At a time when the Steele Dossier continues to gain credence in Washington, Trump’s troubles mount.
Sometimes I really do want a time machine just to go see shows.
Larry Flynt finally gets involved…
Hustler founder Larry Flynt is taking aim at President Trump in a full page ad in this Sunday’s Washington Post, FOX Business has learned exclusively.
Flynt is offering a $10 million bounty on credible information that leads to the impeachment of Trump. The porn king is asking for tax returns information, records from the president’s investment or any “secret dealings with the Russians” that provides what he calls a “smoking gun.”
I’m not linking to Fox, using ATT’s link:
Just sayin’ - this story was first reported at Little Green Footballs. It would be great if people would notice that.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2017
I’m glad to see mainstream news orgs starting to notice this, but I’d really appreciate it if people would also credit LGF for breaking it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2017
re: #6 Stanley Sea
This is fantastic.
I gave up on my bs computer speakers & plugged in headphones.
Tom Petty forever.
Charles, maybe you could write a Twitter replacement. We’ve moved beyond the need to talk through text messages, so a short message app would work. Then it could be regulated properly. You could run it like this place, subscription or free with ads.
If nothing else, when people started abandoning Twitter for it, they might finally get the message.
Argh. Other people getting credit for my work again. Fuck.
He’s so used to having minions read anything for him that he’s forgotten how to read at all
— Gail Ward (@glward65) October 14, 2017
I don’t try to claim credit for things I don’t own, like Chuck Johnson does. That’s why it really irritates the hell out of me when other people get credit for things I DID do.
re: #12 Stanley Sea
This is fantastic.
I gave up on my bs computer speakers & plugged in headphones.
Tom Petty forever.
My statement on the Columbus Day video that went up on Daily Wire’s Twitter and Facebook yesterday. It has now been justifiably removed. pic.twitter.com/ja6h8cW2af
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 10, 2017
.@kidkeuchy dazzles as @astros take #ALCS Game 1. https://t.co/rP9SDRuAst pic.twitter.com/iFc58EBUsI
— MLB (@MLB) October 14, 2017
Haven’t we all been saying pretty much the same thing?
Sorry for the random aside but I feel like Sarah Palin is under-discussed as a predecessor/precedent for Trumpism.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 14, 2017
And what’s well and truly horrific is that, having served a 50% term as governor, she’s actually MORE qualified than Mango Mussolini.
You know I’m not a fan of your work at all, but thank you for doing the right thing for once. Let’s try to make this a habit, shall we?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2017
re: #24 Interesting Times
Haven’t we all been saying pretty much the same thing?
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And what’s well and truly horrific is that, having served a 50% term as governor, she’s actually MORE qualified than Mango Mussolini.
I’ve felt that for some time. The lowest common denominator populism that she appealed to, the know-nothingism she espoused, and her general contempt for knowledge.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
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I’m actually pleasantly surprised by that. Maybe he’ll realize that kind of bullshit is no different from the anti semitic threats he’s gotten or the transphobic bullshit he engages in.
re: #20 Dave In Austin
Hookset………
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Well, what’s the results? Did he haul in a bunch of seaweed or maybe a dead body? Or a fish?
re: #19 gocart mozart
I learned something new, Terry Reid, the guy who turned down a job offer from Jimmy Paige and recommended some little known singer named Robert Plant for the job instead.
re: #4 Joe Bacon 🌹
LOL, Larry is such a fucker. I love that he puts the bounties so high, tempting the untemptable. (and fuck you Firefox spell-check “untemptable” is a word)*
*adds word to stupid spell-check
Be honest, you’re kind of surprised that Trump didn’t think Richard Branson was the President of the Virgin Islands
— Invisible Obama (@InvisibleObama) October 14, 2017
Bwahaha, best answer ever :P
QUESTION: If Donald Trump & George Zimmerman were both drowning, who would you save? pic.twitter.com/lJjACmCRcz
— Jerome Trammel (@MrJeromeTrammel) January 29, 2017
I can’t swim. https://t.co/LPOlrlSM0N
— BWD 🤢 (@IrisRimon) October 14, 2017
1/ We see voices being silenced on Twitter every day. We’ve been working to counteract this for the past 2 years.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
2/ We prioritized this in 2016. We updated our policies and increased the size of our teams. It wasn’t enough.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
3/ In 2017 we made it our top priority and made a lot of progress.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
4/ Today we saw voices silencing themselves and voices speaking out because we’re *still* not doing enough.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
5/ We’ve been working intensely over the past few months and focused today on making some critical decisions.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
6/ We decided to take a more aggressive stance in our rules and how we enforce them.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
7/ New rules around: unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
8/ These changes will start rolling out in the next few weeks. More to share next week.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
1/ We see voices being silenced on Twitter every day. We’ve been working to counteract this for the past 2 years.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
I hope you realize right wing Twitter is going to scream at you, because that’s where most of this stuff comes from. https://t.co/tgUojdzF3k
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2017
re: #35 Interesting Times
Bwahaha, best answer ever :P
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I remember my hero Bugs Bunny once throwing an anchor…
re: #36 Charles Johnson
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IOW money remains my top priority and nothing at all will change.
Yes! @Sister_District has been doing postcards to help flip red state legislature seats blue. Sign up to help here:https://t.co/sLMCxrRRN7
— janegray (@ms_sharims) October 14, 2017
And I see from a quick check that the right wing mob is already yelling like banshees.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2017
Correction: You’re the one silencing them, Jack. Conservatives are under attack on Twitter. Quoting the Bible is considered hate speech
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) October 14, 2017
I have a hard time believing Twitter is actually going do much.
Time will tell I guess.
Thanks for the support, and good luck against Rohrabacher. He needs to go.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2017
re: #44 Charles Johnson
Newsflash right wing fuck nuts: You don’t get ANY CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS with Twitter. They have every right to censor you assholes if they want to.
re: #35 Interesting Times
If I answered truthfully, I might be violating the terms of service here on LGF. ; )
AF fundies will go apeshit over this, probably launch a search and destroy mission against Satanist “infiltrators” with full propaganda support from civilian talibangelicals.
re: #50 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
AF fundies will go apeshit over this, probably launch a search and destroy mission against Satanist “infiltrators” with full propaganda support from civilian talibangelicals.
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Smells like a fun time to play the “False Flag” card to me…
re: #36 Charles Johnson
7/ New rules around: unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence.
Maybe I’m being a pedantic ass but dude has 280 characters and can’t think to include the racist and religiously intolerant ideology that underlie hate symbols. White nationalist groups have been making a mockery of the various loopholes within Twitter’s “rules” for a decade precisely because of the libertarian ethos so endemic within the Silicon Valley mindset. Twitter doesn’t have a substantial violence problem that’s independent of the rampant racism and misogyny so when I hear language like that I can tell it’s both intended to imply there’s some balance on “both sides” and for political purposes will be applied in such a way as to manufacture that balance of perception.
OT form downstairs:
Allison Krauss and Robert Plant used to cohabitate in South Austin.
I ran into Plant three times at the local HEB Grocery at Oltorf and South Congress (the Ocho!). He was always wearing half-glasses and staring at food labels.
“Hi, Bob.”
“Hullo.”
“Don’t worry, its South Austin and no one is going to give you any smack.”
“I know, that’s why I like it.”
On another encounter, I mentioned that my brother-in-law was one of the founding members of Silly Wizard, and gave Bob his numbers. They’ve been in touch. Music geeks.
Last year, on our annual trek to Leighton Buzzard, I noticed that my BIL had three absolutely gorgeous guitars made by a luthier in SoCal. He’s a trader in fine guitars. I asked him “Three?” He said “They’re works of art and brilliant instruments.”
They are.
Here’s her website:
I just gasped when I saw the list price per axe.
re: #54 goddamnedfrank
Maybe I’m being a pedantic ass but dude has 280 characters and can’t think to include the racist and religiously intolerant ideology that underlie hate symbols. White nationalist groups have been making a mockery of the various loopholes within Twitter’s “rules” for a decade precisely because of the libertarian ethos so endemic within the Silicon Valley mindset. Twitter doesn’t have a substantial violence problem that’s independent of the rampant racism and misogyny so when I hear language like that I can tell it’s both intended to imply there’s some balance on “both sides” and for political purposes will be applied in such a way as to manufacture that balance of perception.
Yeah, I don’t expect anything to change.
re: #29 Cheechako
Well, what’s the results? Did he haul in a bunch of seaweed or maybe a dead body? Or a fish?
Don’t know. Definitely alive though. You can see that in the rod tip. I’m going to say a big shark or maybe a big jack.
re: #59 Kragar
Maybe they should stop quoting Leviticus so much
Yup. Shellfish is unclean and traif until you get a chunk of lobster dipped in butter in your gob.
Then it’s just “That’s bullshit! This is delicious!”
re: #60 austin_blue
Yup. Shellfish is unclean and traif until you get a chunk of lobster dipped in butter in your gob.
Then it’s just “That’s bullshit! This is delicious!”
And this new cotton/linen shirt I got looks great.
Someone suggested in the last thread (my apologies for not remembering who) entering an essay “contest” to win a hobby farm that someone north of Fairbanks is selling (they apparently are homesick for New York state, and didn’t realise how much work farming is).
The contest consists of writing an essay saying why you would want a hobby farm in Alaska, and a $1000 entry fee. (Kind of like raffling off a house. We wanted to do that with our house and half an acre in town in Oklahoma when we sold it during the Bush recession, but raffling houses is illegal there. We wanted out bad enough that we sold it for $7000.)
I will put the question to my wife. The idea of farm work doesn’t scare me. Neither does cold (heck frequently Fairbanks is warmer than the Nebraska Panhandle).
Trump’s lawyer Ty Cobb put forth an idea saying he would make his client available for questioning by Robert Mueller under oath.
The idea is to get out in front of the Russia investigation. The article notes that investigators normally want to interview their target last, after everyone else who might have evidence, so they know what questions to ask.
The second idea is that if Trump did this, the White House would have at least a semi-credible claim that if Mueller wanted to ask additional questions later, Cobb could claim “well you already had the President for hours, now you’re just harassing him” or other coddleswop.
The concern is (as noted by a former Watergate prosecutor) is:
… the risks for Trump are enormous and that Trump’s routine distortion of facts would make speaking to Mueller under oath highly dangerous. “Given his proclivity toward confabulation, I have no doubt his lawyers would counsel strongly against him testifying,” he said.
Proclivity toward confabulation=makes stuff up.
5$ Feminist at Wonkette also notes that Trump does tell the truth sometimes, usually at a time most inconvenient for him.
She also notes that no sane lawyer would actually do this (offer up their client voluntarily to a prosecutor or investigator), and speculates that Ty Cobb might actually care about the nation enough to throw his client under a locomotive (ha ha no).
wonkette.com (with usual snark)
I don’t usually do cute animal posts, but it seems like a slow thread, so what the heck.
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹
Ill pledge $10 toward the entry fee.
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹
..
The contest consists of writing an essay saying why you would want a hobby farm in Alaska, and a $1000 entry fee.
..
I will put the question to my wife. The idea of farm work doesn’t scare me. Neither does cold (heck frequently Fairbanks is warmer than the Nebraska Panhandle).
I’m pretty sure investing is a much better use of $1000.
re: #66 VegasGolfer
Ill pledge $10 toward the entry fee.
How many people want to get rid of me by sending me to Alaska? To the land of the Midnight Sun, moose, and Sarah Palin?
Geez you were awfully quick with that offer. /s
re: #68 Anymouse 🌹
How many people want to get rid of me by sending me to Alaska? To the land of the Midnight Sun, moose, and Sarah Palin?
Geez you were awfully quick with that offer. /s
They might have better internet there.
re: #68 Anymouse 🌹
How many people want to get rid of me by sending me to Alaska? To the land of the Midnight Sun, moose, and Sarah Palin?
Geez you were awfully quick with that offer. /s
… and even worse internet. You’ll probably want to switch over to text only LYNX web browser.
re: #67 Single-handed sailor
I’m pretty sure investing is a much better use of $1000.
