And now for the blog ads, I’m getting links to buy the Obama zombie target.

re: #1 Kragar

And now for the blog ads, I’m getting links to buy the Obama zombie target.

Me too.

I get Ann Coulter ads. I guess I only rate second tier ads.

Which means a special edition of 40k trivia:

Zombie Plague/Curse of Unbelief

The Zombie Plague, also called the Curse of Unbelief, is a deadly viral infection that was spawned by the Forces of Chaos and led to the creation of hordes of infectious, undead zombies that threatened billions of people on many Imperial worlds near the Eye of Terror in the Segmentum Obscurus. The first recorded incidence of the Zombie Plague in the 41st Millennium came in 757.M41 on the world of Hydra Minoris. A quarantine was imposed by the Imperial Navy, trapping 23 billion uninfected people alongside a rising tide of hungry and mindless undead.

re: #4 Kragar

Which means a special edition of 40k trivia:

Zombie Plague/Curse of Unbelief

Not truly surprising that the Imperium can’t come up with a ‘Faith’ version of that virus. It was created by the Diabolical action of Nurgle himself. You can’t expect to be able to turn the invention of a Chaos God to an end that said god does not wish.

re: #5 Dark_Falcon

Not truly surprising that the Imperium can’t come up with a ‘Faith’ version of that virus. It was created by the Diabolical action of Nurgle himself. You can’t expect to be able to turn the invention of a Chaos God to an end that said god does not wish.

Any attempt to use to power of Chaos for the good of the Imperium is doomed to failure, and only the most heretical or blind would think they could get away with it.

re: #6 Kragar

Any attempt to use to power of Chaos for the good of the Imperium is doomed to failure, and only the most heretical or blind would think they could get away with it.

The desire to do right for the Emperor is strong enough to induce blindness, which is why some adepts keep trying. Understandable, given how the Emperor suffered and still does suffer for their sake (and the sake of all Mankind).

re: #7 Dark_Falcon

The desire to do right for the Emperor is strong enough to induce blindness, which is why some adepts keep trying. Understandable, given how the Emperor suffered and still does suffer for their sake (and the sake of all Mankind).

The best argument to that comes from a properly blessed and sanctified heavy flamer.

Another Confederate hater.

Grisham: Like those lunches - you get 600-calorie lunches - you know who’s behind that?

Different voice: Michelle Obama

Grisham: Fat butt Michelle Obama

(Giggling in background)

Grisham: And look … look at her. She looks like she weighs 185 or 190. She’s overweight.

Different voice: Big fat gorilla

(laughter)

Grisham: I’m serious. Y’all, our country is, is, is going in the wrong direction.

Different voice: It’s going straight to hell.

Grisham: You’d better be aware of it. And people running around like, oh it’ll get better, it’ll get better. No, it ain’t gone get no better until things change. I can give you example after example of that, but I don’t want to use any local names to give you examples. Things won’t get better until there’s a change in some areas and stuff. And you know what his platform was? Change. We’re gone change. We’re all … aw it’s OK …. for … and … y’all can get pissed off at me or not. You can go tell the principal, you can call the superintendent and tell her. I don’t believe in queers, I don’t like queers. I don’t … I don’t hate them as a person but what they do is wrong, it’s an abomination against God. I don’t like being around queers.

School board likely to meet soon about coach’s remarks

re: #8 Kragar

The best argument to that comes from a properly blessed and sanctified heavy flamer.

Concur. Someone who is foolish in that way may well need to be put down hard. Sad to say, it is those who strive the hardest for humanity’s sake who are some the most vulnerable to the temptations of the Ruinous Powers.

Good Night All.

Michael Isikoff got his hands on a Justice Department white paper outlining when the executive branch thinks it has the right to kill you without a trial, so if you’re wondering if the drones are about to be unleashed on you this is worth a read:

[Link: openchannel.nbcnews.com…]

re: #11 DREd

Michael Isikoff got his hands on a Justice Department white paper outlining when the executive branch thinks it has the right to kill you without a trial, so if you’re wondering if the drones are about to be unleashed on you this is worth a read:

[Link: openchannel.nbcnews.com…]

That we’re currently using drones is incidental. Drones are merely weapons delivery systems which can be replaced with more conventional systems with other forms of air power, ground troops, special forces, etc.

Anwar al-Aulaqi knew the danger he faced when he decided to become a terrorist. Part of his principles including knowing that some day he would or could become martyred. He sealed his own fate not the DOJ, CIA, and the White House. When you play with fire, you’re going to get burned.

Anwar al-Aulaqi was on his way to becoming the next Osama bin Laden. One has to ask themselves, if we were to prevent the next 9/11 by executing a man such Anwar al-Aulaqi, was it worth the price? Would we be asking these same questions, ex post facto, had Osama bin Laden been executed in such a manner?

Former exec. of South Carolina GOP defends mocking Trayvon Martin’s death

Kincannon told HuffPost Live that mocking the death of Trayvon Martin and “the poors” during Hurricane Katrina was just “high-profile trolling.” He said he didn’t understand why the killing of Trayvon was political and insisted joking about the Florida teen’s demise was fair because of all the people who said “insensitive things” about his killer, George Zimmerman.

“I think it is funny to make jokes that enlighten people on political problems,” Kincannon said. He added the purpose of satire “sometimes is to offend people, to teach a lesson.”

“I think it is time for a conversation in this country about why a conservative isn’t allowed to state an opinion that other people happen to disagree with, without having death threats and being threatened with all kinds of various ridiculous things,” he continued. “This is real problem we have. People talk about political discourse in this country — you might think what I said was tasteless, you’re welcome to. But should I get death threats as a result of it?”

SATIRE!

