The Amazing Julian Lage and His Telecaster: “Day & Age”
Julian Lage live at National Sawdust in Brooklyn on June 28, 2017, performing “Day & Age”
Julian Lage live at National Sawdust in Brooklyn on June 28, 2017, performing “Day & Age”
And now, the Scumbag Singularity. pic.twitter.com/6sml2Q3dNQ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 28, 2017
The most extraordinary collection of idiocy ever gathered together in one place with the possible exception of when Donald Trump dines alone
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) August 28, 2017
I want to tell you how welcome you are to the White House. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
- JFK - Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Nobel Prize Winners of the Western Hemisphere. April 29, 1962
Chuck C. Johnson tells Alex Jones he’s going to sue all those Jews who are keeping him down. pic.twitter.com/m6mSkxTzA0
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 28, 2017
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) August 28, 2017
re: #3 Charles Johnson
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What ever happened to that Chuck C Lawsuit Countdown Clock?
So Floorpooper says he’s going to sue a whole bunch of us Jews?
Another genius move from Fearless Fosdork
re: #5 Joe Bacon 🌹
What ever happened to that Chuck C Lawsuit Countdown Clock?
It needs to be updated.
re: #7 Joe Bacon 🌹
So Floorpooper says he’s going to sue a whole bunch of us Jews?
Another genius move from Fearless Fosdork
He’s been keeping a list, I’m sure.
Rothschild is probably on it. They’re always blamed for shit.
I forget, is Soros Jewish? He’d been on it, too.
re: #7 Joe Bacon 🌹
So Floorpooper says he’s going to sue a whole bunch of us Jews?
Another genius move from Fearless Fosdork
Whose money is he promising to waste?
re: #12 jaunte
Whose money is he promising to waste?
Whoever donates to the forthcoming Wesearchr bounty program.
re: #12 jaunte
Whose money is he promising to waste?
“Alex, I’ll take How Peter Thiel Flushes His Money Down The John for $2,000!”
♥️God Bless this gorgeous kid and all the sweet funny stoic kids going through a horrible time in the #HoustonFloods pic.twitter.com/V753WtpPiW
— Fiona Adorno (@FionaAdorno) August 27, 2017
Robert Lee IV: “I call on all of us with privilege and power to confront racism and white supremacy head-on.” (MTV) pic.twitter.com/xVy9iyoLeU
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 28, 2017
Robert E. Lee’s descendant and Heather Heyer’s mom together. Powerful. https://t.co/QHMbGJpeRp
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) August 28, 2017
re: #16 JordanRules
Make sure you order Starbucks in his name.
I miss those halcyon times when we would just bitch about the MTV VMAs. Those were the days.
#NowPlaying Frame of Mind > Acoustic > Downstream https://t.co/7cL7hfFR8H
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) August 28, 2017
re: #16 JordanRules
There are lots of people fighting. It’s incumbent on the rest of us not to give up.
I will be going to Texas as soon as that trip can be made without causing disruption. The focus must be life and safety.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2017
We good. Keep your bitch ass out of my state. https://t.co/gkWIsgRg9u
— Kam Franklin (@KamFranklin) August 27, 2017
here toss on a little more respect…lol pic.twitter.com/HDAoRfHCCo
— Deborah Macgillivray (@Scotladywriter) August 27, 2017
re: #4 gocart mozart
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) August 28, 2017
Hey, don’t be dissing GInger Joe.
He’s a freakin’ America Hero
For a primer on how to make fun of Nazis, look to Charlie Chaplin https://t.co/PMfo3hED3D
— 🗽Jeffrey Levin 🗽 (@jilevin) August 28, 2017
re: #25 FormerDirtDart
And then there’s this guy.
Hurricane Harvey Is When We Need Price Gouging, Not Laws Against It https://t.co/cAZ5rlpE37
— Tim Worstall (@worstall) August 27, 2017
re: #23 gocart mozart
That’s not fair to the Queen!
I’d forgotten how Neil Young basically torched the stage at SNL with this in 1989 https://t.co/chOzMnYKPw
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) August 28, 2017
re: #29 gocart mozart
It’s disgusting how long ago 1989 is. Not to mention 1969.
O. M. G.
uhh pic.twitter.com/ylb65qhxxk
— blocked thot (@chaeronaea) August 28, 2017
re: #31 GlutenFreeJesus
Didn’t UpChuck just have a baby with his H.A.W.?
re: #32 retired cynic
OMFG
So, speculation that Hot Asian Wife ditched him appears to have been correct?
Can you imagine how many homes in Montrose &RiceVillage would be flooded if water didn’t collect in 59S?or in 3rd Ward w/o 288 funneling H20
— Tina Winsett (@tmwinsett) August 28, 2017
Wow. Hadn’t thought about it this way.
re: #34 Blind Frog Belly White
He could just be a cheating POS.
re: #31 GlutenFreeJesus
O. M. G.
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Q) Is that Real or a Photoshop?
A) Who cares? Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Dogs displaced by #Harvey are coming in at 60 per hour. #Houston pic.twitter.com/Brwmr3Gc1v
— Ranger° (@2Echo68Whiskey) August 28, 2017
re: #33 teleskiguy
Didn’t UpChuck just have a baby with his H.A.W.?
I got a feeling this guy can give us the definitive answer…
Another wave of top State Department officials quit this week in ‘Black Friday’ mass resignation https://t.co/pyc5OWjHlK
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 28, 2017
re: #36 JordanRules
He could just be a cheating POS.
But too stupid to use an alias, like, say “Carlos Danger”?
re: #42 Blind Frog Belly White
Ha!! Or Barron.
re: #31 GlutenFreeJesus
O. M. G.
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I’m reading the comments to that tweet and ROTFLMAO!
Aerial footage shows the devastation and flooding caused by #Harvey in Aransas Pass, Texas. https://t.co/bjS8s8X1BQ pic.twitter.com/isZxYaTZwv
— ABC News (@ABC) August 28, 2017
My friend John had his 1953 Gibson Les Paul stolen last night. Serial # 3-2164 ..Let’s help him get his guitar back post haste. pic.twitter.com/SU36CY1Gyg
— JOE BONAMASSA (@JBONAMASSA) August 28, 2017
re: #29 gocart mozart
Magnificent! Who was playing behind Neil?
re: #45 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’m reading the comments to that tweet and ROTFLMAO!
“I’m here to fuck and shit on the floor in no particular order”
— TieTuesday (@TieTuesdayLP) August 28, 2017
CCJ is one ugly motherfucker…in more ways than one.
Widespread looting reported in Houston as police are trying to save lives pic.twitter.com/lAmPC8NfFf
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 28, 2017
I drove around Houston all day and didn’t see anybody steal anything. https://t.co/QuBZ7HGE2E
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) August 28, 2017
Houston Mayor @SylvesterTurner tells @KPRC2 a grand total of 1 person was arrested for looting today
— Mike Lopez (@TXNewsLopez) August 28, 2017
“widespread” https://t.co/1zgsym1EtJ
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) August 28, 2017
re: #31 GlutenFreeJesus
“O. M. G.”
Every time I see Chucky, I ‘m reminded of what my mom would have said about him: “A hot bath and a good bowl of hot soup would do him a whole lot of good.”
He always appears scruffy to me and in need of a good haircut, trim, and a shave. When I look at him, I don’t think, “That’s a smart, awesome guy!” I think, “He sure is a pitiful looking creature.” He wants to be more than he actually is, and he wants to be rich without having to work too hard. In my mind, these things make him a sorry behind, immoral deadbeat.
re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg
CCJ is one ugly motherfucker…in more ways than one.
I was only in the womb when Hitler killed himself, and too young to understand much when Stalin went down, so I’ve never really celebrated the death of any human being, and if somehow I outlast CCJ I won’t celebrate his. I’ll merely have a quiet drink and contemplate the fact that the world is slightly less vile than it was before.
Yes to all this!
Let me tell you motherfuckers that have never evacuated a MAJOR city during a hurricane. A mini thread for your bitch ass.
— Kam Franklin (@KamFranklin) August 27, 2017
#THREAD: https://t.co/X4BPiL616O
— Martha Plimpton (@MarthaPlimpton) August 28, 2017
re: #55 teleskiguy
Tonight they try to keep the dams from breaking…
“…Upstream and west of Houston, two giant reservoirs, built in the 1940s to protect the city from flooding, are already nearing capacity. The Addicks and Barker dams, which hold back the reservoirs’ collective 410,000 acre-feet of water, were deemed by the Army Corps of Engineers to be at “extremely high risk of catastrophic failure” in 2009 and named two of the country’s six most dangerous dams in 2012. (One acre-foot of water is enough to cover a football field with a foot of water.) If the dams fail, the Houston Chronicle reported last year, half the city could be underwater.
