a guy with a gun going to accomplish in this situation?
Just realized today is my 2-year anniversary/bday (12/12/12) since becoming a Lizard. What do ya’ll get me?? My first story I commented on was when perpetual douche Steve Crowder instigated a fight with Union protesters in Michigan.
re: #470 HappyWarrior
I think the campus put an itchnay on that thankfully.
Thank goodness someone came to their senses. What a stupid idea that was.
re: #455 Dark_Falcon
Yeah I know the legal side. See the last paragraph in my 462. It’s a problem every which way. When good cause erupts, that’s the time to exercise that right. You can protest for gun rights a lot more effectively than that without carrying at the protest in more than token fashion. Everyone who needs guns as part of the job knows needless carry is asking for trouble. Because that’s when the small risk of accident is needlessly
re: #473 Dr. Matt
Just realized today is my 2-year anniversary/bday (12/12/12) since becoming a Lizard. What do ya’ll get me?? My first story I commented on was when perpetual douche Steve Crowder instigated a fight with Union protesters in Michigan.
Grab a toaster from the gift closet.
re: #474 CuriousLurker
Thank goodness someone came to their senses. What a stupid idea that was.
No kidding. I can’t imagine living on campus and waking up to that a bunch of fucking idiots doing that.
re: #470 HappyWarrior
I think the campus put an itchnay on that thankfully.
Today’s mock mass shooting near UT-Austin is unnecessary at best, and traumatizing at worst https://t.co/JZi2YF53HT pic.twitter.com/8Bur2jvVR9
— Texas Monthly (@TexasMonthly) December 12, 2015
Now the protest will take place on Guadalupe Street, just across from the campus on a busy shopping strip. - See more at: texasmonthly.com
re: #306 freetoken
So, this was the popularity poll in Georgia from today, about which Trump bragged earlier:
New GOP poll shows Trump on top, Carson collapsing in Georgia
I didn’t know there were “laws of political gravity” but I guess I can learn something new every day.
The poll also showed 72% of Republicans supported Trump’s ban-the-Muslims plan.
It’s hard to argue with success.
Law of Political Gravity: Biggest turd floats to the top.
I don’t know if this was covered in earlier threads, but…
I’m sitting in The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn last night (saw Andrew WK, who was just awesome), and I check Facebook. Lo and behold, someone posted a link to DMOTI ‘s site:
Cell Phones!!! Propane tanks!!! Red Alert! Errybody RUN!!!11ty
[ facepalm ]
I remember when I was a hatchling. I got into a rolling debate about torture but I got the three different lizards I was talking to mixed up and totally made a fool of myself.
re: #460 Dark_Falcon
I wouldn’t say that. There are black open carry events. I’ve posted links here of such events in Alabama and Texas.
I’m curious, would you be okay with Muslims open carrying at a peaceful demonstration where they disagreed with the demonstrators (who weren’t carrying)?
From the legal standpoint you’re bringing up, you should be a-okay with it.
re: #474 CuriousLurker
You know that last resort option TSA has lately been openly admitting for active shooter attacks? The need for training and practice is real. it’s also going to be an exploit for protests to happen. And unwise carry.
I find myself wondering how to support the former and reject the latter clearly. My class curriculum of self defense was always weapon independent but included training and practice with the obvious and available.
re: #455 Dark_Falcon
The reason its not considered “Intimidation” is that local and state statutes on what constitutes intimidation or menacing are drawn very narrowly to keep people from using the law to go after someone whom said something someone else didn’t like just because that first someone was going hunting or coming back from the gun range.
Those three guys have their rifles slung with safeties on and at no time do they even put their hands on the rifles’ pistol grips. Held that way, a rifle is generally not seen as threatening in the eyes of the law. And in Kentucky that’s the way its likely to stay, given the feelings of most of the public there.
Dark…please. Tell me if you were walking down the street and three Black Chicago guys were on the street open carry just like the dudes in the images you wouldn’t feel intimidated.
And I know open carry is probably not allowed in Chicago/Illinois, but work with the idea. Except that it would be allowed.
How would you feel? And be truthful.
Intimidated is a personal feeling at the time. The law can’t cover your feelings now can it?
Sometimes the law is not right just because it is the law. Take all the damn stand your ground laws as an example. I don’t think those are right, butt there they are.Sometimes you have to stop being so literal and go with the gut feelings.
re: #485 CuriousLurker
I’m curious, would you be okay with Muslims open carrying at a peaceful demonstration where they disagreed with the demonstrators (who weren’t carrying)?
From the legal standpoint you’re bringing up, you should be a-okay with it.
Yes, armed open carrying Muslims at a Pamela Geller rally where the people are unarmed. I’d call that intimidation too and Pam would go ballistic (and she’d actually be right for once)
re: #474 CuriousLurker
Thank goodness someone came to their senses. What a stupid idea that was.
It’s just moved off campus, right across the street from the West Mall, more or less (2426 San Antonio St. which is apparently a parking garage). The Methodist Church right around the corner at 24th and Guadalupe plans a vigil at the same time. It’s scheduled to start about 30 minutes from now.
It’s a good thing I’m not living in Austin anymore. I’d show up and yell at the gun nuts about their penis substitutes.
Mock mass shooting?
WTF America?
WTF.
re: #480 wrenchwench
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re: #480 wrenchwench
If that happened on my campus I think my classmates would have been out in force with their cardboard weapons and fake blood.
re: #456 darthstar
Because beer belly assault rifle dude has to have more training and practical experience with his firearm than a police officer.
“Trigger discipline” isn’t the issue with police killings of unarmed black guys that have dominated the news the past year or so. Trigger discipline isn’t even a thing. It’s where the muzzle is pointed that matters. (and yes, they at least have their muzzles pointed at the ground)
One final thing - Moms Demand Action != ISIS. Those assholes don’t need to be there.
Exactly. So let’s have Dark explain what they really are doing.
re: #465 darthstar
They’re carrying their children, not guns.
I’m sorry, but you are not correct:
Huey P. Newton Gun Club stages open carry rally through Dallas (VIDEO)
A group of some 30 African-American gun rights advocates marched in South Dallas Wednesday evening to promote self-defense and protest police shootings.