The idea here is their farm is assessed at $460,000. If they don’t get at least 460 entries by the cut-off date, they will refund the money.
Those are better odds than the lottery (and the lottery doesn’t refund money).
As for investments, I suppose that depends on the investment. We don’t have a lot to invest (other than in lottery tickets), and the stock market is not much more than a redistribution scheme to make rich people richer and poor people poorer.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
Nazi’s don’t like it when Ben’s reasonable.
Wow, your cuckoldry reaches new heights. You’re pathetic.
— James☝️Allsup (@realJamesAllsup) October 10, 2017
re: #70 Single-handed sailor
… and even worse internet. You’ll probably want to switch over to text only LYNX web browser.
re: #72 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Schmuck doesn’t know what a cuckold is. Kinkshaming poor Ben Shapiro when that isn’t what he’s doing (and who are we to judge Mr. Shaprio’s kinks anyway) fits right in with the moran brigade that Twitter supports.
From the Wonkette article about Ty Cobb’s suggestion:
After publication, the White House’s head lawyer for the Russia investigation, John Dowd, insisted that the Politico story was,
Totally false!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can tell Dowd is a fancy lawyer because he managed to keep his finger on the shift key for sixteen whole exclamation points! When asked whether he held Cobb down while Don McGahn punched him, or if the roles were reversed, Dowd had no comment.
LOL
twitter dot com, in one exchange pic.twitter.com/TkHm3yDjq3
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) October 13, 2017
As a reminder:
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As such, the Navy Exchange sent me an E-mail suggesting I forward information to all veterans I know:
Veterans can shop online with the Exchange.
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The Website listed in the E-mail is the site the Exchange uses to verify your status. They note that being verified takes a bit of time, so those who would be eligible under the new rules should send in their information before Nov. 11 so it can be checked and ready for the first day of eligibility.
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹
Schmuck doesn’t know what a cuckold is. Kinkshaming poor Ben Shapiro when that isn’t what he’s doing (and who are we to judge Mr. Shaprio’s kinks anyway) fits right in with the moran brigade that Twitter supports.
Yes he does. The right has appropriated the term to mean the equivalent of “race traitor.” They weaponized it in the form of “cuckservative” in 2015 against those Republicans who they viewed as not being anti-immigrant enough. The etymology comes by way of the cuckold pornography genre, which often depicts white wives taking black lovers while their husbands watch. It remains one of Milo Y’s (and is followers’) favorite attacks against Shapiro.
Well, it’s Chamber of Commerce weather for the last two days of ACL Fest, dammit. More people wanting to move here for the great climate.
They weren’t here for the hell of July/August.
Whatever. The lack of affordability in this town will just increase. My property taxes (thank dog the mortgage has been been paid off!) will be $11,000 this year. Nothing I can do about it, despite being retired and on a fixed income. Sucks, but there you go.
This is what happens in a state without an income tax. The money has to come from somewhere, and it’s from property values, rather than income.
re: #79 Dave In Austin
And the guy’s snappy comeback:
Doesn’t change anything
— Hollywood Dep🌴🌴🌴 (@mi2guys) October 13, 2017
And goodnight, my dear friends! May choirs of angels sing thee to thy rest!
Well, Deisticly.
re: #84 Belafon
And the guy’s snappy comeback:
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I get the feeling that “Dep” is short for deplorable racist, and he just need to hate Obama for irrational reasons.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 14, 2017
.@VicBergerIV is a National treasure. pic.twitter.com/kMpiAuCFdN
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 14, 2017
I’m back! What did I miss?
*checks TL* pic.twitter.com/TvKEtQgS7F— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 14, 2017
re: #87 teleskiguy
Everyone can see that Trump is not all there. He shambles around with empty eyes. This is a guy who should be in a memory care facility.
Warhammer time
A Genestealer Cult is a xenos-worshipping secret society made up of and controlled by Tyranid Genestealers that thrives in the dark corners of the Imperial underworld across the galaxy. Secretive, stealthy, and utterly malignant, Genestealer Cults are the cankers growing unseen in the hidden spaces of Mankind’s realm. Some cultists are truly monstrous, skulking along dank tunnels with robes or hessian sacks covering their hybrid xenos anatomies. Others are merely pallid and bald, able to pass for loyal Imperial citizens whilst their wyrm-form tattoos remain hidden. These latter-generation brethren mingle amongst the herd of Mankind like wolves in sheep’s clothing, working so hard amongst the crumbling machineries of Human industry that none spare them a second glance — but under their work fatigues and rough miner’s apparel, they all bear the mark of the alien.
I really hope the brass at @Twitter noticed a lot of people that refrained from tweeting all day Friday the 13th. Hey dudebros, clean house!
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 14, 2017
re: #91 teleskiguy
I’d rather Jason Voorhees drop by at this point.
You’d think after the accidental deaths / injuries caused by Remington 700 X-Mark Pro trigger and the class action lawsuit settlement that a gun company would check the shit out of any new or modified design before releasing it to market. Guess again:
Ruger recently discovered that all Mark IVTM pistols (including 22/45TM models) manufactured prior to June 1, 2017 have the potential to discharge unintentionally if the safety is not utilized correctly. In particular, if the trigger is pulled while the safety lever is midway between the “safe” and “fire” positions (that is, the safety is not fully engaged or fully disengaged), then the pistol may not fire when the trigger is pulled. However, if the trigger is released and the safety lever is then moved from the mid position to the “fire” position, the pistol may fire at that time.
Motion Picture Academy meeting to decide what to do about Harvey Weinstein. One proposal is to honor him… pic.twitter.com/xPczWfdo1p
— Harry Shearer (@theharryshearer) October 14, 2017
Thank you @RealDonaldTrump for giving us the right to say #MerryChristmas again! Not like Obama!#ValuesVoterSummit @POTUS pic.twitter.com/F5M67fKmcI
— Bryan Dawson (@BryanDawsonUSA) October 13, 2017
Self-inflicted ignorance is sadly a common human trait.
Americans are definitely prone to it.
re: #96 freetoken
Self-inflicted ignorance is sadly a common human trait.
Americans are definitely prone to it.
re: #95 Dave In Austin
Tomorrow the orange savior will march into a public school, wave a Bible, and announce that he has repealed the (non-existent) ban thereon.
Trump has believed he could will himself to success. But has he crossed the line between optimism and delusion? https://t.co/FZFm2dtijK pic.twitter.com/x1zsa2JtCo
— POLITICO (@politico) October 14, 2017
He was always delusional https://t.co/H0hzgvIlHK
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 14, 2017
re: #46 Charles Johnson
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Fundies are not speaking figuratively when they talk about Bibles and God being banned in public schools. Many of them believe that it is quite literally against the law to bring a Bible into a public school or to mention one’s belief in God in such a facility.
I was incredulous when I first encountered this in Lubbock in the 80s. I was visiting a local high school to talk about science and a student started misquoting the Bible to me. I told him to go get a Bible and show me the alleged passage. A whole pack of students instantly yelped over, and interrupted, each other declaring that Bibles were banned. I wrote a note to the librarian asking for as many Bibles as she could spare for a while and sent two students to the library to fetch them. They returned with about a dozen on a cart. The students were astounded. The most vocal fundy in the group predicted that the librarian would soon be arrested by evil liberal police. I was not invited back.
I wondered how the flourishing Christian student groups, whose members ostentatiously bring their own Bibles to school, managed to explain this without destroying years of carefully inculcated parental and church indoctrination. Eventually a recovering fundy college student explained to me how they do it: The clubs imply to the students that they are engaged in what amounts to an act of civil disobedience when they bring a Bible to school. It is safe to do so though because cowardly secular humanist administrators are restrained by prayer and the AR-15 backed wrath of the Christian community.
Yahoo reporting that ex-Breitbart employee Lee Stranahan intro’d Stone to Guccifer 2.0 sheds new light on this op-ed https://t.co/3hPq15DiSY
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) October 13, 2017
re: #36 Charles Johnson
So they are going to ban trump from twitter at last
re: #104 fern01
So they are going to ban trump from twitter at last
You surely jest.
Twitter will do nothing, just like all the nothings they’ve done before.
re: #104 fern01
So they are going to ban trump from twitter at last
If they can throw God out of the schools, they can surely throw Trump off of Twitter.
You say this, but when “Leadership” power break the TOS, Twitter seems to pander to the post they hold and do nothing. Quit being evil.
— D. E. Todd (@DaveoutofAustin) October 14, 2017
re: #106 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
If they can throw God out of the schools, they can surely throw Trump off of Twitter.
No, because throwing Trump off Twitter would take divine intervention.
Of course, there is a God on Twitter, so maybe he can do it. /s
I just spoke to my wife about that Alaska farm. She is intrigued and wants to think about it. I told her I would only bug her once a day until she comes to a decision. /s
Knowing her, I think we’re going to wind up entering the contest. (1 in 420 odds is a hell of a lot better than the lotto, and the lotto doesn’t come with a money back guarantee for oversold tickets.) She pointed out that between her farming skills (she is better at that than me) and my editing skills we might be able to crank out an essay worth consideration by the owners.
#NowPlaying The Police > Zenyatta Mondatta > Driven To Tears https://t.co/CPJS0CiOrf
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 14, 2017
Baby Ndotto is the sweetest little boy at @DSWT. Here he is at two-days-old. pic.twitter.com/XJRTfQ1NU4
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 14, 2017
re: #102 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
On your story above about Evangelicals in Lubbock, would you object to me stripping the identifying information and posting your story to the atheism group I manage? (A great number of people in that group do not live in the USA.)
#NowPlaying Fugazi > The Argument > Argument https://t.co/fsbvuAf8nq
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 13, 2017
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹
You surely jest.
Twitter will do nothing, just like all the nothings they’ve done before.
If you or I (neither of whom use twitter) were to post the bullying and abuse that dear leader posts - we would be banned from twitter - proving yet again that rules don’t apply to this president*.
Speaking of schools and Bibles, Albert Mohler’s latest podcast is about the scary secularization of today’s youth:
Who is responsible for the secularization of America’s young people?
He references 538 post:
College Professors Aren’t Killing Religion
re: #114 freetoken
“Scary secularisation of today’s youth?”
I have no idea who that guy is, but I affirm (not swear) that Christians really want a theocracy.
The folk that push hardest for it think they are going to be the ones running it, just like libertarians that want a feudal state.
Is YouTube down, or have they just cut access to Nebraska? I can’t get to the site.
re: #113 fern01
If you or I (neither of whom use twitter) were to post the bullying and abuse that dear leader posts - we would be banned from twitter - proving yet again that rules don’t apply to this president*.
Proving again that Twitter is a private company that can decide for itself who it wants to allow and who it wants to ban…just like the NFL.
re: #115 Anymouse 🌹
“Scary secularisation of today’s youth?”
I have no idea who that guy is, but I affirm (not swear) that Christians really want a theocracy.
The folk that push hardest for it think they are going to be the ones running it, just like libertarians that want a feudal state.
They believe that we are God’s Chosen Nation, and that we got that way by reflecting (their interpretation of) God’s Divine Will in our legislation, and if we fail to do so and drift away from (their interpretation of) His Divine Will, he will lay some heavy-duty Smiting on us.
re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Proving again that Twitter is a private company that can decide for itself who it wants to allow and who it wants to ban…just like the NFL.
Yup. If they want a bunch of Nazis, Klansmen, folk who post rape threats, &c, that is their right as a private company.
It is also the right of people on Twitter to say “nope,” and close their accounts. (I’m guessing that boycott yesterday which drew Jack Dorsey’s attention enough to comment - as he has done before - will not lead anywhere.)
The threat to boycott a business has to be followed by action, or the boycott is meaningless. A more credible threat for Twitter to clean up its act would have been “fix this, and until you do we’re never coming back.”
re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So why does he always smite the most religious states with hurricanes? The least religious states (New England, &c) almost never get smitten (smited, smooted, something).
re: #116 Anymouse 🌹
Is YouTube down, or have they just cut access to Nebraska? I can’t get to the site.