Like saying Kincannon orally molests livestock on a weekly basis.

Its just satire, nothing to get work up about.

re: #13 Kragar

Former exec. of South Carolina GOP defends mocking Trayvon Martin’s death

SATIRE!

Like saying Kincannon orally molests livestock on a weekly basis.

Its just satire, nothing to get work up about.

I hear that Kincannon is a pigfucker.

/LBJ

re: #12 Gus

Would we be asking these same questions, ex post facto, had Osama bin Laden been executed in such a manner?

Kind of deliberately misses the point that bin Laden wasn’t a citizen. Maybe the circumstances in which one loses their citizenship shouldn’t be limited the way they are by allegiance to another state engaged in hostilities against the US, but instead expanded to include NGOs. Regardless the killing was totally extrajudicial, we didn’t even try to strip al-Aulaqi of his citizenship first, which if not frightening on it’s face should at least prompt questions about how and where future administrations might apply the precedent.

re: #14 TedStriker

I hear that Kincannon is a pigfucker.

/LBJ

That must be true I just now saw it on the net. /

But I saw the satire, wingnuts would overlook the satire reference.

re: #14 TedStriker

I hear that Kincannon is a pigfucker.

/LBJ

How can anyone be offended by such obvious satire?

re: #16 Tigger2

That must be true I just now saw it on the net.

They can’t put anything on the Internet that’s not true…

/

re: #18 TedStriker

They can’t put anything on the Internet that’s not true…

/

Wingnut thinking. lol

re: #14 TedStriker

I hear that Kincannon is a pigfucker.

/LBJ

There’s always the satire that maybe Erick Erickson called Kincannon a child molesting goat fucker.

I haven’t heard Kincannon deny it yet.

:)

re: #19 Tigger2

Wingnut thinking. lol

You didn’t know i was a french model? Bonjour!

re: #15 goddamnedfrank

Kind of deliberately misses the point that bin Laden wasn’t a citizen. Maybe the circumstances in which one loses their citizenship shouldn’t be limited the way they are by allegiance to another state engaged in hostilities against the US, but instead expanded to include NGOs. Regardless the killing was totally extrajudicial, we didn’t even try to strip al-Aulaqi of his citizenship first, which if not frightening on it’s face should at least prompt questions about how and where future administrations might apply the precedent.

Wouldn’t be the first time the USA has done this. The precedent was already set by George W. Bush. President Obama followed in that tradition.

The Republicans just can’t understand they are not bringing people into their cause when they talk all the crazy shit they do, what they are doing is pushing more people away.

If you want this to end then vote for Roseanne Barr in 2016. Guaranteed winner there.

//

I see in the netherrealms, calling Jindal an idiot is racism.

re: #25 Kragar

I see in the netherrealms, calling Jindal an idiot is racism.

So, Donald Trump is now a racist to them?

Ron Paul!

//

@ronpaul I-95 The Asshole Song: youtu.be/85gO8XLb4ug via @youtube

— Gus (@Gus_802) February 5, 2013

re: #26 Jalal bin Smokin?

Trump calls Jindal “stupid”

PWND indeed.
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]

re: #30 Varek Raith

PWND indeed.
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]

They sure did scatter.

A moment of gamerness, what happens every time you spawn a new Minecraft world:

re: #30 Varek Raith

PWND indeed.
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]

That was awesome.

Denis Leary - Rehab, Alcohol & Drugs

Flash, you suck!

re: #35 Varek Raith

Flash, you suck!

Trust me. There are more things that suck.

re: #35 Varek Raith

Flash, you suck!

Flash! He’ll save every one of us!

//

Pain sucks.

re: #38 Gus

Pain sucks.

True, true.

re: #37 Targetpractice

Flash! He’ll save every one of us!

//

He’s just a man, with a man’s courage.

re: #38 Gus

Pain sucks.

It’s just weakness leaving the body.

/

Not the Onion

How Eric Cantor Is Trying to Soften the Republican Party

Eric Cantor grabs a plastic dinosaur from the pile of toys in front of 1-year-old Mekhi Scott, taps the beast on the table and growls, “RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” Mekhi jumps — he’s startled at first — and smiles.

“You like dinosaurs?” coos Cantor, the House majority leader and one of the highest-ranking Republicans in the country. “So do I.”

…

In his speech Tuesday at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank, Cantor plans to ask Congress to require universities to warn students when their academic majors lack employment opportunities; to repeal the tax on medical devices, a provision of Obama’s health care overhaul; and to shift spending from political sciences to “hard” sciences such as cancer research.

One thing he won’t do is moderate Republican policies. Cantor is talking about a change in tone, not ideology, which begs the question: With a demographic tide threatening to crush the modern GOP, is it enough to just tweak talking points?

I agree that we need a higher education system that prepares its graduates for some sort of employment and does not just leave them saddled with debt.

I also agree that we need to do more in teaching science and math, but that would involve teaching evolution as the basis of all biological sciences and modern medicine, as well as training and paying our teachers a lot better than we do or would be doing if we let GOP politicians dismantle collective bargaining for public servants.

And I like dinosaurs.

re: #22 Gus

Wouldn’t be the first time the USA has done this. The precedent was already set by George W. Bush. President Obama followed in that tradition.

When did Bush order the killing of a US citizen without any judicial branch involvement whatsoever?

re: #44 goddamnedfrank

When did Bush order the killing of a US citizen without any judicial branch involvement whatsoever?

IIRC, Bush got the legislation allowing it to occur passed sometime late in his first term, but never actually ordered an execution using it.

re: #45 Kragar

IIRC, Bush got the legislation allowing it to occur passed sometime late in his first term, but never actually ordered an execution using it.