The newly formed group, calling themselves the Huey P. Newton Gun Club after one of the founders of the 1960s Black Panther party, open-carried rifles and shotguns on their evening walk along Malcom X and Martin Luther King boulevards. The peaceful activists, clad in black, according to the Dallas Morning News, chanted “Black Power” and “Justice for Michael Brown” along their route.
“We think that all black people have the right to self-defense and self-determination,” said Huey Freeman, a march organizer. “We believe that we can police ourselves and bring security to our own communities.”
After announcing plans for the rally earlier this week the group began its march around 8 p.m. at a carwash on Malcom X Boulevard and wound through the neighborhood for about 90 minutes. Walking and talking to local residents throughout its rally, the group stopped at a restaurant and ate alongside a Dallas Police Department deputy chief and shift lieutenant who were already patronizing the establishment.
That’s one link, but another from Alabama will follow.
The only thing I remember about my early time here was blowing up at Albusteve.
Art already said but intimidation really is in the eye of the beholder. I think reasonable people should agree that a gun man outside an event where the people are unarmed and expressing a different pov is trying to intimidate. Personally, I think this guy is a coward.
re: #434 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
I don’t think ISIS is an existential threat either. What the hell are they going to do to wipe out the US? We are our own worst enemy.
I keep trying to explain concepts like ‘logistics’ and ‘power projection’ to various wingnuts.
I’ve yet to succeed.
re: #495 b_sharp
The only thing I remember about my early time here was blowing up at Albusteve.
Lots did.
;)
re: #497 Romantic Heretic
I keep trying to explain concepts like ‘logistics’ and ‘power projection’ to various wingnuts.
I’ve yet to succeed.
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re: #487 ObserverArt
Dark…please. Tell me if you were walking down the street and three Black Chicago guys were on the street open carry just like the dudes in the images you wouldn’t feel intimidated.
And I know open carry is probably not allowed in Chicago/Illinois, but work with the idea. Except that it would be allowed.
How would you feel? And be truthful.
Intimidated is a personal feeling at the time. The law can’t cover your feelings now can it?
Sometimes the law is not right just because it is the law. Take all the damn stand your ground laws as an example. I don’t think those are right, butt there they are.Sometimes you have to stop being so literal and go with the gut feelings.
Honestly, it wouldn’t bother me that much. It would motivate me to get that M1 Garand I’ve wanted for a long time, though.
re: #495 b_sharp
The only thing I remember about my early time here was blowing up at Albusteve.
He was a weird dude. I don’t get why anyone who seemed to hate political discussion would be a regular on a poltiical blog. Brooky was something else too.
re: #495 b_sharp
The only thing I remember about my early time here was blowing up at Albusteve.
I’m pretty sure every hatchling did that at one time or another. I did.
It was an LGF rite of passage. :)
re: #485 CuriousLurker
I’m curious, would you be okay with Muslims open carrying at a peaceful demonstration where they disagreed with the demonstrators (who weren’t carrying)?
From the legal standpoint you’re bringing up, you should be a-okay with it.
*crickets…*
re: #495 b_sharp
The only thing I remember about my early time here was blowing up at Albusteve.
And then there is b u c k …
re: #474 CuriousLurker
Thank goodness someone came to their senses. What a stupid idea that was.
It is still going on though. Just off campus. And it is stupid.
re: #480 wrenchwench
Guadalupe was always pretty chill when I lived there. Probably not the best place for these fools.
My public health nursing class had a disaster day where we were immersed in a variety of sitches, including a mass shooting. After that scenario the other guys in class told a story about a former classmate they thought was crazy, and actually made threats to another student. The last day of class he freaked everybody out when he came to school with a heavy duffel bag, but nothing ever came of it.
The day also included a priceless moment when an instructor was leaning across a simulation mannequin with her face in its crotch and said she was trying to turn the dummy on.
re: #500 Dark_Falcon
Honestly, it wouldn’t bother me that much. It would motivate me to get that M1 Garand I’ve wanted for a long time, though.
Why would that “motivate” you?
re: #495 b_sharp
The only thing I remember about my early time here was blowing up at Albusteve.
He’s an asshole. Got kicked out of here and bad-mouthed everyone, even those who’d tried to be kind to him.
re: #504 Backwoods_Sleuth
And then there is b u c k …
He called me a racist for calling Herman Cain a guy who ran a pizza joint. I admit I oversimplified it since Godfather’s is a multimillion dollar company but my point which the jerk ignored was that Cain had zero elected experience. Did he finally get banned or did he get a clue?
re: #510 HappyWarrior
He called me a racist for calling Herman Cain a guy who ran a pizza joint. I admit I oversimplified it since Godfather’s is a multimillion dollar company but my point which the jerk ignored was that Cain had zero elected experience. Did he finally get banned or did he get a clue?
Think he just faded away.
re: #420 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #444 Dark_Falcon
Two of them seemed alright in not having a gut. And either way those three wingnuts could teach a number of cops something about trigger discipline.
Three paranoid gun humpers WITH LOADED WEAPONS ARE TRAILING A GROUP OF WOMEN HAVING A PEACEFUL MARCH, FOR FUCK’S SAKE.
And we should congratulate them for exercising trigger discipline??? As in, “Hey, guys, thanks for not murdering the moms walking down the street?”
Jesus God, I hate writing this but this is what passes for sane conservative thought in this country.
re: #500 Dark_Falcon
Honestly, it wouldn’t bother me that much. It would motivate me to get that M1 Garand I’ve wanted for a long time, though.
I hope that’s to join them. Open carry was never ever intended to be without reason. That’s key. Legally, practically. The original intent behind a law can get lost over the decades. It’s one of those “as necessary only” kinda things for the sake of public safety. FFS protest tools are signs and chants and unity. A networking of advocacy. Tools of violence are not helpful at protests. I seem to recall one could get in trouble for putting your protest sign nailed onto a baseball bat and waving that about at the protest. But guns?
And the other link I promised:
Alabama demonstrators show residents black lives, gun rights matter
A large group of people took to the streets of the Kingston community in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday in a different kind of demonstration, combining the message that black lives matter with a belief in the right to bear arms.