The Army Corps of Engineers, which runs the dams, plans to release water from them around 2 a.m. local time Monday morning to prevent them from failing ― an unprecedented move. Water will rise about 4 to 6 inches per hour in Buffalo Bayou, which cuts through downtown Houston, after the release. Much of the area is already flooded from the heavy rain. All roads near the dams will be flooded “for an extended period of time,” and homes upstream of the reservoirs could be flooded for months, Col. Lars Zetterstrom, the Corps’ district commander, said Sunday.”
huffingtonpost.com
Before the flood and after on Buffalo Bayou in Houston. Just an unreal amount of water https://t.co/8CcdEdKhtE pic.twitter.com/J33MHpA80R
— Brian L Kahn (@blkahn) August 27, 2017
Police moving cattle to higher ground just outside Dayton, TX with team @contessabrewer @CNBC pic.twitter.com/yRuqvahPOw
— Harriet Taylor (@Harri8t) August 27, 2017
Dogs at work
re: #57 jaunte
Col. Lars Zetterstrom
Ged outta heah widdat.
Seriously, though, this news about the dams is verging on “destroy the village in order to save it” territory.
This man is a preacher checking for people inside cars at 610 & 288 PC Brian Roberson Jr @KPRC2 #Harvey pic.twitter.com/NJx58ZN8N8
— Sara Donchey (@KPRC2Sara) August 27, 2017
This Weekend
—You heard 1 extremist in UK yell AllahuAkbar
—But not 41000 Muslims in Germany proclaim AllahuAkbar for Peace#DoubleStandards pic.twitter.com/RiNobup3RG— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) August 27, 2017
re: #29 gocart mozart
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He’s added a new verse. Last year.
“Got a water cannon for the standing man
Got misinformation from the corporation
In the endless search for a drop of oil
People’s lives get shattered while we suck it from the soil
Gotta show the children
We just don’t care
So we keep on burnin’ it
And put it in the air”
Via @MoscowTimes Donald Trump Planning Skyscraper in Moscow http://t.co/ubiHDd5sqr
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2013
Whether he ever takes the stand or not, archived Trump is the best witness against Trump. Always. https://t.co/ompyKsajRC
— Only4RM (@Only4RM) August 28, 2017
What’s it like to actually work in Donald Trump’s gov’t? I went deep into a single dep’t, the one run by Ben Carson. https://t.co/iMlgFc4vDJ
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) August 22, 2017
HUD plays a key role in disaster recovery.
The new HUD chief for the region including TX is best known for her warnings about Shariah law. https://t.co/PgQg4dILN5— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) August 28, 2017
The lady who defended the arrest of the boy who made the clock is going to be in charge of much post-disaster recovery in Houston https://t.co/nfLgc513IV
— Doug Saunders (@DougSaunders) August 28, 2017
Breaking: Harris County Flood Control says the release of water from the Addicks and Barker Reservoirs has started. #khou11
— The Bishop (@BillBishopKHOU) August 28, 2017
re: #67 jaunte
I’ve been reading up (must read, people) about Houston and floods. So nuts that most of the time those two reservoirs are open space and woodlands. What happens to all those trees after a flood event, do they just fall over in the saturated soil?
re: #67 jaunte
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Wow, an hour earlier than they said they would. They have handled this so badly. I was watching the news when the flood control guy was interviewed and he mentioned this almost in passing. The news anchors had to pull the info out of him and they were shocked at the speed. This was like 7pm. Torrential rain is falling on that area and it’s almost dark and they find out NOW that they have only a few hours to get out of their homes that will be flooded before morning?
Can’t tell me they didn’t know this was a strong likelihood earlier to give those people more warning and time.
re: #68 teleskiguy
I’ve been reading up (must read, people) about Houston and floods. So nuts that most of the time those two reservoirs are open space and woodlands. What happens to all those trees after a flood event, do they just fall over in the saturated soil?
They seem to thrive. It is a very lush area and quite beautiful.
#NowPlaying Frame of Mind > Acoustic > Tsunami https://t.co/gVXcNf5izT
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) August 28, 2017
re: #69 allegro
Wow, an hour earlier than they said they would. They have handled this so badly. I was watching the news when the flood control guy was interviewed and he mentioned this almost in passing. The news anchors had to pull the info out of him and they were shocked at the speed. This was like 7pm. Torrential rain is falling on that area and it’s almost dark and they find out NOW that they have only a few hours to get out of their homes that will be flooded before morning?
Can’t tell me they didn’t know this was a strong likelihood earlier to give those people more warning and time.
Tuesday Trump will tell us everything is going bigly well. Amazing.
The KHOU Facebook live feed on their Facebook page can be found here:
facebook.com
The surface of Lake Conroe is normally at 201 ft. above sea level. Tonight the water level is at 210 ft. above sea level.
First time ever at the beach. Tried barking at the ocean to scare it away 🏖 🐶 pic.twitter.com/uKKQtcVMU2
— Ketan Joshi (@KetanJ0) August 28, 2017
Some are speculating that Harvey will easily surpass Katrina in property damage. Katrina caused $109 billion in damage.
re: #76 teleskiguy
That would be about 136B in todays dollars.
There is quite a bit of the damage from this storm which has yet to really get noticed. The rain continues, even if only light in Houston proper. Southwest Louisiana is also getting a lot of rain, but outside of Lake Charles it is pretty rural, as is the area between Beaumont and Houston. The counties north and west of Houston are also hard hit.
It will take many days to assess the total impact.
re: #16 JordanRules
Absolutely beautiful!! Tears.
re: #29 gocart mozart
I’d forgotten how Neil Young basically torched the stage at SNL with this in 1989
I read that he had a trainer come backstage and put him through a full workout so he would be in the same state as if he had just played an entire concert and was coming out to give an encore…
Right wingers need to ask themselves why the evil, utterly ruthless lefties and liberals have not assassinated hundreds of prominent right wingers, by carload lots in fact.
For the cost of 10,000 paid protesters you could surely hire a sizable force of competent hitmen, though I admit I have not studied that market in any depth.
The RWNJ leaders should be in mortal fear of their lives, yet they strut around in public like no such threat existed. Oh sure, Roger Stone claims “they” tried to assassinate him with polonium, but he shows no fear of the hordes of leftist gunmen who would surely be tracking his every move if Soros and other Jews Marxist billionaires were really putting billions into nefarious, and perfectly concealed, plans to destroy civilization for their own gain.
Prophetic?
Featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Fisher Stevens, Before the Flood presents a riveting account of the dramatic changes occurring around the world due to climate change.
Trump is going to San Antonio tomorrow. Why?
re: #84 Barefoot Grin
Trump is going to San Antonio tomorrow. Why?
His ego is bruised by a guy named Harvey?
re: #85 freetoken
His ego is bruised by a guy named Harvey?
Yep. I’m sure we’ll hear plenty about how this is the fastest presidential response in history (a lot of people didn’t know that!).
re: #38 JordanRules
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Why do stories about people reuniting with their pets always make me cry? Even more than people reuniting with their human loved ones?
Pete Sessions now on CNN saying that Congress has to begin quickly confirming every Trump nominee who might remotely have something to do with Texas disaster.
re: #88 Barefoot Grin
NOW they start worrying about getting people into their posts?
re: #89 I cannot.
NOW they start worrying about getting people into their posts?
To be fair, he also talked about getting info about tetanus shots etc., and getting the word out to Louisiana about what is on the way toward them. But he seems to be suggesting using the disaster to get Trump choices in place.
re: #90 Barefoot Grin
“Wait, what does the ambassador to Malawi have to do with disaster relief in Texas?”
re: #87 The Vicious Babushka
Why do stories about people reuniting with their pets always make me cry? Even more than people reuniting with their human loved ones?
You’ve spent more time getting to know humans.
re: #84 Barefoot Grin
Trump is going to San Antonio tomorrow. Why?
Because it rained there. And according to Gov. Abbott, “it’s safe and healing is taking place….”.
SA might have gotten 4”.
Press Conference on the River Walk while Hispanic labor “heals” the landscape nearby.
re: #42 Blind Frog Belly White
But too stupid to use an alias, like, say “Carlos Danger”?
someone looking for me?
re: #84 Barefoot Grin
Trump is going to San Antonio tomorrow. Why?