Works for me.
re: #121 teleskiguy
My wife just accessed YouTube from her computer. Perhaps I need to restart mine.
re: #111 Anymouse 🌹
On your story above about Evangelicals in Lubbock, would you object to me stripping the identifying information and posting your story to the atheism group I manage? (A great number of people in that group do not live in the USA.)
By all means, feel free to share this. This happened in 1994, btw. It’s important for people who aren’t familiar with it to understand just how long this kind of bad craziness had been simmering before it took over the government.
I am going to log out and restart my computer. Firefox isn’t doing anything, IE11 gives me this for YouTube:
The webpage cannot be found
HTTP 404
Most likely causes:
•There might be a typing error in the address.
•If you clicked on a link, it may be out of date.
re: #115 Anymouse 🌹
I have no idea who that guy is….
If you mean Mohler, he’s head of the main seminary for the SBC.
When he took over, he purged the college of those he deemed impure and replaced them with his own men.
I then started to call him “Mullah Mohler”.
He’s pretty much despised by everyone who isn’t a fundamentalist in his camp.
Even some dispensationalists don’t like him, as he’s opened the door to the right-wing Presbyterian types.
re: #125 freetoken
If you mean Mohler, he’s head of the main seminary for the SBC.
When he took over, he purged the college of those he deemed impure and replaced them with his own men.
I then started to call him “Mullah Mohler”.
He’s pretty much despised by everyone who isn’t a fundamentalist in his camp.
Even some dispensationalists don’t like him, as he’s opened the door to the right-wing Presbyterian types.
That might also explain why that Southern Baptist fellow Jimmy Carter decided to take a hike from the SBC. People acting on their faith apparently aren’t welcome in the SBC, apparently.
Restarting computer …
re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Proving again that Twitter is a private company that can decide for itself who it wants to allow and who it wants to ban…just like the NFL.
That’s a trivial point to make in this context though. It is only legit when one raises the bogus free speech argument, which no one here has done. What is pointed out is the hypocrisy of Twitter making an exception to its publicly stated rules specifically for Trump.
… and YouTube just came up. I have no idea how these things work; maybe I should go back to my 1914 Royal typewriter.
re: #127 Nyet
That’s a trivial point to make in this context though. It is only legit when one raises the bogus free speech argument, which no one here has done. What is pointed out is the hypocrisy of Twitter making an exception to its publicly stated rules specifically for Trump.
one analogy is how fundamentalist Christians make exemptions for Trump’s behavior because he seems to promote their interests…same for Twitter.
I just went outside. I needed a knife to cut through the fog.
Who ordered all the fog?
(Fog is actually common here close to Winter, when the cold air blows across the warm North Platte.)
re: #115 Anymouse 🌹
Dr. Mohler is the president of
Southern Seminary & Boyce College.
re: #132 Nyet
It’s still not working right for me. I’ll be right back, you poor devils.
And comment will not be taken. There is no room for dissent. And his article is full of shit.
I grew up in a religious household. I grew up. As I grew up, I questioned things. Facts mattered. I came to not believe, BUT, I do believe in the values and “morals” that I was taught through the “teachings” of Christ.
CCJ is in trouble on FB again.
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re: #134 Dave In Austin
And comment will not be taken. There is no room for dissent. And his article is full of shit.
I grew up in a religious household. I grew up. As I grew up, I questioned things. Facts mattered. I came to not believe, BUT, I do believe in the values and “morals” that I was taught through the “teachings” of Christ.
There was a quote from someone who grew up in Lubbock Texas, where he said “There are two things that you learn: That God loves you but you are going to burn in hell, and that sex is filthy and disgusting, so that is why you should save it for the person you marry.”
So I was watching this trick from recent Fool Us.
And in the comments:
>> Is this Ralphie guy somehow famous?
John-Paul Silke
2 weeks ago
Ummmm…. he’s a stand up comedy destroyer! Too many fat jokes for my taste but when he gets rolling he’s fantastic. He’s got to acknowledge he’s a fatty and move on and if he can do that before he kills himself with saturated fats and carbohydrates he will become the next huge comedian.
Well…
Ralphie May
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Born: February 17, 1972, Chattanooga, TN
Died: October 6, 2017, Las Vegas, NV
re: #134 Dave In Austin
And comment will not be taken. There is no room for dissent. And his article is full of shit.
I grew up in a religious household. I grew up. As I grew up, I questioned things. Facts mattered. I came to not believe, BUT, I do believe in the values and “morals” that I was taught through the “teachings” of Christ.
You’ll find that on a lot of wingnut Christian videos on YouTube (no comments).
My suspicion is more (there at least) that they cannot defend their assertions, so they do not allow comments that might challenge them.
That of course is a direct violation of the New Testament’s command in 1 Peter 3:15 (the so-called Great Commission):
KJV
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
(I won’t get into a long theological debate, but it’s almost as if they don’t believe what they are asserting.)
re: #136 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There was a quote from someone who grew up in Lubbock Texas, where he said “There are two things that you learn: That God loves you but you are going to burn in hell, and that sex is filthy and disgusting, so that is why you should save it for the person you marry.”
Butch Hancock
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Oh Boy!! My Older Bro got back from a fly fishing trip in Colorado. He’s bearing gifts!
“Vote for Hillary and we’ll be in a world of shit,” the RWNJs warned.
Sure enough, I voted for Hillary and we are in a world of shit.
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC Metro area.
The tangerine toddler is up early spewing nonsensical ravings, and retweeting golden oldies.
They include tweets about his insane and illegal EO that guts the CSRs and increases health care costs for millions of Americans all while doing nothing to expand access to care.
Insurance stocks fell because you illegally cut the CSRs, which reduce costs to millions of working class Americans.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 14, 2017
Insurance stocks fell because you have no idea why insurers didn’t create policies across state lines - it isn’t cost effective to do so.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 14, 2017
Of course, media outlets continue to spew nonsense normalizing all of Trump’s nonstop lies and fact-free nonsense. Politico spins this as “Power of Trump’s positive outlook”.
Politico attempts to normalize Trump’s detachment from reality. It’s not positive thinking. It’s straight up lies. https://t.co/j9CdztgiOj
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 14, 2017
Nothing about Trump is positive. He spews empty platitudes that are unsupported by reality. He attacks facts and media outlets that correct his bullshit. He regularly quotes those who spew fact-free nonsense as long as it supports Trump.
Trump also attempts to claim that the economy is going gangbusters and that it’s all due to him. He goes out of his way to retweet liars and agitprop artists.
The economic statistics don’t lie, but you do @RightlyNews.https://t.co/OLd11fV5qJ
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 14, 2017
That twitter user was retweeted by Trump, all because he lied about the nature of the economy and that Obama never did certain things (like growth in quarter exceeding 3%). This is easily debunked. Also taking consumer confidence in a narrow slice ignores that consumer confidence has been steadily rising since Obama took office in 2009. Trump inherited a rising trend.
Trump is out to destroy Obama’s legacy by any means necessary and his supporters easily repeat the lies because they too want to obliterate the legacy, even if most of them also benefit from Obama’s actions - like on health coverage and the economy and the environment.
re: #143 lawhawk
Lawhawk. We need to stop with the “Destroying Obama’s Legacy” shtick…. I’ll quote Joy Reid who tweeted earlier this evening.
DT is not and cannot destroy Barack Obama’s legacy. He can’t do it….. All he is doing is defining his own.
This needs to be shared far and wide and is the ONLY answer for whenever we hear that crap.
re: #144 Dave In Austin
His supporters want to see Obama’s legacy destroyed. And yes, that defines Trump and his “legacy”.
Rolling back civil and voting rights is the Trump legacy.
Destroying health coverage for millions is the Trump legacy.
Hiking costs for millions of Americans so millionaires like Trump get tax breaks is Trump legacy.
Good morning Lizards:
In today’s lesson in Trumpanomics we learn that crashing stock prices make their company lower prices so they could become less profitable thus making their stock prices rise again.
Health Insurance stocks, which have gone through the roof during the ObamaCare years, plunged yesterday after I ended their Dems windfall!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2017
I wonder how much money big GOP donors lost on insurance stocks yesterday?
Dotard finds a new low as he brags about hurting American companies. Wow.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) October 14, 2017
🚨 FULL SABOTAGE: Trump has decided to default on ACA payments for cost-sharing subsidies. https://t.co/uzS4VJrjlN via @politico
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) October 13, 2017
CBO: 1 million will be uninsured in 2018; premiums will increase by 20%; insurer exits will leave 5% of enrollees with no insurer. https://t.co/AWCK87yq7x
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) October 13, 2017
We have a president who is actually proud that he’s going to hurt Americans while destroying an industry.
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹
As a reminder:
Starting Veterans Day (Nov 11), all veterans who were honourably discharged from the military will have on-line Exchange shopping privileges. (In-store shopping privileges are still reserved for those who are retired, disabled, or other present categories.)
To shop in the Exchange on-line store, you must first be verified as an authorised shopper (an honourably discharged veteran), which takes some time.
As such, the Navy Exchange sent me an E-mail suggesting I forward information to all veterans I know:
The Website listed in the E-mail is the site the Exchange uses to verify your status. They note that being verified takes a bit of time, so those who would be eligible under the new rules should send in their information before Nov. 11 so it can be checked and ready for the first day of eligibility.
It has been a while since I stepped in a PX. What are the advantages again? Cheaper?
John Kelly accidentally told truth about Trump. He’s not competent to hold office & advisers are covering for him https://t.co/OIs23yxNo0
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 14, 2017
re: #149 John Carter
It has been a while since I stepped in a PX. What are the advantages again? Cheaper?
Yes. And no taxes.
re: #150 lawhawk
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I listened to that press conference live but the transcript is very damning. I swear when he was spouting his gobbledygook that it sounded like boilerplate, that ain’t boilerplate.
re: #3 plansbandc
Sometimes I really do want a time machine just to go see shows.
My brother and I were on an early Howdy Doody Show, performing as acrobats. They recorded nothing. I would love to go back in time and watch.
Overlooked: Reince Priebus Interviewed Friday By Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Team in Russia Probe | Mediaite https://t.co/V4vSFP8WrS
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 14, 2017
re: #146 b.d. (bill d.)
Good morning Lizards:
In today’s lesson in Trumpanomics we learn that crashing stock prices make their company lower prices so they could become less profitable thus making their stock prices rise again.
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I wonder how much money big GOP donors lost on insurance stocks yesterday?
None of course; nor did any of the Yam’s family or Tom Price.
They figured out months ago the timing of selling short and/or buying cheap, then tweeting something that will drastically affect the stock price…
re: #147 Dr. Matt
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We have a president who is actually proud that he’s going to hurt Americans while destroying an industry.
I’d expect an injunction to go into place quickly that would prevent the EO from taking effect until there is a ruling on the substance.
re: #156 Mike Lamb
Those lawsuits will likely win on two grounds.
1) The underlying PPACA law requires payment. The specific mechanism for CSR says that the federal government “shall pay”. There’s no wiggle room. Govt must pay.
2) The 2016 federal district court ruling that found that Obama couldn’t appropriate funds for the CSRs doesn’t affect constitutionality of the underlying “shall pay” requirement, but how a president can interpret it. Obama couldn’t reappropriate funds from a Congress unwilling to pay - it’s overreach by Executive on area that Congress has control.
That same court ruling also applies to Trump. He can’t withhold appropriations from Congress because he violates the same principle.
re: #149 John Carter
It has been a while since I stepped in a PX. What are the advantages again? Cheaper?
Cheaper, no shipping charges, no tax.
Any marginal profit generated by an Exchange is placed in the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation fund.
White House legal brief filed last night: Trump’s Twitter account is above the law. https://t.co/xODiiCjyOr
— Jameel Jaffer (@JameelJaffer) October 14, 2017
re: #143 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC Metro area.
The tangerine toddler is up early spewing nonsensical ravings, and retweeting golden oldies.
They include tweets about his insane and illegal EO that guts the CSRs and increases health care costs for millions of Americans all while doing nothing to expand access to care.