“If I have seen where no man has seen before, itis because I have stood on the shoulders of giants”

-Barack Obama

re: #45 Kragar

IIRC, Bush got the legislation allowing it to occur passed sometime late in his first term, but never actually ordered an execution using it.

No, there was no legislation. It’s true that Bush started the campaign of targeted killing of known Al Qaeda terrorists, but never directed it at a citizen. The Justice Department Memo prepared to justify the killing of Anwar Al-Awlaki was written in 2010. The Bush administration drafted memos justifying torture and plenty of other bullshit, but targeting citizens for extrajudicial killing isn’t part of their legacy.

re: #43 Sol Berdinowitz

I also agree that we need to do more in teaching science and math, but that would involve teaching evolution as the basis of all biological sciences and modern medicine,…

Speaking of which, there was some science news yesterday regarding Neanderthals… and the AP story too great license with it, directly stating what the actual publication and even the press release did not.

Par for the course… but when I read comments, on general news sites, to the AP story of yesterday it becomes all too obvious that the commenters are unable, or more likely unwilling, to differentiate between what is true and what is not.

A little Vivaldi for the night:

re: #49 freetoken

triple drip…

Something a little bit more… commercial:

First Godwin of the Day:

Only two… #tgdn #tcot #tyranny #WeThePeople #ccot #RedNationRising #lyhnbt @mike_uspatriot @jc7109 @obamascrewingus twitpic.com/c10ad1

— Adam Worthington (@TheAdam2014) February 5, 2013

re: #53 Vicious Babushka

talk about Godwining for Godwin’s sake

re: #53 Vicious Babushka

First Godwin of the Day:

Three! Only three people in history!

re: #55 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Wait, we’ve got to ignore family crests?

Royalty had crests and flags.

Another Godwin. Gah. This meme is so freaking lame.

twitpic.com/c0dyil I am NOT like #Hitler! #BCOT #P2 #LNYHBT #TCOT #TeaParty #TGDN #TLOT

— John H Stickley, Jr. (@JHStY) February 5, 2013

re: #57 Vicious Babushka

Because no president ever signed legislation with kids present.

re: #53 Vicious Babushka

First Godwin of the Day:

Smart that he labeled the symbols. Now he can reach his literate audience and his majority.

re: #58 lawhawk

Because no president ever signed legislation with kids present.

Only two people in the entire history of the world ever ever.

@ViciousBabushka

RT @inequityspeaks: WHO REALLY INCREASED THE DEBT? Can you handle the truth #tgdn? #lnyhbt? #unitered? #tcot #p2 #p2b #ctl #uniteblue ht …

— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) February 5, 2013

On this retweet, is there another graph with debt increases that include 2012? The one in that tweet goes through April 2011.

re: #55 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Three! Only three people in history!

I think we’re still at 2. Prince and Obama, since the Nazi symbol didn’t mean Hitler.

re: #61 Geoff with a G

@ViciousBabushka

On this retweet, is there another graph with debt increases that include 2012? The one in that tweet goes through April 2011.

Obama record spending—least spending in 30 years

re: #63 Vicious Babushka

Obama record spending—least spending in 30 years

thank you!

A mostly unhatched hatchling begging for tech help, please!

I tend to use my Kindle Fire (1st generation) for most of the LGF reading that I do. I’m having an issue recently where the browser shuts down on me. It gives a message about a script causing the browser error.

In the past I had trouble once a thread had more than 350 or 400 posts in it, and then that got better for a while. Now it isn’t only long threads that cause the browser to shut down but regular ones too. For example, I tried to read through the “Superb Owl” thread, and after it crashing the browser 8 times I gave up. I assumed the thread was too long, so I tried the next post (the Overnight Video: Stardust one) and that crashed a bunch of times, too. The next thread (Bobby Jindal) worked fine.

Any ideas on what is going on? I typically only use my Kindle for email, facebook, and LGF. I have not had the issue with email or FB.
Thanks for any help you can give! You guys keep me sane when I’m awake in the middle of the night :-)

looks like Massachusetts Republicans might have their Senate horse in Dan Winslow > bit.ly/USTl95 Pro-choice R vs. weak Dem field

— Peter Hamby (@PeterHambyCNN) February 5, 2013

re: #65 6monkeys

A mostly unhatched hatchling begging for tech help, please!

I tend to use my Kindle Fire (1st generation) for most of the LGF reading that I do. I’m having an issue recently where the browser shuts down on me. It gives a message about a script causing the browser error.

In the past I had trouble once a thread had more than 350 or 400 posts in it, and then that got better for a while. Now it isn’t only long threads that cause the browser to shut down but regular ones too. For example, I tried to read through the “Superb Owl” thread, and after it crashing the browser 8 times I gave up. I assumed the thread was too long, so I tried the next post (the Overnight Video: Stardust one) and that crashed a bunch of times, too. The next thread (Bobby Jindal) worked fine.

Any ideas on what is going on? I typically only use my Kindle for email, facebook, and LGF. I have not had the issue with email or FB.
Thanks for any help you can give! You guys keep me sane when I’m awake in the middle of the night :-)

Welcome. I’ll let someone who knows what he’s talking about answer.

re: #66 Geoff with a G

If people in New England haven’t figured out that voting for a Republican is like shooting yourself in the head, there’s no hope.

Just when u thought they couldn’t be any more delusional:

Am I the only person concerned, no alarmed, by this WH White Paper stating Obama can kill Americans 4, well, just abt anything? #tcot #TGDN

— Melissia (@ProudoftheUSA) February 5, 2013

re: #68 iossarian

If people in New England haven’t figured out that voting for a Republican is like shooting yourself in the head, there’s no hope.