Americans hunkered behind a wall there to keep Mexicans out.
Was Twitter down this morning? I got on and then couldn’t get it to refresh or reload or whatever.
re: #95 Decatur Deb
Americans hunkered behind a wall there to keep Mexicans out.
Brings up an interesting issue for Trump: can he still threaten to shut down the gov’t over wall funding now that we will essentially have to rebuild large parts of coastal Texas?
re: #87 The Vicious Babushka
Why do stories about people reuniting with their pets always make me cry? Even more than people reuniting with their human loved ones?
They’re more helpless than humans and hence can’t do it themselves?
re: #56 JordanRules
Yes to all this!
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traffic jams
enough gas stations along the way *with gas*
food
rest facilities
breakdowns, accidents, out of gas
where are they all going - how far away and what happens when the all get there - again food, shelter, services…
you’re moving the people of *a city* that consumes x resources per day
re: #97 Barefoot Grin
Brings up an interesting issue for Trump: can he still threaten to shut down the gov’t over wall funding now that we will essentially have to rebuild large parts of coastal Texas?
Of course he will. He doesn’t care about Texas any more than cares about anything else without his name on it. Texas is only useful if they shut up and build his wall.
re: #97 Barefoot Grin
Brings up an interesting issue for Trump: can he still threaten to shut down the gov’t over wall funding now that we will essentially have to rebuild large parts of coastal Texas?
Trump: Hold my beer…
Man rescues a family from flooding in Houston, including young children and a puppy. “See you later, house!” https://t.co/3I0JZ41veI pic.twitter.com/nfqo99qoP5
— ABC News (@ABC) August 28, 2017
re: #88 Barefoot Grin
Pete Sessions now on CNN saying that Congress has to begin quickly confirming every Trump nominee who might remotely have something to do with Texas disaster.
Maybe he shouldn’t have waited until April to nominate the head of the agency (who was confirmed in June) and waited until the end of July to nominate two Deputy Administrators. Both of those Deputy Administrators cover preparedness and response units.
re: #97 Barefoot Grin
Brings up an interesting issue for Trump: can he still threaten to shut down the gov’t over wall funding now that we will essentially have to rebuild large parts of coastal Texas?
Ask me a question about a normal person.
Another day of The Washington Post talking about how bad those poor white people on disability have it:
washingtonpost.com
re: #103 Timothy Watson
Maybe he shouldn’t have waited until April to nominate the head of the agency (who was confirmed in June) and waited until the end of July to nominate two Deputy Administrators. Both of those Deputy Administrators cover preparedness and response units.
Oh, goodie, one of the people who Trump nominated to be Deputy Administrator, Daniel Craig, worked at FEMA from Sept 2001 to Oct 2005. Makes you wonder if the was forced out after/during the disastrous Katrina response.
re: #106 Timothy Watson
Another of The Washington Post talking about how bad those poor white people on disability have it:
washingtonpost.com
And yet every day we get calls from people on Disabiity screaming about all them “colored folks and queers” getting government checks…
Now Shitler wants to militarize our police. Welcome to 1938 Germany.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) August 28, 2017
re: #48 petesh
Magnificent! Who was playing behind Neil?
That’s Steve Jordan on drums (he was Letterman’s original drummer before being replaced by Anton Fig).
Not sure who the other two are.
re: #106 Timothy Watson
Another of The Washington Post talking about how bad those poor white people on disability have it:
washingtonpost.com
I’m missing the “White” part, except that the subject of the story is white. Roanoke is 40% AA. For a lot of reasons, minorities are over-represented on disability rolls.
re: #56 JordanRules
Yes to all this!
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Marry me. Please.
— Ace Rothstein (@BillyBatts1970) August 28, 2017
re: #111 Decatur Deb
I’m missing the “White” part, except that the subject of the story is white. Roanoke is 40% AA. For a lot of reasons, minorities are over-represented on disability rolls.
Actually, several of the Post’s stories have noted that rural whites have much higher rates of disability than African-Americans, particularly urban African-Americans.
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC Metro area. Things here are fine; the weather is delightful and everything is subdued thanks to the pre-Labor Day vacations for many here.
The same can’t be said for the situation in Texas and along the Gulf Coast. Things are dire there. That’s no exaggeration. It’s as bad or worse than Katrina or Sandy.
So what’s Trump doing this morning? Retweeting convicted felon Dinesh Fucking D’Souza and bullshit tweets from people who don’t know the difference between a pardon and commutation.
Not a damned thing about what the military is doing to ramp up rescue/relief/aid missions to Texas. Not a damned thing about how he’s coordinating resources to help Texas.
It’s all bullshit all the time from Trump.
re: #114 Decatur Deb
Most Americans aren’t rural. We don’t need another wedge issue.
They’re not, but rural Americans are disproportionately using disability.
Q: Are disability beneficiaries spread evenly nationwide?
A: The majority of disability recipients live in densely populated urban and suburban areas, but they are disproportionately prevalent in rural America — where, on average, 9.1 percent of the working-age population receives disability, compared to the national average of 6.5 percent and an urban rate of 4.9 percent. Beneficiaries are even more overrepresented in the Southeast and central Appalachia. These are places economists have called “disability belts.”
re: #116 Timothy Watson
They’re not, but rural Americans are disproportionately using disability.
Look at the story. The woman moved to a town of 7000 because she was disabled and she had family support there. If you can’t hold a Walmart job, and she genuinely can’t, you don’t stay in Atlanta. The Alabama countryside is full of towns populated by the left-behinds and the crawl-backs.
Column: Republicans are asking a horrific question: Is our president insane? https://t.co/ylkxCWWPod pic.twitter.com/z4xCYK9p32
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) August 28, 2017
re: #109 Dr. Matt
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It isn’t new or special to Trump: “militarizing” law-enforcement agencies around the country (even if only by backing financing for getting new/used military equipment to boost MIC bottom-lines) has been a standard government thing for quite a while. ISTR it took off after 9/11 - but I doubt whether that’s when it started.
re: #117 Decatur Deb
Look at the story. The woman moved to a town of 7000 because she was disabled and she had family support there. If you can’t hold a Walmart job, and she genuinely can’t, you don’t stay in Atlanta. The Alabama countryside is full of towns populated by the left-behinds and the crawl-backs.
Her disability was mental illness. It is very difficult for a person with that level of mental illness to be able to hold down a job. Corporations don’t give a shit about your depression or your bipolar disorder unless it can be controlled by medications.
Mah first twitter poll. Easy one to start. ;-)
Obama sure looked better in a tan suit than Trump does in a baseball cap indoors. Just me or u 2?
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) August 28, 2017
re: #112 Ace Rothstein
She’s got a great singing voice. I listened to her for about an hour last night after finding out she’s the lead singer of a band, the Suffers.
re: #120 The Vicious Babushka
Her disability was mental illness. It is very difficult for a person with that level of mental illness to be able to hold down a job. Corporations don’t give a shit about your depression or your bipolar disorder
unless it can be controlled by medications.
It’s entirely up to you to get it under control.
re: #120 The Vicious Babushka
Her disability was mental illness. It is very difficult for a person with that level of mental illness to be able to hold down a job. Corporations don’t give a shit about your depression or your bipolar disorder unless it can be controlled by medications.
And when the labor market gives them the strong advantage, employers will ditch you even if it can be controlled.
Gorka isn’t a Doctor. He never got a PhD. But he did major in being a goddamned Nazi.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 28, 2017
re: #119 Jay C
It isn’t new or special to Trump: “militarizing” law-enforcement agencies around the country (even if only by backing financing for getting new/used military equipment to boost MIC bottom-lines) has been a standard government thing for quite a while. ISTR it took off after 9/11 - but I doubt whether that’s where it started.
I disagree in a way. What was a bad idea under Clinton or Bush is one screaming panic of a horrible idea the way Trump does things. Phrases you won’t see elsewhere but still- Posse Comitatus matters. Police must have a gentler presence and tactics than military gear helps with. Sure a fast special terror team/SWAT is necessary these days. But we must draw some sharp lines.
We are 6 miles from a mandatory evacuation zone. Husband and I debated it and we figured the best thing we can do for our community is stay off the roads and give our neighbors space to evacuate.
It’s the Brazos River. It’s expected to go over its banks.
If they extend the zone we have family to stay with. Keeping a very close eye on it. The rain is supposed to hold off and give people a chance to get out.
We really debated this, but we are not going to add to the traffic if we are not under any kind of evacuation order. Our loved ones need space to go.