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That twitter user was retweeted by Trump, all because he lied about the nature of the economy and that Obama never did certain things (like growth in quarter exceeding 3%). This is easily debunked. Also taking consumer confidence in a narrow slice ignores that consumer confidence has been steadily rising since Obama took office in 2009. Trump inherited a rising trend.
Trump is out to destroy Obama’s legacy by any means necessary and his supporters easily repeat the lies because they too want to obliterate the legacy, even if most of them also benefit from Obama’s actions - like on health coverage and the economy and the environment.
This is the kind of “fucking moron” that identifies with Trump.
Liberal racist Nazi bot
— GDeplorable 🇺🇸🎸 (@GDLockwood) October 14, 2017
re: #91 teleskiguy
I did that. It was strange not to tweet for an entire day. I wanted to support Rose McGowan.
re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
totally downtown!
Bwahaha. Spellcheck is knot proofreading. Superb was what I meant.
re: #166 meteor
Crystal Palace scores first. Yay!
Yay! I was just watching but came upstairs for a moment. It would be so great if they could beat Chelsea.
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.” - Oscar Wilde
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) October 14, 2017
re: #166 meteor
Crystal Palace scores first. Yay!
CRYSTAL PALACE HAVE SCORED A GOAL! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! pic.twitter.com/7DlCyFXIjR
— Paddy Power (@paddypower) October 14, 2017
re: #160 FormerDirtDart
Jameel Jaffer✔
@JameelJafferWhite House legal brief filed last night: Trump’s Twitter account is above the law.
That’s not how any of this works.
Take the I Amendment clause on protection of a free press. At the time the states adopted the amendment, they could not conceive of a “press” that did not consist of actual printing presses. The amendment actually protects “journalism.”
So as new methods came along to promulgate news (telegraph, radio, television, the Internet, the World Wide Web), the I Amendment’s protections naturally extended to them, because they protect journalism, not the media by which news is promulgated.
Federal recordkeeping laws are part of the Legislative Branch’s constitutional function of being able to write laws.
When those law were written, officials might transmit official information by telephone, Telex, radio, television, print, or the Internet.
Just because a new medium came along (Twitter) did not change the fundamental role of the law (preserve official records). Trump is on record saying that his Twitter account are official thoughts of the White House.
Blocking people on Twitter also violates another law, assuming the courts adopt the admittedly non-lawyerly analysis above: Freedom of Information Act, the right of the people to obtain Federal records which are not classified or sensitive for some reason (law enforcement, national security, &c).
That brief from the White House is a Hail Mary pass, or perhaps trying to confuse the issue.
re: #36 Charles Johnson
The Nazi Richard Spencer has a blue check mark. Heck. He has a twitter account. You can start from there.
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) October 14, 2017
re: #174 GlutenFreeJesus
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I predict nothing will change, just as it didn’t after Leslie Jones was hounded off Twitter.
The only thing that libertarians understand is money. Therefore, the only thing that will convince them to do something like actually hire people to enforce their regulations is quit Twitter (as in close accounts) until they fix their problems, or they go out of business.
re: #163 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The dumbfuckery on Twitter reflects the idiocies within the GOP and Trump supporters.
These people are clueless how insurance works, how laws function, and revel in revealing both for all to see.
Oh, and self identifying as deplorable gets them the block.
Insurance is a product that is entirely based on risk and reducing risk plus profiting from people who want to reduce costs from risk.
Actuaries get paid tremendous amounts of money to identify risk and compute premiums that cover the risk to be paid, generate a profit (or breakeven for those nonprofit insurers) and can self-sustain. Insurance products work the same way regardless of whether it’s life insurance or car insurance of health insurance.
Person pays a premium based on the risk, and health insurance is no difference. Insurers determine the premium based on multiple factors, and the premiums should cover outlays. Where an insurer can run into problems is that the pool for the product doesn’t have enough healthy people, or outside factors.
GOP has decided to completely fuck around with these pools. Reduce the subsidy to help insureds and demand that insurers create high risk pools segregating sick folks from everyone else - except it’s all too easy to find yourself in a high risk pool (get pregnant, get cancer, have a serious illness or accident).
Preexisting conditions drive up premiums for those folks, and if you start to think about it, almost everyone can be found to have a preexisting condition if you look hard enough. Parent with diabetes or high blood pressure increases chances you will have it - so higher premiums for you. Same for any other inheritable condition. The more medical data that insurers have access to, the higher your premiums can be.
Trump and GOP ignore all this and think that high risk pools are solution, all while hiking premiums for everyone through screwing with the system illegally.
And insurers have baked in the fuckery with higher premiums due to uncertainty.
re: #146 b.d. (bill d.)
Holy shit! That’s real? I thought that was mockup… well, made to mock.
re: #175 Anymouse 🌹
Very safe prediction. Seconded.
That would be a virtual suicide - after all you are all about hate speech, nothing more.
— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) October 14, 2017
re: #163 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I feel sorry for the BotDogs.
— Faaaaaaaaah Q (@FaaaaaaaaaaaH_Q) October 14, 2017
Top EU official fires back at Trump: No president has the power to terminate Iran deal https://t.co/yQD4r93F2H pic.twitter.com/9FBTRW2jwK
— The Hill (@thehill) October 14, 2017
Oh great. Now we’re going to have to nuke Europe. https://t.co/nUjBUoB1i5
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 14, 2017
re: #183 Anymouse 🌹
Double sided-tape. So I can affix figures to a surface to work with them.
we can just hire Iran to do it for us…
Well, baseball fever has taken over my wife again this year, as her Cubs start the National League Championship Series tonight at 6MT against LA.
We’ll be listening to Chicago radio streamed over the Internet. There is something about listening to baseball over the radio that is quite different than watching it on television: I distinctly recall sitting around with my grandparents and my Aunt Zelda listening to Detroit games (brought to you by Stroh’s beer).
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹
Well, baseball fever has taken over my wife again this year, as her Cubs start the National League Championship Series tonight at 6MT against LA.
We’ll be listening to Chicago radio streamed over the Internet. There is something about listening to baseball over the radio that is quite different than watching it on television: I distinctly recall sitting around with my grandparents and my Aunt Zelda listening to Detroit games (brought to you by Stroh’s beer).
For me, it was watching the Cubs on TV (brought to you by Hamm’s beer)
German soccer team kneels in support of NFL protests.
re: #187 meteor
German soccer team kneels in support of NFL protests.
another reason to nuke europe
/
re: #186 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
For me, it was watching the Cubs on TV (brought to you by Hamm’s beer)
Old Style.
You know, Twitter could kick Gab (dot) AI off their platform as well. Twitter has no reason to permit a competitor to use their platform (hate speech aside).
re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
although my dad was a Carling’s Black Label fan…
“Mabel….”
For Mr. Johnson, I got an error returned from Little Green Footballs, a cross-site scripting error:
Secure cookie found for this host: YSC=Ax71uMm13c8; domain=.youtube.com; path=/; HttpOnly; Secure
That’s all it says. My paranoiaware on my computer blocks such things.
Trump selects fringe climate denier for White House environmental slot https://t.co/GJ1Q2MOXL3 pic.twitter.com/0wygz5LIg6
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 13, 2017
OK, this collection is about to expand significantly. https://t.co/EUn7CCFmvJ
— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) October 14, 2017
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Comment over Wonkette on yesterday’s boycott of Twitter for a whole day:
After everything we’ve learned about Twitter, I’m astounded that this was somehow the straw that broke the camels back for so many. Like, you lived through the 2016 election, systemic harassment of women, endless ratfucking, invasions of privacy, but suddenly a Hollywood celebrity losing access to her Twitter account for a couple of hours is the thing that finally did it for you? I’m all for celebrities using their platform for social justice, but moments like these also is a great reminder how out-of-touch Hollywood can be.
LOL … LPD: Libertarian Police Department
re: #147 Dr. Matt
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We have a president who is actually proud that he’s going to hurt Americans while destroying an industry.
It’s not just the President — it’s the whole Republican party. Everyone at the signing yesterday applauded this action. We have a Republican party who celebrates the premature death of working class Americans in order to reduce taxes on the wealthy.
re: #198 Anymouse
LOL … LPD: Libertarian Police Department
Readers be warned, coffee may spill as you bust out laughing.
Hey ‘mouse!?
I was catching up on this thread and you have me all cornfused.
Was it not just a day or so ago you were talking about running for your current position again, and then you went on to say you might try for the Congressional district HR seat?
Did I read you are now considering trying to enter a writing contest to get a farm in Canada?
Whut???
I admit it, I is confused. How does one go from maybe taking a step to represent a country to considering leaving it in a few hours?
Seems, well, all over the place. You okay?
re: #200 meteor
7-2 Man City over stoke. Wow.
Not really. Although they’re regarded as the poor cousin to Manchester United, they’ve won the Premier League before in recent times, in 2013-2014.
Still, 7 goals, without a penalty shootout, is pretty impressive.
re: #202 ObserverArt
Thought the farm was in Alaska?
re: #205 JordanRules
Thought the farm was in Alaska?
Oops. My mistake.
Still a little confusing. I got the impression ‘mouse was cool with Nebraska. Considering running for a HR seat seems like some committal to the state/community.
I’ll go climb back in my hole now…it’s a nice day here, I should be outside scraping paint, sanding, etc.
re: #202 ObserverArt
Hey ‘mouse!?
I was catching up on this thread and you have me all cornfused.
Was it not just a day or so ago you were talking about running for your current position again, and then you went on to say you might try for the Congressional district HR seat?
Did I read you are now considering trying to enter a writing contest to get a farm in Canada?
Whut???
I admit it, I is confused. How does one go from maybe taking a step to represent a country to considering leaving it in a few hours?
Seems, well, all over the place. You okay?
I did write about whether I should run again for my village board (where I probably would win, but no guarantees) or run against my congressman (which I probably wouldn’t win).
The issue of the farm in Alaska (not Canada) came up when someone in the last thread noted that someone is selling one, using a writing contest as the vehicle for entries.
The farm is worth quite a bit of money; the entry fee is relatively inexpensive.
I was also joking this morning with my wife about having a winter home. Many people have winter homes in places like Florida or Arizona; I suggested we could keep our home in Nebraska as our winter home.
Entry in that contest is dependent on whether my wife wants to do it (I am not going to commit to buying a raffle ticket/essay entry for a house thousands of miles away unless she agrees).
Why the fuck does CNN keep having this douchebag Ben Ferguson on? All he does is talk over the other guests in the most condescending, douchey way.
re: #207 Anymouse 🌹
I did write about whether I should run again for my village board (where I probably would win, but no guarantees) or run against my congressman (which I probably wouldn’t win).
The issue of the farm in Alaska (not Canada) came up when someone in the last thread noted that someone is selling one, using a writing contest as the vehicle for entries.
The farm is worth quite a bit of money; the entry fee is relatively inexpensive.
I was also joking this morning with my wife about having a winter home. Many people have winter homes in places like Florida or Arizona; I suggested we could keep our home in Nebraska as our winter home.
Entry in that contest is dependent on whether my wife wants to do it (I am not going to commit to buying a raffle ticket/essay entry for a house thousands of miles away unless she agrees).
Thanks. Sorry about the Canada bit, I was reading through quickly and just got caught up in the cold and northern direction.
Good luck with your decision making. A farm is in the words of Joe Biden: A big fuck’n’ deal.
Well, I learned something new today.
Idiot is a word derived from the Greek ἰδιώτης, idiōtēs (“person lacking professional skill”, “a private citizen”, “individual”), from ἴδιος, idios (“private”, “one’s own”).[1] In ancient Greece, people who were not capable of engaging in the public sphere were considered “idiotes”, in contrast to the public citizen, or “polites”[2]. In Latin the word idiota (“ordinary person, layman”) preceded the Late Latin meaning “uneducated or ignorant person”.[3] Its modern meaning and form dates back to Middle English around the year 1300, from the Old French idiote (“uneducated or ignorant person”). The related word idiocy dates to 1487 and may have been analogously modeled on the words prophet[4] and prophecy.[5][6] The word has cognates in many other languages.