There are a lot of people that see MA/Boston politics as corrupt so may lean the other way from the establishment. I should know, I used to be one of them* :)

* One of those that leaned (R), not one of the corrupt legislators.

re: #65 6monkeys

You’ll have to wait for an answer from Charles. He may have made a change that causes the pages to take up more memory or the cpu to do more work, but he’s generally really good at optimizing the site so it may just be your Kindle.

The knuckle-draggers on Twitter keep insisting that POTUS is somehow breaking the law by not sumbitting a budget. Last I checked, the Legislature controls the purse strings per the Constituion.

Am I missing something or did these morons just not pay attention during Schoolhouse Rock?

re: #65 6monkeys

It’ll help Charles troubleshoot if you can note the name of the script (assuming the error msg tells you what it is).

re: #72 Lidane

[Link: www.washingtonpost.com…]

(see,,, Step 1)

re: #65 6monkeys

A mostly unhatched hatchling begging for tech help, please!

I tend to use my Kindle Fire (1st generation) for most of the LGF reading that I do. I’m having an issue recently where the browser shuts down on me. It gives a message about a script causing the browser error.

In the past I had trouble once a thread had more than 350 or 400 posts in it, and then that got better for a while. Now it isn’t only long threads that cause the browser to shut down but regular ones too. For example, I tried to read through the “Superb Owl” thread, and after it crashing the browser 8 times I gave up. I assumed the thread was too long, so I tried the next post (the Overnight Video: Stardust one) and that crashed a bunch of times, too. The next thread (Bobby Jindal) worked fine.

Any ideas on what is going on? I typically only use my Kindle for email, facebook, and LGF. I have not had the issue with email or FB.
Thanks for any help you can give! You guys keep me sane when I’m awake in the middle of the night :-)

Are you using the built-in browser? You can try using an alternate browser to see if that helps.

re: #67 Decatur Deb

Welcome. I’ll let someone who knows what he’s talking about answer.

If we waited for that for everything here,,,, {crickets} !!!!

///

Former pilot and 9/11 conspiracy theorist shoots and kills 2 teen children, then himselfboingboing.net/2013/02/04/for…

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 5, 2013

re: #74 sattv4u2

OK. How does that square with the fact that anything he DOES submit is DOA in the House? At the end of the day, he’s basically stuck negotiating with himself because the GOP are obstructionist assholes.

re: #78 Lidane

OK. How does that square with the fact that anything he DOES submit is DOA in the House? At the end of the day, he’s basically stuck negotiating with himself because the GOP are obstructionist assholes.

Actually, it’s been DOA in the senate these past several years

The house has sent their version to the senate a few times where it died on Reids desk (or did you forget the kerfuffle over the “Ryan budget”)

re: #79 sattv4u2

Actually, it’s been DOA in the senate these past several years

The house has sent their version to the senate a few times where it died on Reids desk (or did you forget the kerfuffle over the “Ryan budget”)

The “Ryan Plan” was a bunch of grandstanding bullshit and wasn’t serious. It deserved to die a quick death.

That still doesn’t answer my question. How is POTUS supposed to accomplish anything when the idiots in the House GOP would rather get on their knees for Grover Norquist than do their jobs?

Don’t ask why, just perusing Shawshank Redemption quotes:

There’s not a day goes by I don’t feel regret. Not because I’m in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can’t. That kid’s long gone and this old man is all that’s left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It’s just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don’t give a shit.

re: #80 Lidane

The “Ryan Plan” was a bunch of grandstanding bullshit and wasn’t serious

Whether it was or wasn’t isn’t the issue. The house did their job. Reid was supposed to present that version to his committees for recommendation. He did not, nor has the President sent his to the chambers

re: #62 JeffFX

I think we’re still at 2. Prince and Obama, since the Nazi symbol didn’t mean Hitler.

I have my own personal symbol, do I count?

My personal symbol

re: #81 Geoff with a G

Don’t ask why, just perusing Shawshank Redemption quotes:

GREAT movie

wonderful scene

re: #72 Lidane

I find this video to be most informative. I’ve used to great effect to educate some of the, well, let us say lesser informed members of my family.

And on that note, conference call time

Germany, me, Japan

THIS should be interesting!!!

re: #77 lawhawk

Do you have a more normal, MSM news link than boingboing?

re: #86 sattv4u2

And on that note, conference call time

Germany, me, Japan

THIS should be interesting!!!

Don’t sign any mutual non-aggression pacts.

re: #87 Vicious Babushka

LAT reporting the murder suicide. More details on murder suicide including weapon used in Union Democrat.

Search for Philip Marshall on Amazon reveals links to his troofer book.

re: #89 lawhawk

LAT reporting the murder suicide. More details on murder suicide including weapon used in Union Democrat.

Search for Philip Marshall on Amazon reveals links to his troofer book.

If only the dog had been armed with an M-14. Could have averted this terrible tragedy.

Wow, TGDN is totally Twitterlynching @spaceagenegro

Well, I was looking through the Shawshank Quotes to find something for my twitter profile bio, nothing I really liked for that purpose….but I did find this elsewhere, seems appropriate in todays political climate:

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” — MLK

Dog poop leads to double murder.

Cops: Texas couple shot and murdered in argument over dog feces nbcnews.to/Y7LfHn#2a #firearms

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 5, 2013

re: #93 lawhawk

An armed society is a society in which you can dump dog poop wherever the hell you like!

YEEHAW FREEDOMMMM!!!! *lets off flashbangs*

BBL

Mornin’ everyone.

re: #93 lawhawk

Dog poop leads to double murder.

I think shooting your neighbor on her balcony doesn’t pass the Stand Your Ground defense, but this is Texas.