We’ve checked in on all of my husband’s players and their families. Many are leaving but all have somewhere to go.
re: #127 BlueGrl21
We are 6 miles from a mandatory evacuation zone. Husband and I debated it and we figured the best thing we can do for our community is stay off the roads and give our neighbors space to evacuate.
It’s the Brazos River. It’s expected to go over its banks.
If they extend the zone we have family to stay with. Keeping a very close eye on it. The rain is supposed to hold off and give people a chance to get out.
We really debated this, but we are not going to add to the traffic if we are not under any kind of evacuation order. Our loved ones need space to go.
We’ve checked in on all of my husband’s players and their families. Many are leaving but all have somewhere to go.
Guessing you also have Plans B and C, like vertical evacuation?
re: #108 Joe Bacon 🌹
And yet every day we get calls from people on Disabiity screaming about all them “colored folks and queers” getting government checks…
I don’t even fucking want to hear most of their whining. I know people on disability that are on it because ‘their backs hurt’, yet I see them washing their cars, cutting their lawns and other physical activity like nothing is wrong. My wife is 55, has had part of her colon removed because of cancer (along with all the chemo treatments that go with it), has had diabetes since she was 3 years old, has lost her right foot because of it and the chemo combination, has had a heart attack and double bypass surgery, all in a 2.5 year span yet can’t get disability. Fuck many of those whining fucks (there are those that deserve it so not all).
re: #125 lawhawk
Thank you! I thought that it had been confirmed that he’s a fake doc, but all weekend I kept seeing folks still call this traitor Dr.
re: #127 BlueGrl21
re: #129 Eventual Carrion
I don’t even fucking want to hear most of their whining. I know people on disability that are on it because ‘their backs hurt’, yet I see them washing their cars, cutting their lawns and other physical activity like nothing is wrong. My wife is 55, has had part of her colon removed because of cancer (along with all the chemo treatments that go with it), has had diabetes since she was 3 years old, has lost her right foot because of it and the chemo combination, has had a heart attack and double bypass surgery, all in a 2.5 year span yet can’t get disability. Fuck many of those whining fucks (there are those that deserve it so not all).
For a couple years I was seconded to an Army team charged with reducing its Federal Employees’ Compensation Act rates. We looked very hard at fraud, and came up with about 3%, mostly injured workers who over-rode it. It was always the first excuse installation commanders fell back on if their safety, health, and personnel programs sucked. The academic in the story was right though—if you don’t get people back to work in 6 mos, they often redefine themselves as unemployable.
BREAKING: We’re taking @realDonaldTrump to court to challenge the unconstitutional transgender military ban. pic.twitter.com/udV6P1hIJh
— ACLU National (@ACLU) August 28, 2017
BREAKING: @ACLU has sued @realDonaldTrump over the #TransMilitaryBan on behalf of six service members and the ACLU of Maryland.
— Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) August 28, 2017
re: #130 JordanRules
Thank you! I thought that it had been confirmed that he’s a fake doc, but all weekend I kept seeing folks still call this traitor Dr.
The Federalist RW rag was insisting on it in an article still online yesterday.
re: #128 Decatur Deb
Guessing you also have Plans B and C, like vertical evacuation?
We are in a 2 story house so if necessary we have the second floor, plus a window that goes directly to the roof. The boys are worried about the two cats but those two will follow us anywhere. As will the Labrador who hates water.
We’re genuinely better off sheltering in place. But we are being very vigilant and keeping local news on. Many, many, many friends and neighbors evacuating. Our best friends are headed to stay with family in Midland. They figure the desert is safe.
re: #134 Decatur Deb
The Federalist RW rag was insisting on it in an article still online yesterday.
Has the Federalist always been this bad? They seem to be a non-stop Trump defense racket.
re: #136 Sir John Barron
Has the Federalist always been this bad? They seem to be a non-stop Trump defense racket.
They’ve pretended to the National Review level of respectability, so yeah—they’ve always been that bad.
re: #135 BlueGrl21
We are in a 2 story house so if necessary we have the second floor, plus a window that goes directly to the roof. The boys are worried about the two cats but those two will follow us anywhere. As will the Labrador who hates water.
We’re genuinely better off sheltering in place. But we are being very vigilant and keeping local news on. Many, many, many friends and neighbors evacuating. Our best friends are headed to stay with family in Midland. They figure the desert is safe.
Sounds workable, but don’t wait too long to switch to the “waiting for the Coast Guard” mode.
re: #136 Sir John Barron
Has the Federalist always been this bad? They seem to be a non-stop Trump defense racket.
Yes.
Wearing a stupid hat: WH photos show Trump sitting alone at Camp David while Pence runs hurricane Situation Room https://t.co/f1a2LhhBeW pic.twitter.com/sRprRpt2jg
— Greg Pinelo (@gregpinelo) August 28, 2017
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
Going to Missouri, a state I won Bigly, as soon as the stupid hurricane thing is done. Thanks!
I’ve been listening to a lot of Lucinda Williams the past couple of days. Her songs are filled with the geography of east Texas through Mississippi.
re: #142 Barefoot Grin
I’ve been listening to a lot of Lucinda Williams the past couple of days. Her songs are filled with the geography of east Texas through Mississippi.
She’s great.
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
Who am I? Why am I here? Thanks!
Update on ‘Harvey’, the taxi Hawk
UPDATE: The hawk who sought refuge in a taxi is being cared for by a rescuer from a local wildlife rehabilitation center.
(Video: TWRC) pic.twitter.com/GPSiNfD0FD— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 28, 2017
re: #147 FormerDirtDart
Update on ‘Harvey’, the taxi Hawk
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“Harsh, man. I just tried to stiff a cabbie and wound up in slam.”
The editorial cartoon from the @HoustonChron #Trump #HoustonStrong @Nick_Anderson_ pic.twitter.com/icfBSdFcSo
— David Beard (@dabeard) August 28, 2017
Houston woman walks to work in waist-deep water, for her $10/hr job at a local hotel. https://t.co/ajnYNPC946 pic.twitter.com/RK8IOVQt21
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) August 28, 2017
Tell me again about how immigrants are ruining America. https://t.co/0GQOJUeTjo
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) August 28, 2017
re: #123 Belafon
It’s entirely up to you to get it under control.
Good luck with that. Bipolar can be one of the most frustrating and impossible things for a person to get under control. There are a lot of success stories, but if you have bad depression and a few other specific symptoms that I won’t bore you with, you’re looking at the possibility of never being employed again, no matter how much you want to be.
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I read on link at dKos that those “USA” hats the Asshole-in-Chief has been wearing at Camp David are “Trump 2020” campaign items, buyable on-line (supposedly $40 each, in red and white).
Typical for this fool: about a quarter of the State of Texas is drowning, and somebody thinks “product placement” is a priority……
Illinois GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner signs automatic voter registration into law https://t.co/hQOIM8IbVp by @srl
— Marina Fang (@marinafang) August 28, 2017
re: #123 Belafon
It’s entirely up to you to get it under control.
Umm, that statement makes you sound like you don’t know much about mental illness. Are you saying that there shouldn’t be accommodations for people with mental illness, that it’s 100% their own burden to fit in?
#Harvey in perspective. So much rain has fallen, we’ve had to update the color charts on our graphics in order to effectively map it. pic.twitter.com/Su7x2K1uuz
— NWS (@NWS) August 28, 2017
re: #153 Jay C
buyable on-line (supposedly $40 each, in red and white).
LOL
“Hey, boss, nobody’s buying these things. Maybe they’re too expensive?”
Call Bannon, tell ‘em that Breitbart needs to cough up some dough, bigly, to boost sales. Also, get a hold of that Newsmax guy. He’s always buying these crappy books in bulk. Other/
re: #154 FormerDirtDart
Really? What’s the catch?
re: #153 Jay C
I read on link at dKos that those “USA” hats the Asshole-in-Chief has been wearing at Camp David are “Trump 2020” campaign items, buyable on-line (supposedly $40 each, in red and white).
Typical for this fool: about a quarter of the State of Texas is drowning, and somebody thinks “product placement” is a priority……
I wonder how many times he wears hats for a ‘worse than usual hairday’.
re: #154 FormerDirtDart
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He didn’t do it out of the goodness of his heart. The pressure on him to sign this was YUGE.
He vetoed it last year.
don’t go in pic.twitter.com/qne5pDD7fB
— chantel (@5HInvasion) August 27, 2017
re: #156 stpaulbear
Umm, that statement makes you sound like you don’t know much about mental illness. Are you saying that there shouldn’t be accommodations for people with mental illness, that it’s 100% their own burden to fit in?