An idiot in Athenian democracy was someone who was characterized by self-centeredness and concerned almost exclusively with private—as opposed to public—affairs.[7] Idiocy was the natural state of ignorance into which all persons were born and its opposite, citizenship, was effected through formalized education.[7] In Athenian democracy, idiots were born and citizens were made through education (although citizenship was also largely hereditary). “Idiot” originally referred to a “layman, person lacking professional skill”. Declining to take part in public life, such as democratic government of the polis (city state), was considered dishonorable. “Idiots” were seen as having bad judgment in public and political matters. Over time, the term “idiot” shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to individuals with overall bad judgment - individuals who are “stupid”.
So, it is therefore historically accurate to refer to Libertarians - and Republicans who subscribe to Libertarian ideals, as well as Randian Objectivists - as “idiots”.
re: #208 Barefoot Grin
Why the fuck does CNN keep having this douchebag Ben Ferguson on? All he does is talk over the other guests in the most condescending, douchey way.
I think you’ve answered your own question…
re: #195 nines09
Got this from Facebook Support. Win some.
If someone repeatedly violates our standards, we may limit their ability to post or use Facebook.
Where’s my skeptical face, I left it around here somewhere…
Good job, BTW.
re: #207 Anymouse 🌹
Also, on the issue of living somewhere, I’ve always been a bit of a flake about that. It has little to do with whether I’m “all right” and much to do with “I’m flaky.”
At various times in my life I’ve wanted to live in places I lived before (Michigan, Florida, Brazil, Spain), places I’ve visited (Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Portugal, Poland, Saskatchewan, Ontario), or places I never lived in (Nebraska where I’m at now, California, Mexico).
There are also places I don’t want to live in again: Places I’ve lived in (Virginia Beach, Jacksonville, Charleston, western Massachusetts), and places I never lived (much of Dixie sorry LGF denizens who live in Dixie), Somalia, Russia (despite my sister-in-law from the former Soviet Union).
That might be attributed to my childhood, where I never lived in one place more than a couple years.
Nothing will ever stop Milo, Jim Hoft or Peter Thiel from kissing the Tangerine Tyrant’s ass 24/7!
It’s nice to see others Libertarian Gays come down to Earth after floating around their Laissez Fairyland and realize that Shittler used them and threw them away!
During his run for office, Donald Trump positioned himself as a champion of gay rights, someone who would bring the Republican Party into modernity on an increasingly settled civil rights cause. But well into his first year in the White House, those who hoped for the best have been disappointed and those who assumed the worst say their fears are realized.
re: #212 wrenchwench
Took the picture down. Left the post up. Small victory. But I report all the bullshit I can. Got some Twits suspended. I liked that. Here’s a photo you may or may not have seen.
re: #210 Dr Lizardo
Well, I learned something new today.
So, it is therefore historically accurate to refer to Libertarians - and Republicans who subscribe to Libertarian ideals, as well as Randian Objectivists - as “idiots”.
I spent a semester plus studying the Greeks in college. (Partly in person, where they used to be. Still are, in a way one could read or write books about.) The part about hanging out and talking about everything in the agora is something I could really get into, if I were born correctly.
If I were smarter, I could put a joke about ‘hypothetical’ right here. I’m trying to live in the balance between ‘idiot’ and ‘citizen’.
re: #215 nines09
Took the picture down. Left the post up. Small victory. But I report all the bullshit I can. Got some Twits suspended. I liked that. Here’s a photo you may or may not have seen.
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That one is new to me. Somewhere carefully preserved on a shelf I have a calendar with this one.
re: #214 Joe Bacon 🌹
Nothing will ever stop Milo, Jim Hoft or Peter Thiel from kissing the Tangerine Tyrant’s ass 24/7!
It’s nice to see others Libertarian Gays come down to Earth after floating around their Laissez Fairyland and realize that Shittler used them and threw them away!
During his run for office, Donald Trump positioned himself as a champion of gay rights, someone who would bring the Republican Party into modernity on an increasingly settled civil rights cause. But well into his first year in the White House, those who hoped for the best have been disappointed and those who assumed the worst say their fears are realized.
Instead, Barron and others are alarmed at the direction the administration is taking. Trump is responsible for some of it, having signed a directive banning the recruitment of transgender troops. But much of it has originated from his agencies. The Justice Department has changed its position on whether sexual orientation is covered under the Civil Rights Act, withdrawn federal protections for transgender kids in schools, and said it will not prosecute organizations who cite religious objections when declining to serve gay customers. (emphasis mine)
And that is only the start. If one can use religion to undermine equal access laws in respect to the LGBT, you can use religion to undermine such laws in respect to anyone. Jim Crow will come roaring back.
The example I use is my wife and I being atheists, in a county where everyone knows that. We have one store in our town. If they use religion to discriminate against us for our lack of belief, the next two stores are sixteen miles away. Both of those store owners also know we are atheists. If they refuse us, the next nearest store is sixty miles away.
Libertarians are opposed to equal access laws for a different reason (the government should not be able to tell you who you must serve on your private property). However, there are a lot more religious people than libertarians.
Equal access laws came into being precisely because of de facto Jim Crow, even where the law didn’t mandate segregation. If you owned a hotel in the South that didn’t discriminate against someone based on skin colour, but every other hotel in town did, those hotels could effectively run the non-discriminatory hotel out of business by playing on racism.
Equal access laws came about due to the constitutional Right to Travel. Such de facto Jim Crow effectively prohibited travel by African-Americans - which was why the Green Book was created (to give African-American travellers a reference to which businesses would serve them in unfamiliar places).
re: #125 freetoken
If you mean Mohler, he’s head of the main seminary for the SBC.
When he took over, he purged the college of those he deemed impure and replaced them with his own men.
I then started to call him “Mullah Mohler”.
He’s pretty much despised by everyone who isn’t a fundamentalist in his camp.
Even some dispensationalists don’t like him, as he’s opened the door to the right-wing Presbyterian types.
He’s helped the Neo-Calvinists (“Reformed” on steroids) pretty much take over the Southern Baptist Convention. It’s not a pretty sight and the SBC is losing members by the droves.
Jesus Christ, if I see one more white person wave that goddamn William Harvey Carney meme around Facebook, I’m going to fucking lose it. He’s the black Union soldier who supposedly got shot to pieces but still didn’t let the flag hit the ground.
These fucking people are using it like a goddamn talisman that somehow proves that black athletes aren’t allowed to comment on the endemic racism in the US.
Angry postal worker (not joking here):
Yeah … that’s why I will NOT give the disrespectful anti-American NFL my hard-earned American dollars, no matter how cheap the tickets get. Circus clowns should be grateful AMERICA made them millionairs.
Me:
I wonder how Mr. Carney was treated after the war by white people after he returned to civilian life. He still lived in a country where segregation was legal, and black people were treated just as poorly in the North. I’d be willing to bet it wasn’t great.
Which is why it’s really galling to see white folk waving this guy’s photo around Facebook, basically trying to shame black people into not telling white people there’s still a huge racial problem in the US.
Which segues into, *again*, the NFL protests are a heads up that black people are still being discriminated against in this country, particularly by white police who use them as target practice.
Black people are peacefully protesting under the rights granted to them by the First Amendment, and white people are losing their shit because its interfering with their precious sports ball games. That’s basically the crux of the matter.
It’s worth noting that many of the complaints being leveled against the NFL players are frighteningly similar to those leveled against Rosa Parks; the lunch counter protesters; and MLK, Jr: aka, “Why don’t those people just be quiet and stop causing trouble.”
Also, refusing to support the NFL means never watching another a game, in addition not buying products/services from their advertisers. Boycotts are really hard to do correctly. I’m curious to see how this works out.
Probably not the best use of my time, and I probably just torpedoed another friendship on FB, but it sorta makes me feel better.
re: #222 Mattand
Jesus Christ, if I see one more white person wave that goddamn William Harvey Carney meme around Facebook, I’m going to fucking lose it. He’s the black Union soldier who supposedly got shot to piece but still didn’t let the flag hit the ground.
These fucking people are using it like a goddamn talisman that somehow proves that black athletes aren’t allowed to comment on the endemic racism in the US.
Angry postal worker (not joking here):
Me:
Probably not the best use of my time, and I probably just torpedoes another friendship on FB, but it sorta makes me feel better.
Sounds like just another dead black guy for white people to use to talk down to black people of today.
re: #217 wrenchwench
And if you look at it closely you can see the trees are also tearing the bike in two. I at first missed that. I used to heat my home with wood many a moon ago. I would get “cull” or not suitable for lumber trees delivered to my place 32,000 lb at a time. Tri Axle with a cherry picker, laid at the base of my drive. Chain and split and stack and season and burn. Every once in awhile I’d chain through wire or a slug. Your bike has been eaten by a fast growing tree.
Something about “time and tide”…..
re: #223 HappyWarrior
Sounds like just another dead black guy for white people to use to talk down to black people of today.
Damn, son, that’s spot on. Definitely stealing that.
re: #216 wrenchwench
I spent a semester plus studying the Greeks in college. (Partly in person, where they used to be. Still are, in a way one could read or write books about.) The part about hanging out and talking about everything in the agora is something I could really get into, if I were born correctly.
If I were smarter, I could put a joke about ‘hypothetical’ right here. I’m trying to live in the balance between ‘idiot’ and ‘citizen’.
explains how it relates to “idiosyncracy”.
re: #224 nines09
And if you look at it closely you can see the trees are also tearing the bike in two. I at first missed that. I used to heat my home with wood many a moon ago. I would get “cull” or not suitable for lumber trees delivered to my place 32,000 lb at a time. Tri Axle with a cherry picker, laid at the base of my drive. Chain and split and stack and season and burn. Every once in awhile I’d chain through wire or a slug. Your bike has been eaten by a fast growing tree.
Something about “time and tide”…..
In the Pacific Northwet, saboteurs used to drive railway spike into trees to save them from the loggers. They claimed to have marked them all so they wouldn’t make the dangerous [to the workers] trip to the sawmill.
Once I assisted splitting wood with a homemade-from-mill-parts splitter in PA.
re: #222 Mattand
Jesus Christ, if I see one more white person wave that goddamn William Harvey Carney meme around Facebook, I’m going to fucking lose it. He’s the black Union soldier who supposedly got shot to pieces but still didn’t let the flag hit the ground.
These fucking people are using it like a goddamn talisman that somehow proves that black athletes aren’t allowed to comment on the endemic racism in the US.
Angry postal worker (not joking here):
Me:
Probably not the best use of my time, and I probably just torpedoed another friendship on FB, but it sorta makes me feel better.
I would not want such a friend if he can justify racism.
That goes back to that political cartoon I saw a couple days ago, the history of whites telling blacks to get up.
It starts with a white overseer with a whip telling a slave that, then whites telling blacks to get up in a diner, then on a bus, and now NFL players.
re: #218 Anymouse 🌹
I remember that the JC Penney store in my home town would not allow people of color or Jews to shop there.
They were told to go to the Sears store a couple blocks away.
Our borough pool “requested” that people of color stay away.
Other shops and clubs were “restricted”
And this was in Western Pennsylvania right before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed…
re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
explains how it relates to “idiosyncracy”.
Two lizards have expressed displeasure at hearing the word ‘idiosyncratic’ from the mouths of medical people. One was Obdicut, whom I almost forgot how much I miss him, the other is goddamnedsomebodyorother.
I mean don’t get me wrong. People like Carney should be celebrated but I’m tired of white people using African-Americans of the past to tell African-Americans of today what they can and cannot do. It’s not only patronizing, it’s definitely racist too. And frankly considering many of these people defend the CSA, the same people literally murdered people like Carney, forced him back into slavery, or treated him like second class citizens, I don’t have the patience for it.
re: #230 wrenchwench
Two lizards have expressed displeasure at hearing the word ‘idiosyncratic’ from the mouths of medical people. One was Obdicut, whom I almost forgot how much I miss him, the other is goddamnedsomebodyorother.
I miss Obdi. Really intelligent poster.
re: #232 HappyWarrior
I miss Obdi. Really intelligent poster.