I recently stopped flinging my dog’s poop into the vacant lot behind our house not because it’s kind of lazy and disgusting, but because I kind of like that property, and if I end up buying it I’m really going to resent myself when I have to pick all that crap up…again.

re: #93 lawhawk

It’s a good reminder that a lot of the mental health stuff isn’t going to work to prevent gun violence. You don’t have to be crazy to shoot someone, you don’t have to be mentally ill. Normal people can get all wrapped up in a neighborhood feud and have it turn violent without there being something wrong with them.

re: #93 lawhawk

Dog poop leads to double murder.

See, shit like this is what makes me not want to trust anyone with a gun.

re: #100 Varek Raith

See, shit like this is what makes me not want to trust anyone with a gun.

Just keep your damn dog off my lawn, and you’ll live forever.

re: #99 Obdicut

It’s a good reminder that a lot of the mental health stuff isn’t going to work to prevent gun violence. You don’t have to be crazy to shoot someone, you don’t have to be mentally ill. Normal people can get all wrapped up in a neighborhood feud and have it turn violent without there being something wrong with them.

We saw that in Texas the other day, how an argument between two armed men turned into a shooting in the blink of an eye. “An armed society is a polite society” is BS, all you do by arming everybody is turn every argument, every disagreement, into a potential Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

re: #100 Varek Raith

See, shit like this is what makes me not want to trust anyone with a gun.

Not this crap again!

re: #101 Decatur Deb

Just keep your damn dog off my lawn, and you’ll live forever.

When someone pulls a gun, it’s best to just scat.

re: #102 Targetpractice

“An armed society is a polite society” is BS, all you do by arming everybody is turn every argument, every disagreement, into a potential Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Wait, you mean Afghan warlords aren’t the most genteel people on the planet?

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re: #102 Targetpractice

We saw that in Texas the other day, how an argument between two armed men turned into a shooting in the blink of an eye. “An armed society is a polite society” is BS, all you do by arming everybody is turn every argument, every disagreement, into a potential Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

And especially if you allow self-defense based on perceived threat. Like these weirdos who are showing up to school armed to ‘protect the kids’— what if someone sees them carrying their shotgun in and draws on them to get them to drop it?

re: #107 Obdicut

And especially if you allow self-defense based on perceived threat. Like these weirdos who are showing up to school armed to ‘protect the kids’— what if someone sees them carrying their shotgun in and draws on them to get them to drop it?

Or that stand-your-ground horseshit in Florida.

re: #108 Ghost of Tom Joad

Or that stand-your-ground horseshit in Florida.

Way more places than FL. Thank ALEC/NRA nexus.

re: #107 Obdicut

And especially if you allow self-defense based on perceived threat. Like these weirdos who are showing up to school armed to ‘protect the kids’— what if someone sees them carrying their shotgun in and draws on them to get them to drop it?

Hopefully a passing police officer will wing them so they drop their weapon. When they complain that they were only there to protect the children, they should be mocked mercilessly for acting like vigilante yahoos fantasizing about their neighborhood turning into a scene from a Tarantino movie. After that, medical attention can be called for, but only if they’re incapable of dragging themselves to a bus stop.

re: #107 Obdicut

re: #108 Ghost of Tom Joad

Any system which gives blanket protection to anyone who escalates a stressful situation is, since people are unpredictable, guaranteed to result in bad outcomes.

It’s probably the most intrinsically and fundamentally flawed current Republican idea, and that’s saying a lot.

re: #109 Decatur Deb

Way more places than FL. Thank ALEC/NRA nexus.

Hey, mothers need to protect their broods from the unwashed masses of gangbangers roaming around the streets doing unsavory things./

re: #102 Targetpractice

We saw that in Texas the other day, how an argument between two armed men turned into a shooting in the blink of an eye. “An armed society is a polite society” is BS, all you do by arming everybody is turn every argument, every disagreement, into a potential Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

An armed society is a polite society^*

*_{Except for the retaliatory violence that crops when somebody gets “offended.”}

re: #112 Ghost of Tom Joad

Hey, mothers need to protect their broods from the unwashed masses of gangbangers roaming around the streets doing unsavory things./

Whoa…nobody said anything about them being unwashed. I gotta get me a gun! And a brood to protect!

re: #113 The Ghost of a Flea

An armed society is a polite society^*

*_{Except for the retaliatory violence that crops when somebody gets “offended.”}

Because only the threat of firearms can force people to be polite. No smug asshole has ever had his nose wiped off his face for insulting someone’s mother.

Again, guns = magic. Keep this in mind and it all falls into place.

If you want to know what’s wrong with US conservatism, read this from @richlowry: nationalreview.com/author/56473/l…

— Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 5, 2013

Conspiracy theory generator

I bet it wouldn’t take too much effort to one of them accepted as gospel among the #tgdn crowd.

Not sure if serious or just Poe’s Law:

Time to ban drones and drone strikes against US cit. Killing Americans, even if they’re terrorists, is murder. BHO=guilty. #tgdn #tcot #tlot

— Adam Ritch (@adamritch1) February 5, 2013

re: #117 Our Precious Bodily Fluids

Conspiracy theory generator

I bet it wouldn’t take too much effort to one of them accepted as gospel among the #tgdn crowd.

Looks like wrong link.

re: #111 erik_t

re: #108 Ghost of Tom Joad

Any system which gives blanket protection to anyone who escalates a stressful situation is, since people are unpredictable, guaranteed to result in bad outcomes.

It’s probably the most intrinsically and fundamentally flawed current Republican idea, and that’s saying a lot.