Avee-Ashanti Shabazz and Mercutio Southall, co-founders of Black Lives Matter in Birmingham, said the gathering wasn’t a protest, but rather a chance to educate others.
“We’re done with protests,” Southall told local media. “This is about empowering the people.”
Most, if not all, of the demonstrators were black, and Southall said “overzealous” policing and harassment is a frequent occurrence in the area, something which white people often don’t understand.
“They harass us constantly because they think a bunch of black people can’t get together without drama,” said Kingston resident Anthony Robinson, 47. “We ain’t got no rights around here. It shouldn’t be that way.”
Robinson’s statement came following a number of high-profile cases in which demonstrations throughout the country turned to instances of violence, riots, looting and destruction. But the demonstration in Birmingham, which remained completely peaceful throughout, proved events like these don’t always have to end in such a manner.
re: #510 HappyWarrior
Not banned. Profile is still there with a Karma of -14,099.
re: #511 Not a Sparkly Vampire
Think he just faded away.
He’s probably hanging out at Red State with sattv4u2, who is busy denying he’s conservative with “clever” poorly punctuated sentences.
re: #514 Dark_Falcon
And the other link I promised:
Alabama demonstrators show residents black lives, gun rights matter
Any integrated events?
re: #511 Not a Sparkly Vampire
Think he just faded away.
He found somewhere else to post he likes better most of the time, though he does still show up here on rare occasions.
I myself found somewhere else to talk about “war stuff” which is why I don’t post about things like tanks here as much as I did a few months ago.
Okay gotta mention some great people that moved on too. Reine, FBV, Windy, heck I know she had a meltdown but Sharmuta was nice to me when I first logged in. Sorry Obdicut got hurt and is not around so much anymore.
re: #518 wrenchwench
Any integrated events?
I wish there were, but no. And we all know most of why not.
re: #519 Not a Sparkly Vampire
Was wondering where sat went.
I was making a snarky comment. No idea where he went. Just kinda of faded away as well.
re: #523 Mattand
I was making a snarky comment. No idea where he went. Just kinda of faded away as well.
Ha, got it.
re: #508 Backwoods_Sleuth
Why would that “motivate” you?
That right there is the problem: escalation. Merely looking at a weapon shoots adrenaline into the system, increases pulse, etc.—it’s an uncontrollable biological response to a potential threat and therefore a very bad idea when there’s no threat present that warrants it, as GWS has already pointed out.
re: #521 Great White Snark
Okay gotta mention some great people that moved on too. Reine, FBV, Windy, heck I know she had a meltdown but Sharmuta was nice to me when I first logged in. Sorry Obdicut got hurt and is not around so much anymore.
SB too.
re: #522 Dark_Falcon
I wish there were, but no. And we all know most of why not.
People who don’t integrate with people who differ from themselves in some way tend to see others as those to be aimed at. Or feel that they are being aimed at too often.
re: #523 Mattand
I was making a snarky comment. No idea where he went. Just kinda of faded away as well.
Ah ha. You know, I tired to be nice ot him, even gave him some advice since his son was looking at some colleges here in Va. But he could be a weee bit abrasive. Y’all remember Barflytom? Nothing like a condescending British asshole to get your juices flowing. I think he finally got banned. Oh and Dantes. Man that guy was a guy was a dick.
I suspect I’ll get some blowback from this.
@Only4RM @theonlyadult Stop equating the two. It’s disingenuous and will make you look silly when you support Bernie in the general. :)
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) December 12, 2015
re: #515 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wow…I want to say I admire their persistence…but I can’t
re: #521 Great White Snark
Okay gotta mention some great people that moved on too. Reine, FBV, Windy, heck I know she had a meltdown but Sharmuta was nice to me when I first logged in. Sorry Obdicut got hurt and is not around so much anymore.
Yeah, I wonder how Obdicut is doing. The last time he posted it didn’t sound good.
re: #508 Backwoods_Sleuth
Why would that “motivate” you?
One must stay up with the fashions, my lady. :D
But seriously, in a case such as that I’d want a rifle that made clear “I’ve got something viable.” but didn’t say “My rifle is my manhood.”. A Garand does that for me.
I hope Obdi is doing well.Very intelligent and insightful poster.
re: #517 Mattand
He’s probably hanging out at Red State with sattv4u2, who is busy denying he’s conservative with “clever” poorly punctuated sentences.
Damn. Satt’s there?
That’s disappointing.
re: #514 Dark_Falcon
And the other link I promised:
Alabama demonstrators show residents black lives, gun rights matter
Okay…feel justified yet? WHITES ARE BEING OPPRESSED BECAUSE OF TWO EVENTS IN THE SOUTH!!!
Fuck that shit.
re: #525 CuriousLurker
That right there is the problem: escalation. Merely looking at a weapon shoots adrenaline into the system, increases pulse, etc.—it’s an uncontrollable biological response to a potential threat and therefore a very bad idea when there’s no threat present that warrants it, as GWS has already pointed out.
Which brings us back to the question of why it is necessary to carry a weapon openly in public. It certainly has nothing to do with any well regulated militia I have ever encountered.
re: #531 ObserverArt
Yeah, I wonder how Obdicut is doing. The last time he posted it didn’t sound good.
I’m ready to talk with him in a way that I definitely was not before.
re: #528 HappyWarrior
Ah ha. You know, I tired to be nice ot him, even gave him some advice since his son was looking at some colleges here in Va. But he could be a weee bit abrasive.
His general coyness/dishonesty about his political leanings; that stupid effing poor punctuation as ‘style’; and joining the “Well, Trayvon may have had it coming” bandwagon did it for me.
re: #521 Great White Snark
Okay gotta mention some great people that moved on too. Reine, FBV, Windy, heck I know she had a meltdown but Sharmuta was nice to me when I first logged in. Sorry Obdicut got hurt and is not around so much anymore.
I miss them too.
re: #521 Great White Snark
Okay gotta mention some great people that moved on too. Reine, FBV, Windy, heck I know she had a meltdown but Sharmuta was nice to me when I first logged in. Sorry Obdicut got hurt and is not around so much anymore.