It’s pretty much the opposite of a ‘pissing contest’, but there were many times when I would have rated him #1.
re: #227 wrenchwench
Yes I remember those times. Spotted owl. I used to enjoy chaining and splitting. Greatest workout of my life. Made me the strongest I ever was. There was a proper way to do it, and if you did it right, you never pulled anything. I had two splitting mauls a sledge and a wedge. Dutch Elm got wiped out in Pennsylvania around that time and I happened across some from the local State School grounds. The grain went like a corkscrew. Insane to try and split. Mechanical woodsplitters caused one of my co workers to only be able to count to 8 and 1/2 with his hands. Where at in Pa?
re: #229 Joe Bacon 🌹
I remember that the JC Penney store in my home town would not allow people of color or Jews to shop there.
They were told to go to the Sears store a couple blocks away.
Our borough pool “requested” that people of color stay away.
Other shops and clubs were “restricted”
And this was in Western Pennsylvania right before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed…
I had the chore of explaining ‘white privilege’ to Mr. w. He got it really quick, but he started at ‘How can I be ‘privileged’ when I lived right across the street from the black millworkers?’ —in Western Pennsylvania.
re: #232 HappyWarrior
I miss Obdi. Really intelligent poster.
He was very smart, but also had a tendency to aggressively bully anyone who didn’t agree 100%. His insistence that every half-formed opinion or misstatement was a deliberate lie was particularly annoying.
re: #197 Anymouse 🌹
Comment over Wonkette on yesterday’s boycott of Twitter for a whole day:
People protesting in the wrong way again. Or at the worng time. Or with the wrong hashtag. Shakes head. Please let us know when and how it is OK to protest because we certainly wouldn’t want to do it wrong.
re: #233 wrenchwench
It’s pretty much the opposite of a ‘pissing contest’, but there were many times when I would have rated him #1.
I learned a lot from him. Heard he had some health troubles. Damn shame.
re: #232 HappyWarrior
Me too.
Checked out how the old Scientology critic Arnie Lerma was doing. He’s in a full pro-Trump, “Israel created ISIS”, 9/11 truther mode.
re: #237 Charmingly Persistent (EmmaAnne)
People protesting in the wrong way again. Or at the worng time. Or with the wrong hashtag. Shakes head. Please let us know when and how it is OK to protest because we certainly wouldn’t want to do it wrong.
Ever since “Trending on Twitter” became a viable news topic, I knew that the days of our American Civilization were numbered.
re: #234 nines09
Yes I remember those times. Spotted owl. I used to enjoy chaining and splitting. Greatest workout of my life. Made me the strongest I ever was. There was a proper way to do it, and if you did it right, you never pulled anything. I had two splitting mauls a sledge and a wedge. Dutch Elm got wiped out in Pennsylvania around that time and I happened across some from the local State School grounds. The grain went like a corkscrew. Insane to try and split. Mechanical woodsplitters caused one of my co workers to only be able to count to 8 and 1/2 with his hands. Where at in Pa?
Sharon. Mr. w and I started our cross-country bike trip there. (Log splitting was at his sister’s house.) We rode half an hour and got to Ohio.
re: #235 wrenchwench
I had the chore of explaining ‘white privilege’ to Mr. w. He got it really quick, but he started at ‘How can I be ‘privileged’ when I lived right across the street from the black millworkers?’ —in Western Pennsylvania.
I’ve often argued that part of what makes white privilege work is not knowing you have it. When I was explaining the concept to my Dad, I pointed out to him that no one ever talks about “white culture” following things like Oklahoma City or more recently Las Vegas. We straight white guys aren’t expected to condemn the Timothy McVeighs, Stephen Paddocks, or Ted Bundys in our ranks.
re: #236 Renaissance_Man
He was very smart, but also had a tendency to aggressively bully anyone who didn’t agree 100%. His insistence that every half-formed opinion or misstatement was a deliberate lie was particularly annoying.
I remember only the good. Except when I am reminded.
re: #236 Renaissance_Man
He was very smart, but also had a tendency to aggressively bully anyone who didn’t agree 100%. His insistence that every half-formed opinion or misstatement was a deliberate lie was particularly annoying.
Never had any trouble with him.
Are y’all tracking this story about the newly released family held hostage by the Haqqani network? I’m curious what your take on it is. I’m very….disturbed…by the three children conceived and born in captivity. Also the circumstances of the trip in general, taking a very pregnant woman into quite literally a war zone to go hiking.
re: #243 HappyWarrior
I’ve often argued that part of what makes white privilege work is not knowing you have it. When I was explaining the concept to my Dad, I pointed out to him that no one ever talks about “white culture” following things like Oklahoma City or more recently Las Vegas. We straight white guys aren’t expected to condemn the Timothy McVeighs, Stephen Paddocks, or Ted Bundys in our ranks.
If your parents were able to get an FHA-approved loan to buy their house, then you benefited from White Privilege.
Vast majority of serial killers in this country have been heterosexual white males. Yet no one ever uses that as an excuse for saying we should racially profile white guys or that there’s something wrong with “white culture.” You’re allowed to be an individual if you’re white. I freely admit this myself because I’m allowed to separate myself by my ethno background where a black person is just black and all Hispanics are seen as either immigrants and or of Mexican descent.
re: #248 HappyWarrior
Vast majority of serial killers in this country have been heterosexual white males.
Careful with that claim: Mass Shooters Aren’t Disproportionately White
Where the myth came from, and what it gets right and wrong about the demographics of mass killings.
But yes, white domestic terrorists are too often seen as “lone wolves”, “mentally unstable” or “on medication”…
re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Careful with that claim: Mass Shooters Aren’t Disproportionately White
Where the myth came from, and what it gets right and wrong about the demographics of mass killings.
But yes, white domestic terrorists are too often seen as “lone wolves”, “mentally unstable” or “on medication”…
Serial killers are different than mass killers.
re: #238 HappyWarrior
I learned a lot from him. Heard he had some health troubles. Damn shame.
Fellow TBI traveler. It’s a long road, and he was navigating it while in graduate school. I can’t blame him for spending his time on that. Last seen as ‘Obdicut, now with 2% less brain’ IIRC.
re: #251 wrenchwench
Fellow TBI traveler. It’s a long road, and he was navigating it while in graduate school. I can’t blame him for spending his time on that. Last seen as ‘Obdicut, now with 2% less brain’ IIRC.
I don’t blame him either. Hope he’s doing well.
re: #237 Charmingly Persistent (EmmaAnne)
People protesting in the wrong way again. Or at the worng time. Or with the wrong hashtag. Shakes head. Please let us know when and how it is OK to protest because we certainly wouldn’t want to do it wrong.
I think the objection in the comment is that the protest of staying of Twitter for a day will accomplish zip. Just like the protest over Leslie Jones. Just like protests about “I’m not shopping on a particular day” but I’ll give you all my money the day after.
For comparison I would cite the Montgomery Bus Boycott over de facto Jim Crow. (Montgomery never had a de jure segregation law on the private bus system.) What worked was African-Americans saying they wouldn’t put up with that crap any more, and they stayed away from the bus system for a whole year until it changed.
A day’s protest on Twitter is not about “the right way to protest.” A day’s protest on Twitter accomplishes zip other than a platitude from Jack Dorsey saying his company will look into new ways of preventing harassment.
Harassment is already against Twitter’s terms of service. All Twitter has to do is enforce what it already has. (That would require hiring people to actually process the complaints though, and heaven forfend Twitter spend money on that.)
Yesterday’s protest over an actress being suspended for a telephone number in her tweet was what broke the straw of the camel’s back (for one whole day because imagine being inconvenienced for a whole year like Birmingham African-Americans were), not the rampant death threats, rape threats, outings, bullying, &c. A freakin’ phone number spat.
re: #242 wrenchwench
You’re much better off out of western Pennsylvania, trust me. You ain’t missing a thing.
re: #254 Dave In Austin
I’ll just leave this right here.
I love this man. I love his wife, and I cherish his family.
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I really hope the next Dem President is as good as he was. He’ll be remembered well.
re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ever since “Trending on Twitter” became a viable news topic, I knew that the days of our American Civilization were numbered.
All I can hope for anymore is that my son lives a long life and survives to see the 2nd Republic built on the ruins of the one that died last November.
LGF getting a little circle back love regarding Rage Furby
Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher brings Holocaust denier to meeting with Rand Paul to discuss Julian Assange https://t.co/lNTAbzu3tQ
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) October 14, 2017
re: #255 nines09
You’re much better off out of western Pennsylvania, trust me. You ain’t missing a thing.
This much I know. Mr. w joined the Navy to escape. His brother-in-law, who built the splitter, is no longer with us, and he was younger than Mr. w. We toured the plant the splitter-builder worked at, where Mr. w worked summers during high school. The next day all the guys were asking our guide ‘Who was that kid you brought in yesterday?’ He told them, ‘You should remember him, you worked with him back in the day.’ They were all old already. Mr. w is getting there only now, 31 years after that bike trip. My accident aged him, sorry to say.
VOCABUARY WORD OF THE DAY:
Sfumato (Italian: [sfuˈmaːto], English: /sfuːˈmɑːtoʊ/) is one of the four canonical painting modes of Renaissance art (alongside cangiante, chiaroscuro, and unione).[1]
Leonardo da Vinci became the most prominent practitioner of sfumato, for instance, in Virgin of the Rocks and in his famous painting of the Mona Lisa. Leonardo da Vinci described sfumato as “without lines or borders, in the manner of smoke or beyond the focus plane”.[2]
re: #255 nines09
You’re much better off out of western Pennsylvania, trust me. You ain’t missing a thing.
I left 35 years ago and never regretted the decision to get out!
re: #261 Joe Bacon 🌹
I left 35 years ago and never regretted the decision to get out!
THAT IS HOW I feel about Indiana.
re: #262 Birth Control Works
THAT IS HOW I feel about Indiana.
I left Gary, Indiana in 1976, never to return…of six siblings, only one of us remained in the Calumet Region.
re: #253 Anymouse 🌹
I think the objection in the comment is that the protest of staying of Twitter for a day will accomplish zip.
So we definitely shouldn’t try then. Also, we shouldn’t call our republican senators because they only listen to donors. And we shouldn’t vote, because it’s all gerrymandered anyway.
Or, you know, we could do what we can can where we can and sometimes it makes difference. I don’t know if Twitter will change. But we got Jack’s attention, so the chances are a little bit better than if we hadn’t bothered.
re: #229 Joe Bacon 🌹
I remember that the JC Penney store in my home town would not allow people of color or Jews to shop there.
They were told to go to the Sears store a couple blocks away.
Our borough pool “requested” that people of color stay away.
Other shops and clubs were “restricted”
And this was in Western Pennsylvania right before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed…
There was a small town in North Central Ohio where a bunch of relatives from my mother’s side of the family lived. It was all White even up into the 70s. Hell, it may still be, I sure don’t go there anymore. Those people on that side of the family are stuck in 1940, maybe earlier.
The town didn’t seem to have a written policy, just an accepted one by the town folk. They didn’t rent or sell homes to people of Color, especially the Black color. If a Black family moves in, it wouldn’t last long. I guess the not wanted signs were pretty strong.
Interesting point about the town. Very Germanic. My mother was 100% German. And the town was full of people with names like Frye, Schmidt, Metzger, Hermann, Gehrig and the like.
My one aunt though was 100% Mexican of Spanish heritage. She was White enough I guess. But she was married to a German, my mom’s Brother, my uncle Joe.
I’m pretty sure Archie Bunker was modeled after my uncle Joe. That man was a piece of work, even if he hated Nazi’s because he fought them in WW2. I guess he never saw the Nazi in himself though, since he fought them and all.
How bad was he and some of the relatives on that side of the family? They lived all of 30 miles away and I can’t think of one time they ever came to visit us. This was my mother’s brother and other relatives. Why didn’t they visit? I think I mentioned I lived in a city and a neighborhood that had Blacks around us.
Yeah. I have plenty stories from the White side of things that show how bad and deep set racism is. I understand from my one brother that many of those relatives are still extremely set in their ways. Racist/Bigoted ways.
And then there is my own oldest brother. He and Uncle Joe got along let’s say. Sigh.
re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I left Gary, Indiana in 1976, never to return…of six siblings, only one of us remained in the Calumet Region.