It’s nothing more than trying to legally justify shooting black people. I can’t see any other actual reason behind it, and almost every bad story I’ve heard about it is that exact issue - white person (or whateverTF Zimmerman is) doesn’t like something scary black person is doing, and they purposefully start trouble because they know they’ll have the law behind them (not to mention the police aren’t exactly giving an extra shit if it’s a white shooting a black).

re: #107 Obdicut

And especially if you allow self-defense based on perceived threat. Like these weirdos who are showing up to school armed to ‘protect the kids’— what if someone sees them carrying their shotgun in and draws on them to get them to drop it?

Indeed, it’s always amusing how the people advocating more guns in pursuit of some mutant form of MAD are the ones who are also having public screaming fits about the dangers we face every day and how even a perfectly normal person could be a depraved monster in disguise. How these people go through their daily lives without racking up a body count, I do not know.

re: #117 Our Precious Bodily Fluids

Conspiracy theory generator

I bet it wouldn’t take too much effort to one of them accepted as gospel among the #tgdn crowd.

How do you know they all aren’t already accepted as gospel?

TGDN totally buys into the whole Birther craze.

re: #119 Decatur Deb

Looks like wrong link.

No, it’s the One True Link.

The Truth About Aspartame and Barack Obama

Aspartame helped Barack Obama achieve a meteoric rise to power.

The FBI encourages sexual deviancy among children by exposing them to aspartame.

The FBI has been secretly exploring possible applications of aspartame for government profit.

Corporate interests are preventing us from getting the truth out.

Polling organizations have found that many people do not know that Barack Obama openly admits to supporting lobbyists with strong connections to the production of aspartame.

Most people won’t know about this until it’s too late.

The solution is clear: buy a gun.

Sources:
Katz, Jonathan J. “Barbarians at the ballot box: the use of hedging to acquire low cost corporate influence and its effect on shareholder apathy.” Cardozo L. Rev. 28 (2006): 1483.
Rubin, Barnett R. “The political economy of war and peace in Afghanistan.”World Development 28.10 (2000): 1789-1803.
Barber, Benjamin R. Strong democracy: Participatory politics for a new age. University of California Press, 2004.
Findlay, Ronald, and Kevin H. O’Rourke. Power and plenty: trade, war, and the world economy in the second millennium. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Refresh the page, get a new conspiracy!

re: #116 Lidane

If you want to know what’s wrong with US conservatism, read this from @richlowry

As some people her have pointe out, it is no longer to call this movement “conservatism”, a more fitting name would be “bat-shit delusional amti-Obamism”

re: #123 Our Precious Bodily Fluids

Ah. Was expecting an interactive ‘Mad-libs’ sort of script.

North Korea video shows New York in ruins after missile attack | Fox News fxn.ws/Y7I7LqReally? Threats of missile strike #TGDN

— Ryan (@RyanfromLI) February 5, 2013

Yes! New York is totally destroyed! All you people in New York don’t even know you are all DEAD!

re: #126 Vicious Babushka

Yes! New York is totally destroyed! All you people in New York don’t even know you are all DEAD!

Which is pretty amazing…considering the NorKs haven’t demonstrated an ability to launch a missile capable of reaching the West Coast, let alone NYC.

re: #126 Vicious Babushka

Yes! New York is totally destroyed! All you people in New York don’t even know you are all DEAD!

I think North Korea would go after Gotham first.

re: #126 Vicious Babushka

Yes! New York is totally destroyed! All you people in New York don’t even know you are all DEAD!

It would be good if SoS Kerry ‘splained “Stand Your Ground” to ajjoshi.

re: #127 Targetpractice

Which is pretty amazing…considering the NorKs haven’t demonstrated an ability to launch a missile capable of reaching the NORTH KOREAN West Coast, let alone NYC.

Fixed.

Eric Cantor as the dyslexic Ronald Reagan: government is not the problem, government is the solution. Good grief.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) February 5, 2013

re: #126 Vicious Babushka

Yes! New York is totally destroyed! All you people in New York don’t even know you are all DEAD!

Well, looks like we’ve found our new boogeyman for the next decade.

re: #131 dragonfire1981

Someone should tell Bryan Fischer Cantor’s gay. Then we’d see some colorful tweets.

2/3 of legal Mexican immigrants are not citizens. Why? Not here for citizenship, here for goodies. pewrsr.ch/VzBIse

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) February 5, 2013

Also, get bent Bryan, you don’t understand this issue at all. A lot of those legal immigrants, like MYSELF, don’t have the money or the inclination to become citizens right now.

I already outlined in a post yesterday why I, a permanent resident with a green card valid through 2022, feels no need to rush to take my citizenship test as soon as I can.

And one more, just because I think it’s important to understand this is legitimately how these people think…

I explain to David Shuster that God and loaded guns are the key to school security. youtube.com/watch?v=T4GJTo…

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) February 5, 2013

Yes we clearly need a Bible and an M4 in every classroom in America. That’ll fix everything!

re: #134 dragonfire1981

Also, get bent Bryan, you don’t understand this issue at all. A lot of those legal immigrants, like MYSELF, don’t have the money or the inclination to become citizens right now.

I already outlined in a post yesterday why I, a permanent resident with a green card valid through 2022, feels no need to rush to take my citizenship test as soon as I can.

He doesn’t understand it because, as someone born into his citizenship, he takes it for granted. Why should he consider it something special if just being born in America automatically makes you a citizen? The only time he cares about that is when the people being born are from the “wrong” wombs. Then citizenship is something great and wonderful…for the folks he approves of.

Faeboook developing GPS tracking app that will track you even if app is not running

I will disable Facebook from my phone before I install such a piece of garbage app like that.

re: #127 Targetpractice

Which is pretty amazing…considering the NorKs haven’t demonstrated an ability to launch a missile capable of reaching the West Coast, let alone NYC.