Look at the part I marked out. I was making the point that, as far as most companies are concerned, it’s not their problem if you have mental issues. Get it under control or they’ll find someone else.
Sorry if I didn’t fit it in properly.
Sheriff Joe’s best friend.
From Pia Guerra ✒ https://t.co/PuiL50fAfw pic.twitter.com/QdENUG2aXB— The Nib (@thenib) August 28, 2017
re: #155 Barefoot Grin
This one, too:
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I like this one.
I’m listening to Jason Isbell’s new album as I type this too. He’s good as well.
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nah……it should read “Free beer - ask inside”.
re: #166 HappyWarrior
I like this one.
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I’m listening to Jason Isbell’s new album as I type this too. He’s good as well.
Nice. And yes, love Jason and some of the new stuff featured here recently.
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
Is Mr BWS on his way to Texas?
re: #168 Barefoot Grin
Nice. And yes, love Jason and some of the new stuff featured here recently.
Yeah part of the reason why this site is so great is Charles puts some great tunes on here.
To find loved ones who marked themselves as safe after #Harvey or to register yourself, visit: https://t.co/dD8dLtWZJm @RedCross
— FEMA (@fema) August 28, 2017
re: #170 HappyWarrior
Yeah part of the reason why this site is so great is Charles puts some great tunes on here.
Yeah, about a year ago someone on here posted a Courtney Barnett song and I’ve been hooked ever since. Listening to Courtney on YouTube I happened upon another great band, Wolf Alice. YouTube’s become my music source, lots of great live music.
Speaking of which, here’s a great live jam to Heart’s Barracuda, with Alice in Chains and Gretchen Wilson covering (although Nancy Wilson of Heart appears on guitar).
Hawk takes refuge from Hurricane Harvey in guy’s car (Video)
re: #162 HappyWarrior
But Hispanics are lazy. //
ETA: Some of the verses aren’t in English; hit the CC (closed caption) button for translations.
Oh jeez—he’s taking Melon with him. But, of course, “They will not visit the hardest hit areas,” CNN host John Berman explained.
Poor Texas.
re: #178 BeachDem
Oh jeez—he’s taking Melon with him. But, of course, “They will not visit the hardest hit areas,” CNN host John Berman explained.
Poor Texas.
We’ll get to see hurricane chic.
re: #178 BeachDem
Oh jeez—he’s taking Melon with him. But, of course, “They will not visit the hardest hit areas,” CNN host John Berman explained.
Poor Texas.
This may possibly be a bigger bullshit photo-op than dubyah’s carrier landing. Disgusting.
.@realDonaldTrump in a time of dire need, you’ll keep on the hate against Mexico? A wall won’t help against natural disasters like this.
— Vicente Fox Quesada (@VicenteFoxQue) August 28, 2017
The VP is live on KHOU right now. He’s starting out with minutes or platitudes about how the prez is working for them. He’s not really giving any specifics other than how everyone is working together. “State and local governments are in the lead”.
Today in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
Today in 2008, Obama became the 1st black presidential nominee. pic.twitter.com/fMgjdZJo5Z— Eric Wolfson (@EricWolfson) August 28, 2017
Has Sean Hannity started his endless rants against the Mayor and Citizens of Houston for not evacuating….you know, like has for years about the chaos following Katrina in NOLA?
re: #145 HappyWarrior
Awww my dad was a huge fan too, and hearing her always makes me think of him.
re: #186 Dr. Matt
Has Sean Hannity started his endless rants against the Mayor and Citizens of Houston for not evacuating….you know, like has for years about the chaos following Katrina in NOLA?
Tough choice between that or ranting about antifa.
/
re: #187 Flying Squirrel Girl
Awww my dad was a huge fan too, and hearing her always makes me think of him.
Some Dads are football Dads. Not mine. My Dad can’t tell you much about football but he does know music and what’s great is he really appreciates modern music and doesn’t scoff at it. In fact, quite the opposite. He likes hearing new stuff.
re: #189 Dr. Matt
And the fake media.
And Democrats who have criticized Trump’s Harvey response or anyone who has offered anything less than unadulterated full throated praise for Drumpf.
re: #189 Dr. Matt
And the fake media.
I love it when he and FNC rag on the media while at the same time bragging how popular they are.
re: #191 Sir John Barron
And Democrats who have criticized Trump’s Harvey response or anyone who has offered anything less than unadulterated full throated praise for Drumpf.
Meanwhile, he (Hannity) actually took time to whine about Obama’s burger condiment choice. I wouldn’t put mustard on my burger but it’s a fucking burger and there’s nothing snobby about it and it’s especially funny to ehar that from Mr. I Kiss Trump’s ass all the time.
Louisiana should start seeing flooding from the Texas border to Baton Rouge soon, likely from as far north as Alexandria south to the coast.
So I went and stirred the proverbial “I have idiot Trump supporter friends” nest on FB. I doubt I’ll get much of a response as none of them read past a headline (seriously). But here it is.
Can’t help but laugh at people using Born In The USA as some sort of patriotic song. It’s obvious they haven’t even read the lyrics past the chorus. Same with Neil Young’s Rockin’ In The Free World. I didn’t notice until recently that he added a verse which makes the meaning of this song very clear:
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“Got a water cannon for the standing man
Got misinformation from the corporation
In the endless search for a drop of oil
People’s lives get shattered while we suck it from the soil
Gotta show the children
We just don’t care
So we keep on burnin’ it
And put it in the air”————————————-
What am I getting at? This pretty much sums it up:
neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org
Now, on to our “National Anthem”. The author, a slave owner himself believed, in his own words, that blacks were “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community.”
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“The Star-Spangled Banner is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom.” - Jason Johnson
We should all be sitting/kneeling when this song plays over the loudspeakers.
re: #188 Sir John Barron
Tough choice between that or ranting about antifa.
/
What are the Russian troll bots saying the next topic is?
re: #186 Dr. Matt
Has Sean Hannity started his endless rants against the Mayor and Citizens of Houston for not evacuating….you know, like has for years about the chaos following Katrina in NOLA?
That’s at 2:00 CST.
re: #195 GlutenFreeJesus
So I wen’t and stirred the proverbial “I have idiot Trump supporter friends” nest on FB. I doubt I’ll get much of a response as none of them read past a headline (seriously). But here it is.
They just hear the chorus and don’t listen to the lyrics. The funny thing though is I did see some far lefty types ragging on Woody’s This Land Is Your Land because of the “This land was made for you and me.” I always thought it was a particularly beautiful song and unifying. I like the SSB but I have no problem with someone choosing to kneel for it. I’m more bothered by people who violate our country’s principles like Trump and Arpaio than football players. What the patriotic than thou don’t get is for the longest time football players didn’t even come out for the anthem and alot of people including vets were in fact bothered by combining patriotism with sports.
re: #198 HappyWarrior
That’s another angle I have yet to address with anyone in my circle. They just can’t get past the fact someone like Colin K. dare express himself.
My problems with the Star-Spangled Banner are
1) that high note that hardly anybody can reach; and
2) it’s a war song.
I’d much rather “America the Beautiful” be our anthem.
This is how he repays Trump. He can’t beat Flake, but he will be a pain in the ass.
#BREAKING: Joe Arpaio may challenge Jeff Flake https://t.co/0tUJYMTWVj pic.twitter.com/eVYGmXmSuy
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) August 28, 2017
re: #198 HappyWarrior
What the patriotic than thou don’t get is for the longest time football players didn’t even come out for the anthem and alot of people including vets were in fact bothered by combining patriotism with sports.
People who do not understand what freedom or patriotism really mean are the ones who cling most closely to the accepted and often arbitrary symbols, gestures and rituals that have come to be associated with it and grow the most enraged when someone fails to adhere to them or interpret them in the “accepted” way.
re: #199 GlutenFreeJesus
That’s another angle I have yet to address with anyone in my circle. They just can’t get past the fact someone like Colin K. dare express himself.
My brother and I have been talking about it and how the idea of mandated patriotism bothers the hell out of us and it’s akin to something like North Korea where our grandfather curiously enough served in during his Army days in the Korean War. I say if you want to stand for the national anthem, go for it but don’t shame other people who choose not to. Part of freedom is the freedom not to do something just like freedom of religion is freedom not to be religious.
re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People who do not understand what freedom or patriotism really mean are the ones who cling most closely to the accepted and often arbitrary symbols, gestures and rituals that have come to be associated with it and grow the most enraged when someone fails to adhere to them or interpret them in the “accepted” way.