And you went to AZ….
Yep. we moved to PHX in 67 from Wheaton, IL. (Yeah, I know……). Been a Western man, and desert rat ever since.
At the time I think Phoenix was the melting pot of the nation. Everyone was from somewhere else and natives were an oddity.
re: #267 Dave In Austin
And you went to AZ….
Yep. we moved to PHX in 67 from Wheaton, IL. (Yeah, I know……). Been a Western man, and desert rat ever since.At the time I think Phoenix was the melting pot of the nation. Everyone was from somewhere else and natives were an oddity.
Wheaton is a nice place overall. It’s still very much white/christian. Churches there sponsor a lot of immigrants (Vietnamese).
re: #244 wrenchwench
I remember only the good. Except when I am reminded.
I’m thinking Obdi had a higher IQ than ol’ Donny!
Really, I think Obdi was very intelligent and some of his debate style came from that. He came from a studied/academic point and I think he demanded a bit of that of others.
re: #265 ObserverArt
There was a small town in North Central Ohio where a bunch of relatives from my mother’s side of the family lived. It was all White even up into the 70s. Hell, it may still be, I sure don’t go there anymore. Those people on that side of the family are stuck in 1940, maybe earlier.
There was a “Mason-Dixon Line” in Indiana: the border between Gary and Merrillville: well into the 70’s, no black person could buy a house south of 52nd Avenue in the all-white suburbs.
re: #259 wrenchwench
People who yearn for the mills and the mines never saw people get broken into pieces and buried years before their time. Guys with rotted out throats that had to use voice boxes to talk. Crippled. Limping. Lost fingers, arms, hands. Working lines that wrecked your back. Concrete floor all the day long. I worked a foundry a long 4 months or so. I would come home and gag up metal and grime. Everybody I met was “only here until (fill in blank)” and when asked how long they were there would answer “5 years….6 years…..3 years…..”…
You ain’t going anywhere.
re: #267 Dave In Austin
And you went to AZ….
Yep. we moved to PHX in 67 from Wheaton, IL. (Yeah, I know……). Been a Western man, and desert rat ever since.At the time I think Phoenix was the melting pot of the nation. Everyone was from somewhere else and natives were an oddity.
I migrated to AZ in 1978. My sister was there, having moved there from California.
re: #221 Eclectic Cyborg
But fuck that Obama guy for golfing too much.
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And all of those Executive Orders!!!
Twitter has struggled in the past to find a balance in moderating content on it platform. It has tried to adhere to principles of free speech, but its efforts have sometimes been undermined by pseudonymous trolls directing abuse at other users.
The company is under increasing scrutiny as lawmakers investigate how it was used as part of Russia’s effort to interfere in the presidential election last year. Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that a briefing provided by the company to congressional investigators “showed an enormous lack of understanding from the Twitter team of how serious this issue is.”
Twitter’s problems with unsavory content have also put off potential buyers. Disney, for instance, considered making a bid for the company, but ultimately opted not to.
re: #268 Birth Control Works
Wheaton is a nice place overall. It’s still very much white/christian. Churches there sponsor a lot of immigrants (Vietnamese).
I grew literally up on “Main St.” 4th of July parade went right in front of the house. My family was closely involved with Wheaton College. You couldn’t get any more white bread Republican American at the time. My Dad lost a leg on the beach of Peleliu in the war and the winters got to be too much so we moved to warmer clims. It was a culture shock for all of us.
My hometown was a centerpiece of the steel industry until Reagan let the mills die in 1984. Nothing replaced them. Ambridge PA is now just a dead town with crackhouses and heroin shooting galleries.
re: #276 Dave In Austin
I grew literally up on “Main St.” 4th of July parade went right in front of the house. My family was closely involved with Wheaton College. You couldn’t get any more white bread Republican American at the time. My Dad lost a leg on the beach of Peleliu in the war and the winters got to be too much so we moved to warmer clims. It was a culture shock for all of us.
I understand, I went from Grosse Pointe, Michigan to Southern Indiana in Junior High.
re: #233 wrenchwench
It’s pretty much the opposite of a ‘pissing contest’, but there were many times when I would have rated him #1.
Obdi is the only Lizard (so far) who I’ve met in meat space. He came out to one of my gigs and I got to hang with him briefly.
And that’s the problem with meeting folks at gigs - I never get to spend any real time with them because work.
I miss him, too. Maybe he’ll check in one day.
re: #277 Joe Bacon 🌹
My hometown was a centerpiece of the steel industry until Reagan let the mills die in 1984. Nothing replaced them. Ambridge PA is now just a dead town with crackhouses and heroin shooting galleries.
Sounds like Gary. Driving thru it is scary as hell. I have friends whose family refuses to leave. They and others who have stayed have created some nice stable areas, but it’s still bleak.
re: #279 makeitstop
Obdi is the only Lizard (so far) who I’ve met in meat space. He came out to one of my gigs and I got to hang with him briefly.
And that’s the problem with meeting folks at gigs - I never get to spend any real time with them because work.
I miss him, too. Maybe he’ll check in one day.
I’d like that.
omg this is everything pic.twitter.com/NxIaZzzzks
— David Mack (@davidmackau) October 13, 2017
I’m friends with Obdi on Facebook. He pipes up every once in a while, seems to be doing OK in meatworld.
You’re not winning here Ted. .@RepBetoORourke
— D. E. Todd (@DaveoutofAustin) October 14, 2017
re: #283 BigPapa
I’m friends with Obdi on Facebook. He pipes up every once in a while, seems to be doing OK in meatworld.
Meatworld! Now I feel really old. I remember when It was called IRL (In Real Life).
re: #255 nines09
You’re much better off out of western Pennsylvania, trust me. You ain’t missing a thing.
I used to play out that way every so often. It’s where the term ‘Pennsyl-tucky’ came from.
I was always happy to get back home to Bucks County after those swings.
re: #277 Joe Bacon 🌹
My hometown was a centerpiece of the steel industry until Reagan let the mills die in 1984. Nothing replaced them. Ambridge PA is now just a dead town with crackhouses and heroin shooting galleries.
Named after American Bridge company. Saw that sign outside Ambridge I worked out of Lewiston New York hauling cars and went through those valleys in the late 70’s watching the mills die. People have no idea how huge the steel industry was out there.
re: #284 Dave In Austin
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Weinstein is a serial sexual predator. Why does the DNC want to keep 90% of his $$? And the Clinton Foundation too? https://t.co/NUEh9LFOcW
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 14, 2017
You campaigned and voted for a serial sexual predator who called your wife ugly and accused your father of murdering JFK, my dude. https://t.co/UoKPs5hZ2Y
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) October 14, 2017
re: #279 makeitstop
Obdi is the only Lizard (so far) who I’ve met in meat space. He came out to one of my gigs and I got to hang with him briefly.
And that’s the problem with meeting folks at gigs - I never get to spend any real time with them because work.
I miss him, too. Maybe he’ll check in one day.
I hope so. He reached out to me when I was looking for a new job. We exchanged emails. etc. Hope he comes back.
re: #242 wrenchwench
Sharon. Mr. w and I started our cross-country bike trip there. (Log splitting was at his sister’s house.) We rode half an hour and got to Ohio.
I remember you saying that a while back. My hometown is about 10 miles north of Sharon.
re: #264 Charmingly Persistent (EmmaAnne)
So we definitely shouldn’t try then. Also, we shouldn’t call our republican senators because they only listen to donors. And we shouldn’t vote, because it’s all gerrymandered anyway.
Or, you know, we could do what we can can where we can and sometimes it makes difference. I don’t know if Twitter will change. But we got Jack’s attention, so the chances are a little bit better than if we hadn’t bothered.
Thanks for reminding me of what I wanted to reply to. (Watch that participle dangle!)
[pleasant customer interruption.]
The point of a one day boycott is to show that a boycott can happen. It should be followed by a major buy-in the next day, to emphasize the smallness of the day before.
I try to remember to eat grapes because we boycotted them forever when I was a kid in California (in support of the United Farm Workers, who I follow on twitter—everything comes around to something.)
GRIFTUS and Co. are just happy that they can focus on Hollywood depravity and corruption and not have to deflect another “rent boy” scandal.
re: #292 Eventual Carrion
I remember you saying that a while back. My hometown is about 10 miles north of Sharon.
Ah Sharon. Lived in Cinci for a while. Sharon people never leave Sharon.
Nice parks for kids.
White House legal brief filed last night: Trump’s Twitter account is above the law. https://t.co/xODiiCjyOr
— Jameel Jaffer (@JameelJaffer) October 14, 2017
“President Trump’s Twitter account is a designated public forum under the First Amendment, and the president violates the Constitution when he blocks people from this forum simply because they’ve criticized him. Notably, the government doesn’t contest that the president is blocking our clients because of their viewpoints. The government’s contention that @realDonaldTrump is a personal account is not defensible given that the president routinely uses it for official purposes and both the president and his aides have publicly described the account as official.”
re: #286 makeitstop
I delivered all over western Pa in my last Bunky Big Rig, Amazing Beat The Clock, Game Show. I was glad I could drive away. I live in central Pa and it has its good and bad, but I really do think the people have gotten dumber. They don’t want to know.
Honestly, the only protest that works is one that involves money.
If American’s refused to spend a dime for just one day —now that would make an impact.
Arsenal are rubbish. Standing around—they deserve to lose.
re: #246 Bass Reeves
I saw this earlier today. Heartbreaking and angering. I do not get why the husband in this case wanted to do this trip. North and South America are full of lovely places to camp and hike. It makes no sense. The wife’s dad is PISSED. I just hope she gets the help she’s going to need. Support, therapy, encouragement and love. Not to mention time. And those poor kids. I feel for the husband, he didn’t plan for this, but I still don’t get his reasoning. I just hope they all recover and can move forward at some point.
re: #292 Eventual Carrion
I remember you saying that a while back. My hometown is about 10 miles north of Sharon.
And I remember you saying that (although at times I may have thought it was one of those other PA lizards), and worrying about you like a former sort-of-neighbor when you had surgery. Are you all recovered from that? Things take so long, sometimes.
re: #298 Birth Control Works
Honestly, the only protest that works is one that involves money.
If American’s refused to spend a dime for just one day —now that would make an impact.
Health Insurance stocks, which have gone through the roof during the ObamaCare years, plunged yesterday after I ended their Dems windfall!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2017
Trump is now taking credit for hurting the stock prices of American businesses. https://t.co/gKBCTjkYIn
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 14, 2017
re: #295 Birth Control Works
Ah Sharon. Lived in Cinci for a while. Sharon people never leave Sharon.
Nice parks for kids.
I got one. Sharon can’t have him back.
Clarkson’s three-year-old daughter also models herself after Wonder Woman, which is really sweet. Here’s to more proof that Gal Gadot needs a nomination for the next James Bond, a movie which we would watch.
I will say that her appearance on SNL marked the first time I’ve laughed-out-loud while watching SNL in a very long time.
re: #297 nines09
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re: #300 A Mom Anon
I saw this earlier today. Heartbreaking and angering. I do not get why the husband in this case wanted to do this trip. North and South America are full of lovely places to camp and hike. It makes no sense. The wife’s dad is PISSED. I just hope she gets the help she’s going to need. Support, therapy, encouragement and love. Not to mention time. And those poor kids. I feel for the husband, he didn’t plan for this, but I still don’t get his reasoning. I just hope they all recover and can move forward at some point.
I heard about it on the radio in the truck the other day, and that was my first question to my wife - who the hell takes his pregnant wife hiking in fuckin’ Afghanistan?
Geez, pick a friendly country in that area.
Over a week after the Weinstein report, Michael Moore dials back on his 2015 tweet calling Harvey Weinstein “one of the best people to work with in this town” and makes a handful of suggestions for complicit men of Hollywood to put abusers “on notice”-notably neglecting to mention his current deal with the Weinstein Company which has acquired the rights to Moore’s new Donald Trump documentary. From the post:
To the men who do treat women as equals and behave toward them with respect and dignity: This is your moment! Confront the abusive men at work. When you see something, you must say something. No more ignoring and turning away when you see women being harassed and intimidated in the workplace. This is on us. MEN, step forward, NOW!
re: #307 makeitstop
I heard about it on the radio in the truck the other day, and that was my first question to my wife - who the hell takes his pregnant wife hiking in fuckin’ Afghanistan?