The North Koreans have developed an EMP that can take out the electrical grid of an entire country!

They tested it on themselves first.//

re: #134 dragonfire1981

Also, get bent Bryan, you don’t understand this issue at all. A lot of those legal immigrants, like MYSELF, don’t have the money or the inclination to become citizens right now.

I already outlined in a post yesterday why I, a permanent resident with a green card valid through 2022, feels no need to rush to take my citizenship test as soon as I can.

You can tell Bryan to not worry about you since you don’t vote Democratic anyways.
/

re: #137 dragonfire1981

Faeboook developing GPS tracking app that will track you even if app is not running

I will disable Facebook from my phone before I install such a piece of garbage app like that.

But it will have a pretty unicorn icon and display little dancing ponies!
///

Hmm. I have a work performance review in ten minutes.
* Caffeined up (check)
* Full-on sarcastic mode activated (check)
* E-mails in Inbox asking for stuff NOW (check)

This is going to go *so* well, I can tell.

re: #131 dragonfire1981

Eric Cantor as the dyslexic Ronald Reagan: government is not the problem, government is the solution. Good grief.

I read that we sent the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan to japan to help provide tsunami relief.

Really wish I could’ve been there when the captain presented his credentials and announced “We’re from the US government and we’re here to help you!”

re: #134 dragonfire1981

2/3 of legal Mexican immigrants are not citizens. Why? Not here for citizenship, here for goodies.

Also, get bent Bryan, you don’t understand this issue at all. A lot of those legal immigrants, like MYSELF, don’t have the money or the inclination to become citizens right now.

I already outlined in a post yesterday why I, a permanent resident with a green card valid through 2022, feels no need to rush to take my citizenship test as soon as I can.

Maybe thery’re here to work their butts off for minimum wage so they can afford to send some of the money home…

re: #139 Feline Fearless Leader

You can tell Bryan to not worry about you since you don’t vote Democratic anyways.
/

I’m tempted to run out and become a citizen so I CAN vote Democratic, just to stick it to him.

Applebee’s gets Facebook shellacking over official posts on firing of waitress who posted the note from the cheap Pastor

The NRA, the Right WingAnd The Myth Of The 20-Minute Police Response Time At Sandy Hook mm4a.org/TF65ki

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 5, 2013

re: #145 dragonfire1981

Applebee’s gets Facebook shellacking over official posts on firing of waitress who posted the note from the cheap Pastor

In the age of social media, acting as though it’s still the days when you could put out a press release and leave it at that is suicidal.

re: #143 Sol Berdinowitz

2/3 of legal Mexican immigrants are not citizens. Why? Not here for citizenship, here for goodies.

Maybe thery’re here to work their butts off for minimum wage so they can afford to send some of the money home…

But that sounds like some sort of human motivation instead of being some sort of alien parasite intent on leeching sustenance from others.
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AFA’s @bryanjfischer cites @mattyglesias’ efforts to get a DC business license as proof that Obama is a fascist: bit.ly/WOqlgj

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) February 5, 2013

Looks like Hezbollah has been implicated in that bus bombing in Bulgaria that killed a bunch of Israelis…

[Link: www.bbc.co.uk…]

I’d say things might get interesting given this news, but that’d be an understatement.

So, if an armed society is a polite society, those scary urban gangs must be really, really polite when dealing with one another, right?

End Times author says marriage equality laws are proof Americans didn’t learn the lesson of 9/11 bit.ly/Y7XLXr

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) February 5, 2013

re: #151 calochortus

So, if an armed society is a polite society, those scary urban gangs must be really, really polite when dealing with one another, right?

No… the rules only apply to straight, middle-aged, white Christian males in the Bible Belt. Duh!

What right-wing racism? Don’t even bother with the “dog whistle” anymore, it’s just straight-up racism.

re: #153 efuseakay

But what about us ladies defending our broods and all?

re: #155 calochortus

But what about us ladies defending our broods and all?

Get back in the kitchen where you belong, woman!

re: #153 efuseakay

No… the rules only apply to straight, middle-aged, white Christian males in the Bible Belt. Duh!

Who are the only people that democracy really applies to as well…

/

re: #156 efuseakay

I am in the kitchen-just finishing up the coffee prepared by my husband.

re: #155 calochortus

But what about us ladies defending our broods and all?

Take this AT-AT.

LOL, idiot wingnuts think the Dodge Ram Paul Harvey SB commercial was about FARMING, not selling trucks made in Detroit by UNION THUGS.

Food Network chef steps up to offer lesbian couple free wedding cake after homophobic bakery turns them away gaw.kr/oMBovxo

— Gawker (@Gawker) February 5, 2013

re: #159 Varek Raith

Take this AT-AT.

Ack, if only my husband were wielding a weapon instead of the coffee pot! Then I’d be safe!
(Well, actually I’d rather have him wielding the caffeine.)

Right-wing conspiracy theorists fall for same hoax site that said US govt caused Haiti earthquake: bit.ly/XlEu47

— NickBaumann (@NickBaumann) February 5, 2013

re: #160 Vicious Babushka

It was the one ad that made you stop and pay attention, which is great. Then the punchline is that it’s a car commercial for Chrysler - not farming, farmers, or the work ethic. It was meant to tug on the heartstrings and American work ethic - and it did that job - all to sell more Dodge Ram trucks.

Oh, and for what it’s worth, Chrysler is an Italian owned company (Fiat is the parent company) after the bankruptcy reorganization following the bailout.

re: #163 Lidane

The Latest Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory: Obama Death Squads Targeting…
A hoax site says Obama is about to unleash covert hit teams to assassinate supporters of gun rights.