I never knew Sharmuta (though the name makes me wince), but I agree on the others.
re: #537 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Which brings us back to the question of why it is necessary to carry a weapon openly in public. It certainly has nothing to do with any well regulated militia I have ever encountered.
It has one sole point and it would be nice if we had some honesty here, it’s about intimidation.
re: #539 Mattand
His general coyness/dishonesty about his political leanings; that stupid effing poor punctuation as ‘style’; and joining the “Well, Trayvon may have had it coming” bandwagon did it for me.
What,, are you,,, talking about,,,,?,,,,,,,,
re: #535 b_sharp
Damn. Satt’s there?
That’s disappointing.
No, I was being sarcastic. Let me go back and edit that.
re: #539 Mattand
His general coyness/dishonesty about his political leanings; that stupid effing poor punctuation as ‘style’; and joining the “Well, Trayvon may have had it coming” bandwagon did it for me.
Yeah that’s when I finally lost patience with KT, plus I felt Kt was being contrarian for the sake of being so. I admit, I didn’t know him like the old timers did but that was the vibe I got.
re: #543 Not a Sparkly Vampire
What,, are you,,, talking about,,,,?,,,,,,,,
LOL!
I managed to piss him off so throughly once he actually wrote a sentence correctly.
re: #536 darthstar
Okay…feel justified yet? WHITES ARE BEING OPPRESSED BECAUSE OF TWO EVENTS IN THE SOUTH!!!
Fuck that shit.
[Reagan] {sigh} There you go again…[/Reagan]
At no time did I say that black open carry events oppress white people. I was just making the point that such events are not the sole province of white people.
I liked talking IPAs with WUB. A lot of good ones his way in Oregon.
re: #532 Dark_Falcon
One must stay up with the fashions, my lady. :D
But seriously, in a case such as that I’d want a rifle that made clear “I’ve got something viable.” but didn’t say “My rifle is my manhood.”. A Garand does that for me.
You side-stepped the question. You’re not stupid, you know what she was asking you.
You also avoided answering my question about Muslims open carrying.
Old folks shooting the shit about the old days.
Get out of my rocking chair, dammit.
Someone quick…find an example of black people firebombing a Cracker Barrel. We need balance with all these incidents (molotov at Mosque in Santa Clara, one in Coachella)
Suspect caught in arson of North Dakota Somali restaurant. https://t.co/VHfbfzcGyV #WhereWasHeRadicalized? pic.twitter.com/WzU02OLM1z
— Imraan Siddiqi (@imraansiddiqi) December 12, 2015
re: #532 Dark_Falcon
One must stay up with the fashions, my lady. :D
But seriously, in a case such as that I’d want a rifle that made clear “I’ve got something viable.” but didn’t say “My rifle is my manhood.”. A Garand does that for me.
But you imply something very different when responding to the scenario proposed: “if you were walking down the street and three Black Chicago guys were on the street open carry…”
If you really mean what you say now, you would just get that Gerand instead of reacting to three open carry black guys walking down the street.
re: #549 Dark_Falcon
[Reagan] {sigh} There you go again…[/Reagan]
At no time did I say that black open carry events oppress white people. I was just making the point that such events are not the sole province of white people.
Both races do it.
I thought this image posted up thread a bit needed some additional work…
“Let me see if I can slide into the nomination by sucking up to Donald”Was there some event with Obdi or did he just move on or get busy on other stuff?
re: #549 Dark_Falcon
[Reagan] {sigh} There you go again…[/Reagan]
At no time did I say that black open carry events oppress white people. I was just making the point that such events are not the sole province of white people.
If minorities or muslims were to open carry the way white folks do, a SWAT team would probably show up in 11 seconds and blow everyone to pieces.
re: #517 Mattand
He’s probably hanging out at Red State with sattv4u2, who is busy denying he’s conservative with “clever” poorly punctuated sentences.
I often wondered where Satty went. Now I know.
Better there than the Stalker Blog thought, I guess.
re: #559 Camacho DeezNuts 2016
Was there some event with Obdi or did he just move on or get busy on other stuff?
Accident. Physical damage. Difficulty posting.
re: #559 Camacho DeezNuts 2016
Was there some event with Obdi or did he just move on or get busy on other stuff?
He had a TBI and extended recovery. Been scarce since, some visits.
re: #556 Backwoods_Sleuth
But you imply something very different when responding to the scenario proposed: “if you were walking down the street and three Black Chicago guys were on the street open carry…”
If you really mean what you say now, you would just get that Gerand instead of reacting to three open carry black guys walking down the street.
I’d leave those three men alone. It’s true I’d step out of their way, but I do that as a matter of routine for people walking in company.
re: #482 makeitstop
I don’t know if this was covered in earlier threads, but…
I’m sitting in The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn last night (saw Andrew WK, who was just awesome), and I check Facebook. Lo and behold, someone posted a link to DMOTI ‘s site:
Cell Phones!!! Propane tanks!!! Red Alert! Errybody RUN!!!11ty
[ facepalm ]
Yes, Hoft has been fear-mongering about that for a few days now. In the articles he posts, authorities always say it’s very unlikely to be terrorism-related, but for some reason Dim Jim never seems to quote those statements.
More infos on TBI.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #560 Mattand
If minorities or muslims were to open carry the way white folks do, a SWAT team would probably show up in 11 seconds and blow everyone to pieces.
re: #529 darthstar
I suspect I’ll get some blowback from this.
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There’s a huge difference between may not get the votes and being a totalitarian.
re: #559 Camacho DeezNuts 2016
Was there some event with Obdi or did he just move on or get busy on other stuff?
Recovering from an injury, going to school, and supporting his wife’s education. Lots on his plate. I think he’ll be back.
re: #559 Camacho DeezNuts 2016
Was there some event with Obdi or did he just move on or get busy on other stuff?
My recollection was that he also faded away, but his Last Stand was defending the Anthony half of Opie & Anthony for going on that racist tear a few months back. Guy lost his job after going on a crazed bigot Twitter rant and KT was waving the “Free speech means free from any consequences ever” flag that so popular amongst the politically incorrect crowd.