I know, that’s what I am saying.
re: #201 FormerDirtDart
This is how he repays Trump. He can’t beat Flake, but he will be a pain in the ass.
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An 85 year old freshman Senator. Good luck with that one Joe. Doesn’t Flake already have a primary challenger?
re: #200 sagehen
I like the East German anthem in Top Secret!.
“Heil, Heil East Germany
Land of vine and grape
Land where you’ll regret
Any try to escape
No matter if you take a running jump,
Or tunnel under the wall
Forget it, the guards will kill you—
If the electrified fence doesn’t first”
re: #194 FormerDirtDart
Louisiana should start seeing flooding from the Texas border to Baton Rouge soon, likely from as far north as Alexandria south to the coast.
LATEST: Harvey is expected to remain offshore through Tuesday before resurging and turning back toward southeast Texas on Wednesday pic.twitter.com/3rMncM8Ija
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 28, 2017
re: #201 FormerDirtDart
This is how he repays Trump. He can’t beat Flake, but he will be a pain in the ass.
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Maybe the whole thing was planned this way. “I pardon you, and you challenge Flake.”
re: #203 HappyWarrior
My brother and I have been talking about it and how the idea of mandated patriotism bothers the hell out of us and it’s akin to something like North Korea where our grandfather curiously enough served in during his Army days in the Korean War. I say if you want to stand for the national anthem, go for it but don’t shame other people who choose not to. Part of freedom is the freedom not to do something just like freedom of religion is freedom not to be religious.
My daughter was visiting relatives in the Midwest and was subjected to a car trip that included a half hour “how dare he not stand for the national anthem?” Ck rant on conservative AM radio
They say “Respect what the troops have done for you.” Yes, they’ve given us the freedom not to stand. Most of us have seen that photo of the guy standing defiantly during a Hitler speech. In a free society, he has a right to do that, in Nazi Germany, he disappears and is murdered as sadly happened.
re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My daughter was visiting relatives in the Midwest and was subjected to a car trip that included a half hour “how dare he not stand for the national anthem?” Ck rant on conservative AM radio
Yet these are the same people who think nothing of likening the federal government at least under Dem control to Stalin.
You don’t have to like what Colin Kaepernick has done. But it’s shady as shit to me to question his love of country. A true patriot questions his country and doesn’t blindly accept the status quo.
Todays feel-good story and source of inspiration:
Rude Customer Returned Item Because A Gay Person Touched It. This Is The Manager’s Response
re: #213 Teukka
Todays feel-good story and source of inspiration:
Rude Customer Returned Item Because A Gay Person Touched It. This Is The Manager’s Response
I think honestly part (not the whole reason obviously) why I’m sensitive to the plight of LGBT people and other minorities is I guess in a way being on the autistic spectrum, I’m a bit of a minority myself. Yeah, I’m a straight white guy but damn it, I do understand what it’s like to be treated like an outsider and marginalized for no good reason. It’s a good thing this manager did not to mention hilarious to throw off the crazy bigot woman.
re: #212 HappyWarrior
You don’t have to like what Colin Kaepernick has done. But it’s shady as shit to me to question his love of country. A true patriot questions his country and doesn’t blindly accept the status quo.
Football, and most other ballsports in America are places where we venerate great American values like fair play and the pursuit of excellence by watching half-nude young women shake their butts while young men risk permanent injury while working season for season just like migrant laborers.
Nobody better mess with those values
re: #205 HappyWarrior
An 85 year old freshman Senator. Good luck with that one Joe. Doesn’t Flake already have a primary challenger?
Yeah, Kelli Ward. She primaried McCain in ‘16, lost by 12 pts.
She recently suggested McCain resign after his diagnosis, since he was unlikely survive and would be able to put in the work needed. She, of course, said the Governor should appoint her to the seat.
Edit: recent polling has her 15 pts ahead
re: #216 FormerDirtDart
Yeah, Kelli Ward. She primaried McCain in ‘16, lost by 12 pts.
She recently suggested McCain resign after his diagnosis, since he was unlikely survive and would be able to put in the work needed. She, of course, said the Governor should appoint her to the seat.
I don’t like or respect McCain at all anymore but a crass person.
re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Football, and most other ballsports in America are places where we venerate great American values like fair play and the pursuit of excellence by watching half-nude young women shake their butts while young men risk permanent injury while working season for season just like migrant laborers.
Nobody better mess with those values
I mean there’s a place for patriotism. I definitely think you should be respectful at a veterans cemetery and or ceremony but the national anthem during a commercialized affair? No, and as I said, freedom is sometimes the freedom not to do something.
softly, softly, catchee bunny. pic.twitter.com/bTTR881QN1
— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) August 28, 2017
re: #212 HappyWarrior
You don’t have to like what Colin Kaepernick has done. But it’s shady as shit to me to question his love of country. A true patriot questions his country and doesn’t blindly accept the status quo.
TNC had a post a few years back about “true” patriotism and love of country;
paraphrased:
You love your parents, right? Everybody loves their parents. But if one of them’s an alcoholic, or if one of them regularly beats the crap out of the other one, you have an intervention. You tell them what’s wrong with them, how it affects you, you encourage and support their efforts at improvement. When you point out their problems and give them shit about it, it doesn’t mean you don’t love them. You’re doing it because you love them, and you want them to be better.
re: #214 HappyWarrior
I think honestly part (not the whole reason obviously) why I’m sensitive to the plight of LGBT people and other minorities is I guess in a way being on the autistic spectrum, I’m a bit of a minority myself. Yeah, I’m a straight white guy but damn it, I do understand what it’s like to be treated like an outsider and marginalized for no good reason. It’s a good thing this manager did not to mention hilarious to throw off the crazy bigot woman.
My reason for being sensitive is having to have faced prejudice from the ripe old age of six years old, for my nationality (Finnish), for my religion (Catholicism), for my family’s poverty and other things I won’t divulge here.
Long story short, I got most of my childhood destroyed by it and am still healing the deep wounds it caused. I know it’s complete and utter male bovine fecal matter, how little it takes for it to start, and how much it hurts.
So no, I won’t turn anyones sexuality into a slur in any way. And certain things don’t exist even as concepts for me.
re: #220 sagehen
TNC had a post a few years back about “true” patriotism and love of country;
paraphrased:
You love your parents, right? Everybody loves their parents. But if one of them’s an alcoholic, or if one of them regularly beats the crap out of the other one, you have an intervention. You tell them what’s wrong with them, how it affects you, you encourage and support their efforts at improvement. When you point out their problems and give them shit about it, it doesn’t mean you don’t love them. You’re doing it because you love them, and you want them to be better.
Absolutely.
re: #216 FormerDirtDart
Yeah, Kelli Ward. She primaried McCain in ‘16, lost by 12 pts.
She recently suggested McCain resign after his diagnosis, since he was unlikely survive and would be able to put in the work needed. She, of course, said the Governor should appoint her to the seat.
And, IIRC, a big Trump fan who got some sort of shout-out from The Yam at his campaign event in Nuremberg Phoenix.
And to veer off into more “serious” issues - today’s installment of “Foreign Policy Follies”:
“Deja Vu All Over Again”
White House ‘pressuring’ intelligence officials to find Iran in violation of nuclear deal
Sound familiar? Like maybe something we’ve already heard a while ago from another Republican Administration? Must just be a coincidence……
re: #221 Teukka
My reason for being sensitive is having to have faced prejudice from the ripe old age of six years old, for my nationality (Finnish), for my religion (Catholicism), for my family’s poverty and other things I won’t divulge here.
Long story short, I got most of my childhood destroyed by it and am still healing the deep wounds it caused. I know it’s complete and utter male bovine fecal matter, how little it takes for it to start, and how much it hurts.
So no, I won’t turn anyones sexuality into a slur in any way. And certain things don’t exist even as concepts for me.
I had some difficult moments too. I just hate seeing anyone bullied for being a different nationality, skin color, religion or lack of, etc. My belief is we’re more alike than we’re not and we shouldn’t let the little differences divide us.
Is this really a battle to fight?
It’s on private ground, and it’s practically a grave marker.
New Confederate monument in Alabama blasted for its “outright disrespect” https://t.co/aRultYDYHA pic.twitter.com/5R70LP6VLS
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) August 28, 2017
The monument was unveiled Sunday on the privately owned Confederate Veterans Memorial Park in small-town Brantley, Alabama.
re: #225 FormerDirtDart
Is this really a battle to fight?
It’s on private ground, and it’s practically a grave marker.
This is the sort of thing they need more of, it gives them the chance to be righteously indignant.