The supporters of gun rights are presumably “armed good guys”. Can’t they just protect themselves?

re: #164 lawhawk

It was the one ad that made you stop and pay attention, which is great. Then the punchline is that it’s a car commercial for Chrysler - not farming, farmers, or the work ethic. It was meant to tug on the heartstrings and American work ethic - and it did that job - all to sell more Dodge Ram trucks.

Oh, and for what it’s worth, Chrysler is an Italian owned company (Fiat is the parent company) after the bankruptcy reorganization following the bailout.

Meanwhile, Lincoln MKZ was recycling last year’s Chrysler “Imported from Detroit” commercial, even using the same voiceover.

re: #166 Vicious Babushka

Yeah, advertising in America. They’ll recycle whatever works, or they think works (see Etrade and the babies, Budweiser - all of their longstanding campaigns, etc.).

re: #167 lawhawk

Yeah, advertising in America. They’ll recycle whatever works, or they think works (see Etrade and the babies, Budweiser - all of their longstanding campaigns, etc.).

The E*Trade baby needs to grow up. Come to think of it, if the E*Trade baby was grownup, people would just punch him in the face.

re: #168 Vicious Babushka

The E*Trade baby needs to grow up. Come to think of it, if the E*Trade baby was grownup, people would just punch him in the face.

A few more of those commercials and I’ll punch the baby in the face.

Guide to debunking the Guns vs Hammers talking point fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/… #TGDN #UniteBlue #GunsKillPeople #NRA

— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) February 5, 2013

Cue the cries of “ZOMG OBUMMER OPPRESSING SPEECH!”

Alabama high school teacher suspended for ‘fat butt Michelle Obama’ remark nbcnews.to/XJZe7j

— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 5, 2013

re: #171 Lidane

Cue the cries of “ZOMG OBUMMER OPPRESSING SPEECH!”

Figures.
See, this is what likely got his ass suspended,

“I don’t believe in queers,’’ he said. “I don’t like queers. I don’t hate them as a person, but what they do is wrong and an abomination against God.’’

Why do I need a Semi-Automatic rifle with a 30 round mag? Cause my Government has a FULL-Automatic rifle with a 30 round mag! #PJNET #TGDN

— Joe Montez (@iamIT4life) February 5, 2013

Dear Nutter,

The government also has tanks, drones, nukes, aircraft carriers, fighter jets, and a whole host of weapons you’re not entitled to.

You will never have equal firepower to the US government. Ever. Get that fantasy out of your head now.

No love,
Me

re: #173 Lidane

Dear Nutter,

The government also has tanks, drones, nukes, aircraft carriers, fighter jets, and a whole host of weapons you’re not entitled to.

You will never have equal firepower to the US government. Ever. Get that fantasy out of your head now.

No love,
Me

Hahaha, what a moron.

re: #173 Lidane

Dear Nutter,

The government also has tanks, drones, nukes, aircraft carriers, fighter jets, and a whole host of weapons you’re not entitled to.

You will never have equal firepower to the US government. Ever. Get that fantasy out of your head now.

No love,
Me

One should ask him how well the nutter in Alabama and his 2nd Amendment fared against law enforcement equipped with automatic weapons, breaching charges, flashbangs, body armor, and then wonder how well he’s gonna fare with his Bushmaster, a flannel shirt, and body odor?

re: #175 Targetpractice

One should ask him how well the nutter in Alabama and his 2nd Amendment fared against law enforcement equipped with automatic weapons, breaching charges, flashbangs, body armor, and then wonder how well he’s gonna fare with his Bushmaster, a flannel shirt, and body odor?

These people take the Reaganism that “government is not the solution, it is the problem” one step further: government is not the problem, it is THE ENEMY. We have to be prepared to fight it, as the day is approaching when Obama is going to make his move.

re: #165 erik_t

PBO already took all their gunz. /

re: #176 Sol Berdinowitz

They sure whine about it enough without realizing how much it actually takes care of them. Especially considering how many of them are already on some sort of government assistance, or work for either a government entity or a subcontractor for the government.

You can lead these people to facts, but you can’t make them think.

re: #171 Lidane

Some nutters seem to be obsessed with the FLOTUS.

re: #135 dragonfire1981

Bryan, what part of the “stopping bad guys with guns” does god play in this scenario?

re: #178 Ghost of Tom Joad

They sure whine about it enough without realizing how much it actually takes care of them. Especially considering how many of them are already on some sort of government assistance, or work for either a government entity or a subcontractor for the government.

You can lead these people to facts, but you can’t make them think.

So many of these wanna-be Rambos are the armchair generals who were slapping each other on the back and cheering loudly when Dubya was “bringing democracy” to Afghanistan and Iraq. The same ones who, in their younger days, were criticizing Carter for killing the very same weapon systems that they now worry might roll up on their front lawn.

re: #175 Targetpractice

Never underestimate the power of body odor. / or is it?

re: #181 Targetpractice

And they’re all now declaring jihad on the real Rambo because Stallone supports the assault weapons ban:

Search results: TGDN Stallone

re: #183 Lidane

And they’re all now declaring jihad on the real Rambo because Stallone supports the assault weapons ban:

Search results: #TGDN Stallone

Could be that his movie bombed because Americans have grown tired of gun-totin justice-dispensing heroes…

@cohen_elliot For real! That would be like Anthony Hopkins supporting #CannibalismControl

— Geoff Manning (@geoffm33) February 5, 2013

re: #183 Lidane

And they’re all now declaring jihad on the real Rambo because Stallone supports the assault weapons ban:

Search results: TGDN Stallone

Nothing seems to hurt a wingnut more than to see one of their idols turn out to be a real human being.