Don’t recall any particular flounce, though.
re: #571 Not a Sparkly Vampire
More infos on TBI.
en.wikipedia.org
Man how awful and I think he like myself had recently became an uncle as well.
re: #574 wrenchwench
Recovering from an injury, going to school, and supporting his wife’s education. Lots on his plate. I think he’ll be back.
Good to know.
Was seriously worried.
re: #573 Belafon
There’s a huge difference between may not get the votes and being a totalitarian.
You touched on the one thing Trump and Sanders have in common. They both say ‘Yooge’
re: #561 makeitstop
I often wondered where Satty went. Now I know.
Better there than the Stalker Blog thought, I guess.
Crap. I need to delete that post. I was being sarcastic. No idea where he went.
re: #573 Belafon
There’s a huge difference between may not get the votes and being a totalitarian.
Well it is true Trump might not win the nomination….
// ;)
re: #329 Dr Lizardo
Hmm…not playing sound for me. YAY! I can avoid the premium Woo-Woo you have saved for us!
Still no new posts at Chuck C. Johnson’s Facebook page.
re: #531 ObserverArt
Yeah, I wonder how Obdicut is doing. The last time he posted it didn’t sound good.
Obdi remains the only Lizard I’ve ever met in Meatworld. He came to one of my gigs on the Lower East Side a few years ago.
Nice fella. I do hope he’s doing well.
re: #579 Mattand
Yeah, I edited my post as well.
re: #554 b_sharp
Old folks shooting the shit about the old days.
Get out of my rocking chair, dammit.
The old days were only about 5 years ago kid.
re: #585 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
The old days were only about 5 years ago kid.
You’re still in my rocking chair.
re: #575 Mattand
My recollection was that he also faded away, but his Last Stand was defending the Anthony half of Opie & Anthony for going on that racist tear a few months back. Guy lost his job after going on a crazed bigot Twitter rant and KT was taking the “Free speech means free from any consequences ever” flag that so popular amongst the politically incorrect crowd.
Don’t recall any particular flounce, though.
What pissed me off is KT refused to see that boycotting is part of free speech as well. I tried making that point to him but as I said I really feel he was contrairan for the sake of being so. I can deal with genuine differences of opinion a lot easier than someone I feel is just being contrarian and offers no real solutions. Plus his whole OUTRAGE thing was tiresome as well as his lame attempts to say Rachel Maddow and Rush Limbaugh are part of the same coin which was dishonest as hell.
Drunken insurgents in our midst. Pray for our once-great nation. #WarOnChristmas pic.twitter.com/LmEDiuKVa0
— HAPPY HOLIDAYS (@MaryHartmanx2) December 12, 2015
re: #582 Charles Johnson
Still no new posts at Chuck C. Johnson’s Facebook page.
From his FB Page:
Oh my. We need a Cruz-Geller ticket.
Wowzers.
Another old name. SFZ. I loved her teaching stories. Think I saw one of you mention she recently became a mother for the first time which obviously would make her busy.
re: #558 ObserverArt
I thought this image posted up thread a bit needed some additional work…
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Wouldn’t a leech be more appropriate? (I’m not going to go look for a photo because if I do, I’ll have the creeps all day)
re: #588 Not a Sparkly Vampire
After my nap
re: #572 darthstar
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Thanks for posting that.
I’d love to see that experiment done in Texas, Arizona, Florida…aw hell every damn state in the country. I doubt the results would be any different in any of them. And repeat it with Hispanics, people from the Middle East, etc.
Dark, I can’t remember if you had a comment when that was first posted here. What is your take if you care to share?
re: #594 ObserverArt
Thanks for posting that.
I’d love to see that experiment done in Texas, Arizona, Florida…aw hell every damn state in the country. I doubt the results would be any different in any of them. And repeat it with Hispanics, people from the Middle East, etc.
Dark, I can’t remember if you had a comment when that was first posted here. What is your take if you care to share?
Unfortunately, you are really taking your life in your hands just to make a political point.
re: #589 darthstar
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With a vertical leap like that, the Sixers should sing Psycho Santa ASAP. It’s like they could do any worse.
re: #579 Mattand
Crap. I need to delete that post. I was being sarcastic. No idea where he went.
See whatcha did?? :)
re: #598 makeitstop
See whatcha did?? :)
Yeah, I need to step away from the ol’ Cupertino Speak n Spell. It’s pushing 70° here. Time to bike.
Risk assessment pic.twitter.com/GmGcqB5292
— Lenny Zeltser (@lennyzeltser) December 11, 2015
Chuck posts news story on FB Page:
Justice Scalia suggests blacks belong in “slower” colleges
Yes, he really said that.
Chuck’s comment about the Scalia story:
He’s right.
Straight up racist cretin.
re: #597 Mattand
With a vertical leap like that, the Sixers should sing Psycho Santa ASAP. It’s like they could do any worse.
Warriors won…again…last night. Fucking winning streaks…how do they work?
re: #599 Mattand
Yeah, I need to step away from the ol’ Cupertino Speak n Spell. It’s pushing 70° here. Time to bike.
Pretty warm here too. It felt like Spring out there. Definitely losing the work weight I put on too. STill want to get back down to the 200 neighborhood though by summer. I’m around 215 right now.
re: #581 Jayleia
Hmm…not playing sound for me. YAY! I can avoid the premium Woo-Woo you have saved for us!
That’s weird. And it’s such great woo-woo….narrated by Rod Serling, and featuring Jose Ferrer and Burgess Meredith.
re: #592 stpaulbear
Wouldn’t a leech be more appropriate? (I’m not going to go look for a photo because if I do, I’ll have the creeps all day)
Both are good. Slime or blood sucker, both work.
I was just working with the original up in #133. I wanted to add to it.
re: #589 darthstar
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Oh, boy, Santacon. So glad I’m not in NYC today.
Last night while waiting for the show to start, The Knitting Factory’s bar was descended upon by a pub crawl. I’m pretty sure it was organized by Every Annoying Hipster in Brooklyn. Neckbeards, man buns and Murses, shreiky women. Gah.