But it also highlights that nuance and historical context are totally lost in the shouting match that our current political discourse has become.
re: #219 wrenchwench
What is best about this video is that the bun has no fucks to give the cat. My buns and cats are similar. Buns seem to have an inherent couldn’t care less attitude about cats; doggos are a very different story, though.
re: #225 FormerDirtDart
Is this really a battle to fight?
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I agree. Should focus our energies on those monuments that lionize the CSA cause and leadership. And as you said, it’s on private ground.
re: #225 FormerDirtDart
Is this really a battle to fight?
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Isn’t that the KKK “blood drop cross” carved at top?
And is it - despite its shape - actually a “grave marker”, i.e. is there anyone actually buried under it, or nearby?
The private ground bit, though, is another story: bad as this may be, what, if anything can/should be done about it?
re: #225 FormerDirtDart
Is this really a battle to fight?
It’s on private ground, and it’s practically a grave marker.
I’m going to criticize the gaudiness of Trump’s NY home. I can’t do anything about it.
I think it’s OK to criticize it. No one can demand it be pulled down.
The interesting thing to me was reading about Southerners destroying monuments and stateus that looked too much like Union soldiers. And that myth about them being counted as US veterans? They did NOT want to be counted as American veterans.
re: #230 Belafon
I’m going to criticize the gaudiness of Trump’s NY home. I can’t do anything about it.
I think it’s OK to criticize it. No one can demand it be pulled down.
Yep.
Great Cartoon For #TheResistance Shows American Heroes Begging For Funds Because Of Trump’s Incompetence & Greed - @brontyman @justfara pic.twitter.com/P0Axc8hWNL
— Allan Margolin (@AllanMargolin) August 28, 2017
#BREAKING: Joe Arpaio may challenge Jeff Flake https://t.co/0tUJYMTWVj pic.twitter.com/eVYGmXmSuy
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) August 28, 2017
Trump has basically dumped a can of gasoline on the Arizona GOP and set it on fire. https://t.co/wgVmMdYQjE
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) August 28, 2017
re: #225 FormerDirtDart
Is this really a battle to fight?
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Private land, perfectly fine IMO
re: #235 Eventual Carrion
Private land, perfectly fine IMO
Right, I may not like it but it’s not my taxdollars going to maintain it. I mean I don’t like CSA regala being sold but people have a right to own it just as I have a right to think less of them for it.
Though it seems like a decade ago, it’s hard to believe just 7 days ago Shitler gave his teleprompter remarks on Afghanistan.
re: #234 JordanRules
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OK: question for the room that I’m too lazy to Google for myself:
Who/what is the “Washington Examiner”?
Starting recently, I’ve seen cites/links from them all over the “Net - usually stuff with a decided pro-Trump, pro-GOP slant. Are they another RW rag like the Washington Times?
re: #229 Jay C
Isn’t that the KKK “blood drop cross” carved at top?
And is it - despite its shape - actually a “grave marker”, i.e. is there anyone actually buried under it, or nearby?
The private ground bit, though, is another story: bad as this may be, what, if anything can/should be done about it?
it’s a wreath, found on CSA grave markers Image: anderson_goodman_confederate_marker_25.jpg it loses something when carved into headstones compared to the old metal cast markers Image: x7-xcourtney-cross.jpg
This is a KKK “blood drop cross” Image: blood-drop-cross-1.jpg
re: #238 Jay C
OK: question for the room t
hat I’m too lazy to Google for myself:
Who/what is the “Washington Examiner”?
Starting recently, I’ve seen cites/links from them all over the “Net - usually stuff with a decided pro-Trump, pro-GOP slant. Are they another RW rag like the Washington Times?
As I recall, they’re even more far right than the Times. I forget who owns them though. Virtually no one I know gets them as their daily here.
re: #156 stpaulbear
Umm, that statement makes you sound like you don’t know much about mental illness. Are you saying that there shouldn’t be accommodations for people with mental illness, that it’s 100% their own burden to fit in?
I an 99.9% sure he was being sarcastic. (Sometimes you forget the tag, sometimes you think you don’t need it.)
re: #227 Colère Tueur de Lapin
What is best about this video is that the bun has no fucks to give the cat. My buns and cats are similar. Buns seem to have an inherent couldn’t care less attitude about cats; doggos are a very different story, though.
Thanks for the info. Have had bunnies, now have cats, plan to get a pooch in the indeterminate future.
If Trump does finally get Impeached, remember all the times we asked ourselves “how much more will it take?” and throw a big giant FU to the GOP.
re: #240 HappyWarrior
As I recall, they’re even more far right than the Times. I forget who owns them though. Virtually no one I know gets them as their daily here.
Never mind: did my homework: yep, another RW tabloid
Owned by Philip Anschutz.
re: #245 Jay C
Never mind: did my homework: yep, another RW tabloid
Owned by Philip Anschutz.
Never heard of him. Sounds like a real jackass.
I don’t take the DC Metro anymore, but I think the examiner is a handout given to commuters a la the Express (A WaPo publication). I recall that no one took the Examiner.
re: #238 Jay C
OK: question for the room t
hat I’m too lazy to Google for myself:
Who/what is the “Washington Examiner”?
Starting recently, I’ve seen cites/links from them all over the “Net - usually stuff with a decided pro-Trump, pro-GOP slant. Are they another RW rag like the Washington Times?
They’re a weekly freebie in the DC area. Used to be daily and more tabloidy. Definitely conservative although some of their stuff now isn’t too bad.
re: #245 Jay C
These American oligarchs seem to really like their financial portfolios hella diversified, just not their country.
re: #250 Sir John Barron
LOL
Flake already has a wingnut challenger, as if Flake himself wasn’t wingnut enough already.
re: #251 Stanley Sea
So Russia is back in the news.
And Sater is front and center.
I’m starting to wonder if Mueller flipped him…
re: #253 makeitstop
And Sater is front and center.
I’m starting to wonder if Mueller flipped him…
There’s three suspects people usually name as having been flipped; Manafort, Flynn and Sater.
Flynn seems like a tough nut to crack, and Manafort’s been up to shitty shenanigans for decades. So that leaves Sater.
re: #242 wrenchwench
Thanks for the info. Have had bunnies, now have cats, plan to get a pooch in the indeterminate future.
—In my college class, I was voted Most Likely to Have Pets. I missed a few years, but on average I have held up my title.
/have had rats [sorry nines], guinea pigs [hi up there, Aminah], hamsters, a horse for 1 summer, and younger siblings [they count, don’t they?].
I just spoke to Gov. @GregAbbott_TX. We will provide all the help we can. Our full solidarity with the people of Texas. #HurricaneHarvey
— Luis Videgaray Caso (@LVidegaray) August 28, 2017
re: #254 Dr Lizardo
There’s three suspects people usually name as having been flipped; Manafort, Flynn and Sater.
Flynn seems like a tough nut to crack, and Manafort’s been up to shitty shenanigans for decades. So that leaves Sater.
Satar has a long history of being an FBI informant to keep himself out of prison; regular handlers, the whole nine yards.
re: #257 sagehen
Satar has a long history of being an FBI informant to keep himself out of prison; regular handlers, the whole nine yards.
Then Sater’s probably singing like a canary. Hell, a rookie agent could probably flip him in less than 10 minutes.
re: #255 wrenchwench
—In my college class, I was voted Most Likely to Have Pets. I missed a few years, but on average I have held up my title.
/have had rats [sorry nines], guinea pigs [hi up there, Aminah], hamsters, a horse for 1 summer, and younger siblings [they count, don’t they?].
I know the rats you had didn’t look and act like the ones that crawled out of Here.
re: #154 FormerDirtDart
“Automatic voter registration” is wrong. People should have to get off their ass and get themselves registered to vote.
Smh, Illinois.— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) August 28, 2017
Automatic voter registration frees up people’s time to do other things. Like pay child support.
— Odyssey (@Odysseyblog) August 28, 2017
re: #260 The Vicious Babushka
“Automatic voter registration” is wrong. People should have to get off their ass and get themselves registered to vote.
Smh, Illinois.
— Joe Walsh
And they should have to pay, at least a little something, prove they pay taxes, answer some simple questions about the state constitution, pee into a cup.
Katrina: Aug 2005
Obama: Sworn in as POTUS Jan 20, 2009
Congratulations, you’re officially the dumbest bastard on Twitter pic.twitter.com/ydJlZm1gVx— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 28, 2017
re: #260 The Vicious Babushka
I wonder if Joe would like my proposal that a voter must prove they understand the issues at hand before they vote.