Geez, pick a friendly country in that area.
Were they Hiking for God?
re: #307 makeitstop
I heard about it on the radio in the truck the other day, and that was my first question to my wife - who the hell takes his pregnant wife hiking in fuckin’ Afghanistan?
Geez, pick a friendly country in that area.
Not why would he take her——
Why would she go?
re: #310 Birth Control Works
Yeah, that too. Sigh.
re: #305 makeitstop
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re: #310 Birth Control Works
Not why would he take her——
Why would she go?
Is it time to play How Pro-Choice Are You?
re: #277 Joe Bacon 🌹
My hometown was a centerpiece of the steel industry until Reagan let the mills die in 1984. Nothing replaced them. Ambridge PA is now just a dead town with crackhouses and heroin shooting galleries.
Much like my old city. We had a large steel mill providing steel and metals to Fisher Body, Westinghouse, Tappan, etc. All gone. Large drug problems too, as in a lot of towns in Ohio that struggle to get out of the past.
And a lot of them bought all of Trump.
Police save man from Darwin Award:
Man Arrested after Trying to Light Cigarette with Gas Pump Nozzle (goes to the Scottsbluff, NE Star-Herald)
Police in North Dakota have arrested a man for possession of drugs after first spotting him attempting to light a cigarette with the nozzle of a gas pump.
The Bismarck Tribune reports that 29-year-old Skyler Whitebull, of Cannon Ball, was spotted by Bismarck police driving by the gas station. Authorities say Whitebull refused to put the nozzle back and took a “fighting stance” when an officer tried to stop him.
Court documents say the officer forced Whitebull to the ground. He allegedly continued to resist and flailed his legs even while handcuffed.
Police searched Whitebull and found several small, zippered bags with methamphetamine residue. He’s charged with misdemeanor meth possession and preventing arrest.
re: #300 A Mom Anon
Hi, Mom! Saw you yesterday here but you were already gone when I logged in. Glad to see you!
Some people I know are shocked *SHOCKED* at the Harvey Weinstein/Oliver Stone scandal.
I just look at them like “where the hell have you been?”
This behavior has been tolerated, it goes hand-in-hand with power and money.
re: #313 nines09
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re: #316 Anymouse 🌹
Police save man from Darwin Award:
Man Arrested after Trying to Light Cigarette with Gas Pump Nozzle (goes to the Scottsbluff, NE Star-Herald)
How does one light a cigarette with a gas pump nozzle?
More Western PA Lore:
Mr. w was actually born in Wheatland, PA. In a house, because of a snowstorm. Wheatland PA was last seen on TV with President George W. Bush strolling about the remains. It was hit by a tornado, shortly after they had passed an ordinance saying no new stuff could be built because of Historical Heritage. So when it blew away, that was it. I saw the foundation of the house Mr. w had been born in.
re: #312 makeitstop
There’s a possibility I hadn’t thought of. Could be.
If WW’s guess is correct, that would explain why she went.
Yes it does sound like she is one of the brainwashed xtian wives.
If your religion put’s you or your fetus at risk, you need to find a new religion and husband.
This New York Times article describes how President Pussygrabber seduced my home town with a lot of help from the Presstitutes in the media—including the liars at The Times!
History channel is talking about Underground Bunkers.
I think it is the Whacko Channel.
re: #45 Eclectic Cyborg
I have a hard time believing Twitter is actually going do much.
Time will tell I guess.
Nothing will change until Rape is adjudicated on the same level as Murder.
re: #321 Birth Control Works
How does one light a cigarette with a gas pump nozzle?
well, first you light the gas pump nozzle…
re: #298 Birth Control Works
Honestly, the only protest that works is one that involves money.
If American’s refused to spend a dime for just one day —now that would make an impact.
May I suggest that instead of saying that any other way of protesting besides yours doesn’t count, you instead suggest that people also protest your way? Like my mom likes to sign petitions. I don’t say “don’t bother - politicians don’t pay any attention to petitions.” I say, “make sure you post on his Facebook page that you signed so he knows.” Because it’s discouraging when people on your own side tell you your efforts are pointless.
re: #293 wrenchwench
Thanks for reminding me of what I wanted to reply to. (Watch that participle dangle!)
[pleasant customer interruption.]
The point of a one day boycott is to show that a boycott can happen. It should be followed by a major buy-in the next day, to emphasize the smallness of the day before.
I try to remember to eat grapes because we boycotted them forever when I was a kid in California (in support of the United Farm Workers, who I follow on twitter—everything comes around to something.)
There have been one-day boycotts of Twitter before (Leslie Jones, &c). I predict no follow through, and Twitter knows that.
Folks who use Twitter aren’t willing to give it up, and seeing racism, death and rape threats, and such are the price of convenience.
I’ll believe it when I see an actual boycott (cancelling accounts, &c). Saying I won’t go to the store for one day in protest and going back the next is not a boycott. It’s not even a statement: They still get money.
re: #320 makeitstop
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re: #328 Charmingly Persistent (EmmaAnne)
May I suggest that instead of saying that any other way of protesting besides yours doesn’t count, you instead suggest that people also protest your way? Like my mom likes to sign petitions. I don’t say “don’t bother - politicians don’t pay any attention to petitions.” I say, “make sure you post on his Facebook page that you signed so he knows.” Because it’s discouraging when people on your own side tell you your efforts are pointless.
yes!
re: #332 Birth Control Works
Then you are dead.
Hence they saved the guy from earning a Darwin Award, though he’s now in jail on meth charges.
re: #294 Birth Control Works
GRIFTUS and Co. are just happy that they can focus on Hollywood depravity and corruption and not have to deflect another “rent boy” scandal.
Weinstein is just a squishy piece of poo they can fling at the DNC and be sure that it will stick: a story like this involves Hollywood celebs and juicy scandals. Just the sort of things that audiences cannot get enough of.
re: #329 Anymouse 🌹
There have been one-day boycotts of Twitter before (Leslie Jones, &c). I predict no follow through, and Twitter knows that.
Milo got banned from Twitter tho.
I’m going to bail out, you lucky devils. I need a nap. Either I am a toddler or getting old …
re: #336 Anymouse 🌹
I’m going to bail out, you lucky devils. I need a nap. Either I am a toddler or getting old …
me too, I have stuff to do.
bbl
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹
As a reminder:
Starting Veterans Day (Nov 11), all veterans who were honourably discharged from the military will have on-line Exchange shopping privileges. (In-store shopping privileges are still reserved for those who are retired, disabled, or other present categories.)
To shop in the Exchange on-line store, you must first be verified as an authorised shopper (an honourably discharged veteran), which takes some time.
As such, the Navy Exchange sent me an E-mail suggesting I forward information to all veterans I know:
The Website listed in the E-mail is the site the Exchange uses to verify your status. They note that being verified takes a bit of time, so those who would be eligible under the new rules should send in their information before Nov. 11 so it can be checked and ready for the first day of eligibility.
From my parents, this also gets veterans an ID you can use for official status as a veteran, instead if having to have your 214.
re: #335 Charmingly Persistent (EmmaAnne)
Milo got banned from Twitter tho.
Just How Offensive Did Milo Yiannopuolis Have to Be to Get Banned from Twitter? (goes to the Washington Post)
The ban came after Leslie Jones said “enough” about Milo’s trolls. Essentially, they banned Milo because he cost them money, not because they cared about their terms-of-service.
re: #329 Anymouse 🌹
There have been one-day boycotts of Twitter before (Leslie Jones, &c). I predict no follow through, and Twitter knows that.
Folks who use Twitter aren’t willing to give it up, and seeing racism, death and rape threats, and such are the price of convenience.
I’ll believe it when I see an actual boycott (cancelling accounts, &c). Saying I won’t go to the store for one day in protest and going back the next is not a boycott. It’s not even a statement: They still get money.
I quit The Book of the Face. Deprivation of Clicks can kill. They track every possible statistic. Boycotts could become more powerful than ever. I know they are not like they used to be. I have been to the Museum of The Boycott (whatever they call it) in Greensboro, NC. It is a weapon of peace. It is worth believing in the possibilities.
re: #329 Anymouse 🌹
Twitter still benefits from the standard online metrics used for showing value. Your page views still count. You posting their content at other sites still counts. They and other social media tools find their added value and differentiation by saying to their monetizers, in addition to that regular web stuff, we can show you deeper engagement with account activity etc.
You’re walking around in the same store as everybody else enjoying some free samples and accounting for part of that days traffic.
re: #301 wrenchwench
And I remember you saying that (although at times I may have thought it was one of those other PA lizards), and worrying about you like a former sort-of-neighbor when you had surgery. Are you all recovered from that? Things take so long, sometimes.
Thanks, all good. Replacement part still working fine. And good to read your progress over time with your unexpected medical situation.
This story: Watching Harvey Weinstein Fall, Trump’s Accusers Feel Frustrated https://t.co/HWxmQSdkUS via @KendallTTaggart pic.twitter.com/ZTO5tr7bfN
— Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) October 14, 2017
At the Values Voters Summit— Steve Bannon says he is in search of a US Senator to be “Brutus” to Mitch McConnell’s “Caesar”. pic.twitter.com/lmdQJ0rgP1
— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) October 14, 2017
re: #341 wrenchwench
I quit The Book of the Face. Deprivation of Clicks can kill. They track every possible statistic. Boycotts could become more powerful than ever. I know they are not like they used to be. I have been to the Museum of The Boycott (whatever they call it) in Greensboro, NC. It is a weapon of peace. It is worth believing in the possibilities.
They have got to have the largest human database going. If they can go into the pages and do associations with topics, they can put statistics together in any way possible.
This is why they performed so well for the election of Trump. Someone knew to use those stats.
It has even been stated Facebook had people right there in the camps. Those were probably for Trump’s campaign use and legit, but some of the data could have been going on the back door to the Russians and whoever helped from the dirty side of things.
Clinton probably had some of the same from Facebook. They claim they offered the same tools to both campaigns.
It is going to be real interesting to watch how Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube and probably others were used and to what extent they knew it.
re: #240 Nyet
Checked out how the old Scientology critic Arnie Lerma was doing. He’s in a full pro-Trump, “Israel created ISIS”, 9/11 truther mode.
Arnie did me a super favor once and I can forgive him quite a bit. Scientology had me served with a third-party subpoena to give a deposition and turn over my hard drive in the Dennis Erlich case. They had three beefy guys go out and serve me with the subpoena (way to overkill). I was panicking and Arnie said, “Did they give you a witness fee? Look through those papers, is there a check?” Nope. No check for a lousy $20. Arnie told me to zip my lips, say nothing, not discuss the subpoena with anyone until after the time for the deposition occurred. Because Scientology’s attorneys had not paid the witness fee, I was not required to show up. And I didn’t. I got calls from Scientology’s attorney, Helena Kobrin, to confirm I was going to show up. I didn’t return the calls. She came to Salt Lake City to take my deposition but I went to work as usual.
Nothing happened. Scientology fucked up and there was not a damned thing they could do about it. After the silence, I was terribly, terribly amused. But it was Arnie Lerma telling me to STFU that allowed me to have that time of amusement.
re: #300 A Mom Anon
I saw this earlier today. Heartbreaking and angering. I do not get why the husband in this case wanted to do this trip.
From the text, apparently to play the hero and somehow help in a remote area “where even NGOs could not get into”. I’m sure the locals were just crazy for some Western randos to “help” them. Completely on their own. With a pregnant wife in tow.
And there’s this gem: “Boyle was previously married to the sister of Omar Khadr, once the youngest detainee at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay after he pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. Special Forces medic.”
It does look like the guy was already seriously disturbed before he went on that trip.
re: #250 HappyWarrior
Serial killers are different than mass killers.
And also not disproportionately white.
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