When they were leaving, one guy walked out of the the bar and fell flat on his face in the middle of Metropolitan Avenue. Good times…
re: #601 Camacho DeezNuts 2016
Chuck posts news story on FB Page:
Chuck’s comment about the Scalia story:
Straight up racist cretin.
Chuck misrepresented what Justice Scalia was saying in order to think that Scalia is as racist as he is.
re: #595 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Unfortunately, you are really taking your life in your hands just to make a political point.
Sad isn’t it.
But there is no white privilege or racism. Not even on the Supreme Court!
re: #607 Dark_Falcon
Chuck misrepresented what Justice Scalia was saying in order to think that Scalia is as racist as he is.
Waht Scalia said was pretty fucked up dude. Chuck seems like he merely agreed.
re: #607 Dark_Falcon
Chuck misrepresented what Justice Scalia was saying in order to think that Scalia is as racist as he is.
What’s the correct context?
re: #606 makeitstop
Oh, boy, Santacon. So glad I’m not in NYC today.
Last night while waiting for the show to start, The Knitting Factory’s bar was descended upon by a pub crawl. I’m pretty sure it was organized by Every Annoying Hipster in Brooklyn. Neckbeards, man bun, shreiky women. Gah.
When they were leaving, one guy walked out of the the bar and fell flat on hi face in the middle of Metropolitan Avenue. Good times…
SEe, that’s why I call myself a quasi hipster. The only thing hipster about me is I like neat brews, indy bands, and I have a beard.
Someone, I forgot who (sorry ‘bout that) asked me something in regards to Laphroaig, about land that could be leased or something.
Here’s the answer:
In 1994 the Friends of Laphroaig Club was established, members of which are granted a lifetime lease of 1 square foot (930 cm2) of Laphroaig land on the island of Islay. The annual rent is a dram of Laphroaig which can be obtained upon visiting the distillery.
re: #611 b_sharp
What’s the correct context?
Justice Scalia was saying that letting black students into very competitive schools via a large preference often ended badly if the students were not prepared for the academic environment they encounter there. Speaking in the context of states with tiered university systems such as Texas and California, Scalia said it was likely better if such students went to non-top tier schools where they would be more able to get up to speed.
IMO, that argument ascribes fault to the high schools such students attended instead of the students themselves.
re: #607 Dark_Falcon
Chuck misrepresented what Justice Scalia was saying in order to think that Scalia is as racist as he is.
A lot of people seem to be “misrepresenting” what Scalia said. Except I don’t think they are misrepresenting anything.
I wonder what the dishonorable judge says about all the white kids that wash out of colleges. Don’t you?
I know I went to an art college. And one of that colleges first year tricks was to be so damn thorough and hard on the freshman a good quarter of my class was out after semester one. Over half the class gone after year one. I graduated with at most one-sixth of my starting class.
Dude is protesting for right to open-carry w/ clock tower from a mass shooting in background https://t.co/ziDmBacJ6k https://t.co/Lrs7AvD7Go
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) December 12, 2015
Support Juba Coffeeshop run by a Muslim family in North Dakota, $90K in damages https://t.co/sxb7A9ftak - @gofundme pic.twitter.com/LeSb3zas6y
— Nick Hennen (@tweetbrk) December 11, 2015
re: #615 Dark_Falcon
Justice Scalia was saying that letting black students into very competitive schools via a large preference often ended badly if the students were not prepared for the academic environment they encounter there. Speaking in the context of states with tiered university systems such as Texas and California, Scalia said it was likely better if such students went to non-top tier schools where they would be more able to get up to speed.
IMO, that argument ascribes fault to the high schools such students attended instead of the students themselves.
He was asserting his opinion without any facts. If he cared about the people he’s talking about, he’d find the facts.
re: #616 ObserverArt
A lot of people seem to be “misrepresenting” what Scalia said. Except I don’t think they are misrepresenting anything.
I wonder what the dishonorable judge says about all the white kids that wash out of colleges. Don’t you?
I know I went to an art college. And one of that colleges first year tricks was to be so damn thorough and hard on the freshman a good quarter of my class was out after semester one. Over half the class gone after year one. I graduated with at most one-sixth of my starting class.
No kidding. He specifically cited black students.. Honestly between this and his statement he would have dissented from Brown, I do think Scalia has a serious problem with integration and I do think it’s fucked up that eh’s seen as a model judge instead of the disgrace he is. He may be intelligent but he’s a bigoted old dickwad who the Court will not miss when he leaves.
re: #422 Timothy Watson
Fucking assholes with Confederate flags were protesting outside the Islamic Center of Fredericksburg (Virginia) last night.
(The story about the raging assholes upset about them moving to a new location were posted on here a couple weeks ago.)
That makes me sad. And it also makes me sad that nobody seems to be counter protesting these goons.
Today in Aiken, SC:
Silent protest here at @realDonaldTrump event as Trump mentions Muslim ban. pic.twitter.com/pPnPK4NDQ2
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) December 12, 2015
Scalia to me is the worst kind of judicial hypocrite, one who slams people for the behavior he engages in. Scalia repeatedly lets his own biases get in the way while he accuses the court’s liberal bloc of doing so.
re: #615 Dark_Falcon
Justice Scalia was saying that letting black students into very competitive schools via a large preference often ended badly if the students were not prepared for the academic environment they encounter there. Speaking in the context of states with tiered university systems such as Texas and California, Scalia said it was likely better if such students went to non-top tier schools where they would be more able to get up to speed.
IMO, that argument ascribes fault to the high schools such students attended instead of the students themselves.
Sounds like a biased assumption.
re: #606 makeitstop
When they were leaving, one guy walked out of the the bar and fell flat on hi face in the middle of Metropolitan Avenue. Good times…
Warning, kinda gross story.