Hoping the floods will highlight the utter importance of preserving our wetlands, because this is precisely what it would have mitigated.
re: #261 Sir John Barron
And they should have to pay, at least a little something, prove they pay taxes, answer some simple questions about the state constitution, pee into a cup.
Guess how many jelly beans are in a jar. Recite the preamble to the constitution. Demonstrate an understanding of differential calculus.
re: #264 electrotek
Hoping the floods will highlight the utter importance of preserving our wetlands, because this is precisely what it would have mitigated.
Gulf Coast flooded when there were nothing but wetlands. That’s why they were wet.
Nothing would have mitigated the water that has fallen here the past few days.
They found the dude from WVA who was mentioned in the emails
Ex-Iraq contractor proposed setting up a meeting w/ Russians, Trump camp in 2016 to talk “shared Christian values”. https://t.co/xL2TwpwCpJ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 28, 2017
re: #267 allegro
Gulf Coast flooded when there were nothing but wetlands. That’s why they were wet.
Nothing would have mitigated the water that has fallen here the past few days.
Damn, that really sucks then :(
Sater on Aug 3: “In about the next 30 to 35 days, I will be the most colorful character you have ever talked about.” https://t.co/CyHjBhDBLU
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 28, 2017
re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Football, and most other ballsports in America are places where we venerate great American values like fair play and the pursuit of excellence by watching half-nude young women shake their butts while young men risk permanent injury while working season for season just like migrant laborers.
Nobody better mess with those values
ESPN has a decent article on the history of the Star Spangled Banner as used in sporting events and how it came to be a thing.
ESPN - The song remains the same
Interesting bits of history in there, like a mention of a bombing in Chicago (1918) and how the reaction to the banner got the Chicago Cubs front office thinking commercially.
The main portions of the story…
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World War I wasn’t the only issue weighing heavily on fans. On Sept. 4, the day before the first game, a bomb ripped through the Chicago Federal Building, killing four people and injuring 30. The Industrial Workers of the World were thought to be behind the attack, a retaliation for the conviction of several IWW members on federal sedition charges in the court of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. (Two years later, Landis was appointed commissioner of baseball, a position he held until 1944.) Domestic terrorism didn’t exactly generate interest in a lighthearted day at the ball game. For the opener at Comiskey, newspapers optimistically estimated that a sellout crowd would drop anywhere from 50 cents for a bleacher ticket to $3 for a box seat. When only 19,000 and change showed, a Chicago Herald-Examiner headline proclaimed, “Scalpers Are Making No Money.”
Although the Cubs festooned the park in as much red, white and blue as possible, the glum crowd in the stands for Game 1 remained nearly silent through most of Ruth’s 1-0 shutout victory over Chicago’s Hippo Vaughn. Not even the Cubs Claws, the forerunners to Wrigley’s Bleacher Bums, could gin up enthusiasm. “For a baseball game in a world’s Championship series,” the Chicago Tribune wrote, “yesterday’s combat between the Cubs and Red Sox was perhaps the quietest on record.”
With one exception: the seventh-inning stretch. As was common during sporting events, a military band was on hand to play, and while the fans were on their feet, the musicians fired up “The Star-Spangled Banner.” They weren’t the only active-duty servicemen on the field, though. Red Sox third baseman Fred Thomas was playing the Series while on furlough from the Navy, where he’d been learning seamanship at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Chicago. But Thomas’ months of military training had hardly dulled his diamond skills. According to the Society of American Baseball Research, the station’s commander, Capt. William Moffett, was a baseball fanatic who actively recruited athletes for the training center’s team. Thomas, who started playing professionally right out of high school in Wisconsin, later said he “had it made at Great Lakes. All [I] had to do was play baseball.” So after the Red Sox went through nine third basemen during the season, they took a shot and asked the Navy whether he could join them as they took on the Cubs. The military said yes, and Thomas stood at his usual position on the diamond during Game 1’s seventh-inning stretch, present at the creation of a tradition.
Upon hearing the opening notes of Key’s song from the military band, Thomas immediately faced the flag and snapped to attention with a military salute. The other players on the field followed suit, in “civilian” fashion, meaning they stood and put their right hands over their hearts. The crowd, already standing, showed its first real signs of life all day, joining in a spontaneous sing-along, haltingly at first, then finishing with flair. The scene made such an impression that The New York Times opened its recap of the game not with a description of the action on the field but with an account of the impromptu singing: “First the song was taken up by a few, then others joined, and when the final notes came, a great volume of melody rolled across the field. It was at the very end that the onlookers exploded into thunderous applause and rent the air with a cheer that marked the highest point of the day’s enthusiasm.”
The Cubs front office realized it had witnessed something unique. For the next two games, it had the band play “The Star-Spangled Banner” during the seventh-inning stretch, to similarly enthusiastic crowds. By Game 3, a bigger crowd of 27,000 was in attendance. Not to be outdone, the Red Sox ratcheted up the pageantry when the Series relocated to Boston for the next three games. At Fenway Park, “The Star-Spangled Banner” moved from the seventh-inning stretch to the pregame festivities, and the team coupled the playing of the song with the introduction of wounded soldiers who had received free tickets.
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Speaking of Antifa—that guy who was supposedly attacked with a knife because of his haircut that spawned such headlines as:
Man stabbed for looking like a neo-Nazi - NY Daily News
Innocent Colorado Man Stabbed Over His ‘Neo-Nazi’ Haircut | Daily Wire
Man stabbed by anti-fascist because of his ‘neo-Nazi’ haircut | The Independent
HE MADE IT UP
…he admitted accidentally cutting himself with the knife while in his car parked in front of the store. Witt was booked on a charge of false reporting to authorities and released. A conviction on the charge can result in a fine of up to $2,650 and up to one year in jail.
denverpost.com
Guy who claims he was stabbed for having an alt-right haircut was lying. Actually stabbed himself https://t.co/6Y1zfr2d6q
— Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) August 28, 2017
Kasich: “The problem w the Democrats I don’t know what they’re for…they can’t figure out anything other than they don’t like Donald Trump”
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) August 27, 2017
Kasich: “I’ve also never learned how to read and those fancy talking boxes scare the bejesus outta me.” https://t.co/mVDXZcQbW9
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 28, 2017
re: #275 Kragar
Guy who claims he was stabbed for having an alt-right haircut was lying. Actually stabbed himself
So can we safely assume that this asshole actually is a Neo-Nazi?
Why would he make the charge if he wasn’t?
re: #275 Kragar
To late, now it’s alt-right lore
Amazing @timcraigpost story about the mayor of Corpus Christi, whose daughter and two grandkids died in a flood https://t.co/9FYrLCnL5u
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) August 28, 2017
re: #277 electrotek
What a dumbfuck attention whore.
That and the fact that he’s admitting that he calls his own hair a Neo-Nazi douchebuzz.
re: #214 HappyWarrior
I found out yesterday on Facebook that bigotry grows from the oddest soil.
One of my ‘friends’ posted, “Transgenderism supports traditional role models. Feminism seeks to overturn them.” Yeah, in her mind, being transgender makes a person an enemy to women.
They’re not my friend any more.
re: #281 Kragar
That and the fact that he’s admitting that he calls his own hair a Neo-Nazi douchebuzz.
That alone would have been the clue right there that he was full of shit.
re: #272 JordanRules
Sater on Aug 3: “In about the next 30 to 35 days, I will be the most colorful character you have ever talked about.”
What the hell does that mean?
re: #282 Romantic Heretic
I found out yesterday on Facebook that bigotry grows from the oddest soil.
One of my ‘friends’ posted, “Transgenderism supports traditional role models. Feminism seeks to overturn them.” Yeah, in her mind, being transgender makes a person an enemy to women.
They’re not my friend any more.
Jeebus.
re: #287 HappyWarrior
That’s what I said, after I picked my jaw up off the floor.
re: #268 Stanley Sea
They found the dude from WVA who was mentioned in the emails
Ex-Iraq contractor proposed setting up a meeting w/ Russians, Trump camp in 2016 to talk “shared Christian values”.
I remember Russia’s “Christian values”. They’re the reason my mom spent two solid years doing immigration work for Russian Jews who were so thrilled to finally be able to escape. (the exit visas were super-expensive; American Jews and Israelis had to do a lot fund-raising to pay the ransom. Belief was that Russia was selling their Jews because it was their only available source of Western currency.)
re: #225 FormerDirtDart
Is this really a battle to fight?
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If there is no unidentified secesh KIA underneath that marker it’s bogus.