Back in my taxi driving days I was parked outside a popular night club waiting to catch a fare and this one guy was escorted out, drunk off his ass. He puked in the parking lot then slipped on it and fell into it. I sat there thinking. “Are you having fun yet?” *smh*
Oh, and shortly thereafter the bouncer helped him up and guided him over to my car. I hit the auto lock button and told him, “NO WAY, he’s puking for all he’s worth. I saw him slip & fall—he’s covered in it. You guys made your $$ off of him by giving him too much to drink, and now I’m supposed to deal with the problem? Nope, not gonna happen—YOU deal with it.” Seriously, you haven’t lived until you’ve had someone throw up (or worse) in your taxi. *gag*
re: #615 Dark_Falcon
Justice Scalia was saying that letting black students into very competitive schools via a large preference often ended badly if the students were not prepared for the academic environment they encounter there. Speaking in the context of states with tiered university systems such as Texas and California, Scalia said it was likely better if such students went to non-top tier schools where they would be more able to get up to speed.
IMO, that argument ascribes fault to the high schools such students attended instead of the students themselves.
You know…in their own neighborhoods where they belong
Okay…time for me to go before I get really pissed off. Have a good day everyone.
re: #607 Dark_Falcon
Chuck misrepresented whatJustice Scaliawas saying in order to think that Scaliais as racist as he is.
FIFY
re: #612 HappyWarrior
SEe, that’s why I call myself a quasi hipster. The only thing hipster about me is I like neat brews, indy bands, and I have a beard.
Dude. I’m a ‘live and let live’ kinda guy (being the old hippie that I am), but when these people walked through the door they had me thoroughly annoyed in about 10 seconds flat.
And my wife - who had spent a week working in North Carolina and being picked up at JFK, then having dinner and then straight to the venue - was worse than me. I think she just wanted to get up from the table and start slapping people. :) Good thing we worked out all that aggression pogoing to Andrew WK.
In our relationship, I’m the friendly one, and I can get pretty surly sometimes.
re: #629 makeitstop
Dude. I’m a ‘live and let live’ kinda guy (being the old hippie that I am), but when these people walked through the door they had me thoroughly annoyed in about 10 seconds flat.
And my wife - who had spent a week working in North Carolina and being picked up at JFK, then having dinner and then straight to the venue - was worse than me. I think she just wanted to get up from the table and start slapping people. :) Good thing we worked out all that aggression pogoing to Andrew WK.
In our relationship, I’m the friendly one, and I can get pretty surly sometimes.
Yeah some of these people are just obnoxious. Man buns. Man that’s a fade I hope dies.
re: #615 Dark_Falcon
Justice Scalia was saying that letting black students into very competitive schools via a large preference often ended badly if the students were not prepared for the academic environment they encounter there. Speaking in the context of states with tiered university systems such as Texas and California, Scalia said it was likely better if such students went to non-top tier schools where they would be more able to get up to speed.
IMO, that argument ascribes fault to the high schools such students attended instead of the students themselves.
As a (white) graduate of UT-Austin, I found his remarks remarkably condescending, and I’ll tell you why. I wasn’t prepared to go to UT when I graduated from high school, and my grades demonstrated it. And I went to a very good, top-flight, very white (ETA: 96 percent white graduating class in 1978), upper middle class high school on the north side of Houston. However, I went to junior college for three semesters, pulled up my grades, and got accepted to UT the “backdoor” way. This same way was offered to Abigail Fisher, but she refused to do that, instead choosing to sue (with the backing of a sugar daddy).
I’d also note that while African Americans make up 11.8 percent of the population of Texas, they only make up 4 percent of the UT-Austin student body. So even what little UT is doing is not even getting it anywhere near the actual proportion of the population. Not that affirmative action requires numerical equality, but I am pointing out that African Americans are still woefully underrepresented at one of Texas’ flagship universities.
re: #630 HappyWarrior
Half of the ewww-value comes from the name itself. “Man buns”? Wtf?
re: #628 BeachDem
FIFY
Indeed, Scalia is CCJ with more education and intelligence. Sorry DF but this whole thing read to me as an attempt ot distance Scalia who I think you admire from CCJ who you disdain, frankly and I don’t think I’m alone or out of bounds here but I think they’re both part of the same rotten system. Scalia frankly is worse than CCJ IMO. CCJ’s an annoying little booger but Scalia has been a giant pimple on our judicial asshole sicne before CCJ and I were even born.
re: #630 HappyWarrior
Yeah some of these people are just obnoxious. Man buns. Man that’s a fade I hope dies.
It’s spreading over here.
A couple months ago, I saw a pennyfarthing going down the street with a bearded hipster sporting a man bun.
Heaven help us, I thought to myself. They’re here.
re: #633 Nyet
Half of the ewww-value comes from the name itself. “Man buns”? Wtf?
I know right? It just makes you cringe.
re: #635 Dr Lizardo
It’s spreading over here.
A couple months ago, I saw a pennyfarthing going down the street with a bearded hipster sporting a man bun.
Heaven help us, I thought to myself. They’re here.
I saw my first man bun at work a couple of weeks ago. Compared to some of the getups I see at work (it’s an operations center with restricted access and a rather lax dress code), it actually looked tasteful.
re: #635 Dr Lizardo
It’s spreading over here.
A couple months ago, I saw a pennyfarthing going down the street with a bearded hipster sporting a man bun.
Heaven help us, I thought to myself. They’re here.
Haha yeah it’s pretty bad. And there are the bros. Agh. Glad to be my own man.
Finally some quality Milo anime. pic.twitter.com/sGLXqa9SBE
— Milo Yiannopoulos (@Nero) December 12, 2015
re: #625 CuriousLurker
Warning, kinda gross story.
Back in my taxi driving days I was parked outside a popular night club waiting to catch a fare and this one guy was escorted, out drunk off his ass. He puked in the parking lot then slipped on it and fell into it. I sat there thinking. “Are you having yet?” *smh*
Oh, and shortly thereafter the bouncer helped him up and guided him over to my car. I hit the auto lock button and told him, “NO WAY—he’s puking for all he’s worth. You guys made your $$ off of him by giving him too much to drink, and now I’m supposed to deal with the problem? Nope, not gonna happen—YOU deal with it.” Seriously, you haven’t lived until you’ve had someone throw up (or worse) in your taxi. *gag*
Ew! LOL
I remember back in the heyday of disco, my band was recording in a studip on the same block as Studio 54. We’d book night sessions, and we’d break around midnight for burgers and beer at a pub down the block, which meant we’d walk right past the entrance to Studio 54. One night, a limo pulled up to the door, the driver opened the back door, and out stepped Linda Ronstadt - who took one step and fell right on her ass. Those days were fun in NYC.
And yeah I know Judicial asshole is crude language but Scalia’s done a lot more harm than good with his decisions these past three decades. No one would call him a stupid man and I won’t insult the man’s intelligence and suggest that he is(which he did here with African-American students) but he is a dishonest and bigoted man who repeatedly acts like he’s more principled and knows the Founding Fathers’ intentions for our country. Scalia repeatedly lets his own biases get in the way of his decisions. He totally disregarded the 9th amendment when he ruled for Texas in Lawrence because he was grossed out by gay sex and his opposition to gay marriage was not constitutional but based in his own bias.
Oh man my wife just caught such a break. She has a friend that’s a member of a guild. One of the cinema guilds, writer, director or something. Anyway Dolby has a screening room. Where guild members and a guest can see the latest releases. So Dragon_Lady gets to see The Force Awakens in a Foley screening room, basically a screening by and for the pros in the biz. So happy for her.
re: #640 makeitstop
Ew! LOL
I remember back in the heyday of disco, my band was recording in a studip on the same block as Studio 54. We’d book night sessions, and we’d break around midnight for burgers and beer at a pub down the block, which meant we’d walk right past the entrance to Studio 54. One night, a limo pulled up to the door, the driver opened the back door, and out stepped Linda Ronstadt - who took one step and fell right on her ass. Those days were fun in NYC.
Heh. I was running sound for a band back in ‘75 and the bar owners unfortunately left the band members and us two roadies to an open bar after a good night of rockin’. Big mistake…on my part. We were pounding down many different drinks filled with 151 Ronrico rum.
I was fine until I stood up. Then it all hit me. The club had a ramp that went up about three or four steps into the club instead of steps. Coming down that ramp I continued straight down at the same angle right into the damn sidewalk. Got plenty sick later and the next morning (Saturday) I had to go into our art college photo dark room from about 10 am until 2:00 pm to oversee things for the morning early afternoon students that wanted to do some projects. The smell of all the photo chemicals for four hours was not good. That is a real bad day in my life, one from which I learned a lot.
Ah, youth. Glad I made it through the 70s!
re: #625 CuriousLurker
Warning, kinda gross story.
Back in my taxi driving days I was parked outside a popular night club waiting to catch a fare and this one guy was escorted out, drunk off his ass. He puked in the parking lot then slipped on it and fell into it. I sat there thinking. “Are you having fun yet?” *smh*
Oh, and shortly thereafter the bouncer helped him up and guided him over to my car. I hit the auto lock button and told him, “NO WAY—he’s puking for all he’s worth. I saw him slip & fall, he’s covered in it. You guys made your $$ off of him by giving him too much to drink, and now I’m supposed to deal with the problem? Nope, not gonna happen—YOU deal with it.” Seriously, you haven’t lived until you’ve had someone throw up (or worse) in your taxi. *gag*
As a teenager, my friends used to invite me along because I had a car. During one extremely cold winter night we went to a party and I was fuming about being used, but in my normal passive-aggressive state I didn’t say anything. At the end of the party, they piled into my car where one of them threw up all over the floor of the back seat. I snapped and told them all to get the fuck out.
The guy who threw up walked home and lost one of his toes because of freezing.
Just an example of how passive-aggressive is no way to go through life.
re: #645 Great White Snark
Oh man my wife just caught such a break. She has a friend that’s a member of a guild. One of the cinema guilds, writer, director or something. Anyway Dolby has a screening room. Where guild members and a guest can see the latest releases. So Dragon_Lady gets to see The Force Awakens in a Foley screening room, basically a screening by and for the pros in the biz. So happy for her.
That is awesomesauce. That movie is going to make obscene, ridiculous amounts of money.
re: #648 Poligeek
Indeed. I think I’ll finally get a good reserved IMAX seat maybe in mid February?
re: #645 Great White Snark
Oh man my wife just caught such a break. She has a friend that’s a member of a guild. One of the cinema guilds, writer, director or something. Anyway Dolby has a screening room. Where guild members and a guest can see the latest releases. So Dragon_Lady gets to see The Force Awakens in a Foley screening room, basically a screening by and for the pros in the biz. So happy for her.
Cool. I don’t know if I’ll see it in a theater. Dealing with matters for my parents consumes most of my weekends and my one entirely free weekend day per month is reserved for gaming. I need social interaction more than I need to see any movie.
I don’t usually watch movies in theaters. I wind up catching them on cable in bits and pieces, in random order. Eventually I’ll see the whole movie.
re: #647 b_sharp
As a teenager, my friends used to invite me along because I had a car. During one extremely cold winter night we went to a party and I was fuming about being used, but in my normal passive-aggressive state I didn’t say anything. At the end of the party, they piled into my car where one of them threw up all over the floor of the back seat. I snapped and told them all to get the fuck out.
The guy who threw up walked home and lost one of his toes because of freezing.
Just an example of how passive-aggressive is no way to go through life.
One time I had some drunk soldiers in my taxi. I’d warned them that if they felt like they were going to be sick, then TELL ME SO I CAN PULL OVER. Did they do it? No. Like your pal, one guy puked all over the floor & back seat. It was drizzling, so I couldn’t even roll down the windows. I was beyond pissed.
I drove to the nearest convenience store with a big parking lot and told them to GTFO of the car and start cleaning up their damned mess. They said, “But, but we don’t have anything to clean it with…” I responded, “Not my effing problem—you’re grown men and I’m not your mama. Either figure out how to clean it up or I’m going to call the cops and you guys are gonna be in a world of hurt when your CO finds out.”
They took off their shirts and started cleaning. I felt a teensy bit bad at their obvious misery, but not as bad as I’d have felt if I’d had to clean it up.
re: #567 Dark_Falcon
I’d leave those three men alone. It’s true I’d step out of their way, but I do that as a matter of routine for people walking in company.
It’s like you immediately erase from memory some of the stuff that you post in the comments.
You did not imply that you would step out of the way.
You flat out said you would be motivated to buy a Garand.
Try actually listening to yourself sometime.
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
